readx;? From Jinling City to the north, along the northern avenue of the Sanctuary to about 27,000 miles away, the plain terrain in the central area of the Sanctuary no longer exists, replaced by a continuous stream of barren mountains and hills. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info interesting is that this barren mountains and hills are more than thousands of miles from east to west, but there are only more than 300 miles from north to south, and the whole mountain area looks like a giant dragon lying in the north of the holy area from afar, and it is more like a natural barrier that runs across the east and west, blocking the central area of the holy area and the northern frontier area of the holy area, and people call it 'North Ridge'.

With the help of heaven's will, the emperors of the Sacred Domain used this Beiling Ridge, which stretches thousands of miles from east to west, as the dividing line between the center of the Sacred Domain and the northern frontier. The south of the North Ridge belongs to the central area of the Holy Domain, the central place lives the vast majority of the people of the Holy Domain, the population is very dense, and the terrain of the entire central area is relatively flat, so the cities are numerous, each city is prosperous, each city is in charge of the city affairs by a city lord, and the city lord is appointed by the emperor himself to facilitate the rule, some large cities such as Jinling City, etc., will be attached to dozens or even hundreds of villages around it. And such as Wenyang City, Closed City, and Western Imperial City, all belong to the central part of the holy area, so they are all bounded by the city, and each of them develops and prospers.

The north of Beiling belongs to the northern Xinjiang zone of the holy region, and the entire northern Xinjiang area is vast and sparsely populated, and the people are mostly nomadic tribes or villages with the same surname, such as the eighteen tribes of the Zhuowolf Grassland in those years. There is no such thing as a city here, and then there is no longer the position of city lord in the entire northern frontier, and the northern frontier is not divided into land, but the emperor will hand over all the huge northern frontier to be governed by a local government. Although there are 100,000 border guards in the northern frontier, the frontier battalion has no right to interfere in the political affairs of northern Xinjiang, so the highest mansion that really governs northern Xinjiang is the legendary Northern Frontier Guard Mansion, which is also the place where Lu Yifan and Lan Chen are going to take up their posts on this trip.

In addition to the wilderness to the north of the North Ridge, there is a grassland, and the location of the Zhuo Wolf Grassland is at the northernmost point of the entire Northern Frontier, close to the boundary between the Holy Domain and the Beast Domain, the 'Ten Thousand Miles of Ice Field'. Even the location of the border camp is in the south of the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, which is why the powerhouses of the Beast Domain can be unaware when they enter the Zhuo Wolf Grassland.

Although Beiling is far from being as majestic as Wenyang Mountain or Xihuang Mountain in the southwest, it is famous for the entire sacred land because of the large number of hills. And the normally flat Northern Avenue moves forward here, and the terrain becomes extremely steep.

It is at the junction of the north and south of the North Ridge, the intersection of the power of the Emperor Zhili and the Border Guard Mansion, but over time it has formed a place of three regards, and this place is a lonely city standing in the barren mountains and mountains, which is called "Night City".

In fact, Night City is not a city in the strict sense of the word, because the name of this place is not left in the roster of the Sanctuary City. Compared with a city, Night City is more like a living gathering place for people in the North Ridge area, originally just a dozen villages and tribes in the North Ridge, but then somehow gradually integrated together, and chose the most gentle valley among the mountains of the North Ridge, and built a city by force. As for who came up with the name "Night City" and why it was called it? Even the local people who live in it today can't say why.

Night City is a little famous in the Northridge area, and it has a history of two or three hundred years, but no one can say whether it has become two hundred years or three hundred years. Legend has it that at the beginning of the establishment of Night City, the number of people was only a few thousand, and the courtyards of houses were no more than a few hundred. Today, Night City has become a large city with hundreds of thousands of people. Legend has it that many sinners from other places fled here, praying to be the king of the mountains in the North Ridge, but after entering the Night City, they were somehow educated to become good people, and the people of the Night City lived and worked in peace and contentment, and for a time they lived much more comfortably and peacefully than many cities in the central area. Such strange phenomena have even been heard of by Lu Yifan, Lan Chen and others in Jinling City.

Although Night City is cozy, Northridge is not peaceful. Night City is not located on the Northern Path, but in a valley thirty miles west of the Northern Path. Therefore, unless it is a caravan escorting goods or a large number of soldiers, who dare to take a detour into the night city in the mountains with a large number of people to rest, ordinary passers-by will rarely make a special trip to the night city to rest, and even if they are in a hurry, most of them will rush through the main road without stopping for a moment. There are two reasons for this, one is because from the Northern Avenue into the Night City, although the road is not too far, but because of the terrain you need to bypass the barren mountains and mountains, especially in the middle will pass through a few 'a line of sky' like remote canyons, and in these canyons there are often bandits and troubles so it is not peaceful, on the contrary, it is very dangerous, passers-by generally do not dare to take danger easily. The second is because although the legend of Night City is very peaceful, after all, it belongs to a wild city that does not care about it, and the danger of it is not known, so most people have the mentality that more is better than less, and they will not risk themselves to see if Night City is as peaceful as the legend.

