(428 Hermits hidden in strange stones, it is difficult to find shortcuts to wealth)

After He Yan left, the courtyard became the Crane King sit-in alone. At this time, the figure flashed in the gap of the strangely shaped rockery, showing an old man.

The man had white hair and white eyebrows. The skin is as rough as the bark of a tree. Even the red crown on his forehead turned dark red, collapsing into a brownish-red patch.

"Uncle, it seems that it has been completely messed up at this time. Seeing this old man walking out of the rockery, He Shiri's face became extremely worried, and he sighed, "This throne, I'm afraid how to get it and how to return it." ”

Uncle didn't show any sympathy, but glared at him and said, "I told you the clue of the Danding Crown, so that you can prepare early, who told you to take it upon yourself to rob it? But you actually intercepted Xiao Sufeng's transmission to Taishang in Tianchi City?"

The old man staggered step by step and came to the pavilion. The Crane King hurriedly avoided it, let go of the comfortable chair covered with animal skins, let the old man sit down, bowed to the side, and said, "Uncle, don't worry." Even if I congratulate him on the day, it won't affect my uncle. ”

Uncle originally didn't have a high status, but he was just a personal servant of the Supreme Elder He Heng, and his status was low. But he lived a very long time, more than 1,500 years. His name was never called, and even if he did, he had forgotten everything.

But he has followed He Heng for a long time and is very trusted by this Taishang. Even the Crane King, who is a generation lower than Taishang, respectfully calls him Uncle. After a long time, almost everyone in the crane clan called him Uncle. Even the Supreme Elder He Heng called him Uncle half-jokingly.

"I'm a person who has mostly fallen into the ground, and I'm still afraid that you will be involved? I want to tell you, don't continue to look for this thing like the red-crowned crown. Now that Taishang has noticed this, if you interfere again, you will really die yourself. Stop it as soon as possible, he has no evidence, and it won't be what happens for the time being. ”

Uncle coughed, sat down peacefully on the big chair, and continued: "Although he can abolish you with a word, but in fact, how can he abolish you? He is not very old, and if he deposes you, who can take the throne of the Crane King? Who can keep such a large piece of treasure land?"

He Yanri's eyes were gloomy: "At present, there is indeed no third Jin Dan in the royal family. But if it was that person, plus the red-crowned crown, it was still possible to take this place that was originally his place. ”

"That person?" Uncle's cloudy eyes suddenly froze, looking into the void, and he remembered a lot of past events more than ten years ago. He is getting older, and his memory is getting worse and worse, if it weren't for the Crane King mentioning it, he would really have to completely forget about it, there is still such a number one person in the Crane Clan.

......

After Gou Zhu arrived in Tianchi City, he was worried about the same thing as Lian Ling, without a letter of recommendation, he couldn't enter the Demon Ginseng Conference. Unable to enter the Demon Ginseng Conference, the 10,000-year-old Demon Spirit Ginseng King naturally has nothing to do with him.

When Xiao Sufeng agreed with him on this matter, he didn't say what tribe's recommendation letter was needed to enter the Demon Ginseng Conference. Knowing this, he wouldn't have made this deal with Xiao Sufeng at all. Gou Zhu had to scold Xiao Sufeng in his heart, this guy was really an old fritter, and he actually put him together.

Although he arrived in Tianchi City, he was not in a hurry to see He Heng, the Supreme Elder of the Crane Clan, and he did not plan to return the things in his hand to the Crane Clan. But it's not a no-show.

Xiao Sufeng agreed with him that he would return something, and Xiao Sufeng gave him a clue to join the king. There was no precedence between his acquisition of the king and the return of his goods. He had already made up his mind, if he didn't get his hands on this king, he would never return this thing to He Heng.

He really couldn't enter the Demon Ginseng Conference, so he dared to dismantle things. No matter what's inside, at least those two boxes of withered iron chalcedony can be exchanged for a lot of money. If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust.

Gou Zhu quickly found a cheap and clean inn to live in, and then began to wander the streets purposefully.

Similar to the Two Realms City, the various people here, although they have different accents, speak the common human language of the Houtu Dynasty, and most of the demons can understand it.

Even if there is something that the other person does not understand at all, if the other party is a monk and he transmits the mind with his divine sense, the other party can understand it, and the two parties can learn each other's language through divine consciousness.

Gou Zhu has gone through many cities. He found that all of these cities, no matter how big or small, were just a magnified bluestone street.

No matter how shiny the surface is, there is always a dirty and dark side to the city. He had been swimming in this darkness since he was a child, and naturally knew where to look for the entrance.

