Chapter 42: Clearing

After killing the evil cultivator Heiyun, Zhang Zhiping soon came to the border, and immediately found that Zhou Guo had been shrouded in vigilance and prohibition, and if he passed like this, he would definitely be discovered. After careful investigation, it was discovered that there was only one place where the monks of the two countries were allowed to come and go.

This is the means of the four major factions, although the area of the five countries is not small, but the cultivation resources are extremely scarce, and it is difficult for the power of one country to meet the needs of all the cultivation resources, so the five countries have their own specialties, and the five countries can only develop the cultivation of immortals under the exchange. Now the four major factions have jointly put pressure on Qingsongmen, prohibiting a large number of resources from the four countries from entering the Zhou State, and directly closing the border of the Zhou State.

However, the four major sects have not reached the point where they can cover the sky with one hand, and the Scattered Cultivation Alliance can compete with them, so they have to open up several passages for several countries to come and go. It is already very difficult to order the monks of the two countries to enter and exit specific places, and if the connection between the two countries is completely closed, those scattered monks will be in trouble. Near these passages, small markets gradually formed, where Shikoku scattered to purchase the resources he needed.

Some shrewd monks took the opportunity to set up stalls here and resell the resources of the Five Kingdoms.

"What, you want five catties of Xuantie for a bottle of Qi Nourishing Pill, why don't you grab it!"

"Look at what you said, how can you grab it here quickly. Do you like to buy it or not, anyway, some people buy it. ”

There are several large ore veins in Zhou, which have always been the main source of ore, but the remaining four countries control the cultivation resources such as pills and magic weapons, and now that the four countries are closed to the Zhou country, the resources of the four countries are immediately scarce in the Zhou country, and they can often reach several times the price before.

Zhang Zhiping has now come to this newly built market, and when he looks around, most of them are selling ores and other unique resources in the four countries, and there are no precious treasures. It's just that these basic resources are what a monk needs to cultivate on weekdays, and now that the price has risen so much, many casual cultivators can't afford it, and they complain about Qingsongmen, which caused such a situation, if it takes a long time, it is likely that the scattered cultivators in the Zhou Kingdom will be enemies of Qingsongmen. I have to say that the hands of the four major factions are really ruthless.

Not far away is the checkpoint that allows the two countries to communicate with each other, there are two law enforcement disciples in the late stage of qi refining with eight law enforcement disciples in the middle stage of qi refining to check everyone who comes and goes, and everyone who passes must have a token issued by the Scattered Cultivation Alliance, and the scattered cultivation of the Zhou State is not allowed to go to the Four Kingdoms, only the scattered cultivation of the Four Nations is allowed to come and go. Zhang Zhiping patiently observed here for two days, but did not find any suitable opportunities. On this day, suddenly a piercing alarm sounded in the air, and then I saw a sword light flying by, and after a stick of incense, a corpse was thrown down. Everyone was no longer surprised by this, and they skillfully turned it into ashes with a fireball technique.

Zhang Zhiping also heard the sound of everyone's discussion: "This is the third time in five days, what's going on, and it's not that we are not allowed to come and go, why do you have to go from other places?"

"Stains, you don't know, these people are all disciples of Qingsongmen in the four countries, and now the four major factions are comprehensively chasing and killing the disciples of Qingsongmen in the four countries, how dare they come from the checkpoint. ”

"No, isn't the relationship between the five major factions always very good, even some time ago, the four major factions didn't chase and kill the disciples of Qingsongmen like this. ”

"I heard that a few days ago, there were three disciples of the Qingsongmen who wanted to infiltrate the four countries, one of them was killed, and a letter was found on his body, but it was destroyed, and the other two ran away, and one of the men also injured the beloved disciple of the ancestor of the Chiyunmen, Chi Tianxing, which caused the Chiyunmen to be furious, and united with the other three major factions to start strangling the disciples of the Qingsongmen in the four countries. ”

Zhang Zhiping squatted on a loose cultivation stall, collecting the news of the entire Fang City with the technique of seeing and hearing from heaven and earth, and knew the cause and effect of this matter from the discussion of these monks scatteredly, and suddenly felt depressed, and he couldn't imagine that he was affected by others. The first thing that flashed in his heart was Wu Yong's stinky face, he didn't believe that this person would die easily, it was estimated that he also injured the Chitianxing of Chiyunmen, he had this strength. It seems that they were also stopped by the checkpoint, but I don't know how they got together, and they didn't even notify themselves.

