Chapter 42: Tongzhou Immortal League
Tongzhou Realm, located in the northwest border of the mortal kingdom of the Immortal Continent, borders the flood wilderness......
Since ancient times, there are clouds in the Immortal Continent: the flood is a place where monsters are rampant, this place not only connects the east and west states, but also is located between the mountains and mountains, with deep and dense forests, countless cliffs, boundless floods, and crises everywhere......
This place is about 10,000 miles away from the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is connected to countless countries, and mortals cannot reach it without walking for several years...... Even a cultivator who has achieved cultivation, flying with boundless mana and sword, it will take several months...... It is because this Jedi is called a "dangerous place" by the cultivators in the mortal realm of the Immortal Spirit Continent......
"The land of the desolation was originally thousands of miles away from the place where the mortals lived at the peak of the population, but hundreds of years ago, the army of the demon beasts of the desolation somehow invaded Dongzhou, causing the catastrophe of the fairy continent, therefore, the major immortal gates in Dongzhou gathered immortals three hundred miles away from the desolation, and raised thousands of monks to fight with the demon beasts for ten days and ten nights, and finally defeated the demon army. So far, the seven sects of Daomen are headed by Guiyuan, and the immortals of Hedong Prefecture have built eight cities outside the flood to protect the peace of the mortal kingdom, and the demon army has been blocked in the flood wilderness with the eight directions of the Qiankun array as the persistence and the momentum of the vertical. ”
"For hundreds of years, the seven sects of the Taoist Sect have been stationed in the northwest border, and they dare not act rashly, and the demon beasts of the flood wilderness are also unwilling to be stationed in the flood wilderness from time to time, and they often commit crimes, coming and going, and the name of this Tongzhou border has begun......"
Above the cloudless sky, the sword roared happily, and the two figures stood on it one by one, and it was the two masters and apprentices who came from the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"Master, there are seven sects in the Taoist Sect, how can there be eight cities......" Hearing this, Lu Chen was slightly puzzled.
Lichen said: "You don't know, this eight-sided Qiankun array is a forbidden array, containing the eight wildernesses of heaven and earth, yin and yang, and the eight directions are not formed into a formation, so the eighth city is an alliance of countless small sects of cultivation, and this city is called the city of Tongzhou Immortal League." You don't have to look at the complicated origin of this city, but there are big people sitting behind it. ”
"Big shots?"
"Well, this person is a first-order casual cultivator, named Yue Xuan Zhenren, self-realized cultivation of immortal methods, deep in the mountains and forests, hundreds of years ago when the demon beast committed the border, this person has already had the late stage of Jindan cultivation, after many years, I am afraid that it has now reached the Yuan infant stage. ”
"Yuan Infancy. Lu Chen sighed: "No wonder you can organize these small sects. ”
Liao Chen smiled and said: "Although the Immortal Continent has the Seven Sects of the Dao Sect as a first-class sect, this Immortal Alliance is not bad, but Yue Xuan has no ambitions, so the Immortal Alliance has not been very famous. ”
"Master, we've been flying for two months, and the apprentice still doesn't know how to cultivate this time?"
Lichen turned his head, glanced at Lu Chen in a low voice, and said with a smile: "It's very simple, I want you to enter the flood wilderness." ”
"Huh?" Hearing this, Lu Chen almost didn't fall off the flying sword: "Hong Huang, Master, you are not mistaken. Didn't you say that the flood has been sealed?"
"It's blocked, but it's not quite. He had long expected Lu Chen to have such an expression, but Li Chen didn't care, but said: "It is said that it is sealed, but it is just a statement for the mortal realm." In fact, for me as a cultivator, the flood desolation is the best place for cultivation. There are group monsters there, which can make you often in a crisis situation, by wandering between life and death, you can fully understand the immortal path, and cultivate there is much faster than in the door. ”
As he spoke, Liao Chen's expression condensed, and he said in a sonorous voice: "Especially you, the Great Yan Immortal Recipe is supposed to be several times more mana than ordinary people, if you don't cultivate here, it will be impossible to reach the realm of the eighth layer of qi cultivation in three years." So this will be the only place where you can complete your cultivation, you have to give me your heart, if you can't reach the eighth level of cultivation after three years, you don't have to go back to the Qianyu Gate, not to mention that you are my disciple......
