Chapter 389 Patrol Mission
One month was enough for Ye Changsheng to have a general understanding of Tianyuan City.
Such as the location of the market town, where they carry out their missions, the Tianguang Hall where the Heti elders preach every ten years, and so on.
Understanding these things will be of great help to his future life in Tianyuan City.
When the time came, Ye Changsheng went to a huge green tower.
In this giant green tower, he first found a place called Tianjia Palace and received a set of Qingmingwei armor.
When Ye Changsheng was about to come out, he happened to meet a woman wearing a white long dress, with a face as crystal clear as jade and a pair of eyes as bright as stars.
It was this girl named Xu Qianyu.
"Hello, senior!" Xu Qianyu was the first to bow and say when she saw Ye Changsheng.
Ye Changsheng nodded: "Since we are in the same team, you can call me captain from now on!"
"Yes, Captain!" the woman agreed immediately.
"Is Fairy Qianyu also here to receive armor?"
"Well, I'm here today to collect my armor and report in!" Xu Qianyu said.
"Then why don't we go together!" Ye Changsheng said casually after hearing this.
Xu Qianyu did not refuse. She nodded and entered the Tianjia Palace. After a moment, she walked out wearing a set of Black Iron Guard armor.
Then, the two of them followed the spiral staircase inside the giant green tower, and after going up more than ten floors, they came to a corridor.
There are stone doors on both sides of the corridor. A faint forbidden light flashes on each stone door, and there are several silver runes flashing.
At the same time, there is a small plaque on these stone doors with a few big characters engraved on it.
"Bing Twelve, Bing Thirteen... Why do I feel like I'm looking for a room in a hotel?!" Ye Changsheng complained in his heart .
Walking along the corridor, they saw the words "C34".
Ye Changsheng then took out the jade pendant that Zhao Wugui had given him that day, which represented his identity as a Qingming Guard, and waved it in front of the stone gate.
A ray of light emanated from the jade pendant and was injected into the restriction on the stone gate. The light of the restriction flashed and then dissipated.
The stone door opened and Ye Changsheng and Xu Qianyu walked in.
Inside was a large hall with some chairs and tables. At this moment, there were two monks in black armor sitting on two chairs next to each other, talking in low voices.
This is the gathering place of Team C34 led by Ye Changsheng.
From this, it can be seen that the Qingming Guards are considered the backbone of Tianyuan City and are mid-level cadres, otherwise they would not be assigned a separate office.
The two Black Iron Guards sitting here, one male and one female, looked like a couple. When they saw Ye Changsheng and the other person coming in, they immediately stopped talking.
After taking a glance at Ye Changsheng's Qingming Guard armor, the two Black Iron Guards immediately seemed to understand something and their expressions became respectful.
The two men stood up one after another. The man stepped forward and said respectfully, "Junior Yuan Wenyan, this is my wife Lenglan, we are both honored to meet you, Senior!"
"Senior, are you the new captain of our Team C34?" The woman named Leng Lan also stepped forward and asked respectfully.
"Yes, my name is Ye Changsheng, and now I'm the captain of Team C34. I heard that after the team completed the last mission, only two of you are left?" Ye Changsheng also introduced himself and then asked.
The couple looked at each other, smiled bitterly and said, "Senior is right, we are the only two people left from the last mission!"
"Where did you two fellow Taoists inspect last time?" Xu Qianyu suddenly asked.
The couple's bitter smiles deepened upon hearing this, and they shook their heads and sighed, "It's the Fuli Swamp!"
Upon hearing the place name, Xu Qianyu's face immediately turned pale and she fell silent.
"You may or may not have heard of my origins, but it doesn't matter. I'm telling you now that I'm an ascended monk!" Ye Changsheng said, looking at the two of them.
After he finished speaking, he paused and carefully observed the expressions of the two men, and found that there was no expression of surprise on their faces.
It seems that they have already found out the identity of the new captain.
"You all know how the ascended monks are treated in Tianyuan City. The area we are going to patrol next may not be safer than the Fuli Swamp. It may still be the Fuli Swamp, so you should be prepared. If you are unwilling to take such a risk, it is best to withdraw from this team in advance!" Ye Changsheng said calmly.
