I work as a security guard at a cemetery, and I overhear the dead chatting about getting rich quick.

Just as Lai Changqing finished speaking, another muffled sound came from ahead.

Several wild boars charged down the forest clearing and crashed into a row of wooden stakes.

The wooden stake swayed violently, but it didn't fall.

The wild boar turned back, and the wolves on both sides emerged from the bushes and crossed behind them.

The macaques in the treetops started smashing stones.

Several birds of prey skimmed the ground, then suddenly pulled up just before crashing into the wooden stake.

After one round, the field quickly returned to normal.

The wild boar retreated to the center.

The wolf pack hid in the woodlands on both sides.

The macaque picked up the stones again.

They are not hunting.

They're really practicing.

Xu Mian lay on a high place and observed through the scope for a while.

"The basin is enclosed on three sides."

"There's a road to the north that goes through the training ground to get in."

Cheng Fang asked, "Can we go around it?"

"There is a cliff on the east side, and there are animal dens in the woods on the west side."

Xu Mian paused for a moment.

"We can take a detour, but we'll leave this area behind."

That means we can bypass them when we go into the mountains, but then get intercepted by them again when we retreat.

Cheng Fang raised the binoculars.

The forest basin wasn't particularly large, less than 300 meters across. In the center was a muddy path repeatedly compacted by wild boars, with sparse trees on both sides, clearly facilitating the movement of wolf packs.

Several high platforms are scattered around.

Hanging on it are sutra bones, stone slabs, and hollow wooden tubes.

When the wind blows, those things make a slight clanging sound.

A thick stone pillar stands in the center of the training field.

More than a dozen bone fragments were tied to the stone pillar, and there were signs of knocking at different heights.

Tang Zhi saw it too.

"What's this, a rural radio station?"

Qin Zhao said: "Signal tower."

"Pretty much."

Cheng Fang put down the binoculars.

"It must be demolished."

Lai Changqing stood aside without speaking immediately.

After Han Xiao's death, the members of the Candle Shadow Society became noticeably more silent than before.

But when the topic of Jing Gu on the training field came up, the expressions on their faces changed.

Lai Changqing asked, "Tear it all down?"

"Drive the animals away and destroy the training facilities."

"The bones can be preserved."

Cheng Fang glanced at him.

"But I won't hand it over to you."

Lai Changqing said calmly, "Your Seventh Division always likes to lock things up."

"It's better than experimenting on living people."

Cheng Fang blocked the road with a single sentence.

Jiang Zhaoye's expression turned cold.

Tang Zhi stood behind and muttered to herself:

"Here we go again, here we go again, they start distributing equipment right after we finished killing the monsters."

Qin Zhao glanced at her.

"Shut up."

"I'm already speaking very softly."

Before the two sides could reach an agreement, a scream suddenly came from high above the training ground.

A macaque stands on a stone platform, looking towards the woods.

They were discovered.

The macaque picked up a stone and slammed it hard against the hanging tendon.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Three short beeps.

The wild boars in the center of the training field all raised their heads at the same time.

Cheng Fang's face darkened.

"Spread out, don't block the entrance!"

A dozen or so wild boars began to charge.

Instead of running along the original training route to the end, they turned towards the wooded slope where everyone was.

The ground began to shake rapidly.

The wolf packs on both sides also moved.

Instead of following the wild boar, they dispersed to the left and right, hugging the woodland.

"The wild boar faces forward, while the wolves flank both sides."

Lin Ye looked at the Jing Gu on the high platform.

The macaque struck again.

This time it was a long bang, followed by two short bangs.

He immediately retreated to a rock and activated his spiritual hearing.

The sound of the bones being repeatedly struck suddenly came out.

Three short beeps.

Wild boars charge.

One long and two short.

The wolf pack circled around from both sides.

Then came that familiar voice.

"The pigs just keep going forward."

"Don't get too close to the wolf; wait for them to disperse before you pounce."

Lin Ye quickly exited Lingting.

"The wolf pack doesn't fight for the first round."

"They're waiting for us to hide from the wild boars."

Cheng Fang immediately changed his orders.

"Don't scatter to either side!"

"Open it up front and let the wild boar in!"

The people from the seven locations quickly moved towards the center, leaving only two narrow passages.

The Candlelight Society reacted quickly as well.

