Fourteen. The flow of people is dispersed, and the formation is the source
On this day, Xu Yu arrived very early, and he stood at the entrance of the market at dawn. There are already a large number of scattered cultivation teams gathered here, collecting medicine, mining, and exploring in the wild......
Xu Yu even saw a familiar face in a small team, it was Lao Song who lived next door to him.
The old man was carrying a bamboo basket and a pickaxe, and was laughing with five or six of his peers, and next to him stood two loose cultivators with arms and cold faces, carrying bows and arrows, thick-backed machetes, etc., and at first glance they were monks who were engaged in battle.
Old man Song was talking happily, but he didn't notice Xu Yu's gaze, and Xu Yu didn't mean to come forward to talk to him.
After waiting for a while, the teams of workers who were mining and collecting medicine walked several batches, and only then did they continue to push the bases high, and the carts covered by black cloth gathered from all directions, and they were divided into several teams of different sizes, which were the merchant teams such as Xu Yu.
Perhaps in order to avoid the rush hour, these caravans assembled a little later than the field workers.
He picked a medium-sized caravan and stepped forward.
The leader of the group was a man with a long scar on his face, wearing leather armor, carrying a bow and arrow, and a long knife.
Seeing the young man come forward, he just glanced at it coldly and stopped paying attention.
At a glance, he roughly judged the intention of the visitor, which was nothing more than to follow the team to Honghefang.
It is not difficult for them to entrain a few people to go together, and there is such an unspoken rule as a partner fee, and the extra money will benefit the entire caravan, as long as there are not too many irrelevant people, which will lead to a higher risk in the field, and no member will complain.
Xu Yu also had a good understanding of the middle door before he came, and asked politely:
"What do you call a fellow Daoist?"
"Gong Wan."
"I don't know how to bill when I go to Honghefang?"
This scar-faced Gong Wan obviously brought people more than once, he held a long cigarette between his fingers, took a puff, and spit out a series of rules:
"With the team to go back and forth with a piece of lower grade spirit stone, including two meals, a single trip of three hours, the team will stay in Honghefang for three to five days, and it will not wait. I can't add anyone to this trip, so I'm going to wait here at this time next week. ”
Between the two squares, there is a common dense forest in the southwest region, and there is only one bluestone slab road built by the Yuhua Immortal Palace with great magical powers, which is more than 100 miles long.
The road is flat enough for some talisman vehicles or carriages to gallop on it, but most of these merchants are running errands for the top, and most of them are bitter haha, how can they have the money to support the talisman horses.
Therefore, they all choose to walk.
As for flying in the air, there are few people who are not supernatural people.
For no other reason, it is too extravagant.
Breathing in the aura is supposed to incorporate a lot of filth, and it is consumed on the road, and the cost performance is really too low.
In addition, there are treacherous things in the wild, and even the Yuhua Immortal Palace can't count how many treacherous things are hidden under its rule, and it's not uncommon to encounter a few flying ones.
Therefore, even the monks of the Qi Refining Realm have the means to float for a short time, and they are rarely used in the wild.
After the cultivators brought the oxen and horses pulling the carts from the carriage and horse shop outside the workshop, tied them to the freight carts, and made all preparations, the caravan went away with the sound of the brass bells shaking and clanging.
Xu Yu waited for several teams in succession and confirmed the general market, just as Scarface said, if he is not an acquaintance, he can only book a week in advance with the team, and he can't come to the trip as soon as he goes.
The asking price of the partner fee is generally between one or two low-grade spirit stones, and the asking price will be higher for large teams transporting bulk ore goods because they rely on the large number of combatants.
The price given by Gong Wan at the head can be regarded as more conscientious.
After confirming the itinerary, in the next week, Xu Yu was relieved to refine the evil pill and sell it, plus the surplus income from the past month, a total of seven lower-grade spirit stones were saved.
