Chapter Fifty-Eight: Arriving in Muzhou
Lin Jun and Xu Daochuan came to a place called Shanwang Village nearly a hundred miles south of Yuzhou City through the teleportation array in the jade shop. This is a small village located next to an official road, this place was originally uninhabited, and later, after some small inns were built here, there were also people living here, and gradually gathered into a small mountain village.
In order not to affect each other, each small inn in Shanwang Village is built with some distance between them, behind Shanwang Village, next to a pond far away from the official road, there is a three-in-three-out inn, there are many trees growing around the inn, and the inn is surrounded by lush greenery.
After coming down from the official road, you need to walk a short distance to get here, which is not as convenient as the inn built next to the official road, but the elegant environment here often attracts some repeat customers who want to get away from the hustle and bustle.
At this time, Lin Jun had already appeared in this small inn. He and Xu Daochuan and others lived in the last courtyard, and the two courtyards in front were used for guests who came to stay. The courtyard at the back is where the owner of the inn lives, and outsiders are not allowed to enter.
Lin Jun sat alone in a comfortable guest room, carefully studying the three black flags in his hand, as well as the black bell.
When it was almost noon, Chu Yicai happily ran in from outside, and as soon as he came in, he said: "Childe is so anxious to leave, didn't you say that you will go to Muzhou in a few days? Why did you suddenly change your mind? After your servant found me, he said that Childe had already set off, and we immediately hurried up and ran all the way to catch up with Childe, Childe walked so fast?"
Lin Jun had a good impression of Chu Yicai, but after all, he didn't know each other deeply, so Lin Jun couldn't tell Chu Yicai about the Zizhu Gate and the teleportation array yet. Lin Jun nodded and said, "The situation has changed a little, and if we get there early, we can calmly prepare for the auction." Xiao Chuzi, you have been working hard in the west of the city for so many years, have you seen these two things?"
Lin Jun handed the black order flag and the black bell to Chu Yicai, and as soon as Chu Yicai got it in his hand, he felt an eerie ghost aura rushing towards him, and he almost didn't catch it and fell to the ground.
Chu Yicai hurriedly returned the three black order flags and the black bell to Lin Jun, and then said, "Childe, if my guess is correct, these two things should be ghost weapons, and they are used by ghost cultivators. This kind of thing is rare in our Yuzhou City, and most people have only heard of it and have never seen it. Where did Childe get it? Childe was able to hold them in his hands without changing his face and heartbeat, which shows that Childe's divine sense is strong enough, and a mortal like me would not dare to approach this kind of thing. ”
Lin Jun asked: "You said that my divine sense is strong enough, but when I put all my divine sense on them, I wanted to drive them, these two artifacts, oh, yes, you call this a ghost weapon, these two ghost weapons have always been indifferent, I have tried every means to spend a lot of energy, and I have never been able to drive them." I don't know if you have any ideas, I can drive them, these two things are powerful, the mana is boundless, if they can be used by me, they will definitely play a big role. ”
Chu Yicai said: "This little one knows more or less. Some of the weapons used by our human monks are the most common and common, we call weapons, swords, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, and even bows, arrows, bows and crossbows are our common weapons, these weapons can only be used to directly kill the enemy, what determines its quality is the difference in materials, as well as the degree of tempering and the difference in the method of fighting, weapons are also called mortal soldiers, as the name suggests, it is a weapon used by mortals, this weapon does not have any peculiar effect except for directly slashing and killing by the power of the flesh. The weapon is called the magic weapon, the magic weapon is divided into four levels, the lower, the middle and the upper and the best, the magic weapon can be driven by the monk's divine consciousness, the stronger the divine consciousness, the more it can drive the high-level magic weapon. Like the lightning strike bamboo you just bought in Linglong Pavilion, as well as the three-yuan tortoiseshell shield, also known as the Xuanjia shield, are all medium-grade magic weapons. The biggest difference between magic weapons and weapons is that they can produce many superhuman powers, unimaginable strange effects, long-distance attacks, all-round defense, and even various prohibitions. The ghost weapon has a similar effect to the magic weapon, but its effect is more eerie and terrifying. Moreover, the ghost cultivators drive away the ghost weapons, and they have their own unique set of exercises, which are completely different from the exercises that human monks cultivate in their divine senses. Therefore, no matter how powerful the divine sense of a human monk is, he cannot drive the ghost weapon. However, Gongzi doesn't need to worry, there are famous and decent monks in Yuzhou, and ordinary ghost cultivators rarely dare to come here. But Muzhou is different, it is located in a remote area, and various forces are distributed among them, including ghost cultivation and demon cultivation, in Muzhou, we should be able to buy spells that drive ghost weapons, and when the time comes, even if we can't give full play to the effects of these two ghost weapons, there should be no problem driving them. There is another thing, that is, the ghost weapon can only exert its maximum effect at night, and during the day, especially under the scorching sun, it will not play any role. ”
Lin Jun and they stayed in this inn for one night, rested well, and on the second day, they set off from here to Muzhou full of energy.
