"Okay, okay, I think you are the most skilled sycophant in the history of the Ding family, there is no one, it is not a bad thing to keep you away from the young master. In wartime, I will be the first to let you charge with the death squad, so that you will not have the opportunity to shake the fighting spirit of the army. The old money man looked at Ding Cai with disdain.

Ding Xiaolian moved lightly with broken steps, slightly widening the distance between herself and Ding Cai, and made her stand clear; Ding Cai smiled vigorously, and it is estimated that he is still a little proud in his heart, the best of the Ding family.

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In March 4872, the snow on the northern land had melted, and countless green grasses stubbornly burrowed out of the ground, adding a vibrant color to the gray earth.

Ding Kui and Ao Yu did not take a boat directly to the northern empire, and not long after leaving Spring and Autumn City, they found a small city to get off the boat, bought two good pure-blooded thunder horses, and galloped towards the north.

On the border between the Lu State and the Gu Yuan Empire, they bribed the border officials, made up two identity certificates of the merchants of the Lu State, and slipped into the Gu Yuan Empire with such a swagger.

"We ran on the grassland for two days, and we never saw a mountain, where did the river on this grassland come from?" Ao Yu looked into the distance on horseback, and there were grasslands as far as his eye could see, and there were only two people, him and Ding Kui.

"The northernmost point of the Shenyuan Continent is called the 'Extremely Frozen Ice Field', and the Tongyuan River flows from there, and the river here may also originate from the 'Extremely Frozen Ice Field'. "Ding Kui doesn't know much more about the north than Ao Yu, although he still has a big brother of the prince of the Gu Yuan Empire.

"This grassland is really big, although it is not as big as my family's territorial waters, but it still gives me the feeling that it is vast, and the cattle and horses raised on it are enough for me to eat for a lifetime. Ao Yu opened his arms, as if to embrace this wonderful world.

Ding Kui did not continue to wear the magician's robe, but changed into the dress of a noble son, wearing a blue and white satin robe, with a close-fitting leather coat inside, and it was impossible to tell what kind of professional fighter he was from the outside.

"Look at your little bit of talent, I think about eating for a lifetime, you should learn more from me, and when you have time, you can delve into magic and deepen your understanding of the composition of the world, and it is not a dream to be promoted to level nine in the future." Ding Kui had a yearning look on his face.

With a flick of the horsewhip, Ao Yu ran to the side for a while, "You have to say hello in advance when you study magic, the damage caused is getting higher and higher day by day, even I feel that it is dangerous, before you reach the ninth level, I will be killed by you." ”

During these days, as long as no one else is around, Ding Kui will study magic. He was no longer satisfied with the second-level composite magic of the Wind and Fire Blade, and had recently begun to study how to fuse the Wall of Fire and the Whirlwind Technique, bent on creating a rotating wall of fire.

Not to mention the rotating wall of fire, even the whirlwind technique with fire is also very terrifying, and the original control magic brings strong lethality, and it doesn't give you a way to live at all. However, this is a bit beyond the scope of Ding Kui's ability, and he has not yet tossed his eyebrows.

Other wand magicians would think that Ding Kui was crazy if they wanted to know what he was doing, even if he successfully researched it, such a complex change of magic would consume a huge amount of mana, and the magic power of a wand mage alone would only be enough to cast a few compound spells such as a rotating wall of fire.

No one knew what was going on in Ding Kui's body, and the magic power in his Divine Sense Sea was constantly growing. It is recorded in Tai Shugong's magic notes that there is a very thick barrier between the ninth and tenth meridians, and after reaching the peak of the wand magician, it takes a long time to grind this barrier, and at this time, all the magic power cultivated is used to grind the barrier, and the magic power in the body will not increase.

Ding Kui doesn't need to consume magic power to grind barriers, there is more and more magic power in the sea of divine consciousness, and the platform under Xiao Ding Kui's feet is becoming more and more condensed. The small round platform is gradually getting bigger, and the bottom is slowly thickening.

His magic power at this time is estimated to have surpassed that of all staff magicians, and he can't see the opportunity to break through in a short period of time, and he doesn't know how to break through and advance, he only knows that his magic power will continue to grow.

There is an introduction to the teacher's magic notes, he knows that he is different from normal magicians, and the increase in mana does not see any harm for the time being, and the benefits are obvious, there is enough magic power for him to squander.

"Don't worry, I won't study magic while riding a horse, in case the horse is burned to death, how long will I have to run to find a herdsman to buy a horse?" Ding Kui was made to cry and laugh by Ao Yu.

"That's right, I haven't seen a grazing person until now in the morning, have you entered the territory of the 'Northern Plains Two-Headed Wolf' again?" Ao Yu took a few breaths.

"The royal family of the Gu Yuan Empire is really bold enough not to send people to clean up the demonic beasts on the grassland, it is estimated that they want to use these demonic beasts to hone the people, so that they can always maintain a sense of crisis and maintain a fierce folk style that is ready to fight at any time. "Ding Kui discovered the differences between the Gu Yuan Empire and the Shaodian Kingdom.

This is the biggest difference between the two major empires in the north and the countries in the south, they will not wipe out the demonic beasts in the country, only if the number of demonic beasts in a certain area exceeds the controllable range, they will send elite legions to kill the extra demonic beasts.

