CHAPTER XXII
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In the martial arts training field, the girl Miao Shan's feet were staggered, wandering in the hanging bag array, and the hanging bag that kept swinging around hit the girl in the face, making her scream in pain.
Ji Fan stood on the edge of the hanging bag formation, and had an eye-opening feeling for the girl's pace practice.
"If I can master a subtle footwork and use my physical strength in melee combat, it would be a good complement. Ji Fan was secretly envious that Miao Shan could have such good cultivation conditions.
"Wood, you come. ”
The girl came out of the hanging bag array in embarrassment and said to Ji Fan.
Facing the girl's instructions, Ji Fan just stood blankly without the slightest movement.
"If you are disobedient again, I will not want you. ”
Seeing that Ji Fan was not moving, the girl clenched her small fist in annoyance.
Ji Fan was still indifferent, although the old man with the goatee brought him to Miaojia City, reducing the risk of him being alone outside, but it also made his situation a little embarrassing.
"Miss Shan, talking to you, did you hear that?"
The female monk who was also in the martial arts training ground stepped forward and scolded Ji Fan.
"I want to ~ read the scroll ......"
Ji Fan rarely spoke, and he didn't seem very neat.
Hearing Ji Fan's words, not only the female monk, but even the girl Miao Shan also showed a shocked expression, as if something incredible had happened.
"Can you speak?"
In more than ten days, Miao Shan heard Ji Fan's voice for the first time.
"Then don't practice, go to the academy. ”
For Ji Fan, who had no sound again, Miao Shan came back to her senses for a while.
"Why are you reading a scroll?"
Out of the martial arts training ground, Miao Shan asked Ji Fan curiously.
"I can be governor by reading a book. ”
There was a woman monk, and Ji Fan didn't hide some of his thoughts.
Miao Shan's house is very large, and the mansion with seven entrances and seven exits does not have an ancestral hall, which is not much worse than the mansion of the Ji family.
According to what Ji Fan has learned these days, Miao Shan's father, Miao Lishan, is the fifth son of the short old man, and because of the businessman's relationship, he is not in the house, and his wife Qi Ying is in charge of the family.
Qi Ying is not only Miao Shan's mother, but also a monk, and when Ji Fan first returned home as a sword boy, he was summoned by her.
When she arrived at the academy, Miao Shan quickly led Ji Fan into the side room.
There are not many books in the study, but the volumes are well organized.
"The books in the side room of the academy can be read by the people in the house with permission. Miao Shan has her words, so she is so proud.
"Permissions?"
Ji Fan thought about it secretly, in fact, he didn't expect to see any cultivation classics, he just wanted to know about the geographical location of Miaojia City and the situation of the sect in Cangluan Prefecture.
"What book do you want to read, I can help you find it. Regarding Ji Fan's cold words and requests, the girl asked freshly for a while.
Ji Fan looked around at all the books in the study, and his desire to learn was not disguised at all.
"Wood, you don't want to see it all, do you?"
Miao Shan didn't expect that Ji Fan was not good at martial arts, but was very hungry for books, and couldn't help but feel that he was a weirdo.
Ji Fan nodded, responding to the girl's speculation.
"You don't want to be a sword boy, it's better to be a scholar. The girl Miao Shan looked like she couldn't get along with Ji Fan.
Until Miao Shan lost his patience and told Ji Fan not to mess with the scroll and left, he didn't show eagerness.
There are many bookshelves in the study, but there are not many wooden troughs for storing books, which are scattered on the shelves, and some wooden slot boxes are even empty.
Looking at the small annotations engraved on the surface of the wooden trough box, Ji Fan walked around the study, and first picked up a volume of Beicanluan Gazetteer and opened it.
As soon as the scroll was opened, maps of the regions and fairly detailed annotations soon appeared.
In Ji Fan's detailed inspection, he found that the Northern Sacrifice City and the Burial Spirit Mountain Range, compared to the entire Cangluan Prefecture, were indeed located in a rather remote area in the north.
