Early the next morning, the bell rang on the mountain, and the day to pay the annual coins came. Many villagers in Humiao Village rushed to the entrance of the village to gather.
Village chief Xu Jin stood at the entrance of Humiao Village and began to gather the people who had already been appointed to escort the New Year coins.
As the newest male member of the Luoer family, Liu Qingyi was naturally called to the team by the village chief Xu Jin.
He was holding the fish basket filled with dozens of red-mouthed fish and stood in the queue. He stretched his head and looked around. When he turned around, he saw Luoer wearing a long blue and white dress, standing gracefully on the crenel at the entrance of the village, with a pair of beautiful eyes looking straight at him. Sweep over your body.
His old face turned red, his neck shrank slightly, and he thought to himself: "I won't help you catch a few fishes. This woman will have to explain herself..."
At this moment, the entrance to the village is already crowded with people. Villagers paying annual coins and tributes, some are pushing wooden carts with large and small bags piled on them, and some are driving animals to pull carts. The village chief Xu Jin called all the people who were escorting this time, gave a brief explanation to the rest of the people, and then led the team at the front on a wind bone beast.
The rest of the escorts were more or less carrying weapons such as swords, guns, and sticks. Only Liu Qingyi was carrying a fish basket, following Xu Tianbao who was holding a large iron rod, and walked out of the village with the team.
The team of more than 30 people moved slowly towards Yinyuan City. On the way, they encountered two teams from other villages escorting new coins. The three groups of people gathered together, making the team look even larger.
These two teams are the escort teams of the nearby Jinshi Village and Kaishan Village. Among them, Jinshi Village borders Humiao Village, and they were neighbors from back to back. Xu Jin chatted and laughed with the two tough men from Jinshi and Kaishan Village, and the journey was uneventful.
After walking like this, everyone came to a wasteland of green and red. The plain was full of green and red vegetation, which looked very special.
According to Xu Tianbao, this wasteland is called Qinghong Plain, and a group of red scarf thieves often appear on the plain. Generally, when villagers from each village enter the city, they first wait for teams from other villages to travel together. When passing through the wasteland, they leave some coins, goods and other property, so that the red scarf thieves will not take the initiative to cause trouble. This is almost a problem. There is an unspoken rule for passing through this place.
These three villages gathered together a huge team, but there was no need to worry about the red scarf thieves here.
The village chief Xu Jin murmured to the leaders of the other two villages, and still followed the rules and wrapped a large bag of yuan coins and a lot of fishing goods in red paper, and placed them on a conspicuous rocky mountain at the original entrance of Qinghongyuan.
After passing through the Qinghong Plain, I heard Xu Tianbao say that we arrived at the Mangdang Mountain area.
Looking at the continuous mountains in front of him, Liu Qingyi murmured in his heart: "Is this the place where brother Luo'er suffered?"
Xu Tianbao kept talking in his ears, because the wild beasts and even spiritual beasts on the mountain would come down the mountain to attack the villagers from time to time. There were fewer and fewer villages down the mountain, and many people in the villages had moved away. With no human beings nearby, these beasts descending from the mountain began to infest the Yinyuan City area. This was also the reason why beast corvee eradication was promulgated in recent years.
By recruiting strong men from the villages under his jurisdiction from time to time to encircle and suppress the wild beasts descending from the mountain in the direction of Yinyuan City, most of the wild beasts that descended from the mountain were finally eliminated, and some of the remaining spiritual beasts were also driven back to Mangdang Mountain. .
Liu Qingyi asked about the difference between these beasts and spiritual beasts, and Xu Tianbao patiently explained.
It turns out that the beasts in this world are divided into several categories. Common animals such as the copper-skinned wild cattle and thousand-horned mules raised by villagers are wild beasts that have been domesticated for generations and are also called beasts. The wild beasts on Mangdang Mountain are untamed wild beasts, and are naturally more ferocious than beasts. Ordinary mortals can easily hunt these wild beasts with the help of tools and weapons.
