Chapter 178: The Imprisoned Prince (Part I)
After returning from the Flame Abyss, Zhan Qingxiao told the events of Baxuan's cell with Baili Lingju one by one, but he only concealed his identity as the Immortal Emperor and the later things about the Burial Immortal Valley.
"So, there are eight Tongxian Bridges? This Tongxian Bridge is not necessarily the one that holds the soul of the guardian spirit beast?" Baili Lingju frowned, she thought that there was only one Tongxian Bridge before, but now according to what Su Junzhi said, if she wants to rescue the soul of the guardian spirit beast, the difficulty is tantamount to ascending to the sky!
"Yes, this Tongxian Bridge is in the demon clan after all, maybe it is not the bridge where the soul of the spirit beast of your mother's master is trapped. Zhan Qingxiao nodded.
"Qingxiao, what are your plans now?"
The Origin Conference will officially start tomorrow, but the first three days are the Demon Clan's martial arts competition and the Demon Emperor's Reward Conference, these exhibitions Qingxiao is not interested, what he cares about is the auction of treasures after three days. He had already inquired that there were three magic weapons about the soul class, and he only knew one name of these three magic weapons, but he didn't know the specific function, and this treasure auction naturally did not reveal anything superfluous.
Zhang Shaohan told him that this Origin Conference might have a magic weapon that could solve this soul problem for Bai Zhi, and in order not to miss it, he had to take pictures of these three treasures. Previously, in Baxuan's cell, Su Junzhi told him that there was a way to unlock the Qiankun gossip lock at this Origin Conference, which was hidden in a magic weapon.
"Lingju, I'll go over tomorrow and meet this Zilan mother-in-law for a while. The Origin Conference is about to start tomorrow, so it's a good idea to find out about the auction tomorrow to learn about what you're auctioning and what it does. Zhan Qingxiao said.
"Well, good!" Baili Lingju nodded, "That'...... I'll go back and rest first. β
After speaking, Baili Lingju turned around to go back to his room, and after taking two steps, Zhan Qingxiao suddenly shouted, "Lingju." β
He remembered that when he was in the school yard during the day, he was about to be trapped by the red cocoon, and Baili Lingju actually sacrificed his life to save himself. In his cognition, Baili Lingju is a scheming woman, otherwise Hou Yuanjue would not have been played by her at that time. The entire Baili family became her prisoners, and even the entire Hou family was wiped out. All the people who had offended her in the entire Changning City were afraid of her retaliation and took the initiative to apologize and beg for mercy.
All of this before she gave her the Jin Jiao scissors, Zhan Qingxiao felt that it was the real her, but after giving her the Jin Jiao scissors, she seemed to be a completely different person. Is it because she promised to work for herself for a year, so that's why it's like this?
"What's wrong?" asked Baili Lingju turning his head, tilting his head, staring at Zhan Qingxiao with a pair of round eyes.
"It's okay, just get some rest. Zhan Qingxiao felt a little weird, and swallowed it back when he first arrived.
Baili Lingju smiled, "You too." β
Xiaguang Building didn't have as many guests as usual today, because most of the people went over to see the detection conference of the hundred-year-old demon yuan mutation of the demon clan man in the Origin Conference.
Zhan Qingxiao originally planned to go to the Flame Abyss early this morning to find that Zilan mother-in-law, but when he woke up, it was already this time. Yesterday's battle with Gao Yanwu consumed a lot of time, and he slept a little more this time, and Baili Lingju and others did not come to disturb him.
When I saw this Zilan mother-in-law, she was having lunch, Zhan Qingxiao hadn't eaten anything, and she felt a little hungry in her stomach, but it was not clear whether this Zilan mother-in-law was friend or foe, so she politely refused her invitation to dine with her, and waited for her to finish her meal here hungry.
"Go down first, all of you. After finishing eating, Granny Zilan put down the dishes and chopsticks and instructed the subordinates.
From the moment the group walked in, Qiwei noticed the situation, and when she saw the person who was escorted by those people, she wondered if her eyes were wrong, that person was obviously very much like Zhan Qingyun. It's just that she didn't dare to confirm it, because she didn't have much contact with Zhan Qingyun, and she was now Qiwei's soul, and it was Bai Zhi's soul who came into contact with Zhan Qingyun, so she asked Zhan Qingxiao to confirm.
