Chapter 19: The Four Elephant Cities
Three months later. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Li Shan sat in the carriage, and at this time he mixed into a convoy to Vientiane City in Chu State. The team was all mortals, and only one or two had practiced some kung fu.
At that time, Li Shan was shuttling through the forests on the border between Chu and Vietnam, and he felt that there was a fight ahead, and it was this convoy that was entangled by robbers, and the two sides encountered a confrontation, and the convoy was at a disadvantage. Seeing that there were no monks on either side, Li Shan helped the convoy and went to Chu with the convoy.
Because he didn't want to reveal his identity as a monk, Li Shan showed unusual fists and feet, and the owner of the convoy also wanted to invite Li Shan as a guard, but Li Shan refused without hesitation.
"Brother Li, come down and eat!" Li Shan was meditating and resting in the carriage when he heard a rough voice calling out to him, so he got out of the carriage.
The person who greeted him was one of the few kung fu people in the team, named Liang Chao, who was shocked when he saw Li Shan beat the robbers and fled in a few breaths that day. Since Li Shan walked with the team, this man has always wanted to be close to Li Shantao. However, Li Shan still saw that this person was entrusted by the principal to see if he could keep himself.
At this time, the convoy camped and rested, the bonfire was lit, and more than 30 people in the convoy were eating around the bonfire, talking and laughing, but Li Shan seemed a little out of place.
"Brother Li, why don't you go and have fun together?" Liang Chao leaned in front of Li Shan and asked.
Li Shan shook his head and didn't say anything, but asked, "How long will it take to reach Vientiane City." ”
Liang Chao thought for a while and said, "There is still one month to go." ”
Li Shan nodded, and returned to the carriage after eating.
"What, he still doesn't want to?" Liang Chao walked beside a middle-aged man in his forties, looked at Li Shan and said.
Liang Chao shook his head and said, "I guess it's no fun." Hearing this, the middle-aged man sighed.
"Uncle Zhao, it doesn't matter what he does, he doesn't have to do it. A young man sighed when he saw the middle-aged man and persuaded.
"You don't know, there are robbers on the way through Vientiane City, and if you are unlucky, you may even run into immortals, which makes me not worried. The middle-aged man sighed.
Li Shan heard this conversation clearly in the carriage, but he was not touched in the slightest. On the way to Vientiane City, Li Shan protected the convoy, and the convoy sent him to Vientiane City, and after the two were traded, Li Shan would not care about the convoy, in the final analysis, it was just a meeting in Pingshui.
Soon a month passed, and since arriving in the Chu State, the number of robbers has greatly decreased, but the quality has increased a lot. If it weren't for Li Shan's help along the way, this small convoy would have been wiped out.
The danger of the state of Chu was far beyond the imagination of the person in charge surnamed Zhao, which made him secretly regret it.
Many of these robbers have monks, and in order not to cause trouble, Li Shan will release his cultivation in the late stage of Qi cultivation and scare the other party away.
So the moon was uneventful.
A month later, the convoy finally arrived at the MixC. After entering the MixC, Liang Chao was repeatedly rejected, but Li Shan refused, and he shirked himself and shirked that he had something important in the Mixc.
"Brother Liang, let's say goodbye. Li Shan clenched his fists and turned to leave.
Uncle Zhao watched Li Shan's figure gradually disappear into the sea of people, his face was sad, and finally gritted his teeth and decided not to move forward, and sold all the goods in Vientiane City.
"Uncle Zhao...... This ......" someone hesitated and was interrupted before he could say anything.
"You haven't noticed that this journey is too peaceful? Not to mention immortals, not even like bandits. As soon as they heard Uncle Zhao say this, everyone immediately understood what he was going to say, and they didn't refute it anymore.
On the other side, Li Shan was walking on the streets of Vientiane City, and his first feeling was that there were many monks, which made Li Shan sigh that this place was worthy of being in the territory of Chu State. After coming to Vientiane City, Li Shan wanted to find a place to live as soon as possible, Li Shan did not go to a gorgeous-looking inn, but found an ordinary inn with no fancy fancy.
"This guest officer, how many are you?" As soon as he walked in the door, Xiao Er walked in, Li Shan was shocked when he sensed it, he didn't expect that this Xiao Er was also a monk, although his cultivation was low, he would not end up begging for a living in a mortal inn, right?
Although he was surprised in his heart, Li Shan still looked calm and calm, and said, "One room." ”
"Okay guest officer, please come with me. After paying for the room, Xiao Er took Li Shan and walked upstairs. Li Shan only felt that Vientiane City was worthy of being a place where monks frequently frequented, and the room money charged by such a small inn was more expensive than the room money charged at the inn in Yue King City.
However, since he is going to live in Vientiane City for nearly a year, Li Shan will not treat himself badly, let alone wronged himself for the sake of money. But Li Shan also thought in his heart that he should make some money, otherwise he would have to live on the streets one day.
After tidying up in the inn, Li Shan beckoned Xiao Er and asked, "Do you know any markets nearby?"
"Objectively, what are you asking about people who are open?" Xiao Er said with a smile.
Li Shanfeng lightly threw out a piece of broken silver and said, "Monk." ”
"Hehe, guest officer, you can ask the right person. Xiao Er took the broken silver and smiled more sincerely, and said: "The market open for monks is in the east of Vientiane City, go in there and ask for tokens, if you don't have tokens, you can just release your breath at the door when you go." ”
Li Shan nodded and turned to leave.
