Qingfeng Temple.
"Miss Lin is here?" The disciple Qingfeng Temple who was guarding the door respectfully saluted Lin Xiaoliu who got off the carriage.
Although she is not very proficient in the language, Lin Xiaoliu still behaves somewhat like a young lady when she is not speaking.
She was led by a female Martial Artist who was responsible for taking care of her. She walked into the Qingfeng Temple gate holding hands and entered the school grounds behind the gate.
There were dedicated female disciples who came forward to lead the way.
"Is brother here today?" Lin Xiaoliu asked simply.
The female disciple who led the way smiled and answered.
"The master of the temple went out for business today and hasn't come back yet."
Lin Xiaoliu breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense body relaxed a little.
"So, sister Xia Si, are you there?" she then asked.
"Senior sister Xia Si has also gone out and may not be back until a few days later." The female disciple replied regretfully.
". What a pity." Lin Xiaoliu's body became more relaxed.
The images of her brother Lin Hui and senior sister Xia Si flashed through her mind involuntarily.
When she was practicing swordplay, she would often meet senior sister Xia Si who came to ask her brother about martial arts.
She didn't know why, even though it was just a simple scene of teaching swordsmanship, she always felt uncomfortable and creepy watching it from a distance.
My brother always smiles, and so does senior sister Xia Si. The smiles on their faces are very different.
But they all gave her a chill.
Just staying next to Lin Hui and practicing her sword every day caused the torture in her heart to increase dramatically every day.
She once told Big Brother about her feelings, but Big Brother Liu Wujun would always touch her head and think she was joking.
After all, Brother Hui is only Outer City Martial Artist, Internal-Force Martial Artist. Big Brother will always tell her that when she grows up, she will soon surpass Brother Hui.
She is just still young now, so it is normal for her to feel that Brother Hui is scary.
But just because Lin Xiaoliu is not proficient in language expression and not strong enough, it does not mean that she has a big perception problem.
In fact, during this period of Qingfeng Temple, she not only felt the danger from Brother Hui and Senior Sister Xia Si.
There is also the senior sister named Ming Xia, and many strange people in the audience.
"I want to go home." Lin Xiaoliu looked at the tall Qingfeng Temple hall in front of him, and this thought came to his mind again.
She is actually also afraid of Big Brother Liu Wujun and her second sister Xiao Xiao, but compared to them, she is more afraid of Brother Hui, who seems to be only Internal-Force Martial Artist.
After entering the innermost mansion and arriving at the daily practice area, Lin Xiaoliu sat down and heard faint noises coming from outside the door.
She knelt down quietly on the futon and began to maintain the sword she used for practice as usual.
After all, it is a high-grade sword purchased from Inner City, and one piece costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
But after sitting there for a while, I felt the wind blowing behind me.
Lin Xiaoliu turned around and saw a tall man in black robe wearing a black hawk mask suddenly appeared in the garden.
"You are. Lin Xiaoliu? Right?" The man greeted with a gentle smile.
"Yes"
"It seems that the temple owner is not here. I'll come back next time." The visitor was Tao Xuehai who was planning to deliver medicine.
"By the way, remember to mention to the visitor that I asked the people who were hanging around outside the auditorium to leave so that he doesn't have to worry."
"Oh okay." Lin Xiaoliu looked at Tao Xuehai in confusion as he quietly disappeared in front of his eyes.
*
*
*
Outer Fog Zone.
Gray white mist rolled and surged.
A huge black scorpion, more than three meters high and more than 20 meters long, was waving its nine scorpion tails, crazily displaying the red light poisonous needle at the end of the tail.
It waved for a while, making sure that the person in front of it would make no further movements, then suddenly turned around and ran away.
But after running a few steps, within a dozen meters, another familiar figure appeared in front of him.
Lin Hui held the sword and stared at Nine-Tailed Scorpion.
"This is the fifth time. Are you still not convinced?" He frowned slightly.
