231 Hermitage

The cultivation of the green-shirted monks and blue-shirted monks who were facing each other by the river was slightly lower, and the strongest was only the late stage of Qi cultivation, but there were a large number of them, and Wanbaowu was their territory, so they were not afraid of Ye Chen's appearance-

"Big brother, this black-clothed man Edgeworth Flying is a foundation building monk, judging by his spiritual pressure, it should be the early stage of foundation building! Could it be a child from the big family of Xianmen Immortal City?" In the crowd of green-shirted monks, a middle-aged man with a rough appearance hurriedly whispered beside the young monk with the spirit sword at his waist.

This young monk is not the oldest, but he is the young master of the Wang family, and the eldest brother of all the younger brothers of the Wang family.

The corners of the young monk's mouth twitched slightly, and he snorted in a low voice disapplauded, "What about the foundation building monk, my father is not also a foundation building monk, and he is still in the middle stage of foundation building." This person was dressed in black and wore a hat, did not carry any sect emblems or family emblems, and was not very much like a monk of the Xianmen family, most of them were scattered monks who were wandering around in the immortal cultivation world. I hope he doesn't meddle in his affairs, otherwise he won't have good fruit to eat on the territory of Wanbaowu!"

Ye Chen saw that this group of monks was tense and tense, and they might fight at any time, he didn't want to go over to trouble, so he turned around and looked for the nearby mountains.

The group of monks secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Ye Chen leave.

The young monk smiled at the blue-clothed woman and said, "Next year's Wanbaowu family competition will redraw the boundary of the Yinsha River. Sooner or later, the river section of your family will be included in my Wang family, and even your Li family will be merged into my Wang family, so I will forget it this time and will not compete with you for the length of this day. He then raised his hand and waved at the many green-shirted monks, "All right, all the brothers are gone, and go to work." Today's work is not done yet, let's go fishing for silver sand!"

Dozens of green-shirted monks followed the young monk to the distant river. Seeing that there was no excitement to see, some of the low-level monks who were watching the excitement around also left one after another, and went to the Yinsha River section of each family to get silver sand.

Only the blue-shirted monk remained where he was, changing into a water shelter and preparing to enter the water, where the section of the river where they salvaged the silver sand. The water shelter is specially made of the fish skin of the low-level demon fish, the river water of the Yinsha River is turbulent, and you must dive into the depths of the riverbed hundreds of zhang to get the silver sand, if you do not wear the water shelter clothing, even if it is a Qi training period monk is difficult to dive into the bottom of the river to fish for sand and stones

Ye Chen walked towards the nearby mountains, looking for the location of Wanbaowu. It's actually very simple to find Wanbaowu, since there are a large number of Qi cultivation period monks active here, and Qi cultivation period monks do not fly with swords, so naturally there are many footprints and traces of activity. Just find the path and you'll find the location of Marlboo.

Soon, Ye Chen followed a mountain path and came to a valley near the river

The valley was shrouded in fog, and it was impossible to see the valley from the sky.

Ye Chen glanced at it with the Fire Eye Technique, and there were no obstacles such as formations, so he walked directly through the fog of hundreds of zhang. After walking thousands of feet, the situation in the valley is open. A valley town within a radius of miles appeared in front of him.

The whole town is like a big circle, the four main streets are distributed like tic-tac-toe, the middle of the town is a large square, and the til-tac-toe streets are lined with buildings and pavilions, hanging eye-catching signboards. Of course, the population of this place is about thousands, which is far from Tianwu Immortal City, and the prosperity is naturally much worse.

There are many pedestrians on the street, and they are busy and busy.

"This is Wanbaowu. It's quite quiet, and there won't be too strong monks in the future, and this place is suitable for seclusion and cultivation. ”

Ye Chen secretly said in his heart, wearing a hat, walking on the streets of the town.

