Chapter 116 Undercurrent (4,000-word update, please vote)
“These monks are all casual cultivators in this area. After so many years, I think there will be news about this. Pay more attention, maybe Useful information can be collected.”
These are all things Kong Xi learned from Feng An.
Thinking like this, Kong Jin walked to a free area in Fangshi and placed a few bottles of Qi-nourishing pills that he had refined in the past few days.
He didn't yell either. His eyes seemed to be staring straight at the elixir in front of him, but his ears were paying attention to the conversations of the monks around him.
Most of them are bargaining voices.
There are also monks talking about interesting things in the Xiling Mountains area.
Which monk found an elixir of excellent quality in the mountains, who was killed by a monster, or a certain monk had an enemy with someone and had a big battle.
Kong Jin sighed.
The life of casual cultivators is also colorful.
It's just that compared to the monks of the sect, the mortality rate of casual monks is extremely high. Maybe you saw him setting up a stall in the market yesterday.
It is not new that he died somewhere today.
Kong Ji placed the elixirs, and it didn’t take long.
Two casual cultivators, a man and a woman, stopped in front of his stall.
The man is twenty-seven or eighty years old and has cultivated in the Sixth Level of Yanglun. This qualification is considered adequate for the Cangwu Sect.
The woman is in her early twenties and is worthy of the four realms of Yanglun.
The two look somewhat similar, like brother and sister.
The woman lowered her body and picked up a bottle of Qi-Nourishing Pill, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it. Her eyes suddenly brightened, as if she realized that the bottle of Qi-Nourishing Pill was of good quality.
The shape of her mouth is extremely beautiful, which adds a lot to her appearance.
Taking the bottle of Qi-nourishing pills, he politely asked Kong Jian: "This fellow Taoist, how do you sell Qi-nourishing pills?"
Kong Jin wears an ever-changing mask. Now he has thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a rough appearance. He looks to be in his mid-twenties.
His cultivation level has also been hidden by him with thousands of traces, reaching the fifth level of Yanglun. It is neither high nor low, and looks very inconspicuous.
"Seventy Spiritual Crystals per grain." Hearing the woman's question, he just replied symbolically and stopped talking.
These qi-nourishing pills were all made by him at random, but they are good products and are 70% effective.
Seventy spiritual crystals are quite fair.
Hearing this, the woman seemed to be hesitating about the price.
Her brother took the bottle of pills, looked at them, and said with some dissatisfaction: "It's just Qi-nourishing pills. Everyone sells fifty-one pills, why do you sell them for seventy."
< br>"Then go and buy fifty." Kong Xi glanced at the man and replied lazily.
"䱱!" The man was so angry that he pointed at Kong Geng, but there was no fighting in the city. The boss inside had the cultivation level of Yanglun Ninth Realm.
I had to hold the woman’s hand and leave.
The woman was hesitating because of her value, but when the man pulled her away, she had to leave reluctantly.
"Brother, the quality of that Qi-nourishing pill is not bad, and it's worth the price." Vaguely, with the sharpness of his consciousness, Kong Chi could hear what the woman was explaining to her brother.
The man replied nonchalantly: "I know, but it's too expensive. We couldn't even buy a few if we put all our money together."
Hearing this, he sat at the stall. Shang Kongji shook his head and sighed: "It's not easy for casual cultivators."
I don't know if the casual cultivators in Xiling Qunshanfang City are not as wealthy as the Cangwu Sect.
Or maybe it’s Kong Chi’s cold attitude.
After a long time, only one bottle was sold.
Kong Jin was not in a hurry to leave. Seeing that the market was almost gone, he packed up the stalls and entered the teahouse in the market leisurely.
There are not only places to drink tea and alcohol in Fang City, but also expensive delicacies cooked with monsters. As long as you have enough spiritual crystals, you can even live here.
Absolutely safe.
People were coming and going in the tea room, all of them were casual cultivators chatting here after finishing their stalls.
This is also the purpose of Kong Zhen coming here. He ordered a pot of tea at random, and he drank one cup at a time near the inner seat.
Of course there is more news here than when setting up stalls.
Everyone was talking about interesting things that happened in Wudong recently.
A fat man with a big belly took a sip of tea and showed off his latest knowledge.
"There have been changes in the Qianlong List recently. After Huangfu Wuqin, the Cangwu Sect has produced another young genius, his surname is Shangguan and his name is Yuzhou."
"That boy is really fierce. , two geniuses who were ranked 80th and 75th on the Qianlong Ranking with swords within two months of coming out, are now at the 75th on the Qianlong Ranking. The title given to him by the Qianlong Ranking is Huayu Sword."