"Could it just look alike?" Qiwei asked.
Zhan Qingxiao shook his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "No, that's my eldest brother! It's just that I think it's strange, why is he here? Shouldn't he be in Shenwu City? Even if he came from Shenwu City, he has to follow our pace? What does he want to do? And looking at this way, he was still caught by those people in brocade armor. β
"This is the Demon Clan, if your eldest brother reveals his identity as a Terran, it will be dangerous!" Qiwei said with some concern.
Zhan Qingxiao nodded approvingly, although his eldest brother sometimes disappoints him, he is still the brother of this body after all.
The people in the store served some chicken, duck, fish and meat to the two tables, but it was Zhan Qingyun's turn, but there were only two steamed buns, Zhan Qingyun picked up the steamed buns, handed the small bottle to Li'er and said, "You guys eat, I'm not hungry." β
"Brother Qingyun, you can eat one! my sister and I can just eat one!" The small bottle picked up one and broke it in half.
"No need, let you eat it, why is there so much nonsense!" Zhan Qingyun made a straight face and handed the steamed bun to Li'er, but unfortunately Li'er couldn't speak, Zhan Qingyun was always an adult man, she couldn't push it away, so she could only take the steamed bun timidly.
"Hahaha! It's just a steamed bun, pushing around!" One of the men in the brocade clothes laughed wildly, these days they have been rushing from a small fishing village all the way to the imperial city, and finally returned to the imperial city today, considering that it was evening, and they went back to the town to supervise and guard and had nothing to eat, so they came to this shop.
The salary of the town guard is not particularly high, so what to eat
It's also more general, most of the food along the way is dry food, but they gave a small amount to Zhan Qingyun and them, at this time Zhan Qingyun was already hungry, but now that they have returned to the imperial city, they still only gave two steamed buns, Zhan Qingyun thinks that he is a man, just endure for a while, but he can't be hungry with a small bottle and Li'er.
"Who is that boy and that woman?" Zhan Qingxiao noticed that Zhan Qingyun gave them the steamed buns, but he didn't eat anything, and he was very curious. It seems that the boy and the woman were also controlled by these men in brocade armor.
"You can only ask your eldest brother about all this, right?" said Baili Lingju.
"That's right!" Zhan Qingxiao thought about how he could rescue Zhan Qingyun without alarming the demon clan.
"My lord, since they have returned to the Imperial City, what should these three people do?" Ma Cheng's subordinate asked as he took a bite of a chicken leg.
Ma Cheng poured a sip of wine into his throat, looking not very good, he was still thinking about the words of the mill at this time, according to the words of the mill, the reason why the dragon clan did not come to participate in this origin conference was related to the underworld, although I don't know whether it is true or not, but this matter still has to be reported to the demon emperor.
"What do you want to do?" replied Ma Cheng absentmindedly, putting down the wine bowl.
"The man was caught by you, of course, you made the idea! These two little guys don't have any ideas, it's just that this human, the subordinate has a good suggestion!"
"Huh?" Ma Cheng hurriedly asked.
"My lord, the fact that you caught a human being is known by God, and as far as our own people know, if we hand him over to the people on the black market, we may be able to sell him for a good price. Of course, the two straw bales in Wolf Mountain Town also know about this, but their subordinates can make a hard trip, so that they will never be able to open their mouths. The subordinate whispered, making a motion to wipe his neck.
Ma Cheng thought for a moment, and hesitated a little, the Demon Emperor had already ordered that the human race should be handed over to the royal family, and it could not be dealt with privately. It's just that he knows that the Demon Emperor will only give humans to others, or put them up for auction. There is no praise other than verbal praise.
Therefore, over the years, most of the humans who have been caught have been sold to the black market privately to make a profit, after all, who wants to hand over to the insatiable demon emperor for nothing?
Seeing Ma Cheng's hesitation, the subordinate said, "Seriously, my lord, so many of our brothers follow you, and they all admire you from the bottom of their hearts. However, you are not unaware of the situation in our town governor's mansion, every time the salary is paid, the Shangguan has to deduct half of it, and it is very difficult for the brothers to live on this half of the salary! If this human can be sold on the black market, then the brothers will no longer have to worry about their livelihood. β
Ma Cheng looked at his subordinates, everyone's face showed a look of hope, he gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice: "Is your black market person reliable?"
