As the sun rose after the rooster crowed, the people in the large and small mansions of the Chu family hurriedly got up, and after sorting out everything, they started today's work.

In addition to being a big and small official, the Chu family also operates various businesses externally, after all, it is one of the important ways to maintain the family economy.

Although the business of the Chu family is far inferior to the other three families that establish a family based on commerce, it is still not small in scale, after all, as a family of officials and ministers, the people also have to support a few points, and the fief given by the imperial court to the Chu family is far more than the area of the Chu family's mansion, and the area surrounding the Chu family within a radius of several miles belongs to the Chu family, where the owners of residences or stores in various streets and alleys have to pay a lot of rent every year.

And outside the courtyard of the state capital, this is the case.

Chen Changxiao also has a general understanding of this Sampan in these days, especially the Chu family, every time he walks on the bustling streets, when he thinks that these are the industries of the Chu family, he sighs that if he is Chu crossing the bridge, wouldn't it be beautiful to be a young master of the broad family and live happily all his life?

Chu Guoqiao patted him on the shoulder whenever he heard Chen Changxiao's emotion, and quipped: "Why don't I let my father accept you as a righteous son?" Give you dozens of acres of land to build a mansion, give a large number of offerings every year, marry a dozen or so concubines, be in the waves, indulge in freedom, what should the world be, don't care about anything, isn't it cool?"

Hearing this, Chen Changxiao pushed him away, and with a little internal force of the Mahayana realm, he fell directly and ate with unstable legs and feet.

After understanding this place, Chen Changxiao had to put away his playful heart and devote himself to Taoist cultivation again.

According to Chu Guoqiao's introduction, the Chu family is a family of officials and ministers, and there is no efficient cultivation place like the Qingmen Cultivation Pavilion for cultivators to practice in the mansion, and the residence is located in the center of the city, the crowd is overflowing, and there are very few heaven and earth spirits.

Chen Changxiao stood on the roof and looked at the very distant Dongyun Mountain, the corners of his mouth twitched, the terrain that seems to be almost undulating can be called a mountain here, if it is in the state, any hill is much higher than it.

Chu Guoqiao smiled helplessly, he couldn't say anything, we have poor conditions here.

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On this day, Gu Ye slept in the mansion, Chen Changxiao and Chu Guoqiao stood at the east gate, and after listening to the greetings of the guards guarding the door, they went out.

After a day of discussion, Chen Changxiao decided to go to the Xuanwu Field in Chu Guo's mouth.

Xuanwu Field, the place where the Sampan Yuncheng competes in martial arts, is sponsored by the Wei family, covers an area of more than 100 acres, is located at the foot of Dongyun Mountain, and is used by practitioners from all over the Sampan Prefecture.

The field is divided into two bases, and the eastern half is the boxing field, which is a competition between people. The western half is the Colosseum, a battle between humans and monsters.

Along the way, the two of them, as cultivators, unfolded their body methods and soon came to the Xuanwu Field.

Chen Changxiao looked up and saw a huge iron gate in front of him, without any decoration at the door, only two ten-zhang long stone pillars and an arc-shaped wall of hundreds of meters, rough and atmospheric.

"Ouch, isn't this Second Young Master Chu?

"Second Young Master Chu, you're here so early today!"

"Second Young Master Chu, hurry up, please come inside!"

The two walked to the door, and several guards at the door immediately bowed and greeted Chu Guoqiao when they saw him, smiling.

Chu Guoqiao nodded flatly, did not respond to them, turned his head to the left, and pointed to the one next to the door

The crystal ball smiled and said, "Brother Xiao, when you enter, you need to put your hand on it to probe the veins, if it is a cultivator, it will shine, otherwise, it will not shine." Only practitioners are allowed to enter this place, so that's why it's set this way. ”

Chen Changxiao looked at it, oh, and was about to go forward, but the guards respectfully stopped him, looked at him, and said: "This young man is slow, since you are a friend of Second Young Master Chu, then you will be exempted, go in directly, hehe." ”

Chen Changxiao was stunned for a moment, this guard screamed sweeter than his own father one by one, looking at those shameless and smiling faces, he really wanted to slap them.

Chu Guoqiao shook his head, stepped forward and called Brother Xiao, then pulled him inside, and then with a flash in his hand, four silver coins and four taels of silver flew out of the empty immortal ring, and the four guards immediately held their hands and caught one or two, hurriedly put it away, nodded and said one after another: "Second Young Master Xie Chu, thank you Second Young Master Chu, hehe!"

Chen Changxiao smiled helplessly, this Chu crossed the bridge, it was really awesome.

When you enter the doorway, there are two entrances inside, and on the top of the entrance on the left is a stone plaque with the words "Colosseum" written on it, and on the right is a stone plaque that reads "Boxing Dojo".

Following Chu's steps across the bridge, Chen Changxiao entered the boxing dojo, and as he walked inside, the cheers of the crowd from inside became heavier and heavier, until he completely walked in.

The open-air light shone on Chen Changxiao's face, and in front of him was a huge octagonal arena of martial arts competitions, and the standing steps around it.

The two of them walked up to the top from the side ladder, and at a glance, there were people standing on each step of the stairs, and there was a betting table on each corner of the octagonal court, which seemed to be used for betting.

