Chapter 365 Departure
I am overjoyed on the road.
I was worried about how to get into the ranks of the Three Black Masters, so Liu Yaoyao gave me a chance.
It’s really hard to find anything without trying to find a place, and it takes no effort at all to get there.
"Fellow Daoist Liu..." he said, pretending to hesitate, "I have heard of the place called Demon Country."
"A golden elixir demon king is in charge of a land with a radius of thousands of miles, and the management is very negligent. There are also many foundation-building little demon kings occupying various hills below, and they are not very obedient."
"In short, it is not like the land of our human race. Peace."
"And the demon clan has the tradition of treating humans as two-legged sheep. I'm afraid this spiritual stone is not very profitable."
"In addition, I am the master of the three blacks. I’ve heard that it’s said that it’s very hard to restrain a disciple’s life. If I become a follower, I’m afraid I’ll be restrained altogether.”
“Forget it, I’d better not wade into this muddy water. , just sell me some materials and earn some stable money.”
"That one spiritual crystal can be used to offset the cost of visiting the stall next time."
Liu Yaoyao was anxious.
She just said it casually out of curiosity, but now the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that this plan is feasible. It will save her from hard work and earn spiritual stones.
Actually, she also felt that Master Sanhei was too tough, and she was afraid that this trip would be inappropriate, so she thought about how to get out of this hot job. Seeing Lu Ye now is like seeing a walking spiritual stone, why? Maybe let it go.
Liu Yaoyao tried her best to persuade her, saying that although the journey was far away, she had enough manpower and was still on the territory of the Black Tiger Demon King, so it would be safe for her. One spiritual stone every five days. But a huge amount of money.
After one round trip, it will be enough for you to earn from a year of hard work.
Lu Ye pretended to be hesitant, but finally reluctantly agreed, and both of them were happy.
He sighed in his heart, this long-established sect seemed to have strict rules on the surface, but in fact, as the number of disciples multiplied, it was riddled with many ills.
This time, I and a few of my surname brothers were racking their brains to think of how to sneak into the accompanying team, but they didn’t expect that they could sneak in at the slightest opportunity.
Children of the family like Liu Yaoyao are actually confident that they can turn the tasks assigned by their superiors into opportunities to make profits for themselves.
He and Liu Yaoyao have only known each other for half a month, and he can become her uncle.
If the opportunity is right next time, I'm afraid I won't be able to be her grandfather.
Nothing to say that day.
The stall was closed at night.
Lu Ye walked briskly and went to Qingshan Pavilion first. Under the respectful reception of the shopkeeper and Master Mo, he picked up the Beast Armor that had been repaired for free.
This time he scanned it carefully with his spiritual consciousness, and there was nothing wrong with the beast armor.
Lu Ye remembered that his stall had not been doing well recently. After all, it was too troublesome to recycle the puppet fragments and refine precious metal spiritual materials.
The most valuable thing about a puppet is the energy provided by the heart of the mechanism, which is the source of power for the foundation-level monk puppet. Four or five of them were recovered on site, but they were not suitable for sale.
It’s surprising that Lu Ye’s business is so good.
So he pushed almost all the ten foundation-building puppet fragments from the storage bag used by Daoist Jia to the shopkeeper, Master He Mo.
"You two, do you accept these things?"
Master He Mo, the shopkeeper, saw him bring out a pile of junk. He was furious at first, thinking that this guy still dared to rip off money.
After taking a closer look, Master Mo exclaimed, he is indeed a professional.
He scratched the pile of fragments with his left hand and picked them with his right hand, dividing them into ten pieces and adding four or five puppet hearts.
Master Mo was surprised.
"Eh? Are these the remains of ten foundation-level mechanism puppets?"
"What a waste of natural resources, who can do it? Just remove the limbs of the puppet, why did the puppet's heart also be smashed so much? "
"What a good thing! If you put it together, you can get a few foundation-building puppets."
Lu Zhiyi thought that his gang of demon corpses must know how to act carefully. Well, a life-and-death fight isn't about stabbing someone wherever it's fatal.
