Chapter 212: Inquiry
Although Ling Yu came to the imperial capital for the first time, compared with the Sixiang City he had been to before, the prosperity and heritage of the imperial capital were far from being comparable to the Sixiang City. Whether it is the size of the city, the density of the population, or the prosperous scene, the imperial capital has pulled more than one level of Sixiang City. The main road of the imperial capital is about several zhang wide, and the road is straight and long, and you can't see the edge at a glance. All kinds of vendors on both sides of the road are vying to sell, welcoming customers, and bargaining is endless. There is a wide variety of goods, and everything you need is available.
Although the roads in the imperial capital are wide, there is no sense of emptiness at all, but a thriving and harmonious scene. Silk shops, restaurants, and rouge shops are lined up one after another, and the shops are full of people outside the market, and the bosses are smiling, and it seems that the business here is very good.
The streets were crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, and although it was already dusk, people were as lively as a temple fair. In the bustling crowd, there was no shortage of cultivators with sharp blades in their hands. Scholars, old people, tourists, children, all kinds of people vividly showed Ling Yu what a prosperous giant city should look like. The cultivators did not rely on cultivation to bully the weak, and the old people did not have their own age and relied on the old to sell the old, and everyone on the street was smiling and harmonious.
Ling Yu looked at the surrounding scenery while walking towards the depths of the long street unhurriedly. It was already dusk, and Ling Yu planned to rest in the city for one night first, inquire about the specific location of the Shenwu Academy, and then go to meet Xiao Hei and the three of them tomorrow.
And at this moment, a hearty shouting voice attracted Ling Yu's attention.
"Take a look, take a look, the spirit beast Neidan, the flesh and blood of the alien beast, the mortal-level weapons, the earth-level exercises, everything, don't miss it when you pass by......"
"Spirit Beast Neidan?Ground Rank Exercises?" Hearing the vendor's shout, Ling Yu's heart moved. As far as he knew, these goods should be things that only people in the cultivation can use. It stands to reason that you shouldn't just sell it on the street.
Thinking of this, Ling Yu grabbed a young man holding a long sword beside him, and asked with a smile, "This friend, I heard someone shouting about Gongfa and Neidan, what's going on?"
The cultivator who was pulled by Ling Yu was about twenty years old, and his cultivation was at the peak of the Middle Yuan Realm. The man saw that Ling Yu was also dressed as a cultivator, so he hurriedly returned the salute and replied: "Fellow Daoist, you should be a foreigner, right? This emperor is no better than other cities, our imperial monarch Qi Ao advocates martial arts, and he stipulates that in the imperial capital, cultivators' exercises and inner pills and other items can be sold on the street, and there is no need to pay any taxes and fees to the state, so there are many cultivators who set up stalls here in order to make a living. ”
"That's the case, it's really a long experience, thank you Daoyou. Ling Yu nodded and thanked him with a smile.
Saying goodbye to the cultivator, Ling Yu turned around and walked towards the stall. Coming to the stall, Ling Yu carefully looked at the cultivator named Selling and the goods on the ground.
The cultivator, who was known as the seller, was about thirty years old, with bare shoulders and dragon-like muscles. Although he is also a businessman, he does not have the cunning of a merchant in the market, and instead has the roughness and arrogance of a warrior.
Ling Yu's afterglow swept towards a few commodities on the ground, two inner pills, a book of exercises, and some food made into jerky. Those two inner pills and the food exuded wisps of essence, and they were indeed nourishing things. That exercise is called "Quick Sword Technique", and it seems that it should be the most basic sword technique. Those two Inner Pills should be the Fierce Beast Inner Pill that has been cultivated for about two hundred years, although there is some aura, but it is not as rich as the Fierce Beast Inner Pill that Ling Yu has captured. After scanning for a week, Ling Yu made sure that there were no goods here that he needed, and then turned and left.
Although there was no gain, this experience gave Ling Yu an idea, since the spirit beast inner pill could be sold, then he must also exchange the high-level inner pill for what he needed. Now that the toxins in Ling Yu's body have not been completely removed, he needs some elixir to completely remove the poison in his body, and Neidan's peddling undoubtedly pointed him out a feasible path. I originally thought that after leaving Lingjiazhuang, I wouldn't need to hunt anymore, but I didn't expect that after walking around, I still returned to the old path of my fathers.
Ling Yu shook his head self-deprecatingly and walked towards a restaurant called Haohai Pavilion in front of him.
"Xiao Er, cook me a few good dishes, warm a jar of good wine, and open me a good room, and the food will be delivered to my room. Ling Yu walked into the restaurant and instructed Xiao Er.
"Okay, wait a minute. Xiao Er diligently agreed, and then shouted upstairs: "One Tianzi box, with accommodation." After finishing speaking, Xiao Er made a gesture of please and led Ling Yu to a private room on the third floor.
Walking into the box, Ling Yu looked carefully. This box is very spacious, about four zhang wide and three zhang long. The interior of the house is very tidy, with a soft dark red carpet on the floor. In the very center of the house, there is a rosewood table of eight immortals, on which a blue and white porcelain teapot and four teacups are displayed. Looking inside, there is a large fir bed by the window. The futon on the bed is neat and clean, and it seems that no one has covered it after changing.
The shopkeeper made tea for Ling Yu, and was about to turn around and leave when Ling Yu stopped him.
"Little second brother, let me ask you something. Ling Yu smiled, took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, handed it to the shopkeeper's hand, and spoke.
