Chapter 20: Immortal Crystal

When Zhang Yuan came out of Ji Yao's room, the sky was already slightly white, and Zhang Yuan knew that a new day had come, and an unquiet night had finally passed.

Ji Yao asked for his help, Zhang Yuan decisively agreed, in fact, it was just to help him find a thing, but this thing was a rare thing, and at this moment, so many cultivators appeared in the entire Wind and Fire Town, and they all came for this thing.

When the source realm first appeared, the spirit stone mines in the source realm were still very rich, and at that time, the forces that really controlled these spirit stone mines would know one thing, in fact, the most valuable thing produced in the spirit stone mines was not the best spirit stone, and there was one thing that even surpassed the best spirit stone, it was a rarer fairy crystal than the best spirit stone.

Everyone knows that the spirit stone mine is a large amount of gathering of heaven and earth aura to increase its concentration to liquefaction, and then after a long time of change, it slowly becomes a spirit stone, of course, the spirit stone mine produced in this place with more spirit liquid is relatively large, on the contrary, it will form a small spirit stone mine, when a place with extremely rich spirit liquid appears, there is a very small chance that there will be a spirit stone that is more rare than the best spirit stone, and practitioners call it a fairy crystal.

Immortal crystals are different from other grades of spirit stones, the aura contained in immortal crystals is restrained, if it is placed in an ordinary place, ordinary people can't find him at all, and the early cultivators also found it in the package of the best spirit stone, only to know that it is a more powerful spirit stone than the best spirit stone.

Since there are very few immortal crystals produced in the source realm, there are not many people who really know him, so when the immortal crystals suddenly appeared in the Fengjia mine in Fenghuo Town, they thought it was an ordinary stone and discarded it, but at this moment, a cultivator who knew Xianjing came to Fenghuo Town, so the matter of Xianjing was spread, and at this time, the immortal crystal was picked up by someone who didn't know who picked it up.

Originally, after knowing the news, the Feng family wanted to block the news, but because there was a Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce here, this news was sold by the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce at a high price, so those various forces sent disciples to look for immortal crystals, so recently, there were suddenly more cultivators in Fenghuo Town.

Of course, in order to prevent the fairy crystal from being taken away from Wind and Fire Town, those big forces who know something about the fairy crystal have set up a probing formation at the city gate, with the existence of this formation, even if the fairy crystal is hidden in the space magic weapon, it will definitely be detected, after all, the energy contained in the fairy crystal is too powerful, and it only needs to be slightly stimulated by a special method, and the fairy crystal can emit a very powerful energy fluctuation, even the space formed by the empty stone cannot suppress it, so at this moment, this fairy crystal must still be in the wind and fire town。

Ji Yao, as the person in charge of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce in Wind and Fire Town, of course, will also send some of his own people to participate in the search, but at that time, Ji Yao thought that there were people with major forces here, so he just sent people to try his luck, of course, he got the best, and it didn't matter if he didn't get it, and the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce didn't have any losses, in fact, Ji Yao also understood that even if he got it, with the protection of those big forces, he would definitely not be able to transport it, and in the end, for the benefit of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce, he could only choose to auction it, which could not only enhance the prestige of the Tianyuan Auction House, but also make the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce make a lot of money。

Before, those things were absolutely dispensable, but now it is different, because the guest died in the inn, so he must do a great thing to offset his punishment, and recently it can only be called a great achievement, for his own future, Ji Yao must do this, so he needs a lot of people to help him find it.

Of course, this matter must not be handed over to their subordinates to complete, after all, if they complete it, they will share part of their own credit, so if you want to maximize your own credit, you can only do it yourself, or you can ask outsiders to help you find it, and the importance of Zhang Yuan and several people is highlighted at this moment.

The strength of Zhang Yuan and the others is not low, even if the immortal crystal appears and there is a competition, it is possible for Zhang Yuan and the others to snatch it up with their strength, unless there is a cultivator of the Heavenly Immortal Realm who has comprehended the realm in the city, but Ji Yao feels that such a situation generally does not appear, after all, such people have their own noble status, they will only send their subordinates to help them find it, how can they surrender their identity and compete with some juniors, so the success rate of Zhang Yuan and the others has greatly improved.

Of course, as a condition for agreeing to help Ji Yao find as much as possible, Ji Yao also told Zhang Yuan in detail about the aristocratic circle.

The development model of the noble circle is somewhat similar to the development model of the Prophetic Mutual Aid Society, which is also underground, and the founders of the noble circle call themselves the Night Emperor, and their development relies on the power of blood inheritance.

Like the Prophets, they also develop their power underground, and very peculiarly, they often recruit new members when the moon is full, and of course, they do occasionally develop members, but only rarely.

