"Husband, you must be careful! I am waiting for your return in person!"
"Ping'er, relax."
Early the next morning.
After exhorting their wives, Zhong Yan and Li Henian rode out of the city together.
There are few monks in mortal towns, so they exchange a small amount of resources through private transactions.
If you want to buy materials, you have to go to Yangquan Town, eight hundred miles away from Qingyang City.
"When your cultivation level goes up, you still have to change your residence."
With the system panel and the capital to continue practicing, Qingyang City is no longer the best choice.
Otherwise, the journey back and forth is long and accidents may easily occur.
Even if Li Henian didn't mind, Zhong Yan wouldn't bother him every time.
The two of them hurried on, because they did not dare to travel at night because they had more than half of their family fortune. They rested in a village for one night and arrived in front of Fangshi at Shenshi time the next day.
Looking at the arched stone door and the monks going in and out, Zhong Yan felt quite emotional. He didn't expect to arrive at this gathering place of monks so soon.
"The guard has changed. That person is called Mazhida. He is at the eighth level of Qi training and a disciple of the Fire Cloud Sect. He seems to have started at about the same time as you. Do you know me, dear brother?"
In front of the stone house next to the entrance to Fangshi, a middle-aged burly man sat with his eyes lowered and his hands holding a sword on his chest.
Zhong Yan looked over and shook his head slightly.
The Huoyun Sect is a large sect with tens of thousands of people, and there are powerful Jindan people in the sect.
An easy, lucrative sect task such as going to Fangshi to be responsible for security is a treatment that only inner sect disciples can get, and they must have connections within the sect.
Place the horses and pay the money.
The two of them walked away.
"Fellow Taoist Ma!" Li Henian greeted him with his hands raised.
Ma Zhida glanced at him, nodded slightly, and glanced at Zhong Yan who was facing him.
"I've met Senior Brother Ma! Zhong Yan has just settled in Qingyang City. I hope Senior Brother will take care of him in the future. Please accept your kindness."
Zhong Yan smiled and stepped forward to receive the gift and handed him a small cloth bag.
Mazhida took it and pinched it, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes, there were three spiritual stones inside.
It is very common for low-level outer sect disciples with poor qualifications like Zhong Yan to leave the sect and settle down in the mountains. When faced with the current situation, they will offer some gifts and seek "verbal" care.
This is an unwritten rule.
But it's usually a spiritual stone, and often it's just low-level elixirs, talismans, and the like.
After all, most of these disciples are in the early stages of Qi refining and cannot accumulate many resources.
Mazhida turned his palm to collect the gift, and looked at it with a gentle expression.
"It is difficult to advance in cultivation, so it is a wise choice to return to the ordinary world in time."
"That's what senior brother said."
"Remember not to fight and cause trouble in the city, otherwise don't blame me for not remembering our friendship!"
"That's natural. I won't cause any trouble to senior brother, so I won't bother you."
After saying goodbye, Zhong Yan and Li Henian walked into Fangshi.
The main road is more than three feet wide and is paved with bluestone slabs. The neat pavements on both sides extend to the end of the field of vision, with silhouettes of people everywhere.
Although Yangquan Town is small, the daily passenger flow in the city is stable at more than a thousand people. Monks from Qingyang City and surrounding cities and market towns all gather here to buy and sell resources.
The shops here come from the three sects headed by the Fire Cloud Sect, as well as some large and small immortal cultivating families.
The security in Fang City is very high. Few monks dare to cause trouble here. There have been only a handful of deaths since its establishment.
Go a few hundred meters.
Li Henian whispered: "It is said that Ma Zhida is a fellow practitioner of Xianwu. His martial arts realm has reached the late Xiantian stage, and his combat power is comparable to the peak of Qi refining. It has only been half a year since he came on duty again. I guess he has a strong backer in the Fire Cloud Sect. Xian If I have a good relationship with him, I can do a lot of things conveniently..."
Zhong Yan nodded. He practiced martial arts and cultivated immortality. He was about the same age as himself, at least with the qualification of three spiritual roots or above.
The two of them wandered all the way to where the retail merchants were on West Street. There were street stalls on both sides of the street, selling exercises, elixirs, magic weapons, animal skins...
There were people selling everything, and the cries of hawkers kept coming and going. Compared to the main road, it seemed noisy and chaotic.
Finding an empty seat in the corner, Zhong Yan spread out the cloth pad, took out all the talismans, laid them out, and stood up the prepared cardboard.
