Chapter 39: The Lonely Mountain Has Changed (text)
A few days later, Wu Yan went out on a trip to Xiaogu Mountain. In the Lonely Mountain Inn in Lonely Mountain Town, he secretly met with two people.
The Hubao of the Broken Knife Hall, and the shopkeeper of the family planning pharmacy Hequan.
When Wu Yan was sorting out some confidential items left by the pharmacist half a year ago, he found something interesting. Of course, these things are of little use to him now, but he will be in Chikusa Valley for a while, so he might as well see if he can find useful information from them.
In the small wooden box of the pharmacist, there was half a three-hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, a few secret books, and a booklet that recorded the confidential events of the Broken Knife Hall.
The old ginseng didn't help Wu Yan's cultivation much, so he refined that half of the old ginseng into a pill called the Huiming Pill. This kind of resurrection pill is of little use to immortal cultivators, but it is extremely precious to those masters in the world, and it even has the effect of reviving the dead. With this life pill as a bargaining chip, Wu Yan believed that even if Li Ruoxu discovered the secret of the disappearance of the pharmacist in the future, Li Ruoxu would never embarrass Wu Yan for a pharmacist who was of little use to the Iron Sword Alliance and would even threaten his status.
Of course, in order to prevent Li Ruoxu from possibly doing something murderous and robbing treasures, Wu Yan will continue to improve his life-saving skills. He only believes that his life is in his own hands to be safe.
When meeting with the two, Wu Yan found that the poison of the Heart Rotting Pill on the bodies of Hubao and Quan, and the pharmacist did not completely remove it for them, but gave the two of them an antidote to delay the onset of toxicity. Wu Yan originally came to receive the items sent by the two under the banner of sealing the pharmacist, but after accepting a booklet from Hubao and a small box of precious herbal seeds from Hequan, he inadvertently revealed to the two that he could cure the poison of the Rotten Heart Pill on the two of them.
The two naturally cried and wiped their tears. Seeing that the two of them were getting old, but they were making such an unbearable attitude, Wu Yan thought about it, and still got rid of the poison on the two of them. After all, these two people are just ordinary people, and the pharmacist is dead, so naturally there is no need for the two of them to accompany him to the funeral.
What Wu Yan didn't expect was that while winning the gratitude of the two of them, he also learned an important piece of information from Hubao. Before leaving, Hubao told Wu Yan that the Blood Rain Gate and the Dragon and Tiger Gang would raise two factions of masters to attack Xiaogushan within half a year.
Hubao even mysteriously told Wu Yan that the Broken Knife Hall was actually a secret rudder of the Dragon and Tiger Gang, the purpose of which was to facilitate the nearby monitoring of the Iron Sword Alliance. For this reason, the hall master of the Broken Knife Hall was also fortunate enough to learn a great secret. It is said that this time the two factions attacked the Iron Sword Alliance, and they also invited immortal masters to help. Looking at Hubao's mysterious and cautious, fascinated but frightened appearance, I think I know a little bit about the immortal master.
If it was before, Wu Yan might not have felt much about the immortal master, but now when he heard the news, he was secretly surprised.
Immortal Master, isn't it the immortal cultivators? The two factions attacked the Iron Sword Alliance, and there would actually be immortal cultivators to help, if this news was true, Wu Yanke had to think carefully about whether he would continue to stay in the Thousand Grass Valley of Xiaogu Mountain.
Some time ago, when Wu Yan was sorting out the relics of the pharmacist, he inadvertently learned some things related to immortal cultivators from some notes of the pharmacist.
It is said that immortal cultivators seem to have to be subject to some constraints in their secular life, such as not participating in the battles of ordinary people, and not killing and slaughtering mortals at will, otherwise they will be punished by some kind of heavenly punishment.
What is it exactly, because the notes of the pharmacist Feng are all recorded in some deeds handed down by his ancestors, and the description is also very vague, and Wu Yan is not clear. However, Wu Yan also knew that the ability of immortal cultivators was so strong that ordinary people could resist it, and it was not strange that there would be such a rule.
After hurriedly returning to the Thousand Grass Valley, Wu Yan had a plan in his heart.
Speaking of which, Wu Yan is now more than fifteen years old, in the past two or three years, in order to cultivate the "True Recipe for Qi Cultivation", Wu Yan has learned to read and write, read a lot of ancient books and classics, whether it is his knowledge or vision, he is no longer the original ignorant peasant boy. Moreover, since he had broken through the sixth layer of his cultivation of the True Technique of Qi Cultivation, Wu Yan had found that his abilities in all aspects had been greatly improved.
Whether it is the strength of his memory or comprehension and analysis ability, even he himself is extremely surprised. This also made him gradually feel that he seemed to be embarking on a life path that he had never dared to think of before.
