Chapter 10: Uninvited Guests
Qin Zhen strolled through the streets of Yangping City, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar environment on the street, and couldn't help but feel a little in a trance.
Ye Yousheng took the repurchased map, sometimes lowered his head to study it carefully, sometimes raised his head to compare with the surrounding environment, and fell behind Qin Zhen.
Every time she walked to a fork in the road, Qin Zhen would stop, and when she heard Ye Yousheng's voice behind her: "Senior sister, go to the left." Or, "Senior sister, this time to the right." She just started again.
It was the time when the "Battle of Geniuses" was held, so there were many monks in Yangping City during the Qi refining period and the foundation building period, and it seemed that the spacious streets were a little crowded on weekdays.
Ye Yousheng memorized the rest of the route, put away the map, caught up with Qin Hao, and followed her closely to prevent himself from getting separated from Qin Hao.
Qin Zhen glanced at him, his eyes lingering on his serious face for a moment, and then quickly retracted.
"It's almost there." Ye Yousheng thought that Qin Zhen had felt that it had been too long, "It's just ahead...... That's a lot of people! ”
Qin Hao followed his words and looked ahead, and sure enough, he saw a long line of black pressure, from the starting point where he couldn't see the source to their side.
Next to the long line, there were a few monks shouting something.
Seeing Qin Zhen and Ye Yousheng coming over, the monk who was in charge of shouting at the end of the team came over: "Two fellow Daoists, do you want to come and see the ancient monument of our Yangping City?" There are cultivation impressions left by the predecessors of the major sects on it, and now looking at it, only five spirit stones are needed for one person. ”
"Doesn't it mean that as long as you are a sect disciple under the Six Dao Alliance, you can go in directly to observe?" Ye Yousheng wondered.
"Ahem." The monk cleared his throat unnaturally, "It's a special time now, so many monks are gathered in Yangping City, so maintaining order also requires our help, and it is very reasonable to collect a little spirit stone as a reward." ”
It seems to make some sense.
Ye Yousheng went to see Qin Zhen and waited for her to make a decision.
"Is there any way to go straight to the monument without queuing?" Qin Zhen asked.
The monk's eyes lit up, and there was an expression on his face, "Daoist, you really know how to do it": "Yes, yes, of course." As long as each person gives a hundred spirit stones, they can go directly to observe the ancient monument from our exclusive passage. ”
Ye Yousheng opened his mouth wide in surprise: "Do you want to multiply it twenty times?" ”
The monk sighed: "No way, it's not easy for us." ”
Qin Zhen touched the storage bag in his arms, and there were still eight hundred spirit stones left in it.
She had planned to use them to buy some items, and there were still many destroyed houses in the sect that needed to be repaired. But this is the place where Ye Yousheng took the initiative for the first time to say that he wanted to go.
After pondering for a while, Qin Zhen still moved his fingers, and threw a small bag containing two hundred spirit stones at the monk: "Take us over." ”
The monk smiled and took the spirit stone, didn't count the number, and stuffed it directly into his arms, and then said mysteriously: "Two fellow Daoists, come with me." ”
The two followed behind the monk, Ye Yousheng looked uneasy, and leaned next to Qin Hao and whispered, "Senior sister, does our sect really have so much money?" ”
He mentioned before that he wanted to come over to see that he just found a more famous place casually, in order to make his reason for staying with his senior sister a little longer more convincing, so now he didn't think about Qin Zhen in the direction of satisfying his wishes.
Qin Zhen thought that he was worried about the sect and wanted to wronged himself, so he rubbed his head: "Don't worry, since Senior Sister said that Ah Sheng would take the initiative to bring it up if she said what Ah Sheng wanted, she would not break her word." ”
Ye Yousheng was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to turn the corner, and finally understood what Qin Zhen meant.
He opened his mouth to explain that he wasn't really interested in the monument. But with Qin Zhen's gentle eyes, he was still not willing to pierce this beautiful misunderstanding.
The monk led them into a nondescript shop on the side of the street.
As soon as I walked inside, the walls were covered with all kinds of swords, knives, and other weapons.
"It's just a cover-up," the monk explained, "and the real point is still there. ”
As he spoke, he made a seal with one hand and tapped it on the wall.
A "ding" sounded, and a blue teleportation array slowly emerged from the wall.
"If you enter from here, you can teleport directly to the ancient monument." The monk withdrew his hand, "In Xiaqiu Sixian, the two Daoists can also come to me if they want to go directly to the place in the future, I can cheaper here than the teleportation array of the Six Dao Alliance." ”
"I remember, the Six Dao Alliance has a rule that doesn't allow private teleportation arrays to collect fees?" Qin Zhen looked at Qiu Sixian.
Qiu Sixian smiled proudly: "The regulations are the regulations, anyway, these sect masters of Xingzhou will not come to check by themselves, and those people in the law enforcement team are also tendons, so they can't find it at all." ”
As he spoke, he suddenly looked at Qin Hao and Ye Yousheng vigilantly: "You guys won't come here to talk, right?" ”
As a member of the sect master of the Xingzhou Immortal Cultivation Sect, Qin Hao did not have the slightest idea of maintaining the Six Dao Alliance. She looked at Qiu Sixian encouragingly: "How come, you are doing a good job, I think Xingzhou just wants more people like you." ”
"I think so." Qiu Sixian sighed, "If you don't use such a good way to make money in front of you, it's just a tyrannical thing." ”
"Can you teleport to another state here?" Qin Hao asked.
