Chapter 252

At the same time, the old Taoist suddenly opened his eyes, turned his head to look at the closed stone door behind him, and frowned slightly.

"Yuanming Daoyou, what's wrong? Is there something wrong with this Chen Daoyou?" the middle-aged man asked softly when he saw this.

"It's just that it's been a long time since I've seen a young man who came alone, and it's a little fox-like figure, so I'm just a little curious. The old man surnamed Zhang said casually.

"Young man, hehe! That's right, even if he disguises it well. But he has only gathered his cultivation in the early stage, and his mana is weak like that, and it won't take too long to step into the path of cultivating immortals! It should be a yellow-haired boy! Usually such a person will walk with his elders to avoid suffering. The big man surnamed Yu chuckled.

"Forget it! What does this have to do with us, let's still work hard to cultivate! Poor Dao doesn't want to stop at the late stage of qi gathering in this life. Yuan Ming Daoist suddenly frowned and said.

"Yuanming Daoyou, your cultivation is already close to the peak of the late stage of Qi Gathering! I believe that the bottleneck will come soon, and with those pills that Daoyou collected some time ago, it should be enough to break through to the realm of Qi Gathering Great Perfection. With the ability of Daoyou, maybe the foundation can be built!" said the big man surnamed Yu with a little envy.

"Breaking through to the matter of gathering qi and consummation, the poor road is really a little sure, so I will accept your noble words! But how easy is it to build a foundation! There are so many of our immortal cultivators in Qingzhou, but there are very few who can build a foundation. Not to mention Qingzhou, as far as the entire Chu State is concerned, there are very few people who can step into the foundation building period. There was no trace of a smile on Yuan Mingdao's face.

"That's right, our Chu State is just a primary domain, and we are already the top figures in the foundation building period! Those who can cultivate to that realm are either people with outstanding talents, or people with profound fortunes. When the big man surnamed Yu heard the other party's words, the corners of his mouth moved slightly and said.

"Hehe! Born with talent, poor and self-aware. It's not bad, but it's too good. As for the blessings, how can they be so easy to obtain! The poor path is now just thinking about how to achieve the Great Perfection of Qi Gathering. After Yuan Ming Daoren said this, he directly closed his eyes and meditated on breathing, obviously unwilling to say more.

Seeing this, the big man surnamed Yu moved the corners of his mouth slightly several times, but finally did not speak. Then he sighed lightly and began to practice pranayama as well.

On the other side, as soon as Xu Yangfang crossed the stone gate, he naturally heard the sound of the stone gate closing behind him. He turned to look at the closed stone door behind him, remembering what he had just done when he pushed the door.

As far as Xu Yang knew, this door had the function of testing the cultivation of immortal cultivators.

People in the early stage of gathering qi cannot move at all, and they can only enter when the gatekeeper opens the door.

Those in the middle stage of qi gathering can only push away a quarter, but in the late stage of qi gathering, they can push half of it.

Even if an immortal cultivator reaches the Great Perfection of Qi Gathering, he can only push open three-quarters of the way, and this door can only be completely opened when he reaches the foundation building period.

After looking at Shimen for a while, Xu Yang no longer cared. At the moment, he was caught nervous by the noise in front of him.

At first glance, this place is like a large stall market in front of him!

Dozens of feet in front of where Xu Yang was standing, rows of stalls were neatly arranged.

There are more or less things on each stall, many of which Xu Yang can recognize at a glance. Including all kinds of runes, jade slips, medicine bottles, array plates, array flags, and even magic weapons.

Xu Yang quietly released his divine sense, and quickly checked the situation in the vicinity.

There are nearly a thousand stalls here, and each stall is equipped with all kinds of things that immortal cultivators need. In front of these stalls, a dense flow of people constantly passes through, stopping from time to time to inquire and bargain.

After Xu Yang's divine sense was withdrawn, he gasped! Because his divine sense found out, there were four or five thousand people here, and they were all immortal cultivators.

