Chapter 420: The Inner City
Early in the morning, when Ding Yi was still washing, the Hong steward sent a pass. Zhu Can watched Ding Yi and Steward Hong talking, stunned.
"Senior Sister Zhu, thank you for helping to lead the way, this is your reward. Ding Yi took out a porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to Zhu Can. Ding Yi drew a clear line with Zhu Can in front of Steward Hong, indicating that he and Zhu Can only had an employment relationship. Cut Zhu Can and him apart.
Whether this is a cover-up or not depends on how others interpret it. But the superficial work, still has to be done. Zhu Can was a little reluctant to take the elixir.
Ding Yi, accompanied by Steward Hong, left the Longmen Inn.
On the street, it was the time when the shops were open, and at the same time, from some dojos, there were also a lot of cultivators like Ding Yi who wanted to enter the inner city. The inner city is only open to those who have advanced to the top ranks. As for the beginner level to the intermediate level, the intermediate level is generally not open, unless it is a special case.
Gradually, the flow of these people gathered into a procession of one or two hundred people to the gates of the inner city.
Ding Yi's pass is in the first place, but even so, he is still not the first person who can enter the inner city, and entering the inner city also pays attention to rank.
There were five advanced Xuan-level monks, and they were the first people to enter the inner city.
There were five people, some older and younger, the eldest was dressed in the blue clothes of the inner disciple, and his hair was half white, it seemed that his qualifications were not good. In addition, there is a young man in white in his twenties, with heroic hair and good looks, this person is a core disciple. He made a deep impression on Ding Yi.
Waiting for the inner door to open, the young man noticed that Ding Yi was paying attention to him, and he greeted Ding Yi with a smile.
"Senior brother is the disciple of that mountain peak?"
"I'm Xu Hui of Rong Dingfeng, hello senior brother. Ding Yi bowed halfway to the young man.
"Rong Dingfeng, I'm a disciple of Dan Dao, right? My name is Shang Liu, and I'm from Perak Hall. The young man introduced himself to Ding Yi.
It turned out that this person was a business strategy, and the object that Li Kui wanted to recruit himself was really coincidental. A smile appeared on the corner of Ding Yi's mouth.
"Senior brother, if you need an elixir, you can come to Rong Dingfeng to find me. Ding Yi greeted Shang Liu.
Shang Xue said: "Senior brother has a heart, but it is also a coincidence, I have a junior brother who has cold poison in his body, and he has eaten a lot of elixirs and is not good, according to Master Tianxin, it is a problem brought by the womb, and he has been tossing for many years, and the medicine has not left his body, if it is convenient, can you help me refine a few furnaces of Shaoyang Dan." ”
Ding Yi pondered for a moment and said: "If the cold poison brought in the womb, eating Shaoyang Pill is just a symptomatic method, and the junior brother knows a little bit of Qihuang technique, and when the matter is over here, the junior brother will go to the Thunderbolt Hall for a walk, the Shaoyang Pill is just a medium and low-level elixir, and refining is not a difficult matter, if it really doesn't work, after I go back, I will refine some for the senior brother." ”
Seeing that Ding Yi is old-fashioned and sincere, he can't help but have some good feelings in his heart. However, when he glanced at it, he saw the Hong Steward of the Dragon Gate Inn, and his originally gentle face changed. The tone of his voice became stiff.
"You're from the Imperial Party?"
Ding Yi nodded, he knew from Shang Xue's expression that Shang Xue was very prejudiced against the imperial party.
Ding Yi said: "I am not only a member of the Imperial Party, but also a member of the Imperial Party, Senior Brother Shang, you won't have prejudices against me just because I am a member of the Imperial Party, right?"
Shang Luo had already turned his head away with disgust at this time, and no longer paid attention to him.
Ding Yi was not annoyed, his main purpose now was to steal books, he didn't want to have more branches, he touched his nose and stopped talking. He doesn't deliberately explain and please anyone, the little puppeteer has his own pride.
The effort was not great, and the inner city finally opened the city gate, and the gate five or six meters high was not opened, but only a corner gate next to it.
