In the southern district of Qingyang City, there are a total of 28 main streets, and the main streets are connected to countless small streets and alleys extending in all directions.

It covers an area second only to the eastern district where the City Lord's Mansion is located, with more than one million acres!

To put it more intuitively, it is almost equivalent to one-tenth of the Guangdong Prefecture of the earth in Zhong Yan's previous life.

And the entire Qingyang City has a population of less than one million, so at first glance, the population occupies an extremely empty area.

The reason for this is that there are many large mansions in the city that are tens, hundreds, or even thousands of acres.

Especially in the Southern District.

Many of these large mansions are inhabited by very few people.

For example, Zhongfu, plus Li Shangwen, who is borrowed, is full of nineteen people, but it occupies more than 140 acres of two courtyards, which is still small.

Some of them are alone, plus one or two servants and maids, and they also live alone in one courtyard.

There are also quite a few empty courtyards.

If you go to the so-called 'slums' in the western district, it is a dense cluster of houses, and there are people everywhere at a glance, beggars and homeless people can be seen everywhere.

The gap between rich and poor is immense.

This is also the reason why Zhong Yan went down the mountain to Fancheng at the beginning, even if it is the third layer of qi refining, he is also a super-rich.

And if he goes to the 'fairy city' where the monks gather, he is a low-level 'poor', and it is difficult to rent a single room.

However, the immortal city is built on the spiritual vein, and there is usually no need for a formation cultivation room, and the monks have enough spiritual energy to cultivate, which is not comparable to the mortal city.

Straight to the point.

Zhong Yan knocked on this small courtyard with only more than 100 square meters, and waited for a while before a slightly low female voice sounded on the opposite side.

"Who?"

"Zhong Yan."

The other side was obviously stunned, and then opened a corner of the courtyard door, revealing a face with surprise.

There was no palm light in the courtyard, only a faint ray of moonlight sprinkled down, which made people vaguely see the bright eyes of a pretty face flickering with a vigilant light.

Zhong Yan dissipated the effect of the invisibility talisman and said with a smile: "Zhong Yan took the liberty of visiting late at night, and he also hoped that Daoist friends would not be strange. ”

Yu Qingyao looked at his face, and didn't seem to plan to let people in, "What is Zhong Daoyou looking for me?" ”

"Yu Daoyou, aren't you going to go in and have a cup of tea?"

The corners of Zhong Yan's mouth hooked up with a kind smile, and he thought of ambiguous scenes such as 'go up and sit' and 'drink a glass of red wine' in film and television dramas in his previous life.

Mainly because the other party is a widow who lives alone.

In addition, he did come with this purpose.

Yu Qingyao pursed her lips and hesitated, then leaned sideways, "Zhong Daoyou, please come in." ”

Enter the main hall and turn into the side room.

Even if the lights are lit, the whole courtyard is still shrouded in darkness.

"Zhong Daoyou sit down for a while." Yu Qingyao said a word and left.

Zhong Yan looked around the environment in the house, compared to his own home, it seemed much monotonous, there were not many decorative things, and he didn't need to be probed by his divine sense to know that there was not even a subordinate.

It didn't take long.

Yu Qingyao returned, changed into a formal cyan dress, and her hair was slightly combed.

A plate of spirit fruits and a stack of kernels were placed on the table, which was the cheapest kind in the market.

Boil water to make tea.

Yu Qingyao's movements were skillful, and her eyebrows were thoughtful in her quietness, although she guessed Zhong Yanlai's purpose, she couldn't understand why she was looking for someone who had no friendship.

Not much.

Yu Qingyao put the teacup in front of Zhong Yan, and smiled for the first time, but it was a little embarrassed, "I can only invite Taoist friends to drink a cup of tea." ”

"Thank you."

Zhong Yan took a sip, it was just ordinary tea leaves.

This is the norm for the vast majority of casual cultivators, even if the other party is a sixth-level Qi refining cultivator.

