Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Arrogance of Fame

What fell was a young male cultivator, not very tall, with shaved shoulders and a thin waist, a fair complexion, small eyes but very smart, and very clever. He looked Su Aotian up and down, then showed disdain, turned his head to the female cultivator and said, "Senior Sister Lin, it's important to be in a hurry, why waste time on this kind of person?"

Senior Sister Lin said: "Senior Brother Chunyu, my storage bag is on this guy, he only gave out sixty spirit coins, and he is angry with me." ”

Senior Brother Chunyu said: "This person has poor qualifications and low cultivation, and sixty spirit coins are estimated to be all his belongings, and he can't afford to buy them if they are more expensive." ”

Su Aotian still didn't know what they were talking about, and couldn't help but say: "This fellow Daoist, we don't know anything in our lives, you recognize the wrong person." Senior Sister Lin said angrily: "Of course you and I haven't seen it, but the things I refine have my unique aura, and I felt it when it flew over your head just now." Let me ask you, do you have a storage bag on you that you got from the Hongwu City auction?"

When Su Aotian heard this, he suddenly realized, and secretly said that the storage bag made of the disillusioned fox fur that Brother Mo photographed for me that day was from this woman's hand. After this storage bag was photographed that day, it didn't contain anything, but later got a big storage bag from Zhou Quanfeng, and some miscellaneous things were placed in this big storage bag, and the three exercises of Soul Splitting Technique, Hundred Herbs Divine Wood Decision and Qiankun Water Scripture were received in this small storage bag. At this time, when she heard this female cultivator ask, she couldn't help but secretly complain: "If she is determined to check my storage bag and finds these three exercises, will she take it?" While secretly guarding herself, she said: "Yes, I won this storage bag at the auction in Hongwu City that day, and I don't want it to be made by a fellow Daoist, it's really a coincidence." ”

Senior Sister Lin asked angrily, "It's good if it's you." Let me ask you, why did you only give out sixty spirit coins that day?"

Su Aotian was a little crying and laughing when she asked, and said: "At that time, I was the only one who bided, I bid sixty, no one followed, and I had no choice." ”

Senior Sister Lin couldn't hold back her face, and said, "For such a beautiful shopping bag, why don't you just bid for 100, 200, or 300? ”

Su Aotian couldn't help but laugh: "The auction is naturally a high price, I bid sixty, also to facilitate bidding with others, how do you know that no one is following? ”

Senior Sister Lin still wanted to speak, but Senior Brother Chunyu was already a little impatient, and said: "Senior Sister, if you are not satisfied, just let him hand over the storage bag." ”

Senior Sister Lin shook her head and said, "Storage bags are not uncommon for me, I'm just angry that I only sold sixty spirit coins." As a genius refiner of the Dao Yuan Temple, the first work I refined was actually only sold for sixty spirit coins, and it was annoying to think about it!" Su Aotian couldn't help but remember that when the finale treasure ice silver ring was auctioned that day, the Dao Yuan Temple had also bid for it, but then the price was too high and he gave up. I thought that it must have been this woman's division commander who took her to the auction at that time.

Senior Brother Chun Yu said: "Since you are not rare, then let's hurry, if you go back, the master will be angry again." "Pull Senior Sister Lin to make a gesture and fly away.

Su Aotian thought of something, and couldn't help asking: "Two Daoist friends, slow down, since you are a disciple of the Dao Yuan Temple, I want to inquire with you, can you tell me?"

Senior Brother Chun Yu was already impatient, and he was even more displeased when he heard this, and opened his mouth to reprimand: "Don't open your mouth to Daoyou, you are so affectionate when you keep your mouth shut, how can you be a Taoist friend with my Dao Yuanguan disciples?

Su Aotian originally remembered that when he was a child, he participated in the selection of cultivation seedlings in Hongwu City, and vaguely remembered that Xiao Ni, Da Hu, Zhang Xiaotong, and Li Da Niu were picked up by several sects such as Luoxia Valley, but he didn't know what sect they had entered. Today, seeing the two of them claiming to be disciples of the Dao Yuan Temple, they suddenly thought of their childhood companions, and couldn't help but inquire for a while, but they attracted a scolding from this Chun Yu senior brother, and couldn't help but be angry in their hearts, and secretly said: "What's so great about the Dao Yuan Temple? You are just a Qi refining cultivator, why is it wrong to call you a Taoist friend?"