Everyone entered the inner city in turn, and the first to go was the Xuan-level disciples, and after these people all entered, it was Ding Yi's turn.
Ding Yi entered the city gate, handed over his identity jade talisman and pass in turn, and the gatekeeper was five Xuan-level monks in green clothes, they asked Ding Yi a few small questions, and asked Ding Yi to show them his spirit wings, and then returned his identity jade talisman and handed him a warning spirit talisman.
"You only have six days, and when the time comes, come out immediately. ”
The guards of the inner city commanded.
Ding Yi hurriedly took the jade talisman and even claimed that it was.
The pattern of the inner city, Ding Yi knew it last night, through the compound eyes of the mosquito puppet.
The inner city is lined with buildings, but it is actually arranged according to certain rules. These buildings are mainly constructed according to the layout of the Nine Palaces Bagua and Qimen Dunjia.
Laymen who first arrive will be overwhelmed by the buildings in front of them. However, Ding Yi had done his homework beforehand, and he was also a formation mage, so he was not flustered.
More than a dozen Xuan-level monks, lined up in a row, acted as guides, and they were the monks who were responsible for guiding the way in the inner city. Ding Yi refused the guidance of these Xuan-level monks, and Shi Shiran, who took care of himself, walked inside.
Ding Yi followed a stone road, did not go straight ahead, but changed the route of travel in the middle of the way, and stepped on a side road, the Xuan-level monk behind him, seeing that he did not take the wrong route, only turned around when he was guided by the seniors of the family.
Although last night, the mosquito puppet had a 'stepping point', and Ding Yi had also done analysis and research in advance, but he couldn't start acting as soon as he entered it. After all, there are many masters here, and there are many machine formations, and if there are few bad pools, all the achievements will be wasted.
The Zangjing Pavilion is just a general name, in fact, there are countless libraries, pavilions and pavilions in the inner city. Ding Yi didn't wander around, but took the lead in going to the Wuxuan Palace.
Wuxuan Hall is a five-story building, which displays various cultivation classics in different categories. There is one room for each category, and there are no less than three or four hundred different rooms in the whole building. The books on display here are all elementary and intermediate classics.
The entire Wuxuan Palace, only at the gate, there are four monks in management, the books here can be found in most of the outer cities, they are not worried that someone will steal, first, these books are not of high value, and then the spine of these books is equipped with formations, it is not so easy to steal books. Not to mention, every room is equipped with a surveillance mechanism, and any attempt to steal these books will be recorded. No one would be so unwise.
Ding Yi entered the Wuxuan Hall purely to read the book.
However, Ding Yi is a little different from ordinary people who have just come in, and generally people who come here for the first time will be in front of the desk at the door and ask the manager here about the location of their qualifications and exercises. Ding Yi didn't go through this set of procedures at all, he entered the Wuxuan Palace, and directly entered the room closest to the door.
Each room is filled with books, shelves full of books from this category, and desks and chairs. Ding Yi walked into this room casually, and this side is a display of wood exercises.
There were still people in the room who were studying, Ding Yi didn't bother others, he took care of the rows of bookshelves and began to look up, with little effort, he found five or six books that he was interested in, he took these books to the table, and began to enter the study mode......
It was almost noon, and the warning talisman suddenly trembled, and Ding Yi woke up from his preoccupied learning mode. He saw that several people who had been reading and studying in this room were sorting out the books and sorting them one by one, and when they were done, they all walked towards the door.
It turned out to be the time for dinner. Like the others, he packed up the books and walked out of the Wuxuan Palace.
There is a small restaurant in the inner city, and this small white building is very eye-catching among the other buildings, pavilions, and halls with gray as the main color.
The restaurant is a buffet in nature, with a nearly 100-meter-long counter and large basins containing various dishes, fruits and vegetables. Cultivators are almost all big-bellied people, their appetite is amazing, and the speed of changing vegetable pots here is also very fast. Ding Yi paid attention to it, and there were five or six hundred people eating in the entire dining room.
