"What?" Lin Xin and Wang Chong were a little confused.
"My technique has very strong sensing ability..." Xiao Lingling swallowed her saliva, "That woman's inner energy... is at least a hundred times that of the three of us combined!!"
hiss...
Wang Chong gasped.
Lin Xin's expression also changed a little.
"This is not the place for us to come. Let's go!"
"kindness!"
The three people left quickly. They walked towards the direction where the stone house got shorter and shorter. When they passed through the center of the town, they saw the huge stone tablet stuck upside down on the ground, with words densely written on it.
Occasionally, a few people stopped in front of me to watch, and then they left in a hurry.
The three people stepped forward to observe.
I saw a map of the entire town densely drawn on it.
The map is a standard square. On the left is a two-story stone house. The farther to the right, the shorter it becomes and the further away from the river it is. There are several small circles on the edge, some of which are marked with the word "market" and some of which are standard miscellaneous hall branches.
Below is the daily schedule.
There is a Dharma teaching meeting every other month, where brothers and sisters who are in the Qi refining period give lectures and answer questions.
There is also a place marked with the words Qi Huangshou, which is obviously a place for medical care.
In addition, there are fields, vegetable plots, and woodlands for firewood. They are all in the mountains and forests near the town, which is a bit far away.
The characters above are all written in traditional Chinese, and they don't seem to be commonly used characters. Lin Xin didn't understand them. Fortunately, Xiao Lingling had a good foundation and recited them to the two of them.
When the three of them were looking at the stone tablet, Xiao Lingling's chanting also attracted two newcomers who seemed to be new. However, the two people had no intention of communicating with them. After listening to the chanting, they left directly.
"Let's go to the worst stone house first." Lin Xin suggested with a stable character.
Neither of them had objections.
After taking a few steps with the baggage in hand, they met a group of five people walking towards them.
The woman at the front was holding a rough heavy sword and staring at the three of them with a cold expression.
"Newcomer, indeed!"
This woman's bangs hang down to cover the right side of her face. She is wearing a tight-fitting gray and black silk dress. She looks like a female ninja.
The other people with her were similarly dressed, including men and women, and they all looked at the three of them like little sheep.
"Hand over all the rations." The woman with the heavy sword lowered her sword tip and tapped it on the ground.
Lin Xin and the other three looked tense.
"Why should we give things to you?" Wang Chong said without hesitation.
"If you can beat us, you can leave. If you can't beat us, stay." The epee woman said calmly.
"Aren't you afraid of the sect rules?!" Wang Chong's face was obviously panicked.
Xiao Lingling also turned a little pale. It was obvious that neither of them had experienced much actual combat.
"Sect rules?" Those people couldn't help but laugh.
A man drew his sword.
"There's no rule in the house rules that says you can't rob someone."
Lin Xin looked around. Others around the stone monument either pretended not to see it, or stood aside to watch the excitement.
A man in white dressed as a rich man came out from the other side of the path with several people. Seeing the scene here, the man sneered and shook his light yellow folding fan.
"Zheng Xiuqin is still so worthless. It would be great to just follow Wu Lianda. Being a spiritual slave for five years can buy you the right to live in the best stone houses. It's better than grabbing new people's rations here."
"Among the five women that Wu Lianda from the outer district has his eye on, she is the only one with a strong temper. Otherwise, she wouldn't have supported her until now." Another person shook his head and continued.
"That's right. Let's go, the mission is urgent."
The rich man put away his folding fan, led a few people past the stone monument, and walked straight out of the town.
Here, Lin Xin and the others took a look at the number of people on the other side, and Xiao Lingling directly sensed that the cultivation levels of the people in front of them were much stronger than the three of them.
Xiao Lingling and the two were unreliable, but she was not willing to hand over the rations like this. Novice Lin slowly touched the hilt of the sword.
"Want to take action?" The woman sneered, "It seems she is unwilling to do so."
Clang!!
Lin Xin suddenly drew his sword, and a Songyang Needle came out of his hand, striking out three points of white light and stabbing the woman.
Bang!
The three o'clock white light had just floated far away when the woman raised her hand and swept it away with a sword, just like a broom sweeping away dust from leaves.
When Lin Xin's inner strength burst out, he was severely interrupted. The long sword was swung aside. Suddenly, his chest felt tight, and there seemed to be a twinge of pain in his heart.
The skill gap is too big!
"Here you go!" He threw the baggage in his hand without hesitation.
The woman caught the baggage and looked at Xiao Lingling and Wang Chong. The two people's expressions were extremely ugly. After hesitating for a moment, they finally threw the baggage over.
"You dare to take action on the first level of Guiyuan Jue, that's good." The woman glanced at Lin Xin.
"I just want to test the gap." Lin Xin shook his head, "Are you considered good here?" he asked next.
"Awesome?" The woman laughed hoarsely, with a trace of resentment flashing in the corner of her eyes.
"I heard that Sword Valley is divided into outer areas and inner areas. I am only the 143rd member of the outer area. There are more than 600 people in the entire outer area. Do you think I am powerful?"
She quickly asked her men to take out the contents of the bag, inspected it, took out one wooden bottle to about two-thirds of the way, and then put the wooden bottle back.
Then she actually threw the baggage back to the three of them.
Lin Xin caught the baggage with a snap and looked at the other party in astonishment. It was only natural that the weak should prey on the strong. He had already admitted defeat, but what did the other party mean by throwing it back?
"I'll leave you with rations for one day. Go find a stone house in the outer area to live in as soon as possible." The woman turned around and took the people away.
Lin Xin and the other three could only stand there and watch each other leave.
