After a few days, in the valley on the west side of Yingzhu Mountain west of Rongwan City, the main altar of Baishamen is located. A carriage slowly drove to a stop in front of the main altar, and walked down a scholar in a green robe, in his early twenties, with a slightly pale face, heroic and restrained, gestures, and calm.

In front of the gate, there were two Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators on the left and right, carefully looking at the scholar who appeared at the door, and their divine senses swept away, and their faces immediately showed respect.

One of the strong men clasped his fists and said, "This Taoist friend is a strong cultivator, but he came to find the master of this sect?"

Wang Xian nodded, did not speak, and still looked around.

The shadow bead mountain is only more than 100 zhang high, the north and south directions, about ten miles long, it looks like an olive pearl half buried in the soil from a distance, the foot of the west side of the mountain is the Baishamen general altar station built by the mountain, and the foot of the east side is the Rongwan city built by the mountain.

The main altar of Baishamen is built on the plain at the foot of the mountain, a radius of several miles, the periphery is surrounded by a high wall, it is connected with the shadow bead mountain in a semi-circular shape, the arch guards the general altar hall in the middle, and there is a formation to guard, only a faint white mist is seen in the sky behind the wall.

Yingzhu Mountain is on the side of Baishamen, the slope is steep, the weeds are dwarf, the mountain shadow is green, it is difficult for people to reach, and the terrain is slightly dangerous.

Wang Xian looked at Baishamen slightly, and said to the strong man who spoke just now: "I am a monk from Huatianzong, and I have come to find the master of Zhumen. ”

The strong man was stunned. Thinking about it, Hua Tianzong had come to help with more than a dozen monks a few years ago, each time there were four or five people, and sometimes six or seven people, and in recent years, no one had been sent here, why did this person come alone today?

However, on the surface, he didn't dare to show the slightest doubt, and made a gesture respectfully, saying, "It turns out that a distinguished guest is coming, fellow Daoists, please come in, please come with me." ”

When he had finished speaking, he led the king through the gate and walked inward. At the same time, a transmission note flew out of his hand, shooting towards a tall building in the group of temples within the wall, and others came out to settle the carriage and horses.

Wang Xian walked along the wide jade road leading to the temple complex, looking as he went. On the flat ground on the inside of the high wall, there are patches of common low-level spiritual flowers and spiritual grasses planted, bursts of spiritual energy faintly come, not far away you can see the flat ground uprooted into a piece of the palace pavilion, the pavilion is simple and elegant, solid and heavy, slightly atmospheric, faintly guarded by the formation.

Soon, I saw a white-robed young man in his thirties, walking out of the door of the welcoming hall at the end of the jade road, smiling and bowing: "Daoyou is here at this door, it is an honor, my person Zhu Yuan, on the order of my father Zhu Renzhi, came to greet Daoyou, I don't know the name of Youzun?"

Wang Xian knew that this person was the young master of Baishamen, so he bowed his hand and said, "I, Wang Xian, a monk of Huatian Sect, have come for your mission, and this is my sect's jade card." ”

Wang Xian handed over his jade plate, in addition to Wang Xian's divine sense imprint, there was also the imprint of the Jindan ancestor of Huatianfeng in the outer gate of the sect, which could not be faked.

Zhu Yuan took the jade plaque, and his divine sense swept in, because there were many Huatian Sect monks he had received, and he quickly confirmed Wang Xian's identity. Seeing that Wang Xian came alone, although he had the same questions as the strong man in his heart, he didn't say anything more, took over the strong man to lead the way, passed through the welcoming hall, and walked towards the center of the palace group.

Walk through a block of buildings, a nine-curved corridor, and then climb the stairs to a four-story roof pavilion. I saw that the pavilion hall is not big, there are the simple wooden windows carved with cloud patterns on all sides of the hall, the light is transparent, the mountain breeze is familiar, and the spleen is refreshing.

