CHAPTER XXIII

"What?" Lin Xin and Wang Chong were a little puzzled.

"My exercises have a strong sense of ability," Xiao Lingling swallowed her saliva, "That woman's internal qi is at least a hundred times more than that of the three of us combined!!"

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Wang Chong gasped.

Lin Xin's face also changed a little.

"This is not the place we can come. Let's go!"

"Yes!"

The three of them hurried away. Walking in the direction of the stone house getting lower and lower, as they passed through the center of the town, they saw the huge stone tablet stuck upside down in the ground, densely covered with words.

A few people occasionally stopped in front of him to watch, and then left in a hurry.

The three of them stepped forward to observe.

I saw that the map of the whole town was densely drawn on it.

The map is a standard square, with a two-story stone house on the left, getting shorter and farther to the right, and farther away from the river. There are also several small circles on the side, some marked with the word bazaar, and some are divided into standard miscellaneous halls.

Here's the daily schedule.

Every other month, there is a preaching festival, and the senior brothers and sisters who have the Qi refining period give lectures on the Dharma and solve their doubts.

There is also a place marked with the words "Qi Huang Hand", which is obviously a place for medical care.

In addition, there are fields, vegetable fields, and woodlands for firewood. It's all in the mountains near the town, a bit far away.

The characters on it are all written in traditional Chinese, and they don't seem to be commonly used, and Lin Xin doesn't know it. Fortunately, Xiao Lingling has a very good foundation and recited it to the two.

When the three of them looked at the stele, Xiao Lingling's recitation also attracted two newcomers who seemed to be newcomers. However, the two had no intention of communicating with them, and after listening to the recitation, they left directly.

"Let's go to the worst stone house first. Lin Xin had a steady personality and proposed.

The two had no objection.

They didn't take a few steps with their baggage in their hands when they met a group of five people walking towards them.

The woman in the front was carrying a rough heavy sword, staring at the three of them with a grim face.

"Newcomer, sure enough!"

The woman's bangs hung down to cover the right side of her face, and she was dressed in a gray and black tight silk dress, looking like a female ninja.

The rest of the people with her were also dressed in similar attire, including men and women, and they all looked at the three of them like little sheep.

"Hand over all your rations. The tip of the epee woman's sword drooped down and struck on the ground.

Lin Xin's faces tightened.

"Why should we give you something?" said Wang Chong.

"If you can beat us, you can go, but if you can't beat us, you can stay. The epee woman said lightly.

"You're not afraid of the door rules?!" Wang Chong's face was obviously a little flustered.

Xiao Lingling's face was also a little pale, obviously neither of them had much actual combat.

"Door rules?" the men couldn't help but laugh.

A man draws his sword.

"There are no rules on the door that you can't rob people. ”

Lin Xin looked around left and right, and the other people around the stone monument either pretended not to see it, or stood aside to watch the excitement.

A man dressed as a rich man in white walked out of the other side of the path with several people at this time, and when he saw this scene, the boy sneered and shook the pale yellow folding fan in his hand.

"This Zheng Xiuqin is still so unproductive, how good it is to follow Wu Lianda honestly, and being a spiritual slave for five years can be exchanged for the right to live in the best stone houses. It's better than grabbing new rations here. ”

Among the five women that Wu Lianda fancied in the outer district, she had a strong temperament. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been supported until now. The other shook his head and answered.

"That's right. Let's go, the task matters. ”

The rich boy put away the folding fan, led a few people past the stone monument, and walked straight out of the town.

Here, Lin Xin and the three of them glanced at the number of each other, and Xiao Lingling directly sensed that the cultivation of these people in front of them was much stronger than the three of them.

Xiao Lingling and the two were unreliable, but they were unwilling to hand over the rations like this, and Lin Xinzhi slowly touched the hilt of the sword.

"Want to do it?" the woman sneered, "It seems that she is unwilling." ”

Qiang!!

Lin Xin suddenly drew his sword, and a Songyang needle came out of his hand, drawing three points of white light and stabbing at the woman.

Boom!

The three-point white light had just floated out not far before it was swept away by the woman with a sword, like a broom sweeping away the dust of leaves.

When Lin Xin's internal strength burst out, he was violently interrupted, the long sword was put aside, and his chest suddenly tightened, and there seemed to be a trace of stinging pain in his heart that flashed.

The skill gap is too big!

"Something for you!" he threw the burden in his hand without hesitation.

The woman caught the burden and looked at Xiao Lingling and Wang Chong, these two people had extremely ugly faces, hesitated, and finally threw the burden over.

"The first layer of return to the original trick dares to do it, not bad. The woman glanced at Lin Xin.

"I just wanted to try the gap. Lin Xin shook his head, "Are you good here?" he asked.

"Awesome?" the woman laughed dumbly, a hint of resentment flashing through the corners of her eyes.

"Listening to the outer districts of the Sword Valley, I am only the one hundred and forty-third in the outer districts, and there are more than six hundred people in the entire outer districts. Do you think I'm great?"

She quickly asked her subordinates to take out the contents of the baggage, checked it, took out a wooden bottle and brought it to about two-thirds, and put the wooden bottle back in.

Then she actually threw the burden back to the three of them.

Lin Xin snapped the burden, and looked at the other party with some astonishment, it is natural for the weak to eat the strong, he had already admitted it, but what did it mean that the other party threw it back?

"I'll leave you with a day's rations, and go to the outer area early to find a stone house to live in. The woman turned and led the people away.

Lin Xin and the three of them could only stand in place and watch each other leave.

"I am one hundred and forty-three Zheng Xiuqin, and the three of you are welcome to seek revenge from me at any time. The woman actually said her name out loud.

