Chapter 122 Hunting the Canglan Tiger

When a cultivator goes deep into the Southern Wilds, he will encounter various dangers, the most feared of which is encountering a high-level monster.

Even at the edge of the Southern Wilds, there are activities of fourth-level monsters, and sometimes even traces of fifth-level monsters can be found.

Fourth-level monsters are equivalent to purple mansion cultivators, and fifth-level monsters are more equivalent to golden elixir.

At this level, the intelligence of the monster will increase greatly.

If you encounter such a high-level monster, it is basically difficult for low-level cultivators to survive.

In the Southern Wilds, even if you hunt monsters, it is difficult to occupy the spiritual veins where monsters are entrenched. These places are far away from the Qingxuan Sect and are besieged by monsters at any time. Relying on low-level cultivators, it is basically impossible to defend.

Only when generations of cultivators continue to explore and open up the territory of the Southern Wilds can the human sphere of influence be gradually expanded and the monsters be gradually driven into the depths of the Southern Wilds.

Thousands of years ago, the three southeastern counties were also in the Southern Wilds. It was because of the continuous development of the Qingxuan Sect cultivators that this land became the hinterland of mankind.

More than four hundred years ago, there were still third-level monsters hiding on Lushan Mountain, attacking human villages and towns everywhere.

Tiantai Peak, the ancestral land of the Zhang family on Lushan Mountain, was taken from the mouth of the monsters in the Southern Wilderness by Tairen Patriarch after he established his foundation. Only in the last three hundred years, there has been no trace of third-level monsters in Taicheng County.

Even in the current Liaoshan County, there are still many third-level monsters. Such a place is not suitable for ordinary humans to survive on a large scale.

As long as a third-level monster preys once, it can destroy a town built by humans for hundreds of years and kill hundreds of thousands of people. Without the protection of cultivators, mortals cannot survive in such a dangerous world.

This time, there were about fifty cultivators who followed Zhang Zhixuan to Jiaohefang, including vassal families.

Zhang Zhixuan asked these people to stay in Jiaohefang to guard the city. Although these Qi training cultivators are considered a burden in the Southern Wilderness, they can also play a big role by letting them cooperate with the formation to guard the spirit veins.

Moreover, Wang Chengxiang, a purple mansion cultivator of Qingxuan Sect, guarded Jiaohe Square. He was also a high-level formation master. With the cooperation of the Qi training cultivators in the market, the foundation-building cultivators of more than a dozen families were also relatively relieved.

After Wu Siheng left, the foundation-building cultivators of the families discussed it, each selected a target, and began to act.

The deadline given by Wu Laozu was only three months. If they failed to take down a third-level monster in three months, they would be severely punished by Wu Laozu.

In order to be quick, some foundation-building cultivators with good cultivation bases acted alone and killed towards their targets.

Zhang Zhixuan now has four third-level magic weapons in his hands, which has surpassed many foundation-building cultivators.

Especially the foundation-building cultivators of the Xiuxian family, because they have a large family and a large business, they have to take care of all aspects. I am afraid that the magic weapons in their hands are not as good as those of the free cultivators.

Zhang Zhixuan was also lucky. He first killed Lu Yian, then killed the poisonous fire spider. He had enough spirit stones in his hands, so he went to Chen Hongyuan to refine two third-level magic tools under Han Yan's introduction.

With four third-level magic tools, plus Zhang Zhixuan did not use the foundation-building pill to build the foundation, his mana was 30% higher than that of ordinary foundation-building cultivators.

Although he is only at the third level of foundation-building now, his magical powers and mana are no less than those of cultivators at the fifth or sixth level of foundation-building.

Therefore, Zhang Zhixuan believed that he was more confident in going to Luyang Mountain.

As soon as he left Jiaohefang and went deep into the southern wilderness, Zhang Zhixuan began to be cautious and never consumed too much mana.

Once his mana was less than 70%, he immediately used the middle-grade spirit stone to quickly replenish it.

Along the way, he never stayed in one place for too long, so as not to attract the attention of monsters and be besieged.

In this way, after eleven days, Zhang Zhixuan came to the vicinity of Luyang Mountain.

The Canglan Tiger has the habits of a tiger. This kind of monster is best at sneaking and ambushing its prey, so when Zhang Zhixuan arrived at the place, he was even more careful.

Zhang Zhixuan is an alchemist, and his nose is much more sensitive than that of ordinary cultivators. After walking around Luyang Mountain for hundreds of miles, he smelled a foul smell.

"It seems that the Canglan Tiger has not moved away. This smell should be its urine, and this place should be its territory."

The monsters in the Southern Wilderness often change their territories. Maybe a year later, the monster's territory will change its owner.

The monsters that originally occupied the spirit veins were either eaten clean by the victorious monsters and became nutrients, or became wandering monsters.

Therefore, you must be cautious when hunting monsters in the Southern Wilderness, and don't trust other people's information easily.

Unless it is a monster in the buffer zone of the Qingxuan Sect's mountain gate, the monsters there have long been investigated by the Qingxuan Sect, and the high-level monsters have been driven far away from the territory, which is relatively safe.

The last time Zhang Zhixuan and his men helped Han Yan earn merit, they hunted several monsters in this way, so they could hunt monsters in a targeted manner.

The three third-level monsters killed by the five of them, especially the Fire Crystal Ant Queen, were very difficult to deal with. Relying on the large number of soldier ants, even a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building would not dare to provoke them without special means.

The fact that they were able to successfully kill the Queen Ant and exchange the Foundation Building Pill for Han Yan caused a great sensation among the low-level cultivators of Qingxuan Sect.

Some of the ninth-level cultivators of Qingxuan Sect also followed their example and formed a team to hunt third-level monsters to earn high merits.

Unfortunately, the cruel reality quickly dampened their enthusiasm, and these cultivators who acted rashly soon suffered heavy casualties.

They had no idea that among Zhang Zhixuan and his five men, there was also a third-level formation master. Even in Qingxuan Sect, talents of this level would be protected, and just refining a third-level formation for the sect could earn enough merits before the age of sixty.

Besides, the formation masters above the third level are basically cultivators above the foundation building stage, and the Qi training stage cultivators cannot be invited at all.

Moreover, these team cultivators often cannot work together, and they all want others to work hard while they take advantage of it.

No one does dangerous things, and the spoils are not evenly distributed if there are benefits.

Even if there is a team that can work together and is composed of several life and death friends, even if they successfully hunt monsters, many people will often die. Even if they have gained good deeds, they feel that the gains are not worth the losses after losing their best friends.

Even Zhang Zhixuan and his five people hunted monsters in the Southern Wilderness for three years, and eventually lost two people. Even the family's fourth uncle Zhang Menglong, a third-level formation master, actually died in the Southern Wilderness.

Therefore, the Qingxuan Sect's craze for hunting third-level monsters in the buffer zone lasted only two or three years, and was quickly extinguished by the bloody reality education.

And Zhang Zhixuan and his five people also became legends that the Qi training stage cultivators of the Qingxuan Sect competed to talk about, and were praised by these low-level cultivators for a long time.

Zhang Zhixuan came to Luyang Mountain and slowly searched for the traces of the Canglan Tiger. Finally, following the traces of its activities, he gradually approached its nest.

The Canglan Tiger's nest is located in a groove under a cliff, almost hanging in the air above the cliff.

This kind of tiger monster can fly short distances, and their explosive power is far beyond that of a foundation-building cultivator.

There was once a foundation-building cultivator flying on a sword, ambushed by this monster, pounced from mid-air, and was swallowed up before he could defend himself.