"Forget it, let's just cut it off." Lin Hui sighed.
As soon as he finished speaking, Nine-Tailed Scorpion on the opposite side gave him a severe meal, and his whole body crashed down with two pincers hitting the ground. His body seemed to be going crazy, and he hit the ground crazily.
The whole action looks like kowtow.
"Become one!?" Lin Hui's expression changed slightly, and he tried a few more commands, but Nine-Tailed Scorpion acted like a fool and couldn't understand anything.
There is a huge gap compared to Purple Crystal Flame Dragon.
Obviously Purple Crystal Flame Dragon was trained by the Fog God Sect, so he has a little bit of language talent.
Lin Hui is still a little curious about this, wondering what these Fog God Sect believers rely on to enable these Mist Zone monsters to slowly understand a little language.
The Nine-Tailed Scorpion in front of him is one of the lowest-level monsters of Outer Fog Zone. Its shell is quite hard. According to his estimation, it has almost the level of internal force barrier that Zhou Tian Martial Person can release once with all its strength.
Anyway, this is how it feels when he cuts it himself.
The most disgusting thing about this guy is the poisonous needles on its nine tails, which are extremely poisonous. Its speed and strength are at the level of Great God Official.
Of course, since there is no means to fight against Void Force and Divine Art, Nine-Tailed Scorpion can only be useless against Great God Official.
But the key is that there are enough of them.
When he just moved over to look for monsters, he could see dozens or hundreds of them just by walking around.
Almost every time I run a few steps, there is one, and when I run a few steps, there is only one.
The ground in that area is full of dense scorpion holes.
After confirming that Nine-Tailed Scorpion was obedient, Lin Hui took it all the way back to Maze Ruins.
Then at the entrance to the ruins, which was the entrance to the passage he opened himself, he asked Nine-Tailed Scorpion to lie down, and reached out to give him a Blood Seal appraisal.
"Nine-Tailed Scorpion--Outer Fog Zone is one of the common monsters. It is a group creature with a timid and fearful temperament. It relies on special organs that are sensitive to vibrations to survive underground. With other Outer Fog Zone Like the Destruction Grade monster, its outer shell is covered with a thin layer of natural Void Force, so it has a certain resistance to the same Void Force attacks. It can confront Void Force head-on in a short period of time. The tail needle poison can ignore Void Force and internal force protection, causing a penetrating poison attack.
Evolvable branches: 3."
"Yes. This guy's shell is actually resistant to Void Force? He was born with Void Force? Maybe Void Force is the innate ability of these monsters, but it was just learned and carried forward." Lin Hui thought for a while and came up with a more likely guess.
Looking at Nine-Tailed Scorpion lying on the ground at the entrance, he walked over and looked carefully.
This guy is just an enlarged version of a black scorpion. Except for the nine scorpion tails growing out of the back of his butt, he is no different from an ordinary scorpion.
It has a black shell, two large pliers that look like clenched fists, and the texture of each section on its back is like a bamboo joint. It has eight legs distributed on both sides of the body. It is lying on the ground and does not dare to move.
Lin Hui reached out and touched a leg.
The ice is cool, hard and smooth, like touching a mirror.
He traced the scorpion's shell back to the tail pin.
The tail needle is a short red needle that is as long as a palm and as thick as a finger. It is located at the very end of the tail and is wrapped in the soft black horny parts on both sides.
Lin Hui Looking from the outside, you can see that the short red needle looks like a crystal needle tube, with fluorescent red liquid flowing inside.
This gave him the idea of taking scorpion venom.
"Let's go through a wave of evolution first. The defenders still need to be well prepared."
After gathering his thoughts, these were all arrangements for the future. He stepped back a distance and clicked on the evolveable branch of Blood Seal.
"1--Giant Scorpion: Nine-Tailed Scorpion has been enlarged three times in size, and its strength and physique have been enhanced simultaneously."
