Xingcheng, located in the northeast of Yuanzhou, was the largest city in its territory and the only large city in the Great Xia Dynasty that could rival the royal city.

It is nearly 5,200 miles away from Yangyan City, and the mountains are far away.

The people in the city plus the ordinary people who can't cultivate the yuan are hundreds of millions.

Xingcheng faces the sea and is built along the coast.

But the shadow of the sea could not be seen from the city, because there were walls built on the seashore that were six hundred miles long, and the lowest point was two hundred feet high.

The long city wall was built 100,000 years ago to defend against the attacks of demon beasts in Xiaoxing Mountain.

Great Xia stationed 30 million troops in Xingcheng to defend it.

Xiaoxing Mountain is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and no one knows how big it is.

Xingcheng is close to Xiaoxing Mountain, so there are many mercenaries here.

If you want to enter Xiaoxing Mountain, you can only go through the east gate of Xingcheng.

Outside the east gate, there is a land corridor about 30 miles wide that is connected with Xiaoxing Mountain.

The closer you get to Xiaoxing Mountain, the wider the land promenade becomes.

Walking three thousand miles on the land corridor can be regarded as truly entering the edge of Xiaoxing Mountain.

The demon beasts in Xiaoxing Mountain will launch a beast tide every few decades and come to Xingcheng through the land corridor.

Although Xiaoxing Mountain is full of dangers, there are many natural and earthly treasures in it, especially a lot of high-grade materials.

Most of the things on the rare demon beasts can be found in the mountains.

Therefore, many yuan people entered Xiaoxing Mountain to collect materials, excavate heavenly treasures, and hunt demon beasts.

As one's cultivation progresses, the cultivation resources needed are expensive.

If you are lucky, you can enter Xiaoxing Mountain once and get something, and you can cultivate steadily for many years.

………

Around noon.

The sun in the sky is like fire, baking the earth.

In the woods a hundred miles away from the west gate, the largest in Xingcheng, two figures, one blue and one green, rose and fell among the towering trees.

It is a young man and woman, judging from the breath of life emanating from the bodies of the two figures, they are only twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

The man is like a spirit monkey walking through a big tree, revealing a bit of bohemian taste, there seems to be thunder and lightning flashes in his eyes, and his angular face is handsome.

The woman's jade hand was lightly raised, and a cyan yuan force was struck, instantly shattering the branches blocking the front of the tree, blasting a way on the big tree.

Under the green silk fluttering in the wind, a stunningly beautiful and suffocating delicate face, the skin is like snow.

Seeing that the branches in front of her blocked the way again, the woman waved her palm again, and then brushed a wisp of green silk next to the corner of her eye with her jade finger, looked at the man who was jumping up and down along the way not far away, and asked, "Xiao Yuanzi, are we really going to Xingcheng?" ”

Li Yuan looked back, smiled slightly, and said, "Didn't you listen to the people in the town, Xingcheng is a prosperous place." After I recovered from my injury, I hardly rested, refining the elixir for several months. Just to go to Xingcheng to find some treasures. Maybe you can meet some good chances. ”

Now, more than half a year has passed since Li Yuan and the two left Linxing City.

He has been recuperating in the nearby forests and mountains, wandering, refining medicine, and evading the pursuit of Dongtianjiao.

Now that the rumors have almost passed, they have come out to move.

"I wonder how long it will take to get to Xingcheng?" Li Yunqing looked ahead and muttered.

"Come on, if the map is correct, there should be a hundred miles to go. At our current pace, two hours will come. Li Yuandao.

………

In the evening.

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing finally arrived in Xingcheng.

Xingcheng is much bigger than Yangyan City, and it is much more prosperous.

The two walked up the wide street, and the traffic was constantly shuttling.

Soldiers patrolling everywhere to maintain order in the city.

Some teams are all composed of Void Realm cultivation, and some teams are all Yuanli Realm.

Each patrol team has at least 100 people.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, anyone who reached the age of sixteen and cultivated to break through to the third level of the Qi Refining Realm could apply for enlistment and receive cultivation resources.

Here, you can occasionally see a team led by Yuan Danjing.

There were not only more soldiers on the street, but also many mercenary teams gathered together, which were also huge.

After walking for a while, Li Yunqing asked, "Xiao Yuanzi, where are we going now?" ”

Li Yuan shrugged his shoulders, smiled, and said helplessly: "I don't know either." In the past few months, I have only occasionally eaten some demon beast flesh and blood, and there is no processed food, and the taste is not very good.

"Why don't we find a restaurant, eat a good meal first, enjoy it, and then find an inn to settle down and stay."

"Yes." Li Yunqing nodded lightly.

The first time she came to Xingcheng, she was just as unfamiliar.

Xingcheng is not another small city, and if you are not careful, you may provoke some powerful forces.

The two found a good restaurant, and business was booming.

Upstairs VIP room, no seats.

They had to find a seat in the lobby and order some good food.

The hall was too noisy, and the two of them quickly finished eating, and asked the restaurant guy about the better inns nearby.

