Lou Xuelin stopped and said, "Master needs to protect the safety of the magic circle, so I can only accompany you here. Be careful in the rest of the area."
There are five exits of the teleportation array, and each array must be guarded by a Jindan-stage cultivator to prevent the demon cultivators from destroying it and making it impossible for everyone to return.
Although I knew this would happen in advance.
But in an unfamiliar environment where demons are rampant and the powerful Jindan-stage uncle is not around, all the disciples immediately became nervous from their leisurely state.
"You must remember the positions of the five arrays. If you encounter an irresistible danger, quickly run to the nearest array. You have seven days, make good use of this opportunity and remember to come back on time."
After Lou Xuelin explained the precautions in detail, he watched the best disciples of this generation in the sect slowly leave his sight.
This was already the nth time he had carried out a mission. Every time, he watched these cute and innocent children leave with laughter. Seven days later, they returned covered in blood, with changed eyes.
"I hope everyone can return safely this time."
"It's happened so many times, are you still so reluctant to leave?" Someone sneered not far behind him.
The man wore a net gauze on his head, a long sword on his waist, and the green Taoist robe that was the symbol of the Dongxuan Sect. He crossed his hands in front of his chest. He was the Jindan-stage cultivator who led the Dongxuan Sect this time.
"Can't you just not worry at all?" Lou Xuelin said.
"What's the point of worrying? Flowers grown in a greenhouse have never experienced frost or snow. They need to be sent out for training." The man said, "Let's go. The people over there are coming."
Lou Xuelin took one last look at the direction where the children were going, then followed the man away.
Young disciples may not know that the opening of the Tongmo Yuxing Formation is not only a test for outstanding disciples from various sects, but also contains an important and unknown secret.
It is through this opportunity that scarce goods between the two worlds are exchanged through barter.
Some minerals, spiritual herbs, and monster bones that are available in the fairy world may not be rare in the demon world.
The Demon Spirit Realm was in great need of array plates, talismans, and magic weapons. The Immortal Spirit Realm was also able to easily provide them in large quantities due to its peaceful environment and long traditions of sects.
Therefore, every ten years, the Immortal World would spend a huge amount of money to open the Yuxing Formation and secretly conduct a private transaction.
This secret is firmly in the hands of the largest sects and families in the immortal and demon worlds, and has become the foundation for them to stand firm for many years.
The young disciples now know nothing about the secrets of their sect.
Mu Xue and others slowly explored forward along the road of the ruins.
"It's so quiet here. I haven't seen anyone in such a long time. I feel a little nervous." Ding Lanlan gently squeezed Mu Xue's hand, "Xiaoxue, are you afraid?"
Mu Xue glanced at her and said, "I remember when we were little, you said you would never come to the Demon Spirit Realm. Why have you changed your mind now?"
"Xiaoxue, do you know? Our Guiyuan Sect recruits a group of disciples every three years. There are more than tens of millions of disciples in the foundation-building stage. But there are only a few elders in the golden elixir stage." Ding Lanlan held Mu Xue's hand and walked on the empty street. "I don't know about other ways. But I know that those elders in the golden elixir stage have at least been to the Demon Spirit Realm."
Mu Xue hummed softly, "Really?"
Ding Lanlan turned to look at her, "Xiaoxue, do you want to go one step further and become one of the few? Become a cultivator in the Golden Core Stage?"
Mu Xue also looked at her, "I want to. I want to move forward, the further the better."
Ding Lanlan held her hand tightly, her eyes sparkling: "So even if I'm afraid, I'll come. This is a rare experience for us."
Mu Xue smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. This place is not as scary as you think."
"But then again, this city is really huge. We've been walking for so long and we haven't even reached the city wall." Ding Lanlan sighed as she walked, "We've never seen such a big city in our area."
"The Demonic World is different from the Immortal World. Outside the city walls is a dangerous world. Generally speaking, the mortals here only dare to live within the city for their entire lives. All production activities, including agricultural planting, are completed within the city.
The city here is divided into multiple layers, including the main city, the auxiliary city, the urn city, and even the underground city for living. "Mu Xue pointed to a large area of collapsed ground, where the location of the deep underground palace was exposed, "Look over there, there should be an underground palace underneath."
