In the west of the Liang Kingdom, there is an important town for cultivating immortals called "Bauhinia Immortal City".
This fairy city is close to the border of Liang State and has trade exchanges with Jing State to the west.
Especially during the war, the business alliance of Jing State transported a large amount of war preparation materials and raw materials to the immortal world of Liang State.
The current war is led by the Jinyangzong camp, which launches a self-defense counterattack against the Liang Kingdom. The actual strategic intention is to "move north".
Chen Guo and Yan Guo, under some kind of agreement, watched with cold eyes and did not intervene.
This day half a month later.
To the north of Bauhinia Fairy City, among the mountains hundreds of miles away.
A middle-aged foundation-builder with a medium build, a round face and a yellow beard came through the air on a flying boat.
"There are no sect monks patrolling near the assembly point? The energy of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce is not small."
The middle-aged man with a round face looked around with squinted eyes.
The round face in front of him is the new identity disguised by Lu Changan through the Hundred Fantasy Mask.
He turned over his hand and took out a white jade tablet, and his spiritual consciousness merged into it.
There was a sense coming from the jade tablet, pointing to a steep mountain with dense forest hundreds of feet away.
Lu Changan pondered for a moment, but did not enter rashly.
Whoosh!
There was a sound of breaking through the air from behind, and a strong purple-faced man with a strong evil spirit flew over, one arm wrapped in a bandage.
"Your Excellency, are you here to gather as well?"
The purple-faced brawny man glanced at Lu Changan and also took out a white jade token.
"Um."
Lu Changan nodded, lagged a little behind, and followed the purple-faced man to fly to the steep mountain.
Bo!
The purple-faced brawny man held a jade tablet in his hand, broke through an invisible illusory formation, and entered the dense forest on the top of the mountain.
The so-called dense forest is actually a phantom formation. There are only a few trees on the mountain and it is all bare.
In the middle, there are several large rocks with thirty or forty monks scattered among them.
It affects both men and women, old and young, and is mainly in the foundation-building period.
There are also some monks in the Qi Refining Stage, all of whom are young and follow their elders.
"Is the receptionist monk from Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce here?"
The purple-faced strong man looked towards the center of the mountain top and cupped his fists.
However, no one responded to the monks on the top of the mountain. For a moment, they were quiet and silent.
"hehe……"
A group of monks gathered in the corner, and there was low laughter, which seemed to be sarcastic.
The purple-faced strong man looked gloomy and suppressed the evil spirit on his body.
He smiled and talked to Lu Changan who came in with him.
"What do you call fellow Taoist?"
"I am Wu Fan, an unknown casual cultivator."
Lu Changan said casually.
The purple-faced brawny man claimed his surname was Fang, but did not reveal his identity.
Lu Changan made a visual inspection: This person's injured body has pure magic power, which is better than ordinary foundation-building casual cultivators. He has a strong evil aura...perhaps he is a deserter from the front line.
In every immortal war, there are many such monks, and they are often wanted by the sect. Once caught, they will end badly.
The two chatted casually, occasionally trying a word.
"As a gathering point, the monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce have not shown up. What do you think of Fellow Daoist Wu?"
"The monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce may not have arrived at the scene at all. They only need to come with the giant spiritual ship to pick us up. In this way, even if an accident occurs, they do not have to bear the risk and will not leave any clues."
Lu Changan's opinions have no bright spots.
The purple-faced man's eyes flickered and he lowered his voice: "The monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce may be mixed in the crowd and observe every monk present..."
"maybe."
Lu Changan remained calm.
While the two were talking, he felt a vague spiritual consciousness lingering on himself and the purple-faced man.
That spiritual consciousness is a bit stronger than the ordinary fake elixir real person. He should be a monk who is good at detecting.
The words of the purple-faced brawny man attracted the attention of the fake elixir-level consciousness, which lingered on him for a moment or two.
