9. Accidental Collisions
Those who have doubts are not only these people from King Mu's Mansion.
The third immortal disciple who acted with Xiao Ren and Wu Chi, Fan Jian also had deep doubts at this moment.
Or doubts.
After he had settled all the people in the caravan, he came to a meeting point in the Ten Thousand Bamboo Forest and waited as he had agreed beforehand. But now that two days have passed, Wu Chi did not come to the appointment, which made him feel a little restless.
"Could something be wrong?" Fan Jian's face looked a little ugly.
He would not suspect Wu Chi's treachery.
Because just as Wu Chi said that night, he also knew the secret of Bizhushu. Therefore, if Wu Chi dared to swallow the treasure left by the old man of the bamboo forest, then he would not mind going back to the Immortal Gate to promote it for Wu Chi. And the result of doing this is undoubtedly to make Wu Chi spit out everything he swallowed, and it is doubling it.
But it is precisely because of this that Fan Jian's face looks so ugly.
In terms of cultivation alone, Wu Chi is the highest among the three of them, although his actual combat ability is not as good as his own, but ordinary people cannot be Wu Chi's opponent. At least in this part of Chizhou, the only people who dare to say that they are invincible in the same realm are only the disciples of the Snow Mountain Sword Sect, and the others, even if they are people from Tianya Mountain Villa or Mu Wangfu, they may not be sure that they can kill the people of the Immortal Sect under the premise of the same realm.
There is no other reason.
Sword cultivation will always be the most powerful existence in this world.
Especially since the battle between Fairy Mingse and the Old Man of Heavenly Dao showed the mysterious swordsmanship of breaking through ten thousand laws with one sword, sword cultivation has become synonymous with the strongest in the entire Shenzhou.
And the Snow Mountain Sword Sect happens to be the most orthodox sword cultivation sect.
Although the Snow Mountain Sword Sect usually operates in the western part of Chizhou, Wan Zhulin is geographically located in the south-southwest, so there is a certain possibility that you will encounter disciples of the Snow Mountain Sword Sect here. This also happened to be the reason why Xiao Ren, a disciple of the Immortal Sect before, would disguise himself as a disciple of the Snow Mountain Sword Sect - that sword wound might not be able to hide from people from top sects and families like Mu Wangfu and Tianya Villa, but the Tai'an Zhao family was just a prestigious family, so naturally they couldn't see these differences.
Fan Jian was wondering at this time, could it be that Wu Chi and the people from the Snow Mountain Sword Sect collided?
lost contact for two whole days, which made Fan Jian a little restless.
"No, I have to go and see." Frowning, Fan Jian lifted his long sword, and then left the meeting point and began to walk along the official road in the Ten Thousand Bamboo Forest.
He didn't know Wu Chi's specific direction of action, but he knew that according to the code of action of the Immortal Gate, as long as Wu Chi didn't want to deliberately conceal his traces, then he would definitely make a mark at the fork in the official road. And he only needs to follow these marks to catch up with Wu Chi, like before, although he and Wu Chi did not act with Xiao Ren, they were still able to find Ye Kong's traces, just because Xiao Ren made marks along the way.
As Fan Jian had predicted, although Wu Chi's pursuit of Ye Kong two days ago seemed a little careless, in fact, he had indeed left marks along the way that only the disciples of the Immortal Sect could understand. Following these markers, Fan Jian's route did not deviate in any way, and soon he rushed to the place where Ye Kong first ambushed Wu Chi.
Although Ye Kong's attack that night was fast, ruthless, and accurate, and because he was aimed at the target correctly, almost no power escaped, but as the ambushed party, Wu Chi's sudden burst of true yuan still left a lot of traces at the scene.
At this moment, Fan Jian squatted on the ground, stretched out his hand and carefully groped the ground.
Then, soon, he turned his head to look at the bamboo around him.
The surrounding bamboos didn't seem to be anything unusual, but when Fan Jian suddenly swung his sword to split the surrounding bamboos, he saw that the inside of these broken bamboos had turned black, and almost all of the vitality had been drained.
