After Li Jing thanked the sergeant guarding the door, he took Nezha and others to lead the donkey and pulled the monkey into the city.

After entering the city, there is a blue stone paved road, on the right side of the road there is a carved beam and painted building, the building is hung above the top of a plaque, on which three golden characters are written: tax office.

Li Jing asked Nezha and the others to wait outside, and he entered the tax official office alone, and there were four old men in the uniforms of the sect in the tax office, who were collecting taxes here on behalf of their respective sects.

After all, Li Jing was a villager who had entered the city, and when he saw the four well-dressed tax officials, he said a little timidly:

"Four adults, I want to buy four passes. ”

An old man in a purple uniform, one of the four tax collectors, stood up and laughed:

"Welcome, I am Elder Qiu of the Xuanwu Sect, if you are willing to work and live on the territory of our Xuanwu Sect, you only need to pay one hundred and twenty catties of Xuanwu spirit stones to get four passes, of course, you can also choose to go to the territory of other sects, but then you will have to pay an extra fifty catties to one hundred catties of spirit stones. ”

Li Jing was a little stunned when he heard this, he thought that one hundred and twenty catties of spirit stones could enter and exit freely in Wuzhou City, and it turned out that he could only walk freely on the territory of Xuanwu Sect.

The tax collectors sent by the other three sects looked at Li Jing coldly, their eyes were full of disdain, they were the elders of the Immortal Crane Sect, the Thunder Fire Sect, and the Tiangang Sect, the territory they occupied had a large population, prosperous business, and enough coolies to dig spirit stones, so they were not interested in coolies, and only martial artists with cultivation could let them take a high look.

The output of the ore veins occupied by the Xuanwu Sect is not high, so there are few people who mine, and the business will not prosper if there are few people on the territory, and the tax revenue of the sect is naturally not much, and it is the worst developed among the four major sects in Wuzhou City, and it is in urgent need of people to mine or do business.

This was also the reason why the elders of the Xuanwu Sect were enthusiastic about Li Jing.

Li Jing saw that he had no choice, so he had to put the one hundred and twenty catties of spirit stones he was carrying on his shoulders in front of Elder Qiu and said:

"I want four passes. ”

Elder Qiu took out four wooden plaques of the same size from the cloth bag beside him, then took out another brush, dipped the inkstone with black ink, wrote a Qiu character on each wooden plaque, and handed the wooden plaque to Li Jing after writing, saying:

"Take the pass and walk along the main road, turn left after the first intersection, and after you reach the end, it is the territory of our Xuanwu Sect, and you can enter by showing the pass. ”

After Li Jing took the four wooden plaques, he bowed to Elder Qiu and thanked him, and then walked out of the tax office, looking at the bluestone avenue leading to the city, his heart full of hope.

As soon as Li Jing came out of the tax office, Nezha, Yang Jian and Zhu Gangguan surrounded him, their faces were full of excitement, if they could live in Wuzhou City, they would not be eaten by monsters.

Li Jing handed out the pass to the three and reported to Mao Xiaowei:

"Teacher, one hundred and twenty catties of spirit stones can only get the pass of the Xuanwu Sect, let's go to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwu Sect now. ”

"Okay, you lead the way. ”

Mao Xiaowei now wants to find an inn to sleep in, so he can't wait to say.

So Li Jing walked in the front, Mao Xiaowei followed Li Jing closely, Nezha and Yang Jian followed behind Mao Xiaowei with Daji on his back, and Zhu Gangguan, who pretended to be a monkey man, led Sun Wukong to walk at the end.

According to the route pointed out by Elder Qiu, Li Jing turned left at the first intersection he saw, got on a small road, and walked to the end of that path, Li Jing and the others saw an archway standing at the end of the road.

On the archway, there are five big characters written on the territory of Xuanwu Sect.

Under the archway, two Xuanwu Sect disciples wearing black robes stood with Mo swords, Li Jing walked up with a smile on his face, and said to the two disciples guarding the door:

"My lords, this is our pass. ”

Li Jing handed over the four passes stamped with the Great Seal of the Xuanwu Sect.

An unusually strong Xuanwu Sect disciple glanced at the pass, then at Nezha and the others behind Li Jing, and said playfully:

"Go inside, but remember to keep an eye on your donkey, because the disciples of the sect haven't eaten meat for a long time. ”

Li Jing hurriedly thanked the Xuanwu Sect disciple for the reminder, and then walked into the Xuanwu Sect's territory first, and his mind imagined what would happen to the Xuanwu Sect disciple after he was violently kicked by Tianzun?

The Xuanwu-controlled territory was connected by several intersecting tic-tac-toe streets, lined with houses and shops.

The sect of the Xuanwu Sect is in the center of the tic-tac-toe road network, and the spirit stone mine that the people rely on for their livelihood is also in the sect, which is closely protected by the disciples of the Xuanwu Sect.

The most important job of the residents of the city every day is to go to the sect to mine, and only a small number of people are doing business outside the sect.

After Li Jing led everyone around the territory controlled by the Xuanwu Sect, he finally found a two-story inn.

The inn looked very deserted, except for a middle-aged fat man dressed as a shopkeeper napping behind the counter by the inn door.

Li Jing walked in first, knocked on the counter with his knuckles and said:

"Shopkeeper, open me two rooms. ”

The shopkeeper raised his head, opened his sleepy eyes, looked at Li Jing and the donkey behind Li Jing and said:

"One room is two taels of basalt spirit stones for one day, and two rooms are four taels, how many days do you plan to stay?"

Li Jing still has ten catties of spirit stones on his body, and one catty of spirit stones is ten taels, and he can only stay for two days when he opens two guest rooms.

I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find a job for two days, so Li Jing paid two catties of spirit stones first and opened a guest room for five days.

The shopkeeper accepted the spirit stone, gave Li Jing two keys, and asked Li Jing and the others to go upstairs to find a guest room by themselves.

Li Jing took the key and went upstairs to find the guest room first, Mao Xiaowei was already sleepy, so he yawned and followed Li Jing upstairs.

The shopkeeper was about to sleep again, but when he saw a donkey going upstairs, his eyes suddenly widened, and he shouted at Li Jing:

"Hey, man, tie your donkey outside, this brute has soiled the floor of my house. ”

Hearing this, Mao Xiaowei looked at the thin layer of dust on the wooden floor, and was speechless for a while.

Li Jing was also a little embarrassed, and led the donkey into the guest room to live together, which was indeed something that had never happened since ancient times, but Lord Tianzun was not an ordinary donkey, it was an immortal who could spell!

If you don't let Lord Tianzun live in the guest room, I'm afraid Lord Tianzun will demolish this inn.

So Li Jing thought like this, so he had to lie:

"Shopkeeper, this is the patron saint of our village, not a donkey, you don't want to talk nonsense, if you anger the patron saint, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

The shopkeeper also heard the legend of the guardian god, it is said that the guardian god is the ancestor of the human race and can't bear to see the human race being poisoned by the demon race, so he sent the guardian god to protect the human race.

The Patronus takes a variety of forms, sometimes a tree, sometimes an animal.

Therefore, it is not impossible to say that the donkey is the guardian saint, but it is really awkward to let a donkey live in the guest room, so the shopkeeper said to Li Jing:

"If you want the patron saint of your village to live in the guest room, you must pay another pound of basalt spirit stones. ”