Chapter two hundred and ninety sixth on the road
Of course, I can’t tell Liu Ye now what to use, otherwise how can I recruit people?
From the moment they realized the huge development potential of the psionic gun, Tianyou had decided to recruit all the gunmen in Zixiao Palace, namely the dragon girl, to him. Even if they can't become their own little followers, they must be friends at least. As for those who refuse to submit... no one avoids them using the new psionic gun, at worst they can let them continue to play with their own rags.
After a few casual words, Tianyou finally said to Liu Ye: "We will go to work on the mission tomorrow, so we should rest early today. You can take this gun first. When you go back tonight, I will help you make a temporary simple bracket. I will bring it with you when you go back tomorrow. In addition, you can prepare more crossbow arrows and set it up for later use, so don't bring the iron balls."
"It must be a crossbow arrow?"
"Yes, it must be a crossbow, the arrow is not suitable for your gun."
"Oh, I'll try to collect some when I go back, but I may not find many overnight."
"You don't have to worry about this. You can find it as much as you can. I can lend it to you if it is not enough. But my arrows are all specially made models, which is too luxurious for you."
Liu Ye couldn't understand what it meant to be too luxurious for him, but he still nodded habitually and said goodbye to Tianyou and returned to his residence. He was already used to what others said, and rarely had time to object to others' opinions.
As soon as Tianyou returned to his cave, he saw Nan Ming sitting in the living room as soon as he entered the door. The table was indeed filled with the Ten-Pure Tonic Soup, which was comparable to poison.
"Are you going out to do the task tomorrow?" Before Tianyou could speak, Nan Ming asked first.
Tianyou walked into the cave and sat on the stone bench beside Nan Ming with some fatigue. He frowned and picked up the bottle of Shiquan Dapu soup and sent it to his lips. After brewing for a while, he pulled out the plug, then closed his eyes and raised his head, and poured the entire bottle of soup in one go. "Dis... This smell is still so disgusting no matter how many times I tried it!"
Nan Ming looked at Tianyou with his eyes squinted. "Why didn't you resist this time?"
"Is resistance useful?" Tianyou asked without looking back, then picked up the herbal tea on the table and started washing the bottle, preparing to drink the residue. He didn't like this thing, but no matter who he was around, he would mention it as long as he was familiar with it, and he performed extremely seriously. Even if he was ignorant, Tianyou knew that this thing was really important and he must not miss the opportunity.
Nan Ming looked at Tianyou with some amusement, then changed the question and asked, "I heard you are planning to do a mission?" Tianyou did not answer directly, but pulled his sleeve and handed his wrist in front of Nan Ming. Nan Ming stretched out his hand to sense Tianyou's spiritual power changes under Tianyou's gesture, and then said in surprise: "You have already broken through the late stage of dirty training? Why is the progress so fast? No, if this continues, the remaining eight bottles cannot be taken in eight days. Although centralized use will affect the effect, you have grown so fast, and there is no other way!"
"No, no, this is actually controllable." Tianyou said: "The reason I have to do the task is to stop practicing these days. If the body only naturally absorbs spiritual energy, the growth rate will not be so fast. And this time I plan to run away and connect to the Tianshan and Dongjieshan Mountains, which is far away from the center point of the neutral area. The spiritual energy is not as rich as the mountain, and the growth rate will further decrease."
Nan Ming thought for a moment and expressed his agreement with Tianyou's point of view. "Then you are waiting here. I will go back and bring you the remaining eight bottles. You can use them on the way. Remember to keep them well. These materials are not easy to get. If they are lost, I will have no materials to match you."
"I know. The great kindness of senior sister and Immortal Fuxi is unforgettable."
Although this medicine soup is so unpalatable, it is a real and tonic. Although Tianyou cannot accurately estimate the value of the ingredients, it can be concluded that it is definitely not something you can afford. No matter what the reason why Nan Ming and Fuxi took care of themselves, the effectiveness of this soup is real. Therefore, Tianyou does not want to miss this opportunity to grow, nor does he want to waste this favor.
