There are a total of twenty-eight main streets in Qingyang Chengnan District, and the main streets are connected to countless small streets and alleys extending in all directions.
The area is second only to the East District where the City Lord's Mansion is located, covering more than one million acres!
To put it more bluntly, it is almost equivalent to one-tenth of the Guangdong Province of the Earth in Zhong Yan’s previous life.
The entire Qingyang City has a population of less than one million. Looking at it this way, the population area seems extremely empty.
The reason is that there are many large mansions occupying tens, hundreds or even thousands of acres in the city.
Especially the South Side.
Many of these large houses have very few people living there.
For example, the Zhong Mansion, including Li Shangwen who lives there, has a total of nineteen people, but it occupies more than 140 acres in two courtyards. Even so, it is still relatively small.
Some casual cultivators live alone in a courtyard with one or two servants and maids.
There are still many empty courtyards.
And if you go to the West District, which is known as the "slums", you will see densely packed houses. There are people everywhere at a glance. Beggars and homeless people can be seen everywhere.
The gap between rich and poor is huge.
This was also the reason why Zhong Yan went down to Fancheng in the first place. Even if he was on the third level of Qi Refining, he was still a millionaire superior to others.
And if he goes to the "fairy city" where monks gather, he will be a "poor" at the bottom, and it is difficult to rent a single room.
However, the Immortal City is built on spiritual veins. Normally, there is no need for a formation practice room, and the monks have enough spiritual energy to practice, which is not comparable to the mortal city.
Back to business.
Zhong Yan knocked on the door of this small private courtyard, which was only more than a hundred square meters. After waiting for a long time, a slightly deep female voice sounded from the opposite side.
"who?"
"Zhong Yan."
The other side was obviously stunned for a moment, and then opened the corner door, revealing a surprised face.
There were no lamps in the yard, only wisps of faint moonlight shone down, and one could vaguely see the bright eyes on a pretty face shining with vigilance.
Zhong Yan dispelled the effect of the invisibility charm, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Zhong Yan took the liberty of visiting late at night. I hope fellow Taoist Yu won't be surprised."
Yu Qingyao looked at his face and seemed not to let anyone in, "What does Zhong Daoyou want from me?"
"Fellow Daoist Yu, aren't you going to invite me in for a cup of tea?"
A kind smile appeared at the corner of Zhong Yan's mouth, and he suddenly thought of the ambiguous scenes in movies and TV shows in his previous life, such as "go sit up and have a seat" and "drink a glass of red wine".
Mainly because the other party is a widow living alone.
In addition, he did come with this purpose.
Yu Qingyao pursed her lips and hesitated for a while, then stepped aside and said, "Friend Zhong Dao, please come in."
Entering the main hall, turn to the side room.
Even with the lights on, the entire courtyard was still shrouded in darkness.
"Friend Zhong Dao, sit down for a moment." Yu Qingyao said and left.
Zhong Yan looked around at the environment inside the house. Compared to his own home, this place looked much drab. There were not many decorations. It didn't require any spiritual exploration to know that there were not even any servants.
It didn't take long.
Yu Qingyao returned, changed into a formal blue dress, and combed her hair slightly.
A plate of spiritual fruits and a stack of nuts were placed on the table. They were the cheapest ones in the market.
Boil water and make tea.
Yu Qingyao moved skillfully, and her brows were filled with thoughts in the silence. Although she guessed the purpose of Zhong Yan's coming, she couldn't figure out why she was looking for someone with whom she had no friendship.
Not long after.
Yu Qingyao put the tea cup in front of Zhong Yan and smiled for the first time, but it was a bit embarrassing, "I can only invite fellow Taoist to have a cup of tea."
"Thank you."
Zhong Yan took a sip, it was just ordinary tea leaves.
This is the normal state of most casual cultivators, even if the other party is a sixth-level Qi Refining cultivator.
The spiritual stones earned are basically used to buy elixirs for cultivation. How can there be so much extra money to waste on ordinary spiritual tea, spiritual wine, and spiritual fruits that are not so effective.
There are still a few people like Zhong Yan, Li Henian, and Bai Siyuan who risk their lives to engage in side jobs.
If he hadn't triggered the system to become a Talisman Master, Zhong Yan would have been confident that he was better than the other party, but not much better. Even if he had money, he would have to save up to buy resources. How could he get a gold-selling cave like a brothel?
He still remembered the first time he went to the Qinghu Villa to attend a Lantern Festival party, and he shamelessly drank no less than three jars of spiritual wine.
"Friend Dao Zhong came here because of Xue Mansion's affairs?"
Yu Qingyao opened her mouth and continued without waiting for an answer: "I can't help you with this matter. I still plan to stay in Qingyang City for a long time."
Zhong Yan smiled and asked, "Don't you want to listen to the conditions?"
Yu Qingyao stared at him and shook her head. If Zhong Yan hadn't been a talisman master and had many friends in the city, and she wouldn't be allowed in, how could she have taken the initiative to cause Xue Shanhu that big trouble.
Zhong Yan nodded, picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, and said arrogantly: "That Xue Laohu is just a clown in Zhong's eyes. Killing him is no different from crushing a bed bug."
