It’s easier to get things done when there’s someone above you.
There's someone behind you to help.
In short, if you have connections, you have connections, and if you have connections, things are easier to get done.
Lu Bei was delighted to get the lackey Demonic Evil Tu Yuan, and after looking through the confidential files of Gushan City, he secured a mission for himself.
[You received the task [Missing Person Notice]]
[Mission Description: The great demon Lu Li is one of the four great demon kings in the northern border, and a great threat to Xuan Long. This demon is cunning and secretive, and few people know where he is hiding. You are so fast, it shouldn’t take you long to find him.]
[Main quest: Find Lu Li, reward 50 million experience points]
[Side quest: Bring back the sword warrior Dugu, reward 10 million experience points]
[Side quest: Not triggered]
[Do you accept?]
[whether]
It's an ordinary task and the reward is not that generous. It's better to pick up bargains in the basement and have a heart-to-heart talk with Tu Yuan.
But Lu Bei still accepted it. We cannot just look at the surface of things, we have to go deeper. Finding Lu Li will give you 50 million experience points, and killing Lu Li will give you at least 1 billion.
Similarly, bringing back the swordsman Dugu will only give you 10 million experience points, but Dugu has a bad temper. If you don't let him kill monsters, he will kill you. There will inevitably be some bumps and bruises in bringing him back to Gushan, which will be several hundred million when rounded off.
As long as we achieve at least five small goals, this trip won’t be a loss.
The Shiwan Mountains are the heartland of the demon race. Ordinary cultivators would be defeated if they went there, and it would be useless even if they formed a group. Therefore, Lu Bei left Zhan Hongqu and Xiao Fengxian behind, and asked Zhan Lexian to take care of them. Together with Mu Lichen, they left Gushan City and went deep into the Shiwan Mountains.
This trip is divided into two steps. The first step is to find the swordsman Dugu and get some experience for defeating him. The second step is to find Lu Li and get some experience for killing him.
Regarding Dugu's side quest, it is basically free experience. Tu Yuan has placed a positioning function on Dugu, and Lu Bei holds a compass and can find people according to the coordinates.
The key is Lu Li's whereabouts.
According to Tu Yuan, Lu Li is vicious and cunning, and has a very deep mind. Even his trusted demon generals do not know where his lair is. If one wants to find Lu Li, they can only let him show up on his own initiative.
The method is very simple. Find Lu Li's demon generals and kill them one by one. Kill them until Lu Li feels distressed and they will naturally show up.
It sounds simple but it is difficult to do. Even if the three evils of Chiyun Palace are tied together, they dare not do this, as there is a risk of team annihilation. Lu Bei is skilled and bold, with a thousand times the output of a flat attack and a lightning-fast escape. He has the confidence and ability to implement this plan.
If you can’t win, just run away. In the next version, he will still be the boss.
…
The Shiwan Mountains are located in the northern border of Xuanlong and can be regarded as a branch of the Buzhou Mountains. It needs no introduction that it is rich in spiritual energy. It is an excellent place for human cultivators to fight for a piece of land.
However, this is the territory of the demon clan. Because the spiritual energy is too abundant, it is easy for the demons to awaken their spiritual intelligence. Except for the sword monsters with complicated bloodlines and the demon monsters who are demon cultivators themselves, few cultivators in Xuanlong dare to enter the depths of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
He rushed into the group of monsters with a human scent on his body. No matter how hard he tried to restrain his breath, he was like a firefly in the darkness, so bright and outstanding that even the transformation technique was useless.
Lu Bei was not worried about this. He used his magical power 'Divine Power', and the aura of the top of the food chain of the Golden Winged Roc surrounded his body, making him arrogant and inviolable. Ordinary little demons would try to avoid him, let alone get close to see what was going on.
Mu Lichen glanced sideways repeatedly, quite curious about the martial arts technique his disciple was practicing. When he learned that it was inherited from Mo Buxiu, he stopped asking any more questions.
Like Lu Bei, Mu Lichen also believed that Mo Buxiu was not dead. Not only was he not dead, but his realm of cultivation surpassed all the predecessors of Lingxiao Sword Sect. Even in Tianjian Sect, only the Qili Sutra could surpass him.
