Chapter 389: Hidden Cultivation Competition
This Sayuki Island is still a big island, and the beast cart flew for more than an hour before pulling them into front of a city built of gray dark stone, but the scale of such island cities in the barbarian continent is not as good as that of Zhenshan Town.
Similar to the Barbarian Continent, there are also many guards guarding the city gate at the city gate for inspection.
They don't interrogate those who go out, but those who go into the city have to show them a token like a waist card.
However, when Dong Lin entered the city, a jade slip in the guard's hand would automatically emit green light, so he immediately gave Dong Lin a respectful salute and let him go directly, and turned to check Gu Dong's token.
Taking advantage of the inspection, Dong Lin looked at these guards, although there was no fluctuation of spiritual power on their bodies, they were all vigorous, and it seemed that they had practiced some superficial kung fu.
But what made him most curious was the jade slip. These guards don't have spiritual power in their bodies, and they can actually use this to distinguish immortal cultivators, which is really a wonderful thing.
Dong Lin couldn't help but look at Shujian a few more times.
All this was naturally seen by Gu Dongjia, who had just finished the inspection, and explained to Dong Lin with a smile:
"That's the Inspiration Jade Book, which can sense the fluctuation of spiritual power, the darker and brighter the color, the higher the level of the monks, this is also to facilitate the identification of the immortal masters!"
"Inspiration Jade Book?" Dong Lin was slightly stunned, this thing is good, it can easily detect spiritual power fluctuations, Dong Lin is just curious, this kind of gadget is very easy to deceive, Dong Lin hid his cultivation, this inspiration jade book is not the same as not finding out.
Then, in Dong Lin, he sat back in the beast cart and drove along the white-stone paved streets towards the city center.
There are a lot of pedestrians on the road, and there is a tendency to keep coming and going, and there is a tendency to get more and more lively as you go forward.
The costumes of these people are not much different from those on the barbarian continent, that is, they prefer a single color, and the style is relatively simple, passing by so many people, none of them are dressed brightly and brightly, and even some women are veiled.
Such a cover-up may also have something to do with the sacrifice that Guo Laohan said.
This city was supposed to be the center of Sayuki Island, and there were a lot of people, and in the end, because there were too many people and beast carts, Dong Lin and his car had to slow down before they could continue to move forward.
With great effort, the beast cart finally reached the central street in the center of the city.
Dong Lin visually inspected it, this street covers an area of about dozens of acres, as the only main road, both sides are towering pavilions, one is taller and more gorgeous, the street is also full of black heads, it is called a sea of people, Dong Lin looked at it, people flowed in all directions, and continued to keep pouring towards the street.
The key is that the small streets around the street are also full of shops and stalls.
There were crowds everywhere, and even some of the makeshift stalls in the middle of the shops were equally overcrowded.
And in the middle are more people, eagerly talking about something. It seems bustling and lively.
Dong Lin's eyes were a little straight, he couldn't imagine that there was such a high population density in the territory of the Siren, and he slightly estimated in his heart that such a dense crowd. At least tens of thousands of people were crowded in this square at the same time, and they were all about to catch up with the Spring Festival.
Everyone is squeezed to this score, and it is naturally impossible for the beast cart to move forward.
Gu Dongzhu took the lead and got out of the car and took Dong Lin and the others with him. Walk towards a palace-like building on the edge of the square.
This palace is about a dozen zhang high, which is obviously a lot taller than other buildings.
And there was a line of guards standing in front of the huge temple gate, guarding it with shining spears, and no one else was allowed to approach it casually.
"Today is just in time for Sayujima's March-held Listing Festival. Therefore, there are several times more people in Xiji City than in the past. Basically, people in more than a dozen towns in the southwest will come to trade some rare items that are not usually bought. ”
As Gu Dong walked forward, he turned back to explain this to Dong Lin with a faint smile, and followed him to the front of the palace.
Gu proprietor stepped forward and said a few words to the guard guarding the door, and the guard waved his hand and signaled that they could go in.
So, Gu Dongzhu hurriedly greeted Dong Lin and walked in together.
As soon as you enter the temple gate, it looks much cooler and quieter. In the hallway behind the door, there were dozens of people who looked like they had some identities, whispering something in groups. Seeing the arrival of the proprietor Gu. They all looked at each other with some hostility.
Obviously it's all competitors.
But at this moment, the purple wooden door at the other end of the corridor opened, and a young man in white in his twenties walked out of it. This person has a delicate face, white and pure, and a very weak appearance.
"It's Mr. Gu, right? Everyone else has already arrived, so it's time to leave the Gu family. But only immortal cultivators who participated in the challenge can enter, and Mr. Gu is here to wait for the results!"
The young man glanced at Dong Lin kindly, and said politely to the proprietor.
Don't look at the young man is more quiet, but the cultivation is not ambiguous, it is undoubtedly revealed under the sweep of Dong Lindi, there is about the late stage of foundation building, on this small island, it is still the highest cultivation Dong Lin has ever seen.
Seeing this, Gu Dongzhu had no choice but to glance at Dong Lin with expectant eyes, and Dong Lin gave him a look that reassured him, and then Gu Dongjia said yes and stepped aside.
Dong Lin followed the young man into the wooden door as usual, and then the wooden door was immediately closed.
"My surname is Yuan, and fellow Daoists can call me Yuan Jie. However, I see that the face of the Taoist friend is very raw, is it a new monk who has arrived on our Sayuki Island?"
"In Lower Dong Lin, Sayuki Island, which I only arrived in last month!" After this period of practice, Dong Lin finally has no problem speaking the local language.
"Hehe, I really admire! With the current cultivation of Daoyou, he dares to go out. Daoyou is really courageous! Not at the bottom, since he was born on this island, he hasn't left Sayuki Island for a single step. The beautiful young man said with some envy.
Hearing this, Dong Lin chuckled and said there was no interface.
Then, Dong Lin followed the young man all the way straight and came to a rotunda where there were more than thirty monks with different expressions sitting or standing.
"Looks like everyone is here. Let's start drawing lots right away! In a battle to decide the winner, only injuring people and not killing people are allowed, otherwise we will be disqualified from winning. An old man sitting across the crowd said very briefly.
Dong Lin secretly checked it, and the room was full of monks in the foundation building period, and as far as his old man was a cultivator in the early stage of Ning Dan, it seemed that he was the monk in charge of this matter.
As soon as the young man surnamed Yuan entered the hall, he hurriedly walked behind the old man and stood with respectful hands.
The old man ignored the young man, and took out a cyan jade cylinder, which contained more than twenty bamboo sticks.
Let many monks draw lots, the rules of the game are very simple, in fact, it is a group knockout round, after getting the number, go to the back to compete, the winning side stays, and the loser leaves.
After round by round, the remaining five people began a round-robin tournament to compete for the ranking of the five major merchants.
Dong Lin had to help that Gu Dongjia get the position of the first merchant, and the reason was also very helpless, because he had to obtain the position of the first merchant in order to be qualified to organize the fleet to leave Sayuki Mishima and sail to other seas.
And this kind of open sea navigation that Gu Dongjia said is extremely risky, and it takes more than a month to go to the nearest Duolan Island, among which there are many dangerous shoals and desperate situations, but if you get there, it will be extremely lucrative.
And there is a teleportation array on Duolan Island that goes to other places together, and Dong Lin has to go to Duolan Island first if he wants to meet the winged whale leader.
This is also the reason why Dong Lin finally chose to wait.