According to the guide, it didn't take long to find the inn that the restaurant guy said.

The main building of the inn has ten floors, and there are several five-storey annexes attached to it.

On the main building hangs a plaque at least three zhang high, on which are written two quaint big characters "Guangxuan".

Walking into the inn, I looked around, and the hall was full of all kinds of decorations carved from fine wood.

The chairs placed in the hall are carved with different quaint patterns.

The whole hall exudes a cohesive scent, and the environment is particularly elegant and chic.

Li Yuan walked to the counter in the lobby.

The maid behind the counter, with a standard service-style smile, asked, "Childe, do you need a guest room, a cultivation room, a treasure refining room, or a medicine refining room......

"The Alchemy Room? Is there any difference? Hearing this, Li Yuan was slightly stunned and asked.

The maid explained, "The alchemy room has a good furnace ding, as well as an excellent fire-type earth spirit.

"Moreover, the room of the alchemy room is specially made of unique materials, and the medicinal fragrance emitted by the refined elixir is treated through a special device, which cannot be smelled outside, and it is very safe for outsiders to snoop on."

Li Yuanchai asked, "Is there a room with a guest room and an alchemy room?" ”

The maid bowed her head and said, "Yes, this kind of room is on the top tenth floor, and the price is relatively expensive. Childe, are you sure you want one? ”

"Open one for me." Li Yuandao, and then added, "The furnace ding doesn't need it, and the fire spirit doesn't need it." ”

Soon, the maid went through the formalities for Li Yuan.

"Is it Yuan Shao?"

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing were about to go upstairs when a sudden big man's voice made them stop.

I feel that the sound is more familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere.

Both turned to look at each other at the same time.

I saw a big man dressed in moire brocade, showing a warm smile at them, respectful.

"It's really Yuan Shaoyou. I thought I had the wrong person. We haven't seen each other in seven years. The big man grinned.

Li Yuan tried to think about it, and asked uncertainly, "Is it Zhou Xuwen, President Zhou?" ”

"Well, I didn't expect Yuan Shao to remember me. Come to our Guangxuan, how can I accept your Yuan Shi. Yuan Shao, you can live as long as you want. There is no need to pay any yuanshi. Zhou Xu shook his head.

A few years ago, when Li Yuan was in Yanyan City, he dealt with Zhou Xuwen.

At that time, Zhou Xuwen was dressed in coarse linen, and he looked like a rough man.

It has such a brocade upper body now, and when it is dressed like this, it is still a little rich.

Zhou Xuwen took Li Yuan and Li Yunqing to the VIP reception room.

Li Yuan had a good impression of Zhou Xuwen and had some good impressions, so he didn't refuse, not to mention that it was rare to meet an acquaintance in Xingcheng.

According to Zhou Xuwen's account, Guangxuan Inn is the industry of Yunliu Chamber of Commerce in Xingcheng.

When he was in Yanyan City, because of the elixir given by Li Yuan, the Yunliu Chamber of Commerce became popular in Yanyan City, and Zhou Xuwen was transferred to Xingcheng after that.

Xingcheng's alchemy material market was hundreds of times larger than Yanyan City, and Zhou Xuwen was now the shopkeeper of one of the material stores.

Now, although his cultivation has broken through to the early stage of stepping on the virtual realm, in Xingcheng, the early stage of stepping on the virtual realm is nothing.

With his experience in materials, Zhou Xuwen gained a firm foothold in the Xingcheng Branch of the Yunliu Chamber of Commerce.

The shop he runs is not far from the Guangxuan Inn, so he often comes here to walk around.

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing didn't talk much, and they kept listening to Zhou Xuwen talk about his development in recent years.

In the end, Li Yuan also briefly said two words about his experience in the past few years, except that his cultivation is true, everything else is nonsense.

After chatting about the experience, Zhou Xuwen gave Li Yuan and the two of them a detailed explanation of the situation in Xingcheng.

In Xingcheng, people and places are unfamiliar, and Li Yuan and Li Yuan are willing to listen to this information.

For most of the past six months, a large number of pills have been refined, and I was worried about how to make a move, but I didn't expect Zhou Xuwen to take the initiative to send it to the door.

The Yunliu Chamber of Commerce wants to enter the pill market, but it has been pressed by the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce, and Li Yuan also wants to frustrate the momentum of the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce.

He knocked on the table and said with a light smile: "Shopkeeper Zhou, listening to you say this, it seems that your Chamber of Commerce is not very good in the development of the pill market in Xingcheng." ”

Zhou Xu Wenhan smiled bitterly: "The Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce has Wan Xianyun, a king-level alchemist, in charge, and there are many condensation-level alchemists in their chamber of commerce, and our disadvantages are more obvious. ”

"What? Do you still supply them with materials in large quantities? Li Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Alas...... There is no way, they have a large volume, and they have pressed the price of materials quite hard in the past two years. If it goes on like this, our chamber of commerce will always be a head short of them. Zhou Xuwen frowned and sighed with embarrassment, adding a little melancholy to his usually honest face.