"I am 143 Zheng Xiuqin. You are welcome to come to me for revenge at any time." The woman actually announced her name loudly.
Lin Xin's face was expressionless as he watched the other party leave completely, while Wang Chong's face was full of aggrievedness, and Xiao Lingling's face was ugly. It was probably the first time that a young lady like her had been bullied so nakedly since she was a child.
"We are too weak." Lin Xin whispered, "Hurry up and find a place to stay."
Wang Chong and the other two didn't say anything. The three of them were at the first level of Guiyuan Jue. Facing Zheng Xiuqin and others who were at least on the second level and possibly even the third level, they had no power to resist.
Leaving the stone monument area in a hurry, the three of them rushed towards the stone house area which was getting shorter and rougher. Gradually, there were more and more people on the road. Some started fighting in the open space, and they became inextricably entangled.
There were still a few people standing pointing and pointing.
Some gathered together, as if they were waiting for others to arrive and were ready to do something together.
They also saw that in addition to Zheng Xiuqin's group, there was another fat man with black hair and a group of people robbing other people.
The rest of the people seemed to be used to it. The atmosphere in the whole town was strange. From time to time, swordsmen with bloodstains on their bodies could be seen staggering into the stone house. There were also neatly dressed people rushing out of the stone house and running away.
The row numbers of stone houses also increased from tens to hundreds, then to two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, and up to the six hundred area.
It is almost at the edge of the town, and further out is a lush mountain forest, from which crow-like bird calls can be heard from time to time.
With great difficulty, the three of them found some vacant stone houses at the outermost edge.
The three of them chose three houses right next to each other, with numbers 670, 671, and 672 respectively.
Lin Xin's house was at No. 670. It was just a small single room less than three meters long and wide. It couldn't be any smaller. There was a shabby wooden bed inside, but it looked like it was rotten and about to fall apart.
Except for the bed, there was nothing inside. Lin Xin sighed and directly carried the broken bed and threw it out. He also broke a large fork of a tree from the woods and used it as a broom. He swept the stone room and finally it was barely habitable.
At this time, Wang Chong and Xiao Lingling over there had finished cleaning the stone rooms, and then quickly went back to practice regulating their internal energy.
After what happened just now, both of them clearly developed a desire for strength and began to seize every minute.
Lin Xin shook his head and looked with burning eyes toward the high mountain shrouded in clouds and mist. That was where the white stone steps ended. It was also where the true inner sect of the Songlin Sword Sect was located, and where the formal disciples lived.
"Immortal... immortality? It's really magical..." When he thought that he, an ordinary person, could have the opportunity to come into contact with such a legendary realm, he couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart.
Although my qualifications are not good, I have special abilities. As long as I succeed once, I can learn something quickly. Maybe I can go to the market here first to see if I can find some ways to use my expertise.
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Deep in the Pine Forest Sword Sect Mountains
"The devil is rampant. It is said that a rare treasure appears in the Yuan Kingdom under the jurisdiction of the Plum Blossom Sect. This may be an opportunity for us to wait for the righteous path."
Under the gray sky, a young Taoist priest stood on an khaki cliff. He looked into the sky in front of him. It was empty and there was nothing there, but his expression was extremely respectful.
"Let's put this matter aside for the time being. The Jinyu Sect is working hard to collect materials and herbs to refine the Golden Jade Flower Spiritual Pill. Please go to the Jinyu Sect and ask for two spiritual pills for me." An old voice suddenly came from the air, echoing over the cliff.
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"Disciple, go immediately." The Taoist leader bowed his head and responded.
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Outside the deserted gray and white stone wall, a small row of stone houses are lined up side by side, facing the stone wall.
Some of the stone houses are empty, while others have some cloth hung at the door to serve as store signs, both yellow and red, with vague traditional black characters on them.
The streets were unusually deserted. Only a few people occasionally came out of the shops and hurried back to the town, or left directly up the mountain outside the town. There were only a few or twenty people wandering around on the streets.
One of the slightly larger shops had a black flag hanging on the stone pillar outside the door, which read: Yuguangzhai.
There are all kinds of messy things in the shop, colorful, black, yellow, red and white, in all colors, including shells as big as a palm, gourds as tall as half a person, eggs as small as copper coins, and some weird shapes.
bronze.
There were so many things that couldn't be accommodated in the store, so they were placed directly on the two steps outside the store.
Sitting behind the counter in the store was a middle-aged woman wearing a white hat and a long red skirt. Her waist and legs were as thick as a bucket. She was eating melon seeds.
"Wu Niang, haven't there been any new products in talismans recently? Why are they still these old stuff?" A male swordsman who was shopping in the store said dissatisfied.
"There haven't been many things sent out recently. I guess there aren't many raw materials this time, and there's nothing I can do about it," the fat woman said lazily.
"As for the formation, there is not even a complete evil-killing formation, only two and a half incomplete ones." Another pair of outer disciples who seemed to be a couple complained.
Just as Wu Niang was about to speak, she saw a young man dressed as a knight-errant walking in from the door of the store.
The man was dressed in brown and black leather clothing, and strangely, he had a belt tied around his waist, with a large skull in the middle. The white skull was hollow, and the bones on the surface seemed to be glowing with blue.
"Master Gu Xin Jianzhuang, why do you have time to come to my little shop today?" Wu Niang immediately stood up with a beaming smile, and greeted everyone except the counter diligently.
"The tenth-ranked Bone Heart Sword in the inner region?!"
When the other people in the nearby shop heard the Bone Heart Sword, their expressions suddenly changed slightly, and they all made room for an empty seat, lest they could avoid him.
Two people who didn't want to cause trouble left the store directly and took the first step, but Fat Wuniang didn't take it seriously.