Chapter 152 Returning to the City Magical Treasure
What surprised Tang Yue was that five hundred casual cultivators and five hundred disciples all went to Sunset Forest this time. This mission was to test the disciples and collect Sunset Dusk. Sha, I heard that it is necessary to collect enough for five years at once. The city lord's palace also explained to the police that the reason for this action was that the danger of the Fire Demon was not easy to be eradicated, so Xuanyuan Mountain needed to refine more upgrade pills so that the disciples could advance to the next level as soon as possible and join the battle as soon as possible.
It all sounds grand, but when weird things happen together, it’s hard to think it’s an accident.
The day before departure, Zhao Tianming suddenly came to visit Tang Yue. After greeting him for a few words, he took out something and handed it to Tang Yue, "This trip is prone to danger. If you encounter something that cannot be solved, , I also ask fellow Taoist Meng to use this object, which can quickly teleport you back to Xuanjian City."
Tang Yue took it and saw that it was a warm yellow jade with spiritual energy lingering on it. It was at least an earth-grade magic weapon. , and it only has one function, which is to send people back to the city at a critical moment, and it can only be used once. Xuanjian City is too wealthy.
“City Lord, this operation is so dangerous? The cultivation level in the integration period is also facing life and death, and it is necessary to teleport back to the city at the critical moment?”
If this matter is so dangerous, why do it? Let a thousand monks go? They didn't get the precious jade token presented by the city lord, wouldn't they all die in the Sunset Forest?
The city lord laughed and said, "This is just my personal feelings towards fellow Taoist Meng. Going to the Sunset Forest is not so dangerous. In previous years, hundreds of monks would be sent in batches into the forest to mine sand. Everyone is safe. Come out. We in Xuanjian City have a good grasp of the situation in Sunset Forest, and nothing will happen."
"That's it, thank you City Lord for your concern, I will definitely return safely this time. , take care of your daughter.”
The city lord’s face changed slightly, “Aoxue has caused a lot of trouble to Fellow Daoist Meng recently, please forgive me.”
Tang Yue waved his hand, "I mean what I said sincerely, not as a threat. The city lord has been so kind to me, so of course I have to repay you."
The city lord breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that she has nothing else Meaning, he declined: "This operation is a trial opportunity. Let Aoxue work hard on her own. She deserves whatever result she gets. Monk Meng doesn't have to take care of her."
" The city lord is indeed upright and honest, and he thinks deeply about his daughter, which makes me admire him."
What followed was a chat. It was getting late, and the city lord couldn't stay long, and it would easily lead to gossip.
"It's really strange. First he gave me a fast teleportation talisman, but then he didn't let me follow his daughter. It seems that this operation is more dangerous than anything else." She called Meng Fu Rong, hoping that the other party could be with her. Discuss the situation among yourself.
"He really cares about you and counts you as an exception. He doesn't want you to die in this operation." Meng Furong teased her.
"He is interested in you. I am using your appearance now. I am not so charming myself. Seriously, why did Xuanjian City let so many monks go into the woods?"
“Do you still remember that Kong Yingzong had a fire phoenix evil spirit? Its forehead pattern is different from ordinary phoenixes. It is a setting sun. That is the mark of a fire phoenix born from the setting sun.”< br>
“There are phoenixes living in the Sunset Forest?”
“The Sunset Forest is at the edge of the space distortion. Occasionally, a few Sunset Fire Phoenixes will be born from the space over there.”
This makes sense, Kong Yingzong got the phoenix from Sunset Forest.
“So, the city lord recruited us people to feed the phoenix, but why did he help Kong Yingzong create evil spirits?”
“I don’t know about this either. Got it."
Tang Yue was very emotional, "There are indeed many sanctimonious hypocrites among the decent monks. City Lord Zhao always seems to take the world as his own responsibility, but secretly colludes with evildoers like Kong Yingzong."< br>
"What you say makes sense. The most treacherous and evil people are often not those who openly do evil things, but those decent people who use the name of justice to do insidious things. Such people are even more terrifying, making It's hard to guard against anyone." The two criticized her for a while, but they didn't expect that the two fused monks would visit her in the middle of the night and use methods to hide their whereabouts.
