Yatai City was as lively as ever. She walked around for a long time before entering the elixir shop that Shang Xun took her to last time.
After asking about the price of buying spiritual grass here, he handed over the storage bag containing the spiritual grass. The items were not very precious, but the quantity was considerable. The owner of the shop asked the people in the store to take inventory.
Tongyan knew how many Lingcao there were, so he sat in the lobby and waited.
The boss smiled very kindly and talked to her, "This is your second time here, little Taoist friend. I remember seeing you once a few months ago."
The person who brought her here was an important guest. Not only was he profound in cultivation, he was also very generous with his money. If he could get such an order every day, he would laugh out of his dreams.
Tong Yan smiled: "I didn't expect that the boss would still remember that I did come with my master once."
The boss said cheerfully: "I have a very good memory. I can remember most of the customers I met a year or two ago.
At that time, my little Taoist friend was just in the Qi training period. I see you are strong and strong today, it seems that your cultivation level has greatly improved, congratulations."
Tong Yan smiled modestly: "It's okay, it's okay."
"This guy looks like he's grown a lot..."
Tong Yan was extremely surprised when he heard this, and quickly asked: "I have grown taller?! How much taller? Is it true?"
The height issue has bothered her for several years. Wasn't the reason why she came here in the first place just because she couldn't grow up?
Now that the mystery has been solved inexplicably, how could it not surprise her?
The shop owner didn't quite understand why Tong Yan was so happy. In his opinion, isn't it normal for teenage children to grow taller?
However, he still said with a smile: "I won't lie to you. My little fellow Taoist is at least a head taller than he was a few months ago."
Tong Yan ran to the counter and gestured about his height, "How tall was I then? Did my nose only reach the table?"
But now that the height of the tabletop has dropped to her shoulders, she has really grown taller!
Is the spiritual energy in the world of cultivation so nourishing?
After counting, the little brother came out with the storage bag. When he saw Tong Yan, who was a little overly excited, he was stunned, "Boss, she is..."
Could it be that the boss sold a treasure to her at a loss? Otherwise, why would he be so happy?
The shop owner waved his hand and asked him: "Are you sure?"
"Let's make it clear, one hundred and fourteen purple-leaf grasses, one hundred and three gray-backed grasses... a total of 2,109 spiritual stones are needed."
The shop owner nodded, turned around and told Tong Yan, who had managed to calm down but still had a smile on his face, the total number.
She had no objection to the number of spirit stones. She nodded, took the spirit stones, nodded briefly, and then left.
She is now going to find a place called Tingxin Building.
This is what she just heard about, a relatively mysterious organization that is said to be relatively mysterious. They don't commit murders and arson, and don't lend bodyguards. They only deal in the business of buying and selling information.
Tong Yan came to them because he wanted them to help find someone.
—— Sumu
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On a certain peak, a woman who looked about twenty years old stood at the door of the side hall. She looked at the door from time to time, as if anxiously waiting for someone to come out.
Not long after, the door creaked open, and a middle-aged man walked out, followed by a disciple carrying two swords.
When the female disciple saw the two of them, she hurriedly greeted them and shouted: "How are the conditions of Zhenjun Daoyang, Senior Brother Helan, and Senior Brother Shen?"
The middle-aged man was deep in thought and did not speak. Helan Zhou said next to him: "The situation is not good. Whether it is life or death, it depends on whether Junior Brother Shen can survive these few days."
Ye Qiuyi said disappointedly: "Even Zhenjun Daoyang can't do anything? Then what should Junior Brother Shen do?"
He Lanzhou sighed, "Master has tried his best. I believe that Junior Brother Shen is not someone who accepts his fate so easily. Let's wait outside for him to come out."
Ye Qiuyi looked at the door worriedly, as if he wanted to see clearly the people inside through the barrier.
He Lanzhou stopped talking, glanced towards the door, and followed the middle-aged man out.
Master has said that it is not appropriate to let too many people know what happened to Junior Brother Shen. If you can survive it, you will have to deal with it. If you cannot survive it...
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Tong Yan never expected that a so-called mysterious organization would open a bookstore on the side of the road in such a big way.
She was well prepared to go around the streets and make various secret visits, but you tell me this is it?
I walked in with a very skeptical attitude. There was nothing special about the layout of the bookstore. There were various paper books placed in front of the tall bookshelves.
She came in for a while, and the boss at the counter didn't even look at her. He just held the book in his hand and read intently.
Just when she was about to ask a question, she saw a conspicuous little sign on the counter.
Read the book and take it to yourself, and go to the second floor to discuss business.
Tong Yan had no choice but to walk up to the second floor silently.
There are ordinary rooms on the left and right sides of the second floor, and it is quieter here than downstairs, so quiet that you can barely hear your own footsteps.
Presumably some special formation was used to eliminate the sound.
Behind the counter on the second floor was a middle-aged man. He glanced at the people who came up and said: "We are here to inquire. I am the manager He Ke. Are you planning to buy or sell?"
Tong Yan: "Tingxin Building?"
He Ke nodded and said: "This is it. Didn't the guests see the big words on the plaque when they came in?"
