After Jiang Zhen's old city lord settled the five immortal envoys of Penglai Immortal Sect, he left the luxury inn and returned to the city lord's mansion with a worried face.

Several young Qi Refining Stage cultivators of the Jiang family followed behind, their faces sad and depressed.

This incident of dead people in the mine cave killed dozens of miners during the gas refining period at once, and it was the most serious vicious death and injury incident in recent decades, but the cause has not been found out so far. I only know that it was a powerful monster attack, but I don't know what that monster is and where it came from.

The monks of the entire Qingwu Immortal City were panicked and did not dare to go down to the mine to mine. Almost seventy or eighty percent of the mines stopped, and the miners and monks stayed in the city to watch.

You must know that Qingwu Immortal City is located in a cold and bitter place, it is a mining immortal city, almost all monks make a living from spirit mining and smelting, and stop mining, which has a great impact on the income and livelihood of the monks in Xiancheng.

Even some small Xiuxian families in the city took the opportunity to shout and spread rumors, saying that this disaster was caused by the Jiang family, and the Jiang family was not worthy of sitting in the position of the city lord and asked for a change of city lord.

If this matter is not resolved as soon as possible, and the monks in the city are given an explanation, the position of city lord that the Jiang family has painstakingly managed for decades will be forced to give up.

"Dad, our Qingwu Immortal City has never had a powerful monster appear, and this time the murderous thing is too strange. Who do you think is assassinating us this time?"

The young monk who had escaped from the mine looked depressed.

Old City Lord Jiang had a calm face, shook his head and said: "Penglai Immortal Sect is our backer, eighty percent of the mines we mine are shipped to Penglai Immortal Sect, they have always been satisfied, naturally there is no reason to trouble us." Another percent was shipped to the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect, and the last percent was shipped to the north. Except for Penglai Immortal Sect, as for the others... All of them are suspicious!"

"Could it be that the people of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect did this? They are too few, and they want to have more mines, so they provoke an incident, and want to get our Jiang family down and replace the family they support as the city lord?"

The young monk whispered.

"The position of the city lord of this Qingwu Immortal City is not easy to sit on! Penglai Immortal Sect's share can't be moved, otherwise without the support of the Immortal Sect, how can he sit firmly." It's just that the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect is very close to our Qingwu City, and we can't afford to offend... Alas. ”

Old City Lord Jiang shook his head, full of helplessness.

The position of the lord of this Qingwu city is like a fire burning his buttocks, and the wolves are looking around. Sometimes he really wants to do it.

However, there are some good things in this mine cave where the accident occurred, very rare minerals, which can help the Jiang family exchange for hundreds of years of immortal luck. He has always wanted to keep this secret mine, which is secretly dug by the Jiang clan's clansmen and not let outsiders know.

But suddenly dozens of lives were killed, which made him anxious, and he was afraid that the secret mine in this mine would not be able to be saved even if he wanted to.

But he can only drive the wolf.

...

Nothing happened overnight.

Early the next morning, the monks made an appointment to gather at the City Lord's Mansion, and the old City Lord Jiang was already at the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, waiting anxiously for a long time to welcome everyone.

Su Chen got up early, and saw that Ji Yuanzheng was no longer in the wing, and Sun Ruoxiang, Ge Yun and the others had not yet gotten up, so he came to the hall of the City Lord's Mansion first, but found that he was the only one in the Penglai Immortal Sect who arrived first.

The three monks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect have not yet arrived, and only the two scattered cultivators, the old Taoist Ge and the bewitching young woman, are sitting in the hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

These two are both cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, and they are about the same as Su Chen. I don't know what the origin is, but it will appear in Qingwu Immortal City at this time.

It is already very difficult to reach the foundation building realm with the body of scattered cultivation.

Su Chen admired these two scattered cultivators, and bowed his hand to the two of them slightly, "Under the surname Su, I have seen Ge Daoyou and Fang Daoyou!"

The old Taoist priest of You Fang Ge was meditating, raised his lowered eyes, glanced at Su Chen indifferently, and replied, "Su Daoyou is polite!" and said no more.

The bewitching young woman raised an eyebrow, but said very enthusiastically: "As a disciple of Penglai, Brother Su is so young, and he has already built the first three layers of the foundation, which is really the envy of my sister! Sister, I have wandered in the world of cultivating immortals, and I have never seen such a kind disciple of the great sect as Brother Su, but I have a fate, and I hope that I can get closer to Brother Su and exchange the way of cultivating immortals. ”

Su Chen smiled secretly, she didn't dare to believe a word of what she said. It takes a great deal to build a foundation for dispersion, and who knows where she came from.