"I heard that he recently challenged Minshan Sword, which is ranked 60th on the Qianlong Ranking. Many people are very optimistic about him."
Hearing the news about Shangguan Yuzhou, I was drinking tea. Kong Zhen slowly raised his head, looked at the fat man, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, without feeling too much surprise.
I thought to myself: "The outer disciples of Cangwu Sect can no longer satisfy Brother Shangguan's desire to fight."
"It is only a matter of time before he leaves the Cangwu Sect and challenges the Qianlong List. It seems that he is having a great time."
After Kong Xian walked out of the inner door, he heard Feng An say that Shangguan Yu Zhou's cultivation level has reached the seventh stage of cultivating the wheel.
Now that he has understood the meaning of the sword, he can reach the top fifty on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, so he is not too worried about him suffering a loss.
Suddenly he heard someone say: "This generation of the Cangwu Sect is not limited to Huangfu Wuqin and Shangguan Yuzhou. Do you know the Dragon King Yuan Xiao?"
"Who doesn't know? Dragon King, that kid is a fairy from Tempering Jinmen. He was only nineteen years old. He reached the 38th place on the Hidden Dragon Ranking some time ago and is now famous in Wudong."
"Give him another five. In six years, maybe he will be the next to top the list."
Someone immediately said sarcastically: "Also, Yuan Xiao is not from the Cangwu sect."
"I haven't finished yet. , Qiu Shi, you are a bastard, what are you talking about?" The monk who spoke first seemed to know the monk named Qiu Shi, and he cursed before continuing: "I heard the news from the disciples of the Cangwu Sect. Quejin Sect sent three people to compete with Cangwu Sect a year ago, and one of them was Yuan Xiao. "Guess what? That Jiaolong King Yuan Xiao was a little-known boy from Cangwu Sect." The monk dragged it to exhaustion and ended the match. I heard that the young man was the same age as Yuan Xiao, and he was only nineteen this year."
"Fuck you, that young man is so fierce, he can compete with him. Yuan Xiao tied, where is your name on the Qianlong list now? What is your title?" The monk named Qiu Shi smiled coldly and asked a series of questions, which made the man's face turn red with anger.
"I'm telling you the truth, it's because you don't have enough information." He then explained: "It's not that he won't enter the Qianlong Ranking, but that his life or death is unknown now. I heard that the competition was extremely brutal, and Yuan Xiao's chest They were all penetrated and fell to the ground with serious injuries. The boy did not have the protection of the dragon, and there was no news after that battle. "
" He probably died young. "
The fat man who had discussed Shangguan Yuzhou before seemed to have heard this rumor, and immediately intervened: "I know who you are talking about, Kong Zhen, Shangguan Yuzhou's close friend in Huayu Sword. I heard that people on the Qianlong List have been paying attention He, just wait for him to get out of the Cangwu Sect and rank him."
"But it's been more than a year, I'm afraid there's no chance."
"The Qianlong List is paying attention. So, is this true? He was really a talented young man, but he didn’t have the luck to be a genius and died on the way." Many people lamented.
“The Cangwu sect has Huangfu Wuqin and Shangguan Yuzhou. The younger generation is already doing great things, so why should they regret it?”
Kong Ji listened silently to his surroundings. He drank half of the pot of tea without realizing it. When he heard his name, he thought with a rather strange expression: "People in this world of cultivation are also gossips. Cangwu Sect is so far away from here, these people can know the news, no wonder Boss Huangfu asked me to go first Hiding for a year.”
Kong Jiwu was thinking to himself.
The gossip in the tea room never stops.
The lives of casual cultivators are very simple, and coming to Fangshi to listen to information about Wudong can be regarded as a way to relieve the boredom.
Indistinctly, Kong Chi’s ears suddenly moved.
Relying on my keen consciousness, I vaguely heard two high-level casual cultivators discussing something not far from the corner.
I only heard a hoarse, deliberately lowered voice saying to my companion: "There have been many new faces in Luoxia City recently. In the mountains of Xiling, the Monster Gate is also ready to move. It seems that it has been disturbed by many people. "I'm afraid something big is going to happen."
"Could it be that he came to the Xiling Mountains to hunt a certain ascending wheel monster?"
His companions were obviously careless and dealt with it casually. Said: "It is not unusual for those sects to come here every few years to hunt monsters and beasts to make elixirs and obtain blood."
"I said that in addition to thinking about women, you also think about other things every day. "Is that so?" The hoarse voice shouted angrily: "Of those sect disciples who come to our Luoxia City, they don't have their sect badges hanging on their waists, for fear that we won't know."
