Travels in the Western Continent Chapter 46 Leaving the Ghost Country

Cheng Xiu poured Han Nuo a glass of wine first, then handed it to him and poured himself another full glass. At this time, Cheng Xiu's temples were whiter than two years ago, and there were a few more wrinkles on his face. Although the lifespan of the foundation can reach 200 years after the foundation is built, it is not impossible for people to grow old. Cheng Xiu's appearance is obviously faster than others.

Han Nuo looked at Cheng Xiu's appearance and was glad that he didn't shave when he came. In Xiao Yan's house, Yu Nian called him a beard, which made him remember it for a long time. Originally, I said that I would shave when I went home, but I suddenly came to Chengxiu's house and forgot about it.

Han Nuo and Cheng Xiu talked about many interesting things about living in this city over a drink, and Cheng Xiu was mainly talking.

Cheng Xiu talked about how he applied for a job at a talisman workshop in the city, but he was disgusted that his talisman making skills were too poor, so he was hired as a guard. In that workshop, Cheng Xiu secretly learned this screen printing technique, and then began to prepare materials after returning home from duty. So they gradually started this business at home, and although the printed talismans were not in good condition, they could eventually feed the whole family.

And Su Yi shared some interesting stories with Han Nuo, saying that when he first moved here, there were always some people who didn't know what to do to harass him, but he was slapped a few times by himself, and then gradually no one dared to come here. When Han Nuo heard this, he looked at Cheng Xiu unkindly and smiled. Obviously, Cheng Xiu understands the taste of the slap very well. Even if he ate the Yan Changing Pill, he was still an adult Chinese New Year's Eve fork inside, and even an ordinary foundation building cultivator couldn't take a few slaps.

And this is also the origin of the old three peach, thanks to the blessing of the god peach tree, every spring when the plain clothes will be particularly arrogant, and Cheng Xiu has to cooperate because he is afraid of being slapped. As a result, in the spring of the second year when the group arrived here, the little peach took shape.

Little Peach's appearance is more like a Yaksha, if it weren't for those neighbors who were slapped, it is estimated that outsiders would think that Naruyu was hatted by a Yaksha. So Cheng Xiu cried and begged Han Nuo to give him another Yan Changing Pill through the strength of the wine, and Han Nuo gave it to him with a forced smile.

Early the next morning, Cheng Xiu went to work. Han Nuo pulled him and said that he spent money to buy him for a day, and Cheng Xiu said that it was not cost-effective and he would be deducted from full attendance. So Han Nuo returned to the Seven Flame Cave after leaving two storage bags for Su Yi.

After returning to the Seven Flame Caves, Han Nuo spent another three years refining the ore waste he got from Xiao Yan into the second form of the magic weapon, the fighter form. The main material for building this fighter was changed from cloud silk gold stone to purple garnet gold stone, not because the material was better, but because it was easier to obtain.

And the business in the Seven Flame Caves over the years has allowed him to accumulate a net worth of hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. In order to make it easier to carry, he went to Anyu City and exchanged it for thousands of mid-level spirit stones.

Of course, during the years of living in the Seven Flame Caves, some other things had happened around Han Nuo.

Due to Han Nuo's booming business and his frequent rejection of low-level jobs, some people gradually deliberately moved to the vicinity of his shop. And the female cultivator who deliberately embarrassed him when it opened, was forced to transfer the shop after a certain day, and it is said that she was squeezed out by some unsightly means. Although this woman had asked Han Nuo for help, Han Nuo finally refused on the principle that more is better than less. However, when the nun left the city, Han Nuo quietly gave her a Tsukidan, which can be regarded as offsetting the guilt of not being able to draw a sword to help.

On this day, Han Nuo was just about to close the stall, but he sensed the aura of the cloud silk gold thread on Cheng Xiu's body appearing nearby. He immediately let go of his divine sense and searched, and found that Cheng Xiu appeared in the Qiyan Cave with a family of four. He immediately prepared a table of sumptuous wine and food, leaned on a Taishi chair and waited for a few people to arrive.

It didn't take long for Cheng Xiu and his party to appear at the door of the store, and this time Cheng Xiu looked more energetic. It turned out that Han Nuo sealed thousands of spirit stones for Cheng Xiu that day, and left him some methods to improve the screen printing process, which directly led him to quickly set up his own talisman workshop, and even later acquired the place where he once worked.

Sometimes people are like this, the poorer they are, the more they can't save their faces to meet their friends, but when their lives get better, they remember to get together with their friends. And the atmosphere of this dinner party was obviously much better than the last time, Cheng Xiu talked to Han Nuo about many ideas on how to develop and grow his career, and Han Nuo coped with it with a smile.

"I'm going to leave the Ghost Country and go to Ichimoku Country." After sending Cheng Xiu to the ground, Han Nuo suddenly said to Cheng Xiu.

Cheng Xiu was obviously stunned for a moment, he looked in the direction of Andu City in distraction, turned his head and asked Han Nuo, "When?" Which way to go? Can you help me prepare a magic weapon that can carry a child? Han Nuo nodded and went back underground.

After Han Nuo returned, he transferred the shop to a new Qi Refiner who had arrived in the city at a low price. This person came to the Seven Flame Cave with a sum of spirit stones that he had just sold his business, and was going to earn more spirit stones by refining them, and then use those spirit stones to purchase medicinal materials and pills. If one day you can successfully build the foundation, you can enter Anfeng City to find a well-paid job, or you can continue to march to the lower floors of the Seven Flame Caves.

For a period of time after that, Han Nuo stayed in Xiao Yan's house until Cheng Xiu came with the news. Before leaving, Han Nuo left Yu Nian some pills that the foundation building cultivators needed for cultivation.

