Between the barren mountains and dense forests, a winding path several zhang wide suddenly appeared, and this path suddenly appeared, but I don't know where it extended.

Unlike the lush vegetation on both sides, which is full of life, this path is bare, without a trace of green, and even birds and beasts do not patronize it.

This path is the official road connecting the Wuji Gate and the Cangyue Sect, and almost all monks who come and go will pass through this path.

An old man with white hair and fairy bones appeared at the end of the path, as if he was taking a leisurely walk in the courtyard, and he walked unhurriedly.

But with each step, its body leaps forward more than two feet, as if it can shrink into inches. Coupled with the old man's dress, if a mortal person sees it, he will definitely think that he has seen a fairy.

Behind the old man was a young man of about eighteen or nineteen years old, whose body was several feet above the ground, as if he were as light as nothing. Whenever his body was about to hit the ground, the young man's toes lightly touched the ground, and his body flew several feet into the air, and the young man's speed was the same as that of the old man.

This old man was a seventh-level Qi Refining cultivator, while that young man's cultivation was only a fifth-level Qi Refining Attainment, but the young man's performance was significantly beyond his cultivation.

From a distance, the young man's movements were also very chic, but when he looked closely, he found that the young man's expression was getting more and more ugly.

"Master. The boy only shouted for a moment, and then fell headlong and fell to the ground.

"It hurts, I fell to death. Master, my spiritual power is almost exhausted, and I can't maintain the light body technique. The young man rubbed his aching shoulders and said to the old man in front of him.

When the boy fell, the old man stopped at the first moment.

"Who told you not to practice hard in normal times, hurry up and meditate to recover your spiritual power. The old man glared at the boy fiercely and threw the rope in his hand to the ground.

The other end of the rope was tied around the young man's waist, and it turned out that the young man was dragged forward by the old man just now.

At this time, although the old man was reprimanding the young man, his eyes were not stern.

When the young man had finished his work, he saw that the old man was still holding a brass dry cigarette stick, and he was smoking vigorously.

Wisps of smoke did not dissipate, but surrounded the old man's body, as if an immortal was soaring through the clouds.

"Master, we didn't come here before, and we weren't in such a hurry, why are we in such a hurry this time?" The young man knew that Master would only set off after smoking a small bag of tobacco, so he took the opportunity to ask the doubts in his heart.

"Haven't you heard that it's not safe here lately! If it weren't for the fact that there was only this Fang City nearby renting out land to the public. I'm not going to be here at this time. After the old man exhaled a puff of smoke, he said helplessly.

"Master, have you heard? Some time ago, someone from the Xuanjian Sect killed a fire crow in the late stage of spirit induction, and found two demon beast eggs from its lair, if only we could get those two demon beast eggs, so that we can refine weapons at home. ”

The young man also knew that this was purely his own complaint, and it was said that the two demon beast eggs were bought by a refiner in Fang City for more than six hundred spirit stones. Although his master is also a refiner, he can't even take out sixty spirit stones.

Just as the young man was thinking wildly, the old man's expression suddenly became nervous, and he came to the young man in a vertical step, protecting the young man behind him.

The young man stretched his neck and looked forward from the position of the old man's shoulder, only to see three black figures appear on the other side of the path, moving quickly in this direction, and the young man's face turned white at once.

"Master

"Shall we meet the bandits?" the boy asked with a shudder.

The old man didn't answer the young man, but just looked ahead with a solemn expression, and the brass dry cigarette stick in his hand stood on his chest like a sword.

The three black figures were like lightning speeds, and after a while, they arrived in front of the two of them and stopped.

The leader hugged his fist at the old man and the young man: "Two fellow Daoists, please rest assured, we have just checked the road ahead, there is no problem, you can walk with confidence." ”

After speaking, the three men did not stop any longer, and continued to gallop forward.

"Master, who are they? They don't look like bandits. After the three of them had gone away, the young man asked in a low voice.

"Don't talk nonsense, looking at their costumes, they should be monks from Qishifang City, let's hurry up. When the old man finished speaking, he picked up the rope from the ground and walked forward.

"Master, slow down, slow down, I'm not ready. The young man shouted while driving his spiritual power, although he was dragged by the master, and finally was "flying a kite" again.

The three black figures slowed to a halt after speeding for some distance. These three black figures are Su Qinghai, Jiang Da, and Xiao An.

Xiao An looked at the Shenxing talisman on his leg that had just turned into ashes with some regret, this was a seventh-layer talisman for refining qi, and three spirit stones for one talisman were consumed in less than half a day.

Among the three people who inspected Fang City, he and Jiang Da were both at the seventh level of qi refining, while Su Qinghai was at the eighth level of qi refining, and the price of the talisman was more expensive, with four spirit stones per talisman.

The three of them inspected the outside of Fang City, consuming six Qi Refining Seventh-Layer Divine Talismans and three Qi Refining Eight-Layer Divine Talismans every day, and these talismans alone required thirty spirit stones.

A few people came out to expel the bandits around Fang City, and they needed to maintain their energy and physical strength to deal with possible dangers.

Using the Divine Talisman to travel is not only fast, but also consumes very little spiritual power from the monk himself.