Ding Lanlan looked in the direction of her finger, and at the bottom of the cracked cave, she vaguely saw layers of cave dwellings and connected palaces, as if there was an underground world.
"It's amazing! It's so spectacular! Was this built by human power?"
"I heard that there are families in the Demonic Spirit Realm that specialize in earth-based magic. They build cities and fortresses quickly and solidly. With these people, high walls and thick pools can be built from the ground in a short period of time." Mu Xue said lightly.
Unfortunately, no matter how strong a city is, it is often destroyed by powerful demons.
The people living here have become accustomed to migration. Even the Shimiao Street where he used to live has now become a ruin.
There was only one person, a lamp, and a small puppet, waiting for him in the ruins.
Mu Xue's words not only attracted Ding Lanlan's attention, but also attracted the attention of the other companions.
These things were just common sense to Mu Xue, but they were very rare and obscure knowledge to the young disciples living in the fairy world. However, there was information to be found, and everyone thought that this young sister had done her homework seriously for this trip.
"Xiaoxue is so attentive." Ding Lanlan praised her, "People who buy so many books every time they go to the market are really different. I will learn from you in the future."
Mu Xue, who went to the market every time just to secretly bring back storybooks, coughed embarrassedly.
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On the moonlit earth, translucent elves stretched out their slender bodies from the soil, swaying in the moonlight, absorbing the essence of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Like the algae swaying slowly in the deep sea, emitting a soft and dreamy faint glow.
When they heard human footsteps, they timidly shrank back into the ground quickly, leaving only the tip of their heads with a pair of small eyes exposed, secretly looking at these rare outsiders.
After these extremely strange creatures left, they quietly poked out their slender heads again one by one.
"Look over there, that's purple spirit jade." Lin Yin pointed to a dull purple crystal in front of a small mound on the side of the road and almost jumped up.
Purple Jade powder is a catalyst for refining most elixirs. Some elixirs that take a year or two to make can be made in a few days if a proper amount of purple jade powder is added. It is a precious ingredient that everyone desires for alchemists. Unfortunately, this kind of crystal is very rare in the fairy world.
But I didn't expect to see a large piece of it here.
Lin Yinshi, who was practicing alchemy, was very happy.
She walked into the grass, her skirt fluttering, and the glowing elves on both sides of the grass shrank back into the ground in groups.
Lin Yin happily picked up the purple crystal, and a small hole the size of a palm appeared on the mound behind the crystal.
A little man about an inch tall poked his head out of the cave. He looked around, angrily, with his hands on his hips, and cursed at Lin Yin.
"Where did this human come from? How can you be so uneducated? Return our mountain gate to us!"
Lin Yin was stunned by the scolding of this tiny creature he had never seen before.
The tall Cheng Yan came over, bent down to look at the tiny man, his face full of excitement.
"I know this. I've read about it in a book. They are called swans. They are small goblins that live in groups and have no offensive capabilities."
Cheng Yan took out a golden lock piece that was bigger than his palm from his storage bag. It was shining brightly. He held it between his thick fingers and shook it. He asked the little man, "Hey, shall we use this to change lines?"
The villain looked disdainful and said, "Country bumpkin."
Cheng Yan's face flushed. "No, that's not right. I remember reading in a book that people like to collect shiny things."
He even took out a thick book called "A Comprehensive Examination of Small Objects in the Demonic World" from his storage bag and started searching on the spot.
Mu Xue happened to pass by and took out a palm-sized jade plate from her storage bag and handed it over.
The jade plaque was crystal clear, emerald green, and delicately carved with landscapes and figures. Although it did not have spiritual power, it was a delicately carved work of art.
The little man showed a look of joy, hurriedly turned back and waved, and two or three little men ran out of the cave together, excitedly lifted up the jade plate, and worked hard to move it to the cave entrance, blocking their cave.
He no longer cared about the purple spirit jade that was taken away by Lin Yin.
Lin Yin couldn't let go of the jade and thanked Mu Xue awkwardly, "Thank you."
Mu Xue stretched out her hand, "Half each."
Lin Yin, who was born into a wealthy family and had never seen such a common person, stamped his feet in anger, "You are not an alchemist, why do you want this? You just produced a piece of ordinary jade, which is not worth much."