On the way to Ding Yi's restaurant, he deliberately rubbed it, the time when he arrived here was relatively late, according to everyone's dress and bearing, there should be nearly 500 or so people here, who came to the inner city for further study. The others were guards dressed in black robes and uniforms, and there were almost a hundred of them.
Ding Yi frowned secretly, obviously it was not a good time to start at the meal. Because there were at least one or two hundred Xuan-level guards guarding them, and they didn't eat here.
These people either eat at staggered times, or they eat elsewhere, and Ding Yi suspects that it should be the first type. He stepped forward quietly, took a plate, absentmindedly made a few dishes, walked to an unmanned table, and ate slowly.
"Meet Gu Daquan, the true disciple of Jin Dingfeng. A voice rang out on the other side.
Ding Yi raised his head. A young monk with inch hair looked at him with a bright eye.
"Rong Dingfeng's true disciple Xu Hui. Ding Yi replied.
"Rong Dingfeng?" the man asked, familiarly.
Ding Yi nodded.
"I see that my junior brother is extraordinary, and I have a sense of familiarity at first sight......" Gu Daquan saw that Ding Yi was not very old, and if there were other companions around him, he was very enthusiastic.
"Senior brother shouldn't have joined any forces, below are the people of the Brotherhood, you know, there are dragons and snakes in the Heavenly Dao Gate, if there is no one force to back it up, it will inevitably suffer in the future......"
When Ding Yi heard this, he already understood the other party's intentions.
"I'm a member of the Imperial Party, Senior Brother Gu, I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. Ding Yi interrupted Gu Daquan's words and directly identified himself.
When he spoke, he deliberately said the four words of the imperial party member very loudly. Under his spiritual perception, sure enough, four or five people stood up from the other tables, took their food, and walked towards Ding Yi's table.
Gu Daquan saw Ding Yi take out a piece of the imperial party's warrant, and knew that he had found the wrong person this time, so he politely said to disturb and left in a hurry.
The effort was not great, and four or five people sat down at Ding Yi's table. Ding Yi didn't need to ask to know that these people were only spiritual-level monks, and they didn't help him much, but he was still very polite and introduced himself to these members of the imperial party.
Here, he will leave the inner city in a day or two, only one named Rong Cai, and he will not go out for five days, he is rare, the double spirit qualification has broken through, and he, like Ding Yi, is also a true disciple. He stayed in the inner city for a few days longer than the average person.
Ding Yi took out a bottle of Sanhua Gathering Elixir and gave one to each person, this is a medium-level elixir, and the Huiling is the fastest, and the medicinal effect is several times stronger than that of the Juling Pill and the Huiling Pill.
Everyone saw that Ding Yi was generous and spoke kindly, and they didn't feel a good impression. Ding Yi briefly inquired about everyone's cultivation and said a few words to everyone, and he asked the others to leave first, leaving only Rong Cai.
"Rong Cai, when are you going to leave the inner city?" Ding Yi asked.
"I'm going to use up that time, it's a rare opportunity and I don't want to miss it. Rong Cai replied.
Ding Yi nodded and said, "That's the best, I also have five days." Rong Cai, I will give you a task, I want you, in the next five days, to find me all the royal party that has come in. ”
This is a small matter, Rong Cai agreed without hesitation.
After eating in the restaurant, Ding Yi and Rong Cai said goodbye and returned to the Wuxuan Hall again. Ding Yi found that several stewards of Wuxuan Hall had changed.
Ding Yi changed rooms this time, walked to another study, picked out a few books again, and read them carefully......
In the blink of an eye, it was evening, and when he returned to the restaurant again, Ding Yi found that the number of people in the restaurant was obviously much less, and there should be nearly a hundred cultivators who had left the inner city.
The people of the royal party gathered together, just like noon. Ding Yi talked to them without a match.
After the meal, everyone left the restaurant and went back to their respective houses, only Ding Yi turned around and went to the toilet next to the restaurant.
This cultivation system of the Heavenly Dao Gate is actually very harsh, and on the surface, those who come to the inner city to study can not only read all kinds of classics at will, but also accept the careful guidance of the grandmasters. In fact, there are many limitations.
