Chapter 35: The Ice Stone Forest (2)
Jiaoya Lou is located in the middle of the Ice Stone Forest Market, there are three floors, the first floor is a hall, drinking and eating are on this floor, the second and third floors are the accommodation area, and the accommodation in the building can see the whole picture of the market by opening the window.
Shaking off the snow in front of the door of the Jiaoya Building, they pushed open the door of the store and walked in, and when they entered the door, they could see that the hall on this floor was basically full of people, eating, drinking and chatting, and it was very lively.
When the Red Bear tribesmen entered the door, Jiu Luo noticed that the eyes of many diners swept over them, and then turned away as if nothing happened, assessing them quietly, and many of them stayed on the Heavenly Spirit for a long time.
Ignoring the scrutiny of others, he walked directly to the counter, and Xiong Shi took out three Xuanjing and slapped them on the table.
"Two rooms, plus drinks and food, were delivered to the room. ”
Seeing their familiar appearance, many people withdrew their gaze, and some people who recognized the Red Bear tribe had their eyes flashing.
The middle-aged man in the counter didn't raise his head, and after receiving Xuanjing, he casually threw out two signs on the counter, greeted the shopkeeper, and asked him to lead the way.
When he entered the room, the shopkeeper retreated and prepared to eat and drink.
"Whew, it's so uncomfortable for me to be stared at by this group of people. Fang Ru took a few deep breaths, a little unnatural.
Jiu Luo patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Brother Fang doesn't seem to go out often, how could he think of running to the Northern Regions." ”
"That's a long story, let's talk while we eat. Fang Ru replied with a bitter face.
Jiu Luo answered, turned to Xiong Shi and said, "What abilities do the Holy Clansmen have?"
"I don't know about this, about the Holy Clan, I only know about their general rumors, in fact, I don't know too much, I know that they have a habit of wearing masks, and according to their different identities, the masks they wear are different. Xiong Shi struggled to recall the information he knew, "The Holy Clan is complex internally, and there are many races besides the Cat Clan, which are very different from the Northern Wilderness Human Race. ”
With Xiong Shi's narration, Jiuluo gradually learned about the so-called Holy Clan.
In the Northern Regions, the largest number of people are the Northern Wilderness people, who live here all year round in tribal units, and can be described as the rulers on the surface.
The second is the demon beasts, the demon beasts are scattered, most of them live in inaccessible areas, forests, ice fields, swamps and deep valleys are their paradise.
But there is another existence that cannot be ignored, and that is the Holy Race.
The Holy Clan said that they were human beings, but in fact only some of them were human beings, and some of them were ordinary beasts, which was not the innate half-human and half-beast of the orcs, but the changes brought about by the divine power given by the gods after sacrificing to the gods.
This kind of gift will not only change the physical form of the recipient, but also affect their minds, no matter what the purpose of the sacrifice, once they receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, they will become extremely loyal and obedient to the Holy Spirit.
Of course, there are three types of Saints who are exceptions.
One is the Cat Clan, who are the messengers of the gods of the Holy Clan, who convey divine sayings to the Holy Clansmen and carry out and supervise various tasks. Unlike ordinary people who have been transformed into saints, the cats are born catmen, or the first generation of cats have become a new race after gaining power, and they can pass on their power to their descendants through their bloodlines.
The second type is the Night Wolf Clan, which is the same as the Strange Cat Clan, which is a Holy Clan who can inherit the power of bloodline, and the first Night Werewolf is the left hand of God in the history of the Holy Clan, holding the power of punishment, so the Night Wolf Clan usually plays the role of judging and executing judgments.
The third type is more special, because there is relatively little information, and it is only known that this is a group of saints who are most similar to the appearance of humans, and the main characteristics cannot be determined, but only that this is a group of spy-like existence.
In addition to these three, the rest are the Holy Clansmen who are normally transformed by the power given by the gods.
In the middle of the question-and-answer session, the food was quickly delivered, two meat dishes like beef stew, two vegetable dishes with broad leaves and thick stalks, as well as a pot of soup made from broken bones and a plate of fruits of various shapes.
In addition to the dishes, there is also a large vat of off-white cakes and two large jars of wine.
