Ye Chen, Immortal Master Kong, and Venerable Wu entered Xingcheng and headed for the county lord's mansion.

Although the capital of Xingcheng can still maintain its superficial prosperity, the scorching sun, the depression of all industries in the city, and the few people and carriages walking on the streets, have shown signs of decay. Huge crowds of victims from all over the city crowded around the porridge shacks outside the city.

Ye Chen walked in front, and Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu followed briskly to the left and right.

"Brother Ye Dao cultivated so young, I don't know where he cultivated?"

Immortal Master Kong's face was full of smiles.

In his opinion, if he can have a cultivation above the middle stage of qi refining at such a young age, he must either have a teacher, or at least a disciple of an immortal cultivation family. Both of them were cultivated by mistake in the first layer of the Qi refining period.

A monk like Ye Chen is not much stronger than the wild cultivator who was born halfway through them!

"I've cultivated in Immortal City for a while. ”

Ye Chen didn't want to talk more about his origins, so he smiled, "You two should be local monks, right?"

"Exactly! Poor Dao has lived in Xingzhou County for generations, and he is a monk who has been in Xingcheng Chaotianguan, and he has cultivated the Tao by chance, and he knows a little about one or two spells! If Brother Dao has time to give me some advice, Poor Dao will be grateful!"

Immortal Master Kong hurriedly smiled.

"I'm the host of Xingcheng Tianluo Temple, similar to him!"

Venerable Wu said loudly.

"Most of the disasters of heaven and earth have signs, and there is no sudden great drought for no reason. You're a local monk, and you're here all year round, so you know something about the drought, right?

Ye Chen asked.

"This, this is said to be Chang Poor Dao, who was only invited by the county lord to ask for rain, and the others are not very clear! Brother Ye Dao don't ask too much. We are traveling thousands of miles just to get rich, why bother so much!"

Immortal Master Kong was slightly startled, and he was speechless.

Venerable Wu was also evasive, unwilling to talk more about this issue.

Ye Chen was strange and said secretly, "What is there to hide from the origin of the drought. Could it be that there is really something strange in this!?" He did not reveal the identity of the monk of the Void Sect, and incarnated as an ordinary monk, of course, because he wanted to know the most real situation of the drought.

They didn't want to talk about it, and Ye Chen wasn't reluctant. Spend a little time here, and you'll be able to find clues.

The three of them came to the county lord's mansion in Xingcheng, an extremely luxurious palace mansion that occupied almost the entire street.

In the county lord's mansion in the city, hundreds of elite guards at the gate recognized Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu, and they did not ask, and directly let them go. They were just surprised, what kind of person it was, and they were actually sent by the two Immortal Venerables in person.

County Lord's Mansion.

In fact, it is a large palace. The front palace is a place to discuss important military matters, and the back palace is the residence of the county lord, and occasionally some important guests are invited to visit the royal garden in the back hall.

From time to time, you can see some officials of the county in the state coming and going.

"Immortal Master Kong! Venerable Wu!"

Almost all the officials recognized Kong and Wu, and hurriedly saluted.

Immortal Master Kong looked like a master, and nodded at the officials from time to time, a little fluttering.

"Where is the county lord now?"

Immortal Master Kong asked at a low-level official.

"The lord of the county is holding a banquet in the pavilion of the back garden, and the banquet is to invite all the strangers and the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss the matter of the drought. Xia Guan was about to invite the immortal master and the venerable to come back and go to the banquet to discuss the disaster. ”

A low-level official said respectfully.

"Well, this immortal master knows!"

Immortal Master Kong waved his hand for the officials to leave.

"In this county lord's mansion, how many strangers are there?"

Ye Chen asked.

"There are hundreds of talented people in the county lord's mansion!"

Immortal Master Kong thought for a moment and said.

Ye Chen was surprised, "Are they all immortal cultivators?" He remembered that Wu Guo rarely seemed to hear of immortal cultivators appearing.

"Only a small part of them are monks, more than twenty people, and the rest are high-ranking people among ordinary people, who can control water and drought, and are also hired by the county lord as guest ministers. ”

Immortal Master Kong shook his head.

The three of them talked as they walked towards the back garden of the county lord's mansion.

The back garden of the county lord's mansion, a piece of rockery, clear spring lake, flowers and trees are dense. Although the disaster in the county is serious, the county lord's mansion does not seem to have much impact. The weather was hot, and the banquet that was originally only in the palace was changed to this cool back garden.

Several palace maids took the three of them to a large pavilion in the back garden, and the three of them suddenly felt a burst of coolness.

The gazebo was already full of guests.

The first person seated at the pavilion banquet was a dignified and beautiful young woman wearing a gorgeous crown, who was none other than Wang Lin, the county lord of Xingzhou County of the Ulan Empire.

Wang Lin is a princess of the Ulan Empire. There are not many members of the royal family of the Ulan Empire, and the territory of the empire has expanded outward year after year, and after occupying Xingzhou County, only one princess of the lineage can be sent to sit in Xingzhou County.

On the right seat are dozens of officials from Xingzhou Mansion, all of whom are first- and second-class officials, generals, young generals, and some members of the royal family.

On the seat on the left, there are dozens of capable people recruited by the county lord's mansion, all of whom are immortal cultivators in the Qi refining period, Taoist priests, nuns, old men, and mountain barbarians, dressed strangely and in different costumes.

Ye Chen, Immortal Master Kong, and Venerable Wu came to the pavilion together, and immediately attracted the attention of many people in the pavilion, and their eyes were cast at them.

At the banquet, a middle-aged monk dressed in Confucian clothes, shaking his fan, sneered, "Brother Kong, Brother Wu, it seems that the two of you opened the altar today to worship the heavens and pray for rain, but they returned in vain! It's been dozens of days, and your Dharma has not had much effect!"

