Chapter 60: The Giant City of the Cloud Kingdom
Four days later, Mu Qing and his entourage of ten people had already arrived in the sky above Cloud City, the capital of Cloud Country.
Overlooking the cloud city from afar, only to see that this city is divided into two layers inside and outside, all are surrounded by tall city walls, the inner city wall is fifty or sixty zhang high, and the outer city wall also has more than 20 zhang. At this time, it was the middle of winter, and there was just a blizzard, this giant city was like a gray four-sided giant beast lying on the snowfield, the city wall that stretched out, like the forearm of the giant beast, and the magnificent city gate was like the blood basin of the giant beast, swallowing the people who entered the city, a tall palace in the middle of the inner city, more than ten zhang higher than the city wall, like the head of the giant beast raised high.
Everyone was amazed by the momentum of the giant city. Mu Qing leaned in with Qiu Lan and said with a fork: "Sister Qiu Lan, this Cloud City is so majestic, how many stones do you have to use for this, and how many years do you have to cultivate!"
Qiu Lan smiled and said: "Before I came, Master said that Cloud City is the capital of Cloud Country, this Cloud Country has been in the country for hundreds of years, how many rebellions and foreign invasions have been quelled, and there is no inextricable connection with the immortal cultivation world, can they do it? This Cloud City also proves this, this place is where mortals live together, and this city wall is probably built with the help of monks." ”
Chu Jiang smiled and said: "Senior sister is right, more than three thousand years ago, our Yunlan Sect was originally in Yunzhou, there was no Yunguo at that time, and it was not called Yunzhou here, and naturally there was no such Cloud City. Junior brothers and sisters, in Lingzhou, our Yunlan Sect can call for wind and rain, but here, everyone still has to keep a low profile, remember?"
Everyone agreed, but Mu Qing secretly said in her heart: As soon as I opened my mouth to talk to Sister Qiu Lan, you came out to show off, and said as if you were a thousand-year-old king.
Hearing Chu Jiang smile and speak, Senior Sister Yuan Ruyi of Yunwu Peak immediately said, "Senior Brother Chu is right, everyone must be careful." "Obviously a compliment.
Lu Wanning said: "Master asked me to sell the seeds of the Spirit Flower and Spirit Grass back, and there are a lot of medicinal materials, do you know a place called sexual affairs?"
Mu Qing almost fainted, and hurriedly said: "Senior Sister Lu, it's not a sexual matter, it's Fang City." When you enter the city, I'll take you to buy it. ”
Lu Wanning grabbed Qiu Lan and said, "I don't know, you are a bad person, I will let Sister Lan accompany me." ”
Along the way, Lu Wanning kept asking Mu Qing to do "I don't know", and Mu Qing explained many times, but she couldn't change it.
Mu Zheng also spoke: "Senior Brother Chu, I'm afraid that millions of people can live in this city. ”
Chu Jiang said with a smile: "There are 20 million mortals living in this city, and there are usually 20,000 or 30,000 monks, but as soon as this Wandan Conference opens, I am afraid that the monks gathered will exceed 50,000!"
Without waiting for everyone to retract their stunned expressions, Chu Jiangxiao said coldly: "Okay, let's go into the city, all the sects here have established rules together, because they live in the same city with mortals, they can't cast spells in the city, and they can't fly away." Let's go down!"
After that, he stepped on the neck of the lark and slowly descended downward......
There was a team of golden-armored warriors guarding the city gate, and as soon as they saw what everyone was wearing, one of them immediately stepped forward to salute and said, "You are also monks who have come to participate in the Banten Conference, I don't know if it is the first time to come to Cloud City, and if you need a little explanation." ”
Although this person is burly, he speaks very politely, Chu Jiang smiled: "We are here for the first time, please speak." ”
The warrior said: "Although the city is co-inhabited by immortals, but also do not interfere with each other, the inner city is the imperial city of His Majesty the Emperor and the residence of many ministers, usually not open, and the entire outer city is divided by the central street, the west is mortal, the east is the monks, so after the lords enter the city, to the east, is the place of the monks." Also, in order to prepare for this Banten Conference, His Majesty the Emperor ordered that if the monks and lords went to the restaurants, teahouses, green buildings and other places opened by mortals, they would be free of charge. In addition, the Banten Conference will officially start in 10 days and last for a month. ”
Chu Jiang smiled expressionlessly, and took the lead towards the city.
Mu Qing thought in his heart: he came by flying, but Yukun's rat spirit couldn't urge the flying magic weapon, even if his feet were fast enough, it would take at least thirty days to arrive, and if he said that he would arrive on the front and back feet, you could blow it......
