Behind them, a group of monks straightened up and talked about their arrival. And in the crowd, a man with a beard had a hazy look in his eyes, glanced at the backs of the two, then turned around and disappeared behind everyone, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Lin Lan followed Shen Mutian all the way to the center of the city. A seaside city like this, although it also has a range of potential forces, it is not monopolized by a certain family, so the teleportation array is shared, especially this kind of long-distance teleportation array, whether it is built or maintained, it requires a lot of money, and no sect is willing to bear all the costs by itself.

Therefore, after they came out of the formation, they had to walk a little way to reach the contact point set up by the Ethereal Immortal Sect here. Along the way, Lin Lan couldn't help but look at both sides of the street curiously, but found that it was not as prosperous as she imagined, although there were many people, but it seemed to be a little less enthusiastic and energetic.

Shen Mutian turned his head to look at her, and said with a smile: "Originally, this Linhai City was a little more lively than it is now, but because of the disappearance, everyone's enthusiasm for going out to find resources has greatly decreased, and this city has prospered by relying on the exchange of resources, but now that it has lost its foundation, it is naturally much colder." That's why the sect attaches so much importance to it and sends us to find out the reason. ”

Lin Lan suddenly realized, and finally connected everything so far.

Why would the rise and fall of a coastal city alarm the high-level of the Ethereal Immortal Sect located inland? Presumably, a considerable part of the resources of the Ethereal Immortal Sect were obtained from such a place, right? In today's cultivation realm, the number of monks is very small compared to mortals, but in terms of the total number, it is also considerable, but most of them are casual cultivators, and very few can enter the sect, just like the Lin family, among the hundreds of monks. There are only three or five people who can enter the sect. Scattered cultivation also requires cultivation and resources, but he can't get assistance from the sect, so he has to find a way by himself. Go to the ocean to find resources, and those who can use them can use them themselves, and those that are not used will be exchanged for spirit stones in coastal cities to buy what they want, which has caused the prosperity of coastal cities. But now that there is a problem in the sea, if the monks dare not go to the sea, they will naturally not gain anything. In other words, if there is no transaction, in the long run, the city will definitely face depletion, and at the end of the day, it will eventually fall into ruin. The Ethereal Immortal Sect naturally would not sit idly by and watch this kind of thing happen.

She thought for a moment and asked curiously, "Senior brother." Wasn't this city very lively and prosperous in its heyday? ”

Shen Mutian looked at her, nodded with a smile, and said, "Wait for this matter to be resolved." Senior sister may wish to take a look around the various places. It's going to be a lot of insight. ”

Lin Lan smiled and said, "What Senior Brother said is true. If it weren't for the consolidation of cultivation, the little sister would have come out to experience it a long time ago, and it just so happened that this time she encountered this task, it could be regarded as getting what she wanted. ”

Shen Mutian paused for a moment and said, "Senior sister, it's better not to be careless." This time things are full of weirdness. The sect also thinks the same, so it only sent the two of us over, and the idea of running if we can't beat it. We'd better make more preparations, there are still many things in this world that Jindan monks can't solve. ”

Lin Lan naturally didn't think that he would be invincible in the world when he reached the Jindan stage. Hearing this, he smiled slightly, nodded and said, "I know the truth, senior brother, don't worry, I'm not the kind of arrogant person." ”

Shen Mutian smiled and said, "Senior sister misunderstood, I didn't mean that, I was just afraid that my junior sister would relax when she went on a mission for the first time." We're here. ”

He shifted the subject and pointed to a building in front of him.

Lin Lan looked over, but saw that it was a shop, and the sign of "Zhenyi Pavilion" was hung on the door. However, this shop is much more magnificent than the others, with two stories high, carved beams and columns, and four lifelike dragon heads carved into the corners of the eaves. She only glanced at it, and felt a faint aura fluctuation, this building was completely shrouded in a formation, but I don't know if it was defensive or offensive, or both?

As soon as she saw the formation, the "occupational disease" was a little attacked, and she was itchy and uncomfortable not to figure it out.

Shen Mutian glanced at her amusefully and said, "Senior sister, let's hurry in." If you want to do research, it's never too late to take your time when you have time. ”

Lin Lan smiled wryly, and followed Shen Mutian in. As soon as I entered the door, I saw that there was obviously a space formation set up in this door, and the floor that didn't look too big from the outside, after entering the door, I found that it was the size of a football field, just like the shopping mall in the previous life, it was divided into different areas, and a small sign was hung in front of each area, which said "pills", "talismans", "armor" and so on, all kinds of things, basically everything that a monk needs to use for cultivation are here.

Sure enough, it is worthy of the shop under the jurisdiction of the Ethereal Immortal Sect.

Seeing the two monks walking in, a beautiful nun immediately stepped forward and asked respectfully but not humbly, "Two seniors, what do you want to buy?" Our store has a special counter for Jindan seniors to choose from, so please come down with it. ”

Lin Lan saw that this female cultivator could not be a second-level cultivator of Qi refining, if she was someone else, let alone come up to greet her, she was afraid that she would already tremble and stammer, but she was still calm and composed, which showed that this shop did have some means.

