On the dense and deep forest path.

The summer sunshine passes through the gaps between the leaves and forms several large and small light spots on the ground.

A few gray birds staying in the shade suddenly noticed a noise not far away and immediately flapped their wings and flew away.

Not long after, a group of warriors wearing black attire flew past at extremely fast speeds. Each of them had a good aura, and the fierceness of the warriors was unmistakable.

If any ordinary people in the world saw this group of people, they would immediately change their color and hide as far away as possible.

After all, that is the Eagle Dog of the Divine Dynasty, the Zhenling Division!

On weekdays, just one person from a hundred households coming out of the mountain is enough to scare everyone.

And right now, the cuffs of the leading warrior's attire have three golden patterns!

All warriors who saw this group of people passing by were frightened and wondered why they were here.

In the queue of this group of people, Anle followed not far behind Li Guanshan, walking with Situ Yuan and several other hundreds of households.

Wu Quan, the acting envoy of Zhenling, attached great importance to this mission and required rapid military deployment. The men dispatched were all elites from the Zhenling Division. Hundreds of households were only allowed to bring along a few trusted experts.

As a newly promoted Baihu, Anle was actually assigned some subordinates.

However, the time he spent with his subordinates was too short to have any trust, so he simply didn't take them with him when he went out this time.

Anle was located in the middle of the team. His pace was neither too fast nor too slow, keeping just enough to keep up with the pace of others. At the same time, he listened attentively to the conversations of his colleagues.

"What exactly is this mission? Why is it so mysterious?"

"Who knows? It's probably another thankless job."

Situ Yuan hesitated for a moment and then said: "I heard that it is related to the Immortal Cave!"

"Hiss... Immortal Cave?"

Hearing this, the expressions of others quickly changed: "Is there such an evil place in our divine dynasty?"

In the eyes of most of the warriors of the Great Tai Dynasty, things related to immortal cultivators and immortals are all extremely evil and unpredictable existences. The hidden sects are even evil sects and demon sects, remnants of ancient times that should have been eradicated long ago.

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This kind of prejudice is especially obvious among Zhenling Division warriors.

The reason behind this is nothing more than publicity and education.

No matter what the truth is, as long as the divine dynasty has spread to the people the concept that "immortal cultivators are a disaster" for decades and told them wrong history, and no immortal cultivators have come forward to clarify and prove it, people will naturally believe this statement.

Thoughts and concepts are often formed in this way.

Maybe there are elderly people who know the secrets of the past, but why should they go against the Great Tai Dynasty for this?

Letting the truth be buried in the dust of history is the wisest choice.

Thinking of this, Anle felt inexplicably heavy.

At this time, Li Guanshan, who had been silent, said, "Be careful what you say."

"What is the specific mission of the operation? I will let you know when we arrive at the destination."

After the leader spoke, many subordinates quickly calmed down and just kept their heads down and went on their way.

"Um?"

Li Guanshan's majestic eyes swept around everyone and landed on Anle, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise.

In his eyes, the aura of the jade-faced scholar actually improved, making him feel slightly threatened.

This speed of entry is exaggerated!

Li Guanshan deliberately slowed down and walked with Anle: "It's only been a few days since we last met, and Lu Baihu's energy and blood have improved a lot."

As a member of Qianhu Zhenling Division, no matter how much Li Guanshan valued peace and happiness, he could not follow him every day.

A few days ago, he happened to go out on a mission, so naturally he didn't know about the abnormality caused by Anle absorbing the source of blood.

An Le smiled reservedly: "It's just a small gain, far less than Master Li."

Li Guanshan was quite relieved to hear this. Compared to those geniuses who did not understand the ways of the world, the sensible Lu Bin was obviously more likable.

The more he looks at Lu Bin now, the more he likes her.

This jade-faced scholar is not only extremely talented and powerful, but he also speaks well. It is only a matter of time before he becomes one of the thousand households in the Zhenling Division.

For such talents, of course, one should cultivate them more and form a good relationship.

Soon, Li Guanshan forced the sound into a line and directly transmitted the sound into Anle's ears.

"Don't say anything for now. This matter is indeed related to the immortal cultivator's cave."

"However, it is not a living cultivator, but... an evil spirit!"

