Lu Zheng said: "There are many ordinary people, and I have a very bad feeling in my heart now."
I said: "Me too!"
Listening to our conversation here, the old man holding the boat said: "It seems that among all the guests, there are people who have been to Shuilingdu decades ago."
Decades ago? Lu Zheng has been around for hundreds of years, right?
So I just said: "So be it."
The old man holding the boat said: "In the past few decades, our Shuiling City has turned into a city of monks, and there is no ordinary person in the whole city."
I curiously asked: "What about the ordinary people in the city?"
The old man punting the boat smiled and said nothing.
Continuing to walk inside, I curiously asked: "Even if this city is full of monks, there are still junior heavenly masters everywhere. You, a monk in the tribulation stage, will not be reduced to the level of punting a boat, right?"
The old man said: "In addition to my cultivation, I also need to look at my potential. Although I am already a monk in the Tribulation Stage, my life is about to end, and there is no room for improvement. Apart from practicing hard, which family will want me?
?But even if I practice hard, what should I do if I don’t have the resources to practice? So I can only do some hard work, fix some talismans, and then exchange some resources for practice. If I can break through to the Earth Immortal, my light will come.
"
I asked the old man: "Where are your family members? Are they also monks?"
The old man's eyes suddenly dimmed and he stopped talking.
It seemed that I asked about the old man's pain point.
The less he said anything, the more interested I became. However, in order not to reveal our identity, I did not use my mental strength to observe the city.
After crossing one bridge after another along the river, we arrived at the inn that the old man mentioned. The inn was built on the waterside. After getting off the boat, we arrived at the door of the inn. The name of the inn is called Cai Inn. Come on
The person who received us was a woman with earthly immortal cultivation. Although she looked very young, she was actually over a hundred years old.
That woman is the proprietress of the inn, and her name is Mingji.
When the old man sent us here to leave, we also asked him his name. He hesitated for a moment and then said that his name was Yang Jue.
Before leaving, Yang Jue took a look and seemed to have something to say, but in the end he didn't say it, so he punted and left.
Mingji happily welcomed us into the inn.
After entering here, we found that the inn was not small, but there was only one waiter inside. I used the power of my mind to check it out, and found that except for another person in the back hall, we and Mingji were the only ones in this inn.
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My brows furrowed.
Mingju also noticed that I used the power of my mind to investigate, and said with some embarrassment: "These guests must be from outside. In recent years, we Shuiling City has been in recession, and we rarely have outside guests, so the business of the inns in the city is extremely sluggish.
In order to grab customers, everyone hired coachmen and boatmen from outside the city, asked them to bring the customers to their shop, and then gave them some share."
I nodded and said, "Shui Lingdu has such a good environment and a good location. It should be prosperous. Why is it so depressed? And where are the ordinary people in this city? Where have they gone?"
Mingji smiled and said, "Guests, are you tired? I'll arrange rooms for you."
My brows wrinkled slightly, and Mingju then said: "Guests, I can't talk nonsense about these things, otherwise it will cause me to be killed. If you want to know the news about this city, you can go to
If you go to the cities next door and inquire about it, people there will still dare to say it, but people here don’t dare to say it.”
Seeing that Mingji was in such trouble, we didn't ask any more questions.
Soon, she arranged a room for us, and also asked the person in the back hall to bring us some tea and food. Only then did we realize that the monk in the back hall was actually a cook.
Mingji's cultivation level is that of an earthly immortal, while the male monk in the back hall is only at the level of an entry-level heavenly master.
After asking, I found out that the monk in the back hall was Mingjiu's nephew, his name was Mingxiu, and his name was somewhat feminine.
But he is a tall and thick man.
After living here, I immediately learned about the situation in Shuiling City through the South Cave Hall. Soon news came that the ordinary people of Shuiling City were actually still in the city, but they all lived in Shuiling City.
In the underground river.
After receiving this news, I was surprised and said: "How is it possible? How can ordinary people live underwater."
I continued to ask the monks in the South Cave Hall for details, and soon I found out that the underground river leading to the secret door in Shuilingdu was actually a large underground space. The secret door was actually an underground waterfall, with a huge water column sloping down.
, forming an underground river, and beside the underground river is where ordinary people live.
