Chapter 77: Intermediate task

"Hey... the new junior brother is also pitiful. Why did he offend them? Now I can't eat it and walk around."
"You care about him, it's none of your business. It's better to talk less." The disciples onlookers whispered.
"Junior Brother Su, I would advise you to make some compensations that are not good. If you really get to the martial arts field, you will inevitably suffer from flesh and blood." Yu Shan also persuaded again.
Suning raised her eyebrows, and faintly responded, "Brother Yang, I'll take this battle book!"
hiss! He really dare to pick it up? Why is he? A mere dual source of chemical origin? Many disciples thought that Suning must have been pressed into a hurry. Although on the surface, he was calm, but his heart might have been trembling long ago.
Yang Xiong was taken aback for a moment, even he himself didn't expect that Suning actually dared to accept the war script, and immediately his expression became even more proud: "Very well, if you have a seed, after ten days, I want you to kneel down and beg me , Haha! Let's go!"
Before leaving, he gave Suning a fierce look, but Suning didn't take it seriously.
"Junior Brother Su, you are confused! With your current cultivation base as Yang Xiong's opponent, I will go to Elder Sun to mediate." Yu Shan sighed.
"Senior brother's kindness, I appreciate it, but even if Elder Sun can come forward this time, they won't let it go. They can't hide from the first day of the new year, but can't hide from the fifteenth. The ones that should come are still coming. Don't worry, brother, I can solve it. "
Suning looked confident, as if he had never seen Yang Xiong and others in his eyes. Yu Shan was very puzzled. He looked anxious, and he didn't know what the new junior brother has the ability to be so calm, but since Suning Having said that, he had no choice but to watch the changes.
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Ten days, enough time for him to complete the first intermediate task.
According to the mission, the place where he traveled was a somewhat barren land without a place name. After a hurried one-day trip, he finally touched the unnamed land boundary.
Where the smoke rises, there are more than a dozen houses made of wood and vegetation. Not far from these houses, there is a wooden sign with the words of the Loulan nationality carved on it.
Suning walked to the wooden sign and stopped to look. The residents of the tribe were ragged, mostly old and weak, women and children. They looked like they had suffered a disaster and looked very desolate.
At this time, the residents of the clan had already noticed the arrival of Suning. When they saw Suning, their eyes were panicked, and their bodies were shaking involuntarily.
After experiencing great ups and downs, Suning can see through their state of mind at a glance, and said with emotion: "I really don't know how hard these people have been hit to become so timid!"
Suning slowly walked into the clan and approached these residents, curiosity prompted him to want to know the situation here.
A gentle smile appeared on his somewhat handsome face, and he wanted to use this to tell them that he was not hostile.
Seeing Suning approaching step by step, the panic in the eyes of these poor people was even worse. A middle-aged woman held a young child tightly in her arms and tremblingly said: "You... don't come over!" Then she Then he shouted at the people behind him: "Go and call the patriarch over!"
Seeing that they were so frightened, Suning stopped, tried to communicate with them, and said softly: "Don't panic, I just didn't have any malice when I passed by here..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished his words, a worn-out blade suddenly came head-on, but the speed was indeed extremely slow. It was obviously thrown by ordinary people. Suning stretched out his hand and easily took the blade.
Only at the moment when he took the blade, he slightly felt that the blade seemed to be a little different from ordinary weapons, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and he just abandoned it on the ground.
At this time, an old man with gray hair but fairly strong physique walked out of the path behind the people. The old man first glanced at the broken blade on the ground, and then turned his eyes to the smiling Suning.
The old man looked at it carefully and said, "This lord, there are still nine days before the tribute is paid this time. You are here suddenly, and we have not collected the corresponding tribute. Can we give it a few more days?"
Presumably the old man was the patriarch that the woman said. Suning could hear some of the tricks from his words. The people of this poor ethnic group seem to be paying tribute to a certain force within a certain period of time.
This sort of search and squeeze is not uncommon across the continent. For this bullying behavior, Suning is also quite shameless.
In order to avoid causing panic again, Suning first politely gave a fist to the patriarch, and then said: "Senior patriarch, I think you have misunderstood. I am not what you said in your mouth. I am a disciple of Ling Tianzong. This is to perform a task, and there is no malice!"
Hearing this, the old man was taken aback for a moment, and then an excited expression appeared in his eyes: "Are you a disciple of Ling Tianzong?"
"Exactly!"
Seeing that Suning's words and deeds were very polite, not like an evil person, and did not hurt anyone here, the old man breathed a sigh of relief and signaled the people behind him not to panic.
Seeing that these people's emotions gradually calmed down, Suning asked: "Did something happen here? Why are everyone so afraid of outsiders?"
The old man sighed deeply and said: "Little friend, you don't know, our Loulan clan, originally a big clan handed down from ancient times, has only experienced thousands of generations and has gradually fallen into disarray."
"It was a very comfortable life in this generation, but who knows that disasters have flown overnight, all the people in the clan have been killed, and the only remaining people of us have all been abolished."
After listening to the old man’s description, Suning felt miserable for their tragic experience, and immediately asked:
Did you have conflicts with other forces that led to the massacre?

The old man shook his head and said: "The Loulan clan has always regarded peace as the most precious thing and never provokes disputes. Those people are all from a force called the Blood Fiend Mercenary Group. Only some people were left, and their cultivation base was abolished, including us."
"The purpose of these people is to keep you and take the resources they need, isn't it?" Suning thought thoughtfully.
"What the little friend said is true. Over the years we have suffered all the oppression, but because of the loss of cultivation, we are unable to resist their atrocities. In order to survive, we have to go to the mountains not far from the east to mine resources!"
After some conversation, Suning already had a general understanding of the situation, presumably this old man was the one who went to Ling Tianzong for help.