This news made even Anle squint his eyes and look thoughtful.

"Evil spirits transformed by immortal cultivators?"

Based on Anle's experience under Taixugong's rule, he has heard of many such cases.

Immortal cultivators have spiritual consciousness and relatively strong spirits. If they are greatly wronged or have strong resentment before death, they are far more likely to become evil than ordinary people.

If you are a Nascent Soul monk, it is said that you can still rely on the Nascent Soul to escape, and you can survive for a period of time on the Nascent Soul alone.

Now, Qingzhou Zhenlingsi can be so mobilized...

"Could it be that he is a monk who transforms into gods?"

Guessing this possibility, Anle was shocked at first, and then quickly became excited.

In the cave of a god-transforming monk, the treasures left in it would probably make even a cultivator of immortals excited.

Anle quickly associated this task with the trouble Huang Yueshan mentioned before.

"It seems that I don't need to notify you anymore."

In fact, the Zhenling Division actually attached great importance to the news reported by Huang Yueshan and even sent spies to check it out.

After receiving relatively accurate information, Wu Quan decided to gather people and go to the location of the "Immortal Cave Mansion".

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Everyone is a warrior of high level, and they can travel faster than ordinary horses.

It only took two days to leave the core area of ​​Qingzhou, and the scenery along the way also changed a lot.

Qingzhou is mostly covered with forests, and everything you see in the wild is lush vegetation.

But on this trip, we headed all the way north to Yanzhou. The yellow color on both sides of the road increased visibly to the naked eye, the soil under our feet turned into white sand, and the dark green jungle was gradually replaced by rough rock walls, hinting at the prototype of a desert.

In addition, these days, Taitai Shenchao has been experiencing scorching summer weather. The sunshine during the day is extremely harsh and the temperature is extremely high.

Without the shade of the trees, the process of everyone's journey was undoubtedly much more torturous, and even high-level warriors could not bear it.

The impatient Wu Quan originally wanted to ignore the weather and push on, but he gave up after being blocked by several thousand households, so he had to arrange for the warriors to rest at noon, the hottest time, and continue moving at night.

"Huh...huh..."

Reluctantly finding a shady spot on the hillside, Situ Yuan was panting heavily and his whole body smelled of sweat.

He couldn't help complaining: "This weather is getting hotter and hotter!"

Other colleagues also used their hands to fan themselves, trying to bring some shade, and said, "That's right. It feels extremely hot this summer, and it hasn't rained yet. I'm afraid there's going to be a drought."

"We warriors can't stand it, let alone ordinary people."

An Le on the side nodded silently.

When he was in Baoqi County before, Hai Yuqing predicted that there would be a severe drought and made preparations in advance.

Now it seems that the situation in Qingzhou is pretty good. In Yanzhou, which is mostly covered by Gobi desert, the drought will only become more serious.

The sights he saw along the way made Anle quite curious.

He walked up to Situ Yuan and asked: "Brother Situ, why are Qingzhou and Yanzhou so different in topography even though they are only separated by one state?"

Anle had previously gone to Lingzhou, south of Qingzhou, and the difference between the two places was obviously not that huge.

There are also very few civilians in Yanzhou, and there is almost no cultivated land.

From previous contacts, Anle saw Situ Yuan's Bagua personality, so she sought advice from him.

Situ Yuan took a sip of water, moistened his throat and showed a mysterious expression: "Brother Lu, you don't know something. Yanzhou is a very special state within the territory of our Tai Dynasty."

"It is said that hundreds of years ago, Yanzhou and Qingzhou had very similar environments. They were green waters, green mountains, and a land of plenty. It was a good place to go."

"But at the same time, this is also the location of several immortal cultivating sects."

Situ Yuan gave a "you know" look and continued: "The God Emperor sent several divine generals, and a shocking battle broke out here. The war burned for several months, and the sky was burned red."

"Perhaps those cultivators used some insidious means to destroy all the feng shui in Yanzhou, leaving behind such a desolate scene."

"After that, Yanzhou became the most sparsely populated and desolate place among several states."

Finally, Situ Yuan slapped his thigh angrily.

"So, immortal cultivators are not good people. They can even do such evil things as annihilating their descendants!"
To be continued...