Fire Cloud Beast is a fire-based monster with the ability to be fast, spit fireballs, and have sharp claws.
It is not easy for them to deal with the Fire Cloud Beast. The terrain of the forest will make it more troublesome for them. Although they have a soul frequency device, each team is equipped with one. The soul frequency device is a middle-grade spiritual weapon and is relatively simple to refine. It is an auxiliary function in itself. In conjunction with the soul frequency range of the Fire Cloud Beast obtained from the academy, the soul frequency ranges of different species are different, so as long as the frequency range you are looking for is entered on the soul frequency device, the spiritual consciousness can be transferred. Objects within the range that belong to this soul frequency are displayed.
So it was very simple for them to find the Fire Cloud Beast. Once found, it was even easier to use the mirror technique to track it. Because it was an air mirror, it could penetrate trees and other obstacles at will to track and monitor the Fire Cloud Beast.
What's stuck now is the last attack. There's a problem. This flying sword is an entity. If you attack forcefully, it will easily hit obstacles in the middle, causing it to miss. After all, the flying sword is very fast, and it is very difficult to avoid objects blocking the road at this high speed.
Now the team is stuck at this place. They have tried to force the move several times, but only missed it by a hair. Later I thought that I could let Feijian slowly approach the Fire Cloud Beast, but the Fire Cloud Beast was not stupid. Once there was any movement, it would run away, and it would be too late to use any more force at this time. Moreover, the flying sword technique requires a certain distance to accelerate. If the distance is too short, the speed will not rise and the power will drop a lot, so I have to give up after trying it a few times.
Dahai originally suggested setting up a trap, but Feifei had not yet learned the wood-type cage technique. Besides, this cage technique alone could not trap the Fire Cloud Beast. After all, it was a fire-type monster.
Therefore, practice is to test the truth of everything. Originally, they completed the first few tasks very easily, positioning and releasing the flying sword. If that didn't work, they would be followed by fireballs, ice swords, etc. In short, three strikes and five strikes divide two, and the battle is resolved within a few breaths.
But this time, it’s troublesome. It’s very difficult to approach the Fire Cloud Beast actively. As I said before, this is not the human world. Everyone is very fast. Once it is alarmed, it can cover hundreds of meters in one breath. If it runs slower, it will Maybe it would be troublesome to find him if he ran out of the surveillance range; besides, four people couldn't intercept him, and if he was approached by the Fire Cloud Beast, he might even be injured by it. Therefore, if you want to follow the way of the human world, only if you can't see him and he can't see you, then it will be possible.
This is the current situation. They have been closely monitoring the Fire Cloud Beast. Fortunately, this is the only one within the range. If there were more, it would be troublesome. Maybe it's time for them to escape.
Quartz Sword looked at his flying sword and said, "This thing is still too big. If it is smaller, I can easily kill it by finding an open place and giving me enough time to accelerate."
Feifei patted Quartz Sword on the shoulder: "It's okay, I didn't escape anyway, sooner or later it will all be ours, why are you so anxious? Think about what we can eat at night?"
"Don't think about eating. We don't have time to waste now. After taking the demon pill, we also need to find the fire crystal mine. It is said that the fire crystal mine is in the mountains deep in the forest, quite far away." Dahai looked melancholy. After becoming the team leader, he became obviously much more stable.
Hao Yun was in the group and mainly practiced fire and water skills. Of course, he could do all the skills, but he thought about it, so he might as well hide his clumsiness. In fact, he didn't even want to expose the two systems, but he had asked his classmates if he could transform multi-attribute spiritual power, so that now that he has exposed the two systems, everyone would better understand his actions back then. Because of this, when they were divided into groups later, everyone said that he was the best of the two, so their third group only had four people.
Hao Yun asked Quartz Sword: "Your flying sword must be accelerated to be powerful, right? If we find a way to make your flying sword start faster, can you control it?"
"It definitely won't work if it's too big. You can try if it's smaller. But if it's too small, will its power be reduced?" Quartz Sword answered honestly.
"Do you have a way to speed up the initial speed?" Dahai was curious.
