Chapter 31: News
As soon as he entered the Ethereal City, Lin Shan immediately sensed the abnormality in the Ethereal City, which seemed to be shrouded in a layer of sadness, and there was a sense of depression everywhere.
Many monks had sad expressions on their faces, while some monks had nervous looks on their faces, and from time to time they pulled some monks to inquire about something, and even occasionally saw crying monks on the streets, as if something important had happened in the ethereal city related to many monks recently.
Lin Shan quickly came to the inn where he would rest for a few more days, and pulled the shopkeeper to ask, "Second Brother Tang, is there something going on in the city?" Many people don't look good. β
The shopkeeper's name is Tang Er, almost thirty years old, the five elements are mixed roots, and now he is on the second floor of the Yuan Period, in his words, he has no relationship with the immortals, since he has no fate, so he can rest assured that he will be a little second gangster here, anyway, he is not tired, and he can get two low-level spirit stones every month, which is also easy and comfortable.
Tang Er was suddenly stopped, his eyes were surprised, and he looked up and down at the person who pulled him, Lin Shan had already looked dusty and sloppy after two months of running, which made Tang Er a little confused, and he couldn't recognize him for a while.
"Brother Lin, you're still alive!" After a while, Tang Er suddenly screamed.
His shout attracted the eyes of a few guests who were chatting, but he only saw Xiao Er talking to a very ordinary monk, so he turned his head and said to himself.
Lin Shan hurriedly patted Tang Er's shoulder and motioned him to be quieter, Tang Er eased up after a while, and then said in a low voice and excitedly: "Brother Lin, I heard that you went hunting in the Xuanbing District not long ago, and I haven't seen you come back, I thought you were finished." β
"Doesn't it often take a few months to go hunting in the Xuanbing Zone, I've only been missing for more than two months, why do you say I'm going to die?" Lin Shan was a little surprised, could it be that the fact that they were attacked by other monks made people see it?
Tang Er pulled him to him, looked him up and down, left and right, and found that Lin Shan was really unscathed, and said with emotion: "Brother, you are really fateful! In the past few days, there has been a wave of killing flies in the Xuanbing area, and many teams that went hunting have finished playing. By the way, what about Xiao Ye's four fellow Daoists?"
Lin Shan was taken aback, no wonder he encountered so many dead ice beast wreckage on the way back, with no flesh and blood, even the hard Neidan, because it was rich in spiritual energy, was actually gnawed away.
"There is such a thing, I don't know, our group of five people just entered the Xuanbing area, and soon hunted an ice wolf, but because of this, the gate of hell was opened! In the end, the fierce wolves retaliated, Xiao Ye and other four Taoist friends died tragically under the claws of the ice wolf, I was lucky, I was trapped in an ice cave, until a few days ago I found that the ice wolves outside the ice cave were inexplicably gone, I quickly ran back. Lin Shan's tone was sad, and he said slowly, if they came out of the Ice Plains Valley, the five of them would directly go to the Ice Zone, and the lives of the four of them should be saved.
Tang Er nodded and said, "No wonder you don't know about the killing flies in the Xuanbing District, but, brother, you are really lucky, not only can you escape from the mouth of the ice wolves, but you also avoided the killing flies in the ice, which is already quite good! I know the Wind and Fire team, this team is so powerful, this time it's not the same death, the other teams are even more miserable, I heard that many teams are all wiped out, miserable. β
When Lin Shan heard this, his heart moved, and he asked, "Wind and Fire Team, they didn't avoid the tide of killing flies, which Daoist Immortal died?"
"It is said that it is Zeng Da of Shangqing Gate, I heard that they also met a fierce second-order ice bear, just escaped from the mouth of the ice bear, and encountered a tide of killer flies, Zeng Da couldn't escape, and was gnawed by a killer fly. Although Tang Er said that it was a pity, his expression was a little gloating.
He has always disliked these disciples of the Great Cultivation Immortal Sect, every time he comes to them, he looks like he is on top, sometimes it is a little out of their mind, and it will attract punches and kicks, Tang Er likes to deal with loose cultivators like Lin Shan and them, there is no backer, no shelf, everyone is the same.
"Where did you hear this news?" Although his heart was full of waves, Lin Shan didn't have the slightest expression on the surface, and he asked indifferently.
Tang Er mouthed Nunu, who was talking not far away, and pointed in the direction of the solicitation list again, saying, "There is the most news on the solicitation list, you can go and inquire." β
Lin Shan said goodbye to Tang Er, turned a few corners, and came to the front of the recruitment list, although there were still many people, but there were fewer than the previous time he came, and the notice of forming a team to recruit people before the recruitment list had disappeared, replaced by some cloth strips to find people.
