After running wildly for two hours, Ji Yan finally arrived at the entrance of the village.

The roofs of the sparse thatched huts are all covered with thick snow, like a few snow mushrooms in the snow.

Hardly anyone walked outside, and the smoke from the rooftops and a few candles peeking through the windows proved that it was not as desolate as it seemed.

Ji Yan walked in and happened to meet the villagers who had returned by car. The cart is the original wooden cart, which is drawn by horse. There are two carriages, the front one is full of people, and the back one is full of fatty fish, and the people here should make a living from fishing, so there may be a river not far away! The fishermen are wearing thick leather jackets, with simple smiles on their faces, and humming small songs, and it seems that they have gained a lot of money.

The carriage approached, the villagers driving stopped their horses and looked at Ji Yan suspiciously, and the people in the carriage also showed curiosity.

"Little friend, you shouldn't be from our village, right?" Ji Yan nodded, and was about to ask what place this was, but the villagers suddenly noticed what she was wearing, and jumped out of the carriage to take off their scarves or hats and put them on her.

"Kid, put on it, don't freeze, what a poor baby, you should have been abandoned here by the family, don't worry, I'll take you to the village chief, the village chief is a good person, he will take you in!"

It was a woman in her forties who spoke, with a plump body and kind eyebrows, and she took off her scarf and put it on Ji Yan's body.

The woman's face was sympathetic, their village was the most remote village in the western continent, with the wide Zimu River in front and the endless glacier in the back, and this little girl in thin clothes must have been abandoned by her family. She had heard about this kind of thing from other villages earlier, but she didn't expect it to happen today.

Ji Yan looked at his thin clothes and understood what they meant. However, she took the Yaoqing Brand Body Protection Pill and was not afraid of the cold. I wanted to open my mouth to explain, but I was interrupted again.

"Little girl, don't be sad, why don't you go to my house to sit and warm up first, and I'll take you to see the village chief later." Oh, don't you speak, isn't it frozen!" The woman said and was about to take off her leather jacket to Ji Yan.

Ji Yan couldn't cry or laugh a little, where did she look sad, and she didn't shiver cold, right? So she hurriedly stopped her and said, "This aunt doesn't need to, I am a cultivator, and I am not afraid of the cold." ”

The woman took a closer look and found that the other party really didn't seem to be cold, so she put on her clothes, and sighed in her heart that the cultivators were really different. But no matter how powerful the body is, it is not iron, and after staying in the snow for so long, there is some cold air in the body. "Why don't you go to my house for a cup of hot tea and go to the cold, my house is over there. ”

Ji Yan was a little embarrassed, but the folk customs were simple and warm, so he finally nodded and agreed.

She stayed in this village for a few days, and got a lot of information about the Western Continent from the mouths of the villagers.

There are empires and nine cities in the four countries on the eastern continent, but there is only one great empire on the western continent. The empire was divided into three regions, which were distributed in a circle. The innermost is the imperial capital, followed by the inner city, and the outer circle is the outer city and its attached periphery. The three zones are strictly demarcated and have a barrier that prohibits the movement of people between them.

The closer you get to the imperial capital, the stronger the aura, this village is the most remote place from the imperial capital, but the aura here is still twice as strong as that of the Eastern Continent. Ji Yan pinched his chin, feeling that this situation was very surprising, making people feel as if the aura of the entire Puluo Continent was emanating from the imperial capital!

The level of the Western Continent is several levels higher than that of the Eastern Continent, and the aura is one aspect, and the other aspect is that the Western Continent is rich in a kind of spirit stone that the Eastern Continent does not have.

The spirit stone contains a wealth of spiritual energy, which cultivators can directly absorb and use, and the speed of cultivation can be accelerated several times. Spirit stones are divided into low-level, intermediate, and high-level. There are many spiritual stone ore sources distributed on the Western Continent, and the closer you are to the imperial capital, the higher the level of spiritual stones.

Because of the two reasons of aura and spirit stone, many families will desperately squeeze into the middle area, the family competition is fierce, and the internal survival of the fittest and the discarding of the weak are very strict.

This is also the reason why the villagers here thought that she was abandoned by the family, but Ji Yan did not explain by default, and then casually found a reason to leave.

This place is called Snow Village, and it is located in the northeasternmost corner of the Western Continent. The most tragic thing is that there is a Zimu River formed by glacial meltwater dozens of kilometers in front of the village, and the Zimu River starts from the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and flows into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. The Zimu River is wide and boundless, and the current is so fast that the small fishing boats in the village will definitely not be able to sail through.

Fortunately, the villagers mentioned that there was often a large merchant ship passing by on the Zimu River, and Ji Yan estimated that he had found some gold coins, and the other party should be able to let her get on the boat.

The pamphlet left by Liu Mengfu recorded the information of the Liu family - one of the three families of the imperial capital, her purpose was to go to the Liu family to inquire about the news of the parents of this body, but how should she break through this layer of enchantment and enter the imperial capital?

As for how to get to Liu's house, let's wait until she gets to the outer city.

Well, all she could do now was wait.

"Xiao Yan, father, father asked me to tell you, the boat, huhu, the boat is coming!" Xiaohu ran over and said breathlessly.

His father was the head of Snow Village, and the adults in the village would go out to fish every day, and Ji Yan would go with him, but the enthusiastic villagers told her to stay in the tent to rest, saying that they would find someone to inform her when the boat came.

"Thank you!" Ji Yan's eyes lit up, and he swept away like the wind.

Snow Village is one of dozens of villages surrounded by the Zimu River. Together, the villages built a small wharf along the river for merchant ships. It is isolated from the rest of the world, and can only exchange some daily supplies from passing merchant ships.

When Ji Yan got there, he happened to see a big boat, with a tall and exquisite hull, and many villagers were surrounded under the boat. The ship is high above the dock, and the cargo can only be lifted up and down with ropes and bamboo baskets. A middle-aged man with a top hat stood tall on the brim of the boat, holding a small notebook in his hand while directing and keeping accounts.

The village chief kept raising his head and looking around, and smiled honestly when he saw Ji Yan coming, "Little girl, you are finally here, I am still worried that my little cub will run slowly, so that you will miss the boat and it will be over!"

"Uncle Village Chief, Brother Xiaohu is not slow, am I going to get on the boat now?" Ji Yan blinked his eyes and made an extremely well-behaved appearance, feeling a chill in his heart.

The villagers of Snow Village are too simple, and she is afraid that they will be scared by their overly mature appearance!

The village chief nodded and led her under the boat, craned his neck and politely greeted the middle-aged man standing on the eaves. "Mr. Steward!

The middle-aged man who was called Mr. Steward heard the voice, and although he was standing on a high place, he did not give a condescending feeling, and his expression and gaze were very approachable.

"I remember that you were the head of Snow Village, what is the matter with calling me?" xh118