Lishui City is located in the southeast of Cangyun Empire.
The small city is small in size and relatively remote in location. It has a population of about 50,000 and is not among the 108 main cities in the empire.
But Lishui City was one of the richest cities in the southeastern part of the empire, all thanks to a vein of fine iron ore twenty miles north of the small city.
Fifty years ago, Lishui City was still a remote city focusing on farming and handicrafts. The people in the city lived in extremely poverty, but all this changed with the discovery of the iron ore veins.
After discovering the veins, the city lord at that time made a prompt decision and spent many years of accumulation to recruit and organize a large number of craftsmen to fully excavate the veins. The purity of the ore produced here is also very amazing, far exceeding the ordinary refined iron ore produced in other areas.
While excavating the veins, the Lord of Lishui City also contacted the three major chambers of commerce in the Cangyun Empire. The high-quality refined iron ore was quickly recognized by the chamber of commerce bosses, and the market was instantly opened.
Since then, Lishui fine iron has become a famous specialty of the empire, and has even become the designated material for the imperial army's standard weapons.
The excavation of the refined iron ore veins brought huge wealth to Lishui City. At the same time, this mine also became the core area of Lishui City. Mining the huge veins required a lot of manpower, and countless civilians who used to work in farming flocked to the mine.
, became a miner.
Lishui Mine is usually crowded with people, and the lively scene is a hundred times more noisy than the city center. This has also become a beautiful scenery unique to Lishui City.
The busy trade in iron ore allowed the empire to directly build a trade road connecting Lishui City. This is also the only non-main city in the Cangyun Empire with a trade road.
At this time, Li Mu's three-person team was walking together on the commercial road outside Lishui City.
Li Mu and Lin Qingzhu walked side by side, and Fang Yan, still wearing a cloak, followed closely behind them. Li Mu kept trying to get him to come forward, but Fang Yan always insisted on walking behind the two of them. Several times
After his persuasion proved useless, Li Mu no longer forced himself.
It had been five days since they came out of Wolong Mountain. The three of them were walking through the lofty mountains. During this period, they also encountered some monsters. However, ordinary first- and second-level monsters were no match for Fang Yan, and they were torn apart in just three to five blows.
broken.
"Fang Yan, this skill of yours is really powerful. Not only is it extremely powerful in combat, but it can also absorb the opponent's blood and energy to practice during the fight. No wonder your cultivation has improved so quickly."
Li Mu was still a little envious of Fang Yan's cultivation speed. You must know that during the class competition, he was still halfway to the Dan Formation Realm. With the help of the simulation system and continuous opportunities, he broke through to the Dan Formation Realm. Fang Yan had already
It is the cultivation level of the Dan-Jie Realm, and its true combat effectiveness is still at the absolute top level in the same realm.
"Our Fang family's Blood God Technique is indeed an extremely heaven-defying skill. It can improve your cultivation by absorbing blood energy. However, in fact, the speed of cultivation is only in the realm of pill formation. If you want to break through in the future, you will need more blood energy.
It’s very huge.”
Fang Yan is not shy about the techniques he practices. In today's vast world of immortals, he is probably the only one who has the bloodline and can practice the Blood God Art. Moreover, Li Mu and Lin Qingzhu are his only recognized partners.
, no need to cover up.
"That's right, but as your cultivation level increases, you will be able to fight more powerful enemies. For example, the blood energy contained in third-level and fourth-level monsters cannot be matched by low-level monsters."
The three of them were chatting while walking on the wide business road. There were many caravans coming and going, but all the caravans coming from the direction of Lishui City were transporting refined iron ore. Only some of them were going to
The city's caravans transport some regular goods.
Lin Qingzhu had planned Lishui City as the first city to stay on this journey before setting off. Although the original planned route in Wolong Mountain had to be stranded due to the emergence of worm zombies, fortunately the team had additional plans.
With this in mind, the three of them temporarily changed their route, crossed the mountains, and arrived at the Lishui City Commercial Road.
"Is that the sentry post of the imperial army in front? It seems that Lishui City is really not the main city of the main city. The empire has specially arranged for troops to be stationed here."
After walking for about half a stick of incense, a simple sentry checkpoint appeared in the sight of the three people. The caravans passing by passed in an orderly manner, and the person responsible for verifying the goods was a small team wearing uniforms from the Cangyun Empire.
Soldiers in uniform and armor.
"But it's so strange. It's still five miles away from Lishui City. Why did the army set the checkpoint in such a peripheral place? Under normal circumstances, the inspection checkpoints in the main city are placed not far outside the city gate.
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The attentive Lin Qingzhu noticed something strange the first time he saw the army checkpoint. You must know that even in Qinglan City, where the Li family is autonomous, the imperial army's checkpoint is set up half a mile away from the city gate. In Lishui City,
It is really surprising that the imperial army can be allowed to retreat to such a peripheral place.
"Let's go over first. Brother Mu, you can take out the token that Aunt Liu gave you. The leader of the team responsible for the security of Lishui City is the Liu family. Let's go to him first to understand the situation."
Before setting off, Lin Qingzhu communicated the situation of the alternative route with Liu Ruoying in detail, and learned that the leader of the garrison in Lishui City was the Liu family, named Liu Long.
"Qingzhu, you are really amazing. I'm still wondering why you chose this as your first stop among so many cities. I didn't expect you had planned it with Aunt Liu."
Lin Qingzhu is undoubtedly the strategist among the three. She also knows that it is obviously not possible to leave things like planning the route to her somewhat big-headed brother Mu. Li Mu, who is blind from the trail, can lead people into trouble at any time.
Go inside.
Staying by her father's side to deal with many affairs in Qinglan City over the years has also allowed her to develop the habit of using her brain first. This is where the girl thinks she can best help Li Mu.
"Three of you, we are the team responsible for garrisoning Lishui City. I need to know what you are doing here."
Li Mu and the others did not carry any luggage. Most of their equipment and expenses were stored in the warehouse system, and they only had simple luggage to hide from others.
Earlier, Li Mu also deceived Fang Yan with the excuse that the master would give him a space ring. Everything about the simulation system was Li Mu's biggest secret. Even Nie Xiaoyu and Lin Qingzhu didn't know about it.
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"Big brother, we want to see you Liu Long, Captain Liu, so we told Li Mu from Qinglan City to come here to ask for a meeting. This is the token."
Li Mu also politely bowed his hand to the soldier responsible for the inspection, then took out the green token given by Liu Ruoying and wanted to ask to see Liu Long.
"Liu Ling? Okay, you guys wait a moment, I'll report it to the captain right away."
This soldier was obviously from the Liu family faction. When he saw the green token, he immediately bowed respectfully to Li Mu and the others, and then left quickly to report to Liu Long.