Chapter 238 Gathering Place

"That's right." Li Dazhu nodded.

He then explained: "Our gathering place is not fixed. Generally, the envoys of Qingyun Sect will contact nearby cultivators to gather after confirming that a certain place is safe."

"This is done to avoid being discovered by the enemy and then being wiped out."

"And every cultivator who sneaks into the demon cultivator area will first leave a soul lamp to confirm life and death, and then use the identity talisman to confirm the person, so that no demon cultivator will mix in."

"Oh? But if you are followed by demon cultivators, won't your gathering place be destroyed?" Lin Chen asked.

Li Dazhu was silent for a while, and then continued: "The upper limit of cultivators in each gathering place cannot exceed 30. Even if the whole army is wiped out, it will not affect the situation and intelligence collection."

"Besides, there are so many of us, and it is a time-consuming and laborious problem for the demon cultivators to kill them all."

After hearing this, Lin Chen smiled and didn't continue.

In fact, he also guessed some.

This guerrilla gathering method seems quite safe, but if the demon cultivators who have the upper hand in the situation are really determined, the death of these people is just a matter of minutes.

However, if the demon cultivators really do this, they will just fall into the Qingyun Sect's strategy.

Because the manpower is limited, if there are more here, there will definitely be less there.

Just as Li Dazhu said, because there are so many of them, the demon cultivators must mobilize a lot of manpower and material resources to strangle them.

Whether it is to mobilize the cultivators responsible for production in the rear or the demon cultivators responsible for fighting in the front, it will definitely greatly reduce the pressure on the front battlefield.

After all, in the eyes of the Qingyun Sect's high-level officials, using the lives of some scattered cultivators to contain part of the demon cultivators' power is a very cost-effective thing.

'And I can also be sure that these Qingyun Sect cultivators who come to gather scattered cultivators must have the means of the foundation-building stage. Once there are really demon cultivators gathering together, they can be directly bombarded and killed! ’

‘Using scattered cultivators to collect intelligence, and also as bait to tie down part of the demon cultivators’ forces, and even making plans for guerrilla warfare, it turns out that when it comes to war, the people in this world are not fools! ’

‘But unfortunately, the great power of the world of cultivation belongs to itself. The great power of an individual will weaken any strategy to a great extent, so even the most clever strategy will be useless without sufficient strength to support it...’

Just as Lin Chen was sighing, Li Dazhu on the side bowed his head and said, "Sir, the envoy of Qingyun Sect is in the cave, so..."

He raised his head carefully, glanced at Lin Chen's face, and said hesitantly, "You, or, or..."

"What?" Lin Chen smiled and said, "Do you doubt my identity?"

"No! No!" Li Dazhu hurriedly shook his head to deny, "I just want to go in and explore the way first, and talk to the envoy of the sect first to avoid misunderstandings."

Lin Chen looked at him with a smile, which made the latter sweat on his back.

After an unknown amount of time, a voice came slowly: "Okay, then you go in and ask him to meet me outside."

"Yes! Yes!"

Li Dazhu nodded quickly, and breathed a sigh of relief, and then I hurried inside.

Lin Chen looked at his somewhat flustered back and smiled indifferently.

He knew that the other party was still doubting his identity, but that didn't matter, he was a true disciple of Qingyun Sect, and this identity was unquestionable.

Lin Chen stood at the entrance of the cave leisurely, and the casual cultivators who came here were stunned when they saw him, and they were a little confused about his identity.

After sensing that there was no spiritual light emitted by the identity talisman on his body, they all showed vigilance.

In the cave, after listening to Li Dazhu's explanation, the Qingyun Sect envoy, that is, the cultivator dressed in green, frowned deeply.

"You met him in the territory of the demon cultivator, and then he said he was from Qingyun Sect?!"

"Yes, Master Shangzong." Facing the sharp eyes of the green-clothed cultivator, Li Dazhu swallowed his saliva and nodded vigorously.

After getting Li Dazong's affirmation, the green-clothed cultivator fell into deep thought.

'Could it be that a senior brother was carrying out a secret mission in the territory of the demon cultivator, and then just happened to follow him back? Or is the other party's true identity actually a demon cultivator who wants to take this opportunity to sneak into our territory? '

After thinking for a long time, the green-clothed cultivator finally felt that he still had to meet this person, so he ordered:

"Find a way to notify the casual cultivators outside the cave and ask them to block his retreat. The rest of you, follow me and see this guy of unknown origin!"

"Look at my eyes and act. If that guy is not right, we will rush up and besiege him to death without any morality!"

The casual cultivators in the cave looked at each other, but they all responded yes.

Soon, a group of people walked directly to the cave entrance.

‘Are they really going to fight? ’

Looking at this situation, Li Dazhu felt a little uneasy, after all, he was the one who led the people here.

“Greetings, Senior Brother!”

However, what Li Dazhu did not expect was that when the green-clothed cultivator saw Lin Chen, his pupils suddenly shrank, and then he was stunned on the spot.

After reacting, under the suspicious eyes of the people around him, he immediately bowed down.

“Disciple greets Senior Brother!”

Master, Senior Brother? !

The faces of many casual cultivators changed, and they all looked at Lin Chen.

Could it be that the person in front of him is really a disciple of Qingyun Sect?

"Oh?" Facing the surprised eyes of everyone, Lin Chen looked at the green-clothed monk with some curiosity, "Do you know me?"

Although he is very famous in the middle and high-level of Qingyun Sect, there are not many elders who know his real information, let alone the lower-level disciples.