Tang Yue let them in and asked, "What's the important business of your late night visit?"
Wu Pengcheng said, "We don't want to disturb you late at night either. Fellow Taoist Meng, I feel really uneasy thinking about what will happen in Sunset Forest tomorrow. I also heard that the city lord visited you tonight, so I want to ask you what the city lord told you. I hope fellow Taoist Meng can be kind enough to tell us. "
Zhan Yuan also said, "Don't worry, fellow Taoist Meng, I used the sect's secret method, and even the elders guarding the city of Xuanjian City can't notice that the two of us are here."
Tang Yue nodded, "I believe in Brother Zhan Dao's ability. You two also feel that there is something fishy about the Sunset Forest mission, so why do you come to inquire?"
Seeing that Tang Yue wanted to inform him, Wu Pengcheng hurriedly replied: "That's right. We are here because of the generous rewards from Xuanjian City. We thought they would only accept more than a hundred people, but we didn't expect that there were actually five hundred people." , This matter is really unusual, and I don’t believe that a large amount of upgrading pills are needed to eliminate demons.”
Zhan Yuan added, “The Flame Demon King is difficult to deal with, and Xuanyuan Mountain can unite the other two factions. There is no need to forcibly improve the cultivation of so many monks. Not everyone is suitable for improvement with upgrading pills. Using too many pills will be detrimental to future practice."
"The two of you are right in your analysis. Today. The city lord came to me and gave me something that I could use to quickly teleport back to Xuanjian City when I was in danger. I was also very curious about what kind of danger Sunset Forest would cause me to merge into one. The monks in this period need to use the magic weapon to return to the city quickly. "
The two male cultivators on the other side were silent for a while, thinking that the city lord probably couldn't bear to leave this woman, so he gave such a magic weapon to return to the city. Doesn’t that mean that everyone else is doomed to die?
Sweat broke out on Wu Pengcheng's head, "It's all because we two are greedy for the generous salary that this matter turned out to be so dangerous."
Tang Yue was curious, "You two should be able to Just leave here, we didn't write any contract, there should be no consequences if we leave."
Zhan Yuandao: "It's too late, we found out that there were eight more people going with us. Fusion monks and two Dongxu monks have been patrolling the courtyard tonight, obviously to prevent us people from escaping. The palace has also set up a protective formation, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. My concealment method cannot deceive such a great formation. "
Tang Yue raised his eyebrows. The city lord was so thorough in his work. He had already expected that someone would escape and activated the palace formation in advance.
"So, how can the disciples of the City Lord's Mansion and her daughter escape from such a disaster?"
Wu Pengcheng said: "We took a rough look at the people who participated in the Sunset Forest test today. Among the monks, there are only the daughter of the city lord and two or three direct disciples, and the rest are all side disciples. Presumably, like fellow Taoist Meng, a few of them also received the special teleportation cards given by the city lord and stayed here for safety. Our hearts.”
"In this case, the two fellow Taoists can follow Zhao Aoxue and other direct descendants tomorrow to see how they react when they are in trouble."
"That's all we can do now."
In the end, the three of them exchanged the secret method of sound transmission to facilitate communication in the forest, and thought of many countermeasures. All they had to do was enter the unknown trap the next day.
Tang Yue thought that maybe he could join forces with these two monks to deal with Kong Yingzong this time, so he told them about Kong Yingzong's evil methods.
The two people on the other side were silent for a while, then Wu Pengcheng said, "If Xuanjian City really uses us people as sacrifices, then in order to prevent the city lord from escaping alive, he will expose his crimes in front of the world, He will definitely make this situation perfect."
Zhan Yuan also said: "He will make this an accident."
(End of this chapter)