The sky was slightly bright, and the entire wild island was still filled with the early morning mist. The field of vision was very low, and it was gray a few feet away. Only the outline of the distant islands could be seen.
According to the experience of the past few days, it will take at least an hour before this mist will dissipate.
But many students on the island know that this is the most dangerous time on the entire island. Many sneak attacks and counter-sneak attacks occur when the visibility is the worst.
Even late at night, the moonlight shines and you can see more clearly than the white mist.
At this time, many student teams will choose to stay in their own camps, setting up various ambushes inside and outside the camps, ready to fight against incoming enemies at any time.
However, many monks took advantage of this opportunity to migrate long distances on the island to a safer place. Their previous place may have been exposed, and the risk of staying in the same place is very high.
Many powerful student gang alliances like to launch raids on surrounding teams at this time.
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at this time.
A team of five students was walking quickly in the vast white mist, migrating along the edge of the island towards the northwest highland side of the wild island.
They dare not go to the center of the island, because there are three powerful student team alliances in the center of the island. They are Lou Jiejun, Bai Xijun, and Ren Haiping who are the top three in Qingyun Immortal Academy's potential list.
These three powerful City Lord students each gathered no less than twenty City Lord students and started a big melee in the open area in the center of the island.
For these three sons of a wealthy family who cultivate immortals, it is a sure thing to obtain the official qualification as city lords. What they want to compete for is to be the first place in the graduating class of Qingyun Immortal Academy. This is the greatest honor.
Some of the city lord students from other scattered forces did not dare to participate in the melee in the center of the island.
This team of monks sneaking through the vast white mist is different from most of the student teams at Qingyun Immortal Academy.
The students of Qingyun Immortal Academy, whether they are the city lord students who are the leaders, or the auxiliary students of the retinue, are generally young, usually in their teens to early twenties, and the retinues who are over thirty years old, All are very few.
Most of the students who can become City Lord students are children of aristocratic families, and are generally not too old. The auxiliary students who are qualified to participate in the final assessment and follow the City Lord are all close friends and will grow up with the City Lord students, so they are not too old. .
As for the team in front of them, except for the young monk who leads the team, almost none of the other assistant students are under thirty years old.
There are even two people in their fifties or sixties, which is very strange. One is dressed as a master, and the other is dressed as a general manager. This is very rare among all the students.
The five people were divided into two groups, separated by several feet. One person in front explored the way, and the four people behind followed.
The team moved forward cautiously, not very fast.
"Crack!"
There was a sharp crisp sound. The old man dressed as a master who was walking with the young monk accidentally stepped on a dead branch. Although the sound was not loud, it was very harsh in such a quiet morning.
The five people were startled almost at the same time and stopped.
"Master Hou, be careful. If you make any noise, it can easily alert other monks around you!"
The middle-aged monk immediately whispered.
"It's just a branch, is there such a fuss?"
Master Hou looked a little unhappy and muttered.
"A monk with sensitive ears and eyes can clearly hear any larger movement within a few miles. Who knows if there are other monks around us?"
The middle-aged monk said solemnly.
"Okay, stop arguing! You're right to be careful."
The young man who led the team waved his hand helplessly, his eyes falling on Mr. Hou who had caused the trouble, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
"Young Master, the fog is too heavy. I was only looking at my surroundings and didn't pay attention to my steps for a moment!"
Master Hou cupped his hands and said weakly.
"Forget it, this is a trivial matter. We have been walking for nearly half an hour, and we are probably not far from our goal of this trip. Let's take a rest first and wait for the fog to dissipate before setting off."
Another old man spoke.
"Okay, just follow Uncle Cao. Rest where you are and start again later. This is a woodland, maybe you can find a water source. Brother Gui, go to the woods to find water."
The middle-aged monk walking in front nodded and said to a dark and strong man.
This middle-aged monk is He An.
And the young monk is none other than Zheng Yiqing.
