Chapter 180: Trapped?

At this moment, I can't bear to think too much. The wooden sign has already flown far away, and I might be late if I don't follow.

The wooden sign flew very steadily, but at an extremely fast speed. Xiao Chen chased it all the way, and found that the wooden sign was not leading to the Hall of Merit, and finally stopped in an unknown courtyard.

Xiao Chen walked in with doubts, and found that in the courtyard, more than ten people had already come here, and the girl he saw on the sky support tree just now was also here.

She saw Xiao Chen also came here, with a slightly surprised expression on her face, Xiao Chen counted the number of people, and there were ten people including him.

Everyone has at least the realm of a middle-rank great martial artist, and the girl's realm is the highest, having the realm of a top-rank peak martial artist. It is a hurdle for a great martial artist to reach Wu Zun, the sooner he enters the realm of Wu Zun, the higher his future achievements will be.

For this reason, Tiandao Pavilion even stipulates that if one fails to reach the realm of Wuzun before the age of twenty-five, one will be directly disqualified as an inner disciple.

Except for Xiao Chen, the rest of the people knew each other and were chatting quietly together, "I don't know if I will come back this time, I almost died there last time. "

"Yeah, if I wasn't in urgent need of merit points, I wouldn't have risked my life. Recently, I feel that my cultivation has reached a bottleneck. I need to buy some pills to assist my cultivation."

Xiao Chen's expression changed slightly when he heard the words, and he looked at the necklines of these people, and found that they were all embroidered with only two gold threads, which is the sign of ordinary disciples, and these people are not core disciples of the inner sect.

But how did they receive the high-level mission of the sect? Could it be that I was deceived? Xiao Chen remembered what happened on the second floor, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

In fact, he was indeed deceived. On the second floor of the Hall of Merit, the person gave him a list of high-level tasks, all of which were extremely dangerous and few people took them up.

Everyone can pick it up, the real normal high-level tasks, that person didn't show him to see, he didn't know the tricks in it.

"Hello! Which peak are you, what's your name, it's easy to get acquainted. My name is Mu Xinya, from Gangyu Peak, we just met." When Xiao Chen was meditating, the girl took the initiative to greet Xiao Chen.

For some unknown reason, neither Liu Ruyue nor Liu Suifeng wore Qing Yunfeng's signature clothes, not even Xiao Chen. He was still wearing the clothes he brought, so outsiders couldn't tell which peak Xiao Chen came from at a glance.

Xiao Chen withdrew his thoughts and carefully looked at the girl in front of him. This girl was only sixteen or seventeen years old.

He has a good-looking appearance, with a smile on his face all the time, and two mandarin duck knives stuck in his waist.

It feels like the little girl next door, she looks extremely lively, Xiao Chen said with a faint smile: "Qing Yunfeng, Ye Chen!"

Mu Xinya and the eight men looked at Xiao Chen in surprise, and looked carefully. After a while, Mu Xinya said, "Didn't you go to the second floor first yesterday? Why did you take this task?" , Didn't they show you other high-level tasks?"

Seeing that Xiao Chen was a little puzzled, Mu Xinya explained the reason in detail. Xiao Chen suddenly realized after listening to it. No wonder the man left for a long time before he took out the task list.

Moreover, the risk factor of the missions is very high, and the choice of missions is extremely low. The combination of all these and Mu Xinya's explanations can only show that this group of people really fooled themselves.

Seeing that Xiao Chen's expression was a little strange, Mu Xinya persuaded: "Don't think too much, you have already accepted the task and just try to complete it, the punishment for failure of the task is very serious."

The others were not core disciples, so they could understand Xiao Chen's feelings now, and they tried to persuade them one after another, and Xiao Chen became familiar with these people after a while.

Among these people, a Beichen Peak disciple named Ma Cheng had the most experience in this mission. He had been there twice in total, and he did not hesitate to tell everyone what he knew.

"The location of the mission is hundreds of meters deep underground. Our main mission is to protect the ordinary people who are mining. We often encounter some strange things in the underground. Don't be careless. If there is something that cannot be dealt with, immediately Retreat and call the elders to come, life-saving is the most important thing."

Plop flop!

As Ma Cheng was speaking, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and three old men dressed in black appeared in front of everyone. On the necklines of the three old men, there were two crossed golden long knives embroidered on them.

This is the symbol of the Supreme Elder of Tiandao. In the Tiandao Pavilion, the Supreme Elder has a respected status and has the right to directly issue meritorious tasks.

The aura of the three of them seemed unfathomable, and their aura was as majestic as the ocean. Xiao Chen conservatively estimated that the three of them had at least the cultivation level of King Wu.

Especially the old man in the middle, who made an even more impressive impression. His old face was covered with wrinkles, cloudy, and his eyes flashed coldly from time to time, making him look terrified.

