The sky in the Western Region is always dark red.
The closer we get to the West Extreme Sword Territory, the darker the color becomes. There are no spots of people along the way, but only vegetation that has been corroded by the scarlet aura and become abnormally twisted. It makes people feel depressed.
Seeing that his whereabouts were not afraid of being leaked, Lu Zhong simply hurried on at full speed.
With the escape speed of the Danjie monk, he can fly more than a thousand miles in an hour.
But in order to be prepared for possible threats along the way and to neutralize the influence of the scarlet aura, he would land on the ground every other hour, taking pills to restore his breath and regulate his breath, while also recovering from mental exertion.
It flies and stops all the way, and occasionally changes direction.
The further west you go, the higher the concentration of scarlet spiritual energy.
According to this upward trend, he couldn't imagine what the situation in the West Ji Sword Territory ninety thousand miles away would be like now.
half year later.
Lu Zhong successfully set foot in the West Extreme Sword Territory.
The concentration of the scarlet aura here was obviously higher than that of the Ye Ling Territory and Zuluo Territory he had visited before. Fortunately, the Purple Nether Fire could still hold on and could barely remove the influence of the scarlet aura.
Recalling the previous map of the Western Territory, there was a city in front of it.
"I wonder if it has been abandoned?"
He flew until the sky darkened and arrived at Fangshi on the map.
Looking at the lights of the city in the fissured canyon ahead, Lu Zhong thought that he finally had good news. There were either twisted vegetation or monsters that had mutated so much that they were unrecognizable. As for the skeletons of the creatures who died due to the changes in the world, That's too many to count.
In some places, it is simply a sea of bones.
After gathering his breath and disappearing, Lu Zhong put on the clothes of a Western monk and entered this city.
"Ningyunfang"
This is the name of this city.
This shop is not big, but it has everything you need.
The street extends along the canyon, with various shops on both sides connected one after another. However, most of them have closed down, or are on the verge of bankruptcy. Many of them are reluctant to even hire Zhike clerks, and the shopkeepers themselves take care of the customers.
Only those shops that sell elixirs, spiritual rice and other scarce resources, or places like restaurants and pubs, can see monks coming in and out from time to time.
The air in Fang City is pure, and the concentration of scarlet aura is as high as the sky compared to the outside.
Obviously, it is all the result of the spirit-suppressing formation in Fangshi.
Lu Zhong planned to sell the goods in Ningyunfang, and then decide whether to purchase a batch of local specialties based on the specific situation and take them back to Nanman to sell them for profit, so that he could make twice as much money in one trip.
Without rushing to the buying house, he first inquired about the prices in the shop. .
The prices of most items are not much different from those in the Yeling Domain and the Zhiluo Domain, with only a slight increase. The really expensive ones are those materials that are strictly controlled and embargoed by the Zhenyang Sect, such as various healing elixirs and maintenance of magical instruments. The prices of needed spiritual oils, etc. have increased to varying degrees.
On the contrary, the price of various spiritual mineral materials is only less than a quarter of that in the Southern Territory.
"Shopkeeper, how do you sell this third-level star iron stone?" Lu Zhong asked, pointing to a stone full of light spots.
Refining the star iron stone into the star mirror can effectively increase the power of the star gathering technique. It can be regarded as improving one's own strength in disguise, so he fell in love with it as soon as he saw it.
"Only exchange it, not sell it. Fellow Taoist, you should know the value of this thing. It can be exchanged for a family heirloom that was worth a thousand pieces of gold in the past. The base exchange price is ten thousand kilograms of pure spiritual rice. If you, fellow Taoist, can exchange it for other things that you like, that's fine." Okay." The shop owner stated his conditions.
Ten thousand kilograms of spiritual rice?
After hearing this, Lu Zhong felt that it was really cheap.
If it were in the Southern Barbarians, it would cost at least fifty or sixty thousand spiritual stones.
But here in the Western Region, if he took out Chen Mi, the other party would definitely agree.
"What about this Soul Wind Crystal?"