Over the past year at Qingyun College, Zheng Yiqing's life has not been easy.
In order to let him enter Qingyun Immortal Academy, the Zheng family has spent a lot of family property and savings, and has been exhausted. Apart from providing a small amount of spiritual stones every month for training, they can no longer provide him with more financial resources. They can only rely on Zheng Yiqing for everything.
Figure out your own solution.
Zheng Yiqing has been worrying about the choice of his assistant monk.
The auxiliary monks are the most important force around the city lord monk.
According to the City Lord student course, a qualified auxiliary monk must meet at least two conditions, one is absolute loyalty, and the other is outstanding ability in a certain aspect. In addition, he must be as young as possible and the same age as the City Lord student.
It is not easy to find suitable assistant monks in Qingyun College who meet these two points.
The Zheng family is just a small family that has just been formed. There are only a few monks in the family, who are either Zheng Yiqing's elders or peers. Naturally, they do not want to become Zheng Yiqing's assistant monks and his followers.
Among Zheng Yiqing's entourage, the only one who met the requirements in terms of qualifications and strength was He An. He An was not his servant. He An had only promised to escort Zheng Yiqing all the way to the East China Sea to find immortals, and he could leave at any time afterwards.
Even so, Zheng Yiqing still provided the Vitality Pill to let He An become an immortal cultivator in order to retain He An to continue to assist him.
Zheng Yiqing set his sights on the ordinary auxiliary students of Qingyun Immortal Academy. Among the thousand ordinary auxiliary students, Zheng Yiqing could not find a monk who was willing to follow him. Because the Zheng family did not have enough strength to make these auxiliary monks of Qingyun Immortal Academy willing.
Be loyal to him.
Out of loyalty considerations, Zheng Yiqing finally chose one of his own, Butler Cao, an old servant who was older and had no more ambitions, and gave him the Vitality Pill to help him achieve a breakthrough.
In addition, he could not do without Master Hou's advice, so he also included Master Hou as an auxiliary monk. Although Master Hou did not have much talent in cultivation or other aspects, his combat power was also very low.
This time during the graduation examination on Wild Island, I have been relying on Master Hou's cunning and cunning tactics to deal with other student teams on the island.
Otherwise, their team would have been wiped out long ago. From this perspective, Master Hou is still indispensable.
"Master Hou, how sure are you of entering the top ten this time?"
During the break, Zheng Yiqing couldn't help but ask Master Hou.
"When I first landed on the island, it was less than 10%. Now after three days, I estimate that I have a 30% chance. If I can occupy that cliff and survive for another three or four days, I estimate that the young master has a 50% chance of entering the top ten!
"
Master Hou took out a brocade handkerchief, wiped his forehead and said.
"If you stay for a few more days, you only have a 50% chance? Don't you know that it would be extremely difficult to stay on this island for one more day?"
Zheng Yiqing said a little dissatisfied.
"Young Master, with our strength, it would be good to have a 50% chance. It depends on whether the battle between Lou Jiejun, Bai Xijun, and Ren Haiping will affect us.
If our whereabouts were discovered by these three groups of monks, there would basically be no luck and we would have to surrender.
In any case, we have been hiding around the island and have escaped the melee for the first three days, which is already very lucky. Find a high-risk place and stay there for a few more days, and the chances will increase."
Master Hou said unhurriedly.
Zheng Yiqing seemed to have found confidence and looked a little more relaxed.
"Young Master, I was looking for water sources in the woods and found a lot of traces of felled spiritual trees!"
The dark-skinned man returned in a hurry, looking a little flustered.
His surname is Gui, a confidant warrior under Zheng Hongjun. He was originally an Orion and was very familiar with the jungle. He was arranged by Zheng Hongjun to serve as an assistant monk to Zheng Yiqing.
Zheng Yiqing couldn't shirk it and could only accept it.
"There are people cutting down a lot of spiritual trees here? Is there anyone who has the same plan as us? Brother Gui, tell me the details!"