To be honest, he is under a lot of pressure as a master.
Desolate mountains.
The golden crow rises high in the sky, and the sky is filled with endless rays of light.
Evil clouds were rolling in the sky, and dozens of strange birds with a wingspan of ten feet were flapping their wings and screaming. They sensed the destructive momentum and collision below, and fled away as if they were escaping for their lives.
The earth rumbled and shook, two figures confronted each other, rolling air currents exploded the void, and countless hurricanes raged across the sky, sweeping up grass, trees, mountains and rocks, whistling in all directions.
The earth dragon turned over, and the dust waves covered the sky and the sun.
The swordsman Dugu had ferocious features and a long sword in his hand, with murderous aura like raging waves, endless.
Opposite him, a man with arms longer than his knees growled in a low voice. He was about three meters tall, covered with thick black hair, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, long arms and legs, deep facial features, fierce golden eyes and sharp canine teeth. He was a violent ape that had not yet transformed.
The demon race makes a living by their bloodline, relying on their fathers, mothers and ancestors. The internal class has long been solidified. The violent ape has reached the peak of his fusion period and has not encountered the calamity of transformation. This is a manifestation of his extraordinary bloodline.
Of course, it also shows that he is an orphan and has no powerful seniors from the same tribe to help him transform early.
“Roar, roar, roar!!”
The violent ape roared angrily, and golden light like fire for dozens of feet burst out from his body. The ground beneath his feet shattered with a loud bang, and his violent posture split the rolling air flow with a sonic boom.
He raised his arm horizontally, and a terrifyingly powerful force exploded. The huge palm connected the air flow for a hundred feet in radius, and it covered the sky and the sun, making the heaven and the earth dim.
Swish!
A red sword light passed by, and Dugu stood there holding a long sword, his eyes red, about to go berserk.
Behind him, blood spurted out into the air, dripping onto the ground and rising into white smoke.
The violent ape's eyes were red, and its chest ribs were broken, revealing its pounding heart.
The demon race's physical bodies are the best in the world, and they have talents that human cultivators cannot envy. The violent ape clenched his fists and hammered his chest, erasing the insignificant skin wounds, and raised his arms and inserted them into the ground.
Boom—
It was like a magical power to move mountains. From afar, one could see the earth cracking open into an abyss, and several mountaintops rising from the ground, being blown high into the sky by the violent ape.
Dugu stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the violent ape coming towards him with his arms raised. His smile became even more ferocious. He slammed the mountain under his feet and ran towards the violent ape with a sword in his hand.
The wind was howling, and the violent ape fell to the ground, blood flowing all over his body. There was not a single piece of good flesh left, especially his bloody chest, with all his internal organs and bones exposed.
Swish!
A red light flashed, and a huge head rose into the sky, its soul and body were broken, and its scarlet eyes gradually turned gray.
Dugu picked out a heart with his sword, placed it in front of him and devoured it voraciously. Suddenly, he seemed to realize something, dropped the bloody food in his hand, and looked behind him with murderous eyes.
Mu Lichen: “…”
He roughly understood the reason why Dugu's bloodline was mixed, and at the same time he admired him very much. If an ordinary cultivator ate in this way, his body would have collapsed long ago.
"Sorry to interrupt your meal."
Lu Bei apologized insincerely for disturbing Dugu's self-service meal. He weighed the compass in his hand and said, "The evil demon Tu Yuan showed me the way. If you want to blame someone, blame her. I'm in Gushan City. I'll ask this sect master to help take you back."
Seeing Lu Bei suddenly, Dugu rushed forward with his sword in hand without saying a word. He didn't care when Lu Bei made friends with Tu Yuan, he only knew that a strong enemy was before him and he could have a good fight today.
"Everyone saw it. He was the first to make the move."
Lu Bei grinned, pointed his finger into a sword and walked towards Dugu, blocking the sword's tip with his sword finger. With his other hand, he clenched his fist, which was surrounded by white light and hit Dugu's chest with a bang.
The white light of mercury is released, killing a thousand times immediately.
Dugu's torso was wiped out, leaving only his limbs and head flying high in the air. Blood and bones grew on his broken body in mid-air. Before he landed on the ground, an indescribable giant beast roared towards the sky.
