The Heavenly Rank General Election did not require cultivators to stay in the same place. After all, there are so many people, and there is no place to settle them. Therefore, as long as you have the ability, even if you hide in the mountains and old forests for four months, it is not impossible.

However, the number of places to enter the Heavenly Rank is limited, and in order to prevent cultivators from being passive and slacking off, anyone who stays in the same place for more than half a month is considered to have abstained.

Gu Xiangcheng looked down at the invitation in his hand. It was cut out of a kind of black paper, the color was so gloomy that it made people's hearts sink with it, and a few lines of thin gold were written on it in gold paint, which was the only bright color on the whole sheet.

Sitting next to him was the branch disciple who participated in the Heavenly Rank General Election with him, and his talent was not bad, but his temper was a little anxious, and he didn't listen to anyone.

After seeing the conditions and precautions listed on the invitation, he said rather irritably: "What kind of mess, you are not allowed to stay in the same place for more than half a month, and you must collect seventeen brands - wait, what brand?" This is embarrassing us, right? ”

Gu Xiangcheng didn't speak, pretended to read the invitation a few more times, to refer to the pen, and used his spiritual power to write his name in the lower right corner of the invitation. As soon as the last stroke was written, the invitation burned on its own, and in a short time it turned into a small black sign with his name written in large gilded letters.

The other man's eyes widened, and he hurriedly wrote his name and got the same black sign: "What the hell is this?" ”

"It's just an identity credential, nothing special." Gu Xiangcheng began to open his eyes and talk nonsense, "The Heavenly Rank General Election can kill people, but how can you ensure that the people you kill are the same cultivators and not innocent passers-by, it all depends on this brand as proof." Those seventeen signs should refer to this thing. ”

"In other words, we have to kill each other with other people?" The man's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in disbelief, "But—"

"If you want to cultivate to become an immortal, you must know that in this world of the jungle, if you want to survive, you must make trade-offs. Just because you don't want to kill doesn't mean that others don't want to kill you. Gu Xiangcheng patted his head, a little soft-hearted for a while, this is still a child, at a young age, he has to face the first difficulty in life, and he doesn't know if he can get through.

Thinking, he sighed softly. What do you want to do so much? Even if he experienced it once, he couldn't guarantee that he would be unscathed this time. If he fails this time, he will probably have to cry to death.

The two men talked for a while, and then they separated. That kid still has a task on him, and he can't give up the task just because he participated in the Heavenly Rank election, there is no such rule in the building.

Gu Xiangcheng has an appointment with someone, and if there is a specific appointment with whom, it is not something that they can put their beaks on.

Gu Xiangcheng walked slowly, and bought a paper bag of snacks in a very good mood, and stuffed them into his mouth as he walked. It is not difficult to collect seventeen brands, as long as there are cultivators nearby who participate in the Heavenly Rank Selection, the cards on their bodies will automatically light up to give a hint, and there is no need to look for them all over the street.

He quickly calculated in his heart, and felt that the Heavenly Rank Selection in this life was simply tailor-made for him—no more, no less, exactly seventeen.

It's just that these seventeen people are not necessarily easy to find. Gu Xiangcheng calculated again, although he had plenty of time, but in order to avoid long nights and dreams, he still decided to strike first.

But there was another thing that made him feel distressed - the whereabouts of these seventeen people, did he go to Shen Yan to ask, or to find Ye Fangping?

Among the four famous organizations, Jiuyanlou is a full-time assassinator, Yunxiang Pavilion is good at intelligence, and Tianji Mountain's single-handed divination can be called against the sky; Only Wan Ting Xiaozhu seems to be able to do anything, but she doesn't seem to be good at anything. Over the past few hundred years, the other three geniuses have emerged, and so far, only the ancestor Ye Huanting and the current young master Ye Fangping can handle it.

Privately, Gu Xiangcheng wanted to go to Shen Yan, but Shen Yan had just given him three jade slips filled with "vitality", and now he must be recuperating, disturbing him at this time, I am afraid that he will not even be able to enter the door of the Cloud Makeup Pavilion, and he will be beaten out.

Sighing in his heart, Gu Xiangcheng stuffed the cloud cake in his hand into his mouth, turned his footsteps, and walked towards the south gate.

Wan Ting Xiaozhu is in Tianshuiya, saying that it is Ya, but it is actually a small island. A pontoon bridge rises from the land, connecting the islands above the sea, so that the people on the island are not isolated from the rest of the world.

As soon as Gu Xiangcheng landed, he was targeted by three or four people holding harpoons. These ordinary fishermen have been blessed by the graceful little building for generations, and anyone who wants to go to the island must first go through a strict body search before they can pass.

Ye Fangping said vaguely before, and Gu Xiangcheng didn't pay attention to it, but he didn't expect it to be true.

He couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't let the other party search him. He stretched out his hand to stop a person's hand, and smiled gently: "I am a friend of Young Master Ye, and now I have something important to ask to see, and I ask a few big brothers not to stop me." ”

"No! If you don't let you be searched, who knows what you're carrying? In case the young master has three longs and two shorts, can you be responsible? One of the thin men snapped.

