Wang Tiezhu and Ling Xuan'er arrived at the merchant settlement called "Beijia" before it got dark.
Here they met the resident trading house of Xuanyuan Kingdom. After showing the jade talisman given to them by Quhou, someone immediately took Wang Tiezhu and two people into the trading house.
"The little man Li Huai has met the adults."
The person in charge of the trading firm is a middle-aged man with a mustache, and he is bowing to Wang Tiezhu at this moment.
"Shopkeeper Li, you don't have to be polite."
Wang Tiezhu waved his hand and asked: "Are you also the person in charge of the Mystery Department here?"
"Exactly the villain."
Li Huai straightened his waist and lowered his head in response.
"What happened recently due to attacks?"
"Returning to your lord, the Prime Minister of the day before yesterday ordered to stop the collection of spiritual materials south of the Kongling Mountains, and the caravans no longer go there, so there has been no news of attacks in recent days."
Wang Tiezhu nodded. The day before yesterday was when he met Li Qingcheng to reach an agreement. It seemed that Li Qingcheng would not send a caravan to the south of the Kongling Mountains before he wiped out this force.
"Where is the information about the mysterious forces?"
"Replying to my lord, there has been no new information feedback in recent days."
"It seems that what Quhou gave me is the latest information."
Wang Tiezhu thought to himself, and then waved his hand, "You go down first, I will call you if anything happens."
"yes!"
Li Huai agreed and turned around to leave.
Wang Tiezhu looked at the map of the Southern Continent spread out on the table.
The map is not complete. The only relatively detailed ones are to the north of the Kongling Mountains. To the south of the Kongling Mountains, only some places are marked on the map. These places are where Xuanyuan Kingdom's caravans often go.
Wang Tiezhu marked the place where Xuanyuan's caravan was attacked on the map, hoping to see something, but after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't figure out the reason. There was too little useful information now.
With a sigh, Wang Tiezhu took out the Jade Talisman of Divine Consciousness again, preparing to read the information inside carefully to see if he could find any clues.
At this moment, there was a flickering firelight outside the window, accompanied by noise.
"what happened?"
Wang Tiezhu was shocked, thinking that the community was being attacked, and hurriedly left the room.
Unexpectedly, after coming out, the imagined attack did not happen, but merchants from various places were holding bonfire parties.
Wang Tiezhu breathed a sigh of relief and secretly thought that he was too nervous. He was about to turn back to the room when he heard Ling Xuan'er's voice.
"Brother Wang, come here!"
Turning around, he saw Ling Xuan'er waving to him by the campfire. Wang Tiezhu smiled, walked to her and sat down next to her.
"Xuan'er, aren't you resting in your room?
Why did you escape?"
"When Xuan'er was in the Yi tribe, every once in a while, the tribe would hold a bonfire party like this, so Xuan'er wanted to come out and have some fun, hehe!"
Looking at Ling Xuan'er's red face reflected in the firelight, Wang Tiezhu rubbed her little head lovingly. He saw businessmen setting up a night market around him and said to Ling Xuan'er.
"Xuan'er, then you can play here and I'll go check out the nearby stalls."
Ling Xuan'er sweetly said hello and started singing together with the people around her.
Wang Tiezhu got up and wandered around the stalls, and found that most of them were specialties from the southern continent, and a small number were from the northern continent.
Because of the special geographical environment of the Southern Continent, many spiritual herbs and spiritual minerals are not found in the Northern Continent. In addition, monks have been coming to the Southern Continent for a long time in search of opportunities. Most of them have died here. Among the magic weapons they left behind
They are picked up by local people and sold as commodities.
"Um?
What's this?"
While Wang Tiezhu was walking around, something on a stall suddenly attracted his attention.
This is a broken compass, covered with patina, placed together with a pile of broken items.
The reason why Wang Tiezhu noticed it was because he felt a weak and strange spiritual energy fluctuation from it. This fluctuation was extremely secretive.
If it weren't for my own spiritual awareness that was strengthened after taking the Heaven-Borrowing Pill, I would never be able to feel it.
"Boss, what is this?"
Wang Tiezhu squatted down, pointed at the broken compass and asked.
At the same time, it was discovered that the owner of this stall was actually a strong man from the southern continent. He was wearing an animal robe with flame patterns, several gourds hanging around his waist, and several strings of animal bone necklaces around his neck.
Just when Wang Tiezhu was about to get up and find Li Huai to translate, he didn't expect that the man actually spoke fluently in the Northern Continent language.
"I don't know what this is, I found it in the mountains."
Looking at the man with a simple smile, Wang Tiezhu realized that he was actually an ordinary person with no aura of a monk in him.
"Can I pick it up and take a look?"
"Look, look, it's okay!"
The man chuckled and said.
Wang Tiezhu then took the compass in his hand, examined it with his spiritual consciousness, and became even more convinced that the strange spiritual energy fluctuation was coming from it.
"I want this thing, how can I sell it?"
It was difficult to study carefully at the stall, so Wang Tiezhu decided to buy it first and look at it later.
"Just ten Xuanjing!"
"so cheap?"
Wang Tiezhu secretly thought, and handed the man ten mysterious crystals with an unchanging expression. He put the compass away and walked around the stalls to see if he could find similar items.
After another round, Wang Tiezhu was a little disappointed.
The other stalls were full of common spiritual herbs, spiritual minerals, or fragments of magic weapons without spirituality. There was nothing that could attract my attention.
After buying a bracelet of animal teeth for Ling Xuan'er at a stall, Wang Tiezhu returned to the bonfire.
"Li Huai?
Why are you here?"
Seeing Li Huai standing next to Ling Xuan'er, Wang Tiezhu asked.
"Sir, the community is crowded with fish and fish. The younger one was worried that Miss Ling would be bullied by the gangsters, so she came to guard her."
Wang Tiezhu nodded, and Li Huai seemed to be interested, so he invited him to sit down together.
He gave the animal tooth bracelet to Ling Xuan'er, who happily put it on her hand, said "Brother Wang is the best", and danced around the bonfire with the people around her.
"Li Huai, I walked around the community and found that many local businessmen are ordinary people. Why is this?"
Wang Tiezhu expressed his doubts to Li Huai.
"Sir, spiritual energy is thin in the Southern Continent, and there are not many monks there. Although poisonous insects are everywhere and poisonous weeds are overgrown, as locals who have lived here for generations, most people have practiced the art of poisoning, which is enough for them to cope with the harsh living environment.
.
The person you see should have a few gourds around his waist, right?"
Seeing Wang Tiezhu nod, Li Huai continued: "Inside those gourds are the poisonous poisonous insects they use to perform the poisonous poison technique."