The City God's Temple is in the south of the city, and the City Lord's Palace is in the north.
Huyue still did not have the ability to move people around the Shou Wu City for the time being, so Li Daoxuan had to ask him to notify Zhu Ye in advance to receive him.
When he came back unhurriedly, Zhu Ye had already had tea with the wizard for three times with his sharp tongue.
Moreover, the sorcerer who came was the same messenger Li Daoxuan saw last time.
If I remember correctly, his name is "Chi Hu".
Before he could even enter the house, Li Daoxuan raised his hand and said with an apologetic smile: "I heard that the river mother in the Yaoying River made some noise. It scared me so much that I couldn't sleep all night."
"Brother Chi has really been kept waiting for a long time."
Chi Hu, who had been waiting for a long time and was a little upset, heard the news, and his resentment dissipated instantly.
He also stood up in a hurry, "I have met City Lord Li... Now, I heard the predictions in Shenwu City say that the river mother will not recover until at least two tides have passed. How is this possible?"
Sure enough...it was pretty much what I predicted.
Li Daoxuan understood in his heart, shook his head and said: "Maybe because the second tide is approaching, the river mother may have noticed some movement."
"By the way, Brother Chi came here this time, but what news did you get?"
"Exactly."
Chi Hu said as he took out a piece of parchment from his arms and held it up with both hands, "This time, the Lord of the City is sending a message. Please be sure to arrive on time, Lord of the City."
The moment he saw the parchment, Li Daoxuan's heart moved because he had just seen this thing yesterday.
In order to show respect for the Lord of Shenwu City, Li Daoxuan took it with both hands and opened it smoothly.
The text inside is also written with cinnabar that looks like blood vessels.
The writing will move.
There is also "Qiu Wuming" written in the lower right corner of the parchment.
"December 15th, Huangjia Town."
Li Daoxuan just wanted to ask where Huangjia Town was. After all, this name was common.
But then Chi Hu handed over a map of Shenwu City. Li Daoxuan glanced at it and found that a place was highlighted in red.
Huangjia Town.
It is located between "Wind Cave City" and "Ghost Cave City", which is the northwest corner of Shenwu City.
The Hand Witch City where Li Daoxuan is located is in the southwest corner of Shenwu City.
Fang Jie also came over to take a look and said, "It's December 15th, so there are only five days left? If we go here, we are fully prepared to leave tomorrow at the latest."
Chi Hu did not answer the question, but just clasped his fists and said: "The news has been delivered. I have to return to Shenwu City to follow the order, so I won't disturb City Lord Li."
Li Daoxuan nodded slightly, glanced at Zhu Ye again, and said, "Send Brother Chi off for me."
"yes."
Zhu Ye followed him wisely.
As soon as the two left, Li Daoxuan came to the main seat and sat down. Zhou Xu heard that he was back and rushed over from the backyard.
"Brother Li, this is a bit urgent."
"No rush, let's wait until Zhu Ye comes back and see if he can ask anything."
Li Daoxuan tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers, and he also discovered that he seemed to have contracted this problem since meeting the monsters.
After sitting down, I would think about knocking when I had nothing to do.
But it can't produce the same effect as the monsters.
Within a moment, Zhu Ye, who had gone to see someone off, returned in a hurry, with a hint of caution on his face.
"City Lord, there is indeed something wrong."
Zhu Yeren had already started talking before he sat down.
"Before, before you, the city lord, came back, I asked a lot of tentative questions, but Chi Hu was unwilling to reveal anything."
"It wasn't until I followed him and gave him some incense money that he spoke."
"He said that the time and place set by the Divine Witch City were not the current one. This matter... seems to have been a spur of the moment decision."
"On the spur of the moment?" Fang Jie repeated.
"Yes, that's what Chi Hu said. He said that the originally scheduled time was to be four or five days later in the evening, and the location was not there, but a place between Ghost Cave City and Baozang City. It seemed to be called something. Moon Mountain.”
"But I don't know why it suddenly changed to Huangjia Town."
Li Daoxuan nodded, "What he, the wizard, doesn't know, it's even harder for outsiders like us to find out clearly."
"Anyway, the soldiers will come to cover up the water and earth. If everyone goes, we will go too."
Fang Jie and Zhou Xu both thought so and nodded.
Zhu Ye continued: "Don't worry, City Lord. If there is really any movement in Huangjia Town... there will be news in Shenwu City very soon. We will know more or less about it when we set out tomorrow morning at the latest. .”
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
I have to say that the decision to accept Zhu Ye was so correct.
At least it saved Li Daoxuan a lot of trouble.
"By the way, Zhu Ye, have you prepared the foundation of the second tide...your own share."
