He Wen'an, who looked sad, did not notice Ma Xie, but curled up in the thick leather coat, numbly watching the work of his subordinates.

At this time, Ma Xie and the others walked to the checkpoint, and the soldiers there did not recognize Ma Xie and stretched out their hands to block Ma Xie's way.

"Take out the pass and register here, people who are not residents of Stone City are not allowed to enter. A soldier said mechanically.

Ma Xie didn't have a pass somewhere, but he took out the token of the "Wings of Stone City" and showed it to the soldier.

"Can this be used as a pass?"

The soldier thought that some people with two small coins wanted to use the silver to fool around, and just as he was about to open his mouth, he found that the circus was not holding silver, but a piece of black jade - "Black Stone Order"!

Seeing the Black Stone Order, the soldier hurriedly saluted and said loudly: "Welcome the Wings of Stone City back to the city!"

The eyes of the people around them suddenly gathered here, most of them were residents of Stone City, and naturally knew the meaning of "Wings of Stone City", that was the envoy of the city lord, and he could represent Stone City with full authority outside!

Ma Xie didn't expect this token to provoke such a big reaction, he originally just thought that these soldiers should recognize this token from the Stone City Lord, so they wouldn't stop him.

At this time, He Wen'an was woken up by the noise, and he looked up to see that it was Ma Xie standing at the front of the checkpoint with the "Black Stone Order".

"Let go, let go! That's your own person!" He Wen'an shouted to the soldier as he ran over.

"Brother Ma, you're back!" He Wen'an said a little excitedly, "I knew you would come back!"

As he spoke, he grabbed Ma Xie's arm and dragged him inside.

"Brother He, I still have a few friends!" Ma Xie said to He Qian'an.

"Okay, let go, are you blind? This is a friend of Master Ma!" He Wen'an shouted at the soldiers, and then led the group to a tent that he had built improvise.

"It's a mess! it's a mess!" Before Ma Xie could speak, He Wen'an spit out bitter water to Ma Xie.

It turned out that since the news of the strange treasure broke out, a large number of cultivators poured into the northern Shicheng generation of the Jin Kingdom, and the three major sects joined forces to block these cultivators from the formation they had built, and no casual cultivators were allowed to enter.

And many mortal martial artists who like to join in the fun have gathered here again, and the three major sects really don't have the energy to pay attention to these mortals, so they can only entrust the stone city lord to set up a checkpoint and keep these mortals out, after all, so many people suddenly appeared in stone city, whether it was food or water source, it caused a lot of pressure on stone city.

"Damn, there must be someone behind this! So many people are pouring into Stone City like refugees, and we're running out of water. Fortunately, the city lord made a decisive decision to drive away all these irrelevant people! Otherwise, we Shicheng would not be able to survive the winter, and if there was a shortage of food in Shicheng Heguang Wolf City, Xiqin would definitely take action. He Wen'an said.

Although He Wen'an was a mortal, his mind was not as bad as that of a cultivator, and when a large number of mortals poured into the north, He Wen'an immediately felt that something was wrong.

Although many martial artists came here to try their luck, what were those powerless mortals doing here? Wherever they went, the cultivators would not pay attention to them, but the people of Stone City He Guang Wolf City suffered greatly.

Millions of people walked within the confines of these two small cities in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom, and in less than a month they were almost empty.

He Wen'an was deeply disturbed when he saw this situation, if this was to start a war, these homeless people would become the biggest burden on the Jin Kingdom!

"What is the blessing of getting a strange treasure, most of these people are here to make trouble! I always feel that there must be someone behind this to promote this matter, there are heaven and earth treasures born every day in this continent, I have never seen so many mortals care about this, including myself, you are ten strange treasures at my feet, I will not ask for it!" He Wen'an said heresy to Ma.

He Wen'an is not wrong at all to be worried, now the relationship between the Jin State and the Qin State is tense, and only the northern trade route is unimpeded, if the things that support these strange treasures are mixed into a large number of fine works, then the Jin State will be passive in the future war.

Therefore, Shi Dang immediately made a decision, and concentrated all the strength of Shicheng to "invite" those who were not not Shicheng out, although this move caused a lot of dissatisfaction, especially those merchants, and was met with great resistance, but with the support of the three major sects, it was also implemented.

And He Qian'an is mainly responsible for preventing people from continuing to infiltrate Shicheng, which is a chore, he has been guarding various checkpoints for more than a month, although there are still many people who bypass the checkpoints and blend in, but those people can no longer become a big climate.

"How is the city now? I heard that the three major sects are very strong, do you have any embarrassment for the stone city lord?" Ma Xie asked.

"It's not embarrassing, it's just that in the matter of the strange treasure, the city lord really doesn't have much right to speak. The three major sects plus one Divine Machine Gate all want to share a little more in the secret realm where the treasure is located, they definitely don't like the city lord to get involved, it's just that this is the city lord's private territory, so they have to let the city lord join. You know that in our Stone City, there are not many cultivators, and the city lord originally just wanted to prevent the situation from falling out of his control, so he found a few casual cultivators, and he didn't have much thought about the strange treasures. But just a few days ago, the King of Jin suddenly sent an envoy over, and brought a few loose cultivators over to assist the city lord to participate in the competition for the treasure. ”

"The envoy of the King of Jin, and a few loose cultivators, which means that the Lord of the Stone City is going to fight for the treasure for the King of Jin this time?"

He Wen'an nodded and said: "Yes, and the King of Jin is the task arranged for the city lord as the patriarch of the Jin royal clan this time, if it is only in the identity of the King of Jin, the city lord can still refuse, but unfortunately, the city lord, as the royal family of the Jin Kingdom, must obey the orders of the team leader - the three major sects and the four major gangs are not allowed to get the treasure!"

