Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

With a whooshing sound, the wolf-shaped drought demon's heavy body was kicked into the air. Before it could roll over and land, a figure leaped from the ground, instantly flying past the wolf-shaped drought demon and soaring into the air.

Zhang Shenglin didn't use his knife. His slender body landed on the huge wolf-shaped drought demon. He stomped down hard, and the wolf landed at an even faster speed, making a loud thud.

But the wolf-shaped drought demon was not dead yet. Zhang Shenglin landed on it, pressing down with his knees. Its neck made a creaking sound due to the heavy force. Then, Zhang Shenglin twisted his waist, and the wolf's head made a crisp sound in a twisted posture.

Standing up beside the wolf carcass, Zhang Shenglin didn't even glance at it; someone behind him took care of the carcass.

He has rarely used a knife in combat recently; his knife skills have not improved in a long time, and he needs to settle down and refine them now.

Since he hadn't made much progress in his swordsmanship, he didn't dwell on it and instead began to hone his skills, especially since he had acquired Li Mingzhen's "Thirty-Six Styles of Wind and Thunder Leg Techniques," which he needed to hone in actual combat.

Because I've been fighting the drought demon in close combat lately, I've inevitably gotten some unpleasant-smelling corpse fluid and other substances stuck to my body.

As soon as he approached, Su Xingze, disgusted by the wolf fur and slime clinging to him, resisted the urge to back away and used a cleaning talisman he had drawn himself on him.

He has recently come to realize some of the benefits of spirit talismans and has become more proactive in learning them. Sometimes he can even use spirit talismans as a cover to use his own abilities.

They are now about fifty miles away from Qinghao Town. The large group of more than three thousand people will inevitably attract the attention of some drought demons, so their speed of travel has naturally slowed down.

This was Zhang Shenglin's fifth battle against the drought demon along the way. His decisive and efficient skills, as well as his calm and indifferent temperament, quickly won over those who had initially doubted him.

Although Zhang Shenglin was young, he acted with great discipline and, coupled with his powerful martial arts skills, even some of the martial artists in the group unconsciously developed a certain respect for him.

Their team, including Zhang Shenglin and the martial arts guards responsible for protecting the civilians, consisted of seven people, all of whom were martial artists at the Bone Refining Realm. The other six were Li Mingzhen's confidants, and because of Li Mingzhen's attitude towards the two of them, these martial artists had always been quite friendly.

Besides them, there were also twenty ordinary martial artists, including constables from the yamen and martial artists from gangs in Qinghao Town.

Seven Bone Refining Realm martial artists each led a small team, with three ordinary martial artists by their side, dividing the more than 3,000 people into seven small teams, each with about 500 people.

After being divided into teams in this way, the teams were no longer so bloated. Each team only needed to protect the people in their own area, and they could also help each other in case of an emergency.

As for Su Xingze, after discovering that he was learning to draw talismans from Elder Qin and successfully drawing more than a dozen different spiritual talismans in a very short time, these martial artists completely regarded him as a talisman master.

Su Xingze was automatically excluded from the task assignments, and he had no objection to this. He preferred drawing talismans to fighting the stinking drought demon.

Thanks to the concealment and protection talismans he drew, the team attracted far fewer drought demons during this period. Therefore, even though Su Xingze and Zhang Shenglin didn't pay much attention to others, their reputation within the team was still quite good.

One relies on strength, the other on the special status of a talisman master.

"Master Su!" A young man, not much older than Su Xingze and Su Xingze, ran over. "Someone has fainted again!"

There's one downside: with the respected title of talisman master, whenever something goes wrong in the team, everyone likes to come to him for help.

The talisman master is a versatile profession; the talismans they draw can attack, support, heal, and perform miscellaneous tasks.

Su Xingze remembered this boy. He was the younger brother of a constable in the team, named Dong Zhile. He had been learning martial arts from his older brother since he was a child, but he had not yet condensed his qi and blood to officially become a martial artist.