Jiuluo There were a total of seven people when they walked from the tribe, and when they rescued Fang Ru on the way, they were eight people, but the heavenly spirits didn't need to eat like them, so they were still counted as seven.
Such food portions are more than enough for them.
Xiong Shi stopped talking, handed the wine to a clansman, and asked him to lead a few people to eat and drink, and he brought another jar of wine here to fill it for Jiu Luo and Fang Ru.
The people of the Northern Wilderness drink with bowls and cups, and Jiaoyalou is no exception.
Smelling the wine in front of him, Fang Ru picked up the wine bowl and said solemnly to Jiuluo: "Brother Jiuluo, I respect you!"
Some words can be said once, it is useless to say too much and not do it, Fang Ru is grateful to the other party for saving his life, but he is in the northern region, not only can he not repay the favor, but he may have to trouble others to take care of him in the future.
But he secretly swore in his heart that if he was in danger, he would repay his kindness even if he was broken, and if he could return to the Western Regions, he would repay him with a generous reward.
Jiu Luo, who wanted to tease him, saw the firmness in Fang Ru's eyes, so he didn't say more, a young man who went out at this age was still full of enthusiasm at this time, and it was not good to hit him.
"Come, it's done!" Jiu Luo picked up the bowl and raised his head to drink the wine in the bowl.
Xiong Shi filled them up in time, Fang Ru wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and coughed a few times with a flushed face, he used to drink it with a cup at home, but this was the first time he drank such a big sip, and the wine in the Northern Wilderness was stronger than the wine in the Western Regions, and it was also a little turbid.
"Ahem, cough, cough, ......"
After a dry cough, Fang Ru finally calmed down a bit, and then picked up the bowl again to thank Xiong Shi.
Xiong Shi silently picked up the bowl and drank it dry, and Fang Ru had to cough a few more times.
"Brother Jiuluo, I said earlier that I came to the Northern Regions, mainly because I was bored at home, and my cultivation was at a bottleneck, so I thought about going out to travel and see if I could find an opportunity to break through. After Fang Ru put down the bowl, he hurriedly picked up a few large pieces of meat and stuffed them into his mouth, and took another fruit to eat, which made him feel better.
He continued: "I was thinking of going to the Middle Regions to see it, but I encountered a murderer on the way, and I chased and escaped and deviated from the route, and when I arrived at the boundary of the Northern Regions, I thought that it was also fate, so I simply entered this place, but I didn't expect it to be planted in the hands of that bastard in Brighton." ”
Don't look at Fang Ru's youth, in fact, he already has the cultivation of the master realm, otherwise Brighton would not choose to plot against him after befriending him. The Red Bear tribe knows more about the news in the Northern Regions, but not much about other regions, so Xiong Shi didn't react when he heard the Fang family in the Western Regions, and Jiuluo definitely wouldn't know about it.
This Western Regions Fang family is an important force in the Western Regions, and it is roughly the same as the influence of Heavenly City in the Central Regions. More than 70% of the medicinal material market in the Western Regions is under their control, and the Fang family is extremely good at making drugs and medicine, so the personal relationship is also deep and complex, and there are interests tied to both good and evil.
Fang Ru secretly ran out this time, otherwise the family would have sent someone to protect him, and because of this, the head of the Fang family in the Western Regions had already discovered that Fang Ru had left home, and he was losing his temper at this time, and he had already sent someone out to look for him.
"Big brother, if you want to go to the Ice Stone Forest, you will definitely meet the Holy Clansmen, I can tell from their conversation in Brighton that they have a mission, which will be carried out in the Ice Stone Forest, but what they said briefly, I don't know what the specific mission is. ”
After Fang Ru drank a few bowls of wine, he was a little drunk, he tried to use the Xuan Power to dissolve the power of the wine, and after he was a little sober, he told Jiu Luo about his guess: "There is a conspiracy in the Ice Stone Forest, it must be related to the Holy Clan, but the power used is not too much, but they have united with a part of the tribe! There must be their spies in this corner of the Tooth Tower, and they should not dare to make a secret hand like Brighton in this building, but it is difficult to say if they are out of this place." ”
"If you don't have absolute strength, you will choose to use conspiracy and trickery, this kind of conspiracy because of lack of strength is nothing to care about, they are at most the realm of the peak of the division realm, as long as there are not thousands of people, let me cut it down in three or two strokes." Heavenly Spirit was holding a cloud of gray mist and gnawing there, and she heard Fang Ru talk about the Ice Stone Forest, and said to him with relief.
