Chapter 6: The Cave City
Bian Yao and He Qingyin had never entered the city of Cave City, and this time they followed behind the night corpse and walked with a smile, the two of them were fresh and curious about many things, and kept looking around.
Different from the scene outside the city, the streets in the city are even wider, not to mention that there are many fewer sleepwalkers who may fall asleep at any time, and most of the pedestrians on the streets are dreamwalkers or mortals above the realm of sleepwalkers, and of course there will be other cultivators mixed in, but it is generally difficult to distinguish them just by their appearance. At intervals on both sides of the street, there is a special shack of the same shape and color, with a few words above the door, in addition to the serial number, which reads "Sleepwalking House". Once a sleepwalker falls down the street, they will soon be dragged into the "sleepwalking house" by the lowest-ranking white-clad city guards, so as to ensure the smooth flow of the roads in the city.
"Wow! What is that? It's so fast!" I saw a strange-looking beast running down the street from afar, and the monster was riding a warrior with a sword on its back, and in the blink of an eye, it leaped past the three of them, and soon disappeared into the street.
"It's a wind beast, and it's good at leaping and running! Most of the wild wind beasts are domesticated and reproduced, and their ferocity and ability are much inferior to those of wild wind beasts! Do you want to catch one for you to play with. The Night Corpse slowed down and said with a smile.
Bian Yao snorted and ignored him. Then he turned his head and pulled He Qingyin, and asked, "Are you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry, are you hungry?" He Qingyin smiled and said softly.
"Hey~ I'm hungry! Bian Yao took two steps and rushed forward to parallel with the night corpse.
"Although it tastes good and you can eat enough, you won't be tired of eating those melons and fruits all day long?
Bian Yao and He Qingyin didn't say a word after hearing this, the two glanced at each other, and then followed behind the night corpse with anticipation on their faces, and their steps couldn't help but be a little faster.
Not long after, the three of them stopped in front of a building, and the night corpse looked up to see a few words written on the plaque - "Mixiang Restaurant". It is a sake restaurant that serves only white rice and drinks brewed in the traditional way.
There are two types of restaurants on the Dream Immortal Continent. The first only sells rice and wine, which can be entered by both ordinary people and cultivators, while the second only accepts cultivators, and only serves all kinds of food that is beneficial to the cultivation of the realm. Mainly some strange melons and spirit fruits that enhance physical fitness and replenish spiritual power, such as the Bixiang Fruit, which is necessary for low-level dream cultivators, and the "True Luo Fruit" that can improve and enhance the physical quality. However, many cultivators on the Dream Immortal Continent were particularly interested in rice and ordinary liquor brewed in the traditional way! In the entire Dream Immortal Continent, there was only one plain away from Huaizhou, where rice could grow, and the land of the Dream Nation could not produce this kind of food. As for the wine made by mortals, although it did not have the slightest benefit for cultivators, the kind of wine made purely from ordinary raw materials was very fragrant!
"A jug of wine, and three bowls of rice. The night corpse took the visitor to find an empty table and sat down, and then said to the guys in the restaurant.
The guy shuddered at the sight of the night corpse's face. I thought to myself, "This person seems to have crawled out of some grave, that face looks lifeless at all, but he is still leading two fresh and lovely children, it can't be a man-eating ghost, right?"
Although I usually like to eat children with fine skin and tender meat, I don't eat less people like you, if you don't want to be eaten by me, you can serve Lao Tzu a good meal and drink it, and don't use those useless thoughts. ”
The man's face turned pale with shock, and he didn't dare to think too much in his head. Although he was only a mortal, he also knew that after the dream cultivator cultivated to the dream master, he would be able to transmit the words to other people's minds, and he had not encountered this kind of thing uncommonly. Sometimes the guests will send what they are going to say directly into their heads, but they can't know what they are thinking. But now that guest can hear, or read, what is going on in his mind, this is too terrifying! Those who can do this are extremely powerful cultivators, and he has never met such a high-level cultivator.
It didn't take much time for the man to bring up the wine and rice on a tray, and he looked trembling, and he didn't dare to look at the night corpse with his eyes until he left.
To be honest, this fragrant white rice can be regarded as a luxury food in Dream Country, after all, it is transported from the Huaizhou Plain in the neighboring country, which is thousands of miles away from Dream Country, and there are many dangers on the way.
In Dream Country, ordinary people can't afford to eat rice.
Don't talk about eating, Bian Yao and He Qingyin have grown to such a big size, but they haven't even seen rice. The two of them stared at the rice grains in the bowl with white pearls, kept snorting and watching, and forgot to eat for a while, or didn't know how to eat.