Everyone was shocked. Master Hou was the first to react and said with a frown.
"I just looked for water sources and searched this forest. A few hundred feet in front, I saw signs of being cut down on the spiritual trees there! I carefully counted the number of felled spiritual tree stumps, no less than thirty or forty.
There are so many plants!”
The man named Gui spoke solemnly.
"What! So much has been chopped off!"
"Spirit wood is the most important spiritual resource that can be found on the island! This team actually cut down so many spirit trees, they must have built a camp nearby!"
Everyone exclaimed.
"This place is very close to the target of our trip, the cliff. I don't know if they have occupied that dangerous spot. We must seize this dangerous spot. Otherwise, the consequences will be unpredictable, and it will even affect our follow-up plan to defend.
.Brother Gui, please make another trip to check out the situation on the cliff. If you find anything, carefully explore the other party’s background!"
Master Hou said with a solemn expression.
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
The big man surnamed Gui looked at Zheng Yiqing, and when he saw Zheng Yiqing nodding, he left. He had practiced invisibility spells and was suitable for investigation.
"I don't know which group of students it is. Most of them have already camped on this cliff! It's a pity that we couldn't get there one step earlier than them."
Master Hou's face was full of worry.
This wild island has a radius of hundreds of miles, and Kuang Zhen only gave them three hours to get to the island. They didn't have enough time to explore the terrain of the island, so after getting to the island, they slowly looked for a place suitable for defense.
Zheng Yiqing's expression became very ugly.
Among the top ten in the assessment, he originally gave up long ago.
But after hearing the content of the graduation examination, he once had an experience of surviving on a wild island in the East China Sea. In addition, Master Hou was full of tricks, and a sense of hope arose in his heart.
"No matter who it is, it must be eliminated!"
Zheng Yiqing said bitterly.
He must grab the top ten in the assessment.
Half an hour later.
The man named Gui returned quietly.
"Young Master, the cliff is indeed occupied. All the places that can be climbed are equipped with sharp spikes, traps, rolling logs weighing thousands of kilograms, and falling rocks. There is no place where you can easily climb the cliff.
There is a five-foot-high spiritual wood fence blocking the only narrow path that can be climbed up, and there is even a very hidden arrow tower.
You have to go near the spiritual wood fence to discover the existence of this arrow tower. There is a young monk standing guard on the arrow tower behind the fence. The man is very strange, and I can't recognize who it is!
According to the villain's judgment, this cliff is extremely well-defended, even to the point of resorting to all possible means. Even an experienced hunter like the villain feels intimidated when he sees this arrangement. The person who arranged this kind of formation must have a very high level of defense.
Actual combat experience. The five of us are afraid we won’t be able to attack."
The big man surnamed Gui immediately reported in detail what he saw.
"Why is this scene so familiar...could it be Ye Mo?"
Zheng Yiqing's face suddenly showed an expression as if he had seen a ghost. He and Master Hou looked at each other in shock.
Ordinary Xianyuan students, without actual combat, may not be able to deploy a tight hedgehog-like defense on the wild island. And with actual combat experience, which aristocratic family's children would go to the wild island to fight monsters?
Even Zheng Yiqing himself is more experienced than other immortal academy students.
"What does the sentry look like?"
He An asked seriously.
The man named Gui picked up a branch and drew dozens of strokes on the ground, outlining the outline of a monk with a dull face.
"This, isn't this one of Ye Mo's subordinates?"
Master Hou was immediately surprised.
Butler Cao took a look at it and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I remember Ye Mo's people too! Although this kid is not very eye-catching, he has followed Ye Mo for a long time and is one of his confidants."
"So, it is Ye Mo who occupies this cliff! We are really enemies on a narrow road, and God has given us this opportunity. God has given me a chance to take revenge. Master Hou, what are our chances of winning if we sneak attack them?"
Zheng Yiqing suddenly felt angry and asked impatiently.