"Thanks to the platform created by my senior brother, I am an ordinary, three-spiritual root cultivator with no background and no power, and I can get to where I am today. How can I not recognize the honor of my senior brother?!" The green-clothed monk said respectfully and gratefully.

Platform?

Lin Chen reacted quickly.

The other party should be the beneficiary of the platform he created.

Lin Chen guessed correctly that the green-clothed monk was originally a monk with no power and ordinary qualifications.

It was by relying on writing books and earning a lot of spirit stones that he slowly came to this point today.

Not only did he reach the late stage of Qi Refining, but he even had the hope of impacting the foundation building. For a low-level disciple, this simply changed his fate!

That's why he was very grateful to Lin Chen, the creator.

'It's really interesting. The platform built to get spirit stones did affect the fate of many people...'

Lin Chen couldn't help but sigh, and then asked casually: "Since you belong to the platform, you know Xu Mengyun, right? Where is she? Where is she? How is she doing recently?"

"This..." The green-clothed cultivator was a little hesitant when he heard this, and then said carefully, "Brother, this is not something that a disciple should know, so you should ask it yourself."

Then, he quickly added: "The information collected by these casual cultivators will be sent to a market in the Qingyun Sect area, and Sister Xu is there, you can see her there."

"Hehe, don't ask too many questions that are not at your level and don't respond without authorization." Lin Chen glanced at him lightly, and said with some praise, "You know when to advance and retreat, and you know the limit. You are not bad."

"Thank you for the compliment, brother." The green-clothed cultivator responded with fear on his face, but he was a little happy in his heart.

"Then when can we set out for the return journey?"

"Probably, we have to wait for the gathering of people going back. Please wait for a moment, brother." The green-clothed monk said.

"Okay, then I'll wait a little longer." Lin Chen responded casually, and then looked at the scenery outside the cave.

Soon, as time passed, many casual cultivators who risked their lives to sneak into the demonic cultivation arrived here.

After completing the task or obtaining intelligence, they received enough rewards from the green-clothed monks according to their contributions, and then chose to stay or return.

Gradually, the sun set in the west, and the light of the setting sun dyed the sunset glow red in the sky, presenting a brilliant crimson.

At this moment, in the cave, the process of reporting intelligence and completing tasks in exchange for rewards has ended, and there are already densely packed casual cultivators who choose to return.

'Strange, why are there so many casual cultivators going back this time? 'Looking at the bustling crowd in front of him, a trace of doubt flashed through the mind of the green-clothed monk.

He had carried out this kind of mission many times, and usually only seven or eight independent cultivators would go back. Today, there were dozens of independent cultivators going back.

‘Will there be any problems? ’

The green-clothed cultivator carefully sensed the soul lamps of these independent cultivators, and confirmed their identity talismans. After finding that no one was pretending, he did not think about it any more and was ready to set off.

“Wait!”

But just as he was about to lead the people to set off, Lin Chen walked directly into the cave entrance and blocked everyone’s way.

“Brother Lin, what’s wrong?” The green-clothed cultivator was stunned and asked in confusion.

“You are just taking these independent cultivators back like this?”

Lin Chen did not answer his question, but asked a question that made the green-clothed cultivator a little confused.

"Brother, are you worried about the infiltration of demon cultivators?" The green-clothed cultivator thought for a moment before he understood what Lin Chen meant, and quickly explained, "We used the life essence and blood of these casual cultivators to make simple soul lamps and set up identity talismans."

"If they die, the soul lamps will go out, and if they are replaced by demon cultivators, the aura of the identity talisman and the soul lamp will not match, so these people should be fine, and you don't have to worry."

At the same time, he secretly sent a message to Lin Chen: "Brother, you can rest assured. Due to the method of renting and lending spirit veins and caves, the places where these casual cultivators live are all outside the core formation of the market."

"Even if they have problems, some casual cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage cannot attack the formation with the elders in the Foundation Establishment Stage."

"It's very thoughtful." Lin Chen nodded, but then continued.

"But since you have all considered the problem, didn't the demon cultivators consider it? Then why did they pay such a high price to let these people in?"

"This..." The green-clothed cultivator was stunned at first, then his face changed, and he looked at the crowd fiercely.

He naturally understood what Lin Chen meant. These scattered cultivators who had been checked did not show anything on the surface, but they might have big problems inside!

"Didn't we just check it? There is obviously no problem. Why are you stopping us?"

"Yes, yes, we want to go back!"

"We have paid so much for the sect, don't you want us to even go home?!"

At this time, there was a sudden noise in the crowd, and the scattered cultivators who had been silent just now spoke up and stared at Lin Chen and the others.

The green-clothed cultivator frowned and was about to say something, but he saw Lin Chen walked up to a casual cultivator who had just been shouting.

"What are you going to do?! Even if you are from the upper sect, you can't do anything reckless. I have shed blood for Qingyun Sect!" The casual cultivator shouted at Lin Chen's approaching figure.

At this time, Lin Chen's actions seemed to have caused dissatisfaction among the crowd. Several casual cultivators around him approached him, as if they wanted to intimidate him through numbers.

"Didn't you say there was no problem?" Lin Chen looked at the crowd with an expressionless face and snapped his fingers: "Then you can take a good look."

Everyone was stunned, as if they didn't understand what Lin Chen meant, but the next moment, everyone opened their eyes wide.

Because the head of the casual cultivator that Lin Chen approached, after the sound, was separated from the body and rolled down directly.

And the headless body without a head did not spurt blood, but instead revealed a mass of dark red flesh and blood!

This is not the body of a living person at all!

Just as everyone was standing there in awe, Lin Chen's voice came faintly from the side: "This is what you said, no problem?"