The Qinling Mountains are the largest mountain range in Dongzhou, spanning the north and south of Dongzhou. There is a wild land deep in the endless mountains of the Qinling Mountains. There are cliffs and rivers everywhere, high mountains and dense forests. The mountains and forests here are filled with thick fog and miasma all year round.
The mountain people living in the mountains near the Qinling Mountains generally stay far away from this place, because many times in the past, mountain people have mysteriously disappeared in this mountain forest. The mountain people themselves have organized large numbers of people to search for them, but they were killed when they entered the depths of the mountain forest. Blocked by thick fog and miasma, if they are unlucky, the people who enter the forest will disappear forever in this forest. Mountain people who are lucky often do strange things by circling in the mountains and returning to the same place. Gradually, local mountain people spread rumors that there are demons and ghosts making trouble in the mountain. As the rumors become more and more mysterious, this place has become a taboo place for mountain people.
Jining has been wandering around in this mountain forest for almost a day. Anyway, there are cliffs everywhere. I also walked around in the thick fog and miasma, but I couldn't find Miaoshanfang City shown on the map. While Jining was looking depressed, he remembered the situation of entering the valley where Old Man Meng practiced, and knew that entering Miaoshanfang City should require something to break the restriction. It's just that I can't detect it with my spiritual consciousness, and I have no other way at the moment. I can only prepare to wait around here to see if I can meet the monks who enter Miaoshanfang City.
While Jining was hesitating in his heart, Jining's spiritual consciousness noticed the sound of chatting coming from the distance. So I looked in the direction where the sound came from just now.
Soon after, two people, an old man and a young man, appeared in front of Jining. The man is an old man with white hair and white beard, but there is no wrinkle on his face. He has the legendary white-haired childlike face. The old man has a slender figure and is dressed in an ordinary gray robe. He has an ethereal aura of an immortal.
Next to the old man is a young girl, wearing a white robe, her skin is as white and tender as a baby's, and she can be said to have truly ice-cold skin. The girl's face was extremely beautiful. No matter it was her pair of phoenix eyes, her small and delicate nose, or her light red lips, there was no trace of flaw in her face.
Jining used his spiritual sense to realize that although the old man's cultivation was still in the late stage of Qi refining, he should have reached the peak of the later stage; the girl beside the old man was at the sixth level of Qi refining. Jining quickly bowed to the old man and said: "This is my first time coming to Miaoshanfang City, but I don't know how to do it. Please give me some advice..."
The old man looked at Jining's calm face but was a little surprised in his heart. He found that although Jining was at about the eighth level of Qi Refining, the spiritual consciousness he had just swept over was actually faintly stronger than his own.
So he said kindly to Jining: "My little friend, this is your first time in Miaoshanfang City, why don't you come with us!" The girl next to her stared at Jining as if she was looking at a monster, but there was no such thing in her eyes. Malice.
Jining followed the old man around in circles. The old man mentioned that the outer restricted area of Miaoshanfang City adopts the layout of Qimen Dunjia. If you don't understand the reason, you will only be able to circle among the eight gates and not find the living gate. If you are not careful, You will encounter danger when you enter the door of death. To enter Miaoshanfang City, you need to know its skills. Youge Jue said: "The door of good luck is the door of life, and the door of bad door is the door of death. If the good door of Jimen is not good, the bad door will be more bad."
Through the old man's introduction, Jining also had a little idea of how to enter Miaoshanfang City. At this time, the old man turned to the direction in front of a stone wall in the northeast, took out a piece of talisman paper from his arms, then waved his arm to draw a mysterious symbol in the air, and then the talisman paper in his hand flew to the stone wall in front of him and disappeared. .
The old man said that this was the transmission talisman, and he would use the transmission talisman to let the people in the Fangshi control formation know about it, and then open the restriction. While he was talking, thick fog suddenly rolled in on the stone wall in front of him, and then a not-so-wide path appeared. The old man and the girl went in on their own, and Jining quickly followed.
When Jining stepped into the path, he felt a trace of the spiritual energy of the world. The deeper he went inside, the stronger the spiritual energy became. After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, I felt my eyes light up. I felt like I had walked into a village located in a valley. There was a large square in the middle of the valley, covering an area of dozens of acres. The surrounding houses are basically built around the square. In the depths of the square, there are several palace-style pavilions with carved railings and jade columns and relatively simple houses on the side, giving it a sense of standing out from the crowd.
The old man politely asked where new and old Miaoshanfang City need to go to get an identity token so that they can freely enter Miaoshanfang City in the future. Jining said goodbye to the old man very gratefully and went to apply for an identity token. The old man said that his name was Tong Feng and he came to Miaoshanfang City to do some things and hoped to meet again in the future. Then he took the girl and left in a hurry.
Jining walked through the square and found that there were various shops lined up around the square, and some monks were trading in the corners of the square. Jining walked into the palace-style pavilion with carved railings and jade walls. There was a table in the hall on the first floor. A middle-aged monk was sitting in front of the table, reading an unknown book.