Their cultivation is uneven, ranging from the early stage of qi gathering to the great consummation of qi gathering. Among them, there are the most in the middle stage of Qi Gathering, and slightly fewer in the early and late stages, and there are only a dozen or so immortal cultivators in the Great Perfection of Qi Gathering.

Xu Yang's arrival attracted the attention of some people. This made him move his eyebrows, and naturally joined the flow of people, watching the stalls at random.

In this way, the people who keep an eye on him quickly lose interest in him.

Along the way, Xu Yang kept looking at all kinds of goods.

But he didn't have the slightest intention of coming forward to buy it, this was not because of the problem of the spirit stone, although Xu Yang's net worth at the moment was not rich, but after searching the closed space, the spirit stone was also full.

He did this because he was well versed in the truth that wealth is not visible.

At this time, Xu Yang's mind kept recalling everything that the Kongyun Dao people had personally introduced to him, as well as everything about Qingzhou Fang City mentioned in the jade slip he left.

Qingzhoufang City is the largest gathering place for immortal cultivators in Qingzhou, as well as a trading place, and it can be said that it is the dream place for immortal cultivators in Qingzhou.

Not only do they have a large number of various immortal cultivation commodity resources that attract them here, but even in terms of aura concentration alone, this place is several times more than that of the outside world. But it's such a place, and it's not easy to get into, let alone live here.

Every time you enter this place, you need a spirit stone, and you can only stay here for one day. If you want to continue to stay here, you must pay a temporary residence fee of one spirit stone per day.

Such a high burden was enough for ordinary immortal cultivators to bear. Therefore, although in the Qingzhou Immortal Cultivation Realm, there are the most immortal cultivators in the early stage of Qi Gathering, but there are almost no people who can stay here for a long time.

Even in the middle of the gathering, most of them are mobile people. Only in the late stage of gathering qi can you get an errand in the fang market.

Just like the middle-aged people surnamed Yu who guard the entrance, as long as they do their jobs well, they can live in the Fang City for free for a long time.

As for the immortal cultivators who gather qi and the Great Perfection, they can serve as high-level guest stewards, and it is rumored that they also have private cave mansions with a stronger aura.

However, these are still far away from Xu Yang.

At this moment, he touched an ordinary cyan ring on his hand.

This is the certificate of temporary residence in Qingzhou Fang City, and only with it Xu Yang can he stay in Fang City, otherwise he will be expelled from Fang City as an trespasser.

Inside the ring, there is a special prohibition mark made by Fang City, which can let the law enforcement envoy of Fang City know the location of the ring holder.

After the expiration date of the ring has passed, the law enforcement envoy of Fang City will find the owner of the ring. If you don't renew the fee, the ring holder will also be forcibly evicted from the market.

Xu Yang kept shuttling between the stalls, his divine sense constantly scanning, watching and listening to everything and sounds around him. The information about Qingzhoufang City in my heart corresponds to what I have seen and heard at this moment.

Such a seemingly boring thing, Xu Yang actually lasted for more than half an hour.

At the end, he rolled his eyes a few times and looked to the left side of the stall market.

There are rows of small buildings, about dozens of them.

In the nearest few of them, the plaques on the lintels can vaguely see the words "Shenbing Shop" and "Ten Thousand Array Hall". You don't have to think about it, you know it's some shops.

Xu Yang hesitated, but his head was tilted, and he turned to the right side of the bazaar, where there were more than a dozen exquisite attics of different heights, and only the middle one had a plaque hanging on it, on which three quaint golden characters of Qingfeng Pavilion were engraved on it.

The dense and mysterious formations on these attics seem to tell their extraordinary.

As far as Xu Yang knew, Qingfeng Pavilion was the only inn-like place in Qingzhoufang City, which was specially used to serve monks in the early and middle stages of Qi Gathering, and this was exactly what Xu Yang was looking for.

I saw that after he looked at the pavilion, he broke away from the flow of people and walked in the direction of the attic.

Soon after, Xu Yang came to the front of the main pavilion in the middle of the Qingfeng Pavilion and stepped into it without hesitation.

