Chapter 231: Backing City
Xu is reputation of Master Ku Du is too good, and Elder He has a lot of trust in his apprentice, but he is not suspicious of Pu Yanlan's words, and after listening to it, he nodded and said,
"I guess that most of them have something to do with the underground magic circle!"
The Master Ku Du said that he was going to take Yanlan to do something, and then there was a wave of vibration from the ground, and it had something to do with what he thought!
Then he asked,
"Kudu's predecessor has a way to guide you in alchemy?"
Pu Yanlan nodded,
"Yes, the Ku Du predecessor really deserves to be a great monk, just a few words made the disciple suddenly open!"
In order to maintain his image as a master, Ku Du really had to answer Pu Yanlan's questions, but the exercises to consolidate the soul body that he had promised in advance were already empty checks and could not be cashed!
Elder Ho asked again,
"What happened in the circle?"
Pu Yanlan responded,
"I think the master has already known now, the Xuanwu giant turtle that maintains the magic circle has run out, and there is a loophole in the magic circle, and the Kudu seniors sent apprentices to inspect it, and after reading it, they reported it to several seniors......
Then he told Elder He that the true spiritual karma under the ground was full of fire, and the wind was gusting, and the gray mist was filled, Elder He said with a solemn expression,
"This is indeed a sign of the collapse of the giant tortoise's spiritual qi, in such a dangerous place, it is too risky for the Ku Du senior to let you go to a junior who is a fifth-level Qi cultivator!"
Pu Yanlan secretly said in her heart,
"What kind of good person are you when that bald old bald donkey, your apprentice went down to take risks, this is to go down to die, fortunately, I escaped with my life!"
It's just that the truth can't be said, and the face will be forced to cover up for the bald donkey,
"The magic circle is not allowed to enter the high-level monks, and the Ku Du senior gave the apprentice a magic weapon for self-defense, and he just went down to inspect it, but there is not much danger!"
Elder He nodded after hearing this and said,
"That's it this time, there will be such a thing in the future, you quietly tell the teacher, and the teacher will excuse your ideas, although the other party is a great monk, but our Tianyi Sect is not a mud ball to be kneaded, he wants to overwhelm people with power and think about it!"
"Yes!"
When Pu Yanlan heard this, she was right in her heart, and said secretly in her heart,
"Sure enough, the masters still really love me!"
In fact, Liu Wendao also asked her about the Wanzhou Conference, Pu Yanlan also told Liu Wendao, Liu Wendao frowned when he heard it, he was the head of the house, not as easy to fool as Elder He, and asked Pu Yanlan a lot of words, and Pu Yanlan who asked was almost about to show his feet, fortunately, Liu Wendao did not suspect the apprentice, but he suspected the Ku Du Master, but it was the Ku Du Master who let the apprentice do something unseemly, and the apprentice was afraid that the other party was powerful, and he did not dare to cause trouble for the sect, so it is not clear, Liu asked the same as telling the apprentice,
"If there is such a thing in the future, you can tell the master, even if you let the master go, the teacher will not nod, you can come to find the master to be the master, and the teacher will get rid of your ideas!"
Pu Yanlan, these two masters, really love her sincerely!
On that day, Pu Yanlan lived in the Valley of Flames for one day, and on the second day, she used the magic circle of Tianyimen to go to Dumo Prefecture Hundred Ghost Insight to see the old ghost of Namu, this time the two masters did not stop her from bringing the maid around her, and the two of them teleported to a small city closest to the Hundred Ghost Cave.
Dumo Prefecture is adjacent to Baima Prefecture, the topography is very different from Baima Prefecture, Baima Prefecture has mountains and waters, plains and lakes, and Dumo Prefecture is a mountain of different heights and nine out of ten, and most of them are steep, the mountain is covered with water, grass and soil only a thin layer, after a heavy rain, there are often flash floods in the mountains, so that the mountainous areas that have not much cultivation land are becoming more and more barren, so the people of Dumo Prefecture live a hard life, and are generally poor.
Although the crops here are not easy to plant, because it is a mountainous area, the minerals are very rich, the iron, copper, gold and silver and other minerals needed by the mortal world are very rich, and the spiritual veins that the cultivators love the most are also a lot, but these veins are in the hands of the secular government and several major sects in the cultivation world, so the people in Dumo Prefecture live a difficult life, but the dignitaries and various sects are very rich.
And because there are few products here, this state can only rely on foreign trafficking to this place if it does not produce, so the price of daily necessities such as grain and salt is extremely high, and the rich and noble people are naturally not afraid, but the people are more and more sad, so the people who can't survive, many of them have gone up the mountain and fallen into the grass, and have become mountain bandits who block the road and rob, so the mainland with many robbers, robbers, thieves and swindlers in Dumo Prefecture is famous!