Only by becoming monks can ordinary people come back through the secret door and return to the city to continue living a bright life.
After getting the news, Lu Zheng also said next to him: "Actually, the secret door is not called the secret door. I called it the Shui Xing Gate at that time. There was a special garrison responsible for guarding it, and the underground river had never been there.
I have never lived there, because it is too humid and dark, and ordinary monks would feel uncomfortable staying there, let alone ordinary people."
"The secret door must have been changed recently. I originally thought that the door was just a name change, but I didn't expect that there were so many changes. King Yaoxi actually drove all the people in Shuilingdu to the underground river.
To live, what is his purpose?"
At this time, the Witch Spirit King said from the side: "A person like him does things based on his own preferences and never considers the life and death of others. How can there be a why?"
When King Wuling said this, his heart was filled with hatred for King Yaoxi.
At the same time, I also inquired about the news about the Hidden Saint from the Nandong Hall monk in Shuilingdu. I soon learned that the Hidden Saint had bought a large house in the city, and there were very strict structures around the house.
The boundary is easy to find.
It's just that others don't know that the hidden saint of the demon clan lives there. They only know that a certain powerful monk has made his home there.
While I was checking the news through the jade pendant, I heard a loud noise coming from the window. I opened the window and took a look, and found several garrison troops chasing a few children who seemed to be only about ten years old.
Those children were covered in black, their clothes were in tatters, and they had no cultivation at all.
After they ran on the street for a while, they were caught by the knowledgeable garrison. After the children were caught, the garrison whipped the children severely with whips, and at the same time cursed: "You guys
These rats should live in dirty, dark underground rivers and are not worthy of living on the ground."
"Snapped!"
As the garrison general cursed, he struck down the whip with one stroke, and he didn't hold back.
One child was sent flying out by his whip, and then fell to the ground and lost consciousness. I could feel that several of the child's bones were broken.
Seeing this scene, I couldn't help it. Before I could take action, Hu Jiashu flew over and helped the child up.
When the general of the garrison saw this, he pointed at Hu Jiashu and cursed: "How dare you protect these 'rats'? Are you tired of living, or do you want to live like those rats to the underground river..."
The garrison general had just finished speaking when several vines grew from under his feet, directly entangled all the garrison troops chasing the children, and then sent them several meters into the air. At the same time, the vines swept several garrison troops
Jun's neck was also wrapped around him.
Hu Jiashu said slowly: "Apologise to these children, or I will kill you!"
The garrison knew that they had encountered a master and quickly apologized to the children, but Hu Jiashu did not intend to let them go just like that, but slowly said: "Since you said ordinary people are mice, then you should do it again."
Go rats!"
As he said that, thorns sprouted from those vines, and then pierced into the bodies of the defenders, and their cultivation was easily destroyed.
Those who only have the strength to transcend the tribulation stage are no match for Hu Jiashu.
After their cultivation was abolished, their faces were ashen. After Hu Jiashu let go of the vine, those people ran away into the distance.
At this time, we all flew to the street one after another to see the condition of the injured child. There were also some monks passing by on the roadside. They pointed at us, but no one came to help.
And the way they looked at us was particularly weird, as if they were saying that we are going to be in trouble.
After Hu Jiashu defeated the garrison, the uninjured children ran to the side of the injured child, and all of them cried very sadly.
They thanked Hu Jiashu and prepared to carry the injured child away.
I said directly: "If you take him away like this, he will die."
One of the children said: "Brother Ma Wu will not die, he is our boss!"
I found out that the kid who was beaten was named Ma Wu, and he seemed to be the eldest of these children. There were five children in total, four boys and one girl.
They are no more than fifteen years old.
These people should be from the underground river. I might be able to ask them some more detailed questions about Water Spirit City.
While talking, Hu Jiashu had already used his magical power to treat the child named Ma Wu. After Hu Jiashu's treatment, he should not be in danger of life.
At this time, Mingji came out of the store and ran to us and said: "Guests, you shouldn't meddle in this business. Every once in a while, there will be old people in the city..."
Mingji originally planned to say "rat", but after being glared at, he changed his mind and said: "Every once in a while, ordinary people are killed. You can't control it, let alone control it. You will offend King Yaoxi!