"You are a teachable young man. This Qingming pendant represents the identity of the Qingming Guards and has many uses. You must not lose it casually. The jade slip also contains information about the members of Team B 61 and some rules of Tianyuan City. You should familiarize yourself with them in advance."

Lou Zhi showed a satisfied smile, the bracelet on his wrist flashed slightly, and two tiny points of light flew out and instantly turned into a ball of light, falling towards the target.

Before he came, he was worried that Qi Yuan would refuse the transfer order, which would cause some trouble.

Qi Yuan stretched his hand through the ball of light and took out the item inside. The Qingming Pendant was the size of a palm and was entirely dark green. One side of the jade pendant was engraved with silver tadpole characters, while the other side was engraved with "Team B 61" and several other light golden characters.

Ancient cultivators from both the human and demon races had obtained the Golden Palace Jade Book pages, so they applied the Silver Tadpole Script extensively, covering many aspects of cultivating immortals and the hundreds of arts.

After putting the Qingming Pendant and the jade slip into the storage bracelet, Qi Yuan expressed his gratitude solemnly.

"I have explained most of the things. Remember to report within three days to avoid delaying the mission." Lou Zhi reminded again, and his figure suddenly faded and disappeared.

Looking at that... Tianyuan Guard leaving, Qi Yuan's eyes flashed, and he turned back to the room, activating the formation restriction to block the prying eyes of outsiders.

Normally, there would be a one-month buffer period before taking up the post of Qingming Guard, giving people time to familiarize themselves with the situation in Tianyuan City, or to deal with miscellaneous matters before joining the team.

Now that an unexpected situation had occurred, Qi Yuan's plan was slightly delayed.

The area of ​​Tianyuan City is unknown, and there are countless cultivators in the city. The yin and yang energies accumulated in the sky are several times thicker than the city walls.

Qi Yuan wanted to take the opportunity to repair and refine the two treasures, the Tongtian Lingbao Black Wind Flag and the Dinghai Youlong Stick, and at the same time tinker with Kunpeng's feathers to peel off the blood on them, and use the Chaos Cauldron to forge the Kunpeng spirit body.

As a result of Lou Zhi's action, all matters were postponed.

Fortunately, his magical powers are powerful enough to deal with dangers below the Void Refinement Stage. As long as there are no variables in the process of executing the task, the Xu Tian Ding and the Eight Spirit Ruler can completely kill any enemy.

The next day.

After inserting the emerald green crystal into the Qingming Pendant, Qi Yuan left his residence and went to the Tianjia Palace to receive the Qingming armor.

Because the spiritual land was not in the city and it took two or three days to walk there, he could not go there immediately.

Actually, it would be more accurate to call Tianyuan City the Tianyuan Kingdom. The area covered by the city is almost equivalent to a small country in the human world. But Tianyuan City in the true sense is not too big. It is just a city area of ​​tens of thousands of miles surrounded by huge city walls.

This urban area is in the shape of a ladder, with city walls built in the front and back, and the two sides are covered by the thick fog generated by the huge immortal formation. Even true spirit-level beings cannot forcefully break in.

The narrowest part of the city wall is over a hundred feet long, and the walls engraved with magic arrays and talismans are thousands of feet high. From a distance, they look like huge skyscrapers, which are daunting.

Behind the city walls, there is always an army of more than one million humans and demons. They are stationed in those giant towers all year round and are ready to respond to attacks from foreign races at any time.

Teams of Tianyuan Guards composed of humans and demons patrol the nearby areas day and night, and the preventive measures are extremely strict.

Although it is said that in order to gain a foothold in the spiritual world, the two races of humans and demons had to join forces and jointly send people to garrison Tianyuan City.

But there are always differences between humans and demons. In order to avoid conflicts between the two races in the city, Tianyuan City uses a huge light curtain to divide the city into two in the middle, with the two races managing each side.

As for the areas outside the city, they are also bounded by an invisible no-man's belt, each occupying one side.

Only in the giant blue tower in the city, which is the exclusive place of the Elders' Council, can human and demon monks have the opportunity to live together.

The appearance of the Qingming armor is modeled after soldier armor, and its color is similar to bronze. When male cultivators wear it, they have a heroic temperament, while when female cultivators wear it, they look heroic.

The defensive power is also good, enough for the Spirit Transformation Stage.

After Qi Yuan grabbed a Black Iron Guard and asked about the location of Team B 61, he turned around and headed straight there.

For an urgent mission like this, it is impossible to wait until the last day to meet with teammates. That would give people a bad impression.

Going up the gray-white stone stairs, passing more than twenty floors in one breath, Qi Yuan used his spiritual sense to scan and soon saw the words "Team B 61" in front of a palace door.

There was a flickering forbidden light in front of the palace gate. He flipped his hand and took out the Qingming Pendant, inputting some magic power into it. The jade pendant emitted a green light on the forbidden light. The light receded like the tide, and slowly opened a door for people to enter.

