In the next period of time, Shen Zhirui followed the rest of the team on border patrol missions.

Centered on that temporary stronghold, the desolate land with a radius of hundreds of miles is the area they need to patrol.

There are a total of four patrol teams on their side. Two teams are sent out for each patrol, and the remaining two teams rest in the stronghold.

After the two teams that went out to patrol return, the two teams that are resting in the stronghold will take over their place and continue to patrol the surrounding area.

Compared to the fierce fighting that broke out elsewhere on the border, Shen Zhirui's area seemed much calmer.

Since they are already on the edge of the Jueling Sand Sea, Xuanling Sect and the Liu family have not deployed too many monks in this area, just to prevent the other party from taking a detour from here to attack the rear.

Therefore, both the enemy and ourselves in this area were very restrained, and everyone only completed the patrol tasks above and below.

Although the monks from both sides would fight each other after encountering each other on the border, it only went so far. Neither side would easily enter the other's territory, leaving a buffer area for both sides.

...

The strong wind roaring out from the Jueling Sand Sea rolled up endless yellow sand on the ground, making everything gray, giving people a feeling of blocking out the sky and the sun.

On a piece of barren sand, the sound of crushing sand and rocks was heard constantly, and brilliant spell attacks burst out.

At this time, Shen Zhirui and his party were fighting fiercely, but this time their opponents were not the monks from the Liu family in Shiyi County across the street, but strange khaki insects.

I saw that these strange insects were more than several feet long, and their bodies were covered with earthy yellow sand and gravel. They did not have any claws on their bodies, and they only had a weird mouth on their head.

This kind of strange insect is called a sandworm, and it is one of the only monsters that can survive in the Jueling Sand Sea for a long time.

As we all know, the spiritual energy above the surface of Jueling Sand Sea is almost cut off, and all spiritual plants and monster beasts that rely on spiritual energy to survive cannot survive here.

However, monsters like sandworms have their own special abilities. They live in the dark underground all year round, surviving by devouring things with spiritual power in the ground, and sometimes they occasionally attack monks on the surface.

However, relatively speaking, this kind of monster only lives in the Jueling Sand Sea and rarely enters the territory of human monks.

Moreover, the intelligence of this kind of monster is very low. In most cases, it relies on instinct to act. Its main method of attack is to use its body covered with hard sand and stone to carry out brute force attacks.

Furthermore, most of them are only around the first-middle and low-grade in strength, and do not pose much of a threat to human monks.

"Boom..."

With a sharp cold light flashing past, Shen Zhirui put away his knife and slashed a first-level middle-grade sandworm opposite him in two, and its two huge body parts fell heavily on the sand.

However, even though the body had been split into two parts with a knife, the two parts of the body were still twisting continuously. There was no blood on the wound, but a stream of thick mucus flowed out.

In the blink of an eye, the two body parts turned into two sandworms and began to burrow desperately into the sand.

Shen Zhirui did not show any surprise when he saw this scene. He swung the horizontal knife in his hand again, splitting the two sandworms into several pieces again.

After a flash of swords and swords, the ground was covered with disgusting slime and debris that looked like sand and gravel.

Shen Zhirui's eyes swept across the piles of debris, and then he went directly to one of the debris and took out a stone-like object from the body full of mucus.

This seemingly stone-like thing is a kind of stone that was born in the body after the sandworm devoured the spiritual minerals deep underground. It contains pure spiritual power, which is almost comparable to the spiritual stone.

However, the birth rate of this kind of stone is extremely slow. Some first-order low-grade sandworms have no stones at all in their bodies. However, although the first-order middle-grade sandworm that Shen Zhirui killed gave birth to this stone, its spiritual power is still there.

The power is only equivalent to two or three spiritual stones.

In order to obtain such a stone, it would take a lot of effort to kill the first-level mid-level sandworm, which would inevitably outweigh the gain.

On the other side, other people in the team also eliminated other sandworms, looking for possible stones in their wreckage.

After all, this kind of stone is still rich in spiritual power, which can help them restore their spiritual power in this place with thin spiritual energy.

"We have encountered too many sandworm attacks these days. This seems abnormal..."

As an indigenous monk from Shayu County, Zhuang Wenshi is very familiar with the habits of sandworms.

Generally speaking, this kind of monster only lives inside the Jueling Sand Sea and rarely appears in human activity areas.

However, they have been attacked by inexplicable sandworms again and again in the past ten days, which obviously goes against common sense.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but feel that something was abnormal, but they couldn't figure out the reason.

The only thing that can be thought of is that the Liu family monks secretly controlled these sandworms by means of beast control, and commanded these monster beasts to attack them.

But judging from the attack process of these sandworms, it doesn't look like they are being controlled, they are just acting on instinct.

...

As night fell, Shen Zhirui and his team set up a simple temporary camp in a leeward valley.

The camp was surrounded by earth walls built with earth wall magic, and in the middle was a burning bonfire.

Tonight was Shen Zhirui's turn to keep vigil, so he sat down on the sand a few miles away from the camp.

The cool night breeze blew across his cheek. He looked up at the bright moon hidden behind the clouds, and his thoughts gradually drifted away.

Today was already forty-five days after he left the family. He didn't know what the situation was like in the family. He didn't know whether his grandfather had left seclusion or whether he had successfully broken through to the realm of foundation building...

In addition to these, he is also worried about the tribesmen who came to the border with him. What is the situation of these tribesmen?

Although he was relatively peaceful here, he heard that the battles in other places were extremely brutal, with a large number of monks being killed and injured every day.

However, while he was still thinking wildly here, the little gray pig who had signed a blood contract with him made a new discovery.

He had previously released the little gray pig in his arms and let it move around on its own in search of food.

Unexpectedly, it has made a new discovery now!

Shen Zhirui quickly got up and rushed to where the little gray pig was, and soon he was far away from the temporary camp.

As he got further and further away from the camp, he immediately became vigilant. After all, if you stay away from the camp, you will be easily exposed to unknown dangers.

Not long after, Shen Zhirui arrived near a gentle slope, and the little gray pig that called him over also ran towards him.

Through the contract established by both parties, he was able to know that new discoveries were just behind the hillside.

I saw Shen Zhirui put the little gray pig into the cloth bag on his waist, then gathered all the breath in his body and quietly sneaked behind the slope.

At the same time, in a hidden corner behind the hillside, there was actually a man and a woman who were having an affair.

"Wu Lang...after the slave family tells you that secret...can you really agree to marry me into the family and help me repair the lost Yin Yuan..."

The woman gasped and spoke intermittently, her voice extremely seductive.

At this time, a boy also said while breathing heavily:

"Junior Sister Xu, as long as you can extract from Senior Brother Feng the secret he is planning to plot next, I will definitely marry you...

Furthermore, you also know that my cousin has been listed as a true disciple by the sect and has begun preparations for foundation building... Then I will definitely find a way to help you find the spiritual object to repair the Yin Yuan..."

...

At this time, not far away, Shen Zhirui listened clearly to the conversation between the two, and felt even more surprised in his heart.

From the voices of these two people, it was not difficult to tell that they were Xu Mengqing and Wu Zifan who were in the same team as him, but he did not expect that these two people would actually do such a disgraceful thing in this wilderness.

And isn’t Xu Mengqing and Feng Tianjie a double cultivator? Why is she hooking up with Wu Zifan now?

The most important thing is what is the secret about Feng Tianjie that they mentioned in their conversation?

For a moment, Shen Zhirui was a little confused. The relationship between these three people seemed too complicated.
Chapter completed!