Beyond the Funeral Mountains and further north, there is the Snow Ridge Plateau, which is said to have a cold climate all year round, which is not suitable for survival, and there are some exiled tribes.
"Cold Heaven Sect?"
Because the Northern Sacrifice City is also considered to be the north of Cangluan Prefecture, Ji Fan had heard his father mention it before that there was a rather ancient and mysterious cultivation sect on the Snow Ridge Plateau.
"Unexpectedly, the old man with a goatee drove the wooden bird and flew for a day and a night, and still did not stay far from the north of Cangluan Prefecture. Finding Miaojia City, Ji Fan couldn't help but sigh at the vastness of Cangluanzhou.
"The Land of Ten Thousand Mountains!"
Ji Fan discovered that the area where Miaojiacheng is located, if you come from the northernmost part of Cangluan Prefecture, the Xueling Plateau is a relatively clear area, and then it is the land of ten thousand mountains.
As for the Burial Spirit Mountains, it is not a large area of Cangluan Prefecture, but more like a zone where the Snow Ridge Plateau meets the land of ten thousand mountains.
"It turns out that the Xuanyin Sect is in the Wanshan Region, and the most powerful force in this region is not a single cultivation sect and family cottage, but the Ten Demon Dao Alliance, and the Xuanyin Sect is only one of the Ten Demon Dao Alliance!" Ji Fan looked carefully at the Beicanluan Gazetteer and secretly pondered.
Ji Fan felt that the title of the Ten Demon Dao Alliance was quite interesting, on the surface it was the Demon Gate, but it was not easy to say that the Demon was the Dao, at least the actions of the Ten Demon Sect were not as frightening as the Heavenly Demon Sect and the Soul Devouring Sect.
Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the Northern Cangluan Gazetteer, it implies that the alliance formed by the ten demon sects in the Wanshan region can even compete with the Ten Thousand Sword Sects in the spiritual eye land in the central Cangluan Prefecture.
Legend has it that there are relatively many spiritual springs and underground spiritual veins in the central part of Cangluan Prefecture, and the cultivation resources are extremely rich, and the Ten Thousand Swords Sect is the premier righteous sect in the land of the spiritual eye.
Four sects, two sects, and one palace, there is the Ten Thousand Swords Sect in the land of the spiritual eye in the central part of Cangluan Prefecture, and there is also the Zhou Tian Palace in the central hanging stream area.
The Qingxu Sect guarding the Eastern Daozang Forbidden Land, and the Soul Devouring Sect in the Abyss Region.
The Heavenly Demon Sect in the swamps in the west, and the Blazing Ancient Sect in the Bone Desert.
In the southern part of Cangluan Prefecture, the most powerful cultivation force is the Haoyue Sect of the Tongtian Forest.
The four sects, two sects, and one palace are undoubtedly the top-level cultivation forces in Cangluan Prefecture, and few people can tell which one is stronger or weaker, Ji Fan just knows that five hundred years ago, in a battle between the righteous demons and demons, the Soul Devouring Demon Sect and other demonic forces invaded the Qingxu Holy Domain in a big way, and finally Qiu Yuan, the contemporary sect leader of the Soul Devouring Demon Sect, died in battle, so that a catastrophe in Cangluan Prefecture was quelled.
Lingxu Kyushu has been rumored to have nine forbidden places since ancient times, some people say that Qiu Yuan, the leader of the Soul Devouring Sect, is one of the nine forbidden places in Lingxu, and some people say that Qiu Yuan was besieged by the righteous path and a lot of heroic cultivators, and in the end, the major righteous path sects also paid a very heavy price.
Five hundred years ago, there was a battle between the righteous and the demon, what the real situation was, it was not something that Ji Fan could guess at all.
In addition to the cultivation forces at the top level of Cangluan Prefecture, there are too many True Demon Sects that are slightly inferior.
The Burning Sky Valley that Ji Fan was concerned about, the Yao Burning Purgatory, which was located west of Cangluan Prefecture, was not as famous as the Ten Thousand Swords Sect and the Qingxu Sect, but it would make some people talk about it.
