If it weren't for those who had reached the middle stage of the Mortal Bone Realm and fought desperately to break through, I'm afraid that the elite of the small family forces would have been lost in that battle!
However, even so, several small cultivating families were severely damaged.
In desperation, the few small cultivating families had to unite and ask for help from the Black Turtle Sword Sect. They issued a mission to exterminate the Monkey King in the outer sect, hoping that the more powerful Black Turtle Sword Sect and outer disciples would take over the task.
The reward for this task is 800 contribution points and a pound of spiritual peaches with a ten-year period. Looking at the mission rewards alone, the rewards are quite generous. However, except for some curious cultivators who may want to taste the taste of monkey minds or use some unorthodox elixirs, those low-level monster monkeys do not have much strength at all. value.
The meat of the monster monkey may also be a rare monster meat for ordinary people, and it has a certain effect on strengthening the body.
But for cultivators such as Zhou Lei and Kang Tian, the slightest improvement is not enough for the cultivators to endure the disgust in their hearts and think about human-shaped monsters, so they cannot sell them for much money.
What's more, there are more than a hundred monkeys, twenty or thirty bone-forging realm monster monkeys, and the monkey king whose strength is above the mid-stage mortal bone realm. It requires at least a late-stage mortal bone realm cultivator to wipe them out with a certain degree of confidence.
The difficulty of the task is high and the rewards of additional tasks are low, so not many people are willing to take on this task.
Likewise, the rewards for this mission will be higher than those for ordinary missions. In order to give a sufficiently generous reward, those cultivating families had to come up with a pound of ten-year-old spiritual peaches.
The price of ten-year-old spiritual peaches in the market is at least eight to nine hundred pieces of low-grade crystals, but prices are still high but not available.
"Ten-year-old spiritual peach is one of the necessary spiritual materials for refining hexagonal grass." Kang Tian's divine consciousness said.
This is also the reason why Zhou Lei and Kang Tian chose this task.
The ten-year-old spiritual peach has a price but no market. It takes time, spar, or luck to get it. These are somewhat unreliable, so Zhou Lei and Kang Tian chose this somewhat difficult task.
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He Town is located two thousand miles away from the outer gate of Black Turtle Sword Sect, between mountains. The lush woods and rolling mountains almost block all land routes to He Town.
Fortunately, a river meanders out from the deep mountains and dense forests. The rushing clear water is the main transportation road to connect with the outside world.
About a hundred years ago, Hezhen was just a deep mountain wilderness with no human traces.
Later, when someone went into the mountain, they accidentally discovered a miniature Yuan Vein nearby. The Yuan Qi was floating in the air. After more than ten years of development, a spiritual fruit forest has been nurtured nearby.
The news spread and attracted more than a dozen monk forces. They drove away and killed all the low-level monsters occupying the spirit fruit forest, drew up rules, determined the boundaries, and began to compete for this spiritual fruit land.
After a fight, several small family alliances, with only thirty or so low-level cultivators in total, jointly occupied this place, and asked their connections to pay tribute to the Black Turtle Sword Sect and request to join the sect's sphere of influence.
Of course, as the price for the Black Turtle Sword Sect to recognize their legitimacy, these small family alliances must hand over 50% of the harvest of the spiritual fruit forest to the Black Turtle Sword Sect every year.
However, no matter how small those micro-cultivation families are, at least in the eyes of mortals, they are high-ranking immortal families. These cultivating forces relocated all the family members and, with the help of the monks in the clan, wiped out all the wild beasts around them. After doing this, a safe power gathering point was established, where a large number of mortals settled down to recuperate and serve the cultivators.
The soil in the mountains and basins surrounding the Lingguo territory is fertile. After the beasts in the mountains were cleared away by the monks, the mortals cultivated and opened up wasteland here, gradually cultivating a large amount of fertile land and becoming self-sufficient.
After a hundred years of development, relying on rivers and waterways for transportation, this place gradually converged into a river town.
After Zhou Lei and Kang Tian prepared some things and put them into the space bag, they left the Seventeenth Peak.
When they arrived at a deserted place, Kang Tian released the crane. Riding the crane, Zhou Lei and Kang Tian headed towards Hezhen.
A few days later, Zhou Lei and Kang Tian fell to the ground outside Hezhen.
Following the fall of Zhou Lei and Kang Tian, they were immediately welcomed by the small cultivating family forces in the local area. The leader was one of the family heads named He, whose cultivation level was roughly in the middle stage of the Mortal Bone Realm.
However, the head of the He family, his breath fluctuated a bit, and he seemed to be injured.
After some polite greetings, Zhou Lei and Kang Tian learned some specific information from each other.
In the recent period, hundreds of monkeys near the Lingguo Woodland have undergone strange changes for some reason. The number of ordinary monkeys has not only increased by more than half, reaching more than 200.
Originally there were only twenty or thirty low-level demon monkeys in the early stages of the Bone Forging Realm, but now the number has increased to at least fifty!
Those rampant guys are now gathering in groups, and a large group is attacking the surroundings of the spiritual fruit forest in a swaggering manner, snatching the spiritual fruits. The low-level spiritual farmers are no match at all.
If it weren't for the few precious century-old peach trees in the core of the Lingguo Forest, there was a miniature defense formation jointly arranged by several companies to resist the core area of the monkey group's attack. I'm afraid that this year, these small cultivating families and their small forces may not be able to survive. However, even so, I'm afraid it won't be able to sustain it for much longer.
Because during the offensive and defensive battle with the monkey group that had increased in number and strength the day before, several families had devoted all their strength and were able to barely drive out the monkey group.
Moreover, in that battle, the other family heads also suffered a lot of injuries and had to return to their clan to recuperate, so only the head of the He family came here, otherwise they all should have arrived.
For this reason, the head of the He family and others also expressed their apologies.
"Two adults, we really have no choice. You must help us! Several days have passed now. Those monster monkeys must have finished recharging their energy. I'm afraid the next attack is coming soon. !" There was a look of pleading on the face of the head of the He family.
"Two adults, how about this. It is estimated that the group of monster monkeys will attack again tonight and tomorrow. We will use all our strength to set up an ambush around the core of the spirit fruit forest. Even if there is an accident, it will not happen again." What do you think of being able to escape unscathed?" The head of the He family continued to plead with a sad face.
Having said that, Zhou Lei and Kang Tian finally agreed.
However, Zhou Lei, Kang Tian and the head of the Zheng family stated in advance that due to sudden changes during this trip, if the strength of the attacking monster monkey exceeds their own ability to deal with it, the two of them will leave without hesitation and let them go to another place. Please be wise.
After all, the mission is described and not paid now. If they are really in danger, Zhou Lei and Kang Tian can fly away on cranes, but they may die here. This is also the reason why Zhou Lei and Kang Tian explained it in advance.
In this regard, the talkers of several small local cultivating families not only had no objections, but were constantly grateful. The head of the He family was also grateful and kept nodding.