Hao Yun nodded: "You know that I can control fire spiritual power. This is how I envisioned it. Everyone has seen the muskets in the human world. They use gunpowder explosions to push bullets to shoot targets." Everyone nodded. "It's just that the power of the musket is too weak and the range is too short. It is useless at this stage of our cultivators. But I think we can improve it. First, we can use the fire spirit crystal to detonate. The fire contained in the fire spirit crystal The spirit power is very strong, but we have to use fire techniques and spiritual consciousness to detonate it. I can do this; as long as the structure of the gun we use is stable enough and can not be blown up by the power of the fire spirit crystal, then Combined with the use of bullets made of the same material as the gold flying sword, a very high initial speed can be obtained. Coupled with the quartz sword's flying sword technique to operate the bullets, the fire cloud beast can be killed at close range." After hearing this, everyone nodded. It looks like he has gained something after his thoughts.
Hao Yun continued: "Unlike muskets, we don't have to think about aiming at all. As long as there are not many obstructions around, we can detonate and shoot!" Dahai clapped his hands and said: "I think it is completely feasible, as long as it is made of the same material as a flying sword. Making the gun body doesn't have to be complicated, as long as it has a barrel and can be put in the fire crystal and bullets. In this way, Brick and Quartz Sword, you can go back to Yaosen City together, and you should be able to find cultivators there. workshop and then customize it according to requirements.”
"No, I suggest the four of us go there together. There's no point in you two staying here. Why not go there together and relax!" Hao Yun said quickly. "Yes, you and I are alone in the deep mountains and forests. It seems that you, Dahai, can't help but want to take action!" Feifei couldn't help but joke about Dahai. Everyone has indeed been in the mountains for a long time, and they are all tired. Dahai waved his hands with a wry smile, "Okay, let's pause for a while, then let's go!"
The four people jumped into the air, and the Quartz Sword made his flying sword grow bigger. The four people stood on the flying sword, and the flying sword turned into a flying rainbow and went straight to Yaosen City.
When it comes to rushing, flying swords are the fastest. Since currently, except for Quartz Sword, others lack the carrier to support their spiritual power to make flying swords, so now they all use Quartz Sword's flying sword when traveling.
The Fairy Forest City is about five thousand miles away from the Fairy Forest. It was about eight thousand miles away from their location, and it would only take more than two hours to arrive at the speed of Quartz Sword Feijian.
Along the way, everyone is still used to releasing their spiritual consciousness to prevent sneak attacks, or if there is something going on on the way, they can learn about it early. After all, the Fairy Forest is a dangerous place and one cannot be careless.
The journey was smooth. The flying sword technique of the main quartz sword was indeed very fast and could continue to maintain speed. This was the benefit brought by the metal spiritual power. In terms of speed alone, it was faster than the average Jindan mid-stage cultivator. However, Because he consumes less spiritual energy, he can maintain speed, which is something that cultivators at the non-attributed golden elixir stage cannot do.
Monster Forest City is not big. Because it is close to the fairy forest, it is more vulnerable to attacks by monsters. Therefore, the city is more concentrated, which is also easier to protect. The entire city is circular, and urban buildings are concentrated in the center of the circle. There are no buildings or large buildings elsewhere. Vegetation, there is a high tower built in the city, so that no matter how you enter the city from all directions, there is no way to hide.
Soon they entered the city. Because the tower was mainly for monitoring monster attacks, no one paid attention to them. When they got nearby, they landed on the city streets, asked a passerby, and rushed to the cultivator workshop. . Hao Yun meant that he and Quartz Jian could just go there, while Dahai and Feifei could go to the hotel to book a room and rest first. But Dahai might have been frightened by Feifei's joke and insisted on going. As soon as Feifei saw it, let's go together.
When they arrived at the workshop, the receptionist found a refining master for them, and it was done quickly. It was not a high-end thing, and there was no magic circle. The main thing was that the material was good. It cost 2,500 low-grade spiritual crystals to get it done. Quartz Jian insisted on swiping his own spiritual crystal card, and said that this item was mainly for his own use. After this fire crystal gun was built, it was tested in the workshop's testing ground. The effect was good and it could withstand the explosion of fire crystals. However, it is estimated that it may not work after up to 5 times. Originally, he wanted to build a few more quartz swords, but Hao Yun thought that after returning to the academy, he could consider learning the magic circle. This way, adding the magic circle structure would be more stable. This time, he would make do with it. After all, it doesn’t cost money to build it in the academy!