He smiled lightly, "Fang Daoyou is polite, and the two of you are also deeply admired. By the way, what about the others, they haven't come yet?"

"Who knows! The young sect master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect didn't know why, knowing that this Qingwu Immortal City was close to your Penglai Immortal Sect, and he actually came over to get involved. ”

The bewitching young woman shook her head and said, she said in a low voice: "Last night, I saw the three of them go out in the middle of the night and never return to the inn, most likely because they saw someone. Maybe they are making trouble in the dark, trying to take the opportunity to provoke trouble! My sister and Brother Su hit it off at first sight, but we should be more attentive and wary of them. ”

"Fang Daoyou, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth... Let's wander around the world and earn some spirit stones to cultivate, and get some benefits. There's no need to offend people, the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect is not something we can afford to provoke. ”

Old Daoist Ge suddenly opened his eyes and said lightly.

"Brother Ge's words are the same! Help City Lord Jiang solve this matter, take the money and leave. You Immortal Sect affairs, don't dare to get involved more!"

The bewitching young woman smiled, and it seemed that there was also a taboo, so she stopped talking about it. chatted about some interesting things encountered in the immortal cultivation world, and laughed from time to time.

Su Chen nodded lightly and sat down on the seat next to him.

He naturally heard that there were words in the words of this old Dao Ge and the bewitching young woman, pointing to the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect. He and the two of them had a casual chat.

Several of them drank a few spiritual teas, and waited for nearly an hour before they saw Ji Yuanzheng, Zhuang Bufan and other monks arriving one after another, and the three monks including Wei Zhuo of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect were even more late.

...

Around noon.

More than a dozen foundation-building monks left the Qingwu Immortal City, and the sword flew to the large mining area hundreds of miles north of the Immortal City.

This ore area is becoming more and more cold and desolate, and the hills are all bare rocks and there are not many trees.

Su Chen stood on the flying sword and looked north.

This cold and bitter land, there seems to be no boundary between heaven and earth, gray and cloudy, giving people a feeling of boundless vastness.

He had looked at the map of the Tang Dynasty, as if the vicinity of this Qingwu Immortal City was the border of the Tang Dynasty, and the map did not indicate where the outside world was.

This world is so big, crossing the border, it is still boundless, which shocked Su Chen.

He was about to ask what the north side was.

Sun Ruoxiang had already taken the lead, and asked in great surprise, "Senior Brother Ji, what is the place where this place goes all the way north, is there an end?"

Ji Yuanzheng's face changed, and he hurriedly said: "No, this Qingwu Immortal City is already the most marginal immortal city in the northeast edge of the Tang Dynasty.

Further north, there is the land of Huawai, and the climate is colder and aristier than here. Only some Beiyi tribes live, these Beiyi tribes, primitive tribes that are more backward than the Xiongnu, believe in the god of barbarians, practice barbarian arts, not my Tang people. I, the monk of Middle Earth, entered the land of Beiyi, and when I encountered a barbarian cultivator, I would be in trouble. ”

"This foreign land of Beiyi is the end of the land of Shenzhou?"

Sun Ruoxiang was thoughtful and curious.

Ji Yuanzheng hesitated, shook his head and said, "It's not. It is said that after the boundless desolate land of the Beiyi tribe, all the way to the north, you can reach a sea of ice.

Beyond this endless sea of ice, it is the legendary land of Beiming recorded in the immortal classics. Don't think about it, with our strength, I can't go over there. ”

He didn't know too much, but he had seen it inadvertently on the immortal canon.

When City Lord Jiang heard this, he smiled and said, "Miss Sun, don't talk about the land of Beiming. Even if it's the land in front of you, you can't go over. ”

"Why is that?"

"In the middle of the border between our Qingwu Immortal City and the Beiyi tribe, there is a place called Tianfeng Gorge, which is the junction of the two sides. On that day, the terrain of the Wind Gorge was extremely dangerous, and the sky was blowing fiercely, and it was impossible to fly with the sword. The ground is more than 10,000 feet deep, and if you take a wrong step, you will fall into the bottomless abyss and be devoured by the demon beasts at the bottom of the valley.

