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Inside the courtyard, close to the mountain wall, is a simple stone gate, about ten feet high.
The stone door also shone with a rich golden-red aura.
Han Changlin came to the stone gate, and then the black token in his hand floated in the air, and a faint golden aura shot out from it and shot into the stone gate.
Then the pitch-black token fell into Han Changlin's hands again, and the stone gate moved to both sides with a "zapping" sound, revealing the pitch-black corridor inside.
Han Changlin walked towards the inside, and the golden-red spiritual light separated automatically. The corridor behind the stone door was very spacious and clean. When Han Changlin stepped into it, a strong spiritual energy hit his face, making Han Changlin feel refreshed and endured. He couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The aura here is several times richer than the aura in the cave he rented in Black Rock City. It's no wonder that the cave here requires 800 low-grade spiritual stones for a year. You really get what you pay for.
Han Changlin entered the corridor, and the stone door behind it was closed again. After going more than ten feet deep, Han Changlin came to the heart of a mountain. The ground in the middle of the mountain was artificially opened up into a small spiritual field. However, nothing was planted in the spiritual field at this moment. The spiritual grass had obviously been harvested and taken away by its previous owner.
Around the belly of the mountain, there are four stone gates. On the stone gates are the [rest room], [training room], [spiritual beast room], and [alchemy room]. Seeing this, Han Changlin smiled slightly. The cave abode built by the Water Control Palace was also It's so thoughtful that it even has a [Spiritual Beast Room] and [Alchemy Room].
As for the spiritual field in the heart of the mountain, Han Changlin naturally didn't care. Even though he owned the fairy palace in the painting, he would not transplant spiritual grass into this spiritual field.
As usual, Han Changlin first explored the inside and outside of the cave. Not only did he pass the spiritual inspection, he also released the soul-devouring fire Gu to carefully search every corner.
After confirming that there was no problem, Han Changlin opened the door of the training room, walked in, sat cross-legged on the futon in the center, took out a Bailing Pill and drank it, and then began to practice [Li Yan Zhen Xuan Jue] .
With the operation of the magic formula, a faint white mist began to appear around Han Changlin, and at the same time, a faint blue-red aura began to emit from his body.
Han Changlin has also entered a meditative state and knows nothing about the outside world.
Early the next morning, Han Changlin woke up from his trance and felt the majestic magic power in the sea of qi. He couldn't help but show a happy expression on his face.
He got up and left the cave where he was practicing, and entered the Jinxia Fairy City. As usual, he wandered around the streets and alleys, counting the time, and found that the time Jiang Yingxue had agreed with him was not far away.
But it's not easy to find someone in this crowded Jinxia Fairy City, and Han Changlin doesn't want to make his search known to everyone, so he can only be patient and search slowly.
What Han Changlin was most worried about was that if Jiang Yingxue was not in Jinxia Fairy City, he would have to find out where he went, but no matter what, he had to search first.
Soon, more than half a month passed. In addition to four hours of homework every day, Han Changlin spent most of the rest of his time searching for traces of Jiang Yingxue in the fairy city.
He first searched for it from the area where immortal cultivators live in the west of the city. He walked through almost every alley. With his powerful spiritual mind, he scanned it slightly and everything within a thousand feet radius was displayed in his mind.
Unfortunately, every time he walked through an alley, he shook his head slightly, and then walked into the next alley.
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To the south of the city is a large area of private houses inhabited by mortals, covering a radius of forty or fifty miles. Most of these houses are made of wood, short and dilapidated, and the streets and alleys are much narrower than the residences of immortal cultivators.
This place where mortals live is also divided into three, six or nine levels. Some businessmen among them are either doing errands for some business houses to earn spiritual stones that are considered expensive by mortals, or they are dragging some people on their own. Form a small fleet to travel to the surrounding fairy cities to earn freight for transporting goods.
These people basically have some properties in the south of the city, and they have become big households among mortals.
The Jiang family is one of the big families, and among these big families, it is enough to rank among the top three.
