As the capital of the Mingque Dynasty, Mingque City was built near mountains and rivers, facing the Mingjiang River and surrounded by Mingque Mountain.
Legend has it that the mythical beast Suzaku once lived in this mountain millions of years ago, hence the name Mingque Mountain. The Mingque Dynasty was also named after this mountain.
In the past few days, Mingque Martial Arts Academy was bustling with activity. The six dynasty martial arts competitions of the Xia Mo Dynasty were held every three years. This time, the Mingque Martial Arts Academy was scheduled to take place.
There are more than 4,000 students in Mingque Martial Arts Academy, and their uniforms are all red, symbolizing the meaning of Suzaku. Now there are hundreds of other dynasty martial arts students dressed in purple, blue, white, green, and silver, making the entire martial arts academy colorful and gorgeous.
"I think the fat man is so pitiful." Xiaoyu said looking at Changsheng.
"Whether he is pitiful or not depends on his own decision." Changsheng smiled.
Xiaopang has not been to the slaughterhouse for several days, so Changsheng and Xiaoyu decided to talk to him to prevent him from thinking too much.
The two picked up Xiaopang and were wandering around the martial arts academy when they met a woman wearing a Qinglian fine pleated dress.
"Elder Man!" The three of them saluted quickly.
"Are you Changsheng?" The woman looked at Changsheng: "You should know that someone has given you a ladder order. It's best not to leave the martial arts academy if you have nothing to do."
The woman couldn't understand why he and Zhang Tu met together? And he was actually given a ladder order?
"Elder Xie Man."
Elder Man nodded and looked at Xiaoyu: "Are you Ling Xiaoyu? I heard that your soul power has reached the first level?"
"Yes, Elder Man, we have only reached it not long ago."
"From tomorrow onwards, you can come to my medicine garden, help me cultivate spiritual herbs, and take care of the medicine garden. There is no need to live in the dormitory, just come to live in the medicine garden. From now on, you can concentrate on the cultivation of soul power in the medicine garden, and I will guide you. .”
Elder Man, Changsheng only knows her as the elder of the martial arts academy, and a third-grade alchemist whose soul power has reached the second-level peak. There is a medicine garden in the martial arts academy that is exclusive to Elder Man, and no one can enter it.
"Ah! Brother Changsheng, do you think Elder Man will accept me as his disciple? She is a third-grade alchemist!" Xiaoyu said excitedly after Elder Man left.
"You can systematically learn and cultivate your soul power from her, which is a good thing. Whether you focus on alchemy or talismans depends on your future fortune and luck."
"By the way, Brother Changsheng. What is the Heavenly Ladder Order?"
"The Bounty Hall is a kind of killing mission. Don't worry, I will be careful." Although Changsheng still smiled, he had been feeling tense in his heart for the past few days since he knew that he had been ordered to ascend to heaven.
Although there is basically no danger as long as you don't leave the martial arts academy, you can't stay in the martial arts academy all the time, right?
"There must be a portrait of you in the Bounty Hall, so be careful with the command talisman." The fat man said.
"Command talisman?"
"Well, after the mercenaries accept this mission, they will receive a small ladder token. This ladder token is connected to the mercenary's consciousness. When you appear in their sight and are confirmed, the small ladder token The token will cast a talisman attached to you."
The fat man paused: "This talisman cannot be removed unless you disappear from their sight. The talisman in each small ladder token is slightly different. The Bounty Hall relies on the talisman to identify a certain mercenary. Kill you, or kill them yourself."
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Changsheng has been in the martial arts academy for more than ten days without leaving the house, and he really can't hold it in any longer. So he sneaked to the side gate of Wuyuan.
But as soon as he walked out of the side door and before entering the red bamboo forest, a command talisman was attached to Changsheng, followed immediately by another. Then there were dozens more talismans attached to the body.
Damn it! Are more than a dozen Qi Refining Masters guarding you?
Changsheng quickly rushed back to the martial arts academy in surprise, but when he thought about it, he frowned tightly.
These people are here to give themselves true energy. If they don't even dare to fight for this, how can they improve their cultivation? What's more, he also has an inner armor that can save his life.
Chang Sheng's teeth clenched, he drew out the Mosasaurus knife and rushed out of the side door.
More than a dozen people in the bamboo forest all looked at Changsheng in shock. They didn't expect Changsheng to appear in front of them in such a swaggering manner.
Before anyone could react, Chang Sheng suddenly burst out like a bolt of lightning and came to the two of them.
Immediately afterwards, two white sword lights flashed. Changsheng also quickly swept back three to five feet.
With an outnumbered opponent, Changsheng's advantage is that he doesn't have to use all his strength to kill others, but as long as he can cut the opponent's body with a knife, he will win.
The mercenaries didn't even see the wounds of the two companions? Just looking at the two people who were visibly aging, I was suddenly a little shocked.
In just a few breaths, one of the two people had turned into a frail old man in his late teens and early 80s, and slowly collapsed to the ground. The other person also has gray hair on his temples and has become a middle-aged man in his fifties or sixties.
"No, no. My sea of qi? My true essence? My cultivation? Me, I can't feel the aura of heaven and earth anymore. No, I don't want to be a mortal, I don't want to be a mortal." The middle-aged man was in shock, He trembled and said to himself.
"Ah~~~~I want your life."
With a roar, the middle-aged man with red eyes suddenly raised his knife and ran towards Changsheng to chop him. Changsheng just turned slightly to avoid him.
At this time, the middle-aged man realized that he had become an out-and-out mortal, how could he achieve immortality?