The group met outside the city on June 15, and they were still preparing to travel on motorcycles. However, there is an extra ball with a translucent cover behind Han Nuo's motorcycle, and Cheng Tao can sit in the ball in reverse, and through the translucent cover, the person behind can clearly see the child's every move.

This is the final plan that the family came up with through heated discussions, and at first Cheng Xiu wanted to put the ball behind his magic weapon, but everyone was not at ease. Only then did Han Nuo take Cheng He and Cheng Tao to the front, and Cheng Xiu took his wife and daughter to follow behind. And everyone agreed not to be too fast, to maintain a steady speed to move forward.

The direction of their march was to the southeast. There is an underground market that belongs to the Shen family, and it is exclusively for trading with the Ichimoku side. The rules of Shen Yu's two families are very strange, and people in their respective families cannot enter their respective markets, which is why Yu Yun couldn't directly enter Yimoku through this underground market in the first place. At this time, Yu Yun was not there, and the group of them could go directly from here.

The trip was more than 3,000 miles long, with eight towns and cities on the way. Because he was already familiar with the reason for the ghost country, Han Nuo just used these towns as a place to stay, and he didn't make any extra stays, after all, there was nothing worth buying here.

After walking for less than ten days, the group came to the last town called Red Blood Ridge in front of the underground market. Generally speaking, the towns that can be called ridges in the ghost country are very large, and the permanent population can reach one or two million. However, when Han Nuo and the others entered the town, they found that it was only slightly larger than Aoki's throat.

They settled at the only inn here, and when they chatted with the innkeeper, they learned that the name of the Red Blood Ridge came from the mountain on the ground. Legend has it that a hundred years ago, the Oni Kingdom and the Ichimoku Kingdom fought a great battle here, and the mountains here were dyed red.

However, Han Nuo does not believe in this kind of legend, after all, he has been coaxed by a triangular scarf story since he was a child. He could see that there was a special mineral in this mountain range, which gave it such a vein character. So after the rest of the people had rested, he went outside by himself.

As he tugged at the soil on the ground at the edge of the town, a strange smell came to him. Han Nuo was shocked, and immediately released the Ten Thousand Sword Technique behind him. Seeing Han Nuo like this, that breath actually stopped in place. "Han Daoyou, it's me."

Han Nuo turned his head and saw that it was Yu Yun, who was coming, and immediately accepted the spell. "Second Miss escaped after all?"

"What do you mean by escaping? I'm coming out in the open. Yu Yun said with a grin.

"And what are you going to do?" Han Nuo scratched his head, Yu Yun's addition may cause the group's route to change, after all, Yu Yun can't enter the Shen family's underground market.

"Are you planning to go to the Shen family's underground market, and then go to that country by sea?" Yu Yun asked Han Nuo.

"Could it be that Miss Second has a better plan?"

"It's not that my plan is good, but there must be something wrong with yours." Yu Yun scanned the surroundings with her divine sense, and used the sound transmission technique to talk to Han Nuo. "Whether it's the Shen family's underground market or our Yu family's underground market, it's only guarded by the Zhuji monk, do you think I'm a Jindan monk who can't be fooled?"

"Then why can't you go out to sea from that underground market?" Han Nuo asked.

"Of course there's something in the sea." Yu Yun glanced at Han Nuo and explained to Han Nuo why he was only waiting for Han Nuo and his party in the abandoned port.

Originally, after the ghost country was locked down, although all countries banned contact with the ghost country on the surface, they all secretly traded in the underground market. After all, the high profits made all countries very tempted, and all the pills that flowed into the ghost country were some low-grade pills, so they were not worried about the ghost country growing stronger.

Therefore, thousands of ghost people entered the sea through two underground markets at one time, and they wandered back and forth on the border like ants moving, and this phenomenon attracted some high-level demon clans in the sea, after all, the ghost pill is a great supplement for the demon clan.

Among them, at the junction of the Ichimoku country and the ghost country, is a group of Lingyu clan. They are very sensitive to the smell of the ghost people, and once a ghost people pass by, they will be caught by them nine times out of ten. And at the junction of the ghost kingdom and the yaksha clan, there is a giant crab. The giant crab was so big that it could make waves, and after knocking all the people who passed it into the sea, it stretched out some thin tentacles and swept them into the mouth.

Therefore, when sailing along the coast of the ghost country, the most important thing is that there must be no ghost qi on the body. Therefore, whether it is the Yaksha clan or the Ichimoku country, they will choose to use a mortal fleet that has not been cultivated for transportation. But after Han Nuo and the others arrived in the Ghost Country, they did not pass quickly, but stayed in the Ghost Country for several years, so when they entered the sea from those underground markets, they would inevitably be attacked.

Hearing this, Han Nuo frowned slightly. He also knew why Yu Yun could be released, after all, they couldn't leave with Yu Yun who had already been tainted with ghosts.

"But Miss Ben has another way to go, would you like to try?" Yu Yun saw that Han Nuo had already understood the situation, so he proposed his own plan.

"You're not trying to say that there's a land route to Ichimoku Province, are you?" Han Nuo looked at Yu Yun, Yu Yun blinked and nodded, and told Han Nuo another story.

It turns out that there was indeed a great battle in the Red Blood Ridge many years ago, and Ichimoku sent a force of about 30,000 people to launch a surprise attack on the Oni Country through an underground passage in the Ersu Mountain. The surprise attack was launched at night, and due to the suddenness of the incident, the Oni Kingdom suffered huge losses, and all the inhabitants of the Red Blood Ridge at that time were forced to join the war. The battle lasted all night, and the Oni Country lost more than 30,000 people, while the Ichimoku lost just over 10,000 people.

The road that Yu Yun said was the underground passage that the army of the Ichimoku country took back then.