"Understood. Lu Chen completely understood, it seemed that Chen did not attach ordinary importance to himself, and actually came up with such a radical method to stimulate his diligent cultivation.
"That's a flood of wilderness, in this way, in the next few days, wouldn't I have to live under the vicious gaze of countless demon beasts for three years? Lu Chen's heart couldn't help but feel a pang.
"It's here. ”
As soon as he thought of this, Lu Chen heard Chen's low shout, and after Chen's flying sword stopped in midair, a huge floating shadow of a city several miles away had already come into view.
"I'll send you here, you can't go into the city, and you can walk through the rest of the road yourself. Remember, you must give me a hundred times the effort to reach the tenth level of Qi training. Lichen admonished, took out a scroll of classics and a flying sword and handed them to Lu Chen, and said, "Didn't you always want the classics of swordsmanship and Xuangong, this is the secret book of the Kongyuan Sword, as well as this low-grade magic weapon and a hundred spirit stones for you." ”
If it had been before, Lu Chen would have been surprised by getting these treasures. It's just that now he can't be happy when he thinks that he is about to enter the flood wilderness and deal with demon beasts.
With a helpless face, he took the things that Lichen gave him, Lu Chen didn't even look at it, and threw it directly into the Qiankun bag, and then said, "Master, your old man is leaving." ”
"Why am I staying here now?"
"Oh, no, the apprentice just asked......" Obviously, Lu Chen didn't want to enter the city.
Lichen glanced at Lu Chen, and said in a stern tone: "Give me a good cultivation and come back alive." ”
Saying that, Lichen ignored Lu Chen, drove the flying sword, and walked away from the dust.
"Isn't this nonsense? You think I want to die, alas, why is Daoye's life so bitter, and he got on the thief ship. Lu Chen was secretly annoyed, shook his head and walked towards the city gate in front of him.
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There are a total of eight major cities in Tongzhou Realm, just like the one introduced by Chen, the other seven major cities are all in the name of the seven gates of the Taoist Sect, and the same is true of this Immortal Alliance.
Walking on the official road, it didn't take long for the city of "Immortal League" engraved with vigorous and majestic mana on the city tower to come into view.
Lu Chen glanced at it helplessly, and slowly walked towards the city gate.
"Stop~, what are you doing?"
As soon as he came to the city gate, Lu Chen was stopped by two cultivators who were guarding the city, and his divine eye technique let go of his eyes: "Obediently, even those who defend the city are at the seventh level of Qi training, and the strength of this Immortal Alliance is not ordinary~"
Lu Chen admired, hugged his fists and said, "Two Taoist friends, I want to enter the city~"
"Enter the city?" One of the big men guarding the city carried a wide sword with a magic weapon on his back, looked Lu Chen up and down, and said in a deep voice: "It turns out that he is a newcomer, if he wants to enter the city, he must pay the fee first." ”
"Payment?" Lu Chen was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "Master didn't say that you have to pay a fee when you enter the city." ”
Seeing that Lu Chen was puzzled, another young Taoist priest with a relatively eye-catching appearance said: "Of course, you have to pay a fee, a low-grade spirit stone, and buy an entry and exit waist card." ”
"Oh~" Although he still didn't understand much, Lu Chen still took out a low-grade spirit stone and handed it over.
The big man was no longer embarrassed by Lu Chen, but turned around and took out a small iron card under a square table behind him, handed it to Lu Chen, and said, "Take this, just enter a trace of mana to enter, and you need to register your identity here." ”
"Oh, oh~" Although the attitude of these two people was not very good, Lu Chen still responded with the mentality that more things are better than less things.
"Name?" asked the big man, holding a booklet in his hand.
Lu ...... , Jade Lake. Lu Chen didn't hold his name, only reported the road number.
Dahan didn't care, and then asked, "What kind of spiritual root?" ”
"Well, that's a question to ask too. Lu Chen pursed his lips reluctantly: "Soil." ”
"Soil?" The two Taoist priests guarding the city were stunned when they heard this, looked at each other, and didn't say anything.
"Cultivation?"
"Five-layer Qi cultivation ......" Lu Chen said casually, there was no false report, anyway, there was no one here who knew him, it didn't matter.
"Fifth floor?"
This time, the two Taoist priests guarding the city were all shocked, and the big man closed the booklet in his hand, looked Lu Chen up and down, and said, "The fifth layer of Qi training?"