As for the Qinglan Sect in the south of Cangluan Prefecture, it is also a large-scale righteous sect, but it is not as strong as the Haoyue Sect.
"Four sects, two sects, and one palace, it's easy to think about it, and there's no need to have any expectations, there are also many sects in the Ten Thousand Mountains Domain, among which the Ten Demon Dao Alliance is the strongest, maybe there will be some opportunities!"
With Ji Fan's current situation, unless the faint veins of the refining body are exposed, there will be no chance at all if he joins the upper level of the Cangluan Prefecture.
Moreover, in the land of ten thousand mountains in the north of Cangluan Prefecture, there are many primitive mountains, some people say that the actual number is even more than 100,000, and in some places, there are still secrets that have not been revealed, what Ji Fan values the most is that it is currently in the land of ten thousand mountains, compared with the central, western, southern, and eastern parts of Cangluan Prefecture, it is more realistic to avoid the danger of trekking through mountains and rivers.
"Xuanyin Sect. ”
Thinking that the hunchbacked old man Chen Gengnian was from the Xuanyin Sect, and Ji Ming was also introduced, Ji Fan couldn't help but muttered to himself.
There are a lot of codexes in the middle of the study, I don't know if it's the business relationship of the Miao family, and there are a lot of introductions to the cultivation things, and the situation of the sect is still more detailed in the land of ten thousand mountains.
"The nine veins of the Xuanyin Sect, the Yin Demon, the Blood Luo, the Ten Thousand Poisons, the Evil Barbarian, the Machine Puppet, the Demon, the Soul Nourishing, the Xuanjian, the Spirit Corpse, ......" Ji Fan picked up the scroll that recorded the sect of the Land of Ten Thousand Mountains.
"Wood, come out, Madame told you to go to the accounting room. ”
didn't wait for Ji Fan to look at it for too long, the girl Xiaocui had already entered the study and called him.
In desperation, Ji Fan had no choice but to put the scroll back into the wooden trough box, and left without saying a word and following Xiao Cui, who was relieved.
When he came to the courtyard of Liujin, he saw that a woman in a cloth dress was already outside the account room, Ji Fan stepped forward and bowed, but did not speak.
"Shan'er said that she didn't want you to be a sword boy anymore, is it because you don't want to speak?" The woman in simple cloth asked with a smile as she observed Ji Fan.
Ji Fan bowed his head with a blank expression and did not give a response with words.
"In this way, the concubine will return to the patriarch and let you exercise with the caravan at home. The woman sighed slightly, and said to the young Ji Fan.
"Qi Shiyou, from tomorrow, you take him with you, let him do some work in the Lishan caravan, and follow the businessman. Not far away, a tall and thin man in his forties commanded.
The tall and thin man behaved capably, and quickly bowed down to receive the order, and Ji Fan also bowed with him.
Until now, the woman didn't know what Ji Fan's name was, and she didn't say anything when she asked him, and the people mostly called him wood.
Even if the girl Miao Shan didn't mention it, the woman didn't want Ji Fan to be a sword boy anymore, and now that she arranged him to the caravan, she didn't have to worry about anything.
"Wood~~~ You will come here before dawn tomorrow, I will take you to the shop to ship, about the business, follow the caravan, you will understand. The tall and thin man took Ji Fan aside, with the intention of letting him learn in practice.
"Do you want to do business?"
Ji Fan thought secretly in his heart, and felt that it was best to leave Miaojia City.
By the side of the girl Miao Shan, the Miao family looked up and down too closely, and Ji Fan had very little room to turn around.
The thin and tall man didn't think that Ji Fan could do anything, but since Madame had ordered it, it was not his turn to pick three or four.
"If you can follow the caravan out of the city, the situation is ideal, you can stay in the caravan to learn, and if not, wait for the opportunity to leave the caravan. Ji Fan's secret thoughts were extremely clear.