After the competition, the two brothers Gu Yuan and Yi Wen and Yi Wu stayed as outer disciples as they wished.
According to previous regulations, outer disciples can only be assigned their responsibilities by the sect after ten days.
During these ten days, all the new disciples just did simple tasks such as patrolling, cleaning the mountain gate, and occasionally took on tasks with points.
True Fire Hall enjoys the offerings from around Scarlet Flame City, so naturally it also wants to ensure peace.
There were eight outer disciples living in a dormitory. After two days, the Yi brothers and the other five quickly became friends. Only then did Gu Yuan understand why he had to wait until ten days before assigning responsibilities.
It turns out that all new outer disciples have to participate in the collection of elixirs in the secret realm.
Although the elixirs collected can be exchanged for a lot of points, this secret realm is a place with an extremely high mortality rate.
Each time, about one-third of the disciples died in the secret realm.
Therefore, the sect plans to wait for everyone to return from the secret realm before allocating the money.
That day it happened to be Yi Wen's turn to clean the steps, and suddenly someone came running over shouting.
"Something bad is going to happen, something going bad is going to happen..."
An exclamation came from the foot of the mountain. The outer disciples who were cleaning the steps of the mountain gate couldn't help but be curious. They stopped what they were doing and stretched their necks to look down, wanting to see what happened.
Within a moment, everyone saw a young man who, like them, was wearing the clothes of an outer disciple, hurriedly ran up the steps, and kept shouting loudly, as if he had encountered something terrible.
matter.
The outer disciples who had gathered together rushed over, blocking the fellow disciple who was running out of breath, and asked him in various directions what terrible thing had happened.
"Beyond the mountains, deep pools in the mountains beyond the mountains..."
The young man who came to report the news saw that he was surrounded by so many fellow students. If he didn't tell the story, he might not be able to escape at all.
In desperation, without even taking a breath, he began to inform the fellow disciples present about the matter intermittently.
After what the young man said, everyone knew that it was the deep pool in the mountain outside the sect. At some point, a big black snake came.
The big snake entrenched the deep pool and had already eaten many woodcutters who went into the mountains to collect herbs and cut firewood.
The young man who came back to report this news happened to be assigned by the sect to go outside the mountain today to purchase some supplies for the sect, and happened to hear the news in the market.
Although Shanwai Mountain is open to outsiders to go into the mountains to collect resources to make a living, it is actually still under the jurisdiction of the sect.
Nowadays, there is a big snake entrenched in a deep pool outside the mountain, and it has even killed people.
No matter what, the sect has a duty to eradicate this big snake.
Sure enough, less than half a day after the news about the big snake in the deep pool was reported, the sect issued a mission to eliminate the big snake.
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"Senior brother, you have seen that big snake. Please tell everyone how powerful that big snake is."
Outside the main hall, a group of outer disciples gathered together and asked the fellow disciple who had come back to report the situation for information about the big snake.
The outer disciple was just about to show his face and explain to everyone some news about the big snake that he heard in the market.
Before he could say anything more, a young man with a very arrogant expression walked out of the hall.
"What are you all doing here?
Let's break up, so you don't have to ask around blindly, so as not to be unskilled in your studies and go off to treat the big snake as a snack."
"The task of this big snake will be left to me, Chen Jinnan."
The young man who called himself Chen Jinnan came to the crowd, glanced around with disdain, and continued:
"If you are not convinced, you can come with me."
"When the time comes, I'll show you how I cut off the head of that big snake."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jinnan raised his head and walked carelessly down the mountain as if he was looking at people with his nostrils.
The outer sect disciples present are all determined to complete this single sect mission.
I was thinking before that I could find out the strength of the big snake in the deep pool from the fellow disciple who sent the information back, and then decide how to deal with the big snake.
Now Chen Jinnan, an arrogant guy, is leading the way for everyone to go to the deep pool to test the strength of the big snake.
Naturally, everyone will not miss this opportunity to personally check out the strength of Orochi.
So, after a group of outer disciples looked at each other for a few times, they all started to move in unison and followed Chen Jinnan down the mountain.
According to the fellow disciple who sent the information back, the big man-eating snake is in the deep pool outside Zongmen Mountain.
Everyone first came out of the mountain-protecting formation, and then climbed several mountains in a row before arriving at the edge of a deep pool outside the mountain.
It is said that the bottom of this deep pool is a hundred feet deep. There is a sword inserted in the center of the bottom of the pool. It was left here by the sect's seniors in the battle with the enemy.
It was the sword of the sect senior that created this deep pool.
In the hundreds of years since Shanwaishan has been open to nearby people, this deep pool has long been a place where nearby people can draw water to save their lives during droughts.
It's no wonder that after the sect heard that the deep pool was entrenched by a big snake, it immediately issued a mission and asked the sect's disciples to come over and wipe out the big snake.
Looking at the deep pool the size of several acres of land, Chen Jinnan turned back casually and looked at the group of fellow disciples who were following him.
He reached into his clothes and dug a few times, then took out a small sachet-like bag.
The rope tied to the small bag was untied by Chen Jinnan, and everyone present immediately saw that a crystal silver-white light bloomed from inside the small bag.
This was still in broad daylight. If it were in the dark night, I'm afraid the light in this bag would be even more dazzling.
Chen Jinnan carefully peeled off the small bag outside with his hands, revealing a fist-sized bead inside, which he shook at his classmates.
"Did you see it? This is called a water-avoiding bead. It can create a waterless space for living people underwater."
"In a while, I will directly use this water-avoiding bead to go into the deep pool and chop up the big snake."
"You just stay here and wait for me to bring the snake head back..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jinnan held the water-avoiding beads in one hand and his ghost head sword in the other, and jumped into the deep pool in front of him.
The fellow disciples on the shore were waiting quietly to see if Chen Jinnan was as powerful as he boasted.
Shortly after Chen Jinnan jumped into the deep pool, his fellow disciples who were watching around the deep pool suddenly saw a scene that shocked them.
The deep pool, which covers an area of several acres, suddenly caused huge waves.
The waves were a foot or two high and crashed straight towards the shore.