Some people are born with dull aptitude, and they will step into the realm of foundation building throughout their lives.
Some people are born with the blessing of the immortal, and within a few dozen years, they have already ascended to the Tao and returned to their innocence.
Shen Cong used the system to harden the body and recast it, and changed the qualifications of the original owner the day after tomorrow. He has practiced from birth to the present, and only then can he be worthy of the second heaven of foundation building.
As for Gu Jiuling, after getting started with entraining qi, he never slept or rested on the way, and in just a few days, he stepped into the fifth level of qi training.
When the demon pill was converted into mana and absorbed, Shen Cong noticed that Gu Jiuling was already convulsed with pain, and cold sweat was pouring out, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Even he was amazed by such endurance.
If you talk about peerless cultivation geniuses, Gu Jiuling is definitely the top one.
The trail was speeding up, and the group arrived at the border of Shandong within a few days.
"From the Shandong area, it is Jiangnan. Today I will set up camp here, and tomorrow I will go to the post station to change horses and go on the road." Song Cheng called the horse to stop, and asked the accompanying guards to keep an eye on the food and money used for disaster relief, and went straight Walk towards Shen Cong.
On the surface, they were going to collect monsters and relieve disasters, but secretly they got a secret edict from Emperor Jing Yuan.
Add another batch of rations to the reinforcements, so that the prince can return to the court as soon as possible.
"Shen Cong, go and inspect the four directions. If there are monsters, they will be killed without mercy." Song Cheng glanced at Gu Jiuling, "You stay and guard the food and pay with Jin Yiwei."
Gu Jiuling and Shen Cong clasped their fists together and said, "Here."
After Song Cheng leisurely went to warm the wine by the fire, Shen Cong took out the jade-faced keel fan, stepped out slowly, walked away from the halo, and went straight into the forest in front of him.
It's the dog days right now, and it's very hot outside, but this mountain forest is cool and cool.
Even a little cold.
"Evil spirit?" Shen Cong raised his eyebrows slowly, fluttering his nose.
Song Cheng must have noticed that there was a demon haunting him, so he asked him to look around.
This evil spirit seems to be a third-phase monster.
It seems that the rumors are not false, Song Cheng does have a hand.
Shen Cong lined up in the void less than an inch above the ground, spread out a corner of the jade fan in his palm, and a golden light suddenly appeared.
"Fighting in battle, look for it!"
A ray of monster energy came from the void and merged into the formation of golden light. When Shen Cong saw the golden thread flying out, it flew straight towards him.
The rustling movement was accompanied by the evil spirit behind him.
Shen Cong stood up suddenly and took a step forward, a black shadow landed where he was originally.
Turning his head to look, Shen Cong took a closer look.
This guy is covered in long black hair, he looks like a shaggy-faced thunderbolt. Like a monkey but not a monkey, he is tall and majestic, with a pair of scarlet eyes, and at a glance, he is a monster who is ready to kill.
"Human-faced blue beast, Bingxiang fourth grade, two hundred and seventy-nine years of Taoism." Shen Cong squinted, and the solemnity in his eyes flashed away.
is a tricky monster.
The wind comes gradually, and there is no sound in the forest, like everything.
Beside the convoy, the young man in white wearing a straw hat twitched his brows, slowly opened his cold eyes, and looked towards the dense forest ahead.
It is the beginning of Maoshi, and the dawn will not come.
Shen Cong did not return all night.
Gu Jiuling frowned slightly, and slowly clenched the saber around her waist, suppressing a trace of uneasiness in her heart.
Song Cheng was already directing the crowd, ready to go.
Glancing at the undispatched convoy, Gu Jiuling took a step forward and quickly headed towards the dense forest using his lightness kung fu.
As soon as he entered the dense forest, Gu Jiuling could smell the smell of blood all over the sky, and immediately he saw a monster lying in a pool of blood and dying.
He frowned again.