After a round of shopping, I found a first-class inn in the town, "Murmuring Spring Inn". He walked into the spacious hall of the inn, and there were dozens of monks in various costumes drinking and changing lamps, shouting loudly, quite lively. ..., Xiao Er at the counter of the inn saw a black-clothed guest enter the store, and quickly stood up and greeted Ye Chen with a smile on his face, bowed and said, "This immortal chief, do you live in the hotel or drink?!" In addition, there are delicacies, phoenix shark fin soup, spirit snake gall soup, are all hunted and salvaged from the Yinsha River spirit beasts, delicious and extraordinary. ”

The second shopkeeper is a secular martial artist. This is not surprising, although Wanbaowu is a town of immortal cultivators, most of the people who settle here are immortal cultivators. But there are also mortals, all of whom are descendants of monks, and they have been born in this immortal cultivation town.

Moreover, even if they are immortal cultivators, they are all martial artists before they cultivate the Yuan Shen. There are also many such worldly mortals in Tianwu Immortal Yuan City, doing some of the simplest and crude work.

"I'm going to stay here for a while, from six months to a year. Prepare a separate courtyard for me, with a cultivation room, a refining room, and an alchemy room! Prepare some dishes and food and send them directly to my courtyard. ”

Ye Chen lowered his voice and said in a low and hoarse voice.

"Okay, there is a separate courtyard behind the inn, the alchemy room and the refining room should be complete, the small ones should be sorted out immediately, and the immortal chief can move in, the price is cheap, only twenty spirit stones a month, if you live for half a year, it can be cheaper." Meals will be ready for you in no time. ”

The shopkeeper was overjoyed, although the man in black in front of him was mysterious, he was a frequent guest.

"By the way, Xiao Er, has there been any dispute in Wanbaowu recently? Just now I saw a lot of monks arguing by the river, and I almost got into a fight. I've just come to Wanbaowu and plan to retreat here for a while, and I don't want to get into any trouble. ”

Ye Chen casually took out dozens of spirit stones and put them on the counter to pay the rent of the mansion, and asked lightly.

This question was quite sensitive, and there was a sudden silence in the hall of the inn, and dozens of Qi cultivation cultivators who were originally drinking looked at Ye Chen one after another. However, as soon as their eyes touched Ye Chen, they immediately felt a strong spiritual pressure, and they couldn't help but look away.

When the shopkeeper heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "This immortal chief, the villain doesn't dare to say this." In order to compete for the Yinsha River, Wanbaowu has to die a lot of immortals every year. If you are always living in seclusion and cultivating here, it is best to ignore it and never get involved in it. Otherwise, it will offend dozens of local families, large and small, and it will cause big trouble. ”

"Oh. ”

Ye Chen's eyes narrowed, and when he saw that the shopkeeper showed a timid look at his words, he didn't ask any more.

The family strife in this Wanbaowu has nothing to do with him, as long as it doesn't prevent him from living in seclusion and cultivating here.

The shopkeeper took Ye Chen to the backyard of the inn and quickly cleaned up an idle house in the backyard.

Ye Chen stayed at this inn.

The town of Wanbaowood is not big, and any news spreads quickly.

There was a black-clothed monk in the early stage of foundation building who came to Wanbaowu, and the news of his long-term seclusion in Wanbaowu quickly spread, immediately attracting the attention of all large and small families here.

You must know that among the thousands of monks in the entire Wanbaowu, there are only a few dozen local native-born foundation building monks.

Although there are also many foreign foundation building monks who will pass by here, they will not stay in this immortal cultivation town for a long time, because the resources required for cultivation are too few, far inferior to the immortal gate and immortal city, and they will leave soon.

Every additional foreign foundation monk who lives here for a long time will have a great impact on the various families in Wanbaowu

Inside Wanbaowu.

The hall of the Lee family.

The position of the head of the Li family was vacant, and the three clan elders on the seventh and eighth floors of the Qi cultivation period sat in the first seat in the lobby, discussing the confrontation and conflict that occurred by the Yinsha River today.

