After two hours of going deep into the canyon, there was still no exit and no monsters were seen. Yu Qiuchi asked everyone to rest for a quarter of an hour before setting off again.
Ge Yuchan said nothing. She sat aside and took out some water and dried meat. Although she had to slowly try fasting from the beginning of the foundation-building period, she would only have strength if she was full at this time.
Yun Shang stayed away from Yu Qiuchi. Jiang Yuebai sat with her next to Ge Yuchan to regulate her breathing.
Yu Qiuchi chose a gorge that was rarely traveled by people. She sat alone on a broken rock, guarding the front of the gorge, and ordered Zheng Chong and Gu Liu to guard the back and protect the three little ones in the middle.
"There are so many foundation-building disciples in the camp, but you have to assign these three little ones to us." Zheng Chong threw stones with a look of dissatisfaction on his face.
Gu Liu glanced at the three people who were playing and laughing as if they were on a picnic, not realizing that the mission was dangerous.
"You can't say that. Ge Yuchan, you see, she doesn't talk much and is always unknown, but she is in the top 50 of the camp's battle merit list, higher than you and me."
"It's hard to say whether he was brought up by others or not. Anyway, his military merits were exchanged for monster materials and various rare treasures. Just like Yun Shang, who was holding a bald monkey and spoke in a weak voice as if he hadn't been weaned, and Senior Sister Yu was still protecting him."
Gu Liu thought thoughtfully, "Maybe he is very good at taming beasts?"
Zheng Chong rolled his eyes, "What about Jiang Yuebai? For such an important mission, she, who has never been to the secret realm, is allowed to follow. Jiuchuan Zhenjun wants to train his apprentice, but he can't harm us, right? With Jiuchuan Zhenjun's overbearing personality, if Jiang Yuebai gets into trouble, we will be in big trouble! This trip is really unlucky!"
Gu Liu glanced at Jiang Yuebai, who was trying to snatch some of Ge Yuchan's dried meat and was laughing heartily.
"It's not easy to accompany the prince to study, but there's nothing we can do. Although we didn't see it with our own eyes, Jiang Yuebai was able to win the first place in the competition, so his ability must be strong. We don't have to worry too much."
"Alas! I can only accept my bad luck. If anything happens, please protect them, especially Jiang Yuebai!"
After a quarter of an hour, the group set out again, still traveling through the canyon.
In the silent and deserted gorge, gravel rolled down and a red shadow suddenly swooped down from above Jiang Yuebai's head.
"careful!"
Zheng Chong behind Jiang Yuebai was frightened out of his wits.
Gu Liu looked up immediately and saw more than a dozen rock-like monsters clinging to the mountain wall. They were the size of young children, moving swiftly, and their sharp claws were extremely ferocious and could tear open people's bellies.
"Eighth-level monster, rock monkey!"
Zheng Chong raised his hand and made a gesture, staring with wide eyes as the rock monkey's sharp claws swept across Jiang Yuebai's head. He could already imagine the scene of his brain bursting.
At the critical moment, several ice arrows shot out, and the rock monkey was instantly knocked away and nailed to the rock wall.
Zheng Chong was stunned and looked at his hands. Wasn't he performing the Water Arrow Technique? How did it become the Ice Arrow Technique? No, he hadn't finished the spell yet!
Before he could figure it out, Jiang Yuebai, who had been standing still, drew out two swords out of thin air, spun like a whirlwind, and attacked the rock monkey that was coming down from the cliff.
Ge Yuchan reacted extremely quickly, she stood up from the ground like a ghost, spun around to avoid the rock monkey's sharp claws, and stabbed the dagger into the back of the rock monkey's neck quickly and accurately. With a sharp look in her eyes, she killed it with one blow!
Zheng Chong and Gu Liu were completely stunned. Yu Qiuchi held Yun Shang tightly. The treasure box just opened a hole when they saw Jiang Yuebai and Ge Yuchan killing more than a dozen rock monkeys with ease. The opening of the treasure box closed again.
In just a moment, monkey corpses were everywhere.
Jiang Yuebai and Ge Yuchan landed back to back, turned their heads, and glanced at each other out of the corner of their eyes.
Ge Yuchan said, "Kill one more person than you."
Jiang Yuebai responded with a "haha".
Yun Shang glared at Yu Qiuchi in frustration, and seemed to want to say something several times, but Yu Qiuchi remained silent.
Ge Yuchan put away the dagger, pulled out the boning knife from her calf, and deftly cut off the valuable parts of the monster's body.
Jiang Yuebai took out the soul bottle that he had prepared long ago and collected the beast soul.
"I only want the beast soul, you can take the rest."
"OK."
The monster was killed and the spoils were divided. Zheng Chong and Gu Liu looked at each other and felt that they were redundant.
"It was just luck. Rock monkeys... are relatively weak." Zheng Chong defended.
Gu Liu shook his head and sighed.
"Wait a minute, who cast that ice arrow just now? I didn't see Jiang Yuebai making any hand gestures?" Zheng Chong suddenly reacted.
Gu Liu was stunned and glanced at everyone. As far as she knew, Yu Qiuchi had dual spiritual roots of gold and fire, Yun Shang had triple spiritual roots of earth, wood and fire, and Ge Yuchan also had three spiritual roots. She didn't know the details, but it was impossible for them to have ice.
It was even more impossible for her to be with Zheng Chong, so the only option was...
Zheng Chong also reacted, and they both looked at Jiang Yuebai.
"It's impossible to cast a spell in an instant without using any hand gestures!"
Jiang Yuebai felt the two people's gazes and smiled at them with narrowed eyes. What just happened was really nothing. She only contributed 10% of the effort.
