After a tiring day of travel yesterday, Ling Chen was a body-training monk, so naturally he didn't feel any tiredness at all. However, at this moment (we arrived at the starting point at 5 o'clock in the morning), it had already passed. Ling Chen, who was meditating with his eyes closed, opened his eyes.
So, what to do today?
Go learn the mission details!
Ling Chen sat on the edge of the bed with the parchment scroll and started reading it. Yesterday, Senior Brother Wang (part-time mayor of Guye Village) asked him to leave today, but this was impossible. He did not complete the task and did not get the monster's
How can I get paid when I bring Dujiao back, and how can I hand over tasks?
The first condition of the mission is to use the strength of the Taiyi disciples stationed in Guye Village to work together to kill Zhongli, then retrieve the unicorn on the head of the Chongli monster, and take the carriage transporting supplies back to the sect. At the same time, he will also be alone.
Jiao was brought back to the sect for inspection and handed over the task.
He had read this parchment many times, but no matter how many times he read it, he could not find any more useful information. Ling Chen raised his head, and through the sunlight leaking through the window, he could tell that Mao hour had passed.
He closed the parchment, opened the door, and walked out.
"Junior Brother Ling, are you up yet?"
When I went downstairs and came to the hall, to my surprise, Senior Brother Wang and his wife Xiaoli were both there. Senior Brother Wang was sitting on the wooden chair next to the living room, still looking tired, while Xiaoli exited the hall, probably going to the kitchen.
Breakfast was prepared inside. After all, ordinary people (under the Soul Gathering Stage, secretly called ordinary people by the monks in the black world) have three meals a day. After a while, a scent filled the air from the back of the hall.
The aroma spread from the kitchen, and it didn't take long for the beautiful woman to come out with a basin of fresh meat buns and place it on a guest table in the corner of the hall. She pulled out a chair and motioned for Ling Chen to sit down.
.But what she answered was a silence that made people unable to guess the meaning, and the tall and motionless figure that seemed to be welded to the floor.
"Monks above the soul-gathering stage don't need to eat." Senior Brother Wang came over and explained calmly.
"oh."
Xiao Li nodded, but Senior Brother Wang still accompanied his wife to have breakfast together.
Ling Chen always felt that this village was strange, and his intuition told him that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so Ling Chen, who was filled with doubts, sat on a wooden chair far away from the guest table, and curiously asked Senior Brother Wang who was having breakfast;
"Senior Brother Wang, can you tell me about Chongli? My mission this time is to help you kill the monster Chongli that is harassing the spirit mine."
When Senior Brother Wang heard Ling Chen's words, his face, which was chatting and laughing with his wife, gradually became suspicious, and then turned into a bitter smile; "Hey, Junior Brother, you go back, this mission cannot be completed, this monster beast has already
Something strange has happened, and even the monks in the mortal realm are not completely sure of surrendering."
"Mutation?" Ling Chen's pupils widened, and the look of doubt on his face was clear.
"What has it mutated into?" Ling Chen asked immediately.
"I don't know the specifics. If I transcend the mortal realm, I can send back more advanced talisman messages to the sect, but I vaguely feel that Chongli lurking in the dark has not really mutated to the strength of a mortal realm monk."
There is a huge dividing line between the mortal realm and the spirit-gathering stage. If you expect two monks at the peak of soul-gathering to be able to defeat a mortal monk, then you are totally wrong. After breaking through the mortal realm, the entire physical fitness of the monks will be greatly reduced.
Both he and his spiritual soldiers will undergo earth-shaking changes, and it is not possible to solve the problem one-on-one.
The monks who have broken through the mortal world can even fight ten monks at the peak of gathering spirit. If they rely on the concentration of spiritual energy alone, they can even fight more monks at the peak of gathering spirit. Using spiritual energy can drag the monks at the peak of gathering spirit alive, let alone
The powerful combat power of mortal monks.
Similarly, when monsters reach the mortal realm, they will only become more ferocious and violent than human monks.
Based on the experience of several battles in the past, Senior Brother Wang knew that Chongli had not truly mutated to the Mortal Realm. Otherwise, it would definitely not be as simple as seriously injuring their group. With Chongli’s strength before he mutated to the Mortal Realm, he could easily defeat Senior Brother Wang.
Once the group's formation truly mutated into the mortal realm, he would not even dare to think about it again.
With the monster's cruel temperament, it will definitely kill the entire Ancient Night Village with incomparable cruelty.
Ling Chen hesitated for a moment, but suddenly noticed the fear on Senior Brother Wang's face. He gently patted Senior Brother Wang who was still frightened on the face, and the worried look on Xiao Li's face was clearly revealed.
