Chapter 35: Heavenly Mountains
Call...... Call......
The spirit storm rolled up the sand and stones, lifting the pieces of rubble that weighed several pounds into the sky, and then slammed them into the ground.
The impact of two pieces of gravel makes a sound of striking, but if it is like at this time, hundreds of pieces of rubble continue to rise and fall, and the sound is continuous, as if a thunder roar, or a wave crashing.
Boom, boom!
A group of three carriages struggled to move through the gap between the spiritual storms.
The carriage was heavy and should have been fully loaded with goods. Pulling the cart was a copper-scaled horse unique to the Abyssal Field, covered with solid and tight scale armor with a metallic sheen.
With a low snort, the copper-scaled horse pulled the cart forward step by step against the gravel that fell from time to time.
"Daddy, if the spirit storm continues to scrape like this, the copper-scaled horse will not be able to hold on!"
A chubby boy who looked to be about fourteen or fifteen years old struggled to hold on to the reins, and couldn't stop looking at the panting copper-scaled horse in distress, and finally couldn't help it, and shouted loudly.
The one who was called Daddy was a stout man. He had a square face, and his face was full of wind and sand.
Hearing his son shouting, he also raised his voice: "Just go out soon, don't worry! The most difficult part of Tianjue Ridge is this section, turn over, and we can go to the next settlement." When things are sold, they can replenish dry food and water!"
As he shouted, the stout man glanced at the carriage that had fallen at the back.
This man's name is Chang Dafu, and his son, the chubby boy, is called Chang Shun.
Father and son, drifting in the wilderness, reselling all kinds of goods, struggling to find a way to survive.
Two days ago, before entering the Heavenly Peerless Ridge, I met a young man on the side of the road, staring at the spirit storm in the distance, with a sad face.
The young man made a very generous move, and directly took out two whole palm-sized spirit stones with quite good condition, and asked Chang Dafu to give him a ride, just over this heavenly mountain.
In the wilderness, I shouldn't be able to trust anyone, but first, this young man really can't make people feel any bad feelings, and second, the temptation of two spirit stones is too great.
After all, his three truckloads of goods may not be worth two spirit stones. This business is not done in vain.
After the young man got on the train, except for three meals and rest, he hid in the carriage for the rest of the time.
But others are not withdrawn and obedient.
When Chang Shun was curious, he talked to him, and he also asked questions very enthusiastically. Chang Shun is the age when young people like to show off the most, and it is easy to meet a person in the wilderness who can talk to him and listen to his chatter in addition to his father, and naturally knows everything and speaks endlessly.
Doing business in the wilderness, some are stories, and some are experiences.
Along the way, Chang Shun kept talking, and the young man listened quietly. Occasionally, I asked a sentence or two, and often followed the conversation by the way, and unfolded endlessly, looking like pointing out the country.
Sometimes this is a time that cannot be stopped.
Chang Dafu has a lot of experience, and he can hear that the young man can always let his stupid son pour out all the anecdotes he has seen and heard around him.
Although the anecdotes are complicated and disorderly, there are also some rough information about certain forces that they have been to or heard of.
I'm afraid this information is what this young man really cares about.
Chang Tai Fook does not restrain Chang Shun.
After all, this kind of lone wolf who dares to walk alone in the wilderness, and it is commonplace to set up intelligence or something from the past business.
What's more, this kind of person usually has good strength.
Not to annoy them and satisfy their curiosity as much as possible is also the common sense of Chang Tai Fook as a businessman.
This young man naturally walked into the wilderness.
This place has been more than three hundred miles away from Huangchen, and it is gradually entering the outer sphere of influence of the Tianlei Gate marked by the spies scattered by Huangchen.
Only by walking on the wilderness for many years can the veteran traders know that one of the trails is only allowed for a line of carriages and horses.
This trail can be sandwiched between two spiritual storms blowing against each other, hanging and hanging on the ground, becoming the shortest shortcut connecting the two sides of the Heavenly Peerless Ridge.
At the beginning, Fang Ran didn't want to think about it, took the straight path, and plunged headlong into the Heavenly Peerless Ridge.
Then he was disgraced and smashed back by the rocks in the sky.
He can completely take the spirit storm seriously, but this stone in the sky, smashing on his body, is really special Niang's pain......
This is also why, after finally stopping a group of merchants, Fang Ran got into the carriage and said that he would not come out easily.
"Uncle Chang, how long will it take to get out!" Fang Ran poked out half of his head from the carriage and asked loudly.