"Guest officer, you said, as long as the villain knows, he must know everything and say everything. When the shopkeeper saw the broken silver, a smile on his face was a hundred times brighter than before. He took the broken silver from Ling Yu's hand and said almost flatteringly.
Seeing the smile of the shopkeeper like a treasure, Ling Yu nodded secretly, Luo Hong was right, in the world, gold and silver are much more useful than spars. Thinking of this, Ling Yu opened his mouth and said, "I have long heard that Shenwu Academy is the number one institution in our Huaxia Continent, representing the heritage and inheritance of Huaxia Continent. In this regard, I yearn for it very much and want to worship it, but because it is the first time I have come to the imperial capital, I don't know the way, so I want to ask the second brother to help point out a direction. ”
Ling Yu spoke very skillfully, for a local, although the Shenwu Academy did not belong to any country, it was a separate force, but after all, it was located in the territory of the imperial capital, after Ling Yu said this, the shopkeeper's heart was naturally full of pride, coupled with the effect of the previous piece of broken silver, Xiao Er would definitely be keen to answer his own questions.
"I see that you are a person who knows how to cultivate, let me tell you the truth, these days not only you, there are many young heroes like you who have come to us to stay and investigate, the purpose is the same as you, they all want to visit the Shenwu Academy to apprentice. ”
Sure enough, the shopkeeper accepted the money, and after Ling Yu's admiration, he completely opened the conversation. Ling Yu smiled in her eyes, waved her hand, and motioned for the shopkeeper to sit down and start from the beginning.
The shopkeeper is also a hearty person, seeing that Ling Yu is very interested in what he says, he is no longer as restrained as before. He bowed, sat down beside Ling Yu, and said as if offering a treasure: "This Divine Martial Academy is not far from here, and it is located in the Huangji Mountain outside the Imperial Capital. Huangji Mountain is the first mountain in Zhongzhou, with towering green mountains and fairy clouds. The mountain road is steep and dangerous, and the spirit animals inhabit the mountain forest. Moreover, the cultivators in this mountain are all masters of cultivation, and they are like immortals in the hearts of our people!" Speaking of this, there was a hint of yearning in the eyes of the shopkeeper.
Probably considering that Ling Yu was still beside him, the shopkeeper smiled apologetically and continued: "If you want to go to the Shenwu Academy, Shaoxia, you only need to walk fifty miles in the direction of the south of the city to reach the foot of Huangji Mountain. And Shenwu Academy is located on the top of Huangji Mountain. Shaoxia, it's a good time for you to go now, because I heard from the cultivators in the past that the Shenwu Academy seems to be openly accepting disciples, and many people are admiring it, no, it is precisely because of their presence that the business of our restaurant is so good. ”
"But ......" The shopkeeper said this, as if he remembered something, and secretly glanced at Ling Yu's expression, making a look of wanting to say something.
His expression naturally did not hide from Ling Yu, Ling Yu's expression was as usual, and he said softly: "Little Second Brother, do you have anything unspeakable? It's okay, I just asked you about the Shenwu Academy, but you said it was okay." ”
After receiving Ling Yu's answer, Xiao Er seemed to have made up his mind, and lowered his voice and said, "Shaoxia, if you just want to visit the Shenwu Academy, you can go and see it with the idea of playing." However, if you want to enter the Shenwu Academy to practice, then you must be more careful. Although the little one is just a guy running the hall, there are people coming and going these days, and I have heard some things. ”
Shopkeeper pricked up his ears and listened, and when he was sure that there was no one outside the room, he whispered: "I heard that there are many people who come to the Shenwu Academy to apprentice this time, most of them are disciples of various sects, or descendants of the Holy Land with a deep background, and their cultivation is not comparable to some small sects. I didn't mean to look down on you when I said this, it's just that I see that you are lonely, and going to the Shenwu Academy alone is at a disadvantage compared to them, so I can persuade you, if you collide with you, please forgive me. ”
The shopkeeper paused, and then said: "Moreover, I heard that it is not very peaceful at the foot of Huangji Mountain, and three people have recently appeared, a monk and two adults, and a little girl, and those two adults specially deceive the lowly solitary cultivators, and trick them into the barren mountains and wilderness to rob them. Many cultivators have suffered their losses, and I heard that the Imperial Capital Monarch and the seniors of the Shenwu Academy had encircled and suppressed them, but these two people were like loaches, very treacherous, and they all returned with several surprise attacks. So, you have to be careful. ”
Hearing the shopkeeper's statement, Ling Yu had a black line in his head. The three people mentioned by the shopkeeper, Ling Yu didn't have to guess, he knew that it was Xiao Hei and Wu Dao who were making trouble. Ling Yu already knew their character and methods. It's just that Ling Yu didn't expect that they would actually take Xuan Ling'er to do bad things together. Thinking of this, Ling Yu couldn't wait to appear at the foot of Huangji Mountain immediately, for fear that they would bring Xuan Ling'er to ruin.
"Second brother, don't worry, I'm just going to visit this Zhongzhou Holy Land, not to apprentice. As for the monk, I think, they don't dare to do anything to me!" Ling Yu said through gritted teeth while comforting the shopkeeper.
"In this case, the little one wishes you a smooth journey, you must be very tired all the way, the food will be brought to you immediately, I will not disturb your rest. "The shopkeeper was born in the market, he is a master of observing words and feelings, and seeing that Ling Yu's face is not good-looking, he hurriedly got up and retired.
It wasn't until the shopkeeper left the room that Ling Yu slapped the teacup on the table and said angrily: "If Ling'er is really damaged by you, see how I clean you up!"