Hearing what he said, the couple looked at each other.
The two of them wanted to change to a safer team, but with their status as mere Nascent Soul cultivators, they had no connections in Tianyuan City, so how could they be transferred?
The allocation of these teams is handled by the Tianwei of Tianyuan City, and the arrangement of tasks is directly issued by the Council of Elders, which are not things they can access.
"What are you talking about, senior? Since my husband and I have already joined this team, we will not quit easily. We are willing to follow you!" The man named Yuan Wenyan said hurriedly with his hands clasped.
Ye Changsheng nodded and said, "In that case, from now on, this team must obey my orders on what to do and how to do it. If you are perfunctory or disobedient, don't blame me for being rude!"
"Senior, as the captain of the team, we should naturally obey your orders!" said the woman named Leng Lan neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"In that case, you can call me captain. Although I dare not say how powerful my magical powers are, as long as you listen to my orders carefully, I will do my best to protect you!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Seeing the respectful looks on the two men's faces, he couldn't help but sigh that the rules of the game in the world of immortal cultivation are sometimes really simple. Strength is respected and there is no need for so many twists and turns.
If this happened in your previous life, facing a leader like him who was parachuted in and was leading the team to carry out a very difficult mission, these old team members would definitely play some office politics and intrigue against you.
"Are there only a few people in our team now? " Ye Changsheng looked around and asked again.
Xu Qianyu on the side said at this time: "In the past month, it is said that three more team members have been added, but these three people should not have arrived yet!"
Ye Changsheng frowned slightly when he heard that. He had just added three people, which meant that his team was still not fully staffed, with only six subordinates.
Is Tianyuan City so short of people?
"Forget it, you guys just get to know each other here first. I'll go get a Dust-Destroying Pill!" Ye Changsheng waved his hand and walked out of the stone hall.
Following the route he had inquired about, Ye Changsheng walked to a hall called the Miechen Hall in the giant tower, where he received his first Miechen Pill.
From then on, he no longer had a shortage of Dust-Destroying Pills.
Of course, he would not leave Tianyuan City immediately after getting the Dust-Mieting Pill.
Tianyuan City is the place with the richest resources for both humans and demons. It would be beneficial for him to stay here for a while.
When Ye Changsheng returned to Bing Sanshisi's office, he saw that there were three more people there.
A white-haired old man, a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest, and a big man with a black face.
After some introductions, Ye Changsheng learned the names of his three new subordinates.
Among the six Black Iron Guards, the couple and the Taoist priest were both in the late Nascent Soul stage, the white-haired old man and the black-faced man were both in the middle Nascent Soul stage, and only Xu Qianyu was in the early Nascent Soul stage.
Just as everyone was talking, suddenly a golden light flew in from outside the temple gate and headed straight for Ye Changsheng.
Ye Changsheng stretched out his hand, and the golden light suddenly turned into a small golden sword that fell straight down and landed in his hand, with a light red jade slip inserted on it.
"The golden sword delivered the letter, it seems the mission has arrived!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Upon hearing this, the other people all showed worry on their faces and looked eagerly at the jade slip in Ye Changsheng's hand, waiting for the content of the next task.
Ye Changsheng opened the jade slip and took a look. He raised his sword-like eyebrows and said in a calm tone: "It turns out that he is inspecting the Fuli Swamp!"
When they heard what he said, the faces of the other people suddenly turned ugly.
Especially the couple, they had just escaped from the Floating Swamp not long ago, and now they have to go to this swamp again, which is too dangerous.
The man named Yuan Wenyan showed a helpless smile on his face, sighed and said: "The patrol mission is usually rotated every ten years. Our team was rotated to the Fuli Swamp three years ago!"
"My husband and I originally thought that after experiencing such an incident where the whole team was almost wiped out, our team should be replaced, but we didn't expect that we would still have to go to Fuli Swamp!"
"It seems that if we want to move to a slightly safer place, we have to wait until seven years later!" Yuan Wenyan said, his expression becoming a little gloomy.