Lin Xin's face was expressionless, watching the other party leave completely, while Wang Chong was full of grievances, Xiao Lingling's face was ugly, an eldest lady like her, it is estimated that it is the first time she has been bullied so nakedly since she was a child.

"We're just too weak. Lin Xin said in a low voice, "Hurry up and find a place to live." ”

Wang Chong and the two didn't speak, the three of them were all at the first level of the Guiyuan Jue, and they had no power to resist at all in the face of Zheng Xiuqin and others at least the second layer or even the third layer.

Hurriedly leaving the stele area, the three of them rushed towards the stone house area that was getting shorter and rougher, and gradually there were more and more people on the road, some of them started fighting directly in the open space, and the entanglement was inseparable, and there were still a few people standing around pointing and pointing.

Some of them got together, as if they were waiting for someone to arrive and prepare to do something together.

They also saw that in addition to Zheng Xiuqin's group, there was another black-haired fat man with a group of people who were robbing others.

The rest of the people seemed to be accustomed to it, and the atmosphere in the whole town was strange, and from time to time bloodstained swordsmen could be seen staggering into the stone houses. There were also neatly dressed people who rushed out of the stone house and rushed away.

The number of stone houses also increased from dozens to hundreds, then two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, and five hundred. Up to the six hundred area.

Almost at the very edge of the town, beyond that is a lush mountain forest, from which crow-like birds chirp from time to time.

Finally, the three of them found some vacant stone houses at the outermost edge.

The three of them chose three rooms next to each other, which were 670, 671, and 672.

Lin Xin's house is at No. 670, it is just a small single room with a length and width of less than three meters, it can't be smaller, and there is a wooden bed in it that can't be broken anymore, but it looks so rotten that it is about to fall apart.

Except for the open bed, there was nothing inside, Lin Xin sighed, directly carried the rotten bed and threw it out, and broke a large fork of trees from the woods as a broom, and swept the stone room, which was barely able to live in people.

At this time, Wang Chong and Xiao Lingling finished cleaning the stone room respectively, and then quickly went back to practice and regulate their internal qi.

After what happened just now, both of them obviously had a desire for strength, and began to seize every minute to get up.

Lin Xin shook his head, and his eyes burned towards the mist-shrouded mountain, where the white stone steps stretched out. It is also the place where the real inner sect of the Pine Forest Sword Sect is located, and it is the place where the official disciples live and live.

"Is the immortal path immortal? it's really magical" As soon as he thought that he could have the opportunity to come into contact with this legendary realm as an ordinary person, he couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart.

Although his qualifications are not good, he has special abilities, as long as he succeeds once, he can learn it, maybe he can go to the market here first, and see if he can find some ways to play his strengths.

Deep in the pine forest sword pie mountain range

"The Demon Dao is rampant, and the appearance of a strange treasure in the Yuan Kingdom under the jurisdiction of the Plum Blossom Sect may be an opportunity for us to wait for the righteous path. ”

Under the gray sky, on an earthy yellow cliff, stood a young Taoist leader, he looked at the sky in front of him, there was nothing, but his expression was extremely respectful.

"This matter is put aside for the time being, the Golden Jade Sect is making every effort to collect materials and herbs and refine the Golden Jade Flower Spiritual Pill, you go to the Golden Jade Sect and ask for two spiritual pills for me. An old voice suddenly came from the air, echoing over the cliff.

The disciple went immediately. The Taoist chief bowed his head and answered.

Outside the deserted gray and white stone wall, a small row of stone houses lined up side by side, facing the stone wall.

Some of the stone houses are empty, and some are hung at the door with some cloth shop signs, both yellow and red, with black traditional characters faintly on the top.

The streets were unusually deserted, with only the occasional few people coming out of the shops and hurrying back to the town, or leaving in the direction of the hill outside the town. There were also only one or twenty people hanging out on the streets.

One of the slightly larger shops has a black flag hanging on the stone pillar outside the door, which reads: Yuguang Zhai.

There are all kinds of messy miscellaneous items in the store, flowers and green, black, yellow, red and white, all colors, as large as palm-sized shells, gourds more than half a person high, as small as small eggs like copper coins, and some strangely shaped bronze utensils.

The pile of things that could not fit in the store was placed directly on the two steps outside the store.

Behind the counter sat a middle-aged woman in a white hat, dressed in a long red dress, with a waist and legs as thick as a bucket. is sipping melon seeds on the side.

"Wu Niang, haven't you bought any new goods in Fu Gong recently?, why are they still these old things?" said a male swordsman walking around the store.

"Recently, there have been fewer things sent out inside, and I guess there are not many raw materials this time, and I can't either. The fat woman said lazily.

"What about the formation, there is not a complete array of evil punishments, just two and a half remnants. Another outer disciple who appeared to be a couple complained.

Wu Niang was about to speak, when she saw a young man dressed as a chivalrous man walk in at the door of the store.

The man was dressed in brown and black leather, and strangely, a belt was tied around his waist, and in the middle was a large skull. The white skeleton was hollow, and the surface bone seemed to glow blue.

"Bone Heart Sword Zhuang Gongzi, why do you have time to come to my small shop today?" Wu Niang suddenly stood up with a smile, except for the counter, and greeted people attentively.

"The tenth-ranked Bone Sword in the Inner District?!"

When the rest of the people in the store heard the Bone Heart Sword, their faces suddenly changed slightly, and they all gave up a vacant seat, lest they avoid it.

There were two people who didn't want to cause trouble, and they left the store directly and took the first step, and Fat Wu Niang didn't care.