"Brother, let's sell it first. Brother, go and come back." After staying with him for a while, Li Henian had his own things to do and left first.
"good."
There are a total of forty-four talismans, more than half of which are inferior goods made in the past.
Originally I had to buy the materials and it would be more convenient to recycle them together for everyone in the store.
But the next time he takes action will be a first-level mid-level talisman. It will be safer to wait until he breaks through the fourth level of Qi Refining.
During the time of two sticks of incense, several waves of customers came forward. They saw on the cardboard that they wanted five spiritual stones to be packaged together. After asking, there was no room for negotiation and they retreated.
"Hey, isn't this Junior Brother Zhong! Why did he come to Yangquanfang City?"
Two monks, a man and a woman, wearing Huoyun Sect costumes, came over. The man had a joking look on his face and pretended to be surprised:
"Oh, I heard that you have left the sect and entered the mortal world to enjoy happiness! That's right, you have been at the third level of Qi refining for almost twenty years. It should have been like this a long time ago!"
The sound was quite loud, attracting the surrounding vendors and passers-by to look at it.
This person's name is Chen Lianping. He has a sixth level of Qi training. He also has a sister who acts as a backer in the inner sect. He usually behaves a bit arrogantly among the outer sect disciples.
Just because he had a conflict with another disciple a few years ago, Zhong Yan, who was present at the time, did not stand up to help him, so a rift arose and he would ridicule and ridicule him every time they met.
"Senior Brother Chen taught you a lesson!" Zhong Yan stood up with a smile on his face and held his hands in his hands, "I've met Senior Sister!"
Every time he punched the cotton, Chen Lianping glanced at Zhong Yan, glanced at the talisman on the ground, and squatted down to fiddle with it.
"It's hard to sell such rubbish...the quality of these pictures is so-so."
As he said that, he picked up three talismans that were later refined and asked, "You have no objection?"
"How is that possible? You should respect your senior brother!" Zhong Yan said with a smile on his face.
"You're smart." Chen Lianping sneered and left with the female monk, still saying, "He's covered in rat gall, it really embarrasses the Fire Cloud Sect..."
The casual cultivators around them all looked away, and some shook their heads secretly, not sure whether it was for Chen Lianping or for Zhong Yanming.
Zhong Yan looked calm, as if he was not affected at all.
At this time, Li Henian returned: "My dear brother, how are you doing?"
Zhong Yan shook his head, "It will probably take some time."
"Fellow Daoist Li!" shouted a passing monk who had just taken a look at the excitement.
Li Henian turned his head. It was a familiar Taoist friend who stepped forward to reminisce about old times.
After whispering, Li Henian looked at Zhong Yan after learning what had happened before, with a look of astonishment on his face, and couldn't help but murmur in his heart: It's really the longevity star who hangs himself because he doesn't want to live too long!
Outsiders didn't know it, but he knew Zhong Yan's inner temperament. Even though he was usually smiling and easy to get along with, he was a bold, ruthless and decisive person.
This really pisses me off, no matter if you are on the sixth level of qi training or you still have an inner sister, you can still kill her!
Back then, he had witnessed with his own eyes that Zhong Yan even dared to plot to kill the seventh-level inner sect disciple of Qi Refining with the Foundation Establishment Elder as his backstage.
Back in front of the stall, Li Henian asked carefully.
Zhong Yan shook his head and smiled: "It's a trivial matter, a few talismans, some verbal sarcasm, it's nothing."
In fact, in his heart, Chen Lianping is already a dead person, so don't meet him again next time.
Forget it once or twice. He laughs at me every time, and the clay figurine is also very angry.
You might have tolerated it before, but now that you have a panel and your cultivation level has improved, you can kill him like a dog!
"Hey~" Li Henian chuckled, "I don't think such a stupid person will live for a few more years. I don't think you can be stable in the outer sect of Huoyun Sect for so many years. How can you be an ordinary person."
The iron-clad Huoyun Sect, the flowing water outer disciple.
Either you can improve your realm and enter the inner gate, or you can go out and experience the body and death, and the rest will leave the sect and go down the mountain.
There are really not many outer disciples like Zhong Yan who have stayed there for so long without any accidents.
Until the sun goes down.
Zhong Yan lowered the price to four spiritual stones before packing up and selling all the talismans.
Afterwards, the two of them found a small shop and bought ten materials for medium-grade talismans, and then found an inn to stay in.
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