"Not yet, the farthest can only be teleported to the border of Xingzhou. If you want to cross one state, you have to find a way to get the protective formation of other states, which is too troublesome. Qiu Sixian shook his head.
Qin Zhen thought for a moment and took out the communication jade handle: "If you don't mind, change the contact information." We'll get back to you later if we need to use the teleportation array. ”
"Howler!" Qiu Sixian took out his communication jade handle and lightly touched Qin Zhen's jade handle, "I don't know what to call your friend?" ”
"Qin Zhen."
"Qin Daoyou, come often in the future!" Qiu Sixian was satisfied with Qin Zhen's contact information.
Qin Zhen only nodded, and stepped into the teleportation formation with Ye Yousheng.
A blue light flashed in front of them, and when they opened their eyes again, the two of them were already under a towering tree, and the thick trunk of the tree obscured their figures.
Ye Yousheng was puzzled: "Senior sister, why is he so confident that we are not members of the law enforcement team?" ”
Just now, if they had a little bad intentions, they could have reported it to the Six Dao Alliance, and asked the law enforcement team to come and cordon off the store and send Qiu Sixian to the judgment table.
"Maybe he still has a backhand." Qin Hao said simply.
Under the nose of the Six Dao Alliance, the teleportation array has not been discovered, either his formation has been cultivated to the point of perfection, or he is protected by someone in the Six Dao Alliance.
Either way, Qin Hao had no reason to deliberately offend him.
Moreover, what he just said also inspired her-
"It's a terrible thing to use such a good way to make money."
Anyway, Qin Hao didn't plan to honestly abide by every rule of the Six Dao Alliance, so if he wanted to earn more spirit stones, he could naturally take advantage of the loopholes under the regulations.
Ye Yousheng saw that Qin Hao didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask again, but he was very disappointed in his heart.
He wanted his sister to feel that he was a useful person, not just protected. But Senior Sister would never talk to him about these things, and she wouldn't mention to him about the things that Tianyi Sect didn't deal with other sects in Xingzhou.
She can discuss these things with Heng Mingzhi, and she may also talk about these things with the so-called "acquaintance" of Qianyuanzong, even Qiu Sixian, who she met just now, if she has the opportunity, Ye Yousheng has no doubt that Senior Sister will choose to cooperate with him.
But he ...... Only he was excluded from these people.
Complicated emotions flashed from the bottom of his heart, but secretly fell a seed somewhere, Ye Yousheng raised his head again, still with that simple appearance: "Senior sister, those are ancient monuments." ”
It's a gray space.
The huge ancient tree where they were hiding was located in a corner of the space, and occasionally other monks passed by it, but they didn't seem to be aware of their presence for some kind of shielding.
In the middle of this space, there are countless ancient monuments of different sizes, which look very ordinary, there is nothing special, and most of the monks who come here are looking for opportunities.
They often come in with excitement and anticipation, and end up leaving in frustration.
Qin Zhen and Ye Yousheng found an opportunity when no one was passing by and walked out from behind the ancient tree.
The feeling of being shielded disappeared in an instant as they stepped out. Like the other monks who came here, they naturally looked in front of each ancient monument, and from time to time they saw something of interest and stopped.
Qin Hao actually didn't have much interest in these, there were indeed some seniors' perceptions of cultivation on them, but most of them were related to the use of magic weapons during battle.
She had the restriction of a black jade bracelet on her right hand, and whenever she picked up something and wanted to attack, the bracelet would tighten and snuggle deeper into her flesh and bones. As for the left hand, as early as when she was a child, she was injured because she did not practice swords, and she can no longer hold a sword.
Qin Hao could only spend more time on other means such as formations and talismans in an attempt to make up for it.
But Ye Yousheng is a sword cultivator, and these should still be very useful to him. Qin Zhen glanced at Ye Yousheng, who was seriously observing the ancient monument, did not disturb him, and quietly walked away.
The further you go to the edge, the more scattered the monuments become, but there are fewer monks visiting the same.
Qin Zhen picked an ancient monument that no one looked at, and walked over to be quiet.
She looked at the contents engraved on the ancient tablet with a pastime attitude, and sure enough, it was something completely unrelated to cultivation, and it was no wonder that no one wanted to waste time here.
There is a story written on the ancient monument.
There was once a little boy who didn't want to talk or talk to anyone. In order to make him happy, his parents worked hard to catch a bird with the most beautiful song in legend.
The bird was kept in a cage.
It doesn't sing anymore, and all it makes every day is an endless cry of sorrow.
The little boy liked the bird very much, but he ended up secretly letting it go.
Before leaving, the bird took off his most beautiful tail feather and gave it to the little boy.
But in the end it did not escape the pursuit of the little boy's parents, and it was so badly injured that its eyes could not see, its throat that cried day and night could not make a sound, and its once proud wings could no longer flap.
It fell from a great height.
No one knows if it survived, but no one needed it anymore.
Only the little boy still had the tail feathers, waiting for the little bird to come back to him.
……
What kind of alternative story is this? It can't be that some senior mixed up the bedtime story he told his child, right?
Qin Zhen didn't look at the ancient monument again.
She was so tired and needed a break now.
There are so many things I have experienced in one day today, both physically and mentally exhausted. I hope Ah Sheng can see slowly, otherwise when he finds out that she is not around, he will keep sending messages to find her.
Qin Zhen leaned against the ancient monument and closed her eyes slightly.
But her dream didn't come, and a deep voice came from above her head.
"Did you like the story too?"