Chapter 24: The Manor's Dilemma
The inner fort is composed of several parks, and the faΓ§ade of the building is separated by a patchwork and well-organized horse-head wall, which is the most common thing in the intricate but well-organized manor complex of castle manor buildings, giving people a simple and bright rhythmic beauty.
The manor is divided into several large areas, each of which is divided into countless districts, which are responsible for all kinds of functions of the entire Inner Fort Manor, stables, planting, practicing defense, cooking, and after the workshop manor, there is a spiritual field opened up by the spiritual energy in the mountainous terrain, and above the spiritual field is a lot of spiritual flowers and plants.
Even at night, these supernatural flowers and plants emit fluorescent colors because of the special elements they contain, making the castle of Qishan County glowing at night. These supernatural flowers and plants will be used as the most valuable materials for making elixir runes in the harvest season every year, and some countries and sectarian forces in the mainland are stable customers of Qishan County, and the Qishan Spirit Plantation has always been out of disputes, and it is also famous for its wealth and abundance.
Distributed in a spiritual field behind the manor, Song Zhen sowed some seeds in the bag, including "Chicken Blood Vine", "Winter Papaya", "Blood Thistle Fruit", etc., these are valuable elixir materials, and they are also indispensable ink blood for calligraphy runes, but for Dao Zun, they are all excellent and delicious foods that provide it with energy.
Sowing the seeds very carefully, Song Zhen's smooth face showed a serious and delicate demeanor under the reflection of the nearby elixir field, like the meticulous image of the proud daughter of the middle heaven of the elders of the master. Seeing that the seeds had reached a suitable soil position and provided the corresponding moisture and moisture, she then took out a bottle of Qiong Ling Liquid from her bosom and dripped a drop on the spirit field.
The pale blue wash trickled down on the soil, and Yang Ze, who had seen the cultivation elixir for the first time on the side, gradually widened his eyes. The drop of spiritual liquid produced by the essence of Heavenly Ruins Condensing Heaven and Earth was like life, and it did not spread out at all, but split those gaps into the depths of the soil and drilled into it, because the momentum was too violent, the soil actually showed a deep hole the size of a finger, and the soil that had just been sown with medicinal seeds suddenly arched like countless earthworms below, because of the violentness, it rose and fell one after another like unsettled waves.
Dao Zun on the side quickly became excited, and he could already smell the abundant aura smell. For him who is hungry, it is simply a delicious aroma.
Then the agitation of the soil gradually subsided, but countless sprouts were actually peeling through the soil and rocks from the bottom layer of the soil at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, and poked out crisp and tender buds.
Immediately, as if there was an invisible hand urging growth, the sprouts seemed to have completed the jointing growth process of nearly dozens of days in just a few quarters of an hour. Soon it was half a finger high. The soil, which was barren just now, is now covered with green seedlings, and it looks like a thin green carpet.
Song Zhen turned around at this time, wiped the slight sweat from his sideburns, and said to Yang Ze, "It's already good, don't touch this land during this period, it will only take two days at most, these elixirs can grow and mature, and they can be picked, which is enough as food for Daozun for half a month." β
"Two days!?" Yang Ze coveted the bottle of Qiong Spirit Liquid that Song Zhen put into his arms, according to Wang Wei and others, this spiritual planting field is the most famous spiritual material production area in the northeast of Changlu Country, and the materials in the thousands of acres of spiritual fields in the whole planting field are the shortest ones are mature in one year, and the longest is twenty-three years.
The maturity period of these spiritual materials is staggered, and basically there will be corresponding material output every year, but that is very little, there are twenty or thirty acres of mature spiritual materials a year, and the selling price is enough to become the economic pillar of Qishan County for a year.
The spirit gathering liquid in Song Zhen's hand only needs one drop, and it can make the field produce in two days to reach the amount that other spiritual fields can produce in a year or even several years, what a terrifying speed? If these output materials are used to sell to make money, then what rate of return should it be? If you can get this kind of good thing
Yang Ze was only afraid that he would be able to laugh out loud when he fell asleep.
Song Zhen glanced at Yang Ze, who had a strange expression, and flicked the spirit gathering liquid onion finger in his hand into the bag, obviously extremely protective of Yang Ze. Then she took out a pill from her arms and stuffed it into Daozun's bloody mouth.
