Shanluan County, located between the Great Plains and the Xilin Valley, is a small county town dozens of miles away from the big city of Dingtian City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention the poor mountains and bad waters, because a group of monsters in the valley often go down the mountain to burn and loot, the adjacent Shanluan County bears the brunt, and has suffered from it for many years, and the people living here are miserable.

No one knew the origin of this group of monsters, and even if they looked at the history of the Spirit Continent, there were very few relevant records.

I only heard that they seemed to have suddenly fallen from the sky and appeared in this valley with a certain climate change. After creating a few amazing crimes in a row, and gradually gaining fame, some lone monsters began to come to defect. Over time, this has truly become the base camp of this group of outliers.

Even more sensational, according to one survivor, most of them appear to be rare half-humans, half-demons.

This is a group destined to be ostracized by both races, mainly children born after the union of humans and monsters. Since then, the human race does not recognize them as human beings, the demon race does not recognize them as demons, and the creatures in the gap are destined to be isolated wherever they go.

When all these negative elements took root in the Xilin Valley overnight, the rumors that arose with it intensified. People even thought it was a curse from the Creator.

The people in Shanluan County have also tried to invite spiritual cultivators to help at a high price, but I don't know if these warriors are too weak or the monsters are too powerful.

Gradually, there were no more cultivators willing to go. At the same time, the resistance of the people also intensified the contradictions between the two sides again and again until they became irreconcilable. In such a situation, the abandoned Shanluan County and the people who faced the wrath of the monsters have really become a dead place here!

Those who have some savings in their hands are busy moving out of the family and buying another house in the next town.

And in the end, those who remained were some powerless civilians, because they lived in precariousness all year round, and their bodies and minds under fear were increasingly distorted into resentment, and with the idea of earning a day by living a day, they all became violent, and all kinds of disputes occurred from time to time, and even walking on the road and glancing at each other could become the source of conflict.

I don't know if it's because of the pressure of survival, people here have a crazy enthusiasm for right and wrong, and the speed of gossip is almost twice as fast as that of the outside world.

On this day, another piece of news once again washed away the heated discussions on the streets and alleys like rolling waves.

"Hey, have you heard? The daughter of the richest man in the lockdown city was robbed by a monster a few days ago!"

"I've heard about it a long time ago! That richest man was the first to move away from our Shanluan County back then! The look in his eyes before leaving---it was a look of 'Lao Tzu patted his ass and left first, and you all had to die if you stayed here'. Now we are still alive and well, but his daughter was taken captive by others first! Retribution, retribution! What a big deal, a few stinky money!"

"Hahaha-"

After the crowd had gloated over the fortune merchant's tragic fate, another monkey-cheeked diner interjected into the conversation.

"This news is not new for a long time, I'll reveal to you again a matter that has just come out, even if you haven't heard of it! It is said that this time, that group of monsters is just a gunman, and the real mastermind is still the Xuantian faction of the Dingtian Mountain Range!"

"Xuantian faction?" another uncle who sold steamed buns also temporarily put down the steamer and came over, "Isn't the Xuantian faction always known for its reputation? ”

"In this way," the eyes of another little man who was drinking porridge suddenly lit up, "Since the monsters in the Xilin Valley have long colluded with the Xuantian Sect, can we directly crusade against the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"You really don't have to use your brains!" an aunt selling watermelons behind her slapped her, "We can't even beat the minions on people's faces, and we still want to deal with the Xuantian faction?

"I didn't expect the Xuantian Sect to be such a sect! I really misjudged them before!"

“…… Cough, cough," while everyone was talking about it, a young man in an ice blue robe came over cautiously with a bowl of wine, and said with a smile: "You say that the Xuantian Sect instructed the monsters in the Xilin Valley? What the hell is going on?"

