Work hard for the shadow guard

Seeing this, Ji Yuheng and the others stopped pressing. A group of people rejected the invitation from the village head's family to invite them to lunch, and went straight up the mountain.

"He is the one who asked us to come, and now he is not even willing to lead the way. Does this mean that he is telling us that we will never return from this trip!" Zhu Yan complained.

Zhu Yan is straightforward, he said whatever came to his mind, and he expressed the depression in everyone's hearts.

"It's human nature for them to cherish their lives," Ji Yuheng comforted.

"Aren't we willing to risk our lives?" Zhu Yan wanted to refute.

Li Chi slapped Zhu Yan on the head, "Stop talking, you're the only one who talks too much!"

Zhu Yan and Li Chi are both in the Chihuo class, and they are closer. When Li Chi reminded them, Zhu Yan also realized that he was talking too aggressively, so he closed his mouth.

Ji Yuheng didn't care about this. He arranged formations at the foot of the mountain. The gophers were in the dark, but they were in the light. The gophers might come out of the ground at any time. They should always pay attention to their backs to prevent the gophers from attacking.

Gophers live underground, and soil can restrain water. In the mountains, Shui Linggen is weak. Ji Yuheng suggested that Li Xiaotian and Shui Ling'er should be in the middle of the team, and the others should surround them.

Li Xiaotian readily agreed and stood in the middle with Shui Linger.

Ji Yuheng raised his eyebrows. Although he arranged it this way, Li Xiaotian and Shui Linger are both at the peak of foundation building and one of the most powerful people in this team, so they put themselves in a protected position with peace of mind.

The mountains in early spring are still a bit desolate, the flowers and trees are still dormant, there is no cover from the vegetation, and the ground can be seen clearly.

Song Tang found a small hole in the earth and called everyone to come and see it. Ji Yuheng touched the soil around the hole and found that it was completely dry. He inserted his Qingfeng sword into the hole, and he felt obvious that the blade was only halfway in. resistance.

This is an abandoned gopher hole, and the passage drilled by the gopher has been almost restored by the power of nature.

The crowd walked along the mountain road for nearly an hour, and found many abandoned gopher holes, but they did not find fresh ones that had just been dug out, nor were they attacked by gophers.

Someone in the team began to wonder if the villagers were making too much of a fuss, and maybe there were no gophers after all.

Li Xiaotian said, "Why don't we search separately."

Ji Yuheng nodded, the team of Jin Ling, Li Xiaotian, Shui Linger, Zhu Yan, and He Yao, the team of Ji Yuheng, Ying Jiu, Song Nanxing, Qin Jun, Li Chi, and Bi Kun.

Before parting, Ji Yuheng took a look at Li Xiaotian, and both of them understood what the other meant. Not only was there a gopher spirit here, but it might also have a high level of cultivation. It was hiding in the dark waiting for them to separate, and then they would destroy them one by one.

Sure enough, shortly after the team separated, Ji Yuheng saw a signal flare from the other side of the mountain, and the gophers attacked Li Xiaotian's team first!

Jin Ling and Zhu Yan were fighting with a huge gopher. This gopher was much bigger than what the villagers described. It was more than two meters tall, with shiny hair and big bright yellow eyes looking greedily at the people on the ground. look.

Little Taoist priests with cultivation base can eat more tonic than ordinary villagers.

Jin Ling's sword energy and Zhu Yan's flame hit the gopher's body, only hurting its fur. The gopher spirit rushed towards Li Xiaotian and Shui Ling'er as if it didn't know the pain.

After Ji Yuheng and others appeared, Qin Jun and Song Tang cooperated with the two wooden spirit roots. The long vines with thick arms restrained the movement of the gopher spirit from both sides. Zhu Yan, Li Chi and others used their own strength to fight the gopher spirit. , the gopher was defeated and let out a scream.

It wanted to bite off the long vine that bound itself, but just after biting off a little bit, another vine bound itself. Just when Zhu Yan and others were about to brew a fireball to kill the gopher completely, Ji Yuheng shouted: "Wait a moment."

He glanced at Song Tang, and Song Tang understood. After the long vine was bitten off, he deliberately pretended that there was no time to make up for it, and let the gopher go.

This is the way they discussed on the road. There must be more than one gopher spirit in the mountain. If you encounter them, don't kill them directly. Instead, try to find their lair and kill all the gopher spirits on the mountain.

