Volume 2: Punishing Evil Chapter 67: The Three Great Calamities
In Zhao Hong's mind, since Wucheng is just a small border city, it will definitely not be too big. But when he came to Wu City, he realized that he was too wrong. His current soul sense range has reached three hundred zhang, but he walked around the city for most of the day, but he didn't expect that he was still wandering in the southern corner of Wu City.
In Zhao Hong's impression, the Fire-weary City and Liuhuang City are considered to be large, but Zhao Hong thinks that it is to put the Fire-Weary City and Liuhuang City together in Fuwu City, and it is estimated that they occupy less than a quarter of the area. There is such a big city in the northeast of China, which is really beyond Zhao Hong's expectations.
And this is not the most surprising thing for him, what shocked him the most was that the defensive formations around Wu City were completely much more advanced than those of Fire Disgust City, and even most of the shops in the city were also arranged with prohibitions to shield divine thoughts and soul senses. There are even formations arranged in some high-end shops, which can restrict the cultivation of monks.
As soon as he entered Wu City, Zhao Hong immediately felt a powerful monk's divine thoughts sweep over, obviously investigating his own cultivation. However, that divine thought only swept away, and did not stay, and he was not questioned by anyone after entering Fu Wu City.
It was not surprising that Zhao Hong thought about it, in the eyes of the Terran monks, he was just a "waste spirit root", and he would not attract the attention of those great monks at all. As for his cultivation of the "Witch Codex", the characteristics of his own exercises are different from the ordinary martial arts of the Wu clan, and he is still a little confident in his ability to conceal his energy.
When Zhao Hong stepped into the streets of Fuwu City, he found that the prosperity of the Fang City here was no less than that of any Middle-earth city. The wide streets are lined with a variety of shops, and there are also many stalls in some of the larger open spaces. This is simply a huge and mixed market, and there are all kinds of monks walking in the market, and it is very lively.
It was supposed to be a mortal city, but there were countless monks living in it. And what made Zhao Hong strange was that the mortals here were not much surprised and curious about the monks except for the ceremonial respect, but seemed to be commonplace.
Fortunately, although there were many monks in Wu City, Zhao Hong did not see any demon cultivators, all of them were human monks, which also made Zhao Hong secretly breathe a sigh of relief. However, most of the monks had some dark cracks on their faces, and their complexions were faintly full of evil energy, which was obviously caused by long-term hunting of demon beasts and begging for a life under the shadow of swords and blood.
A faint smell of blood came to his nose, and Zhao Hong's soul sense glanced at it, most of the materials sold or traded here were the skins and bones of some demon beasts or demon pills, as well as some demon beasts and spirit grass in the sea.
Zhao Hong asked a few stalls passing by, and a good second-level demon beast's demon pill was only a dozen taels of silver, and the price was really very cheap. It's just that Zhao Hong has no interest in these demon pills, if there are demon pills above level four, animal skins or demon beast blood, he will still ask, but it is useless for him to ask for low-level materials.
He estimated that if he wanted to buy something higher, he still needed to find those larger shops.
Zhao Hong walked into a relatively large shop in the middle of the market, "Treasure Pavilion", and he wanted to see if there was a suitable weapon first. It's just that as soon as he stepped into this shop, he felt a depressed feeling coming from all over his body, and in an instant, his cultivation was restricted by a certain formation, almost no different from a mortal.
Zhao Hong was taken aback in his heart, and subconsciously made a state of vigilance and preparedness, but he quickly calmed down. After carefully observing the crowd around him, he found that these monks who were observing and buying magic weapons and materials in it all looked normal, and he immediately knew that he was too worried. The formation in this shop should not only be aimed at him, but anyone who enters here will be restricted from cultivating.
Zhao Hong, who was secretly shocked into a cold sweat, became more and more cautious in his heart. In this place, there seems to be prohibitions everywhere, even the shops are so careful, and they can also arrange such a terrifying formation to restrict the cultivation of others, this is simply too shocking! Even in the Fire-weary City under the Emperor's Mountain where the Great Immortal Cultivation Sect "Five Elements Sect" is located, he has never encountered this kind of shop.
In the vast world, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are masters everywhere. He can be regarded as familiar with the "Witch Book", but he can't arrange this kind of formation that restricts people's cultivation. This kind of formation can not only restrict the cultivation of the Terran cultivators, but even the cultivation of the Wu Clan, and according to Zhao Hong's estimation, even if the demon cultivators come here, they will be subject to the same restrictions.