In the evening, the brothers booked four single rooms in the hotel, took a good shower, and then had a buffet barbecue in the hotel restaurant. This is a special delicacy of Fairy Forest City, because it is close to the Fairy Forest and there are many Fresh monster meat is sold and made into barbecue, which tastes great.
"The seafood barbecue in our Linghai City is also very good. If you have a chance to go there, you must try it!" Dahai called a water ball to clean the oil on his hands. It seemed that he was full.
"Okay, Team Leader Dahai is treating us to a treat. We must eat and drink well, right, sister Quartz Sword!" Feifei winked at Quartz Sword.
Quartz Jian's face suddenly turned red.
"Don't bully honest children." Hao Yun said to Feifei, turned his head and looked at the sea and said, "Aren't you a little homesick!"
A glass of wine in hand after the sea has been cleansed.
"Yes, three years have passed in a flash. It's not easy to survive. When I first came to the graduate school to study, I was quite excited. I thought that school life should be very colorful!"
"Yes, you were the first classmate to jump on the podium and speak in front of 100 of us. You are quite like a big brother!" Feifei answered from the side.
"At that time, I wanted to get to know everyone. I wanted to get to know each other first. If I was chosen as a monitor, I would have a chance! Unexpectedly, the development of the situation was not at all what I expected." Dahai sighed.
"Yes, we started reducing staff from the second day. It was originally planned to be divided into five classes, but it didn't take shape until the end." Hao Yun agreed.
"At that time, I saw that Brick and Quartz Sword were loners and didn't interact with others very much. But I still made a few friends, which you may not feel at all. At that time, everyone's progress was very slow, and they were always injured. The mood was extremely bad. A few of us always encouraged each other together, but unexpectedly, I was the only one who succeeded in the end. Have you ever thought about what will happen to those classmates who were sent away now? "Dahai is a little sentimental.
"Didn't you say you were sent home?" Feifei was a little strange.
"Impossible, the institute cannot let them return to their previous homes, and if they are really sent back, they will be even worse!" Hearing Dahai say this, everyone's expressions became solemn.
"How do you say it?" Hao Yun asked.
"Actually, it's very simple. If you send it back, you will definitely be watched by people who want to find out about the results of the institute. Although the students must have signed confidentiality agreements, those people will definitely not care whether they will die. For If they get the secret, they will definitely search for their souls, so it’s not as simple as death. Besides, they don’t live long in the first place, and sending them back will only cause pain to their relatives. It’s better to find a place for them to live in peace. For the rest of my life."
Quartz Sword was listening quietly, but when he heard this, his face began to turn blue, and he suddenly asked: "Why can't you live long? What's going on?"
Dahai looked at Quartz Sword's expression of eagerness to know, thoughtfully.
"Because the origin of the body has been severely damaged and the meridians have shrunk, normally he will not survive for 5 years."
Hao Yun was secretly surprised, how could Dahai be so familiar with the situation.
With a click, the quartz sword crushed the wine glass in his hand.
Feifei looked at the quartz sword in surprise.
Quartz Sword looked at his hands, looked up at everyone, and smiled bitterly: "I'm a little excited. In fact, this time I was selected together with my sister. My sister's cultivation qualifications are much better than mine. I originally thought he was a genius. Great chance, who knew something like this would happen. After my sister was injured, I went to see her, and she told me, don’t worry about her, let me practice hard. When I succeed in practicing and she recovers from her injury, she will let me practice again. Teach her. As a result, later, the college said that she was sent out. Some time ago, the college let us go out to do tasks. I secretly contacted my family and found that my sister did not come home. I did not dare to ask more for fear that my family would be worried. If It’s just like Brother Dahai said, my sister is still alive and dead!”
"So that's it. Logically speaking, your sister shouldn't have died yet. Although it hurt her, you also said that your sister has better qualifications than you. It's only been 3 years now and she should still be alive. But where is she now? I don’t know anymore.” Dahai speculated.
"Your Shi family can produce two people. It seems that the people in your Shi family are very powerful!" Feifei asked Shi Yingjian.
