Fights within the mine area were nothing new, there was no shortage of people dying there. Since there were quite a number of disciples being attacked, it was enough to create a scene that many were afraid to enter the mine.

Several inner court disciples came over after hearing that.

But moments later, they chose to leave when they found that the disciples who had been attacked were fine.

They only said that they had been attacked by another disciple who held a grudge against them.

In fact, the reason they came is just to make sure that the mine is fine, no one cares about the fate of the disciples.

After the inner court disciples left, Luo Tian once again came to the disciples guarding the area.

Chu Guyu, the man who spoke to him earlier, looked at him with suspicious eyes, “son, what more do you want?” he asked.

"I want to leave this area?" He answered.

“Oh…” The other disciples looked at him with interested expressions.

Chu Guyu, on the other hand, raised his hand, he was ready to slap him across the face.

"Kid, do you want to break the sect rules?"

"No, no, I'll pay, I heard the rules let us out as long as we pay."

Luo Tian quickly took out the spiritual stone shards, they were equivalent to four spiritual stones.

Seeing them, Chu Guyu's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly changed his expression to a smile, he took them from his palm before patting him on the shoulder. "Yeah, you're smart, you must have learned the rules of this place well," he said.

"Quick, you can go, but don't be gone for more than 24 hours."

"Thank you!"

Luo Tian responded with a smile before stepping away.

After he was far enough away, Chu Guyu and the other disciples looked at each other, they showed suspicious expressions.

"Where did he get them?" asked one of the disciples.

"He hasn't even been here a day, he must have found a secret place in the mine."

“Perhaps he went out to buy equipment that could help him mine more spiritual stones.”

“For now don't bother him,” Chu Guyu said. "Just keep an eye on him, he's the kind that will lead us to good luck."

In fact, Luo Tian could still hear their voices, he felt strange when he knew their thoughts.

No wonder they didn't try to examine his body, apparently they thought of a better plan when they saw he had quite a few spiritual stones.

'Yeah, I don't need that kind of petty luck, if it really exists I wouldn't mind giving it to you guys.' He shook his head.

After leaving the area, he arrived at the foot of the mountain, there were several inner court disciples, they seemed to be given more freedom, some left the gate and no one stood in their way.

Among them were newly recruited disciples, many of them players.

They were all already emitting auras which meant they had already broken through from mortal to cultivator. It was quite fast, obviously they got things better than the outer court disciples.

After breaking through to the first layer of the iron body, they chose to go outside. In addition to seeing the world of this game, their goal is clearly to carry out missions. Unless they became disciples of the sect master like Yang Ming, carrying out missions outside could increase their cultivation much faster than just cultivating inside the sect.

He observed them for a while before walking towards the gate, he also released his aura a bit so he didn't look weak anymore.

The sect had a special outfit, but the new disciples hadn't gotten that special outfit yet, so the only way to differentiate them from the outer court disciples was their aura.

Since his body also emitted an aura, there was no difference between him and them.

As he passed the gatekeepers, they only glanced at him briefly before ignoring him.

Outside the gate was a fairly wide path, it was surrounded by a small forest, there seemed to be nothing in the forest as there was no disturbance as players passed through the path.

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It took almost 1 hour to cross that path even though the players had run.

At the end of the road were many villages, they were separated by farmlands. Luo Tian estimated there were dozens of villages, but there could be more, he couldn't be sure as his vision was also limited.

Not all of the villagers were mortals, there were quite a number of cultivators even though their cultivation was not high.

From the information that Luo Tian got, the sect was in the Lan Province.

Two of the eight great sects were in the province. Apart from them, there were other small sects and three clans which were quite powerful. The Lan clan was one of them, the clan's strength was already on par with the two great sects.

Not far from those villages, there was a forest full of big trees. The sound of wild beast roars could sometimes be heard from within the forest.

According to the information Luo Tian got, it was called Marlow Forest.

It was a very large forest, there was no information on where the boundary of the forest was, people usually only entered the outskirt area where there were quite a number of iron body grade beasts.

The players knew that was where they were going to hunt, so they immediately went there.

Luo Tian was not in a hurry, he chose to go to a small bar first.

He looked around, there were a lot of drunk people. The boss of the bar, on the other hand, was sitting leisurely at the counter, reading an old book.

Luo Tian walked towards him, he took out all his spiritual stone shards and placed them in front of him.

"I want to buy a map of the Marlow Forest," he said.

The boss was a chubby middle-aged man, he looked at him and then looked at the spiritual stone shards he had placed.