Qi Yuan walked into the hall slowly and looked around, which was a clean hall with black wooden chairs placed in the middle and on the left and right.

There is a passage on both sides of the hall, which seems to lead to the back hall.

On the wooden chair on the right side of the hall, there was a cultivator in the middle stage of the Spiritualization Realm, wearing Qingming Armor. He had a sturdy build and a fair face.

The moment Qi Yuan came in, the other party also noticed something was wrong, stood up and said, "Daoyou are the new member of Qingming Guard, right? I am Guo Wangbei."

"That's right, my name is Qi Yuan." Qi Yuan clasped his fists and said in return.

Guo Wangbei smiled, extended his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist Qi, please take a seat first. Captain Wu and the others will be here soon. However, the captain had some issues with the ascended monks in the past, so he may not treat you well. Please bear with him."

Wu Yunzhong, who is in the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm and the leader of Team B 61, had a feud with an ascended cultivator in the past. The two fought in the wild world, and Wu Yunzhong was eventually injured in the lower body and has not recovered to this day.

Some of the information was found in the jade slips given by Lou Zhi, and part of it was obtained by asking outsiders.

The human race in the spiritual world can be composed of three parts: local indigenous people, ascended monks, and descendants of sects or families established by ascended monks.

Ascended monks are outsiders, so they will have conflicts of interest with the indigenous humans in the spiritual world, and there will be internal fights between the two sides.

After all, the human race in the spiritual world is weak, and the looted cultivation resources are limited, which can hardly satisfy the cultivation needs of the third-level cultivators.

The descendants of ascended monks have dual attributes, often acting as a mediator between the two, and they are doing very well.

"As long as it doesn't delay the mission, Qi can pretend not to see it." Qi Yuan responded with a kind face.

Nowadays, he has no connections, no foundation, no prestige, and no strength, so he naturally has to restrain himself and try his best to maintain good relationships.

Upon hearing this, Guo Wangbei said with great joy, "No problem. For the sake of the harmony of the team, I will also help out a bit so that the mission can be completed smoothly."

It seems that the reward for the mission is quite generous.

Qi Yuan caught a hint of information from the other party's words and instantly guessed that Guo Wangbei did not want to fail the mission.

Otherwise, since you just met for the first time and don’t know each other, how could they be kind enough to help you?

After chatting with Guo Wangbei for a while, two more people came in one after another, a middle-aged woman in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation, and a strong man in the early stage of the Spirit Transformation.

Zhao Changying, Xu Ke.

Finally, a man and a woman walked out from the right side of the hall. Judging from their intimate interaction, they were obviously a Taoist couple. Needless to say, the man was the captain of Team B 61, Wu Yunzhong. His cultivation was very strong among his peers, and his appearance was also extraordinary, with a somewhat elegant and handsome appearance.

The woman's name is Li Zhuer, she is in the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm. She has a well-proportioned figure, and her exposed skin is as white as snow. Her face is also charming, and her eyes are full of charm with every frown and smile. There is a small black mole under her right eye, which adds a lot of unique charm.

This woman is not simple.

Of course, Qi Yuan was not referring to her cultivation level.

"Captain, Sister Zhu'er..."

When Guo Wangbei and others saw Wu Yunzhong and his wife coming out, they all stood up and called out respectfully.

"Well, sit down."

Wu Yunzhong sat down with his horse and sword in his arms, his eyes swept through the crowd as if inspecting them, and he really enjoyed the feeling of being in a superior position.

When he saw Qi Yuan's presence, he immediately exclaimed "Huh", and immediately stopped smiling, making a sharp turn.

When he learned that the Elder Council was sending an ascended monk to join the team, even though he was unhappy, he did not dare to refuse.

"Captain Wu, my name is Qi Yuan, and I have been ordered to join Team B61." Qi Yuan waited until the atmosphere in the field calmed down before he slowly stood up and bowed.

Wu Yunzhong's fists clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound. He did not answer with a cold expression. He did not know what kind of poison the ascended monk had smeared on the magic treasure, which caused the injury in his lower body to not improve.

The key point is that he relied on his spiritual treasure to be stronger than the opponent, so he attacked very hard, seriously injuring the ascended monk, and he passed away shortly after returning to Tianyuan City.

Once a person dies, he will not have the opportunity to find out the characteristics and source of the poison, and will not be able to prescribe the right medicine.

There are many doctors in Tianyuan City, including many monks with profound medical skills. He has invited all the doctors he could, but they still cannot cure the disease effectively. He does not have enough spirit stones to hire even more powerful doctors.

Whenever he thought about this incident, Wu Yunzhong would instantly hate the ascended monk even more.

"Haha, since Fellow Daoist Qi was able to join the team with his experience in formations, I believe we will complete this mission smoothly." Guo Wangbei said with a smile, taking the initiative to break the silence.

