The morning dew in the mountains is quite cool.
Ji Ning and his party were caught in the middle of the team and marched neither fast nor slowly, without any incident happening during the process.
At noon, after climbing the last hillside.
"arrive!"
Suddenly, Xue Zhongjing spoke with serious eyes.
Looking along his line of sight, he saw a long mountain range that looked like a dragon's spine and stretched across the valley, suddenly appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
Ji Ning squinted his eyes and carefully compared it with the Futian Sect's inheritance place on the map in his memory. After a moment, his eyes quickly shifted to a desolate low-lying place among the woods on the right. There was a deeply sunken ruin there. The scale up there is not small.
"There is more than one entrance to the underground palace. This is the exclusive passage for our Emperor Dragon Adventure Group."
Huang Quan pointed to the ruins with a smile, and at the same time glanced at Xue Zhongjing mockingly.
This place was originally discovered by Xue Zhongjing, but the mining speed was too slow, and they finally took it away.
Without much communication, the group of people quickly walked into the ruins under Huang Quan's surveillance. After walking a few steps deeper, a stone gate more than ten feet high suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
In the stone door, the deep darkness was flickering with firelight, and the thrilling shouts of killing could be faintly heard. There was permeating bloody aura and demonic aura everywhere, and bright red blood even flowed out along the passages.
"Hiss, what a terrifying pressure, what's going on here!"
At the entrance to the ruins, Jiang Hailiu shuddered and said with a somewhat frightened expression.
Originally, he was very excited. He was very motivated along the way and wanted to compete for opportunities. However, it was not until he arrived that he realized that this might not be a good place to compete for opportunities. He might die at any time!
"This huge underground palace is roughly divided into four areas, sometimes connected to each other, sometimes isolated by untouchable taboo formations."
"These four areas each have their own opportunities. They are each composed of four spiritual veins. The fire spirit vein area is hot and scalding and is the most dangerous area. If you are not careful, you will fall into the fire pool and die. And there is currently no discovery. There are too many treasures, which is the most dangerous thing among them.”
"In the ice vein area, a top-quality cold vein is buried in the ground below. Although it is not as dangerous as the fire spirit vein, it is difficult for those who fight in that battlefield to continue fighting because the cold air there is extremely heavy. Once they are separated from With the blessing of spiritual energy, even the heart will be frozen."
"The third area is the Desolate Spirit Vein. It's lifeless and shrouded in mist. It looks quite mysterious, but in fact, I haven't encountered any danger these days, and there are a lot of treasures hidden there."
"The last area is just pure spiritual energy and spiritual veins, which is the main battlefield in this underground palace. There is nothing special here. It is in the center of ice veins, fire veins, and wild spiritual veins. It has the most opportunities and the largest space, but competition It’s also the most intense.”
As soon as these words were said, everyone in the room had a bad feeling in their hearts.
Xue Zhongjing frowned even more. Since the other three areas are dangerous and there is no profit to be gained, why not just let them all directly enter the main battlefield? What nonsense are you talking about here?
There is weirdness.
Sure enough, after Huang Quan finished speaking slowly, he rubbed his hands again and said with a wicked smile:
"Everyone, because the main battlefield is already overcrowded, a melee is not good for everyone, so now all parties have reached the conditions. Only when ten people are transported to the Ice Vein, Fire Vein, and Desolate Vein, can there be ten The individual enters the main line.”
"If you don't abide by this rule, you will be attacked by a group."
"I have carefully checked and found that the size of your teams just meets this condition, so you will form a group of four teams. The four teams in a group must be evenly distributed among the four spiritual veins. "
As soon as this statement came out, the whole place was in an uproar, and everyone looked at each other in shock.
According to Huang Quan, most of them have no chance of the main battlefield with the most opportunities, and will be divided into three other dangerous areas.
The Desolate Pulse is actually not bad. At most, it has fewer opportunities, no treasures, and no dangers. It can be said to be lacking.
But the ice vein and fire vein are much more dangerous, especially the fire vein.
Who is assigned there and is not allowed to jump on the spot to protest?
"I'm afraid there will be internal strife here before we can go down."
Qi Lan said with a pale face and a weak breath. The others also looked solemn and nodded in agreement.
When traveling in the world, everyone is doing it for profit. No one will put themselves in danger for the benefit of others, not to mention that these adventure groups do not know each other in the first place, and some of them are even enemies.