Seeing that there was a door, he smiled.
"Shopkeeper, since Master Mo said this is a good thing, let me sell it to you!"
The shopkeeper and Master Mo looked at each other, nodded in agreement, and were willing to pay a high price to send this plague god away.
Lu Ye also said that if he comes back in half a month, he must give him another repaired foundation-building puppet.
The best requirement is to make it look like riding an animal, with an old-fashioned appearance. Just choose an ordinary domestic animal to look like, not too eye-catching.
In addition, the foundation building aura needs to be hidden.
As for strength, I hope that speed is first, carrying punch second, and the attack can be so-so.
The two gritted their teeth and agreed.
Lu Ye then turned and left.
After he left, the shopkeeper in the private room slapped him down.
“It’s too much to bully someone! We clearly agreed on the price last time, so we won’t correct the past!”
"This guy is here to take advantage. We have worked hard for a year to make him a wedding dress!"
He glanced sideways at Master Mo and whispered.
"Why don't you, Master Mo, try to trick the foundation-building puppet you gave him this time? Let's pay a high price to help Jie Xiu kill him."
"I'm afraid that the other party will take advantage of it. The bargains are endless, what should we do?”
Master Mo’s expression changed from gloomy to bright, and finally he sighed and shook his head.
"Shopkeeper, let's admit defeat after we accidentally kicked the iron plate!"
"If nothing else, this person can produce the remains of ten foundation-building puppets. Think about him or the organization behind him. How much energy does it have?”
“I checked, these puppets were smashed by a group of people, and almost recovered completely.”
“If it was all his fault, then that’s it. How scary?”
“Shopkeeper, let’s endure it for now”
"After half a month, I will give him a puppet and I won't know how to do anything. Maybe the other party will stop pestering him in the future?" Master Mo looked distressed.
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and could only agree.
He thought to himself - sometimes knowing too much is troublesome, thinking too much before and after.
But if he came out of the spirit stone alone to find Jie Xiu to work, he didn't want to suffer the loss, so he had no choice but to give up.
Lu Ye left the shop, turned left and right around a few streets, and soon came to a restaurant.
Relying on tortoise shell communication, Wang Hu, Zhang Cunyi and Shu Chitu were already waiting in the private room on the second floor.
Lu Ye pushed the door open and took off his mask, revealing his true face.
Zhang Cunyi said with a guilty look on his face.
"Brother, it's our incompetence and we haven't found a suitable guarantor yet."
"I'm afraid it won't be easy to get in."
"Actually, most of the casual cultivators in the city are not willing to join that team. I heard that many of them are forced to be assigned."
"But these casual cultivators are all indirectly related to people in the sect. So, brother, if you really can’t do it, let’s use this trick to exchange the fake for the real.”
Wang Hu slapped his leg.
"Grandma, if you can't get in as a follower, then let the fourth child sneak up and follow you."
Shu Chitu said with shame.
"It's feasible, but if the Three Black Masters wrap themselves up and fly in the sky, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up on the ground."
Lu Ye laughed loudly and said that all the sworn brothers don't need to worry, the problem has been solved Solved.
The three of them asked in surprise, and Lu Ye told Liu Yaoyao that if it could really happen, this evil neighbor would have really helped a lot.
Wang Hu slapped his head.
“Yes, we thought wrong!”
"Why are we looking for a guarantor? Just go directly to the casual cultivators who have received the mission and have a relationship with the guarantor and can talk to them. Maybe we can do it if we try a few more times."
The four of them sat down. Wine and food, carefully deduce.
There is only one human skin mask. If you take the team route, you can only go there alone.
If they fail to get the quota, Lu Ye and Shu Chitu will have to find a way to follow the team, but this is a bad idea. It is very difficult to track a team led by a Foundation Establishment Dzogchen monk without letting the other party discover it.
Wang Hu muttered.
"The Tianlun Sect is so capable, don't let anything happen again."
The result was the next day.