Although Senior Sister Lin was worried about the price of the storage bag, her temperament was kinder than that of Senior Brother Chunyu, and when she heard him say this, she said: "Senior Brother Chunyu, since he said so, maybe he really has a relationship with a disciple in the sect." Just let him ask. He turned his head to Su Aotian and said, "Who do you want to inquire?" Su Aotian didn't want to talk to the two of them anymore, but when Senior Sister Lin asked, he said again: "I don't know if when your sect selected disciples in Hongwu City more than ten years ago, did it choose people named Qin Xiaoni, Song Dahu, Zhang Xiaotong, and Li Daniu?"

Hearing this, Senior Sister Lin frowned slightly, and her disdain for Senior Brother Chun was even stronger, and she didn't pay attention to Su Aotian, and only said to Senior Sister Lin: "I just said don't pay attention to him, he thinks that the Taoist Temple is a place, and the disciple's name is the same as their people in the mountains and villages, do cats and dogs all bark? Don't talk to him, let's go." ”

Senior Sister Lin said: "Senior brother, this person must have never seen the world, but he once photographed my storage bag, and he is also related to me." Didn't the master say that my Taoist view of the fate of a school of practice, the most important fate, all the laws in the world have roots, and if you form more good karma, you will definitely be able to eliminate bad karma. I will make a good relationship with him today. He said to Su Aotian: "There is no disciple in my Dao Yuan Temple with the name you said, if you want to inquire about these people, it is better to go all the way from here and go to the Yuanwu City in front to find it." This Yuanwu City is a second-level big city, my Dao Yuan Temple, Luoxia Valley, and Jade Sword Gate all have a garrison in the city, and it is also a cultivation center city with a radius of tens of thousands of miles, and we are also going there, where we may be able to find the person you are looking for. ”

Su Aotian listened and said, "Thank you for telling me, I am grateful." ”

Senior Sister Lin didn't say anything more, and Senior Brother Chunyu took off into the air, and disappeared from the sky after a while.

After the two left, Su Aotian muttered about a cup of tea, thinking that he didn't have any destination, so it would be good to go to Nahongwu City first, so he followed what Senior Sister Lin said, and walked along the road.

Now he is already a cultivator in the fourth stage of qi refining, although he can't fly, but his foot distance is many times faster than that of mortals, Rao is so, he still walked on the road for more than half a month before he saw a big city in front of him.

In the last three or four days, I met a number of monks on and off on the road, some in the direction of the city and some in the opposite direction. There were also some small villages and towns on the road, and when he looked at them, he found that most of them were mortals, and there were also a small number of monks. This situation is similar to that of Hongwu City.

The closer I got, the more I saw the appearance of this city, and saw that its architectural style type was similar to that of Hongwu City, but the city wall was taller and covered an area much larger than Hongwu City. In front of the city gate, Su Aotian waited in line, and after paying the entrance tax, he smoothly entered Yuanwu City.

With the experience of living in Hongwu City, after Su Aotian entered the city, he walked straight along the avenue towards the city center, and walked for half an hour before he saw the tall dome building on the central square, which, according to the master, was the auction hall of Yuanwu City. There are a number of buildings lined up on both sides, including guilds.

Su Aotian entered the guild hall, and the layout inside was no different from Hongwu City, and he couldn't help but have a familiar feeling. He took a look and found that the service staff behind the counter were all young female cultivators from the first and second stages of Qi refining, with excellent looks and figures, soft-spoken and amiable smiles. I thought in my heart: "The big city is extraordinary, and it is all the work done by mortals in Hongwu City, but here it is let the monks do it." As he thought, he began to look at the task on the wall. The tasks here are also divided into three levels, he first checked the human-level tasks, and saw that the first line on the task board on the wall reads: "Third-level fierce beast giant winged black bat blood, twenty spirit coins for a bottle" "Third-level fierce beast red eyes yellow wolf fur, fifteen spirit coins" and so on, a dozen or so are third-level fierce beasts, and there are only a few second-level fierce beasts, and there are only a few second-level fierce beasts, and he can't help but secretly speak: "Good guy, third-level fierce beasts, this is already a heaven-level task in Hongwu City, and it is a human-level task here." "Turning his head and looking at the earth-level and heaven-level tasks, I haven't heard of the names of some medicinal materials, and the level of the fierce beast has even been mentioned as level six, it seems that there are Zhuji monks who have come here to take over the task. I secretly groaned in my heart: "The guild's task can't be done for the time being, what other way is there to earn spirit coins?"

