Chapter 221 Transnational Spirit Ship
In the west of Liang Kingdom, there is an important town for cultivating immortals named "Bauhinia Immortal City".
This fairy city is close to the border of Liang State, and has trade relations with Jing State in the west.
Especially during the war, Jing Kingdom's business alliance transported a large amount of war preparation materials and raw materials to Liang Guoxiu's world.
The current war is dominated by the Jinyangzong camp, launching a self-defense counterattack against Liang Guo, and the real strategic intention is to "migrate north".
Chen Guo and Yan Guo, under a certain agreement, watched with cold eyes and did not intervene.
This day after half a month.
In the north of Bauhinia Fairy City, in a mountain range hundreds of miles away.
A middle-aged Foundation Establishment man with a round face and yellow beard came through the air on a flying boat.
"There are no sect monks patrolling near the assembly point? The energy of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce is not small."
The middle-aged builder with a round face squinted his eyes and looked around.
The round face in front of him is the new identity that Lu Changan has disguised through the Imaginary Mask.
He turned his hand and took out a white jade tablet, and his spiritual consciousness merged into it.
The induction came from the jade tablet, pointing to a steep mountain with dense forest hundreds of feet away.
Lu Changan pondered for a while, but did not enter rashly.
Whoosh!
There was a sound of breaking through the air from the back and side, and a strong purple-faced man with a fierce aura flew over, with one arm wrapped in a bandage.
"Your Excellency is also here to gather?"
The purple-faced man glanced at Lu Changan, and also took out a white jade tablet.
"Um."
Lu Changan nodded, and fell behind a little, following the purple-faced man to the steep mountain.
Boo!
The purple-faced strong man holds a jade tablet in his hand, breaks through an invisible layer of masking illusion, and enters the dense forest on the top of the mountain.
The so-called dense forest is actually a phantom array. There are not many trees on the mountain, and it is bare.
In the center, there are several large rocks, with thirty or forty monks scattered among them.
Both men, women and children, mainly in the foundation building period.
There are also some monks in the Qi refining period, all of whom are young and walk with their elders.
"Where is the guiding monk from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce?"
The burly man with purple face looked towards the central area of the mountain top and clasped his fists.
However, the monks on the top of the mountain did not respond, and after a moment of silence, they were actually cold.
"hehe…"
From the group of monks gathered in the corner, there was a low laugh, which seemed to be ridiculed.
The strong purple-faced man looked gloomy, suppressing the evil spirit on his body.
He smiled mischievously, and talked to Lu Changan who came in together.
"What's your name, Fellow Daoist?"
"I am Wu Fan, an unknown casual cultivator."
Lu Changan said casually.
The purple-faced brawny man claimed his surname was Fang, but he didn't say where his identity came from.
Lu Changan's visual inspection: This person's wounded body has pure mana, which is better than ordinary foundation building casual cultivators, and his body is very evil...Maybe he is a deserter from the front line.
In every war of cultivating immortals, there are not a few such monks, and they are often wanted by the sect. Once caught, the end is miserable.
The two started chatting, occasionally probing a sentence.
"As a meeting point, the monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce did not show up. What does Fellow Daoist Wu think about this?"
"The monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce may not have arrived at the scene at all. They only need to come with the Juzhou Spirit Ship and pick me up. In this way, even if there is an accident, they don't have to take risks, and they won't leave anything behind."
Lu Changan's opinion is not bright.
The purple-faced strong man's eyes flickered, and he lowered his voice: "The monks of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce may be mixed in the crowd, observing every monk present..."
"maybe."
Lu Changan remained calm.
During the conversation between the two, he felt a faint sense of consciousness staying on himself and the purple-faced burly man.
That sense of consciousness is a bit stronger than that of ordinary fake alchemy real people, so it should be a monk who is good at investigating.
The words of the purple-faced strong man attracted the attention of the fake alchemy-level consciousness, lingering on him for a breath or two.
Lu Changan's disguised identity, in the middle stage of foundation establishment, mana aura is in line with the identity of a casual cultivator, not eye-catching, nor weak.
…
Two hours later.
The sun set on the western mountain, and fifty or sixty monks gathered on the top of the mountain, more than half of them were in the foundation building period.
The fake Daoist Dan, who was spying secretly, was found by Lu Changan because he frequently used his consciousness.
It was a cheerful sixtieth old man, wearing a navy blue gown, and closed his eyes most of the time.
Lu Changan suspected that this person was a monk of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.
Seeing, night is coming.
Some monks were restless and restless.
After all, most of the monks present went to Jing country for refuge or escape, lacking a sense of security.
"arrive!"
A low cry sounded.
Hoo!
The clouds above the head were pushed away, and the airflow was turbulent.
A five to sixty-foot-long blue spirit ship, lingering with the aura of the formation, quickly landed from a high altitude.
"Dear friends, with the tokens in your hands, line up to enter the spirit ship."
In the spirit ship, a thick male voice came, accompanied by the fake Dan-level spiritual pressure.
"Those who disturb the order will be disqualified from boarding the ship."
