Chapter 20: Blazing Valley
Gao Zhen got into a carriage transporting goods, and left the city from the west gate of Yancheng early in the morning, heading in the direction of Chiyuan Valley.
Yancheng is not only a big city in the fairy world, but also the only city close to the Western Continent. The Demon Sect of the Western Continent was raging, and the city did not dare to cultivate too far west. Yancheng occupies the advantageous terrain, and is separated from the Western Continent by the valley of Blazing Yuan Valley and Yanxia Mountain, so the demon cultists rarely come to Yancheng to interfere with the lives of ordinary people.
Smoke City is rich in "tobacco", of course, not the kind of thing that is rolled in cigarettes, but a kind of silk as light as smoke. Wealthy people in various places and high-ranking people in the sect liked to use this "tobacco" to make clothes. The fairy robe made of "tobacco" is as light as a floating cloud, and it will not hinder or affect the actions of the immortal cultivator when flying and fighting, and it is an excellent material for making the immortal cultivator's costume.
The carriage in which Gao Zhen was riding was to transport tobacco to the Blazing Yuan Sect in the Blazing Yuan Valley and some nearby villages. The coachman, a middle-aged man, riding a brown steed, skillfully navigated the road, and listened to him say that he had been running back and forth on the road for seven or eight years.
"Young man, what's not to be satisfied with staying in the Smoke City, you have to go to the west to find hardship?" The coachman tilted his head sideways and asked the high pillow sitting in the back.
"I'm going to visit one of my relatives in the village near the Blazing Yuan Sect." Gao Zhen casually made up a reason, afraid that the coachman would continue to ask him some details about the trip.
"I knew that you were definitely not a disciple of the Hui Blazing Yuan Sect." The coachman said with a smile.
"How so? Is it because of what I'm wearing? Gao asked him, remembering the boatman that Yu Yan had mentioned.
"No, no, no, many times you can't tell which sect a disciple belongs to just by looking at what he wears. As for the disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect, you have to look at his face. The coachman said in a deceitful manner.
"Oh? Look at the face? Gao Zhen said.
"I've run a lot on this road, and I've seen a lot of Blazing Yuan Sect disciples. They all had a red mark at the center of their eyebrows, like a flame. If you ever see a person with a flame mark on his eyebrows, hey, don't think about it, he must be from the Blazing Yuan Sect. ”
"Once, I sent tobacco to the Blazing Yuan Sect, and the elders there wanted to make new immortal robes. At that time, I was waiting outside the valley, and then a large group of people came out to fetch silk, and every one of them had such a mark on his head, both men and women. I was curious, and when I asked one of the disciples, he told me that it was related to their cultivation of the Heart Determination, and that people with marks on their faces had cultivated the Heart Determination, and only such disciples could go out of the mountain. The coachman flaunted his knowledge.
"I didn't know there was such a thing." Gao Zhen said, in fact, he didn't know much about the various sects in the fairy world, so he heard a few names from Yu Yan, as for the masters of the various gangs, what exercises they practiced, and what historical stories they had, he didn't know anything.
"Let me tell you one more thing, the disciples of this Blazing Yuan Sect are all cultivating fire-attribute immortal arts, and all of them can manipulate flames, which is amazing!" The coachman hadn't actually seen it at all, he was just bragging on his imagination.
"This fire attribute immortal art must have something to do with the heart decision they practiced. Fire is a hot-tempered, angry thing, and the people there are just because they have cultivated this kind of exercise, which causes their temperament to become easy to explode, and they are all extremely fierce! This fire not only affects the temperament, but also the appearance. The female disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect, one looks uglier than the other, they all look like shrews, and when they talk, they are like thunder! ”
"I met a male disciple of the Blazing Yuan Sect before, that young man was quite handsome, and he complained to me, none of the female disciples in their sect were worthy of him. It was sad in his heart, so he went to this smoke city to look for flowers and willows, and went to the Qinglou. But where would the girl in the Qinglou like this person from the Blazing Yuan Sect. You know why? Because it's hot! You don't know how hot their bodies can be when they get excited! ”
"Oh, yes. Speaking of this green building, I have to mention the best one in this smoke city, called the 'Yihong Mansion'. Oh, the girls in there, all of them are so tight! Once I carried my wife on my back and went to the Red Mansion......"