Zhu Ye folded his sleeves with his hands and had a sincere smile on his face.
It feels like you have worked hard for a long time and finally let your boss see your efforts.
"Reporting to the city lord, I have taken two [Stealer] foundations so far, and the third one is already ready. Everything is just waiting for the arrival of the second tide."
Zhu Ye talked eloquently and continued: "Our Zhu family also has the etiquette for promoting a seventh-rate [thief] to a sixth-rate [time demon]. I have prepared it for you, City Lord, but this foundation is really scarce... Attributes The next step is not ready."
"You don't have to worry about that."
Li Daoxuan smiled and said: "We can solve the foundation problem ourselves, as long as you can prepare the etiquette."
After speaking, he looked at Zhou Xu and Fang Jie again.
"You should also have the etiquette of the [Hand Blowing Witch] sequence and the [Prostitute] sequence, right?"
Although both Zhou Xu and Fang Jie were still eighth-rate grain eaters, Li Daoxuan thought to see if he could take advantage of the second tide to push them both into sixth-rate grain eaters.
Zhu Ye was a little surprised, then nodded, "Yes, it turns out that the Gu family is the [Prostitute] sequence, and the Zheng family and the Chen family are both the [Blowing Hand Witch] sequence."
"So we don't lack all the etiquette required to advance from the seventh level to the sixth level."
"That's good."
While speaking, Li Daoxuan seemed to feel something, and then he nodded and looked to the right.
But between breaths, black mist overflowed from the void, followed by a black door.
The old breath emerged and the black door opened.
Tian Cai, wearing a brand new black and gold robe, appeared behind the door. His figure was no longer as short and stocky as before. Although he still didn't have the figure of Li Daoxuan and Fang Jie, he at least looked like a normal person.
But what ruined his image was still the big iron stove he carried on his back.
After being promoted from a new believer to a formal disciple, his big iron stove was restored.
"Hey, isn't this our Mr. Tian? What kind of wind has brought you here?" Li Daoxuan sat in his original position without moving, and just said with a smile.
Tian Cai had just finished enjoying the praise of those former colleagues who had become his current subordinates, and Tian Cai had not yet recovered mentally.
At this moment, being awakened by Li Daoxuan, Tian Cai's face immediately lost the arrogant expression, and his smile became very gentle.
"What are you talking about Daoxuan?"
Tian Cai walked out laughing.
Fang Jie crossed his legs at the side and said, "Brother Tian, you are in high spirits during happy events."
"That's all thanks to you."
After some polite greetings, Tian Cai naturally walked to the empty seat next to Zhu Ye and sat down.
This attracted some compliments from Zhu Ye again.
"Daoxuan, I have sold all the foundations you deposited with me, and I have prepared everything you each want."
Tian Cai did not say where he got it from or what he paid for it.
Li Daoxuan didn't ask, and just let Fang Jie take over the mermaid bone boxes from Tian Cai.
Li Daoxuan had the smallest one in his hand. When he opened it, it only contained three [Stealer] foundations.
Although he has already taken one, it is safer to have an extra one.
The mermaid bone boxes held by Zhou Xu and Fang Jie were much larger. In addition to the foundation for their promotion from the eighth to the seventh stream, they also contained the foundation for their promotion from the seventh to the sixth stream. Li Daoxuan also trusted them. Tian Cai prepared everything for them.
Whether they can take advantage of this second tide to soar into the sky depends on their own luck.
Anyway, everything Li Daoxuan can do has been done.
"Excuse me, Brother Tian."
"Don't dare." Tian Cai continued: "In addition to replacing these foundations with four six-level grain eaters, there are still eight merits left."
"According to what you said, Daoxuan, what you harvested from Quyang's place, if converted into successful virtues, there are thirty-seven in total."
"Together, there are fifty merits in total, and they are all here."
Tian Cai smiled and handed over a bulging purse.
Zhu Ye, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but be a little shocked.
He didn't expect that Li Daoxuan and the others would gain such a big harvest just by going out like this. In comparison, the Gu family that he had guarded for decades seemed to be nothing.
Li Daoxuan took it casually and put it in his hand. He thought that he now had 107 merits in total.
He believed that even if it were placed in Shenwu City, it would be considered a huge sum of money.
"Fang Jie, take 20 merits and give them to Zhu Ye."
Li Daoxuan began to issue orders.
"okay."
Fang Jie didn't ask any questions, just took out a spare purse and started loading it.
"Lord City Lord, this..."
Zhu Ye, who was still watching the excitement, stood up immediately, feeling quite restless.