Above the wild beasts, there is also a kind of spirit beast, which are often extremely powerful and destructive. Some even have some innate attack methods. It is difficult for ordinary mortals to deal with them. They often need to stick together and use special beast-killing weapons. , to catch one or two of them.
Hearing this, Liu Qingyi couldn't help but point to the Wind Bone Beast under the crotch of the village chief Xu Jin, looked at Xu Tianbao and asked, "Is this a spiritual beast?"
Xu Tianbao smiled and explained to him that this wind-bone beast was just a high-level beast with a trace of spirit beast blood. It had rougher skin and thicker flesh than ordinary beasts, and was faster and stronger. However, it was still far from a real spirit beast. Far. Of course, this wind-bone beast with the blood of a spiritual beast is also very rare, and not everyone can afford it.
As for the monster above the spirit beast, it is the big monster in the mouth of the villagers. Not only does it have considerable intelligence, but it can also use the aura to display some weird talents and skills. When ordinary mortals encounter such monsters, they basically only have During the escape, most of those mortals who wanted to capture monsters left behind bloody lessons.
It is said that many immortal sects take pride in capturing and taming monster beasts. After all, once the talents and skills of these monster beasts can be used, they will also be a great help to the monks. As for the existence of higher levels above the monster beasts, Xu Tianbao only knew very little about them.
After saying these words, Liu Qingyi gained a lot of knowledge and felt that the world was full of incredible things.
While the two were talking, the team walked along Mangdang Mountain and around the foot of the mountain for about two hours. They passed through a tree-lined path sandwiched in the mountain stream and gradually left Mangdang Mountain.
Xu Tianbao pulled Liu Qingyi's clothes, pointed forward and said, "That is Yinyuan City."
Liu Qingyi looked around and saw the shadow of a city looming in the distance. The terrain here became flatter and the surrounding trees gradually became sparse. It was very different from the scenery at the foot of Mangdang Mountain.
Thinking that this was the first human city he had encountered in this world, Liu Qingyi couldn't help but yearn for it.
Seeing that Yinyuan City was about to arrive, everyone felt relaxed at this moment, and they gradually began to talk more. From time to time, some people loudly talked about various experiences in Yinyuan City.
Liu Qingyi paid attention and heard one of the old men say: "Have you heard? The ancestor of the Chen family in Yinyuan City has come back. It is said that he is helping a younger member of his clan to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Speaking of which, Chen Our family is one of the top families in Yinyuan City. I heard that although the ancestor of the Chen family joined the Immortal Sect, he was injured decades ago and has stopped progressing in the cultivation of immortals. This time, the ancestor of the Chen family came back to help the clan. The junior Qi Ling is probably also afraid that after his death, there will be no more monks in the clan to support him."
A rugged man next to the old man responded: "When it comes to our Yiyuan City monk family, the Chen family is nothing. The Qi family has two monks in one discipline for the past hundred years. It can be said that it crushes other families."
A young man next to him said: "Tie Gengtou, you don't know something about this. Do you think immortal cultivators still rely on the number of people to win like we mortals fight? The four major cultivating families of Qi, Bai, Wang and Chen in Yinyuan City , when it comes to the realm of people in the immortal sect, the Bai family should be the strongest. Bai Shengyuan, the ancestor of the Bai family, is said to have reached the Tongyuan realm. Even though there are two monks from the Qi family, in front of the ancestor of the Bai family who is one level higher, It won’t help anything.”
At this time, a rough and arrogant voice sounded: "If you ask me, the monks from the four major families have the most potential, and the Baihua Fairy Valley where the female cultivator King Lianhua is located is one of the few three major families in our southern border. One of the Immortal Sects. The disciples of the Shangxian Sect have unlimited potential, and Bai Shengyuan is just a casual cultivator, so it is nothing." The person who spoke was a burly man. Liu Qingyi remembered that this man had spoken to Xu Jin, who was from another village. One of the leaders believed his words.
Sure enough, as soon as the sturdy man spoke, everyone else around him shut up, which shows that this sturdy man has always been more convincing to the surrounding villagers.