Gu Xiangcheng felt that the smile on his face could not be maintained: "A few big brothers, if you don't believe it, I can show you Young Master Ye's handwritten letter!" But the body search ...... Or don't you? ”

"You didn't let us search our bodies, did you bring something unsightly on you?" The thin man did not give up, and he could see that he was the leader, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the rest of them were obedient and obedient, and they didn't even say a word of rebuttal.

"How so? It's just that it's really not very convenient. Gu Xiangcheng took a deep breath and warned himself not to make a move, these people were innocent civilians, and they were for the sake of Ye Fangping's safety. If it were him, he might have done the same.

The thin man wrinkled his eyebrows, and a pair of small eyes flashed with inexplicable excitement: "There must be something on you!" Brothers, on! Can't let him hurt our young master! ”

"Hey-" Gu Xiangcheng was taken aback, and hurriedly retreated, fortunately, he dodged quickly, dodging the harpoons of those people, but the cloth on his shoulder was cut by a sharp blade, "You ......"

When several big men saw him dodging, they were even more angry in their hearts, and the thin men kept fanning the flames on the side, and one by one they roared and pounced on him as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Gu Xiangcheng thought in his heart that they were mortals, and he didn't want to do anything with them, but he was angry that they didn't know what to do, and when they dodged left and right, the clothes on their bodies were cut a few times.

This is his favorite piece of clothing, Shen Yan inadvertently said that it looks good, so that he has worn this style for hundreds of years, and now it has been ruined, and Gu Xiangcheng is too lazy to pretend to be kind again.

He reached out, grabbed a harpoon that had stabbed him in the face, and lifted his leg to kick the handle off with ease. A few fishermen may have never seen this kind of hands-on action, and they stood still for a while, and when they came back to their senses, where was the shadow of a stranger in front of them?

Gu Xiangcheng took advantage of the time when those people were in a daze, quickly swept by, dodged and avoided several obstacles on the bridge, and successfully boarded Tianshuiya.

Ye Fangping was waiting at the bridge, and when she saw him coming, she was not surprised, but nodded expressionlessly: "Come with me." ”

Gu Xiangcheng blinked, knowing that he had already calculated that he would come to look for him, so he followed angrily and with a smile: "Since you know that I am coming, why do you want someone to stop me?" ”

"The rules of the island, I can't easily break them." Ye Fangping led him to a mountain pavilion, where there was a pot of hot tea and two cups on the stone table.

Gu Xiangcheng sat down unceremoniously, supported himself with his hand, and looked at him expectantly: "You can calculate that I am coming to you, can you calculate what the purpose of my coming is?" ”

Ye Fangping shook her head: "No." ”

"Huh?"

"Even if I don't count, you have to speak. Why should I waste my energy? Ye Fangping put her hands in the sleeves of her wide robe and spoke in a calm tone.

Gu Xiangcheng thought about it for a while, and he didn't beat around the bush at all, he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and wrote the names of seventeen people on it: "I need to get news of these people, can you help?" ”

Ye Fangping took the piece of paper, quickly glanced at it, and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

Gu Xiangcheng was still smiling, but a layer of blood gradually appeared under his eyes. His voice was very brisk, as if he had encountered something good, but the words he said made Ye Fangping feel frightened-

"Killing."

The young master of Grace Xiaozhu glared slightly, and returned to normal in a moment. He looked down, looked at the list again, pointed to one of them, and said, "This is in Fangcai's fishing village." ”

Gu Xiangcheng leaned over to take a look, and frowned: "He's not a cultivator this time?" ”

"He is."

"But ......," Gu Xiangcheng hesitated, "If he is, then we are only in the fishing village, and the Tianjie card has not reacted at all!" ”

The Tianjie card is the certificate of the Tianjie election, and with this brand, you are eligible to participate in the competition and eventually become an immortal cultivator. If the Heavenly Rank card does not react, either he did not participate in this Heavenly Rank election at all, or, he has some special means to conceal his situation!

Gu Xiangcheng bit his thumb and frowned, quickly recalling the people he met in the fishing village in his mind. The fishing village was not big, and there were only thirty or forty of them, and he took a look at them when he passed, only to be stopped at the bridge.

Suddenly, he thought of the thin man who had been aggressive and insisted on searching him: "Fang Ping......"

"How?" Ye Fangping was looking down and calculating the whereabouts of the others, and she didn't want to raise her head when she heard the shouting.

"I was just in the fishing village across the street and was almost searched."

Ye Fangping paused for a moment and slowly raised her head.

Gu Xiangcheng somehow, his face turned snow-white, and his voice was extremely soft: "I remember, you once told me that those fishermen have always interrogated you in order to prevent someone from doing you badly. ”

Ye Fangping pursed the corners of her mouth and answered softly.

Gu Xiangcheng took a deep breath and slowly spit it out: "But you didn't say that they would search ...... body."

Ye Fangping's eyes trembled fiercely. He sat still, his whole body as if frozen. The next moment, he shook off the thing in his hand fiercely, turned into a white light, and quickly flew towards the fishing village on the opposite bank!

The Heavenly Rank card will not deceive people, if the first person he is looking for is really in that fishing village, in addition to the fact that he did not participate in this Heavenly Rank election, what other way can he hide from the world?

Gu Xiangcheng grabbed the placket on his chest, staggered two steps, and followed the light.