"2--Nine-Tailed Scorpion King: The king of the group who can command Nine-Tailed Scorpion. His toxicity is far greater than that of ordinary Nine-Tailed Scorpion. He can control part of the terrain and travel freely underground."
"3--Scorpion Demon: The scorpion becomes a little demon, with strengthened physique, enhanced toxicity, and slightly opened spiritual intelligence."
The three directions represent three evolutionary routes. Lin Hui weighed it and chose 2.
Because the second one can travel freely underground, it is extremely flexible.
Then comes the years required for evolution, twelve years.
For him now, there are only six Purple Cloud Grass plants.
He quickly confirmed his evolution, and then began to take a large amount of Purple Cloud Grass. In less than half an hour, the huge Nine-Tailed Scorpion slowly fell into a deep sleep, and then his entire body began to turn to stone at a rapid speed.
Right before Lin Hui's eyes it turned into a Nine-Tailed Scorpion black stone sculpture.
After the stone sculpture remained intact for several minutes, it made a crisp clicking sound and large cracks appeared on the surface.
Soon, a Nine-Tailed Scorpion, whose appearance was not much different from before, appeared in front of Lin Hui.
But he soon noticed that the so-called not much difference was actually because the changes occurred in subtle places.
The venom flowing in the tail needle of the new Nine-Tailed Scorpion changed from red to purple.
The shell of the body also seems to have a touch of purple color than before. It seems to be stronger.
"From now on, you will be responsible for guarding the underground area of the entrance and exit. You can look for food in the surrounding areas. If you can't find it, come to me." Lin Hui ordered through mind contact.
"Hiss!" Nine-Tailed Scorpion King responded quickly and dived into the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the ground became like water, with a circle of water ripples undulating, swallowing it up instantly.
"This is almost enough." Lin Hui calculated, Water Man, Purple Crystal Flame Dragon, Nine-Tailed Scorpion King, three defenders, are almost enough to guard this Maze Ruins base.
"Next, it's time to qualify for the seal. Screen which disciples can get the seal and which ones are not qualified yet. It just so happens that Blood Seal has an opening. It's time to go back and appraise the core disciples one by one."
After finishing the chores here, Lin Hui plans to leave and go back to find loyal disciples to grant seals. Then he can operate this base stably and arrange manpower to maintain the Purple Cloud Grass park established by Zi Xueyu.
This kind of Precious Medicine park must require the most loyal people. Even if Purple Cloud Grass is not the mainstream martial arts training Precious Medicine on the market, it can still greatly improve energy, but the price is expensive. Money is attractive to people, but if the loyalty is not enough, it will be used to take advantage of others.
Finally, he walked around for a while, checked the situation, and made sure there was no problem before he turned around and returned in the direction of Boundary Wall.
But not far away, I heard a huge vibration and buzzing sound coming from a distance.
The earth is shaking and the mist is rolling.
Lin Hui stopped and saw that the ground around him was shaking violently. Some rock ruins were shaken so much that the remaining rubble jumped up and flew into the air. Large amounts of dust flew up and mixed with the fog, making it difficult to distinguish them from each other.
He stood quietly, waiting for the sound to fade away.
In the past year, he could hear these huge footsteps almost every month.
According to Xia Si, these footsteps are the sounds of a huge mountain-like monster passing by.
Because this kind of monster is too big, it almost trampled Miyin Village into more ruins several times.
Of course, I have heard that because of the thickness of the fog, Lin Hui has never seen the appearance of these mountain-sized monsters up close.
Soon, the footsteps slowly faded away and disappeared.
Lin Hui then breathed a sigh of relief and returned quickly.
Half a day later, he returned directly to Qingfeng Temple and called Wang Hongshi.
"Master, what are your instructions?" Wang Hongshi has now officially assumed the post of general manager of Qingfeng Temple, which is an affirmation of his previous hard work.
"Among the top ten core disciples, who are still in the temple? Call them all." Lin Hui said.
He specially found a small martial arts training ground in the back of the mansion to prepare for everyone to test one by one.