The Path to Immortality

Inside the stone house in the center of the camp.

"Meet Uncle Guan."

In the recent sect competition, disciples such as Xie Changyuan and Huang Chongxin, who had won excellent rankings and rewards, all paid a visit to Guan Ru, the foundation-building cultivator who presided over this operation.

Some people had already understood this unexpected summons, and they were uneasy, even with a little helplessness and the tragic grandeur of the cold wind and the cold water.

There were also disciples who were confused and thought that Uncle Foundation-Building treated them differently and had something to tell them, and they looked quite pleased.

"No need to be polite, disciples."

Looking around at the expressions of the disciples, Guan Ru's eyes were cold, and she slowly said: "This time, I summoned you here, first of all, to congratulate you for your excellent performance in the previous competition."

Speaking of this, she paused slightly, and then said: "Secondly..."

With a little pity, her eyes swept across the faces of those disciples who had not yet recovered, and said the real intention of summoning them.

………

After a moment,

When Xie Changyuan and other disciples came out of the stone house again, there was no joy or relief on their faces. Instead, they were deeply bitter and heavy.

As expected, they were summoned by the foundation-building monks alone this time because they were assigned a special task.

Specifically, they were to go out and explore the situation of the Howling Wind Canyon, and preliminarily draw the terrain and distribution of monsters within a thousand miles of the camp.

With the rough information they provided, the five foundation-building monks were able to demarcate the area, issue various tasks in a targeted manner, and let other Qi training disciples conduct carpet surveys according to the area.

Since the current situation in the canyon is basically a fog, the degree of danger for these disciples who were assigned as pioneers can be imagined.

Among the many summoned disciples, Xie Changyuan's task was the most difficult.

This was also a matter of course.

Because this person won the first place in the competition and got the rare Spirit Pool Body Tempering Award.

When he participated in the competition, Xie Changyuan was only at the sixth level of Qi training. After benefiting from the spirit pool body tempering and digesting the other rewards of the competition, he has now reached the late stage of Qi training.

If nothing unexpected happens, he should have a place among the new class of outer sect heroes.

But how much benefit you get, how much work you have to do.

At this moment, even though he was mentally prepared, Dean Xie could only frown and sigh.

Seeing their heavy faces, but helpless, he could only fly to the surroundings of the canyon with a tragic look. Fang Ping in the camp couldn't help but feel fortunate for his previous wise decision.

………

Six or seven days later.

After this period of gradual improvement, the temporary camp has been quite complete.

The defense can't be said to be impregnable, at least ordinary foundation-building cultivators and monsters can't threaten the safety of the camp.

It was also at this time that the first batch of disciples who went out to explore began to return one after another, bringing back a lot of rough information about the terrain of the nearby canyon and the distribution of monsters.

But after just one day of rest, they were sent out to explore areas farther from the camp and deeper into the canyon.

As for the casualties of these pioneer disciples, it can only be described as shocking.

Even though their strength was generally good, and they had medium-grade and even high-grade magic weapons as rewards from the competition, they still lost nearly one-fifth of them.

Another person was poisoned by an unknown monster and failed to remove the poison in time, which damaged his foundation.

This casualty ratio may not be too severe, but don't forget that this is only the first operation!

Those who originally envied those pioneer disciples finally understood why the sect competition had such a generous reward, and they couldn't help but feel both fear and relief.

In any case, as the first batch of intelligence brought back was sorted out, the disciples who had rested in the camp for nearly a week knew that the real mission was coming.

………

Early in the morning of the second day.

As many disciples expected, just after dawn, the bulletin board in the center of the camp posted a list of tasks.

There are patrols in the camp, feeding and caring for camel cloud beasts, hunting nearby monsters, collecting spiritual herbs and materials, exploring the direction of the earth veins, going to specific areas to check for deficiencies, and purchasing supplies at the Changfeng Market at the entrance of the canyon...

Each task has a straightforward reward, which is generally 50% richer than the previous menial tasks.

Some relatively dangerous tasks of surveying and hunting monsters even give rewards that are twice as high!

Not only that, in order to motivate the enthusiasm of the disciples, a ranking list is also posted next to the public notice board.

The disciples who complete the most tasks and rank in the top ten in points can also get additional incentives, including even the realm-breaking elixir that breaks through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi training from the middle stage of Qi training - Jade Barrier Breaking Pill!

These generous rewards made the disciples jealous, and they immediately called their friends, formed a team, accepted the task and started to act.

The flying lights of the flying instruments left traces in the Howling Wind Canyon and flew to all directions of the canyon.

Perhaps they were very confident in the rewards offered, so the five foundation-building monks did not give very strict assessment conditions and constraints for this mission.

Except that each disciple must obtain at least 100 mission points, everything else is arbitrary.

"This rule is good for me!"

With the stable means of income from alchemy, Fang Ping was naturally unwilling to take risks.

His idea was simple. The farther away from the camp and the deeper into the Howling Wind Canyon, the more dangerous the mission would be.

Since that's the case, I must take advantage of the low risk at the beginning to get 100 points, and then I can stay in the camp safely and muddle through until the mission is over.

If I'm afraid of being conspicuous, I can just take a random mission later, and after leaving the camp, find a safe area that has been surveyed and cleaned up nearby to hide for a few days.

When I come back, I can say that I encountered an accident and didn't complete it, and I can recover from my injuries for a few more days!

"Junior Brother Fang, do you want to act together?"

Noticed that Fang Ping stood in front of the bulletin board for a long time without moving, Yan Xu and Dong Xiangtian came over and invited him.

Fang Ping thought about it and declined their kindness: "Thank you for your kindness, Senior Brother Yan and Senior Brother Dong. I'm only at the fourth level of Qi training, and I'm afraid I'll be a drag, so I won't act with you two."

Of course, the two knew this, but after all, they were members of the trading club and had a good relationship over the years.

Now that they happened to get together, it would be unreasonable not to invite them.

Since Fang Ping refused, there was nothing he could do.

The two did not insist, and only told Fang Ping to be careful, then they jointly accepted a task to explore a poison pool in the canyon and left first.

Watching the two disappear, Fang Ping's eyes wandered on the long notice board.

After a while, he selected a hunting task worth 30 task points, plus five spirit stones and a bottle of Ningyuan Dan as rewards.

The task target is a demon beast [Black Gold Tiger] with the strength of the fifth level of Qi training, and it is necessary to draw a topographic map near the active area of ​​the Black Gold Tiger.

Fang Ping is currently only at the fourth level of Qi training. Without considering the hidden trump card, he is certainly not a match for the fifth level of Qi training.

However, this task allows up to three people to take it at the same time, so the danger is naturally much smaller.