The night corpse took a sip of wine to himself, and when he saw the reactions and actions of the two, he suddenly laughed "hehe", and then picked up the bamboo chopsticks in front of him and said, "Eat like me." ”
Hearing this, Bian Yao and He Qingyin turned their heads together to look at the night corpse, the faces of the two showed a novel look, and then they picked up the chopsticks and wanted to eat according to his appearance, but they couldn't use them as smoothly as the night corpse. Bian Yao hurriedly threw the chopsticks to the side, grabbed the rice with his hand and sent it directly to his mouth, and the mouth was covered with rice grains. Seeing his appearance, He Qingyin couldn't help lowering her head and laughing softly, she was using chopsticks to pick up rice grains little by little and send them to her mouth, in the end, girls have thin skin, especially young girls.
Seeing this, the night corpse didn't say a word, squinting his eyes as usual and drinking slowly. On the table, the aroma of wine and the smell of rice are mixed together, even if you just smell it, it is a wonderful enjoyment that cannot be described.
After a while, the rice bowl in front of Bian Yao bottomed out, and there was not a grain of rice left, so he reached out and picked up the rice grains on the side of his mouth and ate them all.
"Do you dare to take a few bites?" asked the night corpse suddenly looking at Bian Yao, his eyes full of encouragement.
"What don't you dare! I'm thirsty. Bian Yao stared at the wine jug on the table, rolled his eyes, and resolutely replied.
The night corpse laughed strangely when he heard this, lifted the wine jug and poured a small half bowl into Bian Yao's empty bowl, and said, "This is a good thing! ”
"Why are you so stingy, old ghost!" Bian Yao said with some dissatisfaction as he looked at the wine in the bowl. After a few days of getting along, he was no longer afraid of the night corpses.
"Little ghost baby, this is a good thing! I'm afraid that you won't have that blessing, and then you won't be able to drink it and cry and spit it out, but it will be a waste. The Night Corpse said in a tone of lesson.
"As long as you can drink it, I can drink it!" Bian Yao replied, his eyes showing resoluteness.
"Okay! if you have a chance, Lao Tzu will fill it for you, if you drink it all, this whole pot will be given to you!" the night corpse seemed to be gaining momentum, shouting excitedly, and at the same time filling Bian Yao's bowl.
He Qingyin, who was on the side, stopped his chopsticks when he saw this, stared at Bian Yao with wide eyes, and there was a hint of worry in his clear eyes.
Bian Yao picked up the bowl with both hands and poured it to his lips, and suddenly a fragrance rushed into his nose, and he took a big sip of it.
"Hiss~" Bian Yao's tongue stretched out, and a sound came out of his mouth. The brow furrowed slightly, then stretched out, and a smile appeared on his flushed face.
"It's really a good thing! it's fragrant and spicy!" Bian Yao said as he grinned and licked his tongue, then picked up the wine bowl and drank it, a few beads of sweat were already oozing from his forehead.
"It's all yours!" the Night Corpse pushed the flask in front of Bian Yao.
Just after Bian Yao drank all the bowls of wine, the guy from before came to the table with a large jar.
The night corpse had five fingers, and a black gourd appeared out of thin air in his hand, only to hear him smile and say, "Pour all the wine into this pot." As he spoke, he put the pot on the table.
"This pot...... The ......" The man looked at the little wine gourd, his face showed a look of embarrassment, his mouth was intermittent, and he looked like he wanted to speak but didn't dare to speak.
"You just have to do it!" the Night Corpse said with a smile.
When the man heard this, as if he had been pardoned, he quickly nodded and tore open the lid of the altar, picked up the jar and poured it into the pot. The man looked into the altar in astonishment, and then at the distinctive black gourd, and for a moment he was stupid.
The black gourd somehow disappeared, and there were two more blue-green fruits on the table, which were much larger than the Bixiang Fruit, which was exactly the "Spiritual Fruit" that was not in circulation on the market! This kind of fruit contained a large amount of spiritual energy, and as long as a cultivator ate it, he could immediately replenish the lost spiritual power, so it was very popular with cultivators! However, there were not many Spiritual Fruit Trees on the Dream Immortal Continent, and most of them grew in the wilderness and dangerous places, and the Spirit Fruit was one of the several spirit fruits that were very sought-after in the cultivation world of the Dream Immortal Continent.
At this time, the guy came back to his senses, stared at the Stored Spirit Fruit on the table, and his face showed ecstasy! The guy carefully held the Stored Spirit Fruit and walked away, he knew that he had made a lot of money this time, and if the three Stored Spirit Fruits were exchanged for Dream Coins, it would be a big amount, and the boss would definitely reward himself a lot after knowing it.
