Late at night, ugly time.
The lights in Taikoo Shing are bright, and the spacious streets are still full of pedestrians.
Teahouses, restaurants, brothels, flower boats... are bustling with lively music.
Zhong Yan released his aura, revealing his true cultivation, and came to a palace. Although it only had three floors, it looked majestic. When he looked up, he saw three gilded characters of 'Ju Bao Que' flying and phoenixes dancing in the air.
In the commercial shop, there were many fewer customers than during the day.
The layout of the Jiang Family's Jubao Palace is very different from other shops. It is not a vertical high-rise building, but a horizontal courtyard. Only the owner of the Holy City can occupy such a large area with every inch of land so luxuriously.
The front yard is a comprehensive hall, and the space is not large. Except for the 'rosary beads', the other goods are 'for display and not for sale'.
Passing through the front yard and going in, it suddenly becomes clear that the circular corridor divides many different portal areas, including exercises, elixirs, magic weapons, formations...
Zhong Yan walked straight towards the arched portal with the 'Formation' sign and followed the long corridor to an open courtyard.
The entire courtyard is illuminated by night beads and formation spotlights as bright as day. Flower beds, pools, rockeries, potted plants, and green plants are all surrounded by aura, and the scenery is breathtakingly beautiful.
Books, jade slips, and various formation materials are all placed in the open air. In some places, there are ready-made formations. At this moment, there are many customers looking at them carefully and talking in low voices. They are all Qi Refining monks.
Zhong Yan looked around and was amazed. The entire courtyard was shrouded in formations, and his handiwork was astonishing.
This is still the first level court, all related to first-order formations.
There is a green brick wall directly in front, covered with vines and grass leaves.
Zhong Yan did not use his spiritual sense to scan casually, but only watched with his naked eyes. When he entered the second courtyard, it was related to the second-order formations. The various formations were divided into categories and were very detailed.
He even saw a customer asking for advice from an old man sitting cross-legged on the rockery platform, and the old man explained it carefully.
"As expected of an ancient immortal family!"
Zhong Yan admired in his heart and wandered all the way. The further inside, the fewer customers there were.
When we arrived at Qizhongyuan, there were only six people in the huge courtyard. Except for one customer, the rest seemed to be members of the Jiang family.
The only customer was a young monk with disheveled hair, squatting in front of a formation, staring intently at the formation patterns on the white jade platform to study.
Zhong Yan had seen this person, named 'Lou Yixun', who had appeared in Floating City and stood next to Dugu Po. He was a monk from Zhongzhou.
He was surprised that the opponent only had the seventh level of golden elixir, but he could actually understand the seventh level formation?
"Hello dear guest, how can I help you?"
A group of green girls stepped forward and greeted her with a smile. Judging from her dress, she must be a maid.
"just looking around."
"Okay, you can do whatever you want. If you need anything, just ask."
After wandering around with a stick of incense, Zhong Yan saw a white jade stand placed alone on the grass. It was also labeled 'Seventh Level Small Five Elements Thick Earth Vajra Defense Array'.
After pondering for a while, he walked to the side of the green group of girls, cupped his hands and said, "May I ask if your store has a ready-made seventh-level semi-finished defense array?"
The girl blinked, a little surprised, and smiled: "Yes, a complete set, eight small sets, a single set covers a horizontal range of twelve miles... The price is 80 million low-grade spiritual stones."
It's two million more expensive than the one from Wuhua Tianbao Trading Company, but the formation effect is better and the coverage area is larger.
The girl continued: "If you need it, I can show you the spot for inspection first. However, this array can only be traded with spiritual stones."
Zhong Yan nodded and asked, "Is there any discount?"
The girl said politely and apologetically: "Sorry, there are no discounts at the moment."
Zhong Yan said: "I have a friend named Jiang Zhiyu. She asked me to come here and said I could get a 30% discount."
The girl was stunned, with a look of astonishment on her face, and turned to look at a girl in a blue dress not far away.
At this moment, except for Lou Yixun, who was concentrating on studying the formation pattern, the remaining five people's eyes were focused on Zhong Yan.
An old man in green clothes with white beard and hair, with a restrained aura and no apparent cultivation, must be the guard of this garden and is sitting by the small lake fishing.
A young man in a gray shirt is on the seventh floor of the foundation building. He is holding a white towel and is wiping the white jade formation platform on the ground. He should be a handyman like a boy.
A middle-aged man in black robe, on the second floor of Yuanying, who should be the shopkeeper here, is sitting in front of the desk, twisting his beard and looking through the account books.
Plus a maid in a green dress.
