Qi Ying didn't want to work hard, but he was traveling twice as fast in the forest as the other scouts, saving countless hours. It was just right to squeeze some time out of his busy schedule to practice.
In the early morning, Qi Ying came to a snow-covered valley and found a group of giant elephants here, numbering hundreds. After marking the valley on the map, he found a leeward cave. Practice inside.
"Tiangang Thunder Fire Technique" and "Five Elements Holy Fire Technique" operate at the same time, and the surrounding heaven and earth energy quickly pours into the body.
After swallowing several "Spirit Transforming Pills" and "Spirit Accumulating Pills" in succession, energy poured into Qi Ying's body like a rushing river into his Dantian.
In the spirit martial realm, one builds a spiritual platform and uses spiritual power to continuously transform the body.
The first three levels can be regarded as an extension of the Qi Martial Realm, but they have improved physical strength, energy richness, and the ability to transmit sounds with spiritual consciousness and glide and fly.
At the fourth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm, after greatly increasing the intensity of the spiritual consciousness, one can cover the whole body with the spiritual consciousness. The detection of surrounding things is not limited to the eyes and ears, and the actual combat ability is greatly improved.
When you reach the seventh level of the Lingwu Realm, your spiritual consciousness can be separated from the body for exploration, and you can have even more magical abilities.
"If you want to reach a higher level, you must first lay a solid foundation!"
In Qiying's dantian, on top of the first-level spiritual platform, the shadow of the second-level spiritual platform is slowly condensing.
…
Bang!
A purple force surged around Qi Ying, flying the surrounding gravel onto the stone wall of the cave.
"Second Level of Spiritual Martial Realm!"
Trying to clench his hands and circulate the spiritual power in his body, Qi Ying felt that his strength had improved a lot, the intensity of his spiritual consciousness had also increased to a certain extent, and his physical body had also become stronger.
In the dantian, the original single-story spiritual platform has become a two-story spiritual platform.
"Look at these two little guys!"
A thought came to my mind.
A cat and a snake appeared in front of Qi Ying.
"Sure enough, he has grown up a bit, and in terms of strength, he has fully reached the level of a first-grade martial soul, and has begun to develop towards a second-grade martial soul."
Qi Ying is very satisfied with the growth of the two martial arts spirits.
The little snake has completely transformed into a normal-sized snake, three feet long and three fingers wide. The thunder and lightning attack it releases is quite impressive, and it is not much different from the power of a "Thunder Fist" that it releases now.
As for kittens, they grow slower than small snakes and are still of little use in their normal state.
"Brother Liu, let's go!"
Qi Ying took Brother Liu with him and left the valley on the shield to find the next gathering point of monsters.
at this time.
The hunting troops of the Yumen Army also divided a large number of troops, leaving the valley where they were stationed and going deep into the Mobei Mountains. They hunted the monster beasts according to the guidance provided by Qi Ying and other scouts.
The sergeants of the hunting force basically have a certain amount of experience. They use traps, armor-piercing arrows, sky-cutting crossbows, etc. to hunt monsters with astonishing efficiency.
Giant elephants fell one after another, and demon deer and spirits were captured in the dragnet... These will all be the food rations for the millions of troops in the desert during the cold winter.
Of course, during the process, they also encountered some troubles caused by the arrangements of the Gilded Kingdom's scouts, such as stepping into traps, encountering a sudden wave of carnivorous monsters, and being attacked by mandrills, monster wolves, and monster tigers. etc. However, as they were well prepared, their losses were not great, and the casualty ratio was controlled within less than one percent.
For several days.
The hunting operation went surprisingly smoothly. The hunting team has reached the depths of the Mobei Mountains and is preparing for the last wave of hunting to complete this winter's ration mission.
However, the reports from the returning scouts made the officers a little worried. The White Horse Yi Cong and other troops on the front line had already been stationed at the Gilded Kingdom's troops, but no trace of any troops with more than a hundred troops dispatched was found.
Even with tight control on the ground and in the sky, no troops from the Gilded Kingdom were found to cross the snowfields and head for the Mobei Mountains.
"It's strange that they sent so many scouts to the Mobei Mountains but didn't send troops. Are they just going to cause us trouble with these scouts?"
"I don't know, but we only need one more day of hunting before we can go back!"
Although the officers were suspicious of the actions of the Gilded Kingdom's army, they didn't take it too seriously. Even if the Gilded Kingdom's army now sets out from various military camps, it will still take a day and a night to reach the Mobei Mountains. By then, the hunting troops have already left the Mobei Mountains for at least dozens of miles.
"Qi Yun, you did a good job. You were very efficient in finding monsters. The time spent hunting monsters in the Mobei Mountains was almost three days shorter than the expected ten days!"
Song Tianxing was very satisfied with Qi Ying's performance. Not only did he give Qi Ying a lot of military merit, he also planned to build a scout team for him, which would be active in the snowfields and perform various tasks in the future.
Nico, who returned to the Mobei Mountains, was also amazed by Qi Ying's performance: "You are worthy of being an elite hunter of the Putuomanla tribe. You are still so young, twenty years old? Now you are already at the second level of the Lingwu Realm, and your future potential is greater than ours. High! I am optimistic about you. As long as you can grow to the fourth level of the Spiritual Martial Realm in the future and accumulate enough military merits, I estimate that you will be a first-class elite scout. When you retire, you will be able to start a family and start a business, and you can become a party in an ordinary county. Being powerful will lead you to the pinnacle of life!"
"so far so good."
Qi Ying smiled and responded a few times, with a bit of embarrassment in her laughter.
He has no interest at all in starting a family and starting a business in the royal capital, or becoming a powerful person like the Duan family in Tianhe County... He is not interested at all, but in the eyes of others, this is definitely a dream thing, which can change the fate of their children and grandchildren.
"Next, the task of investigating the return route will be left to you! You must complete it perfectly!"
"no problem."
Qi Ying left the military camp again and began to investigate the return route of the hunting troops.
In fact, it doesn't make much sense anymore. The troops of the Gilded Kingdom can't fly to the Mobei Mountains even if they have wings. Qi Ying was also happy to find a gap in the mountains and forests to practice for a while, and by the way, he could hunt one or two Xuan-level monsters and bake them into dried meat to replenish his body's energy.
Just as Qi Ying was hunting a "mountain wild cow", a burst of light suddenly flashed in the forest not far away.
"what happened?"
The strange change made Qi Ying give up the pursuit of Shanmang Niu, put on his stealth cloak, and lurked quietly, only to see an astonishing scene.
He saw that this place he had just passed half a quarter of an hour ago was clearly an uninhabited forest with only a few wild animals. But now... there stood like a forest, at least three hundred people wearing gilt black armor. Kingdom Army!