Dao Zun didn't care what the side effects of this pill were, it was the body of a fierce beast, and the toxins of the pill had almost no effect on it, so it was not enough for Song Zhen to do anything on the pill, just the rich aura exuded by the pill was enough to make it salivate when it was hungry. I swallowed my tongue as soon as I curled it. But obviously its hunger was only alleviated, and it could only lie silently next to Lingtian, waiting for these sprouts to grow into edible food.
"This pill can relieve its hunger and keep it from acting aggressively, so let's deal with it for the time being. β
After Song Zhen finished everything she had to do, she ignored Yang Ze, turned around and walked back to her collapsed place in the manor, and waved her hand lazily to Yang Ze with her slender figure on her back, showing her usual attitude of being a proud woman in the sky, "I'm tired, let's rest first." The invitation of the owner, you go by yourself, don't fight the idea of running away, don't forget that Daozun is weak now, not to mention how far I can take you I have already placed a ban on you, no matter where you hide, it is very easy to find you. What's more, if I'm not happy, I can release the power of the prohibition at any time, which is enough to cause great damage to your meridians and cause serious injuries. Don't waste your time trying to figure out how to get rid of it, it's an unknowable mystery to you right now. β
"What?" Yang Ze's cold sweat suddenly oozed out. Song Zhen smiled lightly and flashed into the manor house, leaving Yang Ze in place from shock to anger. Listening to her words, she actually planted a bomb in her body that could explode at any time.
No wonder she always feels that she is being watched, and she has a faint feeling of being extremely unsteady. At the moment, Yang Ze looked inwardly at his body, and as a result, he looked back and forth seven or eight times, and he never knew where Song Zhen made a mark on his body, and his inward vision made him sweat profusely, and he was even a little discouraged.
But Yang Ze's mind moved, and secretly applied the "Vajra Phase" of the eight phases of Nirvana, and the strange thing was that when the Vajra phase was cast and he was integrated, the position of the heart immediately showed an abnormal fluctuation of qi!
This fluctuation seems to be non-existent, and the best thing is that it can absorb the true qi of the visitation, if it were not for the fact that the vajra phase condensed the qi veins of his whole body into one, so as to find out the existence that "does not belong" to his own one, he would definitely not be able to detect this abnormal fluctuation. And this abnormal fluctuation is staying in his heart very happily, and the constant arrogant fluctuations are obviously establishing some kind of mysterious and joyful connection with Song Zhen in the outside world. It's like a spy who sells out his intelligence.
Seeing that this prohibition was exposed, Yang Ze's heart was overjoyed, and he changed from the outer phase of King Kong to the inner phase of King Kong, and as soon as the internal phase of King Kong appeared, the connection between the qi at the heart and the outside world was suddenly blocked. The state that was extremely active just now immediately seemed to be tied up by five flowers, and he was shackled by the inner phase of King Kong and couldn't move.
Yang Ze didn't expect to catch the mark left by Song Zhen so easily. This led to a bold idea. If the vajra phase is able to shackle and block this prohibition, it means that there can be an interaction with the prohibition. So if at this time, he changed from the inner phase of Vajra to the outer phase of Vajra, wouldn't it be like grasping this prohibition and then throwing it out of his body?
I thought of this idea in my heart, and I was faintly excited to feel that this method was very feasible. But Yang Ze didn't do this, so as to avoid alarming Song Zhen because of the breaking of the ban, wouldn't he lose more than he gained. After all, now that he is fighting head-on, he is basically not the opponent of this Heavenly Ruins Spirit Venerable.
And Song Zhen can almost be regarded as the most powerful cultivator in the realm who has fought with him at present. Despite the Shinto Zhai Lei Donglai, despite the Xituo senior brother Yu Wenjing. But somehow, Yang Ze always felt that they were no opponents in front of Song Zhen, it was just a feeling, indescribable.
