Talisman Making The material had just been purchased and had not yet been unpacked when there were two knocks on the door.
Li Yuan stood up and opened the door.
Standing outside the door is Wang De.
He was still wearing the same green robe, his breath was calm and restrained, his face was square, and the short beard on his chin was longer than before he left.
"Captain, you're back." Li Yuan stepped aside half a step.
Wang De did not enter the house, but stood at the door, his eyes pausing on Li Yuan.
The stop time was longer than usual.
"Qi Refining Sixth Layer?"
There wasn't much ups and downs in his tone, but that meal already explained the problem.
When he left, Li Yuan was still Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
There are many geniuses in the world of immortality, but Wang De has only seen two or three of them.
Li Yuan counts as one, but it shows up the day after tomorrow.
"It was a breakthrough a while ago." Li Yuan said.
Wang De hummed and looked away from Li Yuan.
"Go in and talk."
The two of them entered the room, Wang De sat down at the table, glanced at Talisman Paper and Spirit Ink on the table, and then looked at several cloth bags piled in the corner.
Li Yuan sat down by the bed and waited for him to speak.
Wang De didn't rush to get down to business and answered the question that Li Yuan didn't ask first.
"I'm going to investigate the Zhao Wu line."
Li Yuan paused slightly.
Zhao Wu, Rogue Cultivator, who was the first to sell ore scraps in Fangshi. Wearing the jade pendant of Blue Trait, he secretly spied on Fangshi's defenses.
That was a long time ago.
Wang De put his elbows on the table and kept his voice low.
"After Zhao Wu ran away, the thread has not been broken. Those things you found before - the jade pendant, the medicinal solution, Crow Claw Gang's Breath-Concealing Jade Pendant - were checked one by one, and Lineage followed it and found more things than expected."
Wang De didn't go into details, just paused.
"Before I came back this time, I basically sorted out the line behind Zhao Wu. It's not convenient for me to talk about the details. In short, it has something to do with the Li Family."
Wang De took his hand back from the table, leaned back on the chair, and the topic got down to business.
"I have a mission, come on."
Li Yuan looked at him.
"Wang Family There are several Mine Caves in the southwest, one of which recently needs additional manpower to guard."
Wang De paused.
"Mine Cave is located closer to the area where the two families meet than Fangshi. Although it is not on the front line, it is not considered the rear."
He glanced at Li Yuan.
"By the way, how did you learn Talisman Making earlier?"
"Enter the door, Fireball Talisman's painting is pretty good."
Wang De After listening, his brows moved, as if he was a little surprised.
But then he shook his head.
"I guess it's not too high."
He muttered to himself, then raised his eyes and looked at Li Yuan.
"Originally I wanted to see if I could put you in the rear. If you know Talisman Making, it would be easier to put you in the back. But now you are Qi Refining Sixth Layer. With your level of cultivation, it is difficult for people to put you in the back."
Wang De tapped his knuckles on the table twice.
"Not so much on the front line, but Mine Cave really needs people who can fight. It's just right for you Qi Refining Sixth Layer to go guard there."
"What Mine Cave."
"A magical mine of the Wang Family." Wang De replied briefly. "The output is not large, but the quality of the mineral materials is not bad. It is one of the supply sources of the Wang Family Artifact Refining Hall. Now the two companies are on the border and you come and go. The place Mine Cave is not far away, so no one can keep an eye on it."
"This mine can also mine Spirit Stone."
"Who leads the team?"
"Bring it yourself." Wang De took out a thin document from his sleeve and pushed it over. "There are a few people under me. When we arrive, we will hand over to the original guard over there Mine Cave."
Li Yuan took the document and glanced at it.
There are six names on the list, most of them are from Qi Refining Third Level to the fourth level, and there is only one Qi Refining Fifth Layer.
Li Yuan saw a familiar name, Sun Liang, Qi Refining Third Level.
"Leave early tomorrow morning." Wang De stood up, patted the dust on his clothes, and then left Li Yuan's residence.
Before dawn the next day, Li Yuan packed his things.
The storage bag contains Talisman Making materials, Medicinal Pill, Talisman finished products, Fiend Gathering Bowl and some sundries. Spirit Detection Disk hangs around the waist, Soul-Illuminating Mirror is equipped, and Patrol Uniform is neatly dressed.
After leaving the residential area, walk along West Street towards the west gate of Fangshi.
The meeting point is at the intersection outside the west gate.
When Li Yuan arrived, four people were already standing.
