When the Tianzhou and the escort warship landed on the sea, they no longer rose into the air, cleaving the waves like ordinary building ships, and sailed towards Lingyamen City

-- Sure enough, it was still in the sea to open the province of Lingshi fuel.

Shangguan Pian invited us to the banquet hall of her main cabin for a drink.

Each cabin inside the Heavenly Boat (now the Lou Ship) was carefully arranged, and the servants guided us into a hatch with intricate runes. The door opened, and the small and delicate garden was greeted by the strange flowers and plants, which were more bright than the scenery of the Central Plains. More than a dozen parrots with exaggerated crests and rainbow colors pecked at the full grains of Jiagu in the garden, and when they saw me, a living person, they flew to learn the language of the people and asked for the elixir to try. Yan Ruolin and I each sprinkled some yellow bud pills to make rice, so that they would not be entangled.

Following the sound of the guqin, we walked into the small banquet hall. Shangguan Pianpian, who was the host, changed into light gauze casual clothes and invited us to the table with a light smile.

There was also a charming woman in her thirties in the banquet hall, wearing a purple robe embroidered with phoenix tail butterflies, and wearing a short knife with a sharkskin sheath around her waist. She gave us a slight nod and continued to feed the fish tank, where colorful fish frolicked around the coral reef in the glass tank, thinking that this was the whole world. This woman is probably the head of Shangguan Pianpian and other characters.

Shangguan Pianpian actually only invited the two of us.

Yan Ruolin told me with a divine thought: Shangguan Tianquan has three children, all of whom are inherited by the Dragon and Tiger Sect. The eldest son is in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars in the imperial capital; the third son is still cultivating in the Dragon and Tiger Sect, and there are still two years before the outer disciples become teachers; Shangguan Pianpian is a middle-aged woman, 22 years old this year, who has cultivated to the middle level of Jindan, and has been promoted to the inner disciple of the Dragon and Tiger Sect early.

After being promoted to an inner disciple, Shangguan Tianquan felt that the methods of the other lineage masters in the sect were not suitable for Pianpian's endowment, so he asked her to learn her own methods at home and manage the family estate. The implementation of specific affairs was carried out by the purple-robed woman - her name was Jin Yunqiao, who was once the strongest pirate leader in the South China Sea, and was later accepted as a disciple by Shangguan Tianquan to be the head of the Shangguan family, and her cultivation was the upper echelon of Jindan.

"Since the Rakshasa leveled the demon, the four major sects have met to pass each other and prove immortality together. I walked a few steps early on the cultivation path, can you be called your original junior brother?" Shangguan Pianpian smiled and waited quietly for my answer.

"Hello Senior Sister Pianpian, you are so gentle. ”

I glanced at Yan Ruolin - other people's tutors are better than you.

The girl in red didn't look at me, and made coffee for herself—this is the southern drink that Shangguan Pianpian prepared for us, and this crop is cultivated in countless plantations in the South China Sea, and its status is similar to that of our tea in the Central Plains.

"I led the family's fleet and routinely patrolled the borders of the South China Sea, and I happened to encounter the dragon son of the Ao family pestering you. How did Princess Lin and her former junior brother get into trouble with the Ao family?"

I asked Princess Lin if it was necessary to reveal the news that I was still in the Nine Trials to outsiders. She said that Shangguan Pian Pian was her best friend, and her tone was extremely tight, so it didn't hurt to say it, not to mention that Shangguan Tianquan, who was in retreat and practice, had handed over all the Lingya Gate to Pian Pian, and I just had to ask her for help if I had anything to do -- there was no restriction on the disciples not to ask for help from outsiders, and it was precisely to encourage the disciples to use a reasonable means to accomplish their goals.

So she simply told Shangguan Pianpian everything about picking me up in Baiyun Township (cut, nonsense) and looking for Nangong Panshi.

Of course, I was at that little victory over her, and the girl obviously chose to forget about it.

