47. Artist Dad 14

Three hours later, Cheng Ye looked at the task board that had not yet reached the target, and thought to himself: There is no such thing as smooth sailing.

The ghost bugs were so small and so adept at hiding that a team of four took three hours to capture just over forty. Furthermore, their powerful attack was truly devastating! During this time, the four of them had been struck by them. However, with Kishi's experience, they had taken a calming elixir beforehand to prevent the sound of their voices from knocking them unconscious.

However, they discovered that the ghost bugs' habitat was fixed within this patch of flowers. Outside this range, there was no trace of the ghost bugs at all.

Time-consuming as it was, the ghost bug hunt still had to continue. Suddenly, a sense of extreme danger overwhelmed Cheng Ye, and he abruptly turned and took two steps back. When he looked closely, he found nothing behind him. Cheng Ye's face darkened. This was the second time. He had just thought he was just being suspicious, but now it seemed there was something fishy going on.

Cheng Ye took out a small paper crane and sent a message to his teammates. It was best to gather them together in this situation to avoid any danger in this strange place and the others being unable to rescue them. Cheng Ye waited for a while but found no response from his teammates. He wondered if they hadn't received the message or if something had happened. Just as Cheng Ye was considering which direction to go to find his teammates, he realized that the message was unrelated and that he hadn't replied yet.

Two loud noises, "bang" and "bang", came from not far away. Cheng Ye's face changed and he ran quickly towards the direction of the sound.

After running for just over ten minutes, Cheng Ye spotted Zhou Dayu and An Chao sprinting towards him. Their faces were filled with fear and panic, as if they were being chased by something terrifying, something they couldn't handle. But Cheng Ye couldn't see anything behind them, which was very strange.

Before he could see clearly, An Chao spotted Cheng Ye in front of him and hurriedly shouted, "Cheng Shi, run!" At this time, the distance between them was getting closer and closer. Only then did Cheng Ye see clearly what was chasing them.

Cheng Ye gasped. What was that?! Scarlet blood flowed rapidly on the ground behind Zhou Dayu and the others. Wherever the blood flowed, not a blade of grass remained. All the weeds, flowers, and trees turned to charcoal, emitting hissing black smoke.

Without time to think clearly, Cheng Ye turned and ran away. Damn! What kind of water is that? Is it magma? It doesn't look like it. Magma doesn't have such a weird color.

Cheng Ye could only run after him. Halfway through, the three of them met Pang Changjiang who was following the sound. Zhou Dayu shouted without thinking, "Changjiang, turn around and run!" Without any time to explain, he grabbed Pang Changjiang and

Jiang ran away.

Pang Changjiang was not a fool. Without thinking, he followed the three of them and tried his best to escape.

Cheng Ye ran while asking, "Did you poke a big hole somewhere? Where is this horrible weird water coming out of?" Liquid fire, what the hell is going on? Dad, come and explain!

Zhou Dayu panted heavily as he said, "We don't know what happened. I just picked a flower, and it turned out like this!" He really just picked a fiery red flower out of carelessness. A stream of fiery red liquid flowed from the pistil of the flower, directly burning his entire hand. His hand is still burning.

Moreover, these liquids seemed to quickly decompose into more companions after burning a lot of flowers, and they became more and more, and became what they are now!

So, why did you pick someone else's flowers? Don't you know you shouldn't pick wildflowers on the roadside?! The other three people were very angry.

Cheng Ye took out a thunder talisman and threw it back. With a bang, the bloody water exploded. Just when Cheng Ye thought it was working, Zhou Dayu pulled him hard and said, "It's useless! I just blew it up."

Sure enough, the blood quickly merged together after it fell to the ground, and more blood emerged from the ground. Oh my god.

The blood had set its sights on them! Whichever direction they ran, the blood flowed in that direction. The hills crept over one another, completely defying the principle that water flows downwards. Furthermore, because it had devoured more flowers, it was now becoming more and more numerous.

Pang Changjiang roared, "Let's try to split up!" and ran in another direction. The other three also ran separately in tacit understanding. But it was completely useless, because the blood would split up, and it actually chased them separately!

"Fuck, it's too persistent!"

"Isn't that persistence? We haven't seen any large monsters in this valley, so they must have been eaten by it long ago. Now that we finally have some meat dishes, don't we have to eat them right away?"