Gao Zhen suspected that the coachman was transporting silk back and forth on this road every day, and no one spoke, and his heart was panicking. I happened to carry myself today, and the box couldn't be closed. He was very helpless, and he couldn't interrupt the coachman's nonsense, so he sat down cross-legged and began to practice the exercises.
Thinking about it, he has been in this immortal realm for almost a week, and he has not really calmed down and practiced the exercises properly. Since his body merged with the game character, all kinds of troubles have followed, causing his cultivation plan to be ruined. If he can successfully refine the "Five Elements Ning Yuan Dan" in this month, he must raise his level in advance to reach a level that can be promoted.
One of the headaches is that after you merge with the game character, you will no longer be able to check your level and experience bar. In other words, Gao Zhen only knew that he was an immortal cultivator of the second-order "Qi Cultivation Realm" at present, and he didn't know how many levels he was. This has a more or less impact on his cultivation, after all, he can't intuitively query his cultivation results, which makes people worry about whether he has cultivated in vain.
After sitting cross-legged, he began to sense the spiritual power true qi of the two attributes in his dantian. If it was in a previous computer game, a human figure would be displayed on the screen, and the two colors of true qi indicated in the picture would be the green one representing the wood attribute true qi and the red one would represent the fire attribute true qi. Through the guidance of the mouse and the appropriate adjustment of the keyboard arrow keys, the operation of the small and large weeks can be realized. The exact status of each acupuncture point will also be displayed in the attribute and status bar on the side for easy reference.
However, now everything has changed. "High pillow mountains and rivers" is "high pillow", "high pillow" is "high pillow mountains and rivers", and there is no longer who controls whom, who is controlled by whom.
Taking a deep breath quietly, warm currents gradually converged in the dantian, wantonly filling the various thirsty meridians. Like a spring pouring into a parched field, flowing in an empty ditch. In the past, scriptures of various colors would fall on the computer screen, but now, these scriptures were stored in Gao Zhen's mind, and he silently chanted them over and over again in his heart, feeling the vitality of the wood attribute spiritual power, and also feeling the bursting majesty of the fire attribute spiritual power.
The witch mark on the heart of his left chest was suppressed by him, but the sea of seven stars in the body of the sea of stars swam freely up and down his body with the flow of true qi. Gao Zhen couldn't tell what kind of power the star sea on the phantom membrane blown out by the Nine Nether Conches was, he only felt that it was very pure, whether it was true qi, magic power, or just muscle tension power, he could control it freely.
In this way, while practicing the exercises, while listening to the coachman's incessant talk, Gao Zhen felt that the long journey suddenly became very fast. When I was cultivating, I entered a state of self-forgetfulness, as if in the long river of time, I forgot to move forward, just quietly watching the flow of time slowly drift backwards.
In the early morning of the next day, Gao Zhen opened his eyes, he had not slept all night, and had maintained his cultivation transformation, but now he not only did not feel tired, but was full of energy. The reason is that the flow of true qi in the meridians is a kind of nourishment for the body itself, and the brain is also in a state of extreme relaxation in the process of recalling the scriptures, so that it will get better rest than sleeping. The only consumption of this is physical strength, and in one night, the human body must take in a lot of energy, and it is also necessary to take some fairy grass or pills to reduce the burden of spiritual power in the dantian.
"That's the Blazing Yuan Valley in front." The coachman pointed to a mountain range to the west.
The mountains were red, and from south to north, they stretched far and wide. Between the mountains, there is a deep valley, and the stones in the valley are as red as the mountains. From a distance, the valley looked like a deep wound in the ground, and the crimson rocks looked like pieces of blood-stained flesh.
"That's it." Gao Tsugu said, picked up his gear, and stepped out of the carriage.
The soil on the ground is also a little reddish, as if it is rich in ferric oxide. Squatting down and touching it gently, I felt a warmth coming from my fingertips.
Pulling out the map and looking at the forest ahead, he nodded. If the information is correct, the iron ore deposit should be about half an hour's walk ahead.