"I saw it... I just didn't expect to find you so easily."
Seeing her distrust, He Ke said: "We at Tingxinlou are doing serious business, so naturally we have to open a shop generously to welcome customers. If it is in a place that is difficult to find, customers will waste a lot of time when they need to find us."
Tong Yan asked curiously: "What kind of work do you do here?"
He Kedao: "We accept life experiences, find places, deliver news, find people and find things, and get information. Each item is priced clearly, and we are all honest."
Tong Yan was not interested in other things for the time being, so he went straight to the topic and said, "I'm looking for someone."
"Okay, please provide the information of the person you are looking for so that we can find him faster."
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By the time Tong Yan came out of the Tingxin Building, it was already a quarter of an hour later. He subconsciously touched the flat storage bag in his hand and felt extremely heartbroken.
She recalled what Na He Ke said, "The whole city is looking for people to start with one thousand spirit stones. The scope is set in Jianzong. It is out of town and the area is too wide. An additional one thousand five hundred spirit stones will be charged. The contract will be signed for ten years. Every year If the extension fee of one hundred is charged, it will be one thousand, and the customer will have to pay a total of three thousand five hundred spiritual stones..."
Besides paying the money obediently, what else could she do?
Fortunately, the contract lasted for ten years, otherwise she would have thought she had met a liar.
They are not devils, they are vampires. All the spiritual stones from selling spiritual herbs have gone in, but it is not enough!
With the ability of ordinary disciples to earn spiritual stones, if she hadn't been lucky enough to meet Shang Xun, she might not have been able to produce so many spiritual stones in ten years.
#On the benefits of hugging the lap of the young sect master#
After settling the matter, Tong Yan went to buy some more things and then returned to the sect.
The two or three things in the sect are just cultivation, cultivation, and cultivation.
I swing my sword ten thousand times a day, and attend talisman and formation classes every day. As the sun rises and sets, time flies by quietly for a year.
During this year, she met a difficult guy, yes, it was Tang Wuchuan, the young disciple of Zhenjun Yan Jue, who had had a fight with her and lost.
The cause of the matter was not the last fight, but one day Tang Wuchuan discovered that he had built the foundation earlier than him.
I don't know if this matter seriously irritated him. After all, Tong Yan was much lower than his cultivation level a few months ago. Unexpectedly, he surpassed him quietly in the blink of an eye.
She still remembers Tang Wuchuan's ugly face at that time. Just when she thought he was going to have a fight with her in the next second, he only glared at her and left.
Hey! Isn’t he here to listen to the formation class?
Besides, it’s not about fighting?
Oh, one is building foundation and the other is practicing Qi, so you will suffer losses in a fight.
The rules don't allow it either.
About a month later, when Tang Wuchuan appeared in front of her again, he was already in the foundation-building stage. Apparently, he had gone to retreat to advance in seclusion during this period.
Then, Tong Yan realized that he actually had the ability to be a follower. Of course, in their own eyes, this was called surveillance and tracking.
Tong Yan: Aren’t you just a follower?
Someone will follow you when you are listening to lectures, someone will follow you when you take on tasks, and when you fight and eat, you will also have the onlooker attribute?
Can people still have a good meal?
When she is doing a reality show 24 hours a day with no blind spots!
Speaking of which, Tang Wuchuan was also a proud son of the Mocha Sect. He was accepted as a disciple by Lord Yan Jue when he was about ten years old, and he had already established the foundation when he was less than twenty years old.
Countless people should have cast their envious, jealous and hateful eyes on him, but there happened to be one person who was secretly better than him.
This is absolutely intolerable!
But he couldn't do anything to her.
Tang Wuchuan: Why did this foreigner get the attention of the master and the others? First his master, then the young sect master. I want to see how good you are!
Other followers: We will do whatever Senior Brother Tang says. Everything Senior Brother Tang says is right. If it is wrong, you may have heard it wrong.
Eyeliner No. 1: A hot female disciple left Luohua Peak and went to Luohua Peak!
Eyeliner No. 2: The target has arrived at the entrance of Jinfangtang!
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Eyeliner No. 10: ...in the cafeteria.
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Eyeliner Fifteen:... took over the back mountain mission!
Tong Yan: "They've had enough. They've become addicted to following me, right?"
Huo Qizhi: "Since you find it annoying, why not teach them a lesson."
Tong Yan hesitated: "No, you can't challenge disciples in the Qi training stage during the foundation building stage."
Having a high level of cultivation is actually a hindrance, hey!
Huo Qizhi glanced at her sideways and said, "...I think you are enjoying it."
Tong Yan looked left and right, and said innocently: "Is there any? There is definitely not."
Huo Qizhi would not believe her obvious lie. She usually drank tea and chatted with those so-called eyeliners.
Being able to mingle with the 'enemy' is considered a talent.
As for the two of them, because their activities overlapped greatly, it was difficult not to meet them. After going back and forth, they naturally became familiar with each other.
At this moment, they were in a remote forest in the outer courtyard. This was Huo Qizhi's secret base. Not only was it surrounded by mountains and rivers, he also built a simple shed next to it.
