Among the inns.
"Some of the news is indeed what they said." Xiaoman said, "The Liu family has lost power and is now in a situation in Haojing. It can be said that everyone is shouting for beatings. But the strange thing is that the top authority does not seem to have any control over the situation. The Liu family’s idea of killing them all is just a slap in the face.”
"The current situation is that Gu Mingyuan, the general of the Zhu Kingdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty, has sent his troops south to the Yan Kingdom. The war between the two countries has begun." Bai Ze said, "As a big family in Haojing, the Liu family may be among Gu Mingyuan's southward army. General. The King of Zhou will not fight at this juncture and make the rear area a mess."
"In this way, it is indeed the truth. Also, Tang Zhizhi and Wen Ying went up the mountain, and the prince's marriage and Zhou Wei's marriage were temporarily put on hold. The news from the Blood Shadow Tower is that this move may be the intention of King Zhou to depose Crown Prince, I will appoint the Third Prince Jiang Wei."
"Then it depends on the ensuing power struggle, between the two of them, who can control the situation."
"Well. Master... do you need us to intervene?"
The implication is that Xueyingtu helped Jiang Wei rise to power.
After all, the Blood Shadow Order is now in Bai Ze's hands, and Jiang Wei has a close relationship with Bai Ze. There are some things that Bai Ze still needs to ask before he speaks.
"Of course I hope Jiang Wei will move Jiang Yin down." Bai Ze said through the message. After pouring the wine and putting down the glass, his eyes darkened, "But if he still can't seize the opportunity after Zhu Lu and Liu Qing fall one after another, , then it would be meaningless to help him.”
The age of great strife has arrived.
The Great Zhou Dynasty did not need an undecided prince.
This is also a big reason why Jiang Yin was able to defeat Jiang Wei and other princes to become the crown prince before the accident.
The death of Tang Xiang and the coordination between Gucheng and Gu Mingyuan have demonstrated the ambition of the king of Zhou Dynasty. He wants the Great Zhou cavalry to sweep across the northern border, annex mountains and rivers, and expand territory in a new round of national war!
Bai Ze indeed formed a lifelong alliance with Jiang Wei.
But he has done enough.
If Jiang Wei cannot remove Prince Jiang Yin, then the covenant between them will be meaningless.
"Sir, I understand." Xiaoman said softly.
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After having enough wine and food, Bai Ze took Xiaoman out of the inn, planning to buy some clothes in the town. There is nothing special about the mountain, a Taoist robe is enough for all seasons. But walking around the world, these are necessary.
Especially Bai Ze doesn't have to be particular about it, but Xiaoman is a girl's family, so she always has to prepare some in case of emergencies.
When the two of them went out, Bai Ze was short of money, so he had to take Xiaoman to a medicinal pawn shop in the town, and exchange the elixirs in his hands for some spiritual stones, gold and silver.
The spiritual stones in his hand have been squandered in Xianmenfang City, and the worldly gold, silver, money and silk are even more pitiful. Although Xiaoman snickered and said that she still had some of these belongings, as a man, how could Bai Ze have the nerve to ask a girl to pay for it out of his own pocket?
Fengkou Town is located at the foot of the Vulcan Mountain, and there are many medicinal pawn shops placed here by the sects on the mountain. On the one hand, the elixirs collected by the casual cultivators under the mountain can be exchanged for spiritual stones for cultivation. On the other hand, the elixirs refined by the sect can also be sold to the casual cultivators under the mountain.
The casual cultivators at the foot of the mountain are not as good as the major sects, and have such treasured cultivation places as the Cave Heaven Blessed Land. When monks practice, whether they are refining Qi or practicing magic, a place with abundant spiritual energy can always make their practice twice the result with half the effort.
Casual cultivators are not as good as sect monks in terms of practice environment, so they naturally have more demand for spiritual stones.
And in the battle between rivers and lakes, there is always an extra way out if you have more elixirs on hand.
Without much effort, Bai Ze found a medicinal material pawn shop.
Bai Ze's clothes were ordinary, but they were the common Taoist robes worn by ordinary monks in the world. But I can't stand Feng Shen Yulang, who has extraordinary bearing. Especially when there was a very attractive woman following behind him. The woman was carrying the sword box on her back, as if she were the sword attendant of the young Taoist cultivator.
The second shop owner of the pawn shop is past the middle of the year, and his cultivation level is no higher than the other side of the second realm. But after living in the town for many years, even though I couldn't tell Bai Ze and Xiao Man's cultivation level, I had a gut feeling that these two people were not like casual cultivators, but rather like the young masters from a certain family of practitioners who traveled around the world to hone their swordsmanship.
"This Taoist Priest, do you want to come to the pawn shop to pawn elixirs or buy elixirs?" The second shopkeeper came up to talk in person and said with a smile: "The reputation of our store is excellent, the pawn price is fair, and the elixirs come from the fire god mountain Xuan.
The hands of a first-level alchemist are also quite extraordinary! "
Although Bai Ze had never dabbled in the alchemy path, he had heard about it. There are four levels of heaven, earth, black and yellow, and each level is divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower. A Xuan-level alchemist, if he is a top-grade one, can indeed be considered a person.
The Chiyang Peak lineage of Yunhai Immortal Sect is proficient in the methods of alchemy and weapon refining. As far as Bai Ze knew, Lie Yangzi, the headmaster of Chiyang Peak, was a middle-level alchemist of the Earth level.
As for earth-level alchemists, they are very rare in the entire Northern Territory. No matter where they go, they will receive the best treatment.
After all, those elixirs bred by the aura of heaven and earth can only be used to their fullest effect in the hands of an alchemist, and their medicinal power can be maximized!
