This man in black robe is Jiang Yun after his disguise. Of course, I came to this small town not just for the sake of the sound stone, but because it is very close to Wuxian Lake and is convenient for doing things.
As the saying goes, the people who know you best are often your enemies.
This sentence is perfect for the Tutu people and the Mulan people, who have been fighting for endless years as enemies.
Combining the information from Divine Master Zhu and his observations in the city over the past few days, Jiang Yun had a complete concept of Tianlan Grassland.
Mulan Temple and Tuwu Temple control the entire grassland, and their subordinates control countless tribes with long-standing names and surnames.
Although the people of the grassland are fierce and fierce, because there are mortal enemies on their side, both temples have restricted the tribes below them from fighting each other to avoid losing themselves. If they want to kill people, they go to the territory junction in the middle of the grassland to kill the other's magicians.
The long border line has long been turned into a piece of black and red blood and soil, where the two sides have been fighting for countless years.
Until thirty years ago, the Turks won a great victory and crossed the bloody border and occupied a large amount of territory. Unless a miracle occurs among the Mulan people and a talented and decisive person is born, they can only die slowly.
The number of mortals in the large tribes on the grassland starts at least tens of millions, which is no less than that of a small country in the south of the sky. Small tribes also have populations of at least one million. Most of the latter are split from large and medium-sized tribes. There are also parts that were established by the Temple Magisters.
These tribes are protected and controlled by the temple, and the information is recorded in the temple, including population, flag pattern, inherited spiritual skills, which tribe they are a branch of, the number of cultivation levels of the mages in charge, etc.
As for the micro-tribes with a population of only tens of thousands, they are as numerous as stars. They account for one-third of the total population of Tianlan Grassland.
More than 90% of such tribes do not have magicians to guard them, and it is difficult for them to deal with natural disasters and monsters. If they want to hire magicians to guard them, but they cannot come up with spiritual stone resources to enshrine them, others will not look at them at all.
Officially, it is officially forbidden to rob each other, but the Tianlan Grassland is too large, and all the main temples and branch temples add up to only a few dozen. The tens of thousands of miles around the temple are well-ordered and no one dares to act recklessly, but the micro-tribes in remote areas are. I can only hope for happiness.
Although their fate is ill-fated, these micro-tribes are like weeds on the grassland that will grow back soon after being burned!
Their only hope is to take the young man to the temple to pay tribute and conduct tests. I longed for someone to pass the temple examination and become a high-ranking mage, and then go back to protect the tribe.
Unfortunately, this road is too difficult.
The first is the long distance. The world of cultivating immortals is vast and can easily be thousands of miles away! The area of Tianlan Grassland is of course extremely exaggerated!
Mortals can only lead their horses and pack dry food and trek all the way to the nearest branch hall. Unfortunately, most of these micro-tribes are in remote areas. Not only are they poor, they also have to travel the longest distance.
Putting aside the possibility of encountering robberies on the road, the distance alone makes people desperate! It can be thousands of miles at a time, and the child may be ten years old when we set off and already twenty when we arrive. My youth was spent on the road.
Moreover, even if you become a mage, you may not necessarily return to the tribe.
Quite a few people will choose to pick up their families and settle in a city near the temple. Some magicians even completely cut off the world of mortals.
Only a handful of people will return to the place where they were born. Although most of these people are guys with extremely poor qualifications who are destined to stay in the Qi training period in their lives, for these tribes, it is already dawn and their days are moving forward.
It is worth mentioning that the probability of a mortal with spiritual roots is only one in 10,000. Which young people should those micro-tribes choose to pay tribute? There is no way to bet on the one in 10,000 probability!
So the temple wrote the method of sensing spiritual energy on animal skins and spread it over a wide range. Mulan people like to use wolf skins, and Tutu people like to use cow hides. Millions of them are sent out every year, and the official store sells them at a unified price for one spiritual stone. .
Because it has been circulated for so long and there are too many of them, the price of this thing has dropped. One spiritual stone can often buy three in the city.
However, the techniques and techniques are strictly prohibited from being circulated in the market, and young people who practice Qi Sensation can only learn it by going to the temple.
The big tribes have their own inheritance techniques, but the temple stipulates that when you reach a certain age, you must go to the temple to study for a period of time before you can return to the tribe.
The power structure of the Immortal Cultivation World in Tianlan Grassland is very stable. The temple of Tutu and Mulan people is similar to a super large sect, which can systematically train and manage magicians and has absolute authority and control.
In addition, there are some long-established tribes and immortal cultivating families.
There is no way to ban things like family, unless the immortal cultivator does not have children or the children he gives birth to have no spiritual roots. As long as they are reproduced for two or three generations, they will be a small family.
But these families are also completely dependent on the temple. It can be said that there is no neutral force in the entire Tianlan Grassland, they are just two centralized behemoths.
The poor and poor Mulan people can make Tiannan feel like facing a formidable enemy. This centralized system is indispensable.