"Since the fall of the head of my Li family due to an accident, no one has sat in the position of head of the family. The status of my Li family in Wanbaowu is not as good as day by day, and any family does not take us seriously. The Wang family is even more deceitful and directly crosses the line, not taking the Yinsha River demarcation agreement between my Li family and the major families in mind at all. ..., the eldest of the white-bearded clansmen, knocked on the floor with a cane in his hand, trembling angrily and angrily.

"Alas, the maintenance of the family also requires strength. In the past, with the head of the family and a mid-foundation monk supporting us, we could barely maintain the strength of a medium-sized family. Now that we are the clan elders who are in the seventh or eighth layer of the Qi cultivation period, they are at most just a small family. ”

An old man of the Qingshu clan next to him sighed helplessly and shook his head, "The silver sand produced by the Yinsha River is one of the largest sources of income for Wanbaowu. Every two years, the large and small families of Wanbaowu hold a competition to redistribute the section of the Yinsha River. Next year, it looks like we're going to lose the Yinsha River, and we're going to lose the family's biggest income. ”

"There is only half a year left until next year's competition, what can I do now?"

"Even if someone in our family cultivates by leaps and bounds, it won't be enough to break through the foundation building period in just half a year!"

In addition, there were dozens of middle-aged and young male and female monks, who glanced at each other and stood with their hands lowered with a dejected expression.

If you want to participate in the biennial competition of Wanbaowu and compete for the section of the Yinsha River, you must at least be a monk in the foundation building period. Dozens of large and small families in Wanbaowu were all sent to participate in the foundation building period. If anyone can't send a foundation monk, there's no hope at all.

Once the Li family loses the right to fish for silver sand in the Yinsha River, their income is meager, and they become more and more impoverished and decline, the situation of these Li children will be even more difficult.

"For today's plan, I'm afraid that we Li clan people alone can't do it, and we must ask for strong foreign aid. I heard that a loose monk in the early stage of foundation building came here today, planning to live in seclusion and cultivate in Wanbaowu?"

The elder of the White Whisker clan groaned.

"Today is a black-clothed foundation monk who is said to be staying in the inn for a year and a half. Someone in the inn had heard this person's voice, this person had a low and hoarse voice, it should be a middle-aged man. However, according to the rules of our Wanbaowu, you must be a member of your own family to participate in the competition on behalf of your family. How can he be an outsider?"

The old man of the Qingshu clan said suspiciously.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the marriage is considered a family member. Most of this person is a monk, we will find a way to win him over, if he is willing to marry the daughter of my Li family as a wife and concubine, he can be regarded as a member of the Li family, and he can fight on behalf of my Li family. No matter what the results are, they can win a section of the Yinsha River for my Li family. ”

The elder of the White Whisker clan was silent for a while and said.

"Grandpa, my granddaughter has seen this person, this person is wearing a black dress and a hat, and it is not easy to tell the age of his appearance from this dress, and it is even difficult to distinguish between men and women. In case it is a woman in disguise, or if it has another origin, I am afraid that it will not be appropriate. ”

The woman in blue hesitated for a moment, then stood up and said respectfully. Among the women of the Li family, she is the one with the most outstanding appearance and demeanor, and the age is also suitable. If she wants to marry, the family will definitely let her marry. However, she didn't even know the age and appearance of the man in black, and if she was old and ugly, how could she be willing.

"Yu'er, grandpa knows that you are unwilling. But it is not easy to let a foundation building monk join my Li family, if you can marry a foundation building monk, it is also your creation. Besides, this person has come to Wanbaowu for a long time to practice, and the big and small families here will definitely compete for each other, and there are also outstanding women in other families. If we don't fight for it, I'm afraid he will marry other families. ”

The elder of the big clan said in a deep voice, "Without further ado, the old man will bring a generous gift and visit the inn in person!"