Now the question is how to get through this checkpoint, on the border, there are more than a hundred such checkpoints, large and small, firmly blocking the entire border, if you want to bypass it completely, you must go around the 100,000 mountains, but in that case, he would rather break in from here.

Qingsongmen also has a stronghold here, and there are thirty masters in the foundation building period in it, but they are regarded by the monks of the Earth Qi Sect, and it is estimated that they will not be able to help themselves. It seems that it depends on himself, Zhang Zhiping thought about it, left this market, and stopped in a place where no one was.

Prohibitions are really a very common thing in the world of cultivating immortals, and there are all kinds of prohibitions everywhere, including those that protect treasures, those that are vigilant, those that defend against attacks, and so on, which can be said to be everywhere. At the beginning, Zhang Zhiping always felt that the ban was quite magical, and it could play so many roles, and it was not weaker than basic skills such as magic weapons and talismans for cultivators, so he also studied the ban briefly.

The prohibition requires the late stage of qi refining to be cast, and its essence is a spiritual qi membrane. In the later stage of qi refining, a spiritual qi film was emitted from the body and a certain amount of spiritual power was added to it, so it is often said that whoever meditates and rests, and casually lays down a prohibition.

And the ban can be loaded with spells, for example, adding a defensive spell is a defensive ban, plus an early warning spell is a warning ban, etc., and the ban can actively absorb aura to maintain its own existence, which is why it is necessary to add spiritual power. Some prohibitions can exist for a long time, such as the prohibition in the Beast King's sacrifice to Tianmen Gorge, which has been unknown for many years since ancient times, and there are still remnants of prohibitions. At this point, it was the monks who imitated those heavenly and earthly treasures that could automatically absorb the aura.

A basic prohibition requires very little aura, because it only has a very thin layer, and the mana of the whole body in the late stage of qi training is enough to condense a basic prohibition of several miles in size, and then how much aura is consumed depends on what kind of spell is loaded, if it is an early warning technique, then the required mana is still very small, so the four major factions can easily seal the entire Zhou border with an early warning prohibition. It seems to be magnificent, but even mortals can build the Great Wall, let alone immortal cultivators. Of course, such a ban has no protective power, and can be easily penetrated, but it will emit a piercing siren.

The ordinary warning prohibition is very sensitive, and any thing with aura will stimulate it when it is close, it can reach thousands of meters when there is no obstruction in the air, and it can also reach a hundred meters underground because of the obstruction, so it is difficult for ordinary monks to pass through the prohibition, and it is not difficult to pass through the passage specially opened up by the four major factions without special requirements. As for some special ones, the four major factions also turned a blind eye, as long as they made sure that there would not be a large amount of resources flowing into the Zhou State.

Zhang Zhiping naturally couldn't go to the Scattered Cultivation Alliance to report, so he could only go through the ban directly. The reason for his confidence was that he had specialized in cultivating the characteristics of the earth-based mana related to "gathering and dispersing", and if he continued to go down with the Escape Technique, he could barely exceed 100 meters, and he should be able to pass through it without alarming the prohibition. However, the speed must be fast, the consumption of mana in the underground is very fast, once the mana is consumed and does not come out, it will be directly crushed to death by the pressure of the earth, but there is really no need to dig a pit.

chose a softer place, where there are not too many stones, and then jumped down, and Zhang Zhiping disappeared. What can I say about the feeling of being underground? Dure, dark, aggrieved, it feels like the whole person is going to hell again. On the way down, from time to time, he would encounter stones, tree roots, ores and other impassable places, which were directly shattered by him with the spell concussion technique, and it took a quarter of an hour to reach a hundred meters underground.

Damn, this underground feeling is really uncomfortable! Zhang Zhiping left a spiritual power mark on the ground, and judged his position through this mark, and after feeling that he had reached a hundred meters underground, he hurriedly moved in the direction of Zhao Guo, and after traveling another hundred meters, he actually felt that half of his mana had been consumed at this time. Zhang Zhiping was shocked, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately went to the top of his head, and when his mana was only one-tenth left, he finally returned to the ground.