However, the sleepless journey through that vast desert along the way still brought Duan Ling Tian a certain amount of fatigue.

It wasn't physical exhaustion, it was mental exhaustion.

Before looking for someone to ask for directions, Duan Lingtian still found a place to rest for the time being.

After a night's rest, the next morning, he continued his journey north.

Finally, after an hour of full speed north, he saw a small village that was smoky from a distance.

Such a small village, located on the vast grassland, greeted Duan Lingtian's eyes, as if it were a perfect landscape painting.

After approaching the small village, Duan Lingtian stepped into the air.

Before he entered the village, Duan Lingtian noticed that two swift figures rushed out and stopped him on his way.

"Who are you?"

The people who stopped Duan Lingtian from going were two middle-aged men with strong bodies and powerful appearances, and they were looking at Duan Lingtian, an uninvited guest, with a wary expression.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just a passer-by, and I want to ask for directions. ”

Duan Lingtian struggled to squeeze out a smile and said.

At the same time, he quietly opened the 'Tianyantong', and immediately discovered the cultivation of two middle-aged men, who were the two martial cultivators of the Great Perfection of the Extraordinary Realm.

Duan Lingtian was also very surprised that such a small village had a martial cultivator who had a great consummation of the Extraordinary Realm.

You must know that in the Dao Martial Holy Land, the ordinary ninth-rate forces are at most only the Great Perfection Martial Cultivators of the Mortal Realm.

However, at the same time, Duan Ling Tian could also find that since he approached the village, the aura of heaven and earth had also become much stronger, and it was obvious that there was also a holy stone deposit buried under the ground of the village.

With Duan Lingtian's current cultivation, it was easy to perceive that it was a nine-grade holy stone deposit.

"It is worthy of Fufeng Country, a small border village, it can even be compared to the ninth-rate forces. ”

Duan Lingtian sighed in his heart.

Hearing Duan Lingtian's words, the faces of the two middle-aged men softened a lot, but they still asked vigilantly, "Where are you going?"

"The national capital. ”

Duan Lingtian said.

"The national capital?"

Hearing Duan Lingtian's words, the two middle-aged men were shocked again.

You must know that it is not any martial arts and Taoist cultivators who dare to go to the national capital from them.

They are here on the border of Fufeng Country, and there is still a long distance from them to the national capital, and they don't have a certain strength, so they really don't dare to go to the national capital alone.

After all, along the way, there may be many bandits who will block the road and intercept and kill.

"Hmm. ”

Duan Lingtian nodded, smiled and asked, "You two might show me the way?"

For the two middle-aged men, this is just a gesture, and they all point in one direction for a moment, but it is the northeast direction.

"Thank you both. ”

Duan Lingtian smiled and thanked him, and prepared to leave.

And at this moment, the rapid wind whistle came from a distance, menacing, making Duan Ling Tian also stunned.

Of course, when Duan Lingtian heard these voices, the two middle-aged men didn't hear them.

Duan Lingtian looked at the place where the voice came from, and saw that in that direction, there was a group of people coming in a mighty way, and at first glance, there were dozens of people.

These dozens of people were led by a middle-aged man standing on a brute beast.

The middle-aged man had a bearded face, standing on top of a brute beast like a giant lion, majestic.

"The one who is at the head is in the middle stage of the Holy Realm...... That brute beast was in the early stage of entering the Holy Realm. As for the remaining dozens of people, the weakest ones are all in the late stage of the Extraordinary Realm...... They seem to be coming for this village, who the hell are they?"

After opening the 'Heavenly Eye Pass', Duan Ling Tian also discovered the cultivation of a group of people for a while.

These people are nothing in his eyes.

So, he didn't choose to avoid these people.

Moreover, these people were clearly coming for the village in front of him, and if he was just passing by, he might not have bothered with it.

However, now, no matter what he says, he has also received the favor of two villagers.

Leaving at this time is a little unreasonable.

At the same time, Duan Lingtian also noticed that the faces of the two middle-aged men became solemn.

"Haha...... Aren't the old and young of Cuijia Village coming out to greet us?"

With a loud laugh from the bearded middle-aged man at the head, the group of people he brought with him all stood in the sky outside the village, like a black cloud pressing down on the city, blocking the sunlight of a large area of land outside the village.

"Huh?"

Duan Lingtian, who originally thought that the bandits were coming to slaughter the village, couldn't help but be stunned when he saw what came out in front of him.

Listening to the tone of this bearded middle-aged man, he and the people in this village still seem to be 'acquaintances'?

"They are a gang of bandits from the southern edge of the Fufeng Country, comparable to the 'Eighth-Rate Forces', and every once in a while, they will come to our village to collect a large number of sacred stones as 'protection money'. ”

As if seeing Duan Lingtian's doubts, one of the middle-aged men said to Duan Lingtian with a wry smile.

Duan Lingtian was stunned.

If so, there was no need for him to intervene.

This village, even if it is comparable to the ninth-rate forces, since it is in the area of the Fufeng Country, if it does not have a 'backer', it is still easy to be destroyed.