Yu Qingyao's face was expressionless, "Then you still come to me?"
Zhong Yan looked at her and said: "To deal with Xue Shanhu, I didn't look for anyone else in the city. I can do what I want you to do myself. The reason why I looked for you is to ask you to consider joining the Zhong Mansion."
This is the truth. He originally planned to find out the background of Guo Qingxue and Xue Hongyi by himself, but he decided to find Yu Qingyao after visiting Yang Mansion.
"Into your Zhong Mansion? A guest at your home?"
Yu Qingyao was startled and asked a few questions. Then she blinked and thought that Bai Siyuan might have said something. Her pretty face turned red immediately and she immediately released her consciousness to explore the situation around her yard. She was afraid that Zhong Yan would bring helpers, so she sneered: "Marry with You? Just because of your handsome face? "
She felt that she had been teased and insulted, and she really spoke loudly. It was nothing more than bullying that she was alone and had no backer, and she wanted to draw him into trouble and deal with Xue Shanhu together!
Fortunately, there was nothing unusual around the yard. I thought Zhong Yan wouldn't be tough. She was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, so she wasn't afraid.
Zhong Yan picked up the teapot and poured tea by herself, feeling amused in her heart, feeling that her stern and soft look was a bit cute.
The two had only met a few times in public and were just acquaintances.
But since he wanted to take him into the house, Zhong Yan naturally had to go deeper and find out.
He spent eight spiritual stones to buy a thick stack of her information from Yang Yanqing.
Because of this, he changed his plan and came to visit.
Yu Qingyao, a native of Haiyan City in the Yan State, has three spiritual roots of water, wood, and earth. She worshiped the Danxia Sect at the age of eleven and began to practice. At the age of nineteen, the Danxia Sect was destroyed and annexed by the Five Elements Sect, and she became a casual cultivator...
At the age of twenty-four, he left the casual cultivator team and became a Taoist companion with one of his teammates at the same level. They moved into Qingyang City together. The following year, the two of them went out for escort and were robbed. The Taoist companion fell and returned alone...
Now twenty-nine years old, he is at the sixth level of Qi refining.
She usually lives alone, and her presence among the monks in Qingyang City is relatively low.
He is very timid, and has only been to Yangquanfang City three times in the four years he has lived alone in Qingyang City, not once a year, and each time he has to go with more than three other monks in the city.
Yang Yanqing extended an olive branch to her several times and invited her to do less dangerous business together, but she refused.
At present, he still earns spiritual stones by transporting elixirs, rice and other materials, but he only participates in transporting goods with a group of monks, which can be said to be extremely cautious.
Occasionally joining the Xiuxian family's demon hunting team or herb gathering team are also extremely safe tasks with little gain.
Therefore, even though she has good qualifications, she broke through from the peak of the fifth level of Qi Refining to the sixth level of Qi Refining three years ago. Now she is still at the early stage of the sixth level, with little progress.
If she hadn't been in Qingyang City, where she had reached the sixth level of Qi Refining and belonged to the ranks of 'masters', she would have been living in another place long ago.
Especially after seeing her early experience as a casual cultivator, Zhong Yan was speechless.
Generally speaking, unless they have poor qualifications or are forced to become casual cultivators due to various factors, the vast majority of those who take the initiative to become casual cultivators are ruthless people who dare to take risks and have strong survival ability.
This woman can be summed up in eight words - 'as timid as a mouse' and 'the king of dogs'.
That kind of people.
Even if it's two levels higher.
Zhong Yan was facing it alone, and he was confident that he would eat her to death. Just throwing a few second-level talismans into the storage bag would probably make her scream.
"How much is the rent for your yard?"
Zhong Yan calmly asked with a smile, not caring at all about the consciousness she released.
Yu Qingyao said coldly, "Two yuan a year."
"Not a lot."
Two low-grade spiritual stones a year, plus the daily consumption of supporting the operation of the formation, it is estimated that her income is barely enough, and she cannot save any money to buy elixirs.
Yu Qingyao stood up and chased away the guests: "If Zhong Daoyou has nothing else to do, I'm going to rest!"
Zhong Yan remained unmoved and said with a smile: "To answer your previous question, I can help you build the foundation."
Yu Qingyao pretended again, with a sarcastic smile on her lips, "Do you think I am ignorant and don't know the approximate income of a first-level high-grade Talisman Master? Think about your own foundation building first!"
Zhong Yan didn't waste any time. With a wave of his hand, three storage bags appeared on the table. They came from three bandits and he hadn't had time to sort them out.
Yu Qingyao glanced with his consciousness, his face changed slightly, there were a few pills, a few talismans, a few materials, a total of more than ten pieces of spiritual stones, but the six magic weapons were valuable.
Before she could figure out a lot of questions in her mind.
Zhong Yan waved his hand again, and a dagger with a cold light was inserted on the table.
Yu Qingyao looked around, her consciousness swept away, and she exclaimed: "Third-level magic weapon?!"
Generally, few monks in the late stage of Qi refining can use third-level magic weapons.