Because of the amount of money sent from Zhou Quanfeng, there is no shortage of spirit coins for the time being, but it is not a way to sit and eat the sky, Su Aotian walked out of the guild hall while thinking about it. "There are a lot of monks here, and not all of them are foundation building monks, and they go around to see how they all earn spirit coins. Wandering around at will, some shops, pawn shops, etc. are no different from Hongwu City, wandering for a while, suddenly saw a hall, on which the words "recruiting office" were written, and secretly thought: "What is this, Hongwu City does not have it, it is better to go in and have a look." So he walked into the hall.

The hall was very empty, with dozens of tables set up, and a few tables of monks were drinking. Under the wall facing the door, there was a counter, and behind the counter was a shelf with dozens of jars of wine. There were three people behind the counter, chatting with each other. Seeing Su Aotian come in, everyone in the hall looked at him, and continued to drink and chat, and no one took the initiative to greet him.

Seeing this, Su Aotian walked to the counter and saw that these three people were also low-level Qi refining cultivators, but they were similar to the cultivation of the service staff in the guild hall. So I said hello first: "Fellow Daoist, please." ”

The three people stopped chatting and saluted back, and one of them said, "What's the matter with Daoyou?"

Su Aotian then asked, "I don't know what you're doing here, do you need manpower?"

When the man heard this, he looked at Su Aotian for a moment, and said with a smile: "Daoist friends must be the first time to come to Yuanwu City." Our recruitment office is a place for you to recruit, you can register with me, and then there will be employers to recruit people, most of them escort goods and personnel, so that you can earn some money. Of course, we will also take some commissions from the remuneration of Taoist friends. ”

Su Aotian secretly said that this was not a bad way, so he said: "In this case, then please trouble Daoist friends to register with me." The man took out a jade plaque, asked Su Aotian about his name, cultivation and other information, and entered his information into the jade plaque. Then he gave Su Aotian a transmission note and said: "When an employer comes, we will use the transmission note to inform all Taoist friends, and if you are interested in accepting employment, you can come to the recruitment office to contact." Su Aotian thanked him, took the transmission note, and turned around and walked out of the recruitment office.

After walking around the city for a long time, I planned to find an inn to live in first, and asked about the outrageous price, which was several times more expensive than Hongwu City. Su Aotian went straight to the remote alley, and finally found a family, there were a few vacant houses in the house, and the right was used as a guest room for rent, Su Aotian chose a firewood room, and the price was one spirit coin per month. The facilities in the house are simple, but they are clean, and the location is remote, so no one will disturb them when cultivating, which is not bad.

In this way, I practiced day and night in the house, and occasionally went out to familiarize myself. After a few days, a voice suddenly came from the transmission note: "Hire ten Daoists to go to Chaoyun Peak, cultivate more than three phases of Qi refining, the price starts from one spirit coin, and those who are interested in Daoist friends quickly go to the recruitment hall." ”

When Su Aotian heard this, he immediately rushed to the recruitment office.

It turns out that this Yuanwu City, because it is the cultivation center in this area, not to mention the rich vitality of heaven and earth, the level of refining weapons and refining medicine is extremely high, so it has attracted many monks to cultivate here. However, when the tide rises, all kinds of expenses and expenses are also very high, and the prices are also high. In addition to some large sect families, idlers and others can't afford such an expensive cost, and most of the small families and sects are looking for some areas around where the vitality of heaven and earth is still strong, and some of them are scattered around into small villages. Therefore, many large and small settlements have been formed in the surrounding area, and the exchanges between Yuanwu City are extremely close, and the transportation of materials is also very frequent, causing some ill-intentioned monks to start the idea of robbing money and killing people. In some long places, passing through some peaks and valleys on the way, fierce beasts are often encountered, and over time, such an industry as recruiting mercenaries has been formed.

