Chapter 45 Mysterious Bone Mountain
As expected, it was Gu Zhengshun calling out. The other party seemed impatient to tie him to their chariot. Considering their agreement, there was no need to fall out just yet.
Wang Yu then laughed and said:
"Senior Brother Gu, long time no see, your spirit is still as vigorous as ever."
"No, no, take a look at these people, and Junior Brother Wang will understand why your Senior Brother is so obsessed with Mysterious Bone Mountain."
Wang Yu echoed with a nod, appearing to anyone watching to be displaying brotherly respect and fraternal courtesy.
The plaza where the flow of people was gathering at this moment was the front plaza of the Various Halls Market. The Mysterious Bone Mountain mission was official business of the Sect, and the handover of the two groups of people also needed to go through the Mission Hall.
Therefore, quite a few people were standing here.
Gu Zhengshun secretly pointed out two people who were the center of attention, and introduced them to him in a low voice:
"Junior Brother Wang, take a look at that woman in black with green hair. She is an Inner Sect Disciple of the Gu Poison Peak, the third peak of the Sect.
"Her name is Liu Jinxian, Seventh Layer Qi Condensation Stage, and her father is Core Formation Elder True Person Green Snake. With the Mysterious Bone Mountain Lord's Token, she has a share. Surrounding her are subordinates from Gu Poison Peak, numbering over two hundred, making her the branch with the largest number of people among the three Mysterious Bone Mountain Lords."
Wang Yu raised an eyebrow... Liu Jinxian, her name was indeed impressively arrogant: "And who is the other one?"
"Situ Hong, this one is an Inner Sect Disciple of the Five Yin Peak, the seventh peak. His adoptive mother is also a Core Formation Cultivator, known as Peach Blossom Ghost Mother, and her Power is much stronger than that True Person Green Snake.
"He himself is only at the Qi Condensation Eighth Layer, having just entered the Late Qi Condensation Stage not long ago. The Five Yin Peak disciples surrounding him number one hundred and twenty-nine."
Good heavens, the two sides together had exactly four hundred people. If he had come to the appointment without knowing anything, among the three mountain lords, he would have been alone. He probably would have been dealt with on the road.
That dog Zhao Shang deserves to have his flesh eaten bit by bit!
However, thinking about it again, although this Gu Zhengshun has a Core Formation Grandmaster, their relationship definitely wouldn't be as close as his relationship with his master. And in the Demonic Path, the master-disciple relationship is not as important as imagined.
Compared to Liu and Situ, Gu Zhengshun's Status was much lower.
Therefore, when Wang Yu looked behind him, there were only a mere twenty people, with uneven Cultivation Levels, the worst being only Qi Condensation Third Layer, and they were carrying Elm Wood Coffins on their backs, looking quite shabby.
This meager foundation... to compete with those two?
Wang Yu gave Gu Zhengshun a questioning look and walked away in silence.
"Cough cough———"
"Junior Brother Wang, don't rush, the Sect has issued more than five hundred Mysterious Bone Tokens in total, and there are still eighty or so ordinary disciples. We can recruit some. You did agree to share weal and woe~"
Wang Yu paused in his steps and did not Leave again. Instead, he blended into the group of Heavenly Corpse Peak disciples, found someone to get a spare coffin, and carried it on his back in a showy manner.
From today onwards, he is a Heavenly Corpse Peak disciple~
Conforming to the norm.
Gu Zhengshun was happy to see him like this and did not stop him. Wang Yu was his trump card, so naturally, he had to hide him first.
He himself went to the group of ordinary disciples, using his eloquence to recruit manpower, and also took the opportunity to inquire about news from the old disciples who had returned on Rotation.
Five years is not a short time for Qi Condensation Cultivators.
There might be differences from the information he had. So, he had to find out, and asking more questions wouldn't hurt.
The area of a province is vast. Blood Abyss Province is approximately twenty million square kilometers. The Reverse Spirit Blood Sect is located in the very center of this province, and hundreds of miles away is the sacred ground for Cultivation of Blood Dao Cultivation Methods—Blood Abyss!