As for the four great spirit venerables of Tianxu, Song Zhen may be the shallowest cultivator among the four. In addition, there are many great elders in the Heavenly Ruins whose realm is indescribable. I didn't feel it when I was in Tianxu, only when I got out of Tianxu at this time, looking back, Yang Ze felt a chill of fear. He was able to escape from the heavenly ruins, and the fierce god beast Dao Venerable was indispensable, if he didn't have the three thousand nirvana gong, it was naturally just wishful thinking.
At this point, the little master Qing Tianhe who passed on his own set of exercises had to make Yang Ze have a little more reverence and awe for him. The Three Thousand Great Dao takes the top, what kind of genius is that Qingtianhe, who can realize this set of Nirvana exercises?
If Song Zhen, who is extremely confident, knows that she can break the ban she has set so easily, what kind of expression should she have?
Yang Ze received preferential treatment at the Qishan Spirit Plantation. The dinner was so rich that even some of the elders of the clan who were said to be rare in the castle were seated to welcome the distinguished guests. The lights are bright, and the whole castle knows that the lord of the city is feasting on distinguished guests.
Qishan County is basically a hereditary single generation, and the lord of the city, Luo Xiong, has only one house and one son. The Luo people are the most respected and prestigious clan in the local area. Luo Xiong's wife is a very gentle woman with a surname, it is said that she came from a high-ranking family in Changlu Kingdom, and after marrying into Qishan County, she married her husband and children, and has a reputation for women's virtue.
His son's name is Luoshan, more than 12 years old, with a tiger head and a tiger brain, and his eyes are quite smart. Probably in advance, he was repeatedly deterred by his parents at home and told him not to lose his manners in front of the guests, so that he was extremely curious and excited about Yang Ze. But he never dared to talk to him, and even every time he faced Yang Ze's gaze, his head turned away.
But in the end, the young man's surname made up a loophole, and he frowned and looked at Yang Ze, looking like a little adult, "That giant beast of yours, can it fly to the sky?" Father said that the real great cultivators, the mounts are all heaven and earth, and they can do anything. β
Seeing that his son didn't use honorifics to talk to Yang Ze, coupled with the rumors that the "Beast Riding Venerable" had a strange surname and was moody, it was difficult to predict whether he would offend him with an inappropriate word. Luo Xiong glared at his son fiercely, "Luo Shan, how did you talk to His Holiness, no big or small. Come over here!"
The young man originally regarded himself as a member of the little adult, and he was afraid and extremely curious about Yang Ze's identity, and when he spoke to him, he already felt that he had taken a great first step, who knew that he was reprimanded so harshly by his father in person, and he was immediately beaten back to his original form, and his self-esteem was greatly bruised, and his eyes suddenly had a splash.
"You can't come yet!"
Luo Xiong drank harshly, Luo Shan forcibly endured the grievance and turned around, but Yang Ze reached out and touched the top of his round head, waved his hand to Luo Xiong, and smiled at Luo Shan, "Giant beasts are very dangerous, but after being tamed, they are the greatest companions of mankind." Do you want to fly?"
Luo Shan was slightly stunned, his eyes were mixed with hesitation, worry and horror, and then he nodded fiercely, "Luo Shan really wants to see what it is like to fly into the sky!"
Luo Xiong immediately shouted, "Luo Shan!" Seeing Luo Shan's stubborn appearance, Luo Xiong immediately hugged Yang Ze again, "Venerable, don't care, children can't be serious when they speak." β
Yang Ze shook his head slightly and smiled, "I have the idea of climbing the height, so I climbed to the peak." There is the idea of confronting nature, so people learn to practice to overcome nature. The same desire to take off in the sky is not unrealistic, but a great goal. As he spoke, he patted Luo Shan's head again, "If you want to see what the sky is like, come with me!"
After Yang Ze finished speaking, he got up and left with a smile.
At this time, the banquet had come to an end, which was originally meant to be some idle matter, but I didn't expect this accident, and the scene was frighteningly quiet. Luo Xiong's face was cloudy, and Mrs. Luo's face was pale and she wanted to say anything but didn't dare to speak.
Luo Shan hesitated for a long time, and then followed Yang Ze's figure. Whoever dared to say half a sentence or two in the hall roared out at the moment.
Arrived at the spiritual field in the backyard where the beast was placed. I saw Yang Ze picking up Luoshan and resting on the back of the fierce beast. The fierce beast came from time to time with a dissatisfied gasp, and was patted on the head by Yang Ze, and then it was completely honest.
