Chapter 1543 Recruiting
"Does Elder Gong want those Ran to be the vanguard?" Chen Xuan asked.
Elder Gong remained silent, staring at Chen Xuan, but also indicated that he had acquiesced.
"These people are scattered, and it is not very useful to be the vanguard. Unless we gather them together, it may be useful."
"How to gather?" Elder Gong asked.
"We set up a contact point, recruit those who are willing to stay, and explain the situation and the relationship of power to them, and then act together."
"No, this is too much work, and it is not good for completing the task. It is better to withdraw immediately." Elder Gong said. His starting point is still the task. Gathering so many people, the amount of tasks to be completed is even greater. Those who participated in the action together are essentially the same as the disciples of Shenxinmen, because the Human Alliance stipulates that all sects must complete the task of killing the beasts. Elder Gong felt that it was not worth the loss for his side to lead the encirclement and suppression of the beasts.
"Then at least be prepared to escape at any time, otherwise it will be too late if something really happens at that time." Chen Xuan said cautiously.
"Okay, then we will slow down a bit so that more people can rush to the front, and we will send people out to buy food."
Hearing that they were going to buy food, Senior Brother Qi took out the 15 top-grade wood spirit crystals that were left over from last time, and told one of the disciples to go out of the forest to buy food tomorrow morning.
"Take these with you! The food outside the forest must have gone up in price." Chen Xuan smiled and took out a dozen top-grade wood spirit crystals from his bag and handed them to the two disciples.
"Guitou, you are really thoughtful." Senior Brother Qi smiled. "Remember, buy more salt and seasonings. These things may not have gone up in price yet!"
The next morning, everything went according to plan. Those who went out to buy set out very early, and the search team only spread out a two-mile net and slowly started searching. Sure enough, not long after, many cultivators passed by them, and no one wanted to fall behind others to find things.
"Chen Xuan, do you think there will really be a beast tide?" Senior Brother Qi saw someone going deeper into the forest not far from him, and said worriedly.
"Where there is oppression, there is resistance. With so many of you humans surrounding the Black Wind Forest, will the beast tribe sit back and wait for death?" Chen Xuan asked.
"The key is how many beast tribes there are in the Black Wind Forest." Senior Brother Qi seemed to be talking to himself.
"The area is too large, it's hard to estimate!" Chen Xuan also sighed.
"There is another cave ahead. Let's go and take a look. The beast tribe inside must be gone, but I don't know if there will be some things left." Senior Brother Qi said.
"Within less than ten miles, we found another cave of spirit beasts. Together with the caves found by other groups, the number of spirit beasts in this hundred miles has reached more than twenty, and this has ignored the nests we have not found. It seems that the number of beast tribes in the Black Wind Forest is very huge." Chen Xuan said worriedly.
"So what? We just need to be as careful as possible. When that time comes, you must listen to my instructions and escape quickly. Don't get involved in other things. Your realm is the lowest, and no one will blame you. On the contrary, only if you escape first, others can escape with confidence." Senior Brother Qi warned.
Chen Xuan nodded, and at the same time he was full of good luck for Senior Brother Qi.
Sure enough, no spiritual beasts were found in the cave this time. Chen Xuan did not plan to go into the cave again to watch. He just smelled the smell at the entrance of the cave and knew that this was the cave of Bai Kui. An adult Bai Kui is a second-level spiritual beast, equivalent to the realm of Qiongshi, but Bai Kui is mainly vegetarian, unlike lions and pythons that specialize in eating other animals.
Senior Brother Qi did not know what kind of animals had lived in the cave. He searched the cave and found nothing. Of course, he also saw some white hair, but there are many animals with white hair in the forest. He could not figure out what kind of animal the white hair belonged to.
Senior Brother Qi came out of the cave with a frustrated look on his face, "There is only white hair, I don't know what kind of spiritual beast it is?"
"Bai Kui, a second-level spiritual beast." Chen Xuan said.
Senior Brother Qi couldn't help but admire Chen Xuan, "It seems that you have studied various spirit beasts very well!"
"I just read more books about beasts in my spare time."
"Then what kind of snake was the cave we entered yesterday?"
"Anaconda, Senior Brother Qi, it turns out that you still don't know what cave you entered yesterday!"
Senior Brother Qi showed a guilty look.
For a whole day, the team of Shenxinmen only advanced thirty miles. Compared with the hundred miles yesterday, these thirty miles are really insignificant. There were no more than thirty groups of cultivators passing from the back, only more than twenty groups. Of course, there were cultivators who slowed down after discovering the problem, but more people chose to move forward quickly, especially those cultivators who came together in three or two, and they rushed forward desperately. They were worried that even if they got the prey, they would probably be snatched away by those cultivators with more people.
