Entering the town, people from the soul hunting team immediately came to the door and tried their best to promote themselves.
After detaching the soul hunting team, under the leadership of Hiroshi Aoi, everyone came to a tavern.
Aoi Hiroshi explained: "This is a gathering place for guides. How many years of soul rings are needed? When the waiter comes, just order wine of the corresponding age, and someone will come out to receive you."
This unknown tavern is very large, but there are very few guests.
Ning Tianchen and others found a random place to sit down, and someone immediately stood up and came to receive them.
The waiter looked at the few people and then asked with a smile: "Guys, what would you like to order?"
"Thirty thousand-year sake and twenty-thousand-year-old sake."
Maojiu and sake correspond to land soul beasts and flying soul beasts respectively.
Upon hearing their request, the waiter exclaimed, "Wow, the guests are really capable, but your request is really hard to satisfy."
“I don’t know how many guests there are. What’s the budget?”
Hiroshi Aoi: "If the amount is less than three hundred gold coins, settle with gold coins."
The waiter looked happy and full of energy, "Guest, please wait a moment, let me ask first."
After the waiter left, Hiroshi Aoi explained: "If we can't find the right person on site, we will have to wait here for a few more days. Otherwise, we can only find two guides."
But obviously, the cost of finding two guides is relatively high.
Moreover, the leader's strength level is uneven, and he will not participate in the battle. Bring an extra guide so they can help protect each other on the road.
"Just make arrangements." Ning Tianchen didn't care about this.
While waiting, Ning Rongrong asked him: "Do we need to find a leader?"
Although they had the map provided by Zhang Chenghuan, they did not know the distribution of soul beasts in the Demonic Forest. Follow the map, and they may have to fight constantly along the way.
Jade Die also has the same worries, "Butterfly Valley is probably deep in the Demonic Forest. There are countless dangers in it. If we go in blind, something will happen."
Ning Tianchen thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
However, he is not in a hurry and will wait until the leader Aoi Hiro needs is found.
Without keeping them waiting, the waiter quickly came to them with a middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man raised his hand towards Aoi Hiroshi, "Dear guest, my name is Huang Mengyu. I can provide you with the drinks you need."
The waiter smiled and said: "Are you satisfied?"
After receiving a positive answer, the waiter took the reward and left.
Huang Mengyu sat with them and listened carefully to Zhang Heng and Aoi Hiroshi's requests.
He happened to know the location of the soul beast that the two of them needed.
"However, Rogue Sky Eagles are social soul beasts and usually exist in groups. Among the groups of soul beasts I know, there are Rogue Sky Eagles with thirty thousand years of cultivation, but there are also those with more than forty thousand years of cultivation in this group. Soul beast, can you deal with it?”
The leader is already living a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife, so he is naturally unwilling to increase risks for no reason.
Aoi Hiroshi looked at Ning Tianchen, and after receiving a positive reply, he discussed the price with Huang Mengyu.
……
After a stick of incense, the two formally established their cooperation.
Huang Mengyu stood up and said, "I'm going to prepare first. Starting at noon today, we can set off at any time."
"Wait." Feng Xiaotian stopped him.
During the previous conversation, Aoi Hiroshi had been looking at the faces of Ning Tianchen and others, thinking that they were the talkers of this team.
Huang Mengyu asked respectfully: "I wonder what your orders are?"
Ning Tianchen said: "I need a guide who can take us deep into the Demonic Forest. We may encounter hundred thousand year soul beasts during this trip. If there is someone around you who is willing to accept our commission, the price is not an issue."
A hundred thousand years of wine!
Ning Tianchen's voice was not loud, but everyone in the tavern could hear it clearly.
The land where the hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts roam is basically the core area of the Demonic Forest.
You know, on the Sun and Moon Continent, there is an existence called the "life forbidden zone". Even the strongest people on this continent dare not set foot here.
"Haha, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers."
"A hundred thousand year old soul beast can kill a person with just one encounter. I wonder where they get the confidence?"
The guests in the tavern were talking a lot.
Zhang Heng didn't realize that Ning Tianchen was joking.
The opponent has multiple hundred thousand year soul rings on his body, so he must have killed a hundred thousand year old soul beast.
With his strength, Ning Tianchen's soul power level cannot be seen. If the latter's strength reaches level ninety at this moment, it would be reasonable to find a hundred thousand year soul ring as the ninth soul ring.