In the early morning of a week later, with the burden made of animal skins, wrapped in rod scales and Lingshuang, and brought the spirit stone book, Xu Yu joined Gong Wan's team with almost all his worth, and embarked on the journey to Honghefang.
The whole team has ten people who are loading and unloading and driving loose repairs, and the repairs are all skin and flesh sections.
Five combat loose cultivators, of which Gong Wan is the marrow washing section, and the rest of the flesh and blood section, the three muscles and bones section, and the three people of the muscles and bones section are each in charge of the front, middle and back three carriages, and Gong Wan and the flesh and blood section are flexible and flexible.
Thanks to the opening of the spirit stone, Xu Yu was arranged in the center of the team, if it weren't for the ambush of the team and being cut off by the waist, this position can be said to be the safest.
In addition to him, there was another person in the team, a middle-aged casual cultivator with a weathered face.
However, he had sharp eyes, and first recognized this person as having occasionally met a few times in the herb shop he frequented.
After asking, I learned that the other party was the nephew of the old woman in the pharmacy, and she was going to buy a batch of medicinal materials in Honghefang to replenish the inventory of the pharmacy.
After chatting a few words, the middle-aged man relaxed his expression under Xu Yu's many just right smiles, and the conversation became stronger.
Xu Yu called this kind of dialogue a compliment, no need to say anything, as long as he kept an interested appearance and responded positively, he could give the other party a psychological hint, so that he thought that this conversation was very comfortable for both parties, and he was naturally willing to say more.
Middle-aged casual cultivator Dong Cheng has run on this road no less than ten times, but he can be regarded as a veteran in this area, and it is more than enough to talk to Xu Yu, a guy who has never been out of the city.
Talking all the way, it feels like the 100-mile journey has been shortened a lot.
After traveling a hundred miles in three hours, even the physical strength of the monk in the flesh section was a little unbearable, but fortunately, there was a break in the middle, and the meal included in the itinerary was also solved at this time, but the taste was nothing to praise.
The big steamed buns made of the four Linggu, with air-dried meat and broth poured into a water bladder, are not so bad that they can't be swallowed, but they are still much worse than the ones he cooked in the Dan furnace, mainly to replenish physical energy.
encountered a few sporadic treacherous attacks along the way, but they were all killed by Gong Wan and the rest of the scattered cultivators without danger.
Most of them are guys who can't see people at all, crawling on all fours, and exuding evil aura all over their bodies, so there is no need to repeat them.
Suddenly, the female wall on the periphery of Honghefang came into view.
From a distance, you can see a long queue at the entrance of the market surrounded by the outer wall, and two casual cultivators are stuck at the gate and one individual collects the entrance fee.
Seeing Xu Yu looking at the long team with some puzzled eyes, Dong Cheng smiled slightly: "Little Brother Xu, do you know how Honghe Fang is different from my Tianlei Fang?" ”
"I only know that the development of Honghefang is far better than my Tianleifang, but I don't know what it is, if my brother can tell me, I should be willing to hear the details."
"Haha, it's easy to say, it's not secret news."
Dong Cheng smiled and said:
"The difference lies in the protection level of the two, Honghefang has three medium-sized formations to guard, namely the Red Flame Burning Mountain Array, the Mountain and River Annihilation Array, and the Yimu Gathering Spirit Array.
"Among them, the Red Flame Burning Mountain Array is the main killing, and it can spit out seventy-seven and forty-nine high-temperature spiritual fires one after another. In terms of this array alone, my Heavenly Thunder Fang also has a Heavenly Sky Thunder Array, which is composed of thirteen formation bases, which can blast out thirty-six Heavenly Thunders in a row, which is comparable to it.
"And the difference is in the latter two formations, one of the two guards the city, refusing to worship the treacherous and evil; One is to gather spiritual energy and assist cultivators to exhale, which are all benefits that ordinary casual cultivators can't think of.
"So, if you have a little strength, you will naturally choose to settle in Honghefang, which is more secure in terms of safety and cultivation."