Soul Wind Crystal is also a good thing. It is a must for refining the floating magic circle. The larger the size, the greater the buoyancy it provides. One of the reasons why the Nanman people cannot build a mountain-shaking boat is that they cannot find a suitable Soul Wind Crystal. Feng Jing.
This item is only produced in the West Extreme Sword Region.
The one in front of me is as big as a human head, enough to lift a mini version of the mountain-shaking boat into the sky.
"This thing is precious. It used to be a treasure in the treasury of a large sect. It must be exchanged for third-level and above healing elixirs, or a hundred kilograms of soul evil spirit dust."
Another word he had never heard before, Lu Zhong remembered it in his heart.
"Is there any star stone in the store?"
"I'm sorry, customer, we don't have this item in our store. If you ask elsewhere, it might be available." Xu Shi felt that Lu Zhong only asked but didn't buy, and the store owner became more and more impatient in his answer.
Lu Zhong pretended not to know and made inquiries one by one.
After going through all the open stores, he locked in on several spiritual objects.
Seeing that it was getting dark, he came to the only inn in Fang City.
In a small market, the inn here not only provides accommodation, but also functions as a brothel. It happened that Lu Zhong wanted to know something, so he invited a female nun from the West to discuss it together all night.
The harvest is not small.
I figured out what the soul demon spirit dust is.
Looking at the black shadow monsters with skulls and bones on their heads in the water mirror technique, Lu Zhong never expected that these things were actually soul demons, something twisted from the remnants of souls.
After the soul evil spirit dies and combines with the scarlet aura, a red spirit dust will be generated.
This kind of spiritual dust has extraordinary effects.
What the long-legged female cultivator said can be used to refine the "Suppressing Ape Pill", which can effectively remove the effects of the scarlet aura. It is said to be the latest achievement of the Western Alliance.
"It's the Western Territory Alliance again..." Lu Zhong realized that this group of people was not just shouting slogans, but was actually taking action.
He estimated that the "Spirit Suppressing Formation" was also developed by the Western Territory Alliance.
Just as I was thinking about it, something warm, soft, and smooth hit my arm. It felt quite good.
Unfortunately, Lu Zhong didn't have that idea.
After giving the spirit stone, he drove the person out.
…
The night was spent in meditation.
At dawn, dark red light shines through the windows into the house.
Lu Zhong strolled out of the guest room and looked around.
There are already vendors on the street.
It's a wonton seller.
The stall owner looked at Lu Zhong and saw that he was someone who could afford to live in an inn. He immediately showed a warm smile and said, "Sir, why don't you try my wontons? They have thin skin and big fillings. They use the best quality meat and the soup is delicious." It’s also cooked with firewood and only requires one spiritual stone per bowl!”
Smelling the aroma wafting in the wind, Lu Zhong suddenly wanted to taste it.
But he still asked and said:
"What meat?"
The world in the Western Territory has undergone a sudden change, and all the creatures outside have either died out or adapted to the new world environment, at the cost of being distorted by the scarlet aura and turning into another kind of creature completely.
Lu Zhong once hunted and killed several.
The bodies of these twisted creatures are simply a mixture of pus, water and rotten flesh, which cannot be eaten.
Under this circumstance, he doubted whether the so-called fine meat was taken from the two-legged sheep.
"No need to worry, sir, these are all taken from the earth spirit insects." The stall owner was not surprised and explained patiently.
Earth Spirit Insects live deep underground. They are almost unaffected by the changes in the Western Territory, so their meat is still the same as before. If you kill one, you can get thousands of kilograms of meat.
Although this meat tastes like leather.
The spirit chef has tried his best to process it, but it is not as good as ordinary meat. It also has a hard-to-remove earthy atmosphere that requires hard work to grind away. It has many shortcomings, but in today's world where spiritual things are increasingly scarce, eating earthly spirits is a good idea. Being a bug was no choice, it was better than absorbing the scarlet aura and dying.
"Oh, give me two or three bowls first."
