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With their priorities in mind, Lu Chaohe and Lu Mingchao, along with fifteen family cultivators, left Jade Mist Mountain and headed north.

Their actions were very purposeful. The map clearly marked the location of the horse herd yesterday, and also drew the migration route of the horse herd.

The distance between them and the horse herd is estimated to be about two hundred and forty miles. This distance, for the monks, is not too far. A cultivator in the Qi-refining stage can travel at a normal speed and can arrive in half a day; for a cultivator in the Foundation-building stage, it takes a little more than an hour to drive a flying sword or other flying props.

The water spirit horse is also a first-order spirit beast, and its speed is even slightly faster than that of a monk in the Qi refining stage.

But it should be noted that this group of horses is on the way to migration, but there is no strong enemy chasing it. They also have to find water and food while walking, and even have time to rest and play. This way, the stop-and-go speed won't be too fast.

Catching up within four days, especially if the goal is clear, is not a big problem.

In fact, by the next morning, they had already found the trail of the horses.

It is almost the same as the route marked in advance.

By noon, they had officially met the horses.

There are twenty-four horses in this group of water spirits, including five young horses, twelve mares, and seven male horses. They were drinking and resting by a pool, and several ponies were chasing each other around the horses, as if they were fighting. These water spirit horses are bluish-white, with a faint blue halo emitting from their skin, which is truly beautiful.

Lu Mingchao is a cultivator of Shuimu Shuanglinggen. The exercise she practices is called 'Shuiyundupu'. There is a trick, which is quite useful at this time.

Together with Seventh Brother, she first directed all the monks to form a circle, and then she started first.

The hand squeezed the magic formula, and the 'cloud spell' was cast.

This spell can summon a dense cloud, covering an area and covering the figure. In addition to this, the cultivator can sense the situation in the cloud and mist, and she can also synchronize this feeling to her companions.

As soon as the fog appeared, the horse group had already reacted.

They are water spirit beasts themselves, and are very sensitive to changes in water aura.

Under the neighing of the stallion, the entire group of horses moved, and they formed a group of horses. All the adult water spirit horses formed a circle, protecting the young horses in the middle of the circle.

When the horse group was restless, three cultivators suddenly appeared in the west. They fought with open flames, approached the horses from the periphery, and shouted threateningly from their mouths.

Although water spirit horses are spirit beasts with aura, they are peaceful and docile by nature and not aggressive. After being threatened, the first reaction of the horses was to run in the opposite direction.

This is exactly the trap of the monks.

Lu Chaohe is the only second-order formation mage in the family, and he has already arranged the formation in advance in the east of the horse group. As the horses passed by, he emerged from the fog, shook a bell in his hand, and with the help of four other qi cultivators, activated the formation.

Spiritual energy surged, the ground rolled, and the horses couldn't stand even in the roar, and they were overturned one by one.

This is a second-order low-grade soil formation called 'Earth Falling Array'. The effect is just as it is now. It can flip the ground, making the target in the formation unable to move freely, thus being trapped and being squeezed by the ground. . Moreover, due to the heavy earth aura at work, the flying spell will be restrained to a certain extent.

The water spirit horse can't fly, so it's useless to use this formation.

More than a dozen cultivators appeared together at this time, surrounding the formation, and began to enter the ban.

"Seventh Uncle, take it easy, Seventh Uncle take it easy..." A female voice sounded, and the speaker was a girl who looked quite young. She was pretty, but she was forty-five years old.

A monk, especially a female monk, cannot judge his age by his appearance. In the realm of self-cultivation, except for a few cases, almost all female cultivators who have the conditions can be regarded as possessing skills. Cultivation itself will keep the body in a peak state of youth, not to mention that there are still some medicinal herbs available.

Her name is Lu Xueting, the second generation of the Lu family, and she is currently in the sixth stage of Qi training. Judging from the progress of this practice, there is little hope of establishing a foundation.

But she is currently the only animal trainer in the family, with a first-class level.

Once, the family also had a small herd of spirit beasts and raised some demon ducks. At first, they hired people from outside to train them. Later, they felt that it was not a problem. The family also trained a beast trainer, Lu Xueting.

It's a pity that people are cultivated, and the flock of demon ducks is gone...

But now, after all, it can come in handy again.

The water spirit horse herd is far more important than the demon ducks that can only be raised and eaten. At least a second-order animal trainer can be well managed. But there is no way, the family has this condition now, and they have to bite the bullet.

She herself attaches great importance to this mission, for fear that the Seventh Uncle's collapse will kill a few of these precious spirit horses. Even if he didn't fall to his death, breaking two horse legs was a huge loss.

After receiving the call, she frantically started refining the talisman paper that could control the spirit beasts. During the two days of tracking, she did not stop refining. In addition to the previous inventory, forty or fifty first-order beast control charms were prepared and distributed to other monks.

At this time, after the horse group was under control, she led the monks of the family and shot out the beast-controlling charms one by one.

The spirit beasts that are affixed with the beast control talisman will be under the control of the animal trainer for a short time. This kind of control cannot last for a long time, and the follow-up still depends on the ability of the animal trainer to tame the spirit beast.

But now I don't have time to tame her horses one by one. First, I put on the animal control talisman and move the horses to the bottom of Jade Mist Mountain, and then think about the slow domestication.

For a first-order beast control talisman, for a first-order spiritual beast such as a water spirit horse, the control success rate is still quite high, about 70%. After using the thirty-five animal control charms, all the water spirit horses were under control - except the horse king.

That horse king has a particularly strong character. It struggled constantly in the earth-throwing formation, and the aura of water was surging. It tried to stand up and rush out, but was brought down again and again. Hit it with four or five animal control talismans in a row, but it didn't have any effect. In the end, there was no way out. Lu Chaohe said:

"Kill it, it's okay to peel the skin and cramp and bring the spiritual flesh back."

"What a pity." Lu Mingchao said, "I'll think of a way..."

After saying that, she squeezed the magic formula and made another move.

A line of water shot out of her hand and turned into a rope, entangling the trapped king horse tightly.

"Ninth sister, are you going to drag this horse king back all the way?" Lu Chaohe looked worried, he was afraid that his young sister's spiritual power would not be able to hold up.

"Yes." Lu Mingchao said, "A water spirit horse is worth two hundred spirit stones. The king of this horse is especially majestic, and I'm afraid it can be sold for three hundred. The family is in a bad situation now, and an extra amount of resources is a fortune. We clansmen, it's nothing to work hard... Seventh brother doesn't need to worry, I have the bottom line in my heart and can hold it."