The Strongest Knight

"That's right. May I ask if you have any advice for me, senior sister?" Zhao Qinghe bowed and spoke.

The Taoist woman smiled and said, "We are all going to go down to the Black Water Cave, but there are many powerful and aggressive spiritual creatures under the Black Water Cave, and even spiritual beasts appear occasionally, so we are going to form a six-in-one formation before going down. We are still short of one person, I wonder if you are interested in joining us?"

The Liuhe Formation is not a spiritual formation, but just an ordinary defensive formation. Six people form a hexagon, which can avoid sneak attacks and other attacks to the greatest extent.

It is indeed dangerous to go down the cave alone. Teams like the female Taoist waiting in front of the Black Water Cave can be seen every day.

Zhao Qinghe had also heard about it. Basically, once a team is gathered, they will go down the cave.

"To be honest, Senior Sister, my mission target is ten ice thorn snake gallbladders." Zhao Qinghe said.

The female Taoist smiled and said, "The location of the Ice Spike Snake is similar to the Black Water Cave where we are going. We can act together."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Qinghe nodded: "Well, I will be honored if you ask me. My Taoist name is Hua Qinghe, and I am at the fourth level of Yuan Jing. May I ask your Taoist name?"

"So he is a junior brother of the Hua generation. His sister's name is Liusaishui, and her cultivation level is the fifth level of Yuanjing. They are respectively..."

Liu Sakishui introduced them one by one, and Zhao Qinghe discovered that the remaining four Taoists were all disciples of the Liu generation.

The one with the worst cultivation level is probably at the fourth level of Yuan Jing.

"The Hua generation? The first batch of Hua generation has only been in school for five years, right? Their cultivation has reached the fourth level of Yuan Jing. I wonder how their Taoist skills are going?" A senior brother from the Liu generation spoke up. He was the only one of the other four male Taoists who had reached the fourth level of Yuan Jing.

In Liuhua Sect, outer sect disciples, regardless of their generation names, all call each other brothers. If they formally enter the inner sect, those of the Hua generation have to call those of the Liu generation uncles.

The senior brother of the Liu generation who spoke up was obviously relying on his seniority to dampen the enthusiasm of Zhao Qinghe, the young genius of the Hua generation.

Zhao Qinghe was already in a bad mood. He frowned when he heard the words, suppressed his emotions, took out a silver needle and circulated it around his body several times, directly counterattacking the words of this senior brother with action.

"Brother, your exorcism skills are quite good!" Liu Sakisui, who was a little worried at first, smiled slightly and waved his hand, "Then fellow brothers, let's go down the cave!"

A group of five people formed a Liuhe formation and started to go down the cave.

The entrance to the Black Water Cave is a large hole leading downwards. After walking a few steps inside, it becomes dark.

The six Taoists all used the spiritual eye technique at the same time, so they could see clearly even in a dark environment.

"The Black Water Cave has a total of seven layers. The temperature of each layer is different, and the area expands in a fan shape downwards. The deeper you go, the larger the area becomes. We only need to move around on the second and third layers. Going further down is the territory of senior brothers with higher cultivation or even inner sect brothers." Liu Sakisui said, as if he was deliberately saying it for Zhao Qinghe to hear.

The group continued to move forward, and soon they reached the first level of the Black Water Cave. The view in front of them suddenly became clear, with damp gravel under their feet and mosses growing everywhere.

The first floor was not large, and had been searched for various resources by too many outer disciples, so it was basically empty. Therefore, the team did not stop and continued to move forward.

After walking down for about half an hour, we arrived at the second level of the Black Water Cave.

You can clearly feel the temperature dropping all around. The height of the cave is actually higher than the first floor. There are many strange rocks several meters high standing around. Occasionally, you can hear the roars of many animals and unknown rustling sounds.

The atmosphere in the team became noticeably tense.

At the beginning, you can meet some other disciples.

As we went deeper, the surroundings fell into complete silence.

Soon, the team had their first harvest. A frost grass was found under the cover of a strange rock.

Frost grass is a magical medicine that can be used to refine elixirs that can calm the mind and focus the soul. It is what a male Taoist in the team needs.

The Taoist man immediately and excitedly put the Frost Grass into the jade bottle in the basket on his back.

After collecting the Frost Grass, the team encountered two Frost Bats head-on.

This bat that lives in a cold environment is a spiritual creature that can spit out frost mist from its mouth to lower the temperature of a target over a large area, slowing down the target's agility before biting it.

The two frost bats originally knew that Zhao Qinghe's side had more people and more power, so they didn't dare to move forward.

However, there was a Taoist priest in the team whose mission target was the blood of the frost bats, so several Taoist priests started chasing after him.

The Taoist who had provoked Zhao Qinghe before took the lead and accurately pierced the head of a frost bat with a silver needle, then looked at Zhao Qinghe provocatively.

Zhao Qinghe was indifferent. This senior brother from the Liu generation had been a disciple for ten years and had learned the art of exorcising objects for several years, so it was not surprising that he behaved like this.

His provocation of Zhao Qinghe was a stupid act. He mistook Zhao Qinghe as one of the first batch of Hua disciples. If he knew that Zhao Qinghe was only in his second year, I wonder how he would feel.

No matter how exquisite this senior brother's exorcism technique is, it is definitely not as good as Zhao Qinghe's exorcism technique that has been practiced to the maximum level. Zhao Qinghe is confident of this.

"Good harvest! Two frost bats! Brother, you have completed half of your mission!" Liu Sakisui said with a smile to another male Taoist who was at the fifth level of Yuan Jing.

"Haha, it seems that I have good luck today." The male Taoist squeezed the blood of the two frost bats into two jade bottles and set two flags without any scruples.

Sure enough, because of this flag, the team gained nothing in the next few hours.

The six of them were a little hungry, so they had to choose a standing boulder to lean on and eat their dry food one after another.

"This won't work. Let's go to the third floor." As the organizer, Rusaki Mizu gave a suggestion.

The five male Taoists looked at each other and expressed their agreement.

So, the team changed their original exploration plan, changed direction, and continued moving downwards.

An hour later, they arrived at the third level of the Black Water Cave. The temperature here had dropped from the average temperature of 20 degrees in the blessed land on the ground to around zero degrees.

When my feet stepped on the ground, I could hear the sound of breaking ice from time to time, and the air I exhaled was all white mist.

The Taoists were only wearing light green Taoist robes. In this environment, even those Taoists who had reached the fourth or fifth level of Yuan Jing began to feel uncomfortable.

"The third layer is where spiritual beasts have appeared before. For safety reasons, we only cruise on the outer layer." Liu Sakisui had been to the Black Water Cave several times, so he was very experienced.

Zhao Qinghe did learn a lot from Liu Sakisui.

Fortunately, corresponding to the danger, the resources on the third floor are much richer than those on the second floor.

Not long after, a male Taoist priest found the trace of an ice thorn snake.

When Zhao Qinghe saw the whereabouts of the ice thorn snake, he strode forward without saying a word and stabbed the ice thorn snake with a silver needle.