Just like Xiao Luo, although they are fresh faces, and because they are high-level monks, they are particularly concerned, but they do not hinder anything in the city to inquire about some basic news of Shahai City, and interesting stories are spreading, and it is very smooth.

Or...... Exceptionally smooth.

The ordinary people in Shahai City rarely have the fear and awe of monks in other places in Kyushu, and they are no different from each other, and many of them are very enthusiastic. Especially in Shahai City, although Shahai City is very large, there is no flow after all, and all you see all year round are acquaintances, and there are few fresh faces. The situation in Shahai City is not known to other state capitals in the Kyushu Continent, even if it is the other boundaries of Qiaozhou, but in Shahai City, everyone here can go up for a while. Usually no outsiders come over, and there are no flowers in what everyone knows, but now that I meet Xue Yun and Xiao Luo, two "outsiders", it suddenly arouses the desire of many people to tell stories.

So, bit by bit, Xue Yun and Xiao Luo learned a lot more about Shahai City.

In Shahai City, the highest authority is the city lord.

But the city lords of Shahai City, some of them are like sect inheritances, selected and cultivated from the outstanding children of each generation, regardless of bloodline, regardless of background, temperament and means first, cultivation is just icing on the cake.

There are many families of monks in Shahai City, some of them have developed well and some have gradually declined over the years, but as long as they can still cultivate outstanding children, they still have the hope of competing for the position of city lord.

Every city lord of Shahai City must swear in front of thousands of monks and ordinary people in Shahai City on the day of succession that he will put Shahai City first, not harm the interests of Shahai City for personal gain, and not control the operation of Shahai City for private power, and the city lord of Shahai City will be born for Shahai City from the moment he becomes the city lord until he steps down as an elder of Shahai City.

Every succession ceremony of the city lord of Shahai City is the biggest celebration of Shahai City, and it is also the most solemn celebration. The monks who lived longer would be excited to witness the ceremony, and they could not practice, and ordinary people who lived for only a hundred years were even more proud to be able to witness the ceremony of the city lord of Shahai City once in their lives.

When the city lord succeeded to take the oath, the remote place in the northeast corner of Qiaozhou was turbulent, like a change, and the oath was acknowledged, and what was seen at that moment was even a grand scene that many monks could not see in their lifetime.

If there is no accident, the city lord of Shahai City will be replaced once every three hundred years, and the outgoing old city lord will become a member of the elder group of Shahai City. Most of the elders of Shahai City are high-level cultivators, and they are not involved in the management of Shahai City on a daily basis, some of them concentrate on cultivation and improvement of cultivation in retreat, becoming the backing of Shahai City's force, and some are concentrating on studying other paths, formation alchemy talismans, and so on. For example, the transmission jade talisman that is the rarest on the Kyushu continent and can ignore the barrier of the sealing barrier to a certain extent, and the teleportation talisman that is extremely safe without leaving a trace of spiritual power during the teleportation process all originate from Shahai City.

The current city lord of Shahai City is Duan Chengen, the city lord who succeeded to the throne more than 160 years ago.

Duan Chengen was the leader of the young generation in Shahai City before he succeeded to the city lord, he was gentle and polite, soft on the face and good at belly, tough and persistent, but his methods of acting were different from his gentle feelings for Rao, he seemed to be extremely vigorous and resolute, and when he encountered things related to the interests of Shahai City, he was decisive and ruthless. In addition to being very good in mind and deeds, Duan Chengen is also very good at cultivation, although he is not the one with the fastest cultivation benefit among the young people of that year, he can also be ranked among the top few, and now, he is also the true monarch of the middle stage of the Yuan Infant.

Duan Chengen, the city lord who is excellent in every aspect, is very loved by the people of Shahai City.

Compared with the power of other state capitals, whether it is a family or a sect, Shahai City is a little more special.

Although Shahai City is controlled by the city lord, and the elder group is behind him, the daily affairs are not all focused on the city lord alone, and Shahai City has its own existence similar to a think tank, sharing the worries of the city lord in different fields. And in this, in addition to monks, there will also be ordinary Rao who is particularly prominent in some aspects and has a strategy.

Shahai City is truly a city, governed by monks and ordinary people.

