At dusk, people in the border city began to clean up the mountains of monster corpses and blood on the ground outside the city.
Although the scale of the beast tide this time was large, because the Nine-tailed Poison Scorpion, the Demon King who led the beast tide, was the first to retreat, most of the main forces of the monster beasts attacking the border town did not actually take action. Instead, those spirits and souls who were left behind were left behind. The monsters in the Immaculate Realm became meat on the chopping block and were slaughtered by the cultivators in the border towns, providing everyone with monster flesh and blood and monster cores that could be used for several years.
Many people bring several bulging storage bags with them when they return to the city after cleaning up the scene.
After returning to the city, these people went to the gate of the Mercenary Association and handed the blood-stained monster cores in the storage bags to the Lin family attendants who were counting. They would use the statistics to calculate the numbers. Carry out rankings to give the most reasonable ranking rewards.
The border town is the territory of the Lin family, and most of the people gathered in front of the Mercenary Association are also Lin family practitioners, with only a few coming from other mercenary organizations.
Li Kaigu, who got a storage bag full of monster cores from Su You, was among the list.
Soon, the rankings of hundreds of cultivators were completed. The old man Cang Ran, who had previously thought of this method to encourage people to hunt monster beasts, also appeared in front of everyone again with a list.
It can be seen from the bloody face that he has replenished all the spiritual power he had consumed when fighting the Demon King Nine-Tailed Poisonous Scorpion just now.
"Everyone!"
The old man Cang Ran was indeed very angry and shouted at the people in front of him: "The successful repelling of the beast tide today depends on your all-out effort, so I asked you to calculate the number of monster beast cores that you have hunted and killed. The rankings and rewards are the same as I promised before. Now that the list is in my hands, all the practitioners on the list are invited to come forward and receive the rewards given to you by the Mercenary Association."
Then the old man began to announce the many cultivators who had received rewards, starting from the 100th to the 51st.
Su You and Jiang Nuer did not deliberately hunt monster beasts like others, but took advantage of this beast tide to fight monster beasts and temper themselves, so the number of beast cores finally handed over to Li Kaigu did not count. There were too many, and he happened to be ranked 100th, worthy of receiving the 100 top-grade spiritual stones and three fourth-grade elixirs awarded by the Mercenary Association.
One hundred high-grade spiritual stones and three fourth-grade elixirs may be nothing to other cultivators, but to Li Kaigu and his group and their village, they are like life-saving straws.
Seeing the spirit stones and elixirs being delivered to him, he felt the heavy feeling. Li Kaigu was obviously a grown man, but he couldn't help but his eyes turned red. He suppressed his emotions and finally didn't cry in public.
But as the so-called ordinary man is not guilty of carrying a jade, a hundred spiritual stones and three fourth-grade elixirs are enough to attract the attention of others. Li Kaigu, who knows the truth, immediately put away the spiritual stones and elixirs, and then took advantage of other The practitioners who had received the reward gathered around, and asked his younger brother Li Gukai to take advantage of the chaos and take the spirit stone pills with his children to return to the village as quickly as possible, while he arrived shortly afterwards.
Li Gukai also understood what his brother meant. After hiding the package on himself, he quickly walked out of the crowd and returned to the village with his two children.
Seeing that his brother Li Gukai had left the border town, Li Kaigu invited the two of them to go back to the village with him again, thinking about discussing with Su You and Jiang Nuer whether to go to the ruins of Xihuang City again.
Su You and Jiang Nuer did not refuse and accepted Li Kaigu's invitation.
The three of them walked through the crowd and prepared to return to the village to discuss matters related to going to the ruins of Xihuang City.
Just about to leave.
"Although the next cultivator is not a cultivator of our Lin family, he managed to win the first place in this hunt for monster beasts!"
The old man Cang Ran picked up the list and looked at the last name on it, and then shouted loudly: "This strong and outstanding practitioner is named Xu Detian. I believe everyone will be familiar with his name, because he is our border town mercenary. The most famous mercenary in the association, let us now invite Xu Detian to come forward and receive his reward."
Then, a middle-aged man with a beard on his face, a tall and majestic figure who looked like a brown bear, walked up to the old man Cang Ran and took a long knife stained with blood on his back. A storage bag for spiritual stones and a porcelain bottle containing a legendary sixth-grade elixir.
Instantly, the whole place was in an uproar, with constant exclamations and screams.
"This Xu Detian is famous for being a tough guy in the desert."
Li Kaigu, who was walking on the way to the village and happened to encounter the last step before leaving the village, turned his head and looked back at Su You. Jiang Nuer said, "No one knows about him until now." Where did he come from? Which family or clan power did he belong to? All that was known was that when he came to the border town, he put on an indifferent expression and kept away from strangers. No matter what he did, he liked to be alone. Even the largest mercenary organizations in the border town invited him to join, but he refused."
