Some smaller shops, in the evening, still bring all their valuables back to safety and ship them back to the store for sale the next day. In other words, the shops at night are basically empty shells.

The large stores could not take all the items with them, so they had to continue to hire a large number of guards to guard them.

The problems faced by Yangtian Pavilion are equally thorny.

Although Wanbaotang has been opened, the industrial bandits of Ziyuan Sect dare not move, so Cheng Shijie's people all withdrew to the sect, and Wang Mengdao also followed Wang Qinggong to the refined iron mine, which can be regarded as picking up a fat difference.

However, Cheng Shijie was implicated because of Zhong Pengfei's matter, was removed from his position as captain, and was transferred to the outer door to assist the deacon in managing miscellaneous affairs. These days, his mood has also been very low, basically ignoring the world, and practicing behind closed doors all day long.

Without the protection of the Ziyuan Sect, Yang Tiange could only recruit a lot of guards with a high salary, further strengthening the power of the shop.

Shen Tugang's subordinates added two new guards in the late stage of the Lingtai and six in the middle stage of the Lingtai. With the previous manpower, Yangtian Pavilion had a total of seventeen guards, including three late-stage cultivators of the Lingtai.

Although Zhou Yang is only in the middle stage of Lingtai, his combat power is by no means inferior to the late stage of Lingtai, and even surpasses it. Therefore, with him, there should be four late-stage cultivators of the Lingtai Stage.

The protective force has been strengthened, and the operating costs of Yangtian Pavilion have also increased a lot.

However, these investments were worth it, and in the next ten days, the guards of Yangtian Pavilion repelled three attacks by bandits, killing and wounding dozens of people, showing the majesty of Yangtian Pavilion and the momentum.

After these few times, there were no more bandits, and the three characters of Yangtian Pavilion were also well-known in Tu Yancheng.

However, this bloody and bloody day once again scared Liu and Liang back to Anping City, and they did not dare to come to Tu Yan again. Zhou Yang and Mo Chenglong had to return to the helm of Yangtian Pavilion.

Although the situation is grim, Yangtian Pavilion's business is getting stronger day by day, and more and more medium and low demon beast materials are being harvested.

Zhou Yang was not deceived by this phenomenon. He knew in his heart that there would be fewer and fewer demon beast materials in Tu Yan City, and one day, Tu Yan would return to his previous appearance. And this time will not be too long, so the days of Yangtian Pavilion will not be good forever.

During this period of time, he has also been thinking about the future way of operation, and has discussed with Liu, Liang, and Mo more than once to discuss the development plan of Yangtian Pavilion.

While running the Yangtian Pavilion, Zhou Yang did not forget to inquire about the situation of the Xuanfu Sect. However, he had too few people to specialize in his work, so he only found bits and pieces of information with little practical value.

After the situation in Yangtian Pavilion stabilized, Zhou Yang's schedule for rushing to Cangbeast Mountain was also determined.

However, his disguise technique is facing failure, and he will return to his previous appearance, and if he returns to Cangbeast Mountain as Zhou Yang, the danger will increase a lot, and he has to think of some way.

On this day, Zhong Peng flew to Yangtian Pavilion, and after discussing with Zhou Yang, the two arrived at Anping City in turn through the teleportation array.

Zhong Pengfei arrived first, he was in charge of searching for the auspicious map of Cangbeast Mountain, while Zhou Yang was in charge of preparing other required items.

In order to ensure safety, Zhou Yang specially spent two thousand spirit stones in the Qidao Pavilion to buy and sell a set of low-level inner armor.

Although he has cultivated the fire quenching technique, he can be injured by a medium-grade or higher magic weapon. And with the inner armor body protection, and then combined with the Earth Fire Quenching Technique, as long as it is not too powerful high-grade magic weapon, at most it will suffer some minor injuries.

The cheapest intermediate inner armor also has 10,000 spirit stones, and the intermediate inner armor with better defense effect is even more expensive, and he can't afford to sell it.

Zhong Pengfei, as an elder of the Ziyuan Sect, didn't need Zhou Yang to worry about the equipment on his body.

After meeting in the Lingtian, the two spread out the map and spent the night discussing the plan for entering the Cangbeast Mountain, including the route, the difficulties they faced, the possibility of encountering the Three Holy Sects and the Xuanfu Sect, and the retreat action.

The map Zhong Pengfei found was very simple, roughly marking the location of the three factions of the mine and the path into the mountain, and the specific location of the mine and the location of the three factions were not indicated.

Moreover, this map is only the tip of the iceberg of the entire Cangbeast Mountain, and there are many areas that are either unexplored or not marked.

No matter how auspicious the map of Cangbeast Mountain is, there will be it within the three major factions, and it is not sold on the market. However, this map has made a special mark on the areas where high-level demon beasts often haunt, which is very helpful to the two.

Their cultivation is not high, they are afraid of encountering mid- and low-level demon beasts above the fifth level or living in groups, and the middle and low-level demon beasts that are in groups are even more terrifying than the fifth-level demon beasts, especially those that can fly.

It would be great if you could avoid the activity area of these monsters in advance. But monsters are not static, they are always moving, so these annotations are just a reference.

On the second day, a guest came to Lingtian. Zhou Yang talked with him behind closed doors for a long time before the guest left.

This person was Lin Cheng, who brought Sima Ling'er's handwritten letter and briefly talked about some of the situation in Wanjianmen.

