Song Qingming looked up and saw that the person who spoke was a cultivator wearing a conical hat and black clothes. This person had a good cultivation level and had reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.
After looking around and confirming that the person was talking to him, Song Qingming stopped and calmly asked the person, "Daoist friend, are you talking to me? We don't know each other. Did you recognize the wrong person?"
The black-robed cultivator nodded, then took out a black token, placed it in front of Song Qingming, and continued, "Fellow Daoist, please don't misunderstand me. I am a cultivator patrolling Guiyunfang. I just have something to ask you. It's too crowded and noisy here, so it's not convenient to talk. Could you please excuse me and talk for a moment?"
Looking at the black token in front of him, Song Qingming nodded, and then, under the guidance of the black-robed monk, left the center of the square. After crossing several busy streets, the two came to a quiet teahouse.
The black-robed monk didn't say anything else along the way, but just asked Song Qingming to follow him closely. When the two arrived at the teahouse, the owner saw the black-robed monk walking in front and immediately came up to greet him warmly.
"Master Lu, you are here. Are we still following the old rules today?"
The black-robed monk nodded and added, "We have something to discuss today, so don't let anyone disturb us." After that, he led Song Qingming to a private room on the second floor.
Seeing that the shop owner was very familiar with the black-robed monk, it was obvious that this guy came here often.
As soon as the two sat down, a waiter from the shop quickly brought a pot of spiritual tea. After placing the tea on the table, he quickly left at the signal of the black-robed monk.
The black-robed monk poured Song Qingming a cup of spiritual tea and politely brought it to him. He then said, "My name is Lu Yunfei. May I know your name?"
"My name is Song Qingming." Facing the patrol team from Guiyunfang, Song Qingming did not dare to hide his identity as he did before. After all, his identity had been verified and registered before entering the city, so it was impossible to deceive the patrolling monks here.
"Oh, it's Fellow Daoist Song. I saw you wandering around the Monster Hunting Platform today. I guess you have been to Guiyunfang for a while. I wonder if you have heard of Feiyun Guard?" After Lu Yunfei finished speaking, he stared at Song Qingming.
Song Qingming pondered for a moment before answering carefully, "I've heard of it. This is a monster-hunting team specially established by Guiyunfang, responsible for exploring information about monsters in the Floating Cloud Mountains."
"I wonder if Fellow Daoist Song would be interested in joining our Feiyun Guard."
Lu Yunfei's words immediately made Song Qingming look surprised. At first, he thought that this man wanted to interrogate him about something, and he had been worried for a long time. It was not until he knew his purpose that he felt relieved.
"I've heard that Feiyun Guard has always been very strict about recruiting people. In the past, most of those who were able to join were those with extraordinary skills. I wonder what it is about me that Brother Lu likes. Could you tell me a little so that I can consider it."
"Well, it's okay to tell you. It's because I have practiced a spiritual skill that can detect the depth of the magic power in the bodies of cultivators of the same level. Today in the market, I observed that the magic power in Fellow Daoist Song's body is deeper than that of other cultivators of the same level, so I had the idea of recruiting him." After Lu Yunfei finished speaking, he took a sip of the spiritual tea in his hand and continued.
"You also know that Feiyunwei has always been very strict in recruiting talents. It's only because of the recent unrest of monsters in the northern border, and the monsters in the Floating Cloud Mountains have been very restless recently. Therefore, we in Feiyunwei have been recruiting people to help detect monsters. Compared with fighting monsters head-on, I think it would be safer for Fellow Daoist Song to join our Feiyunwei. We only need to detect the location, habits and movements of monsters and bring back useful information. The monthly reward we can get is no worse than those monster hunting teams.
"After joining Feiyunwei, is it easy to quit in the future?" Song Qingming asked again cautiously.
"Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist Song. With the exception of a few disciples from our sect, most of us in the Feiyun Guard are free to come and go, just like the independent cultivators in the monster hunting team. As long as we complete our missions, we will receive our rewards. Moreover, with the status of Feiyun Guard, whether you rent a cave in Guiyunfang or purchase supplies from the market controlled by our Xiaoyao Sect, you will enjoy the same preferential treatment as disciples of the sect."