"In this way, Nangong Shizi must be in Lingyamen City. Although my father and General Nangong were both canonized by the Son of Heaven, they never intersected. None of us welcome strangers to our territory - with the exception of Lingyamen, which was specially opened up by my father to give rest to his friends from all over the world - I think that not only the prince of Nangong, but also those who wanted to help him and those who harmed him would gather in this city. ”

Shangguan Pianpian thought for a moment,

"This city is the commons of the world, and it is most taboo that this kind of trouble will lead to a bloody battle that stirs up the whole city. Nangong Shizi is a well-known figure in the secular world, and his life will most likely attract the covetousness of powerful people and a lot of turmoil. From my standpoint, I also hope that this matter can be concluded as soon as possible - whether Nangong Shizi lives or dies, the sooner the better. ”

She looked at the purple-robed woman,

"Chief Jin, take the trouble to deal with this matter, and now order the money soldiers in the city to search the city. Try your best to find Nangong Shizi and put him under the protection of the Shangguan family, and then move him to a neutral place, where the two parties will test their magical powers and decide who he belongs - you are personally responsible. ”

The woman received the order, and will walk out of the banquet hall, look back and ask,

"Will the two parties invite the Yuan Infant to disrupt the situation?"

"Impossible, not long ago, the Ao family's inevitable pursuit of Nangong only dispatched Jindan-level figures. The big man in the Yuanying Realm is going to make a move, and he should have made a move a long time ago. The girl in red said.

"Then please wait for the city lord to return to me. ”

There were only three of us left in the banquet room.

"Senior Brother Yuan doesn't seem to have much interest in Nangong Shizi's affairs, even if there is a ghost attached to your body urging you, you are also at ease, you are really very human. ”

Shangguan Pian asked me with a smile.

"Well, I've been practicing the Yin God for a while while I'm drifting around. It is impossible for him to take away, let him disappear in time, I am fine-I don't want to please the Nangong family. ”

"Then let's stay in our Lingya Gate City with Princess Lin for a few days, and I will do my best to be a landlord." This city is at the end of the earth, and it is the most prosperous metropolis in the south, and the cultivators of the Southern Great Wilderness Continent and Middle Earth have to pass through this place. The original junior brother might as well have a good time in the city these days, and wait for the whereabouts of Nangong Shizi to leave again, so that the people of the Ao family have no excuse to trouble you - our sect also has a similar assessment of the nine difficult tests - until the original junior brother and the superintendent of your sect's own city have surveyed, you have free time. ”

Shangguan Pianpian said.

I breathe a sigh of relief, it's rare to have such a thoughtful host. I do have to play around Lingyamen—but most of my time is still going to be spent cultivating.

The battle between Ao Miao and the deputy commander of the Qinglong Soldiers, I couldn't intervene at all.

I am also a wild golden pill that lacks a famous teacher and a lack of magical powers in the eyes of Princess Lin.

Kunlun's outer disciples are just a layer of protective skin that I picked up.

"Great, then I want Sister Pian Pian to accompany me around the city for the next few days...... The last time I came, it was Lingyamen's spring auction, what's so fun in this season now?"

Yan Ruolin asked Shangguan Pianpian with great interest.

"It's still early before the autumn auction, and the big auction houses only have some scattered treasures, and I'll give you the auction catalog when I get to the city...... In fact, the most interesting thing in June is the riding conference, which is a program after the Dragon Boat Festival, and many powerful spirit animal racing competitions. ”

"Ah, I'll probably have to bet on the ride. I was supposed to get a good ride this year...... It's all yellow from this little thief, otherwise I can sign up to have fun!"

......

For thousands of years, the battles between the Yuan Infant and the Jindan have frequently broken out in the Five Continents and Three Realms, and most of the old cities have been destroyed by cultivators or demon clans, and then abandoned and become the dust of history. Although the great cities of our time have the same name and are built on the same site as the metropolis of a thousand years ago, they are actually very different from the era of civilization. In addition to the imperial capital that will never fall, Jinling, Guangling, Chang'an and other cities are the same, and so is Lingyamen.