That day, he and Yukun killed the all-soul envoy, rescued the little girl named Wen Li, and returned to the second uncle's house, that Wen Li was already homeless, so he stayed at the second uncle's house temporarily, Mu Qing went back to Xiangyunju, and told Yukun to hurry up and set off before leaving, but the rat spirit was unhurried, saying that the front and back feet could be reached, and Mu Qing was unconvinced.
Thinking like this, their group of men and horses had already entered the city, only to see that the central street was very wide, paved with bluestone, but it was very deserted, and the street extended to the north, leading to the inner city gate.
Everyone turned to the right and walked along a straight road for dozens of zhang, and had entered the range of Dongcheng. It's finally lively here, and I saw a forest of large and small markets, selling everything, most of them are Gongfa pills, spiritual herbs, and spiritual runes.
The city could not be flown away, but it was very spacious, and some of the monks spread out their bodies and turned into swift and flashing figures as they walked through the streets.
Lu Wanning immediately became excited, pulled Qiu Lan and said, "There are people selling spirit grass and spirit flowers here, let's go and have a look, hey, there are also over there, Sister Lan will accompany me to ......"
Chu Jiang smiled and said coldly: "Senior Sister Lu, let's find a place to live first, and then go and complete the tasks assigned by the elders." ”
Lu Wanning stopped talking for a while, and before she came out, her master told her that she must listen to Chu Jiang's laughter.
Ten people found an inn called "Hui Xian Ju" to live in, this Hui Xian Ju is not small, there are hundreds of luxurious rooms, so this time it is one room for one person, occupying ten rooms connected together on the second floor.
Under the introduction of the innkeeper, everyone learned that there were more than 300 strongholds set up by sects in this cloud city, of which there were more than 80 sects from Yunzhou, and the headquarters of Danzong was located in the core of this eastern city, occupying a large area.
That night, Mu Qing wanted to secretly go to Qiu Lan's room to have a good chat with her sister, but along the way, she was either robbed by Chu Jiangxiao or interrupted by Mu Zheng, and she didn't even say a few words.
But as soon as he arrived at Qiu Lan's door, he saw that the door of Chu Jiangxiao's room was also open, and he was staring at him coldly. Mu Qing felt uncomfortable for a while, and was about to knock on Qiu Lan's door with a heart, but Chu Jiangxiao opened his mouth and said, "Senior Brother Yang, aren't you tired after a day's journey?"
Mu Qing was angry, but it was not easy to attack, and said coldly: "I'm going to drink!"
Mu Qing's figure disappeared around the corner, but Qiu Lan's door opened, she poked her head out to take a look, she didn't see Mu Qing, she only saw Chu Jiang smiling, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Chu, did Brother Qing come to me just now?"
Chu Jiang smiled: "Oh, he wanted to invite me to drink just now, but I was tired, so I rested first." Then he turned around and went back to his room.
Mu Qing walked out of Huixian Residence, strolled down the long street, found a restaurant that looked very luxurious, walked in, found a secluded corner to sit down, and began to drink one drink after another.
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At the same time, thousands of miles away in Shanyang City, in the secluded courtyard in the northeast corner. A woman with a green veil and a graceful figure was standing in the courtyard, urging a legal decision.
I saw that the soil on the ground in front of her was like boiling water in a pot, gurgling and surging, and in a short time, the body of a man appeared in the dirt.
The woman twisted her waist, came to the side of the corpse, lifted the already cold body up, slapped it on the forehead with one hand, I don't know what spell was used, the body trembled violently, her eyes were opened, and there was a look of horror in her eyes before death.
The woman squatted in front of the man's body, stared at the man's eyes face to face, and poked out her jade finger and pointed at the man's eyebrows, and the man's body shook violently......
After a while, the woman finally accepted the spell, stood up, and said to herself: "Feng Liu is like this, this all-spirit envoy is like this, you will have an earth escape technique, will you only hide the body in the soil? It seems that the news from the Yin envoy is good, they took the Shanyang route and went to Cloud City." But...... Why did you kill people here?Why did the All-Soul Sect cause your idea?And rescued a girl, interesting, Mu Qing, it seems that I am getting closer and closer to your death......"
The woman stretched out her hand and threw out a fireball talisman, burning the corpse into a ball of flying ashes, and said: "It's okay for you to hide in the Yunlan Sect, and now you actually run to Yuncheng, there is really a way in the sky for you not to go, and there is no way to go to the ground!"
The woman let out a hearty chuckle, and with a wave of her jade hand, a gray crow stood in the palm of her hand, and as soon as she raised her hand, the crow fluttered and flew high......