The place is occupied by a demon monk known as the Demon Alliance. They were all evil monks who had committed crimes in Middle-earth, and they couldn't get along, and they fled to the edge of the cracks in this cold and bitter land, struggling to survive between Middle-earth and Beiyi.

It is difficult to enter and exit, the climate is dry, the wind and sand all year round, and the environment is extremely harsh. There are countless monsters. It is sheltered by this extremely steep canyon and close to the land of Beiyi.

The major immortal sects in Shenzhou were difficult to attack, and they didn't want to arouse the fierce opposition of the Beiyi barbarian monks, so this demonic alliance barely survived.

The major immortal sects in Shenzhou have always been hostile to this demonic alliance, and there is no reason to talk about it, once they encounter it, they will fight. Therefore, most of the monks of the Demon Demon Alliance stayed in the Tianfeng Gorge, and rarely dared to cross the canyon and return to the Middle Earth Realm. Naturally, we don't dare to go there at will.

It will be difficult for us to cross the Demon Alliance and enter the realm of the Beiyi Tribe. As long as they don't enter the territory of Middle-earth, the Five Great Immortal Sects will not care about them. ”

"The Demon Demon Alliance is hostile to our Righteous Path Immortal Sect, so won't they attack Qingwu Immortal City?"

Sun Ruoxiang was very curious, you must know that most of the Qingwu Immortal City were Qi refining stage cultivators, and their strength was very weak.

"They will not be able to hold this territory if they take it. As soon as the Jindan monks of the Penglai Immortal Sect came, they fled faster than their grandson, and retreated back into the Tianfeng Gorge. It is also difficult for Penglai Immortal Sect to cross the border and cause disputes with barbarian monks... ”

Old City Lord Jiang smiled bitterly.

Moreover, a small amount of ore mined by Qingwu Immortal City flowed to the Demon Demon Alliance in the north. Sell some ore to them, and also get peace, so that the monks of the Demon Alliance will not always worry about this place. Over time, Penglai Immortal Sect also turned a blind eye to this and closed one eye.

These things are rarely paid attention to by the foundation building monks of the Penglai Immortal Sect, and they may not know about them. He, the lord of Qingwu City, has lived here for a long time, but he is clear.

Su Chen listened to their words, but his heart was surprised.

In this bitter cold place of Qingwu Immortal City, the surrounding situation is actually so complicated. There is Penglai Immortal Sect, one of the five major sects in the south, the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect in the west, and the Demon Demon Alliance and the barbarian cultivation of the Beiyi tribe in the north.

The strength of this Qingwu Immortal City is weak, but it is sandwiched in the middle, I am afraid that it is very uncomfortable.

...

When the Edgeworth of the Monks arrived at the mine, they flew down.

The mine where the accident occurred was one of the copper mines.

The entrance to the cave of this mine road was sealed by a huge mountain stone of more than ten thousand catties.

There are more than dozens of Qi refining period cultivators from Qingwu Immortal City, guarding the entrance of this cave day and night in fear, so as not to rush out of the monster. They were all miners, sent from other mines.

"How's it going here?"

City Lord Jiang asked the miners in a deep voice.

"City Lord, after the mine was blocked, it has not been moved. The monster should still be inside!"

The gas miners hurriedly reported respectfully.

City Lord Jiang nodded, and ordered everyone to push away the boulder, open the entrance of the mine, and let the Qi refining stage monks go to the mine to explore the way.

He and the monks followed the miners inside.

"Please!"

"Penglai Immortal Sect Daoist is strong, please first!"

The foundation building monks were humble to one another. Although their strength is strong, it is still dangerous to walk ahead in the face of unknown dangers in the narrow land of the mine.

City Lord Jiang also knew that none of the foundation-building cultivators would be willing to be at the forefront, so he could only let the miners of the Qi Refining Period of Qingwu Immortal City lead the way.

...

The city lord Jiang advanced, and the other more than a dozen foundation building monks gave in humbly, and then they rushed in, and entered this deep mine cave together to check the situation inside.

As soon as Su Chen entered the mine, he felt cold, as if there was a yin wind filling his body.

A short distance from the entrance of the cave, to the depths of the mine, the corpses of some miners in the gas refining period can be seen everywhere.

The corpses were all cold and stiff, with a blue-black mist and a foul smell, but they were not decomposed.

When the foundation building period monks of the Penglai Immortal Sect and the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect saw that the corpses were full of rich poison, they couldn't help but turn pale, and they retreated again and again, not even daring to investigate the corpses.