At this moment, two big men were fighting together in the field, and there were deafening shouts and cheers around them.

"Woo!"

"Hit him, hit him!

"Hold on, I invested ten taels of silver, don't lose!"

Chen Changxiao listened and watched, the cultivation of the two people in the audience was all in the Lingzhen Realm, the system attributes were all earth elements, and the cultivation techniques were all boxing.

When the two power-type cultivators fought, they really only attacked but didn't defend themselves, and each of them was hit with wounds large and small.

"These two people, even if they win like this, they will suffer a lot of flesh and skin. Chen Changxiao said lightly.

Chu Guoqiao opened the folding fan in his hand, shook it lightly and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, you don't know, the people who challenge this time are all going to press the money, and if you lose, the money will be gone." ”

"Oh, what's the press?"

Chen Changxiao asked with interest, I haven't heard of this kind of occasion for people from all walks of life to fight, although the martial arts square in Nazhou City can be used like this, but except for the use of the twelve Xuanmen when selecting disciples, the rest of the world is desolate, and there are almost no people.

And this is a real martial arts venue, in order to let people from other cities have a place to live, a few streets outside the Xuanwu Field, a variety of large and small inns have been built, and there are even two green buildings.

Seeing this, Chen Changxiao had to sigh, the development of the eastern region is much better than that of the south, just like the huge state capital, which can't even catch a little wanted criminal.

Chu Guoqiao looked at a betting table in the octagonal field, and slowly replied: "When the two of them compete, they each deposit five silver coins, that is, five taels of silver, and then the dealer will open the market, and calculate the odds according to the amount of money on both sides, and the losing side will take it."

If you don't return the money, you will win the party and collect the money according to the odds, and the remaining money, the dealer will take one percent, and the winner of the competition will take ninety percent. ”

Chen Changxiao nodded, this not only made the audience lively, but also made money, no wonder there were so many people here.

After about a quarter of an hour, two evenly matched strong men finally decided the winner, the victor shouting Neville, and the losing side scolding his mother.

Chen Changxiao smiled bitterly, he could understand, after all, the money was gone, and it was inevitable that there would be unhappiness in his heart.

Halfway, Chu Guoqiao looked at him and quipped, "Brother Xiao, do you want to go down and challenge?"

Hearing this, Chen Changxiao shook his head and said with a faint smile: "I'm afraid that no one will come to challenge me when I go up for this cultivation, so let's go to the Colosseum to take a look." ”

Chen Changxiao laughed, Brother Xiao is right, this boxing dojo itself is a place where some low cultivators come to come, and those who are high cultivators are generally crowded in the Colosseum, because there, there are all kinds of fierce demon beasts in captivity, and fighting with them to the death is what strong cultivators like to do.

After a while, the two of them left, walked all the way down the passage, and went up the internal ladder to the other side of the Xuanwu Field.

Colosseum!

I saw that the area here was several times larger than the boxing arena, and the cheers here were louder, and the crowd was larger, including young men like Chen Changxiao, and old men in their sixties and seventies who were over half a hundred years old.

Like boxing, it is an open-air field, with a circular arena in the middle of the arena as a fighting area, and a standing staircase around it, which looks like a shrunken state martial arts square.

At this moment, there is a man and a beast fighting each other in the field, that person is a middle-aged man, cultivated in the Mahayana realm, and the demon beast is a blue-faced and fanged giant toothed beast ape, with a body of two feet, like a giant beast facing a small human being.

I saw that the middle-aged man's leg was a foot-shaped spiritual power shot out, terrifying, and kicked the abdomen of the giant toothed ape, and the latter flew out like an arrow from the string in an instant, and when he was about to smash into the spectators on the steps, he was blocked by an invisible barrier, and several rows of golden runes faintly appeared on the contact surface between the vest and the barrier.

The giant tooth immediately fell to the ground, but except for a trace of blood spilling from its mouth, its body was not the slightest abnormal, and its fists slammed its chest twice, and it roared like a boulder.

Chen Changxiao frowned, his ghost eyes opened, and in a green haze, he could clearly see the golden barrier that wrapped the grandmother in the fighting beast area, this was so that the demon beast could not escape here, and at the same time ensure that the two sides of the battle would not escape halfway until they were separated!

Chu Guoqiao continued to shake the folding fan, and said with a light smile: "Brother Xiao, that demon beast's cultivation has been seventy years, and its strength is still above that middle-aged man, although it seems that the demon beast has the upper hand at the moment, but he has just experienced too much battle fatigue, and if that middle-aged man wants to defeat it, I am afraid it will not be easy." ”

"Then why did he choose such a demon beast to fight?"

Chen Changxiao asked suspiciously, if he really wanted to divide his body, presumably if the middle-aged man lost, his life would be difficult to protect.

Chu Guo put away the folding fan, held it in one hand, smiled knowingly, and explained: "There are rules in the Colosseum, and all the people who play on the field, the demon beasts released must be cultivated by that person, and he has no choice, because in this way, it is exciting enough, so it is called fighting beasts!"

Hearing this, a little surprise flashed in Chen Changxiao's heart, and when he came back to his senses the next moment, the giant toothed ape had finally hit the middle-aged man with a punch and began to gain the upper hand!