Lu Ye, who was full of hope, went to the stall and met Liu Yaoyao who was furious.
“Those bald people on the mountain are so stupid that they read scriptures and knock wooden fish!”
“Who gave the leader a bad idea!”
"This time we require that the casual cultivators accompanying us must be under fifty years old, with strong qi and blood, middle-level qi cultivators or above!"
"Don't you know that having an old man in the family is like having a treasure? What a nonsense!"
Lu Ye was stunned. He was indeed not over fifty years old, but the vest he wore was that of an old man.
The folds on this human skin mask are like ravines, even more than two fifty.
Finally saw a glimmer of hope, how could he bear to miss it?
Lu Ye knew Liu Yaoyao's weakness and deliberately shook his head and sighed.
“Forget it, Fellow Daoist Liu, the sect’s order must have a deep meaning!”
“Just pretend that we don’t have that kind of wealth in our lives. Remember that the old Taoist still has a spiritual crystal with you. That’s fine.”
Liu Yaoyao raised her eyebrows and said angrily.
“Don’t even think about it!”
"I, Liu Yaoyao, have set my sights on the spirit stone, and I will take it back even if I die!"
Lu Ye spread his hands.
"This is the rule, but you can't rejuvenate me!"
Liu Yaoyao rolled her eyes and patted her thigh.
"Fellow Daoist Ji, do you have any relatives or friends you know? Please introduce them."
"It's the same method as yesterday. He and I are evenly matched!"
Lu Ye pretended to hesitate.
"What good do I get from being an old Taoist? Why don't you, Taoist friend Liu, take 40% and I take 10%, and the person I'm looking for take 50%?"
Liu Yaoyao said confidently with her arms akimbo. "They are all your relatives and friends, what else do you want?"
"It's enough for you to be grateful when someone gets a spiritual stone!"
"How can you earn the spiritual stones of your left and right siblings?"
Lu Ye pretended to be dumbfounded and was persuaded by the wrong reasoning. He turned his eyes and said that he had a nephew named Ji Buyu who met the requirements and did some small business in Yifang City, Shannan.
Wait for him to send a message and summon him.
I'm just worried that my nephew is not from the city, he hasn't even stayed there for a day, and I don't know if the superiors will get stuck because of this.
Liu Yaoyao impatiently patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, I will take care of everything. He is from Jinshamen, I can clear his name."
You wait a few days for me to reconcile the news with the above.
Sure enough.
A few days later, Liu Yaoyao told him that the matter was settled and asked nephew Lu Ye to come quickly.
Lu Ye had no choice but to run and ask Zhang Cunyi to act in a scene.
He chose a young and recognizable face, copied it on a human skin mask and put it on Zhang Cunyi to act as Ji Buyu.
He uses the Hundred Animals Gate's Hundred Change Technique.
This is a small technique that was discovered together with the God of Cookery back then. It can change the body shape and appearance of a person.
There are too many loopholes in fooling the foundation-building monks, but there is still no problem if you deal with the Qi-training monks.
There are almost no foundation-building monks in Linyunfang City. If you encounter them, it has nothing to do with them, and you won't be bored to expose this little trick.
Lu Ye used the Variety Technique, shrinking his bones and changing his shape to pretend to be Ji Shiyu. Anyway, he was familiar with his daily gait and posture, and it was good to perform in his true colors.
As for Zhang Cunyi, he followed Lu Ye the whole time without saying a word.
Liu Yaoyao curiously asked why your nephew didn’t say a word because he was probably mute.
Lu Ye replied, his name is Buyu, doesn’t he like to talk?
Liu Yaoyao didn’t care whether Ji Shiyu’s nephew could tell him or not, and once again reiterated that the spirit stones would be divided in half during the round trip.
Lu Ye nodded fiercely, and she felt relieved.
So we passed the test smoothly.
Soon, half a month passed by in a hurry.
In the early morning of this day, the morning light came.
At the gate of Linyunfang City, there were twenty or thirty casual cultivators gathered together, not in a queue, but in groups of three or five, including men and women.