Taking advantage of the time when Nan Ming left, Tianyou rinsed the bottle several times, drank the last bit of residue, and quickly took out the specially prepared beef and ate it two big bites. If this extremely delicious taste did not cover the previous medicinal smell, Tianyou was worried that he would be unable to control himself and vomited it out.
After temporarily solving the indescribable sense of disgust and Tianyou started to work hard again.
The task will be issued tomorrow, and time is quite tight, so it is absolutely impossible not to prepare things.
There are Taiyi in terms of main combat weapons, and the two divine weapons of Emperor Dao are luxuriously configured, so there is no need to consider it anymore. The second main weapon is of course the compound bow that was strengthened in Lu Meng's store, but when this mission comes back, the bow should probably be thrown away. As Tianyou's power continues to increase, the pulling adjustment piece of the bow has been transferred to the maximum position, but Tianyou still feels it is a bit light. It is impossible to make this bow meet Tianyou's needs by relying on some small-scale modifications, so the plan to recreate a better compound bow has been put on the agenda by Tianyou. Of course, there is no time at the moment, and it must be waited until they complete the mission.
What Tianyou has to do now is to add a bow string to his bow. The previous bow string has not been used repeatedly under this pull force. Tianyou is worried that there will be a break in the task, so he plans to take down the original bow string, twist it with a new bow string, and use double strings to reduce the pull force on a single bow string to ensure that there are no problems in the task.
Tianyou has done this work many times, and the bowstring is also ready-made. In addition, the reason why he wants to help Zhenyuan Shangxian do experiments is almost equivalent to building a new workshop outside the cave. This tool and equipment is also available, so it is naturally easy and quick to do things.
When Nan Ming came back, he saw Tianyou being seriously twisted silk, so he didn't bother him much. After putting down the medicine bottle, he briefly explained a few words and turned around and left Tianyou's cave.
Tianyou continued to bend the bowstring alone, and the fire that had risen before was completely heated up. After trying the bow, he started to work around the stove again. Soon a small piece of iron ingot was melted into iron juice and poured into the flat bottom trough prepared in advance. After a while, it cooled into a thin iron plate. While the thing had not completely cooled down, Tianyou asked Yueying to help take out the iron plate directly.
Since she discovered that she had the ability to be immune to fire last time, Tianyou has specifically asked Yueying to try it out. As expected, she has a very high affinity for flames and high temperatures. Even if she is rolling iron juice, she can directly reach out and try the temperature. Even if she uses iron juice to directly take a bath, there will be no problem. In comparison, Tianyou's ability is much weaker. He is just not afraid of fire, and his tolerance to high temperatures is not as high as Yueying. At least he dare not touch the iron. However, ordinary fires don't feel much about him, but it is true.
It’s normal to think about it. Yueying is a phoenix, so it’s okay to not be afraid of fire. Tianyou’s ability is just a side effect brought by symbiosis with Yueying, which is not as normal as Yueying.
With Yueying, a helper that doesn’t know what hot is, processing metals becomes much easier. As the temperature drops, the hardening of the metal does not occur suddenly. This is a gradual process. Yueying can take advantage of the softness of the red iron plate that has just formed, just like pinching plasticine. After that, what Tianyou needs to do is wait for it to cool slightly before performing local forging and processing.
What he wanted to do this time was the arrow guide that Liu Ye needed. This thing was actually a bit similar to the arrow tower on the composite bow, but this one was installed on the muzzle, so the structure was a little strange. After all, it also needs to be coordinated with the structure of the gun chamber.
Although the shape is a bit weird, it is not a cumbersome structure after all. Tianyou quickly made a rough shape. After a simple quenching process using salt brek, he threw it aside. Anyway, this thing is only used temporarily, so there is no need to pursue any quality.
