The Immortal Way is Fierce

Chapter 121 Hunting Mission
After thinking for a few breaths, Zhang Jingyuan couldn't think of a reason, so he simply didn't think about it.

If the big snake was really targeting him on purpose, he would just wait until his strength improves a little later and find an opportunity to kill him.

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that this was the truth. After all, he wanted to explore the secrets of these demonic cultivators, and he would eventually have to find the big snake to find out clearly.

Not knowing what role the big snake was playing in the outside world, Zhang Jingyuan suddenly became curious.

As the big snake moved forward, as expected, Zhang Jingyuan and others arrived at a hall within a few dozen meters.

As soon as he entered the hall, Zhang Jingyuan couldn't help but was stunned. He saw a corpse hanging high in the center of the hall. The whole body was covered in blood and flesh, all limbs were broken, only the face was clean, and there was no trace of scars or blood. It seemed that he was trying to kill him. Everyone can see clearly who this is.

And this corpse turned out to be the tiger that came to inform him last time and almost caused a conflict.

Last time, because he asked more about why Orochi wanted them to come to Canglang Demon Mountain, Tiger even threatened to tell Orochi about it, but in the end, he pretended to be furious and took out the ecstasy flag, and Tiger saw that he couldn't beat him. , and finally compensated him with a black soul stone, and that was the end of the matter.

He was initially wary of whether Tiger would deliberately cause trouble for him at this gathering, but he never expected that they would meet under such circumstances.

The other demon cultivators also noticed the tiger's body and couldn't help but look surprised and started talking about it.

You must know that Tiger has been a young deacon for more than 20 years, and he is also the best among them. How could he die suddenly, and his body is still hanging in the hall?
Could it be the hands of Orochi or other foundation-building demon cultivators?

But why did they kill the tiger?

Everyone's eyes were suddenly filled with confusion.

"The tiger wanted to betray us to Yunhuaxing Yamen, so after asking the dragon head for instructions, I personally executed the tiger and hung it in the hall so that those who have different intentions between us can take a closer look. This is the one who betrayed us. End!"

Looking around at everyone, the expression on the big snake's face suddenly became ferocious and terrifying, like a ghost.

"In addition, I want to announce something. From now on, Old Cat will take over Tiger's position and become the little deacon."

After saying this, Da She pointed at Zhang Jingyuan and said.

Hearing this, all the demon cultivators looked at Zhang Jingyuan with various expressions of envy, jealousy, and hatred, and most of them were still afraid.

Once Zhang Jingyuan becomes the young deacon, it means that, in addition to Orochi and other foundation-building monks, Zhang Jingyuan is the biggest here and holds the power of life and death for them. How can they not be afraid of this.

Zhang Jingyuan shook his head. Why did he feel that he was so strong? How could he suddenly become the little butler of the demon cultivator?
What is the big snake doing?

The young deacon is a very important position for the demon cultivators. In addition to being responsible for managing all the Qi-refining demon cultivators, he is also responsible for conveying and executing the instructions of the Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators.

The most important thing is that the demon cultivator who is listed as a young deacon basically means that he will become the key training target of Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators.

Generally speaking, there are only two endings for young deacons. One is to be promoted to foundation building and become a true member of the demon cultivator.

Well, that’s right, in the eyes of Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators, Qi-refining cultivators are just like leeks in the field. After one crop is cut, there will be another crop, and they don’t care about their life or death at all.

The other is to be replaced by new people with more potential.

As for the fate of replacement, just look at the tiger hanging in the hall and you will know that there is only a dead end!
Zhang Jingyuan definitely had reason to suspect that the reason why the big snake killed the tiger was because the tiger had been a young deacon for too long but was not promoted to a foundation-building demon cultivator. It was not because he wanted to betray the demon cultivator to Yunhuaxing Yamen.

However, there is a small reason why he appeared. He is more powerful than the tiger, so the tiger naturally loses its value in the eyes of Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators.

This is the cruelty between demon cultivators.

Zhang Jingyuan has always believed that cultivating demons is like cultivating gu.

The Gu Master intentionally lets the Gu Insects fight each other, and then determines the best Gu Insect.

The winner gains everything, and the loser loses everything, including his own life, which will become the winner's trophy and move towards a higher foundation.