The four of them looked at the girl in the blue dress in unison, with strange expressions on their faces.
And the girl in blue skirt who was sitting at the stone table and reading a book was also in a daze, looking up suspiciously.
Zhong Yan immediately realized something was wrong and looked at the girl in the blue dress.
I saw her long hair with tassels hanging down her shoulders, and her proud figure. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pretty oval face, no makeup, skin like cream, picturesque eyebrows, bright eyes, white teeth, and a stocking between the eyebrows. The natural playful temperament is very beautiful and pleasant.
Probably because he was used to seeing beauties like Yuan Ziyi and Yun Qianxun, he had become immune. Among the many female cultivators Zhong Yan had seen since going out to sea and arriving in the Holy City, apart from Jiang Linglong, this girl in blue skirt was the prettiest.
For a moment, the girl in blue skirt closed the book, stood up and walked over, her beautiful eyes blinked and she looked up and down, her red lips parted lightly and her voice was sweet: "I am Jiang Zhiyu, do we know each other?"
"..." The corner of Zhong Yan's mouth twitched, how could it be possible? The person in front of him was Jiang Zhiyu, so who was the person he met before?
It doesn't make sense. The girl who owns the 'Qinghong Tower' has no reason to trick herself like this.
During the trip, they had many conversations, and he concluded that the girl was an important member of the Jiang family.
With a flash of eyes, the girl in the blue dress seemed to have thought of something. She smiled, revealing two delicate and cute dimples: "It's you, look at my memory!"
She glanced at the other four people, covered her mouth and smiled at Zhong Yan: "You look...well, not so conspicuous. I didn't recognize you for a moment. Sorry, let's go inside to talk."
Zhong Yan was a little dazed, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he followed the girl to the door to the next courtyard.
The remaining four people looked at each other without saying a word and continued their work.
the other side.
The two went to an attic in the eighth courtyard, and the girl closed the door and cast the forbidden spell.
Zhong Yan asked: "Are you Jiang Zhiyu?"
The corners of the girl's mouth turned up in a charming arc, and the two dimples were really cute. She blinked and asked, "What do you think? You are so brave, you dare to pretend to be my friend!"
Following all the way here, Zhong Yan already had a rough idea of the outline of the matter and said with a smile: "Impersonation? Didn't you just admit it and bring me here?"
Jiang Zhiyu circled him and examined him, "Tell me, what's going on?"
Zhong Yan told the story of meeting the girl who claimed to be 'Jiang Zhiyu' in Mingjiang.
The Palace of Eternal Life, the ambush, the pursuit, the Jiang family... The girl's eyes flickered when she heard this, she looked at him and asked: "Are you really the fourth level of the Golden Core?"
Zhong Yan nodded.
Jiang Zhiyu somewhat understood why his sister would attract people to him.
Zhong Yan asked: "Who is that girl to you, older sister or younger sister?"
Although their appearance is completely different, their demeanor and behavior are very similar, especially their two dimples and their natural playful temperament.
Jiang Zhiyu raised his beautiful eyebrows, raised his pink fist, and said in a warning tone: "Don't tell anyone about this, not anyone, otherwise, huh~"
Such a threat has no deterrent effect. Instead, it makes people feel cute and happy.
Zhong Yan secretly laughed. These two people are not very old in actual age, but they have reached the fourth level of Jindan. The girl with the Qinghong Pagoda can fight beyond the fifth level. She must be a core member of the Jiang family, and most likely she was killed by Jiang. The monster hidden in the snow.
Jiang Zhiyu: "I forgot to ask you, what is your name and which family or sect you are from?"
Zhong Yan hesitated and said, "Zhong Aotian."
"Are you Zhong Aotian? Yang Yan single-handedly suppresses the arrogant Zhong Aotian?"
"Someone else spread it nonsense."
Jiang Zhiyu's big eyes rolled around, flashing with cunning, and he said seriously: "I, the Jiang family, are true to their word. I can give you a 30% discount. Just wait."
After saying that, she walked towards a stone door on the left front, opened it and entered.
Zhong Yan looked around, waved his hand to set up an isolation barrier, and took out the signaling bell to contact Pang Baodu.
"What's wrong, dear brother? Have you left the Holy City?"
"Not yet, let me ask you about someone. Did you know that there is a member of the Jiang family named Jiang Zhiyu?"
"I know that Jiang Haochen's aunt is Jiang Haochen's aunt. She has appeared in the public eye in recent years and has been staying in the seventh level of Jubao Palace. Her identity should not be simple. When I saw Jiang Xinghai, she was very polite to her..."
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