The Crane Patrol Envoy is almost everywhere, but among the streets and alleys, the miscellaneous stalls and shops, there are also all kinds of strictly forbidden things quietly sold. It's just not in plain sight.

After Gou Zhu knocked on the side slightly, and intentionally or unintentionally took out a large piece of blood spirit stone to play with in his hand, the shopkeeper immediately took out a lot of good things that made his heart flutter.

A liquid medicine that can actually change its own breath. It only takes one drop to change one's breath for a few hours. It's a fugitive artifact. At the beginning, he was hunted down by Lu Hao and others, and if he had this thing, he would have gotten rid of it in an instant.

The patrol envoys of the Crane Clan patrol everywhere rely on their appearance and breath to lock down the prisoners. With this, many times you can do whatever you want.

It's just that the quality of what is bought in the hands of such underground traders is difficult to say. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem to conceal the Void Dan Monk's Divine Sense Scan, but what about the Purple Mansion Monk? I'm afraid no one knows.

"For such two vials, it actually costs ten taels of blood spirit stones?" Gou Zhu felt that the price was too ruthless. Ten taels of blood spirit stones are one hundred Xuanyin Pills and ten thousand Pure Yang Pills, which is probably enough to take down the entire store of his store.

The shopkeeper hurriedly snatched the pair of vials, turned around and carefully wrapped them, and then put them into a heavy iron box, and said, "Hehe, forget it if the guest officer is not interested." I can't even sell it for ten taels. ”

"Don't take it, I'll take a look. "Nothing is more valuable to Gou than his life. The temptation of this escapeable thing to him is simply irresistible.

He opened a bottle and carefully swept it away. Strange to say, this is obviously a dead thing, but the bottle exudes a kind of living thing. And this smell is extremely unobtrusive.

It's like an ordinary monk who is all too common, thrown in the sea of people, and exudes an ordinary aura that I am afraid no one will find strange.

The two bottles of liquid have different flavors, and the two phases are mixed to create more different flavors.

Gou bargained to eight taels, but did not buy it. Instead, he went around again, and found that this thing was indeed very rare, and there was no stock at all except here, so he came back and bought it.

When the things arrived, Gou Zhu did not leave immediately, but asked the vendor as if inadvertently: "How much is the letter of recommendation for this demon participation conference?"

The shopkeeper whispered: "The blank recommendation letters for this year's Demon Ginseng Conference are all people with royal connections flowing out of the Lingshen Hall and secretly selling them. It is said that the price has been speculated to a thousand taels of blood spirit stones, and there is no market for it. There will be an underground auction house in a few days, and it is said that there will be a letter of recommendation auction......"

If a ticket costs 1,000 taels of blood spirit stones, Gou Zhu has to hesitate whether this matter is worth it or not. In his opinion, this so-called 10,000-year-old demon spirit ginseng king looks like a carrot hanging in front of the cow's nose.

But if you can really achieve the best Void Pill, there is no doubt that no amount of money can buy it. Lian Ling has warned him countless times that on the road, you must not be greedy for merit, and you must strive for perfection in every step.

Of course, this is not to say that Cheng Dan is not the best, and there will be no hope for the future path. But what is owed today will have to pay tenfold or even a hundredfold in the future to make up for it.

Therefore, if he can achieve the best Void Pill, it seems that he has suffered a loss by paying this thousand taels of blood spirit stones today, but it is far better than the price he will pay to make up for the lack of Void Pill grade in the future.

Before he went to the Two Realms City, Lian Ling said that he would personally refine the Barrier Breaking Pill for him. With this alchemy pill known as the Medicine Immortal Master's father's hand, presumably the grade will not be too bad. And the Yin and Yang Twin Crystal Dan Seed is already in his hands. He really has the potential to become the best.

Then the problem now is to try to get this thousand taels of blood spirit stones. He couldn't expect him to take a letter of recommendation at an underground auction where the guards were so high that countless people were ready to kill and steal the goods.

After hearing the location and time of the underground auction, Gou Zhuda left, and began to look around for a way to get a quick buck. But to be honest, it's not an easy task.

Even if he wanted to get back to his old business and get thousands of taels of blood spirit stones, he would need a long period of strategy and preparation, and even human help. In this unfamiliar place, it is impossible to spend just three or five days.

There is a large, circular building near him. There was a lot of people at the door. Gou Zhu entered the venue with the flow of people, only to hear the bustling people around him talking about it, and he looked so excited that he couldn't help himself.

"Today the hyena won three more games!"

