"Welcome distinguished guests."
In the courtyard of Changxing Escort Bureau, a man in white shirt with round cheeks came quickly and saluted the master and apprentice as they walked through the door.
"Hello." Qin Yao returned the greeting with clasped fists and said politely: "I heard that Changxing Escort Agency is the largest escort agency in the city. I wonder if this is true?"
The man in white shirt smiled slightly and said With pride: "Not bad, We are the largest escort agency in the imperial city. Do you have anything to escort?"
Qin Yao put down his arm and said with a smile: "That's right... We want to ask someone to send us to Changliang Mountain. ”
"Changliang Mountain..." The man in white suppressed his smile and pondered: "But the Changliang Mountain where the three officials saved Xiao Maojun's life?"
"Exactly." Qin Yao was overjoyed and said with his palms: "You know the place the best."
Man Calmly asked: "How much can you pay?"
Qin Yao's smile did not change and asked: "Don't your company have a charging standard?"
Whose "good guy" It doesn’t make sense to ask your employer how much money you are prepared to pay.
The man was silent for a moment and said: "The trip to Changliang Mountain is at least a million miles or as much as tens of thousands of miles. There are many dangers along the way. At least 10,000 pieces of top-quality fairy crystals are needed."
Qin Yao: "..."
Although he didn't know the purchasing power of the best immortal crystal, judging from the other party's tone, it was definitely not a small sum.
Uncle Jiu shook his head: "We don't have that many top-quality fairy crystals."
The man sighed: "Then there is nothing we can do. I'm sorry, you two, we can't do your job. Business.”
The two masters and apprentices: "..."
With no choice but to bid farewell to each other, they moved between multiple escort agencies. As a result, when the heads of these escort agencies heard about the location, none of them charged less than eight thousand. , causing the master and apprentice to return home defeated many times.
"If you are really short of money, go to the Zhenxing Escort Agency. They may take your order at a low price."
As dusk approaches, Fuyuan Escort Agency, with messy hair, The old man with thin cheeks said warmly.
"Listen to what you said, what else is there about the Zhenxing Escort Agency?" Qin Yao asked.
The old man nodded: "The head of the Zhenxing Escort Agency has died, and now the burden of the Escort Agency falls on a little girl. Everyone does not trust her, which has led to the bleak business of the Zhenxing Escort Agency, which has not been open for a long time."
Qin Yao suddenly understood and bowed: "Thank you for your advice."
"It's okay." The old man smiled and said, "We who run an escort agency are all about being kind to others."
Not long after.
The master and apprentice stepped into a quiet and deep courtyard at the same time. They saw a flash of red light in front of them. A man wearing a red warrior robe, holding a long and narrow lancet, with beautiful eyebrows and a tall ponytail with a heroic temperament. The girl appeared in front of the two of them and didn't ask any questions. She just looked at them quietly.
Under the questioning from her eyes, Qin Yao raised his hand and said, "May I ask, is this still an escort agency?"
The girl in red nodded slightly: "What escorts do you want to escort and where are they going? ”
Qin Yao said: "We want to find someone to take us to Changliang Mountain. I wonder if the girl knows the specific direction?"
"Wait a moment." The girl in red turned and left, leaving the master and apprentice behind. The two looked at each other.
"She seems to be the only one in this escort agency." Uncle Jiu said through a message.
Qin Yao replied: "There is no way, we don't have enough money, so don't think about guarding or anything like that, as long as she can know the way..."
While the master and apprentice were talking, the girl in red held her hand. He came back holding a compass and said in a low voice: "There is something in the positioning compass." I can take you to the location of Changliang Mountain, but the reward will be at least two thousand pieces of top-quality fairy crystals.”
Two thousand pieces of fairy crystals are naturally much cheaper than the eight thousand pieces of fairy crystals offered by others, but. The problem is that there is only one person on the other side, so it is difficult to provide protection!
Thinking of this, Qin Yao said: "What do you call the escort master?"
"My surname is Liu, Liu Yixi."
"Master Liu." Qin Yao nodded and pointed to the compass in the opponent's hand: "May I ask Master Liu if you can copy the map through this compass? We can just buy a map."
Liu Yixi He shook his head and said: "It can't be done. The positioning compass doesn't have this function."
"Then do you want to sell this compass?"
"No." Liu Yixi said firmly: "The positioning compass records all the steps of the ancestors of the Liu family. It is the inheritance treasure of my Liu family. It will never be sold." For sale."
Qin Yao was speechless and turned to look at Uncle Jiu.
"I believe you are not the first to come to me. You come here because my price is cheap." Liu Yixi said lightly: "Two thousand immortal crystals, isn't it cheap enough?"