"No, no~~~~"
After another unwilling roar, the middle-aged man with his back to everyone suddenly held a knife with both hands, and stabbed himself in the heart with the tip of the knife facing inward.
puff.
As the tip of the knife poked out from his back, several clusters of blood spurted out. The light in the middle-aged eyes dimmed and he slowly fell down.
"Xiao Zhi, please, please let me die too."
The thin old man at everyone's feet suddenly grabbed the clothes of the people around him and roared weakly.
Looking at the two people who fell to the ground, a chill instantly ran down the backs of the mercenaries.
There is no empathy, but all mercenaries know that it is better to die happily than to become an immortal mortal who does not even deserve a surname.
No mercenary is afraid of death. If you are afraid of death, you will not become a mercenary of the Bounty Hall. But they are afraid of becoming a mortal who has no cultivation and is struggling to survive.
"Kill~~~~"
After a sudden shout, all the mercenaries rushed towards Changsheng with red eyes. Then the flying white sword light began to block the weapons coming from everywhere.
In less than half a cup of tea, Changsheng already had dozens of wounds on his body.
Five red-eyed mercenaries gathered around him. On the ground beside them, three or four mortal mercenaries were either rolling around holding half of their thighs and wailing, or they were just standing there in a daze. The faces of these people are also aging rapidly or slowly to varying degrees.
But outside them, there were six or seven mercenaries whose eyes were beginning to show timidity.
Changsheng's body was covered with scars and he was breathing heavily. He held the Mosasaurus knife tightly in his right hand and looked at the mercenary in front of him warily, while his left hand was busy stuffing several storage bags into his arms.
"Wow...yaaaah."
Changsheng suddenly roared and rushed forward. After fighting desperately, the mosasaurus sword in his hand danced with waves of dazzling white sword light.
The five mercenaries all had extraordinary skills. After the initial shock, they guessed that Chang Sheng was using the Yuan Zhan Dao, so they unanimously only surrounded him and did not fight him head-on.
And Changsheng would be attacked from time to time, with new injuries on top of old ones, and old wounds on top of new ones. However, this did not reduce Changsheng's excitement at all, because he also had an inner armor that could withstand the attack of Qi Refining Dacheng.
The inner armor was naturally obtained from the old woman in the forest. Although it was damaged, due to its existence, the actual damage suffered by Changsheng was not very serious. Almost as soon as the body was injured, it was instantly healed by the demonic energy.
"Hey, take a stab at me."
Changsheng was fighting with the people in front of him when he suddenly shouted loudly and scurried up to another person.
The man's heart suddenly tightened, and he quickly parried, but he never thought that a white light had already flashed on his arm. Changsheng's left hand also pulled down the storage bag on his waist.
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In the lobby on the first floor of the Bounty Hall, on the big sign "Order of the Life-killing Ladder to Heaven" that was three or four feet square, Changsheng's name suddenly lit up, and at the same time the name of a mercenary also lit up.
"Look, someone has discovered the immortality."
"No, no. Not alone."
The names of the mercenaries on the sign, one after another, seven or eight lit up in an instant.
"How come these people discovered immortality at the same time?"
"It's normal. They are probably all waiting at the entrance of the martial arts academy. Chang Sheng naturally found him as soon as he left the martial arts academy."
"How could they do it at the gate of the martial arts academy? Isn't that looking for death?"
"Looking for death? Under the order of Heavenly Ladder, you must dare to save the immortal before you are looking for death."
As he spoke, fifteen or six of the names on the signboard lit up one by one.
But less than ten breaths later, the names of the mercenaries began to turn black and then disappear. After another half a cup of tea, the names of five mercenaries had disappeared.
"This is already the fifth one."
"It's interesting. This longevity is indeed interesting."
"It's just a matter of refining Qi, but you haven't started building the foundation yet? There's nothing surprising about it."
"The sixth one, the sixth one. The seventh one? This, how could he kill so many people in a row?"
"This little body cultivator does have some tricks up his sleeve."
The mercenary's name turns black and then disappears, which means that this person has been killed by Changsheng.
In fact, Changsheng did not directly kill any mercenaries. These mercenaries were just stabbed by the Immortal Sword. After becoming mortals, they lost their spiritual consciousness and cut off their connection with the Little Ladder Token.
There was a lot of discussion in the bounty hall, but the battle in the bamboo forest was at a stalemate.
In the sky above the bamboo forest, there are many canopy stones for recording images, at least ten or twenty. Changsheng was bent over, holding his legs with both hands, breathing heavily.
The inner armor on the body has been completely shattered and can no longer play a defensive role.
At this time, Changsheng was not only tired, but also seriously injured.
A foot away in front of him, four or five mercenaries held their weapons tightly in their hands and looked at Changsheng warily. Behind him, there were three or four people walking slowly, looking for opportunities.
The crowd slowly gathered around.
"Wait~~~~Wait a minute." Changsheng looked at the crowd and gasped.
wait? Are you kidding us? We want to take your head to collect the bounty, but you ask us to wait?
"Take a rest, take a rest. I'm too tired." Changsheng shook his head.
"Hurry, he's gone. Let's all get in together." With a shout, everyone jumped up and rushed towards Changsheng again at the same time.
"Ya-ya, you're a bastard." Chang Sheng cursed angrily, then flew back.
But just after taking two steps, he turned sideways, walked up to a person, and swung his knife to chop him off. A white light flashed across the man's chest, and as soon as Changsheng pulled off his storage bag, he received dozens of attacks at the same time.
A mouthful of blood suddenly spurted out. Chang Sheng did not dare to stay, and he used all his strength to step on the "Nine Paths" and fled back to the martial arts academy.
