Chapter 271 Extra: Zhu Zhuqing's Soul Hunting Journey 2 (Liuyun Plateau)

Nothing unexpected happened. About three hours later, everyone was safe and sound and returned to the hotel smoothly.

Seeing that everyone had returned safely, Meng Yiran, who was leading the soul hunt for the first time, was obviously relieved. "Everyone, please tell me if you have found any special or noteworthy information."

"Nothing special." Ning Rongrong shook his head first. She and Bai Chenxiang sat there for three hours, drinking two large pots of tea, but they didn't find anyone worth noting or hear any special information worth noting.

By observing the clothing of the people coming and going, Ning Rongrong said: "The people staying in this hotel are basically noble soul masters. Most of them are over thirty years old and bring more than two bodyguards."

"During their conversation, I heard that they planned to hire two to three soul hunting teams to serve them directly here. After the soul hunting team has the soul beast under control, they will take action."

Speaking of this, Ning Rongrong curled her lips, clearly showing disdain for those people.

"Control the soul beast", it sounds so nice, but when translated, it means "You guys go ahead and beat the soul beast half to death. I am only responsible for the final kill and take the head." This kind of soul master really has the ability to Combat ability?

It's not like he's an auxiliary soul master with no fighting ability, why should he be so delicate?

On the one hand, Ning Rongrong, as the heir apparent to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, the third sect of the extremely wealthy Shang Dynasty, she did not look down upon the aristocratic soul master who had a lot of nouveau riche temperament.

On the other hand, looking at the gorgeous golden costumes of the noble soul masters, Ning Rongrong always felt that he saw himself when he was hunting the first and second soul rings. Looking at them one more time, Ning Rongrong suspected that he would draw his sword and rush forward to chop them all down.

"Where is your cultivation?" Meng Yiran asked, not knowing that Ning Rongrong's sword was almost stained with blood.

Going to the soul hunting team to assist in soul hunting is also considered the first choice of most soul masters. After all, not everyone has a boss at the lowest level of soul king covering their head.

The vast majority of soul masters still have to join a group to hunt a thousand or even century-old soul beast by virtue of their numerical advantage. If you are unlucky, the spirit beast you encounter is a social spirit beast like a wolf.

Then I'm sorry, just wish you luck.

After experiencing the training of a fighting soul master, Ning Rongrong's perception ability has also been greatly enhanced. She answered decisively: "The soul masters who hunt for soul rings are mainly level 20 and 30. There is only one very old nobleman who is level 40. None of the guards are above level 40."

"Yeah."

Meng Yiran glanced at Zhu Zhuqing, then lowered his head and began to think.

After walking around outside with Ye Lingling, Meng Yiran confirmed that this was the best hotel in Qingyun Town. Without special reasons, it is impossible for any nobles not to choose to live here. In other words, it is unlikely that someone in the same situation as Zhu Zhuqing will appear here.

As another party involved, Zhu Zhuqing, who stayed in the hotel to adjust his condition, obviously also remembered the original incident and rolled his eyes at Meng Yiran angrily.

"Graphite, stone mill, where are you?"

"Yes." Mo Mo took out an unknown fluffy black thing about the size of a fist and a stone that gave off a faint yellow light from his arms, and said lightly: "I heard that these two entered the Liuyun Plateau. It’s best to bring the necessities with you.”

"What is this?" Meng Yiran reached out to take it, put the stone aside first, and pinched the black object, "Cotton?"

"Yes." Shi Mo nodded, "This is a cotton variety unique to the Liuyun Plateau, called Oufei cotton. This cotton has strong water absorption and can capture moisture in the air."

"This cotton is the most important source of fresh water in the area, if not one."

"Huh?" Ning Rongrong looked at the small ball of black cotton and pointed with her finger, "Is it just this small ball of cotton?"

Shi Mo didn't speak, he just picked up the ball of cotton, raised his arms to make two big loops, then put his hand on top of an empty cup and squeezed it hard.

"Are you kidding me?!"

Ning Rongrong grabbed the water cup and looked at the water in the bottom of the cup with wide eyes, a look of disbelief on her face.

Shi Mo could understand Ning Rongrong's current behavior. After all, he and Shi Mo were at the market and saw an old man half as tall playing like this. His behavior was similar to Ning Rongrong's current performance.

