Chapter 17: First-order intermediate monster (please collect and read)

It is late autumn now.

The bleak autumn wind blew past them. Compared with mortals, the Chen family cultivators, whose ability to resist cold had greatly increased, felt particularly uncomfortable.

There are several devastated spiritual fields, and I don’t know whose they belong to. This season’s harvest has been wasted.

After resting for a morning, Chen Angang arrived at Lingtian in the afternoon.

Not only the spiritual farmers, but also many other members of the tribe came, all to help guard the spiritual fields.

Even Chen Zhao from the Affairs Hall was there. He had arrived when the incident happened last night, but I didn’t expect that he would stay until this moment.

Chen An silently gave a thumbs up in his heart.

As soon as I approached the spiritual field, I heard a miserable cry.

Chen Fugui slumped down on the ground, tears streaming down his face, his howls of pain echoing throughout the entire spiritual field.

Didn’t this old guy go to Chunfeng Tower to have some fun?

Maybe it was because he had just returned today, and when he saw the miserable state of his own spiritual field, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

After a round inspection, Chen An discovered that the most seriously damaged spiritual fields all belonged to the people who had gone to Chunfeng Tower to have fun a few days ago.

Especially in Ergou's field, there was absolutely no harvest.

Although all the soul-eating rats were eliminated last night, the situation was critical and everyone solved the problems in their own fields first before going to help in neighboring fields.

Since these people were not at home, there was naturally no one to protect the place. By the time the rat infestation was finally eliminated, the place was in a mess.

When Chen Fugui saw Chen An coming, his eyes almost spit fire.

"You kid, you keep your own fields tidy, why don't you come and help me out? You are such a heartless kid, how am I going to get through the next few months?"

Chen An was stunned. This old man actually took his anger out on him?
It's really unfair.

"You ungrateful old fellow, if I hadn't frequently traveled between the two spiritual fields last night, not even 30% of the spiritual plants would be left in your field!"

Chen Fugui wiped his tears, looked at Chen An's spiritual field which had suffered almost no damage, and felt very jealous.

"You are useless. You can't even protect two acres of spiritual farmland."

Chen An was furious. Before he could say anything, he heard a crisp slap in the face.

It turned out that Chen Zhao stepped forward and slapped Chen Fugui. He looked annoyed and said, "I think you, old man, have been fooled by the women in Chunfeng Tower. The family has suffered such a disaster, and you still dare to quarrel among yourselves here. If you cause trouble again, I will take you to the head of the family to be punished!"

Chen Zhao was present last night, and he knew exactly what happened.

Chen Fugui's face was burning with pain, but he didn't dare to get angry as the opponent was at the fifth level of Qi training. He just grunted a few times and walked away in shame.

"Thank you, brother, for helping me." Chen An stepped forward and bowed to express his gratitude.

"It's just a small matter. This old man doesn't have any ability to earn spirit stones, and his farming skills are average. He finally made a lot of money, but he spent it all on Chunfeng Tower. Naturally, he is upset about the loss of his harvest. Don't bother with him."

Chen An nodded and ignored the matter.

I chatted with other tribesmen and asked about today's situation. Fortunately, nothing happened during the day.

After waiting for a while, the second elder arrived and announced a news.

The family purchased the Soul-Eating Rats for two spirit stones each.

Chen An was a little puzzled. According to the market price, it was twice as much!
The only uses of the soul-eating rat are its teeth, claws and fur, but the rest is useless.

The clan issued this purchase order probably to mobilize the enthusiasm of the spiritual farmers and preserve as much of the yellow sprout rice as possible this season.

After all, the land owned by Chen Fugui and his companions was in a mess, but the damage to other spiritual fields was not great.

Night falls.

Chen An, who was closely watching the condition of his spiritual plants, noticed something unusual.

A hint of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes. He raised his hand and shot out sword energy which turned into golden threads, which wrapped around the hilt of the magic sword and raised it high.

He aimed at the spiritual plant that displayed abnormal information and stabbed the soil below hard.

When the magic sword was pulled out of the soil, there was a dead soul-eating rat on it.

Chen An's lips curled up slightly. It was convenient to be able to check the status of the spiritual plants in real time.