The spirit stones earned are basically used for cultivation by buying pills, how can there be so much extra money wasted on ordinary spirit tea, spirit wine, and spirit fruits that are not so effective.

Like Zhong Yan, Li Henian, Bai Siyuan and others, there are still a few who risk their lives to engage in side hustles at every turn.

If it weren't for the trigger system to become a talisman master, Zhong Yan was confident that he was better than the other party, but not much better, if he had money, he had to save up to buy resources, where could he get the kind of gold cave like Qinglou.

He still remembers the first time he went to the 'Qinghu Villa' to participate in the Lantern Festival party, and drank no less than three jars of spiritual wine with a cheeky cup.

"Zhong Daoyou came here for the Xue Mansion?"

Yu Qingyao opened her mouth, and continued without waiting for an answer: "This matter can't help, I still plan to live in Qingyang City for a long time." ”

Zhong Yan smiled and asked, "Don't listen to the conditions?" ”

Yu Qingyao stared at him and shook her head directly, if it weren't for Zhong Yan's identity as a talisman master, and she made a lot of friends in the city, she wouldn't let her in, how could she take the initiative to provoke Xue Shanhu's big trouble.

Zhong Yan bowed his head, took a sip of tea from his cup, and said arrogantly: "That Xue Laohu is just a clown jumping off the beam in Zhong's eyes, and killing him is no different from stepping on a bedbug." ”

Yu Qingyao's face was expressionless, "Then you still come to me?" ”

Zhong Yan looked at her and said: "To deal with Xue Shanhu, I didn't look for anyone else in the city, I can do what I want you to do, and the reason why I am looking for you is to ask you to consider entering the Zhong Mansion." ”

This is the truth, he originally planned to go to find out the bottom of Guo Qingxue and Xue Hongyi by himself, and it was his decision to find Yu Qingyao after going to Yang's mansion.

"Into your Zhong Mansion? Homestay? ”

Yu Qingyao was stunned for a moment, asked a few rhetorical questions, and then blinked and thought that it might be what Bai Siyuan said, her pretty face suddenly flushed, and she immediately released her divine sense to probe the situation around her yard, for fear that Zhong Yan would bring a helper over, and sneered: "Marry you?" Just with your somewhat handsome face? ”

She felt that she was being teased and insulted, she really came with her mouth wide open, nothing more than bullying herself alone, without a backer, and wanted to pull down the water to deal with Xue Shanhu together!

Fortunately, there is no abnormality around the courtyard, thinking that Zhong Yan will not come hard, only one Qi refining fourth layer, she is not afraid.

Zhong Yan picked up the teapot and poured the tea by herself, feeling funny in her heart, feeling that her appearance was a little cute.

The two had only met a few times in public, and they were ordinary nodding acquaintances.

But since he wanted to be included in the mansion, Zhong Yan naturally wanted to have a deep understanding and find out.

He spent eight spirit stones to buy her information from Yang Yanqing, a thick stack.

Because of this, I changed my plan and took the initiative to come to the door.

Yu Qingyao, a native of Haiyan City, Yan Kingdom, has three attributes of water, wood, and earth, and entered Danxiamen at the age of eleven to enter the practice, and at the age of nineteen, Danxiamen was destroyed and annexed by the Five Elements Sect and reduced to a loose cultivation......

At the age of twenty-four, he broke away from the scattered cultivation team, and became a Taoist couple with one of his teammates in the same realm......

Now twenty-nine years old, he has a sixth-level cultivation of qi refining.

She usually works alone, and her presence among the monks of Qingyang City is relatively low.

He is very timid, and he has only been to Yangquanfang City three times in four years of living alone in Qingyang City, and he has not been to it once a year, and he must go with more than three other monks in the city every time.

Yang Yanqing threw an olive branch to her several times, inviting her to do no dangerous business together, but she refused.

