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A flash of green light was seen at the root of the tree, revealing a black hole about ten feet in size, and a stone staircase extending downward could be faintly seen.
Shi Mu moved and immediately disappeared from the entrance of the cave.
The air in the place fluctuated for a while, and the entrance of the cave quickly became blurred, and gradually disappeared into the air without any trace.
After passing through a not-so-long passage, Shi Mu soon came to a rather spacious underground space.
The surrounding stone walls are inlaid with some ores that emit white light, making the light in the underground space not too dim.
This place looks like an abandoned mine, which is relatively dry. There are traces of excavation all over the surrounding mountain walls, and more than a dozen simple stone chambers have been carved out.
At this time, there was a crude stone table and a few stone benches placed deep in the underground space. Seven or eight people were sitting around it, seeming to be discussing something. When they heard the sound, they all looked back.
The fluorite in the space gave off a faint silver glow, making the expressions on everyone's faces somewhat hazy.
These people all look very young, most of them are around seventeen or eighteen years old, and they are wearing the clothes of disciples of various sects.
Seeing Shi Mu just come in, most of the people at the table smiled and greeted him with a smile.
"Junior Brother Shi came back much later than usual this time."
"Looking at the look on his face, the mission must have been successfully completed, right?"
Shi Mu smiled and nodded to everyone around him who greeted him.
"Hey, Brother Shi, are you injured?" A clear and melodious female voice said. A girl in green robe who looked like sixteen or seventeen years old stood up in the crowd.
This woman's bright eyes sparkled like stars, her nose was straight and cute. Her skin was as fair as gel, and her figure was exquisite. She was looking at Shi Mu's right arm with concern.
There was a knife mark about a foot long on it. Although the blood had dried, the wound was curled up and looked shocking.
"It's just a skin injury, nothing serious. Thank you Miss Ke'er for taking care of me." Shi Mu glanced at the wound on his arm and smiled at the pretty girl.
The green-robed girl frowned, as if she wanted to say something, but at this moment, a young man beside the girl who had been silent stood up, and everyone around them fell silent upon seeing this.
"Junior Brother Shi, has the mission been completed?" The young man, wearing the blue clothes of the Xuanwu Sect, said coldly and arrogantly.
Shi Mu frowned slightly, then took out a silver-inlaid domino from his arms with a calm expression and handed it to the young man in blue.
The young man in blue took it and checked it several times before taking out a white jade plate about the size of a foot from his body, and then took out a short silver stick and placed it on the jade plate.
A soft "buzz" sound!
A piece of white light appeared on the white jade plate. Then it condensed into a two-foot-sized light curtain, and lines of text appeared on it, which were clearly missions.
The eyes of everyone around him lit up and they all looked towards the light curtain.
The young man in blue gently tapped one of them with a short silver stick to intercept the barbarian patrol team.
The light curtain flashed, and a beam of white light shot out. Inside, there appeared the figure of a barbarian young man and the image of a domino, and the strange fonts on it were clearly visible. They were exactly the same as the silver-inlaid domino in the hands of the young man in blue.
The young man in blue carefully compared the images of the dominoes several times, twitched his eyes slightly, nodded indifferently, recited a spell, and tapped the silver stick in his hand on the light screen again.
The light screen flashed, and the interception mission suddenly disappeared from the light screen without a trace.
Shi Mu took out a black palm-sized token from his arms and threw it to the young man in blue.
His name was written on one side of the token, and cloud-like runes were engraved on the edge of the other side, but a silver number "four hundred and fifty-two" appeared in the middle.
The young man in blue's face darkened, but he didn't say anything. He tapped the silver stick in his hand on Shi Mu's token.
A burst of silver light lit up, and the number on Shi Mu's token increased by twenty, becoming four hundred and seventy-two.
A black light flashed between the two of them, and the identity token was thrown back by the young man in blue.
Shi Mu casually caught the token without looking at the young man in blue. He nodded slightly to the others, turned and walked towards a stone room.
Speaking of which, in the year since the Barbarian War began, in addition to several large-scale head-on confrontations between the armies of the three dynasties and the barbarian armies, the human alliance headed by the seven sects has also fought three times with the eight barbarian tribes.
Great battle.
As a result, after the third time, both sides had already suffered serious injuries to earth-level experts and the death of some innate experts.
There are more earth-level warriors on the human race side than there are barbarians, but the strength of the barbarian clan's strongest man, Mang Shang, is far too strong for the human race's earth-level warriors to resist.
Therefore, after the third battle of the strong, the two sides seemed to have reached a certain consensus and gradually maintained a delicate balance.
For a time, the innate and above strong men on both sides stopped attacking easily, and instead allowed those with acquired skills to become the main force in the battle.
The human race sent a large number of acquired warriors to the three states occupied by the barbarians, constantly harassing the opponent's important strongholds, or assassinating the totem warriors of the barbarians, slowly consuming the opponent's strength.
The same is true for the barbarians. For a while, there was no major battle between the two sides, but small battles continued every day.
In order to more effectively resist the barbarian invasion, the alliance of seven major factions mobilized the enthusiasm of the disciples of each faction. The top leaders of each faction reached an unprecedented consensus, integrated the resources of each faction, and set up an alliance mission and merit point system.