Aoi Hiroshi didn't know how powerful Ning Tianchen was, so he quickly advised: "The horror of a hundred thousand year soul beast is by no means an exaggeration. Your Excellency, you only live once, you guys"
Ning Tianchen waved his hand and interrupted him.
Huang Mengyu saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so he asked: "How many of you have decided?"
After receiving a positive answer, he sat back on the chair and whispered: "If this is true, I know a person. He was chased by his enemies, hid deep in the evil forest, and came back alive."
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"I can contact him for you, but I can't guarantee the cost."
In his opinion, entering the restricted area in the Demonic Forest is inviting death.
Money to buy one's life cannot be compared with the money to pay for traveling.
Ning Tianchen nodded, "After the two soul rings are obtained, your mission will be over. At that time, you can leave on your own."
Huang Mengyu nodded and said before leaving: "Please wait here for a while, I will bring that person over later."
……
The news that Ning Tianchen was looking for the "100,000-year-old wine" quickly spread throughout the town.
In the tavern, there was an endless stream of people "visiting" them.
Many people simply wanted to get to know these powerful men and came here to toast.
There are also some people who deliberately seek trouble and even want to blackmail someone.
Of course, there are many young men who want to lead the way for Ning Tianchen even though they know they are incompetent.
These people actually wanted to defraud a sum of money and then escape from the evil town.
Seeing that Ning Tianchen was fed up with this, Aoi Hiroshi and Zhang Heng worked together to stop these people outside the tavern.
"These guys, don't they know how much they weigh?" Oscar couldn't help but complain.
Chen Huayu said: "Boss, the possibility of encountering a hundred thousand year soul beast during our trip should be small, right?"
Ning Tianchen had never entered the Evil Forest before. He just wanted to show the danger of this trip and find a leader who was not afraid of death.
The two Jade Butterfly sisters are looking forward to it, "I don't know what Butterfly Valley looks like. I hope we can also get the inheritance from the gods."
Ning Rongrong smiled and said, "You can definitely do it."
While talking, Huang Mengyu led a thin man into the tavern.
The man next to him wore a hood and didn't seem to want to be identified. Huang Mengyu quickly introduced: "This is the person you are looking for. I don't know his name. I only know that his code name is Lone Wolf."
After saying that, he left wisely.
Ning Tianchen looked at the man in front of him and smiled: "Intermediate Soul Saint, with your strength, it is indeed possible to enter the core area and escape alive."
Intermediate soul saints can already deal with most dangers in the forest. Ning Tianchen is still willing to believe that the opponent has such strength.
On the other hand, those idiots who claimed to be able to lead the way didn't even have the strength to be Soul Kings themselves. With such strength, he can't even enter the middle of the forest, let alone the depths of the forest.
The lone wolf took off his hood, revealing a relatively young face.
There was a scar between his eyebrows, but there was no color on his face.
He looked at Ning Tianchen and said, "You are very strong and need to hunt down a hundred thousand year soul beast?"
Ning Tianchen shook his head, "We need to reach a place, and that place must be deep in the forest. As for whether we will encounter a hundred thousand year soul beast on the way, I don't know."
"Where?" Lone Wolf asked.
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Let him lead the way, you have to let him know the destination, right?
Ning Tianchen thought for a moment and nodded to Ning Rongrong, who spread out the map to Butterfly Valley on the table.
The lone wolf turned around and looked at the map carefully.
Immediately afterwards, he took out a pen from his sleeve and changed some details on the map.
At the same time, I was writing and drawing on the table in the tavern.
After a while, he said: "This map is too old, and some places in the forest have changed."
"Also, is this straight line also a route?"
In his opinion, this straight line has no reference value.
If the angle is completely correct, if you follow this straight line, you will definitely reach your destination.
But if there is a slight deviation, it is not known how far away from the destination it will be in such a long distance.
When Zhang Chenghuan took out the map, he only said that this straight line was the approximate direction. Ning Tianchen didn't dare to bet that he was right.
"The destination is fixed, and the rest of the route follows your own ideas." Ning Tianchen responded.
Lone Wolf laughed and pointed on the map with the other end of the pen, "If I remember correctly, this is the absolute core area of the Demonic Forest. There is a great terror inside. Once encountered, no one can leave alive. ”
"And the route you gave us needs to pass through near the core area (restricted area). If you are unlucky, you are very likely to encounter a hundred thousand year soul beast on this section of the road."
