Chapter 140: Finding the Origin of Sand City
Shacheng is not far from Simou City, but it is not close, more than a thousand miles away, and everyone stopped walking for three days. On this day, I finally saw the city wall of Shacheng from afar, the city wall of Shacheng is not tall, only ten zhang look, and it is built with ordinary flower rock, the thickness is also average, it seems that it is just a decoration, the scale of Shacheng is really not large, the radius is only ten miles, not so much the city, but a larger town is appropriate. Now is not the season to collect wine, so there are not many people in and out of Shacheng, basically mainly nearby residents, and occasional merchants also come to supplement supplies.
The gate of Shacheng was open, and it was easy to enter and exit, and only two low-level disciples of Huangshamen stood symbolically inside the city gate. Lu Yi and the others came to the disciples of Huangshamen, asked them how to go to Huangshamen, and said that they were going to visit Hu Anyu, and when the two low-level disciples heard this, they immediately saluted Lu Yi and the others respectfully, and separated one person to lead Lu Yi and the others to the Huangshamen station. To say that this Huangshamen, in the lion camel is really nothing, at most it is an inconspicuous little faction, but in this Shacheng is the real boss, the station of Huangshamen is in the city, and it occupies one-third of the area of Shacheng, under the leadership of the disciples of Huangshamen, Lu Yi and others soon came to the mountain gate of Huangshamen. I saw that the mountain gate of this Huangshamen is actually a large archway, carved from green jade, facing a main street in Shacheng. Passing through the archway, it is equivalent to entering the real station of Huangshamen, along the main road of five zhang wide, both sides of the road are all three-storey small buildings, mostly some small shops, the types of goods sold are also relatively complete, it is a small-scale square market. Walking further in, the architectural style has changed again, the small building in front is gone, replaced by a high-walled compound that enters, and the disciples who enter and exit the courtyard are wearing Huangshamen clothes, and this is the official entry into the sect. Walking further, there is a seven-story building, relatively speaking, it is quite magnificent, presumably this is the main building of Huangshamen, the disciple who led the way asked everyone to wait, and then ran to the main building, and went to report.
Not long after, more than a dozen people walked out of the independent building, led by Cao Jiwu, another Huangshamen elder who he met in the dark night mountain forest last time, followed by some young disciples who went to experience last time. After these people saw Lu Yi and his party, they were very happy, everyone said a few words of greeting, Lu Yi explained the intention, this Elder Cao told everyone that Hu Anyu and the head of the sect went to sell pills in other places to purchase materials by the way, and it would take three days to come back, first arrange a few people to go to the VIP room of the sect to rest temporarily, and set up a banquet in the evening to catch up with everyone. Lu Yi and the others readily agreed, and under the personal leadership of Elder Cao, they came to a quiet courtyard to rest.
In the evening, a disciple came to invite Lu Yi and the others, and everyone came to the hall of the main building, and saw that it was already brightly lit and crowded, and there were five or six tables of banquets on the hall, and Elder Cao and two other fourth-order monks who Lu Yi had never seen were directing a group of disciples to set up tables, chairs and tableware. Seeing Lu Yi and others coming, the three of them greeted them very warmly, after some introduction, everyone sat down, Elder Cao told Lu Yi that he had contacted Hu Anyu, and Hu Anyu learned that Lu Yi had arrived, and he had given up the purchase with the door owner, and was stepping up to rush back, and it was estimated that he would arrive tomorrow afternoon. Elder Cao ordered someone to take Shacheng's special sour thorn wine, everyone pushed the cup and changed the glass, the wine was happy, and drank it for nearly two hours before it dispersed, and some of the disciples who met with everyone last time also came to toast frequently, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. After the banquet dispersed, Lu Yi and the others returned to their residences and slept beautifully, until the next day, when the sky was bright, everyone walked out of the small courtyard, and after eating, they told Elder Cao that they wanted to go to Shacheng casually, and they would return before Hu Anyu and them returned, and the group went to Shacheng to play on their own.
To say that although this Huangshamen is a small sect, but there are still certain means to run the city, don't look at the Shacheng is not big, but it should be fully functional, whether it is daily things or local specialties, whether it is a restaurant or an inn, it can be easily found, and the security situation in the city is also very good, Lu Yi They have been shopping around the entire Shacheng for most of the day, and the utensils that need to be purchased and supplemented are very convenient to be replenished, and everyone even collected several uncommon materials in the Fang Market of Huangshamen, Ouyang Ye took out a second-order high-grade magic weapon seized in the Blood and Bone Gate in the early stage, and sold it at a good price in the Fang Market, It seems that the lack of magic weapons and magic weapons in Huangshamen, which Hu Anyu said before, really exists, which also makes Lu Yi have some ideas.