"Shopkeeper, I plan to exchange the elixir for some spiritual stones, gold and silver." Bai Ze said with a smile, turned over his hand and took out a elixir from the ancient ring, and handed it to the second shopkeeper, "How do you think you will bid on this?"
As soon as the second shopkeeper saw the elixir that Bai Ze took out, his eyes widened and he exclaimed in shock: "This is... asparagus grass?!"
"Exactly." Bai Ze smiled.
Back in the Kunlun Secret Realm, he and Lu Hao teamed up to loot the elixirs from the mountains of the major forest overlords, most of which were precious medicines. But later Lu Hao said: "There is an abundance of spiritual energy here. Although the elixirs are good in appearance, the quantity is small after all. I think the lesser elixirs are quite good, and they are worse than those in the outside world, so why not get more of them?" point."
Bai Ze thought it made sense at the time, so he and Lu Hao searched for a lot of elixirs, hardly distinguishing them. As long as they looked non-toxic, they uprooted them and put them away.
This elixir is also divided into grades. The lowest level is the elixir, and the ones above are treasure medicine, holy medicine, and magic medicine.
The higher the grade, the stronger the medicine.
The legendary magic medicine has the terrifying power to bring the dead back to life!
And the golden holy medicine fruit that Bai Ze obtained on the Kunlun Secret Stone Mountain allowed him to directly open a golden soul spring the size of a lake!
The crimson fruit is still soaked in the gourd. Although the wine has been changed once, the medicinal power of the medicinal wine brewed from the fruit has not diminished at all. Every time he drinks, he can feel the surging medicinal power stirring in his body, tempering him. body.
Nowadays, more and more precious blood has been condensed in his body. Since recovering from the injury, he has been practicing Liuhe Fist and Luohan Fist continuously. Now, when he punches with all his strength, he can already punch with a terrifying power of two hundred cauldrons!
Not to mention that they were monks in the same realm, but they were even fourth-level monsters known for their brutal bodies. As long as they didn't have a special bloodline, they would be beaten to death by his random punches.
Therefore, although Bai Ze is short of money at the moment, if he sells the precious medicines in his hand, he can at least squander it for ten or eight years.
If he hadn't spent part of it practicing the "Dragon Elephant God and Demon Art" in the Kunlun Secret Realm at that time, the amount of elixirs in Bai Ze's hands would have been even greater.
The second shopkeeper carefully examined it, his expression became more and more excited, and said: "It is indeed a top-grade asparagus grass! This is the first time I have seen such a quality elixir in so many years!"
Bai Ze smiled and said nothing.
Little did he know that he could give the second shopkeeper a sack of such elixir.
"Shopkeeper, how much is this asparagus grass worth?" Bai Ze asked.
The second shopkeeper calmed down and said: "Master Taoist, let's open the skylight and speak frankly. This Asparagus grass happens to be what Elder Dong, the Xuanji alchemy master of Huoshen Mountain, told me to pay attention to. He said that this kind of elixir is needed for alchemy. Such quality I would like to bid sixty intermediate spirit stones for one plant of Asparagus Grass, what do you think, Taoist Master?"
In the pawn shop, there were many casual cultivators. When they heard this, they straightened their eyes and said, "Infinite Heavenly Lord, this piece of spiritual grass is actually worth sixty middle-grade spiritual stones!? I worked so hard to collect it on the cliffs. The Purple Heart Grass is only worth a dozen low-grade spiritual stones in total, so the gap is too big!"
"Old Li, didn't you listen to what the second shopkeeper said? The young hero bought the asparagus grass which is of excellent quality, not the purple heart grass that your cliff herb picker can get, hahaha." One hit. The young monk smiled and offered his hand to Bai Ze: "May I ask this young hero, where does this asparagus grow?"
Before Bai Ze opened his mouth, he heard the second shopkeeper snort and said: "Why does this Taoist priest pick the elixir by chance and tell you where it grows?"
Seeing the second shopkeeper scolding him, the middle-aged monk immediately smiled awkwardly and said, "Second shopkeeper, I didn't mean to
Offended, I just asked casually. "
Unexpectedly, Bai Ze smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I got this elixir in a mountain shade with abundant spiritual energy. If this friend is interested, please pay attention in the future."
"Thank you, young hero!" the middle-aged monk said with a smile.
Xiaoman snickered in his heart. What the young master said was interesting. He said it, but it seemed like he didn't say it.
Bai Ze didn't have much idea about spiritual stones. I only know that the best spiritual stones cannot be valued, the high-grade spiritual stones are equal to a thousand medium-grade spiritual stones, and the medium-grade spiritual stones are equal to a hundred low-grade spiritual stones.
Of course, the size of the spirit stone particles will also increase or decrease the redemption amount.
Bai Ze did not hesitate and immediately said to the second shopkeeper: "Then just follow what the shopkeeper said."
Seeing Bai Ze's agreement, the second shopkeeper asked: "I wonder if I still have this asparagus grass in my hands? I am willing to buy them all."
"Of course there are some." Bai Ze said with a smile, took out dozens of asparagus plants and handed them to the second shopkeeper.
Everyone in the pawn shop was immediately shocked by Bai Ze's generosity.
The second shopkeeper immediately bought them all and handed Bai Ze a bag of spiritual stones. Bai Ze handed it over to Xiaoman for counting. The second shopkeeper also gave the two of them dozens of taels of gold and silver as extra money. Bai Ze naturally accepted it.
After leaving the pawn shop, the two of them wandered around the town, buying clothes, spices, salt and other items. They also picked out some hosta earrings for Xiaoman at a jewelry store. It was getting late, so they returned to the inn to rest.
A night of silence. In the early morning of the next day, the two went straight to the gate of Huoshenshan.
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