His whole body trembled, and Senior Brother Wang put down the buns in his hand in a panic. He looked at Xiaoli stammeringly, "Uh-huh, what did I just say?"
"What's the matter with you? I just mentioned that Chongli has completely mutated into a mortal monster. Are mortal monsters scary?" Xiao Li looked at her husband in confusion.
Without responding to Xiaoli's doubts, Senior Brother Wang smiled apologetically at Ling Chen and continued;
"Although Zhongli has not mutated into a mortal monster, due to several joint efforts by my junior brothers and I, we were all seriously injured by this cunning monster."
"You are so cruel without mutating into a mortal monster? What will happen if you actually mutate into a mortal monster?" As if talking to himself, Ling Chen's heart lit up, as if he had grasped the key point, and he hurriedly asked Senior Brother Wang;
"Senior brother, do you know what causes Zhongli to mutate?"
When Senior Brother Wang heard Ling Chen's words, a slight trace of panic flashed across his face, but he concealed it perfectly. Senior Brother Wang frowned and did not look at Ling Chen, but sighed and said, "Oh, neither do we."
You know, since the Chongli Disaster, we no longer dare to have workers to mine our spiritual mines. It is precisely because of this that we will not be able to deliver the goods within the sect on July 1st."
Ling Chen nodded. Senior Brother Wang covered it up perfectly, but the trace of panic was still not easily discovered by Ling Chen. It was obvious that Senior Brother Wang had something to hide from him.
After chatting with Senior Brother Wang again for a while, Ling Chen turned around and stepped out of the gate of Senior Brother Wang's courtyard, walking straight towards this small village with more than a hundred households.
"Senior Brother Wang is unwilling to tell what he is hiding, so naturally someone is willing to tell him." Ling Chen stood in the village and thought carefully...
in the hall;
Watching Ling Chen step out of the door.
Senior Brother Wang sat back on the chair, his face looked a little pale. The Senior Brother sighed, and he didn't know whether it was because of the persistence of the young man outside the gate, or because the Taiyi Sect didn't care about the situation in his village.
Hate.
The talisman message sent back clearly said that this insect had mutated, and he hoped that the sect would send a mortal monk to come, but now the man who came was still a man with a cultivation level comparable to his own, and he still looked like that
He is young and must be on a mission for the first time.
Walking into the village, Ling Chen realized that this was a bit more detailed than what he had observed last night.
Suddenly, Ling Chen spotted a seven or eight-year-old boy in the corner, who seemed to be playing with dirt on the ground.
Ling Chen smiled slightly, took out a small gadget from his fingertips, and walked towards the little boy...
After a while——
The small mountain village was not too big, but for the eight-year-old Buwa, it was probably a thrilling adventure. After he ran home and said something to the adults, he took Ling Chen and ran up the mountain.
, seeing the slightly surprised looks in the eyes of the adults walking in the village, Buwa seemed to be in a happier mood. After a while, he ran out of the small village and came to a nearby hillside.
"Huh...huh...huh...so...so tired! I'm so tired, really...so tired! You...big brother...you must be...very tired too...
...? Haha... I often... walk on mountain trails... but I'm still... exhausted...!"
Buwa was breathing heavily, pressing his knees with both hands. But when he took a breath and turned around to look, he saw a peaceful face, without even a drop of sweat on his body, as if Ling had never been running fast.
Chen stood behind him.
Buwa's mouth pouted, slightly surprised: "Brother, aren't you tired?"
The early morning sunlight was not too intense, and the hillside where Buwa stood was not densely populated with trees. Bathed in the early morning sunlight, the little boy stretched greatly and took a breath.
"How is it? The air here is very fresh."
Ling Chen, who smiled slightly, did not speak, he was observing his surroundings!
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"Brother, I heard that the outside world is beautiful."
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"Big brother"
"Big brother? Hey, little brother, can you talk? Hello~~~!"
"Don't make any noise, big brother is observing"
Ling Chen just stared at her and said expressionlessly. But Buwa couldn't stand Ling Chen's always being in such a state that he didn't even want to say a word, so she grabbed his hand and started to shake it up and down.
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"Brother, are you listening to what Puwa is talking about? Why don't you have any reaction? Can you tell Puwa more about the things in the big city? I heard that there are many delicious and fun things in the big city. Yes.
Really?"
Ling Chen stared at her. After a moment, he turned his head and cast his cold gaze towards the small mountain village below. And then, he saw three tall watchtowers built in the small village.