"However, the Feiyun Guard also has certain specific missions each year, such as exploring unknown areas of the Floating Cloud Mountains. If you fail to complete them or refuse to go, the market will immediately remove you from your Feiyun Guard status. Please be aware of this."
After Lu Yunfei finished speaking, he looked at Song Qingming with a smile. He had explained the benefits so thoroughly, and he thought this kid would not refuse.
Two months later, in the Floating Cloud Mountains, Song Qingming, wearing a conical hat and black clothes, was hiding behind a huge rock, watching from afar a giant green crocodile wandering in a swamp dozens of feet away.
After a long while, Song Qingming pulled out a black notebook from his storage bag. He opened it and wrote, "A high-level demon beast, the Green Water Crocodile, can use top-grade water magic. It lives alone in the Green Water Pond, three hundred miles southwest of Cangyun Mountain. It likes to go out at noon to forage for fish in the swamp south of the pond."
After putting away the black notebook, Song Qingming saw that the green water crocodile had swam back to the pool after having a good meal and a drink. Then he stood up, looked around carefully, and quickly left.
After receiving Lu Yunfei's invitation in the teahouse that day, Song Qingming thought about it for a while and decided to join the Feiyun Guard of Guiyunfang and start the work of searching for information about monsters in the Floating Cloud Mountains.
Speaking of the Feiyun Guard, it is really not an ordinary organization of cultivators. It not only includes hundreds of experts in the Qi Refining Stage, but also several Foundation Establishment cultivators leading the charge. Song Qingming's cultivation level of the sixth level of the Qi Refining Stage seems insignificant among them, and is almost at the bottom of the list.
Their main task was to search for monsters in the area they were responsible for in the Floating Cloud Mountains, record the valuable information on these monsters, and then send them back to Huiyunfang in exchange for spirit stones.
These areas will usually be explored from the air by Foundation Establishment cultivators first. The Foundation Establishment cultivators will record the information of the second-level monsters in this area to prevent Qi Refining cultivators from mistakenly entering the territory of the second-level monsters.
Only then will they arrange these Qi Refining cultivators to explore in detail the information of the Qi Refining monsters in the area.
At the same time, about once or twice a year, there will be forced assignments to explore unknown areas on the map. Although these tasks will be explored first by foundation-building monks, these unknown areas are often more dangerous than those places that have already appeared on the map and are frequented by monks.
There are often some second-level monsters that escape the search of the foundation-building cultivators. The spiritual consciousness of the foundation-building cultivators can only be projected three to five miles away. It is common for them to miss some places in such unfamiliar places. Once a Qi-refining cultivator encounters a second-level monster, he can only rely on luck to survive.
Therefore, in Feiyunwei, basically all the cultivators have some special skills, or special escape spells, agile skills, and like Lu Yunfei, they practice spiritual skills. Their spiritual perception is particularly strong and they can predict danger in advance. With these various special skills and abilities, the probability of their survival can be greatly increased. Otherwise, ordinary cultivators can easily die without returning.
Song Qingming also had some confidence in himself. Although he did not have any powerful magical powers in fighting, fortunately, after practicing the Yuxuan Sutra, his magic power was much stronger than that of ordinary people. Lu Yunfei also took a fancy to this point of his at the time. In addition, he had sophisticated magic weapons, talismans and other protective spiritual objects on him. As long as he did not encounter a powerful second-level monster, it would not be difficult for him to escape.
In fact, the main reason why he agreed to Lu Yunfei was that he was attracted by the identity of Feiyunwei. With the identity of Feiyunwei, many things will be more convenient for him to do in Guiyunfang in the future.
I probably had a cold. The headache came quietly. I tossed and turned in bed but couldn't fall asleep. I got up and made two cups of Jiujiujiu, one for me and the other for mine.