"What? The city lord turned out to be the royal family of the Jin Kingdom?" Ma Xie was a little surprised, although he had heard this rumor before, but this time it was He Qian'an who was sure, "But since the King of Jin has already sent a few cultivators, then why bother with the city lord? Let those few cultivators fight, we just need to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." ”

But He Wen'an still said with a sad face: "Things are not so simple. This time, the three major sects were full of talents, but the King of Jin only sent three cultivators from the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Realm to assist the city lord, and the city lord couldn't even put together a decent team. Another point, the city lord was not ready to participate in the competition for this strange treasure, but if he made a move at the last moment, he would obviously offend the three major sects, but if he didn't do his best, he would have disobeyed the order of the patriarch. The city lord can ignore King Jin, after all, this is his own fiefdom, but he has to care about the orders given by the patriarch of the royal family, otherwise he will betray his clan. ”

"If you think about it carefully, this King of Jin is really insidious, he deliberately didn't participate as the King of Jin, just because he didn't want to offend the three major sects. However, he used the identity of the patriarch to force our city lord to compete for the treasure, if he succeeded, the king of Jin would get the treasure, and our city lord offended the three northern sects; if it failed, then there would be a reason to find trouble with the city lord, after all, this was the last fief of the Jin Dynasty, and Chen Baiyang, the prime minister of the Jin Dynasty, had coveted this back cover for a long time. And the reason why King Jin only sent three people was to see if the city lord had a huge force in private—the power of cultivators. He Wen'an said.

After listening to He Qian'an's analysis, Ma Xie was shocked for a while. The things above this temple are really much more complicated than he thought, presumably the stone city lord must be very anxious at the moment, first of all, he doesn't even have enough manpower, it seems that he came at the right time. However, Ma Xie is worried that his strength is not enough, it is said that this time many elites of the three major sects have already come to Stone City, if the city lord does not have top combat power here, then relying on a small person in the third layer of the Qi Refining Realm will not play a big role.

"Brother Ma, this is really God's blessing to our Stone City Lord! It is said that there is a strange formation around that strange treasure, and only cultivators below the sixth layer of the Qi Refining Realm can enter, so King Jin only sent three monks from the fifth layer. He Wen'an said.

"This King Jin is really cunning. If the city lord casually finds a few cultivators below the sixth level of the Qi Refining Realm, it means that there must be a group of monks under his command for him to send, and if the city lord does not have monks under him, then there are only two possibilities: one is that he cannot complete the task, that is, he has not completed the task of the patriarch, and the other is to pay a great price to invite some casual cultivators, the city lord is just a mortal, if he wants to afford to invite cultivators, the price he has to pay is probably not small! This also weakens the power of Shicheng in disguise. Song Miao said.

He Wen'an looked at Ma Xie and asked, "Who is this girl...... It's really ice and snow smart. ”

Fang Cai kept talking about Shicheng, and Ma Xie had the opportunity to introduce the Song family sisters He Jinmushui and a few people, as for Yuan Wuji, Ma Xie did not introduce it for the time being, after all, he was afraid that this talking cat would scare He Wen'an.

After listening to Ma Xie talk about his experience, He Wen'an smacked his tongue, he was happy that Ma Xie had avenged Mu Xunfeng, and he was worried about Ma Xie's revenge in the future of Tianwu Sect, after all, many disciples of Wu Sect are in Shicheng today.

The topic returned to the matter on Shicheng, He Wen'an agreed with Song Miao's analysis, but Song Miao's face was flushed with shame because of her recklessness, on weekdays, she didn't dare to speak casually, but in the past few days, she got along with Ma Xie unrestrainedly, she gradually became a little more relaxed, and even said that her monarch was "cunning", which she didn't dare to imagine before.

He Wen'an and the others didn't care about this, Jin Mushui had been practicing with his master since he was a child, and he didn't know anything about mundane etiquette, in his mind, the king was just a little fat man who sat in the highest place and ate the best things, as for what use was he...... Jin Mushui didn't know either.

Ma Xie naturally not to mention, He Wen'an is a citizen of Shicheng, in his heart, only the city lord is the biggest, if someone says bad things about the city lord, he has to fight hard!

Only Song Miao consciously said bad things about the current King of Jin, and has always had palpitations, as an ordinary woman who grew up in the Jin Kingdom, the King of Jin is the most noble in their hearts!

"What the hell is wrong with me...... Song Miao thought to herself.

At this time, Song Xue'er pulled the corner of Song Miao's clothes and said, "Sister, I'm hungry......"

Yuan Wuji also yawned and said, "I'm almost hungry and faint......"

This scared He Wen'an so much that he almost fell off the stool. As soon as they came over from the horse evil, he found this guy who is not a cat and a mouse, and thought it was a hybrid breed, but he didn't expect this monster to be able to speak human words!

"Brother He, don't panic. It's just a strange beast that has been growing up in the crowd, not a monster. Ma Xie quickly explained.

He Wen'an nodded and quickly recovered.

He Wen'an, who had never seen a cultivator before, had seen too many strange people and strange things in the recent period, and those cultivators were all like immortals, which opened his eyes, calmed down his mood a little, and he accepted this strange cat.

"Brother Ma, you just returned to Shicheng today, and today is Laba, tonight must be the city lord to do the east, let's eat him well! Tomorrow I will invite you to drink a lot of wine! Recently, that Tang Feihuai is very arrogant, you are now a cultivator, the amount of alcohol must be amazing! You have to teach him a good lesson!"

Accompanied by everyone who greeted him, he came to Stone City.