The Path to Immortality

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye in the busy rush.

After cooperating with two outer disciples who had a nodding acquaintance, Fang Ping went out to survey the trend of a cold iron spirit mine and eradicated a group of active iron-tailed lizards nearby. Then he returned to the camp and handed in his third task.

On the way back to the camp, he did not forget to stain himself with a little blood, and his breath was slightly weakened, as if he had experienced a fierce battle and was injured.

After getting 35 points for this task, Fang Ping's total task points successfully exceeded 100 points.

"In this way, this exploration of the spirit stone mine is completed ahead of schedule!"

Fang Ping returned to his stone house with a "floating step", pretending to rest, then closed the door, took a bite of the Ningyuan Pill, and began to practice with peace of mind.

Occasionally, when he went out for a walk and rest, he would take advantage of the big price reduction of spirit herbs and materials to purchase a batch of materials needed for alchemy.

Buying is earning!

As for the things outside the camp, as well as the relationship between Luoyang Sect and the local immortal cultivation forces in Xiaofeng Grand Canyon, it seemed that they had nothing to do with him at this moment.

Of course, he still had to understand some important changes. He couldn't really be indifferent to the situation.

Time passed slowly.

After the disciples tried their best to search the area around the camp for thousands of miles without success, the five foundation-building monks in charge had to issue an order to extend the scope of the survey further into the depths of the canyon.

The deeper the exploration, the longer the distance, and the obvious improvement in the overall strength of the monsters encountered, all these reasons combined, the casualties of the disciples of Luoyang Sect began to increase continuously.

At this time, Fang Ping showed his foresight to complete the task early.

………

At the end of the month.

A team of four mid-stage Qi training monks approached a valley deep in Xiaofeng Grand Canyon that was shrouded in fog all year round.

According to the two monks who had ventured into the valley before but quickly retreated not long after going deep, the concentration of spiritual energy here was obviously higher than the surrounding area.

Even if there were no spiritual stone veins, there might be some natural treasures growing.

The leading cultivator was named Lu Chen, who had just been promoted to the sixth level of Qi training not long ago and was also the one with the highest cultivation in the team.

Relying on the help of his elders at home and a mid-grade magic weapon to protect his body, he was very confident in his strength and walked in front of the team.

Passing through the silent valley all the way, killing several Qi training monsters encountered along the way, the four cultivators arrived at the deepest part of the valley.

Through the deep fog, they saw a strange tree growing at the end that was more than ten feet tall and surrounded by faint thunder.

Lu Chen was also knowledgeable. He racked his brains to recall for a moment and finally remembered the origin of this strange tree.

This is a hundred-year-old thunder spirit wood, a rare first-grade upper-grade spiritual plant. Even the foundation-building cultivators would be jealous!

"We've made a fortune!"

At this moment, the breathing of the four disciples became heavy.

But at this moment, an angry thunder sound came from the air.

Then, a [Wind and Thunder Eagle] with the pressure of the early stage of foundation building descended from the sky and landed on the Thunder Spirit Tree. It looked at the four humans who had entered its territory and even set their sights on the Thunder Spirit Tree with cold eyes.

"Foundation building monster!"

Feeling the terrifying might, the four cultivators turned pale.

Deep in the Howling Wind Canyon, there are foundation building monsters. It turns out that it is not just a legend!

I don't know who shouted to run separately first. They each used their best life-saving methods, such as talismans or flying magic tools, and rushed to turn around and flee.

However, how could the speed of Qi training cultivators be compared with that of the demon birds in the foundation building period?

Not to mention, the speed of the wind and thunder eagle is as fast as lightning.

It seemed that it only took a moment for the wind and thunder eagle to disappear from the spot with the sound of wind and thunder, killing the Qi training cultivators one by one.

In less than ten breaths, the four Qi training cultivators were all killed.

Even after doing this, the foundation building demon bird was still not satisfied.

Recently, human monks have frequently entered the vicinity, exploring and hunting other monsters.

The Wind and Thunder Eagle has long been impatient with these human monks.

It is going to kill today!

The monster bird flapped its wings and flew high, and began to chase the human monks around it endlessly.

………

"Hurry, everyone, hurry up, the camp is ahead!"

"Brother in front, run quickly, there is a foundation-building monster bird chasing us!"

"Help!"

Accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, the Wind and Thunder Eagle chased all the way from the depths of the canyon.

Seeing the monks who fell behind being killed one after another, the monks who fled in front were scared to death. They did not hesitate to squeeze the mana of the meridians and tried their best to control the magic weapon to fly.

Finally, the camp appeared in their sight.

At this time, the commotion in the distance had been discovered in the camp, and the formation was instantly deployed.

Almost at the same time, three foundation-building monks drove the escape light into the air one after another and came towards the Wind and Thunder Eagle.

"How dare you kill my Luoyang Sect disciples! How dare you!"

Guan Ru's expression was cold, her almond eyes were full of murderous intent, and she urged the low-grade spiritual weapon in her hand to blast the Wind and Thunder Eagle through the air.

The power of the spiritual weapon was far superior to the magic weapon used by the Qi training disciples.

Just one strike contained the power of thunder and lightning!

The other two foundation-building monks also flew up to help the disciples who had escaped by chance to block the pursuit of the Wind and Thunder Eagle, and then joined the siege.

Until this moment, several outer disciples finally confirmed that they were safe and retreated into the camp formation, their expressions full of fear and luck. Some disciples even collapsed on the ground because of exhaustion of mana.

At this time, in the sky, the three foundation-building monks and the wind and thunder eagle had already started a fierce battle with amazing momentum.

In terms of strength, the three foundation-building monks must be far superior to the wind and thunder eagle.

But the wind and thunder eagle controlled the wind and thunder, and its speed was extremely fast, even above the escape light of the three monks.

Relying on its extremely amazing speed, the three foundation-building monks, although they had a great advantage, could not take it down for a while.

On the contrary, one foundation-building monk was careless and was almost injured by the lightning of the wind and thunder eagle!

"What happened?"

The huge movement startled Fang Ping, who was practicing peacefully in the stone house.

He walked out of the stone house quickly and looked up at the sky. Fang Ping was stunned.

According to legend, there are foundation-building monsters in the depths of the Howling Wind Canyon, but no one has ever seen them with their own eyes.

I didn't expect that they would run into him!

………

After an amazing battle.

The Wind and Thunder Eagle that chased the disciples all the way to the sky above the camp was seriously injured by three foundation-building monks and fled.

Guan Ru still refused to give up, and drove the escape light to chase for hundreds of miles, forcibly killed the Wind and Thunder Eagle, and then hung the body of the Wind and Thunder Eagle on the cliff of the camp!

Although this move was very satisfying, the impact of the previous rampage of the Wind and Thunder Eagle could not be reversed.

There were dozens of disciples in the middle stage of Qi training who were killed by the Wind and Thunder Eagle all the way. It can be said that this was the day with the most serious losses in this period of time.

This exploration operation has been going on for nearly a month so far.

Not to mention that no spiritual stone veins have been found so far, there has been no news from the other three exploration areas such as Jueyun Valley and Guimian Cliff. Coupled with the blow of this bad news, the morale in the camp, which was already low, became even lower.