There are second-order foundation building stage demon beasts in the mine, which is not terrible. With more than a dozen of them foundation-building monks, it was easy to hunt.

But this poison is very domineering and very troublesome.

Because I don't know what poison is, there may not be a suitable special antidote pill. In case of poisoning, if the ordinary detoxification pill can't be solved, there is a way to go back to the far away Immortal Sect Mountain Gate. It's too late to rush back to the mountain gate, and if you die, you will die unjustly.

City Lord Jiang looked embarrassed and said to the monks: "Last time I went into the mine, I found that the corpse was poisonous, so I quickly retreated. I know very little about poison, and I can't tell what it is. Guys, do anyone know anything about poison?"

Wei Zhuo, the young master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect, shook his head lightly, he only studied spirit beasts and did not understand poison.

The other foundation building monks also looked at each other and didn't know much about it.

"By the way, Senior Brother Su, you are an alchemy master, you should know something about poison! It's a pity that I am only an alchemist, and I know very little about poison. ”

Sun Ruoxiang said.

The eyes of the foundation building monks suddenly fell on Su Chen, and they were very shocked. Obviously, I didn't expect that there was an alchemy master among the crowd.

"Brother Su is actually an alchemy master, please ask Brother Su to investigate!"

City Lord Jiang hurriedly said.

Su Chen was helpless. All the foundation building monks don't know about poison, he, an alchemy master, is often exposed to various elixirs, and he also knows a little bit about poison, so he can only identify it.

Su Chen used a low-level shovel to turn open the body of a miner, carefully examined his body, and found that there was a wound on his back, "This poison can't be seen... The wound was a pinhole the size of a tail finger, presumably poisoned by a highly poisonous flying needle. But there is no flying needle... It is likely to melt inside the corpse. ”

"That monster will release a poisonous needle. ”

"Let's go, go into the cave and take a look, and see what kind of monster it is!"

The faces of the foundation building monks were calm, each holding a magic weapon and blessing various protective covers, adding a look of vigilance. Threes and threes covered each other in twos and threes, and continued to go deeper into the mine.

Su Chen held the wind gourd in one hand and the second-order peach blossom in the other, and walked with Senior Brother Ji Yuanzheng.

This copper concentrate road is very narrow, more than a zhang wide, and can only accommodate two or three foundation building monks to pass through.

This mine road is very complicated, turning left and right, there are many forks, and I don't know how long I walked.

Suddenly, the miners in the gas refining period at the front screamed and were attacked. A golden shadow with extremely fast speed rushed towards the monks.

"Quick, the monster is out, everyone shoot!"

City Lord Jiang roared, and a second-order earth-based flying sword in his hand erupted into a burst of yellow light, shooting out, but it failed to stab the golden shadow.

A golden needle shadow struck.

"Poof!"

City Lord Jiang was in severe pain, his body shield was vulnerable, and he couldn't even block his magic robe and inner armor, and he was instantly pierced by this golden light, piercing his chest.

On the wall of the cave, there was a large golden demon scorpion, wearing golden scorpion armor, and looking at the monks with cold eyes. With a flick of his tail, he shot out a scorpion tail golden needle and pierced into Jiang Chengzhu's chest.

City Lord Jiang leaned weakly on the stone wall of the mine, spurting out a large mouthful of blood, but saw that the blood had turned blue-black.

"It's not good, it's the golden demon scorpion in the late stage of foundation building!"

"Quick, join forces to kill it!"

"Kill!"

The foundation building monks who followed behind Jiang City Lord were all shocked when they saw the golden demon scorpion, and they all sacrificed various magic weapons to besiege it.

All of them are in the early stage of foundation building, and the highest is only three layers in the foundation building period. Although there are many people, the gap between them and the demon beasts in the late stage of foundation building is quite large.

A second-order low-grade flying sword stabbed the golden demon scorpion, and the "Qiang" hit its golden armor, and there was a burst of fire.

The golden demon scorpion crawled extremely fast in the mine tunnel, and the scorpion tail shook a few times, and several golden needles burst towards the foundation building monks.

There was another scream, and a foundation-building man of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sect widened his eyes without blinking. He wore thick armor and a protective cover, but he couldn't block a prick of the golden needle.

"It's not good, the golden needle breaks the armor, it can't be stopped!"

"Run!"

The monks were so frightened that they died in the blink of an eye, where did they dare to fight with it, and they turned around and fled.