In fact, it was indeed the case. The entire Zhu family only had twenty or thirty merits, and now Li Daoxuan actually directly gave him so many at once.
"To maintain the expenses and operations of Hand Witch City, plus the transactions with other cities, the costs and other things are naturally indispensable."
"I can rest assured that I can leave these matters to you. I hope you will not betray my trust in you."
When Li Daoxuan sends people to do things, he always trusts people and doesn't use them, but employs people without trusting them.
"Don't worry, City Lord, before the second tide, I will definitely let our Witch City have a profit balance!" Zhu Ye still has this confidence.
"Um."
Li Dao
"You figure it out. If it's not enough, don't tell us."
Zhou Xu didn't react at all, but Tian Cai's eyes widened.
I had to dig out my heart and lungs to come up with fifty merits, but what about Li Daoxuan?
He took out seventy-seven merits with his backhand, just took them out, and gave them directly to Zhou Xu? ?
What the hell is the relationship between the two of them?
Tian Cai couldn't tell the priorities for a while.
Zhou Xu looked at the purse on the table and was a little surprised. She thought that Li Daoxuan would not mention merit until she and Tian Cai reached an agreement.
But never thought that Li Daoxuan would directly give all these merits to himself before even writing these eight characters?
"Aren't you afraid that I will run away after taking advantage of these merits?"
Zhou Xu didn't rush to get it, but asked first.
Li Daoxuan raised his head and looked into Zhou Xu's eyes. He looked straight at it. After a while, he said softly:
"I believe in you, just like you chose to believe in me in the first place."
Zhou Xu's originally clear eyes suddenly showed a trace of ripples, and a certain string seemed to be plucked in her heart.
She quickly lowered her head and took away the merits on the table.
"Come here, let's talk alone."
Zhou Xu said this to Tian Cai.
The latter was a little unresponsive, but when Li Daoxuan nodded, he followed Zhou Xu to the living room next door.
Li Daoxuan didn't know why Zhou Xu did this, but she certainly had her reasons for doing so.
It's long past tea time.
The two people who went to discuss next door came back.
And compared with when he left, Tian Cai seemed more solemn.
If his respect for Li Daoxuan before was simply due to the strength of Li Daoxuan and Bai Jun, then now there is another one.
That was Zhou Xu's insight.
Because a lot of what Zhou Xu just told him was the first time he had heard it, and he was still confused.
But when he wrote it down, when Zhou Xu finished speaking, and when he connected everything together... then he understood.
Just the things Zhou Xu told him were probably worth dozens of merits.
There are even things that I can buy if I have money but no land.
Because it involves a big secret in the secular world - the restriction of the secular world.
"It's agreed. When we come back from Huangjia Town and everything is in place, we can start." Zhou Xu returned to sit next to Li Daoxuan with an indifferent expression.
"That's fine."
Immediately, Tian Cai, who had completed the transfer of merits, returned to Hetou Valley through the Black Gate.
Zhu Ye was also busy inquiring about Huangjia Town. The few people dispersed, and Li Daoxuan and the others were left in the city lord's mansion.
"No matter whether Zhu Ye can collect any information, we have to leave early tomorrow morning at the latest."
"So when you go back and prepare something, you should prepare well."
Li Daoxuan said and then pondered: "Well... I have a hunch that there will be nothing good if the Shenwu City temporarily changes their mind and lets us go to Huangjia Town."
"I feel the same way..."
After Fang Jie finished speaking, he looked up at Bai Jun.
This was his premonition as a winter and spring official, so he wanted to find the answer from the previous winter and spring official.
Bai Jun also nodded, with a rare hint of caution in his eyes.
"It may indeed be a bit dangerous...but as long as I'm here, master, don't worry, everything will be fine."
Speaking of the rest, Bai Jun returned to her original relaxed look, as if all this was not a big deal in front of her.
Listening to her tone, Zhou Xu felt a little uncomfortable for no reason, but she didn't show it, she just stood up and said:
"I'm going back to prepare."
"I'll go find some food and bring it with me, otherwise I'll be hungry for several days." After Fang Jie finished speaking, he rubbed his stomach and left wisely.
"Master, Zhou Xu seemed a little jealous just now."
Seeing that there was no one around, Bai Jun whispered in Li Daoxuan's ear.
"Jealous? Why is she jealous? Don't think so much about it."
"oh."
Bai Jun nodded, glanced at the door, and said: "Master, it seems there is no one outside, then I... um... we..."
…
The next morning.
Zhu Ye had already arrived in the lobby early to wait.
Li Daoxuan, who was refreshed and seemed to be fine... arrived late, and Bai Jun was still following him.
"City Lord, there is news from Huangjia Town." (End of Chapter)