If this wasn't someone else's shop, and Zhao Hong was also a newcomer to Wu City, he would even want to study this formation carefully. What kind of formation is so good that even cultivation can be restricted? But Zhao Hong knew that he definitely couldn't do such a ridiculous thing here, maybe his soul sense would be taken away by the monk in charge for questioning as soon as he came into contact with the formation.
What also made him strange was that this place was completely different from the shops in Fire-Weary City, not only did it restrict the cultivation of guests, but it also did not have the kind of service enthusiasm that the shops in Fire-Weary City had. Since Zhao Hong entered the store, no one from the shop or from the hall came to talk, and no one came to sell the introduction.
Zhao Hong found that there were dozens of monks watching the goods in this shop, so he had to watch it on the shelves with goods like others. Originally, Zhao Hong planned to take a casual look, and then find someone to ask if there were any better weapons, but when he found out that the talisman materials here were all kind, he suddenly had other ideas.
After looking around, he soon discovered a very strange phenomenon, that is, the prices of finished products such as weapons, magic weapons, and talismans here were ridiculously expensive, while the related refining materials were relatively much cheaper.
For example, the price of a "thunder talisman" is tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the sum of several materials for the corresponding "thunder talisman" is only a few dozen taels of silver. This huge gap made him have the urge to buy materials and use them to draw talismans. On the way to experience in the future, he will have many opportunities to use talismans, and it must not be a bad thing to collect them now and use them as precautions.
And he learns the various talismans in the "Fu" chapter of the next volume of the "Witch Book", and he needs all kinds of materials, at this time he can already draw some simple middle-level talismans, if he collects some more materials and goes back to practice by himself, who knows if he will be able to draw high-level talismans after a while?
Just as countless wits flashed through Zhao Hong's mind, the voices of several monks beside him talking came from his ears.
"Alas, I really want to learn how to draw talismans, if I can draw 'thunder talismans', I don't have to go out to hunt monsters and find materials anymore. A Terran monk who had been watching the talisman shelf for a long time shook his head and sighed. Obviously, it was because he used the materials he usually collected to exchange for the "Thunder Charm", which was too much of a loss.
"Yes, but in the huge city of Frustration, there are few real talismans, and they are either scrambled by the big sect forces like 'Three Mountains', or they are invited by major shops to spend a lot of money as offerings. Alas, those of us who are casual cultivators have worked hard to risk our lives to hunt demon beasts, and after a few months of hard work, we may not be able to exchange it for a 'thunder talisman'. The other monk said with the same sigh.
"Then what's the way, I'm glad that I can still buy the 'Thunder Charm' in these shops, otherwise they will be monopolized by those sects, and it will really be impossible to give people a way to live. If you think it's a pity, don't buy the 'Thunder Charm' and try it. ”
"I'm just sighing, just joking. I don't want to live too long......
A few more Terran monks chattered, laughed for a while, and then dispersed, each continuing to pick up the goods.
And after Zhao Hong heard these words, his heart moved again, and his original intention to buy materials immediately faded. One is because although he still has some ingots in his storage bag, it is obviously not enough to buy them on a large scale. But the main thing is that he has a better way to gather materials.
Zhao Hong glanced at the goods in this shop slightly, and found that there were quite a few "thunder charms" sold here. Although he didn't know the reason for this, he must have been the same with the other shops, and the monks here seemed to have this special need for the "Thunder Talisman", so they had to break the bank to buy it.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hong walked up to a guy from the Shang Pavilion and asked, "May I ask if there is a map of the area of this area, as well as information such as the geographical records of the land of Fuwu?"
That guy was also a Terran monk, and he knew that Zhao Hong was a "waste spirit root" after a little glance, although Zhao Hong also looked like a monk dressing, but even if a "waste spirit root" cultivated to death, it would not have any great achievements. Although the man's heart was full of disdain, his face did not show it obviously, but said lukewarmly: "Yes, wait a minute. ”
After speaking, the guy stretched out his hand and took out more than a dozen similar drawings from the shelf on the side, and said: "The map and gazetteer of my 'Treasure Pavilion' are the most complete in the entire Fuwu City, and the map here almost contains thousands of miles around Fuwu City, and the explanations of the relevant geographies are marked in detail...... It's a hundred taels of silver in total, so pay for it. ”
"And I want to ask, why do the monks here all purchase the 'Thunder Talisman'?" Zhao Hong asked casually as he paid the silver and took the map.