Two spirit stones were obtained. Chen Zhao was surprised to see him kill a spirit-eating rat in just two moves. Such a neat method was no less than that of him who was at the fifth level of Qi training.

"The Soul-Eating Rats are coming, everyone, get ready!"

Upon hearing this, all the members of the Chen family became extremely alert.

Chen An quietly slapped himself with an earth armor talisman, and his body was covered with a faint spiritual energy, and it was uneven, just like an earth armor.

With the defense fully maxed out, Chen An felt much more secure.

With his cultivation level and a mid-grade magic sword, he was much more efficient in killing low-level first-order monsters than last night.

Half an hour later, as many as five Soul-Eating Rats had died at the hands of his sword.

I don’t know if it’s because he killed too many monsters, and attracted by the smell of blood, a first-level intermediate soul-eating rat actually drilled into his spiritual field.

This monster was two feet long, with shiny black fur all over its body and fierce eyes. It was truly terrifying.

Chen An's heart tightened. What the hell, an elite monster appeared!

Put on the Wind Talisman, turn around and run.

Unexpectedly, the Soul-Eating Rat was very agile and its speed was not inferior to his. After escaping for a distance, it seemed to be catching up with him.

No, if we keep running away like this, there will be problems sooner or later, we have to fight back.

Chen An circled his field and stopped at a spot he had chosen long ago. He threw out three fire snake talismans with a few earth thorn talismans in between. The fire snakes flew around and burned the Spirit-Eating Rat's fur black.

The fire snake had not yet been extinguished, and several golden sword energies came quietly and fell on the Soul-Eating Rat like raindrops.

However, the Xiaocheng Gengjin sword finger, which could kill a low-level first-order monster, only left a few shallow blood pits on the guy in front of him. Not only was it not fatal, but it also aroused the opponent's ferocity.

Facing the soul-eating rat that was rushing towards him, Chen An smiled slightly and was not panicked.

With a thought, several spikes sprang out from the soil in front of him, blocking the Soul-Eating Rat's way.

Although the first-grade low-quality talisman could not do anything to the monster in front of it, this brief moment of obstruction was enough.

When the Soul-Eating Rat was about to break free, Chen An used the Gengjin Sword Finger to transform into a golden thread, wrapped it around the hilt of the magic sword, and slashed down at the opponent in mid-air.

After the fourth stage of Qi training, one can develop spiritual consciousness, which enables one to remotely control magical instruments within a certain range. However, the spiritual consciousness is still relatively weak, and its power is far less sharp than that of the minor stage Gengjin Sword Finger control.

The Soul-Eating Rat was unable to dodge, and as soon as its movements faltered, its head and body were separated.

Seeing that the monster was dead, Chen An breathed a sigh of relief, but did not relax his vigilance. He made sure that there was no movement around him before controlling the sword energy thread and putting the spoils into the storage bag.

Standing at the edge of the field and looking at the entire spiritual field, the sound of the fighting was no less than that of yesterday.

Even where Chen Zhao and others were fighting, there was a faint aura of a first-level intermediate monster.

However, there were several experienced people in the middle stage of Qi training there, such as Chen Zhao, and the result would be the same whether he could get through or not, so one more person would not make any difference.

It is already very difficult to guard the few acres of spiritual fields nearby.

After a night of fighting, the monsters retreated at dawn.

This night, the battle was much more difficult than yesterday.

When Chen An reunited with his tribesmen, he saw two cold bodies on the ground.

Although they were covered with white cloth, through the blurry shapes underneath, one could see that their bodies had been eaten to pieces by the soul-eating rats.

Glancing at the two identity tokens next to him, Chen An shook his head slightly and sighed.

These two people were cousins ​​he was familiar with. When he had just embarked on the path of Taoism and moved to Yunwu Mountain, they had given him some help.

Chen An mourned in silence for a moment.

Afterwards, he cleaned up the battlefield with other tribesmen and dealt with the harvest.

By the time I finished everything here, it was already noon.

With heavy steps, Chen An returned to the courtyard.

After a whole night of fighting, he was exhausted both physically and mentally, and the spiritual energy in his dantian was almost exhausted.

I went to the bedroom, fell asleep and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)