The disciples of the aristocratic circle have a strict hierarchy, but they don't know the identities of other people in the sect, their recognition needs to confirm each other's identities by perceiving the power in each other's bloodline, basically no one in the aristocratic circle knows who the Night Emperor is, and basically no one knows the appearance of the Night Emperor, but they know that in their own organization, there must be such a leader.

Normally, we can't detect any of the people in this organization at all, only on the night of the full moon, we can determine from the active alien energy in their bodies that they belong to the noble circle, and the noble circle includes the Night Emperor, which is divided into seven levels, namely the emperor, the king, the duke, the marquis, the earl, the viscount, Baron, and what we can find is only the baron, because only the baron has the lowest strength, so he can't control the xenogeneous energy in his body on the night of the full moon, so we are aware of it, as for it, so far, we have not encountered it.

The disciples of the noble circle do not have the hard bones of the members of the Prophetic Mutual Aid Society, they only need to torture, they will tell everything they know, their joining is completely accidental, everything is done through the first embrace, it is likely that when you are walking on the street, you will suddenly come to you and put a bite on your neck, and then, you will find that your blood is mutated, and everything about the noble circle is also from the inheritance of the bloodline, so the people of the noble circle also do not know who their members of the same organization will be, only when the two people who belong to the noble circle meet, to be able to rely on the perception of the other party's bloodline to know that it is their own person.

There is another point, soul searching does not work at all for people in the aristocratic circle, it seems that these people all have no soul, of course, they definitely have their own souls, but when using soul searching, the caster can't get any news from their souls, some people speculate, I'm afraid that if you want to really understand the secrets of the other party, you need to recreate a spell that can search the bloodline, after all, everything they do comes from the bloodline.

Hearing such news, Zhang Yuan thought of a person, it was the man who called himself Cain when he failed to teleport for the first time in Death Valley, because what Ji Yao said was too much like the blood clan, maybe this new Night Emperor was Cain.

After Zhang Yuan returned to the room, Zhang Yue and the others were still waiting for him in the room, and Qin Siyu had also woken up from his cultivation at this moment.

"What's going on?" Zhang Yue asked first.

After Zhang Yue asked, Zhang Yuan told everyone everything Ji Yao said, but although Wind and Fire Town is a relatively small city for the Source Realm, it is still relatively large for a city in the secular world, and it is tantamount to looking for an ordinary stone without any characteristics in such a large Wind and Fire Town, so Zhang Yuan made arrangements for a few people today, Zhang Yue, Thunder God Johnson and Lin Feng still went to mine, after all, the fire attribute spirit stone has a great effect on Thunder God Johnson and Lin Feng, Zhang Yuan will not be too much, and Zhang Yuan himself and Qin Siyu Chuanbian Xiaomei will first take a walk around the city to see what kind of secret method those big forces use to find the fairy crystal, and after it is determined, they will make other plans.

When Zhang Yue and the three left, Zhang Yuan deliberately drew a map for them, marking dozens of points on the map, and this map is actually the distribution map of the spirit stones in the abandoned mine, when Zhang Yuan left yesterday, he deliberately used his Tianyantong to find the location of some spirit stones, so at this moment he was able to draw such a distribution map, today Zhang Yue and the three of them entered, and they did not need to spend a lot of immortal knowledge to find, and they could get the spirit stones by digging directly, of course, just in case, Zhang Yuan also required the three of them to enter separately, and when leaving, each person could not harvest more than ten spirit stones, Zhang Yuan was afraid of more, will really stimulate the fire family, so that the other party can directly snatch it.

After Zhang Yue and the three of them left first, Zhang Yuan and the three of them also walked out of the door, Zhang Yuan planned to go to the city gate first to take a look, what kind of exploration mechanism was there, and why he didn't notice anything when he entered.

Following not far from Zhang Yue and the others, soon, everyone came to the city gate of Fenghuo Town, far away, Zhang Yuan stopped his steps, checking the surrounding movements every time someone went out of the city gate.

After observing for a long time, Zhang Yuan finally found it, thanks to his own Tianyantong, otherwise, he may not be able to see the situation in the city tower above the city gate, it turned out that there was a cultivator of the Heavenly Immortal Realm sitting in the city tower, whenever someone went out of the city gate, this person would input his true yuan into a white stone the size of a chess piece in his hand, of course, when the fairy crystal appeared, what would happen to this stone Zhang Yuan had no way to understand, but Zhang Yuan still found the special feature of this stone, no matter how much true yuan the man entered, this white stone would not change in any way, Zhang Yuan guessed, maybe this white stone is a fairy crystal.

Zhang Yuan's guess is not wrong, the white stone in this man's hand is indeed a fairy crystal, and this fairy crystal also has a characteristic, when the two fairy crystals are within a certain distance, as long as the true yuan is input to one of the fairy crystals, then the other one will directly exude a powerful aura, and this breath is very powerful because of its energy, so even the space magic weapon made by the empty immortal stone cannot block it, which is also discovered by those big forces with immortal crystals through long-term research.