"Let's change the spirit talisman in a while, let's take a rest and leave later. Su Qinghai waved his hand, stopping Xiao An and Jiang Da from changing to a new Divine Talisman.

"Senior Brother Xiao, Senior Brother Jiang, try this. While speaking, Su Qinghai took out two jade bottles and pointed them to Xiao An and Jiang Da.

Xiao An opened the jade bottle, and a fragrance came to his face, this aroma was not a fragrance, but the aroma of food.

"What is this?" Xiao An poured out a dark brown elixir.

Su Qinghai saw Xiao An's puzzled expression, and took the initiative to explain: "This is the Huiyuan Dan refined from demon beast meat, this thing is equivalent to condensing the demon beast meat we usually eat, and there is no need to deliberately refine it when it is eaten in the stomach."

It's noon now, and let's eat one pill each, which is equivalent to lunch. When this mission is completed, I will take everyone to have a good meal. ”

After finishing speaking, Su Qinghai took out another jade bottle, poured out an identical pill and swallowed it into his abdomen, Xiao An and Jiang Da also swallowed one each.

"Senior Brother Xiao, I was a little anxious yesterday, and my attitude was a little poor, please don't take it to heart."

Before leaving, Su Qinghai leaned over to Xiao An and whispered.

......

Eight days later, the drunken spirit of Qishifang City.

Su Qinghai, Xiao An and Jiang Da walked out of the restaurant, and several of them looked full of wine and food.

"It's been hard work for everyone these days, so you don't have to go to Fang City to inspect outside the city this afternoon, you can take a good rest. After Su Qinghai finished speaking,

So he walked outside the city, saying that he had other things to deal with.

"Senior Brother Xiao, I have to go to the Earth Fire House first, there are two Earth Fire Houses, the contract expires today, I have to check it. After Su Qinghai left, Jiang Da also left with his fists clenched.

After Xiao An watched the two leave, he turned around and walked towards "Bo Yuanju".

Bo Yuanju is the residence of the Shen family in the past, and after Du Zhiyun took over Fang City instead of Zongmen, he transformed it into a "mansion" that integrates residence and management of Fang City.

After entering the Boyuan Residence, Xiao An went straight to the outside of the room where Du Zhiyun lived, and looked at the prohibition on the door of the house, it was obvious that Senior Brother Du was not in the house.

"Senior Brother Du should have given himself alchemy. Xiao Anxin secretly guessed.

In recent days, he was arrested by Su Qinghai, and he has never had time to come to Senior Brother Du, and he doesn't know how the elixir is refined. I finally had time today, but Senior Brother Du was not there.

Just when Xiao An was about to leave, he happened to meet the shopkeeper who had just returned from outside, and the shopkeeper was very enthusiastic when he saw Xiao An: "Brother Xiao is here to find Senior Brother Du?"

"Yes, it's not the right time to come, Senior Brother Du is not here. ”

"Senior Brother Du went to the Han family's alchemy room early in the morning. If you look for him, you can only wait until the evening, in the past few days, Senior Brother Du has been going there every day to refine the pill. ”

"Oh, that's it, then I'll come back to Senior Brother Du another day. Horse shopkeeper, you are busy first. After saying that, Xiao An was leaving.

"Brother Xiao, the materials you asked me to pay attention to some time ago have been collected, if you have time now, let's go to the store together to get it." Just as Xiao An was about to leave, the shopkeeper stopped Xiao An.

Before Xiao An hunted the wind wolf with Pang Boxiong and others, he gave the horse shopkeeper 200 spirit stones and entrusted the horse shopkeeper to help him purchase some refining materials, but no one thought that Xiao An would be gone for more than four months.

That batch of spirit stones had long been used up, and the purchased materials had been kept in the small warehouse of the Treasure Pavilion. Although the store also arranged a formation, its power could not be compared with the warehouse where Bo lived far away, so Xiao An was relieved to take it as soon as possible.

The two did not enter through the main entrance of the store, but walked through the VIP passage next to the store and directly entered the small warehouse behind the store.

The shopkeeper took out a storage bag from the corner of a shelf and emptied the contents onto the table.

"Senior Brother Xiao, this is an item you have to pay attention to, take a look. ”

Because there are a few items that Xiao An knows from the books left by the unknown master, he has not seen them, and he needs the horse shopkeeper to give him some guidance. Therefore, Xiao An checked every item very carefully, and asked the shopkeeper if he didn't understand.

Just when Xiao An was carefully checking the items, there was a faint voice of talking in his ears, as if there were no customers in the store in front of him, and the two guys were chatting.

"Do you know, the piece of purple gold jade we bought last month was given to that beautiful woman by Senior Brother Du again. ”

"Yes, Senior Brother Du is really good to that woman, I have nothing to say! The treasure given to that woman alone is worth thousands of spirit stones. But I've never seen any intimate behavior between the two, Senior Brother Du hasn't even pulled each other's hands, what do you say Senior Brother Du is trying to do?"

"Alas, not only is that woman beautiful, but she also has no need to say anything about her figure. If you can stay with me for one night, I would be willing to live for three years. ”

"Cut! What are you dreaming about!"