Before the words fell, the spirit ship landed at a height of ten feet on the top of the mountain, and descended two inclined ladders.
One of the inclined stairs is guarded by four sharp-breathing and armored mid-to-late-stage builders who inspect the tokens of the climbers. They seem to be bodyguards escorting the spirit ship.
Another inclined staircase is guarded by two beautiful foundation-establishing nuns.
This channel is not open to ordinary monks.
"Prince Wang, the first-class guest room on the third floor of the Lingjian has been prepared for you in advance."
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a greasy-haired and pink-faced young man in gold robes boarded the ship through this special passageway, under the protection of the hunchbacked old servant and the maidservant on the left and right.
This scene attracted the attention of all the cultivators present.
The token in the hands of the young man in the golden robe is not a white jade token, but a purple token!
"I don't know if he is the descendant of a big man in the upper echelons of the Liang Kingdom?"
"For the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce to treat him like this, at least he must be a direct descendant of the monk Zhendan."
All the cultivators in the room speculated in their hearts, and they felt dissatisfied, but they dared not show it.
Lu Chang'an took a closer look and found that the "Prince Prince" should have disguised himself with a secret method. He was only at the early stage of foundation establishment, but he was only about 30 years old.
The beautiful girl following is a monk in the middle stage of foundation establishment.
The hunchbacked old servant couldn't tell the truth.
Lu Changan did not dare to use his spiritual sense to inquire easily.
Now, the war of cultivating immortals is sweeping across Liang State.
It is also going to seek refuge in a neighboring country. The priority of the big man is higher, and the treatment he enjoys far exceeds that of ordinary monks.
In addition to the young man in the golden robe, Prince Wang, and the entrance of the second inclined ladder, several groups of people entered afterward.
As little as one person, as many as two or three people.
The tokens of these people are mostly cyan tokens, and they all have exclusive guest rooms after boarding the ship.
It is not difficult to imagine that these people are either rich or noble, have a lot of background, or have abilities and skills beyond ordinary monks.
One of them, an old man with white eyebrows in the late stage of foundation establishment, was familiar to Lu Changan. He had seen it at the auction in Huanglong Xiancheng. He seemed to be a quasi-third-level craftsman.
People like this, even if they go to neighboring countries, they will be regarded as honored guests by the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.
…
The secrets of the ancient ruins and the news of killing the Jinyangzong monk are all potential hidden dangers that cannot be controlled.
Someday in the future may be missed.
Maybe nothing will happen for the rest of my life.
Killing Jin Yangzong monk, Mu Jiuan and others are likely to conceal it. After all, it is a shameful scandal, and it is a high risk to act in the enemy's territory.
As for the ancient ruins, there are more variables.
Before Lu Changan left, he handed over Liang Shaotian's female disciple to Fairy Shi.
If Fairy Shi killed Miss Wei, the Demon Cult would sense the news of her death, and it would take a while to find this ruin in the Black Mist Mountains.
If Miss Wei is released, it will take time to return to the Demon Cult, and there is no specific memory in the ruins. Such ancient caves and relics appear every once in a while in the world of cultivating immortals, and it is hard to say how much the leaders of the Demon Cult attach importance to them.
In addition, the possibility of leaking information from the two fake Dan real people who died at that time is very low, but it cannot be absolutely ruled out.
On the way back from the ruins, Lu Changan gave Fairy Shi two suggestions.
First, if Miss Wei is let go, make her swear an oath of demons.
Secondly, if you have the ability, destroy the formation in the center of the ruins afterwards, so that the collapsing treasure house space will be destroyed faster.
Fairy Shi said that at least one must become a Tier 3 formation mage, and only in the same line of descent can there be a possibility of trying, and he is not fully sure.
What choice Fairy Shi will make, Lu Changan is hard to be sure.
His personal formation skills are limited, he doesn't have the ability to destroy the ancient formations in one fell swoop, and he has to worry about the backlash from the formation restrictions.
…
"Recommended by the New Moon Chamber of Commerce? What's your name? Where do you come from in the Liang Kingdom?"
After waiting for a long time, it was Lu Changan's turn to board the ship.
A man in heavy armor in the late stage of foundation establishment checked the jade token and asked.
After showing the jade token, there will be a simple inquiry and identity registration.
For the sake of confidentiality, this referral token did not record Lu Changan's identity and name.
It is very common for monks who board the ship.
Most of the monks who went to take refuge in Jing country did not want to reveal their identities, or they could not see the light, and few of them used their real names.
"I'm Wu Fan, from Huanglong Fairy City."
It's just a formality, recording basic information such as the cultivation level and name of the boarder, even if it is false information, it doesn't matter.
After registration, a tall and thin foundation-building monk from the chamber of commerce took five foundation-building monks, including Lu Changan, to the accommodation on the ship.
"Several fellow daoists, due to the scarcity of guest rooms on the spirit ship, I can only wrong you to go to the cargo hold below."
The tall and thin Chamber of Commerce monk said with an apologetic face.
"Cargo hold?"
The purple-faced man who was walking with Lu Changan looked embarrassed.
In order to buy cross-border "ship tickets", most of the monks present paid favors and expensive spirit stones.
