The charioteer wields a flying sword that seems to have lost its way.
Wearing a tattered robe with threads and large residual blood stains.
His face showed exhaustion, sadness, joy, and lingering fear.
It was like a child who had just received a severe beating but was not beaten to death.
It was a coincidence that this day, Chen Li was preparing to leave the city to find a remote place and fly around in the air.
It turned out that he had just walked out of the city gate.
Then he saw Xiao Yuan flying down from mid-air.
At first, he suspected that he had mistakenly identified the person.
But when I saw the tattered but still familiar robe and the iconic three-tufted beard, I knew it was Xiao Yuan.
Chen Li blinked.
This is!?
…
Xiao Yuan landed on the ground, retracted his flying sword, and looked at the huge Stanley City in front of him. He felt relieved and let out a long breath.
Alas, I’m finally back!
Stanley City is better.
At this time, I felt as if someone was watching me.
He turned around and saw Chen Li. He couldn't help but stiffen and his mouth opened as if he had seen a ghost.
He was busy covering his face with his sleeves.
I feel so ashamed.
Not long ago, he was so high-spirited that he went to the Divine Sword Gate without any hesitation, despite everyone's dissuasion. However, only a few days later, he came back injured. Even his only robe was torn. How could he be in such a miserable state?
But when he came back to his senses, he put down his sleeves with a wry smile.
The matter has come to this, and covering it up again is like covering one's ears to steal a bell, which will only increase your laughter.
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Stanley City, tea shop, a backyard private room.
"Oh, I'm really ashamed." Xiao Yuan picked up the tea cup, drank it all in one gulp, poured himself another cup, and sighed heavily.
"Fellow Taoist, what you said is serious. Why is this so important? Ups and downs in life are just normal. No one has a smooth life. It's just that the world is not good now. Taoist friend has indeed been unlucky in the past two years." Chen Li consoled him.
It's just that the words of comfort are obviously a bit weak.
Xiao Yuan looked wilted. Hearing the word "bad luck", his face couldn't help but become even more miserable.
He subconsciously stroked the tattered robe on his body.
Due to the destruction of the magic circle, this robe has completely lost its magical power and aura, and it looks almost no different from ordinary objects.
I can't sell it for any price.
At that time, you will have to spend this wasted money to buy another one to use as a facade, which is another huge expense.
This time I went to the Divine Sword Sect. Not only did I fail to make it as a guest, I also walked through the gates of hell. Even the few spiritual stones I had saved with great effort over the past two years seemed to be in vain. I originally planned to save up for a few more years to buy them.
A top-grade magic weapon.
"Alas!" Xiao Yuan sighed again: "Perhaps it is really bad luck. Do you have any way to change things?"
"I haven't learned it on purpose. I only have a skill to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. I can sense misfortune secretly, avoid disaster, and seek good fortune and avoid misfortune. Do you want it?" Chen Li said.
"Is it that first-level or fifth-level qi-training technique?" Xiao Yuan said disapprovingly: "I've learned this too, but it's of no use!"
"Then we can only stay behind closed doors and avoid going out. Stanley City is at least much safer than outside." Chen Li spread his hands and said.
"That's all it can do!"
After drinking tea for a while, I had enough words of comfort.
Chen Li then started to ask about the whole story: "By the way, what's going on with you?"
"Alas, I got the news too late, and my trip was in vain. When I went there, the Divine Sword Gate was about to fall, and monsters were everywhere there, ravaging people and eating people. The injury on my body was caused by a second-level monster.
Caused by a sneak attack, this little bastard was raised by this servant."
Speaking of this, the wrinkles on Xiao Yuan's forehead make him want to kill a few flies:
"That monster is not very strong. In the past, I could have easily dealt with it. But now my magic weapon is only of the middle grade. I can't break through the defense in a battle. In addition, I was injured, so I had to retreat. I suddenly
I felt a little disheartened, and in the end I didn’t even go to the mountain gate of Shenjian Gate, so I came back.”
"It's a great blessing to be able to come back alive!" Chen Li said, after thinking about it, he counted thirty high-grade spiritual stones from the storage bag and pushed it over:
"You should take the money first and exchange it for a better magical weapon for self-defense. Just treat it as a loan to you and pay it back to me when you have money."
The market price of a second-grade high-grade magic weapon in Stanley City is roughly around thirty high-grade spiritual stones.
Second-hand ones are even cheaper.
At the casual cultivator trading market near Stanley City, you can win it for less than twenty dollars.
Xiao Yuan stared blankly at a pile of high-grade spiritual stones, his mouth squirmed, and finally he said that he is poor and has short ambitions: "Ashamed, I really need this money, so I won't be polite to you. When I have money, I will definitely be the first."
Time will return to you, I will swear it now!"
Chen Li quickly stopped: "No, you and I have been friends for many years, and I still can't trust you."
To him, it was just a small sum of money, and he wouldn't feel bad if it was gone.
Now that he has perfected the Immortal Muscle and Jade Bone Skill, he no longer needs to take medicinal baths. Without this huge expense, he can save forty or fifty high-grade spiritual stones a year.
However, Xiao Yuan refused no matter what, and finally swore an oath.
Next, Chen Li asked the other party about what he saw and heard on the road.
After the pot of tea was finished, the two of them walked out of the tea shop and said goodbye.
Chen Li looked up at the sky and saw that it was not yet noon.
He continued to leave the city as originally planned, found a remote place, and then released several phantoms, each flying to the southeast, northwest, and monitoring the surrounding areas.
learn from mistakes.
I was lucky enough to escape the golden elixir last time, but I won't have such good luck again.
When walking in the wild, the only word is caution.
After the four phantom bodies each flew hundreds of miles and got into position, Chen Li used another technique to seek good luck and avoid evil, and then he began to practice flying with confidence.
Soon, he accelerated to the limit, and the silver-white body-protecting silver glow made him turn into a stream of light, sometimes rushing into the sky, sometimes flying close to the ground, trying hard to adapt to this extreme speed close to the speed of sound.
Two months ago, there was a battle of golden elixirs that took place in mid-air outside the city.
It had a great influence on Chen Li.
He suddenly realized that he had a great weakness.
That means he is not good at air combat at all.
From the time he came to this world to now, all his battles have been ground battles, and he has never experienced a single battle in the air. In addition, he rarely travels far away, and in more than ten years, he has encountered only a handful of them.
The chances are even less.
The last time he came back from the Fire Cloud Sect, he was robbed and killed in mid-air. This was undoubtedly the closest he had come to an aerial battle.
But he escaped.
By the time the phantom was sent back to fight back, several people had already landed.
Thinking about it now, he still felt a little regretful.
This is a valuable experience!
After building the fifth level of the foundation, Chen Li's spiritual power became more abundant. Coupled with the "purity" and "recovery" attributes of the full-level longevity skill, he practiced from half noon until the sun set, during which he used two more
A total of eight phantom body techniques were used for observation, but the spiritual power on the body was still more than half.
"It seems like no one comes here. From now on, I will come here to practice every ten days." Chen Lizhi thought.