After Su Aotian arrived at the recruiting office, he saw that there were already some monks in the hall, and a mortal dressed as a butler was sitting at the counter, looking like an employer. This trip to Chaoyun Peak is not far from Hongwu City, at most it is only three or four days of effort, so the remuneration is not high, and a few monks are bargaining with the butler, and the manpower is not yet full. Su Aotian had no objection to the remuneration, and it was quickly negotiated. It was decided that the next day, Yin and Mao would meet at the south gate of the city, and Su Aotian would go back.

There was no word all night, and the next day Su Aotian arrived at the south gate of the city on time, and the housekeeper was already waiting at the south gate of the city with four or five people, including two mortals, three monks, and ten ox carts. This cow is a kind of first-class fierce beast green mangniu domesticated, this beast temperament is more docile, great strength, adult green mangniu can pull 10,000 catties of goods. These ten carts of green cattle pulled no less than 80,000 or 90,000 catties of goods, ores, medicinal materials, metals, and so on. A few of the hired monks came, and in a short time all the men were ready, and the group set out.

As he walked, one of the monks who had attained the highest cultivation level and had reached the fifth stage of Qi refining opened his mouth and said, "Fellow Daoists, since everyone has taken on the same errand, everyone must work together to facilitate the completion of the errand and reduce accidental injuries. In the next Bucai, I would like to make a head start for all of you, and I also ask you to report the level of cultivation and be good at supernatural powers, so that you can make a personal allocation. "Everyone has no objections, once calculated, Su Aotian's cultivation in the fourth phase of qi refining belongs to the middle among everyone, except for the monk in the fifth phase of qi refining, there are three people in the fourth stage of qi refining, and the remaining five people are all in the third stage of qi refining. Everyone is full of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth and the five elements of spiritual roots, and Su Aotian's wood supernatural powers, both offensive and defensive, are featureless, and are arranged in the middle. Two gold monks and one fire monk walked in the front, responsible for Phi Jian Zhirui, three earth monks were in the innermost, responsible for defense, Su Aotian and the other two wood monks and one water monk were responsible for supporting at any time in the middle, and the fifth-stage Qi refining monk was in the center to coordinate. Naturally, the three monks brought by the butler did not go all the way with them.

After the distribution was completed, it was already a short distance, and after turning over a small hill, Yuanwu City was already hidden from time to time, and it was not so real. At night, after setting up the camp, Su Aotian was assigned the second vigil, anyway, he didn't need to sleep and rest, sleeping was also meditation, and it didn't matter when the vigil was. When the monks of the fifth phase saw that although he was a face, he spoke kindly and accepted the assignment cheerfully, but they were also kind and pleasant to him. In this way, the journey was extremely smooth, and after three days, they arrived at the realm of Chaotic Cloud Peak, and after the delivery was completed in the castle of a small family, and after receiving the payment, the group turned around. There were a few monks who wanted to go around to see if they could make a small fortune by the way, and Su Aotian returned to Yuanwu City with the other monks because he was not familiar with the place.

After arriving at the recruiting office and paying the mercenary token, Su Aotian was told that he needed to pay a fee for a spirit coin. He was a cultivator in the fourth stage of Qi refining, and he got two spirit coins for this hire, and he had to hand over half of them at once, so he couldn't help but be surprised, and asked, "How is this cost so high?" The reception monk at the recruiting office explained to him: "The monk is new to the world, and after completing the first employment task, he must pay one spirit coin. In the future, when you earn ten spirit coins, you will pay another one, and so on. Su Aotian said again: "One out of ten is not a lot." The receiving monk said, "We also rely on these to maintain our daily expenses and cultivation, and we are not just done by introducing the task to all the Taoist friends, in case some unscrupulous monks steal and rob the employer's property, we will also be responsible for compensating and recovering the stolen goods, and these expenses are not small." ”