Perhaps, with the protection of a gangster gang comparable to the eighth-rate forces, it can exist a little longer.

At the same time, Duan Lingtian also saw that another group of people stepped out of the village, and the person at the head was an old man in green clothes.

The old man looked helpless, but he still tried to squeeze out a smile on his face.

"The three masters, this is our Cuijia Village's 'protection fee' this year. ”

In front of the middle-aged man, the old man showed a humble demeanor, and at the same time took out a ring and threw it to the other party.

The bearded middle-aged man reached out to catch it, and after confirming it, he grinned, "The number is right! Old man Cui, see you next year." ”

As he spoke, the bearded middle-aged man turned the head of the beast at his feet, and prepared to take people away.

And just when Duan Lingtian and a group of people from Cuijia Village were about to watch the bearded middle-aged man take people away, Duan Lingtian found that one of the two old men who was following the middle-aged bearded man suddenly fell on him, and it suddenly lit up.

The next moment, he saw again that the old man was looking at the middle-aged man.

Suddenly, Duan Lingtian faintly sensed that something was wrong, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

And at this time, the bearded middle-aged man also turned the head of the brute beast under his feet again, turned around, and his eyes fell on Duan Lingtian's body for the first time.

"You're not from Cuijia Village?"

The bearded middle-aged man stared at Duan Lingtian with his eyes like electricity, and asked in a deep voice.

At the same time, whether it was a group of bandits behind the bearded middle-aged man or a group of people from Cuijia Village, their eyes also fell on Duan Lingtian.

The village chief of Cuijia Village, the old man in Tsing Yi frowned even more.

"I ......"

Duan Lingtian just wanted to say that he was indeed not from Cuijia Village, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted.

"The third master, this is also a person from our Cuijia Village, but he rarely shows up. ”

After the village chief of Cuijia Village learned from the two middle-aged men in the village that Duan Lingtian was a passing person asking for directions, he also felt compassion and said to the middle-aged man in time.

At this time, Duan Lingtian's ears also heard the voice of the village chief of Cuijia Village, "Young man, they are not easy to mess with, you just pretend to be from our Cuijia Village." ”

Hearing the village chief's words, although Duan Lingtian was not afraid of these bandits, he was also warm, and at the same time closed his mouth and did not refute the village chief's words.

After all, the village chief also has good intentions.

"Old man Cui, are you really blind to my Deng Laosan?

The bearded middle-aged man sneered.

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, the village chief of Cuijia Village was dumbfounded, and at the same time, he couldn't help but look at Duan Lingtian seriously, but found that Duan Lingtian had an extraordinary temperament, and at first glance he was not from a small village.

"Old man Cui, I can pretend I didn't hear what you just said. Now, I'm going to hear you say it again, is he from your Cuijia Village? Let me remind you, you have to think clearly...... You should know what the consequences will be if you lie in front of me. ”

The bearded middle-aged man continued to sneer.

For a while, cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the village chief of Cuijia Village, and he could only cast a guilty look at Duan Lingtian.

At this point, he naturally didn't dare to stand up for Duan Ling Tian anymore.

Duan Lingtian smiled at the village chief of Cuijia Village in understanding, then looked at the bearded middle-aged man, and said lightly: "You have a good vision, I am indeed not from Cuijia Village. I'm just a person passing by Cuijia Village who happened to ask for directions. ”

"I'll just say, how can there be a person with such a temperament as you in Cuijia Village. ”

The bearded middle-aged man had such an expression of 'sure enough', and at the same time glanced at Duan Ling Tian lightly, and said, "Today, I, Deng Laosan, am in a good mood and don't want to see blood...... Hand over your ring and get out!"

"Feeling good, don't want to see blood?"

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Duan Lingtian smiled, "Listening to your tone, it seems that you have settled me." ”

After speaking, without waiting for the bearded middle-aged man to respond, Duan Ling Tian flew away.

Of course, his speed was not fast, and it remained at the level of the early stage of entering the Holy Realm.

However, even at this speed, while the bearded middle-aged man and the group of bandits behind him were stunned, Duan Lingtian had already flown far away.

And the direction in which Duan Lingtian went was the northeast direction, which was the direction where the capital of the Fufeng Country was located.

"I don't know how to lift!"

The bearded middle-aged man finally reacted, his face was instantly gloomy, the murderous intent in his eyes was awe-inspiring, and he immediately drove the brute beast under his feet to chase after Duan Ling Tian.

A group of bandits also followed in a mighty way.

"That young man, you're going to be out of luck. ”

A group of people in Cuijia Village sighed when they saw this.

They could all see that the young man's speed was not too fast.

At least, in front of the bearded middle-aged, there is no advantage.

"Still too young and vigorous...... What about handing over the ring? Could it be that what is outside the body can be more important than life?"

The village chief of Cuijia Village sighed, just now he also sent a message to persuade the young man, but the other party ignored him at all, which made him helpless for a while.