This discovery made Fan Jian's brows furrow slightly.
But he didn't say anything, but turned his head and quickly looked a short distance on the other side, and then walked a few steps forward quickly.
As Fan Jian expected, about ten or so steps in front of the position where he had just squatted, there was a very, very footprint on the ground.
Through this footprint, Fan Jian was probably able to restore the situation at that time: "Wu Chi was ambushed here, and the surrounding blue sky bamboos were corroded, it seems that his response was very hasty at that time, and even Zhenyuan could barely control it...... This should be a hasty agitation of the true element blast in the body to parry. Then he also returned the punch, but this kind of hasty counterattack may not have any effect. ”
Glancing around, Fan Jian soon found a few more traces of battle, or bloodstains.
"Bloodstains? Who was hurt? Following these bloodstains, Fan Jian soon discovered the direction in which Wu Chi and Ye Kong fled while fighting, "Could it be that Wu Chi was still injured after the outbreak of Zhenyuan?" This ......"
Just when Fan Jian was surprised by this guess, he looked up and saw a young man running towards him.
The young man was also checking the blood stains in the place, and from the direction from which the other party came, Fan Jian had already deduced that this young man had been found from another source. In other words, it is very likely that the other party knows Wu Chi's whereabouts.
Or rather, the end.
Thinking of this, Fan Jian's words that he wanted to ask stopped instantly.
Bizhushu's secret, he didn't want the third person to know. And Wu Chi's whereabouts or fate no matter what, as long as he can restrain the young man in front of him, then he can be forced to ask for anything.
Thinking of this, Fan Jian no longer hesitated, and rushed towards the young man with an arrow step.
As the figure ran forward, the sword in his hand had already been drawn, and the sharp killing machine was directly locked on the opponent's body.
Locked by the sudden killing machine, He Xiong's face changed suddenly.
His cultivation is very high, but his actual combat ability is not high, and when he senses the lock of the killing machine, Fan Jian's long sword has already killed in front of him. In this case, He Xiong could only grit his teeth and swing his knife - if Ye Kong faced this situation, then he would inevitably choose to force his disadvantage by killing in all directions.
There is not only a gap between the seventh layer and the fourth layer of the Xuan, but even a gap in the small realm.
Maybe the sword cultivator who entered the sixth layer of the Xuan Xuan could not take the monks of the seventh layer of the Xuan in his eyes, but the sword cultivation of the fourth layer of the Xuan Xuan would definitely not be so big. What's more, although the Immortal Sect has sword techniques, it does not belong to the Sword Cultivation Sect, so the power of the Sword Technique is naturally inferior to the Sword Cultivation Sect.
Therefore, if Ye Kong Hexiong's strength is changed, in the face of Fan Jian's sword attack, one move to break the killing in all directions is enough to counterpressure back, and even let Fan Jian suffer the consequences.
But it's a pity that He Xiong, who lacks practical experience, made the choice at the moment to choose the defensive position of not moving in all directions.
The next moment, the sword strikes!
The sound of Qiang Qiang suddenly sounded, and the qi wave of the True Yuan conflict instantly shattered all the blue sky bamboos around the two of them.
"Evil Sword Technique! Eternal Lifegate! ”
"Quartet Knife Technique! Mu Wangfu! ”
After the concussive impact of the True Yuan blast, He Xiong and Fan Jian both looked horrified, obviously unable to understand why the other party appeared here. However, what made Fan Jian's face even more ugly was that his sudden attack did not achieve any advantage, but was forcibly equalized by the other party with Zhenyuan.
Fan Jian, who was confident that he had the strength to fight even in the face of entering the sixth layer of the Xuan, if he didn't know at this time that the young man in front of him was a master of the third realm of the Xuan, then he would not be qualified to become a disciple of the Immortal Sect.
Into the fourth layer of the Xuan duel into the seventh layer of the Xuan?