"Hmph, what is a hyena. I bought Feitianjiao, and I earned more than 30 taels at one time. It's a pity that it won't be able to appear until tonight. ”

"I heard that there is a big man who is going to play today, and it is the baby son of the cavalry general Li Rusong, who is suspicious, and he is fighting again. Do you want to buy it?"

"Buy it. When has this great prince ever lost? If you don't buy it, you won't buy it for nothing. It's a pity that you can't make much money by buying all of them!"

(429 The Winner Dominates, the Loser Slaves)

It turned out that this was a fighting altar in Tianchi City.

It is forbidden for monks to fight privately in Tianchi City. Any fighting method must be carried out on the altar of fighting law. At the same time, there are people fighting in the Dharma Arena every day, and there are naturally countless spectators. Going to the Doufa Altar to watch the battle is also one of the best ways to spend time when the literati of the Crane Tribe, the scholars and laborers of different races have free time.

Tickets are required to enter the Doufa Arena to watch the battle. But the price is cheap, and you only need a penny of blood spirit stones to go in and look at it all day. There are also all kinds of food and drinks served in it, and even young and beautiful foreign women can be called to accompany them. As long as you have money, you can enjoy everything.

can turn a bloody and barbaric duel into a big business, and even Gou Zhu has to admire the wisdom of these people. It's just that this also requires a huge investment.

Without those roving envoys who patrol around and prohibit private fighting, without the magnificent Fighting Law Altar that has been built at a huge cost in front of him, there will naturally be no huge income from this Fighting Law Altar every day.

This altar is not run by the Crane people. It was established after the Crane people outsourced it to the Sija people. The Sija people invested a lot of money, but they also reaped the rewards handsomely.

The entire altar is half a mile square, and it is a huge square building made of countless neat stones.

After Gou Zhu walked into it, he saw eight separate sub-fields, each with a hundred steps square, and an open field in the middle. Surrounded by a ramp and rows of wooden seats, each session is large enough to seat hundreds of spectators.

In front of each seat, there is a red and blue wooden plate, shaped like Tai Chi. The spiritual machine flows on it and has the effect of teleportation. As long as the spectator throws the blood spirit stone on it, the blood spirit stone will be teleported immediately, becoming a pressed bet, and it will never return.

Spectators who drop on the bottom of the red board bet on red, and vice versa on blue. As soon as the result of the fighting method comes out, what you lose gets is a plate of air. And if you win, the blood spirit stones you won will be teleported out of this game.

The main business of the fighting arena is not in the ticket, but in this gambling game. Gou Zhu took a closer look here, and most of the people who came here made generous moves, and they smashed down a few taels or even dozens of taels of blood spirit stones at every turn.

After one game, the entry and exit of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of blood spirit stones is not a problem at all. Those who win win are ecstatic, and those who lose are red-eyed and addictive. The fighting altar takes a cut from it and earns a lot of money.

Interestingly, not only the spectators can bet, but also the two sides participating in the fight. In this way, if the party participating in the fighting method buys itself and loses deliberately, it can easily enter a large amount of blood spirit stones.

This may seem simple, but it is not. Because anyone who fights here must sign a demon slave contract before playing. Once the battle is resolved, the loser will become a permanent demon slave for the winner.

Of course, since the losing side has become a slave, then all the property he owns naturally belongs to the winning side. No matter how much money you win, you will make a wedding dress for each other for nothing.

The Demon Slave Contract is not only engraved in the divine consciousness like the Xuanxue Contract, but also an irreversible imprint that cannot be lifted once it is established, even if both parties agree to it.

In the demon world, one day as a slave, a lifetime as a slave. A free person can become a slave, but a slave never becomes a free body. The master can kill a slave or sell the slave to someone else, but he cannot remove the slave from slavery.

The master could also expel a slave from the cast. But from now on, the slave's spirit was still bound by his master. Once the master died, the slave died instantaneously. This is similar to the witchcraft between Gou Zhu and Lian Ling.

After Gou Zhu carefully read these rules, he couldn't help but start the idea of fighting. The most important thing about coming here to participate in the fight is that the opponent and all the gamblers misestimate their strength, so that he has the opportunity to make a lot of money.

His true strength has reached the tenth level of foundation building, and he is absolutely invincible among the foundation building monks. But he is also a yin cultivator, introverted, and in the eyes of ordinary monks, he still only has a double foundation. If there is a monk who is willing to fight him, he has a good chance of winning.

After defeating, not only can you win a large amount of money, but you will also take a slave. Slaves are of little use to him, just sell them. The altar itself bought slaves at a high price.

