Chapter Eighty-Four: Fresh Clothes and Angry Horses Out of Jinyang
The silver-haired old woman staggered behind Youxuan, and her withered old face showed a look of incomprehension.
She didn't understand why Gongzi made this decision, just as she didn't understand why His Royal Highness turned back to the city after leaving the Tang Mansion eight days ago.
Youxuan stood at the railing of the swordsman's residence, looking at the night of Jinyang City through the heavy snow.
"Of course we have to kill, but we can't do it!"
Yu Xuan looked down at the pedestrians on the street, his eyes flashing with indifference and pride.
He remembered the nasty young man he met in the Tang Mansion a few days ago, just like the ants below who were immersed in the excitement of the New Year, small and unconscious, if it weren't for him and his annoying master where to stop him, maybe he would have returned to the Nine Heavens Palace with the Nine Yin Spirit Body at this time.
"Then who is going to make a move?" the silver-haired old woman's cloudy eyes narrowed slightly.
"Red Sect!" Youxuan smiled coldly.
"Red Sect?" the silver-haired old woman's face showed a look of even more confusion.
She had heard of this sect, and recently killed many disciples of various sects in Yunzhou, which seemed to be related to the crisis in Yunzhou a hundred years ago, and all major sects were looking for bounties, which seemed to be luring snakes out of the hole.
Could it be that the Red Sect is related to the Nine Heavens Palace?
Youxuan seemed to notice that he had said too much, his bewitching eyes glanced coldly, and said: "There are many things that you don't know more than you know, after all, the less you understand, the better you live!"
Although this silver-haired old woman is an elder of the Nine Heavens Palace, she is only an elder recruited from outside the Nine Heavens Palace, and many things are not worthy of knowing.
"Yes!"
The silver-haired old woman hurriedly responded, and her back was unconsciously cold.
Youxuan was very satisfied with her reaction, his face calmed down, and said, "When Elder Blood comes back, we can leave, you go and prepare the carriage and horses!"
"I'll go get ready!" replied the silver-haired woman, then turned and went downstairs to prepare.
It wasn't until the silver-haired old woman's back disappeared into the swordsman's house that the corners of Youxuan's mouth hooked up a deep sneer, and he swept his gaze towards the location of the Tang Mansion, and the smile on his face spread.
"It's a pity that I can't stay in the Jin Kingdom in person and watch you die!" Youxuan said to himself, the smile on his face disappeared, and he turned back to the house.
On the first day after the Shangyuan Festival, Jinyang City was still very lively.
No one noticed that an inconspicuous carriage drove from the gate of the swordsman's house to the south gate late at night, and then disappeared into the night all the way south out of the city.
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Early morning on the second day of the fourteenth year of the Great Jin Apocalypse.
Chen Changan and Li Zhou woke up early, washed up and changed into a brand new robe, used their last breakfast in the Tang Mansion, and said goodbye to Tang's father and Tang's mother.
Two treasure horses with red sideburns kicked away in the dust outside the Tang Mansion Gate to the north.
Chen Changan originally wanted to be more stable in the carriage, but Li Zhou couldn't resist Li Zhou wanting to imitate the chivalrous man who rode the rivers and lakes in the mouth of the storyteller, so he used some silver money to buy two good horses early in the morning.
No matter how good a horse is, it will be bumpy when it runs, and the cultivation of the two people is not low, and the ordinary bumps can still be endured.
Riding a horse and running dozens of miles away, Jinyang City behind him slowly became smaller, and then he couldn't see clearly.
"Cool!" Li Zhou rode on horseback, feeling the cold wind lapping on his face, and exhaled hot air in his mouth.
"It's pretty cool, but if we ride a horse to the Beihai Sword Pavilion, it may take a year and a half of effort!" Chen Chang'an rode his horse beside him and said with a smile.
"Ahh
Li Zhou was stunned for a moment, then tightened the reins, letting the horse under his crotch slow down, "Why does it take so long?"
Chen Changan also slowed down and said with a smile: "Jin Kingdom is a small border land in Yunzhou, and Beihai is the northernmost part of Yunzhou, and there are tens of millions of miles away from each other, and it is said that it is less for a year and a half!"
Li Zhou was silent for a moment, feeling that his cultivation path seemed to be a little different from what the storyteller said, and said, "Then how can we go to Yunzhou without riding a horse?"
Chen Changan's eyes swept and said: "When you reach the Cultivation God Realm, you can fly over in the sky, or you can wait out of the Jin Kingdom to find a city in the cultivation world, find a chamber of commerce, and take their spirit boat!"
"Oh!" Li Zhou was relieved when he heard this, and then shook the reins in his hand and said, "Then hurry up, I can't wait to see it."
"Okay!" Chen Changan replied with a smile, and he was also a little expectant.
Two people and two horses, stepping on the snow, day and night, three days later, they were about to arrive at the city pass in the north of the Jin Kingdom.
In the evening of this day, the horses under Chen Chang'an's crotch couldn't stand it, and they didn't leave after a few sneezes, and the same was true for the horses under Li Zhou's crotch.
Fortunately, the city pass in the north is in front of you.
Letting go of the two horses that had straddled down, they headed straight for the city pass.
Stepping into the faded old city gates, you can see many bonfires lit by the roadside, torches planted in the door of the houses swaying and shining, through the old cloth windows, you can see the charcoal basins and ondols burning in their houses, the stout women and the children with dirty faces.
This northern city is not as lit as Jinyang, except for a few luxurious restaurants and chambers of commerce, the entire city is lit by coal lamps or torches.
Walking along the snow-covered streets, everywhere you look, except for a few border soldiers, most of them are cultivators living here, the number of mortals is extremely rare, and these cultivators are all above the Guanzi realm, although they are some rough men who are not young, but they are also much better than the monks in Jinyang City.