, every watchtower monitors
On the side of the small mountain village, Ling Chen's dark pupils were entangled with a trace of demonic energy. He even saw a disciple wearing Taiyi costumes on each watchtower, and the figure on one of the watchtowers looked like
Ling Chen slowly crossed his eyes and looked at each other.
"Spy on me?"
Ling Chen didn't believe in coincidences. Ruoyouruowu's spiritual consciousness, which had been closely following him since he left the village, had already indicated that the disciples stationed in the village were monitoring him.
"Big brother? You really can't speak? But you just spoke?... Big brother??"
Buwa stood on tiptoes and waved his hand in front of Ling Chen's eyes a few times. But in the end, he still couldn't get Ling Chen's answer. Not only did he not answer, the cold-faced elder brother looked at the rocks deep in the village a few times.
When the intersection was blocked, he lifted his feet and walked straight to the back of the village at the foot of the mountain.
Puwa, who had just climbed up the mountain and wanted to play in the mountain for a while, was really annoyed now. He clenched his fists, stamped his feet several times in succession, and chased after him with big strides: "Big brother
!You ignore the doll! The doll wants you to play with me! Play with me! No one else is playing with me during this period, I want you to play with me!"
Ling Chen sneered in his heart and glanced sideways at the three tall watchtowers with his dark pupils. Then, he still quickened his pace and walked towards the depths of the village. Buwa had no choice but to follow Ling Chen down the mountain and enter the village.
The color on the workers' faces is not good.
They sighed, some sat next to the rocks, and some waved shovels casually on the road. No one had a smile on their face, and no one looked radiant.
All this comes from one reason. Look at the huge rocks blocking the road, completely blocking the road to the lower spirit mine. Without jobs, they can't help Taiyi Sect collect spiritual stones. They can only live by growing food, but
Now look at these wheat fields...
The dejected faces of those workers now resembled the wheat in the fields. The wheat that was about to be harvested was all exuding a dying yellow color. The wheat ears were drooping and looked small and short. They should have emitted a golden color.
The glossy yellow leaves are faintly covered with black stripes, some leaves are missing corners, and some even have branches that are unsteady.
This is not bad. At least the wheat is still alive. But in more places, the wheat has all died. The withered wheat stalks collapsed layer after layer. In addition to emitting a rotten smell, they also
It cast a layer of stench called "despair" on the faces of those farmers...
"Ahem...Last year, Village Chief Wang (Senior Brother Wang) should have offered it to me, but he was greedy and didn't offer it. As a result, Chongli became very vicious.
Ling Chen walked into the gravel-blocked road, where several workers were talking quietly with their heads hanging down.
"That damn guy! If he wasn't coveting those spiritual stones...how could his life be so miserable this year?! Fortunately, Chongli is just a monster. Seeing that we were pious enough in previous years, he didn't give us destruction.
.But look at this year’s grain harvest...cough..."
"If Senior Brother Wang still refuses to make offerings this year, what will we do? Does it mean that next year will be another year of no harvest like this?"
"More than that! Zhongli will kill all of us! And you also know that this year, Senior Brother Wang actually sent back the talisman message and summoned his Taiyi Sect strongmen to try to kill..."
"Shh! You want to die! Say it so loudly!"
Ling Chen gradually approached. When those people saw Ling Chen coming, they nodded to each other and dispersed. Obviously, Ling Chen's identity as the task executor was not accepted by the whole village.
"Hmph! Speak ill of Uncle Wang! None of these people are good! Little brother, you will definitely be able to complete your mission? As long as you kill that big monster, they will believe that you are not so useless.
You must be very strong!"
"It's not that simple to kill Zhongli with my own strength. Let's see how much they have hidden from me..." Ling Chen turned back thoughtfully and glanced sideways in the direction of the watchtower.
Buwa blew his nose at the dispersed crowd. When he turned around, he found that Ling Chen had walked into the wheat field, squatted on the ground, broke off a withered wheat straw and put it in his hand, looking at it carefully again and again.
Seeing him doing this, Buwa followed him into the wheat field, jumped behind the idiot, put half of his head in front of the straw, and said with a smile: "What are you looking at? Brother, did you find something?"
Found...what?
Yes, Ling Chen indeed discovered something. He dropped the wheat in his hand and looked up at the withered farmland in front of him...
Is the monster insect angry? Does it need worship? Because there is no worship, it has the ability to make the farmland useless?
No, this should be a plague. Is it a plague spread by insects?
.........What on earth is going on? Can that demonic beast...a first-level demonic beast...be able to do this?
"Haha...it seems they have indeed hidden too much from me."
Ling Chen turned around and ignored the cloth doll next to him. He walked slowly out of the farmland, lowered his head, and thought quietly... But it was at this moment...
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