Well, they have all become meat dishes.

Cheng Ye shouted, "Let's go towards the stream!" Running like this was not a solution. He suddenly remembered the stream they saw from afar when they first entered the valley while standing on the hill at the entrance of the valley.

After hearing this, several people's eyes lit up and they immediately turned around and ran towards the stream.

They passed through the bushes and flower forests, and when they were almost exhausted, they finally reached the stream.

Because the stream was narrow, only about one meter, they jumped across without even getting wet. After crossing the stream, they nervously looked at the blood on the other side.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I found that they were really stopped by the stream and that they stayed on the shore for a while before leaving.

"Dayu, what kind of flowers did you pick that are so awesome?"

"I don't know what kind of flower it is, but it's very big, with a bright red center,... a little purple,... well, the red thread-like lines gradually turn purple towards the end of the petals, and the stamens are fiery red and long, as if they are about to... burn. It's very beautiful." Zhou Dayu carefully recalled the characteristics of the flower.

In such a weird place, how dare you pick beautiful flowers casually?

Zhou Dayu: "As soon as I picked it, blood started flowing from its pistil, and it burned my hand." He held out his burnt red palm. It was so burnt that it could be served on the table with a little cumin. If it weren't for the special setting of the illusion, this hand would have turned to charcoal.

Cheng Ye: "Wait, what is that?" He noticed some red dots on Zhou Dayu's sleeves.

A few people came over to take a look and saw a very small red bump.

Zhou Dayu boldly pinched it on his palm and looked at it. He shouted, "Damn! Is this a dead ant?" How could there be such a small ant? If you don't look closely, you can't see it at all.

An Chao hissed and said, "So, that thing isn't liquid at all, but a swarm of tiny red ants?" Are there ants that destructive? I'd have thought it was a combination of sulfuric acid, magma, and arsenic.

The four people guessed that this kind of ant should be a fire-type monster, and its level must be quite high.

"This thing's firepower is so strong that it scorched the land. Could it be that this is how the Burning Flower Valley got its name?"

"It's very likely that the flowers, grass, trees, and wood here are very short. This group of ants must be feeding frequently, so the small trees are burned or eaten before they have a chance to grow."

Cheng Ye took out a small emerald green jade token from the small storage bag, shook it, and said, "If you want to know, just identify it." This jade token is a treasure specially used to identify unidentified objects. It is a very expensive disposable consumer product.

Pang Changjiang's eyes widened as he snatched the Mirror of All Things and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, Cheng Shi, you're really willing to spend so much money."

Cheng Ye: "Since there will be a new section this time, I will prepare one." He spent half of his savings, and to be honest, it was very painful.

Pang Changjiang returned it to Cheng Ye and urged him, "Try it quickly."

Cheng Ye held the Mirror of All Things and placed it on the ant on Zhou Dayu's palm. In his mind, he heard a sound: "Ding, do you want to use the Mirror of All Things?" "Yes."

The All Things Mirror flashed green and turned into an ordinary white jade slip. Cheng Ye held the jade slip and silently said in his heart: Check. A transparent light plate immediately appeared above the jade slip, with the words:

The Burning Flower Ant is an omnivorous, Level 3 Fire-type monster that primarily feeds on flowers. They prefer to live in groups, dislike water, and fear the cold. They reproduce by decomposition, feeding and reproducing simultaneously, fighting and dying simultaneously. They hibernate twice a year, living within the stamens and bases of perennial burning flowers.

Zhou Dayu: "So, just because I picked that bright red flower, it will be burned? I woke up the flower-burning ants."

An Chao said coldly: "Not only that, you and I each threw a thunder talisman to blow out the roots of the flowers. Oh, Cheng Shi also threw one, a total of three thunder talismans." So are they a bunch of idiots who know nothing?

Cheng Ye smiled helplessly and said, "Don't worry about it. We are still three ghost bugs short and we have to go back." He felt a little sad. Why were there only three missing?

Zhou Dayu stood up and looked at the scorched earth left on the opposite bank where the flower-burning ants had just passed by. His scalp tingled and he said, "This time, I won't be so careless." He didn't want to go through another thrilling escape.

All right! Let's go.

Cheng Ye: "Let's go upstream and walk a little further before going over there." Who knows if that thing will come back, so it's better to be cautious.

