Regarding the Yongling Order, Lu Zhong had heard about it in Yanlingshanfang City.
Different from the Yanling Mountain area, if foreign monks want to settle permanently in the Yingling area, they must gather a corresponding number of Yingling Tokens before they can rent houses of different levels in the city.
Otherwise, you can only stay in expensive hotels.
When the dark-faced old man on the side heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, it turned out to be Yong Ling Ling.
He immediately twitched his beard in excitement, quickly approached the captain of the law enforcement team, and volunteered: "Let the old man come, there is just a magic cultivator out of control in the inn, I have a way to solve it!"
"So it turns out that the demon cultivator lost control?" When the team leader wearing a jade crown heard this, his expression softened a little.
A rational demon cultivator is extremely difficult to deal with, but when it loses its mind, it is no different from a mad beast. Although it is very troublesome to solve, the danger level has dropped by more than one or two levels.
Lu Zhong on the side was thoughtful.
The magic skills practiced in the magic repair house belong to the type of swordsmanship. The cultivation level progresses very quickly at the beginning. If there are enough resources, the speed of cultivation can even be comparable to that of Tianlinggen.
It's just that such an astonishing speed of advancement in cultivation cannot be free of cost.
Blindly pursuing rapid improvement will lead to them being unable to control themselves.
Therefore, it often happens that the magic power goes out of control and backfires on one's body.
In addition, the nature of demonic aura tends to be negative, which causes the temperament of those who practice demonic arts to change drastically, becoming extreme and abnormal. When they lose control, they turn into monsters and often destroy villages and cities.
Therefore, everyone in the world of cultivation calls for beatings for demonic cultivators.
After all, no one wants the industry they have worked so hard to develop to be completely destroyed by demonic cultivators in one fell swoop.
If the ink-faced old man was right, a demon cultivator should have lost control and turned into a monster.
Here, the young man with the jade crown still felt a little uneasy and asked the ink-faced old man: "How did you find out?"
"Reply to fellow Taoist, the old man is a puppet machine master, and he has just used a machine beast to detect..." the ink-faced old man replied, and showed a monkey-shaped machine beast, which was very vivid and suitable for detecting the situation.
As he said that, he also took off a picture stone from the machine beast and handed it to the jade-crowned young man.
Injecting spiritual power to activate the image stone, a slightly blurry picture soon appeared.
From the picture, it can be seen that a bloody figure is shrouded in a cloud of blood and hanging upside down from the beam of the guest room. It looks like the whole person has turned into a flesh and blood spider, which is very similar to the scene where the demon cultivator loses control.
"Very good!" The jade-crowned young man nodded.
Immediately, he said to the ink-faced old man: "The law enforcement team will have another reward later, so please step aside first."
"What?" The ink-faced old man couldn't believe it. The other party still didn't want him to interfere, so he quickly explained: "The old man is really at the sixth level of Qi refining. He can easily defeat that monster. I can swear to this!"
"No need." The jade-crowned young man shook his head.
To him, the puppet master is just a heretic.
Lu Zhong, who was wearing a cassock, was different. He clearly looked wealthy. Judging from the aura emanating from him, he was obviously practicing the Four Spiritual Skills. He might be able to join the Heling Sect in the future.
Now selling to the other party is definitely a cost-effective investment.
Thinking of this, the jade-crowned young man turned his attention to Lu Zhong, cupped his hands and said, "Fellow Taoist, would you like to come with me to the inn and deal with the out-of-control monster?"
Lu Zhong was listening on the sidelines and already understood the situation.
For him, it is not a big problem to get this mediocre spirit order.
After offering his hand to the young man with the jade crown, Lu Zhong accepted this beautiful job.
Just in case, I didn't forget to check the road to detect malicious intent.
"Hey, did you react?"
Lu Zhong looked forward and didn't notice anything wrong. When he turned around, he saw that there was something obviously wrong with the way the ink-faced old man looked at him.
"Do you have a grudge against me?"
An idea flashed through his mind. He pretended not to notice the man's malicious intentions and said to the jade-crowned young man behind him: "I have a spell that can directly kill the out-of-control monsters inside. The only trouble is that it will destroy the inn together."
"Oh?" The young man with the jade crown looked a little surprised, and then he laughed and said: "If you Taoist friends really have a way to do it, then just go ahead and have your own law enforcement team deal with the loss."
Compared with the slight loss of property, ensuring his own safety is the most important thing to him. After all, out-of-control monsters are difficult to deal with, and injuries and deaths are common, so there is no need to take unnecessary risks.
As for the repair work after the inn is damaged, that is a matter for the construction hall.
After receiving the other party's assurance, Lu Zhong retreated outside the inn.
He kneaded the secret and recited the incantation, and after a while thirty-six fireballs condensed out.