They were all names on the list, and their cultivation levels were not high. The strongest one, Qi Refining Fifth Layer, was a silent man in his thirties, surnamed Lu, standing at the front without saying a word.
Li Yuan After counting the number of people, there are still two people missing.
After waiting for a while, a man walked out of Fangshi Gate.
The pace is not slow, but the walking posture is a bit unstable, as if he is holding on with all his strength.
Li Yuan saw the face of the visitor clearly.
Sun Liang.
Sun Liang is wearing a new Patrol Uniform, with the waist tag hung neatly. From a distance, it looks almost the same as before.
But it's different when you get closer.
His face was abnormally white. It was not the kind of white that had not been exposed to the sun, but a kind of paleness with a gray-blue background, as if a layer of blood had been taken out of it by something. His cheekbones were more protruding than before, and his lips were also a little dry.
The eye sockets are deep, and the originally bright eyes now look a little dull.
But the breath is stronger than before, but it fluctuates.
Qi Refining, Fourth Layer.
Sun Liang walked closer and saw Li Yuan. He was stunned for a moment and then grinned.
"Deputy Captain Li."
"Breakthrough." Li Yuan looked at him.
"Hmm." Sun Liang tightened the package in his hands on his shoulders and smiled, but the smile was not natural.
"I ate something called Fiend Breaking Pill a while ago, and it really made me want to eat it."
Sun Liang raised his hand and touched his face.
"That's what he looks like."
Li Yuan didn't answer, just looked at his face.
Sun Liang retracted his hand and spat aside.
"Fiend Qi has injured the internal organs, so I don't dare to use my full strength in cultivation, for fear of shaking the internal organs again."
He sighed.
"I should have known better not to buy that thing. The fourth floor is four floors, but the bones in this body look like they are made of paper."
After speaking, he shook his head again and muttered something.
"It's better than dying outside."
The last person arrived, and six people gathered together.
Li Yuan didn't waste much time and glanced at everyone.
"Let's go, we'll talk about it on the way."
A group of seven people left Fangshi and walked southwest along the wide rammed earth avenue.
It was the same road we took to the Treasure Pavilion last time, but after reaching a fork, we turned in another direction - to the west, a little closer to the outside of the Yuanheng Mountains.
There are not many monks on the road.
Occasionally, I ran into one or two groups of the Wang Family people. Most of them were returning from the mining area or the forward stronghold. They walked very fast and the expressions on their faces were not relaxed.
Sun Liang followed Li Yuan, walking half a beat slower than the others. The paleness on his face was even more obvious in the sunlight.
The two walked for a while, and Sun Liang took the initiative to speak.
The team walked for most of the day.
We rested on the side of the road for a while at noon, and then continued on the road.
The terrain began to change during the afternoon journey. The flat dirt road slowly turned into a broken Stone Slope road. The shrubs on both sides became shorter and were replaced by large areas of gray-black rock formations. The air was also much drier than that near Fangshi, and occasionally a very light mineral smell could be smelled.
When the sun sets to the west, the outline of Mine Cave is revealed in the mountain col ahead.
It's not a cave entrance, but a construction site carved out of the mountain wall.
Three cave entrances of different sizes are embedded side by side at the bottom of the mountain wall. The cave entrances are supported by thick wooden frames. The largest one can accommodate three or four people walking in side by side. In front of the cave entrance is a piece of solid gravel flatland. There are several wooden sheds on the edge of the flat ground. Under the sheds are piled mining tools and boxes of mineral materials.
Further outside is a circle of earthen wall half a man high, with several gaps in the earthen wall temporarily patched up with wooden fences.
Mine Cave There were clanking sounds from time to time, and several monks who looked like miners came in and out of the cave, carrying the newly mined gray-black ore.
A monk who looked like a guard came out from behind the wooden shed. Qi Refining Fifth Layer's aura saw Li Yuan's group and came forward to greet them.
"Come to hand over?"
"Yeah." Li Yuan handed over the paperwork.
The guard took the document, glanced at it, and nodded.
"I'll take you to see what's going on inside, and I'll give you an explanation of the manpower."
He raised his chin towards the wooden sheds behind him.
"Put your things first. The place to live is behind the shed. The conditions are a bit worse, so we'll make do with it."
Li Yuan nodded and led the team towards the wooden shed.
Sun Liang followed at the back and glanced inside as he passed the entrance of the cave.
Several dull knocks came from the depths of the dark Mine Tunnel, and the echoes lingered for a long time.