Mu Qingzi frowned and said: "This is an old market town, like this kind of old things that belong to the old people, as an old man, you should have heard of it, hundreds of years is very short in the cultivation realm, even mortals should know a little bit of legends such as local history proverbs." ”

Mao Dong still shook his paws and said: "But the old cat I think, everything should not be so rigid, although the senior said that I asked me to wait for a quiet visit, but I have been waiting quietly for several days, no result Wow, it's time to change the method." ”

Mu Qingzi frowned and asked, "Then according to Daoyou's opinion, how should I change my method?"

Mao Dong grinned and said: "Jiji, go directly to the mayor of Mianshan Town, or the county lord of Zhongshan City, even if it is the city lord, ask him face to face." ”

Mu Qingzi was stunned when he heard this: "Wouldn't this reveal the purpose of my secret visit here?"

Mao Dong grinned and said: "Meow, if you are exposed, you will be exposed, we are a Danhou, a Danzhong, and a Danchu guard captain, in the case that all the Yuanying masters are under centralized house arrest, the old cat doesn't believe it, all of them are people below Jindan, dare to do anything to us!"

"This, Dong Daoyou," Mu Qingzi hesitated, "It seems inappropriate for us to be so specialized, after all, it is a matter entrusted by Daoyou, and he told him to visit quietly, if you want to inquire so blatantly, it is better to send a message through Xiaohuan to ask Daoyou first." ”

It is only a land of thousands of miles, and the small ring that can use the communication of ideas can still casually transmit ideas with Ah Jin, Ah Huang and Ah Qing, and it is also the mission given to it by Ah Huang to be a messenger.

"Alright, as you wish," Cat Dong rolled on the ground with his paws stretched out, crouched on a futon, and snored to get ready for sleep.

At this moment, there was a sudden call from outside the courtyard door: "Senior Mu is in the house? The villain is an innkeeper, and there are distinguished guests outside, so send the villain to bring it and spread the word." ”

When Mao Dong heard this, he immediately got up and asked, "Young man outside the door, the old cat asks you, what kind of person is coming to visit us?"

The guy outside the door replied respectfully: "If you go back to the cat's predecessor, he is a member of the City Lord's Mansion." ”

"City Lord's Mansion?" Mao Dong pouted, "It's really a toad yawning—what a big breath." ”

Mu Qingzi straightened the gray robe on his body, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Dong Daoyou, accept your noble words, as soon as you say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive, let's go, let's go out and see, what will this so-called city lord's mansion say." ”

"Cao Cao, who is Cao Cao?" Mao Dong muttered in his heart, and took the lead in running over to open a few doors, and when the last courtyard door opened, he saw a young mortal man who had not cultivated nodding and standing in front of the door.

But I saw a plain-clothed man in the early stage of foundation building and about thirty years of appearance flashing near the courtyard gate, holding a jade butterfly, bowed down and handed it over with both hands in a few steps, and said respectfully: "The younger generation is famous, worship the two seniors, if the Zhongshan City Lord's Mansion sincerely invites the two seniors to be free, they must go to the mansion." ”

Mu Qingzi saw that the other party was an innate junior who was much lower than his own, so he nodded unconcernedly, and motioned for Mao Dong to take the jade butterfly to see, although he could barely hear the lingua franca of the star field, the kind of words that were turning around still didn't understand much.

"It's just the head of a remote mountain market town, and it's not good to call him the lord of the city, but he is so big, dare to ask the old cat to meet him?"

Once Mu Qingzi asked Ming Mao Dong about the words written by Zhang Yudie, he said quietly: "Okay, it's getting late today, and before tomorrow afternoon, Poor Dao will definitely go to visit the city lord." ”

The plain-clothed man hurriedly smiled and said: "The junior will return to the city lord here, and wait for the seniors to visit at any time before noon tomorrow, if there is nothing else, the juniors will retire." ”

After Mu Qingzi waved his hand a little to let him take care of himself, he then turned around and entered the house, Mao Dong took out a few shield coins out of nowhere, threw them to the young guy who came to pass the word as a tip, and also waved his claws to let him retreat.

The two of them returned to the room and sat for a long time, only to wait until Xiaohuan came back from nowhere, and as soon as it emerged from the ground, it hung on the stone ball with a smile and swirled.

Xiaohuan was like Ah Huang talking to Mao Dong, and as he spoke, he directly entered his mind into his spiritual sense, and said, "Big cat, do you know that I found a very strange place today?"

"Hey, what's the strange thing, tell me about it!" asked Mao Dong with wide eyes and curiosity, but all cats are the most curious animals.

Xiaohuan's mouth bent into an arc and said: "Hehe, even today I drilled deep into the ground, and found that there was a big iron lump at the bottom, and there was a way to get in, and the big stone ball couldn't roll in, so I went in alone, and saw a small iron room inside, and an old man was in retreat, and it was actually a monk in the middle of the Yuan Infant." ”

Mu Qingzi also heard these words clearly, he sat cross-legged on the futon, squinted his eyes, twisted his long beard, and muttered: "There is actually a Yuanying monk here, dare not go to Yidu City to attend the party?"

Mao Dong asked Xiaohuan, "Can you see whether this person is in retreat or locked inside?"

