The Liuxing Mountains, located on the southern border of Huaiguo, traverse the east and west, up to tens of thousands of miles, and the east and west sides extend into other countries.

To the north of the mountain is Yongzhou of Huaiguo, and to the south of the mountain is the boundary of another country.

Located in the midst of Huaiguo and several surrounding countries, the Liuxing Mountains are undoubtedly a behemoth, with numerous mountains and peaks of all sizes. To the east of it, there is a small mountain about a thousand feet high that is called the East Peak.

The East Peak is inconspicuous in the Six Elements Mountains, but its mountains are full of smoke all year round, always wandering with thick fog, standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, it actually gives people a sense of etherealism.

At the foot of the smoky mountain shrouded in the east peak, there is a small market town called 'Higashiyamabo City'.

The market town is not large, but from the outside it looks like an ordinary town, and there is an entrance to the north of the market in the direction of the mountain pass.

Guarding the gate were two young men in blue shirts, both in their twenties.

One of the young men had an old face, and he was sitting cross-legged on the stone bench at the moment, his eyes closed, and he saw that his brow was furrowed, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, as if he was holding on to something.

On the other side, a young man of the same age as him leaned against the wall of the gate of the Fang City, lazily looking at his serious appearance, and after a while, he suddenly said:

"Hey, I said Zhou Wen, you can't break the bottleneck for a while, do you need to spend so much effort, and the door is not good-looking, just count on me alone."

Interrupted by the words of this half-looking young man, Zhou Wen immediately stopped practicing.

He opened his eyes, first looked at the other with an apologetic look, and then sighed:

"My qualifications are not as good as Brother Wang, so naturally I don't dare to waste the slightest time, I can cultivate a little bit, and I hope that Brother Wang will take care of it."

"Hey, I'm qualified? If I had good qualifications, I wouldn't have fallen into this place to show people the door, I would be paid half a spirit stone a month, and I had to save for four months to exchange for a Qi Gathering Pill, this errand is really not done by people! ”

"Who said it wasn't, if it weren't for the fact that you and I were weak in strength and not qualified to go into the mountains to collect medicine or hunt demon beasts, otherwise the spirit stones we earned would definitely be much more than this." Zhou Wen echoed.

"Hey, don't mention it, I heard that a group of monks entered the mountain a few days ago, but the spirit grass was not found, but was attacked by that demon beast and killed most of them. You say that it's so difficult for us to cultivate immortals, it's really better to go back to the secular world and be comfortable as a big landlord with peace of mind. ”

This Zhou Wen's companion's surname is Wang, his name is Wang Gui, he was originally a child in a small mountain village in Yongzhou, and he picked up a book of immortal cultivation exercises from the mountains by chance when he was a child, and he happened to have a spiritual root, and since then he has successfully stepped into the road of cultivating immortals.

Unexpectedly, more than ten years have passed, and his cultivation has been affected by his own qualifications, and his improvement has been very slow. Seeing that it was about to reach the year of establishment, the realm of cultivation has been stagnant, and he has been troubled by the difficulties of cultivating immortals, so he also gave birth to the idea of going home to retire.

There are not a few monks who have such thoughts as Wang Gui, and there are many monks in Dongshanfang City who have mediocre qualifications and are difficult to return to the secular world because of their cultivation.

With their status as immortal cultivators, they can also live a prosperous and wealthy life in the world, enough to enjoy their old age in peace.

Some lucky ones will be able to pass on the spiritual root again if they have the spiritual root among the children born, and they may be able to evolve into a family of immortal cultivators in a few decades.

The road of cultivating immortals is extremely difficult, especially for these helpless casual cultivators, who can persist in cultivating for decades can already be regarded as people with great perseverance, and more of them abandon their cultivation halfway and gradually indulge in pleasure.

Zhou Wen is different from that Wang Gui, he has no father, no mother, no relatives and no reason, and his only thought in this life is to improve his cultivation, and he only hopes to be able to step into the legendary foundation building period as soon as possible, and truly become a living true immortal who can fly to the sky.

Therefore, as long as he has free time, he will meditate and cultivate, and he will not dare to delay for a moment, even if he takes over the errand of guarding the gate of Fang City now, he will be busy and practice a little.

The salary of half a spirit stone a month, even if it is this, in this Dongshanfang City, it can be regarded as a good errand, if you go to work elsewhere, you may be given less.

Like those monks who have just stepped into the threshold of cultivating immortals, and only have the first or second level of qi cultivation, they can often only go to those shops to be a buddy for the shopkeepers, the requirements are not high, and the salary is also small.

Guarding the gate of Fang City requires at least a monk who has practiced qi at three levels to be competent, and Zhou Wen and Wang Gui are both three-level qi cultivators, and they can be regarded as the best among the low-level monks in this Dongshanfang City.

In addition to working in this Dongshanfang City, there are also many other ways to earn spirit stones, including what Wang Gui mentioned in Fang Cai, going into the mountains to collect medicine and hunt demon beasts.

Both of them are extremely dangerous, and the powerful demon beasts in the Six Elements Mountain Range do not know how many, even if they just enter the mountain to take elixir, they will inevitably be attacked by demon beasts.

Therefore, although the spirit grass in the mountain is very valuable, and the materials obtained from hunting demon beasts can also be exchanged for a lot of spirit stones, there are basically few low-level monks who dare to enter the mountain easily, and most of them only after stepping into the middle stage of qi cultivation will there be a group of scattered cultivators to enter the mountain to find the elixir. As for taking the initiative to hunt demon beasts, you have to have a cultivation in the late stage of Qi cultivation before you dare to take the risk to do it.

"By the way, in the past few days, I have heard that there is a wild spirit grass on the side of Niutou Mountain, it is said that there are very few demon beasts in the mountains over there, and many monks who practice qi at the first and second levels have gone to try their luck, I don't know if Brother Wang has any news about this?"

Zhou Wen was a man who cherished his life, and although he needed a large number of spirit stones to assist in his cultivation, he was even more afraid of death. Therefore, in the past few years, he has hardly stepped out of Dongshanfang City, usually either nesting in a rented house to do penance, or occasionally going to pick up some errands to earn spirit stones, and when the spirit stones are almost saved, he will go to the stall to exchange for some pills for cultivation.

Then there was another retreat, and so on and so on for several years.

Because of this withdrawn character, Zhou Wen has almost no other friends in this Dongshanfang City except for the workers he knew when he was working.

"Hey, Brother Zhou, your news is too ill-informed, how long has this happened, the spirit grass has already been harvested! It's too late to go now! Some time ago, we went to Dongshanfang City to have a total of more than 100 monks, but in order to snatch those spirit grasses, more than a dozen of them died and were injured even more. Alas, fortunately I didn't think the road was too far to go, otherwise I would have been beaten to death halfway through! ”

Speaking of this, Wang Gui pursed his lips with a happy face.

"Those hairy boys who practice qi at the first and second levels don't understand at all, how can the spirit grass be so good, in the barren mountains and wilderness, even if it is picked, it will have to be attacked and snatched away, not to mention that the spirit grass is gone, maybe the little life will not be guaranteed."