As soon as he entered it, Xu Yang's goal was a counter hall the size of several zhang.

There were already more than a dozen people inside, and most of them were in the early and middle stages of Qi gathering, and many of them were like Xu Yang, using hats, cloaks or masks to cover their appearances.

When Xu Yang came in, they all looked at Xu Yang. But after everyone's divine consciousness swept over Xu Yang's body, they took their eyes off him.

Xu Yang was so happy that he looked at this place carefully. The counter is divided into left and right sides, and one person is in charge of it.

There was a long queue on the right side, and the leader of the line was handing a ring and two spirit stones to the shopkeeper at the counter on the right. The style of this cyan ring is exactly the same as the cyan ring that Xu Yang got from the man surnamed Yu.

"The temporary stay period has been increased by two days!" the shopkeeper took the ring and spirit stone with an expressionless face, and then changed another ring to this person.

The man took the new ring, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and hurriedly turned away.

The subsequent cases were more or less the same, except that the temporary period of stay increased, ranging from one, two and five days.

Xu Yang knew that they were extending their temporary stay.

As far as he knows, the temporary residence period is generally renewed for one day, two days, five days, ten days, or twenty days at a time, for a total of five levels.

Most of them last for one or two days because of the limited number of spirit stones, and even five days are rare.

As the personnel left, and people entered, everything seemed unusually calm.

After Xu Yang paid attention to the counter on the right, he didn't look at it anymore, but walked straight to the counter on the left.

There was no one but the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper was closing his eyes and pranayama, looking careless. But when Xu Yang approached, his eyes suddenly opened, and his powerful divine sense was even more around Xu Yang.

Xu Yang's pupils hidden under the hat shrank suddenly, but his steps were faster, and he came to the counter in a few steps.

His move made everyone in the audience stop their movements and focus their eyes on him.

Suddenly, Xu Yang felt that more than ten divine senses had been hovering around him, and he had not gone for a long time.

"This fellow Daoist, do you want to go through the procedures for entering the room?" The shopkeeper on the left side said in disbelief with a short and fat face, wearing a loose staff robe.

"Exactly!" Xu Yang replied without thinking, and after a little hesitation, he took out the ring and a hundred spirit stones that he had obtained not long ago.

Under the stunned and envious gazes of everyone, Xu Yang reluctantly put the spirit stone in front of the counter.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper's eyes flashed, and after putting away the hundred spirit stones and rings, the corners of his mouth curled: "Under the surname Zhang, it seems that it is the first time I have seen a Taoist friend?

"Little surname Chen!" Xu Yang's voice was still low, but for some reason he became cold, and he didn't want to say more!

"Hehe! It turned out to be Chen Daoyou, disrespectful and disrespectful!" shopkeeper Zhang smiled, and after speaking, he flipped his hand, and a crystal jade plate appeared in front of him.

There are many pavilions engraved on the jade plate, which look almost exactly the same as the Qingfeng Pavilion group of pavilions that Xu Yang saw, but there are a lot of black and red light spots on each attic, and the words of several buildings and numbers appear near each light point.

"Each point of light represents a room, and the number of buildings and the number of rooms are indicated. Among them, the red dot of light has already been inhabited by other Daoists, Chen Daoyou, please choose one of the rooms shown in the white dot of light!" The shopkeeper placed the jade plate in front of Xu Yang and explained in detail.

Xu Yang looked at the white dots of light on the jade plate, and after a little groaning, he casually pointed towards a dot of light, "Just this one!"

Seeing this, the shopkeeper smiled, took out a small black card from the storage ring, and handed it to Xu Yang with both hands, "This is your residence token, please put it away! ”

This person looks like he ignores others, but he seems to be extremely polite to Xu Yang.

Xu Yang swept the card with cold eyes, and immediately took it into his hand with his right hand, and when the token was grabbed in his hand, a cold feeling came into his heart.

Xu Yang looked down at the card, which was made of an unknown metal, and the token was engraved with a dense array of unknown small circles.