Lingyamen was the stronghold of the Emperor of Middle-earth to expand his territory to the extreme south of Shenzhou in the era of civilization, and it was a springboard for advancing into the Southern Wilderness in the general strategy of the emperors of previous dynasties. With the domination of the world by cultivators, Lingyamen gradually became the first city for monks from the central and southern continents to gather and communicate.

After the middle of the martial arts era, the city has been under the control of the Dragon and Tiger Sect - since Zhou Chunan revitalized the Dragon and Tiger Sect, the departure of Middle Earth has always been the sphere of influence of their sect. However, with the Sword Sect's promotion to the first sect in the world after the Battle of the Rakshasa Ping Demon, the Dragon and Tiger Sect can no longer firmly grasp the Lingya Gate City - the mountain gate of the Sword Sect is in Shu Mountain in the middle earth Kun position, and after the Battle of the Ping Demon dominates the entire Southern Wilderness Continent, the Lingya Gate is naturally coveted by the Sword Sect.

In the past five hundred years, the two sects have gambled five times for the ownership of this city, and the Sword Sect has won three and lost two, occupying the Lingya Gate for three hundred years. It wasn't until the fifth battle a hundred years ago that Shangguan Tianquan defeated the people of the Sword Sect, and the Lingya Sect returned to the hands of the Dragon and Tiger Sect inheritance.

Shangguan took the opportunity to declare the Lingya Gate permanently neutral, free and open to monks from all over the world, and the Shangguan family served as the host and administrator of the city. In the past hundred years, the turmoil has gradually subsided, and occasionally several times it has been strangled by Shangguan Tianquan's iron fist.

Today's Lingya Gate stands above the end of the world, the city is ring-shaped, by the mountains and the sea, divided into sevenfold, one by one, one by one, connected to the spiritual veins of the nine places, and the star power of the nine heavens. Huge cannons surround the city tower, and every brick on the city wall and the surface of the ground is engraved with various runes, forming a huge magic circle, which can resist the army and demon beasts on the outside, and can dispel the wandering ghosts that are vulnerable to people inside, which is the achievement of the cultivators of the two major sects for thousands of years.

There are hundreds of thousands of households in the city, including retainers who are attached to the Shangguan family, as well as cultivators who live in the city, as well as various guilds and chambers of commerce that serve the cultivators. Countless fleets, wooden oxen and horses, and wooden birds have continuously transported the products of the counties of the South China Sea and even the Southern Great Wilderness Continent to Lingyamen -- these products are the essence of human beings' spiritual veins, spiritual mountains, and spiritual fields in various places.

"The one who Lingya Gate is the thoroughfare of the two continents, the jewel of the south, and the unbreakable golden city. ”

-- Some of the above are what I saw, and some of them are from the records of the "Lingyamen Local Chronicles" (which I borrowed from Shangguan Pianpian) -- I passed through each of the nine difficult places, and I asked myself to gather all the local information.

......

When the boat arrived at the port, at night, we borrowed and lived in the mansion of the Shangguan family in the city.

Yan Ruolin and I each had a quiet courtyard, and a silent alley separated the two courtyards.

A couple of wooden golems with runes engraved on them do chores for me, never mouthing too much (and they don't have the ability to talk much). The four corners of the courtyard and the gatehouse have their own courtyard guards led by the foundation builders to patrol and protect the Dharma, so as not to be disturbed by outsiders.

This is the best for me, and it is rare for me to have a peaceful cultivation time again.

Yan Ruolin's courtyard was lit up, and a team of guards was sent outside the courtyard - I guess Shangguan Pianpian must have gone to her to talk all night in private.

I turned off all the lights in my room and was left alone in the darkness.

......

From Baiyun Township to the present, Yan Ruolin and I have been cultivating in our own ways, and we almost never talk to each other.

When she cultivates, she will release a thought to protect the Dharma, and then hide herself from outsiders, and when I cultivate the Yin God, I will also let the shining snake guard cover me.