Compared with Chen Changan and Li Zhou, who were dressed in brocade clothes, their robes were more plain.
However, no one paid too much attention to Chen Chang'an and the others, and the cultivators who lived here did not look down on the worldly money and silver taels, they were the demon beasts and heavenly treasures on the snowy field outside the northern city.
"It seems that I have to stay here for a night, first look in the city to see if there is a chamber of commerce in the cultivation world, I hope there is a spirit boat to go to Beihai!" Chen Changan climbed up the North City Tower, looked at the thousands of miles of snow in the night, and couldn't help but speak.
This snowfield can still be seen faintly under the moonlight and starlight of the sky.
Standing on the city wall for half a sound, from time to time you can hear a few cold wolf howls and monster cries coming from the snowfield, and you can see some huge black shadows flying in the air of the snowfield in the distance, falling from time to time, killing some monsters, and at the same time fanning off the few tall pine trees on the snowfield.
This snowy field is dangerous, even for practitioners.
Chen Changan looked at the black shadow in the snow field, and felt the breath of several fourth-order demon beasts, the fourth-order demon beasts were no longer weaker than the monks of the God Cultivation Realm or the warlocks of the Four Elephant Realm, and the demon beasts grew in the snow fields and occupied a favorable location, if an inexperienced cultivator of the same realm entered, it was very likely that they would fall into the belly of the demon beast and be eaten.
With this thousand miles of snow in the north, it is no wonder that the Jin Kingdom has rarely been in contact with the cultivation world for many years, and there are not many cultivators who are willing to pass through this dangerous snow Yuan Jin Kingdom, a secular country where the aura is thin and birds don't.
"I hope there is a chamber of commerce in the cultivation world!" Li Zhou exhaled hot air on his hands, and then rubbed it vigorously.
He could also see the danger in the snowfield, if there was no Chamber of Commerce in the Cultivation Realm in this northern city, then they might have to walk through this dangerous snowfield by themselves, thinking about it was a little hairy.
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is often very skinny.
After several hours of investigation and personal searching, the two finally determined that although there were many cultivators in the northern city, there was really no chamber of commerce opened by the forces of the cultivation world, and the only possibility for them to go to the cultivation world was to go through the snow field, or from the southern border of the Jin Kingdom to the secular countries such as the departure country, and go around a big circle to get out.
"Rest for the night, let's go into the snow tomorrow!"
Between detouring from the south and the major secular countries and walking through the snowfield, Chen Changan chose the latter, Li Zhou nodded in agreement, after all, a young man should have some blood after all.
The two of them found an inn, which was not luxurious, but it was clean, and it was about a street away from the North City Gate, which was also convenient for them to get out of the snow field tomorrow.
Chen Changan walked into the inn and greeted them with a shopkeeper about forty years old, with two slender beards and a pair of eyes like mice, but his expression was cold and not tactful and flattering.
The middle-aged shopkeeper smiled at them and said, "Do you two live in the hotel or do you eat?"
"One room!"
Chen Changan turned over his hand and took out a stack of golden tickets in the palm of his hand, this stack of golden tickets is enough to buy a good courtyard in Jinyang City, and even marry a few beautiful wives and concubines.
The middle-aged shopkeeper had a slightly mocking look on his face.
In the world, the golden ticket is naturally an excellent thing, the most precious, but the northern city is already a city of cultivators, although there is no chamber of commerce in the cultivation world to open here, but it does not affect the people here to learn the rules of the cultivation world.
Of course, the most precious thing in the cultivation world is not gold, but spiritual jade, or spiritual crystal.
Chen Changan was stunned for a moment, and then understood what was going on, turned over his hand and took out a piece of spirit crystal and handed it over.
Only then did the middle-aged shopkeeper show a welcoming smile on his face, took the spirit crystal and put it away, bowed down to the solid wood corridor stairs on the side and said, "Two upstairs, please!"
The middle-aged shopkeeper led Chen Changan and Li Zhou to the third floor, and gave them a wooden sign, and asked them to enter the room to rest according to the door number on the wooden card.
"Bring some food and drinks!"
Li Zhou remembered that the storyteller said that the chivalrous guests who lived in the hotel would have to serve some wine and food, and immediately learned it in a good way.
The middle-aged shopkeeper took the spirit jade in Li Zhou's hand, the smile on his face became even brighter, and said, "Send it to the two guest officers immediately!"
Watching the middle-aged shopkeeper go downstairs, Li Zhou smiled with satisfaction, in his opinion, he already had a bit of a chivalrous demeanor.
Chen Changan shook his head helplessly when he saw this, and then found the third room with the door number.
What is more satisfying is that they are the only ones on the huge third floor who rent out, and it can be much cleaner at night.
The faint candle flame lit up in the room, and Chen Changan lazily lay on the wooden couch in the room.
Li Zhou looked at everything in this inn with a fresh feeling, as if he wanted to see if there was the leaky window mentioned in the book, the bronze mirror with hidden weapons, or the roof of the assassin.
After searching for a while, the windows were covered with coarse cloth, and there were no bronze mirrors in the house, and there was no popularity on the roof.
Li Zhou sighed, and also learned from Chen Changan to lie on the wooden couch.
After a while, the shopkeeper loosened the wine and food and put it in the house.
The two of them poured a glass and drank it.
"Not bad!"
"Not bad!"
After three days of driving, only eating some dry food on the road, the beaks of the two have long faded out of the birds, and now they feel that it is okay to eat some ordinary wine and food.
While they were eating and drinking, dozens of cultivators dressed in night clothes appeared around the inn and sneaked into the night.
"Do it three more, remember not to leave traces!"
A low voice rang out in the night.
"Yes!"
An equally low voice responded, neatly numbered, as if professionally trained.