After Zhao Hong asked this sentence, the monks in the entire Shang Pavilion looked at him one after another, obviously his question caused everyone to be stunned.
"Ah......" After the guy was stunned for a moment, he immediately shook his head and said, "This little brother, have you just arrived in Frustrated Wu City and don't know the 'Lei Ze'?"
Razor: Three natural disasters?
Zhao Hong was dumbfounded, he had indeed never heard of this.
Seeing that Zhao Hong's face was embarrassed, the guy smiled slightly, and he didn't think so, there were many monks like Zhao Hong who didn't know the height of the sky. Obviously, he had just come to Fuwu City, and he was the kind of casual cultivator who had no background, but he delusionally thought that after coming here, he could obtain rich cultivation resources as long as he worked hard. But those resources need to be fought for with their lives, not to mention that Zhao Hong is just a "waste spirit root"!
"Demon beasts, thunder storms, and dry corpse plagues are known as the three major natural disasters in our frustrated land. Needless to say, you must know a lot about demon beasts. Most of the demon beasts in the land of frustration are extremely large and extremely large, and they are also proficient in water-attribute demon arts, and ordinary mortals must have no way to deal with them, and they are often only possible to kill them if a few monks work together to besiege them. ”
"The thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that appears from the 'Razor' end in the north of Fuwu City, and blows south twice a year irregularly. Everywhere he passed, there were thunderbolts on sunny days, houses destroyed and people died. If Wu City did not have a large defensive array, even an ordinary monk would definitely be more than lucky. Moreover, it is said that even if the head of the 'Three Mountains' and these great cultivators of the 'Qi Refining and Transformation God' period are involved in the thunder storm, it will be extremely difficult to get out, and they may even be buried in it. ”
When the guy said this, he couldn't help but show a little fear on his face. Obviously, even if the "Lei Gang Storm" is usually mentioned, it is terrifying.
Hearing this, Zhao Hong realized that it was no wonder that the city defense array in Wu City was much more advanced, and various defensive formations had been arranged in many places in the city.
"What kind of natural disaster is the 'Dry Corpse Plague'?" Zhao Hong continued to ask with an impassive expression. It's better to understand these three major natural disasters clearly, and if you run into him, you can be prepared!
But hearing Zhao Hong's question, the guy finally affirmed that Zhao Hong really didn't know anything about the affairs of Wu City, and he didn't even know anything about the mysterious "dry corpse plague" among the three major natural disasters. I really don't know where this little monk has always cultivated? Could it be that he just came from Middle-earth?
The guy shook his head and continued to tell Zhao Hong:
"The 'Dry Corpse Plague' is the most terrifying and mysterious of the three natural disasters in the Land of Frustration. I have never seen it, because all the people I have seen have become dried corpses. I heard that it is a cyan mist that often fluctuates, and not only ordinary mortals will definitely die when they see it, but even monks can't hide from it. For all living creatures that are covered by this mist never come out alive, and the monks are no exception! As long as you dodge in time, you can save your life. So although it is terrible, it is the least murderous of the three natural disasters. The fellow spoke, with a look of joy on his face.
"Thank you so much. Zhao Hong smiled bitterly, with embarrassment on his face. After he asked "Thunder Talisman", so many people looked at him, obviously because he asked this question too low-level.
Originally, he wanted to ask about the formation that restricted his cultivation, but he didn't need to ask depending on the situation, maybe after he asked, he would be regarded as an outlier.
Zhao Hong didn't have the heart to continue to ask for materials, although the materials here were cheap, but the materials he needed were not one or two, but a lot of them.
After getting out of the "Treasure Pavilion", Zhao Hong once again felt that his strength had recovered, and he was even more afraid of this formation of the "Treasure Pavilion". However, this method is worth learning from, if he can master the level of this formation, maybe he can use this formation to limit the enemy when dealing with the enemy in the future.
Without continuing to inquire about other merchants, Zhao Hong came directly to Fang Market and found a slightly empty place in the corner. Then he hung up a sign, which was the on-site talisman.