"Great!" the stall owner said excitedly.
Lu Zhong found a seat and sat down, pouring a cup of tea made from rice straw.
The taste is astringent, but the best is the aroma of green grass, which reminds people of the lush western environment in the past.
Not long after, several groups of monks arrived one after another.
His body has a somewhat earthy smell, and his skin color is much paler than that of normal people.
They sat down and started chatting, telling jokes to relieve their boredom, or bragging about their recent achievements.
Lu Zhong was on the side and listened with interest.
A lot of information is revealed in these people's words.
They call themselves beast-hunting monks, and they hunt for underground monsters all year round. After hunting, they harvest meat and spiritual materials to make a living. Occasionally they encounter underground rivers or something, and they can make a lot of money from this.
"Everyone, when do you think Fangshi will move underground?"
"I'm looking at it quickly. The Seven Aperture Stones are getting less and less. Sooner or later the Spirit Suppression Array will have to stop."
"That's right."
While I was listening, the stall owner had already brought the wontons.
Lu Zhongchi Liu is one, and the taste can only be described as average.
Fortunately, the skin is thin and the filling is large, so it's quite enjoyable to eat one bite at a time.
One bowl after another, ten bowls in a row before stopping.
Then I packed ten more bowls.
I paid twenty spiritual stones and went to a shop on the street.
The face of the shopkeeper with the goatee turned green when he saw that it was the shopkeeper with the goatee who only asked but did not buy yesterday. When he heard that Lu Zhong was going to pack the "Soul Feng Crystal" and "Star Iron Stone", he suddenly smiled again.
"Sir, come inside and invite me!"
"Daughter, why don't you serve me some good tea for your senior?"
Before he finished speaking, a handsome female cultivator walked out. Her appearance was not bad, just a little worse than the maids in Lintao Pavilion.
When the woman saw Lu Zhong, her cheeks turned slightly red.
How can a young girl not be pregnant with spring and come out with a promising young man like this?
But she was soon disappointed, because Lu Zhong didn't look over at all, and she couldn't help but groaned.
After pouring the tea in a hurry, he stomped away.
"I'm sorry, my daughter lost her mother when she was young, and I have been neglecting my discipline. Please forgive me!" The shopkeeper cupped his hands and explained with an apologetic look.
"It's okay." Lu Zhong shook his head and said, "Let's just get to the point."
Based on the idea that if you can score a point, it is a point.
He bargained with the shopkeeper and cut off another 10% from the price of the two spiritual items.
Finally, with a bottle of third-level healing elixir and ten thousand kilograms of spiritual rice, he got his wish and bought the Soul Wind Crystal and Star Iron Stone.
Then he changed his body shape and bought them one by one.
Some talks are successful, and some talks fail.
After the transaction of the spiritual objects he brought was completed, all the goods he brought were sold, and he had an extra 160,000 spiritual stones, plus two precious spiritual objects, the Cang Beast Bones and the Minghua Jade.
Each has its own use.
Blue Beast True Bone is a rare weapon refining material, produced from the Blue Beast that has been extinct for a long time. The true bone is their spine, which is especially suitable for making flying sword magic weapons. The finished product is also triple forbidden starting point, but unfortunately it does not match the properties of the Star Mirror. , although refining it can enhance its power, it will also make the magic weapon mottled.
Lu Zhong planned to wait until he returned to Nanman to find time to participate in a pill-forming exchange meeting to see if he could exchange it for good things.
As for Minghua Baoyu, it is a treasure that assists cultivation.
Wearing it while meditating can reduce the probability of going crazy. It is the best auxiliary spiritual object when making breakthroughs. In order to exchange for this gem, he paid a high price.
After staying one more night, Lu Zhong left Ningyunfang City.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived at the exit of Fangshi, someone was already waiting for him.
It's Master Liu Jian.
"Fellow Taoist, long time no see!"
"Have we met?" Lu Zhong pretended to be stupid.