The ancestor of the Jiang family was originally an immortal cultivator. He once reached the middle stage of foundation building. However, after entering the middle stage of foundation building, he could no longer improve and his realm stagnated.
Later, after he was more than a hundred years old, he became disillusioned with the path of spiritual practice, and started to start a business out of desperation. He also married several wives. For a mortal, being able to marry a cultivator would mean that But the absolute pheasant turning into a phoenix is something that can only be wished for.
Unexpectedly, this person has no talent in cultivation, but he is quite lucky in business. Not only did he get involved with several large commercial houses, he attracted shipping business, but he also sold various monster materials. He is also quite talented in this area and has prospered.
After nearly a hundred years of development, he used the accumulated spiritual stones to not only purchase a large area of land in the south of Jinxia Fairy City, but also to build a fleet of hundreds of ships.
As for the heir, he is also quite lucky. As a foundation-building monk, the possibility of giving birth to the next generation is extremely small, but he happened to encounter such a small probability event. Not only did he give birth to a son, but he also became a couple. twin.
Although the twins have no spiritual roots, they are plump and healthy. Anyway, this person is no longer obsessed with the path of spiritual practice, and he is not entangled in the fact that his children have no spiritual roots.
He also began to focus on raising two sons so that they could inherit the family business in the future.
These two sons did not disappoint him. When they grew up, they not only took care of the family business they left behind in an orderly manner, but also filled the Jiang family with descendants in passing on the family line. Later, after that man passed away, the Jiang family was completely It took root in the south of the city.
In the following hundreds of years, several family members with spiritual roots appeared, and two of them even joined the Water Control Palace and became its outer disciples.
This also completely stabilized the Jiang family's position in the large area south of Jinxia Fairy City.
The spiritual stones earned by the family through business will also be given priority to the children of the family with spiritual roots for cultivation. In turn, the children of the Jiang family who worship in Yushui Palace can also protect the Jiang family, at least let the Jiang family do what they want. When doing business, I feel a little more confident.
After hundreds of years of development, the entire Jiang family has hundreds of direct descendants. As for the collateral descendants, illegitimate descendants and those who changed their surname to Jiang midway, there are at least more than a thousand people, occupying a large area of residences in the south of the city.
In the Jiang family's residence, dozens of teenagers, ranging from seven to eight to twenty years old, are practicing physical training. Mortals cannot practice immortal magic because they have no spiritual roots, so wealthy families who have the conditions will choose young people in the family. In the prime of life, come and practice physical training.
After all, during the transportation process of the fleet, they will occasionally encounter attacks from monsters, and the cost of hiring immortal cultivators to escort them is too high, so most of them use body refiners trained by their families to protect the safety of the goods.
In a corner of the house, there was a small pond, and several women were washing clothes. While they were washing clothes, they occasionally peeked at the family members who were practicing physical training, with a look of obsession on their faces.
Although the body refining technique is not only practiced by men, in some large families, only the strong men in the family are selected for training. After all, men are better than ordinary men in terms of physical fitness and talent in the body refining technique. woman.
What's more, the cost of training a junior body refiner is not small.
Among them, except for a petite woman who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, she kept her head down and washed her clothes. The other women would peek from time to time and saw Jiang who was exercising with his bare upper body showing off his strong muscles. The younger generation showed shy expressions from time to time.
"Xiaolu, I heard that the second young master has formally proposed to the master that he wants to take you as my concubine. In this way, you will soon no longer have to do these menial jobs like us. Don't forget us when you get rich. .”
"Xueying, don't worry, we are good sisters. When I marry the second young master, I will definitely introduce you to other Jiang family children. At least I can keep you a side wife."
"Sister Xiaolu is quite interesting. I heard that the Fourth Young Master's body refining skills are about to advance. Once the advancement is successful, he will become a real body refining practitioner. Then he will be eligible to get married and have children, and with the fourth The young master’s strong physique means he must have three wives and four concubines.”