At present, he still earns spirit stones by escorting elixir spiritual rice and other materials, but he only participates in the goods of the monk brigade, which can be described as extremely cautious.

Occasionally joining the demon hunting team and medicine collection team of the Xiuxian family are also extremely safe tasks, and they have little gain.

Therefore, even if she has good qualifications, she broke through from the peak of the fifth layer of qi refining to the sixth layer of qi refining three years ago, and now she is still in the early stage of the sixth layer, and there is no progress.

If it weren't for Qingyang City, she would have belonged to the ranks of 'masters' in the sixth-layer realm of qi refining, and I am afraid that she would have changed places a long time ago.

Especially after looking at her early cultivation experience, Zhong Yan was speechless.

Generally speaking, in addition to poor qualifications or various factors that force them to become casual cultivators, the vast majority of those who take the initiative to do casual cultivation are ruthless people, dare to take risks, and have strong survival ability.

This woman can be summed up in eight words - 'timid as a mouse' and 'the king of Gou'.

Such people.

Even if it's two levels higher.

Zhong Yan faced it alone, and he was confident that he would eat her to death, and he was afraid that if he threw a few second-order talismans in the storage bag, he would blow her up.

"How much does your yard rent?"

Zhong Yan asked with a casual smile, not caring at all about the divine sense she released.

Yu Qingyao had a cold face and said lightly: "Two yuan a year." ”

"That's a lot."

Two lower-grade spirit stones a year, coupled with the consumption of supporting the operation of the formation on weekdays, with her income, it is estimated that it is barely enough, and she can't save any money to buy pills.

Yu Qingyao got up and chased away the guests: "If Zhong Daoyou has nothing else to do, I want to rest!" ”

Zhong Yan stood still and said with a smile: "To answer your previous question, I can provide you with a foundation." ”

Yu Qingyao pretended to make a gesture again, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a sarcastic smile, "You don't know the approximate income of a first-order high-grade talisman master when I am shallow?" Let's start by thinking about building your own foundation! ”

Zhong Yan didn't talk nonsense, with a wave of his hand, three storage bags appeared on the table, from the three bandits, and they didn't have time to sort it out.

Yu Qingyao's divine sense swept his eyes, his face changed slightly, a little pill, a little talisman, a little material, a total of more than ten spirit stones, but the six magic weapons were valuable.

Before she could figure out the whole bunch of questions in her mind.

Zhong Yan waved his hand again, and a dagger with a flickering cold light was inserted on the table.

Yu Qingyao looked at it, her divine sense swept away, and she exclaimed: "Third-order magic weapon?!" ”

Generally, few monks in the late stage of Qi refining can use third-order magic weapons.

This dirty thing, Zhong Yan originally planned to enter Fan City and find an opportunity to buy a wife with a spiritual root, but now there is no shortage of spirit stones and throws it in the storage bag to eat ashes.

Yu Qingyao's heart shook, and she looked at Zhong Yanhe with disbelief in her eyes, she had already guessed that these things were snatched, and those three storage bags were evidence, who was okay with so many storage bags hanging on her waist, attracting attention?

It's just that she can't understand how Zhong Yan, a fourth-level qi refining layer, can get a third-order magic weapon, which is completely beyond her cognition.

Looking at her expression and the description of her on the information, Zhong Yan wanted to laugh, but calmly waved his hand again.

Crash~

Two thousand spirit stones were piled up on the ground, shining and full of spiritual energy.

"......" Yu Qingyao's pupils contracted, her breathing became rapid, and her head was dizzy from being 'smashed' by these three waves.

For the first time, a thought popped up in her heart - kill him and fly away!

As soon as this idea came out, she herself was startled, her right hand unconsciously clenched into a fist, her palm began to sweat, and her expression changed.

Unconsciously began to retreat.

