In a crimson forest full of twisted and strange trees, five young men and women stood a few meters away from each other in a hidden place in the forest, silently facing each other.
A man in his thirties, dressed in brocade robes, with white eyebrows and lightning-like eyes.
A young woman in a black dress, with a slender figure, black eyebrows drawn into the temples, and a sinister face.
A young man in purple robes, with a bloody mole on his mouth, is handsome and gentle, with a smile on his face.
A woman in a white robe, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a delicate and childish face.
The last twenty-three or four-year-old man was wearing a green robe with a blank expression on his face. He was Han Li who had left Tianyuan City not long ago.
These five people looked so young, but their cultivation bases were all above the stage of transformation, and except for Han Li and the youngest white-robed woman who were in the middle stage, the other three were all in the late stage of transformation.
However, the young woman in the black dress among them was exactly the woman surnamed Xiao from the Black Phoenix clan that Han Li had appeared after the beast tide.
The woman looked at Han Li with a gloomy face. Although she didn't say a word, there was naturally a look of surprise in her eyes.
"I didn't expect that among the three monks sent by your human race this time, two of them are only in the middle stage. Could it be that the nobles want to deliberately push this operation?" The white-eyed man in brocade robe said coldly. Although the sound was not loud, it was buzzing in the ears of everyone present.
Hearing the words of the white-browed young man, the brows of the blood mole young man twitched slightly, and the smile on his face softened a bit, but Han Li didn't blink his eyelids, he just lowered his head and played with a milky white jade slip.
As for the girl in white robe, her jet-black eyes rolled around and she just smiled.
None of the three had an interface.
Seeing Han Li and the other three behaving like this, the white-browed man was furious in his heart, and his face flashed sternly. When he was about to say something more, the young woman surnamed Xiao suddenly said: "This trip may be related to Tianyuan City, or even your two clans. Safety. If we are not sincerely cooperating, let alone completing the task, whether we can reach the place where the task is performed is a matter of two opinions. Don’t forget, it will take half a year just to travel. Since the nobles sent three Taoists Friends, I think the three of you are extraordinary people. But we will be together for such a long time in the future, we should introduce one or two to each other. Xia Xiaohong is from the Black Phoenix Clan, and this is Li Daoyou from the Xuanying Clan."
This young woman looked neither humble nor overbearing.
Hearing this, the blood mole youth moved his eyes, and said with a soft smile: "In Xialongdong, seeing the power of extreme fire in the fairy, she must have cultivated the natal flame of the Black Phoenix Clan to a very high level."
"Your Excellency is from the Long family!" The young woman's face changed slightly when she heard the young man's name.
"I didn't expect the fairy to know my Long family." The blood mole youth said with a smile, revealing a pair of white and shiny teeth.
"My name is Ye Ying." The white-robed girl said with a smile, her voice was as crisp as an oriole.
"Han Li!" Han Li spat out two words lightly, and immediately shut up.
"Han Li? It's really you. No wonder your Excellency possessed such rare treasures as the Celestial Orb that day. You are indeed a high-ranking cultivator. In other words, the kung fu you cultivated is a combination of Dharma and Body." Xiao Hong faced Han Li , but his voice turned cold.
Hearing the words of dual cultivation of dharma and body, the young man surnamed Long and the young man with white eyebrows were startled, and the girl in white robe was also startled.
"If you talk about the cultivation of body and mind, it's fine. We haven't seen each other for many years, how is Dai'er doing now?" Han Li didn't seem surprised, but just asked indifferently.
"Back then, it was wise for Dai'er to follow me. Now she is practicing so fast that she has already condensed the golden core. Even if she catches up with you and me, it will only be a matter of time." Hearing Dai'er's name, The young woman was silent for a moment before replying indifferently.
"Really, since it's fine, Han can rest assured." Han Li sighed softly.
"Why, does Elder Sister Xiao recognize Brother Han?" The girl named Ye Ying asked with a smile after glancing at Han Li and the two of them.
"Know? Hehe! It's old acquaintance!" The young woman sneered.
At this time, the young man with the blood mole also took a look here, seemingly looking at Han Li and Xiao Hong, but his gaze paused for a moment on the girl, and then he looked away as if unintentionally.
A trace of greed flashed deep in this person's pupils, but no one noticed.
"Although this place has not yet entered the depths of the wild world, everyone can meet here alone, which also shows that the magical powers of the fellow Taoists are not weak. But the next journey is not as easy as the previous one. I will wait for five people If we don't join hands, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get to the Black Leaf Forest safely. The dangers encountered along the way are far more terrifying than before." After thinking for a while, Xiao Hong warned.
As soon as they heard the words such as Black Leaf Forest, the expressions of the other four people changed, and they were all a little moved.
"This mission is really just to spy on the movement of the Wood Spirit Clan. Is it enough to retrieve the information we collected when we sent them undercover in the early years? It sounds like it's not too difficult." The girl asked with a smile.