"Our family has been in decline for a long time. There has been no cultivator in our family for many years. Although there are family traditions in the family, not many people practice it since my grandfather's generation. My parents are not even Qi practitioners. , but on the contrary, the family has a large population. My sister and I are twins, and my grandfather also likes us very much, so he made the decision to let us practice. Only then did he realize that we have good cultivation qualifications, so we got the opportunity to come to the institute. .”
"Your family is right not to practice. After three years in the institute, you should have discovered something!" Dahai looked at the members of the group.
Everyone looked at each other and nodded to the team leader.
"You also know that I practice water-based exercises. My family named me Dahai. In fact, my family was originally on an island deep in the sea. Unfortunately, the family declined day by day. One day, my father went out and never came back. , my mother quickly took me to Linghai City to settle down, and from then on in Linghai City I could only look at the sea, but never had the chance to sail to the sea."
Dahai paused for a moment, then continued: "Have you ever thought about why the exercises need to be accompanied by formulas? Moreover, the formulas are passed down orally from family to family. Once a family member dies, the formulas are lost, and the skills cannot be continued to be practiced."
Hao Yun thought to himself that it was indeed very unscientific.
Quartz Sword answered honestly: "I don't know, I haven't thought about it carefully, I just don't think something is right."
Feifei said angrily from the side: "There must be something wrong with the exercises passed down in the family, right? But this shouldn't be the case! Did the ancestors deliberately deceive future generations?"
"I think my ancestors probably didn't know it, otherwise there wouldn't be formulas to coordinate the practice. However, when I cultivated the water spiritual power, I thought about the exercises at home, and I suddenly understood that this skill The Dharma is completely practiced in conjunction with water spiritual power. If you practice with non-attributed spiritual power, it must be very difficult. When my father went out, my mother asked if I could keep a copy of the formula. My father said to my mother, if If he can’t come back, don’t let Dahai practice, it’s a dead end.”
Hao Yun felt that this meal was a bit overwhelming, as there were constant reports of big news!
"Team Leader Dahai, do you know what your father did back then?" Feifei was very curious.
"I was still very young at that time, and my mother didn't tell me, but I guessed it must be to solve the cultivation problem. I have always wanted to know what my father was doing when he went out, and I also had a lot of doubts about the exercises at home. So. , the establishment of the Cultivation Technique Research Institute this time, I think it may be an opportunity to solve the mystery."
"Team Leader Dahai, you later returned to the island. Was it your previous home?" Feifei asked.
"No!" Dahai replied.
"I think if you have a chance, you can go take a look. Maybe there will be clues."
Hao Yun thought to himself, even though Feifei is silly and happy all the time, she is still very smart.
"Feifei, what's your family like?" Hao Yun asked.
"My family is very simple. My parents are in business. When I was a child, I followed the adults and watched them discuss business, so I am very capable. There is no martial arts at home, but my parents said that doing business requires running around and physical strength. But it had to be impossible, so I was asked to practice qi. The original purpose was to strengthen my body. After reaching the middle stage of qi training, I had no intention of learning any skills or becoming a cultivator."
"Then why did you come to study at the institute?" Hao Yun asked next.
"My parents are in business, so they know a lot of people! There was an acquaintance who was looking for students and said something about those who require minors to be in the middle stage of Qi training. My dad was too talkative and said that my children can also meet this requirement, so they said I encouraged my dad to let me try, and I got selected.”
"Actually, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to practice in recent years. Qualifications are not important. Many people with very good qualifications end up getting stuck on the practice. This time we were able to learn the Five Elements Kung Fu at the institute. , I’m really lucky!” Dahai sighed from the side.
Dahai raised his glass: "Come on, let's raise a glass together, for the eighty-six unlucky classmates, and for us to survive successfully."
The wine was bitter. After drinking the glass of wine, everyone was silent, not knowing what they were thinking.
After an unknown amount of time, the waiter came over and asked what else our table needed to grill, so they could serve it to us. At this time, everyone came to their senses and said that it was no longer needed. Dahai saw that everyone had eaten and drank well, and announced that everyone should go back and have a good rest. Tomorrow, we have to deal with the Fire Cloud Beast quickly, so we can't waste any more time.
