Chapter 407: Shuangjiaocheng Sanctuary Shi Xiaoqing
Shuangjiao City is one of the nine largest cities in the central part of the mainland, so there is no doubt about its prosperity.
When Li Xuangang left the cave and arrived at the gate of Shuangjiao City, the fish belly white had just turned up on the Hengduan Mountains in the distance.
At the gate of Shuangjiao City, there is an endless stream of monks coming in and out, and they are all in a hurry. Many monks in the foundation building stage immediately sacrificed their flying magic weapons after leaving the city gate for a certain distance. Most of them were
They fled to the Hengduan Mountains, and a small part of them fled to other directions.
After landing from the Mo Qing flying boat, Li Xuangang, who had already concealed his entire body, looked sideways at the escaping lights heading towards the Hengduan Mountains, feeling a little curious in his heart.
Why do there seem to be so many more monks heading to the Hengduan Mountains today than before?
He waved his hand and put the Mo Qing Feizhou into his storage bag, and slowed down amid the many escaping lights of different colors and speeds.
He discovered that not only were there more monks going to the Hengduan Mountains today, but there were also many cultivating forces gathering in visible places, also heading towards the Hengduan Mountains.
"Or is there something going on in the Hengduan Mountains?"
Since Li Xuangang has been in seclusion for several years and has just come out now, he still doesn't understand the current situation in Shuangjiao City and the entire Yuling Sect's sphere of influence, so he can roughly guess this.
The pace slowed down for a while, and then returned to normal. What happened in the outside world was not important to Li Xuangang, who had just broken through the realm, and he had no intention of specifically asking about this abnormality.
He just looked at it briefly, and then continued forward, entering the interior of Shuangjiao City, ready to continue completing the purpose of coming here today.
Passing through the gate of Shuangjiao City, you can see a main road. As Li Xuangang expected, there are quite a few monks on the street. They are more or less gathered together, and they look a bit messy.
Looking around, he saw more disciples from the Yuling Sect responsible for maintaining order in the city near the street.
Li Xuangang withdrew his gaze, stopped sizing up the other monks, gathered his breath, and walked through the crowd towards the southeast of Shuangjiao City.
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Shuangjiao City, Jintian Street in the southeast area of Fangcheng.
Inside the misnamed "Li's Commercial Bureau", Li Yuqian, wearing a goose-yellow dress and a plain white and elegant coat, was bored.
She was half sitting, half lying, leaning behind the counter, her eyes blurred, thinking that if no monk came to her door after another half hour, she would go shopping in Shuangjiao City.
Maybe you can also find some useful spiritual plants or monster materials for your own cultivation.
Recently, the number of monks in the city going to the Hengduan Mountains has increased, and as a result, there have been a lot of novelties in various shops and casual cultivator trading markets in the city.
Li Yuqian's cultivation encountered a bottleneck when he broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining, and he had long thought of going to Fangshi to try his luck.
In monks' cultivation, in addition to talent, breakthroughs in cultivation are also closely related to opportunities. It is difficult to explain things like opportunities clearly, and they may be hidden in your random outings.
A kind of elixir, a spiritual plant, or simply a certain person.
The store purchased by the Li family in Shuangjiao City is located in the southeast, in a very remote location, and there are not many customers who usually come here.
Even though there have been more monks coming and going in front of the shop recently, in fact, under Li Yuqian's management, there are very few monks who actually come in to conduct transactions, and they are all monks in the Qi refining period. The business they do is nothing more than a few.
The scale of ten spirit stones and the business of hundreds of spirit stones are very rare.
But fortunately, the family did not send her here to do business to earn spiritual stones, but to be responsible for the connection between Taiqiu Mountain and the ninth uncle Li Xuangang and the eldest brother Li Yuheng.
Therefore, Li Yuqian made up her mind and planned to close the store later and go out to find an "opportunity" for her own breakthrough.
He stood up from the wooden chair, walked around the counter, and casually looked at the items on the three shelves in the store.
"This time Yulingzong issued a strangulation order. The last time my eldest brother came here, he said that he might participate. It should be almost time. I just don't know if he will come here again before I go."
"If you come here, tell him directly about Uncle Changji's instructions. If you don't come here, I still have to give him the message as before."
Thinking of this, Li Yuqian suddenly had a headache. After all, Yuling Sect was a large sect, and outside monks would have to face a lot of trouble if they wanted to send messages inside. Moreover, Li Yuqian knew that many of the instructions given by Uncle Chang Ji this time were not convenient to be revealed.
