The aura in the northern desert region is barren, but there are not a few people living in it, but there are fewer monks, and monks with high cultivation are even rarer, Du Cang has lived for eighteen years, and he has never seen a monk who is higher than his father's cultivation.

The people of the Northern Desert generally rely on agriculture to make a living, although several mountains separate the desert, but the yield is not high, just a little surplus grain, if there is a disaster, the Northern Desert City is also needed to provide relief.

And there are not a few people who go into the mountains to chop firewood and hunt, and it is common for so many people to disappear every year, and it is common for them to have such a reputation by accident, and it is impossible for the City Lord's Mansion to take care of everyone.

Therefore, although the number of missing people has increased somewhat since fifteen years ago, the city lord's mansion has not paid attention to it, but in the past few years, it has been receiving news of missing people every month.

And the reason why the City Lord's Mansion joined forces to suppress the bandits was that this mountain bandit changed the previous roadblock robbery, rushed directly into the village, and while robbing money, he not only kidnapped women, but also robbed some men and even children, which made the City Lord's Mansion feel that something was wrong.

In the case of the City Lord's Mansion uniting with the Huxin faction, the Dragon and Tiger faction, and the Lieshan faction to jointly suppress the bandits, the mountain bandits have indeed eliminated a lot, but who knows that among these cottages, there are still monks.

In the two hills next door to Longhu Mountain, in a bandit's nest, there is a village master with a sixth-layer qi practice, a deputy village master with a fifth-layer qi practice, and more than a dozen younger brothers with a third- or fourth-layer qi practice.

The three major sects just sent disciples below the third level of qi cultivation to help, thinking that they were just dealing with some ordinary people, but who knew that the disciples of the three major sects were killed or injured.

The Dragon and Tiger Sect quit first, on the grounds that I sent my disciples out to practice, but I didn't expect to suffer heavy casualties, so I recalled all the disciples and had a stalemate with the City Lord's Mansion for a while.

The Lieshan Sect didn't react, after all, the people of this sect were all militants, and the sect leader Hao Lie was a well-known militant in the Northern Desert, and after recalling the injured disciples, it was said that the Lieshan Sect had been practicing demons for a period of time.

And the Huxin faction, the sect leader of the Huxin faction, Feng Chengping, gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the daughter Feng Yi and Du Cangding's baby kiss, naturally did not blame the city lord's mansion.

"I don't know if Brother Du is interested in destroying the Dragon and Tiger Sect. ”

Lin Nan's words directly shocked Du Cang.

In fact, what Feng Yang said to Lin Nan was not that he had not communicated with the City Lord's Mansion.

And the City Lord's Mansion was naturally suspicious of what the Dragon and Tiger Sect was doing.

What Lin Nan said, Du Cang was naturally interested, but he couldn't nod his head.

Du Cang and Lin Nan have only known each other for less than two hours, and they are still unsure of Lin Nan's identity, in case Lin Nan is a member of the Dragon and Tiger Faction, this City Lord's Mansion cannot directly start a war with the Dragon and Tiger Sect.

Seeing that Du Cang was silent and did not respond immediately, Lin Nan smiled, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Du Cang.

"This is a letter written by Feng Yang, Brother Du can take a look. ”

As a result, the letter in Lin Nan's hand, Du Cang's trust in Lin Nan directly increased by fifty percentage points.

There was a special seal on the envelope, and there was a mark on the seal, which Du Cang recognized as the mark that was left when Feng Yang wrote a letter to him, although it was only used to let Feng Yi contact him on weekdays.

Using a unique technique to erase the seal, Du Cang picked up the letter and read it.

After a while, a flame erupted from Du Cang's hand, burned the letter paper, filled the cup with wine, and got up to toast Lin Nan.

"I didn't expect Brother Lin to have a foundation building cultivation, Du was rude. ”

"Good luck, good luck, Brother Du reached the peak of Qi cultivation at a young age, and presumably building a foundation is just around the corner. ”

"By Brother Lin's auspicious words, the matter of the Dragon and Tiger faction will be discussed tomorrow, and we will enjoy this delicious wine and food tonight. ”

Between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, a table of delicacies was eaten, when did Guo Niu and Guo Yu have eaten such a luxurious meal, even if Lin Nan has improved the food of the two in the past few days, but the chef of the City Lord's Mansion is not comparable to those restaurants outside.