"Yes. Is there any problem?" Lu Chen also felt surprised, and said in his heart: "What's the matter?
The two glanced at each other again, their eyes full of incredulity, but in the end they didn't say anything and let them go.
Lu Chen thanked him, secretly thinking that there were too many rules here, so he walked slowly inside.
Not too far away, Lu Chen, who was deaf and clear-sighted, heard the conversation between the big man and the young man.
"Dare to come here at the fifth level of Qi training, it's still a single earth spirit root, where did you ......come from?"
"Whatever, anyway, I handed over the spirit stone, and it doesn't matter to us if I don't die......"
"Death?" Lu Chen paused when he heard this, and turned his head and couldn't help but wonder.
At this time, a figure quickly approached and came to his side in the blink of an eye, startling Lu Chen.
"Hehe, this fellow Daoist, this is your first time coming to Xianmeng City. ”
Quickly approaching was a thin Taoist priest in a yellow shirt, who had a pair of thief eyebrows, a garlic nose, and a pointed chin, how he didn't look like a good person.
Lu Chen took two steps back, looked like he kept a distance from the other party, looked at the yellow-shirted Taoist priest, frowned, and said, "What's the matter?"
"No, Daoyou misunderstood. The yellow-shirted Taoist priest smiled, hurriedly hugged his fists, and introduced himself: "In Xia Li Tao, I am fortunate to be ......."
"I just heard that the Taoist friend of Yuhu Lake signed up at the city gate, and I think that the Taoist friend should be the first time to come to the flood wilderness, I don't know if the Taoist friend needs protection?"
Protection, that is, bodyguards, Lu Chen can still understand this sentence. It's just that he doesn't need to.
"Nothing to be courteous, either annihilation or theft. Lu Chen was shocked and refused: "I'm sorry, I don't need it." ”
Li Tao's face changed, and he was quite displeased, but he still kept a smile and said: "Daoist friend is slow, presumably Daoist friend doesn't know the horror of this desolation." ”
"What do you know?
Li Tao sneered, and his body straightened slightly: "Don't be careless, Daoist friends are here, this is a flood wilderness, and the low-level demon beasts in it are comparable to monks at the seventh level of Qi cultivation, and I am afraid that it will be very dangerous with the cultivation of Daoist friends......"
Speaking of this, Li Tao glanced at Lu Chen with disdain, and immediately turned into a sincere look: "Don't worry, Daoyou, our price is fair, we only need four lower grade spirit stones every day, and Daoist friends can also get some shares from the demon beasts they hit, how about two layers?"
Hearing this, Lu Chen finally understood: this Li Tao must have listened to everything when he heard the Taoist priest who guarded the city just now asking about his situation, and then found himself and wanted to make a fortune.
"No wonder the two Taoist priests who were guarding the city just now would say such disdainful words, it turns out that the demon beasts in this desolation are so powerful, and the lowest level must also have a seventh-level cultivation of Qi cultivation. Because of the appearance of Li Tao, Lu Chen learned the first important news about the flood famine.
However, Lu Chen still didn't plan to ask for help from others, not because he didn't want to, but because the appearance of this Li Tao really made Lu Chen feel uneasy, saying that it was a blessing, and if he really got to the wilderness, he would be directly killed for money.
Lu Chen shook his head again, his mind was not on Li Tao's body at all.
Finally, Li Tao's face became gloomy, he didn't expect Lu Chen to be so stubborn, knowing the horror of the flood famine, he didn't plan to hire himself, such a person really didn't know whether to live or die......
In fact, Lu Chen didn't know that in the desolate area, anyone who came here to cultivate must have at least seven levels of Qi cultivation, otherwise it would be difficult to even save his life, let alone make rapid progress. And an Earth Spirit Root cultivator like Lu Chen, who only had the fifth level of Qi cultivation and still didn't have the slightest attack power, couldn't walk in the flood at all. Li Tao took a fancy to this, and it was difficult to meet people like Lu Chen in the eight cities of Tongzhou, so he had the idea of slaughtering Lu Chen.
But who knows, Lu Chen didn't go to the Tao at all, on the contrary, he was wary of himself.
Li Tao frowned, and snorted coldly: "In this case, Li Mou won't say much, Daoyou will do it yourself, I hope that I will have the opportunity to see Daoyou in the future." ”
After speaking, Li Tao's robe sleeves flicked and strode away angrily.