Now Zhang Jingyuan completely understood why the big snake showed kindness to him like that before, giving him the Black Soul Stone, not letting him dig the grave, and giving him the so-called approving look just like an overseer and slave owner.

There is a high probability that from that moment on, Orochi planned to replace Tiger as the young butler.

Seeing everyone's fear, Han Chan's miserable and trembling appearance, a faint smile appeared on the corner of the big snake's mouth. He liked the way everyone was afraid of him.

Waving his hand, Zhang Jingyuan immediately followed the big snake's gesture and stood on the high platform next to the big snake, taking a look at everyone.

At this moment, to be honest, Zhang Jingyuan's heart was a little complicated. He just wanted to come here to find out some information. Why did he become the second master without any explanation?

And just now he was thinking about quickly improving his level and finding an opportunity to kill the big snake...

After thinking about it, Zhang Jingyuan decided to forget it for the time being. He didn't want to become the leader of the demon cultivators and face the legendary dragon head directly.

The demon cultivator known as the Big Dragon Head, if nothing else, is at least in the late stage of foundation building, or even in the great perfection of foundation building.

After collecting these messy thoughts in his mind, Zhang Jingyuan scanned everyone's faces one by one with an indifferent expression, and there was still a hint of cruel smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, the hearts of all the demon cultivators trembled, and they all lowered their heads, cursing secretly in their hearts.

Old Cat, a bastard, will turn his back on others once he gains power. I don’t know how he will deal with them in the future. He might just kill a few people to establish his authority just like Tiger did twenty years ago when he first became a young butler.

Anyway, Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators don't care about their lives. After all, even if they die, they can be turned into zombies, or simply thrown into the abyss of the Ten Thousand Demons Cave.

They still don't know what is under the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, but they can occasionally hear an extremely sad and painful bird call coming from the ground. Some people say that there is a foundation-building Dzogchen or even a golden elixir monster locked down below.

But what exactly it is, no one knows except for Orochi and other foundation-building demon cultivators, because none of the qi-refining demon cultivators who have been down here have ever come up again.

Thinking of this, the demon cultivators secretly swore in their hearts that they must find a way to kill more monks with four spiritual roots, plunder their spiritual stones and heavenly materials and earthly treasures, seize their magic weapons, and turn their flesh, blood, and souls into weapons to enhance their own strength. of resources.

One day, they will overthrow the old cat and become little deacons.

As if feeling what everyone was thinking, the big snake turned his head and glanced at Zhang Jingyuan approvingly. It seemed that he had done the right thing by helping the old cat up.

Yunhua Star has been too peaceful in recent years. These so-called righteous monks and mortals have almost forgotten the horror of their demonic cultivation.

In addition, if you don't start killing again, once Big Dragon Head's plan is launched, it will be too late.

However, little did the snake know that at that moment, Zhang Jingyuan's pupils suddenly shrank, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

Zhang Jingyuan saw Bai Bugui!
Yes, that’s right, that day at the Spiritual Root Testing Conference, we were supervising whether the Spiritual Root Testing process was fair, and then because the grandson, or rather the son, of Master Moxuan of the Yunhai Galaxy wanted to rate himself as a fourth-class top-ranking person, he went with Anqing The little Zhongzheng who started a big fight and made An Qing angry and left first.

Of course, Bai Buhui at this time was not the one who was wearing sky boots at the Spiritual Root Conference that day, carrying a long gun behind his back, with a high ponytail on his head, wearing armor, and giving people a majestic look. The genius girl who felt completely suffocated was instead an ordinary middle-aged woman who seemed to be invisible even if she blended into a crowd.

As for why Zhang Jingyuan could recognize it, this middle-aged woman was just Bai Bugui.

The reason is simple, because in his previous life, he and Bai Buhui had known each other for half an era and had a very good personal relationship. They were the kind of people who would write a divorce letter and have a few words after a thousand years.

Don't think that a thousand years is too long, and a letter of divorce is too light. As far as Zhang Jingyuan knows, in the entire Taoist alliance, he is the only one who can enjoy a letter from Bai Bugui, the Buhui Taoist master, every thousand years.

After all, the two of them grew up together from the Yunhai Galaxy, so they can be considered fellow villagers.