Lu Changan's disguised identity, mid-stage foundation building, and mana aura are all consistent with his identity as a casual cultivator. He is not inconspicuous and not weak.
…
Two hours later.
As the sun set on the west mountain, fifty or sixty monks gathered on the top of the mountain, more than half of whom were in the foundation-building period.
The fake Dan master who was secretly investigating was found by Lu Changan because he frequently used his spiritual consciousness.
He was a pleasant-looking old man in his sixties, wearing a navy blue gown. He closed his eyes most of the time to meditate.
Lu Changan suspected that this person was a monk from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.
Seeing it, night is approaching.
Some monks were restless and restless.
After all, most of the monks present went to Jing Country to seek refuge or escape and lacked a sense of security.
"arrive!"
A low cry sounded.
call!
The clouds above our heads were pushed away, and the air current surged like a tidal wave.
A blue spiritual ship that was fifty or sixty feet long, surrounded by the spiritual light of the formation, quickly descended from high altitude.
"Fellow Taoists, please line up one by one to enter the spirit ship with the tokens in your hands."
Inside the spirit ship, a rich male voice came, accompanied by fake elixir-level spiritual pressure.
"Those who disrupt order will be disqualified from boarding the ship."
Before he finished speaking, the spirit ship dropped to a height of ten feet on the top of the mountain and lowered two inclined ladders.
One of the inclined ladder entrances was guarded by four middle- and late-stage foundation builders wearing armor and with sharp auras. They checked the tokens of those who climbed the ladder. They seemed to be the bodyguards escorting the spiritual ship.
The entrance to the other inclined staircase is guarded by two beautiful female foundation-building nuns.
This passage is not open to ordinary monks.
"Your Majesty, the superior guest rooms on the third floor of the Spirit Ship have been prepared for you in advance."
In full view of everyone, a young man in golden robe with oily hair and powdery face, supported by hunchbacked old servants and young maids on the left and right, boarded the ladder from this special passage to the ship.
This scene attracted the attention of all the cultivators present.
The token in the hand of the young man in golden robe is not a white jade token, but a purple token!
"I wonder if he is the descendant of some important figure in the upper echelons of the Liang Kingdom?"
"For Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce to treat you like this, you must at least be a direct descendant of the True Pill cultivator."
The practitioners present speculated that they were unhappy, but they did not dare to show it.
Lu Changan took a quick look and found that the "Prince" should have used secret techniques to disguise himself. He was only at the early stage of foundation building, but he was only about thirty years old.
The beautiful girl who follows is a monk in the middle stage of foundation building.
The hunchbacked old servant couldn't tell the truth from the truth.
Lu Changan did not dare to use his spiritual consciousness to inquire easily.
Now, the war to cultivate immortals is raging in the Liang Kingdom.
Also seeking refuge in a neighboring country, big shots have higher priority and enjoy far better treatment than ordinary monks.
In addition to the prince in the golden robe, several groups of people entered the second entrance of the inclined staircase.
As few as one person, as many as two or three people.
Most of these people's tokens are cyan tokens, and they all have exclusive guest rooms after boarding the ship.
It is not difficult to imagine that these people are either rich or noble, well-connected, or possess abilities and skills beyond those of ordinary monks.
One of the white-browed old men in the late stage of foundation building looked familiar to Lu Changan. He had seen him at the auction in Huanglong Immortal City. He seemed to be a quasi-third-level weapon refiner.
People like this, even if they go to neighboring countries, they will be treated as honored guests by the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.
…
Lu Changan went to Jing Kingdom here to seek for elixir formation and did not want other monks to know his whereabouts, so he did not seek help from the Beastmaster Zhou family.
The secrets of ancient ruins and the news of the killing of Jinyang Sect monks are all potential dangers that are beyond control.
You may be remembered one day in the future.
Maybe it will be okay for the rest of my life and let it go.