The Xu family of Wuxian Lake is a family that has been cultivating immortals for a long time. There are as many as three Yuanying magicians, and the Lingxi Peacock is the spiritual beast passed down by the Xu family from generation to generation.
Master Xu, who is in charge of the Xu family, is extremely talented and is known as the being in Tianlan Grassland who is most likely to advance to the stage of becoming a god.
The Lingxi Peacock is indeed a good thing. The five-color aura it releases can isolate the aura of heaven and earth.
From this point of view, the five-color aura is extremely powerful in defense. After all, aura is the basis of magic. How can one attack the peacock shrouded in aura if it is isolated.
In the original work, the spirit beast's body was refined to form a ball of five-color aura, but the Holy Ancestor Yuan Cha of the Demon Realm also valued it very much, and even carefully wanted to bring it back to the Demon Realm, which shows how precious it is.
You can try to fuse things with the same attributes. For example, Han Li's Dry Blue Ice Flame was later fused with a variety of cold-attribute spiritual materials.
Of course, Jiang Yun has also considered whether he can use the five-color aura of the Lingxi Peacock for his own use, because he has many five-element magical powers and five-element magic weapons. If he can integrate the five-color aura into it, there may be surprises.
It's completely feasible in theory.
In addition, Lingxi Peacock's demon elixir and natal tail feathers are both Five Elements spiritual objects. They can be used as consumables to help the Haoguang Mirror restore its power. Even if it only restores 1%, it is still good.
The old man surnamed Zhu couldn't tell the exact number of peacocks at that time, but there were at least three.
The first thing Jiang Yun did after arriving at Wuxian Lake was to hide his figure and conduct two rounds of reconnaissance around the lake with his spiritual eyes.
The final result was surprising. He discovered six spiritual power sources with all five elements. Two of them are level five, and the rest are all level two to four.
Immortal Master Xu should have another seventh-level one on him, which makes seven in total.
The strange thing is that no first-level cubs were found.
Plans will change based on circumstances.
If there was only one, Jiang Yun would definitely tear it apart and make a one-time deal, but since the number was considerable, he would of course choose to catch them all and keep them.
In short, the peacock lays eggs, and the eggs lay peacocks.
Once the goal is set, the next step is execution.
If they attack the Xu family by force, even if they win, there will be a lot of commotion.
This is the core area of the Tuwu people, full of large tribes. It is not far from the Tuwu Temple. Once it cannot be solved in a short time, it will be besieged by an army of magicians.
In addition, we must also consider the risk of the Xu family moving the Lingxi Peacock away when the situation turns bad.
Since the risk of robbery is high, the only option is to steal.
Fengling City has good business and is very close to Wuxian Lake. It can be said to be a neighbor of the Xu family. Some of the Xu family will come here to do business.
Jiang Yun changed his face in the city and after asking around, he selected a Xu family member dressed as a scholar. From then on, Zi was in the middle stage of foundation building, but he was secretly guarded by an old man in the early stage of pill formation. It was obvious that his identity was unusual.
Speaking of which, the dress of the mortals in Tianlan Grassland is indeed the same as the grassland people in Jiang Yun's impression. But the cultivators are completely different. There are many women wearing fairy skirts and men wearing Confucian robes and Taoist robes.
That night, Jiang Yun sneaked into the son's room without anyone noticing. Under the influence of the Six Confusion Demons, the Danjie Master who was guarding the roof did not notice anything unusual.
Still the same old way.
The target was banned without killing, so as not to be discovered by the Xu family.
Use its essence and blood to perform the secret technique of transformation, search the soul and check the memory to avoid abnormal behavior.
The target selected this time is named Xu Yi, who is the fourth generation direct descendant of Master Xu Daxian.
Although his cultivation level is not high, his reputation is not small.
This son did not dare to be interested in the powerful spiritual arts passed down in his clan, but admired Confucianism greatly. At the age of twenty-five, he concealed his identity and secretly went to Jin Dynasty to study.
He first found an academy with a good background and studied hard. In just ten years, he cultivated his awe-inspiring aura and caused a sensation in the academy. Then he successfully joined a certain Confucianism sect behind the academy and was listed as a true disciple within a few years.
Although this sect is not a big sect in the Jin Dynasty, there is also an ancestor in the early stage of Nascent Soul, who is pretty good.
As a result, when he was fifty years old, Master Xu Daxian came out of seclusion and quickly found him. After a cordial conversation with the sect's supreme elder, he took him back to his family.
Although in the eyes of the family, this son does not practice spiritual arts but practices Confucianism and Taoism, which is extremely rebellious! But Great Immortal Master Xu looked at him differently, and no one else dared to talk.
Although he wanted to go to Xu's house quickly, the boy's purpose in coming to this city was to participate in an auction in a few days, and he took a fancy to a jade ruler.
In order not to expose any flaws, Jiang Yun could only attend the auction and then go back.
The auction is just to develop the plot, and only a few words are written.
(End of chapter)
