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Quickly walking towards the other party's body, Li Qingning discovered that the stalker turned out to be an outer disciple of the Infinite Sword Sect.

An outer disciple of the Wuliang Sword Sect can be regarded as a mini-boss level existence in ordinary local sects. His strength is no less than that of Li Wen, the killer of Heyuge Pavilion. No wonder this person dares to follow him.

If she hadn't practiced her fighting skills hard during this period, she really wouldn't have been able to kill him with one sword.

Li Qingning briefly checked the items left in the storage bags of the disciples of the Wuliang Sword Sect. In addition to some regular spiritual stones, elixirs, spiritual stone coins, and some talismans that had not yet been used, he did not find any tracking magic weapons.

But he had clearly taken the Hidden Spirit Pill, so how did this person track him?

Just when Li Qingning was puzzled, he discovered that next to the body of the sneak attacker, there was a corpse of a monster that looked like a white mouse rolling to the ground. It seemed that it had also been accidentally killed by the knife he had just struck.

Since this beast can be cut in half by me, it should have been held in the other person's arms just now, but why was this person holding a weak monster in his arms when he was following me?

You must know that although human monks can use concealment spells to cover their auras, monster beasts will not cover up the spiritual energy fluctuations they cause at all unless they have developed spiritual wisdom or have some innate magical powers.

After seeing the body of the monster, Li Qingning even had some doubts. The weak spiritual energy fluctuation she just noticed was probably not from this cultivator with excellent concealment ability, but from the mysterious monster in his arms. beast!

But Li Qingning was not an expert on monsters, and there was no one to consult on the battlefield outside the territory.

Although the attacker's actions were very suspicious, she had no additional clues to deduce, so she had no choice but to create a fireball, reducing all the attacker's relics to ashes, and then continued to move forward.

In any case, within two hours of the start of the outer battlefield, the first kill was achieved. For those monks who like to kill people and seize treasures, this is definitely a start for Tianhu!

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Just as Li Qingning got rid of the stalker and moved forward, Yang Lu also advanced dozens of miles, and the distance between him and Ye Chen was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

While running wildly in the forest, Yang Lu was also mobilizing his consciousness to constantly observe the surrounding spiritual energy environment. In just over half an hour, he noticed several places where spiritual energy was highly concentrated.

Although the battlefield outside the territory is full of dangers, it is also rich in many kinds of rare treasures.

According to the experience of senior monks, various heavenly materials and earthly treasures produced in battlefields outside the territory are often located in these places where spiritual energy is enriched. If you are lucky, you can even find blood magic grass, the main material of the Foundation Establishment Pill, which is worth tens of thousands of spiritual stone coins. .

However, these places are often blocked by powerful restrictions and even protected by monsters soaked in demonic energy. Treasures cannot be obtained casually. More importantly, because the aura of the treasures is very eye-catching, these places where the aura is rich are also high-risk areas for outside battlefield trialists to attack each other.

If you were a fighting martial arts enthusiast who was chasing after killings, you might go to this kind of place specifically, but Yang Lu didn't come here to hunt for treasures, so naturally he wouldn't go to join in the fun.

Although Yang Lu has tried his best to avoid these high-risk areas and avoid causing trouble, he still cannot guarantee that everything will be foolproof.

The first is that the extraterritorial battlefield map he has is not accurate enough.

Map surveying requires strong mathematical skills, and mathematics is an extremely unpopular subject in the world of Kyushu cultivation. Without the assistance of mathematics, all map drawing will inevitably become an abstract art.

Since the terrain of the foreign battlefield is very complex, the map of the foreign battlefield purchased by Yang Lu with a lot of money only recorded the general outline of the foreign battlefield. The lack of details was very obvious, and the scale looked very uncoordinated.

This is not difficult to understand. Everyone is busy killing people and grabbing treasures on the battlefields outside the territory. It is impossible for mathematicians to be idle and do map surveying and mapping for others to make wedding dresses. Except for the seven major factions who have relatively reliable maps. In addition, maps on the market generally have major quality problems, and there are even conflicts with each other.

After proceeding a certain distance due east according to the map, Yang Lu found that he had accidentally detoured into a canyon.

The mountain walls on both sides of the canyon are not too steep and do not pose any obstacles to cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage. However, just like Yang Lu who uses eagle eye skills and spiritual consciousness to observe his surroundings all the time, he will always participate in battlefields outside the territory. All cultivators will use various reconnaissance methods, including eagle eye technique, to keep an eye on the surrounding environment.

If Yang Lu climbed up the bare mountain wall without any concealment, he would be easily discovered by the monks passing by.