A group of people followed the gopher spirit not too far away, and the gopher spirit who had escaped from the death did not realize that he was being followed.

The gigantic figure of the gopher spirit disappeared into a cave more than two meters high. Ji Yuheng and the others followed, and found that there was a hole in the cave under the cover of weeds, leading to the ground, bottomless.

In order to prevent being discovered by gopher spirits, a group of 11 people waited for a while before entering. The soil in the cave is very slippery and the direction is very steep. Gophers can slide down quickly. For humans, walking is more embarrassing.

The two earth spirit root cultivators stood in front of each other, surveying the terrain and casting spells to make the soil under their feet less slippery, while the one behind was always on guard against the collapse of the gopher hole.

After walking nearly 200 meters underground, the road ahead suddenly flattened, and the narrow passage became spacious, and at the same time, the passage also came to an end.

The light yellow fire came in from the hole, and everyone leaned against the wall and poked their heads out cautiously.

There is a special world inside, the end of the gopher hole turned out to be a wide square more than ten meters deep, and there are countless circular gopher holes on the surrounding walls like a honeycomb.

A large number of gophers gathered in the square, each nearly two meters tall, and they jointly supported a big gopher in a red cloak in the middle.

Song Tang was a little dizzy looking at the densely packed gophers below. They really found the stronghold of the gophers.

"There are so many gophers, can we beat them?" Song Tang muttered softly.

Ji Yuheng, Li Xiaotian and the others also had serious faces. Outside, a single gopher needs everyone's joint efforts to subdue it. Now there are no less than a hundred gophers here, and the odds of winning are slim.

But if he went back like this, the mission would be considered a failure. The people who could stay in Xianjianzong were the best among ordinary people, and no one wanted to give up just like that.

At this time, Ji Yuheng noticed that the gopher they had used to lead the way had rushed to the King of Gophers, and whispered something in his ear.

"Not good! They found us!" Ji Yuheng whispered.

Sure enough, after listening to his younger brother's report, the King of Gophers looked up at the entrance of the cave where Ji Yuheng and others were hiding.

The king of gophers raised his cane and pointed at them, and all the gophers rushed towards them along the wall after receiving the order.

Zhu Yan and Li Chi shot down the gophers that had just pounced on them with flames, and shouted: "There are too many gophers! What should I do?" But no one had time to answer him.

Li Xiaotian and Shui Ling'er continued to condense water curtains to block the gophers, but the water curtains were quickly broken by the gophers. Li Xiaotian directly drew out his long sword and fought the gophers who rushed towards him. A lot of bloodstains were caught.

Shui Ling'er and Li Xiaotian back to back, said anxiously, "Your Highness, saving your life is the most important thing, otherwise let's withdraw!"

Li Xiaotian swung his sword again, and said briefly: "We can't leave." If they escape, the gophers will rush out after them, and the villagers at the bottom of the mountain will suffer.

While repelling the gophers, Shui Ling'er wanted to protect Li Xiaotian at the same time, she was accidentally scratched by the gophers on the shoulder, and half of her body was stained red with bright red blood.

Compared to other people's embarrassment, Ji Yuheng's side is the best. Although Yingjiu can't use magic power, his sword skills are neat and his lightness skills are excellent. He is not afraid of death and rushes to the gopher, and before it can react, the sharp blade has already scratched Gopher throat.

Ying Jiu stood in front of Ji Yuheng all the time, and killed a few gophers that were jumping at Song Tang.

Song Tang was able to distract himself from talking to Ji Yuheng, "Yuheng, this is not going to work. Li Xiaotian will not be able to hold on anymore, and Qin Jun and I may not be able to hold on for long."

Both Song Tang and Qin Jun are wood spirit roots, and are better at controlling and treating them. They can restrain the gopher's pace, but it is difficult to kill it.

Ji Yuheng looked around, and everyone was almost in a state of retreat. Although Yingjiu was good at skills, there were already a few more bloodstains on her body.

Ji Yuheng cast his eyes on the top of the cave that had not yet been occupied by gophers, and shouted to the rest of the people, "Everyone fly to the top of the cave with your swords, He Yao and Bi Kun block the entrance of the cave, Song Tang and Qin Jun lay the cloth on the bottom of the cave. Put on wooden thorns, and then attack together on it, come and catch a turtle in an urn!"

