Mortal Seeking Immortal

Before the moths released by Liao Xueyun flew into the courtyard, a faint green light suddenly appeared from the originally open courtyard gate, which instantly turned the moths into powder.

Seeing this, the faces of Ye Zhou and the other two changed. Before they could release the shield to block in front of them, they heard a few hoarse coughs suddenly coming from the small courtyard with blue bricks and black tiles.

An old figure with a hunched back, wearing a pair of worn cloth shoes, slowly walked out of a room in the courtyard. The person was an old man wearing gray cloth and white hair.

What surprised Ye Zhou was that he did not feel any spiritual power fluctuations from the old man, as if the old man was just an ordinary person.

A mortal living in the map of mountains and rivers? Is this possible?

Ye Zhou did not relax at all, and his face became solemn in an instant.

The old man's face was covered with wrinkles, and his cloudy eyes looked at Ye Zhou and the other two coldly. Suddenly, his face changed, and he quickly raised his hand, half-clenched his fist, and coughed violently a few times. The cough sounded like a candle in the wind, as if the old man would die at any time.

After coughing for a while, the old man waved his hand at the gate of the courtyard. Ye Zhou and the other two only felt a green light in front of them, and then heard the old man's hoarse voice saying: "You three come in, it happens that I am short of manpower in this courtyard."

"I'll say it in advance. If you do something that makes me dissatisfied, I will drive you out of the courtyard at any time."

After hearing the old man's words, Ye Zhou couldn't help but glance at the white fog behind him with the corner of his eyes. I don't know if it was his illusion, the thick white fog behind him seemed to be closer to them.

Before entering the Mountain and River Map, the Sixth Elder said that as long as the cultivators stayed in the Mountain and River Map for three days, they would win. The old man just said that he would drive them out of the yard if he was not satisfied. Ye Zhou instantly understood that being driven out of the yard meant being eliminated.

He must not let this old man drive him out of the yard.

A moment after the old man finished speaking, he saw that the three people were still standing there thinking, and a trace of impatience flashed across his eyes. Just when he was about to make a move, he saw Ye Zhou, one of the three, take the lead in entering the small courtyard, came to the old man, and respectfully bowed to the old man.

The old man looked at Ye Zhou with satisfaction, and then looked at Liao Xueyun and the other person who were still standing outside the courtyard and asked coldly: "What do you two mean? Don't you want to enter my courtyard to be a servant? In this case, I will close the door."

Hearing this, Liao Xueyun's face showed a tangled look. She glanced at Ye Zhou and saw that there was nothing wrong with him entering the small courtyard. Then she also carefully entered the courtyard, bowed to the old man, and apologized repeatedly.

The old man just snorted coldly and didn't say anything else.

The remaining strange male cultivator outside the courtyard saw Ye Zhou and the other two enter the courtyard, and hurried in.

As soon as the strange male cultivator stepped into the courtyard, the courtyard door slammed shut.

The courtyard was silent, and Ye Zhou could even clearly hear the breathing of the three of them. The old man's eyes swept over their faces one by one, and then he slowly said: "I don't have much work in this courtyard. The main job of the three of you is to help me take care of the spirit insects."

"In addition, the three of you need to each choose a spirit insect egg and raise it carefully. When the spirit insect grows into an adult, I will have a use for it. Do you understand?"

Ye Zhou and the other two immediately nodded in agreement. A satisfied look flashed across the old man's face, and he pointed to the three closed rooms on the side and said: "I will take care of the spirit insects. According to the difficulty of raising them, place them in these three rooms respectively. Each of you is responsible for the spiritual insects in one room. "

"If anyone accidentally kills my spiritual insects, immediately expel them from the yard."

"Every morning, I will put the spiritual plants for raising spiritual insects outside the room. You can come out and take them. Other than that, you cannot leave the room at will."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Ye Zhou and the other two looked at the three rooms impatiently. There were powerful restrictions outside these three rooms. The spiritual consciousness of Ye Zhou and the other two was blocked outside, and they could not detect the spiritual insects in the room.

At this time, the old man looked at Ye Zhou and said, "You came in first, so you can choose the room first."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Ye Zhou felt the eyes of Liao Xueyun and the other person beside him fall on him at the same time. Ye Zhou exhaled lightly, and did not go forward to look at the room carefully, but randomly chose the room on the far left and said, "Senior, I choose this room."

The old man looked at Ye Zhou in surprise and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to change it?"

Ye Zhou nodded solemnly. With his many years of experience in raising spiritual insects, he was confident that he could raise any kind of spiritual insects he encountered, so Ye Zhou didn't care about the difficulty of raising the spiritual insects in the room.

The old man nodded and looked at Liao Xueyun. Liao Xueyun went forward to look at the remaining two rooms carefully and chose the room in the middle. The room on the far right was naturally left to the strange male cultivator who entered the courtyard last.

At this time, the old man stretched out his hand and pointed at the void in front of him. A white light was released from under the old man's finger. When the white light dissipated, a dense mass of thousands of insect eggs of various colors floated in front of Ye Zhou and the other two.

The old man pointed at the insect eggs and said to Ye Zhou and the other two: "Each of you pick one insect egg to cultivate. You can choose whatever you want. After you have chosen, each of you will take the insect eggs back to your room."

After that, three tiny red, yellow and blue lights flew out from the old man's sleeves and shot into the tokens in the arms of Ye Zhou and the other two.

Then the old man turned around and walked slowly to the middle of the courtyard with his hands behind his back. There was a bamboo recliner there. The old man lay down leisurely on it, and a look of comfort suddenly appeared on his face. He began to hum a few unknown songs.

Ye Zhou and the other two looked at each other, and wondered why the old man asked them to choose spirit insect eggs for breeding. Could it be that he wanted the spirit insects they bred to fight each other? The winner could become a disciple of the Spirit Beast Sect?

Thinking of this, the three of them were obviously alert, and at the same time, they released their spiritual sense to scan the thousands of insect eggs in front of them. As the spiritual sense passed, Ye Zhou clearly sensed the strong or weak vitality in the eggs.

By observing the appearance and color of the eggs and the roughly formed larvae in the eggs, Ye Zhou and the other two could accurately identify the identities of the spirit insects in these eggs.

In a short while, Liao Xueyun and the strange male cultivator had already examined all the thousands of eggs in front of them, but neither of them chose an egg first, as if they were waiting for the other to choose first.

Ye Zhou had no time to care about what Liao Xueyun and the others were thinking, and all his consciousness was now focused on one of the black, soybean-sized eggs.

On this egg, Ye Zhou felt a trace of the aura of the black-backed centipede that had undergone a mutation after swallowing the Jade Ice Silkworm.

Could it be that the spirit insect in this egg had also undergone a mutation for some reason?