If the monks in the middle stage of Qi Refining expose their position on the battlefield outside the territory, they will inevitably be chased by the monks in the later stage of Qi Refining. After all, there is no martial ethics in the battlefield outside the territory, and no one is willing to miss this great opportunity to bully the weak.

Although there is a small chance that a monk will happen to pass by here, I am not afraid of 10,000, just in case...

"boom--!"

Just as he was about to cross the canyon quietly, he found a sudden violent fluctuation in the aura environment in front of him. Accompanied by the dull sound, Yang Lu, who was highly nervous, couldn't help but his heart beat wildly:

There were people at the exit of the canyon, and there seemed to be a fight!

The terrain of this canyon is quite suitable for an ambush. It would not be surprising even if there are trialists setting up an ambush here. If someone triggers the trap first, it may not be a bad thing for you.

Trying to restrain the fluctuations of spiritual energy all over his body, Yang Lu quickly used the cover of the terrain to move towards the place where the battle was taking place. He gently pushed aside the last layer of twisted vegetation that blocked his view with his hands. As expected, he discovered that two strange monks were standing there. Fighting in the distance.

The place where the two of them started was a relatively open forest clearing. On the bare dark red ground in the center of the clearing, a huge magic circle was lit up. More than ten formation flags were inserted in various holes of the formation, along with the ground. The densely packed formations covered an area of ​​several hundred meters in radius.

One of the gray-robed monks seemed to have accidentally been trapped in the formation, while the other blue-robed monk standing nearby kept waving the command flag in his hand, trying to activate the formation to strangle the opponent.

Neither of these two were monks of the Wuliang Sword Sect, but Yang Lu couldn't remember which sect they were.

After all, there are too many cultivation sects in Zhongzhou!

By the time Yang Lu arrived, the two had already fought for several rounds.

If they are monks with similar strengths, the party trapped in the formation will definitely be at an absolute disadvantage, and this is generally the case.

From time to time, the formation produced dazzling white beams of light that hit the trapped monks fiercely. Even if the trapped monks resisted with all their strength, they were still beaten away by the powerful power of the formation like a ball.

“Boom—!”

Being hit by the white beam of light again, the trapped monk was staggered by the huge force even if he had put up a spell shield in advance.

If this person hadn't used his right hand to support him a little, he would have almost been thrown into the mud on the spot.

Seeing that the trapped monk was about to lose his support, he heard him loudly begging for mercy: "This fellow Taoist from Dongshan! We in Baihe Tower and the noble sect have no enmity. I just happened to pass by here. I see your Bajiyuan The light array was also deployed in a hurry, and its power is only 10%, so if we each take a step back, we will avoid others taking advantage of us!"

Although this rhetoric was meant to delay the attack, what the White Crane Tower monk said was not unreasonable.

Despite this, the Dongshanju monk who controlled the formation did not appreciate it, and even increased the intensity of strangulation again. At the same time, he replied with a sneer: "No injustice or enmity? I am setting up the formation here with peace of mind, and you guys sneaked in Come up. If you didn’t have evil intentions, why would you still come to pay me New Year greetings? If it weren’t for the special inheritance of our formation in Dongshanju, even if the formation is not fully formed, it can still stimulate some power. I am afraid that I will be the one kneeling down to beg for mercy now. Bar!"

When the lie was exposed by the other party, the monk from Baihe Tower turned red and white, and was speechless, unable to say anything to refute.

Setting up a formation is like writing a program. Before the last line of code is typed, it will be difficult to run as a whole. This is why the monks from Baihe Tower dared to rely on their ninth-level Qi-refining skills to sneak attack on the eighth-level Qi-refining person in front of them. A monk who lives in Dongshan.

After all, the battlefield outside the territory had just begun for more than half an hour. The Dongshanju monk must have discovered this dangerous place temporarily. No matter how fast he set up the formation, he would not be able to use the eight-pole yuan light formation, a killing formation commonly used by cultivators in the Qi refining period. The laying is completed.

As a result, I never expected that the Dongshanju monk's formation formation habits were so unique that he could activate the power of the semi-finished formation in advance, just like a programmer on Earth building a wheel, before the entire formation was completed.

It was precisely because the monk Dongshanju set up the reconnaissance sensor module of the Eight-Ji Yuan Light Array immediately that he discovered the monk from the White Crane Tower in stealth state. After discovering the traces of the White Crane Tower monks, the Dongshanju monks first pretended not to know, and then took the time to build an independent enemy trap module and attack module.

When the White Crane Tower monk suddenly attacked and injured someone, the Dongshanju monk used the formation to strike back and caught the opponent off guard.

The monks of Baihe Tower could no longer deny the stolen goods.