Tong Yan was sitting under the shed to enjoy the cool air. The snacks she brought were placed on the stone table. She stared at the pattern beside her feet and stuffed a mouthful into her mouth from time to time.
Where is Huo Qizhi? He is naturally soaking in the river and practicing all the time.
In terms of hard work, she is completely defeated. Apart from going through what she has to do every day like a task, she will do other things.
For example, researching talismans with strange uses on a whim, or watering the spiritual plants in the yard that are not dead yet.
Although some people couldn't understand her behavior at all, and even told her to roll down the mountain to practice, they still couldn't extinguish her ideal fire of living a retired life!
Huo Qizhi asked: "You said you were going to practice in a few days. When will you set off?"
"Three days later, I was actually pushed into the team halfway. They set the time early in the morning. I just need to gather at the scene on time." Tong Yan took a bite of the fruit and stopped to think about the training.
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First of all, she would like to thank the sect leader for paying special attention to her. He thought that she was doing nothing every day and not practicing seriously, so he specially 'assigned' her to this experience.
Although she didn’t feel like she was an idler, cough!
Secondly, the location of this training mission is in a small town on the southern border of Mocha Sect, adjacent to the boundaries of Jian Sect and Nanling Buddhist Cultivator.
The spiritual energy of the towns there is thin, there are few monks, and the people living there are basically mortals.
Recently, the sect received a letter asking for help from the lord of the affiliated city there, saying that many villages and towns had been massacred in recent months, and those causing the trouble seemed to be monsters, but there were also human cultivators, so they sent a letter asking for help.
After all, it is its own territory, how can the Mosha Sect tolerate others running wild here.
Moreover, these territories will provide a new group of disciples to the sect every ten years or so, so naturally this matter cannot be left unchecked.
"Since you are on the southern border, you probably won't be able to come back for a short period of time from this experience."
Tong Yan nodded and said: "Disciples in the foundation building stage will basically go out to practice for several years. For me and the team, it will be a few months at most.
Why don't I rush back when I go out this time? It's close to the Buddhist cultivation area, so I can just go and have a look."
Speaking of which, she hadn't seen Ji Xing for a year. Although she kept his sound-transmitting crane, she had never sent him a single word, nor had she received any message from him.
Can we meet him if we go south?
"What are you thinking about?" Huo Qizhi's voice suddenly sounded from beside her, calling her back to her senses.
It turned out that when she was distracted, he came out of the water.
Tong Yan reacted, smiled and said, "I'm thinking of a friend. I don't know if I can meet him if I go this time."
"Friend?" Huo Qizhi repeated the word with his eyes on the ground.
"What friends? I just realized that you have friends too."
I have known her for a year, and I have never seen her interact too much with anyone, nor communicate with anyone. She acts like a loner, and to a certain extent, she is the same as him. She has no friends.
Who is this person she is talking about?
Tong Yan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Why can't I have friends? In my opinion, he and I are barely friends of life and death."
Not only do I have friends, I also have a younger brother, who makes me feel like a loner.
There was a proud look on her face, as if being friends with Ji Xing was such an honorable thing.
After all, this kind of fairy-like figure is her friend!
Huo Qizhi felt unspeakably uncomfortable. He was just a so-called friend. Is it necessary to show such an expression?
Still at the crossroads of life and death.
He said disdainfully: "Don't be the friend you think you are."
"Tsk, can you speak?" Tong Yan said angrily. "In Yanhui Secret Realm, we share weal and woe, so naturally we can be called friends."
Huo Qizhi: "How do you count this as a life-and-death acquaintance? Then how should we count the year we have known each other?"
"Well... fair-weather friends?" Tong Yan thought for a while, nodded in self-recognition and said, "That's right!"
Huo Qizhi: "..." I am a drunkard and you are the same size!
At this time, one of the informants, Yang Qi, ran over and shouted from afar: "Uncle Tong, Uncle Tong, I've found you!"
Tong Yan straightened up and looked at his round body running over, and asked doubtfully: "What's the matter?"
Seriously speaking, Yang Qicai is her fair-weather friend. He is a talkative person and talks a lot about anyone he knows.
She knew that he was being 'surveilled' in real time by Tang Wuchuan's people, and he had some credit for it.
"I just got news from my cousin that Uncle Tang is also going to Old Qingcheng to practice. I heard that he has already mentioned it to Lord Yan Jue Zhen."
Old Qingcheng is where Tong Yan will go to practice in three days.
Both of them frowned when they heard this, and Tong Yan said doubtfully: "He wants to go there anyway. The bad things over there are the poor mountains and rivers, the spiritual energy is thin, and the place is far away. He must be too busy."
Yang Qi glanced at her and explained weakly: "To a large extent, it's because you know how to go. You also know what Uncle Tang does these days..."
Why? I monitor her every day, and I have to compete with her in everything.
With such a positive attitude, people who didn't know it thought he was pursuing her.
Bah! Pursuit is a ghost pursuit.
"So he is still too idle." Tong Yan was helpless.
She just wants to be a piece of trash who doesn't compete with the world, and doesn't want to compete with anyone who is more powerful.