On the Importance of Chinese Characters

In the camp of the advance team in Pengyi Village, a thin beam of sunlight slanted down from the cleared sky and fell on the people who were still resting.

The faint light made Fang Qiling finally open his eyes. He squeezed out a weak groan from his throat, raised his hand to cover the glare of the sun, and used secret techniques to forcibly reveal the aftereffects of his coma.

The blood mist in the vast sea has faded away, and there is no danger of losing his sanity, but the strong wind in the sea of ​​consciousness has turned violent like a backlash, tossing rivers and seas wantonly, causing him more pain than usual.He circulated his source power for a while, and the feeling of meridian circulation was more obscure than usual.

The pain of this intensity will probably last for a while, Fang Qiling frowned, adjusted for a while with a blank face, and then sat up to look at the current situation.

In the camp, many people were lying in disorder. Ten night watchmen surrounded the camp. Zhuang Yunzhou had a piece of animal skin under his body, and he was lying not far from him, still in a well-behaved sleeping position. , her fair face looks like a picture scroll in the misty morning sun.

Fang Qiling raised his lips and smiled, his heart was filled with satisfaction and joy, it seemed that even the pain in the sea of ​​consciousness had calmed down a lot.

The advance team began to get up one after another, and the camp gradually became lively. Zhuang Yunzhou's eyelashes trembled twice, and he opened his eyes.

"Are you awake?" Fang Qiling was baking pancakes on the fire, and when he heard the noise, he turned his head and smiled at him, and handed him a bamboo tube filled with water, "You wash up first, and then eat something."

Zhuang Yunzhou took the bamboo tube, recalled his previous speculation about him being forced into a coma, hesitated for a moment, and asked him: "How do you feel now?"

"I'm fine, it's nothing." Fang Qiling stared at Huohou intently, and seemed to reply casually.

"Really? That's good." Zhuang Yunzhou paused, pursed his lips, and responded lightly.

Fang Qiling didn't know that Zhuang Yunzhou had spotted his concealment, and he was still pretending that nothing happened. His facial expression management has reached the peak after years of patience, and no one except Zhuang Yunzhou could see his Not right.

Fang Qiling gave Zhuang Yunzhou a piece of the baked cake, and changed the subject: "I saw the storage bag on Uncle Mao's waist. It seems that this place does not restrict the origin technique treasure."

"En." Zhuang Yunzhou nodded, glanced at him, and told him about the dark moon that he had inquired about with Uncle Mao earlier.

Fang Qiling pondered for a while, feeling that there must be a mystery in this strange dark moon.From entering the secret realm until now, everything seems to be pushing them in an unknown direction.

"Have you ever asked Uncle Mao about the origin or legend of the dark moon?" Fang Qiling stuffed the last piece of cake into his mouth and asked suddenly.

Zhuang Yunzhou was startled: "You mean...?"

Fang Qiling nodded: "I always feel that this dark moon may be related to the exit of the illusion."

Hearing what he said, Zhuang Yunzhou also became thoughtful: "I'll ask Uncle Mao."

"The origin of the dark moon?" Uncle Mao asked in surprise after hearing the two people's questioning, "Why do you think of asking this?"

"Just curious." Fang Qiling replied with a smile.

Uncle Mao asked everyone to put the cumbersome things aside and put them in their storage bags before saying, "There is a legend about it."

"It is said that many years ago, there was an extremely powerful alien beast that endangered the world and made the world miserable. People couldn't bear the raging of the alien beast, and they rose up to resist. Later, a great power appeared. He sacrificed himself and turned the alien beast The beast is suppressed in a temple."

"But the alien beast is too powerful. It is unwilling to be trapped in one place like this. Every year when the seal is weakest, the alien beast will spit out thick black mist in an attempt to corrode the seal."

"There is a destructive power in the black mist. It blocks the sun and makes the world lose light and heat. That's why we suffer from the dark moon every year."

Fang Qiling and Zhuang Yunzhou cheered up and looked at each other.

Zhuang Yunzhou asked: "Does the legend say how to destroy the dark moon?"

Uncle Mao looked up at the sky and nodded: "I said it. According to the legend, if one day a warrior can find the temple and seal the beast completely, then the dark moon will disappear."

"However, this is just a legend." Uncle Mao laughed twice, "Only children believe it. When I was a child, when I heard my grandma say it, I fantasized that I was that warrior. When I grew up, I realized that it was all a lie. For humans, there are no strange beasts or temples at all."

Fang Qiling also laughed twice: "That's true, it sounds unreliable."

Uncle Mao watched everyone bury the firepit in the camp, and after making a unique mark of Shangpengyi Village on this place, he turned to Zhuang Yunzhou and Fang Qiling and said, "It's time for us to set off."

What Uncle Mao meant was to limit the edge of the Fire Lava Dragon's territory, and start setting up a circle of blocking traps along the way, and then start to set off and go back. Before the arrival of the dark moon, they may not be able to return to the village.

With the word origin technique of 'ku' and the origin technique of 'birth', Zhuang Yunzhou's strength was finally revealed. When the first strange beast that was evaporated to death by the word origin technique of 'ku' appeared, all the advance team members They were all stunned.