Li Yuan looked at the moonlight outside the window: "Shopkeeper Zhou, let's talk to us for so long, it's not just a small chat." ”

When Zhou Xu Wen heard this, he smiled embarrassedly and said, "I know the forces behind Yuan Shao, there are many high-level alchemists, and I don't know if I can cooperate with our Chamber of Commerce." ”

"Cooperation?" Li Yuan smiled slightly, "It's not that it can't. However, it can only be a short-term cooperation. Because there are not many people who come to Xingcheng with me this time, it won't be too long.

"You can ask your Chamber of Commerce, the person in charge of Xingcheng to come here tomorrow and talk about it specifically. I don't dare to say anything else, but in the Xingcheng Pill Market, I guarantee that you will not be able to beat the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Xu was overjoyed and nodded without thinking: "No matter how long you cooperate, as long as you can cooperate with Yuan Shao, you can't ask for it."

"I'm going to tell President Yun. Rest well tonight, and tomorrow morning, the president and I will wait for the two of you. ”

After Zhou Xuwen left, Li Yuan and Li Yunqing went directly back to the room to rest.

After a day's journey, my body was tired.

Living in the forests and mountains for most of the year, it is time to relax in a spacious and comfortable place.

The decoration of Guangxuan Inn is simple and elegant, and the materials used, bonsai and green plants all release a comfortable atmosphere.

The two walked to the tenth floor, and saw the house number of the room they were in in the innermost part of the outside, which read "Heavenly One".

Looking down from the corridor at the entrance of the room, you can clearly see the entrance to the hall on the first floor.

didn't stop in the corridor for long, Li Yuan opened the door, pushed the door in, and Li Yunqing followed behind him and walked into the room.

This is a suite, and it takes two medium-grade yuan stones to live in one day.

Yuanshi Li Yuan didn't care, not to mention that they didn't need to pay for it now.

The room is larger than expected, with tall bonsai plants on both sides of the door.

The door is the living room, not to mention the eight zhang square.

The furniture in the living room is of fine wood, carved with delicate patterns, and carpeted floors.

On the right side through the curtain door is the bedroom, a round table in the center of the room, which can seat six people.

Further inside, bypassing the huge partition, is a super-large, somewhat quaint dark red bed with a gauze tent.

The amenities on the beds are of the highest quality.

The bedroom window opens to give you a panoramic view of the night view of Xingcheng.

Through a small, low, curtained door, the bathroom is reached.

Opposite the bedroom is a study, with a few pieces of rice paper on a fine black pear wood table, and various brushes hanging on a pen stand not far from the table.

There is a stone door connected to the study, and when you open the stone door, there is the alchemy room inside.

The light in the alchemy room was dim, and the area was about the size of the living room, with a height of more than two zhang.

There are only a few fist-sized windows in the entire alchemy room, and the walls around it are made of special stones.

Although it is not as good as the materials used in the dueling arena, it is also a high-grade stone, and there is no problem in resisting the attacks of the Nirvana Realm.

After carefully inspecting the room, for safety, Li Yuan asked Ling to engrave a three-dimensional pattern lock array in the bedroom, and then fell asleep with Li Yunqing with peace of mind.

………

Late at night.

Yunliu Chamber of Commerce Xingcheng Headquarters.

The white-haired old woman in a purple moire dress sat above the hall, gently picked up the teacup, took a sip, and slowly put the teacup down.

"Zhou Xuwen, at such a late hour, what do you have to do to see the old body in person?"

The white-haired old woman looked at the empty center of the hall, and Zhou Xuwen, who was standing, was slightly angry.

If it weren't for Zhou Xuwen's fierce suppression of the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce in Yanyan City back then, with his cultivation in the early stage of the Void Realm, it would never be possible to see this old woman with the peak cultivation of the Yuan Dan Realm.

Zhou Xuwen wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, bowed down and said, "President Yuyun, it's not a big matter of 100,000 urgent, give me great courage, and I don't dare to disturb the president's rest." ”

"100,000 urgent?" Hearing this, Chairman Yun frowned slightly and asked, "Did you cause something?" ”

"Nope." Hearing this, Zhou Xuwen hurriedly shook his head, "President Yun, seven years ago, the son who sold me the pill in Yanyan City came to Xingcheng.

"Staying in Guangxuan today, let me meet. I offered him an offer to cooperate with our Chamber of Commerce, and he did not refuse. But the person in charge of the city of the Chamber of Commerce should talk to him. ”

"This is Xingcheng, not the little Flame Rock City. Don't let that little doll fool you. Chairman Yun sighed lightly, then picked up the teacup again and sipped it.

Hearing this, Zhou Xu was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "He said that it was only a short-term cooperation, but it could make the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce in the pill market in Xingcheng unable to raise its head." ”

Hearing this, President Yun had not yet swallowed the tea, squirted out, coughed twice, and hurriedly said, "He said it himself?" ”

Zhou Xuwen was like a chicken pecking rice, and nodded again and again: "Yes." That's why I'm bothering you so late. Whether it's true or not, you'll meet him tomorrow. ”

(End of chapter)