Lai Changqing understood Cheng Fang's meaning and gestured for people to move to the inside.

A herd of wild boars charged up the forest slope.

Cheng Fang and Jiang Zhaoye stood at the front, one on the left and one on the right.

When the first wild boar approached, Tang Zhi's silk threads had already entangled its front legs.

She didn't pull him forcefully.

Only veer to the right the moment the wild boar lands.

The wild boar shifted its center of gravity, grazing Cheng Fang and crashing into its companion beside him.

The two wild boars rolled around in a ball.

Those behind couldn't avoid it in time and crashed into it one after another.

Jiang Zhaoye struck another wild boar on the nose with a stick, knocking it into the pre-prepared passage.

The wild boar couldn't stop its speed and charged all the way to the back of the group.

The wolves, who were waiting to pounce from the side, had just circled around when they ran right into it.

The howls of wolves and the screams of wild boars instantly blended together.

Tang Zhi's eyes lit up.

"When one of our own people bumps into another, the show is full of entertainment."

Stop watching the show!

Cheng Fang blocked another wild boar, his shoulder sliding back half a meter as it was pushed against it.

Qin Zhao raised his hand and released the embers.

Dark red flames brushed past the wild boar's side, forcing it to veer towards the direction of the wolf pack.

Before the first wave of attacks was over, a large number of rocks began to fall from above.

The macaques started to move.

They didn't just hit people; more stones fell on the gunman, communication equipment, and storage boxes.

Just as a member of the Seventh Division raised his gun, a stone grazed his helmet and hit him, blinding him.

Tang Zhi flicked out her silk thread, deflecting several falling rocks.

"There's too much above!"

Xu Mian had moved to a spot behind a fallen tree.

She fired two shots.

The macaque responsible for striking the tendons burst open in the shoulder, spraying blood, and fell from the high platform.

Another macaque immediately rushed over, picked up a stone, and continued to knock.

dong dong dong dong!

The pace quickened.

The raptors high in the sky immediately folded their wings.

Lin Ye looked up.

"A sudden knock indicates a bird of prey!"

Before the words were even finished, a bird of prey swooped down from above the treetop.

The target is the team member carrying the isolation box.

Qin Zhao raised his hand, and embers shot up from beneath the raptor.

The raptor was forced to rise, exposing its belly.

Xu Mian turned his gun and fired.

The bullet pierced its chest.

The body brushed against tree branches and fell into the woods.

A second one swooped in from the other side, its claws grabbing the straps of the isolation box and dragging the team member forward, causing him to fall.

Lin Ye rushed over, and the protective stone tablet unfolded.

A pale white film of light struck the raptor's wing.

The raptor tilted to one side.

Tang Zhi's tendrils immediately wrapped around its claws and pulled it sharply to the ground.

Qin Zhao added a final ember.

The feathers instantly burst into flames.

The raptor struggled to fly away, and the isolation box landed back on the ground.

"Is the item broken?" Tang Zhi asked.

The team member lay down on the ground and checked it over.

"The lock is still there."

"Then take a look at yourself too."

"I'm fine."

"Okay, it's pretty durable."

The signal at the training ground has changed again.

The third macaque has been placed on the stone platform.

It struck once long and twice short.

The wolves pounced out from the woods on both sides.

This time, however, the crowd was not scattered by the wild boars.

As the wolves emerged from the bushes, they entered the firing range that Xu Mian and the seven gunners had prepared in advance.

Gunfire erupted in unison.

The wolf at the front fell down on the spot.

The wolves behind quickly turned around, and the formation immediately broke down.

They are indeed trained.

The trainable sequence is fixed.

If the previous step doesn't achieve the desired effect, the subsequent actions will completely change.

A wolf tried to avoid the line of fire, but a wild boar nearby turned around and headbutted it, sending it flying.

The stone thrown by the macaque also hit a wild boar.

The wild boar, in pain, charged wildly at the high platform.

Tang Zhi glanced at it when she had a spare moment.

"This teamwork is somewhat of a fake camaraderie."

Lin Ye, however, did not relax.

He kept his eyes fixed on the woodlands on both sides.

The black-backed wolf has not yet appeared.

The six young wolves that had just fled with it were not in the first wave of attacks.

"There are wolves behind."

He had just opened his mouth when the bushes behind him rustled softly.