I buried my head in thought and cursed,

"It's so difficult to cultivate, I don't know how long it will take!"

Then he sighed again,

"I've been mixed up for half my life, and I don't even have a friend, so I'm too lonely. ”

"Tong!"

I rolled over and lay down on the couch, staring at the roof in a daze.

I felt very desolate - when I used to be a pirate, I was familiar with my brothers in the gang, but now they are all ghosts in the belly of a fish, Xiao Zhi and I have been with me all the way in Baiyun Township, all the way in search of treasure, and after she left, at least one bear was with her. Now I'm completely unrelated - nominally I'm from Kunlun, but I don't have a brother or sister who helps each other, and I spend all day with a little witch as my companion, and I don't look down on each other.

I rolled on my side, curling up my body.

The further you go, the fewer people you can communicate with, and the farther away from the crowd. The world is big, but there isn't anyone I know.

I don't know how Fengmeng is in Kunlun Mountain? Is there any other bear spirit as a companion, will the spirit beasts discriminate against him for being born in the countryside and having no knowledge?

I don't know where Xiao Zhi is? Her magical powers are not as good as mine, floating in the vast world of the five continents and three realms, I don't know how many hardships there are.

The battle between Ao Miao and the deputy commander the day before yesterday, I couldn't intervene at the lower level of Jindan.

I thought back to what Yan Ruolin said at the time,

“...... It took you twelve years to cultivate to the lower level of Jindan...... It will take another twelve years to climb to the middle level of Jindan!"

Even if it takes me twelve years to climb to the middle level of Jindan, there are still higher levels for me to climb.

When will I see her again?

I imagine falling asleep with Xiao Zhi in my arms.

- Bastard!

I actually shed tears, I thought I would never shed them for the rest of my life. Even if she locked me in the sarcophagus for half a year, it didn't flow.

I wiped away my tears and fell into a groggy sleep.

I wouldn't have been so sleepy in Jindan, but the sleepiness of the tide overwhelmed me.

......

As the night passed, the wind was rolling and ghosts were haunting.

The Shangguan family inherited the Dragon and Tiger Sect, which is the first rune in the world, and the runes engraved on the wall of the courtyard are inviolable. The ghost doesn't come from outside, it's my dream. Originally, the Jindan did not have upside-down dreams, only powerful ghosts could support dreams.

"Deputy Commander, can you die in peace? Even if it is the time when the Yin Qi is at its heaviest, I will not be taken away by you! My physical body and Yin God are one, and you have no chance. ”

The deputy commander of the Blue Dragon Soldiers and I looked at each other in a dream between the virtual and the real.

"Ha, I can cut off my meridians, how can I be greedy for another life! In ancient history, the soul of a Jindan Martial Saint like me was not dispersed, and it was called a manifest saint!"

-- When he said this, I remember reading in novels that in the era of civilization, there were occasional deeds of the martial saint who was righteous and loyal to the country.

But can the deputy commander of the Green Dragon Soldiers, the guardian of the pirate leader, also manifest himself?

"Old man, what are you clinging to? Characters who can stand in the middle of Jindan must have their own path and a stable Dao heart. I don't think you're as brainless as those dying Blue Dragon soldiers. Why did you force me to rescue Nangong Panshi?"

I asked.

"I don't think my death is worthless. There are great people in this world, and there are weak people with strong abilities. Shizi is a person of great ability, and he can practice the belief of my weak ability. Therefore, I sacrificed for him and gave him the way. ”

"And what's your path?

I scoffed.

In the same vein, we want to put an end to the troubles of the world. For Shizi, this is the only use of supernatural powers, and he has no interest in immortality. ”

I really want to laugh, pirates can still have such thoughts, are you officers and soldiers disguised as pirates? Even officers and soldiers only have gold and silver treasures in their eyes.

Since five hundred years ago, the four major sects of the Xiuzhen Realm have designated the Fu family as the co-masters of the world, and maintaining the status quo of the secular realm is the general strategy of the Xiuzhen Realm, and the Taisho Dynasty is the mouthpiece of the sect to give orders. All those who want to challenge the order, whether heroes, heroes, humans, or demons, have been wiped out. ”

I categorically deny it.