"Look. Does the man with the thick eyebrows in the corner seem to be a disciple of a sect? He has been drinking tea and listening to the news. Maybe you are holding something back. "
"Like. There are three or five people like him in our tea room, look at the one by the window!"
"The one with thick eyebrows?" Kong Zhi was stunned for a while before he realized what that person was talking about. Be yourself.
He had almost forgotten his current appearance and features, and after stroking the thick eyebrows between his eyebrows, he looked speechless.
Then he glanced at the other person in the conversation by the window.
He is a tall young man with handsome appearance and fair skin like a woman. His movements when drinking tea are slow and calm.
Kong Zhen just glanced at him, and he seemed to be aware of it. He glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.
He seemed to have heard the two people's discussion about Kong Jiang.
Fortunately, both Kong and the young man had their intentions hidden deliberately.
The two people's eyes only touched for a moment, and then they separated.
This scene made Kong Jiang feel alert.
"He has not cultivated his spiritual consciousness, but he can hear the hushed voices of the two people. His cultivation level is not low, at least the eighth level. With this strength, he is not very young, and he can even be on the Hidden Dragon Ranking. Come on. That’s not good.”
This is one of them.
Judging from the tone of the local casual cultivator in Luoxia City, there are not a few foreign cultivators like the young man.
They all emerged recently.
At this moment, Kong Jiang felt inexplicably uneasy. "Why did it happen at this time."
"What purpose did they come for? Are they coming to Xihuang Little Blessed Land like me?"
"That parchment should be the only one in the world. Maybe I’m overthinking it.”
“But Dou Xiao is from the Blood Clothes Alliance, so have other people from the Blood Clothes Alliance seen the parchment?”
Then? The young man who was suspected to have the strength of Qianlong did not stay long. He drank a few sips of tea, threw down a spiritual crystal and left.
Kong Xian did not follow him, but drank all the pot of tea. After hearing no other useful rumors, Shi Shiran walked out of the tea room.
He did not leave in a hurry, but walked to the highest point of Fang City and looked at the entire Fang City.
Under his careful observation, he noticed many people behaving abnormally.
Generally speaking, the actions are the same as those shown by Kong Zhi. Drinking tea and drinking alone are all on the edge of the monks, silently hidden.
"Sure enough, there are many people who have the same idea as me, and they are all here to inquire about the news." This scene made Kong Xian convinced of the words of the two local monks.
"The Xiling Mountains are probably not going to be peaceful."
No matter what the purpose of those foreign monks is.
If Kong Xian wants to find Xihuang Little Blessed Land, it is impossible to ignore them.
This made Kong Zhi smell the smell of blood in the air, and he felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.
“We have to prepare early!”
Kong Jin has a lot of cards now, leaving aside his hard power.
The only thing that can save your life is the Poison Pill and the Ascending Wheel Realm Refining Puppet controlled by Yin Ling.
It’s just that the former is a one-time consumable and is gone after use.
You don't even dare to use the silver bell easily. If you are not careful, you will be killed.
Therefore, in addition to the two hole cards, Kong Jiang needs to prepare one more hand to feel at ease.
“I’m going to refine the spirit-dispersing ointment today. As long as the monks don’t come to ascend the wheel, my spirit-dispersing ointment will pose a threat to them.” Kong Xian made some kind of decision, and from the heights of Fang City Go down.
He did not return to Luoxia City, but rented a secret room in Fang City.
There are rooms for rent in Fang City. Three spiritual crystals per day are protected by a magic circle, so you don’t have to worry about being disturbed while refining the elixir.
Kong Jin directly paid the money for five days and prepared to retreat to refine elixirs.
As time goes by, the sun sets in the west.
Fangshi entered late at night, and the casual cultivators also retreated one after another.
The place that was bustling with activity during the day became deserted.
It is not a very spacious room, but after putting down the Jinluan stove, there is still some free space in the room.
Kong Ji did not light a lamp, but sat cross-legged in the darkness.
It took him half a day to adjust his spiritual power to its peak state.
The purpose is naturally not to make alchemy.
Before refining the elixir, he had one more thing to do.
Do you remember where Kong’s alchemy skills came from?
Of course it was obtained from the memory of Ge Xia’s soul.
Sanling ointment is a high-quality elixir. The cost of refining it is not low, and there is no absolute certainty that the refining will be successful.
At this time, it is necessary to rely on Gexia's rich knowledge of alchemy.
"If it weren't for the purpose of refining the spirit powder, I really don't want to suffer that kind of pain again." He murmured in his mouth, after experiencing Ge Xia's memory last time, the pain was so miserable that his soul trembled. The outcome is still fresh in Kong Jiang's memory.
(End of this chapter)