The only danger in this plan is that he will not be able to turn over as long as he loses one game. But though he is cautious, he will never be unreasonably timid. He has a high probability of winning, and he will not be deterred.

After turning around and watching a few games, he felt more and more that this plan was feasible, so he walked to the registration office in the Fighting Law Arena. Before he could get to the neighborhood, he was already targeted by a few strange demon cultivators who were wandering around the registration office.

"Hey, boy, do you want to sign up for the fight?"

"Brother Dao, I have the fighting method cheats here, don't you want to take a look? ”

Several people surrounded him, but Gou Zhu flexibly dodged, bypassed those few people, and finally arrived at the registration place. There were a few stewards and demon cultivators sitting in that place, and they didn't have the enthusiasm of those weirdos who hung out outside the door.

Coldly swept Gou's outfit and saw the fish scales on his forehead, and the other party had already identified him as a fish demon.

"Are you going to pick the list directly, or do you want to fight on the list?"

Behind the registration office is a list. As long as anyone pays a blood spirit stone as a bet, they can put up a battle list. The list indicates the cultivation realm of the leader, and also indicates the restrictions on accepting challenges: for example, only accept the challenge of monks who are lower than their own realm.

The so-called direct selection of the list is the challenge of unveiling the list. Gou Zhu has looked at these lists one by one. Most of the people on the list only accept challenges from people who are the same as themselves or lower than themselves. Don't think about it, these people must have some particularly powerful secret techniques or magic weapons, and they have been mixed with old fritters in the fighting altar for many years. Of course, you won't be fooled.

"I'm going to hang the list!"

Gou Zhu secretly thought, I am a monk who has a double foundation on the surface and goes out to accept the challenge of a monk below the eighth level of foundation building, there will be many people who want to come to challenge, and he can also have a ninety percent chance of winning!

"Since you want to hang the list, then a priori it is a matter of cultivation to the realm. ”

Impatiently, the steward took out a fuchsia pillow-shaped stone from under the counter, placed it on the counter, grabbed Gou's arm and pressed it up. Gou Zhu shouted in his heart that it was not good, it was actually a spirit stone?

"Nine foundations. Are you going to accept all the challenges of the Foundation Cultivators?"

Gou Zhu didn't expect that in this land of the demon world, he actually used the spirit test stone commonly used in the human world to judge the realm. In this way, he will not be able to disguise himself as a monk who builds a double foundation.

The spirit test stone can detect the highest accurate cultivation realm of the Purple Mansion monks. If you want to deceive this thing, you must either have cultivated some extremely rare secret techniques, or you have a golden pill cultivation. But Monk Jin Dan is a big man in both the human world and the demon world, who will have the time to run to the Doufa Altar?

This steward relied on the strength of the spiritual light emitted by the spirit stone to judge his cultivation. The tenfold foundation building of Gou Zhu is definitely stronger than the ninefold spiritual light of foundation building. But in the consciousness of the steward, he didn't know that there was a tenfold foundation, so he naturally wrote it as a ninefold foundation.

Gou Zhu hesitated. Now with his ten-fold cultivation of the foundation, even if he is dealing with the demon cultivator of the nine-fold foundation, he has a great chance of winning. What's more, the magic weapons and exercises in his hands are not weak.

And the other party thought that he was just building a foundation ninefold, and he would be a little careless. So even in the current situation, he still has a chance to win a lot of money and leave.

Although you can't rush forward on the path, you know that there is a great probability of success, but you still hold back because of timidity, which is not the heart of the path.

"Alright, hang the list, accept any challenge from the Foundation Cultivator!"

Gou Zhu staked all the remaining forty taels of blood spirit stones on his body. The more money he bets, the more he will be able to attract others to come to the list.

This money is only temporarily placed in the fighting altar. Assuming no one challenges, or if he voluntarily cancels the suspension, the money will still be returned to him.

If someone challenges and he loses the battle, then he will become a slave, and it doesn't matter how much money he leaves, anyway, it's all in the other party's pocket.

"Alright. The man filled in the list, then pointed to the bottom right corner of the list, "Leave a drop of blood here, and the demon slave contract will be signed." The person who unveiled the list will also be spilled blood here. Remember, once someone reveals the list, there is no going back on it. If you don't fight, you'll automatically become a demon slave!"

Gou Zhu nodded, then bit his fingertips, and a drop of blood dripped on the list. As the blood dripped on the list, he immediately felt a mysterious spirit emanating from the list, drilling into his body along his bitten fingertips. Some kind of indestructible bondage, like a chain, wrapped around his own consciousness.