Content from outsiders.
Fortunately for the family, the Yuling Sect's recruitment of disciples is based on the principle of teaching without distinction, and it is more or less known about which disciples have what cultivation forces behind them. Yuling Sect is huge, so this is natural
Not too concerned about it.
But according to the last time his eldest brother came here to meet with him, Li Yuqian knew that the latter was participating in a selection within Yuling Sect. This selection involved a Jindan elder of Yuling Sect, and it seemed that he was going to choose a number.
A disciple named Ji Zhuqi went to the mountain where his cave was located as a follower.
She was worried that her summons would affect her eldest brother's selection within the Yuling Sect.
After all, not every Jindan-stage elder of the Yuling Sect likes disciples from the sect with family backgrounds.
What if my summons caused my eldest brother to be rejected in advance by the golden elixir stage elder during the selection process...
Standing at the door of the shop, looking at the monks passing by, Li Yuqian finally decided that if his eldest brother Li Yuheng couldn't come over in the near future, he would find a way to go to the mountain gate of Yuling Sect to see if he could see him, and then inform him personally.
The content of the message sent by Chang Ji’s great-uncle.
"senior."
A call from behind suddenly rang in Li Yuqian's ears, so she turned around and dispersed her thoughts.
In front of her, a small figure appeared from behind the curtain inside the store and was walking towards her.
As he walked, he put down the sleeves rolled up by his hands, covering his two crisp white arms.
"Senior, I have finished processing the batch of second-order Dawn Fruits. All the juice has been put into jade bottles. This is a storage bag."
Li Yuqian stretched out her hand to take the storage bag, and with a sweep of her consciousness, she found that there were more than a hundred family-standard jade bottles inside.
Looking at the amount, she knew that the other party was as steady as ever, without any slippage, and honestly squeezed out the juice in each Morning Sun Fruit.
Therefore, with a smile on her face, she took out the twenty-five low-grade spiritual stones that had been prepared from her waist and handed them to the other party. There was a trace of unconcealable joy on the little figure's face.
Although it took a whole night of hard work, it was extremely worthwhile to be able to earn twenty-five spirit stones safely.
And apart from being in Li's Business Bureau, she didn't have many other channels to earn spiritual stones.
"Xiaoqing."
The young female cultivator who was called Xiaoqing by Li Yuqian put away the spirit stone in her hand, then looked up at the other person, and said softly "Hmm", waiting for the former's next words.
"Thank you for your hard work this time. A batch of Dawn Fruits will arrive in about half a month. You can come here early then."
The smile on Xiao Qing's face had not disappeared at the last moment, and now it was a little deeper than before.
She knew that the shopkeeper of Li's Commercial Bureau was deliberately helping her so that she could earn some spiritual stones.
"Senior, don't worry, Xiao Qing will come on time."
Li Yuqian smiled, stretched out her hand and rubbed the head of Xiao Qing, who was much shorter than herself, messing up the latter's hair quite a bit.
Xiaoqing is the little girl Li Yuqian met accidentally in the shop five years ago when her family was sent to Shuangjiao City to garrison.
The girl, who was only eleven or twelve years old back then and was at the second level of Qi Refining, is now well-established. Although her cultivation is still average and is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, her round face looks really cute.
After completing the task this time, Xiao Qing did not leave immediately. Instead, at Li Yuqian's signal, they sat down together in the lobby of the store. One on the left and the other on the right, they began to drink tea on a wooden table.
The tea is Yinglu tea, a first-class spiritual plant newly planted on the sixth side peak of Mount Taiqiu.
After brewing with special spiritual spring water, drinking it will have a certain effect on increasing the cultivation level of monks in the early and middle stages of Qi training. For monks in the late stage of Qi training, it is not completely useless. It can only be said to be better than nothing.
Every year, Taiqiu Mountain gives a certain quota to the tribesmen in the Qi refining period. Li Yuqian usually didn't drink it, but now she suddenly remembered it, so she took Xiaoqing to taste it together.
After taking a sip, a refreshing aroma of tea suddenly fills your mouth. When this tea aroma enters your mind along the nose and mouth, your consciousness becomes extremely clear.
Swallow the tea in your mouth three times, and each swallow is a moment of enjoyment. When you finish swallowing the sip of tea, the aroma of tea remains in your mouth, and the tea you swallowed begins to take effect.
Suddenly, Xiao Qing felt that the speed of spiritual power in his body had accelerated a bit.
