Li Xuangang was walking alone on a certain street in Shuangjiao City. Because he deliberately hid part of his cultivation, he did not attract attention on the street.
At the corner of the street, I climbed up to the second floor of a tea shop and found a table by the window to sit down.
There were a lot of monks around, and they were in small groups chatting around different tables, so this tea shop sounded and looked a little noisy.
Li Xuangang tilted his head and found that the cultivation levels of the monks in his sight were basically in the Qi-refining stage, and there were also some who were in the foundation-building stage, but there were only a few here and there, and their cultivation levels were all in the early stages.
On the other hand, there was a middle-aged monk sitting opposite him. He was tall, broad-shouldered and round-waisted, and looked a little silly.
Like him, this person hides his cultivation. He appears to be at the ninth level of Qi Refining, but he is actually a monk in the late stage of foundation building.
Perhaps noticing Li Xuangang's gaze, the middle-aged monk put down the tea bowl he was holding in both hands, and then gave him a silly smile.
Li Xuangang was not surprised when he saw this. He smiled and nodded in greeting. Then he shifted his gaze and began to listen to the center of the teahouse, where more than ten monks in the Qi Refining Stage were talking loudly.
As for why the middle-aged monk opposite wanted to hide his cultivation and come to this small tea shop, he had no intention of exploring. He was a stranger to this person and there was no need to provoke Karma.
After sitting and listening for a while, a waiter from the tea shop came, bowed and asked softly what he wanted to drink.
Li Xuangang ordered a pot of ordinary tea, and also asked the other party to serve some nuts as he wished.
After the boy retreated, he returned to his normal state. While paying attention to the monks in the teahouse, he turned his head from time to time to look at the passers-by on the street outside the window.
At this time, half an hour had passed since he left Li Yuqian's place. From the latter's place, he not only got a Ziyuan Begonia and learned about the current situation of Taiqiu Mountain, but also asked some questions about Li Yuheng.
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But Li Yuqian actually didn't know much about this last point. The time that Li Yuheng went to Li's Commercial Bureau was not fixed every time, so all she knew was what the latter told her half a year ago.
One thing is certain, Li Yuheng seems to be participating in the selection of a cave attendant for a Jindan-stage elder within the Yuling Sect.
He was still staring lazily out of the window, when the boy who had just retreated came again.
Putting down the teapot on the wooden tray in his hand, he took out a crystal clear jade teacup with a tender green color.
"Senior, this is a pot of tea that you ordered. In addition, two plates of nuts are served as you ordered."
Li Xuangang smiled and nodded at the young man, then took out four low-grade spiritual stones from his storage bag and handed them over.
"Senior, do you have any other instructions?"
"there is none left."
After taking the spirit stone and confirming that the guest in front of him had no other needs, the young man left in a sensible manner.
The teapot tipped over, and a wisp of fragrance appeared along with the curved silver thread. I picked up the warm teacup, took a sip, and held it in my mouth for a while before swallowing it completely.
He took another sip and put the teacup in his hand aside.
"According to what Yu Qian said, Yu Heng may come here in the near future, but..."
With his mind spinning, Li Xuangang was considering whether he should wait in Shuangjiao City for a few days, maybe he could meet Yu Heng.
But after a while, he gave up this plan.
Li Yuheng is extremely smart, and Li Xuangang is actually not worried about his training in Yuling Sect, and even if he encounters something, I believe he can handle it on his own.
Therefore, whether or not I see him this time actually doesn't mean much. Besides, he has already emerged from seclusion and successfully reached the peak level of foundation building.
For a long period of time in the future, he should not fall into a long-term retreat state again. After that, through summons, there will always be a chance to encounter him in Shuangjiao City.
Since he was not planning to meet Li Yuheng this time, Li Xuangang did not think about it again and started drinking tea seriously.
He sat in this small tea shop for almost an hour before getting up and leaving.
After walking a few streets, I turned around and went to another tea shop.
In the next few hours, Li Xuangang moved to four different teahouses, some of which were mainly gathering places for monks in the Qi Refining Stage, while others were mainly gathering places for monks in the Foundation Building Stage.
In the evening, after Li Xuangang came out of the fourth teahouse, a smile appeared on his lips.
By summarizing and comparing the information he heard from the four tea shops, he finally roughly figured out what he wanted to know.
After killing Ye Zhen, you can practice the Wandering Dragon Sword Skill you obtained from him.