Xiaohuan shook his head and said, "I don't know if it's a retreat or a lock-up, anyway, he meditates alone in it, and his body is covered with patina rust, I don't know how long he's been sitting." ”

Mu Qingzi said resolutely: "Xiaohuan, you come to talk to Senior Brother Mai and pass on to him what Poor Dao said for a while." ”

Xiaohuan had already been instructed by Ah Huang to be a good communicator, so he nodded like a very well-behaved child and said: "Lao Mu, you say, I will call Lao Huang and Lao Jin, and I will pass on what you said in a while." ”

Of course, Mu Qingzi knew that Xiaohuan was Ah Huang's attribute spiritual creature, and naturally had the ability to sense the host for thousands of miles, but he didn't know that it could talk to Ah Huang at will like talking, thinking that it could only convey the general meaning, so he made up the situation that he had not been able to find out the news in the past few days and the plan to visit directly, as concise and smooth as possible, and read it to Xiaohuan word by word.

Xiaohuan naturally relayed every word he read to Ah Huang as it was, of course, Ah Jin also received it, if Ah Qing would also pay attention to it, the same receipt would be correct, this is the special function of the five elements companions.

Ah Jin received Mu Qingzi's words, and was frowning and thinking about countermeasures, but heard Ah Huang impatiently transmit his thoughts to Xiaohuan: "Don't care about Ah Jin's mother-in-law, go back to your hometown to visit the old situation of the family, and it's not a sneaky thing, as long as you find out the truth, the senior brother can do what he wants, and there is no Yuanying master over there now, and the highest local cultivator is Jindan Consummation, even if you know that you are here to find the Xie family, then how dare you." ”

The small ring that has been shaking his body on the stone ball has been repeating Ah Huang's words directly to Mu Qingzi, and at the same time passing it to Mao Dong with the exchange of ideas.

Mao Dong laughed to himself when he heard this, he had followed Ah Huang for so long, of course he knew Ah Huang's style of doing things, but Mu Qingzi was a little embarrassed after hearing it, and it was Mao Dong's idea to go directly to the City Lord's Mansion, and now it has become what he wants to do, which can't help but make him embarrassed.

But Ah Huang mentioned that there was no Yuanying master here, but Mu Qingzi thought that Xiaohuan drilled into the ground and happened to encounter a Yuanzhong monk locked up in a small iron house, so he told Ah Huang about this matter through Xiaohuan, and mentioned the invitation of the City Lord's Mansion to visit by the way.

Ah Huang didn't care when he heard this, the Yuanying gathering was not something he was interested in, but Ah Jin felt strange, obviously according to the judges, all the Yuanying monks of the entire planet were invited to five well-defended cities, and the gathering was actually under house arrest, how could one be missed.

Yuanying Monk is the power of Yu Lingxing, any one of them is a strong party, according to the judge, it is impossible not to record it, it is impossible for those who are omitted not to be notified, and even a few of them occasionally pass by and are invited to the city lord's mansion to be placed under house arrest.

Ah Jin suddenly remembered that when a few people were talking in Juxian Pavilion that day, Lord Ting had mentioned that the head of the Zhong family had already left the stars to seek a breakthrough.

Ah Jin asked Xiao Huan carefully what the specific situation of the person locked up in the small iron house underground, Xiao Huan made a picture of what he had witnessed at that time, and immediately teleported it to Ah Jin.

Ordinary high-level cultivators must rely on specific jade artifacts to make an image, but Xiaohuan is a high-level spiritual object, and it can use its own earth-based spiritual source to easily make an image that can be remotely transmitted to others.

Ah Jin and Ah Huang carefully observed the not very clear image, after all, Xiaohuan was seen from a distance, and there was also the cover around the small iron house, that is, they vaguely saw an old man in brocade clothes with white hair sitting in the center of the small iron house, his eyes closed, his face expressionless, but the facial muscles seemed to twitch occasionally, and it didn't look like he was cultivating, as if he was suppressing something.

Ah Jin saw his pupils shrink, and couldn't help muttering: "This person's face looks very familiar, if it is really him, it looks too old." ”

"You said you know him, who is this old man?" Ah Huang couldn't help but ask in surprise, but after thinking about it, he was relieved, it was not surprising that Ah Jin would know him as a person who could hide in the former nest of the Xie family.

"Xie Zhong, the patriarch of the Xie clan in the past!" Ah Jin sighed and recalled the past, and said quietly, "Seeing him, it reminds me of the past, I was still young back then, although I was a descendant of the main family, but because I was not close to the head of the family, and my parents died early, the family was in the middle of the road, so I had to take refuge in a clan uncle's family as an adopted son, the clan uncle's family background is only at the middle and lower level, I am actually similar to the subordinate there, I can't get good cultivation exercises, and his family can't give me good exercises, so I can't advance to the innate for a long time."

"Until one day later, Uncle Clan probably saw that I was getting older, I was over twenty years old, and my cultivation was sluggish, and I had been cultivating for so many years, but I couldn't even enter the fusion period after practicing Qi, so he planned to mention a family matter to me, and the other party was Xie Zhong, a woman from a certain family in the side branch, as soon as I heard this, I knew that Uncle Clan saw that I was not a talent to be made, and wanted to kick me away. ”