Lou Xiaoyi packed the equipment on the camel carefully to ensure that he had the most basic resources with him when he was on the run.
He brought ten bottles of Dolphin Thread Incense with him this time. Now it seemed that he had brought too much. Fortunately, it did not take up much space. It was a delicate little bottle used by ladies for dressing up, so he had to carry all of it with him.
A water sack, a small bag of jerky, and a blanket were the basic necessities for him to get out of the Gobi Desert.
A short sword was stuck at his waist. It was not that he liked swords, but he had to carry a weapon for self-defense. If he did not carry a light short sword, should he carry a ghost head knife or a big iron spear?
These things would not leave him in the future.
In the center of the Gobi Desert, seven Taoists were busy on a flat sandy ground. Judging by their posture, they were setting up some kind of formation.
They were not acquaintances from the same organization, but from different places. They all gathered in the core area of the Gobi Desert for one purpose.
Because their cultivation was similar, because their individual strength was not enough to catch red thread worms, and because they wanted to work together, the seven of them finally came together. Of course, there were also many lone travelers who did not want to work together.
There was an advantage to having more people, which was that they could set up a larger formation to catch red thread worms in the area to the greatest extent. Moreover, with more people, they did not have to worry about some malicious people eyeing them.
The only problem was how to divide the harvest.
This group had been wandering in the Gobi Desert for more than a month, constantly looking for a location, setting up a formation, catching red thread worms, and then changing the location … It was difficult to set up a formation in the Gobi Desert because sometimes a small amount of quicksand would change the structure of the formation. Therefore, they usually had to find a place with harder soil.
Using a formation to catch insects was one of the more familiar methods in this world. Through the stimulation of the formation, the white thread worms hiding underground would be forced out. However, this method also had a high chance of escaping. Generally speaking, it was not easy to force ten percent of the worms out of the formation, and the rest would find a chance to escape.
This was the helplessness of the cultivators in the Qi-eating stage. Their ability was only so high, and they could not do more …
The most unsolvable move of the white sand worms was to go down, deep into the ground. Only a small number of them would go up when they were dizzy. This was their instinct. For cultivators in the Qi Eater stage, the ground was not their territory. Their abilities were limited and they could not reach it.
However, even if only ten percent of them became dizzy, it was enough to surprise everyone. The Red Thread White Sand Worm was the most precious treasure in the Gobi Desert. It would take at least a hundred years for an ordinary white sand worm to evolve into this form. Their spiritual energy was pure and perfect. For cultivators of their level, having one or two Red Thread White Sand Worms at a time was enough. In a situation where the spiritual opportunity of heaven and earth was scarce, the Red Thread White Sand Worm was a great help to their cultivation.
Based on their years of experience in the Gobi Desert, they would come here for one or two months every year. If they could get a hundred red thread worms, it would be a worthwhile trip, and they would be able to solve the problem of not having any food for several months in a year.
They could only catch them in the summer. In other seasons, the worms would hide deeper into the ground, and it would be even more difficult to catch them.
This was a new suitable location for setting up a formation. The seven of them had been busy for a day. They could start catching the worms once the formation was completed. Normally, a formation like this could only be activated three times. After three times, the white sand worms nearby would all hide deep into the ground. Activating the formation again would not yield much results. If they could only catch some ordinary white sand worms, then it would be completely worthless.
Two sand camels appeared in front of the busy group. There was a person leading the sand camel in front. He wore a wide sun hat, had a gray cloth wrapped around his face, and carried a swollen bundle on his back. He looked like a guide from the Sand Nation.
No one paid any attention to him. It was not strange for a Sand Nation to appear here in such attire, and no one would have any thoughts about them. They were all aborigines who were extremely poor. If they were in trouble, the cultivators would even help them. It was a good karma.
However, the man in Sand Nation attire walked straight towards them. This was very unusual. Normally, the Sand Nation locals who had some knowledge would avoid them as much as possible. It was not because they would kill people, but because the white sand worms they created would sting people.
However, this man walked over and stopped a hundred steps away from their formation, looking around.
The cultivator in the lead frowned. "Who are you? Why are you staying here and not leaving? The sand worms will wreak havoc later. If you don't know your place, no one will come to save you if you get stung! "
However, the man lifted the cloth bundle and said respectfully, "Greetings, seniors! I have just entered the path of Dao. I heard that white sand worms appear in the Gobi Desert and that they can help people cultivate, so I came here … A few days ago, I met two seniors by chance. They saw that I was unable to find the worms and my actions were clumsy, so they pointed me in this direction. They said that there are seniors who are hunting for worms here and that I can come and try my luck.
I don't mean any harm by asking you this question. If you don't need people here, I will go myself. If you need someone to run errands and do odd jobs, I can help you a little! "
The cultivator and his companions looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh. This attire really fooled them. However, young people who had just entered the Gobi Desert couldn't completely ignore the influence of the environment. Wasn't this attire exactly what they were looking for?
There was no divine sense in the Qi-eating stage. If the other party didn't show his ability or didn't get close to him, it was indeed difficult to distinguish his identity.
"Who taught you? Do you have a background? "
The young man scratched his head. "They didn't say where they came from, nor did they leave their names. I was digging a hole to look for worms when they suddenly appeared beside me. They gave me a fright … Well, there were two people, one tall and one short …"
The cultivators laughed. Of course, they knew these two people. They were originally a group. A few days ago, there were actually nine of them in their group. However, because of an emergency, two of them left early. One tall and the other short, they liked to appear suddenly and tease the newcomers. Wasn't this the characteristic of those two people?
They were afraid that they didn't have enough people, so they gathered another one for them. However, what could such a newcomer do?
The cultivator in the lead talked with the others for a while and nodded.
"Do you know how to set up arrays?"
The young man shook his head. "No! I don't have time to learn! "
"What kind of spells can you learn? Especially fire spells? "
"No! There's no place to learn! "
The cultivator sighed. "You don't know anything, but you dare to go deep into the core area of the Gobi Desert. You really don't know how to write the word 'death'! Then, what do you know? You can't cheer for us on the side, right? "
The young man was embarrassed. "I'm strong! I'm diligent! I can run errands and do odd jobs … "
The cultivator was speechless. Strong? Which cultivator here was weak? Was strength useful to deal with sandworms?
However, being diligent might be a little useful. After all, the seven of them were at the same cultivation level. It was indeed difficult to arrange and distribute some laborious work. Could it be useful to have such a thing?
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