Shen Mutian didn't say much, only raised a jade plaque from his hand and shook it.

When the female cultivator saw this, she couldn't help but be stunned, and then her expression became a little more respectful, and she bowed down and said, "I've seen two elders, elders, please come with your disciples." ”

Feelings: Is this still an outer disciple of the sect? Lin Lan couldn't help but glance at her again, and then walked in with Shen Mutian.

The building seemed to be only two floors, but when they reached the second floor, the nun did not stop, and led them through the side door, and a new staircase appeared in front of them. Lin Lan knew that this was another means of the space formation, and seeing that Shen Mutian's footsteps did not stop, he also hurriedly followed, and then went up to the third and fourth floors, and did not stop until the fifth floor.

She couldn't help but be amazed.

The formation setting in this "Zhenyi Pavilion" is not ingenious, and the formation in the formation has not caused chaos or even collapse of the space, how did this happen? She became more and more interested.

There was only one room on the fifth floor, and the nun gently pushed the door open, bowed down and said, "Two elders, please come in." ”

They were sent in, but she stayed outside the door and did not enter.

Lin Lan knew that this must be a relationship where her identity was not enough and she could not enter. The door closed behind her, and she looked around, and found that this room was empty, except for a formation drawn on the ground in the center of the room, which was dim because there was no relationship between the placement of spirit stones, but she could tell at a glance that it was a teleportation array.

What's going on here?

It's just a mysterious and secret place on your own territory, and you have to pass it around, how many layers of protection does this have? Were the people who set up this point of contact too cautious in the first place?!

Her eyes changed back and forth, and when Shen Mutian saw it, he couldn't help laughing and explained, "Senior sister, don't think too much. This place is not used on weekdays, and ordinary affairs can be solved on the third or fourth floor, unless it is a particularly secret matter that is related to the core interests of the sect, it needs to be used and teleported to our secret base. This coastal city has a large flow of people, complex composition, and people from all three religions and nine streams, and some things do need to be handled secretly, and it is not a trivial matter for the sect. ”

Lin Lan was stunned for a moment, looked at him and smiled: "I see, but the little sister is narrow-minded." Senior brother, let's go quickly. ”

She urged, not because she was weak or ashamed, but because she didn't want to waste time.

Shen Mutian nodded, took out a few medium-grade spirit stones, and put them in the designated position, and then the two of them stood on the teleportation array, Shen Mutian played a complicated trick, the teleportation array opened, and the two of them disappeared.

When she landed again, Lin Lan found that she couldn't figure out where she was. There was a flickering fire all around, and it seemed that it was somewhere in a mountain or underground, and here the monk's spiritual sense was greatly limited, and even with her ability, she could only reach a distance of twenty or thirty meters, which was really pitifully small compared to the range that could stretch a hundred feet in other places.

If it weren't for the fact that this was the secret base of the sect, she was afraid that she would have fled immediately.

However, it was obvious that there were special means to overcome the limitations of spiritual sense, and they had just stood still for a few seconds, when a middle-aged man wearing the costume of the sect walked in, it seemed that he was a mid-stage cultivator of the foundation building, and when he saw Shen Mutian, he hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen Elder Yuan Chu. Elder, you have returned, is there any new instruction from the sect? ”

Shen Mutian nodded, pointed to Lin Lan beside him and said, "This is Yuanqing Daojun, the sect master ordered the two of us to come to find out, I will come over first to find out about the recent situation." ”

The middle-aged man's heart froze, and he glanced at Lin Lan, and couldn't help but be even more shocked. Although the woman in front of him was extremely beautiful, this was not the main reason for his surprise, the key was that the aura on her body was too young, and judging from his experience, this woman must not be more than seventy years old. Isn't it another demon to marry Dan before the age of seventy? did not lose at all to the famous Yuan Chu Daojun......

He suddenly shuddered in his heart, and remembered who this woman was!

So he became more and more respectful, and saluted Lin Lan: "I've seen Yuan Chu Daojun." The disciple Meng Ran was ordered to be stationed at the Linhai base. ”

Lin Lan nodded, thinking that this was the person in charge of this base, so he said with a pleasant face: "Master Meng's nephew has worked hard. The sect sent me and my senior brother to find out, and the time is limited, so let's find out the situation quickly. The more delays there are, the more dangerous those missing disciples will be. ”

Although Meng Ran felt that most of those missing people must have met with accidents now, he didn't dare to refute after hearing such words, and hurriedly invited the two into another room. There was a table and a few chairs in this room, somewhat similar to the appearance of a conference room, and Lin Lan knew that this must be the place where they usually discussed important matters. (To be continued......)

PS: Sincere thanks to dasisy pro for the pink ticket ~~!! ╭(╯3╰)╮