This young man seemed to appear out of thin air, and his dress was incompatible with the folk style of the place. The water-colored brocade floats down in a streamlined shape, dyeing the robe and chasing the stars and the moon. The snow-white piping embroidered with elegant bamboo leaf patterns and the mutton fat hosta on his head complement each other, which is worth a lot of money at a glance.

Although his face is slightly green because he is too young, on his face that has just fallen out of the edges, there is also a kind of spaciousness that has been refined by the times. These two diametrically opposed characteristics are so contradictory and yet integrated in one place.

The uncle who sold steamed buns glared: "Boy, who are you?" frowned and looked him up and down, squinted his eyes and said suspiciously: "Look at your face, you are not a local, are you?

This Shanluan county is always facing the threat of demonic beasts, and the people in the city are too late to flee, and it is rare to see a fresh face who takes the initiative to come in.

"The little brother went out on errands, passing through here, just after listening to the big brothers' lively talk, the blood of the gossip in his heart couldn't help but boil!"

Another big man with a fierce face and a scar on his face heard the right answer, and his impression of the young man was really a little better. When the young man also thought that things had taken a turn for the better, and was looking at him with bright eyes, the big man suddenly waved one hand and spread it under the young man's eyes.

"Uh...... Uncle?" the boy blinked, his face full of question marks.

The big man glared: "Give money! If you don't give money, who will tell you in vain?"

"Oh...... Oh!" the young man couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly took out a large handful of spirit stones in his arms, and laid them on the table in a dignified manner.

Shanluan County is a poor and remote area, and the onlookers on the side are all shallow-minded, and they have almost never seen so many spirit stones at one time. He looked greedily for a long time, and then raised his head one after another, and cast his fiery gaze on the young man. Looking at his weak figure, there were some thoughts in my heart that I shouldn't have for a while.

The big man couldn't help but glance at the young man, and then under the envious gaze of everyone, he picked up the spirit stones one by one, put them in the palm of his hand and weighed them, before nodding with satisfaction and smiling: "Well, with this small fortune, it is enough to live happily in the Drunken Fragrance Building for a few more days!"

After putting the spirit stone into his pocket and making sure that he hadn't missed one, the big man began to tell the young man about the richest man and the Xuantian Sect.

The big man is the same as the people in Shanluan County, and naturally has nothing good to say about the richest man who escaped from the battle, basically this person made black money back then, and then moved his family, no longer caring about the life and death of the people in Shanluan County, and added a sentence at the end: "Losing my daughter, this is all retribution!"

As for the Xuantian faction, it was even more of a blind fabrication. The people in Shanluan County are only known to the Xuantian Sect, they may not even have been to the Dingtian Mountain Range, so they counted the Xuantian Sect one by one, and did not forget to praise a few words from Haikou: "What is there to be proud of as a spiritual cultivator, if I also go to spiritual cultivation, I would already be a master!"

The young man's brows furrowed deeper and deeper in the middle of the big man's narration, after all, a person who doesn't know anything is all based on conjecture, and everyone will be angry if he says that his master is so unbearable!

It turned out that the young man was Ye Shuo, the new core disciple of the Xuantian Sect, who had just entered the spiritual cultivation world and tried his hand at it, and now he was running around looking for an antidote for his poisoned friend advisor.

After getting the Jiuqu Xuanyin Pill, he and Chu Tianyao headed all the way to the east, and were passing through Shanluan County at this time. Near the tavern in the city, they heard the villagers' chatter, and naturally knew that the daughter of the richest man had been kidnapped by the half-demons instructed by the "Xuantian Sect".

So, they decided to ask the nearby villagers about it.

"Okay, don't talk about it. At this time, Ye Shuo waved his hand weakly to shut up the big man. If he continues to brag, it is estimated that he is about to blow himself into a powerhouse in the Heavenly Realm.

No useful information was found. Ye Shuo sighed, he shouldn't have had any hope for these illiterate villagers.