"Our Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce, every time we travel across the country, we bring about a hundred monks from various ethnic groups in the business alliance. With the guests from your country, the guest rooms are naturally not enough."
The tall and thin Chamber of Commerce monk said with a smile.
This person is only a monk in the middle stage of foundation establishment, facing the five of Lu Chang'an, he looks calm and relaxed.
The spirit ship of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce has more than one fake real person sitting in command. There are also powerful guards and guards, and hundreds of monks from the business alliance camp.
The Liang Guo monks who entered this place disturbed the order and were often expelled.
If you dare to do it, the consequences will be disastrous.
"This spirit ship is fifty or sixty feet long, with three floors on the deck. How can an ordinary single room not be enough?"
Lu Changan thought to himself.
not long.
Lu Changan and his group of five came to the dark cargo hold below the deck.
At this time, twenty or thirty monks had been squeezed into the cargo hold, and the breaths of different monks mingled together.
Other monks were brought in later.
Lu Changan frowned slightly. With so many monks crowded together in a public cabin, safety, privacy, and comfort were all problems.
"Fellow daoists, if you are not satisfied with this place, there are still a small number of ordinary guest rooms on it. The guest rooms on the spirit ship, even if you pass through the land of absolute spirits on the way, you can enjoy the cultivation environment of the second-order spirit vein."
The tall and thin Chamber of Commerce monk lowered his voice.
Lu Changan and the purple-faced burly man looked at each other. The latter had an angry look on his face. He took a deep breath, but he didn't attack after all.
…
In a quarter of an hour.
The spirit ship flew high into the sky, and a cross-border journey began.
In the ordinary guest room on the first floor of the Lingship.
Lu Changan made a pot of hot tea, sat in front of the desk, and looked out the window at the endless sea of clouds.
At the cost of three thousand spirit stones, Lu Changan left the cargo hold at the bottom of the ship with a bad environment and lived in a single room with an area of more than ten square meters.
Nearly half of the Liang Guo monks are still crowded in the dark cargo hold below.
Three thousand spirit stones is not a small sum for the foundation building period.
Originally buying a boat ticket, it cost favors and four or five thousand spirit stones.
Most monks in the early and middle stages of foundation establishment have only a few thousand "cash flow" of spiritual stones that can be used.
All the way to the meeting point, you still need to manage the law enforcement monks on the road. If you are unlucky, you may even sell your magic weapon.
Ordinary foundation-building monks, before and after boarding the ship, their spirit stones are basically drained
Some of the foundation-building monks also brought juniors from the Qi refining period. If you upgrade to a guest room, you have to spend double the spirit stones.
Because, only one monk is allowed in an ordinary room.
The first-class room that the "prince" lived in was a luxury suite.
"The same journey, some people go to asylum, some people are equivalent to a cross-country vacation."
Lu Changan took a sip of the hot tea, it was fragrant and fragrant, and a sense of warmth surged in his stomach.
"Huh? Why is the direction of the spirit ship flying north?"
Half a day later, Lu Changan came to the deck of the spirit ship, gazing at the landscape beyond the brilliance of the formation.
He sensed the special breath in the direction of the Black Mist Mountains.
According to the normal route, the Lingjian will go to Jingguo, all the way to the west.
In the north, there are the Black Mist Mountains.
Actually, there is a more dangerous route from Liang State to Jing State.
That is to go deep into the Black Mist Mountains, circle a big circle, and then go south to Jingguo.
It's just that this path is going deeper into the Black Mist Mountains, the journey is far away, and you may encounter a big demon.
Moreover, on the outskirts of the mountains, they have to face inspections by monks of the Zongmen, threats of robbery, and unpredictable monks from the Demon Cult.
…
When Lu Changan became suspicious.
The huge spirit ship hovered slowly in front of a big river near the outskirts of the Black Mist Mountains.
On the hillside by the river bank, a second-order spirit boat carrying a man and a woman flew to the spirit ship of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce.
"A monk boarded the ship halfway?"
On the spirit ship, whether it was the monks of Liang Guo or the monks of Jing Guo Business League, they showed surprise.
For the monks of the Jingguo Business Alliance, generally only the monks gather at the designated place and wait for the spirit ship together.
It is extremely rare for the spirit ship to change direction halfway and pick up people on purpose.
The monks from the two countries sized up the two monks on the spirit boat with suspicious eyes.
The driver of the spirit boat is a man in black clothes in the late stage of foundation establishment.
In the middle of the spirit boat, sitting cross-legged is a long-haired woman wearing a veil.
The veil of the long-haired female nun cut off the breath on her body and the detection of her spiritual consciousness.
The two people who boarded the ship on the way were obviously not young, and the monks on the ship did not dare to use their spiritual sense to probe easily.
"Two, please go to the guest room on the third floor."
Several management monks from the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce politely received the two on board.
Out of caution, Lu Changan didn't use his spiritual sense to investigate rashly.
However, he just visually observed the figure of the long-haired nun, and immediately felt familiar.
"How did this woman board the spirit ship of the Jiuchen Chamber of Commerce?"
(end of this chapter)