In any case, Northridge Night City is far away from the center of the Sanctuary after all, and the surrounding barren mountains and hills are all around, and the terrain is very treacherous, and this place is still shrouded in a veil of mystery for most people. Even the Emperor has no time to meddle in the governance of such a barren mountain and remote mountain, after all, Night City has been developed for so many years, although it is a wild city, but after all, there has been no big trouble, and the Emperor Ling naturally turned a blind eye and just acted as if nothing happened.

North Ridge is the dividing line between the north and south of the holy area, and it is also the dividing line between prosperity and loneliness.

And looking at the entire North Ridge, there is only one city like Night City now.

Starting from Jinling City to the land of Beiling, a distance of 27,000 miles, Lu Yifan and Lan Chen were tired by the convoy, so the speed was not fast, even if they rarely stopped day and night, they had walked for nearly five months one after the other, and in these five months, the two parties had little communication, as for Lu Yifan and Lan Chen, they had not even said a word in the past five months. Lan Chen has always wanted to find a chance to surpass Lu Yifan, but Lu Yifan and his party are more diligent than him, sometimes Lan Chen has the intention of resting, but Lu Yifan and his party are still hurrying up, if it weren't for Lan Chen's temper and temperament that can't allow him to lose to others, I'm afraid that their team would have been left away by Lu Yifan and others. Now that he can still follow closely, it is enough to show that Lanchen's patience and resilience should not be underestimated.

Just after noon, the scorching sun is on the head, and the hot flashes of this North Ridge in the middle of summer are even more unbearable, not to mention the hot and humid, and the snakes, insects, rats and ants that come out of the jungle from time to time are also very disgusting. Some of the Wenyang warriors were even infected with malaria by the mosquito bites here in North Ridge, and the sudden vomiting and diarrhea also seriously affected the speed of the convoy.

Yin Xi, who was shirtless and sweaty, was busy going back and forth between the front and back of the convoy, checking the condition of every carriage and every Wenyang warrior, trying not to delay the speed of progress because of these small things. Liu Sandao and Xie Yun were sitting together in the middle carriage, holding a horse whip and setting up the carriage slowly, and they controlled the speed very slowly, in order to avoid any big bumps in the carriage on the rugged mountain road, because in the interior of this carriage, Yifan was meditating and cultivating.

At this moment, Lu Yifan quietly closed his eyes and recuperated in the carriage, since he had broken through the realm of the three reincarnations of souls in the month since he set off, he had broken through his cultivation again in the carriage ten days ago. During this period of time, he has been consolidating the soul power in his body, due to the bumpy road all day long, there is no time and opportunity for him to calm down and retreat, so his cultivation improvement speed in the past five months is the slowest since the Heavenly Grace Competition, but if he says it, it is enough to make people's jaws drop, five months to break through two realms in succession, and become a four-turn soul spirit in one fell swoop, this kind of achievement is only afraid that no one can beat it in today's holy realm!

It's just that Lu Yifan is not satisfied with the rapid improvement of his cultivation, after all, he can have the blood of the Immortal Divine Clan flowing in his body, and his talent and qualifications are far beyond those of the Five Domains, so how can he demand himself from the eyes of ordinary people?

And one more important thing, which has always been a knot in Lu Yifan's heart, is about the grade of his soul punishment technique. When he received Heavenly Grace, Impermanence once said that soul punishment is not a divine exercise, because it cannot be classified by the world like other exercises. And the soul only has four different realms that belong to it, that is, "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang" The realm, when Lu Yifan first came into contact with the soul master, he was at the yellow level, and now several years have passed, Lu Yifan has also grown from the little soul disciple at the beginning to a four-turn soul spirit, but the realm of the soul is still unchanged, and it still stays above the yellow level, which makes Lu Yifan very distressed, because when he blindly improves his realm, he doesn't know where to cultivate and improve the realm of the soul, and now Lu Yifan has an inexplicable expectation and desire for the higher realm of the soul that Impermanence said back then。

Because in Lu Yifan's mind, the original impermanence of the words always echoed: "When you raise the Soul Punishment Technique to the earth-level realm, your cultivation will be enough to be proud of the Five Domains!"