He snorted softly before taking out a thin sheet of paper, “2 houtian spiritual stones, I can only give you this map,” he said.

"That's enough," Luo Tian replied.

He took the map before walking away.

Marlow Forest is very big, without a map, there is a chance that he will get lost.

The map he bought only recorded the area within a 10 kilometer radius, it recorded the safe passages and territories of the beast groups and their strength levels.

He entered the forest through the entrance the map had written on.

Even in the outskirts of the forest, the trees were over 100 meters tall, they were also so dense that the sky was barely visible from within the forest.

Luo Tian looked up, he couldn't help but feel amazed.

After confirming that there was no danger around him, he started running. He would occasionally jump from branch to branch while his eyes were fixed on the map.

'Pigs territory, I'm going to that place, it's easier to kill pigs than any other beast,' he said to himself.

30 minutes later, he arrived at a fairly open area, the trees there were quite small, there was a fairly wide meadow below.

From the top of the tree, he saw quite a number of pig nests, each quite large, their entrances as large as the entrances of a human house.

Of course, there were bigger ones, there were even nests that formed a small hill. It even emitted an extremely terrifying aura.

'That should be the aura of the iron body's ninth layer. There may be three eighth layers, five seventh layers, and ten sixth layers. I can ignore the pigs below the sixth layer, but it sure won't be easy against all of them.'

Luo Tian stretched his body, he took a deep breath.

'I have to kill them quickly, every time I complete a mission, my cultivation will also increase, it will make the next battle easier.'

'First, I will attack the sixth layer pig's nest, when they gather to surround me, I will use my soul power.'

He stared at one of the nests, a pig the size of an elephant had just entered the nest, it looked sleepy while its stomach was bulging, it was clearly full after eating a lot. Its aura was already at the sixth layer of the iron body.

Whoosh...

He jumped straight into the pig's nest so that he landed right at the entrance of the nest, without a second thought, he entered it while his wooden sword appeared in his hand.

The pig was just lying down, it hadn't even closed its eyes when Luo Tian entered its nest.

It was surprised, but it didn't have time to react, Luo Tian had already slashed his sword at its body.

rip...

The pig's body was as weak as butter, it was instantly cut in half the moment Luo Tian's sword passed through it.

But it didn't die right away, it still had time to roar to wake the other pigs.

Luo Tian returned its roar by slashing his sword at its head. Immediately the pig's head was also cut in half.

Ding...

(Congratulations, you have completed a mission.)

Rewards:

1. You have obtained 6 houtian spiritual stones.

2. You have randomly obtained a class-1 item.

3. You have obtained 40,000 spiritual essences.

Ding...

(Spiritual Essence: 44,000/80,000)

(Spiritual Essence: 84,000/160,000)

(You successfully crossed the threshold for breakthrough.)

(You broke through to the sixth layer of the iron body.)

(Each of your stats increases by 320 points.)

"It's much faster," Luo Tian smiled faintly as he looked at the stats.

He then jumped out of the pig's nest. Outside, there were already dozens of pigs that came, they all surrounded him and looked at him with bloodshot eyes. The smallest pig was the size of a goat, there were nine pigs that were the size of the pig he had just killed. And of course, there are some bigger pigs.

Roar...

Another pig jumped from its nest, it was ten meters long and seven meters high. Its roar caused the ground to shake.

On its forehead was even a black horn, it was like a spear with a very sharp tip.

"You guys gathered so fast," Luo Tian showed no fear, he jumped onto a mound of earth.

He looked at the pigs one by one before looking at the horned pig.

"Well, let's see how great the power of the dragon soul is," he said.

His black eyes turned green, his body emitted no aura, but the area around him suddenly became extremely cold and eerie as if a majestic being had arrived there.

Then, the shadow of a pair of enormous eyes appeared 30 meters above him. They are long and narrow, their pupils are green, they also emit a green light that turns the light in the area green.

Only a pair of eyes appeared, but their presence caused the pigs to tremble in fear as if they were looking at their creator.

ROAR....

An extremely loud roar resounded from under that pair of eyes.

Not only the pigs' territory was shaken, even the forest within a radius of 5 kilometers was also shaken.

The roaring sound crossed the air and reached the villages beside the forest causing the villagers to jump in surprise.

"What is this roar? Is this the birth of a divine beast?"

"No, how could a divine beast be born in a place like this, there could be an extremely powerful monster that just woke up from hibernation."

"If it's like that, then this is truly a disaster, even a beast with a cultivation of the ninth layer of the golden body doesn't roar this loudly."

"..."