"Whatever you sell, you sell. You haven't sold anything yet." Mu Xue said slowly, "Even if I sell it for spirit stones, half a piece of purple spirit jade is enough for me to buy a hundred storybooks and eat out ten more times."
Lin Yin was so angry that he choked, but he was too embarrassed to keep it all to himself, so he could only angrily swing his sword to split the jade into two and throw it to Mu Xue, who was planning to squander it by buying storybooks and eating in a restaurant.
Cheng Yan followed them and flipped through his reference book.
"Strange, I did my homework carefully when I came here, and it says here that the Hu people like shiny things, why doesn't it match up?"
Mu Xue answered him, "The ones who like sparkling things are crows. Your book won't do. You should read the "Monster Records" or "Monster General Examination" compiled by Master Zhang. These books from the Demonic Spirit World will be more accurate."
"Really? Did my junior sister bring it?" Cheng Dage, who loves studying very much, scratched his head and said, "Can you lend it to me to have a look?"
Mu Xue took out a book from her storage bag and handed it to him, "I only brought the Monster Chronicle."
Cheng Yan took it and flipped through it. He saw that the book was indeed carefully annotated and filled with notes. He was delighted and admired, and thanked her repeatedly, "Thank you, Junior Sister."
After talking so much, the embarrassment of being tied up and thrown off the stage by this junior sister a few days ago disappeared.
It was already quite far from where Master Lou was. In the distance, one could see the tall city wall with a large gap that had collapsed on the horizon.
Lin Yin got the purple spirit jade, Ding Lanlan picked up a fire spirit stone, Zhuo Yu dug up a Yuanying grass, and the others also had gains.
"I think the Demonic Spirit Realm is not scary at all, it's simply heaven." Cheng Yan found a spirit beast egg that he had never seen before. He couldn't help laughing while holding it in his hand, and took it to the back of the team to show it to Mu Xue, Ding Lanlan and others.
"Maybe it's a dragon egg, a dragon egg." Cheng Yan said.
"Let me see. It can't be a dragon egg, right? But it definitely feels like an extraordinary spiritual beast." Ding Lanlan carefully held up the egg and looked at it for a long time.
I may disappoint you, this is a stupid goose, oh, maybe it can be called a smart goose, because it eats a lot. Mu Xue knew it in her heart, but she didn't want to say it.
"Is there any sound?" At this time, Xiao Changge, who was walking in front of the team, stopped.
A faint and strange shouting sound seemed to come from the unknown darkness.
Hey yo, hey yo!
The voice was shrill, like that of a group of children or a group of young girls.
Soon, a group of three-foot-tall dwarves appeared under the silvery moonlight. Each of them wore a black hat and a long robe, and was carrying a sedan chair covered with red ribbons and walking towards this side.
They walked very fast, like a flying swallow, and arrived in front of us in the blink of an eye.
Only then did everyone see clearly that these demons, wearing human crowns and clothes, had bird-like faces. The bands of the black gauze crowns were tied on their feathered heads. Their small heads had round eyes and bird eyes. They walked one by one and shouted in unison.
They didn't care about Mu Xue and her group, and carried the sedan chair without looking at them. They walked straight to the entrance of a dark alley, put the sedan chair on the ground, stood up and bowed three times in unison.
Then all the little bird monsters waved their wide sleeves and quickly dispersed.
On the sedan chair that was left alone at the entrance of the alley, lay a half-demon with a human face and a bird body.
It has the face of a human girl and long, soft hair. Its hands are tied tightly behind its back, and the long, white feathers on its arms are dragging in disarray.
The disciples of Guiyuan Sect looked at each other in bewilderment. Xiao Changge stretched out his hand to stop the others and walked forward cautiously to check.
"Do you... need help?" Xiao Changge asked tentatively.
Under the silver moonlight, the girl curled up her body with her eyes closed, saying nothing, while crystal clear tears kept sliding down her fair cheeks.
"It's okay, don't be afraid. We won't hurt you." Xiao Changge kept a distance, pointed out the sword techniques, and cut the rope on the girl's hand through the air.
The slender body was still curled up and motionless, but for some reason it was shaking even more violently.
Xiao Changge was about to take another step forward when Zhuo Yu, who had been silent all the way, suddenly appeared in front of him and threw him backwards.