With his brother's connections and some martial arts skills, he naturally became a minor manager in the team.

He knew that Su Xingze didn't like being disturbed, and he would never bother him with trivial matters unless it was something really important.

Su Xingze has already received Li Mingzhen's reward. Now that he has taken on the task of escorting the people of Qinghao Town, he will do it well.

The two followed Dong Zhile to find the unconscious person.

Since leaving Qinghao Town, cases of fainting have occurred frequently. Since the appearance of the drought demon, the land has been arid and the weather has become increasingly hot.

They tried to travel during the early morning and evening when the temperature was lowest, but some people still fainted due to heatstroke, dehydration and other reasons.

He wondered if it was just his imagination, but he felt that more and more people in the team were falling unconscious.

The person who had fallen into a coma was a man in his thirties, with a strong and sturdy physique, but at this moment his face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his complexion was flushed.

Su Xingze skillfully used a healing talisman on him. This was a talisman that was effective for many symptoms, including heatstroke.

After using the talisman, the man's symptoms were relieved a lot. Su Xingze then took out a pill and handed it to Dong Zhile.

"After feeding him and giving him some water, he'll be fine."

Dong Zhile held the pills with a troubled expression: "Master Su, to be honest, the team is running low on water."

"What? I remember we prepared enough water to last all the way to Mu County?" Su Xingze was genuinely surprised this time.

The drought, already caused by the drought demon, turned the famous water-rich land into a desert. Most of the water sources dried up, and the people of Dazezhou, who had never lacked water before, realized the preciousness of water for the first time.

The water we use these days is partly drawn from a deep well that still exists in Qinghao Town, and partly from water-condensing talismans drawn by Master Qin.

It's just that the elements are currently unbalanced, and there is almost no water element in the area. The water condensation talisman, which used to be easy to draw, now requires dozens of times more effort to draw one.

Even so, Master Qin still prepared enough Condensing Water Talismans for them to reach Mu County.

Speaking of this, Dong Zhile looked distressed: "To be honest, everyone knows how precious water is, and we try to save every drop of water, but the water is getting less and less every day, and we don't know why."

"This man knew that water was scarce and dared not drink freely. He even gave the water to his youngest daughter, which is why he couldn't hold on and fainted."

Su Xingze glanced at the little girl with big, bright eyes beside him. She should have been a very cute little girl, but now she looked a bit disheveled and dirty.

Even so, it's still clear that her parents took good care of her.

"Okay, I understand. I'll go and fill the water truck with water."

To everyone else, Su Xingze was using a water-condensing talisman to add water to the water cart, but in reality, Su Xingze directly bought dozens of tons of water from the mall and stored it in the system, taking it out whenever he needed water.

Ordinary water costs only 1 point per ton in the mall, which is completely worthless to him.

He has plenty of water, but he won't be foolish enough to show it.

The malice in people's hearts can sometimes even kill gods.

He calculated the cost of drawing a water-condensing talisman by Master Qin and then applied it to himself, strictly calculating the number of talismans he should be able to draw each day, never drawing more than necessary.

In this environment, Su Xingze knew that standing out from the crowd was not a good thing.

He wouldn't use precious water to clean himself, but aside from the fact that his true form is untouched by worldly dust, the expensive 'shell' he bought wouldn't accumulate any dirt. Unless he rolls around in the mud himself, he will always be a clean and tidy young boy.

Fortunately, he still had the cleaning talisman as a cover, and occasionally he would take out some cleaning talismans for the people of Qinghao Town to use.

He was just a minor talisman master. In order to focus more on drawing water-condensing talismans, he didn't draw many cleansing talismans. He would only gather a group of people in the worst condition to use them together each day.

This prevented the entire team from becoming unbearably smelly; otherwise, he feared he would have been so disgusted by the stench that he wouldn't have been able to carry the load.