As soon as he said goodbye to everyone, Zhan Chen began to retreat. From now to the tenth of next month, there is still nearly a month, and he can make good use of it.
So in the following days, he repeated the retreat process of refining and taking elixirs. In just one month, he refined six fifth-grade intermediate nine-turn golden elixirs, and the accumulation of true energy was
It has soared by less than half.
He waited until the morning of the 10th before he stopped and stood up, thinking: Great, this is exactly what I want. The elixir for a sufficient life can help me accumulate true energy, and the experience mission can consolidate my realm.
, this is called the way of civil and military affairs.
Today's Zhan Chen is not afraid of dangers and challenges, but is eager to walk on the edge of life and death. More than a year of training at Saintess' Peak has made him feel that his bones are tender and his fighting instinct is weakening.
He hurried to the rendezvous point and found that there were already many people waiting there, most of whom were only martial artists, and there were as many as two thousand people.
While he was observing, he heard someone calling him: Zhan Chen
Zhan Chen turned around to look, and shouted happily: It's Brother Wan
It turned out that Wan Zheng and his party of five had been waiting there early. Zhan Chen also hurried forward to meet them, but asked: Brother Wan, besides us, how come there are so many martial arts masters today?
Wan Zheng smiled slightly and explained: Brother Zhan, you don’t know where we are going, the Chihong Mine. It is the largest mine near Moluo City and is located at the outermost reaches of the Chihong Mountains. It is rich in level three and level four weapon refining materials.
, For the Mo Luo Sect, these resources are extremely important, so a large number of people are needed to mine them.
The third and fourth level weapon refining materials can no longer be mined by ordinary people at the martial arts level, so at least non-staff disciples at the martial arts master level can mine these minerals. The martial arts masters you see are only part of the labor force there.
That's all, and to mine martial arts masters there would require more than 30,000 people.
But I saw that there are only more than 2,000 people here.
These people are just supplementary manpower, and we outer disciples used to mostly serve as mining deacons, responsible for supervising them.
Zhan Chen couldn't help but think of his experience as a supervisor in Huangyan Gang, and he suddenly understood.
Just as they were talking, a burly fat man came down from the mountain. He looked about 50% similar to Pang Xie. He was also a fat man, but although he was fat, it did not affect his flexibility.
Every move exudes infinite power.
The fat man was dressed in the clothes of an inner disciple, and his cultivation had obviously reached the level of King Wu. He came to the crowd and shouted loudly: Everyone, I am your leader and your new manager in the future. My name is
It’s called Pang Snake. Please take good care of it in the future.
Pang Snake Zhan Chen couldn't help but be startled, and looked at Wan Zheng aside with questioning eyes.
Sure enough, I heard Wan Zheng say: No, this Pang Snake is also Pang Xie's brother. The two are known for their ferocity and are known as the twin evil spirits of snake and scorpion.
Hearing what he said, Zhan Chen suddenly became alert. Pang Xie and Pang She are brothers. It seems that this trip is not as simple as it seems. Pang Xie will not let me go after all.
After a while, people came together. There were a total of 2,300 martial arts masters and 36 martial arts masters. Zhan Chen saw Lin Qiu's figure in the team again, and the uneasiness in his heart became more intense.
Pang Snake counted the number of people, then ordered the team to set off, heading northwest in a mighty manner.
They traveled through mountains and rivers for nearly half a month before reaching their destination.
Zhan Chen raised his eyes and saw a series of tall and stretching mountains stretching in front of him, too numerous to count, stretching to the horizon as if there was no end in sight.
Most of these mountains are covered with dense ancient trees, which are connected together, as if they are covered with green clothes.
At the foot of the mountains, a large river runs across the north and south, and there is a town sandwiched between the mountains and the river.
Zhan Chen learned from Wan Zheng and others that it was the famous Chihong City. This city is famous for smelting and trade. It is said that many people who go into the mountains to mine for medicine will take what they get from the woods there.
Go and exchange it for primeval stones.
Therefore, alchemy and weapon refining are relatively prosperous there, and I heard that many well-known alchemists and swordsmiths live there.
Pang Snake was walking at the front of the team, saw Chihong City, and shouted excitedly: Everyone, hurry up, we will try to get to the station before dark.
So the team behind them accelerated their pace. They did not enter the city, but bypassed the town and continued to march into the jungle.
Looking at Chihong City in the distance, Zhan Chen's eyes flashed with a trace of regret. If he entered that city, he might be able to accomplish many things, but then he adjusted his mentality. Since he had to stay in Chihong
After staying in Mine Lode for half a year, are you worried that you won’t have the chance to go to Chihong City?
After walking for another ten miles, they officially entered the dense forest, and experienced another experience: the trees around them were more than twenty meters high, and the tree crowns were even denser, blocking out the sky and the sun, making the entire forest shrouded in darkness.
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The spiritual energy in the forest is so dense that it even forms into bursts of spiritual mist, which permeates the woods, giving people a hazy feeling and making it difficult to even see the scene further away.