Under Xu Daochuan's arrangement, they pretended to be a medicine merchant selling medicinal materials and walked along the wide official road to Muzhou.
Muzhou is a place where scattered cultivators gather, and the demand for pills, weapons and even magic weapons here is much higher than that of Yuzhou, so Muzhou is also a place where Chu Yicai often goes.
The Great Xia Dynasty had a strict order, that is, no matter what kind of monk, whether it was an elder or disciple in the sect, or a casual cultivator outside, or anyone who had exercises, it was absolutely forbidden to wantonly kill ordinary people who had no practice of cultivation, and it was this strict order that ensured the daily life and self-cultivation of ordinary people. Therefore, in the city of Muzhou, although there are a lot of scattered cultivators, there are many mixed fish and dragons, but for ordinary people like Chu Yicai, it is safe, because because of the laws of the Xia Kingdom, except for the most heinous and daring people, no one will generally treat him well.
Although there is a three- or four-day journey from Yuzhou to Muzhou, the drivers are more familiar with this road, and they drive their own carriages, familiar with the road, and walk slowly along the wide official road. Where to eat and where to stay, Xu Daochuan arranged it in an orderly manner, and Lin Jun, who was sitting in the carriage, saved his worries about being unfamiliar with the road.
Lin Jun sat in the carriage, and Chu Yi and the coachman sat on the left and right sides of the carriage outside, wearing green clothes and a small hat, just like a young man selling medicinal herbs.
Lin Jun was not idle sitting in the carriage, but sat cross-legged, silently practicing the exercises and practicing his "Blazing Flame Sutra".
The "Alchemy Technique" that Xie Yukun asked him to cultivate, although it limited his pace of entering the Qi Condensation Realm, Lin Jun also knew that in terms of cultivation, he had to lay a solid foundation step by step. He knew that to enter the Qi Condensation Realm, it was definitely not something that could be achieved overnight. What he wants to do now is to steadily improve his exercises, lay the foundation step by step, lay a solid foundation for the forging realm, temper his body to be extremely strong, and steadily become a master at the peak of forging the body. Although it is said that the exercises refined by relying on the Qi Replenishing Pill are not reliable, but without the help of the Qi Replenishing Pill, the progress of the exercises will be extremely slow, so Lin Jun still relies on a lot of swallowing the Qi Replenishing Pill to improve the exercises, and he himself found that after practicing the "Alchemy Technique", the body's refining and absorption of the Qi Replenishing Pill is faster, and the refining and absorption are almost synchronized. On the way to Muzhou, Lin Jun relied on two peculiar exercises and the help of the Qi Replenishing Pill to raise his own exercises to the tenth level of the forging body, that is, the level of the later stage of the forging body.
Lin Jun knew that Jinghuo could deal with ghost cultivators, but if he really met one or two more ghost cultivators, he still had no bottom in his heart. Because the terrifying aura emitted by the ghost cultivator was something he had never seen before, if the other party could avoid his crystal fire attack and use a new killing move on him, would he still be as lucky as the last time? Therefore, Lin Jun asked Xu Daochuan to slow down, and they stayed in a hotel when it was dark, and they stayed in a relatively large inn. Not only did there live in it many past merchants, but there were also many casual cultivators who had a certain amount of cultivation, and such people gathered together, and their blood was in full swing, and ordinary ghost cultivators did not dare to attack such a place.
Xu Daochuan arranged the food and accommodation very well, so along the way, Lin Jun did not feel how hard it was, and on the morning of the fifth day, they finally rushed to the city of Muzhou City.
Lin Jun lifted the curtain, got out of the carriage, stood on the rut, and comfortably took a few breaths of fresh air, far away from Yuzhou, Lin Jun no longer had to hide in the carriage cautiously, he looked up at the Muzhou City standing in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a majestic city." ”
Muzhou City is not like Yuzhou City, which is built on flat land. The castle is backed by high mountains, and in the other three directions, there are rolling hills.
As if to compensate for the pressure brought by the mountains behind, the walls of Muzhou Castle were built unusually high, and although its height was far less than the towering mountains in the distance, it was much higher than the surrounding hills.
When Lin Jun stood on the platform in front of the carriage and looked at the majestic and continuous Muye Mountain in the distance, in the crowd in the distance, two men with hats had already noticed him. They turned their backs and quietly pulled out a portrait from their arms, which was painted on Lin Jun, and one of them quietly turned his head and glanced back at Lin Jun again, confirming that this person was Lin Jun.
These two people are the best at tracking and tracking the head of the Yuzhou City Detention Department, and after they got the benefits from Li Gongzi, they began to secretly track Lin Jun. But they found that Lin Jun was not in the jade shop, so they disguised themselves as customers, and learned from the mouth of the little guy in the store that the owner of the shop often traveled between Muzhou and Yuzhou, so they came to Muzhou City early, and after a few days of hard work near the city gate, they finally found Lin Jun's trace.