The people who were fighting on their own suddenly had a mission. People above the foundation building stage carried the people in the Qi training stage to fly to the top of the cave with their swords. The gophers suddenly lost their attack targets. The wall tries to climb up and knock them down.

Taking advantage of this time difference, everyone arranged according to what Ji Yuheng said. The hole was filled up one by one by He Yao and Bi Kun, and vines with hard wooden thorns quietly filled the bottom and surroundings of the cave. sword.

Only five of the eleven people in the group reached the Foundation Establishment Realm and could fly with their swords. Each person had to carry at least two people on their swords, and they had to stand on the swords to exert their spiritual power, so the swords were very shaken.

Song Tang simply condensed a thick vine across the burrow, and everyone put away their long swords, standing on the vine and shooting at the gopher.

The gophers below screamed after being pierced by wooden thorns and sword thorns, and they were even more powerless to resist the countless fireballs falling from the sky.

But the King of Gophers in the red robe has always been well protected. Its bright yellow eyes showed resentment, and the person staring at the rattan on the vine above him didn't know what he was talking about.

The scattered attacking gophers suddenly became orderly, and began to build a pyramid layer by layer, attempting to directly attack the people on the vines.

In this way, the wooden thorns and sword thorns on the ground are useless, and the gophers are getting closer and closer to them. Even if some gophers die, the corpses will remain in the pyramid and become the ladder for the gophers to climb up.

Some gophers have already climbed up and started to destroy the vines they are standing on. If they fall at this time, they may really fall into the pile of gophers and die without a place to die.

Song Tang gritted his teeth and strengthened the vines again, "Yu Heng, I'm running out of spiritual power!"

The situation of the others was similar, and they couldn't consume any more. Ji Yuheng's spiritual power was very strong in his spiritual sea. Even though he had contributed most of his power just now, he still had almost half of his spiritual power left.

He recalled the skills he learned during the course of the "Broken Gold" class. He condensed all the remaining spiritual power in his palm. The huge energy contained in the silver-white chaotic spiritual power, he slowly sent out the spiritual power light ball in his hand, The moment he left his hand, the ball of light turned into countless white sharp blades and shot at the gophers below.

After entering the body, the sharp blade did not pass out from one side, but burst directly inside the gopher's body, and blood and flesh flew across the cave for a while.

Jin Ling looked at the situation in front of him in shock, this is one of the special skills of the golden spirit root mentioned by the third elder in class, flowing gold all over the sky!

Only at the golden core stage can he have a chance to successfully use it. Ji Yuheng actually practiced it at the foundation establishment stage, and the effect of chaotic spiritual power is stronger than metallic spiritual power!

This is actually Ji Yuheng's first time performing "Flowing Gold", and he succeeded by luck, but the after-effects are also very huge. He needs to control the sharp blade of spiritual power to insert it into each gopher's body accurately, and his consciousness and spiritual power are exhausted .

Ji Yuheng was unstable and almost fell off the vine, but Ying Jiu grabbed him just in time, wrapped his arms around his master's shoulders and made him lean against her.

At this time, the scene in the cave could not bear to look directly at it. Everyone saw that many gophers, including the king of gophers, had been blown to pieces, and the red cloak was broken into several pieces. Their hanging hearts finally let go.

He Yao and Bi Kun opened the cave where they came, and the group left along the cave.

Ji Yuheng was exhausted, and Yingjiu assisted him to walk at the end. Just as they were about to leave, there was a huge booming sound from inside the cave.

"No, this cave is about to collapse!" He Yao said loudly, "Everyone, go!"

However, getting down is easy and going up is difficult, and the trend of the gopher hole is very steep. He Yao and Bi Kun used up their last bit of spiritual energy to open up a new hole for everyone.

The sound of soil clods falling came from behind, Song Tang turned around and wanted to help Ji Yuheng with Ying Jiu.

At this moment, a pitch-black tentacle protruded from behind, at an extremely fast speed, no one saw how it appeared, the tentacle wrapped around Ji Yuheng's waist and dragged him to the depths, Ying Jiu had no time to react, and hugged Ji Yuheng without hesitation Fall into darkness with him.

"Yuheng! Ji Jiu!" Song Tang shouted.

Everything happened too fast, Song Tang didn't have time to stop it, nor was he able to stop it.

The place where Ji Yuheng and Yingjiu stood behind was quickly covered by clods of soil, Song Tang stood up and wiped away his tears, then ran out quickly.