When I came here, the dense forest was quiet and there was no abnormality. How did it change after I entered it?
Gu Jiuling didn't have time to think about it.
He saw the black figure kneeling on one knee not far away.
This figure held the jade-faced keel fan tightly in one hand, and the embroidered spring knife inserted in the ground in the other. The black gauze cap was beaten crookedly, and the temple hair was messy.
At this time, Shen Cong lowered his head, breathless.
"Shen Yunzhe!" Gu Jiuling's eyes changed, and he walked over quickly, squatting down to help, when a strong smell of blood came towards him.
Gu Jiuling looked down.
There was a puddle of brown blood under Shen Cong's body.
"Shen Yunzhe, wake up!"
Gu Jiuling's pupils shrank for a while, and he didn't care about the white robe he had always valued. He quickly sat cross-legged, took Shen Cong's hand and began to instill spiritual energy into him.
With spiritual nourishment,Cong finally stopped dying.
He slowly opened his eyes, he was dressed in a white robe, and after a moment of surprise, he raised his eyes and looked to the side.
It's Gu Jiuling.
"Gu Anxian, you don't want to die." Shen Cong glanced at the still-struggling human-faced beast from the corner of his eye, and suddenly exerted force in his hand holding the Xiuchun knife, and pulled out the long knife that was deep in the ground. Throw forward.
The long knife plunged into the monster's belly, cutting off its breath completely.
"It's you who wants to die." Gu Jiuling smiled.
Shen Cong raised his eyebrows.
Yo, the young prince with a paralyzed face still laughs at him.
"The convoy is leaving, I'll carry you there." Gu Jiuling was about to get up after speaking, but was held back by a sticky hand.
"I'm seriously injured, and it's not suitable for recuperation in the carriage. You bring this to Mr. Song, and say that I gave it to the border guards." Shen Cong shook his head, took out a porcelain bottle from the Qiankun bag, and handed it over.
Gu Jiuling took it, and his eyes fell on Shen Cong's hand.
Probably due to holding the knife too tightly, there are deep red marks on the palm of the hand, and it seems that flesh and blood can be seen in the next moment.
"You go first, I will find your traces in a short while after recuperating." Before he could speak, Shen Cong waved his hand to signal Gu Jiuling to leave.
Gu Jiuling couldn't resist Shen Cong, so he pursed his lips and got up.
He went to pull out the Xiuchun knife from the belly of the monster, threw it beside Shen Cong, and left without looking back.
Shen Cong glanced at the blood-stained long knife, reached out to touch the blade, and a golden magic circle suddenly appeared, capturing the breath of the human-faced blue beast and incorporating it into the system.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing the fourth-rank human-faced green beast of Bingxiang and obtaining a third-rank buff pill!"
The cold mechanical voice of the system in his mind broke Shen Cong's last trace of sobriety.
This human-faced blue beast was powerful, and Shen Cong was at a disadvantage from the very beginning, and was beaten to the point where he was powerless to fight.
Having no choice but to take out the Xiuchun Knife reforged by the system, Shen Cong urged all the spells that the system could give, and took advantage of the dense forest terrain to hit the monster's life gate.
In the end, both he and the monster were seriously injured.
The human-faced blue beast has sprouted wisdom, and has set up a formation in the dense forest to block the evil spirit, so that outsiders can't feel any strangeness inside.
This is why Shen Cong fought fiercely with the monsters, but the outside Jin Yiwei remained indifferent.
When Gu Jiuling found him, he was at the end of his strength. Even with the support of spiritual energy, he didn't have the energy to meditate anymore.
A mouthful of blood spilled out of his mouth, Shen Cong shook, and fell completely limp.
When he was in a coma, there was a burst of golden light between his brows. The light fell to the ground and turned into a large formation, which actually merged with the barrier.
When Song Cheng counted the troops, he realized that Gu Jiuling and Shen Cong had disappeared.