At night, even the group that went to purchase came back. As expected, they brought a lot of seasonings and salt, but they didn't buy much food. They were helpless because the price of food really went up.
That's right, it would be strange if the price didn't go up. So many cultivators have come to the Black Wind Forest, and how can the food in the town outside satisfy their needs? If I go again tomorrow, I guess the price of seasoning and salt will go up.
The situation is becoming clearer and clearer now. There are many beasts in the Black Wind Forest, and they are all hiding together. But no matter how they hide, they can never escape the search of so many people. It is only a matter of time before they are discovered. When they are found, it is the time when both sides will be killed. They will launch a beast tide counterattack or disperse and break out separately. It depends on whether they have an organizer.
When the beasts launch a beast tide counterattack, it is the time for the disciples of the Divine Heart Sect to retreat collectively, and when the beasts break out separately, it is the time for the disciples of the Divine Heart Sect to take advantage and complete the task. This is the plan that Elder Gong and Senior Brother Qi decided on this night.
Third, the twenty-one people of the Divine Heart Sect barely advanced twenty miles. And fourth, they only advanced ten miles.
On the fourth night, Elder Gong and Senior Brother Qi discussed and decided to rest on the spot and be ready to retreat at any time. Because in the afternoon, a team of more than ten people retreated from the deep mountains. First, their food was exhausted, and second, they saw too many empty nests and were very scared.
However, because of the large number of people, this team did not intend to avoid the Shenxin Gate. Instead, they turned around and began to learn from the Shenxin Gate's practices, stationed on the spot, and sent a purchasing team back to the forest to purchase food.
The highest cultivation in this team was actually a seventh-level cultivator. No wonder they did not take the more than 20 people from the Shenxin Gate seriously.
Fifth, the people from the Shenxin Gate stopped. Their main task now was to wait and then go out to find small animals for food.
It was really strange. Since all the cultivators who came went to the deep mountains, the periphery of the forest turned out to be an animal paradise. The people from the Shenxin Gate could not go inside to hunt animals, but had to go to the periphery.
At noon, the three teams sent out hunted back a lot of rabbits, antelopes and pheasants in the periphery, and a wild boar also became their trophy. Everyone was busy for a while, and a bonfire was lit, and finally the smell of meat came.
This made the group of people who retreated earlier drool. These people had not eaten for two meals and were completely dependent on drinking water to survive. They were all waiting for the people who went out to purchase food in the evening.
At dinner time, the people who went out to purchase really came back. Although they were so tired that they lay on the ground, they did come back at the stipulated time. But then they heard the roar of the powerful cultivator of the seventh level, "Have you grown up? You can't even purchase food properly. You spent so many spirit crystals, but you only bought me a little salt, not even seasoning."
The two people who were exhausted to death did not dare to reply, but their faces were full of grievances.
"Forget it, senior brother, there must be too many people coming these days, and they have bought up all the food in the town. Let's find another way!" The deputy captain said. This deputy captain also looked like a cultivator of the fifth level, but he seemed to be older than the cultivator of the seventh level, but this was only because he broke through to the cultivator realm much later than that person.
"What can we do? With only salt, even if we go hunting, the roasted food will be hard to swallow."
"Look at the 21-man team, it seems that they are well prepared. Can we..." the deputy captain suggested.
"That's the only way. I hope they can consider the overall situation and understand our difficulties. Otherwise, we have to intimidate them!" said the senior brother of the seventh level.
"Let's go over and talk to them. It's useless for other disciples to go over." The deputy captain really told the truth. They were the only ones who could show off in their team. The others were all below the realm of cultivators. This was completely different from the fact that ten disciples of the Divine Heart Sect were above the realm of cultivators. However, in the eyes of that senior brother, no matter how many cultivators were lower than his realm, they could not defeat him. So he didn't take the ten cultivators of the Divine Heart Sect seriously at all, let alone those disciples of the mortal realm.
Seeing these two people coming over, all the people of the Divine Heart Sect stopped talking, but the sound of eating did not stop.
The two were not very satisfied with this situation. Logically, if these people did not line up to welcome them, they should have stood up to show their support.
Frowning, the deputy captain said, "Dear Daoists, we are cultivators from the Yuyu Sect of Feixiang City. This is the Yuan Elder of our sect. My name is Wang Shicheng, and I am the deputy captain of this team. Our Yuyu Sect was forced to withdraw from the mountains due to food shortage, but the disciples who purchased food only bought back some salt, so we would like to ask your sect to lend us some seasonings."