As a helpless casual cultivator in Shuangjiao City, Xiao Qing had never tasted this kind of spiritual food. After carefully swallowing the first sip, she put down the tea cup and looked at the other side with her big eyes.
Li Yuqian in the tea cup.
"senior......"
There were still two blushes on both sides of her face due to the accelerated circulation of spiritual energy in her body. She was about to express her gratitude, but Li Yuqian didn't give her a chance. The latter asked directly and even a little abruptly:
"If there was an opportunity for you to leave Shuangjiao City and go to the eastern part of the mainland, would you agree?"
"As long as you follow the requirements in the eastern part of the mainland, basic training resources can be guaranteed. Of course, you still need to fight for more training resources yourself."
"ah?"
Xiao Qing never expected that the shopkeeper of Li's Commercial Bureau in front of her would suddenly propose this, which made her a little dazed for a moment.
Of course, Li Yuqian, who was sitting across from her, roughly guessed how the other party was feeling at this time. She thought of the news that her third brother Li Yuxian had sent her not long ago, asking her to keep an eye on suitable female cultivators of the right age in Shuangjiao City.
If he meets someone suitable, he will send his tribesmen to take him back and make arrangements similar to the previous batch of female cultivators sent to Lingyun Island.
After receiving this task from his third brother Li Yuxian, Li Yuqian's first reaction was that he had been in contact with Xiaoqing for five years.
Maybe Xiaoqing is a good candidate.
Xiao Qing across the tea table was still dazed, but his mouth was slightly open to express his surprise.
Although she is still young and has basically been active in Shuangjiao City since she was born, she also knows that it is not easy to own a shop in Shuangjiao City, or that the cultivating forces behind it are not simple.
She had a very good impression of Li Yuqian, but when she thought about it, if she agreed to him this time, it would be equivalent to completely committing herself to the cultivation force behind the latter.
Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing, but it may also be an opportunity for your own practice.
But when this female qi-refining cultivator, who has only been fifteen years old, is suddenly asked to make a choice that may plunge her into an even more precarious life, she is bound to panic.
"Senior...um, no, shopkeeper...Xiao Qing..."
"Don't worry, I'm just saying this. To be honest... Whether you can go to the eastern part of the mainland is not something I can decide. I need to pass the news back to the mountain..."
"Well... there is an elder who can make the decision in Shuangjiao City, but he has been in seclusion for a long time, and I don't know when he will be able to come out."
After a while, Xiao Qing finally calmed down. She picked up the tea cup and took another sip, forcing herself to look calmer. Then she asked tentatively:
"Is he the senior who is in the foundation-building stage of the Yuling Sect that I also met that day?"
One time when Li Yuheng came here, he accidentally met Xiao Qing, who was helping Li Yuqian process ore in the shop.
He was a senior with a warm smile, and the shopkeeper seemed to be very respectful to him. He must be the big shot behind her!
Xiaoqing thought so.
"No......"
"It's another senior elder."
Li Yuqian drank all the tea in the cup in one gulp, and then corrected Xiao Qing's idea.
Then he spoke again:
"You have never seen this elder, and I haven't seen him in five years..."
Xiaoqing held the still warm teacup with both hands and made a sigh-like "Oh..."
"That must be a very powerful senior."
When Li Yuqian heard Xiao Qing's imagination, she suddenly remembered the extremely low-key way of her ninth uncle Li Xuangang, both in the clan and outside. So she couldn't help but smile, and she said with a soft smile:
"Uncle Ninth may not look very strong..."
Before he finished speaking, a black shadow appeared from the door of the store.
Li Yuqian and Xiao Qing looked back at the same time. While the latter was in a daze again, Li Yuqian quickly got up from where he was, bowed in a slight panic and saluted:
"Yuqian has met Uncle Jiu...Uncle Jiu, are you out of seclusion?"
Li Xuangang, who rushed here from the gate of Shuangjiao City, heard Li Yuqian mentioning him as soon as he entered.
His eyes passed over Li Yuqian who was saluting, and then fixed on Xiao Qing beside the latter.
The other party's gaze was very calm, but when it fell on him, Xiao Qingdun felt as if all his thoughts and secrets had been seen through by this gaze.
She heard Li Yuqian's previous address, and immediately realized that the ordinary-looking monk in front of her, wearing an ordinary green shirt, must be the elder she mentioned.
So she immediately stood up and followed Li Yuqian's example and saluted Li Xuangang:
"Shi Xiaoqing, a casual cultivator during the Qi refining period in Shuangjiao City, met the senior."