"How can a thousand-mile drought be so easy to resolve! This requires the best strength and the strength of the crowd to cast spells. This immortal master is leading the power of the Taoist priests of the audience to turn the tide little by little to avoid the worsening of the drought situation. Immortal Master Kong didn't care about the slander of the Confucian monk, and then bowed to the county lord at the top, "I've seen the county lord!"

The status of the immortal master is extremely high, and he only needs to salute his hands.

Venerable Wu also bowed in a rough voice.

"Immortal Master Kong, who is this son?"

Lord Wang Lin was naturally very familiar with Immortal Master Kong, and when she saw Ye Chen on the side, she said strangely.

"I was about to introduce to the county lord, this Ye Daoyou, who was from the tour side, happened to pass through Xingzhou County, and saw that the county lord was recruiting capable people in the announcement, so he wanted to come and contribute a little to the county lord. Poor Dao and Venerable Wu introduced to the county lord together. ”

Immortal Master Kong said.

"Oh, what's the deal?"

The county lord's eyes lit up, and it was rare to see such a young Taoist priest.

"This"

Immortal Master Kong coughed dryly and turned his head to look at Ye Chen. He didn't know how capable Ye Chen was.

"Force!"

Ye Chen bowed his hand slightly and smiled lightly.

"Forceful?"

"Haha, I'm laughing to death! Lida, this is not going into battle to kill the enemy, what's the use of Lida?!"

"You need to be able to ask for rain!"

The officials on the right side of the pavilion were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter. Many officials were disdainful in their hearts, and it seemed that he was a Taoist priest who came to eat mixed rice. If it weren't for the fact that this Taoist priest was introduced by Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu, they would probably have driven people away on the spot.

However, on the left side of the pavilion, dozens of Qi Refining Stage cultivators did not speak.

Powerful!

Strength is not born for no reason.

The higher the cultivation, the stronger the physique is refined, and the greater the strength will naturally be. Each level of cultivation of a martial artist can increase the strength of a hundred catties. Each level of Qi refining period cultivators can increase their strength by a thousand catties.

Lida, in fact, is a euphemistic way, saying that cultivation is high.

As for the benefits of cultivating to a high level, as long as the monks know.

Even the most arrogant monk would not dare to make this a joke. Among them, there are also Qi Refining Stage cultivators with good strength, and they have already seen that Ye Chen's cultivation is around the sixth level of the Qi Refining Period, and this cultivation is considered relatively high among everyone.

Lord Wang Lin's eyes flashed, she was not an immortal cultivator, but she often dealt with monks, and obviously understood the meaning of Ye Chen's words, she whispered a few words to an old man in white clothes beside her.

The old man in white shirt, who was sitting at the top of the seat on the left, was always silent.

The county lord asked, and the old man in white shirt glanced at Ye Chen, but just nodded, as if he agreed.

"Lida is also a skill. The county lord hired Ye Daochang as the guest secretary of the county lord's mansion. Please take a seat!"

Wang Linjun saw that the old man in the white shirt agreed, so he smiled.

Ye Chen, Immortal Master Kong, and Venerable Wu found a few vacant seats to sit down on the left side of the pavilion. Afterwards, there will be palace maids serving delicious wine and food, and a large plate of all kinds of fresh melons and fruits. I'm afraid that only the county lord's mansion in this Xingzhou County has such fresh melons and fruits.

The officials and monks talked to each other.

Ye Chen didn't say much, just listened to the discussion of the disaster, while looking at the dozens of monks on the table. He kept a low profile and soon received little attention.

In the pavilion, the highest cultivation was the chief on the left, the white-shirted old man sitting next to the county lord, who was up to the eighth layer of the qi refining period. In Xingzhou County, such a cultivation is already extremely high, comparable to the national teacher of Wuguo**.

Ye Chen's gaze narrowed slightly.

"Who is the old man in the white shirt?"

Ye Chen whispered to Immortal Master Kong on the side.

"This person is the Taishi of Xingzhou County of the Ulan Empire, and his status is only below the national teacher of the Ulan Empire, and his strength is unfathomable. has been following the county lord around, and he must not leave. However, he was rarely seen to speak, and he was not seen to make a move. ”

Immortal Master Kong looked at the old man, his eyes full of awe for the old man.

He couldn't see through Ye Chen's cultivation, and he also couldn't see through the old man's cultivation strength.

"Taishi!"

Ye Chen nodded slightly.

The emperor of the imperial capital of the Ulan Empire was protected by a second-generation true monk of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect. Important members of the royal family in other places were also protected by low-level disciples. The status of the county lord of Xingzhou in the Ulan Empire was lower, and he only had a third-generation Qi refining stage disciple. In this way, this old man should be a third-generation disciple of the Heavenly Void Immortal Sect, protecting the members of the royal family here.

Ye Chen looked at the other monks on the table again.

In the entire banquet, the one with the highest cultivation level was this old man in white shirt.

The other dozens of monks were all a little worse, and there were three or five monks at the fifth or sixth level of the Qi refining period.

Ye Chen suppressed his cultivation at the sixth layer of the Qi refining period, and among these monks in the Xingzhou County Government, his cultivation was still very high.

Most of the rest are between the first and third layers in the early stage of qi refining.

Immortal Master Kong and Venerable Wu belong to the bottom of the cultivation in the pavilion. However, they are very active in Xingzhou County, Taoist temples and temples accept disciples, and there are many believers among the people, but they are the most famous.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this drought has lasted for nearly two years and shows no signs of abating. There is a shortage of food in the county, and many county towns have been occupied by thieves. Although the county opened an altar to pray for rain, it could not be asked for a while. What are your new countermeasures?"

Lord Wang Lin looked at the people in the pavilion and said in a clear voice.

(To be continued)