Chapter 41: Discovering the Spirit Vein
Yuncheng is located in the southwest of China, close to the dense primeval forest, even if it is already October, the natural climate is still relatively mild.
The difference in this city is that it is just like ancient China, and there are no high-rise buildings and asphalt roads that are common as far as the eye can see.
It is surrounded by courtyard houses and bluestone paved roads.
After a few hours of planes arriving at Yunshi Airport, Chen Chen and Zhang Peng were picked up by the driver arranged by the Zhang family to an ancient town called Tongxia Bay.
When I got off the bus, it suddenly rained like a crisp drizzle in the town, dripping on the bluestone slabs on the road, and the town's residents wearing traditional national costumes on the roadside looked at the visitors from other lands.
From time to time, a few awning boats in the crisscrossed river in the middle of the town slowly sailed along the current, and the boatmen in the small boats held a wine jar and drank their wine one by one, not caring where their boat would go.
"The ancient town on the edge of the dense forest has a bit of the taste of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. ”
Chen Chen said with a chuckle.
A trace of loneliness flashed in Zhang Peng's eyes, and he said softly: "In the past, Tongxia Bay was a 5A-level scenic spot in China, and tourists would come here at this time. ”
"But since the Namu family came to Cloud City, they relied on their strong financial resources to re-establish a new modern town next to Tongxia Town, so it led to the loss of tourists who came to Tongxia Town. ”
The main business of the Yuncheng Zhang family is tourism development, and what the Mu family is doing now is obviously cutting off their Zhang family's most important financial route.
Chen Chen looked at Zhang Peng, who was in a depressed mood, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Isn't there a tourist who prefers such antique flavors, I think it's not bad." ”
Zhang Peng gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "Naturally, someone wants to come, but the Mu family is acting too dirty, and they keep publicizing it on the tourists' side that our Tongxia Bay is full of black shops that steal customers." ”
Lao Zhang, the driver who was in charge of picking up the two, also sighed slightly and said: "Who made their Mu family's fist bigger than ours, they almost didn't care about the cost in order to spread rumors, and they were not afraid that our Zhang family and their Mu family would lose at all." ”
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The three of them walked in the town while talking, and gradually the light rain stopped, and the night slowly fell, and after a while, they finally arrived at the Zhang family's mansion.
"This courtyard is the ancestral home of our Zhang family, and currently only my sister and I live, and my parents and elders are currently in charge of the overall situation in the city. ”
Zhang Peng pointed to the courtyard and introduced, the so-called overall situation is naturally how to deal with the Mu family.
"Big brother, where are you going, you didn't even take me with you!"
Listening to the voice, Chen Chen looked up and saw that it was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, sitting high on a branch, with a small wooden stick dangling in her hand, she was wearing a fiery red velvet jacket, a pea-green short skirt, and two small feet wearing wrestler shoes were hanging in the air, like a little elf.
Her pigtailed head was leaning on her right shoulder, her big eyes winked playfully at Chen Chen and the others, and her nose was slightly upturned, revealing a mischievous look.
Zhang Peng smiled, pointed at the girl and introduced to Chen Chen: "This is my sister, Zhang Lingyun." ”
Immediately, he raised his head and pointed at the girl and shouted: "Stinky girl, what are you doing with the girl's family climbing so high, hurry down!"
The little girl grimaced at Zhang Peng, jumped down from the high branches, playfully walked to Chen Chen's side, knocked the small wooden stick back and forth in the palm of her hand, looked up and down and said, "You are the high school table that my brother said, the martial arts master?"
Chen Chen smiled noncommittally, only thinking that this girl was naughty and cute.
"Big brother, I don't believe he's a martial arts master! ”
Zhang Lingyun pouted and walked to Zhang Peng's side, and said angrily.
Pinching his sister's bulging cheeks, Zhang Peng shook his head and smiled: "What's not like it?"
The little girl flashed Zhang Peng's claws, glanced at Chen Chen, who was there with the old god, and snorted coquettishly: "It's not like anywhere!"
With that, he shook his pigtails and ran into the house.
Zhang Peng looked at Chen Chen with a wry smile and said, "My sister has been naughty since she was a child, which makes you laugh." ”
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After a simple dinner, Zhang Peng arranged Chen Chen into a guest room, answered the phone, and left in a hurry.
Chen Chen glanced at Zhang Peng's back deeply, and he always felt that Zhang Peng seemed to have something to hide from him.
Unable to think of a clue, he closed the door and sat down cross-legged on the bed.
However, what surprised Chen Chen was that when he cultivated here, his True Yuan ingestion had increased a lot, which was no less than the cultivation speed when he swallowed Pei Yuan Dan.
A thought flashed through Chen Chen's mind, and he murmured, "Could it be that this ancient town is built on a spiritual vein?"
In the past, in the small talk with his father Chen Donghai, Chen Donghai gave Chen Chen a lot of knowledge about the cultivation realm, and the most mysterious of them was the spiritual vein.
The spiritual veins are naturally born in the planet, and they contain a large amount of heaven and earth vitality, which can assist the cultivation of monks and increase the cultivation speed of monks.
The spiritual veins are also divided into grades, ranging from the first grade to the ninth grade, the first grade is the second, and the ninth grade is the highest.
For the sects in the cultivation realm, the spiritual vein is the foundation of a sect, and the Dao sect where Chen Donghai is located is built on the nine-rank spiritual vein, so the cultivation of the Dao monks is like riding a rocket, and the realm improvement far exceeds that of the monks of other sects.
"Could it be that the Mu family's picture is a treasure born in the spiritual vein?"
Chen Chen secretly pondered, every spirit vein had a chance to give birth to a spirit stone, and the preciousness of the spirit stone was an existence that everyone was vying for even if it was placed in the cultivation realm.
Even a Dao Sect Tianjiao like his father, Chen Donghai, was not qualified to receive the spirit stones rewarded by the sect.
It is said that there was a monk in the early stage of the Yuan Infant in the cultivation realm, and he accidentally obtained a spirit stone born from a five-grade spiritual vein in the ruins of an ancient monk, and relying on the spirit stone, he broke through the god transformation stage in less than a year.
He hadn't talked about the spiritual veins with his own eyes, and almost all of them learned about it from Chen Dongkou, so he was also secretly suspicious of the existence of this place, if there was really a spiritual stone, he would have to roll up his sleeves and fight.
However, Chen Chen does not have the means to survey the spiritual vein now, and he can only wait patiently at present, thinking that the Mu family is constantly targeting the Zhang family, it is very likely that he wants to squeeze the Zhang family out of Yun City, so as to monopolize the spiritual vein, if he is not mistaken, the Mu family will definitely make some moves in the near future.
"If it is really a spirit stone, even if it is a spirit stone born from the most inferior first-grade spirit vein, it is enough for me to impact the middle stage of foundation building. ”
Thinking of this, Chen Chen suddenly dismissed the distracting thoughts from his mind, wrapped them around his true yuan, and instantly fell into a state of cultivation.