After Xiao Er's guidance, Li Shan soon came to the east side of Vientiane City, and saw the high city wall there from a distance. These walls do not divide the boundaries of the Mixc, but divide one-third of the city for the use of the monks. And approaching the high wall over there, Li Shan actually found that there were no mortals over there.
The monks of Vientiane City live with mortals, so it is natural to separate the two. When Li Shan was in the convoy, he had heard that Vientiane City was strictly guarded and there were many restrictions on monks, and Vientiane City was relatively safe for mortals, at least he didn't have to worry about getting in the way of a certain immortal's eyes and being killed.
As soon as he approached the city wall, a person stopped Li Shan, and that person exuded the cultivation of the middle stage of Qi cultivation, but he made a gesture without any shelf, and asked, "Dare to ask if this person has a token?"
"None. Li Shan immediately released his cultivation, not too much, as if it was the early stage of Qi training. Thanks to Li Shan's two-year solidification of true qi, Li Shan's control over his own cultivation is very ingenious, and there is basically no leakage of cultivation on weekdays, which attracted people to come forward to ask.
"It turned out to be a Taoist friend, please come in, don't blame in the next duty. The man's attitude was a little more restrained, and he looked a lot colder, and then he ignored Li Shan and walked away.
Li Shan didn't care about the other party's attitude and walked into the city gate.
As soon as he entered the city gate, Li Shan felt as if he had entered another world, and the outside of the city was deserted and the city was lively. There were large and small shops on both sides of the street, but Li Shan didn't feel any difference between these shops and mortals, maybe he would find the difference after entering. However, Li Shan's target was not here, he followed the flow of people and walked inside, and after a while, he found that the voices of people were even more noisy, and after turning a corner, Li Shan saw the scene inside.
The street was not as clean and tidy as it was, with low-slung shops lining the streets, and two rows of stalls in the middle of the road, leaving only a few narrow passages for people to walk around.
Regardless of whether they set up stalls or came to buy things, they were all monks, and even if they were noisy in the market, no one did anything. Li Shan immediately understood that there was someone guarding here, and when he sensed it carefully, he noticed that there were many foundation building monks scattered in the bazaar.
Li Shan ignored the stall owners who kept soliciting customers, and wandered around the market, listening to the quarrels between buyers and sellers, and silently collecting news from the market.
The bazaar here is full of low-grade magic elixirs, and if you want to buy high-end goods, you can only go to the shops on the street to buy them, but the prices there are not cheap, and you can't pick up the leaks. Compared with the price of one board and one eye over there, more casual cultivators are still willing to try their luck here, and it would be great if they could pick up the leaks.
Li Shan filtered the prices of various objects in his ears, and constantly evaluated his own things, which made him frustrated. Except for the three talismans and Tang Yuanzhang's Zhuji Dan that he had obtained from the Venerable Jin Guang, there was nothing of value.
Suddenly, Li Shan felt a slight heat in his chest, walked a few more steps, felt the heat even hotter, and took a few steps forward and cooled down. Li Shan looked back and saw a man in his thirties squatting in front of a stall, in front of which were a few books, a few magic weapons that looked like they had been used for a long time, and a pale green bead.
Just when Li Shan's gaze touched the small bead, he felt that the temperature in his chest was even higher.
Li Shan squatted down in front of the stall, fiddling with the magic weapons, and then put them down with no interest.
The man was still happy when he saw Li Shan stop just now, but when he saw that Li Shan didn't have anything he wanted, he was anxious again, and he couldn't say anything before Li Shan walked away.
Li Shan picked up those books again and flipped a few pages at random, and suddenly felt that the content on the book was slightly familiar, turned to the cover, and found that there were three big characters written on it, "Soft Water Decision". Li Shan's heart moved, isn't this exactly the practice he cultivated? He immediately decided to buy this book, but he still didn't look like he liked it, picked up another book, and found that it was written "Fu Seal Elementary", and his heart suddenly moved, thinking of the power of Fu Seal, he had the idea of wanting to make it himself. He glanced at the other books and found that the other books were just some general exercises, not worth mentioning.
Li Shan picked up "Soft Water Decision" and "Fu Seal Primary", and said to the stall owner with a blank face: "How much money do these two books have?"
"A low-grade spirit stone. The stall owner hesitated, but Li Shan frowned when he heard the price, and said, "You sell a spirit stone for these two mainland goods?" Are you too greedy. ”
Hearing Li Shan's displeasure, the man's face turned red and he couldn't say a word for a long time, and finally Li Shan frowned and said, "Half a lower grade spirit stone." "Li Shan has three lower-grade spirit stones in his hand, all of which are from Tang Yuanzhang, but he accidentally absorbed half of them, and he still has two and a half lower-grade spirit stones in his hand.
"No!" the man shouted, "Fellow Daoist, I am missing the last spirit stone, you see what else you need from the stall, I will buy it all for you." ”
Li Shan looked at it for a long time, and finally said disgustedly: "Forget it, plus this bead, I'll give you a spirit stone, if you don't work again, forget about this deal." ”
"Thank you Daoyou! Thank you Daoyou!" After taking the spirit stone handed over by Li Shan, the man packed up his stall and left the market.
Li Shan successfully bought what Xiao Zhu longed for, and was about to leave the market to go back to take a good look at the things he bought, when he caught a glimpse of a small Danding on a person's stall, and immediately had a thought.
He spent a spirit stone again to buy this Danding of not good quality, and by the way, he blackmailed the stall owner with some ordinary medicinal materials, and used the last half to buy the necessary elixir for Peiqi Dan.
Li Shan looked at the empty pocket, and couldn't laugh or cry, he was now the poorest among the monks.