Zhong Yan originally planned to enter the city of Fan to buy this dirty thing, looking for an opportunity to buy a wife with spiritual roots. Now that there is no shortage of spiritual stones, he threw it in the storage bag to eat dust.
Yu Qingyao was shocked in her heart and looked at Zhong Yanhe with eyes full of disbelief. She had already guessed that these things were stolen. The three storage bags were the evidence. Who would hang so many storage bags on their waists to attract attention?
But she couldn't understand how Zhong Yan, who was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, could obtain a third-level magic weapon. It was completely beyond her comprehension.
Looking at her expression and seeing the description of her in the information, Zhong Yan wanted to laugh out loud, but calmly waved her hand again.
Wow~
Two thousand spiritual stones were piled on the ground, sparkling and filled with spiritual energy.
"..." Yu Qingyao's pupils shrank, her breathing became rapid, and her head was hit dizzy by these three waves of hands.
For the first time, an idea came to her mind - kill him and fly away!
As soon as this idea came to her mind, she was startled. She unconsciously clenched her right hand into a fist, her palm began to sweat, and her expression changed uncertainly.
Unconsciously, he started to retreat.
Zhong Yan saw her reaction clearly, and the gentle smile on his face suddenly turned into a sneer: "If you take action, I can still give you a high look."
Sure enough, Yu Qingyao thought, seeing that Zhong Yan was so calm and composed, he must not be worried about her evil intentions, and was afraid that she would be killed as soon as she made a move. For a moment, her mind was in a mess, "He has hidden his cultivation", "There is something secretly there" Master's guesses come one after another.
"how?"
"This is just the tip of the iceberg for Zhong."
Yu Qingyao swallowed, took a breath and said, "If I marry you, will all of this belong to me?"
Zhong Yan was amused, "You look average, but you think beautifully!"
Yu Qingyao was embarrassed and her pretty face turned red and white. Is she still average-looking?
"Since you despise me, why do you want me to marry you?"
Of course it is for dual cultivation... Zhong Yan said: "Because you are the only female cultivator in Qingyang City with a simple background."
"Just because I'm easy to bully!" His tone was obviously much weaker.
Zhong Yan waved his hand, put everything away, took out another stack of papers and placed it on the table, and placed a stack of talismans on top.
"These are information from Xue Mansion, mainly about Guo Qingxue. You decide whether to do it or not. Once done, I will consider letting you into Zhong Mansion."
The situation is reversed.
Mainly anti-customer.
Yu Qingyao's eyes widened with a look of astonishment on her face, "Oh my god, you came here to beg me to be a Taoist companion and ask me to do something, but in the blink of an eye, you only considered allowing me to enter after the things were done?" ! !
Immediately, she bit her lip, a trace of grievance flashed in her eyes, and she forced herself to calm down and said coldly: "You threaten me?!"
Having exposed so much property, if she didn't do it, she was afraid that she would become a corpse tomorrow, and she had no doubt in her heart that Zhong Yan dared to do it and could do it.
"Do you think anyone is qualified to follow me?"
Zhong Yan sneered and walked towards her.
"Don't come here!"
Yu Qingyao looked panicked. She took out the sword from her storage bag and held it tightly in her hand. She kept glancing outside with her consciousness while retreating step by step.
Seeing Zhong Yan pressing closer and closer, she did not have the courage to take action. Instead, the pointed sword slowly dropped down, and finally her back was leaning against the beam, her eyes gleaming.
Zhong Yan stood still, raised his hand and slowly stretched out towards that pretty face.
Yu Qingyao watched the 'Devil's Claw' getting closer and closer, unable to hide, so she had to turn her face away slightly.
Zhong Yan pinched her chin, moved it straight, and looked at her. She was pretty, with red lips and white teeth like a girl.
He lowered his head and leaned forward, squinting his eyes and sniffing with enjoyment, and said with a smile: "If I threaten you, I will make you take off your clothes now, and Yu Zhong will step on me!"
As close as Chi Chi, a man's breath hit his face.
Yu Qingyao's heart was pounding, she bit her lip tightly, her face was full of shame and anger, and tears were flowing down from the corners of her eyes.
Zhong Yan let go, stared at her and said seriously: "Think about it, this may be an opportunity for you. With your courage, I don't dare to say nonsense. If you escape from the city, I won't hold you accountable. If you do, tonight will be a If you have the opportunity, you should be rewarded.”
After saying that, Zhong Yan turned around and walked out.
When he got to the courtyard, he turned around and smiled again: "By the way, being timid is not necessarily a bad thing. Fortunately, you didn't act impulsively, otherwise Zhong would have really been cruel and cruel."
When it comes, don't forget to scare her.
In fact, although he was not afraid of Yu Qingyao, he could only rely on a large number of second-level talismans to protect himself without the assistance of external forces. How could he possibly kill the opponent.
The reason why he dared to do this was because he had a complete grasp of her temper based on the information he bought with the eight spiritual stones.
Out of the yard.
Zhong Yan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this is the absolute advantage brought by experience, experience, character and information.
Monks like Yu Qingyao die the fastest when they encounter complicated and dangerous situations.
The only way to live a long time is to stay alive.
In this regard, she is self-aware and does a good job.
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