When the subordinate saw that Ma Cheng was moved, he was overjoyed, and nodded hurriedly, "Your Excellency, don't worry, this matter will definitely not have anything to do with our town guard!"
Ma Cheng nodded, and then said: "The two dolls of the Han family were brought back to the town guard overnight, Ah Mao, this human being will be handed over to you! Zhang Yu, the two boys in Wolf Mountain Town will be handed over to you!"
"Yes!" the men ordered.
"Come on, brothers!"
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Ma Cheng was arrogant here, but Zhan Qingxiao frowned, even if the sound of their conversation before was very small, but Zhan Qingxiao was already planning to eavesdrop on their conversation, and what he said before was heard by him word for word.
"If they want to sell the eldest brother through the black market, the only way not to startle the snake is for me to pretend to be a rich man of the demon clan and buy the eldest brother. However, I don't have much demon gold now!" Zhan Qingxiao muttered to himself, this was the only way he could do it at the moment, but the demon gold in his money bag was obviously not enough!
"Qingxiao, why do you look so worried? Since that's your eldest brother, won't it be over if we save him?" Baili Lingju saw Zhan Qingxiao's appearance, and said very casually, anyway, the strength of those people is not very strong, only the one led by the one is slightly stronger, she believes that Zhan Qingxiao's ability will definitely be able to subdue that person.
"No, we can't act rashly for the time being! After all, this is the imperial city of the demon clan, and the Origin Conference is only half a month, the Demon Emperor will definitely arrange heavy troops, once we make a move, we can't kill it with one blow, then the follow-up troubles can be endless!" Zhan Qingxiao calmly analyzed.
"What should I do then?" Qiwei on the side also put down her chopsticks and joined the discussion.
"You go back and rest first, I have my own way. Zhan Qingxiao got up and threw a demon gold on the table, and then walked out of the inn.
Baili Lingju and Qiwei looked at each other, and Qiwei asked in a low voice, "What does he mean?"
Baili Lingju rolled his eyes with a blank expression, "How do I know!" But he has always known what he does, so let's not get involved." With that, she got up and planned to go back and get a good night's sleep. Zhan Qingxiao is a person who can sometimes see what he wants to do, but sometimes she can't see through it, and she doesn't know what he wants to do. However, all this has nothing to do with her, she now gets the golden Jiao scissors she dreamed of, and the rest of the matter can only be counted one step at a time.
Zhan Qingxiao walked on the street, he wanted to get some demon gold, so that he could have the opportunity to buy Zhan Qingyun back on the black market.
Now for him
, maybe there is only one way to get a large amount of demon gold in a short period of time.
What is the most precious thing in the Five Elements Continent is nothing more than three things, the first is herbs, the second is weapons, and the third is exercises. In addition to these three things, other things are basically things that can be bought with money, but these three things may not be able to be bought with money, so those rare medicinal materials, high-quality weapons, and high-level exercises are very precious.
His exercises have never been lower than the Great Heaven level, and for the people of the Five Elements Continent, they are all unattainable existences. These exercises were all created by him with hard work, so he didn't want to sell them casually for money, and even if he took out the exercises, the people of this demon clan might not be able to recognize the goods.
And the weapon, he didn't have this ready-made, and now he only had some fairy crossbows and instruments in his Sumeru ring, and he definitely didn't want to take out these things, in order for him to counterattack the fairy world in the future, he wanted to provide weapons for his own people.
Therefore, his only choice now is medicinal materials, fortunately, there are many ordinary medicinal materials in the Sumeru Ring, even if these medicinal materials are not ordinary, they can be regarded as the best medicinal materials in the Five Elements Continent.
He first entered the medicinal herb shop of the demon clan, and had a general understanding of some common medicinal materials used by the demon clan, and sorted out which ones were scarce. And then find a medicinal herb merchant with strong funds according to this, otherwise a few pieces of demon gold are not worth his hand at all.