Before this, due to the mystery and power of Dongxuan Sect, and Li Xuangang's ignorance of the situation of the entire central part of Chaoyang Continent, especially those cultivating forces further west, he had never dared to practice this kind of high-level swordsmanship with complete confidence.
Therefore, this time I did not hesitate to spend a lot of time to get the information I wanted from the discussions of other local monks in the tea shop.
Dongxuan Sect is a major swordsmanship sect. Although its disciples are generally stronger than monks of the same level, they are not without casualties when they go out to perform missions.
Once a disciple is injured or killed, it is normal for the swordsmanship skills within the sect to be lost to others. Even in various Dafang cities, there are still a lot of swordsmanship skills from Dongxuan Sect spread.
However, it seems that Dongxuan Sect doesn't pay much attention to this situation, and I have never heard of them holding any monks outside the sect accountable. Of course, except for those who clearly knew that they had killed their own disciples.
Li Xuangang thought about it carefully and quickly guessed the whole story.
Dongxuan Sect is arrogant. They don't think that monks outside the sect can achieve great achievements in the way of swordsmanship just by relying on these swordsmanship techniques.
They believe that only Dongxuan Sect in the entire Chaoyang Continent can have the highest-level sword cultivator in the world of cultivation.
Dongxuanzong has more and more exquisite swordsmanship, a more complete inheritance of swordsmanship, disciples with more extraordinary swordsmanship talents, more swordsmanship resources, and...
There was an inexplicable meaning on Li Xuangang's face. He walked among the many monks on the street and thought to himself:
"From ancient times to the present, the practice has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, but I have never heard of any top-level sword cultivator in the central cultivation world who did not come from Dongxuan Sect..."
Suddenly, a glimmer of light flashed across his eyes.
"It seems that there is something more important to the practice of swordsmanship in Dongxuan Sect than swordsmanship."
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After eliminating some useless information from the many messages he heard at the tea shop, Li Xuangang accidentally learned another thing besides the information he wanted about Dongxuan Sect.
That is to say, he figured out why when he entered the gate of Shuangjiao City today, there were many more monks entering and exiting the Hengduan Mountains than when he was in retreat five years ago.
On the major streets in Shuangjiao City, there were also many monks gathered from all over the city. In order to maintain order, the Yuling Sect sent more disciples from the sect into Fangcheng for duty.
"Strangulation order?"
Walking along the street towards a store in his memory, Li Xuangang thought about this matter in his mind.
A few years ago, a new demon king appeared in the Hengduan Mountains, and this newly entered fifth-level demon beast was powerful and cruel in nature. The most important thing was that it had an extremely strong hatred for human monks.
In this year, it struggled with many monsters, and then launched a small beast tide at a monk stronghold inside the Hengduan Mountains. In this beast tide, not only many casual cultivators and monks from other cultivating forces were killed.
, and at that time there happened to be two elders of the Jindan stage in the Yuling Sect who were also leading the sect disciples to perform sect tasks near that stronghold.
In the end, none of the disciples from the foundation-building and qi-refining stages of the Yuling Sect who performed the mission survived, and one of the two elders from the golden elixir stage was also seriously injured.
As a result, the Yuling Sect was furious, and an ancestor of the mid-Nascent Soul who had been in seclusion for a long time even went out of seclusion to go deep into the Hengduan Mountains to look for this demon king.
However, this demon king was extremely cunning and used various terrains and traps to avoid fighting. After searching for more than a month, the Yuling Sect ancestor had no choice but to return without success.
But on the way back, he killed more than a thousand low-level monsters to vent his anger.
In order to avoid arousing the anger of the other demon kings in the Hengduan Mountains, the Yuling Sect was not planning to start a big war again, but planned to slowly take advantage of it and use other methods to kill the new demon king.
But unexpectedly, the Yuling Sect had just put down its guard, and on the other side, the demon king gathered tens of thousands of demon beasts and launched another wave of beasts.
So this time Yuling Sect no longer held back. As a large sect with tens of thousands of years of heritage, they decided to take this opportunity to launch a strangulation order against the Hengduan Mountains that had not been seen in the sect for hundreds of years.
This strangulation order is aimed at the newly promoted fifth-level demon king. Of course, if the opportunity is sufficient, the Yuling Sect would not mind expanding its sphere of influence deeper into the Hengduan Mountains.
Now that it has been decided to carry out such a large-scale monster cleanup operation, the early elimination of monsters outside the Hengduan Mountains has been put on the agenda.
Since the Yuling Sect launched the strangulation order, many casual cultivators and cultivating forces near Shuangjiao City have taken action after hearing the news.