"Then trouble Liu Yixi. The escort master." Uncle Jiu thought about it and said with a smile.
Liu Yixi had an expressionless face and stretched out her white palms towards the two of them: "Pay a deposit of one thousand first and make up the remaining one thousand when you arrive at the destination. Isn't this reasonable?"
"Reasonable." Uncle Jiu took out the Qiankun bag obtained from Zhang Daoxian, summoned a thousand pieces of top-quality fairy crystals, and piled them in front of him.
Liu Yixi carefully checked the quality of the fairy crystals, frowned and said: "The quality of these fairy crystals is unexpectedly inferior, and they are only slightly better than high-grade fairy crystals."
Uncle Jiu said: "Just this little bit widened the gap, didn't it?"
Liu Yixi was silent for a moment, then waved his sleeves and put away the thousand crystal stones: "The wilderness has been around since ancient times. There has been a saying that you should not go out when it is dark. You two can spend the night in my escort agency. We will set off immediately tomorrow morning. ”
< br>Qin Yao looked curious and asked: "May I ask the escort master, what does it mean to not go out in the dark?"
Liu Yixi was stunned for a moment, with a surprised look on his face: "Haven't you heard of it? ?”
Qin Yao smiled and said: “We come from a certain paradise, and we don’t know much about everything in this wilderness.”
Liu Yixi thought thoughtfully and said: "Xuan Zang traveled westward and drove all the demons in the world into the wilderness, so there were countless evil demons hidden in the wilderness.
The fairy city is protected by formations, talismans, strong men, and fairy soldiers ,demon I don't dare to covet it, but it might be possible in the wild.
Therefore, there is an ancestral saying in the wilderness, don't go out at night if there is something urgent. You must hide your whereabouts and act in a low-key manner to avoid losing your life to monsters. "
Qin Yao's heart moved, he took out the space bag and summoned a jar of wine: "It's still early, I have wine here, can Master Liu tell us the story of Xuanzang's journey to the west?"
Liu Yixi shook his head: "I know very little about the truth, so I won't say more. If you are interested in this, you can go to heaven to inquire in the future, and you will definitely know the whole story."
"I was too abrupt." Qin Yao apologized.
Liu Yixi waved her hand: "It's okay, I'll take you to the guest room."
No words for the whole night. The next day, early morning.
Liu Yixi led the three dragon horses into the courtyard and said to the master and apprentice who were drinking tea under the stone pavilion: "These three magical horses can travel thousands of miles in a day and run fast. Being inconspicuous and unobtrusive can avoid a lot of trouble.”
"Thank you." Qin Yao said with cupped hands.
Liu Yixi was silent for a moment and said softly: "If there is nothing else, let's hit the road."
"Let's go." Uncle Jiu responded decisively.
Then the three of them led three dragon horses out of the fairy city, got on their horses in front of the city gate, and galloped away.
A few days later.
evening.
The three people who traveled day and night came to a fairy city, but saw that the city was overcrowded. Hundreds of white-clothed fairy soldiers guarded the city gate with guns, forcibly preventing outsiders from entering the city.
"May I ask your Excellency, what is the situation in this city?" Qin Yao grabbed a monk who was also locked up outside and asked with a smile on his face.
"A magic treasure was born, and a large number of demons gathered in the nearby fairyland, causing countless monks living in the countryside to move to the fairy city, causing the fairy city to be overcrowded." The monk sighed.
Qin Yao glanced at the sun that was about to set, then at the hundreds of people in front of the city gate, and asked again: "It will be dark soon, and it seems impossible to enter this fairy city. What to do?”
The monk took a deep breath and said helplessly: "What else can we do? Find a place to hide. After tonight, let's talk about tomorrow."
Before he finished speaking, hundreds of people present The people turned into light and left one after another. Master Qin Yao and his disciples looked at each other, and then looked at Liu Yixi together.
In this situation, the only one they can rely on is each other.
"Follow me." Liu Yixi turned on his horse with a stern face.
The two of them hurriedly followed her and walked away.
When the sun completely set over the mountains and there was only a hint of fish-belly white left in the distant sky, gusts of evil wind suddenly blew in the sky, and countless sharp laughter came from the distance, making the three people on the dragon horse stand on end.
After a long time, Liu Yixi led them to a temple. After the two dismounted, he waved his sleeves, put all three horses into his sleeves, and whispered: "Follow me."
The master and apprentice followed her and walked straight into the temple.
Then he watched her arrive at the arched table under the statue, lifted up the red cloth covering the arched table, and got under the table.
“What are you waiting for? Why don’t you come in quickly?”
