Shen Rui circulated his martial energy and stretched out his iron-like hand to squeeze his hand. The mercenary screamed like a killing pig.
"Am I qualified to join your team?" Shen Rui asked with a smile.
"Ah - let go quickly, you, you, you," the mercenary shouted quickly.
Shen Rui let go of his hand, and the mercenary asked with lingering fear: "Name? Strength?"
"Shen Rui. Junior martial artist." Shen Rui replied. He deliberately concealed a level. Anyway, he practiced with hidden veins, and ordinary people could not see his strength.
The mercenary wrote down his name, put a check mark after his name, and said, "You wait aside for a while. When I recruit enough people, I will take you to our group."
Shen Rui followed the instructions and stepped aside.
There were quite a few people joining the mercenary group. After a while, the Iron Tiger Mercenary Group was full of people. Shen Rui roughly estimated that there were about thirty people. These people were at least high-level warriors and the highest. Senior martial artists, the strength of the team should not be underestimated. The mercenary responsible for registration took them to a large inn.
"How's it going? Walker, are the registrations full?" A tall and burly middle-aged man with a broad face and nose augmentation asked the leader of the mercenary registration.
"Captain Sa, it's full, take a look." Walker said.
Shen Rui first caught Captain Sa's attention. He frowned: "Why did you add a child to our mercenary team? Are there no people left?"
"Captain, don't underestimate this young man, he is a junior martial artist." Walker's hand was still aching from being pinched by Shen Rui just now.
"What?" Captain Sa immediately looked at Shen Rui with admiration. Although he couldn't see Shen Rui's level, he knew that there were many people in the world who could practice secret techniques to hide martial energy, so he didn't care. Shen Rui looked at Captain Sa all over. He was full of martial arts, and it was impossible to tell how strong he was, but he guessed that he was at least a junior martial spirit.
After Captain Sa called everyone together, he said to everyone: "Everyone, our mission this time is to escort Mr. Yan to collect medicine. The salary is one thousand gold coins. I will give you five hundred first. This is Yan. Pharmacist, third-grade alchemist."
He pointed at a skinny old man next to him. The pharmacist didn't know why, but his face was blue-black, and combined with his skinny face, it felt a bit scary.
Medicine Master Yan cupped his fists at everyone and said, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone."
Alchemists are very respected on the mainland, and third-grade alchemists are considered higher-level alchemists in the Donghua Empire. Everyone hurriedly returned the favor.
Pharmacist Yan said to everyone again: "I went to collect medicine with some friends a few days ago and found several silver thread grass on a mountain. Everyone knows that silver thread grass is very rare and is necessary for refining the third-grade elixir to strengthen the body. One of the prepared medicinal herbs, but there is a third-level intermediate demonic beast, the Silver-threaded Demonic Snake, entrenched around these silver-threaded grasses. We are unable to defeat the demonic beast, so we come here to ask for your help."
The third-grade elixir, Strengthening Pill, is a hot commodity on the market, and the price is even more expensive than the fourth-grade elixir. The reason is that Silver Thread Grass is very rare. When everyone heard that they were just chasing away a third-order monster, they immediately relaxed. Although many silver-threaded demon snakes are highly poisonous, most of the mercenaries present had their own antidotes and didn't take them too seriously.
It should be easy for more than thirty martial artists to deal with a third-level intermediate monster.
Speaking of Silver Thread Grass, Shen Rui's eyes lit up. One of the herbs that Mr. Hun mentioned for refining metals included Silver Thread Grass.
Pharmacist Yan took out a few bottles of elixirs and said: "This is just a refined Qi Gathering Powder, a second-grade elixir, one for each person. I hope everyone will not dislike it."
Qi Gathering Powder is much more effective in restoring martial energy than Qi Recovery Pill.
Second-grade elixirs were sold in the market for tens of gold coins each. When everyone saw how generous Pharmacist Yan was, they couldn't help but cheer. Pharmacist Yan quickly won the hearts of the people.
Shen Rui looked on with cold eyes, saying that the pharmacist was showing courtesy for nothing, so there must be some ulterior secret. This trip to Tianyin Mountain was definitely not as simple as he said.
