"It's good to be young, unlike an old guy like me who is half buried in the ground, and even tired of drinking tea."

Xuanyuan Yu had already chased Su Zhaoqing and drifted away, leaving his master Li Youfu alone to sit on the bench while drinking tea with Cao Chuan, Yu Shengnan said: "His Royal Highness the Third Prince himself is not interested in the throne, this choice gives him enough freedom, but I don't know when he will be able to catch up with my unconscious disciple." ”

"Oh? What Master Li Youfu meant by these words..." Cao Chuan heard that Li Youfu was actually saying something, so he opened his mouth to say tentatively.

Li Youfu naturally heard the tentative meaning in Cao Chuan's words, but he didn't hide it, and said directly: "The third prince was born with a wasted body, and even being able to cultivate to the foundation building realm is constantly cultivated by relying on various heavenly and earthly treasures, but my disciple is different, his talent in cultivation is not bad, and he became the outer court teacher of the Heavenly Spirit Academy at a young age, so the gap between the two is still a little too big." ”

"But in the eyes of the younger generation, Master Li Youfu, you don't seem to think it's a problem, you still seem to be very optimistic that the two of them can come together." Cao Chuan said.

"Hehehehehe... You are indeed a smart child. Li Youfu nodded, and then continued: "Although His Royal Highness the Third Prince has no talent in cultivation, his talent in alchemy is unparalleled among his peers. ”

"So old man, I have always felt that these two children are indeed a match made in heaven, and if they can come together as soon as possible, it will be regarded as fulfilling one of my wishes, old man."

After saying this, Li Youfu had already finished drinking the tea in the cup, then got up and left the Ling Tian City Lord's Mansion with Cao Chuan and Yu Shengnan, and went to the Alchemist Association in the city.

Since Cao Chuan had shown him the four-grade Tianzhi Pill that he had refined, because the pill was perfect and the quality had reached the top, it was necessary to issue Cao Chuan clothes and tokens representing the four-grade alchemist according to the rules.

After getting the uniform and token of the fourth-grade alchemist, Cao Chuan said goodbye to Li Youfu and took Yu Shengnan back to his residence.

Anyway, visiting the Alchemist Assessment Conference was just a stopover, and now that the conference was over, the two of them naturally had to leave Ling Tiancheng and go to the Heavenly Spirit Academy.

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Following.

Cao Chuan and Yu Shengnan, who had packed their luggage, left Ling Tiancheng in the early morning when there was still a fog.

According to the guidance of the map route, the next two of them needed to go directly out of the city towards the north of Ling Tian City, leave the border of the Nanli Dynasty, and then cross a large desert to reach a vast oasis and then enter the boundary of the Heavenly Spirit Academy.

Leaving Ling Tiancheng and officially entering another world in the Southern Imperial Domain from the Nanli Dynasty, Cao Chuan and Yu Shengnan clearly felt that the monks who appeared around them were more rugged and powerful than the ones they encountered in the territory of the Nanli Dynasty.

Cao Chuan and Yu Shengnan became more cautious.

After walking to a tea stall located at the corner of the road, the two of them temporarily rested, and asked the man to bring two bowls of tea to quench their thirst.

But before he could take a sip of tea, he saw dozens of rugged men holding swords and clubs suddenly appear from the tall grass around the tea stall.

Without saying a word, these people broke into the tea stall and began to smash it, and shouted loudly to the guests drinking tea around: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave to buy road money!" If you dare not give us the face of the Crocodile Gang, let all of you fall to the ground today! ”

The names of the crocodile gang, Cao Chuan and Yu Shengnan, were occasionally heard of in the territory of the Nanli Dynasty.

It is said that all the members of this gang are mountain bandits who used to occupy the mountain and set themselves up as kings, but they were later defeated by a mysterious man and merged into the current crocodile gang.

Whether the power of the gang is strong depends on whether the strength of the gang members can allow them to suppress other forces in the local area, and the second is to see whether the gang is rich enough, otherwise the gang that can't even afford to eat has already been swallowed up by other more powerful gangs.

There are many mountain bandit gangs similar to the Crocodile Gang outside the Nanli Dynasty, but the Crocodile Gang is the strongest and richest gang among them.

But because of this, there are so many street gangsters who are not crocodiles at all who like to use the name of the crocodiles to swindle around.

This is the case with the dozens of tall and rugged men who are now appearing at the tea stalls.

When they shouted that they were members of the Crocodile Gang, some well-informed guests directly opened their mouths and scolded: "I heard that every member of the Crocodile Gang is wearing a dress made of crocodile skin, and you look at yourself, and you want to pretend to be the Crocodile Gang even in tattered clothes?" It's just ridiculous and generous! ”

"You! Do you dare to say it again? The men who had been exposed to their true identities were annoyed and angry, but at this time they stopped what they were doing, not daring to smash anything from the tea stall again.

Because they saw with their own eyes that the middle-aged man who had just scolded them took out a token wrapped in crocodile skin from his arms.

The token is also engraved with the word crocodile.

But the middle-aged man was not frightened, and then continued: "As far as you are a group of reckless men with developed limbs and simple minds, you have no chance to join the Crocodile Gang, but now you dare to pretend to be a member of the Crocodile Gang in front of me, I think you guys are really tired of being alive!" ”

"I'll count to three now, and if you don't get me out, get ready for the Gators' endless hunt!"

"Three..."

"Two..."

"Wait! Let's get out! Can't we get out of here! ”

Before the middle-aged man could count to three, the thugs disguised as the Crocodiles immediately rolled themselves into a ball, and then rolled out of the tea stall one by one.

By the time the backs of the thugs had disappeared.

The guy who was frightened just now trembled and walked to the middle-aged man's table with a bowl of tea, and asked worriedly while putting down the tea: "This big brother, are you really from the Crocodile Gang?" You're not going to charge me for the protection of this little tea stall, are you? ”

"Hahahaha!"

The middle-aged man put away the token wrapped in crocodile skin, and then laughed presumptuously: "I am indeed a member of the Crocodile Gang, but don't worry, our Crocodile Gang has a great appetite, and if you want to rob it, it must be to rob the Nanli Dynasty, a small tea stall like you is better to save worry, after all, the tea you sell for a few years is not as good as us to rob the town of the Nanli Dynasty." ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged man who had taken a sip of tea threw down a spirit stone and slowly left the tea stall, walking away along the road ahead.

The guests and men in the tea stall were still stunned and at a loss.