Xiao Hua and Huang Ming flew in front of the two of them, put away the magic weapon and fell to the ground. Xiao Hua took a step forward and arched his hands.
"Xiao Hua, this is my junior brother Huang Ming. I have met two fellow Taoists."
The old man, who was about seventy or eighty years old, also bowed his hand and introduced himself to his family.
"I, Gu Lei, am a monk from Leixiao Hall in Purple Mountain. This is my fellow disciple Zou Peng. I have met both of you."
Xiao Hua suddenly discovered that the mouth shape and voice of the old man's speech were completely consistent. He was speaking authentic Chinese and was definitely not transformed through spiritual roots.
Xiao Hua suddenly felt excited again. It seems that no matter what universe or interface, as long as there are people, there are Chinese people. Fortunately, this old man is not talking about Sichuan Pu.
"It turned out to be fellow Taoists from Purple Mountain. I'm so disrespectful. I wonder why the fellow Taoists killed the wild beasts here? As far as the two of us know, this place seems to be far away from Daxia."
Xiao Hua asked politely.
"Well, um..."
The old man named Gu Lei hesitated for a moment, but still told Xiao Hua.
"I won't hide it from you two, we came here specifically to kill this hard-skinned jackal beast."
"Kill the hard-skinned jackal beast?"
Xiao Hua and Huang Ming subconsciously looked at the two hard-skinned jackal beasts on the ground.
"Yes, although there are many wild beasts in the Savage Beast Continent, the hard-skinned jackal beast only lives in the southernmost part of the Thousand Needles Earth Forest and the Flame Hills. We are here to collect the hard-skinned jackal beast's core."
"Collecting beast cores? Uh, Fellow Daoist Gu, I wonder what's so special about the core of this hard-skinned jackal beast?"
Xiao Hua is very curious. He knows that barbarian beasts have beast cores, but he doesn't know the difference between the beast cores of barbarian beasts and the demon elixir of monster beasts.
After all, there are monsters in this world. The fire toad he and Huang Ming killed in Twilight Village was a monster, so Xiao Hua wanted to find out.
"Don't you two know? Generally, the beast core has a single attribute, but the beast core of the hard-skinned jackal beast contains both strength and speed. Therefore, the beast core of the hard-skinned jackal beast is extremely precious to the body refiner."
"Physique Refiner? Didn't it say that there are very few Body Refiners in the human race?" Huang Ming interjected.
He always thought that body refining was the exclusive domain of demon cultivators and demon cultivators, but he never expected that there would be human body refining practitioners in this world.
"Very few? Of the six major cultivating sects in Daxia, two of them focus on body refining, and yours at Red Maple Valley is one of them. Not to mention that martial cultivators need to refining their bodies before they can cultivate their spiritual roots. How could this happen? Less? Why did you say that?"
Gu Lei looked at Huang Ming in surprise, then frowned and became a little wary.
"Don't get me wrong, fellow Daoist Gu. What I mean is that there are much fewer physical refiners than qi refiners. I am a physical refiner myself. I'm just curious. Since you are not physical refiners, why do you come here to collect them? Beast core?"
Seeing that Gu Lei was suspicious, Huang Ming quickly explained and stretched out his right hand to use the "Prison Suppressing King's Art". The meridians on his forearm suddenly emitted bursts of golden light, and his skin became as hard as a rock.
Seeing that Huang Ming was really a body refiner, Gu Lei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"It seems that you two are indeed monks from Red Maple Valley. Well, no wonder you two are curious about why we Qi Refiners come here to collect beast cores. In fact, this is the case..."
So Gu Lei told them the reason for coming here.
It probably means that their Zijin Mountain has an appointment with Lin Zong, the leader of another major body refining sect in Daxia.
Changlin Zong went to the Tianhai Realm to help them collect demonic elixirs from monster beasts, and they went to the Barbarian Beast Continent to help Changlin Zong collect the beast cores of barbarian beasts. Both parties exchanged equally for mutual benefit.
"Exchange the beast core for the demon pill? Aren't you going to kill it yourself? Why do you want to exchange it?" Huang Ming didn't understand.