The sound of the gravel bombardment was so loud that even though the two were not more than ten feet apart, they still had to shout at the throat to let the other person hear.
"Soon, it's fast! Forty miles of Tianjue Mountain, we have already walked more than thirty miles! Do you see the gap in front of you? After that gap, the spiritual storm will slowly subside, and after walking a small road, we will reach the other end of Tianjue Mountain!" Chang Dafu is like a bell, but it seems to be more neutral than Fang Ran.
"Gotcha!" Fang Ran replied, and immediately retracted his head again.
"Brother Fang, what are you afraid of! Smash and smash, don't you get used to it!" Chang Shunle turned his head, and the stone smashed on the bamboo hat on his head, making a thumping sound, and smashing on his fat body, looking at his expression, he didn't feel any pain at all.
"That's your thick flesh! I'm covered in skin and bones!How can I withstand this!" Fang Ran scolded with a smile.
"Hehe, my name is plump, not thick! Brother Fang, I can tell you, just my body, without a severance charm, can be pierced in the spirit storm for ten breaths! My father said, what kind of soil is this, it's rare!" Chang Shun looked proud, and his fat body trembled with laughter.
"The acquired thick soil! is the foundation for becoming a big man!" Chang Dafu is also a straightforward person, and this kind of thing is said so aggressively.
Fang Ran's eyes lit up and said, "Heh, this is indeed rare. The acquired five elements, the practice of the corresponding Taoism, and each has its own convenience. Your thick soil body is the most suitable for cultivating the Tao of the Earth. You practice for one day, and you practice for two days, haha, you can be regarded as a genius. ”
"Alas...... If you have a lifelong business, you can work hard and have a step of cultivation, and it is great to barely protect yourself. Daofa? Ha, don't dare to think about it, don't dare to think about it!" Chang Shun helped the hat that was blown crooked, and waved his hand again and again.
That's true.
In the wilderness, the environment is harsh, but correspondingly, people's physique is also stronger, and the possibility of a physique that is more suitable for cultivation is also higher than in other places in the peaceful years.
The acquired thick soil body is the acquired five elements body, which corresponds to the physique of the earth line, which is in line with the spiritual power of the earth line. It's not very superb, but it is worth focusing on cultivating in some families, even small sects.
However, it is a pity that the vast majority of the seedlings of this kind of cultivation are all buried in the wilderness, and even if someone is lucky enough to embark on the path of cultivation, the top of the sky will be up to three steps.
When you go out and meet such seedlings, it is naturally something worth celebrating. Fang Ran also pondered, when he went out of the Heavenly Peerless Ridge, he would try to recruit him, if he was willing to come to Huangchen, it would naturally be better.
"By the way, Brother Fang, what did you ask yesterday, is there a place not to mess around on the side of Tianjue Mountain? You see, you can see the mountain in the distance here, the legend is where the immortals of Tianleimen live, and mortals can't get close. Tsk, fairy, Brother Fang!" Chang Shun smacked his tongue.
"The Immortal of the Heavenly Thunder Gate?" Fang Ran asked with interest.
Chang Shun shook his head again and again: "I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it." Legend has it that those who have seen the gods have been taken up the mountain and served as immortal servants to the gods. I'm not blessed!"
"Immortal servant?" Fang Ran repeated the word.
"Yes, fairy servant, fairy servant! No need to mine, no longer need to avoid spiritual violence, a lifetime of eating and drinking spicy food, but it is much more comfortable than the days of Daddy and me!"
"You also want to be an immortal servant?" Fang Ran asked Chang Shun.
Chang Shun nodded first, and then shook his head violently: "Don't dare to think, don't dare to think." If the gods come to pick it up, then I will definitely go. But I'm like this, Brother Fang, you say, can the gods look at it?"
Fang Ran sighed.
If he didn't know the details of the Heavenly Thunder Gate, I'm afraid Fang Ran would still believe the rumors of the so-called immortal servant.
However, these days of investigation, coupled with what happened to the Huangchen Chamber of Commerce, made Fang Ran very sure that those so-called people who were taken up the mountain and acted as immortal servants may have all suffered accidents and turned into blood puppets!
Pity these people in the wilderness, and take them as objects of longing!
Chang Shun saw that Fang Ran didn't answer, nor was he lost, and grinned: "I know, where is the material for me to be a fairy servant? Hehe, it's not bad to run a business with my father like this." You can go to more places and meet more people. I can still meet Brother Fang, ha, it's not bad!"