Mu Jiuan and others would probably conceal the killing of the Jinyang Sect monks. After all, it was a shameful scandal, and operating in an enemy country was inherently high risk.
As for ancient ruins, there are more variables.
Before Lu Changan left, he handed Liang Shaotian's female disciple to Shi Xianzi for disposal.
If Fairy Shi kills Miss Wei, it will take some time for the Demon Sect to sense the death and find the ruins in the Black Mist Mountains.
If Miss Wei is let go, it will take time to return to the demon sect, and there is no specific memory in the ruins. Such ancient caves and ruins will appear every once in a while in the world of immortality. It is difficult to say how much the leader of the demon sect attaches importance to them.
In addition, the possibility of the two fake alchemists who died at that time leaking information is very low, but it cannot be absolutely ruled out.
On the way back to the ruins, Lu Changan gave Shi Xianzi two suggestions.
First, if Miss Wei is let go, she will swear an oath of inner demons.
Second, if you have the ability, destroy the formation in the center of the ruins afterwards to accelerate the destruction of the collapsing treasure house space.
Shi Xianzi said that you have to become at least a third-level formation mage. Only if you are of the same lineage can you try it, but you are not completely sure.
Lu Changan couldn't be sure what decision Master Shixianzi would make.
His personal attainments in formations are limited, and he does not have the ability to destroy ancient formations in one fell swoop. He also has to worry about the backlash of formation restrictions.
…
"Recommended by the Crescent Chamber of Commerce? What is your name? Where are you from the Liang Kingdom?"
After waiting for a long time, it was Lu Changan's turn to board the ship.
A heavily armored man in the late stage of foundation building inspected the jade tablet and asked.
After showing the jade token, there will be a simple inquiry and identity registration.
For reasons of confidentiality, Lu Changan's identity was not recorded on this token of recommendation.
This is quite common for monks boarding ships.
Most of the monks who went to Jing Kingdom to seek refuge did not want to reveal their identity or be exposed to the public, and few used their real names.
"I am Wu Fan, from Huanglong Fairy City."
It's just a formality, recording basic information such as the cultivation level and name of those who board the ship. It doesn't matter even if it's false information.
After registration, a tall and thin foundation-building monk from the Chamber of Commerce took five foundation-building monks, including Lu Changan, to their accommodation on the ship.
"Fellow Taoists, due to the scarcity of guest rooms on the Spirit Ship, I can only force you to go to the cargo hold below."
The tall and thin monk from the Chamber of Commerce said with an apologetic expression.
"cargo hold?"
The purple-faced strong man accompanying Lu Changan looked embarrassed.
In order to buy cross-country "ship tickets", most of the monks present paid favors and a lot of spiritual stones.
"Our Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce brings about a hundred monks from various trade alliances with us on every cross-border trip. Adding in the guests from your country, the guest rooms are naturally not enough."
The tall and thin monk from the Chamber of Commerce said with a smile.
This person was only a monk in the middle stage of foundation building. Facing the five people from Lu Changan, he seemed calm and composed.
The Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce's spiritual ship is commanded by more than one fake elixir master. There is also a powerful bodyguard group and hundreds of monks from the merchant alliance camp.
Liang monks who entered this place disrupted order and were frequently expelled.
If you dare to take action, the consequences will be disastrous.
"This spiritual ship is fifty or sixty feet long, with three floors on the deck. How can an ordinary single room not be enough?"
Lu Changan thought to himself.
Not long after.
Lu Changan and his group of five people came to the dark cargo hold below the deck.
At this time, twenty or thirty monks were already crowded into the cargo hold, and the auras of different monks were mixed together.
Later, other monks were brought in.
Lu Changan frowned slightly. With so many monks crowded together in a public cabin, safety, privacy, and comfort were all issues.
"Fellow Taoists, if you are not satisfied with this place, there are still a small number of ordinary guest rooms. The guest rooms on the spirit ship can enjoy the second-level spiritual vein cultivation environment even if they pass through the Jue Ling Land on the way."