There were even more spiritual herbs growing nearby. Zhan Chen looked around and saw several first-grade elixirs. He was secretly shocked: This place is really a treasure land. You can find so many elixirs just by looking. So you have to find high-grade elixirs.
I'm afraid it's not difficult to find the elixir.
At this time, there was a commotion in the team. It turned out that many martial arts masters began to leave the team to pick elixirs on the roadside.
Seeing this scene, Pang Snake in front couldn't help but get angry and shouted: What are you doing, don't you want your life? If I find any guy who dares to collect elixirs on the roadside again, I will kill him without mercy.
As soon as this order came out, everyone quickly regrouped and no one dared to offend this powerful man with the high-level cultivation of King Wu.
At this moment, there was a sudden vibration in the nearby grass, and a black shadow shot out from it and pounced on a junior martial artist in the team.
Before the man could react, he felt his throat had been bitten, made a "wow" sound, and died immediately.
Everyone hurriedly pulled out their weapons and looked at him, only to see a monster beast that looked like a wild cat, biting the victim's neck greedily and sucking the blood.
Someone immediately shouted that it was a cat demon. It was a second-grade mid-level demon beast. Although it was only the size of a house cat, its speed was comparable to that of a high-level martial artist. It was good at concealing sneak attacks and was quite difficult to deal with.
Immediately, several martial arts masters surrounded him, blocked the beast's retreat, and hacked it to death with swords.
At this time, Pang Snake came over, glanced at the dead body on the ground, and asked: What's going on?
Reporting back to the steward, he was attacked by a cat demon.
It turns out that when you enter the depths of the jungle, there will be more monsters. Everyone, please be careful and think more about your own life.
Sir, what should I do with the body of this junior brother?
Hum, we need to be on our way and have no time to pay attention to this trivial matter. You can just throw it into the haystack. After saying this, Pang Snake turned around and went to the front.
Several martial arts masters stared at his back and were angry but did not dare to speak. In the end, they did not do as Pang She said, but chose to take his body with them and find a place to bury him in the future.
This incident did not affect their schedule. Afterwards, their team was attacked by monsters many times, but no one lost their lives.
Zhan Chen personally killed a second-level monster. This was already the tenth monster he had killed. He couldn't help complaining: Why are there so many monsters here?
Wan Zheng said with a smile: Brother Zhan, we are only in the outer reaches of the Chihong Mountains. These can only be regarded as near misses. If we go deeper into the Chihong Mountains, we may encounter monsters above the fourth level. Then
That's the danger
Oh, there are still monsters above level 4 in the Chihong Mountains
Yes, the Chihong Mine is only located on the outer reaches of the Chihong Mountains, and the deeper you go into the mountains, the more dangerous it becomes, and the higher the level of monsters you encounter. I have heard that Yin Xuehai, the leader of our Demonic Sect, is making a breakthrough
After the Martial Saint attained the Great Perfection, he once went deep into the Chihong Mountains, but he escaped with serious injuries.
Oh, what happened in the middle? Yin Xuehai is a powerful martial saint. Is there any opponent he can't deal with? Zhan Chen couldn't help but ask.
He didn't reveal anything after he came back, and no one dared to ask him about it, but there were rumors that there was a ninth-level monster hidden in the deepest part of the Chihong Mountains.
A ninth-level monster, this is an existence that can rival an immortal who has entered the Taoist Peeping Realm. Zhan Chen called.
Yes, so after that, the sect leader issued an order that only allowed the sect to mine minerals in the outer reaches of the Chihong Mountains, and was not allowed to go deep into the center of the mountains. Probably because they were afraid of the existence in the mountains.
While the two were talking, the team climbed up a big mountain and reached the top of the mountain.
There is an open area with a camp built there. There are many houses in it, enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people. There are three big black characters "Chihongzhai" written on the entrance of the camp, which looks powerful.
Zhan Chen knew that they had arrived at their destination.
At this time, Pang She was heard shouting loudly from inside: Go and call your steward, I was ordered to hand over the duty to him.
Several deacons running around among them hurriedly welcomed them into the village and quickly notified the original steward.
After a handover between the two, the team settled down. In the evening, everyone specially lit a bonfire and held a celebration ceremony for those who came, which lasted until late at night.
By the way, after Zhan Chen finished drinking, he walked into his room and looked around. It was a 50-square-meter room, divided into a 30-square-meter training room and a 20-square-meter bedroom. It was in good condition.
Looking at all this, Zhan Chen showed a satisfied smile and murmured: The environment here is much better than that on Shadow Peak. The spiritual energy in the mountains is also extremely abundant. There is no darkness and turbidity like the earth's spiritual energy. I really want to retreat here for a long time.
But he knew this was a luxury, because tomorrow the team would gather and Pang She would start assigning responsibilities and tasks.
I'll have a good night's rest, and I'll have to deal with that giant snake tomorrow. Zhan Chen thought silently.