After getting this thing done, Tianyou couldn't help but run to the passage next to the Lingquan to practice for a while, but his cultivation level began to go crazy and kept running upwards. Tianyou was so scared that he quickly stopped practicing and ran out. Now he became more determined to go out for a while, because he always couldn't help but want to go down to practice in the cave. I don't know if it was the Dapu Tang that started to take effect in the past two days or something else. Tianyou felt that his cultivation speed was showing a step-by-step growth trend. If he continued at this speed, he would probably break through to the bone refining stage after staying in the cave for two or three days. Therefore, in order to suppress this crazy growth, he had to leave as soon as possible.
Now that Tianyou is trying to stop practicing at Lingquan, it is like asking an old smoker to quit smoking while watching others smoke. The feeling is so entangled.
Finally, with his strong willpower, he restrained the urge to continue practicing, but as soon as he closed his eyes, it became dawn. What was waiting for him in front of him was practicing in the morning. Considering the speed of his cultivation last night, Tianyou still didn't dare to go down. He forced himself to go to the platform to exercise his body, and then took his demon pets with him as if he was chased and ran away.
The agreed meeting place was still the cafeteria. After we met here, we had breakfast together, and then went down the mountain together.
This time, they did not use the teleportation array, but chose to walk down the mountain. After leaving the mountain gate, Tianyou was about to speak, but the guy named Hero shouted first: "Everyone with the spirit cavalry, let's discuss how to arrange the spirit cavalry and see if it's enough. If not enough, rent a few good horses in the town as soon as possible, so it's easy to carry."
"Well, it makes sense."
The people Murong Xuan introduced all agreed with the hero's words, but Tianyou did not respond much to this. After all, he said it well. However, this guy's subsequent actions obviously had a strong purpose.
As he said, the group of people introduced by Murong Xuan immediately released four spirit riders. If the two ride together, it would be enough. However, unlike others, the spirit rider released by the hero was a divine red horse with a bright fur and a tall and long legs. Without closer inspection, the horse light standing there was half a head taller than the other three spirit riders around, and you could see that the level was higher at a glance.
Originally, there were some differences between everyone's spiritual riders. After all, everyone is still disciples, and among them, except Zhao Lingyun, the other levels cannot be considered particularly high, so it is normal for their spiritual riders to be average or without spiritual riders.
However, the hero, after summoning the spirit rider, he turned over and drove the spirit rider under his crotch to the front of Tianyou. He first demonstrated with his eyes in a condescending manner, and then he deliberately asked Tianyou sarcastically: "Is there no spirit rider in the team leader? What should I do? Otherwise, let me carry you for a long time? Senior brother is a five-soul spirit rider, which is rare in daily life."
Of course, the hero said this to show his outstanding spirit rider. At the same time, he saw that Tianyou did not have a spirit rider, so he dared to say this. As for Bai Bingyu and Zhao Lingyun, they were directly ignored by the hero. After all, those three were female disciples. Even if the monks were not careful about the red tape, they were unlikely to ride together in front of so many people. That would be too exaggerated.
Because of this, the hero judged that Tianyou had most likely no spiritual rider available. After all, all the spiritual riders have been taken out now. Even if they are not released, at least the spiritual rider magic beads have been held in their hands. Seeing that Tianyou had empty hands, it was obvious that there was no one.
As for the high level of his spirit rider, this is normal, because the five-soul spirit rider is indeed rare.
The spirit rider is divided into main soul and auxiliary soul. There can only be one main soul, but there is no upper limit for auxiliary soul. However, the more soul beads are fusion, the more difficult it is to fusion, so most spirit riders have three or four souls. For example, the three spirit riders taken out by the group of senior brothers introduced by Murong Xuan just now, including one three soul and two four souls. In contrast, the hero's five soul spirit rider does have the capital to show off.
However, this guy was obviously too early to show off.
