At dusk, people from the Xuantong Sect also rushed to Huzigou. The leader was a female cultivator, gentle and beautiful, with a surname of Cao and the single word "Yu".
At this point, the three winter hunting sects have all arrived. Qian Ju'an from Pingyuan sect, Cao Yu from Xuantong sect, and Wei Rongniang from Xiandu sect met and discussed first, and decided to go into the mountains tomorrow to explore the reality before making plans.
Cao Yu, who was good at dancing, took Wei Rongniang and muttered something. The implication was that he wanted to join forces with the Xiandu Sect, and the disciples under the sect would join forces to look after each other. Wei Rong Niang exchanged a few polite words with Wei Snake, but politely declined.
Among the three factions of Dongxue, Pingyuan is the strongest, followed by Xuantong, and Xiandu is the weakest. The reason why Wei Rongniang did not join forces with Xuantong was because she could not trust Cao Yu. This woman seemed weak, but in fact she was very scheming. Her senior brother had warned her not to get involved with her.
After returning to the wooden house, Wei Rongniang briefly explained the winter hunting arrangements to everyone.
Seven sects from the Kunlun branch, including Liyang and Yuanrong, Shaoling and Yuxu, Pingyuan, Xuantong and Xiandu, go to Jietianling every five years to hunt monsters, called "Winter Hunting" , hunting for one year and resting for one year. On the one hand, he trains young disciples and increases their practical experience. On the other hand, he collects materials such as demon pills and animal bones for the master's sect to refine medicine and sacrificial vessels. In order to avoid conflicts, the monks who lead the team will delineate a rough range. For this winter hunting, Pingyuan will be sent to the northwest, Xuantong will be sent to the southeast, and Xiandu will be sent to the north. , so as not to meet.
Among the four disciples in Xiandu, Wei Shiqi is the most powerful and can act alone. Although Duan Wenhuan and Chen Suzhen are high in cultivation, they are not strong enough to act alone. It is safer for them to go together. Cao Jinren is not strong enough to enter the mountain, but he is good at it. Knowing herbal medicine, Wei Rongniang ordered him to collect herbal medicine near Huzigou and not go deep into Jietian Ridge.
The next day, Qian, Cao and Wei flew into Jietian Ridge with their swords. They split up and traveled hundreds of miles in one day. They roughly noted the places where monsters appeared and marked them on the map one by one to remind their disciples to pay attention.
Along with the map, Wei Shiqi was given two jade tokens for communication, a storage bag the size of a sachet, and a sharp bone-picking knife.
The map is drawn on a piece of rough paper. "People" represent mountains, "wood" represents woods, "chuan" represents streams, and "cave" represents caves. The places where monsters appear are marked with a vermilion "cross", the thickness of which indicates The monster is strong or not. At a glance, the straw paper is piled with Renrenrenrenmumumumumu, with several Chuanxueten scattered among them.
"This thing is really crude. At least I need a decent painter..." Wei Shiqi muttered, and found the place where Sun Ergou had agreed to meet with him, beside a mountain stream to the north and west of Jietian Ridge. There is a cave nearby, marked with a thick "X", indicating that dangerous monsters are infested.
The jade slip is long and thin, shaped like a lottery ticket, with a drop of Wei Rongniang's essence and blood sealed in the middle. In times of crisis, just crush the jade slip, and the owner of the essence and blood will be able to sense it and come to rescue in time. This was a way to save his life. Wei Shiqi put it away solemnly, then picked up the storage bag and practiced it again.
That storage bag is unique. It is a container used by Qingyang Palace to store the Demonic Pill and Beast Bones. The space inside is not large, but it can preserve the vitality contained in the Demonic Pill and Beast Bones to the maximum extent, which is very precious.
The last pointed boning knife was specially cast by Zhu Mingdian for "winter hunting". It blows hair and breaks hair, and has excellent toughness. It is used for skinning, deboning and cutting meat, and gets twice the result with half the effort.
After a good meal and a night's rest, Wei Shiqi bid farewell to Wei Rongniang and stepped into Jietian Ridge.
There was still plenty of time left before the appointed time, so Wei Shiqi set out on the road resolutely, took a detour, and stayed for a few days in places where monsters roamed, looking for traces of prey.
The monsters near Huzigou are not strong, they are similar to the Jinwen Rat King. With Wei Shiqi's current strength, it is easy to defeat them. However, the monster pill obtained is small and the energy contained in it is not sufficient. It does not meet the needs of Qingyang Palace.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. Wei Shiqi doesn't mind. He keeps the demon pill and puts the flesh and blood into the Penglai bag for emergencies.
Along the way, Wei Shiqi worked tirelessly to do three things: hunt monsters, practice Xiaoyue Gong, and feed Penglai bags.
After hunting continuously, he collected four demon pills, one big and three small. The big one was taken from a rare Jin Xingren bear, which was extremely powerful and as strong as iron. He fought hard for a long time and exhausted the gen earth energy in his body. , and finally defeated it.
However, during the killing, Xiao Yue Gong progressed extremely quickly. He found a remote cave, ate all the flesh and blood of humans and bears, and used the sharp golden energy to attack the acquired orifices. He actually dug through the "Xuan Shu" and "Ming" in one go. The two acupoints "Men" and "Yao Yang Guan" have also been loosened, and they will be completed soon.
Penglai Bag keeps stealing the souls of monsters, as if a cub has grown up and its appetite is getting bigger and bigger. Ordinary souls can't feed it at all. Only monsters at the level of human-faced dove, ice silkworm, and blue iron queen bee can respond. Increased by several points. However, it is not easy to seize souls by force. Although small things such as pheasants and hares can be captured accurately in one shot, if it is a monster that has become a spirit, it will have to be beaten until it is half dead and repeated many times before it can be ingested into the Penglai bag. .
For this reason, Wei Shiqi thought of the demon refining pot in the Xuanyuan Sword, the purple gold gourd in the Immortal Sword, and thought of killing monsters and remaining blood. After thinking about it, it was right. If there were no restrictions, if he encountered a big Persian like Qiluo, he could just activate the Penglai bag and take a shot, and the whole world would be clean. Then why would he have to practice hard and just walk sideways?
This bag was so weird. It could be "planted" into his body, absorb flesh and blood, and steal souls. He had some doubts that the Penglai bag was by no means an ordinary storage bag, but a magic weapon refined from the monster's stomach bag.
The next time I meet Ruan Jing, I will try to find out more about him.
As he continued to go deeper into Jietian Ridge, the monsters that appeared became more and more powerful. After a hard battle, Wei Shiqi began to be injured. The energy of Gentu continued to repair his injuries, and his body became stronger and tougher. "If you don't break through in the killing, you will perish in the killing. The road to body refining has always been from the pile of corpses." Xun Ye warned him, which revealed the fundamentals of body refining. While tempering your body, you are also tempering your mind.
On this day, Wei Shiqi was chased by six iron-backed wolf monsters for more than a hundred miles, going in circles, and finally escaped by jumping off a cliff. He came to a mountain stream, washed away the blood on his body, drank a lot of water, raised his head and looked around, and then realized that there was a deep cave on the cliff, slowly spewing mist.
Mountain stream, cave, he took out the map and checked it for a long time, confirming that this was the place where he and Sun Ergou agreed to meet.