Jining couldn't see clearly his cultivation level. Jining didn't dare to use his spiritual sense to detect it, because the old man told Jining on the road just now that it would be better not to use his spiritual sense to detect other people's cultivation level in the future. This would easily offend others. If he met an evil person, Jining suddenly realized that there would be a fatal disaster and asked the old man to apologize. The old man didn't care and just asked Jining to remember it.
Jining bowed to the middle-aged monk and said, "Jining, a casual cultivator, wants to get an identity token in Miaoshanfang City."
The middle-aged monk raised his head and glanced at Jining and said: "As long as you are a monk in Miaoshan City, you can come and go. I can give you a free temporary identity token here. If you want to live in Fang City, you need to apply for a formal identity token." , but this requires paying some fees.”
Jining asked: "If you apply for a formal identity token, how to pay the fee and how to calculate the fee."
The middle-aged monk said: "To apply for a formal status in Miaoshanfang City, you need to pay with spiritual stones or spiritual herbs and elixirs of similar value, five low-grade spiritual stones a year. If you need to rent a house to live in, which one The house is worth ten low-grade spiritual stones a year."
As for Jining's current net worth, he doesn't care about more than ten low-grade spiritual stones. The main reason is that in order to deceive others, he put some ordinary objects and a few spiritual stones in the package, so there are not many spiritual stones in his package. Stone, Jining can only take out the medicinal materials in jade boxes that are placed in the package.
"Hey," the middle-aged monk said when he saw several jade boxes that Jining took out: "Han Ling Jade..."
Jining was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the three jade boxes he was shopping for at the antique street in Yidu City turned out to be jade boxes made by Han Lingyu. The deacon who manages the city, a master who should have reached the foundation building stage, was very interested in this jade box. I feel a little excited, it seems that Hanling Jade is also a good thing!
The middle-aged monk glanced at the spiritual herbs in the jade box and said, "These spiritual herbs of yours are not worth much. They are only worth two or three low-grade spiritual stones in total. But your jade box made of cold jade, I can help you price it, ten spiritual stones for one jade box..."
Jining was a little depressed, thinking that he had no place to stay now, and he didn't want others to know his net worth. Although he knew that the value of this jade box should be more than what the middle-aged Taoist priest said, he did not want to offend the owner just after arriving in Miaoshanfang City.
The cunning middle-aged monk was obviously aware of Jining's current situation, and knew that he couldn't escape from his grasp, so he was not in a hurry and looked at Jining quietly. Jining thought for a while and then said: "I use a Cold Spirit Jade Box and these spiritual herbs to sell for fifteen low-grade spiritual stones. Can I get an identity token and a place to live?"
The middle-aged monk hesitated for a moment and said: "Originally, the value of the spiritual grass and the cold spirit jade box you provided did not meet the requirements. It seems that you are a casual cultivator. In addition, I just need a few cold spirit jade boxes, so I will make an exception. It's done once!" Then he asked Jining to sell the other two Cold Spirit Jade Boxes to him at a price. Jining didn't want to offend the foundation-building monks, so he sold them to him together.
The middle-aged monk saw that this young man was smart and wise. After casually asking for some information about Jining, he quickly handed Jining a jade plaque and said that the house where it came from can be found based on the marks on the jade plaque. The mark on the jade plaque will disappear after one year, and said that Miaoshanfang The city has its own rules, so you should understand them well, otherwise you will be kicked out of the city without knowing the reason.
Jining responded quickly, took the jade plaque and looked through it. He saw his name and other information on the front of the jade plaque, and the words "Ding Shisan" on the reverse. Jining guessed that it should be assigned to his house. serial number.
He turned around and walked out of the hall towards the square, thinking about the future in his mind. He gradually walked to the edge of the square and saw that all kinds of things needed by cultivators were sold around the square. These stall owners were all monks, and He The stall owners who chat and trade are all monks. For Jining, who has never seen so many immortal cultivators, everything here is so new and interesting, which makes Jining more and more interested.
At this time, the sky was already a little dark, and the shops on both sides of the square were still as bright as day. Jining saw lantern-like lamps hanging in the shops, but they were not lights inside, but a kind of lamp that emitted a particularly dazzling light called " SunGlowstone" stone.
Although it was getting late and there were fewer and fewer stalls in the square, there were more monks around. Jining observed the immortal cultivators coming in and out of the shops on both sides. There were men, women, fat and thin. I found that most of the cultivation levels were similar to his, or even a little lower. It seems that most of these monks are ascetic monks. Maybe they don't care much about clothes and other external things. The clothes they wear are basically relatively ordinary, and some monks even wear amazing clothes.
Jining was a little surprised. If any of the monks here were to enjoy endless glory and wealth in the mortal world, they would be willing to live the hardships of cultivating here. It seems that the pursuit of immortality is the goal that all monks strive for.