In the letter, Sima Ling'er Xiang detailed the major events that had occurred in the Anping River Valley since the beginning of the month, as well as what Wanjianmen had done, and the more Zhou Yang looked at it, the more frowning his brows became.

Wanjianmen stepped up its offensive against the Five Elements Sect, and the remaining four factions also achieved close alliance, jointly forming a mobile corps of nearly 10,000 people.

Such a method of warfare has, to a certain extent, curbed the rapid advance of the Wanjianmen army.

However, on the whole, the four factions are still at a disadvantage, both in terms of total strength and the number of masters, they are inferior to the Ten Thousand Sword Sect. And from the beginning of the war to the present, the four factions have not seen strong strings. In other words, the opponent's highest combat power did not strike.

Although the four factions resisted hard, the offensive of the Wanjianmen army was not affected much, and the advance speed was still very fast.

The one who commanded the army of Wanjianmen was Shan Chengfeng, the deputy head of the gate, and there were two deputy commanders, one of whom Zhou Yang knew, and he was actually the head of foreign affairs.

The kind of Xiang Hui is a cronie of Qiangxian, and Zhou Yang didn't know his exact cultivation before. And Sima Ling'er told Zhou Yang in the letter that the Seed Direction Association had actually reached the peak realm of Tianyuan.

Even most of the people in the Ten Thousand Swords Sect didn't know about this, and they thought that he was just a lobbyist who was maneuvering between the various sects, until the conquest army was formed, and people knew the true cultivation of the Seed Direction Society, and they were suddenly shocked.

Shan Chengfeng, the deputy master of the sect, is also the peak cultivation of Tianyuan, and the strong string is small, which is deeply appreciated. Qiang Xian handed over the 20,000-strong expeditionary army to him to command, which was most of the elite of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, which showed his trust in Shan Chengfeng.

People speculate that the reason why Qiang Xian did not come forward was because it was the critical moment to break through the golden pill, and there was no room for distraction.

However, some people also believe that Qiang Xian will never retreat and cultivate when the war is in full swing, because he needs to master every campaign progress and every major deployment, and naturally he cannot close it.

Zhou Yang also believes in the second point of view, Qiangxian will never impact the Jindan realm at this time.

And the eldest lady Qiang Xia is also in the army, acting as a supervisor.

However, Qiang Xia is cautious, low-key, and has a relatively harmonious relationship with Shan Chengfeng and Zhong Xianghui, so the army marched quickly, all the way like a bamboo, even under more than a dozen islands, the war was one-sided, and most of the Anping River was under the control of Wanjianmen.

The letter also said that Qiang Xia invited Sima Ling'er to watch the battle, and she had been invited.

Zhou Yang thought for a long time, and sent a letter back to Sima Ling'er, along with five thousand spirit stones and a few bottles of pills, and handed it over to Lin Cheng to bring back.

After consideration, he believed that it was better for Sima Ling'er to participate in the war, and it was better to wait and see what happened, and this view was also stated in the letter. But Lin Cheng said that Miss Ling'er was ready to stop before he came, and she might have set off by this time.

Wanjianmen's unification of the Anping River has been unstoppable, the army has arrived, the attack is invincible, the Anping River gold, earth, water, fire four factions collapsed.

In this case, Sima Ling'er's safety is guaranteed, which makes Zhou Yang feel a little relieved.

The letter also mentions Pu Zheng's injuries. Puzheng's life was finally saved, and the result was better than expected, and the realm only retreated to the sixth level of the Lingtai.

Pu Zheng himself could see it, and his mood did not make too many waves, which made Zhou Yang secretly admire.

However, after Lin Cheng left, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out in San.

During this time, Zhou Yang often alchemized, but it also played a role, and his divine consciousness did not sting, which was temporarily stabilized. However, in a few days, it will be time to get the medicine, and it will cost a lot of spirit stones.

Influenced by Puzheng, he also saw that the spirit stone was spent when it was earned, but he didn't have the previous feeling of pain.

Everything was ready to stop, and early the next morning, the master and apprentice rode the green wolf on the road of the Blue Beast Mountain.

The route they took was the same direction that Zhou Yang had taken when he had been taken captive more than a year ago.

In fact, if they rented a flying spirit beast, it would be much faster, but the disadvantage was also very obvious, that is, the target was too large, which was easy to arouse the vigilance of Tianyuan masters and flying demon beasts.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, the two decided to ride a fourth-level green wolf to hurry, because the speed of this green wolf was not inferior to that of an ordinary fifth-level demon beast.

The road to the west is different from the north, before he and Pu Zheng went north to the wasteland, and they didn't see a fifth-level demon beast for more than a thousand miles. And this time, when he was only six or seven hundred miles west of Anping City, he encountered a fifth-level beginner demon beast.

Fortunately, Zhong Pengfei was with him, and the two of them took a lot of effort and consumed an intermediate spirit rune to finally repel it.

The runes on Zhou Yang's body were all purchased from the Xuanfu Sect through Liu Menglong, mainly intermediate-level spirit runes, although the number was not too much, but the power was not small. The reason why he didn't buy them in the store was because there were mostly low-level spirit runes in the store, and the power was naturally much smaller.

Medium and high-level spirit runes, the Xuanfu Sect is easy not to sell, and it can't be made without a relationship. And in the face of these demon beasts above level five, only spirit runes above the intermediate level can work.

Those low-level talismans didn't work at all, and hitting the rough-skinned demon beasts was just equivalent to tickling them.