Lu Chen didn't care about Li Tao's reaction at all, he glanced at Li Tao coldly and disdainfully, and he also turned his head towards the city......
Along the spacious street, Lu Chen saw vendors selling all kinds of materials, some selling on the street, and some selling some things in the shops, among which there were low-level Xuangong Mystic Methods, Pills, and Dao Fu Zhubi...... And so on, and even flying swords are sold. From this, Lu Chen also understood that in the place of Xianmeng City, silver taels were worthless, and the currency used for trading could only be spirit stones.
Coming to the edge of the desolation for the first time, he was not familiar with the situation in this place, Lu Chen planned to find out, and for a stunned young man like him, Lu Chen knew it very well in his heart. There is no better place to know about these things than inns and tea shops where you can rest.
So, Lu Chen found a larger inn in Xianmeng City, asked for a few steamed buns and two catties of cured meat, and called the one who ran the hall to give him a lower grade spirit stone. What you want to know is soon known.
"When the city of the Immortal League is in the city, it will open the city gate, enter and exit at will with its identity and waist card, and close the city gate when it is new, refusing to allow all cultivators to enter and exit. Guest officers can live in small shops, or they can go to East Street to rent a small courtyard for rest, of course, the small shops are cheaper, those small courtyards are relatively safe and quiet, but the price is several times more expensive. ”
"There are places in the city to purchase monster materials, the larger one is the Xianmeng Auction House, and the smaller ones are many smaller, and all kinds of shops have purchased them. Guest officers can also trade with people, and when it comes to safety, it is still the Xianmeng Auction House, and there will be regular Xianmeng auctions there to sell some treasures that are not usually seen. ”
"There are boundaries in the flood wilderness, and there are three places where monks who cultivate during the Qi cultivation period can come and go at will, all by their own cultivation, and their strength is probably in the three ranges of the seventh, eighth, and ninth layers of Qi training, and the tenth layer is much more dangerous. If you look inward, I am afraid that you will have to build the strength of the foundation period and even the Jindan period. In fact, the flood is very dangerous, because most of the demon beasts here live in groups, and some places that can be entered and exited by seventh-level Qi cultivators may not be able to make people retreat with their whole body, hehe......"
"Oh, and also, fighting is not allowed in Immortal Alliance City, for whatever reason. The guest officer needs to be cautious, otherwise it will be very troublesome......"
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The shopkeeper dutifully introduced, Lu Chen was also listening carefully, and finally wrote down some things to know, and then he let the shopkeeper leave with a smile and the lower grade spirit stone.
Then he handed over a spirit stone, rented an upper room, and lived in it temporarily.
Lu Chen didn't notice it, and at the moment when he left the table, a pair of ill-intentioned eyes poked out of a corner upstairs, and the owner of these eyes was Li Tao.
In front of the small square table, sat Li Tao and a young man who looked a little similar to him...... The same sharp-beaked monkey gills, and even the two of them are the same seventh-level Qi cultivation level.
"Second brother, it's this kid, hum, the fifth layer of Qi training, or a single earth spirit root, entering the flood wilderness is simply looking for death. Li Tao was obviously still angry because of Lu Chen's inaccessibility.
The person beside him, who was slightly more stable than Li Tao, raised his head slightly and glanced at the direction of Lu Chen's upstairs, and said flatly: "It doesn't matter, it's just a business, if you can't do it, you can't do it, and when the eldest brother comes back, let's go around the eighth-layer area of Qi training, are you still afraid that you won't be able to earn spirit stones?"
Li Tao nodded yes, but there was still unwillingness between his eyebrows, and he couldn't help but whisper: "Second brother, in my opinion, although this kid's strength is not high, he may not have no treasures on his body, since he wants to enter the flood wilderness alone, it is better to ......"
As he spoke, Li Tao made a wiping gesture under his neck with his hand: "It's a waste to be cheap and the demon beast is a waste, so it's better to ......."
Li Tao's second brother paused slightly, and then said: "The kid of the fifth layer of Qi training, there shouldn't be many good things, don't think about this kind of thing first, if you encounter it, just do it by the way, otherwise you don't need to follow it all the time." ”
"Hey, too. Li Tao couldn't help but nod her head again and again.
Lu Chen didn't know at this time that he had just entered the flood wilderness, and some things had not yet been clarified, and he had already been targeted by people with a heart.