The black-backed wolf pounced out from the low bushes.

Its throat was still bleeding, and its movements were noticeably less agile than before, but it bypassed Cheng Fang and Qin Zhao and headed straight for the forest.

It recognized the forest.

In previous encounters, this person had always detected the wolves' movements in advance.

Lin Ye had no time to dodge and could only lift up the protective spirit stone.

The wolf's claws slammed heavily onto the light membrane.

The already dim lines faded even further.

The light film was shaking violently and could shatter at any moment.

The black-backed wolf did not retreat after landing.

It pushed off with its hind legs and pounced again.

Just as Xu Mian was about to turn her gun, a bird of prey swooped down from above, forcing her to duck and avoid it.

Qin Zhao raised his hand and released a line of fire.

The black-backed wolf twisted its body forcefully in mid-air to avoid the flames directly in front of it, but still fell towards the forest.

Lin Ye gripped the Spirit-Shocking Nail tightly.

It can only be used once every fifteen minutes.

This time, we can't leave it empty.

He didn't immediately become aroused.

Only when the black wolf crossed the fire line and its front paws were almost touching the light membrane did he aim the Spirit-Shocking Nail at its shoulder and neck.

hum!

A short, sharp thud echoed through the forest.

The black wolf's body suddenly stiffened.

The strength that had been gathered in its forelimbs dissipated instantly, and the wolf fell sideways into the mud.

Lin Ye's ears went numb from the close-up impact, and his head was buzzing.

Qin Zhao stepped in front of him.

The embers swept across the ground, forcing back the six young wolves that had come to meet them.

The black wolf struggled to its feet.

Just then, a wolf howl came from the distant mountains and forests.

The sound wasn't very close.

The wolves in the training field all paused for a moment.

Several older gray wolves instinctively lowered their bodies.

The black-backed wolf also turned its head to look in the direction from which the sound came.

The Wolf King with One Ear.

It didn't come over.

It only called out once from a distance.

But that one cry was enough to shake the wolf pack.

"Now!"

Cheng Fang seized the opportunity and gave the order.

"Smash the signal tower!"

Xu Mian turned her gun around and shattered the hanging bone with a single shot.

Qin Zhao's embers burned up the stone frame along the vine ropes.

Several ropes broke, and the skeleton and hollow wooden cylinder fell one after another.

Tang Zhi's tendrils became entangled in another stone frame, and she pulled it down forcefully.

The entire frame, along with the two macaques, crashed into the mud.

Cheng Fang charged straight towards the center of the training field.

Two wild boars charged at us from the side.

Jiang Zhaoye shielded him from the blow, and the black stick smashed the wild boar's skull, cracking it.

The other end had its front legs nailed down with black nails by members of the Candle Shadow Society, and it rolled and crashed into the bushes.

Cheng Fang rushed all the way to the central stone pillar.

The stone pillars are thicker than a person, and they are covered with bones of different shapes.

"etc!"

Lai Changqing suddenly spoke.

Cheng Fang turned around.

"This system is useful."

"Taking it back for research will also be useful."

"After that collision, there won't be much left."

Cheng Fang glanced at the beast horde that was still regrouping.

"Should we leave them here to continue training?"

"Tear it down first, you don't necessarily have to smash it."

"There's no time to dismantle it slowly."

Cheng Fang took half a step back.

Iron Bones activated.

He crashed into the stone pillar.

Click!

Large cracks appeared at the base of the stone pillar.

Lai Changqing closed his eyes.

Tang Zhi called out from behind:

"Master Lai, even if it hurts, bear with it. Out with the old, in with the new!"

The second impact caused it to fall.

The stone pillar broke off at the bottom.

More than a dozen bones fell to the ground, and half of them shattered.

The macaques responsible for striking the hammer were completely thrown into chaos.

Some were still looking for stones, while others simply fled up into the trees.

With no signal, the wild boars didn't know when they would charge, and the wolf pack no longer maintained their flanking positions.

The raptor circled a few times, and seeing that the flames on the ground were increasing, it quickly rose into the sky.

The beast formation dissipated.

The remaining animals began to flee for their lives.

Blackback Wolf glanced at Lin Ye one last time before leading six young wolves into the woods north of the training ground.

Cheng Fang did not pursue.