First of all, there is a curfew in the inner city, and those who come to the inner city are strictly forbidden to move privately at night, and secondly, there is no reservation in the inner city at all, and the housing for the disciples who come to study can only stay in the master's retreat. In other words, if you are not specially allowed to open a special retreat and want to read for a few more days, it will not work at all.
Other restrictions include not being able to walk around the inner city at will, not being able to read in libraries beyond one's ability, and so on. To put it bluntly, the inner city is reserved for ordinary cultivators, and the time to read books is only one day.
Ding Yi is not a privileged class in Tiandaomen, and he can't enjoy special treatment yet, so he can only use opportunistic methods to deal with it.
It was getting dark. The siren of the curfew in the inner city sounded, and the sound of closing the doors of buildings, pavilions, and temples came one after another.
Ding Yi stayed in this toilet for nearly an hour. It's one of the few dead spots in the inner city, and no one is so bored that they have surveillance cameras in their toilets. This is the pivot of Operation Ding Yi.
The smell in the toilet is very strong, and the cultivators eat a lot and pull a lot, although there is a good sewage system here, but this place of grain reincarnation is originally a place to hide dirt and dirt, and it is normal for the smell to be unpleasant.
The door of the toilet was opened, and several people came in easily, and in the dim shadows above their heads, Ding Yi had to accept it again, the stench of these Xuan-level monks.
Ding Yi has the qualification of a dark spirit, and at the same time, in order to enter the Golden City, he has made preparations for more than four months in advance, which is enough to deal with the situation in front of him.
It took half an hour for all of the guys to leave. Ding Yi fell down lightly from the roof, he was already fully armed at this time, wearing a helmet on his head, and a black spirit armor on his body, which was an invisibility cloak he made especially for this book theft.
There is a big problem with this invisibility suit, that is, when Ding Yi originally designed it, he didn't expect that he would lose centimeters in about half a year, and this armor was a little tight. Although he made some changes last night, he could only do it this way due to the lack of materials at hand.
Last night, the mosquito puppet carried out a general reconnaissance of the inner city, there are many formation mechanisms here, and the impact on the mosquito puppet is great, through the compound eyes of the mosquito puppet, he can only have a general outline.
Rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, shock, open, the arrangement of Qimen Dunjia, it is not so easy to easily break into the 'life gate'. The key is that in the core area of the Heavenly Dao Gate like this, in addition to the two or three hundred bright posts patrolling back and forth, he doesn't know the layout of those dark posts.
Minggang and dark whistle, this is an arrangement that will definitely be made, and it is impossible for Tiandaomen not to have an arrangement.
Ding Yi knew that he couldn't succeed on the first day, and his main purpose now was to find out the distribution of the secret sentinels, and at the same time find the path to the underground library.
Ding Yiyi released eight stealthy insect puppets in a row. Focusing on toilets, the scope of investigation will be gradually expanded. Fortunately, in the weather of June and July, mosquitoes are rampant, and these invisible mosquitoes, even if they are discovered, will not attract the attention of others at the first time.
These puppets mainly perceive the surrounding environment through compound eye observation, and they also have a considerable degree of perception of spiritual power fluctuations, but in general, the level is still a bit low, and they can only be regarded as high-level puppets at the spirit level.
Manipulating eight puppet insects at the same time is still a bit difficult for Ding Yi, which is tantamount to single-mindedness, but fortunately, after he was promoted to the spirit level, his spiritual power has been greatly improved. In addition, he has an auxiliary helmet, an amplification spiritual weapon, so although it is a little difficult, he can basically barely do it.
One, two, three...... It didn't take long for Ding Yi to determine the distribution locations of more than a dozen secret sentinels.
Ding Yi took back all the puppet insects. As a formation mage, you can use the method of deduction to deduce the positions of those dark sentinels one by one. There is no need to search one by one, it can be seen that the distribution of these open and dark whistles is regular. As long as a certain rule is followed, the guards of the entire inner city can be deduced from this small piece.