"Have you forgotten how you got rid of the toxins of the Blight?" Lan Xian'er said, "The toxins of the Blighting Technique are special in Middle-earth, they belong to the wood attribute, and the Middle-earth world is only divided into four categories: air, water, fire, and earth, and there is no gold that can target the wood attribute, but you use a steel needle to forcibly drive away the wood poison, and the steel needle has all been integrated into your body, becoming a part of your body, and changing your physique into metal!" Is that so, Grandpa Tang? ”

Old Man Tang hesitated for a while, nodded, and said: "It should be like this, but I have never seen anyone change or obtain the Five Elements Physique in a medium way, this risk is too big, and if you take a wrong step, you will die!" ”

"Hehe, where could I still manage so much at that time, if I hadn't thought of the principle of the five elements to restrain each other, I would have died under the poison of the Blighting Technique!" Higg smiled awkwardly, "After recovering from my illness, I wondered where the steel needle in my body went, it turned out to be one with my body!" Is this a blessing in disguise? However, what do I want this golden physique to do, and I'm not from the Valley of Flowers, so I can't cultivate your Dao? ”

"What is the Tao? The magic of Middle-earth is also the way, but the saying is different! Old man Tang said, "Self-cultivation, learning magic, and practicing martial arts are all Taos, and you will gradually discover the benefits of your different physique in the future!" ”

Higg smiled: "If it's really beneficial, wouldn't I still be able to use this method to turn my physique into a five-element physique?" ”

"Nonsense!" Old man Tang warned, "A hundred people who change their physique, there may not be one who succeeds, this time you didn't die, it's already a blessing among all the lucky, do you really want to die?" ”

"I'm just talking!" Higg stuck out his tongue.

"In the past two days, you have come to my room to comprehend the gossip mirror, go now!" Old man Tang said with a straight face.

Higg didn't know why, he never dared to disobey this usually very kind old man, and besides, he himself wanted to peek into the mystery of the gossip mirror again, in order to confirm his thoughts during this time......

"Grandpa Tang, about the dark power......" After Higg left, Lan Xian'er wanted to continue to ask about the dark power, but was stopped by Old Man Tang.

"Do what you have to do, it's not irreparably bad yet!" Old Donald said, "Wait until I meet Delongso!" ”

"No, there are some things that I haven't told you yet, even Higg doesn't know!" Lan Xian'er said, "Grandpa Tang, I think this matter is very important, I have already planted with Douguo once, and I almost lost my life!" ”

"Tell me about it!" Old Man Tang also looked at Lan Xian'er in surprise.

"On the sea where I took Noah's airship to the Alchemy Country, I saw the shadow of death that Delongso described to us, like a tornado ......" Lan Xian'er told Old Man Tang what happened to her and Noah on the way to the Alchemy Country, "It took me six days and seven nights to completely eliminate these dark forces, it's terrible!" If I hadn't obtained spiritual power in the Dragon Cliff Forbidden Area before, I would have died a long time ago! ”

"Are you sure Noah is okay on his own?" Old man Tang asked.

"Nope!" "Strange to say, he seems to be immune to these dark forces, and I even suspect that he is a time-traveler from another high-tech civilization!" ”

"It seems that the time is even tighter than we expected!" Old man Tang said, "This matter, so far, even Higg is not allowed to say it!" ”

"I know!" Lan Xian'er said, "I will keep it a proper secret, but I won't give him a hint at all like you said, the two of us have already had a crisis of confidence, and I don't want to have a second time!" ”

"Okay!" Old Man Tang said, "You can control it yourself!" Don't stop your cultivation and strive to break through as soon as possible! ”

"Yes!"

……

"Gone!" Lan Xian'er suddenly shouted in Higg's ear, "Hahaha, it's very hard, so fascinated, how do you comprehend?" ”

Xige, who was immersed in meditation, was startled by Lan Xian'er's cry, but said very calmly: "Hehe, just about to break through, I was awakened by you!" ”

"Breakthrough? Do you know what a breakthrough is? Hahaha! Lan Xian'er said, "Let's go, we've been here for two days!" ”

"What?" Higg was taken aback, "You mean, I've been sitting here for two days?" ”

"I'm really in the way!" Lan Xian'er smiled, "How long are you going to be here?" ”

"I just came, and I don't even have fish or honey to eat, so you drive me away!" Higg said angrily, "Two more days!" ”

"Do you know how long it has been outside for two days in Flower Valley?" Lan Xian'er asked.

Higg stood up awkwardly, "Outside...... More than a month? ”

"Are you still living, do you still want to eat?"

"What to eat, don't go quickly!"

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Thunder, the guardian beast of the Valley of Flowers, flew on the cliff with two people, no one knew how high this cliff was, only that Thunder flew for more than an hour before rushing into the sky and out of the Valley of Flowers, and it took most of the day to return to Bavarian City.

After a night's rest in Bavaria, Sigg Rangray took Thomas back to the steppe to find his tribe, and then he and Blue Fairy, Butterfly Cloud, and Butterfly Cloud's children went directly from the Bavarian Magic Guild to the Barbarian town of Dante, unlike the last time he came, it was a harsh winter, and now it is the height of summer. But the midsummer of the savannah is not hot, and there are not many people in the midsummer of Dante, and this small town that serves nomads will only gather many nomads to spend the winter here during the winter fallow period.