The master and apprentice looked at each other in silence, becoming more aware of the dangers of this fairyland.
When the moon is dark and the wind is high, all kinds of magical sounds crisscross this fairyland, and dense monsters almost fill the starry sky.
Time passed minute by minute, and a few hours later, two monsters with flapping black wings landed in front of the temple.
"Brother, didn't the king ask us to find the magic sword? Why did you bring me to this temple?"
"Idiot. Do you know what kind of sword this magic sword is?"< br>
"My brother is looking down on me when he says this... I asked before I came here. This sword is called the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword. It is said to be the sword of the great sage Yuhua of the Demonic Way during the time when the gods were made gods in ancient times. This sword was used widely on the battlefield. Yicai injured Nezha first and then Lei Zhenzi. If Yang Jian hadn't cheated the antidote from Yu Yuan, these two great gods who had become saints would have died."
"You know this demon. The origin of the knife , we should know that considering our status as brothers, it is not a big deal if we cannot find this magic sword. If we find it, there is a high probability that we will not survive, let alone offer the treasure to the king. So, we should find a secluded place. Let’s have a good sleep. It’s our blessing to have no faults and be safe.”
During the conversation, the two demons stepped into the temple and sat down on the futon directly in front of the statue. .
"Brother, can I take a nap?" After sitting for a while, the demon brother asked softly.
"Go to sleep, don't forget that we are here for a search, not a vacation. If other monsters see you sleeping here, won't the king skin you alive?" Monster Brother shouted.
The demon brother sighed and said: "Brother, I'm a little tired of this kind of life now. The king brainwashes us every day and follows him. We will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future. But the things we robbed are only divided every time. A little bit. I can only look at the plundered beauty, not even touch it. I work hard, and he is getting richer and richer..."
"Okay, okay, stop complaining. "Demon Brother Kai explained: "What should I do if I don't work? Although I earn less now, I'm not sitting on nothing. If I don't work, I won't get paid. How can I live without being paid? Think about your family and work hard for your family. "
The demon brother sighed deeply, with a melancholy look on his face. He was almost desperate for his current life. He wished he could be reincarnated. If he could be a human being in the next life, he might be able to live an easier life.
Under the red cloth.
The three of them did not dare to breathe.
Fortunately, these two monsters were really out of control, and they just sat here chatting all night long to relieve the depression in their hearts.
Until the sky was getting brighter, they supported each other and left the temple and went back to the mountains to rest.
"Being a monster...is not easy." After getting out of the desk, Uncle Jiu sighed from the bottom of his heart.
Qin Yao nodded with deep understanding: "Human society at least has a layer of moral shackles, which are divided into good and bad. The world of demons is purely about the jungle and the strong, and the exploitation is much more serious than the human world."< br>
Liu Yixi waved his sleeves and released three dragon horses, and said, "Continue on the road?"
If these two people were attracted by the news about the blood-transforming magic sword and were unwilling to move forward, then she could return to the city with a deposit of one thousand immortal crystals.
“Continue on your journey.” Qin Yao said categorically: “Why does the Blood-Transforming Divine Sword and the Immortal-killing Divine Sword have anything to do with little immortals like us? Those who possess treasures will live in them, and this virtue will It is martial virtue. If martial virtue is not sufficient, obtaining the treasure will only lead to death. Those two demons understand the truth. How can we not know? "
Liu Yixi took a deep look at him and led the horse out of the temple: "That's what I said, but there are more than just refugees in the city."
Qin Yao understood what she meant. He emphasized again: "It has nothing to do with us, I just want to climb Mount Changliang as soon as possible!"
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
The three dragon horses ran at high speed past the boundary monument that released the gleaming divine light, and arrived at the endless wasteland.
Liu Yixi's body moved to the rhythm of the dragon and horse, her waist straightened, and she looked ahead: "There is no man's land in front of us. It is a hundred times more dangerous than inside. I hope you two can be prepared."< br>
“What preparations are needed?” Qin Yao asked.
Liu Yixi was silent for a moment and said: "Be prepared to experience life and death crises at any time."
Qin Yao took a silent breath and suddenly realized why Xiao Maojun let him go to Changliang Mountain in the first place Find him instead of contacting him when you arrive in the fairy world and ask him to guide your master and apprentice.
The ten thousand miles of demon road is an experience full of dangers. Only after surviving this experience can you be qualified to meet the Queen Mother and be granted the title of Immortal Official!
When Heaven is about to entrust this person with a great responsibility, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, deplete his body, and mess up his actions. Therefore, if his mind and forbearance are moved, he will be benefited. cannot.
Xiao Maojun wants to take this opportunity to see if he is worth cultivating! (End of this chapter)