Wu Yunzhong said in a cold tone: "Listen to my orders obediently, otherwise don't blame me for being rude to you."

No matter how angry he was, he could not ignore the task given to him by the Elders' Council. If he messed up, he would suffer the consequences.

"Captain, now that everyone is here, can you tell us what emergency mission we are going to carry out this time?" Zhao Changying's expression was sometimes solemn, and sometimes vaguely expectant.

Generally, after completing an emergency task, you will receive a higher reward, but the risk is also relatively high.

The number of people in the Qingming Guard squad is different from the eleven in the Black Iron Guard squad.

It directly reduced the number by five, with one late-stage Jindan cultivator in charge of five Jindan cultivators, instantly streamlining the number a lot.

This indirectly shows that the number of people in the God Transformation Stage in Tianyuan City is much smaller than that in the Nascent Soul Stage.

While Wu Yunzhong was speaking, Qi Yuan also sat down and ignored him.

"According to the report from the Black Iron Guards, the wild world east of Tianyuan City, that is, the Ghost Buddha Temple under the jurisdiction of our human race, has found a slightly abnormal ghost aura from the outside. It is inferred that the seal formation in the temple has loosened slightly, so we were assigned the task of repairing it urgently to prevent the demons and monsters underground from seeing the light of day again and causing trouble for Tianyuan City."

Wu Yunzhong calmly narrated the details of the mission.

"What a bad luck, it turns out to be that place." Guo Wangbei's expression suddenly turned gloomy.

When the others heard this, they all looked unhappy.

Wu Yunzhong noticed that the morale was low, and immediately said: "The demons and monsters in the Ghost Buddha Temple are all ghosts created by the bloody battles between humans and aliens from ancient times to the present, and their strength is stronger than us, but they have long been sealed by our predecessors and cannot threaten our lives. At that time, we only need to quickly repair the formation and get out as soon as possible."

"The captain is right. The Ghost Buddha Temple was built by the human race's eminent monks specifically to target those evil spirits. Inside, the famous Mingwang Zhuxie formation was set up. Three great monks in the Fusion Stage passed away and left their relics as the center of the formation. They chant Buddhist teachings day and night all year round to convert them. I think the ghosts underground must have become very weak."

Xu Ke said with a calm look.

"Brother Xu, what you said makes sense." Wu Yunzhong confirmed it, and cast his eyes towards Qi Yuan, saying in a gloomy tone: "Qi Yuan, the Council of Elders is pleased with your formation skills and believes in your ability, so they let you join Team B-61 to carry out the mission. Don't make any mistakes and save our lives."

After these words were spoken, the others looked at Qi Yuan with uncertain expressions, thinking that if the opponent's formation level was not good enough, wouldn't the sealed ghosts come out?

I heard that there are not only ghosts comparable to the Nascent Soul stage in the underground of the Ghost Buddha Temple, but there are also rumors about the existence of ghosts in the Fusion stage.

Although the spearhead was pointed directly at him, Qi Yuan was not angry at all. He smiled and said, "The elders will believe in me, and I will naturally not let you down."

Is this kid making a sarcastic remark about him?
Wu Yunzhong was even more unhappy with Qi Yuan. Before, it was because of his identity as an ascended monk, and now it was because of his person. He thought that now was not the time to act on impulse, so he would find an opportunity to trick him after the mission was completed.

Then he ignored Qi Yuan.

About half an incense stick later.

Qi Yuan left the temple. He did not return to his residence immediately. Instead, he bought as many maps of the wild world as possible in the shops, familiarized himself with the direction of the mountains and rivers, and remembered where there were dangers and where was relatively safe.

Whether it is Wu Yunzhong's hatred for the ascended monks or their fear of the Ghost Buddha Temple, it is clear that the mission will not be easy.

If something unexpected happens along the way and he is being hunted by some powerful being, the escape route will be extremely important.

If one is not careful, one might end up in the territories of the Shadow Clan, the Wood Clan, or the Yaksha Clan, where the situation would be even more dangerous.

These three alien races are closest to Tianyuan City and have fought the most with it, so their hatred is self-evident.

As for the war in which the demon world invades the spirit world after tens of thousands of years, that is another story.

After a thorough search, Qi Yuan collected relatively complete maps and used the photographic memory of an immortal cultivator to memorize all the maps in his mind.

The day of departure.

Qi Yuan walked into the busy Tianjia Hall wearing the Qingming battle armor. His figure was tall and straight, and his face under his sword-like eyebrows was extremely masculine, which instantly attracted the passing female cultivators and attracted a lot of attention.

Of course, this is only limited to female cultivators below the Spirit Transformation stage, while female cultivators in the Void Refinement stage are mostly just for appreciation.

The realm of cultivation is still a crucial point. (End of this chapter)