In a small pavilion not far from the recruitment list, it was a little noisy, and there were a few people sitting in the small pavilion, one of whom was talking loudly with the people outside the pavilion, and the people listening outside the pavilion let out exclamations from time to time, presumably hearing the wonderful things.
The pavilion was a little far away from Lin Shan, he didn't hear it very clearly, just as he was about to step forward and walk over, a person in the pavilion had just turned his face around, and he was right in front of Lin Shan, he was suddenly taken aback, this person was one of the murderers who were chasing them in the Xuanbing District, but he was not the last person to give him a sword.
Lin Shan hurriedly stopped, in the Xuanbing District, although he only had a face-to-face encounter with this person, but the trace of contemptuous sneer on his face, Lin Shan will never forget.
He found a remote place where there were few people who were not easy to notice, carefully observed a few people in the pavilion, and after a while he grabbed a young man who walked by, this young man looked very clever, and it was the one who was talking by the small pavilion.
Lin Shan pointed to the pavilion in the distance, bowed, and asked, "May I ask Daoyou, what kind of Taoist friends are sitting in that pavilion? Why are so many people watching?"
This casual cultivator looked like he was in his twenties, and he was a little surprised when he saw Lin Shan holding him at first, but when he saw that Lin Shan was just a young monk, he replied with a smile: " Daoyou seem to have not come here in the past few days, these people are all disciples of the Seven Great Immortal Gates, the well-known hunting team in the Xuanbing District, the Wind and Fire Team, presumably Daoyou must have heard of it, the one who wears a blue shirt and is drinking tea is called Duan Xiong, from Wanjianmen, the captain of the Wind and Fire Team, is already a nine-layer cultivator in the Yuan Period; the name Wang Zhi, who is talking loudly outside the pavilion, is from Liuyun Valley, and is a nine-layer cultivator in the Yuan Period; the one who walks around in the pavilion and wears a light blue shirt is called Zhou Chao, who is from the Beast Spirit Gate, and is a nine-layer cultivator in the Yuan Period; the one who stands without talking and wears a yellow shirt is called Xu Tianrong, who is from Xiling Mountain, and is an eight-layer cultivator in the Yuan Period; and the other one in a blue shirt is called Zhang Yufeng, who is also from Liuyun Valley, and is a nine-layer cultivator in the Yuan Periodγ β
Lin Shan nodded as he listened, a curious look appeared on his face, and he continued to ask, "These five people are in the pavilion every day, are they waiting for someone?"
The casual cultivator looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and said: "Yes, there are six members of the Wind and Fire Team, and it is said that this time they went hunting in the Xuanbing District, and one of the disciples of the Shangqing Sect, Zeng Da, disappeared, so they stayed here every day to see if there were any other Daoists who brought back news from the Xuanbing District, but they have been waiting for many days, and there is no news, it is estimated that it is really over." β
Lin Shan thought about it for a while, and roughly guessed that Zeng Da should be the one who gave him a sword in the Xuanbing District, but it seemed that he should have died in the mouth of a killer fly, and the other people escaped back.
After this casual cultivator finished speaking, he saw that Lin Shan bowed his head and was silent, so he looked Lin Shan up and down again, and his eyes were slightly surprised, and then said: "Daoist friends are young, and their cultivation is very good, I don't know which immortal sect they come from, in Xia Li Xiangdao, from the Li family of Lu State." β
"Li Daoyou is polite, junior brother Lin Shan, it's just a casual cultivation, just a little more diligent, Li Daoyou comes from a big immortal cultivation family, and the future is really limitless. Lin Shan smiled slightly.
After a pause, he continued sincerely: "Little brother has been in retreat these days, so I don't know what happened, I don't know if Li Daoyou can tell Xiao Ke." β
When Li Xiangdao heard this, he tilted his head and said proudly: "Brother Lin, you are asking the right person, my cultivation is not good, but in Ethereal City, people are known as know-it-all! In Ethereal City, there is nothing I don't know." β
"The recent major event in Ethereal City is naturally the killing fly tide in the Xuanbing District, because of the appearance of the killing fly tide, the price of items related to ice beasts in Ethereal City has risen greatly. β
Lin Shan nodded and said, "Is it because the killer flies have killed most of the ice beasts, so the supply of items like Neidan is small, and the price has gone up?"
Li Xiangdao stretched out his thumb towards Lin Shan and said, "Brother Lin is really a smart person, every time the killer fly tide appears, the harvest of hunting in the Xuanbing District will be greatly reduced or even none, in a few months, so the price of the ice beast items will increase by two to three times compared to usual." However, the reproduction ability of ice beasts is amazing, and it usually only takes about a year for the price to return to the original level. It's a pity that I didn't buy more spare before, or I would have made a small fortune. In the end, Li Xiangdao patted his head with his hand, looking annoyed.