Fan Jian stared at the corner of He Xiong's eyes, and he was already observing the movements on both sides of his surroundings, and at this time, his thoughts were not to separate from the other party, but to think about how to escape for his life. If he had the strength to enter the sixth layer of Xuan, then he wouldn't mind letting the little ghost in front of him comprehend the power of sword cultivation, but he only had entered the fourth layer of Xuan, so he decided to think about how to save his life first.
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Ye Kong didn't know that the collision between Mu Wangfu and Changshengmen was even faster than he expected.
He didn't leave any evidence pointing to the Immortal Sect on Wu Chi's body, because this kind of behavior was a snake painting. Of course, he didn't cover up the injuries on Wu Chi's body that belonged to the Quartet Sword Technique, because he felt that it was unnecessary, and these injuries could also play a good role in making an impression.
Anyway, Ye Kong didn't mind muddying the water.
Moreover, the safety of two consecutive days also made Ye Kong understand that the pursuers behind him had been thrown away for the time being, and it was impossible for the other party to find his traces again, unless it was his own exposure, or someone used secret methods such as heavenly calculation.
The former Ye Kong was certainly not so stupid, and the latter was the reason why Ye Kong left Wu Chi's corpse without doing anything to add to it.
Perhaps it is the principle that the extremes of things must be reversed, after experiencing so many unlucky things, Ye Kong successfully boarded a caravan to Jiao'an. Although it would have taken him six or seven more days to reach Tushan County, it would also have allowed him to avoid a lot of suspicious behavior.
After all, those who dare to walk alone on the official road of Wanzhulin must be people who are more confident in their own strength. But even if you're a lone ranger, no one will ever take a child with you, because there's no guarantee that you won't encounter any accidents or surprises. So when Ye Kong asked for a ride with Qingyi, the eyes of the people in the caravan were full of weirdness when they looked at Ye Kong.
However, after Ye Kong took out three silver coins, the caravan's attitude quickly changed.
The trading currencies on the Shenzhou continent are all fixed.
In addition to barter, the currency in circulation in the secular world is basically gold dollars, silver taels, and copper coins.
The gold yuan is divided into two kinds, large gold and small gold, both are barefoot gold, the former net weight is fifty taels, shaped like a large cake, is specially used for bulk business or luxury goods and other businesses; The net weight of the latter is ten taels, which is the shape of ingots, also known as gold ingots, and the gold yuan in the general trading market refers to small gold. And since the use of gold dollars is not just for currency exchange, sometimes pill makers and forgers also need to use gold as a material for refining, so gold can sometimes become the currency of the monastic world.
Silver taels refer to silver, and like gold dollars, there is a distinction between large silver and small silver. The big silver shape is like an ingot, and the standard net weight is ten taels. The small silver refers to silver, also known as silver money, which is also a more common transaction currency in the secular world, mostly in the form of coins with an outer circle and an inner square, and the standard net weight is one tael.
The exchange ratio of silver taels and gold dollars is basically fixed, usually one ingot of gold can be exchanged for one hundred taels of silver, that is, ten silver ingots, or one hundred silver coins.
The shape of the copper coin is the same as the small silver, which is a round coin on the outside and square on the inside, but the wealthy merchants in the secular world prefer to refer to it as copper plate and copper, because it is the transaction currency of the middle and lower classes of the secular world, and it is also the real mainstream circulation currency in the secular world. In the secular world, a silver coin can be exchanged for a thousand copper plates, but on the contrary, a thousand copper plates cannot be exchanged for a silver coin, and it often takes 1,100 or 1,200 copper coins to be exchanged for one tael of silver.
And the caravan that Ye Kong took along, because it was not a large-scale business, but just some relatively fragmentary rebuying and selling, so it could only earn a few dozen taels of silver after a trip. If you remove the cost of goods, travel expenses and other miscellaneous expenses, in fact, the caravan guards can receive not much money, often only one or two taels of silver.
Therefore, Ye Kong's three silver coins are a windfall for these guards.
You must know that the monthly expenses of an ordinary family of three in the secular world are only one or two taels of silver.