Half a month later.
Ninety-six City is more than a hundred miles south.
This place is sparsely populated and full of evil spirits. The soil is glowing with blood red color. Looking around, you can see towering trees surrounded by several people hugging each other. Occasionally, you can hear the sharp roars of animals and birds in the distance, and there is even a hint of coldness. Yin energy hovers in the dense forest.
At this moment.
A team of more than 20 monks were walking cautiously in the dense forest.
This team of monks is headed by three Foundation Establishment Stage monks, and the rest are all in the late stages of Qi training. They are all wearing armor. The armor stomachs of the Foundation Establishment Stage monks are glowing with a bright bronze color. The armor is pure iron color.
These armors cover the whole body, with only a pair of deep black eyes exposed. There is a spiritual light flowing on the surface of the armor and stomach, and runes are looming, which repels all the surrounding evil and yin energy three feet away.
Although the team of monks said nothing, they had a tacit understanding with each other.
They always maintained the same distance, moving silently and quickly through the dense forest like ghosts.
"Senior brother, we are really unlucky. Other tribesmen are maintaining formations in the city, but we people have to take risks and do patrol tasks outside the city."
"Junior Sister Yan, be careful. Although the sound transmission technique is hidden, you must be careful of outsiders using secret techniques to detect it."
No one noticed.
Two Qi Refining Stage monks in the monk team were talking secretly using the secret technique of sound transmission.
"So what if I'm found out? What I told is the truth, and it's not a lie. How can I be punished for this?" Junior Sister Yan was still a little unconvinced, and there was a hint of arrogance in her words.
The senior brother is a bit big-headed, and his junior sister has never suffered any setbacks since she was a child, so she has long been spoiled.
He reassured: "Someone must take on the tasks assigned by above. As long as we complete this phase of the task, if there are similar tasks in the future, it will not be our group's turn no matter what."
"That's why I said we were unlucky. It fell on us the first time... But this armor is a good set of magic weapons. It can not only ward off evil spirits, miasma, five elements spells, etc., but also The defensive power itself is comparable to a high-grade magic weapon. It is said that as long as you can stay in the patrol team for one year, the armor will be yours forever."
The brother and sister secretly communicated a few words through the message.
As the team gradually entered the depths of the dense forest and their traveling speed gradually slowed down, they stopped talking and became extremely vigilant, carefully guarding against possible dangers around them.
This pair of senior brothers and sisters are from the Zhao family.
The main task that the Zhao family is responsible for is to maintain the various magic circles in the Ninety-Six Cities. In addition, there will still be a lot of secondary tasks that require the Zhao family to allocate manpower to complete.
Take this time for example.
The superiors asked the Zhao family to mobilize fifty monks in the late stage of Qi refining to join each patrol team to perform a one-year patrol mission.
The Zhao brothers and sisters in this team are exactly two of them.
This is their second patrol with the team. According to the captain, their luck is not particularly bad. The patrol area of this team is considered a relatively safe area. There has only been one accident in the past three months.
It was because of that accident that two monks were injured.
Only then will they join.
...
"careful!"
Just as the team of monks were moving forward silently, suddenly, a deafening shout came into their ears.
"It's the captain's voice!"
Junior Sister Yan immediately recognized that the captain was a late-stage foundation-building monk. She didn't have time to think too much, and her mana subconsciously came out of her body, immediately activating the defensive light shield attached to her armor. At the same time, she tapped her toes, and her figure was strong. The ground retreated.
"ah......"
Despite the captain's warning, one person still couldn't dodge. He didn't even have time to activate his armor shield, and was struck from the waist by a bloody maw that was nearly three feet in diameter and full of sharp fangs. The lower body was bitten off.
Looking at the remaining half of this man's body, which still glowed with bronze-colored incomplete armor, he was clearly a foundation-building monk, one of the two vice-captains of this team of monks.
"Ah...ah..."
Although only the upper body of the person who was attacked was left, he did not die directly. Half of his body was rolling in a pool of blood, and a shrill scream came from his mouth!
"Junior Sister Yan, are you okay?"
Unknowingly, there was an armored man next to Junior Sister Yan. It was the senior brother who had just communicated with her.
"fine."
Junior Sister Yan shook her head, with a look of fear in her eyes that could not be concealed.
Just now, when she was retreating, she happened to see from the corner of her eye the scene of the bloody giant mouth biting off the body of the foundation-building monk. At that time, the foundation-building monk looked frightened, with various auras flashing around his body, and he desperately wanted to fly away.
But the bloody mouth that emerged from the ground seemed to have a huge suction force, firmly attracting the vice-captain's body. In the end, he tried his best, but only half of his body escaped.
And the huge bloody mouth full of fangs hit him with one blow.
He immediately fled underground again and disappeared without a trace.
Junior Sister Yan was a little lucky.
Fortunately, the person who was attacked was not him. Otherwise, with his cultivation during the Qi Refining Period, he might not be able to escape even half of his body.
"It's the Escape-Earth-Swallowing Golden Python!"
"Fly a little higher. This gold-swallowing python must still be there. Be careful of being attacked!"
As the captain's voice came, everyone immediately had a backbone and activated the armor's air-control ability to fly into the air.
But they didn't dare to fly too high.
This area has not yet been completely controlled by the human monks. The real masters of the sky are the hundreds of demon birds. Only the Golden Core monks dare to swagger in the air, so the monks can only hover in the low altitude.
"This should be the first sixth-level earth-escape golden python, which is comparable to the cultivation level of our human race in the late stage of foundation building. I have been patrolling for so long without finding it before. I guess it was either sleeping before or just migrated from other areas. Just be careful of its sneak attacks. It’s nothing to worry about.”
With the captain's calm voice.
The minds of the monks gradually calmed down.
"Don't worry, Junior Sister Yan, I will protect you." At the same time, the senior brother from the Zhao family secretly sent a message to Junior Sister Yan.
"Thank you, senior brother."
Junior Sister Yan's eyes showed a hint of gratitude.
Speaking of which, although this senior brother is from the Zhao family, he is a monk with a foreign surname. In the eyes of monks with his own surname like Zhao Fuyan, he has always disliked being too deeply involved with such monks with a foreign surname.
But these days are different.
At such times.
The fact that they both came from the Zhao family naturally gave them a sense of closeness.
the other side.
The half body that was rolling in a pool of blood and screaming had stopped moving at some point. No sound was heard anymore. It looked like it was completely dead.