After Wu Yan returned to the valley, while stepping up his cultivation, he continued to figure out more than a dozen spell formulas, and at the same time, he continued to collect poisonous herbs and poisons on the cliffs on all sides of the Thousand Grass Valley every day, and according to the "Medicine Sutra and Poison Chapter", he refined a large number of poisons to keep in his body as a confidential means of self-defense and life.
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One day four months later, in the Thousand Grass Valley, Wu Yan's laughter suddenly sounded.
In the open space in front of several large stone houses in the Valley of Thousand Grasses, a strange dark figure, with the wind under his feet, floated around in the air of four or five feet, so chic. That dark figure is Wu Yan, who has already figured out the trick of resisting the wind and cultivated it proficiently.
Although this Wind Resisting Technique was a low-level introductory spell that immortal cultivators would only practice when they were in a hurry, Wu Yan had also cultivated it with great interest for several months. Wu Yan has always been very envious of those masters who can fly around in the sky, and he can't imagine that after practicing the wind control technique, he can also fly around in the air, although the time to fly is not long, and flying five or six zhang away will land to borrow strength, but Wu Yan is still very excited, and he must fly for two or three hours every day, until the mana of his body is almost consumed.
Wu Yan was like a goshawk soaring in the sky, suddenly swooping down on a big tree with a thick bowl mouth in the far side of the valley. When he was still three or four zhang away from the big tree, he saw Wu Yan's face pale, his mouth was full of words, and an earthy yellow light gradually lit up on his hand, and he suddenly pointed to the big tree, a finger-thick, pale golden arc of light shot out from Wu Yan's hand, and hit the trunk of the big tree in the blink of an eye.
There was a loud click, and the big tree was hit by the arc of light, and it was neatly cut and broken by the golden arc in the middle, and fell to the ground with a bang, smashing the ground with a bang.
Wu Yan's face was showing an expression of surprise, and suddenly turned pale, and he smiled helplessly, his body was like a kite with a broken string, and he fell directly to the ground from four or five feet in the air.
Fortunately, Wu Yan has already cultivated the "Hidden Killing Technique" and "Fengyun Step", and when he encountered this kind of emergency, although he was not shocked, when he fell to a distance of less than a zhang from the ground, his body turned upside down, and his body was like a spirit snake, and he kept twisting left and right a few times, and his feet had fallen to the ground smoothly, and he looked like he was not shocked.
Wu Yan clapped his hands, satisfied with his hand.
This time, he used the Imperial Wind Technique and the Golden Light Technique he had just learned, but after the Golden Light Technique was completed just now, the mana in his body was exhausted, and he fell from the air uncontrollably.
After Wu Yan reached the ground, he quickly sat down cross-legged, swallowed an improved version of Ziyang Pill, and meditated on the spot to recover his mana.
An hour later, Wu Yan's mana was exhausted, he stood up with great satisfaction, shook off the dust on his body, and walked towards the stone house. Halfway through, Wu Yan's face suddenly moved, and then he smiled indifferently and walked towards the valley mouth of Qiancao Valley.
For more than a year, no one has come to visit Qiancao Valley, and I didn't expect that there would be guests here today.
Wu Yan is no longer afraid of anyone looking for trouble with him now. He believed that with his own skills and the poison in his body, even if Li Ruoxu came, he could also kill lightly. Even as long as he is willing, under the careful arrangement, it is not a difficult thing to slaughter the entire Iron Sword Alliance.
It just so happened that all the things in the valley had been packed, and he was preparing to leave the Qiancao Valley in the next few days, quietly leaving the small lonely mountain Qiancao Valley, of course, before leaving, he also planned to meet Zhang Tao and give him something, which could be regarded as saying goodbye to the first and only friend he met when he came here.
Speaking of which, I haven't seen Zhang Tao for several years, and I don't know what that honest guy has become now.
Walking to the mouth of the valley, Wu Yan found several familiar figures from a distance.
There were a total of six people who came, and all of them were wearing silver-white sword clothes that only the core true disciples of the Iron Sword League would wear, and the two people at the head of the sword were embroidered with two small golden swords embroidered on the chest of the sword uniforms, and at first glance they were figures at the level of the hall master of the Iron Sword Alliance.
To Wu Yan's great surprise, these two hall masters were actually Wang Feng and Wang Bai, two brothers who had not seen each other for several years. And the four people behind them, on the placket of their chests, only embroidered a small golden sword, their status is obviously inferior to the two. However, these four people Wu Yan is not unfamiliar, they are actually the "Four Swords of Lonely Mountain" who once served as his bodyguard, You Chunpeng, Hua Chunsheng, Lu Chunyang, Qin Chunyu and other four people.
Wang Feng stood proudly at the mouth of the valley, and when he saw Wu Yan walking out of the valley in a big way, a vicious smile appeared on his face, he snorted coldly, and looked at Wu Yan who was walking towards them with his arms folded.