Although I only know the examples of Murong Guantian and the Demon Tide, I can probably guess the attitude of the Xiuzhen Realm towards the secular realm.

Ao Wei wants to fight with Nangong Panshi is beyond his strength, and Nangong Panshi wants to change the order of the sect is even more immeasurable.

"It's none of your business how the prince goes, I just want to make a deal with you with the rest of my mind - it's an advance. If you can't say anything else, then I'll send you to cultivate. Don't you want to do your best to improve your strength? The right path will not lead to it, there is only the evil way. I can wipe out my true spirit, scatter my thoughts into vitality, and nourish your physical body all - your physical body can be pushed closer to the peak of the lower level of Jindan, saving you at least six years of cultivation - on the condition that I still find the son of the world and help him get out of danger. Whether you use your strength or borrow Kunlun's connections, as long as you let him get out of danger!"

My heart was fluctuating.

In doing so, he was completely destroyed.

There are almost no Jindan cultivators who will contribute their cultivation to others, and there will be no such thing as a master and apprentice, father and son.

For those who scatter merit, the merit is in the people, and the merit is dead.

For the recipients, the compatibility of the exercises is one problem, and the wear and tear of the cultivation is another. If a meritorious person gains the cultivation of others, his progress may not be great, and it will inevitably increase the probability of the birth of the Heavenly Demon Delusion Realm of the Jindan Realm.

-- All the thoughts and dedication of the deputy commander of the Blue Dragon Soldier can only save me six years of Dao cultivation time at most.

If I hadn't tried my best to improve my own Taoism, I wouldn't have been interested in his mention at all.

"You don't have to scruple, your physical training method is out of the Nangong family with me, and my thoughts have turned into pure vitality and integrated into your physical body, just like a big river flowing into the sea. What's more, my will will not have the slightest effect on your mind. ”

I hesitated and asked,

"You're not afraid that I'll turn around and settle the bill after merging your thoughts?"

"You and Yuan Yi are father and son, and their faces are extremely thin. I have read people for half a lifetime, and I will not be mistaken. ”

- He said well, so I couldn't agree to him lightly. I don't have the cheek to go back.

"The Shangguan family has already said that they will find Nangong Panshi. I really don't need to meddle. ”

I struggled to find a reason to refuse.

"First, they won't help the prince, whether it's the prince of the world or the enemy of the prince family, Shangguan is indispensable, I don't want the prince to fall into the hands of those who have nothing to do with the Nangong family - in essence, Shangguan Tianquan is a merchant and will only sell the prince to the party with the highest price;

Second, the Shangguan family will not find the prince - the prince will not appear in front of people he does not trust, never;

Thirdly, the thought doppelganger of the prince has seen you, and the deity of the prince knows about you saving a boatload of people, and he will trust you. ”

The language of the deputy commander of the Green Dragon Soldiers is categorical and does not allow anyone to question it.

I was amazed at his stubbornness,

Accept it, or let it dissipate—after tonight, the thoughts of the deputy commander will fade day by day, and the honorarium I will receive will become less and less.

There was a knock at the door, a woman's gentle voice.

"Is Senior Brother Yuan here?"

I broke out in a cold sweat and woke up.

The woman's voice pulled me out of the ghost's dream.

My stiff body gradually recovered from the dream of the ghost pressing the bed, and I went to open the door weakly.

"Princess Lin said that she would sleep well in the courtyard until the East is bright. Before going to bed, she asked me for one thing: for the time being, I will pass on your talisman and escape method on her behalf. I hope you can be a good disciple. ”

Shangguan Pian smiled, and she served a cup of soul-waking tea on my desk.

"That ghost seems to have disturbed Senior Brother Yuan?"

"It's nothing, it's just the grumbling of the old man who carries it with him. He's going to be gone soon. I won't be possessed by demons again. ”

I replied.