"Yes, we, the laundry girls who have been selected by the Jiang family since childhood, all have hope."
"That is, but besides her?"
The beautiful woman named Xueying glanced at the petite woman who was calmly lowering her head to wash clothes, and snorted coldly.
"This is a young lady from the Jiang family. Although she is just an illegitimate child, she still has the blood of the Jiang family flowing through her body. It's a pity that she is a loser from birth."
"you."
When the petite woman heard the words, she couldn't help but raise her head, revealing an ugly face. Her face shape was perfect, and her facial features were extremely coordinated. The only flaw was that there was a bloody mark between her eyebrows. The eyebrows extend upward to the forehead, and downward to the right cheek.
At first glance, it looked as if someone had cut her face with a knife, destroying every bit of her supposedly delicate appearance.
When the petite woman heard the Xueying woman say that she was a loser, she couldn't help but show a mixture of sadness and anger on her face. Her big eyes were full of mist, as if she wanted to refute, but in the end she swallowed all the rebuttals that came to her mouth. Go down, lower your head again and start washing clothes.
"I'm not wrong. I heard that when she was born, a white light flashed. When the midwife saw her, she actually grinned at the midwife, which scared the midwife half to death. The birthmark on her face also became more and more serious. The older I get, if I continue to grow like this, my face will be covered with birthmarks in a few years, haha."
"Giggle, yes, and she was also a master of her parents. Her mother died in childbirth when she was born. Her father was also killed by a monster on the sea on the day she was born. I heard that he was killed in front of many people. Devoured alive.”
"If the seventh young master of the Jiang family hadn't been protecting her, I'm afraid she would have been kicked out of the Jiang family long ago."
"Shh, please keep your voices down. The seventh young master has spiritual roots. I heard that he has passed the pre-nomination confirmation of the Water Yu Palace. In the next step, as long as he can pass the Water Yu Palace's entrance trial, he can officially become the Water Yu Palace. Disciple."
"Although the Seventh Young Master has spiritual roots, he has been out training all year round and may not come back even once every few years. However, the Seventh Young Master has a very tight guard by his side, and he is also very protective of this girl. There was once a maid who was raped because of She contradicted her a few times and then whipped her several times. After the man heard about it, he killed the maid on the spot."
"I have also heard about this matter. I heard that the head of the Jiang family was alarmed. But the strange thing is that the head of the Jiang family not only did not punish the man in any way, but even had the maid secretly buried. I compensated the maid’s family with a large sum of spiritual stones.”
"So, Xueying, you'd better not talk about this girl. She has an unlucky destiny, and anyone who gets involved will be in bad luck."
Several people discussed without hesitation in front of the girl with the blood mark on her face. The girl with the blood mark was washing her clothes and weeping silently. However, she gritted her teeth tightly and did not make a sound. She was covered by the tears. Full of stubbornness in his eyes.
Little did they know that at this moment, a handsome young man in his twenties was standing outside the Jiang family. His originally expressionless face suddenly froze, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face, but at the same time his eyes flickered. With a hesitant expression.
This person was Han Changlin who had found this place. Under the coverage of his spiritual thoughts, he could naturally see everything that happened in the Jiang family, and all the words of the laundry maids also fell into his ears.
He even "saw" the expression of the girl with the blood mark on her face in his mind, and the reason why he showed a hesitant expression on his face was that Jiang Yingxue once told him that her reincarnation was an eyebrow girl. There are people with nine blood marks, and this girl does have a blood mark between her eyebrows.
But this blood mark looks more like a birthmark. There is no trace of Jiugongge?
After pondering for a moment, Han Changlin had a plan in his mind. A green and red light flashed around him, and the next moment, his figure had disappeared without a trace.
The woman named Xueying was discussing enthusiastically. She raised her head inadvertently and saw a handsome young man in his twenties, looking at her with a smile on his face, but there was no trace of anger in the young man's eyes. Some of the smiles are just cold.
