Chapter 115 The First Stop of the Hunt
After hearing what A-Chen said, Nie Xiaoxiao didn't hesitate for a second and decided to go with him.
This young girl has always been bold and reckless, and now that it's a matter of life and death, she's even less likely to back down.
To the surprise of Senior Xiao Shi and Nie Xiaoxiao, Achen also invited Meng Hanhai from the combat department.
After hearing his secrets about the Gray Mist and the Fine Demon Clan, Meng Hanhai only considered it for a quarter of an hour before agreeing to travel with him.
"Ah Chen, that Meng Hanhai is really annoying, why did you bring him along?" Nie Xiaoxiao said with dissatisfaction.
"Fighting against the Gray Mist and the Fine Demons is not a matter for one or two people; the more strength there is, the greater the chance of victory."
"If the conditions for capturing the Little Demon Clan weren't so stringent, with only those under sixteen facing the least risk, I would definitely have reported this matter directly and had the instructor lead all the remaining students from the academy to go," Achen said.
In fact, there are many powerful students in the combat department, but unfortunately they are all too old.
According to Senior Xiao Shi, once you are over sixteen years old, the Demon Clan can transform in front of you. Even if the transformation is short, they are invincible during that time.
Facing an invincible enemy, let alone hunting them, even escaping is difficult.
Of course, Ah Chen didn't intend to mobilize those teenagers under the age of sixteen outside the academy.
After all, this mission was extremely dangerous, and he didn't want to take more people with him because he couldn't protect others' lives.
The vast majority of talented young people from the Misty Heaven participated in the admissions assessment for this year's Ten Directions Academy.
If he can't even pass the academy's admissions exam, what makes him think the opponent is strong?
Before setting off, Achen sent a message to his mother, saying that the academy was going to take them out for training to improve their combat strength, and they might not be able to come home for a while.
At the same time, he also made sure to inform Lele and Jin Liu in advance, asking them to help conceal his whereabouts.
As for the three of them having a vacation, it was Xiao Shi who personally applied for it from the dean.
Professor Chang only learned of this news from the dean the day after A-Chen and the others left, and he even had a big argument with the dean about it.
He said that the dean was being irresponsible towards the geniuses of their talisman-making department, and that if anything happened to Achen, he would never forgive the dean for the rest of his life!
When Professor Chang was arguing with the dean, Zhou Muhe, the head of the planting department, also joined in, saying that if anything happened to Nie Xiaoxiao, he would fight the dean to the death for the rest of his life!
As for Long Qiushuang, the leader of the combat system, she waved her hand generously, indicating that her child should participate in this kind of training.
After all, children of the combat type can only improve rapidly in real battles.
Ah Chen and the other two were unaware that the dean had been attacked because they were allowed to leave.
Their first hunting ground was the Qiyan Mountains, inhabited by demonic beasts.
According to Senior Xiao Shi, this is the place closest to Shi Fang Academy and the place where the gray fog invaded earliest.
Ah Chen had heard his father mention the time when his mother encountered the eighth-tier unicorn rhinoceros at the Witch God Temple.
The two sides eventually reached a truce agreement: humans would not arbitrarily invade the territory of the One-Horned Rhinoceros, but if they happened to pass by, the rhinoceros would not attack or drive it away at will.
According to the one-horned rhinoceros, it once lived deep in the Qiyan Mountains at Luoxia Waterfall, which was also the first place where the gray fog eroded the area.
In the past, the Qiyan Mountains were not only deep within the mountains, but even the outer perimeter was inhabited by countless third- to fifth-order demonic beasts.
To this end, Ah Chen made a lot of concealment talismans for the three of them in advance to avoid attracting attacks from the monsters.
However, along the way, they discovered that they couldn't see a single mid-level demonic beast of the third to fifth rank. Only occasionally would they encounter a high-level demonic beast of the sixth to eighth rank.
"Junior Brother Zuo, where did you think all these mid-level demonic beasts went?" Meng Hanhai asked.
"High-level demonic beasts were forced to withdraw from the depths of the Qiyan Mountains. They occupied the outer areas that originally belonged to mid-level demonic beasts, so these mid-level demonic beasts naturally dared not linger in the Qiyan Mountains any longer."
If I'm not mistaken, they should have migrated to the Wood Source Forest, which is closest to the Qiyan Mountains.
"As for those mid-level demonic beasts that are not suited to living in the forest, they either died or went to the more distant Hengduan Mountains," Achen said.
“If even the monsters are forced to abandon their nests, then our human living space will definitely be squeezed smaller and smaller,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
If the three teenagers' understanding of the gray fog was initially limited to theory, they have now witnessed its terrifying power firsthand.
Along the way, without the Matryoshka doll array drawn by Achen to protect them, their own spiritual power would have been completely devoured by the gray mist.
Fortunately, the existence of the gray fog prevented them from having to detour to avoid the territory of high-level demonic beasts.
The three youths spent five whole days finally reaching the depths of the Qiyan Mountains, where the concentration of the gray fog had reduced visibility to no more than three zhang (approximately 10 meters).
With the guidance of the senior Xiao Shi, they finally found the Sunset Waterfall where the eighth-tier unicorn rhinoceros once lived.
The rocks that were struck by the waterfall are still there, but the waterfall itself has stopped flowing.
Just as the three were searching for the source of the gray fog, suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and with this gentle breeze, a slender figure emerged from the gray fog.
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