Chapter 8 Xuanjian City under the Xuanjian Sect
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Several beasts were killed, cleaned and placed on the fire, and in a short time they had turned golden and filled the place with a rich aroma.
Luo Shao was eating a beast's leg, but he seemed absent-minded, he had already learned from Yang Zhan how amazing the value of the spiritual ore he dug at the bottom of the Chishui River, although he was precocious, he couldn't help but be shocked.
And beside Luo Shao, Yang Hao and Yang Yi kept talking to the girl in the black gauze skirt, especially the former, with a strange look in his eyes, looking at the girl with a pure gaze not as pure as Yang Yi.
In fact, it's not wrong to think about it, in this great wilderness, thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys can already marry and even become fathers, and Yang Hao is more than twelve years old, which is already the age of the beginning of love.
It's just that the girl doesn't seem to care about Yang Hao, but prefers the simple-eyed Yang Yi, but during the conversation, the girl looks at Luo Shao who is sitting in a daze from time to time, her little face is a little annoyed, and she seems to be dissatisfied that she only dug two small ones, but Luo Shao dug a large spiritual mine.
"There are two more days to go, and we can reach Xuanjian City, Senior Yang might as well go with us, and it just so happens that a few children also have a companion."
On the other side, Bing Yan sent an invitation to Yang Zhan, after all, this is a senior who has retired from the battlefield and has the title of captain, and he has traveled hundreds of miles with his three children alone, and his strength is definitely far superior to him, and it will definitely be much safer to go on the road together.
Although this place is not far from Xuanjian City, it is still impossible to be careful, it is still difficult to be safe.
In this regard, Yang Zhan did not object, walking with Bingyan and the others could also make him much easier, and the most important thing was that Yang Zhan had not been to Xuanjian City for decades, and he had long been unfamiliar with this place and needed someone to guide him, and Bingyan and the others were the best choice.
Because compared to the distance of the Yang tribe hundreds of miles away from here, the Bing Yan and the others' Ice Tooth tribe is only a few dozen miles away from Xuanjian City, but they often come to the city to sell the tribe's harvest, and they naturally know very well about it.
There was no word all night, and the next morning, the group was on the road, and several animal carts were speeding across the plain, getting closer and closer to their destination.
Two days later, the sun fell, and the group finally arrived outside Xuanjian City.
Several beast carts followed, slowing down, and they were no longer the only ones around, but a large number of convoys moving together.
At this time, they were still two or three miles away from Xuanjian City, but they could already see it from a distance, and several children in the beast cart exclaimed at this moment.
In the distance, you can see ten huge peaks with more than 1,000 zhang standing on the plain, even if the distance is still far away, you can see that there are attics in those peaks, and there are many magnificent halls.
And an equally huge behemoth is surrounded by these ten huge peaks.
At first glance, the behemoth in the center seems to be a mountain, but the mountain has been occupied by a large number of attics and temples, and the most amazing thing is the huge hall standing on the top of the mountain.
This hall is hundreds of zhang in size, the whole body is dark cyan, it looks very ancient, and you can feel a magnificent and vicissitudes of life from a long distance, and in the middle of the hall, there is a stone sword that reaches the sky!
A little closer, a few children saw that between the huge peaks, there were a large number of iron rope necklaces, the strong wind blowing, the sound of gold and iron can be heard far away, and there are many black shadows passing on these iron cables.
"Those are the disciples of the Xuanjian Sect, generally speaking, the strength of the low-level disciples is not enough, they can only practice at this peak, only when the realm is high, they can step on the rope and go to other peaks, and if the Tao is insufficient, but the arrogance falls from the iron rope, then they will die, and the sect will not even collect the corpse for you."
Yang Zhan's faint words came, with some sternness, which could be regarded as a warning to a few children.
In this regard, they couldn't help but quietly stick out their tongues, and then continued to look at the magnificent scene in front of them.
After a while, they discovered that a huge city existed beneath the central hall, also surrounded by ten giant peaks.
"Xuanjian City under the Xuanjian Sect, this city is a city spontaneously formed by the disciples of the sect, in order to facilitate the transactions between the disciples of the various peaks, and then it attracted many cultivators, and over time, it naturally developed a giant city, and at the same time, this city is basically controlled by the disciples in the sect, and some elders often sit in the town, which is also a place to sharpen disciples."
Bing Yan said slowly, and then explained some of the division of forces in Xuanjian City, as well as the iron laws that need to be paid attention to and not committed, which sometimes brought out some interesting stories, but attracted several children to keep asking.
After a short time, the group finally came to the bottom of this giant city.
In the center of the tall city wall, there are three huge gates, and a large number of beast carts and pedestrians line up, under the watchful eye of the city guards, enter the city in an orderly manner.
"Since there were some accidents in the city more than ten years ago, the Xuanjian Sect has set a rule that you must pay a fee to enter the city, except for the disciples of this sect and vassal forces, the rest must follow."
Bingyan said, and then saw Yang Zhan's puzzled look, but he just shook his head, claiming that although many people knew that some accidents had happened back then, not many people knew about the specific situation, and it was a secret.
After half a pillar of incense, it was finally the turn of the group, and after paying the entrance fee for each person with a fine stone, they finally arrived at their destination.
"It's been the busiest time in the city in ten years, and the few inns are almost full, but luckily I know a friend here who owns an inn, otherwise I wouldn't have found a place to stay."
Bingyan spoke, and then said with some embarrassment; "It's just that the inn is relatively remote, and the scale is not large, and it can even be said to be simple, and I hope that the seniors will forgive me."
