Different from the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers on Wanjuanshu Mountain, Mingshan is located in the extremely cold land of Northeast China, with feet of snow covering it all year round. The mountain is full of unique scenes in the snow country.
The closest teleportation circle to Mingshan is more than three hundred miles away, and the distance is also very particular.
There are dozens of larger villages near the foot of Mingshan Mountain. Although it is bitterly cold all year round, it is not covered with snow all year round like the mountains. There are also crops available in spring and summer, and some of the game in the mountains is brought by traders from distant towns. Acquisition, so life is not bad. At least it's stable. Even if evil spirits were rampant in various places before, it would not be affected here.
Moreover, there is Dafang City near Mingshan, and many things in it also rely on the output and human help of the villages at the foot of the surrounding mountains. It can be said that they are interdependent.
Over time, Mingshan Sect and the people in the villages below the mountain have long been familiar with each other.
In the words of the people at the foot of the mountain, the monks on the mountain are all kind. Anyone in the village who has any illness will come to these monks to help treat them. Even when disaster strikes, the monks will stop them. The kindness has been received for generations, and every household has I offered good cards to the monks in the mountains and prayed for their cultivation to be as high as the sky and to have boundless magic power!
Two months ago, these villages at the foot of Mingshan Mountain received news from Mingshan Mountain, saying that a large gathering would be held in Mingshan Mountain on the ninth day of September. At that time, monks from all over the Jing Dynasty would gather here and then stay on Mingshan Mountain. He won't leave until at least five days. . During this period, Mingshan Sect disciples would come to each village to provide guidance, and at the same time coordinate and maintain the villages from being overly influenced by monks from all sides. Notification in advance also allows the people in the village to be mentally prepared.
This is not the first time that this has happened. The villagers at the foot of Mingshan Mountain have been prepared for a long time. They have even prepared a lot of things early, just waiting for this big gathering in Mingshan Mountain to make a lot of money for their families.
A monk from other places? Although there are good and bad rumors, but at the foot of Mingshan Mountain, and with the care of the monks on Mingshan Mountain, even the children in the village will not be afraid.
What's more, although Mingshan is big, it can't accommodate thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people. It definitely can't accommodate it, even if the Dafang City next to Mingshan is added. According to past experience, there will always be many monks from other places who come to Mingshan and are unable to go up the mountain, so they gather at the foot of the mountain to hold a gathering and make noise for several days.
When people get together, they always need to eat and drink. The monks are all wealthy. This place is hundreds of miles away from the big city and it is a bitter cold place. It is normal for fruits and vegetables to be more expensive. The monks can accept four or five times the price. of.
As for drinks, home-brewed fruit wine is always easy to sell, and those who are more discerning about finding two jars of spirits will definitely be popular.
Every grand gathering of the Mingshan Sect is also a grand event for the villages at the foot of the mountain. They will even form associations to deal with this good opportunity to make money together.
However, neither the Mingshan Sect nor the people in the village at the foot of Mingshan would have thought that this event would be completely different from the previous ones from the very beginning.
Just ten days ago, some monks from far away began to appear sporadically around Mingshan. These are monks who are not qualified to go up the mountain. They are either from small and unpopular sects, or they are unknown casual cultivators, or some sect disciples who did not get the quota to go up the mountain but want to come and join in the fun and try their luck.
After these monks came over, although most of them were as keen as ever to discuss who would be the most popular in the next sword test meeting? Who can take the top spot in the conference in the end? How many top masters will take action in this sword trial competition? etc.
However, these monks who were chatting enthusiastically were all casual cultivators and disciples of small and unpopular sects. The disciples from second- and third-rate sects who came to join in the fun and try their luck did not talk about these topics as enthusiastically as before. On the contrary, they arrived at Mingshan I just found a place to stay, and then basically wandered around the city to see if I could miss a spot to go up the mountain. Other than that, I didn't do anything else.
Some people at the foot of Mingshan Mountain who delivered meals even felt that the faces of these monks who did not gather together for fun were not very good, and they seemed to have something on their minds and were always frowning.
In addition, the number of sects and the number of participants in this Sword Trial Conference are much higher than in previous ones, and it can even be called the largest one in hundreds of years. Especially for first- and second-rate sects, teams numbering twenty or thirty are coming up the mountain. There are also quite a few third-rate sects, and almost all of them send people here at the limit of the quota given by Mingshan Sect. There was no reselling of quotas as in the past.
This batch also made many keen people in Mingshan Sect aware of it, and they got some flavor from it. Coupled with the Mingshan Sect's informants and information channels in various sects, and combined with the information in the hands of Wanjuan Shushan, the matter is actually settled.
There is only so much meat in the pot. If you want to scoop a few more spoons of meat for yourself, it will definitely lead to a few spoons less meat in other people's bowls. To eat more, it depends on whether your arms are strong enough and your fists are hard enough. Otherwise, you will have to vomit out as much as you eat, and if you are unlucky, you will have to vomit out the blood.
However, both Mingshan Sect and Wanjuan Shushan pride themselves on their physical strength, not to mention that they still travel together. This time, even if the sects below are planning to gather to cause trouble, they will have the confidence to deal with it. And as long as the momentum from below is knocked back this time, it will be much more peaceful behind them, and they will have more room to use their fists and kicks.
Sure enough, as the ninth day of September approached, more and more sect disciples gathered, and there was an obvious trend of differentiation. The first, second, and third-rate sects gathered together more than before, and there were no more out-of-the-rate sect disciples or casual cultivators. Come over to get bored.
This was like adding an ice cube to the excitement, and gradually people who didn't know it began to feel that this Sword Trial Conference was going to be different.
But until the eighth day of September, something changed again.
Flags were suddenly fluttering at the foot of Mingshan Mountain, and groups of monks marching in military formations came down the official road and set up camp fifteen miles away from the gate of Mingshan Mountain. Judging from the fluttering flags, it was the famous Golden Sword Camp of Fenghong Villa in Jingjiu Dynasty, and it was quite large. I am afraid half of them were here.
Leading the troops were the Chief General of the Golden Sword Battalion and the Archdeacon of Foreign Affairs Shen Hao. Regardless, there are several flags belonging to the Black Flag Battalion of the Xuanqing Guard besides the flags of the Jinjian Camp, indicating that people from the Black Flag Battalion of the Xuanqing Guard have also been sent from outside the Jinjian Camp.
What is this for?
Although people from Fenghong Villa or Jingjiu Dynasty were invited to the Sword Trial Conference as usual, there was no precedent of dispatching the Golden Sword Camp, and was it too close to camp fifteen miles away? The sharpness makes people frown.
In order not to cause trouble, the monks on the side of the Golden Sword Camp quickly avoided it, causing the nearby villagers who had originally planned to make a fortune from the conference to be dumbfounded.