At this point, chasing an injured wolf is far less valuable than controlling the training ground.

"Clear the area, don't chase after them."

"Get rid of them if you can."

The gunfire gradually subsided.

More than a dozen animal carcasses were left in the basin.

Many more animals fled into the surrounding mountains and forests.

The members of the Candlelight Society have already begun collecting the sutra bones.

The lizard shadow was the fastest, and before the smoke and dust had cleared, it took away three relatively intact bone fragments in succession.

Tang Zhi flicked a thread and entangled it around the sealed bag in his hand.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

The lizard shadow tugged, but couldn't budge it.

"Didn't you want to smash it?"

"Smash it if you want, pick it up if you want."

Tang Zhi quickly pulled the silk threads.

"Whatever we smash is still ours."

The lizard shadow looked at the half-broken bone on the ground.

"Your Seventh Division is meddling in other people's business."

"There's no other way; I'm a government employee, and I have a strong sense of responsibility."

The two stood frozen, a few meters apart.

Neither of them was willing to let go.

Jiang Zhaoye walked over and reached out to press down on the sealed bag.

Qin Zhao also stood next to Tang Zhi.

They were just fighting the two sides of the beast horde together, and now they're facing each other again.

Lai Changqing looked at Cheng Fang.

"We'll each take half."

Cheng Fang said, "The complete ones belong to the Seventh Division."

"On what grounds?"

"We smashed the training ground."

Jiang Zhaoye gave a cold laugh.

"Without us blocking the wild boars, how would you have managed to crash into the stone pillar?"

Tang Zhi immediately said:

"I even shielded you from stones before, should I charge a service fee?"

Cheng Fang raised his hand to interrupt.

"Two pieces of beast-cultivating bone on each side."

"On-site route sharing."

"The bone fragments along the meridians of the human body are distributed in seven locations."

Lai Changqing thought for a few seconds.

"Can."

Only then did Lizard Shadow loosen the sealed bag.

Tang Zhi retracted the silk thread and casually brushed the mud off the bag.

"If we had talked about this earlier, it would have been fine. It almost turned into a tug-of-war."

Both parties received their respective materials.

The training ground was filmed from seven locations, capturing the terrain, signal stations, and the movement routes of different animals.

The Candlelight Society was also busy.

They made rubbings of each of the bone fragments, and even photographed the broken edges of the stone pillars.

Lin Ye walked to the collapsed central stone pillar.

After the stone pillar broke, a square stone base was exposed at the bottom.

There are obvious artificial chisel marks on the stone base.

One corner of it had already been cracked by Cheng Fang.

There is no soil under the crack.

It's empty.

There's something here.

Cheng Fang walked over and used his foot to clear away the rubble.

Qin Zhao took out his detection equipment and scanned the stone seat.

There is space below.

"About fifteen meters deep."

Lai Changqing also led his men closer.

Both sides became vigilant again.

Several lines of ancient characters, now blurred, are carved in the center of the stone base, and several broken ritual implements are scattered around it.

Lin Ye took a few steps to the side.

A section of grayish-white human bone emerged from the mud.

It's not animal bone.

He crouched down and activated his spiritual hearing from a distance.

The moment the voice appeared, Lin Ye's expression changed.

This time it's not beast training.

It wasn't that lazy voice either.

Countless screams erupted simultaneously.

The mountain rocks collapsed.

The building collapsed.

Someone was ringing a bell in the distance.

"The mountain-protecting formation has been broken!"

"East Peak has collapsed, get out of here!"

"I can't hold on any longer!"

The sounds piled up one after another.

It's like the whole mountain is filled with dead people.

Soon, a weak male voice rang out from the chaos.

"Bring me the Scripture of All Souls."

Someone nearby asked, crying:

"Elder, your physical body is destroyed. Even if you go inside... will you still be considered alive?"

The man coughed for a long time.

Every sound was accompanied by blood and foam.

Finally, he said:

"My physical body cannot be preserved."

"Let me into the Bible."

The lingering sound abruptly ended.

Lin Ye opened his eyes.

The sound of bells still lingered in my ears.

Cheng Fang noticed that his expression was off.

"What did you hear?"

Lin Ye stared into the darkness beneath the stone seat.

He paused for a few seconds before speaking.

"That thing inside..."

"It might have been a person before."