But the people in the Spirit Planting Field saw that everyone's face changed drastically. It is absolutely an unusual omen that the rumored tycoon-level man who kills people without blinking, is ruthless, and who has rejuvenated himself because of his practice, and who is so patient with a little boy at this moment! But who dares to say half a sentence from the side? Anyone is afraid that he will interject and ask for a sentence, and immediately make this rumored ferocious man change his face. That would be a catastrophe that they could not afford in Qishan County.
Mrs. Luo almost fainted, and pulled her husband's shirt fiercely, almost crying, "Luo Xiong, you are talking!"
Luo Xiong's face changed several times, and his extremely painful expression flashed away, so he threw off his sleeves, gritted his teeth, and said in a somewhat difficult voice, "His Holiness attaches so much importance to the mountain, this is his blessing. His Holiness is right, if the mountains yearn for him, if His Holiness is fortunate enough to take him to the sky, this cannot be said to be a great opportunity for him. β
Yang Ze then sat on Daozun, and he could feel Luo Shan's trembling on Daozun's back at this time, the temperature of Daozun's body, his mane like a steel whip, and even his body odor, this was probably the reason for this young man's fear. And what he probably fears more is the experience that will be difficult to have in the rest of his life.
Yang Ze hugged Luoshan with one hand, clamped Daozun's abdomen with his legs, and patted Daozun's neck with the other.
Dao Zun got up and rose from the ground at the moment when everyone exclaimed. Shoot high into the air.
Luo Shan gritted his teeth, his body was almost completely attached to the back of the beast, his hands were clenched to the extreme, seeing that the manor below was getting smaller and smaller, the wind was whistling in his ears, and there was a huge sense of powerlessness in the air and he would be crushed if he had no help, only to find that the real flying sky and the imagination were definitely two completely different looks.
Not to mention that Daozun also has a bit of a bad taste, flying down for a while, as if deliberately scaring him, and the teeth that he clenched finally couldn't tighten, and the screams of the upper and lower teeth fighting. But after a while, this exclamation of extreme panic and fear turned into a wild cry of extreme excitement, and even more so an incomparably happy and joyful laugh. After confirming that there would be no danger, it didn't take long for the experience of flying in the sky to drive the future manor owner crazy, and it was definitely a moment he would never forget.
After a long time, Dao respected the sky above the manor. Everyone's hearts were resting, and most of the people below almost thought that Luoshan would never come back.
With a piece of dust falling to the ground, Luo Shan seemed to have experienced the most important experience in life and was deeply imprinted into life, and rushed towards his parents who couldn't wait to share it immediately, and was only hugged by Mrs. Luo, who was in tears in surprise. I am reluctant to let go.
Luo Shan danced and told Luo Xiong and others about his journey in the sky, ignoring the frightened looks of the people around him. Then he ran towards Yang Ze in two or three steps, bowed respectfully, and said in a respectful manner, "Thank you, Your Excellency, I will definitely become a cultivator like you in the future." β
Facing Luoshan's clear eyes that only children have, without any impurities and no half of the competition for fame and fortune, and the kind of smile that he lost for a long time and couldn't get back, Yang Ze was inexplicably touched. Secretly determined, no matter who tried to destroy this tranquil manor, he would not be able to stand idly by
He Luo Xiong walked on the ridge of the manor Lingtian, the manor is on a higher terrain, so that he can take a look at the spirit plant field below the slope here, Luo Shan played with the spirit plant people in the distance, and sometimes there was a hearty laughter. Yang Ze knew that the lord of this plantation had something to say, so he walked side by side with him. Luo Xiong thanked Yang Zeken for bending down and taking his son to the sky for the experience, but he stopped talking.