The couple still remembered the last danger vividly. Even a captain in the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm died there. If they were not proficient in a certain escape technique, they would probably not have been able to escape at all.
Now they have to go to Fuli Swamp again, how can they feel good?
"We cannot change the orders of the Elders' Council. Generally speaking, there are four teams patrolling the Floating Swamp. If we are careful, we may not encounter anything particularly dangerous!" said the white-haired old man with a sigh.
Ye Changsheng looked at everyone expressionlessly and said calmly: "Well, now that the tasks have been assigned, there is no need to complain. Let's go!"
As he spoke, he opened the stone door and walked out of the stone hall.
Xu Qianyu followed with a pale face, and there was a hint of worry in her eyes.
It was quite a challenge for her to go to an area where a large number of alien races were said to exist not long after she broke through the Nascent Soul stage.
They can only hope that Ye Changsheng has the ability to protect them. Thinking of this, Xu Qianyu looked up at Ye Changsheng's back and sighed softly in her heart.
Inside the stone hall, the other five people looked at each other for a while, then followed.
After leaving the stone hall belonging to their Team C34, Ye Changsheng and others came to another teleportation stone hall in the Green Tower.
After proving their identities, they stood in the teleportation array and were teleported out.
There is no gate on the side of the wall of Tianyuan City facing the wild world. If one wants to enter or exit Tianyuan City, one can only use the teleportation array.
The teleportation array can often only transmit in one direction. The array that Ye Changsheng and his companions came out of cannot be used to teleport back through here.
The teleportation arrays that can teleport back to Tianyuan City are basically in very secret places and are under very strict supervision.
The destinations they were teleported to were some of the most dangerous places in Tianyuan City, full of forbidden areas.
Even if there were cultivators from other races who managed to deceive the inspectors outside the city and sneak into Tianyuan City through the teleportation array, most of them would be discovered on that side and then killed by the restrictions.
You know, there are so many restrictions there that even cultivators who have reached the stage of refining the void and integrating the body dare not break into them.
Ye Changsheng and others were teleported to a rather desolate hilly area.
Turning his head and looking behind him, he saw a tall city wall covered by a white light a hundred miles away. The wall was engraved with dense runes, and the spiritual light was flashing.
This is the first city wall of Tianyuan City facing the wild world. It is not very long, only a few hundred feet, but it is thousands of feet high.
Behind it are wall after wall, each one taller and stronger than the last, and generally in the shape of a staircase.
These city walls are natural barriers standing in front of the foreign army. Without paying heavy casualties, there is no way to cross them.
"Let's go!" Ye Changsheng looked around and said to the people behind him.
A group of seven people turned into streams of light and flew towards the mountains far away from Tianyuan City.
Not long after, everyone saw a green forest. On the forest floor was a swamp. Thick fog rose in the forest, making it look hazy.
This is the Floating Swamp.
The fog in this swamp has a serious suppressive effect on the spiritual consciousness of the monks, so those spies from foreign races especially like to sneak into this swamp.
In order to prevent too much information from being discovered by these alien races, Tianyuan City sent out a team to patrol the swamp at all times.
This is why Fuli Swamp is known as the most dangerous place outside Tianyuan City.
After all, the foreign monks who were sent out to gather information were all very powerful.
After entering the Fuli Swamp, Ye Changsheng realized that his spiritual sense was suppressed to the point where he could only sense the situation within a radius of one or two hundred feet around him.
He looked a little more cautious, and something like a compass appeared in his hand.
This is an alien spirit disc. Each team will be issued one when they go out on a mission. Its function is to identify aliens.
Generally speaking, as long as one's cultivation level is not particularly high, or one's concealment methods are extremely advanced, one can be identified by this strange spirit disk.
The origin of this thing is also unusual. It is said that it was something that an elder of a certain generation in Tianyuan City comprehended after comprehending the Golden Palace Jade Book.
In terms of the application of silver tadpoles, Tianyuan City is also at the forefront of the spiritual world.
Holding the strange spirit disk, Ye Changsheng led his team into the depths of the Fuli Swamp.