Lin Yin, who had just caught up, supported his junior brother and was about to start scolding him.
White feathers flew in front of her eyes, and a spray of hot blood sprayed all over her and Xiao Changge's faces.
In such a beautiful and peaceful moonlight, behind the messy flying feathers, a huge demon with a bull's head and a human body, holding the bird demon with scattered feathers in its mouth, leaned against the broken wall and poked its head out of the dark alley.
A burly figure slowly stood up in the darkness, wearing a gauze hat on his head, a tattered robe, and a python belt around his waist. A pair of yellow eyes on the huge bull head glowed from the darkness.
The dark-skinned arms were covered with matted hair, and the five fingers crushed the stone wall in an instant, but the legs that stepped out of the dust were a pair of cow hooves, holding its half-dead sacrifice in its bared white teeth, and the wet hair on its chin was dripping with blood.
Such a monster looked down from above, with clouds of smoke coming out of its nose.
All the immortal sect disciples who saw a real demon for the first time couldn't help but shiver.
Only Zhuo Yu activated the Xuanhuo Jue in the first moment, and the wall of fire formed by the raging fire rose up instantly, blocking the demon with a bull's head and a human body.
The Hunyuan Bag was summoned into the air.
"The wind is coming!"
The wind fanned the flames, and the flames suddenly rose high, engulfing the huge dark figure.
Zhuo Yu had just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to retreat when the angry demon lowered its head, used its sharp horns to break through the wall of fire, and strode out from the flames.
It spat the half-eaten bird demon in its mouth. Its huge black fingers grabbed Zhuo Yu's head and threw him to the ground.
Zhuo Yu felt severe pain in his internal organs. His body was thrown to the ground and then lifted high into the sky.
Dizzy, he barely raised his arm to grab the thick wrist that wanted to kill him, and ignited the Mysterious Fire Art with all his strength, trying to force the monster with tough skin and thick flesh to let go of him.
The enraged bull demon didn't care and was determined to kill the hateful human who was burning him.
Although the attack had no effect, Zhuo Yu still tried his best, because he knew he must not give up on himself.
Because no one would come to help someone like him who was excluded from the team.
Another horrible blow nearly made him lose consciousness, and a chill as cold as ice and snow penetrated his skin.
The thick black hand that had blocked his vision finally loosened, leaving him on the ground.
Zhuo Yu forced his eyes open and saw a cloud passing by. Above the cloud, a red figure wielded a short sword as smooth as water. The sword's intent turned into snow, and thousands of icicles shot towards the bull monster's eyes, drawing all the attention of the demon.
The bull demon's iron hooves clanged as it ran, raising dust all over the sky, and the demon's thick hair almost swayed above its head.
Zhuo Yu spat out a mouthful of blood and barely managed to drag his body with damaged internal organs to crawl towards the outskirts of the battlefield in the thick smoke.
A triangular black iron aircraft rushed towards him through the thick smoke, and the man on the aircraft leaned over and stretched out his hand to him.
Zhuo Yu pursed his lips that were coughing up blood, feeling that he shouldn't have accepted the hand that was extended to him.
Not long ago, he used all his strength in the ring and in order to win, he even seriously injured his fellow sister who was powerful but refused to admit defeat.
"Hurry!" the junior sister shouted.
He didn't know how he raised his hand for some unknown reason, but was grasped by a strong and warm hand, dragged onto the aircraft, and taken away from the center of the dangerous battlefield.
After leaving the battlefield, Xiao Changge caught him, first used a moistening technique on him, and then immediately took out a whole set of bottles and jars, and used his hands to treat his injuries.
Zhuo Yu still clearly remembered the hands that were busy around him. Not long ago, he twisted that hand and pressed the man into the mud, forcing him to admit defeat.
"Thank you, senior brother. If you hadn't pushed us away just now, you wouldn't be injured like this." The junior brother was busy apologizing to him first.
Not only did he devote himself to treating the person who had treated him so cruelly, he also treated the alien girl whose arm and wing had been bitten off with a simple bandage and was lying not far from him.
It turns out that this is Yu Ze Shi Bu’s state of mind.
Although there was only a faint moonlight in the sky, Zhuo Yu suddenly felt that such brightness hurt his eyes. His eyes felt sore and bitter, so he had to turn his head and close his eyes.