The original repairer

Today is the twentieth day of the reconnaissance mission. Three days ago, the sea monsters within the scope of Shi Chen's reconnaissance mission began to show unusual movements. The small monsters below the foundation building stage gathered around the big monsters above the foundation building stage, and the big monsters in the golden elixir stage began to patrol this area yesterday.

Fortunately, Shi Chen's spiritual sense was powerful, and the distance he could detect was about the same as that of a Jindan late stage cultivator. As soon as he discovered that a Jindan demon had entered the range of his spiritual sense for inspection, he immediately activated the concealment formation and ordered everyone to use concealment talismans. After a while, the team looked at the Jindan demon flying through the air a hundred feet away, and they didn't dare to breathe, their hearts in their throats.

When the Jindan demon entered the range of Shi Chen's spiritual consciousness, he detected that it had reached the third level of Jindan cultivation.

If the team is discovered by a monster with the cultivation level of Jindan, it will be difficult for them to escape unscathed. Two or three people will need to be sacrificed to cover their retreat. If they wait for the big monster to summon his monster soldiers to encircle the team, the whole team will be killed.

There are still twelve days left for the mission. The reconnaissance range is 300 miles, and 200 miles have been explored. There is still an area of about 100 miles that the team has not been able to enter. That is the area where a big demon in the late Jindan stage is located.

They have been wandering outside the range of this great demon control in the past few days. Now they have sent out demon beasts with the cultivation level of the early Jindan stage to patrol, which means that there is a high possibility that there are demon beasts with the cultivation level of the Yuanying stage ahead. The reconnaissance team dares not move forward. As long as they are discovered by the demon beasts with the cultivation level of the Yuanying stage, the entire team will definitely be killed here.

Now the reconnaissance mission can be said to be almost completed. After confirming whether there is really a great demon with the cultivation level of Yuanying in this place, we can go back and hand over the mission.

This is a small valley, surrounded by black stone mountains on three sides and low shrubs everywhere. The third reconnaissance team has been hiding here for three days.

Today is the fourth day, and a patrolling Jindan-level demon beast just flew over ten feet overhead.

The first three days were all patrolled by different Jindan level monster beasts, and today it was finally the turn of the early Jindan level monster beast to patrol.

There were three Jindan monsters and perhaps one Yuanying monster in this area. Originally, there were supposed to be thirty or forty Foundation Establishment monsters, but after the team lured and killed ten of them over a dozen days, they finally sent out the Jindan monsters for patrols.

As soon as the Jindan monsters come out to patrol, the team can only hide. Even if there is a Qi-refining monster three feet outside the hiding formation, no one will kill it to earn military merit. You may be afraid that the Jindan monster will appear in front of you as soon as you walk out of the hiding formation.

"This is not a solution. The reconnaissance mission cannot be completed, and we will be subject to military law when we return." Fatty Yu said a little disappointedly.

"The Jindan monster patrols every day, so it's useless for other reconnaissance teams to come. Otherwise, we should return now. Even if we haven't reconnoitered 300 miles, we have already covered 200 miles. Moreover, there is a big monster ahead, and we can't get through." Zhao Fang said angrily.

"Alright, shut up!" Liang Ruyan said. "We still have a few days. Let's see if we can gather more information. If not, we'll go back and report back. Even if we don't complete the entire mission, we'll have completed 80% of it. Furthermore, the military merits we receive from slaying Foundation Establishment and Qi Training monsters will offset any penalties."

"Or I can go alone to scout the situation ahead, and come back immediately after completing the task." Zhang Hao said after considering it.

"No, with your cultivation level and proficiency in magic, you can at most deceive a monster that has reached the Perfect Foundation Establishment stage. If you come into close contact with a Golden Core monster, the chance of being exposed is 80 to 90 percent. It can be said that as long as you are exposed, you will have no chance of escape." Liang Ruyan refused.

"We've been staying here for four days, and there are still five days left before the mission. We can't stay here until the end of the mission, right?" Zeng Tieniu said somewhat listlessly.

"Wait two more days. If there is no chance to advance, we will retreat. The situation in this area has been explored 70% to 80%. We just need to report the situation." Liang Ruyan said in a deep voice.

Two days flew by, and they hadn't found a way to continue their exploration. Every day, Jindan-level demon beasts patrolled the area, and from time to time, groups of sea monsters passed by. The six of them could only hide in the triple formation of concealment, protection, and illusion.

The Jindan Sea Monster had been patrolling for an hour. The wandering group of sea monsters were a few miles away. Shi Chen and Zhang Hao imitated two sea monsters in the early stage of foundation building and began to retreat in the direction of Duhaixian City, while the other four people put on breath-suppressing talismans and followed the two for four or five miles.

During the ten-plus mile journey, whenever they saw a lone sea beast, or one with a lower level of cultivation than the simulation, Shi Chen and Zhang Hao would call for it. Shi Chen would lead the way, while Zhang Hao would follow behind, chasing away any stragglers. If any resisted, they would kill them directly and then throw their bodies to the sirens. Within half a minute, the sirens would devour them.

Leading the sirens they met on the road, they gathered more than a hundred sirens after a journey of fifty miles. The one with the highest cultivation level was in the early stage of foundation building, and most of them were in the early and middle stages of Qi training. It was a large group of sirens.

Following behind Shi Chen were two sea sirens in the early stage of foundation building. Whenever they tried to get away, Shi Chen would slap them. He would follow them for thirty miles, and the two sea sirens in the early stage of foundation building were trained to obey his orders.