A monk with a face of about fifty, who looked like Zhu Yuan, looked dignified, and was dressed in a golden robe greeted him, and bowed and said: "Wang Daoyou came to help, Ren Zhi is grateful, please take a seat." ”

At this time, a maid came up from downstairs in the other corner of the pavilion, offered spiritual tea on the round table in the hall, and walked down, and Zhu Yuan also withdrew.

Zhu Renzhi's divine sense swept over, knowing that Wang Xian was a seventh-layer cultivator at the end of Qi refining, and he was slightly puzzled when he came alone. After a few words of greeting with Wang Xian, he turned to the topic and said, "Wang Daoyou, I don't know how many people your sect sent to help me win the spirit mine this time?"

Wang Xian said vaguely: "This time I will lead the team over, and there are still a few people in this sect who will act with me, but they will lurk directly near the Ma family in Rongwan City, and I will notify them when they move." I'm here today to learn about the situation in recent years, this task has been on the list for several years, and it has not been completed for a long time, I don't know what new trends the Ma family and our side have?"

Zhu Renzhi heard what Wang Xian said vaguely, thinking that he came alone out of caution, for fear that there would be more people to attract attention, so he didn't ask again, so he talked about the situation of the sect.

When Baishamen established its sect thousands of years ago, it found a spiritual spring well at the location of the current main altar. The well water is white and turbid, containing white fine sand, which is also the origin of the name of Baishamen, which has been unknown to the outside world.

The whole sect relied on the aura of this spring well and the spiritual stones extracted from the white sand of the well water to cultivate. The sect has always suspected that this spring is flowing down from the Shadow Pearl Mountain, but it has never found the source of the spirit stone vein and spring water on the mountain.

After thousands of years of use, the water level of this well has been decreasing year by year, until recently, when a small hole was found under the surface of the water that had been washed out by an underground spring. The sect immediately sent someone to sneak into the entrance of the cave, climbed up the passage of the cave, climbed a distance of several miles, and found a small mineral vein hidden deep in the belly of Yingzhu Mountain.

Zongmen immediately sent people to study the mining plan, because the small hole of the spring well is surrounded by hard rocks and hard soil, and it is far away from the belly of the mountain, it is extremely difficult to enter the mining from the small hole, so he plans to open a mine closest to the spirit stone mine on the mountainside, and dig down for mining.

When the mine was less than halfway through the excavation, it was somehow discovered, and then the Ma family on the east side of the nearest Yingzhu Mountain found out the news.

The Ma family sent people to negotiate, demanding that the veins be divided equally and excavated jointly on the grounds that the east side of Yingzhu Mountain belonged to the Ma family. Baishamen has relied on the spiritual spring flowing through the veins for generations to cultivate, and the veins are under the belly of the mountain on the west side of the ridge close to Baishamen.

The Ma family threatened to dig a hole on the gentle slope of the eastern side of Yingzhu Mountain. Elder Taishang of Baishamen knew that the Ma family was powerful and there were two monks in the early stage of foundation building, so he suspended the excavation. led the elite disciples under the sect to lie on the top of the Shadow Pearl Mountain near the east side of the Ma family, and when the elders of the Ma family were patrolling the mountain during the foundation building period, they killed them with the help of formation ambushes and mid-level mystical weapons.

When Ma Zhe, the former head of the Ma family, rushed to help in the battle, Elder Taishang blew himself up and died with the help of magic weapons, and died desperately before he died, causing Ma Zhe to fall off the cliff with serious injuries. In the end, only the two legs left by Ma Zhe were found at the top of the mountain. After Ma Zhe fell off the cliff, the bones were missing, and it is estimated that they turned into minced meat, and it is not known that they were eaten by wild dogs.

The two families fought for many years, killing and wounding each other as recorded by Hua Tianzong, and spent manpower and financial resources, so they couldn't dig the mine hole alone, and the mining matter dragged on like this.

Wang Xian knew that for more than ten years, the Huatianzong and Fenglingzong assistant monks invited by the two sides had been killed and wounded, and although they did not complete the task and received a reward, they also received a generous pension. Neither side dared to offend the seven major sects, and before the winner was decided, they could only win over for help.