Before Tianyou could speak, Bai Bingyu threw out his spirit riding. As a result of a burst of smoke exploded, a white spirit rider that was even more majestic than the hero's spirit rider jumped out of the smoke. This pure white spirit rider could tell at a glance that it was not an ordinary person. Not only was it taller than the hero's one, but its fur color and spirit were obviously higher than the hero's one.
"Tianyou, I will use this six-soul rider for you. I will ride the same rider with Lu Meng."
The hero was staring at the white spirit rider thrown by Bai Bingyu in a daze, but Lu Meng threw out the spirit riding magic bead in his hand again, and then a spirit rider with the same divine horse appeared in front of everyone.
That girl Lu Meng is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After summoning the spirit rider, she jumped and waved to Bai Bingyu, while shouting: "Senior sister is here to ride with me, my six-soul spirit rider is so fast."
Originally, Bai Bingyu and Lu Meng's two six-soul spirit riders were like two slaps on the left and right sides, swelling the hero's face. Unexpectedly, Zhao Lingyun, who had never said anything in the morning, made up another intimate foot. As the spirit riding magic bead in her hand fell to the ground, the smoke appeared afterwards.
The shape of the spirit rider mainly depends on what kind of soul beads the main soul uses. Usually, for the sake of easy manipulation, the main soul uses tame war horses, which can ensure that the spirit rider has a high obedience. For example, the Hell Demon Dragon Spirit Rider obtained by Tianyou is completely out of control because it uses the Hell Black Dragon soul beads as the main soul, so it is completely out of control and cannot be used at all. Otherwise, if you really want to fight for the Spirit Rider, Tianyou will never be afraid of anyone. Generally, even if the spirit rider has fused 100,000 horse souls, can he have done the Hell Demon Dragon?
Unfortunately, Tianyou's spiritual rider is still just a decoration to this day, and can be seen but not used.
However, Zhao Lingyun's spiritual rider is not a kind of thing that can only be seen but not used. Her spiritual rider is obviously the same as Tianyou's hell demon dragon. The main soul uses a demon soul, because this spiritual rider is not in the shape of a horse, but in the form of a beast.
The spirit rode nearly two feet long, and its whole body was as red as blood. There was a faint orange flame circulating and swelling on the surface of its body. Its body was similar to a leopard, strong but not bloated, and its whole body felt a sense of power. Beneath the short and dense hair were bulging tendons, which gave people the illusion that they would rush out at any time even if they stood still.
This is obviously not a spirit rider made of horse soul. The main soul clearly uses a certain demon soul. As for how many auxiliary souls it has merged... because it is not a common horse-shaped spiritual rider, it lacks reference and cannot be judged. But considering that its main soul uses a demon soul, in order to keep it stable and not completely out of control, the auxiliary soul must have used a lot of horse souls, otherwise it would not be so obedient at all.
Zhao Lingyun, who threw out such a bombshell, seemed to have nothing happened. She stepped onto the spirit rider and said to Tianyou: "My fire lynx is full of fire, and most people cannot get close to it. Senior sister will not invite you to ride together."
Tian Youxin said: "This is a knowing blow! Looking at the hero's expression, it's almost collapsed, right?"
Fortunately, the hero is not alone and helpless. Although the seven companions behind him are not completely in line with him, they are all Murong Xuan's followers, so they have to protect him for the sake of Murong Xuan's face. So after reacting from the shock, everyone immediately started to assign mounts noisy and rushed everyone to get on the road.
Bai Bingyu and the others just couldn't stand the guy's attitude and didn't intend to force him to death, so they stopped stimulating him and moved with the crowd.
Although there was a three-soul spirit riding in the team and it was a two-person ride, the spirit riding was much stronger than the living horse after all. Therefore, the team's movement speed was pretty good, and it was quite fast running all the way.
