The monks in each team will huddle together in several groups, and monks from each sect will basically not be separated from their fellow brothers.
Firstly, they are most familiar with each other in terms of both martial arts and personalities, so when they work together, they can naturally exert the greatest power.
The second is that once it comes to life and death, they only trust their own fellow disciples.
Ding Yushan, on the other hand, was experienced in handling matters and had a good cultivation base. Although he had just entered the great perfection of foundation building, his foundation was extremely solid. In addition, with so many gathering places, there were not many fake elixir cultivators coming to "Lingtianmen". After a fierce competition, he was unexpectedly selected as the captain.
In addition to on-site command, the captain also has a Wanli Sound Transmission Talisman on him, which is the last resort for the team to save their lives.
When Ding Yushan first got this sound transmission talisman, all his subordinates were envious, especially the leading disciples from the other two sects. However, they all knew that they were no match for Ding Yushan and could only give up in disappointment.
The other two sects in Ding Yushan's team are "Hua Ling Sect" with three people and "Jiu Gong Mountain" with four people. Together with the three people from Ding Yushan's sect, they form a team of ten people.
The "Hua Ling Sect" is good at the art of talismans, while the "Jiu Gong Mountain" is proficient in formations.
Next, Ding Yushan and his companions knew the content of the mission, which was either to monitor a certain sect or to track someone. Of course, these tasks had to be arranged according to their cultivation level. Otherwise, if they were asked to track a fake Dan or a golden Dan, it would be equivalent to suicide, apart from being exposed.
Afterwards, the five Jindan elders of "Lingtian Sect" told them respectively about the cultivators they were going to face, which were the legendary demons, or the cultivators who were restricted by the demons.
Except for Ding Yushan and a few monks who had guessed this, most monks were shocked and even doubtful. Isn't this kind of thing only found in classics? There was an uproar.
At the same time, Elder Jindan promised that any team that could complete the delivery task would receive generous rewards every time, but if they failed, they would be severely punished.
In response to this, most of the cultivators from the subordinate sects sneered in their hearts. If they said that they would be severely punished for not completing the task, it was true;
The so-called reward was just an empty promise. The hardest thing to get in the world of immortal cultivation was, of course, cultivation resources. Maybe a few spiritual stones would be good enough, and they could just treat them as cultivators who had never seen the world and fool them.
After being severely warned by Elder Jindan, everyone shut up.
The Jindan elder of the "Tianling Sect" strictly ordered that the matter should not be spread outside, otherwise the entire sect would be regarded as an evil sect that spread rumors and caused trouble and misled people, and people would be sent to eradicate it directly.
This made all the monks realize the seriousness of the matter, but they were still skeptical.
Only a very small number of people including Ding Yushan knew the intention of the Pure Land Sect. It was not appropriate to publicize this matter now, as it would only bring panic to the entire world of immortal cultivation and would have no other effect.
At the same time, if you want to wipe out the demons, you can only do it openly, which is definitely not conducive to the current situation.
In the following mission, casualties among the monks soon occurred. The monks who managed to escape described to others the horror of the demon soldiers revealing their true forms.
One demon soldier can often resist two or three human monks of the same level, and his skills are extremely powerful and domineering.
This made Ding Yushan and others truly face the reality, but they still felt like they were in a half-sleep and half-awake state, and most people were still immersed in fantasy.
"Weren't these demons basically wiped out ten thousand years ago? The current situation is so serious that the demons dare to show up and directly confront human monks."
Ding Yushan's team also carried out a second mission. One mission was to monitor a third-rate sect and regularly report the monitored situation back to the Jindan elder of Lingtian Sect.
Another time, he ambushed and captured a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage and handed him over to Lingtian Sect.
Generally speaking, the difficulty of these two missions is not very high. This is because the demons have been annihilated too severely over the past tens of millions of years, and the existence of high-level demon generals is still a question.
Most of the remaining demons led by the demon leader are hiding. The reason is that the higher the level of the demon, the thicker the demonic energy on their bodies.
Wherever a demon general appears, demonic energy will surge within a hundred miles, like a bright lamp, which will only attract the encirclement and suppression of human Yuanying, or even the ruthless killing of the great gods.
The demon has not yet formed a demon baby, and his cultivation is equivalent to the Golden Core stage of humans. The demonic energy on his body can only be felt within a dozen miles.
Moreover, as long as the demon does not reveal its true form, the demonic energy can be further controlled within a certain range, but at the same time its own magic power will also be suppressed and reduced.
As for the demon soldiers, the demonic energy on their bodies was even scarcer. The two times that Ding Yushan and his men dealt with were both demon soldiers, whose realms corresponded to the foundation-building realm of humans.
Precisely because they have too little demonic energy and are easy to hide, they are usually sent out by demons to collect information or capture human foundation-building monks alive. These monks who fall into the hands of demons are either used by them or directly devoured by them.
When the demons devour human monks, they can directly absorb the essence of their bones and blood, which is of great benefit to their cultivation growth and will not cause any backlash to them. This is also one of the reasons why the demons want to invade the Desolate Moon Continent.