After Captain Sa and Medicine Master Yan finished talking, Captain Sa asked everyone to get ready and set off in half an hour. Shen Rui was already ready and sat aside to rest.
"Little brother, why do you come out to be a mercenary when you are so young?"
A young man sitting next to him asked. This young man has a handsome face and a calm tone, giving people a feeling of being approachable.
Shen Rui recognized that he was also one of the mercenaries who applied for this job. He was a junior martial artist. He immediately replied: "No way, I am short of money."
The two soon started chatting. From the conversation, Shen Rui learned that this young man's name was Jiang Shan, a warrior from another small town in Qinghuan City, and had been working as a mercenary for two or three years.
"You are new here, please ask me for help if you need anything." Jiang Shan said, patting his chest.
"Thank you." Shen Rui said gratefully.
Half an hour passed quickly. Captain Sa and Yaoshi Yan saw that everyone had arrived and called on everyone to go on the road together. The group of people walked towards the depths of Tianyin Mountain. Jiangshan and Shen Rui walked together. If there was any danger, Jiangshan would always stand in Shen Rui's way. This moved Shen Rui very much. Although everyone encountered some second-level monsters along the way, they were quickly dealt with.
One evening a few days later, everyone came to the foot of a mountain. Medicine Master Yan pointed to the top of the mountain and said to everyone: "Brothers, the silver money grass I mentioned is on this mountain. Let's all have a good rest here tonight. Tomorrow morning Go up the mountain."
Everyone dispersed and found a place to rest. When Shen Rui passed by Pharmacist Yan, he felt a strong smell of medicine coming, which seemed to be mixed with a fishy smell. The smell did not seem to be the smell of elixirs, and he felt that I couldn't help but feel strange. After eating, Jiang Shan went to bed early. Shen Rui sat cross-legged on the ground, practicing the Jingshen Jue and the Alchemy Jue. He had long been proficient in the Jingshen Jue, and now it has completely replaced the Xiaoyao Jue** , the effect is obviously much better than Xiaoyao Jue. In addition, the aura effect here is better than outside, and he feels that his strength has improved these days.
However, for the sake of safety, he did not practice with spiritual stones. There were many people here, and if someone wanted to covet them, it would cause unnecessary trouble. As for the alchemy secrets, he gradually figured it out, although there were still some things that were not quite right. He understood, but because he still lacked the conditions for refining, he was not in a hurry.
"Old Soul, are you still alive?" Shen Rui shouted in his heart.
"Damn you little bastard, you want to curse me to die early." Hun Lao's extremely angry voice sounded in his head.
"This means that there is a strange smell on the pharmacist's body. It doesn't seem to be the smell of medicinal pills." Shen Rui said.
Although Hun Lao could hear the sounds outside, he couldn't smell the smell.
"Then can you smell what it is?" Hun Lao asked.
"No, but it seems to have a fishy smell." Shen Rui said.
"The fishy smell? Could it be that he is a poison master?" Soul Lao thought.
Poison masters are a kind of master martial artist on the mainland who specialize in using poison. These people are often not very strong, but they are good at using poison to kill people.
"Be careful," said Hun Lao.
"Well, I will be careful." Shen Rui said.
Early the next morning, everyone walked up the mountain together, fighting through thorns and thorns all the way. They were eager to complete the task early so that they could go back and enjoy themselves. When they reached the middle of the mountain, the fog in front of them was confusing, and the road suddenly became blurry.
"It's not good, it's poisonous." someone shouted.
There were two bangs, and two warriors who were at the front through the fog fell down. The few people in front hurriedly swallowed the antidote pills and rushed into the fog to drag the two out, and also drank the antidote pills for them. Jiangshan An antidote pill was placed on Shen Rui's hand.
"Take it, it might be useful if you wait for a while."
"Thank you." Shen Rui was also polite.
"Everyone should take the detoxification pill. It will be safer." Medicine Master Yan said loudly.
"It's better to wait until the fog clears before leaving," someone said.
"Okay." Medicine Master Yan said helplessly. It's a trivial matter that the mist is poisonous. If there is a monster attack, it would be the most dangerous thing.
After a while, the fog gradually dissipated, and everyone continued to move up the mountain, cursing.