Afterwards, the alliance's senior leaders unified the disciples of each faction to form small teams, assign various tasks, and cooperate with the imperial armies of the Three Kingdoms to resist the barbarian invasion.
After completing the tasks of the alliance, you will be rewarded with merit points, which can be exchanged for some training resources at some large strongholds of the Human Alliance or various sects.
The tasks issued by the alliance are difficult and easy, but Shi Mu and others are assigned to be at the forefront of the battle and go deep into the barbarian positions, which is undoubtedly the most dangerous category.
This is not because anyone is specifically targeting Shi Mu. It's because the alliance gave death orders to its disciples in order to resist the barbarians. Each disciple needs to stay at the front line for at least a year before being transferred back to other places.
The mine here is a secret stronghold on the front line. Now there are more than a dozen disciples from various sects gathered here. Their cultivation levels are around the early to mid-term of the day after tomorrow. They are a quite elite force. Most of them are assassinating barbarians.
Warriors, exploring the enemy's situation and other dangerous tasks.
The young man in blue is named Bai Yuxiu. He is a disciple of the inner sect of Xuanwu Sect. He has the highest level of cultivation among all the people and has already acquired a late-stage cultivation level. He was naturally selected by the alliance to be the team leader.
It's just that this person and Shi Mu didn't like each other, and their relationship was very cold.
As for the girl in green robe, her name is Ke'er. She is a wood-attribute warlock apprentice from the Miaoyin Sect. She is good at wood-attribute healing spells. She is one of the only two warlocks in this stronghold. In addition, she has extremely beautiful appearance.
She is beautiful and very popular among the male disciples in the stronghold.
Ke'er and Shi Mu are both warlocks, so they naturally have many topics in common. In addition, Shi Mu has always been thinking about Zhong Xiu who joined the Miaoyin Sect, and is willing to take the initiative to communicate with her. Therefore, the relationship between the two has always been good.
"Brother Shi, wait a minute, let me take a look at your wound." At this time, Ke'er chased after him and took the initiative to hold up Shi Mu's injured right arm without any warning. He looked at it carefully.
Beside the stone table, Bai Yuxiu became a little unhappy when he saw this situation.
Shi Mu did not refuse. Ke'er stood there still checking the wound.
Although the wound was a bit long, it was not deep. There was no sign of poisoning.
Ke'er breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out a white finger to touch the wound. Then she opened her red lips and uttered a few crisp and melodious spells.
The next moment, a hazy green light suddenly lit up on the tip of his finger. As the finger slowly moved along the wound, the green light soon completely covered the narrow wound.
Shi Mu felt a cool feeling at the wound along with an unbearable itching, and then it healed quickly, leaving only a faint scar in the blink of an eye.
He knew that in three or four days, there would be no traces left on his arms.
"Junior sister Ke's wood healing technique is still so powerful, thank you very much." Shi Mu shook his arm and felt no pain at all, and said with a happy face.
"Brother Shi, you don't have to be polite. I thanked you for the talismans you gave me when I performed the mission before." Ke'er smiled sweetly, her curved eyebrows trembling slightly.
"Alas! Junior sister Ke is so biased. She always calls us senior brothers, but when we meet someone, we change our name to eldest brother." A strange laughter suddenly sounded from the crowd behind us.
When Ke'er heard this, she turned around and made a face at the crowd behind her.
Her playful appearance, set off by her already beautiful face, was so charming that even Shi Mu, who was standing by her, couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat.
When Bai Yuxiu saw this scene, his face suddenly became even more gloomy.
"Junior Sister Ke, why don't you call me Brother Guan?" A fat man also joked with a smile.
Ke'er turned around and glared at Fatty, ignored him, said hello to Shi Mu, then turned and walked towards her cave.
At this time, another petite woman in white robe with a cold face also stood up and left with Ke'er. The two of them seemed to have something to say.
The white-robed woman seldom spoke. Shi Mu only knew that she was a female disciple of Tianyin Sect, and she seemed to have a good relationship with Ke'er.
Seeing this, Shi Mu calmly turned around and walked towards his stone room.
His stone chamber is in the innermost place because it is the quietest there.
Returning to his residence, Shi Mu changed into clean clothes.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door,
Shi Mu frowned, went over to open the door, and saw a young Taoist priest standing at the door with a sword on his back.
"Junior Brother Shi, you have just returned from completing a mission. I shouldn't have disturbed your rest, but I took on a mission, which is quite difficult. I need to refine a golden armor talisman in case of emergency..." The young Taoist priest with a sword on his back was somewhat agitated.
Said embarrassedly.
"Senior Brother Qin, you're welcome. Bring the materials." Shi Mu invited the young Taoist priest to sit down at the stone table indoors and said with a smile.
He is the only talisman maker in this stronghold deep behind enemy lines. Others who need to replenish their talismans can only ask Shi Mu, so his status in the stronghold is quite aloof, and most people are quite polite to him.
After all, on the battlefield, sometimes a talisman can be enough to determine life or death. (To be continued.)