After two days of marching, they had only covered a little over eighty miles and were already on the edge of the Jindan Sea Monster's patrol. After discussion, the team decided to lead the Sea Monster for a further twenty miles, then deploy a formation to eliminate it, and then evacuate at full speed to Duhaixian City.

That night, the starlight was dim, with some thin clouds. Four Foundation Establishment stage sirens were guarding the four sides to prevent the Qi Condensation sirens in the middle from escaping privately. Many hot-tempered sirens had been beaten to death. Every time one was killed, it was a feast for the sirens. Whenever this happened, another round of fighting broke out among the sirens, and sometimes a few more died in the fight.

Shi Chen has already set up the formation base all around. Once it is activated, in less than a breath, several layers of formations will cover the area.

Waiting for the arrival of the four teammates behind him, and after they each reached their positions, Shi Chen took out the formation flag and sacrificed it. The formation was completed, and 235 Qi training sea beasts and two foundation building early stage sea beasts were covered by the four-layer formation.

Golden Sword Strangling Formation, Shield Formation, God Forbidden Formation, and Maze Formation.

The formation closed, and the sea monsters that were covered by the quadruple formation didn't know what was going on at first. After five breaths, the small sea monsters in the early and middle stages of Qi training were killed by the golden swords that emerged. The two sea monsters in the early stage of foundation building found that their consciousness could not leave their bodies, and the group of sea monsters began to become chaotic.

With the cooperation of Shi Chen's formation, Liang Ruyan and Zeng Tieniu easily killed two Foundation Establishment Stage sea monsters. The remaining Qi Condensation Stage sea monsters were strangled by Zhao Fang, Fatty Yu, and Zhang Hao. In just thirty breaths, a group of more than 200 sea monsters were wiped out by the third team.

The few of them did not linger to clean up the battlefield. They put the two Foundation Establishment Stage sea sirens and the nine most valuable Qi Condensation Stage sea sirens' corpses into storage bags. Liang Ruyan summoned a flying boat and headed towards Duhaixian City at full speed.

Ten breaths after the third team boarded the flying boat and left, a siren appeared here, followed by sirens one after another. Looking at the corpses of the sirens all over the ground and the flying boat that was rapidly fleeing in the distance, which was about to leave their sight, they roared and chased after it in the air.

Among the sirens that followed it, a big-headed, one-eyed siren walked out. It flipped its hand and took out a glowing conch, and chattered to the conch.

The sea monster chasing the flying boat has reached the perfect stage of foundation building. If there are no other sea monsters, the third team can fight with it and will not be at a disadvantage in a short period of time.

The speed of the aerial pursuit was actually comparable to that of the flying boat. Shi Chen observed from his spiritual sense that the speed of the sea monster, which had completed its foundation building, was slightly faster than the flying boat. If there was no means to suppress the opponent, it would catch up with the flying boat in a quarter of an hour.

If you can maintain a flying distance and persist for two quarters of an hour, and wait for the siren's spiritual power to be exhausted, you can escape.

"Captain, can the flying boat be sped up further?" Shi Chen asked with a frown.

"If we want to burst out at a higher speed, the flying boat can only increase its speed by another 10%, which will take ten breaths. After ten breaths, the speed of the flying boat will drop by nearly half." Liang Ruyan answered anxiously.

"There is a sea monster chasing us from ten miles behind. Its cultivation has reached the perfect foundation. Its flying speed is slightly faster than our flying boat. If we continue to be chased by it, it will be able to intercept our flying boat in less than a quarter of an hour." Shi Chen said the truth with worry in his heart.

"Why don't we stop and work together to kill it." Zeng Tieniu looked behind him and suggested in a low voice.

"We have to kill it within ten breaths, otherwise the little demons under its command will come to support and encircle us. Moreover, since it dares to chase us, it means that it has already passed the message to the big demons above the Jindan level. If we can't kill the group of sea monsters chasing us in a moment, we are facing sea monsters with the cultivation level of Jindan." Liang Ruyan analyzed calmly.

"Then...what should we do? We are still...more than eight hundred miles away from Duhaixian City. We are either dead...dead." Zhao Fang was a little panicked and stuttered.

"There's a chance of escape only if we evacuate to within 500 miles of Duhaixian City. Now, even if we take turns controlling the flying boat and move forward at top speed, it will still take half an hour to travel these 300 miles. Besides, the sea monster with perfect foundation building skills chasing us from behind won't give us a chance to escape." Fatty Yu said with some sadness.

"No matter what, we must first find a way to deal with the mermaid behind us, otherwise everyone will suffer." Zhang Hao looked at Liang Ruyan and said with a firm look.

Shi Chen looked at the five people looking at each other, with sadness in their eyes. The danger has come, and it depends on how the team will respond and resolve it.

"How about this," Shi Chen said in a deep voice, "Fatty Yu will take over as captain and control the flying boat. We'll find a valley ahead to stop. I'll set up four formations. When the Foundation Establishment Perfection demon catches up, we'll enter the compound formation and attack with all our might. Even if we can't kill the sea monster, we can at least seriously injure it. Then we can board the flying boat and leave at full speed. As long as the sea monster is seriously injured, there's a good chance it won't chase us anymore."

"This is the only way now. Fatty Yu, you take over the control of the flying boat. You will only be responsible for stopping the flying boat and escaping. Don't take any action. Even if we can't kill or seriously injure the sea monster behind us, we can jump onto the flying boat and escape as soon as possible." Liang Ruyan made a decision after thinking it over.