The old man looked at the crowd, frowned slightly, and said with some displeasure: "The number of people is getting smaller every time, and there is even a low-rank great martial artist who ran in. The Hall of Merit suppressed our mission too much."

The low-rank martial artist was talking about Xiao Chen, even if Xiao Chen felt dissatisfied in his heart, he didn't dare to show any temper at the moment, kept his mouth shut and remained silent.

"Forget it, let's make do with it. There's nothing serious about it recently. It's relatively peaceful. Ten people are enough." A person next to him said.

The old man in the middle nodded, "Let me tell you about this task in detail now. To make a long story short, I won't repeat myself."

"The task is very simple. It is to patrol the ground, and the protection is also surveillance. Those ordinary people who dig the spirit stone mine will complete the task after sitting for a month."

It's really simple, if you say it, you don't say it, Xiao Chen slandered in his heart.

After the old man finished speaking, he took out a jade bottle, pointed at the crowd and said, "Relax, don't use your vitality to resist!"

Whoosh!

In the jade bottle, there was a huge suction force. Hearing the old man's words, Xiao Chen didn't move his vitality to resist, and was sucked into the jade bottle with a swipe.

This jade bottle is actually a secret treasure, inside the bottle is a small world, in the emptiness, it is pitch black, and the other nine people have not seen it, so they don't know where they went.

In this pitch-black space, time seemed to stand still. Xiao Chen knew that this was similar to the space in his Qiankun Ring, so he was not panicked.

Sit cross-legged, directly enter the cultivation state, and slowly operate the Zilei Jue to pass this boring time.

boom!

I don't know how long it has passed, Xiao Chen felt that the soles of his feet were firm, and he had come to the outside space. When he opened his eyes and looked, he found that he was in a damp stone room.

Standing up, Xiao Chen immediately felt the frightening aura around him, which made people a little unbelievable, as if he could touch the illusory aura with his hand.

"Is this the Spirit Mine?" Mu Xinya looked around curiously with wide eyes.

The remaining eight people and the old man who brought them did not show up, only he and the two were here. There is a stone table and two simple stone beds in the stone room, and all kinds of daily necessities are available.

Could it be that the two of them will live in this place for the next month? Thinking about it, Xiao Chen felt a little headache. Mu Xinya, on the other hand, still had a smile on his face, looking around at the surrounding environment, turning over the utensils in the stone room from time to time.

brush! A stone door in the middle of the stone room opened, and a middle-aged man dressed in black walked in and said, "You two are in a group, and you will live here for this month. If you need anything in the future, you can come to me. Come on, I will Let’s take you out to familiarize yourself with the environment first.”

Really want to live together, Xiao Chen felt a little embarrassed thinking about it, and said to the man: "Senior, is this really all right?"

The middle-aged man said strangely: "What's the problem? If you get it cheap, you're still a good boy. Here, two people live in groups. If you want to change it, I can change it for you right away."

"No need, no need!" Xiao Chen quickly waved his hands and said, if he lived with a man, it would be even more unbearable.

The middle-aged man nodded and said: "Don't call me senior, I'm not that old, just call me Uncle Ye or Ye Wen, let's go."

"By the way, wait a minute, I almost forgot, hold this first."

The middle-aged man handed the two a map made of animal skins. Xiao Chen took a look and found that it was a map of tunnels similar to a maze. The winding lines made people dazzled.

The eighth floor was written on the map, and the scale of the map was found. The mine tunnels on this floor alone cover an area of ​​several thousand square meters, which is shocking.

Xiao Chen found where he was on the map, and found a bright spot shining slightly on it. He didn't know what it was.

Ye Wen explained: "This spot of light is the waist badge on your waist. As long as you don't lose the waist badge, you don't have to worry about getting lost. If the waist badge doesn't move for a long time except for the rest time, it means that you are in danger. Someone will support you immediately."

This probably also has the meaning of surveillance in it. With this map, the whereabouts of the two of them will be completely controlled by others, Xiao Chen secretly thought.

Ye Wen then pointed out on the map the location of the headquarters in this layer of mines, and told them that the black line marked a dead end and they couldn't go there.

After explaining for a long time, the two of Xiao Chen also had a general understanding of the mine in their minds, and they were no longer at a loss, ignorant at all.

After telling the two about the mechanism of Shimen, Ye Wen took them out to familiarize themselves with the mine, and they didn't go far after leaving the stone room. In the dark mine, I saw a group of ordinary people with dark complexions who hadn't showered for an unknown period of time.

On the wide corridor, these people were digging the ground vigorously with ore manuscripts, their expressions were numb and lifeless.

The task of excavating spirit stones is arduous and huge, and it seems a bit unrealistic to use Tiandaoge's own disciples to dig them. These people were all sent here after signing a life and death contract with Tiandao Pavilion.

I told them in advance about the hardships and dangers here, but because of the high salary, these people all planned to leave after five years of working and making a fortune.