When he stood up and was about to leave, he sensed that something was wrong as soon as he raised his foot. He didn't notice the greedy eyes of everyone before, but he didn't take a few unarmed civilians to heart, and at this time, Ye Shuo continued to move forward generously, ignoring the villagers who were holding axes on the side.

Ye Shuo originally intended to let these mortals and didn't want to meet them in general, but in the eyes of that group of villagers, all this had another meaning. They just thought that Ye Shuo was unaware of all this, and they were still a little panicked in their hearts, after all, these villagers were short-tempered, but they had never done such a thing as killing people and robbing money, and now Ye Shuo was rich, but he looked dull, and he was naturally the only prey of those greedy villagers.

"Ah——h

A villager in coarse linen looked at his hands in horror, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't close it: "Hoe...... The hoe flew on its own!"

The other villagers didn't have much knowledge, and they also exclaimed: "The hoe is in the sky!"

Ye Shuo was helpless in his heart, this was just a simple aura manipulation technique. By rotating and vibrating the air, the free wind element was simulated into a whirlpool, and the man's axe was directly rolled into the air.

"Could it be ......" A middle-aged man among the villagers suddenly raised his head to look at Ye Shuo hesitantly, as if he remembered something, but shook his head violently, as if he was cheering himself up, "It's just a hairy boy!" After speaking, he raised his axe and slashed at Ye Shuo's body.

Almost as soon as he raised the axe, the whole person flew up with the axe. "Ah, help! Help!" The middle-aged man was suspended in the air crying and calling out to his mother, "Lord Spiritual Cultivator, spare your life!"

"I've let you go, so why bother. With a wave of Ye Shuo's hand, the middle-aged man suddenly fell heavily from mid-air, and when he was about to smash a hole in the ground, a whirlwind burst out of thin air under his body, relieving his fall. After holding him firmly on the ground, the whirlwind gradually dissipated.

If the middle-aged man couldn't see Ye Shuo's true identity at this moment, then his head would almost be white. Therefore, almost as soon as he landed, he immediately straightened up, shrunk himself into a circle, and crawled to Ye Shuo's side on his knees: "Thank you, Lord Spiritual Cultivator, for not killing!!"

Kowtowed as he spoke, for fear that he would accidentally provoke Ye Shuo's anger and make him die.

The surrounding villagers also suddenly understood that this time they had really met a master. The dozens of people who were originally around all knelt down at once, and like the middle-aged man, they apologized while kowtowing. I don't know who started it, someone suddenly said, I want to implore Ye Shuo to get rid of the harm for the people and get rid of the monsters in the Xilin Valley.

"You're so good, you can do it!"

"That's right, Master Cultivator, help us!"

The villagers pleaded with Ye Shuo as if they were worshipping the gods.

"So...... You just agreed?" Chu Tianyao looked at the circle of villagers behind him who came to see him off, "It is estimated that this matter will not be solved for a while, you don't want to find an antidote?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but fortunately, the consultant's condition is stable, and this matter is also related to the reputation of the Xuantian Sect, so it must be resolved as soon as possible. Ye Shuo held a large pile of corn in his arms, which the villagers must have given him. After knowing that the other party was a spiritual cultivator, the attitude of those villagers immediately changed 180 degrees. "This corn is our local specialty here, Lord Spiritual Cultivator must accept it!"

According to the guidance of the villagers, Ye Shuo and Chu Tianyao easily came to the closed city.

Yongfeng City is more east than Shanluan County, the terrain is stable, it is indeed a good place to build a city, although it is not as prosperous as Dingtiancheng, but in comparison, it is almost a good Shanluan County more than a minute and a half.

There are no strict rules like Dingtian City, and first-time entrants don't even need to go through inspections, as long as they have paid some entrance fees willingly, they will be released quickly. The city is not big, Ye Shuo and Chu Tianyao walked around the city, and there were some notices posted everywhere in the city that hired warriors with a lot of money, obviously from the hands of the richest man.

"Recruiting Bounty Hunters......"