I believe that for any martial artist in the world, such words will make him have a heartfelt pursuit.

"How can the soul be elevated to the realm?" Lu Yifan sat in the carriage, opened his eyes slightly, and suddenly two rays of light shot out of his eyes, and at the same time, on his chest hidden under his clothes, the lifelike purple butterfly birthmark also faintly flashed a burst of light.

The convoy marched in the North Ridge with a "gurgle", while Lu Yifan was frowning and muttering to himself: "I knew that I would have asked Mr. Yan for advice at the Holy Soul Academy, after all, he is the only person I have seen who has heard of the Soul Punishment Technique." ”

"Yifan, are you awake?" Liu Sandao, who was outside the carriage, was the first to hear Lu Yifan's self-talk, and then asked with a light smile, "If you wake up, you might as well come out to breathe, the miasma in the North Ridge is swirling, humid and stuffy, I'm afraid you will be suffocated if you stay in the carriage for a long time!"

"I'm fine!" Lu Yifan gently lifted the curtain, and saw that Liu Sandao had rolled up his sleeves high at this moment, revealing two thick and strong bronze arms that looked exceptionally strong, "I seem to have heard someone wailing just now, what happened?"

"The hot flashes are unstoppable, and if you don't adapt to the water and soil, you will naturally have more evil diseases!" Xie Yun on the side explained, "Since entering this North Ridge in the morning, I feel that the heavens and the earth seem to have been frozen, and I can't hear the slightest wind at the end of the day, plus the heat is unstoppable at noon, and the miasma in the mountains and forests makes many of our brothers unable to resist, and it is inevitable that there will be a few wails when vomiting and diarrhea!"

"Hehe, our people are not bad, look at the team of people and horses behind, I'm afraid there are not many people who still have the strength to stand and walk!" Liu Sandao said and jokingly pointed at Lan Chen's convoy following behind with a horsewhip.

"Can we go out of this North Ridge today?" Lu Yifan nodded slightly, his eyes cautiously looked around the surrounding mountains and forests, and then looked at the scorching sun at the head, and couldn't help but show a trace of worry between his eyebrows.

"It is estimated that it can't, the north and south of the North Mountains are three hundred miles longitudinal and horizontal, and at our current speed, I am afraid that it will take more than two days to walk......"

"Your Excellency!"

Before Xie Yun finished speaking, Yin Xi with an eager face ran towards Lu Yifan's carriage sweating profusely, and said to Lu Yifan: "Brothers are getting sick more and more, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that the convoy will not be able to move an inch, I don't know what the adults plan to do?"

"This kind of weather is really not suitable for traveling, and now that there are more and more sick people, if we don't find a place to recuperate, I'm afraid that only a few of us will be able to reach the Border Guard Mansion alive in the end!" Xie Yun said worriedly.

"Isn't it rumored that there is a night city in the North Ridge?" Lu Yifan's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he asked loudly, "How far is the night city from here?"

"If what I expected is right, it should only be thirty or forty miles!" Yin Xi wiped the sweat on his face with his big hand, and looked back and forth before replying, "If we hurry up, we should be able to arrive before dark!"

"Okay, then let's go to Night City tonight to settle down! It's not too late to recuperate for two days and let the brothers recover from their illnesses before they go on the road!" Lu Yifan nodded and said, then raised his eyebrows, and instructed Yin Xi lightly, "First send two people to explore the road in the direction of Night City, and then you go to the convoy behind, talk to Lan Chen about our plans, and tell them my suggestion, after leaving Beiling, there will be no place to stay, if the evil disease is too late to be cured, it will definitely damage his life, let Lan Chen think twice!"

"Yes!" Yin happily agreed, and then hurried away.

"Yifan, Lan Chen is against you everywhere. Liu Sandao sneered, "He likes to be strong, so let him continue to be strong, why do you care about him?"

"I don't care about him, I'm afraid that if his people all die here, won't all the baggage items he was responsible for transporting to the Border Guard Mansion be cut off here?" Lu Yifan said with a light smile, "Don't forget, we are going to the Border Guard Mansion on an errand, of course we have to treat the things of the Border Guard Mansion as our own! Let's go!"

After saying this, Lu Yifan withdrew his hand and lowered the curtain of the carriage, and sat back in the carriage. Liu Sandao and Xie Yun looked at each other and smiled, and then the two of them rode their horses and whips, urging the carriage to rush in the direction of Night City.

As for Lan Chen, although he wanted to take this opportunity to surpass Lu Yifan, under the persuasion of Hai Lao and Sanchun, he finally overcame his impulse with reason, and finally decided to let the convoy follow Lu Yifan and them to the Night City to settle down.

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