Knowing this, Zhang Yuan took Qin Siyu and Kawabe Xiaomei and began to wander the streets, there were a lot of pedestrians on the street, obviously most of them came to Xianjing, but although many of them knew the name, they didn't know what Xianjing really looked like, so these people didn't have any competitiveness for Zhang Yuan for the time being, and the real competitiveness was the disciples of those big forces, along the way, Zhang Yuan met many times, and those disciples with big forces had a common characteristic, that is, among a group of people who were together, there was always one who was holding a white stone in his hand, and along the way, they kept inputting the true yuan into the white stone, of course, in order to prevent some accidents, they saw other teams with immortal crystals appear in the distance, and the two teams would always be very tacitly far away, and a small piece of immortal crystals in the hands of the province suddenly exuded a powerful aura.

After walking on the streets for a day, Zhang Yuan found that the teams with immortal crystal fragments had basically walked through every street in Wind and Fire Town, but no one had discovered the existence of immortal crystals, Zhang Yuan was a little suspicious, whether the immortal crystals produced in the Fengjia Spirit Stone Mine had been transported out of the city in the first place, otherwise how could such an intensive search be fruitless.

However, Zhang Yuan remembered that when Ji Yao was telling himself, during the period between the production of immortal crystals and the appearance of those big forces, the city gates of Wind and Fire Town had been closed for a period of time, so no one would be able to leave this place, so everyone was sure that this immortal crystal was still in a corner of Wind and Fire Town.

Looking up and looking around, Zhang Yuan found that there were only two places in this Wind and Fire Town that were still not searched by the teams of those big forces at the moment, one was the base camp of the Wind and Fire families, on the mountain range where their family was located, and the other place was the Tianyuan Inn where they lived, as for the other shops or inns, because they did not occupy a large area, the search team only needed to take the immortal crystal fragments and walk around the periphery of those shops or inns, and they could be shrouded in the detection range.

Not to mention the private territory of the Wind and Fire Family, outsiders are not allowed to enter the neighboring area, and the area in it is large enough, just talking about the area occupied by the Tianyuan Inn is a terrifying amount, even if those immortal crystal fragments are placed on the outer wall of the Tianyuan Inn to explore, they will definitely not be able to detect the central area of the Tianyuan Inn, so this place has also become a suspicious location.

Zhang Yuan believed that those who searched for immortal crystals would definitely think of these two places, and it would be very soon, after all, the entire Wind and Fire Town had basically searched once, and in the end, they could only forcibly search for these two most suspicious places.

Compared with the Feng family and the Fire family, the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce is even more of a behemoth, and those big forces will definitely attack the two families of the Fire Family and the Feng Family first, and only after determining that there are no mountains on the mountain range where the two families are located, will they finally make a move on the Tianyuan Inn, so if the person who got the Immortal Crystal is really hiding in these two places, he will definitely end up being arrested, after all, there are really too many forces involved in this Wind and Fire Town.

Zhang Yuan began to think about where he would hide if he was the one who got the immortal crystal, first of all, Zhang Yuan ruled out the base camp of the Feng family and the Huo family, maybe some people think that the most dangerous place is the safest place, but Zhang Yuan can only say that it is a fart, after all, he has to face not one person, but thousands of enemies, even if one or two people can't think of it, wouldn't tens of thousands of people think about it like this, so hiding and the most dangerous place will definitely be discovered quickly, so Zhang Yuan feels that this person will definitely not be above the mountains。

Turning his head to look at the Tianyuan Inn, Zhang Yuan found that those places outside the detection range happened to be guest rooms, so Zhang Yuan decided to return to the Tianyuan Inn first, and with his relationship with Ji Yao, he would find out this person first.

After returning to the inn, Zhang Yuan immediately told Ji Yao his thoughts, but Ji Yao shook his head at Zhang Yuan, it was not that Ji Yao did not agree to harass the customers here, but in fact, Ji Yao made preparations as soon as he learned the news of Xianjing, and after applying for two pieces of immortal crystal to the high-level, one was handed over to those searching people, and the other piece has been in Ji Yao's own hands。

Ji Yao's answer made Zhang Yuan a little surprised, Zhang Yuan didn't expect that his guess would be wrong, could it be that this person is really hiding in the mountain range next to Wind and Fire Town, if this is the case, I'm afraid I won't have any chance, after all, the Feng family and the Huo family agreed to other forces to enter the base camp to search, and they definitely only allowed those relatively large forces to enter, and the other party would never agree to enter for a loose cultivation like himself.

But Zhang Yuan had a feeling that the person who got the fairy crystal would definitely not be on the mountain range, but since it was not on the mountain range, and it was not in the Tianyuan Inn, where would it be, standing in front of the counter, Zhang Yuan cast his eyes on the street outside the door, and suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, Zhang Yuan felt that maybe he had guessed the whereabouts of the fairy crystal.