The hundred ghost caves that the two of them are going to go to was originally an old mine cave, which was a spiritual vein mine that had been mined thousands of years ago, because countless miners died here during the mining year, because after the spiritual veins were cut off, this place slowly became a place where yin qi gathered, and a lot of evil ghosts were raised for thousands of years, and there were also a few ghost kings, who wreaked havoc in the nearby mountains, harming people's lives, so that within a radius of 100 miles, people and animals did not stay, and they did not dare to stay here for a long time, and even passers-by had to bypass far away and did not dare to pass, That's when the name Hyakki-dong was called.
Later, a ghost monk named Mu Tiangang heard the name of this place, and rushed here with the people of the door, the terrifying and fierce place in the eyes of others, in his eyes, it was the blessed land of the cave, a good place to practice, so he moved the mountain gate here, and even the name of the original sect was not used, and the younger brother went out to practice, and they all claimed to be people in the Hundred Ghost Cave, and they have made a name for themselves for thousands of years.
The Hundred Ghost Cave is in the company of evil ghosts and ghosts, although he is a righteous monk, but he is incompatible with the sect next to him, and he rarely interacts with each other, but Liu asked the head of the sect on this day, and I don't know why he has a friendship with the old ghost Mu of the Hundred Ghost Cave, he asked for the name of the old ghost Mu, but he also got a little thin noodles, so Pu Yanlan traveled this time.
Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi went to the small town near the Hundred Ghost Cave, and lived here for a day to relieve the fatigue of the magic circle transmission.
The small city is really backed by the mountains and eats the mountains, the stone houses built along the mountain are lined up in four rows on the ridge, among which are the most prosperous three streets, during which the slopes are climbed, rugged and undulating, the locals have long been accustomed to it, outsiders will inevitably go here and pant more, and this building is very distinctive, all the stone houses are not carved and piled up with huge stones, but they are taken from the thickness of the palm, and the stone slabs of the size of the pu fan are built up layer by layer, which is filled with rice milk mixed with egg white, glutinous rice and the like to increase the viscosity, The beams of the houses are taken from the large trees that grow in the mountains.
In addition, every house in this mountain city has a spacious hall, in which there is a deep pit that sinks in all directions, and firewood is burned in it, and clay pots are hung on it to cook food, and when they sleep, they lay a circle around the fire pit, and a large family sleeps around the fire pit to ward off the cold of the mountain at night.
When Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan first arrived, they were very surprised to see the row of beds spread on the ground, and they heard that all men and women and children in this inn were sleeping in a hall together, so they were even more surprised.
However, because the roof of this stone house is not sealed, the movement of the next room can be transmitted very clearly, and it is the sound of walking all night, the cough is to turn over, and the fart can be heard clearly, fortunately, the two of them are now cultivators, and they can recover their vitality without sleeping as long as they meditate, if they are placed in the past, they will get up the next day, and they must be two big dark circles on their faces!
The two of them spent the night like this, and the next morning they asked the innkeeper about the road to the Hundred Ghost Cave, and the boss heard that the two were going to the Hundred Ghost Cave, and immediately became silent.
"It turned out to be a cultivator who dealt with the Hundred Ghost Caves, and the little one was really sluggish!"
So he refused to accept anything, Gu Shiyi pushed back and forth with him several times, and saw that the other party really didn't accept it, so he had no choice but to accept it, and then he went out with Pu Yanlan, and according to the road pointed out by the shopkeeper, he went all the way to the mountain, and the Hundred Ghost Cave was nearly a hundred miles away from the mountain city, and he had to climb over two mountains, and then go all the way down to a deep valley in the mountains, which was where the gate of the Hundred Ghost Cave was located.
The two of them walked through the streets from the city, and they saw that under the eaves of the buildings along the road, on the foundation stones of the houses about one meter wide, there were mountain people who placed a lot of mountain goods for sale, this is a spontaneous bazaar, placed under the windows of the residents along the street, a day of trading down, the mountain people will spontaneously pick up the garbage on the ground when they leave, and leave either a hare, or a handful of wild fruits in the mountains as a reward, no matter how much, not limited to the high and low, all by heart, the owner of the house does not mind, sometimes will boil water for others to take, but the folk customs are simple, self-contained.
The two of them looked while walking, and found that there was something they liked, so they bought it with silver, anyway, there is no shortage of storage bags now, and they can buy whatever they want, and they finally don't have to pick and search like before!
The products in the mountains are said to be scarce and scarce, and they are rich and abundant, mushrooms, mountain delicacies, animal skins, animal bones, animal meat, herbs and the like are naturally very rich, but that's all, but there are very few fresh and spiritual things, such as salt, sugar, spices, grains and other things that are very common in the Baima State Market, it is very rare, and the price is extremely high!
There are a lot of beasts here, the mountain people hunted the beasts, the animal meat is salted with coarse salt and then hung under the eaves to dry, this is the hand-torn meat jerky, it tastes salty and fragrant with a hint of sweetness, the meat is tough and chewy, if you want to eat spicy, you can put in the chili pepper to marinate together, this kind of jerky is the best for wine!