According to the residents of Shahai City, this is a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years in Shahai City, and it is said that the first people who established Shahai City on the northeast boundary of Qiaozhou set up such a rule, and the successive generations of city lords have been abiding by and perfecting it, and it has been developed for many years that the relationship between Shahai City and the surrounding areas of Shahai City and ordinary people has become different from other places in the Kyushu mainland.

This was the first time that Xue Yun had such an in-depth understanding of Shahai City, a low-key force on the Kyushu continent that could only be regarded as a second-rate one. In the past many years, in her impression, Shahai City was just a force similar to the Xuanqing Sect's Yin Sect, and she never felt that it was anything special, nor did she ever think of delving into it.

After all...... The sects on the Kyushu continent are all like that, they are very similar, there is no difference.

But now, she knows she was wrong.

Shahai City is different from any force in the Kyushu Continent.

This is a real paradise.

Shahai City has done what many people and many forces can't think of and can't do.

In addition to sighing, Xue Yun gradually had more ideas about the future of Ming Province Valley.

And beyond that......

"I'm curious. In front of the stone table where he rented the hospital, seeing Xiao Luo sitting down at the table after finishing his meal, Xue Yun couldn't help but speak: "I'm curious...... What kind of person was the first city lord who first built Shahai City here? ”

Inquiring about Shahai City, it was much smoother than the two of them expected, of course, it was also thanks to the two of the nearby material vendors and teahouses, who were very talkative, and it was rare to have a special desire to tell a story and a sense of accomplishment in the face of fresh faces. After just one day's work, they knew almost the general situation on the surface of Shahai City.

But......

In their mouths, Shahai City was built thousands of years ago, and most of the people in the city, whether they were monks or ordinary people, most of them moved here one after another, and they didn't know anything about it so long ago. And today, the people who are mainly related to Xue Yun and Xiao Luo in Shahai City are also ordinary people who can't practice, and after how many generations have passed, they don't know anything about what happened thousands of years ago.

"The first city lord ......" Xiao Luo muttered, reached out and used his chopsticks to clip a soup bag that was just steaming out of the pot for Xue Yuan, and put it on the plate in front of her, before continuing: "I don't know much about things that are too far away, so if we have to continue to inquire...... Maybe if you look for the monk's house in the city, you will have a better chance of getting something. ”

Xue Yun sighed, but frowned slightly: "Actually...... Xiao Luo, don't you think it's a little strange?"

"Oh, strange what?"

"Each family will have a genealogy, maybe the children of the family do not know the content of the entire genealogy well, but at least the names of the ancestors, or the children who have outstanding deeds in the development of the family over the years, are all familiar. The same is true for the sect, even if some disciples do not know who the head of the sect is two or three generations ago, at least the name of the founding patriarch will be known when it comes to the entry school, and the entrance ceremony must also include the link of worshipping the patriarch. ”

It's like they Ming Province Valley, although it was only established at the beginning, but those disciples who have just started also know the name of the first generation of Xiao Ding Xue Yu.

However, in Shahai City, people do not know who the first city lord who established Shahai City is and what kind of merits he has.

The only thing they know is that many of the rules of Shahai City today were left in rudiments when the first city lord was in power.

Xiao Luo's chopsticks paused, tilted his head slightly and thought for a moment, and sighed: "Shahai City...... The operation of the major families in the Kyushu continent is different, and these rules ...... It's not the same. At least...... The people of Shahai City do not have any entrance rituals, and they must worship the previous city lords. ”

“...... Yours...... It also makes sense. Xue Yun nodded: "If that's the case...... Indeed, if you want to know more about it, I'm afraid you have to go to the monks of Shahai City, or even people related to the City Lord's Mansion to find out. ”

“...... The people related to the City Lord's Mansion are involved in the power center of Shahai City after all. Xiao Luo frowned slightly and pondered for a moment before saying, "The two of us have just entered Shahai City, and it is too eye-catching to rush into contact with these people. ”

"That ......"

"Didn't Shangguan Miao have a relationship with you, the monk of Shahai City that they and Xue Shibo met in the Flowing Light Grass Mountain Range?"