In the end, he selected a total of three herbs, namely the golden crispy tribulus terrestris, which can quickly treat skin trauma, this medicinal material is a kind of fruit that tribulus terrestris grass bears after 3,000 years, grinded into powder, and combined with some hemostatic drugs, it can be refined into a super-efficient golden creation medicine. The second is the snake heart fruit, which is a fruit grown by the vine plant of the fairy world, and only Penglai Immortal Island has grown low-quality medicinal materials in the Five Elements Continent, which can be mixed and matched with any medicinal materials, and can bring out 200% of the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials in this configuration. The third type is the eight-leaf flower, which has only eight petals, and each petal has a different eye color, and the effect of adding it to the herb is also different.
He inquired that the largest medicinal herb shop in the entire Demon Clan's Imperial City was called Lan Ge, and it was said that Lan Ge was the shop of the Zheng family, the three top gate lords of the Demon Clan in addition to the royal family, and Zheng Dongxuan, the eldest son of the Zheng clan, was at the helm of Lan Ge. The Zheng family is so rich that they have the strength to buy the medicinal materials of Zhan Qingxiao.
Zhan Qingxiao inquired about the address of the Blue Pavilion and looked for it.
The Blue Pavilion is located in the west of the central square of the Demon Imperial City, the geographical location is very superior, and there are many masters inside.
From the outside, this Blue Pavilion is very powerful, and the faΓ§ade is neat, from the outside you can smell a faint smell of medicinal ink, and the interior layout is also lackluster, only a shopkeeper and a very sweet-looking girl.
"Childe, what herbs do you want?" the sweet girl in the blue blouse greeted her and asked sweetly.
"I'll just take a look. Zhan Qingxiao didn't say his intention for the first time, but wanted to confirm again whether this Blue Pavilion was worth making his own move.
"Then son, please here, do you want me to introduce you to the medicinal herbs of our Blue Pavilion?" The girl was very talkative, and showed Zhan Qingxiao those medicinal herbs one by one.
"What is the effect of this gold sore medicine, if it is a traumatic injury, how long will it take to stop the blood flow and thus heal the wound?" Zhan Qingxiao asked as he looked at the gold sore medicine with the demon gold price on it.
The girl smiled sweetly, then took it out, opened the box, and a burst of fragrance wafted out, "Childe, you really know the goods, this is refined by our Blue Pavilion master-level Dan Master, in addition to general hemostasis, it can also heal wounds in a short time, and even internal injuries can be taken with mixed demon spirit water, which also has a certain effect." β
"All the bells and whistles, the gold sore medicine is to heal external injuries, what are you doing to treat internal injuries? I'm asking you how long it takes you to heal, how long do you say a short period of time, three days, five days, or seven days?"
The smile on the girl's face suddenly fell, "Childe, you are laughing, the best gold sore medicine now takes at least seven days to heal the wound, how can there be three days and five days?"
"In other words, this gold sore medicine of yours will take seven days to heal?"
"Yes. If it's just a general injury. However, if there are internal injuries, the treatment of internal injuries is also effective. The girl's good qualities kept her kind expression on her face.
"It's still too effective!"
"Childe?" the shopkeeper couldn't help himself, walked out of the counter, and then glanced at the girl and motioned for her to stand down. "Childe, there's something wrong with what you're saying. β
"What's wrong?" said Zhan Qingxiao disapplausively.
"Everyone in the world knows the effect of gold sore medicine, and if you want to improve the effect of gold sore medicine, it is not so simple. I dare to say that there is no Golden Sore Medicine in the entire Imperial City that can compare to our Blue Pavilion's Golden Sore Medicine. The girl was gentle and kind, and she didn't care, but the shopkeeper was quite dissatisfied with what Zhan Qingxiao said.
"Then look at my golden sore medicine!" Zhan Qingxiao took out the golden sore medicine that he had already refined with the golden tribulus terrestris, which Zhan Qingxiao had already refined before, and when he took it out, there were only three left.
The three dark golden gold sore pills were neatly placed in the small box, and there was something transparent flowing faintly on top of the dark golden pills.
The shopkeeper's years of experience told him that this was definitely an authentic gold sore medicine, but it was a little different from the well-known gold sore medicine, and he couldn't say what the difference was. So, with a solemn look on his face, "Childe, wait a minute." β
"Yingying, go catch a rabbit!" said the shopkeeper to the girl.
It didn't take long for the girl to come over with a white rabbit in a bamboo cage, and the shopkeeper solemnly took it from Zhan Qingxiao's hand