So he explained: "Although this ball of cotton is only as small as a fist, it can expand eight to ten times in size after absorbing water. It is an essential source of fresh water for people entering Liuyun Plateau."

"There are often inexplicable thick fogs here. As long as we match this, we can ensure a sufficient supply of fresh water."

The Liuyun Plateau is not as dry as the Death Desert, and the relative humidity is quite high. But except for a few places with stable water sources, most other areas do not have convenient and easily accessible fresh water resources.

And a storage soul guide that can store fresh water in advance is a rare commodity. Even Ning Rongrong only had one storage soul guide on her body, and it was impossible to use it entirely to hold water. Unlike Najie next door, almost everyone has one. As long as you have this idea, even if your cultivation level is not high, you can become the Lord of the Rings with ten fingers.

Moreover, even if there is a storage soul guide and it is all used to hold fresh water, if it is not replenished in time, the fresh water inside will be used up sooner or later. As long as we have this OFILMAN, we can at least guarantee that we will not be forced to stop hunting souls due to water problems.

Ye Lingling also reached out and pinched the slightly swollen OFIL cotton in Shi Mo's hand. She felt the moisture on her fingertips and asked, "Can this only be done by squeezing?"

With the blessing of soul power, the wrist strength of soul masters is much stronger than that of ordinary people. But most people in this town still live in ordinary people. With the wrist strength of ordinary people, it is unlikely to dry the European cotton like before Graphite showed it.

"No," Graphite shook his head, "People here whip it with a whip, so the water out effect is better."

"Huh?" Everyone stared at Graphite with slightly wide eyes, and he repeated it again without changing his face and heart: "It's better to whip it with a whip."

"Huh???"

"As long as this kind of cotton is stimulated by a strong enough external force in an instant, it will actively discharge the absorbed water. As long as you use a whip, you can take out all the water without damaging the integrity of the European cotton."

"But European cotton cannot be put into the soul guide, otherwise it will lose its effect."

Because Tang San was not here, none of the seven people present found that this ball of cotton was actually alive. Gu You was not here, so no one investigated the situation to the end.

Meng Yiran thought that Gu You might be very interested in this thing. After putting it aside, he reached out to pick up the stone that had just been put aside.

Just as her finger was about to touch the stone, Meng Yiran's eyes shone and she asked in a deep voice, "Did anyone move this stone just now?"

The position of the stone changed. Although it was just a casual placement and the change was quite subtle, Meng Yiran still noticed it keenly.

The stone was placed next to her, and it was impossible for someone to move the stone without her knowing.

"No one moved it, it moved on its own." Shimo said, "This is called the Return Stone. It is a special rock produced in a place called Lingfeng, north of Liuyun Plateau. This stone has a characteristic, that is, as long as this stone is placed on the ground, it will involuntarily move towards Lingfeng."

"Because of this characteristic, people here also call the Return Stone the Homecoming Stone or the Hometown Stone. Because it leaves traces on the ground when it moves, some people also jokingly call it the Floor Destroyer."

"Since there are sometimes thick fogs like today that are unexplained and look like clouds, as long as there is this stone, leave it on the ground for a while, and by observing the direction of movement, we can know which direction is north in the rain and fog."

The frequency of thick fog on Liuyun Plateau is not high, but it is quite deadly for those who encounter it. With this stone, at least you can ensure that you don't worry about getting lost in the fog.

Gu You once said that fresh water and direction are the two most important issues for survival in the wilderness, and they are also the two issues that must be solved.

Now, Meng Yiran, who successfully solved these two hidden dangers for the first time as the soul hunting core, felt that she had sublimated. With her self-confidence greatly improved, she also shared the information she and Ye Lingling had obtained with everyone.

"We have three pieces of information. First, the thick fog on Liuyun Plateau usually appears once every six months to a year, and generally lasts for three to seven days. This time the fog has been five days today, and the fog has begun to fade. It is expected that we will be able to enter Liuyun Plateau smoothly tomorrow."

Speaking of this, Meng Yiran turned his head to look at Zhu Zhuqing beside him. Zhu Zhuqing nodded, indicating that he was ready.

