Chapter 709: The Six Groups of Ding Mao
Chapter 709 – Ding Mao Six Group
General Purple Night coldly swept a glance at the seemingly beautiful cultivator and warned, “Trouble comes out of the mouth.”
“Afraid of what? There’s no one else here, it’s hard to believe that these few newbie fledglings can still take the conversation between the two of us and spread it everywhere outside?”
The beautiful-looking cultivator let out a light laugh, seeing General Violet Night’s face grow more and more green and black, feeling amused.
After admiring the situation for a while, she said with great interest, “Alright, I still have some things to do, so I’ll leave you to it for now.”
With that, she walked towards the outside of the palace.
When she traveled to the entrance of the hall, seeing that the other three did not follow, she slightly lurched her steps without turning back.
“Tang Yue, Xu Chuniang, Guo Xuelian, the three of you are still not following, are you waiting for me to invite you?”
The three of them glanced at each other, not daring to delay any longer, and hurriedly followed the beautiful-looking cultivator.
After leaving the City Lord’s Mansion, the beautiful-looking cultivator sized up the three of them and introduced herself.
“I am Yan Ruyu, the captain of the Ding Mao team, from today onwards, you guys are the juniors under my command, the sixth group under my command is short of people, so the three of you will be organized into the sixth group.”
Yan Ruyu said, taking out three military orders painted with a black tiger totem, and after inscribing a few lines of small characters on the back with his spiritual power, he distributed the tokens to the three of them.
“After injecting soul breath into them, these military orders will be your only identity credentials in the military. Remember, the order is in the person, and if the military order is accidentally lost, then you won’t be coming back either.”
Xu Chuniang took the military order and punched a soul breath into it.
The totemic black tiger on the front of the military order suddenly opened its eyes, and then slowly closed them again.
With a flip of her hand, she saw that on the back of the military order, the words Ding Mao Lu Group were written, and to the right, her name.
“The stronghold of Ding Mao’s sixth group is along the lower reaches of the Gray River, with the military order, you can sense the location of your other teammates, I still have some business in Crane City, so I won’t be accompanying you.”
Yan Ruyu finished speaking, her figure disappeared in place, obviously not intending to lead the troops herself.
After she left, Xu Chuniang took the military order and tried sensing it, and indeed sensed Guo Xuelian and Tang Yue who were close by.
To the south of Crane City, there were still five or six soul breaths that were slightly farther away.
Guo Xuelian and Tang Yue also tried it out and gained a cognizance of the importance of this military order, as long as there was a military order in their hands, they would be able to sense the location of the others in the group.
If the military order fell into the hands of the Orcs, with this item, they could wipe out the entire group of cultivators.
No wonder Captain Yan had just said that the order was in the person’s possession, and once the token was lost, the person didn’t have to come back.
The three of them glanced at each other and Guo Xuelian proposed, “In that case, let’s set off now and meet up with the others earlier.”
Xu Chuniang and Tang Yue had no opinion of their own, the three of them sensed while traveling towards the south, and after only two or three days of effort, they found a stout male cultivator in the lower reaches of the Gray River, precisely one of their teammates who was closest to them on the military order.
“I am the deputy leader of the sixth group, Blue River, welcome to the Ding Mao Sixth Group.”
Blue River warmly greeted the trio, his gaze sweeping over the several people.
“I’ve already received Captain Yan’s notice, you are Guo Xuelian, Xu Chuniang, and Tang Yue, right?”
Guo Xuelian nodded, “That’s right, it’s exactly the three of us, I’m Guo Xuelian, good day senior Lan, I’ll have to rely on you more in the coming days.”
Lan He smiled brightly and rubbed the back of his head.
“Saying what to look up to or not to look up to, since we are in the same group, naturally we have to take care of each other, you don’t have to address me as senior, just call me Blue River.”
Guo Xuelian smoothly chatted with Lan He for a few moments, and the two quickly became acquainted. “Big brother Blue River, I wonder what kind of missions we, the Black Tiger Army, take on during the weekdays?”
Blue River let out a bitter smile, “As we all know, what our Black Tiger Army does is both the most dangerous and unappealing thing, we are asked to do all the dirty work, but when it comes to rewarding us for our achievements, we are excluded.”
Guo Xuelian’s face didn’t look too good, although she had prepared herself mentally before coming, she still had trouble accepting this reality when she heard what Lan He said.
She took a deep breath and slowly calmed her mood.
The only way to get out of the Black Tigers as soon as possible was to earn more military honors.
Blue River paused briefly and comforted, “However, the three of you are not weak in cultivation, so even if you encounter a half-orc, you will have the power to fight, so there’s no need to worry too much.”
Tang Yue nodded, “Elder Blue River, where do we go next, do we rendezvous with the rest of the team first?”
Blue River shook his head, “We found a team of Orcs along the lower reaches of the Gray River, they have a group of five, and two other teams went to block that team of Orcs, we have other tasks on our hands, come with me.”
Blue River led the other three to leave the Gray River and walked towards the forest.
As he walked, he utilized his arts to probe the aura movements around him.
“The Orc’s cultivation method is different from that of the Human Race, their cultivation method is similar to our Human Race’s Physical Cultivation, and there are some similarities with the Beast Race’s cultivation method.
When they pass by, they will drive the flow of aura around them, and by probing the thinness of the aura and the movement of the flow, one can surmise the movement of the Orcs.”
Tang Yue was a bit puzzled, “Why don’t you use your divine sense, but instead use such a troublesome method?”
Guo Xuelian pondered, “Is it because, by releasing divine sense, it will be detected by the Orcs hiding in the dark?”
“Not bad.”
Lan He added as he gave Guo Xuelian an appreciative glance.
“Divine sense fluctuations are easily detected, when tracing the Orcs’ traces, you must be careful not to release your divine sense hastily, once the Orcs get the upper hand, the situation will be unfavorable for us instead.”
The other three silently memorized this point in their hearts and followed Lan He’s example, carefully probing the surrounding aura movements.
“The aura here, it seems a bit off.”
Xu Chunniang’s complexion moved slightly, and after carefully identifying it, she reported towards Blue River.
After feeling it carefully for a moment, Lan He let out a soft ‘eep’ and gave Xu Chunniang a surprised look.
“You’re actually able to detect such subtle aura movements?”
“My sense of aura has always been very keen.”
After saying these words, Xu Chuniang clearly felt that Guo Xuelian’s gaze lingered on her for a moment longer.
“I see, that’s really great, continue probing along this direction, and continue to report back to me if you find anything.”
Xu Chunniang nodded slightly and continued to probe for a while, and sure enough, she made a new discovery.
A look of gravity appeared in Lan He’s eyes as he transmitted his voice towards the other few, “From these traces of aura, we can tell that this Orc we’re tracking is at least in the middle stage of Refining Void, but I’ve received intel that he’s heavily injured and may not be a match for the four of us.”
His cultivation was at the early stage of Void Refining, and with Xu Chuniang and the other three, he should have quite a good chance of winning.
(End of chapter)