Ge Yuchan moved quickly, taking only the most valuable and easiest to carry parts, saving everyone's time.
The group continued on their journey, stopping and starting from time to time. They encountered monsters several times along the way, and Jiang Yuebai and Ge Yuchan took action to deal with them.
Yun Chang was protected by Yu Qiuchi every time, and Zheng Chong and Gu Liu were completely unable to help, so that later their eyes became dazed and they were too lazy to concentrate and be alert to their surroundings.
After walking for three days, the secret realm fell into darkness and the temperature dropped suddenly from hot to cold. There was no sun or moon here. There were special rocks around the canyon that emitted red fluorescence and could provide illumination.
Yu Qiuchi asked everyone to rest for an hour.
"The night in the secret realm is very long, usually seven to fifteen days. The fire evil will weaken, but the ghosts and evil corpses will increase. We will be able to leave the canyon and reach the Tomb of Ten Thousand Beasts in half a day. Everyone be careful."
Yu Qiuchi gave some instructions and guarded the front alone.
Jiang Yuebai asked Ge Yuchan to help her watch over it first, and hurry up to refine the beast souls collected in the past three days into the Eight Formation Plate, and refine them into formation soldiers that can kill the enemy.
Yun Shang was squatting at the foot of the cliff, concentrating on poking an ant nest with a stick, and glaring at Yu Qiuchi from time to time with a bit of resentment.
Not far away, Zheng Chong and Gu Liu were guarding the rear.
"We are so weak, so we should stay in the middle and be protected, right?" Zheng Chong said dissatisfiedly.
Gu Liu laughed and shook his head, "That's not what you said three days ago."
Zheng Chong scratched his face in embarrassment, "I underestimated Jiang Yuebai and Ge Yuchan before. They are really capable to be accepted as personal disciples. Ge Yuchan is not in the top 50 of the battle merit list for nothing. It's this Yun Shang..."
Zheng Chong frowned and watched Yun Shang excitedly shaking the red ants on the stick into the glass bottle.
"Sure enough, she's still breastfeeding. Could she be Senior Sister Yu's illegitimate daughter?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yun Shang suddenly looked over, and Zheng Chong quickly turned his head away from her sight.
Yun Shang tightly grasped the glass bottle and bit her lips. She lowered her head and struggled for a moment, then stood up and walked towards Yu Qiuchi.
"I want to leave the team!"
Yu Qiuchi sat cross-legged on a stone, raised his eyes in surprise, saw Yun Shang's serious look, frowned and refused.
"No, you are part of this mission and cannot leave the team."
Yun Shang's body was trembling a little. She was so nervous that she stuttered even though she never argued with anyone.
"You, you didn't even consider me as a team member. Why didn't you let me, me, leave the team?"
Yu Qiuchi's eyes darkened, "This mission is very dangerous, I must ensure the safety of all of you."
Yun Shang pinched her own hands, exhaled and exhaled, suppressing her nervousness, "Then, then, why can others kill monsters, but I have to be, be protected by you? Anyway, I am just a waste, a waste and a burden. If I leave, won't you be able to perform the mission better?"
Yu Qiuchi struggled a bit. In fact, it would be best to let Yunchang go back now. If they went deeper, she was afraid that she would not be able to protect Yunchang.
I thought it was just an ordinary task, but I ended up drawing the most difficult one.
"Okay, I can let you leave the team, but you must swear to leave the secret realm directly and never set foot in the secret realm before we return."
Yun Chang's cheeks flushed with anger, "Why do you care about me?!"
Yu Qiuchi was silent. Yun Shang's parents were her best friends. They died to protect her. Of course, she had to protect their only bloodline.
What's more, Yun Shang always followed her around when she was very young, calling her little aunt, so she was also her relative.
"If you don't want to go back, just stay here."
"It's my freedom to go wherever I want. Even if I fall into a monster's lair, you don't have to bother me. Don't think I don't know that you've been following me all this time, including this mission, and you asked me to take you with you. You were just afraid that I would run around without you, right?"
"Yu Qiuchi, let me tell you, the person I least want to see right now is you! I can't beat you, and when you are injured and powerless, I will leave immediately, and you can't stop me!"
Yun Shang cried angrily. Jiang Yuebai heard the noise and came over. He understood what happened at a glance.
"Junior Sister Jiang, please... persuade her."
Jiang Yuebai had no choice but to agree, and pulled Yun Shang aside, staying with her without saying anything.
An hour later, everyone recovered and was on the road again.
Half a day later, I saw the exit of the canyon. It was pitch black outside, with stone forests standing tall and bones exposed in the wild. There were shadowy figures in the hazy red fog, accompanied by the cries of crows, which was creepy.
"Be careful of ghosts, take precautions."
Yu Qiuchi gave some instructions and led the way into the stone forest. After walking for more than a mile, he did not see any ghosts, but instead saw a man dressed in the clothes of a Tianyan Sect disciple.
He lay motionless among the remains of animal bones, his life or death unknown, with a storage bag and an axe-shaped magical weapon fallen beside him.
Yu Qiuchi raised his hand to ask everyone to stop, and Jiang Yuebai spread out the wind net.
The invisible wind floated the red mist, spreading out like ripples on water. Jiang Yuebai could perceive all the moving beings in the darkness, whose outlines were outlined by the wind and ripples were created by their movements.
When the wind spread to ten feet away, the outlines and ripples suddenly increased!
Jiang Yuebai's pupils trembled, and he immediately grabbed Yu Qiuchi's arm and signaled with his eyes.
There is an ambush!
See you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)