After Du Cang's warm reception, the three of them spent the night in the city lord's mansion, Guo Niu fell asleep for the first time on a mattress made of resin, covered with a futon made of silk, and almost lost sleep.

So much so that in the early morning of the second day, after the three of them finished the breakfast carefully prepared by the City Lord's Mansion in the room, Lin Nan saw Guo Niu walking out of the room with two black circles under his eyes.

"Brother Lin, my father has returned. ”

Lin Nan and the three of them went out of the room, and Du Cang immediately came.

After telling the brother and sister a few words, he took out a money bag and stuffed it into Guo Niu's hand, and Lin Nan followed Du Cang to the study.

"Little Brother Lin, sit. ”

In the study, Du Mao, the city lord who is over half a hundred years old, is dealing with a mountain of things.

Seeing Du Cang bring Lin Nan in, he immediately stopped what he was doing and got up to greet him, presumably Du Cang had told Du Mao about Lin Nan's cultivation of the foundation.

"City Lord Du. ”

Lin Nan was not polite, politely greeted Du Mao, and sat down on the chair.

After checking the surroundings, Du Cang closed the door, no way, if you want to arrange a soundproof enchantment, you need at least Jin Dan's cultivation, even if Du Mao has built a seven-layer foundation, he can only use his divine sense to explore the surroundings, and it can't last too long, and the next thing to be discussed can't be passed on.

"Since Little Brother Lin is the person I trust my nephew Feng Yangxian, then I will say it directly, old man. ”

The three of them sat down, and Du Mao spoke.

It turned out that Du Mao went out of the city these days to personally investigate the disappearance of the person.

As the strongest person in the Northern Desert, as long as Du Mao has the intention to hide his traces, no one will be able to find him.

This investigation really allowed him to find out some clues.

On Nasheng South Mountain, that is, the cottage where there were monks, Du Mao followed a bandit who went out, and followed him all the way to the Dragon and Tiger Sect, but Du Mao did not continue to enter when he reached the periphery of the Dragon and Tiger Sect.

And in that cottage, there are also more than a dozen civilians, men, women and children, although with Du Mao's strength, it is not a problem to raze the entire cottage, but in order to avoid startling the snake, Du Mao still endured.

Of course, if he hadn't seen that those civilians had no signs of being abused, Du Mao would have taken action a long time ago.

"The old man suspects that the Dragon and Tiger Sect is not only colluding with this cottage, when attacking this cottage before, the disciples of the Dragon and Tiger Sect were all injured, and none of them died, I thought it was luck, but I didn't expect the two sides to know each other. ”

"Du City Lord is reasonable, I don't know if Du City Lord has a plan in his heart. ”

"The plan has taken shape in the old man's heart, and now, the old man has something that he wants to trouble Little Brother Lin. ”

"City Lord Du, please speak. ”

"Knowing that Brother Lin successfully built the foundation at a young age, the old man had some itchy hands and wanted to learn from Brother Lin. ”

I said it around the bush, didn't I just want to test my strength.

In the practice room of the Endless Gate, there are puppets that can fight, so that Lin Nan has never fought against other monks, and he doesn't know what the difference between this monk in the immortal realm and the puppet in the practice room is.

And after Lin Nan broke through the foundation, he hadn't done it yet, after experiencing the thunder tribulation, Lin Nan felt that his strength had improved greatly, how much bigger, Lin Nan also wanted to know, and his hands were itchy for a while.

"Why not, I don't know where City Lord Du is going to fight. ”

"Go out of the city, my practice ground in the City Lord's Mansion can't afford to be ruined. ”

The three of them left the study, got into the carriage that had been prepared at the back door, and drove out of the city.

Along the way, Lin Nan was a little excited about the upcoming competition, and Du Mao and his son thought that they had met Hao Lie, the sect leader of the Lieshan Sect.

The two sides set up a position, feeling the pressure of Du Mao's continuous height, Lin Nan's eyes narrowed, his left hand stood in front of his chest, and his right hand was closed in his waist and abdomen, the spiritual power in the dantian quickly turned, and Lin Nan went all out for the first time.

It's time to show your true strength.