"I heard that the thief is quite powerful. I also want to see how powerful he is."
An old man with no hair on his head and wrinkles on his face walked out with a sinister smile on his face.
"Count me in!" The person speaking was a woman. If her lips weren't slightly thin, which made her look a bit mean, she would probably be a beauty.
"And me!" The person who stood up this time was a young man with a white face and no beard. His opponent was holding a white paper fan. If you look closely, you will find that the fan bones are actually made of metal.
"Okay, seventh brother, fifth uncle, third aunt, and eleventh brother, the four of you will go out during the foundation building period. This trip will be absolutely trouble-free!"
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Three days later, the flying boat where Hou Jiuming was on finally landed.
After getting off the boat and looking at the unfamiliar environment in front of him, he was a little confused.
"What kind of place is this? Isn't it the place of the last trial?"
A group of people disembarked calmly, and there were already people waiting outside to pick them up.
Afterwards, they followed these people to a intact village and town and arranged accommodation.
By the time everything was done, it was getting close to night.
As a group of them who are in the late stages of Qi training, they naturally don't need to see the resident deacon or anything like that, they just need to follow orders.
Therefore, we each had a good rest in the town that night.
Early the next morning, at dawn, they were gathered in an open space outside the village.
In front of everyone, I saw an old man in gray robe. After seeing everyone gathered, he coughed first and then said loudly.
"Next, I call out the name of the queue~"
"Qian Yu, Liu Ping, Ma Liang, Zhao Shang..."
After the old man called out to the seven people, he stopped, and the seven people obediently walked next to him.
"The seven of you will form a team from now on, taking turns to guard the Earth Split. If you patrol during the day, a senior brother from the Foundation Establishment Stage will lead the team and go to the Mission Hall to pick up the mission."
The seven people seemed not surprised by this. After the old man finished speaking, they bowed their hands to him, turned around and left together.
After they left, the old man began to call names again.
Teams of people were assigned, eight to nine hundred people, and it took less than an hour to get them all done.
And Hou Jiuming also has his own teammates.
Among them, there were two that he still knew. They were the two licking dogs who surrounded Wang Qiongyan when he entered the sect with him.
One is named Liu Yingfeng and the other is Huang Qi.
From the outside, Liu Yingfeng looked nothing special, but Huang Qi was quite pretentious, even carrying an umbrella despite the weather.
The remaining four people are all from different mountain peaks.
A female cultivator from Chaofeng Peak, Pan Yuping.
A male cultivator from Baodan Peak, Wen Li.
A male cultivator from the Treasure Refining Pavilion, Zhang Chuang.
The last one is Hua Ying from Divine Beast Peak.
Including Hou Jiuming himself, there are exactly seven people.
After the teams were assigned, the seven people left the square and introduced themselves.
When Hou Jiuming announced his name, it caught the attention of Liu Yingfeng and Huang Qi without any surprise.
As for the reason, it was naturally the scene during the assessment.
I believe that anyone who had not boarded the ship at that time would hardly forget him.
"Brother Hou, I didn't expect to meet here!" Huang Qi, who was carrying an umbrella, greeted with a smile, as if he didn't look down on him at all because he was a casual cultivator.
As for Liu Yingfeng, he nodded and stopped talking.
"Brother Huang, Brother Liu," he clasped his fists at the two of them as a response, then looked at Huang Qi and said, "I didn't expect such a coincidence. Three years have passed since we said goodbye that day. Brother Huang and Brother Liu
His style is even better than before."
"Where~where~" Huang Qi smiled modestly.
When several other people nearby saw this, Zhang Chuang, the big man from the Treasure Refining Pavilion, asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Have you three known each other before?"
As he spoke, several other people also gathered their gazes.
"More than just acquaintance, we joined the sect at the same time..." Huang Qi seemed to be very good at dealing with each other, and within a short time, everyone became familiar with each other.
With him acting as a moderator, the strangeness between the seven people was slightly diluted.
After chatting for a while and everyone getting familiar with each other, Huang Qi broke the atmosphere.
"Let's go check out the mission first. It would be best if we can receive a patrol mission during the day."
Hou Jiuming knew something about the two tasks of setting up defenses at night and patrolling at night before coming here.
Relatively speaking, inspection tasks during the day are much better.
In addition to being led by a dedicated captain during the foundation building period, the battles will be much less.
I didn't expect it to be night, and the ground cracking beasts would be dispatched to kill them and attack the defense line. If they didn't do it well, their lives would be in danger.
Everyone had no objection to Huang Qi's proposal and went to the mission hall together.
The town runs from north to south. Although there are no mortals anymore, shops are still open on both sides of the street.
It is understood that it was started by the disciples and deacons stationed here.
After all, with so many people, there must be a place to buy and sell.
The Mission Hall, located in the center of the town, is a huge stone hall rising from the ground.
Judging from its grand scale, it should have been established after the arrival of the Huating Sect.
Because the stone wall has no gaps in the whole, it is impossible for mortals to make it.
When the seven people arrived at the main hall, there was already a long queue at the door.
At the same time, there are also people who are constantly coming out of it.
Some of these people were excited, while others were dejected.
"You are so unlucky. If you had known, I would have been the one to fall for you."
"Then why didn't you say it then? What's the use of saying it now?"
"Okay, stop arguing, let's just do it tonight, it's only a matter of time."
"Just hold on for a month, and then it won't be just a matter of drawing lots."
After listening to what these people said for a while, Hou Jiuming understood what was going on.
It turns out that when newcomers are assigned tasks, they do not take them themselves, but by drawing lots.
If you are lucky, you will be able to patrol during the day. If you are not lucky, you can only be on duty at night.
However, after a month, the team on duty at night will be directly switched to patrolling during the day.
Those who patrol during the day will be on duty at night.
The next step is to switch according to time.
After learning about this situation, Huang Qi couldn't help but turn around to discuss with them.
"Which one of you has better luck?"
"Actually, I feel like it's the same during the day and at night, but it's just a matter of morning and evening." Liu Yingfeng couldn't help but say after he asked.
"Yes, it's your turn to be on duty at night anyway, so why do you have to do your first daytime inspection?" Wen Li from Baodan Peak is not very old. He should have been adopted by the Huating Sect since he was a child.
In addition, the conditions in Baodan Peak are a bit better, so the whole person looks chubby.
"What do you know? It's our first time to participate in the Earth Splitting Watch. If we were stationed directly at night, we wouldn't even have the slightest psychological preparation. If something goes wrong by then, it would be over.
The daytime patrol is different. Not only are there fewer Earth Splitting Beasts, but there is also a team leader who is in the foundation building period. This will give us time to adapt." This chapter has been completed!