This trip, heading north from the Sect Gate, needs to cross Jade Night Province and go straight to Maple Province, which is considered the northernmost edge of the Scarlet Kite Demon Domain, in a remote location to the left.
Further north is the Endless Ice Plain, which is vast and uninhabited, and there is also a natural disaster, the Extreme Ice Storm, which even Nascent Soul Old Monsters find difficult to cross.
The straight-line distance of this trip exceeds fifty thousand kilometers, longer than the equator of his previous world. It can be considered a long journey.
At the speed of Qi Condensation Cultivators, even if they travel the entire journey using Flying Magic Artifacts, it would take at least twenty-six days, averaging eighty kilometers per hour.
But this is a straight-line distance. On the way, they have to bypass Dangerous Zones and also stop to recover Mana and rest daily. The travel time will be several times longer, and it will normally take nearly three months to reach Mysterious Bone Mountain.
At that time, it will be just in time to welcome the new year, and the time of garrison will also be counted from the time of arrival.
Fortunately, they are passing through the territory of the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect, otherwise, not to mention getting there, it would be a blessing to not die halfway.
Maps of the Scarlet Kite Demon Domain are difficult for people like Wang Yu to obtain. Maps are also precious Resources, and various Sects attach great importance to them. Ordinary maps are useless. They must mark Spirit Veins, Factions, Dangerous Zones... etc. Drawing maps is extremely risky.
Therefore, the lower the level of Cultivators, the more "blind" they are. When going somewhere, they know how to get there, but what dangers they will encounter, they only know a little and cannot see the whole picture.
For Cultivators, long journeys are also a difficult matter.
The waiting time is always long.
When Gu Zhengshun returned to the team, he had not recruited a single person, but he had an extra Scroll in his hand. He said.
"Junior Brother Wang, the Mission Hall has completed the handover. The Reward for five years is five hundred Contribution Points and five hundred Spirit Stones. Just use your Disciple Token to leave an Imprint."
This amount of money is very little. Compared to the missions taken from Ice Snow Tower, it is quite shabby. No wonder those people would rather be exploited for sixty percent than only do missions within the Tower.
"Okay."
The harvest from Mysterious Bone Mountain is not in the Mission itself, but in the Opportunity of this place. Therefore, it doesn't matter if it's more or less.
After completing the Imprint, Gu Zhengshun handed it to the rest of the people one by one, and then turned back to hand in the Mission Scroll. Only then did he say.
"Alright, everything is settled, let's go."
Wang Yu's expression changed slightly, and he pointed at the two groups of Liu and Situ.
"Not going together?"
"They look down on us, let's go."
"Understood…"
Just as he was about to take out the Flying Magic Artifact Black Silk, which he hadn't used since he got it, Gu Zhengshun took out a white bone boat, threw out dozens of Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to embed, and the bone boat instantly grew larger, enough to carry their twenty-two people.
It was his lack of experience.
As soon as they set off, Liu Jinxian and Situ Hong immediately displayed their respective methods. One was a Pavilion shrouded in poisonous smoke, containing a universe within. The other was a skull roaring with Yin spirits, which rapidly enlarged after Mid-Grade Spirit Stones were embedded.
To Wang Yu's surprise, there were no Foundation Establishment Cultivators accompanying them. Instead, the disciples who obtained the "Mountain Lord Token" went freely.
On the bone boat, Gu Zhengshun, who was flying towards the Sect Gate, seemed to have seen what he was thinking and joked.
"Maple Province is remote, and the Mysterious Bone Mountain we are going to is close to the Endless Ice Plain. There are not many Foundation Establishment Cultivators who come to this area, and once they are stationed, it is difficult to move even for forty or fifty years."
"So it's like this———"
The word [Exile] can summarize it!
After leaving the Sect Gate, Gu Zhengshun handed over the job of controlling the bone boat to his subordinates, and sat with Wang Yu on the top platform to drink together, and by the way, talked about some information about Mysterious Bone Mountain and what they would do next.
End of Chapter