Of course, occasionally, a demon general would personally attack and capture a human Jindan monk, but it was possible for a Jindan monk to be defeated and injured, and it was difficult to capture a human alive without making any noise, unless the demon general showed his true form. Moreover, the battle was often too noisy, so the demon general was unwilling to attack easily and expose himself. After successfully completing the first two missions, Ding Yushan's team actually obtained a lot of elixirs and spirit stones, and both the quantity and grade were relatively high.
This is also the reward promised by "Lingtianmen" to the monks who complete the task. In this way, the monks who originally had complaints will gradually get rid of their dissatisfaction after seeing that they can really get good cultivation resources.
On the contrary, many monks began to become keen on the missions, hoping to get more rewards. For second- and third-rate monks, these rewards were their savings of several years in the sect, or even rewards that they would never be able to access.
Ding Yushan's team was assigned another mission ten days ago. This mission was originally very simple, which required them to inquire about a sect called "Huangxuan Valley" five thousand miles north of "Lingtianmen".
This is a second-rate sect. Some of its foundation-building cultivators should have reported to "Lingtian Sect" half a month ago, but no one has arrived yet.
The world of immortal cultivation has become increasingly turbulent recently. The top leaders of "Lingtian Sect" did not believe that the leader of "Huangxuan Valley" would dare to disobey their order to summon them, and thought that there might be a problem, so they sent a team to investigate secretly.
At that time, Ding Yushan and his team only need to get the exact situation, return immediately and report it, and then "Lingtianmen" will make further clarifications.
After all, it was a second-rate sect with a Jindan cultivator in charge, so Ding Yushan and his companions could only eavesdrop on the news.
In fact, the safest way to handle this matter is to have a Jindan stage expert from the Lingtian Sect go there, but recently there is a shortage of Jindan cultivators and no one can spare the time.
When Ding Yushan's team first received this mission, they were of course extremely nervous. They also stayed in the "Lingtian Gate" for a while and knew that the demons were now beginning to dare to attack second- and third-rate sects in secret.
In addition, there are some sects that may be occupied by demons after taking over their bodies. They think there are Jindan monks there. If it turns out to be a real demon, then their entire team will be destroyed in an instant.
Ding Yushan decided to inquire secretly first. If he found nothing unusual, he would go forward and take out the "Lingtianmen" token to inquire.
He asked the other team members to wait at the agreed place. If he did not return at the agreed time, they needed to return to "Lingtianmen" as soon as possible to report.
Ding Yushan's action was opposed by two other monks from the Fengxue Sect, but it made the monks from the other two sects look at Ding Yushan differently.
Fortunately, everything turned out to be a false alarm in the end. It turned out that the great elder of "Huangxuan Valley" was in seclusion of life and death, and the other Jindan was the sect leader, who had to protect him.
The retreat place was tightly sealed, and the disciples of the sect did not dare to disturb them because of the taboo of giving birth and closing the gate of life and death. The leader of their sect has always held all the power in the sect and his authority is extremely heavy.
After receiving the call to action, no one in the sect was able to make a decision, which led to the above situation. This caused Ding Yushan and others to be alarmed.
So after Ding Yushan and his team learned about the situation, they headed back, but an accident happened on the way back.
On the way back, they found a green-robed foundation-building cultivator. They discovered him, but the cultivator's cultivation was only in the initial stage of foundation-building, so he did not notice them.
At that time, the behavior of this green-robed monk was very suspicious. You know, the "Huangxuan Valley" is very remote, and there are no other sects within thousands of miles. However, this green-robed monk was hiding, as if he was deliberately avoiding other people's attention.
If Ding Yushan and the others had not been far more powerful than this person, this person would have been able to escape.
At the same time, a cultivator named Yingkai from "Jiugong Mountain" in the team felt vaguely that the green-robed cultivator looked familiar. After thinking carefully, he finally remembered the man's origins, and anger appeared on his face.
His expression naturally caught the eyes of others, and without waiting for anyone to ask, Yingkai began to narrate the story through voice transmission.
This green-robed monk is an evil cultivator with no sect or school, but he likes to pick flowers and is particularly good at absorbing Yin to replenish Yang.
A female disciple of their "Jiugong Mountain" was once abducted. When the top leaders of "Jiugong Mountain" found out, they were furious. A humble and independent cultivator actually dared to touch the tiger's beard, which was clearly a provocation to "Jiugong Mountain".
This person must be caught and a sky lantern must be lit to deter those villains. The dignity of "Jiugong Mountain" must not be violated.
So several Jindan elders led their disciples to form several teams and searched for this person.
Later, a Jindan elder in the sect finally found this person's lair. At that time, Yingkai was a disciple in the team.
The news they received was that although this evil cultivator had just established his foundation not long ago, he was extremely cunning and cruel.
As expected, when the Jindan elder from "Jiugong Mountain" broke into the formation, he thought he could capture the enemy easily, but he miscalculated the timing.
The powerful pressure from the golden elixir made the evil cultivator feel the breath of death, so he ended the life of the dying female disciple who he had used as a cauldron to absorb his energy with just one palm.
With wild laughter, he glanced at everyone and suddenly exerted force. The entire bed formed by huge stone slabs shattered in an instant. There was a thousand-foot cliff below and he fell down.