Originally, the roads in the neutral zone were not very peaceful, and the caravans were basically small armies armed to the teeth, and ordinary people did not dare to leave the settlement alone. But Tianyou and the others were all monks, and they were all wearing the uniform costumes of Zixiao Palace. Even if they encountered the robbery, they immediately got back into the dense forest when they saw their outfits, for fear of being missed.
There cannot be said that there are no people who dare to offend Zixiao Palace in the neutral area, but there are definitely not many.
The spirit cavalry was fast and tireless. Everyone ran from morning to noon in one breath, and crossed the prefectures and counties all the way, and had already run a long way. At this time, a large town appeared in front of them. Tianyou asked everyone: "I guess everyone is too tired after running all the way. Let's just have lunch here and have some rest?"
As the leader, it was reasonable for Tianyou to arrange everyone's actions. But the heroes who were bored all the way suddenly became energetic again. Before others could agree, he took the lead and shouted: "Didn't you say in the morning that the first mission was very urgent? Then why are you resting? Didn't you bring dry food? Just rushing on the horse's back and eating. As a monk, isn't this ability yet?"
Although the spirit rider is tireless, people will be tired immediately. Besides, the spirit rider is not a perpetual motion machine. This thing does not eat grass, but requires the rider to constantly inject spiritual power to run. Now that we have been running all morning, everyone has gone half of their spiritual power, so it is natural to be tired.
Everyone was inevitably a little unhappy when the hero said such words at this time, but what he said made sense. The disciples who took over the mission scroll knew that some tasks were at stake and could not be delayed. So even if the hero said such words, no one opposed them.
Seeing that everyone had no objection, Tianyou couldn't force everyone to rest, so he could only follow him and said, "Since that's the case, let's continue on the road."
In this way, the team had no choice but to pass through the city and ran towards the mission target without stopping.
Many of the tasks taken by Zixiao Palace are indeed imprisoned, but after all, the monks are not people's policemen, and they will not really run away as soon as they receive the task. It is absolutely rare to rush on like this, and they don't get off the horse when they eat. However, this also has such benefits, at least the speed is indeed much faster.
After running to dusk, Tianyou began to control the speed and slow down the team. However, the hero who always stood with him did not slow down and ran to the front of Tianyou. This position should be the leader, but he rushed to the front.
Looking at Tianyou who was half behind his position, he turned around and shouted, "Why did Junior Brother Tianyou slow down? Is it because his cultivation is too low and his spiritual energy cannot keep up with it?"
Bai Bingyu lent the spirit rider to Tianyou is good, but the higher the high-end spirit rider, the more it consumes. It is common sense to not save fuel on sports cars, and it is the same in Shenzhou Continent.
The hero suffered a loss on the issue of the spirit rider before, so he was trying to get back the field. The opportunity he found was the advanced spirit rider that Tianyou rode.
Among the 12 people here, Tianyou has the lowest cultivation level, but he rides a relatively high-end spiritual rider, which naturally consumes the fastest. At noon, the hero encourages everyone not to rest and rush on the road continuously, just to waste Tianyou's spiritual energy so that he can show off his cultivation level in front of Tianyou, and then mock Tianyou's low cultivation level.
However, what surprised him was that Tianyou ran all the way from morning to now, and there was no sign of spiritual energy exhaustion at all, but it looked very relaxed. It was not until just now that Tianyou slowed down, and he guessed that Tianyou would be unable to hold on anymore, so he slowed down.
Unfortunately, his guess has nothing to do with the actual situation.
Tianyou did not discover the hero's conspiracy, but he was not alone in controlling the spirit rider. Don't forget that there is still moon shadow on him. Moon shadow can be shared with Tianyou in the symbiotic form, of course, it is only limited to this fusion state or any direct contact.
In short, in addition to his own spiritual energy, Tianyou also has the Yueying reserve library to use. Besides, Tianyou gathers spiritual energy quickly. Although the total storage volume is not as good as that of Heroes and the others, he returns to the demon quickly. His spiritual energy consumption speed has always been a little higher than the recovery speed along the way, so his actual consumption speed is far faster than that of Heroes and the others. If you continue running like this, even without Yueying’s help, Tianyou will never be the first one to be unable to hold on.