The strength of the Heavenly Spirit Fang Ru has already seen it, those people in the Falcon Tribe were cut down by her casually, but there is no aura on his body that can accurately judge the strength, and he can't figure out what level it is, I think the lowest is the peak of the master realm.
"Every action of the Holy Clan has some clear purpose, since they choose to attack in the Ice Stone Forest, there must be a reason. ”
Xiong Shi's thoughts were the same as Fang Ru's, and he thought that it was better to be cautious about the things in the Ice Stone Forest.
Jiu Luo is not good at refuting their thoughts, after all, their current strength on the surface is at the division realm level, if there is really an enemy at the Venerable realm level, although Jiu Luo and Tianling are not afraid of him, but these people he brought, including Xiong Shi and Fang Ru, are difficult to escape.
"In any case, this 'Clash of the Beasts' is going. Jiu Luo held the wine bowl, the wine in the bowl floated upward, condensed into a black dragon with nine heads, he looked at the nine black dragons and said: "You don't have to worry too much, since the Holy Clan people do not have overwhelming power, no matter what conspiracy there is, as long as the person who initiated it dies, half of this conspiracy will be broken, and the other half, as long as we don't die, what are we afraid of." ”
The nine black dragons condensed by the wine were like living creatures, inciting their wings to fly out of the wine bowl, but when Jiuluo blew it, it evaporated into a cloud of water vapor.
The white water vapor drifted away, and Jiu Luo endured it in his heart, telling himself not to worry, not to be in a hurry.
"Hahahaha, that's the same, with the power of the eldest brother, you don't have to worry. Fang Ru laughed, he looked at Jiu Luo fixedly: "Although I am not very proficient in the way of fighting, but a sword still moves, so let me help my eldest brother." ”
Fang Ru grew up in the living family since he was a child, and he was very familiar with the undisguised intention in Jiuluo's eyes, which was the eyes that wanted to control the life and death of others, and from Xiong Shi's conversation, he could also hear some hints of competing for power in this northern region.
Although Fang Ru is not good at doing anything on behalf of the Fang family in the Western Regions, no one should recognize him in the Northern Regions, even if he participates in this troubled water, he is not afraid of implicating the family.
"Don't worry, you don't have a sword in your hand at the moment, and when you have a sword, I won't let you go. Jiu Luo was a little crying and laughing, is this guy so hot-blooded, or is there some middle two, he can see the difference between this Fang Ru and Xiong Wuyi.
Xiong Wuji was originally to save his life, and then for the sake of the tribe and his own development, he hugged Jiuluo's thigh, Jiuluo also wanted this northern region to become his intelligence force and some bargaining chips in exchange with Tiancheng, they were mutually interested, and they were already tied together, and the insiders of the Red Bear tribe also defaulted to Jiuluo's subordinates.
But Fang Ru wanted to repay this life-saving grace, and secondly, he felt that Jiuluo had thrown his temper and really wanted to help him achieve his goal, even though he already knew that Jiuluo's goal was to challenge the existing forces in the Northern Regions.
Therefore, Jiu Luo still hopes that he can think about it carefully, he can't make such a decision because of a momentary mood, he can accept Xiong Wuji's choice, but he doesn't want a person like Fang Ru to be involved in his right and wrong.
"I'm going to buy a sword. I don't know if I didn't hear the deep meaning of Jiuluo's words, Fang Ru got up and was about to leave, going to the market to buy a sword.
"Sit down, sit down, eat and drink enough, and then go. Jiu Luo was helpless, he held Fang Ru down and persuaded him: "When we rest and rest, we will go to the ice stone forest to have a look, and there will be a time when you can play a role." ”
Hearing Jiu Luo say this, Fang Ru no longer resisted, after he was plotted by the Falcon Tribe, he was hungry for a few meals, and at this moment he felt some hunger, and the wine that had just entered his stomach was also a little burning in his stomach, and he began to gobble it up.
is an interesting and intentional person, Jiu Luo saw Tianling snickering beside him, and rubbed his temples, this trip to the Northern Regions will not be boring.