"Tsk, tsk, Qingyang Fire and Rain Technique!" The Jade Crown young man obviously knew the origin of this technique, and secretly sighed that he had really made a wonderful move this time, and at the same time, he also had guesses about Lu Zhong's identity.
After Lu Zhong cast the spell, he did not rush to shoot out the fireball. Instead, he recalled the location of the out-of-control magic cultivator in the shadow stone just now, and made some trajectory corrections to prevent the fireball from falling and causing the impact point to shift.
Then he pointed his fingers forward a little, and all the fireballs shot out immediately.
Suddenly, flames rolled wildly and explosions continued.
For a moment, the whole street was illuminated by firelight.
"Ahhh!"
Amid the painful wails, a flaming figure jumped out of the window.
If not that out-of-control monster, what else could it be?
At this moment, demonic energy was surging all over its body. Under the influence of this, its body changed again. Now it can't even see the slightest bit of human form, and it looks more like a flesh and blood spider.
The monster moved, but the legs that had been transformed from flesh and blood had already been carbonized, and within two steps they shattered into a large number of fragments. The body of the ten-foot-long spider fell to the ground, splashing with blood.
Even so, it is still not dead.
"Kill, kill me..."
A cry for relief came from the monster's face, whose facial features were vaguely visible.
The young man with the jade crown stepped forward with an expressionless face, and slashed the wailing out-of-control Demon Xiu's head with a sword. After sheathing the sword, he breathed a sigh of relief and turned around with a smile on his face:
"What a troublesome fellow Taoist!"
With that said, he handed out another dark blue token.
"Is this the Yong Ling Order?"
Lu Zhong reached out and took it, feeling a warm texture between his fingers.
Looking carefully, you can see that the material of the token is a kind of sapphire. The back is as smooth as a mirror without any carvings, and the front is engraved with the word "Yong Ling".
"I don't know how such a token can be prevented from being forged."
Thinking silently in his mind, he put the token into his storage bag.
"I'm Lan Yuming, how do you call me my friend?" The young man with the jade crown cupped his hands and said with a smile.
In this regard, Lu Zhong has nothing to hide.
So he cupped his hands and said, "Lv Zhong."
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Lu." Lan Yuming wrote down the name and smiled again: "I live in Miaoyinfang in the south of the city. If Fellow Daoist is free in the future, you can come and be a guest at my home."
"Absolutely!" Lu Zhong responded.
After watching Lan Yuming leave, he secretly asked to detect malicious intent.
Compared with before, the warning signs in my heart not only did not weaken, but actually became stronger.
"If you want to die, then I'll let you do it!" Lu Zhong didn't even look at the dark-faced old man behind him. He looked at the dim sky and walked towards the gate of Yinbaozhai.
In the crowd, looking at Lu Zhong's leaving figure, the dark-faced old man's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
There was a "click" sound.
The brown ball shook off from his sleeve, and with bursts of machine sounds, the ball unfolded into a palm-sized machine bird before it even hit the ground, flapping its wings and tracking towards Lu Zhong.
…
After leaving Yinbao Village, Lu Zhong continued to rush towards Yongling City.
Originally, he was still worried about how to live in the city after entering the city. After all, living in an inn was very expensive. After getting a piece of mediocre spirit order, this worry suddenly disappeared and he no longer had to worry about this issue.
Go all the way northwest, which is the direction of Yongling City.
It's approaching noon.
Walked to a small forest.
Lu Zhong's eyes narrowed slightly, he suddenly stopped and started to back away step by step.
"I want to escape, but it's too late!"
Several machine beasts jumped out of the woods and immediately surrounded Lu Zhong.
"Hey, I've been waiting for you for a long time!" The ink-faced old man rode on a giant machine tiger and said with a ferocious smile: "If you dare to compete with me for a mediocre spiritual order, I really don't know how to write the word 'death'!"
Lu Zhong's expression remained unchanged as he looked at the machine beasts surrounding him.
There are seven machine beasts in total, all of them are wolf-shaped machine beasts. The key parts are covered with iron armor, and their mouths are shining with magic aura. At first glance, they don't look like they are easy to mess with.
Lu Zhong was not afraid of this.
As we all know, all puppet masters have a weakness.
He started chanting the spell, and a layer of magic wind protected him. Then the magic robe on his body flashed, and at the same time, the whole person rushed forward at a very fast speed, and he didn't know when he had already grasped the golden sword tightly in his hand.
The golden light flashed away, and Lu Zhong appeared in front of the ink-faced old man across a distance of tens of feet.
A sword was swung out and struck at the astonished old man.
Unexpectedly, a protective shield suddenly appeared and blocked the sword.
Lu Zhong was not surprised by this. After all, the puppet master was not a fool. How could he not be prepared for his own weaknesses? It was not surprising that he had a protective jade talisman.