On the one hand, they share the honor and disgrace with the Yuling Sect in the face of the beast tide, but on the other hand, it is also the aspect that really drives them.
The frontline battle to eliminate the monsters is carried out by the disciples of the Yuling Sect, and they are also responsible for advancing the battle line. Therefore, the risk of these casual cultivators and cultivators following behind to hunt the monsters is minimized.
For the latter, this is an excellent opportunity to collect monster resources.
Although some larger sects or families will also move to the forefront, with the powerful Yuling Sect bearing most of the pressure, the cost for them to obtain high-level monster resources is much lower than usual.
few.
If you act cautiously and have a little bit of luck, you might not even have to pay that small price.
However, after Li Xuangang carefully considered it, he knew that the Yuling Sect's intention to launch this move was not just to make a wedding dress for other casual cultivators or cultivating forces, but also had its own plans.
The scale of this operation is not small, so they also need other cultivating forces and casual cultivators to help them check for leaks and fill in the gaps, and reduce the number of disciples that their sect needs to invest in.
And if you think about the worst, the Yuling Sect can still control these monks outside the sect and use them for their own purposes when necessary.
Whether attacking or retreating, with these monks as sacrifices, one's disciples can be protected to the maximum extent.
And since Li Xuangang can think of this, I believe that most of the casual cultivators and forces involved in the strangulation order also know it in their hearts.
But even though they knew the possible risks of following the Yuling Sect to participate in this strangulation order, they still flocked to it.
After all, in the final analysis, this was Yulingzong's clearly stated intention, and no monks were forcibly recruited.
For both parties, this is more like a mutually beneficial cooperation. Many monks will rarely encounter such an action full of great opportunities in their lifetime, and they will definitely not choose to give up this opportunity for practice.
After all, as long as you can come back alive, you might be able to accumulate enough cultivation resources to enter the next realm.
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Knowing the general situation, Li Xuangang suddenly remembered that decades ago, when he was still in the Qi refining stage, his family had followed the Corpse Ghost Sect into the eastern mountains of the Hengduan Mountains to conquer monsters.
The situation at that time was very similar to today, but the purpose and scale were definitely different.
A fifth-level monster would not cause the Yuling Sect to go into such a big fight. Li Xuangang guessed that what the Yuling Sect really wanted was to deter the monsters in the entire western mountains of the Hengduan Mountains and expand the sect's monster resources in one fell swoop.
Get the area.
Otherwise, why has the strangulation order been issued for several months, and the Yuling Sect's front advance in the Hengduan Mountains is still only a few hundred miles away.
And based on the powerful power of the Yuling Sect, if it was to kill the fifth-level demon king, I am afraid that many monks would have marched straight in and attacked Huanglong under the leadership of several Yuling Sect ancestors in the Yuan Ying stage.
Therefore, the current situation can only be that the Yuling Sect is deliberately suppressing the speed of the front advance and planning other things.
Perhaps it was just as Li Xuangang guessed, they wanted to expand the sect's sphere of influence in the Hengduan Mountains so that they could easily obtain more monster resources deep in the mountains in the future.
Of course, this is just something he inferred based on rumors in the market, and the truth must only be known to the senior leaders of the Yuling Sect.
As for whether there is any secret inside, that is probably something that most monks are destined to not know.
After thinking about it, a large spiritual plant shop appeared in front of him, so he stopped, looked up, his thoughts whirled around, patted the clothes on both sides of his body with both hands, and stepped into the shop.
Lobby.
The cultivation after reaching the peak of foundation building cannot be slackened, and Zhengda in the cave had already collected the last batch of mature golden source fruits three years ago.
So another mission of coming to Shuangjiao City this time is that Li Xuangang wants to buy a batch of auxiliary medicines for refining the Ten Thousand Energy Pills, and return to the space to refine a new batch of Ten Thousand Energy Pills for the next practice.
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In the twelfth year after Li Xuangang left Taiqiu Mountain and came to the cultivation world in the central part of Chaoyang Continent, he finally began to prepare for the cultivation of the last small realm in the foundation period.
An hour later, he came out of this spiritual plant shop and was about to leave Shuangjiao City and return to the Jieyuan space. However, after taking a few steps, he accidentally turned his head and saw a familiar figure standing on the street corner not far away.
So he put away the storage bag containing the auxiliary medicine for refining the Ten Thousand Energy Pill, suppressed the flash of surprise in his eyes, and then walked in the direction of the figure.