"It's hard to say. Whether it's difficult or not depends on our luck. If everything goes well, it may be much easier than other tasks, but if you encounter trouble, you may even be discovered by the wood spirits above the silver rank in the Wood Clan. It is common for all to fall. But this task is indeed of great importance to our two clans, and this risk must be taken." The blood mole youth sighed and murmured.
"Since it's so important, why should the higher-ups send us deity-level beings here? It's much unsafe to call a Void Refining-level existence directly." The white-browed youth frowned and asked suspiciously.
"Hey, listening to Your Excellency's question, it seems that Fairy Xiao is the person in charge of the nobleman's actions." The young man surnamed Long didn't answer the question directly, but looked at the young woman in black skirt with a smile that was not a smile.
"Since Brother Long knows these things, it seems that Your Excellency should be the leader of the human race." The young woman said calmly without showing any surprise.
"That's right, I do know something more." The bloody mole on the corner of Long Dong's mouth moved, and he didn't deny it.
The girl surnamed Ye twitched her mouth when she heard this, but then she remembered something and turned her head to look at Han Li again.
Han Li was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard the conversation between the young man with the blood mole and the young woman, which made the girl look surprised.
"This time we are only sending our God Transformation cultivators here because the Black Leaf Forest has already been shrouded by Tianmu Mengluo of the Wood Spirit Clan. As soon as beings above the Transformation God level enter there, they will immediately reveal their whereabouts." Xiao Xiao Hong turned her head and explained to the white-browed youth.
"So that's the case, but fellow Daoist Long doesn't matter. These two are only in the mid-stage cultivation of the gods. Isn't it a little bit worse?" The white-browed youth nodded, but suddenly looked at Han Li and Ye Ying with slightly narrowed eyes. The two said bluntly.
"Brother Li, don't worry. The elders will send you Daoyou Han and Miss Ye together. Naturally, they are extremely reassuring for the two of them, and they won't let you down. I can guarantee this." Long Dong called Ha ha.
"Since fellow daoist promises so much, then forget it. But if they are really a drag on the rest of the itinerary, don't blame me for dying." The white-browed youth said grimly.
"Hmph, Your Excellency is only one level higher than me, and you speak as if you are a cultivator." The repeated contempt of the white-browed young man finally made the white-robed girl's delicate face sink.
"Cultivation has reached the point where I am waiting. The difference in realm is one level, and the difference in supernatural power is not a little bit." The white-browed young man sneered and replied proudly.
The white-robed girl was slightly angry in her heart, and when she wanted to say something more, Han Li interrupted at this moment.
"Since Fellow Daoist Long and Fairy Xiao know more about the mission than I do, let's introduce the details to us first. When Mr. Han took the mission, he only knew the general idea, and he didn't expect that many people would need to work together. I should have known. In this way, there is a high probability that I will not accept this task." Han Li said with a blank face, but he was really unhappy in his heart.
When he learned in Abyss Tian City that this task required many people to complete it, he faintly felt that it was not easy, and he did have some thoughts of quitting at that time. However, he was told by the superiors that this mission was of great importance. Since he had accepted this mission and knew the general situation of the mission, once he quit, he would lose the qualification to accept other missions, and he must not leave Tianyuan City for ten years.
As a result, he had other important matters on his mind, and he who had to leave Tianyuan City within a few years had no choice but to bite the bullet and come here.
As a result, it took him about a month to arrive at this so-called meeting place. After seeing not other ascended monks, but local monks and monster clan members from the spirit world, he could only smile wryly in his heart.
It seems that the complexity and danger of this mission seems to be beyond his previous expectations.
Didn't Zhao Wugui and the others say that these missions are generally only accepted by their ascended monks? Could it be that they accidentally accepted the wrong mission
But before departure, he had indeed been provided with enough Miechen Pills, and he was also promised to complete this task, so that he could leave Tianyuan City. This point is exactly the same as what Zhao Wugui and others said.
Han Li was naturally a little suspicious about this.
"As for the details of the mission, I will naturally tell Brother Han and Miss Ye in detail on the way. There is not enough time for this mission, so I'll talk about it when we get on the road first." Long Dong said with a slight smile.
"Brother Long is right. We are really short on time. It's better to leave first, and I can release some relevant information on the way." Xiao Hong also agreed.
After hearing this, the white-browed youth and Ye Ying had no intention of objecting.
Han Li pondered for a moment, then nodded slowly.
"Well, there is indeed time to ask slowly on the road."
"Since this is the case, for the sake of caution, everyone should take the spirit cloud boat below. First, you don't need to spend any mana, you only need to spend some spirit stones. Second, this boat is good at changing and hiding, and I can also reduce a lot on the way. Trouble." The blood mole youth suggested again with a pleasant face, seeming to be extremely enthusiastic.