"Fellow Daoist, I'm joking. There are very few people in the Western Region like you who can sell spiritual objects in large quantities, especially those with large amounts of healing elixirs." Master Liujian said firmly.
"Really?" Lu Zhong's face was expressionless.
He had already expected that such a day would come, so it was no surprise.
"Stop talking nonsense and tell me what you mean."
"Fellow Taoist is so cheerful, so I'll tell you the truth!" Master Liujian took off a storage bag from his body, threw it out without looking at it, and then said: "There are ten star stones in it, all of which are of excellent quality. The best quality goods, Taoist friends only need to provide one million kilograms of spiritual rice, and the things will belong to fellow Taoists!"
Lu Zhong took it and used his spiritual sense to explore it.
It's really like what the other party said, they are all large pieces of star stones.
If he exchanges spiritual rice for them, even if it is a million kilograms of spiritual rice, he will make a huge profit.
"how to trade?"
Liu Jianzhen touched the storage bag and took out a long red incense, "This is a letter incense, which is made from the worm pulp of earth spirit insects. Fellow Taoist just need to put the thing in a secret place and then light it." Just send a letter and we will send someone to pick it up by then."
It was quite thoughtful and worthy of being an organization wanted by the Nascent Soul Sect.
"Okay." Lu Zhong nodded.
The other party has paid for the goods first, so he must accept it.
Whether or not the deal will be completed is another question.
After taking the Xinxiang, Lu Zhong placed several restrictions on it in front of Master Liujian, so that even if there were hands and feet on it, it would not be able to have any effect.
"Farewell!" After he said this, he left without looking back.
After a while, three more figures appeared next to Master Liujian, all of whom were at the pill formation stage.
"What is the identity of this person? Just now, the three of us were lurking in the distance, and we could clearly feel the divine consciousness sweeping over us. It was a full five hundred feet away! Who is it that can have such a powerful spiritual consciousness?" A female cultivator wearing a golden robe and crimson hair looked at the direction where Lu Zhong disappeared and said in disbelief.
"Don't guess, as long as this person is willing to trade." Master Liujian said calmly.
Under the blockade of the Zhenyang Sect, the situation of the Western Territory Alliance is becoming increasingly difficult. Even the most basic supply of spiritual rice is beginning to have problems. If it is allowed to accumulate, it will cause big problems sooner or later.
That's why he took the initiative to show up.
At the expense of ten precious star stones, I bet that this person can complete the transaction as promised.
"I hope it will succeed!" Master Liu Jian sighed.
The changes in the world in the Western Territory were becoming more serious day by day. Sometimes he couldn't help but wonder whether there was still time for the Western Territory Alliance to develop a method of transforming scarlet aura.
Fortunately, hope does not need to be pinned on this person, the Western Alliance has other options.
"Brother Shen!"
"Um!"
When Shen Changqing walks on the road, whenever he meets someone he knows, he will say hello or nod to each other.
But no matter who it is.
There was no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they were indifferent to everything.
To this.
Shen Changqing has become accustomed to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, an organization that maintains the stability of the Qin Dynasty. Its main responsibility is to kill monsters and monsters. Of course, there are also some other side jobs.
It can be said.
Everyone in the Demon Suppression Division has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it over time.
The Demon-Suppressing Division is huge.
Those who can stay in the Demon Suppressing Division are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppressor Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy and the other is the Demon Slayer.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Department starts from the lowest level as a demon slayer.
Then he will be promoted step by step, and he is expected to eventually become a guardian envoy.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level among the demon slayers.
Possessing the memory of a previous life.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of a loft.
Unlike other places in the Demon Suppressing Division that were full of chills, the attic here seemed to stand out from the crowd, showing a different kind of tranquility in the bloody Demon Suppressing Division.
At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment before stepping in.
Enter the attic.
The environment changes in vain.
The fragrance of ink mixed with the faint smell of blood hit his face, making him frown instinctively, but then relaxed it quickly.
There is almost no way to cleanse away the smell of blood on everyone in the Demon-Suppressing Division.