So he had no choice but to take the initiative to beg for mercy: "Fellow Taoist, fighting on the battlefield outside the territory is inevitable. Everyone is just trying to make ends meet. Why are you so hard on each other? Can't you take a step back and the world will be brighter?"

"Fart, you did it in the first year of junior high school, so don't blame me for doing it in the fifteenth year. I've taken full advantage of your merits!"

"Fellow Taoist, think twice——"

However, this time it was not the Dongshanju monk who answered him, but a more powerful white light beam attack.

"You forced me to do this!"

Realizing that dragging him down would lead to death, the monk from Baihe Tower finally gave up.

He just heard him roar, and the natal flying sword in his hand suddenly exploded with light, and then exploded into a huge spiritual energy firework, carrying an astonishing air wave that blasted towards the formations in all directions.

At the same time, the monk from Baihe Tower tore up a piece of talisman paper from his waist, and the lightning struck straight in the direction of the monk from Dongshanju.

Nine levels of Qi refining talisman-Tianleizi!

On foreign battlefields, everyone has their own tricks.

The White Crane Tower monk first exploded his own magic weapon, and then activated a talisman worth thousands of spiritual stone coins. Even Yang Lu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, could tell that the White Crane Tower monk was going to fight to the death!

The Dongshanju monk had long expected that the other party would definitely have a trapped beast fight.

Instead of wasting it endlessly, it would be a good thing to be able to cut through the mess quickly and solve the problem in a dangerous foreign battlefield.

At the moment when the monk from Baihelou exploded his own magic weapon, the monk from Dongshanju decisively threw the command flag in his hand to the ground. The spiritual energy that was originally flowing endlessly inside the formation actually increased its intensity level again.

This monk from Dongshan Residence has very high attainments in formations. Not only can he freely combine the major functional modules of the Eight-Ji Yuan Light Array, but he can even guide the formation to temporarily overload. His research on the Eight-Jiu Yuan Light Array has reached the level of entering a room. , no wonder he dared to take the initiative to set up a formation at the intersection of the canyon with his eighth level of Qi refining, preparing to block the road and rob the passing monks.

You must know that this eighth-level Yuanguang Formation is only a semi-finished formation. If the monk Dongshanju completes the formation, facing monks of the same level, he will be able to defeat one against three, or even one against four.

As the Baihelou monk's sacrificial blow collided head-on with the power generated by the overload of the Eight-Ji Yuan Light Array, a deafening explosion suddenly exploded, making Yang Lu's eardrums buzz as he watched from a distance.

The strong aftermath of the explosion instantly turned half of the eight-pole elemental light array on the ground into flying ash. More than ten array flags were broken at the waist, and the violent air waves swept a large amount of dark red soil into the air.

When the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the Dongshanju monk stood on the spot unscathed, but his face was slightly pale. The trapped White Crane Tower monk had already been killed by the violent explosion until nothing was left.

After looking at the empty formation site, the monk from Dongshan Ju breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, looking at the mess on the ground, he still shook his head regretfully and said: "Although I have obtained the merit, a lot of materials for the formation have been consumed. I don't know if this guy has anything left for me..."

The sound of the explosion just now was too loud, and it was likely to attract enemies from more than ten miles away.

Monk Dongshanju also knows that it is very dangerous to clean the battlefield at this time. However, the eighth-level Yuanguang array requires a lot of irreplaceable array materials. He must recycle them, otherwise his situation will be very passive in the next time on the battlefield outside the territory. .

After only a moment of hesitation, Brother Dongshanju was ready to step forward and touch the body.

He waved his hand slightly, and a small tornado rolled up out of thin air, collecting all the relics of the White Crane Tower monks. The magic weapons and the contents of the storage bags were all swept up and put into the storage bags of the Dongshanju monks. .

The Dongshanju monk didn't even look at the trophies before he began to sort out the remains of his eighth-level Yuanguang array.

It's just that the explosion just now was too violent, and a large amount of formation materials had been buried deeply in the soil. The Dongshanju monks did not dare to give up these non-renewable formation materials casually. They could only push them back and forth like the earth's contractor. Using the great movement technique, he kept searching the upturned soil for formation materials that had not been completely destroyed.

Seeing that the victory was decided, the Dongshanju monks had already begun to clean the battlefield. It was estimated that they would not be able to clean it in a few minutes. Yang Lu also planned to take advantage of this great opportunity to sneak away quietly.

If everyone can avoid treason, that will undoubtedly be the best result.

However, at this moment, a warning sign suddenly appeared in Yang Lu's consciousness. He suddenly turned his head and looked around, only to find that an extremely fast red light suddenly shot from the horizon in the distance, directly facing the exposed back of the monk Dongshanju. He rushed over, his speed was so fast that even Yang Lu couldn't catch up with his eyes in time!