"Ah~ who are you? Why did you suddenly appear in our Jiang family?"
Frightened, the woman named Xueying screamed, and the disciples of the Jiang family who were refining also heard the cry, stopped refining, and surrounded her.
The girl with the blood mark on her eyebrows also raised her head and looked at Han Changlin in surprise, who was looking at her with a slight frown on her brows. However, there was no expression of fear on her face, but only curiosity.
"May I have your name?"
Han Changlin ignored everyone around him, looked at the girl with blood marks on her eyebrows, and asked.
"I...my name is Daya."
When the girl saw Han Changlin asking her, she became nervous and stuttered out her name.
"Da Ya?"
Han Changlin had a speechless expression on his face, what kind of name is this.
"Who are you? You broke into our Jiang family?"
A muscular man with bronzed muscles on his face saw Han Changlin not paying attention to them. He couldn't help but show dissatisfaction on his face, pointed at Han Changlin and said angrily.
"I?"
Han Changlin turned to look at the muscular man with a half-smile expression on his face:
"Who am I? You don't deserve to know. Go and call your master."
After saying that, Han Changlin looked at the girl again:
"come here."
Hearing this, the girl hesitated slightly and then walked up to Han Changlin.
"Bold."
When the muscular man saw that Han Changlin was completely ignoring him, he became furious and punched Han Changlin in the back.
Seeing this scene, many people had expressions of gloating on their faces. They seemed to have been able to guess the fate of this person who was about to suffer broken bones and tendons.
The girl with blood marks on her face clearly saw the scene that was about to happen behind Han Changlin, her face changed drastically, and she exclaimed:
"careful."
"Bang~ah~"
A sound like being struck on a withered body was heard, and along with a scream, the body of the muscular man flew directly backwards. After an exaggerated flight of more than ten feet, he fell to the ground, and then touched the ground again and wiped out. He had climbed several feet, and what was even more miserable was that he was still face down when he landed. People around him could tell that his face was basically half-ruined just by looking at it.
Han Changlin seemed to be fine, looking at the girl in front of him with a thoughtful expression on his face. After a moment, his brows began to relax and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"It should be that the blood seal qi and blood are stagnant, causing the surrounding blood vessels to be blocked."
After muttering to himself, Han Changlin stretched out his right hand and pointed a finger between the girl's eyebrows. A blue-red light flashed and disappeared into the girl's eyebrows.
Then, under the surprised gazes of everyone around, the mark between the girl's eyebrows began to shrink, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a beautiful blood-red mark the size of a soybean, gathering at the center of her eyebrows.
The girl's appearance also underwent earth-shaking changes in an instant. She was delicate and beautiful, exuding an air of elegance. At the same time, a white light spread out from her body, wrapping her whole body in it.
Countless white runes emerged from the white light, spinning around the girl. After a moment, the white light slowly entered the body, and the girl opened her eyes, her eyes clear.
The surrounding Jiang family children and several laundry girls stared at everything in front of them, watching the girl transform from ugly to beautiful like a fairy. Some Jiang family children were even more fascinated by it, forgetting that their brothers had just been killed. Injured.
Han Changlin had an expression of surprise on his face and said with a forgetful smile:
"Sure enough, it's you. After looking for it for a long time, I finally found it."
At this time, a man in his forties, surrounded by several strong men, separated from the crowd and stepped forward. When the man in his forties saw Han Changlin's dress, his expression suddenly changed.
"Jiang Chengping, the head of the Xiajiang family, is here to pay homage to senior. Is Dare Senior a cultivator of immortality?"
The man in his forties was the current head of the Jiang family. He was well-informed and naturally not comparable to the young tiger cubs of the Jiang family behind him.
After hearing this, Han Changlin slowly turned around and looked at Jiang Chengping with a smile on his face:
"It turns out it's the head of the Jiang family. Han took the liberty to come here and invited the head of the Jiang family, Haihan."