This proposal was unanimously agreed upon by the partners.

An Chao said admiringly: "You know what, this large area of ​​cherry blossoms on this side of the stream is really beautiful." A whole area of ​​cherry trees are now full of branches, like clouds and brocade, very spectacular.

Zhou Dayu: "The beautiful flowers are in danger!" He is now afraid of everything and dares not touch any flowers.

Zhou Dayu's cowardly look attracted the ridicule of the three people.

However, they didn't dare approach this overly beautiful cherry blossom forest. They always felt it was creepy. Well, they always felt that this cherry blossom forest was even more dangerous. They just wanted to complete today's mission quickly and leave this damn place.

The three of them walked for ten minutes before they dared to cross the shore, and then walked carefully towards the flower field where the ghost bug was.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Zhou Dayu suddenly stopped and said, "Wait." He looked forward nervously, and the burnt smell was faintly wafting from the front.

The four of them looked at each other, turned around and ran away.

After they felt they were far enough away, the four stopped to catch their breath. An Chao said, "They shouldn't have been discovered, right?" It was too scary.

Cheng Ye said with his hands on his stomach: "Probably not, we just

We should be quite far away from them.”

"We can go back from where they ate." If they have eaten, they won't go back there again.

Following their first escape route, they safely reached the flower patch where the ghost bugs were. And surprisingly, this patch of flowers hadn't been destroyed by the incinerator ants? Aside from a charred trail left by their pursuit, the patch of flowers was completely undamaged!

Cheng Ye said: "Is it because this is their nest?"

If that's the case, they need to speed up, otherwise when they come back after eating...hiss! Let's hurry up!

This time they did not have the misfortune of encountering a colony of burning flower ants and successfully captured fifty ghost bugs.

Kishi Chao: "Then let's go!" He really didn't want to stay any longer.

Just as they reached the valley entrance, one step away from the outside, Cheng Ye, who was behind them, suddenly felt his hair stand on end. He rushed forward with all his might, knocking all his teammates in front of him out of the valley gate. The other three were caught off guard and fell to the ground. Just as they turned around to ask Cheng Ye what happened,

They saw a translucent mandrill-sized monster blocked in the valley by the entrance. Although they couldn't see its appearance clearly, its cruel and bloodthirsty eyes made their legs go weak.

What the hell!

If Cheng Ye hadn't knocked them out, they would have been dead today. If the illusion hadn't set up a modular barrier, all four of them would have been dead.

Cheng Ye: "Let's go." Damn, what a shabby place this is, it's terrifying. This monster must have wanted to attack him many times before, but for some reason it didn't do it in the flower field.

The four of them took out a flying carpet from a small storage bag and sat on it.

The small storage bag and renting a flying carpet are new gameplay features that were just released ten days ago.

Nowadays, flying carpets in the city can be rented for long or short periods of time. As long as you have money, you can rent them for as long as you want.

***

After the four returned to the city, they went straight to hand in the mission.

While handing in the task, they heard people around them talking about Yiguo's father sending a new message.

Pang Changjiang smiled and talked to the people next to him: "Brother, I heard you say that Father Guo sent a new message? Can you tell me about it? We just finished the mission and didn't know about it yet."

The two people standing next to them did not refuse.

Person A: "...just now at nine o'clock. The sect section has been opened, so everyone should go to the bulletin board to find out the news."

B: "We just went to see, there are six major sects, Wanjian Sect, Wugan Sect, Yufa Sect, Yao Sect, and Kunling Sect. However, the announcement emphasized that these sects

The most a sect can do is lead everyone onto the path of immortal cultivation; the rest depends on the immortal friends themselves. "When he said the word 'immortal friends', his eyes lit up. Anyone who embarked on the immortal path could be called an 'immortal friend'.

A: "That's right, the announcement also said that those with the ability can establish their own sects..." He was visibly excited when he said this. It seemed that this setting was very popular with this gentleman.

The sect section has been released? Zhou Dayu and An Chao were both delighted. The Leaf Realm currently only enhances various abilities of the trialists, such as strength, speed, and agility. Their abilities are quite primitive, and they dare not even take on missions above level three, and they need to form a team of several people to do so. The opening of the sect section will only be the beginning of the dream of cultivating immortality!

Cheng Ye already knew that the sect section would be opened today, so he didn't react much when he heard it.