In terms of being a bad person, Dugu is not much worse than Lu Bei, and he has taken the path of abnormal development.
The giant beast had no skin, and its strange-shaped bones were covered with flesh and blood. There were also keratin bones growing on its knees, elbows, spine and other positions. Its body was surrounded by a thick bloody aura, and it roared as it rushed towards Lu Bei.
Lu Bei's eyes lit up. Dugu seemed to have become stronger again. His soul was stronger than before, strong enough to bear the chaotic power of his bloodline, which allowed him to evolve into this body.
He clenched his fist and delivered another heavy blow to Dugu's chest.
The Abandoned Sword Technique was not used. All the high-level realms in the recycling station were used to upgrade the Immortal Sword Intent, and the rest were all useless Hundred Sword Sect Sword Intent. Although there were many of them, none of them could fight, causing the glass sword refined by the Abandoned Sword Technique to break easily.
This is the most obvious difference between Lu Bei and Qili Jing.
Lu Bei has the Blood Nest skill, which can upgrade the Immortal Sword Intent at the fastest speed, but it is a one-time skill and will be gone once used.
It's different from Qili Jing. It's a serious comprehension. During the sword fighting process, he learns the opponent's sword intent, integrates it into the immortal sword intent according to the situation, and throws the scraps that he doesn't like into the iron sword.
Therefore, when Qi Lijing ascended to heaven, he did not take the iron sword with him. For him, this was called washing away all the dross and discarding the impurities in himself, and it was a sublimation from vulgarity.
…
The strengthened body of Jian Xiong Dugu collapsed and he lay on the ground like a dead dog, with a strange light in his eyes.
Unless he goes berserk, he basically looks like this, stupidly stupid guy.
[You defeated Dugu and gained 300 million experience points]
Wonderful!
Lu Bei likes opponents like Dugu who always keep a high fighting spirit, unlike others who are too mature and will allow themselves to be beaten without fighting back after a few exchanges.
"Dugu, the evil demon Tuyuan is looking for you. Follow this master back to Gushan City."
"She asked me to come find Lu Li, why does she want me to go back?" Dugu showed dissatisfaction, he liked the Shiwan Mountains, this was his home, he didn't want to go back to Gushan, he just wanted to get along with his family.
"What are you saying? You've been killing people everywhere, no, killing monsters, but I haven't seen you go looking for Lu Li!"
"I want to lure Lu Li out."
"… "
Lu Bei was speechless, because Tu Yuan's advice to him was just to chop and chop.
"Besides, I'm about to find Lu Li."
"Is it true that Lu Li is so easy to find?"
Lu Bei exclaimed in surprise and squatted at Dugu's feet: "Tell me, what clues have you found? As long as you can convince this sect master, I will accompany you."
"I killed a demon general under Lu Li and ate his flesh and blood..."
Dugu arrived slowly. According to him, because he had been eating the flesh and blood of monsters for many years, he had learned a magical power without a teacher. He could sense the powerful monsters nearby and find people and ask for directions with great accuracy. As long as he killed them one by one, he would reach Lu Li's door sooner or later.
It sounded mysterious and a little unreliable, but seeing that Dugu looked honest, Lu Bei decided to believe him this time.
The three of them left in a hurry, and followed Dugu's instructions as they flew towards the next hill.
There was no wind in the mountains. After a long time, a figure slowly solidified.
The woman was dressed in white and looked as stunning as a fairy. She looked coldly at the direction where Lu Bei and the other two had left. Just as she was about to do something, she noticed traces of sword symbols around her and frowned slightly.
"That's cautious."
The Demon King of the North—Lu Li.
"Sword Evil Dugu, Demon Evil Tuyuan, what do these two want from me..."
"Who is that sword cultivator? His sword power is so strong that even I dare not take it lightly. Could he be a reinforcement sent by the Holy Land of the Human Race?"
"At this critical moment... has it been exposed?"
"Well, my magic weapon and my magical power have both reached perfection. I have been planning for many years and now it is time to close the net. Tu Yuan wants to see me, and I also want to see..."
"What a scene it would be if the Xuanlong dragon vein was broken!"