It’s just that the gap between the two people’s cultivation and talents in the previous life was too big. Zhang Jingyuan was about 220 years old, and he didn’t really know Bai Buhui until he was in the middle stage of the Golden Core. At that time, Bai Buhui was already We are about to break through the Nascent Soul.

There is no way, Bai Buhui is too talented. The outside world thinks that Bai Buhui only has real spiritual roots, but in fact he has metallic heavenly spiritual roots. Although he came from an ordinary family and was born as a mortal, he never had a good master. When he was eleven or twelve years old, he was spotted by the Nascent Soul cultivator and became his disciple. It was a smooth journey.

And the strange thing is that for some reason, Bai Buhui treats him more warmly than he treats others.

At the beginning, he thought Bai Bugui was interested in him, but unfortunately, he waited for half an era and still didn't wait for Bai Bugui to confess to him.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jingyuan suddenly couldn't help but think that in the previous life, Bai Buhui knew that he was killed by the old demon Wuqi, so she would have been desperate to avenge him. She was always like that, extremely cold to others, but to her own people. , she feels she needs to protect the person she needs to protect, and she will sacrifice everything for her.

If it hadn't been for this, Bai Buhui wouldn't have been fighting against the demons and monsters at the border of the Dao Alliance, and was injured many times.

Several times, he almost failed to save him.

Putting these thoughts back, Zhang Jingyuan was able to recognize that this middle-aged woman was Bai Bugui because in his previous life, Bai Bugui often used this face to hide his identity and do things with him. One of Bai Bugui's exclusive looks.

He had seen him for nearly half an era in his previous life and would never admit his mistake.

What puzzled him was how Bai Bugui sneaked in. Could it be that these demon cultivators were planning to make some big move, so they attracted Bai Bugui's attention?

Zhang Jingyuan's fleeting gaze caught Bai Buhui's attention.

She pretended to be so frightened that she lowered her head and did not dare to look at Zhang Jingyuan, but she was suspicious in her heart. Could it be that the demon cultivator discovered her identity?
Shouldn't it?

This was the first time that she had transformed herself into something like this. Even her master said she couldn't recognize it. How could a demon cultivator see any flaws?
Bai Buhui's heart was full of doubts.

It seemed that everyone had arrived, and the door of the hall suddenly closed with a "dong" sound, and four foundation-building demonic cultivators suddenly appeared around them, exuding the powerful aura of foundation-building cultivators without hesitation.

Although they were prepared for this, the demon cultivators still trembled subconsciously.

"Everyone did a good job last time, and Da Longtou was very satisfied, so this time, each person received two magic marrow pills."

As soon as the big snake finished speaking, he suddenly slapped the medicine bottle in front of him, and the magic marrow pills spurted out one after another. The faces of all the demon cultivators were happy, and their spiritual power was rolled towards the magic marrow pills.

Although Zhang Jingyuan was not interested in the Demonic Marrow Pills, he could only follow the crowd and pretended to be overjoyed as he took two Demonic Marrow Pills over.

The grade of this magic marrow pill is one grade higher than that of the Yun Shen Pill and the Body Strengthening Pill. It is a middle-grade yellow grade elixir. Each pill is worth three spirit stones. And looking at the posture of the big snake, it seems that there is a gathering after every mission. , I will give one to everyone.

It seems that this magic marrow pill is basically equivalent to the annual gift from the Taoist Alliance to demon cultivators.

But to be honest, the treatment of this demon cultivator is much better than that of Dao Alliance Immortal Seedlings. After all, if they only get three or four a year, they are equivalent to ten spirit stones.

And it seems that the magic cultivator does not distinguish between the four-level and twelve-level immortal system. What matters is that everyone who sees it has a share. As long as they can complete the task, they will all be given, regardless of whether they have spiritual roots or not.

But in the Dao League, only the fourth-class top-grade people can be treated better than these demon cultivators, not even the fourth-grade middle-grade ones like him.

In fact, it was possible, but Anqing was asked to deduct it first.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jingyuan suddenly felt like his teeth were itching with hatred. He had hated others who owed him money all his life.