Jiang Chengping was naturally flattered when he heard this. He didn't even dare to. After expelling the Jiang family members, he took Han Changlin and Daya to the guest room.
After taking his seat, Jiang Chengping stepped back and then stood up. He first bowed respectfully to Han Changlin and then said:
"Although the junior is not an immortal cultivator, there is a guard in the family who is an immortal cultivator in the foundation-building stage. However, the pressure that the junior feels from the senior is far greater than that of the guard. I think the senior is at least a golden elixir. An early ancestor."
Hearing this, Han Changlin's face showed a bit of surprise, and he admired the master of the Jiang family for his wisdom, but then he changed his mind and asked:
"May I ask if the guard of your Jiang family is named Lehu?"
When Jiang Chengping heard this, his expression changed and he exclaimed:
"Senior, does he know Le Weiwei?"
Han Changlin smiled faintly and did not answer directly, but pointed to Daya beside him:
"Han passed by here by chance and found that this woman has spiritual roots and is destined to me. Therefore, Han wants to accept her as his disciple. I wonder if the Jiang family master is willing?"
When Jiang Chengping heard this, he was naturally very surprised. For a member of the Jiang family to be able to become a real Jindan master, that would be a great blessing. It was a wonderful thing that could only be wished for, and there would be no one who would not be willing to do so.
However, Jiang Chengping had been working hard in Jinxia Fairy City for decades and was quite a well-known person in the city. He glanced at Da Ya, sighed softly, and said:
"This child Da Ya also has a rather rough life. She was originally my second brother's concubine. She was drunk and raped a maid and gave birth to her. Unexpectedly, after she was born, her parents also died successively, and my second brother was away from home all the time. He is running a boat and rarely comes back, so Jiang is responsible for taking care of it."
"It's a pity that Jiang usually has a lot of work and can't take care of many things. He actually let Da Ya be assigned to do some servant's work. It's really Jiang's fault. I'm sorry for my second brother."
Jiang Chengping looked at Da Ya with red eyes.
"Since the Immortal Master has fallen in love with Da Ya, this is also her fate. Naturally, our Jiang family has no reason to be reluctant, but..."
When Han Changlin heard this, he sneered in his heart. It was okay to deceive ordinary mortals with such words, but to him, it was just a whisper from a villain. Everyone knew it. However, Han Changlin's purpose was to take away Daya, and he did not want to interact with Jiang. The family was at odds with each other, and to say the least, Jiang Yingxue's reincarnation came from the Jiang family after all. As the saying goes, remember the source when drinking water, and she didn't want to let the Jiang family down.
Thinking of this, Han Changlin smiled and said:
"Master Jiang has something to do, but it doesn't matter."
"It's just that Guard Le has been staying by Da Ya's side since he came to our Jiang family. Later, at Jiang's request, he became a part-time guard in our Jiang family's fleet. Once Da Ya Following the seniors and leaving, Le Huwei is afraid... Seniors also know that it is a great blessing for a secular family like ours to have an immortal cultivator to protect them. Jiang is also content, but if Le Huwei If we leave like this, our Jiang family will inevitably be squeezed out by several other families, and I'm afraid... hey."
After Han Changlin heard this, he understood clearly and understood the concerns of the Jiang family leader. Han Changlin did not expect that Lehu was really filial to his master. It was commendable that he found him one step ahead of him.
It is definitely impossible for Lehu to stay. He can't take away Jiang Yingxue's reincarnated body and keep it with him forever. Before Jiang Yingxue's reincarnated body truly grows up, Lehu still needs to take care of it.
However, it is a bit inconvenient to carry Lehu around now.
Thinking of this, Han Changlin thought for a while and then said:
"I heard that the seventh son of the Jiang family is also a person with spiritual roots, and will soon join the Yushui Palace?"
"Senior's insight, my seventh child does have spiritual roots. He has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining through cultivation. If he cannot worship the Water Control Palace, he will have no hope of building a foundation in the future."
Jiang Chengping said with a sigh.
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