Yang Ze smiled and said, "The lord of Yi hasn't told me yet why everyone in the Spirit Plantation Farm looked like they were facing a great enemy before. β
Luo Xiong sighed and said, "It is precisely because I know the deeds of Venerable in the past, and I understand that you must have your own plans when you come out of the mountain again this time, so I don't want to disturb you." Since His Holiness asked, then I can only tell you the truth. The shipments and supplies of my Qishan Plantation over the years are all in the southwest of the old Donglu, Donglu Shuguo, Longyangjun of Lu State, Zhao Sikong of Shenguo, and even Daye Country, all of which are the customers of my Qishan Plantation. However, this situation was interrupted for a time as the Great Ye Kingdom fell into war. Even the way I supplied to Lu Guo and Shen Guo is now impassable, and I still have several good hands in Qishan County who are responsible for escorting, so there is no return. But what can I do, I can only blame Qishan County for the unfavorable years. β
"The Great Ye Kingdom is in a heavy siege, and it is okay if the materials cannot be delivered, could it be that the other two countries have also been implicated because of this?" Yang Ze frowned.
Luo Xiong shook his head, "It's not like that, it's that my Spirit Plantation has received a clear warning and threat, and it is not allowed to send these materials to several countries in the Eastern Continent, because Lu Guo and Shen Guo are secretly collecting various batches of materials to fund Daye." We have been explicitly warned not to ship to these countries. Not only that, but the several corresponding spiritual material production areas in the Central Continent that I know, and their way to the Eastern Continent, have also been warned and sealed. β
"The countries besieging Daye in the Eastern Continent are so domineering, they can actually stretch out their hands to your Changlu Kingdom?" Yang Ze couldn't hide a slight anger in his tone.
Not really. The country that fought against Da Ye was not an empire after all, and it did not have such energy. It is the Orthodox sect forces in the Middle Continent that warn us. β
Seeing Yang Ze's astonishment, Luo Xiong sighed again and said, "His Holiness doesn't know that since you fought with the Dongzheng Yinguang ** King, the power of the Orthodox Sect in the Middle Continent has developed extremely rapidly, and the Great Sect of the Orthodox Sect in the Central Continent has been established. In the past ten years, the Orthodox teachings preached by the Great Sect have blossomed everywhere, and there has been a large-scale purge of infidels, and sometimes it is even stronger and bloodier than the army of the country. It can be said that the Orthodox Church has penetrated the central continent. His Holiness was defeated more than ten years ago, which caused the reputation of Hitachi to fall to the bottom, and the Orthodox Church took advantage of the opportunity to expand its influence. Nowadays, the people of the Orthodox Church are in the country of Changlu, and their prestige is extremely high, and they are arrogant, and they dare not provoke idlers. β
I saw Yang Ze's face like a flat lake. Luo Xiong, who originally thought that he would be furious, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Among the Changlu Kingdom, the Orthodox Sect is most famous for two people, one is the "Night Crying Ghost" Ao Chong. The other is the "Three-Pronged Mage" Kuro. The former slaughtered 3,000 heretics in one night, causing the mountains to cry at night, and was called "night weeping ghosts". The latter is accustomed to using a demon subduing trident, and there are countless famous masters who have fallen into his hands, and they are even more ruthless than the previous one. Both of them are the right and left hands of the Orthodox Sect in front of the seat of the suzerain of the Zhonglu Great Sect, "King Tongtianfa" Yuli. The cultivation is extremely high, and the furnace is perfect. β
Luo Xiong took a deep breath, "The two of them have been responsible for slaughtering the heretics in the central part of the country in recent years, and they have countless killing karma on their hands. As a result, there are some big cities nearby, but if the two of them are nearby, everyone will be closed and empty alleys. The color of the conversation changed and I Qishan County, just a few days ago, the carriages and horses sent to Lu and Shen were looted overnight, and even several masters of the escort were killed in different places. Soon after this news was transmitted, the entire Qishan County was shaken. β
"Because my Qishan Spirit Plantation is famous far and wide, I am known for my strength, not to mention, I do business the most dedicatedly, and I will never be contaminated in the disputes of this world. I really can't predict who did this. Not long after, we received a warning from the "Three-Horned Mage" Kuro, warning us not to send goods to Shenlu and Liangguo. We only found out that it was the Orthodox Sect that did this."
But in vain, in the face of the Great Orthodox Sect and even the Orthodox Church in the four holy places in the east, the spiritual planting field can only endure grief and indignation, do we dare to seek justice from them? In the face of these behemoths, we can only endure humiliation and burden, and this is the way to survive. β
(To be continued)