The enemy team has entered the spiritual vein, the strange team has entered the wild vein, but you have been assigned to the most dangerous fire spiritual vein. Who can accept this?
Seeing that everyone was silent and the atmosphere was terrifyingly depressed, Huang Quan above had a calm expression and clapped his hands.
Bang bang!
There was a soft sound, and many monks suddenly appeared around the ruins. There were more than a hundred of them. They were dressed in black and gold uniforms with a three-clawed yellow dragon embroidered on them. They were members of the Emperor Dragon Adventure Group.
The leader is a man with a scar face.
"Second Master!"
When Huang Quan saw the visitor, all the fat on his face was piled up. He smiled in a flattering manner. He trotted up to him, looked around, nodded and smiled:
"As expected of you, I am really impressed that you were able to gather so many brothers from outside Xiushan in such a short period of time."
"Thanks to my brothers for their love and trust in me."
The second master, Zhou Mu, smiled lightly, looked down at everyone in the room with his hands behind his hands, and the powerful aura from his body was released, overwhelming the whole room in an instant.
"Elixir Formation Period!"
Xue Zhongjing and others' breathing stagnated, and their hearts sank suddenly.
The second leader of the Emperor Dragon Adventure Group is actually a major cultivator in the Dan-formation stage, and among the hundreds of people there, there are also quite a few strong people in the second stage.
"This is to use force to force us to submit!"
The captain of someone's team had an ugly look on his face. He looked around, trying to find a weak point to escape first. Unexpectedly, he was spotted by Zhou Mu from above. His eyes instantly darkened. He snorted coldly and slapped a palm with one hand in the air. His aura stirred the world. In an instant, the entire small group of people was suppressed.
Boom!
"Desolate Mahamudra!"
A huge palm print of nothingness fell from mid-air with Zhou Mu's cold snort, at an extremely fast speed and with terrifying power.
The few people who were about to make a move were unable to react in time, and were directly knocked into the ground by the terrifying handprint. They did not know whether they would live or die.
"So strong!"
When everyone saw this, their hearts trembled.
Among those people, no matter how weak they were, there was one who was a second-stage monk. Under Zhou Mu's hands, they were not able to survive even one move, and were killed instantly before they even recovered.
"Everyone here has already accepted my spirit stones. In order to win over you, I gave up all my family wealth."
"Now that you are here, don't play any tricks. One last word of advice to you, obey the arrangements honestly. The Emperor Dragon Adventure Group will not treat anyone badly, but if someone wants to go back on their word... those three people are End!"
Zhou Mu said sharply, his voice like thunder.
Jiang Hailiu was very close to the three dead people. Seeing that the few people who were talking and laughing just now were dead now, he was instantly frightened and his face turned pale. He regretted taking the spirit stone that day. The rest of the people also had expressions on their faces. Staring at him with fear and complaint, his eyes were dark, and he wanted to rush up and give him a big mouth.
"If I had known it was so dangerous here, I wouldn't have snatched the spirit stone!"
"I knew that Huang Quan must have no good intentions. He told me to wait, but you just went to grab it. It's okay now, just let fate happen!"
"It's all Jiang Hailiu's fault, he was the first one to run out!"
The crowd complained one after another, but the voices were not loud because they were afraid of annoying the second master above who had the most arrogant cultivation level.
"Okay, since no one has any objections, let's start drawing lots now."
"The captains of each team line up in groups of four, and each group's draw order is arranged according to size, and they can be selected first."
Among the ruins, Xue Zhongjing and other team leaders heard this and sighed helplessly, automatically forming a long queue and heading to the underworld.
"No--!"
The first man to draw lots saw the numbers in his hand and was so frightened that his face turned pale.
Beside him, some of his subordinates saw this and quickly stepped forward to check the sign, and then they also let out miserable wails.
There was no doubt that the number they drew was four.
This means that among their groups, they will be the last to choose which area to go to.
"As long as the people in front are not stupid, we should have the Fire Spirit Vein!"
The captain of that team said bitterly, but he still forced himself to cheer up, briefly comforted the team, and waited for the other three's choices.
"I choose the main spiritual vein!"
A man with a rat head and a grimace excitedly raised the No. 1 lottery in his hand and shouted loudly.
"I choose Desolate Spiritual Vein."
Following closely behind him was a man with skinny cheeks and a body as tall as a willow branch. When he called out the Desolate Spiritual Vein, the crowd behind him couldn't help but let out complicated sighs.