The only places he could understand were the words "No. 22 of the Three Buildings" engraved on the front of the token, and the number of "One Hundred and One Days" that appeared on the back.

Needless to say, the former shows the specific address, while the latter shows the validity period of residence.

After looking at the card slightly, Xu Yang took it into his arms!

Then he swept his eyes around casually, arched his hand to the shopkeeper, and strode away under the envious gaze of everyone, leaving only a surprised immortal cultivator!

"Someone has received a residence token again!I don't know when it will be my turn!" A person who covered his face with a cloak envied an immortal cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Gathering.

"Hmph!" said in a slightly yin and yang voice, "It's up to you! The residence token must be paid at least one hundred spirit stones at one time to receive it! In the early and middle stages of Qi gathering, except for monks with a big background and a few extraordinary people, who would have such financial resources!" The person who spoke was a thin man wearing a ghost mask.

"I don't have that ability? Do you have one? Don't think I won't recognize you if you cover your face......," said the man with the cloak in a little rage when he heard the latter's words.

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While the people inside were still arguing, Xu Yang had already left the hall and came to the front of the Qingfeng Pavilion complex.

He glanced over and immediately found one of them, with a big three words hanging in front of the door! Needless to say, this building was the attic shown by Xu Yang's token, and he went straight to it without any ambiguity.

This attic is slightly smaller than the main pavilion, and as soon as Xu Yang entered it, a person dressed as a junior came to meet him and said, "The little surname is Xu! This Taoist friend is very good! Is he here to move in, or is he looking for someone?"

Xu Yang's divine sense swept down, and found that the other party turned out to be an immortal cultivator in the late stage of gathering qi, and immediately felt a pang in his heart, and he didn't dare to slack off and said: "I've seen Xu Daoyou! Chen is here to stay, this is Chen's token!" After speaking, he took out the residence token and handed it to the other party!

As soon as the junior leader saw it, he sent the token back, and said respectfully: "It turned out to be Chen Daoyou!

Xu Yang took back the token, and after returning the salute, he followed the other party. But in the end, he couldn't help but glance at the shopkeeper who had been pranayama meditation since he entered.

This is a middle-aged man, he hasn't even raised his eyelids since Xu Yang came in, as if he didn't notice Xu Yang's arrival.

Soon after, Xu Yang stood alone in front of a door with the words "twenty-two" engraved in silver.

The monk surnamed Xu has left at some point.

At this moment, Xu Yang was staring at a groove in the middle of the door, and took out his residence token in the reversal of his hand.

The corners of Xu Yang's mouth curled, and he inserted the token into the groove.

The next moment, the door opened silently, Xu Yang swept it away, and found that the space inside was about a few zhang in size. But what made him frown slightly was that there was nothing inside, not even the beds, tables and chairs necessary for ordinary living rooms.

Xu Yang was not too surprised by this, when he came here, the monk surnamed Xu had already explained this matter to him. As for the method of opening the door, of course, it was also told to him by the monk surnamed Xu.

According to the monk surnamed Xu, for immortal cultivators, external objects such as beds are of no use at all, and meditation is more restorative than sleeping.

Therefore, for household items such as beds, and things that have nothing to do with cultivation, Qingfeng Pavilion is not configured. Even tables and chairs, etc., are said to be foreign objects that may affect cultivation, and there is not a single one. Of course, if the guests need it, they can also arrange it by themselves.

In thought, Xu Yang had already walked into the room, took out the token casually, and the door closed quietly again.

Xu Yang, who stayed in the room, was looking around the room, and his divine sense unceremoniously detected every inch of the room clearly.

Finally, he left his gaze on the floor in the upper left corner of the room. There was a complicated formation there, which was a small formation that was only half a zhang in size, with a groove in the middle.

Xu Yang basically didn't know anything about the formation, but he knew from the monk surnamed Xu that this was a low-level spirit gathering array. It has the effect of gathering aura and increasing the concentration of aura in the formation, and cultivating in the formation is greatly beneficial to the increase in cultivation.