"So this guy has always been a casual cultivator like us. It's just that no one thought that Xu Detian was so powerful from the beginning. According to rumors, his cultivation level has even reached the fifth level of Nirvana or above. .”
After talking about some gossip, the group left the border town.
The moment the group of people stepped out of the gate of the border city, Su You and Jiang Nuer turned their heads and happened to bump into Xu Detian, who also turned to look at them.
The looks in the six eyes of the three people collided with each other, but they were immediately separated, and they all turned around and pretended not to see each other.
But the expression on Su You's face was not so pretty at this time. He said to Jiang Nuer in a calm voice, "Did that guy just grin at us? And nod with relief?"
"That's right..." Jiang Nuer, who clearly saw the expression on Xu Detian's face, nodded and responded: "And it seems that that guy has noticed us a long time ago, so he deliberately turned his head to look at us. He smiled and nodded, as if he was looking at the prey he was chasing and hoping that the prey would continue to escape..."
Su You immediately thought of the only possibility.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a coldness flashed in his dark pupils, and said: "Although Li Kaigu has bluntly stated that he has met this person a long time ago, but coming early does not mean that the guy just wants to smile at us. That guy must It is the Xu family, and he received the news from the Xu family not long ago, so he deliberately looked at us just now, and directly regarded us as his prey, and hunted us like a monster. .”
Su You, who had never expected to meet a Xu family cultivator in a place like the border town, felt like a lump in his throat and a light on his back, as if Xu Detian would appear behind him at any time and chop off his head.
But until the two of them followed Li Kaigu to the village and decided to temporarily shelve their plan to go to the ruins of Xihuang City, and until they finally left the village and returned to the border town, Xu Detian never appeared again.
Both of them were almost thinking that Xu Detian might not be from the Xu family, or that the other party was at odds with the Xu family and had no intention of dealing with them.
So I waited until late that night.
Su You, who had been tossing and turning, unable to sleep peacefully, opened the window and climbed to the roof of the inn. He was sitting on the eaves with Jiang Nuer, looking at the moonless night sky in the desert.
"laugh···"
A sound so subtle that it was almost inaudible cut through the night.
"clang···"
Suddenly, the Xiaoyue White Wolf token that Su You had hung on his waist since leaving Luoying City suddenly lit up with a faint light.
Then there was a sound of gold and iron, which instantly brought Su You and Jiang Nuer's minds back to reality from the night sky.
"Jiejiejiejie..."
It was at this time that a black mist suddenly appeared in front of the two people's sight, and a familiar figure slowly walked from the black mist.
This person is Xu Detian.
"Howling Moon White Wolf Token..." Xu Detian glanced at the Howling Moon White Wolf Token that was shining brightly between him and Su You, and chuckled: "It seems that the news I got is true. Yes, I just didn’t expect that Qisha Palace would actually take the risk of enmity with the Xu family to save a person who had been ordered to kill by the Xu family.”
"It's just that... the Master of Tanlang Palace of Qisha Palace who gave you Xiaoyue White Wolf Token shouldn't be here now, right?"
"If she can protect you for a while, maybe she can protect you for the rest of your life?"
As he spoke, Xu Detian approached Su You and Jiang Nuer under the light of Xiaoyue White Wolf token, with a slightly raised corner of his mouth showing a bloody and murderous smile.
"This person is really ordered to hunt down his own Xu family!"
Seeing this, Su You immediately knew it, and then used his spiritual power to pour it into the Xiaoyue White Wolf token in front of him, making the light on the token even more dazzling.
Jiang Nuer held the spirit sword in her hand, and the cold poisonous aura began to fill her dantian, ready to take action at any time.
But in fact, both of them knew that even if they had the Xiaoyue White Wolf Token, they would not be the opponents of Xu Detian, who was rumored to be in the fifth level of Nirvana.
As Xu Detian gets closer and closer to him, Su You has begun to feel the strong sense of oppression from the realm's suppression. Even with the source of divine fire and the heart of chaos, it is difficult to calm down his nervous mood and trembling body.
"Jie Jie Jie Jie..." Xu Detian said with a gloomy smile: "What a pity. It would be a good thing if someone like you could be used by our Xu family, but you chose to be the enemy of my Xu family. .”
His fingers tore through the void, and he pulled out a long knife that exuded a strong smell of blood from the broken void and raised it high.
The blade shone with an icy cold light under the moonlight, and then suddenly fell down amid the whistling wind.
"Today, let me, Xu Detian, bury you with my own hands."