Meng Yiran continued: "Second, the soul beasts that Zhuqing needs do exist here, and there are many of them. They exist for hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of years, which is consistent with what Gu You said."

"In other words, as long as we have enough patience, we will definitely find the one that suits Zhuqing best."

After strolling around Qingyun Town for a while, Meng Yiran quickly found out which restaurant was the most popular among soul masters, and took Ye Lingling straight to the restaurant.

Two young and beautiful female soul masters looked at you curiously, and the big and strong men could not resist this look at all, and each of them boasted about their "magnificent" adventure stories.

Of course, they kept their mouths shut about important information that can be sold, such as "the range of activities of a certain soul beast" and "the place where a certain soul beast last appeared recently". But they are still happy to tell stories about whether they have encountered soul beasts in the past and how they escaped or killed them under its attack.

Among many half-true and half-false stories that are exaggerated, Meng Yiran still learned a lot of important information.

"But there is also bad news, that is, this kind of soul beast is a lone ranger, and its range of activities is very large. We must be prepared for a protracted war."

There is still a big gap between Gu You's precise target hunting method and the mainstream soul hunting method headed by Yu Xiaogang (translated as "kill whoever you see") in the current soul master world.

The advantage is naturally that the soul beast to be hunted has been carefully selected, which is definitely the most suitable one for the soul master and has the greatest enhancement of combat effectiveness.

The biggest problem is bad luck, and you may stay in the Soul Beast Forest for much longer than expected.

If it is in the Soul Beast Forest of the Spirit Hall, this problem is not very obvious. The strongest soul beast is only a thousand years old. Even if there is no big brother to rely on, as long as it is talented enough, there is no need to worry about life danger.

But in the Soul Beast Forest that the Spirit Hall cannot manage, facing the ten thousand year soul beast that may come out of the center at any time, even the Soul Saint or even Soul Douluo level strongmen may fall in an instant if they are not careful.

In this regard, Meng Yiran’s decision is: "Considering efficiency and safety, even if we fail to find the soul beast that Zhu Qing needs, we can only stay in Liuyun Plateau for a week at most, and then return to Qingyun Town to rest."

Meng Yiran's decision is just a notification and does not require the approval of others. She didn't notice that when she said these words, her expression looked no different from Gu You.

No one had any objections. Everyone here is a genius, and it’s not like the old ones are about to die before they break through to level 90. People who are eager to get a soul ring to extend their life can still afford it in a few days.

Seeing this, Meng Yiran was ready to tell the last piece of information he got.

Her expression became a little strange, and she asked in a slightly weird tone: "Have you ever heard of Shenyin?"

"What's this?"

Except for Ye Lingling, who went out with Meng Yiran, everyone else shook their heads and said that they had never heard of this word.

Ye Lingling hesitated a little, moved her mouth, and decided to speak to Meng Yiran: "Yiran, there's no need to say this."

Meng Yiran shook his head, "Lingling, this news may be false. But Gu You once said that every circulating story may be a piece of history in the past. It is only as it is passed down by word of mouth over time that it becomes covered with a layer of mystery. veil."

Meng is still not a scholar, and even though Guyou and Lanta have shown her the power of scholars, she is not very interested in the work of scholars.

But she is a control soul master, the core and brain of the team. In Gu You's words, as the brains of the team, she must be fully prepared no matter where she is.

She couldn't be like Gu You, who had countless plans waiting to be used in her mind before doing anything. He couldn't do what Tang San did, relying on his unparalleled reflexes to make the best choice in a split second.

She can only be like a toddler, imitating the two contemporary apexes: Gu You, the planning flow, and Tang San, the reaction flow, to do everything she can.

"Shenyin is a legend spread here."

Meng Yiran spoke slowly. She didn't spend all her time in restaurants listening to stories, but also went to many places to inquire about news. Among them, I heard a legend spread among the locals from an old woman.

"It is said that every time a thick fog appears, a life will disappear in the thick fog. There will be no trace, no trace of the battle, and it will disappear forever."

"It's as if they were taken away by the gods in the sky."

Sorry, I may really have to update every two days in the future (crying). The extra chapter is getting longer and longer as I write it. I plan to release it all at once after I finish writing it. Please forgive me. Please recommend me and ask for monthly tickets~~~