Chapter 31: Travel
After the ancestor spoke, a team of more than 200 people officially embarked on the journey.
Like a soldier's expedition, groups of residents around the street appeared, watching this rare event, and many residents also scattered flower petals on the team, as if blessing all the disciples of the Hualan Sect.
From the scene of this street, you can see the influence of Hualanzong in this place.
"Xiao Ion, do you say that this Lanshan is far away?" Liu Man asked Xia Li curiously, after all, as a disciple with a foreign surname, he had never had the opportunity to participate in a grand event of this level as the Lanshan Festival before.
But he forgot that Xia Li, like him, was also black-eyed.
"I don't know—" Xia Li replied truthfully, although standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, he could see the figure of the giant mountain, but Xia Li and the others had never set foot in such a distant distance.
"Wait a minute, let's drag someone who knows and ask, won't we know!" Xia Li suddenly waved his arm to the front row as if he remembered something: "Hua Zinan!
Hua Zinan stood in the front row and looked up suddenly, because she heard a nasty and familiar voice calling out to her.
"What, little beggar!"
After all, the two had only quarreled in the morning, and at this time, Hua Zinan retreated from the front row, approached Xia Li's body, and said angrily.
"How far away do you say this Lanshan is?" Xia Li asked, and behind him were dozens of pairs of knowledge-seeking eyes of disciples with foreign surnames.
Hua Zinan, who originally wanted to leave and joke with Xia, had no choice but to get serious:
"Although you can see the shadow of Arashiyama when you stand on the castle tower now, it is not because Arashiyama is very close, but because Arashiyama is too big. ”
"That is a rare giant mountain in a place like ours, the vitality gathers, nourishes all living beings, the surrounding four cities and thirteen towns, all rely on Lanshan to survive, the Qinglan City occupied by the Hualan Sect is only one of the four cities, and the other three cities are entrenched in the big forces that are not weaker than our Hualan Sect, although everyone has been safe for hundreds of years, but we also have to be vigilant, like this Lanshan Festival, if any force wants to attack us, we may all be in danger of our lives!"
Hua Zinan's excite-like expression of excitement on his face at this time was gone, replaced by a thick sense of vigilance.
"Wouldn't it? Since everything has been safe for hundreds of years, there shouldn't be too many problems, right?" Xia Li heard Hua Zinan say this, and he also sensed that something was wrong, it seems that this Lanshan Festival is really not as simple as imagined.
"It's hard to say, recently there have been some small frictions between the sect and the forces on both sides of the north and south, and the villages and towns on the border are a little tense. "Hua Zinan, as the core disciple of the main family, is really well-informed:
"And this Arashiyama Festival. It is the largest in the past hundred years, in the past, only the disciples surnamed Hua of the main family were allowed to move forward with some elite disciples of the divided family, and the maximum number of people would not exceed fifty, but now whether it is a separate family disciple or a disciple with a foreign surname, all of them have been brought, and the number of people has exceeded two hundred in an instant, and a full ten spirit gathering deacons have been mobilized to protect the Fa, just for fear that there will be an accident on the way!"
"Ah?" Xia Li looked very surprised, no wonder when he went to the Hualan Sect's treasury to steal beef for the second time, he would meet a whole team of family soldiers, which turned out to be a transportation team of materials!
When the disciples with foreign surnames heard Hua Zinan say this, they all frowned. If something really happens, then these disciples with foreign surnames will definitely be the first batch of abandoned children to be abandoned, and they will only become a stepping stone for their own disciples, increasing their chances of living.
"But don't worry too much, after all, once you make a move against us, it will also mean an all-out war with Hua Lanzong, and any force needs to weigh the weight!" Hua Zinan changed his words again, soothing everyone's emotions:
"Let's go ahead happily! Just think of this as an outing, and don't you feel at ease when you look at the deacons around you?"
This made everyone feel a lot more at ease, the ten deacons of the Hualan Sect Gathering Spirit Realm were already a rare force, and if everyone joined forces to get it, even the elders above the Gathering Spirit would have to return.
The disciples who were no longer afraid moved forward happily.
Although you can see the huge figure of Arashiyama with your eyes, but from leaving the city to going to the official road, walking for half a day, the distance seems to have not diminished at all, and the mountain is still far away from you.
"Disciples obey orders! Rest in place! Now you can take out your food and enjoy it!" Several deacons stopped the somewhat tired team, although these children are all monks, and their physique is far beyond ordinary people, but after all, they are too young, and they have almost worn out the freshness after walking for half a day, if they don't take a break at this time, I am afraid that the team will go slower and slower, and they will not be able to reach the foot of Arashiyama until it gets dark.
"Ouch! It's a rest!" Some of the disciples of the family sat on the ground as soon as they sat on the ground, and from this it can be seen how pampered these disciples are usually. They often evade training, and in terms of physique, they are not half a star worse than the tortured disciples with foreign surnames.
"Xiao Ion, your meal is really hearty!" Liu Man looked at the lunch box in Xia Li's hand with envy, it was the best dish that Hua Shuyao personally prepared for him. Vegetables, meat, rice, and the same dishes are separated by the compartment of the lunch box, so even if they are bumpy in the backpack, they will not mix.
"Little beggar, I want to eat my aunt's cooking!" the reckless girl ran to her again, much to Xia Li's annoyance—I don't have enough to eat myself!
Hua Zinan mixed with Xia Li and a group of disciples with foreign surnames, and after this meal, it can be regarded as a happy one, without the slightest estrangement.
"You're Xia Li?"
Suddenly, a tall man approached Xia Li and looked down condescendingly at the people who were sitting on the ground eating.
"What if it's him?" Before Xia Li could speak, Hua Zinan was a little unhappy at first, after all, the other party's cold tone and condescending posture made her very uncomfortable.
The man glanced at Hua Zinan, but didn't pay attention to her, but instead raised his fists and bowed respectfully to Xia Li.
This can make Xia Li flattered, how to say that the other side is also a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, at this time he is already like a little adult, but he suddenly saluted himself, but Xia Li really couldn't understand what was going on.
"My name is Hua Ziyang, and I am a disciple of the branch family in Linshui Town, I just want to thank you for your contribution to all the branch disciples!"
Everyone suddenly realized, indeed, if Xia Li had not received the twenty whips, then the status of today's disciples and disciples with foreign surnames would still be low, and they would not even be qualified to participate in this Lanshan Festival, from this level, Xia Li really deserves this ceremony.
"Don't don't, don't, bother me, little brother, I was just beaten in a daze, I really didn't expect to cause such a big whirlpool!" Xia Li blushed at this time, scratching his head uncomfortably.