All of them were under the age of fifty, and they had bulging storage bags around their waists. Most of them wore two or three storage bags, and some of them who were rich even wore four or five storage bags. They looked like they were going on a long trip.
In addition, these casual cultivators are equipped with many mounts. This place is located on the North Sand Island, bordering the Demon Kingdom. There are many beasts with demon blood that are born from the union of demons and animals. They have strong energy and blood and can run far better than others. A mortal BMW.
It is common for someone to ride a tiger or a leopard. The last person to ride was a strange horse with scales on its legs.
Look carefully, most of them have sad faces and no energy.
There were some indigenous casual cultivators in Fang City who got up early and looked at the casual cultivators outside the gate with sympathetic eyes.
"Following the Three Black Masters to the Demon Kingdom is going to be even worse. It is a sign of great misfortune!"
"Don't tell me, do these dozens of young and energetic casual cultivators look like gifts to me?" The blood food of the demon king?"
"Hey...stop talking, it sounds so scary..."
At this time.
At the corner of the street, a gray donkey was galloping towards him.
This donkey has slender legs and a big belly, a head with long ears and a white-haired face. There is also a young Taoist priest with a long face hunched over it, wearing a gray Taoist robe.
Looking at it, the two are similar in color, and they look like a human body growing out of a donkey.
Looking carefully, I found that the young Taoist above also had a long white face, and he actually looked like a master and servant like the donkey.
Looking more carefully, although the donkey’s hooves are thin, it is clear that the whole body is made of metal when it rises and falls. It tilts its head and twists its mouth with a mouth full of steel teeth. Its eyes are shining red. It is stupid and fierce. It is also walking while walking. You can vaguely hear the sound of the components inside rotating, and it is clearly a mechanism puppet beast.
If there is any shortcoming, it is that the donkey looks too small, less than half a foot tall and long, and has nothing to do with being tall and powerful.
This man and beast walked out of the gate of Fangshi and stood silently beside the crowd. Apparently he was also a member of the entourage of the three black masters this time.
Lu Ye rode a gray donkey, his eyes swept among the entourage, and secretly noted their appearance.
He found that many people were also looking at him, mostly on the donkey under his crotch.
“Master Mo is so narrow-minded!”
“I got an ordinary domestic animal, I thought it was a horse, but a mule was not enough, and I actually made a mechanical donkey for me!”
"Forget about a donkey, it's still so thin."
"Although it's fast, can take a beating, and attack so-so, why is it so annoying?"
" The color is not pleasant either. It is all gray, but it is the same color as my robe..."
"When I ride on this donkey, it is almost the same as standing on the ground."
" Everyone is taller than me, which is really annoying.”
Lu Ye guessed that Master Mo had delayed delivering the goods to him until he was about to set off this morning. Could it be that he wanted to see himself make a fool of himself?
I must talk to him carefully next time.
For example, the casual cultivator riding a lion next to him was half his body taller than him. When Lu Ye moved his neck, he could only see his waist.
"Fellow Taoist," the casual cultivator got off the majestic lion, "I would like to give you a gift, that's very polite."
"Your mount is quite unique."
"It's not yet time to set off. There are beasts in the city. I might as well switch to a ferocious mount as a helper. I'm afraid this trip to the Demon Country will not be peaceful."
Lu Ye's face trembled slightly, He is now wearing a vest that is silent and taciturn, and he cherishes words like gold.
“Ji Buyu,” he pointed at himself, then bent down, “Thank you fellow Taoist for reminding me.”
Lu Ye touched the pointed ear of the gray donkey under his crotch.
“This donkey is fast and has a strong skin, so I won’t change it.”
Seeing that he persisted, Shi Yiwen stopped trying to persuade him and tried to chat a few more words. He found that Ji Buyu was really not good at words, so he lost interest in talking and turned around to mingle with other casual cultivators.
Lu Ye pricked up his ears and listened.
