Everlasting

The Great Elder was responsible for guarding the key areas of Pingyang County. In order to avoid being attacked and beheaded before he could activate the city defense formation, this magical weapon had been kept with him for many years.

In order to increase the certainty of this trip, several people not only took out the Fierce Sun Sky Fire Flag, but even decided to invite Jiuyuzhong out.

Early the next morning, a group of five people left Qingyuan Mountain and went to Pingyang County along the way. After taking Jiuyuzhong, they went to Qingyang Sect.

Qingzhou, where the Qingyang Zongshan Gate is located, is far away in the hinterland of the Chu Kingdom, a full 200,000 miles away from Yujun.

The group of people traveled non-stop for nearly half a year before arriving at the mountain gate of Qingyang Sect.

They met Chen Qingyuan in Qingyang Sect. After more than 20 years away from the family, Chen Qingyuan was still a little unfamiliar at first. Seeing that everyone was tired, he quickly invited them to sit down in the room.

Looking at the five dusty people, the youngest elder of the Qing generation smiled bitterly and said: "Because of Qingyuan's matter, I feel guilty for bothering several elders to come all the way to help."

"It goes without saying." The third elder shook his head and said, "You come from the family. After all, the family is your root and your most solid backing."

The second elder watched Chen Qingyuan grow up, and he asked with concern: "How have you been in Qingyang Sect these years?"

Listening to the concerned words of several people, Chen Qingyuan couldn't help but feel sore eyes, and finally swallowed back his emotions.

When everyone saw this scene, they quickly looked at each other and didn't ask any more questions.

They all know what the Qingyang Sect is like. Ever since the former head of Qingyang passed away a hundred years ago, the Qingyang Sect has changed in the past few years.

The current leader of the Qingyang Sect, Patriarch Xu, secretly plotted against his fellow disciples to rise to power, which naturally resulted in the trend of the upper beam being skewed and the lower beam being crooked.

However, after Patriarch Xu took charge of the sect, he exhausted the family treasury to buy the Golden Elixir and broke through to the Golden Elixir realm. In the end, he saved the Qingyang Sect's foundation. I don't know whether it was good or bad.

In such a Qingyang Sect, it would be difficult for a monk like Chen Qingyuan without a backing.

Thinking of this, the second elder had no choice but to comfort him: "Be patient for a little longer. When you break through the foundation, everything will be easy."

The few of them chatted for a while, exchanging some important events that had happened to the family over the years. An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the opportunity was right, Chen Nianzhi said at the right time: "In this mission of killing monsters, which one do you decide to kill?"

Chen Qingyuan shook his head and showed a wry smile. "In previous years, we had to choose which one to kill, but this year Elder Wei, who is responsible for distributing Foundation Establishment Pills in the sect, changed the rules and directly assigned us the task."

"It is said that this year only three furnaces of foundation-building pills were refined, and the number of pills produced was less than in previous years, so the difficulty was increased."

After he finished speaking, he handed over a bamboo tube with a wry smile. When everyone took it and took a look, their expressions became a little ugly.

The monster Chen Qingyuan wants to kill this time is the second-order monster Blue Striped Ape. The strength of the Blue-striped Ape is not strong among the second-level monsters, but it is not easy to deal with monsters.

Because they are monster beasts that live in groups, generally speaking, a group that can give birth to second-level blue-striped apes must have at least hundreds of green apes in the Qi refining stage.

Chen Qingyuan needs to kill a blue-striped ape in the foundation-building stage, and he may have to face the siege of hundreds of green-striped apes. This is a very troublesome thing.

"It seems that someone in the Qingyang Sect should be interested in Qingyuan's Foundation Building Pill." The fourth elder's expression changed and he couldn't help but said: "How about we wait another ten years, maybe next time we will build the foundation pill." If there are more Kidan, it won’t be so difficult.”

"It's never easy to fight for the Foundation Establishment Pill." Second Elder Chen Qinghe objected: "Besides, monks have several decades. If we don't fight for it now, we will regret it for the rest of our lives."

Chen Qingyuan thought for a while and couldn't help but said: "The Blue Striped Ape is indeed too dangerous. Maybe we should wait ten years. Maybe it will be easier after ten years."

Chen Nianzhi glanced at everyone, and said: "There is no need to be indecisive. Although the Blue Striped Ape is powerful, we are not without confidence. If it doesn't work, I still have the Fierce Sun Fire Talisman on me."

After hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. With the Lieyang Divine Fire Talisman in their pocket, everyone dared to touch even the second-level mid-level monsters, let alone the second-level low-level blue-striped ape.

After making up their minds, everyone set out together to kill the monster.

Qingyang Sect is in the hinterland of Chu State, where second-level monsters are already relatively rare. It is not easy to find specific foundation-building monsters in Qingzhou.

But since it was a mission, the Qingyang Sect had naturally already surveyed the location. The six of them moved forward and spent two months finally finding the hiding place of the Blue Striped Ape.

These blue-striped apes are hidden deep in a mountain range that is rarely visited by humans. They occupy a spiritual vein and have obviously been thriving for many years.

Before everyone arrived at the mountain range, they scouted the situation and then gathered together to discuss a solution.

The third elder was the first to speak: "I counted and found that there are 113 blue-striped apes here."

"Except for one leader who is in the foundation-building stage, there are nine others who are in the later stages of Qi training. The rest are not a big threat."

Chen Nianzhi closed his eyes and recalled the terrain, then used branches to draw the nearby terrain on the ground.

"The Blue Striped Apes are huge in number and not weak in strength. It would be unwise to confront them head-on."

"But they are not very smart. We can try to defeat them one by one."

He said, using branches to circle a valley on the map, and then smiled.

"The terrain here is difficult. As long as we lure them here, block the gap, and set up the blazing sun and sky fire array here, we can catch the turtles in the jar."

"Good idea." Everyone agreed, and the third elder said: "Then start preparations."

In order to increase their confidence of victory, everyone then began to transform the terrain.

They arrived at the valley, used their flying sword instruments to tidy up the terrain, and then set up the formation flags. They stopped after being exhausted from the work.

After doing all this, they did not rush to take action. They repaired it overnight to restore their mana, and did not start taking action until the next day.

Several people entered the territory of the blue-striped ape and began to secretly kill the lone blue-striped ape.

After all, the blue-striped ape is a gregarious monster. The group only killed three or four of them before they were discovered by the monster ape and chased after them.

The few people retreated quickly. After running for more than ten miles, Chen Nianzhi found that there were only a dozen monster apes chasing him, so he quickly turned around and went back.

"Kill first and then talk."

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out his green-leaf sword and flew into the air, slashing a green-striped ape in half.

Several peak qi-training monks took action together, and after only a dozen or so efforts, they chopped up more than a dozen blue-striped apes and killed them all.

"not bad."

After winning the first battle, Chen Nianzhi smiled: "Continue."

Several people repeated their old tricks and returned to the Blue Striped Ape's territory again, luring the Blue Striped Ape to kill him.