Among these four areas, the Desolate Spiritual Vein area should be the safest place, even safer than the Main Spiritual Vein area, because there are neither other opportunities nor dangers from monsters here, so there will naturally be fewer fights.
Regardless of the main line, it must be a bloody storm. All parties will continue to fight for a newly discovered opportunity. The cruelty can be guessed from the previous wounded and the bloody smell in the air!
"We choose Ice Spirit Vein."
The third man was wearing a black scarf, but even so, anyone could tell that his face was not looking very good at this time.
Although Ice Spirit Pulse is not the worst, it is still very dangerous. Many people in his team are still injured, and this time they failed to draw the top two areas. Whether they can come back alive from this trip, but It’s hard to say!
"Then you are the Fire Spirit Vein."
Finally, before the unlucky man who got the fourth lottery could speak, the second boss Zhou Mu spoke calmly.
"Yes."
The man's smile was uglier than his cry, and he slowly retreated into the crowd.
For a time, the adventure group he was in was filled with lifelessness, and despair spread among them.
There was no time to mourn him, the draw for the next round began directly.
Round after round, the results came out quickly, some were happy and some were sad.
Looking at the crowds of people around who were either sad or excited and happy, everyone in Xue Zhongjing's adventure group also began to get nervous.
Now, among everyone present, only Xue Zhongjing and three others were left without drawing lots.
It is worth mentioning that among them was Ji Changkui, who had been chasing Ji Ning and Qi Lan before.
At this moment, the man with the hooked nose also had a somewhat uneasy look on his gloomy face. This might be a fateful moment.
"let's start!"
Huang Quan looked at Xue Zhongjing and said with a slightly sinister expression.
Four people, including Xue Zhongjing and Ji Changkui, gathered around the lottery box.
Around them, people from their respective adventure groups gathered here, holding their breath tightly and looking here nervously and expectantly.
Under the heavy pressure, sweat broke out on the foreheads of the four of them.
"Stop the ink stains, pump quickly!"
Seeing that the four of them were still reluctant to take action, Zhou Mu, the second master standing above, also urged impatiently.
"Just smoke!"
Among them, a tiger-like man roared, pulled out a sign from the wooden box, then slammed it to the ground, then spun and bounced into the air.
"one!"
"Hahahahahaha, I am the No. 1 lottery pick, and I choose the main spiritual vein!"
The moment he saw the number above clearly, the man let out a roar of laughter, threw down the sign, turned around and rushed towards the crowd of brothers to celebrate. Some even cried with joy.
Although the fighting on the main battlefield was heavy, they were not too worried after seeing the horror of the second master. They believed that with the overall strength of the Emperor Dragon Adventure Group, they would never be bullied by other forces in the underground palace. .
As for myself and others, as long as they are careful and prudent, they can make a lot of money. They are really lucky!
Seeing this scene, Xue Zhongjing felt itchy and couldn't help but stretched out his hand.
And at this moment, Huang Quan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly opened his eyes and spoke, looking at him with a voice that sounded like a smile but not a smile:
"Brother Xue, you have to be careful when starting. Not everyone has such good luck."
"I guess the number in your hand is four, what do you think?"
As soon as these words came out, Xue Zhongjing's movements suddenly stopped. The other two people looked at each other and did not dare to act rashly. The courage they finally mustered up was wiped out. Now that the No. 1 lottery is gone, the person selected is the main spiritual vein. .
In other words, among the remaining three areas, only the Desolate Spirit Vein area is safe. If the other two lots are drawn, it may be the same as death.
"Why is this disturbing? It's not fair."
Someone in the crowd muttered softly when they saw this scene.
Even Zhou Mu, the second boss above, narrowed his eyes slightly.
To suppress so many people, force alone is only temporary. What is more important is fairness. This is the role of drawing lots.
If he personally selects some people to enter the fire spirit vein and ice spirit vein, then no matter how strong he is, these people will not be convinced, and the war is about to break out.
But Huang Quan just said something ambiguous and didn't say anything more, so he didn't speak.
"I'll choose this."
Unexpectedly, after a moment of silence, Xue Zhongjing stared into Huang Quan's eyes and still took out the lot in his hand.
And when he opened his palm, everyone could see the numbers inside.
"two!"
"good--!"
The adventure group where Xue Zhongjing belonged suddenly burst into excited shouts. Jiang Hailiu's face turned red and he waved his fists in excitement, as did the rest of the group.
Only Ji Ning frowned.