But then he thought about it, An Qing first gave him two yellow-grade high-grade elixirs, the Menstrual Pills, which could be considered as an offset to the grudge. After all, one Menstrual Pill costs five spiritual stones.

He had always disliked the Shen Yun Dan and the Body Strengthening Dan that he had received from the Yamen because they were of poor quality and had too much erysipelas. It would be better not to eat them, lest they hinder his future practice.

The two menstruation pills that An Qing gave him first seemed to be of the highest quality, but he planned to save them until the seventh level of Qi Refining to lay the foundation for the great road.

After getting these magic marrow pills, the demon cultivators immediately began to thank the big snake profusely, and praised the big snake one after another, praising the big snake as if he was the only demon envoy under the throne of the real devil.

Although he knew that this group of demon cultivators had only such virtues, Zhang Jingyuan still felt a chill. He was even a little glad that he was standing here and did not need to be like these people below.

But seeing Bai Bugui not praising the snake, Zhang Jingyuan couldn't help but smile to himself.

Listening to the following hymns, the smile on the big snake's face grew stronger and stronger.

After half a quarter of an hour, the big snake pressed his palms and said slowly:

"This time the big dragon head has an order. Each demon cultivator must hunt down 300 mortals and five monks with four spiritual roots. Within two months, those who complete the task will be rewarded with five demon marrow pills and ten spiritual stones. .”

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and looked at the big snake in disbelief. The joy of getting double the magic marrow pill was instantly wiped away.

Go crazy.

Each demon cultivator has three hundred mortals and five four-spiritual root cultivators?
Do you really think these foundation-building monks from Yunhua Star are dead?

Mortals will not talk about it. There are as many dogs as long as they are willing to join forces and massacre a village at will. Mortals can have as many as they want.

But the Four Spiritual Roots monks are different. This is the treasure of the Tao Alliance, the future.

They basically practice in the city on weekdays. If they want to kill one or two, it is already very difficult and they have to resort to various means.

But now, there are five monks with four spiritual roots in two months. If this is not asking them to die, what else is it?
To put it bluntly, if they really do this, they won't be able to kill one or two of the four spiritual root monks, and the foundation-building monks like Yunhuaxing will be completely furious and join forces to destroy them.

"The task is given by Da Longtou. If you have any objections, I can take you to see Da Longtou and ask him for an explanation in person."

Seeing the useless appearance of everyone, the big snake frowned, and a bloody and murderous aura rushed into the sky, filling the entire hall.

A dense layer of sweat instantly appeared on the foreheads, necks, and backs of all the demon cultivators.

At this moment, they saw death!

To be honest, based on their understanding of the big snake, if they really dare to stand up, the big snake will kill them first without going to the big dragon head.

"But in order to help you complete your mission, the big dragon head has given you a list of all the four spiritual root Qi refining monks in Yunhua Star. It contains their addresses and detailed scope of activities. You can search according to the map and list these so-called righteous monks one by one. , be hunted."

As he spoke, the big snake waved his hand, and eighteen pieces of white cloth filled with the detailed information of all the four spiritual root monks in Yunhua Star instantly floated into the air and covered the roof of the entire hall.

It can be said that on each piece of white cloth, there is detailed information about all the four spiritual root Qi refining monks in the entire city.

Zhang Jingyuan quickly found Yanyang City and looked down carefully. Sure enough, his and Ruan Baizhi's names were clearly on it, and their family information and address were accurate.

Moreover, behind his name, there are also words that he has just turned sixteen this year, is a fourth-class middle-class person, has a widowed mother, and is from a mortal family, etc.

To be honest, he has actually seen this list, or at least part of it.

Remember the demon cultivator who lied to him and said that Zhang Meifeng was dead, and then he killed him and took away the ecstasy flag and the demon baby's waist chain.

He had such a list in his hand, but it was not that complete, and he also wrote in his diary that the list in his hand was given to him by a man named Brother Lu.

I don’t know now whether the complete list in front of him was also given by Brother Lu?

If so, it would be easy to say that Yunhuaxing Yamen is such a secret spy of the demon cultivator. But if not, then he really doesn’t know how Yunhuaxing Yamen has been infiltrated by the demon cultivator now!
I'm afraid it's like a broken fishing net, already riddled with holes.

(End of this chapter)