In this regard, Yang Zhan said that it was okay, as long as there was a place to stay, because Xuanjian City had a curfew, and there were no pedestrians on the streets of the city after late night, except for the disciples of this sect and vassal forces.
This is the first city within a radius of thousands of miles, but also because of the Xuanjian Sect, the degree of prosperity is not comparable to most of the ordinary, along the way, there are many small stalls on the street to sell, or spiritual materials, or weapons, and even snacks, but the materials used in these snacks are all precious old medicines or fierce beasts.
And those shops are even more extraordinary, you don't need to step into them, you can see a spiritual light coming out of the store, some seemingly ordinary storefronts, but you can smell a faint medicinal fragrance nearby.
This way, but a few children were dazzled, and they couldn't wait to get off the beast cart and have a good look, but Yang Zhan and Bingyan sternly stopped them, claiming that if they succeeded in entering the Xuanjian Sect, there would be time in the future, and now the city is mixed, and everything is safety.
At this time, as dusk faded and night fell, the ten peaks and the huge hall emitted a soft light at the same time, shining but not dazzling, making the place as if it were day.
The inn in the mouth of the ice rock is located in the corner of Xuanjian City, which is a 'slum', and the surrounding residents may have been disciples of the Xuanjian Sect several generations ago, but they have not fallen, and they only rely on the legacy of their ancestors to exist here.
"Although this is in the city, it is very chaotic, but fortunately, the day after tomorrow is the day when the Xuanjian Sect opens the mountain gate and sets up a test, so we can only stay in the inn for these two days."
Bingyan said as he guarded the surroundings with several other men and women, because although this place was in the city, due to its remote location and the fact that it was a 'slum', it was very chaotic, and there were often rogues and evil people hiding in it.
Yang Zhan nodded, and a sense of power could be exuded from his body, making the eyes around him much less.
Luo Shao and a few other children looked out on the animal cart and saw only a resident of this place wearing sackcloth, his face was sallow, and his body was thin, even less than the ordinary people of a small tribe.
These people are able to live in Xuanjian City because of the legacy of their ancestors, but because of this, they are reluctant to go out and take risks, just doing the lowest work in the city, earning a small reward.
Soon, their beast cart stopped, and they had reached the inn in the mouth of the ice rock.
In fact, it is said that it is an inn, it is better to say that it is a larger dilapidated courtyard, the shopkeeper is a middle-aged man, with fierce eyes, according to Bingyan, this shopkeeper was originally a hunter in the wilderness, and his strength was strong, but he offended the enemy, so he had no choice but to hide in Xuanjian City and open such an inn.
The beast cart was pulled into the small courtyard by the inn boys, and the group slowly walked into the inn.
Maybe it's because the Xuanjian Sect accepts disciples once every ten years, even if it is a small inn in this remote place, there are many people living in it at the moment, but the shopkeeper said that there is a courtyard that has been reserved for Bingyan.
"In the early years, the shopkeeper was seriously injured, and he was exiled to my Ice Tooth tribe."
Seeing that Yang Zhan was puzzled, Bing Yan said in a low voice.
Soon, the shopkeeper led them to a small courtyard.
I have to say that this shopkeeper seems to value the love of the Ice Tooth tribe very much, and the whole inn looks a little dilapidated, but this small courtyard is very well decorated, and there is no trace of breakdown, and the subsequent dinner party sent a lot of dishes, all of which are made of more than ten years of medicinal herbs and ferocious beasts.
At night, Yang Zhan and Bingyan found a few children, their faces were serious, as if they wanted to tell something.
"The Xuanjian Sect once every ten years, opens the mountain gate and sets up a test, and only accepts two hundred disciples each time."
Ice Rock Opening, Dao; "Don't think that two hundred places are a lot, every time the Xuanjian Sect admits disciples, the tribes within a radius of thousands of miles will participate, and there are thousands of children sent to stand out among them... Difficult! ”
In this regard, Luo Shao and the other four children behaved very calmly, which they already knew, and they had the confidence to believe that they could pass the test.
"Moreover, according to the shopkeeper, the number of participants this time has exceeded 10,000, which is the largest number in a hundred years, and the Xuanjian Sect has increased the difficulty and has an additional test."
Looking at a few children, Yang Zhan said in a deep voice; "In the past, there was only one test for the Xuanjian Sect each time, and that was to climb the ladder, starting from the mountain path behind Xuanjian City, the first two hundred people to reach the central hall were considered to have passed the test."
Then the content of Yang Zhan's words made the four children not only smack.
Because this time there is an extra kind of assessment, that is, the first to walk through the ladder, resist the central hall of the six hundred people, will be on the spot to comprehend a stone tablet, although I do not know the specific content of the stone tablet, but it is nothing more than runes related, as long as you can comprehend within the specified time, you can be called one of the two hundred, and if the last more than two hundred people, according to the time, take the first to enlighten.
However, although they were surprised, the confidence of several children in themselves did not decrease at all, not to mention the Ice Tooth Tribe, just the Yang Clan, they have not sent the children in the clan to participate in the assessment of the Xuanjian Sect for decades, just because, the patriarch Yang Zhan's requirements are too high, and he must have a certain talent in runes before he can send them.
And the three of Luo Shao were undoubtedly the three most talented in runes in the Yang tribe for decades, so they naturally had enough confidence to believe in their talents.
And in the following time, Yang Zhan began to teach the four of them some rune knowledge, hoping that they would be able to prepare for the test of the day after tomorrow.
(ps; Okay, I'm sorry, but the promised compensation update has to be postponed until tomorrow, and there are some things that I can't focus on today
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