The content of these casual cultivators chatting with each other is also very interesting. Most of them ask each other who their backers are in the mountain gate and compare their strengths.
Then they each lamented their bad luck in being assigned to participate in the training and escorting of this Lao Shizi.
Everyone knows very well that the Lingshi may not be so easy to earn this time.
In the end, everyone sighed together. Now that the matter has come to this, we can only help each other and support each other.
Among the crowd.
There was a fat, bald man with a strong scent of sandalwood. All he needed was an incense scar on his head. He could become a monk of the Tianlun Sect by putting on his cassock.
He has a strong and close backer. He is a relative of Sanhei Shitai's family who has not been born in the fifth service. He is recommended as the leader by everyone. His name is Teng Kuan, who is the most outstanding and conspicuous.
He shouted loudly.
"Since we are lucky enough to travel together today, it is fate."
"Serve the gods and nuns of the Tianlun Sect well, keep their duties well, and help each other, and we will definitely return safely."
"Master Tai is my family. I don't look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face, just because everyone's last name is Teng. I will try my best to help you arrange some easy and safe work."
"Well, I'm just a soft-spoken person. , and it can’t help too many people.”
Teng Kuan said that he couldn’t help too many people, but his eyes lit up with a strange light, which was the light familiar to casual cultivators looking forward to spiritual stones.
Many people didn't move, but there were still a few monks who gathered around, murmuring flattering words and handing over the spiritual stones with a pull of their sleeves.
Lu Ye looked on coldly, Shi Yiwen sneered on the side - who can be sent here, who is really favored?
This Teng Kuan really dares to accept any spiritual stone.
Because of Teng Kuan’s behavior among the casual cultivators, the rest of the cultivators also formed cliques and formed groups based on their close relationships.
It’s in a commotion.
A casual cultivator suddenly pointed to the horizon and whispered.
"Could it be that Old Man Shenni is here?"
Everyone hurriedly looked up and saw a ray of light coming from the horizon, so fast that it almost arrived in the blink of an eye.
It turned out that the escaping light was dim in color, almost the same as the sky. In addition, the movement was small, and it arrived in front of everyone quietly.
It turned out to be a flying boat.
The boat descended from the sky.
Master Sanhei and the nuns walked out of it. There were two nuns on her left and right. Her complexion was as smooth as white porcelain. She was very pretty and had long hair.
The other nun has a wheat complexion and wears a bhikkhu hat. There is no hair between the hat and the swan's neck, and his head is completely shaved.
Following them were a dozen female nuns, half with long hair and half with hats.
The monks hurriedly saluted and said in unison that they had seen the nun.
Master Sanhei first glanced at everyone coldly, and then looked at Teng Kuan with a pair of sharp eyes.
“Are you from my Teng family?”
Teng Kuan nodded and knelt down on the ground in flattery.
“If you look back at Shen Ni, the youngest one is the 70th of the Teng family...”
Pop!
Master Sanhei was so impatient that he slapped him down and pushed his whole body into the ground. Although he was not dead, he was seriously injured. His legs and feet twitched and he vomited blood.
“Humph,” the teacher raised his eyebrows and looked around, “You are a member of the Teng family, so you should know my temper!”
“You have someone else’s spirit stone in your sleeve. What's going on? "
"Recruiting you casual cultivators, you only need to remember one thing, that is, you must obey orders on the road. If you dare to question and shirk, you will be killed by the monster clan!"
“Did you hear that?”
The monks were trembling with fear after hearing this, and they were all trembling like quails.
This old madman has sharp eyes and is merciless. He even beats his own family members when they meet, let alone others.
Lu Ye ignored what others thought, his eyes fixed on the nun wearing a hat next to Master Sanhei.
Perhaps because of becoming a monk, even the original pair of sword eyebrows have changed into the elegant style of distant mountain dark eyebrows. The eyebrows are slightly wrinkled, and the eyes seem to be as calm as an ancient well but hide a wild and unruly look.
Lu Ye took a breath and finally saw Furong again.
(End of this chapter)