Chapter 17: How to Complete Tasks?

  It was like this for two or three times, Chen Feng fell down each time, but the distance got closer and closer. Every time he didn't reach the specified distance, Chen Feng pulled his hand hard, and there was a ring on the hilt of the sword connected to the big stone. With this pull, Chen Feng quickly fell and stepped on the sword again. He used force to hold onto the rope with his hands, thus avoiding falling down and getting hurt due to gravity, also reducing the time it took to fall and step on the sword.

  In fact, these few bursts of speed were not because Chen Feng's strength was insufficient. Rather, he was using these few moments to calculate the distance.

  With one last burst of propulsion, Chen Feng's hands lightly grasped the edge of the protruding platform, and with a forceful push, he did a beautiful flip and landed half-kneeling on the platform.

  On the subsequent protruding platforms, it was not a straight line distance, but staggered. In this way, Chen Feng's journey became much more convenient.

  However, with a distance of over forty zhang, it was still within Chen Feng's arm strength.

  The farther away he is, the more time he saves for him.

  Time passed bit by bit like this, and Chen Feng also climbed up a large mountain cliff from a distance.

  From the Red Flame Cave to the foot of the mountain, Chen Feng spent half an hour, and climbing up the cliff took another half an hour. The return trip added up to a total of one hour, which is equivalent to half a watch.

  Going to the Red Flame Cave took thirty minutes, and observing the monster's tracks took fifteen minutes.

  When Chen Feng calculated the time he spent, this task, back and forth, actually took less than an hour. And the task was two hours, this task was almost perfectly completed.

  Tamako was extremely shocked, this was an exceptionally brilliant performance. However, he remained expressionless, thinking that the task had not been completed yet, and he did not know if his disciple had really observed the appearance of the monster, because he had been secretly observing all along, and he didn't think his disciple had found out anything.

  Chen Feng stepped forward with a fist and said, "Disciple greets Master, fortunately not disappointing the order, disciple has already completed the task entrusted to you."

  "Oh! You'd better say it, what did you observe?" Yu Zhenzi asked.

  "The young apprentice observed that the demon in the nearby village was actually the same as the one in the Red Flame Cave," said Chen Feng.

  Although Yu Zhenzi thought highly of this disciple, after hearing these words, he couldn't help but feel a bit angry. With a cold smile, he said: "Is that so? I told you to investigate whether there are any monsters in the Red Flame Cave, not to investigate whether the monsters have anything to do with the nearby village."

  In Yuzhenzi's view, it's not easy to investigate whether the monster is coming or going. If it's not a monster, how can we know if it's coming or going? Moreover, this disciple can also determine that the nearby village is related to this monster, which seems too unrealistic. This disciple said so, but it was a bit too decisive.

  Although in his view, there were many ways to know whether this monster was present or not, Chen Feng's strength was too weak and he didn't have that kind of ability!

  At this time, Chen Feng took out a cloth bag and poured out some mud from it. "The disciples found some footprints near the Red Flame Cave, and after observing them, they are not human footprints. Moreover, these footprints are very messy, so there must be more than one monster, and after committing the crime, the monster will return to the Red Flame Cave. The direction of the footprints, whether facing the Red Flame Cave or the village, is mixed."

  Tatiana nodded, this analysis is not bad, the kid's mind is indeed sharp, but the task he was assigned requires the most accurate answer, not these inferred results. Who can't make inferences? People with a sharp mind are all capable of it.

  "Are you determined just because of this?" Yu Zhenzi shook his head, clearly very dissatisfied.

  Seeing Yu Zhenzi shake his head, Chen Feng was also frightened and sweating profusely. If the task failed, then the second time he accepted the task, it would probably be much more difficult. In the game, that's how it worked. Although here, the task wasn't issued by the system, but the system could verify the high difficulty requirement for the second task!

  "This is related to his spiritual cultivation." Chen Feng was naturally shocked and extremely excited. "Master, don't be impatient, the disciple hasn't finished speaking yet."

  "Oh!......" Could it be that there is more to this, Yu Zhenzi became somewhat interested and wanted to see how his disciple would talk his way out of this. "You go ahead and speak."

  This kid is very cunning, this is the result of his secret observation.

  Although being clever and cunning can be a kind of life guarantee for cultivators, Yu Zhenzi did not want his disciples to use such means to deceive their own sect, which would be problematic in terms of moral character.

  "Master, take a look at this pile of dirt that the apprentice brought back." Chen Feng said with a slight smile.

  Chen Feng's expression was somewhat mysterious, and seeing the disciple's expression, he also became interested, carefully examining that pile of mud.

  Although I saw some clues, I still think this is a one-sided word. "You'd better tell me in detail, don't sell me a pass, otherwise you'll fail this task."

  "No, no, no...... Master......" Chen Feng became excited, if he failed his mission, it would be a tragedy!

  Yu Zhenzi looked at Chen Feng's excitement, slightly surprised. Why was this kid so concerned about the success or failure of the task? There were no rewards for this task! Could it be that this kid knew he was being tested, and if he passed, he would become the successor to the sect leader?

  Actually, Chen Feng didn't know anything about the successor of the sect leader. He just didn't want to fail in his mission. If he failed, all his efforts would be in vain and he would have to wait again for a new mission.

  "Master, I dare not." Then Chen Feng picked up a handful of mud and sniffed it, saying: "Master, I found human blood in the mud. This blood has no spiritual energy, so it's definitely ordinary human blood, not the blood of our sect's disciples."

  Upon hearing Chen Feng's words, Yu Zhenzi became somewhat interested and seemed to have underestimated the disciple's intelligence. "Continue speaking."

  "There are only villages around here with ordinary people, and the villagers nearby don't dare to leave the safety range of their village because they know that there are monsters outside the safety range."

  The villages around these sects, due to the protection of the sects, will set up some formations to avoid attacks by monsters. And these people will only be active within the range of the formation and plant crops.

  However, such a way of life is only found in the vicinity of some major sects, because the locations where some major sects are located are all deep mountains with abundant spiritual energy, and there are naturally many spiritual beasts and demons.

  This blood can only be from ordinary villagers. Moreover, there is a hint of spiritual beast's blood in this blood, it is clear that they were injured by the collision array and left behind their blood.