It is precisely in this way that the quality of the army of the Northern Empire is higher than that of the Southern Kingdom, and without the natural obstacle of the Hengduan Mountains, the armies of the Gu Yuan Empire and the Tongbei Empire will probably sweep through the south.

In the years after the opening of the golden waterway, the Shaodian Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom took the initiative to destroy all the portals left by the demons in their own territory, and these portals were used to cross the Hengduan Mountain Range.

There was also a secret naval agreement between the southern states, whereby the navies of Qi, Cao, and Meng in the east would form a wing to cruise on the east coast of the Shenyuan Continent to prevent the southern invasion of the Tongbei Empire's navy, while the Shaodian and their own naval wings would cruise on the west coast to prevent the Gu Yuan Empire's fleet from moving south.

Tongyuan River has Lu State blocked at the mouth of the golden waterway, the warships of the two empires cannot pass, once Lu State is attacked, the southern countries will go all out to rescue.

"Those two-headed wolves are really unpalatable, otherwise I will eat them all and let the herders here raise more cattle and horses. Ao Yu remembered the smell of the "two-headed wolf in the northern plains" and spat on the ground.

The two-headed wolf of the Northern Plains, a third-level earth-based demonic beast, has natural magic skills such as ground thorns and stone bullets, and generally only appears in the grasslands in the northern part of the continent.

"Don't mess around, eating up the two-headed wolf in the Northern Plains will attract a master to investigate, there are many masters in the Northern Empire, and you can't run away if you are discovered. Ding Kui's scalp tightened, and he quickly knocked the greedy dragon.

They have encountered several groups of wandering knights in the past few days, several of them are fearless knights, and they may not be able to beat Ao Yu, but there is no problem in entanglement him. These people didn't deliberately kill the two-headed wolf in the northern plains, and Ao Yu was going to run away and eat it all, which would cause big trouble.

The two of them ran on the boundless grassland for a few more days, and finally ran west to the edge of the grassland, and came to the first city, Zhushan City.

Zhushan City is named after the Zhushan Mountain on the edge of the city, which is not high, only about three or four hundred meters high, and looks high on the edge of the grassland.

It is close to the grassland, and unlike the inland cities, the city wall is only ten meters high, which is enough to block the charge of the war horses; there are many low wooden stakes nailed to the outside of the city wall, which can prevent both cavalry and infantry, so it can be seen that this place is not very peaceful; many bricks of the east city wall are very smooth, and the city wall has not been installed for a long time, and there are traces of suspected war.

There are not many outsiders in and out of Zhushan City, let alone foreigners, Ding Kui and Ao Yu paid double the city gate tax before being released, and Lu Guo, who has various provisions for exemption from city gate tax, is a world apart.

The people in the city were very curious about Ding Kui, who spoke with a Shaodian accent, and some good deeds began to follow them from the city gate, only to walk a few streets, and then a large group of children followed.

Looking at the group of ragged and thin-skinned children behind him, Ding Kui couldn't bear it, found a grain store, bought a lot of dry food and distributed it to the group of children.

This stabbed the hornet's nest, and more children and adults like victims rushed to Ding Kui's side, and even the street where the food store was located was crowded.

After seeing the city, Ding Kui took out a lot of coins and carried them with him, and although there were many people begging for dry food, he could still afford to pay for it.

Ding Kui found a shopkeeper and said to him: "Shopkeeper, let the guys do me a favor, these people who come, each of them will be given a dry food, keep an eye on everyone, don't let people receive more." How much does it cost in the end, I'll settle it for you. ”

"Well, here is a kind person, you can rest assured, these are honest people, not those idle people, eating and drinking, they will not receive more dry food. Guys, all move, hurry up and move the dry food out of the warehouse. The shopkeeper hurriedly urged the guys in the store.

"Have you suffered a disaster here? Why can't so many people have enough to eat?" Ding Kui asked.

"Well, I can't talk about this. Guest, you are a foreigner, and you are also a well-meaning person, this matter has nothing to do with you, so you had better not ask. The shopkeeper of the grain shop wanted to talk and stopped, and he didn't want to say more to Ding Kui.

"Oh, it's inconvenient for the shopkeeper to say it, so I'll just ask casually. Ding Kui felt that something was wrong, but people opened the door to do business, and it was their duty to avoid right and wrong as much as possible, and to force others to say that they were harming others.

"I'm sorry, guest, I'll give you a 20% discount on these dry foods today, they are all to help the locals, I'm embarrassed to charge more from you." The shopkeeper still has a little conscience and takes the initiative to give Ding Kui a discount.

The amount of dry food for hundreds of people a day is not worth a few dollars, and it is less than a gold coin in total, Ding Kui insisted on giving the shopkeeper a gold coin, "Don't look for this money, you secretly distribute some food to the elderly and children, it is more difficult for them to earn money." ”

Everyone who received the food had to thank Ding Kui in person, Ding Kui was afraid of trouble, and finally left with Ao Yu through the back door of the grain store.

"Let's go, go to the city lord's mansion and have a look, I want to see what kind of city lord makes so many people under his rule not have enough to eat. "If Ding Kui wants to find out what happened, it is most direct to find out from the city lord.

Ao Yu didn't understand why Ding Kui was looking for the city lord, but it was nothing bad for him, as long as he didn't go to those who could dig up his demon core.