"According to your ideas, it is best to go around here. Or enter the forest from the Sun Empire. The journey will be shorter and you can avoid the core area."
In the Sun and Moon Continent, there is the Lieyang Empire in the north and the Crescent Moon Empire in the south. The Demonic Forest borders the two empires and is located in the center of the continent.
According to what Lone Wolf said, they had to take a detour to the Lieyang Empire.
The two empires are still at war, and they don't know where the war zone is. Once they stray into it, both sides may regard them as enemies.
After thinking about it, they decided to enter the Demonic Forest from this town.
"In the Evil Forest, soul beasts are very mobile. I can't guarantee that I won't meet senior soul beasts in other places. Moreover, according to the road map you provided, I am not familiar with the last section of the road. If you are willing to hire If I lead the way, you need to pay five thousand gold coins.”
Five thousand gold coins converted into gold soul coins can be worth half a million.
Not to mention, the exchange rates between different currencies on the Sun and Moon Continent are not official exchange rates.
Converted into silver coins, the value can be even higher.
"This is too expensive." Ning Rongrong frowned.
Lone Wolf spread his hands and said, "I hope you understand that this trip is extremely dangerous, and there is almost a narrow escape from death."
Five thousand gold coins is not outrageous for a strong Soul Saint to "work his life."
"Okay. Pack your things and leave at any time." Ning Tianchen paid the money readily.
The other party has the strength of Soul Saint, so he would not doubt that the other party would take the money and run away.
……
At noon that day, Ning Tianchen and his party gathered at the entrance of the forest.
In the first half of the journey, Huang Mengyu led the way to find suitable soul rings for Zhang Heng and Aoi Hiroshi, while in the second half, Lone Wolf led the way.
The lone wolf was wearing a long black coat, with the hood pulled down low, as if to avoid being seen by others.
Before entering the forest, Huang Mengyu asked as usual, "Guys, this trip will take about a month in the forest. If you want to go further, you will have to stay longer. I wonder if you have prepared enough supplies." ?”
After receiving a positive answer, the group stepped into the forest.
Compared to the Star Dou Forest, the Demonic Forest is more primitive. Just walking 200 meters into it, there are no traces of human activities at all.
Looking around, there are only endless trees in the distance.
The most dangerous thing in the forest is always people. In order to avoid collision with other teams entering the forest, each leader has his own planned route.
Huang Mengyu's route is unknown to the lone wolf, but he can identify his location and will continue to lead the way when the two sides separate.
According to the plan, they needed to walk for six days to reach the location where the 20,000-year-old woolly rhino was found.
On the way, Ning Tianchen and others clearly noticed that the ecology and types of soul beasts in the Evil Forest were very different from those in the Star Dou Forest.
"Brother Tianchen, is that a unicorn?"
Ning Rongrong pointed at the soul beast not far away with a single horn on its head.
From the appearance, it is indeed a unicorn.
But its age is very low and is not the goal of their trip.
"Unicorns have been extinct in the Star Dou Forest for many years. I didn't expect there to be one here." Feng Xiaotian said softly.
The Star Dou Forest has been exploited by humans for many years, and soul beasts at the low end of the food chain like unicorns are greatly affected by the environment. Once the living environment changes drastically, there is only death waiting for them.
"This proves that this place is primitive enough that soul beasts may not attack human soul masters in groups."
After saying that, Ning Tianchen told everyone in a forced voice, "Don't discuss these irrelevant things, and don't reveal our origins."
Just now, the voices of everyone speaking were very low; coupled with the background noise in the forest, it was impossible for ordinary people to hear their conversation.
But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.
Especially Aoi Hiro, once they know their origins, the Aoi family will definitely use this as a threat.
Since the other party had not caught anything, and their strength exceeded the Cang family, the old man Cang Tianyou naturally had clear eyes and did not dare to think anything wrong.
But if something falls into the hands of the other party, the other party will not behave like this.
The most important thing is that Ning Tianchen does not want to cause a war between the two continents in advance.
Sun Moon Continent knows about the existence of Douluo Continent, and since the two continents are far apart, they may not fully invade Douluo Continent.
But if there is a wave of robberies in coastal cities every once in a while, it will be a headache.
With the administrative efficiency of Tiandou Xingluo and the two empires, there is no way to solve this situation. (End of chapter)