Chapter 288: Inquiry
After saying goodbye to the farmer, Mu Lan took her friends into a teahouse, where all kinds of people came and went, and it was the best place to get information.
I exchanged another spirit stone with the farmer for a lot of silver, although it was a loss on the books, but Mu Lan's natural spirit stone was not easy to spend in this place, and it was suspicious to take it out, so I didn't feel distressed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please."
The shopkeeper greeted him warmly, wiped the table for the guests, stared at the male guests in the group, looked at Zhao Ziyu, and then looked at Ah Feng.
Ah Feng naturally didn't like to speak, so Zhao Ziyu said casually: "Let's have a pot of tea and some snacks." ”
"Okay!" The shopkeeper nodded neatly.
"Wait."
The shopkeeper looked at Mu Lan, who was speaking, and saw her quietly handing over a piece of broken silver.
"Tell us about what's going on in the city lately."
The shopkeeper peeked behind him, and saw that the shopkeeper didn't pay attention to him, so he quickly stuffed the silver into his clothes, and his movements were very skillful.
"This guest is really beautiful and generous." The shopkeeper pulled away a smile and flattered, then lowered his voice and whispered: "Something happens every day in this Bishui City, I don't know what you want to inquire about?" ”
"It's just a trivial matter." Mu Lan chuckled, "Tell me something unusual and interesting." ”
"Unusual ......" The shopkeeper frowned, thought for a moment, and then swept around Mu Lan's table.
"Everyone has come from afar, although our Blue Water City is not a big city in the East Pole Prefecture, but there are many sects, and it is also quite famous......
"Do you know that our city lord has been replaced?"
"Substitution?" Mu Lan thought of the farmer's statement, her eyes flashed, and she motioned for him to continue.
"The head of the city has changed the Great King Banner, this was the territory of the Sanqing Sect last month, and now it has become the Tianyin Pavilion, the previous city lord is said to have died in the mansion, and the heads are all hung on the trees!"
"Recently, the world has not been peaceful, and there have been more bandits on the other side of the Bishui River, and the relatives of Blacksmith Zhang's family were killed for money the day before yesterday......"
After the shopkeeper retreated, Mu Lan began to digest this information, this world is not as calm and peaceful as when they first met, and it is common for sects to fight with each other, but it seems that there is no imperial court here, and local forces are divided by large and small sects.
Mu Lan glanced at the environment in the teahouse, there was another floor on it, which was used to open an inn, and said, "Let's stay here, and then we will split up and find a way to open the main quest." ”
"What do you want me to do!" Lin Yiyi is very excited about this kind of task and can't wait to take a stroll outside.
Mu Lan glanced at her, she still remembered the ugliness she made last time when she exchanged money in [The Winner is King], this girl always has abnormal brain circuits, so it is safer to let her act with Zhao Ziyu.
"We need to change our outfits, Ziyu, you and Yiyi go to buy some clothes, and we also need to learn about the customs here, the sect factions and other information, just solve this with Ah Feng." Mu Lan looked at Ah Feng, who had been silent, "No objection." ”
Ah Feng nodded, and then continued to drink tea in silence.
"Seggs, I'll send him out too, and if the money isn't enough, I'll talk to him."
Mu Lan felt that the money exchanged from the farmer should not be enough to spend, and this is when the Abyss Demon who came and went without a trace came in handy, ignoring the resentment of Saigs in his mind, to be honest, it was indeed a bit overkill to let him do this kind of dirty work.
"There will definitely be academies, bookstores and other places in Clear Water City, and you need to steal some general classics." Mu Lan explained to Saigs that if she wanted to understand the whole world, this was the fastest way.
Seggs snorted coldly, but agreed anyway.
After resting in the teahouse, after assigning the task, he decided on two rooms here, and after that, Mu Lan returned to the downtown below.
It was a little different from what she had imagined at the beginning, Mu Lan thought that this was a high-martial arts world where everyone flew with a sword, but except for the farmer and a few soldiers at the city gate, she really hadn't seen a few capable people along the way.
After asking Ah Feng beside him, he said that there were some people in the crowd who could see that they were practicing people, but there were no strong people with advanced cultivation, and Bishui City looked like an ordinary ancient city.
Mu Lan looked around, Bishui City is a thriving scene, the street is crowded, pedestrians are weaving, there are taverns, pawnshops, workshops on both sides of the road, and there are many small vendors with big umbrellas in the open space, who are calling hard at this time.
Lin Yiyi took Zhao Ziyu into the ready-to-wear shop where she bought clothes, and Mu Lan was attracted by the performers in a corner area, and came over with great interest.
Squeezing through the crowd of onlookers, you can see that there are several warriors who are performing, the man with a big waist and a round waist is pressing the boulder on his chest, and the stone is cracked after the hammer is smashed, but the man is unscathed, and his strong muscles and bones immediately make the onlookers applaud.
In this circle, there are not only martial artists with broken boulders on their chests, but also jugglers who shake empty bamboos and play jars, but Mu Lan looked curiously at a young man, he was only surrounded by a few people, but the skills he displayed attracted her.
The boy had no hair in a bun, his head was bare, only a small lid on the top of his head, and his eyes were not vivid and looked a little wooden; He was not tall, he looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, and he was repeatedly throwing punches at the candle five meters away in front of him.
Every time he swung out a palm, the candle would be disturbed by a stream of air, and after another set of punches, the candle was finally extinguished, and the boy had no expression, so he stepped forward in a daze to relight the candle and repeat the above operation again.
There was a bowl at the young man's feet, but there were only a few copper plates in it, Mu Lan looked funny, and someone could reward him for such a perfunctory performance.
A couple of men and women next to him watched him repeat the same set of actions repeatedly, and only extinguished a candle, and felt that there was really no new idea, so they walked away stupidly, and complained a few words before leaving.
"What the hell, it's not interesting at all."
"Let's go, brother will take you to see the broken boulder on your chest."
Mu Lan threw a piece of broken silver into the bowl, and the young man looked back when he heard the crisp sound, and his eyes finally had a little color of the boy's heart, and it didn't look so wooden.
So he waved his palm into the air harder, but it was still the same set of palms, and I don't know how many times he repeated it here.
"Gas." Ah Feng said.
Mu Lan nodded, that's right, this young man has internal strength, but he is not very skillful in using it.
When an ancient martial arts cultivator reaches a certain level, he will feel the qi in the dantian in his body, which is the internal force.
After stabilizing this qi and condensing it into the true yuan force, the so-called foundation building has been completed, and the cornerstone of self-improvement and seeking the Tao from heaven has been achieved, and a true monk has become a true monk.
"Maybe this young man is from the sect?" Mu Lan said in a low voice.
Just as he was about to make friends with the boy, there was a commotion in the crowd, and several men wearing blue straight-shirted robes with unkind faces suddenly broke in.
The martial artists and jugglers all stood in place, and the uninvited guests just glanced at them and walked straight towards the boy.
"This is the territory of Tianyin Pavilion, have you done your art here without permission, have you paid taxes?"
The person led by Tianyin Pavilion glanced down at the porcelain bowl, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and then kicked it away.
The copper plate was suddenly scattered on the ground, and the young man exclaimed in surprise, and hurriedly bent down to pick it up.
"Get out, get out!"
"Hahaha!"
Looking at the teenagers lying on the ground picking up copper plates, these people burst into laughter.
"This kind of dilapidated sect, it's better to dissolve it early, it's really a shame for Dongjizhou."
"I heard that they are going to participate in the Immortal Sect trial, it's just beyond their means."