Chapter 2: Nanjian Gate
"Where am I......?"
Chu Xuan slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on a bamboo couch. In front of me was an ordinary thatched hut, poorly furnished. There is a stove next to the bamboo couch, and there is a casserole on it, and I don't know what is boiling in it, and the fragrance of medicine is overflowing.
The old man in the robe pushed the door in, and when he saw that Chu Xuan had woken up, he said excitedly: "Boy, you are awake, in order to save you, a pulseless waster, you have wasted so many treasures of the old man." Come on, come on, the old man will settle accounts with you. ”
The old man said, then pointed his fingers and said the same:
"You were in a coma for a day and a night, and you took six elixirs from the old man. Among them, there are three seven-grade qi gathering grasses, two six-grade supplemental ginseng plants, and one six-grade spiritual flower. At the market price, you'll have to pay me fifty taels of gold, not counting the smashed ones in my medicine basket. ”
After hearing this, Chu Xuan rubbed his sour eyes and asked, "Grandpa, did you save me?"
The old man rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I said, did you listen to me just now?" Okay, don't talk nonsense, what is your name? Where do you live? Who are your parents? How are you going to compensate the old man?"
"I, my name is Chu Xuan......"
Chu Xuan hesitated for a moment and told the old man about his experience one by one.
"Well, in this way, as long as I send you to the anti-king, the old man's loss can be recovered?" the old man listened quietly for a long time, and suddenly asked.
Chu Xuan nodded, and said with a normal face: "Old man, I have nothing now. You send me to the capital and hand it over to my imperial uncle, and maybe you can compensate for your loss. ”
The old man looked at Chu Xuan suspiciously, and said strangely: "Why don't you have any fear at all? If the old man really sends you over, I'm afraid that you will definitely die." ”
Chu Xuan shook his head and said lightly, "It's okay." Anyway, I'm a waste, so what's the point of surviving. It's better to use this useless body and change something for the old man. ”
Although Chu Xuan's childlike voice has not been removed, he speaks like a little adult. The old man was very skeptical, this kind of talk would come from an eleven-year-old yellow-mouthed child?
"The old man does care about the elixir, but he is not a person who harms others and benefits himself. That's it, stinky boy, you go back to Nanjianmen with the old man and do chores for the old man for three years, which can be regarded as compensating the old man for his losses. ”
The old man thought for a while and spoke.
In fact, the two are still in the territory of Zhou.
"Nanjian Gate, what kind of place is that?" Chu Xuan had never heard of this place before.
The old man scoffed: "It's really lonely. The old man doesn't bother to explain, you will know when you go there with the old man. ”
Chu Xuan had nowhere to go, so he immediately agreed.
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On the Nanyuan Continent, tens of thousands of Xiuzhen sects were active. Nanjianmen is one of them.
Nanjianmen is located in the southeast of the mainland, located in the Nanjian Mountain at the junction of the Zhou Kingdom, Beiliang and the Western Qin Kingdom.
The Nanjian Sect has been established for more than four hundred years, and although it is not a top-notch cultivation holy land, it is by no means a second-rate sect.
The total number of monks in the whole sect is no less than 5,000, and this strength has already surpassed some small countries on the mainland.
In this world, only one or two out of a thousand people have the possibility of becoming a monk. It's not a question of qualifications, it's more of a question of resources. The growth of every cultivator requires a large amount of heavenly and earthly treasures, and ordinary people have almost no conditions for cultivation. This is also the reason why the monks have become the ruling class.
Let's talk about the old man in Ge Pao, his surname is Li Shouyi, and he is one of the six elders of Nanjianmen. Although Li Shouyi is an elder, he does not like to take care of the affairs of the sect, let alone teach disciples. Throughout the year, apart from retreat, his greatest hobby is wandering around, looking for the elixirs that grow in the deep mountains and mountains.
This time, he wandered to the capital of the Zhou Kingdom, and happened to arrive at the cliff of the back mountain outside the palace. Just as he was pleasantly surprised by the mountains full of heavenly and earthly treasures, Chu Xuan suddenly fell from the sky and almost smashed his old bones.
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The two left for Zhou.
Li Shouyi's cultivation is profound, whether it is walking on flat ground or flying with the sword, it will not take a few days to travel from Zhou to Nanjianmen. But Chu Xuan was just an ordinary teenager and couldn't walk that fast.
Li Shouyi thought very highly of himself, and let him fly with Chu Xuan's imperial sword on his back, which was absolutely impossible. No, he had to accompany Chu Xuan and walk slowly.
The two walked for seven or eight days, and they had not yet completed a tenth of the journey. In the end, it may be that he couldn't stand Chu Xuan's turtle speed, so Li Shouyi simply paid for a carriage and asked the coachman to take them back to Nanjianmen.
When passing through the border city of Zhou State, Li Shouyi found that all checkpoints were actually posted with wanted warrants for Chu Xuan.
It turned out that after Chu Xuan jumped off the cliff, Chu Mo sent someone to search under the cliff, but did not find Chu Xuan's body, he thought that Chu Xuan must have been rescued by someone, so he sent a sea fishing document and chased Chu Xuan with a lot of money.
"Grandpa, what should I do?" Looking at the wanted notice on the city wall, Chu Xuan was a little worried.
Li Shouyi ignored him and instructed the coachman: "Stop, the two of us will get off here first." You drive the carriage ten miles out of the city, and wait for us there. ”
"Okay. The coachman didn't know what the two were going to do, and he didn't ask much.
Chu Xuan and Li Shou got out of the car. Li Shouyi led him to a sparsely populated alleyway.
"Grandpa, what are we doing here?" Chu Xuan said puzzled.
Li Shouyi still didn't answer, he suddenly grabbed Chu Xuan with one hand and carried him around his waist.
"Boy, close your eyes!" Li Shouyi kindly reminded.
Chu Xuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly found that he was already in the sky. At present, the city walls and pedestrians are getting smaller and smaller, and gradually becoming black spots.
Chu Xuan's heart beat violently, and he clutched Li Shouyi's robe tightly with both hands, for fear that the other party would be negligent and fall to pieces. He closed his eyes and didn't dare to look any further.
After a while, Li Shouyi suddenly put him down, so frightened that he hurriedly opened his eyes, only to see that he had already landed.
Not far away was a carriage parked, the one that had left the city earlier.
"Yo, so fast, aren't you monks?" said the coachman.
Li Shouyi glanced at the coachman. The coachman hurriedly said, "Ha, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked." ”
The two of them rode in a carriage and traveled for a few more days, and finally completely left the boundary of the Zhou Kingdom and came to Nanjian Mountain.
Nanjian Mountain is majestic, cloudy and mist, and unfathomable.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, Chu Xuan only felt extremely excited in his heart. He was born under the walls of the four-cornered palace since he was a child, and he hardly left the palace for half a step, and it was rare to see such a magnificent scene.
"Rare and weird. Let's go, boy. ”
Li Shouyi said and stepped forward. Chu Xuan didn't know how to go, so he silently followed behind him.