Of course, this Spirit Gathering Array, like most formations, requires spirit stones to activate.

Xu Yang looked at the groove in the middle again, but when he saw that as soon as his hand was flipped, there was an extra spirit stone in his hand. With a slight toss, the spirit stone came out of his hand and was inserted into the groove accurately.

Almost at the same time, the formation emitted a faint white light, and the surrounding aura quickly surged towards the formation.

Xu Yang didn't think about it, and sat cross-legged directly in the formation. The body quickly runs the spirit gathering technique. At the same time, he felt that the concentration of the aura that was already quite strong in this place had risen rapidly, and it had soon increased by nearly half compared to the original.

Cultivating in such an environment can increase the efficiency by nearly half!

However, during the operation of the magic circle, the spirit stones that supported its operation were dimmed at a speed that was not imperceptible to the naked eye.

Half a day later, the spirit stone was even more extreme, and it shattered.

The Spirit Gathering Formation naturally stopped running immediately, and Xu Yang, who was meditating with his eyes closed, opened his eyes with some regret.

"It's a pity! a spirit stone can only maintain the formation for half a day, and this kind of consumption is not something I can afford now. However, even if the aura in this place does not use the Spirit Gathering Array, it is three or four times richer than in the Empty Cloud Valley, and it is absolutely right to come here to cultivate. Xu Yang muttered to himself, and then closed his eyes again and began to cultivate.

After half a pillar of incense, Xu Yang opened his eyes again, took out some food from the storage ring and ate it. Holding a face-covering hat in his hand, he looked at it, with a strange look in his eyes.

Before he entered the market, he prepared this hat because when his master talked to him about the situation in the market that day, he said that many people in the market would use various things to cover their appearance, so as to avoid being recognized by others as much as possible.

Of course, these things don't really work. In addition to directly observing the physiognomy of the monk, he can also leave an impression on the body shape of others through his divine sense, and even the fluctuation of spiritual pressure.

Especially for those whose cultivation is much higher than that of the other party, it is even more important to remember the spiritual pressure of those who are low in cultivation.

Just like the Yuan Ming Daoist and the big man surnamed Yu who guarded the door, as well as the shopkeeper Zhang of the main pavilion of Qingfeng Pavilion and the monk surnamed Xu in the three buildings, they could all see at a glance that Xu Yang was the person they met for the first time.

Although the effect of this face-covering hat was limited, Xu Yang still brought it with him, and then stood up and pushed the door out. Tokens are required to enter the door, but there is no obstacle to getting out.

Not long after, Xu Yang had already appeared in front of the door of the third building of Qingfeng Pavilion, and was looking at the attic behind him and smiled helplessly.

When he came out, the monk surnamed Xu still greeted him, but the shopkeeper was still indifferent, as if Xu Yang was really like transparent air.

Xu Yang turned his head and immediately saw the trading market with people coming and going in the distance. The corners of his mouth curled, and he quickly joined the crowd.

This time, he didn't attract attention when he came in from outside the city. After all, there are many people who come out of Qingfeng Pavilion, and they are by no means as rare as those who enter the Fang City.

You must know that the people who enter the market are usually people who live outside, and once they enter this place, most of them will try their best to stay in the market.

After all, the concentration of spiritual energy in Fang City was much higher than that outside, which was enough to save several times the cultivation time of ordinary monks. Such cultivation conditions are also the reason why Qingzhou monks regard this place as the holy land of Qingzhou.

Xu Yang was in the crowd, and his cultivation in the early stage of gathering qi was inconspicuous. Plus, like everyone else, he covered his face, so almost no one looked at him more.

He walked between the stalls, stopping from time to time to study, because he had only observed here not long ago, so he had a basic understanding of the prices of various immortal cultivation items.

A spirit stone is only a low-level rune seal, an ordinary pill for the early stage of Qi Gathering requires ten spirit stones, and a low-level magic weapon needs more than a hundred spirit stones at the cheapest, and so on!