Xue Yun reacted and nodded: "Yes, Miao Miao doesn't remember much, the main contact with that person at that time was her brother Shangguan Qinghe...... Daddy. I can't remember what he looked like, but I only remember that the monk's surname was Wu, and it was in the middle of Jindan at that time. ”

"For this reason, when I inquire about the news tomorrow, I just happened to look for a monk who has a cultivator and inquire about the male cultivator surnamed Wu in Shahai City. ”

After Xue Yun listened to Xiao Luo's proposal, he took a bite of the soup bag silently, and after eating half of it silently, he raised his head and looked at Xiao Luo with a slightly heavy face: "...... Xiao Luo. ”

"Huh?"

"I was able to make my dad ...... The clues of the news are very likely to be the things that caused him to be killed later, and I think that even in this low-key and remote Shahai City, it should not be something that many people know. The one who knows about it ......"

"Don't overthink it. Xiao Luo put down his chopsticks, raised his hand and rubbed Xue Yuan's head, and said with a slight smile: "After all, after Xue Shibo came into contact with the male cultivator surnamed Wu in Shahai City, he secretly investigated alone for many years. No one knows what he's found out about it. Maybe...... What was fatal was not the clues he got from Shahai City, but what he found after following the clues. ”

Xue Yun let out a sigh of relief, nodded, and didn't say anything more.

This time when he came to Shahai City, Xue Yuan had two directions. One of them is the reminder of the demon clan's riding the wind, the demon clan knows that there are many clues here in Shahai City, and it is very likely that they are related to Jiujing, which is what Xue Yuan needs most now. Second, the demon clan shouldn't know that the clues she got from Shangguan Miao, which may be related to Xue Yu's death, also pointed to Shahai City.

Now, they don't know how the demon clan knows about Shahai City, and what is the relationship between the demon clan and Shahai City, and they don't know how to start investigating it for the time being.

Fortunately, as the son of an old man who had walked all the way with the male cultivator surnamed Wu, it was reasonable to find someone to inquire about the early years of his father's life, and it was not eye-catching.

On the second day, when Xue Yuan and Xiao Luo walked around Shahai City again, they began to inquire about the monks surnamed Wu in Shahai City.

There are many families of monks in Shahai City, and the Wu family is also one of them, so when they heard that the two of them wanted to find a male cultivator surnamed Wu who was at least above the middle stage of Jindan, the people in Shahai City suggested that they visit the Wu family.

Xue Yun and Xiao Luo did not delay, and soon came to visit.

Although the two of them are foreign monks with fresh faces in Shahai City, they are both true monarchs in the Yuan Infant Stage, and in the current situation that the city lord of Shahai City is only in the middle of the Yuan Infant Period, the Wu family attaches great importance to the visit of Liangrao.

The Wu family is located in the middle of Shahai City, some distance from the courtyard that Xue Yuan and Xiao Luo rented from the Treasure Pavilion store, not far from many other families, and they can be regarded as living together.

Coincidentally, the Duan family, from which Duan Chengen, the current city lord of Shahai City, was born, happened to be opposite the Wu family.

It was the head of the Wu family who came forward to receive Xue Yun and Xiao Luo, and he actually ...... He was also a monk in his infancy.

If the other families in Shahai City also had a similar situation to the Wu family, then this Shahai City, which was clearly only a second-rate force and was very low-key, would definitely have a lot of high-level cultivators in the Yuan Infant Stage. As for the elders of Shahai City, who no longer appear in front of people now, what kind of cultivation level will they be after concentrating on cultivation and studying for many years......

Thinking about it this way, the high-level cultivators of Shahai City may be more powerful than many top forces...... And more.

However, this is not the time to think about it.

The head of the Wu family is a middle-aged male cultivator with dark skin and a mustache, and a smile on his eyebrows and eyes. Although the head of the Wu family had a good impression of these two young people whose cultivation was not much different from his own, he still politely performed the junior ceremony, but he didn't say anything more, and asked the two straight to the point why they came to visit the Wu family.

When they learned that the two of them wanted to find a male cultivator surnamed Shahaicheng who had been to the Flowing Light Grass Mountain Range about ten years ago, and was in the middle of Jindan......

The head of the Wu family paused for a while, and simply gave the two of them the exact answer: "What the two Taoist friends are looking for is probably the dog Wu Qingyan, but unfortunately, Qingyan's live monkey-like temperament can't stay in Shahai City, and he went out to travel again at the beginning of the year, looking for an opportunity to break through the Yuan Baby, but he is not in Shahai City at the moment." ”