They had never seen such a weird scene before, it was just a ray of light from the stick, falling on the fifth-order river gull, and the beast, which was so fierce before, didn't even have time to utter a cry. Fell headfirst from the air to the ground, the originally plump muscles shrank rapidly, and turned into a mummy in a short moment.

The few young people who got together and said bad things about Zhuang Yunzhou swallowed hard, and now they even hide from Zhuang Yunzhou when they eat, for fear that he will remember what happened before and come to them suddenly. all of a sudden.

After seeing such a miraculous attack ability, the people in the advance team were a little more afraid of Zhuang Yunzhou. The main reason was that the word origin of 'ku' was too weird and silent, making it hard to guard against. Moreover, the death of the strange beast The situation is so terrifying that it makes people feel hairy.

Fang Qiling was the only one who was not satisfied with this. He squatted on the ground and tugged at the river gull, and clicked his tongue: "It's done like this, I can't even eat it, it's a bit of a waste."

The meat of river gulls is delicious, and it can also be regarded as a delicacy.

Zhuang Yunzhou was taken aback, looked at the strange beast, and said in a good-tempered manner: "I didn't think well enough." The dark moon is coming soon, and the collection of rations is indeed a big event.

He pondered for a while, and saluted the advance team members around him: "Please let me know if you see Mo Zhi."

His amiable appearance as always dilutes the sense of crisis aroused by many team members due to the strange attack just now, and they responded one after another.

Fang Qiling stood up, and the two exchanged a look.

These people have never seen the source technique, and the strange effect of the dead wood technique may make people feel threatened from the bottom of their hearts, which is not conducive to their integration into the villagers of Pengyi Village for the next action.

Zhuang Yunzhou deliberately strengthened the fine control of the dead wood technique, and most of them only used the dead wood technique as a means of harassment.With his support, everyone felt that the difficulty of hunting strange beasts plummeted.

Coupled with the word source treasure of 'medicine', no matter how many traumas he suffered, he could recover quickly, which made Zhuang Yunzhou's prestige in the advance team skyrocket.Hearing that he needs source materials, they are very happy to find them for him.

For some reason, after mobilizing everyone to search together, Zhuang Yunzhou discovered that the source materials in this secret realm were extremely rich. One of them also discovered high-level source materials such as Jingling Yuzhu, which solved the problem of the black guarding the source materials. After the bamboo mouse, he successfully acquired this third-level source material.

The collection of magic plant seeds was also very smooth. After obtaining the consent of Uncle Mao, in order to save time and search for more usable source materials, Zhuang Yunzhou used the word "生" to spawn many cold-resistant magic plant seeds, and planted them directly. On the edge of the line of defense, it replaced the various deep pits, stumbling blocks, hook locks and other traps that the advance team had to set up.

Watching the magic plants grow rapidly from small seeds to giant plants, Uncle Mao exclaimed: "This is much better than our previous traps." Then he suddenly thought of something, "Our crops... ..."

Zhuang Yunzhou nodded with a smile: "After I go back, I will start to arrange this matter. However, I saw Tian Guangbao in the village. I may not be able to make it by myself. I need a few more of the same Yuanbao."

When Uncle Mao heard this, he was so excited that he didn't know what to do. First, he had a storage bag so that they could bring the strange beasts they killed back to the village. Now, the food in the field doesn't need to be wasted, and the villagers have enough surplus food, at least they don't have to worry about people starving to death in Dark Moon.

He thought of what Zhuang Yunzhou said, if there are suitable source materials, there can be a fire that can be lit without firewood, and water that can be drunk without fetching snow... This kind of life is something that Dark Moon in previous years could not even imagine.

Since then, Uncle Mao has been more concerned about hunting for raw materials than Zhuang Yunzhou.Moreover, any order to Zhuang Yunzhou must be fulfilled with all his heart, which is basically to give Zhuang Yunzhou a confession.

Uncle Mao didn't hide the news, and soon everyone in the advance team knew about it.Everyone spontaneously protected Zhuang Yunzhou. Even if they knew that he was much stronger than most of the people here, they couldn't stop them from doing this.

Therefore, when Zhuang Yunzhou intends to go forward to hunt strange beasts or something, the advance team will rush forward, even if they will be seriously injured, they will not be afraid. A hair.

After a few times, Zhuang Yunzhou fell silent and no longer took the initiative to take action, so as to avoid unnecessary injuries to others due to his eagerness for success.So Zhuang Yunzhou, who was liberated from the battle, had no choice but to start rubbing the source technique.

Because everyone's enthusiasm for collecting source materials is unprecedentedly high, Zhuang Yunzhou's rubbing skills are so strong that there are basically no failures.Therefore, he soon accumulated a lot of source treasures and source tools in his storage bag,

Among them, what he values ​​most is his main means of attack, the 'ku' character and the 'sheng' character source technique. Due to the wear rate of the source technique treasure, once he finds a suitable source material, he rubs it.

As time passed, the dark moon was approaching day by day. On a certain day, when the advance team got up at the usual time and found that the sun was getting dark and the temperature began to drop, Uncle Mao announced the return trip.

Dark Moon, here we come.