"Changlin Sect is located in the northwest of Daxia, close to the Tianhai Realm. Our Zijin Mountain is located in the northeast of Daxia, close to the Savage Beast Continent. It is easier for them to kill monsters and it is more convenient for us to kill wild beasts. That's why our two factions have this agreement"
“So that’s how it is”
Huang Ming understood now that the Changlin Sect was a body refiner, and Zijinshan was a Qi refiner. One wanted the beast core and the other wanted the demon pill, so they agreed to kill them nearby and then exchange them equally.
This is indeed more trouble-free than killing them themselves, and it can also avoid sect disputes.
"Why are the two of you here? Are you here to kill the hard-skinned jackal beast? But why are you two wearing Bai Yi costumes?" Gu Lei also asked.
"Uh, it's like this..."
Xiao Hua's brain began to spin rapidly.
"Actually, we accepted a mission from the sect and came to the Savage Continent specifically to investigate the changes in the environment. The reason why we are wearing the clothes of the Bai Yi people is that we have blended into a martial arts sect of the Bai Yi people."
Xiao Hua's "extremely smart" was really not just a boast, he immediately made up a very reasonable excuse.
"Are you here to investigate environmental changes? Well, I know about this. The huge environmental changes in the Savage Continent may affect our human continent, and our Purple Mountain is also investigating."
Gu Lei frowned when he said this: "But why did you come to Baiyi Realm to investigate? What's the point of joining the martial arts sect?"
"Well, well, actually, we first started investigating from the Savage Gate in Daxia Realm, but after a long investigation, we found nothing special."
Xiao Hua continued to talk nonsense.
"Then we decided to go to the Wilderness Gate in Heili Realm and Baiyi Realm to have a look. In Baiyi Realm, we heard that their camp of a martial arts sect in the Savage Beast Continent was attacked, so we infiltrated this place. "Sect"
Xiao Hua was so smart that he actually made up the story about the attack on the Silver Gate camp.
"What? The Baiyi people's martial arts camp was also attacked? Hiss, how could this happen?"
Gu Lei was surprised and subconsciously touched his beard.
"The martial arts camp of our Purple Mountain martial arts sect at the Savage Gate was attacked by wild beasts more than a month ago. I heard that the martial arts camp of the Heiyun Gate in Heilijing was also attacked by wild beasts."
"If the martial arts camp of the Baiyi people has also been attacked, then all the camps of our human race in the wild continent have been attacked. There is something wrong with this."
Gu Lei was a little confused and stroked his beard again.
"Is this a signal? The barbarian beasts want to drive us humans out of the barbarian beast continent? But the barbarian beasts are not very intelligent and have always preyed on the weak, so why would they specifically target us humans?"
"Is it just a coincidence? Are we overthinking it?" Zou Peng, who had been silent, interjected.
"No, our three major human races have set up observation camps in the Brutal Beast Continent for hundreds of years, and have never been attacked by wild beasts. Now, in the past few months, all of our human race's camps have been attacked. This is very unusual."
"Could this be related to the environmental changes we want to investigate?" Xiao Hua also interjected.
"Well, it's possible. Since we have set up an observation camp in the Brutal Beast Continent without incident for hundreds of years, it means that the Brutal Beasts will not take the initiative to attack. Now that the environment has changed dramatically, the Brutal Beasts attack almost at the same time. There must be a connection."
"But what's the point? The Barbarian Beast Continent is not suitable for the survival of the human race. Even if the Barbarian Beast really drives the human race out of the Barbarian Beast Continent, what will happen?" Xiao Hua asked.
"How do I know this? The only thing I'm worried about now is that the attack on the human camp by the beasts is a conscious unified action. If this is really related to the environmental changes in the beast continent, then something big may happen one day."
"What big thing will happen?" Huang Ming interrupted.
"If the recent attacks of the brutal beasts are really unified, it means that the intelligence of the brutal beasts has been improved, and maybe there is a leader or organization. If this is the case..."
Gu Lei hesitated to speak at this point, but finally said it.
"If this is the case, I am worried that one day the wild beasts will cross the gate of the wilderness and enter our human continent."