Because the heroes were chasing each other intentionally or unintentionally, Tian You's speed was much faster, and the team behind slowed down due to fatigue, which resulted in only Tian You and Hero being in the front. Zhao Lingyun, who was following closely behind, was still three positions away from them. Anyway, the distance was too far away when running at high speed, Tian You simply didn't bother to pay attention to him, continued to control the spirit cavalry to slow down, and quickly returned to the middle of the team.
Without waiting for the heroes in front to slow down and let them catch up, Tianyou directly notified everyone loudly: "Reduce the horse speed, pay attention to controlling physical and spiritual power consumption, we will spend the night in the next village."
This time, Tianyou didn't ask everyone's opinions at all, because he didn't need to ask him, and he knew what everyone was thinking. He ran all his might on the horse's back for a day, and even the cultivators could not bear the physique. Moreover, the two worst senior brothers in the team were about to run out of spiritual energy. The monks without spiritual energy were actually not much better than ordinary people.
This decision made everyone happy immediately. Although they did not get excited to speed up, they finally recovered some energy.
The hero in front saw Tianyou slow down and landed behind him, and immediately slowed down. After hearing Tianyou's call, he immediately opened his mouth to sarcastically. He guessed that Tianyou was almost out of reach, so he was unwilling to give up at this time. He wanted to see Tianyou make a fool of himself.
Unfortunately, he wanted to see it, but others couldn't stand it.
At noon, it was because he had a legitimate reason and everyone didn't really have to rest, so they accommodated him and continued to run away. But it's different now. Except for Zhao Lingyun's cultivation level is high enough, everyone else felt a very strong sense of fatigue. In this case, even if they were Murong Xuan's followers, the others did not plan to help him again.
"Brother Hero, you are not tired, and you should take care of others? We can't hold on!"
"That's Brother Hero. It's okay to hurry up at noon, but it's been a day. Even if we get to the destination, how can we have the energy to perform the mission?"
Someone took the lead, and the others immediately began to echo each other, and finally Bai Bingyu also spoke. "I made an agreement before departure. Junior Brother Tianyou is the leader, so I naturally have to listen to Junior Brother Tianyou."
The hero originally wanted to mock Tianyou, but he didn't want to become a public enemy. Now he can't hold on anymore, so he could only change his words and say something. But no one paid attention to him and didn't take him back, which made him feel embarrassed. Fortunately, a village happened to appear in front of him, and finally he found the topic to resolve the embarrassment.
"Look, there is a village."
"This should be Zhaojia Village." The team has slowed down from being voluntarily to a leisurely state of walking. Tianyou held a map with both hands, controlling the horse with his legs, while finding the corresponding location on the map. Every time he went to a village along the way, he would ask the name of the village and then compare it on the map.
There are no navigation satellites on the Shenzhou Continent, and the mountains are high and dense forests are dense, so the roads are twists and turns. It is easy to get lost if you are not careful, and it will be difficult to get it back once you get lost.
"We were passing by Xiaoshu Village before, and there were no forks along the way, so there should be no mistakes." Bai Bingyu controlled the spirit cavalry to walk next to Tianyou and said to him.
Lu Meng behind Bai Bingyu then asked: "I have also checked the map before. After passing Zhaojia Village, it is Xinghuang Village we are going to. Should we just kill it overnight?"
Tianyou frowned and thought for a while, shook his head and refused. "No. Our mission is to find out the reason why the villagers in Xinghuang Village were poisoned. It is inconvenient to investigate information at night, and the danger is too high. Moreover, many villagers in Xinghuang Village moved to Zhaojia Village for refuge after being poisoned. We can stay here tonight and find out the news of some villagers in Xinghuang Village."
"Then let's spend the night here according to you."
Chapter completed!