Chapter 375 Earthly Armor (Subscribe, Collect)
As a member of the caravan, after arriving at the predetermined trading destination, they are also eligible to trade the spiritual objects they carry, which is another benefit of taking the risk of acting as a caravan guard.
Starting from the Song Kingdom's cultivation world, until the transaction is completed and returned, a caravan will take a full year if everything goes well. If there are slight flaws in the middle of the journey, not only will the time consumed double, but the guards may also be in danger of their lives.
This is not an exaggeration of the danger. The fights between various monsters and monsters on the grassland, the fights between monsters and cultivators, and the fights between tribes are commonplace.
Any fight, once the caravan accidentally falls into it, with the valuable spiritual objects it carries, may cause a fight among multiple parties.
As a member of the guard, when facing such a situation, they are always on the front line of the charge, and death is commonplace.
Under normal circumstances, no one would be willing to join in such a life of licking blood on the edge of a knife, but money makes the devil work, and this is no exception for the monks. As long as the caravan can provide enough tempting spiritual objects, there will naturally be a large number of foundation-building monks from small and medium-sized families and independent cultivators who suffer from the lack of spiritual objects.
In order to ensure the physical strength of the stupid cow beast, the caravan's movement is very regular, traveling during the day and resting at night, and moving forward about a thousand miles every day.
Because the caravan is strong, it is relatively safe along the way. Except for some group-living monsters, there are few monsters to provoke.
As for the tribal monks living here, they basically welcome the arrival of the caravan. After all, they carry the spiritual objects they urgently need in their practice.
Although the Yellow Wind Grassland is relatively barren, there are often some spiritual medicines of different years growing in some specific locations.
These spiritual medicines are also one of the benefits of the caravan guards. As long as they are found, they can be traded in a small area. The highest bidder wins, and the remaining guards will evenly distribute the remaining spiritual stones.
The team of guards that Sun Mingzeng belongs to is from Baiyao Valley. They mainly trade various spiritual pills, which can effectively make up for the plight of insufficient spiritual pills in some large and medium-sized tribes on the Huangfeng grassland. Therefore, they are quite popular in every tribe.
And thanks to the reputation of Baiyao Valley's spiritual pills for their excellent quality over the years, even some grassland robbers who wander around and hunt on the grassland will not easily attack them under normal circumstances.
The only opponents of the entire caravan during the business process are the monsters living here and some irresistible natural disasters.
Sun Mingzeng joined the caravan halfway, and it has been a full month so far. Except for the occasional attack by several monsters, the journey can be said to be extremely smooth.
As for picking spiritual herbs, there was nothing to gain. In addition to the unfamiliarity with the terrain and the different habits of spiritual herbs growing on the grassland, the most fundamental reason was the snatching from other guards.
Most of these foundation-building cultivators who came from independent cultivation suffered from the hardship of the lack of spiritual objects on weekdays. Therefore, each of them was a typical black-eyed cultivator who could not bear to see the white silver. Whenever there was any suspected spiritual medicine, they would rush to fight for it.
Sun Mingzeng was born in the Sun family. Although it was only a small and medium-sized family in a remote corner, the inheritance had been passed down for a full thousand years, and the inheritance of foundation-building cultivators had never been cut off.
With the efforts of each generation of senior cultivators, there were naturally some high-quality spiritual objects accumulated little by little in the family treasure house.
As a genius cultivator with dual spiritual roots who was highly expected by the family, Sun Mingzeng had been carefully cultivated by the family since childhood, and the supply of various spiritual objects was relatively sufficient.
During the Qi Refining stage, all kinds of spiritual objects were almost open to supply. After the promotion to the Foundation Building stage, the family's strength and influence also increased day by day. The supply of second-level middle and lower-grade spiritual objects was also fully committed, and there was no shortage.
In addition, as a cultivator who joined the caravan halfway, he was undoubtedly a newcomer, and Sun Mingzeng's goal was just to use the power of the caravan to have a familiar process with the Yellow Wind Grassland. Therefore, he often took the initiative to take a step back in the competition for these spiritual medicines.
Of course, the most important point is that the spiritual objects that appeared near them were relatively common, and they were not very attractive to Sun Mingzeng, a cultivator who rarely faced the trouble of spiritual objects.
The sun rose and the moon set, and the day and night alternated. Under the rapid movement of the silly cow beast, he could clearly feel the increasingly rich spiritual power from the depths of the grassland.
Especially compared with the barren periphery, the comprehensive conditions faced were increasing day by day, and Sun Mingzeng's interest in this place was becoming more and more intense.
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" At noon on this day, when the sun was the hottest, a series of raised earth slopes suddenly appeared around the caravan.
"Be careful of protection, there are monsters attacking, all Foundation Establishment cultivators please pay attention to sealing the boxes you are responsible for, and do not guarantee the safety of the traded spiritual items." The reaction of the three late Foundation Establishment cultivators who belong to Baiyao Valley was no less impressive.
Three people stood at the front of the caravan, and the one in the middle was like a mountain. His extremely powerful aura turned into a ray of light that soared into the sky. His strength seemed extremely solid. It was obvious that he was already a genuine ninth-level foundation-building cultivator, and he was only one step away from condensing the golden elixir.
"Fellow Daoist Kan, do you know what kind of monster this is?" Sun Mingzeng came to the Yellow Wind Grassland for the first time and was very unfamiliar with the environment here.
In his mind, all the knowledge about the Yellow Wind Grassland came from the jade slips that some families had painstakingly searched for.
Most of these jade slips were relatively old, and the updates could no longer meet the current needs, so they could only be used as a reference.
Therefore, the monsters living on the Yellow Wind Grassland were relatively unfamiliar. Fang Yi was naturally a little panicked when he came into direct contact with the monsters.
"Looking at this, it should be a terrain armor living on the grassland. It is a monster with the dual advantages of pangolin defense and rodent monster flexibility. The only comforting thing is that its combat power is not too outstanding. As long as you are careful, it will be safe." Kan Qingzi explained with a solemn face.
Perhaps from the perspective of cultivation strength, these caravan guards themselves are not too outstanding, but they have been walking on the Yellow Wind Grassland for many years, fighting each other very well, and have abundant combat experience. This kind of battle against large-scale monsters is more like a routine response.
"Fellow Daoist Sun, the most valuable of these terrain armors is the armor that can serve as the main material of the second-level defensive spiritual weapon. Don't destroy it. According to the regulations of Baiyao Valley, three complete sets of armor can be exchanged for a refined defensive spiritual weapon of the same level," Kan Qingzi kindly reminded.