Zhong Yan took in her reaction, and the gentle smile on her face suddenly turned into a sneer: "If you make a move, I can still look at you." ”

Yu Qingyao said in her heart Sure enough, seeing Zhong Yan so calm and calm, she must not be worried about her bad intentions, she was afraid that she would be killed as soon as she made a move, and her brain was a mess for a while, and speculations such as 'he hid his cultivation' and 'there are masters in the secret' were one after another.

"How?"

"This is just the tip of the iceberg for Zhong."

Yu Qingyao swallowed her saliva, took a breath and said, "If I marry you, these will all belong to me?" ”

Zhong Yan laughed, "You look average, but you think it's beautiful!" ”

Yu Qingyao was embarrassed, her pretty face was red and white, she still looked average like this?

"Since you don't look down on me, why do you want me to marry you?"

Of course, it's for double cultivation...... Zhong Yan said: "Because you are the only female cultivator in Qingyang City, your background is simple. ”

"It's just to see that I'm a bully!" The tone was noticeably weaker.

Zhong Yan waved his hand, put everything away, took out a stack of papers and put it on the table, and put a stack of talismans on it.

"These are the information of the Xue Mansion, mainly about Guo Qingxue, you decide whether to do it or not, do it well, consider letting you enter the Zhong Mansion."

The situation is reversed.

Anti-customer-oriented.

Yu Qingyao's eyes widened, and she was stunned, oh my God, obviously I came to beg me to be a Taoist couple, to beg me to do something, and in a blink of an eye, I only considered permission to enter after I had done a good job?!!

Immediately, she bit her lip, a trace of grievance flashed in her eyes, and she forced herself to calm down and said coldly: "You threaten me?!" ”

exposed so many belongings, if she didn't do it, she was afraid that she would become a corpse tomorrow, and she had no doubt in her heart that Zhong Yan would dare to do it and could do it.

"Do you think anyone is qualified to follow me?"

Zhong Yan sneered and walked towards her.

"Don't come here!"

Yu Qingyao looked flustered, summoned the long sword from the storage bag and held it tightly in his hand, his divine sense kept scanning outside, and he retreated step by step.

Seeing Zhong Yan approaching step by step, she didn't have the courage to make a move, but the long sword that was pointed at slowly hung down, and finally leaned against the pillar, her eyes swirling.

Zhong Yan stood still, raised his hand and slowly stretched out to the pretty face of the six gods and no master.

Yu Qingyao watched the 'devil's claw' getting closer and closer, and there was no way to hide, so she had to turn her face away slightly.

Zhong Yan pinched her chin, moved it, and after some inspection, she looked good, her lips were red and her teeth were as white as a girl.

He lowered his head and leaned up, squinted and sniffed with enjoyment, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "If it threatens you, I will let you strip off your clothes now, and Yu Zhong will step down Chenghuan!" ”

It was too late, and the man's breath came to his face.

Yu Qingyao's heart was pounding, biting her lip, her face was full of shame, and tears flowed down the corners of her eyes.

Zhong Yan let go of his hand, stared at her and said, "Think about it, this may be your chance." With your guts, forgive me and don't dare to talk nonsense, if you escape out of the city, I won't pursue it, if you do, tonight is an opportunity, and there should be gains. ”

After speaking, Zhong Yan turned around and walked outside.

When he arrived in the courtyard, he turned his head and said with a smile: "By the way, being timid is not necessarily a bad thing, fortunately you didn't act impulsively, otherwise Zhong would really have to be ruthless and destroy the flowers." ”

When it was over, I didn't forget to scare her.

In fact, although he was not afraid of Yu Qingyao, without the assistance of the external force of the formation, he could rely on a large number of second-order talismans to protect himself, how could he kill the other party.

The reason why he dared to do this was based on the information bought by the eight spirit stones, which completely controlled her temperament.

Out of the yard.

Zhong Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is the absolute advantage brought by experience, experience, heart and information.

A monk like Yu Qingyao dies the fastest when he encounters a dangerous situation at a complicated point.

The only way to live long is to go long.

At this point, she is self-aware and has done a good job.

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