Holding back the severe pain caused by the tearing of his body, a blue magic sword condensed in his hand.
"Whoa!" A sword hit the shield.
The protective shield was more fragile than Lu Zhong imagined. It was obviously just an ordinary protective jade talisman. It could block a blow from the Golden Sword, but it could not block a blow from the Chi Yang Magic Sword.
With a "Puff" sound, the feeling of the sword blade penetrating into the flesh came, and the ink-faced old man was pierced through the Dantian with a sword.
Before he could utter a word of begging for mercy, another blue sword shadow passed by in the next moment.
Suddenly, a head flew high into the sky.
Lu Zhong threw away the magic sword in his hand and showed no expression on his face.
Seeing that the mechanical beasts had collapsed due to lack of control, he began to search the ink-faced old man.
Everything was put into the storage bag by the other party.
There are only two magical artifacts inside. Although both of them are low-grade magical artifacts, the degree of wear and tear of the magical artifacts is not high and they can be resold for a good price.
Two spare jade charms for protection.
The talisman contains three golden light talismans and several other cleaning talismans and candlelight talismans.
There are ninety-three spiritual stones.
In addition, there were puppets and machine beasts that Lu Zhong could not recognize. There were more than twenty pieces of them in total, but most of them were auxiliary machine beasts without combat power.
I also found a three-finger thick classic book. The name of the book is not fancy at all. It is called "Introduction to Puppet and Machine Beasts". The content is about how to make puppets and machine beasts.
A cursory reading shows that most of the ink-faced old man’s puppet machine beasts come from this book.
After putting the things away, Lu Zhong couldn't help but laugh.
It turned out to be a boy who gave away money!
…
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
After days of traveling, Lv Zhong, who was tired of traveling, finally saw Yongling City.
Yongling City is built on a plain area with dense river networks. It is a huge and prosperous metropolis. The buildings become taller as you move towards the center of the city. It happens to be night time, and the lights are brightly lit everywhere in the city, which can illuminate half of the sky.
Like daytime.
Walking on the hardened road that extended out from the city like a spider web, with glowing street lights at regular intervals, Lu Zhong suddenly felt a strong sense of unreality about what he saw.
To be honest, compared with the ridiculously prosperous Yongling City, there is Qingliufang City, which is full of Jiangnan water town style, or Yanlingshanfang City, which has ancient and simple architectural styles. The latter two are both built in dangerous places.
In the wilderness, this is more in line with his imagination of the world of cultivation.
But the Yongling City in front of him completely subverted his understanding.
"Is this Yongling City?" Lu Zhong murmured.
"Yes, this is Yongling City."
I don't know when a four-wheeled carriage loaded with talisman stopped next to it. A big man driving it said with a hearty smile: "Brother, I see you are tired from walking. Why don't you come up and sit down?"
"Brother, can you come and sit down?" A little girl holding a doll next to her also extended the invitation with a smile and patted the dust on the seat next to her. She was so enthusiastic that it was hard to refuse.
Lu Zhong did not respond immediately, but looked at the two of them with a smile.
At this moment, in the vision of the Qi Watching Technique, the bodies of both of them were dark.
Are they a mortal father and daughter?
They didn't seem to notice my identity as a monk. Could it be that my outfit was too down-to-earth?
Lu Zhong thought to himself, feeling a little moved by the invitation from the two of them.
Sometimes, experiencing life more can be of great benefit to your mental state.
He pinched it again to detect malice and confirmed that there was really no problem between the two of them.
Then a smile appeared on his face for the first time in a long time, and he said with a smile: "Thank you, brother!"
"Hahaha, why are you so polite!"
"Uu——!"
The big man shouted, and the two old horses pulling the carriage stepped forward. The huge carriage started moving again, speeding on the flat and solid hard ground.
"This car is really good, smooth and stable." Lu Zhong praised.
"Definitely!" The little girl holding the doll next to her looked proud and said like a treasure: "The wheels are made of Haiyue glue, so you don't have to worry about bumps when walking on the road. The axle is made of hundred-forged fine steel.
One of them can hold up to ten ordinary axles, and it is also equipped with good iron spring shock absorbers. Daddy treats it better than me!"
When the little girl said this, she looked very angry, like a jealous little girl.
"Pfft, little brother, don't listen to me." The big man driving the car couldn't stand it any longer. He quickly stopped drinking water and explained: "It's not that I want to spend more money, bro, but it's not possible if I don't reduce my capital. It's like pulling the strings now.
This cart of talisman grass, I heard that the talisman paper made of it is better than the talisman skin, but I am too delicate and can't bear the bumps. You said that if I don't upgrade the wheel shock absorbers, I can pull a cart like this... this
Is it easy to count?"
Seeing the other party making a sign of six, Lu Zhong thought that this should be the meaning of six talisman coins.