The tall and thin merchant monk said in a low voice.
Lu Changan and the purple-faced strong man looked at each other. The latter had an angry look on his face, took a deep breath, and finally did not have an attack.
…
A quarter of an hour later.
The spirit ship flew high into the sky, and a cross-border journey began.
In an ordinary guest room on the first floor of Lingjian.
Lu Changan brewed a pot of hot tea, sat in front of the desk, and looked out the window at the endless sea of clouds.
At the cost of three thousand spirit stones, Lu Changan left the poor cargo hold at the bottom of the ship and moved into a single room of more than ten square meters.
Nearly half of the Liang Kingdom monks were still crowded in the dark cargo hold below.
Three thousand spirit stones is not a small amount for the foundation building period.
Originally, it cost me favors and four to five thousand spiritual stones to buy the boat ticket.
Most monks in the early and middle stages of foundation building only have a few thousand "cash flow" of spiritual stones available.
All the way to the meeting point, you still need to take care of the law enforcement monks on the way. If you are unlucky, you may even have to sell your magical weapons.
Ordinary foundation-building monks, before and after boarding the ship, their spiritual stones are basically drained.
Some of the foundation-building monks also brought with them juniors in the Qi-refining stage. If you upgrade to a guest room, you will have to spend double the spiritual stones.
Because only one monk can stay in an ordinary guest room.
The superior guest room that the "Prince" lived in was a deluxe suite.
"The same journey, some people go to seek refuge, and some people go on a cross-border vacation."
Lu Changan took a sip of the hot tea, which was fragrant and fragrant, and felt a sense of warmth in his belly.
"Huh? Why is the direction of the spirit ship's flight heading north?"
Half a day later, Lu Changan came to the deck of the spirit ship and stared at the scenery outside the formation.
He sensed a special aura from the direction of the Black Mist Mountains.
According to the normal route, the spirit ship goes to Jing Kingdom and goes all the way west.
To the north are the Black Mist Mountains.
In fact, there is a more dangerous way to go from Liang State to Jing State.
That is to go deep into the Black Mist Mountains, make a big circle, and then go south back to Jing Kingdom.
However, this path has to go deeper into the Black Mist Mountains. The journey is long and you may encounter a big demon.
Moreover, on the outskirts of the mountain range, you still have to face inspections by sect monks, the threat of robbery cultivators, and the unpredictable whereabouts of demon cult monks.
…
When Lu Changan became suspicious.
The huge spiritual ship was hovering slowly in front of a large river near the outskirts of the Black Mist Mountains.
On the hillside on the river bank, a second-order spiritual boat carried a man and a woman, flying to the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce's spiritual boat.
"Are there any monks boarding the ship on the way?"
On the spiritual ship, both the Liang Kingdom monks and the Jing Kingdom Merchant Alliance monks showed expressions of surprise.
For the monks of the Jing Kingdom Merchant Alliance, usually only the monks gather at designated locations to wait for the spiritual ship together.
It is extremely rare to have the spirit ship change direction midway and go out to pick up people.
The monks from the two countries looked at the two monks on the spirit boat with suspicious eyes.
The driver of the spirit boat is a well-dressed man in black who is in the late stage of foundation building.
In the middle of the spirit boat, a long-haired woman wearing a veil sat cross-legged.
The veil of the long-haired nun blocked the breath from her body and the detection of her spiritual consciousness.
The two people who boarded the ship were obviously of considerable background, and the monks on the ship did not dare to use their spiritual senses to investigate easily.
"Boy, please go to the guest room on the third floor."
Several management monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce politely welcomed the two aboard.
Out of caution, Lu Changan did not use his spiritual sense to investigate rashly.
However, he just visually inspected the figure of the long-haired female cultivator, and he immediately felt familiar.
"How could this woman board the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce's spiritual ship?"