Sig and the others were not in a hurry, because nomads like the Harandol would change pastures every once in a while and live in pursuit of water and grass, so they were not sure where Altai would take their tribe to them, and they would only come to meet them when Ray and Thomas found them.

"Ganada!" Higg, who had just entered the tavern and wanted to have a drink, glanced at it, and the people in the hall found that the mercenary leader he used ten years ago was still here, and Higg still admired the righteousness of this mercenary leader back then.

"Who are you?" Sitting in the corner drinking, Gnarda's face has not been cut for a long time, and his whole body looks sloppy, he is now over fifty years old, and it is no longer suitable for mercenaries, a group of people who exchange their lives for life!

"Ten years ago, the Gori Desert!" Higg walked over with a smile and sat down across from Ganada.

Ganada was stunned, suddenly stood up, and said, "It turned out to be Childe!" ”

"How did you get to this point?" Higg smiled and asked, "I made you a fortune back then!" ”

"Shopkeeper!" Ganada shouted, "Hurry up and serve the best wine, the best food!" ”

The shopkeeper at the counter glanced up at Ganada and exclaimed angrily, "Good food, no! Gnarda, you haven't paid your bills for more than a month, and you still want the best wine and food? Like you, my shop is long closed! ”

"Why are you so short-sighted, don't you see me coming here?" Ganada said angrily, "With a business, when will I not pay you back in time?" ”

"The shopkeeper, do as he says!" Higg laughed loudly at the display case, then took out a gold bag from his bosom, threw it far away on the counter, and continued, "This money, along with Ganada's previous account, has also been settled, and the excess will be deposited at the counter first, and Ganada will come and spend it at any time!" ”

The shopkeeper grabbed the gold bag and weighed it, immediately changed his smiling face, and said, "Okay, okay, I'll arrange for the guests to be served immediately, please wait!" ”

"Eh, that spring, not long after you left, there was a civil war in the barbarian country!" Ganada said, "Porlyfimo and his tribe of cyclops rebelled in the barbarian country, causing the people everywhere to live in misery, and in order to survive, many people have become mercenaries like us, making more monks and less porridge, plus the country is in turmoil, where are so many employers to hire us?" Although you gave a lot of money, a large part of it was given to the deceased as blood money, and some of it was rescued by the brothers who didn't go with us, so within two years, only I couldn't get in and out, and the money was spent and there was no business, so I fell like this again! ”

"Your people are disbanded?" Higg was surprised, "Not a mercenary?" ”

"Mercenaries are not easy to do, the risks are big, the competition is fierce, and you can't do it if you want to!" Gnarda said, "We're not talking about disbanding now, but we have changed our way of life, which is to collect intelligence from all over the world, make money by selling it, and if no one buys it, we will sell it to the thieves' guild at a low price!" It's not easy to do this business, if someone buys this kind of thing, if someone buys it, the price will definitely be good, no one will look for us, and we will have no income for several months! Of course, we also take on some of the tasks of the Thieves' Guild, but those tasks are all leftovers, and the good ones are not our turn! ”

"I originally wanted to hire you, but I didn't expect it to be disbanded!" Higg sighed, "What a pity! ”

"You still need mercenaries?" Ganada asked.

"Not only mercenaries, but I also want to buy your intelligence!" Higg said.

"Buy? Are you kidding? Ganada said, "What do you want to know, I have it, I must tell you, what to buy?" ”

"I wonder where the Harandor of Altai are now!" Higg said.

"What kind of information is this!" "If we don't even know the distribution of herders in this steppe with a radius of thousands of kilometers, then what information is there to sell?" However, the Altai tribe doesn't seem to be doing well! ”

"Oh, how do you say?" Higg asked curiously.

"In the spring of that year they left Saladin Pass and found a good pasture, but then the civil war broke out, and the state began to levy a war tax, which increased the tax by thirty percent compared to the previous one, and the Harandos suffered! ”

"A 30 percent increase in the tax burden is not too much!" "Is it normal for the state to start the war machine and the national tax to do this?" Higg said. ”

"Not much!" Gnardaholly took a big sip of wine, wiped his mouth, and said, "There is nothing wrong with levying a 30% tax on the grasslands in the entire region, but there are policies and countermeasures!" The grassland is a place where the weak eat the strong, and the country's collection quota will fall into the hands of those big family tribes, and the big tribes will collect it on their behalf! Those large nomadic tribes will share their increased tax burden with the smaller tribes, and they still pay taxes normally, so the tax burden of the small tribes is more than double that of the past! What's even more hateful is that the people sent by the big tribes to collect taxes will also arbitrarily levy taxes on the labor fees that the small tribes want to collect, which is actually extortion in disguise, and if they don't give it, they will be put in small shoes and even suppressed by force! A small tribe like the Harlandor can only move around to avoid heavy taxes, but after being suppressed by force several times, it has also suffered heavy losses! ”

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