Fang Ran looked at Chang Shun and said, "If you have ambitions in life, why bother to be a servant for others? I'll show you a place, where there are no masters and servants, only friends and brothers." ”
Chang Shun showed a yearning look on his face, and asked Fang Ran: "Really, Brother Fang......?" Can I continue to run the business, or will I go and not come back?"
Fang Ran smiled dumbly: "Of course you can." It's a chamber of commerce, and of course you can run a business, catch more cars, and meet more people!"
"Hey, Daddy, did you hear what Brother Fang said? We can join the Great Chamber of Commerce!"
"The Chamber of Commerce or something, let's break through the last mountain pass, sit tight!" Chang Dafu shouted, the whip in his hand "snapped", and the three copper-scaled horses seemed to have seen the end, their tendons and flesh were tense, their hooves spread out and sprinted, and in a few breaths, they rushed through the gap.
The spiritual storm suddenly eased, and the broken stones rolled up in the sky did not pass through this gap.
Chang Dafu felt out a fragment of a broken talisman that had been rubbed smoothly from his neckline, and his face was full of excitement. He wrapped this fragment of the broken talisman in his palm, put his hands together on his forehead, and silently thanked the gods and goddesses before he drove the carriage again.
"Hehe, that is, Daddy has changed to two fragments of the Broken Talisman again, so we dare to go to the Heavenly Peak. On weekdays, even if we can save half a month, we still have to take an honest detour. Chang Shun smiled at Fang Ran, his chubby face was beaming, and he couldn't see Chang Dafu's vicissitudes.
Fang Ran nodded.
Similar despair, Arachen once had, but that, is in the past.
The carriage moved forward steadily, looking around, noting down the details of the terrain one by one, and drawing an extremely accurate topographic map through the Tianji Roulette Wheel.
Just as he was measuring the height of the dangerous peak on his side, a low whistling sound came, and then there was a boom, and the car driven by Chang Dafu in front of it broke off in response.
When Fang Ran turned around, he saw a boulder sweeping by, smashing into the ground, plowing out a deep ravine.
The body overturned, but fortunately Chang Taifu reacted quickly, just rolled on the ground and was not hit by the car.
"Robbing the road?" Fang Ran raised his eyebrows.
Sure enough, there were seven people in the group, all riding copper-scaled horses, lined up and stopped in the middle of the road.
Fang Ran looked at the seven people, but he frowned.
These seven people are dressed in armor, the shape is uniform, and it seems that the quality of the armor is extraordinary.
The copper-scaled horses under their seats are also all covered with armor, covering the vital points.
The seven people stood in the middle of the road, like seven iron floats, and the momentum complemented each other, and at first glance they were well-trained cavalry.
"The seven uncles, villains, sons and nephews have worked hard to run the business, and they are all small business. If you like anything, just take it, just ask you to raise your noble hand and spare the lives of our family!" Chang Dafu said respectfully when he turned over from the ground. He only said that together with his son and nephew, he also wanted to shelter Fang Ran by the way.
After all, the seven horsemen in front of him really gave him a sense of oppression like facing a mountain.
This sense of oppression can only be fed with the lives of an unknown number of people.
Among the seven horses, one of them slowly walked out and said coldly: "The Heavenly Thunder Gate is forbidden, and all living beings are not allowed to enter." ”
Fang Ran's eyes narrowed, and he said in his heart: "Heavenly Thunder Gate, what are you going to do to block this place?"
Chang Dafu was still cautious, and he had the courage to say: "The villain really doesn't know." Since it is the blockade of the adults of the Tianlei Gate, the villain will turn back, it is really offended, offended......"
As he spoke, Chang Dafu shrank his shoulders and stepped back carefully.
Chang Shun looked at the seven horsemen and horses from behind, with a look of half curiosity and half fascination on his face, but when he saw the saber pressed on their waists, he swallowed and spat at the mouth and shrunk his neck.
"Kill it?" or do you want to capture it and give it to the Banner Envoy to use as material for this batch of blood puppets?" one of the seven horsemen asked in a low voice.
In the middle is the man who is the first of them. His gaze coldly swept over Chang Dafu and Chang Shun, and said, "A few days ago, the Lord ordered it down, and the situation was urgent. He pulled out his saber and said flatly, "Kill them all, and leave no one." ”
Before the words fell, the saber in the man's hand was unsheathed, and the knife flashed and slashed at Chang Dafu.