There is only one kind of currency that can be circulated on the Dream Immortal Continent, and that is a coin jointly issued and recognized by the Dream Country and the Departure Country, which is called "Dream Coins". However, in reality, many times, especially transactions between monks, are almost always reached through barter, and only mortals or cultivators with very low realms will carry and use Dream Coins with them. Compared to Dream Coins, the various spirit fruits that those cultivators needed had instead become the main settlement tool, after all, more than ninety percent of the people on the Dream Immortal Continent were cultivators. Bixiang Fruit and Zhenluo Fruit are the most common and most common spirit fruits used for transaction settlement, and as for the stored spirit fruits that are rarely in circulation, they are very rare. A Stored Spirit Fruit can often be exchanged for more than 500 Bixiang Fruits or more than 1,000 True Luo Fruits, and if it is exchanged for Dream Coins, a Stored Spirit Fruit can almost be exchanged for 5,000 Dream Coins.
Bian Yao shook and drank the remaining wine in the jug, and He Qingyin also happened to eat up the rice in the bowl.
"You can go, little ghost. The night corpse stood up and said with a smile at Bian Yao, who was flushed.
Bian Yao got up and followed behind the night corpse, staggered a few steps, and suddenly rushed under his feet and hit his waist. He Qingyin hurriedly stepped forward to hold Bian Yao, and then snickered at the corners of his mouth. In this way, the girl couldn't help but giggle Bian Yao followed behind the night corpse out of the restaurant and came to the street again.
"Yes, yes, yes, and you can lift your feet, and at such an age, with a girl like a flower by your side, you will definitely be blessed in the future!" said the night corpse with a smile as he turned to look at the two people who were leaning together.
After He Qingyin heard it, a trace of annoyance flashed in his eyes, but he didn't squeak, and still carefully supported Bian Yao and walked forward.
"Dead old ghost, you buy so much wine and drink it slowly, why don't you buy a few more bowls of rice for me to take away." Bian Yao kept blinking his eyes, and suddenly shouted in his mouth.
"That thing is fresh and tastes good, and it won't taste so good after a long time! The Night Corpse looked back and smiled.
Bian Yao's consciousness gradually dispersed, and he lowered his head, letting He Qingyin hold on and move forward with difficulty. After walking not far, the girl's cheeks were red with exhaustion, and beads of sweat were condensed. The night corpse didn't look back, didn't bother the two of them, and walked in front of him leisurely.
In front of an inn, the night corpse stopped, turned around and looked at Bian Yao and He Qingyin, who had fallen far away, with an intriguing smile on their faces.
There are many inns on the Dream Immortal Continent, and in all large and small cities, you can see an inn for dream cultivators to rest almost every half a mile.
Once the soul of a dream cultivator is separated, even if he does not have to sleep, he can always stay in the dream realm and cultivate on his own, but the spirit body that has not yet developed independent consciousness will be able to cultivate very slowly. Dream cultivators, especially those at the middle and lower levels, most of the time choose to find a quiet place to meditate and rest, so that the consciousness of the body can enter the dream realm and attach it to the body, so that the cultivation effect is much better, and the ascension of the realm will naturally be much faster.
The "Cloud Tourist Inn" is very large! It is the largest and most famous inn in Xuecheng County, and no one knows the forces behind it. The environment inside the inn is beautiful and quiet. Along the way, there are rockeries, green trees, grassy streams, and the guest rooms are like exquisite villas located in the garden.
He Qingyin finally helped Bian Yao into a bedroom, and then put him on the bed and covered the quilt before stopping at the side of the bed and gasping for breath.
"Little girl, your guest room is on the east side of the little ghost's room, if you want to sleep with him, I can't care about it. After the night corpse said in a strange voice, he turned and left. After listening to these words, He Qingyin's already reddened face became more and more red. After standing in front of the bed for a while, He Qingyin's breath gradually calmed down, and she stepped forward to cover Bian Yao's quilt carefully, before turning around and gently closing the door and leaving, going to her bedroom.
Night is coming soon! He Qingyin wanted to enter Bian Yao's bedroom again to check, but as soon as he walked half a foot outside the door, he was blocked by a sudden light curtain.
The guest rooms of many inns on the Dream Immortal Continent have protective barriers, and after guests enter the bedroom for a certain period of time, the protective barrier will be automatically triggered and activated, and then everyone will only be able to go out and not enter, so as to avoid harassment or invasion of guests. Of course, such inns are also very expensive, and low-level dream cultivators and ordinary people generally can't afford to live in them. Big inns like the Cloud Tourist Inn are also opened by those forces with a certain background strength.
He Qingyin felt very strange and a little scared about this, she wanted to find the night corpse, but she gave up after thinking of his terrifying face. In the end, she chose to go to the people in the inn, and only after listening to the reason explain the reason did she relax a little. Only then did she understand why the innkeeper had thrown each of them a small sign with a strange appearance, and it turned out that only with that special sign could they enter a certain room at will.
He Qingyin did not go back to his guest room, but stayed outside Bian Yao's room, waiting for him to wake up. As for the night corpse, he has not appeared since he left Bian Yao's bedroom.