When Lu Yi and the others returned to Huangshamen, it was already Shen Shi, and they saw a few people standing on the steps of the main building of Huangshamen opposite, and the elder person led by them was not Hu Anyu, who was it?! Hu Anyu also saw Lu Yi and them, and ran to everyone from afar, and after greeting everyone, he enthusiastically led everyone to the hall, only to see that in the hall at this time, there were five monks above the fourth order, in addition to the three elders Cao they had seen earlier, there was also a fourth-order late-stage monk and a fifth-order monk. The fourth-order late-stage monk was short and fat, with a red face, and looked not like a cultivator, but like a cook, while the fifth-order monk had a solemn face and a tall figure, and sat in the middle with the taste of a high-ranking person, feeling like a member of the imperial court. Hu Anyu introduced the two sides, and as Lu Yi guessed, these two people were Wu Changfeng and Li Zhenyu, the main and deputy masters of Huangshamen.
Hu Anyu had already informed the two of them about the night mountain forest, so the two of them were very enthusiastic about Lu Yi and his party, and everyone chatted in the hall until the palm lamp, and it was a banquet again. Wu Changfeng, the master of the Huangsha Sect, is a person with an open and enthusiastic temperament, and at the same time, he is also a battle maniac, he is very kind of Ouyang Ye's temper, and after a few glasses of wine, he will take Ouyang Ye's hand and call him a brother, and he has no frame that a fifth-order master should have. After everyone dispersed, Lu Yi invited Hu Anyu to his room, and the two talked all night with the lamp, Lu Yi mentioned the little girl who used the pill as an attack method that he and others met, and Hu Anyu also explained to Lu Yi: "Using the pill as an attack method is a common means for a Dan master, but because the production cost of the pill is different and the use of the pill is a one-time thing, it is more luxurious than using magic, so the average Dan master will not do it until it is in a critical moment." There is only one explanation for this little girl's approach, she must be from a certain big family, and she has abundant resources in her hands, and she should be more favored and free to withdraw resources, so she will not cherish it so much. With this explanation, Lu Yi also understood why he had only seen taking pills to improve his ability at the selection competition in Yaoshan earlier, but he had never seen pills as weapons, so he was reluctant. However, this is a good reminder to Lu Yi that it is necessary for him to learn from the little girl's practices, which may sometimes work wonders.
Lu Yi took out the rucksack of a dragon horn sand lizard and showed it to Hu Anyu, but Hu Anyu's eyes immediately widened, and he carefully inquired about the origin of this thing and the situation when the dragon horn sand lizard used it to spray poison, and after pondering for a long time, he said: " With my current ability, it is not enough to give full play to the effect of this backpack, but if it is handed over to a fourth-level or above Dan Master, it will definitely be able to be made into a domineering pill, with its strong corrosiveness, if you attack with this pill, whether it is the opponent itself or the magic weapon, it may be strongly corroded, and if it is unexpectedly hit, the consequences will be unimaginable. So this thing is definitely a treasure for a Dan Master. When Lu Yi heard this, he gave Hu Anyu a backpack, and Hu Anyu also cautiously put it into his storage bag, leaving it for himself to refine when he advanced in the future.
The next day, the exchange between the two sides officially began, this exchange is all-round, exercises, formations, pills, utensils, etc. are involved, and even a small exchange meeting was held, exchanging some things that are not used by each other. There were really no good finished artifacts on Huangshamen's side, so they exchanged some materials for some unusable magic artifacts and other things in Lu Yi's hands. After that, Lu Yi and Hu Anyu found a quiet room alone, and the two of them entered it mysteriously, staying for four days, and on the fifth day, the two dragged their tired bodies and slightly opened their bloodshot eyes, but walked out of the quiet room with unconcealed excitement, Hu Anyu turned his hand, and a bunch of various third-order magic weapons appeared in front of everyone. It turned out that in the past few days, the two of them hid in the quiet room and taught each other the art of refining alchemy, until they got out, Lu Yi had reached the level of a second-order Dan master, and Hu Anyu had already been able to refine a second-order high-grade magic weapon. At the invitation of the Huangsha Gate Master, Lu Yi also refined a batch of third-order mid-to-high-grade magic weapons for the Huangsha Gate, and the Huangsha Gate Master also gave Lu Yi a batch of fourth-order materials as a thank you. Because Lu Yi and the others had a tight schedule, Lu Yi didn't refine the magic weapon for them this time, but Lu Yi promised Wu Changfeng that after the rookie competition in the Southern Regions, he would find a time to tailor a magic weapon for each elder in Huangshamen, and asked everyone to prepare the materials in advance, so that they couldn't close their mouths.