Chapter 719 Ancient Times

The sky is clear and cloudless.

The flying boat was moving towards its destination. The outer restrictions had been retracted, and it was floating in the air like a fairy tower, which was very beautiful.

"Senior, this is the Yingluo Stone you requested."

Zhang Shi followed the corridor to the innermost room, raised his hand and knocked lightly three times.

A few days ago, when Zhang Shi found Chen Luo disassembling a cleaning puppet, he immediately saw this opportunity to get close to his senior. The cleaning puppet on the flying boat was not a particularly precious treasure. It could be bought in the market outside with just a few spirit stones.

"Put it at the door."

Chen Luo's voice came from inside.

The Zhang brothers were both independent cultivators who were very good at understanding people's intentions. When conditions allowed, Chen Luo didn't mind them borrowing his power. Now that he was unfamiliar with this place, having two locals to help with chores would save a lot of time.

Through the conversations over the past few days, Chen Luo had a general understanding of the identities of the Zhang brothers.

The two brothers were nominal disciples of Elder Qu of Qingyanfang City. As the overlord of this area, the Ancient Sword Sect could not do everything by itself. In order to control these areas with resources and save the disciples' time for cultivation, the Ancient Sword Sect developed a new method.

Allocate places.

The Ancient Sword Sect will distribute disciple identity cards to corresponding areas, and the disciples holding these identity cards are disciples of the Ancient Sword Sect.

A maximum of thirty are assigned to one area, and in some places there may be only five or six.

Qingyan Market is the largest gathering place for independent cultivators in this area. It has important resources such as sand snake gallbladder, Yingluo stone, and spirit-injecting grass. The allocation ratio should be slightly higher. The Ancient Sword Sect has allocated a full 50 quotas here.

The person who controls these places is the owner of Qingyan Market.

Ancestor Qingyan who is in the state of transformation of spirit.

This Qingyan Patriarch was also a talented person. After obtaining these identity cards, he did not rush to carry out the tasks assigned by the Ancient Sword Sect like the others. Instead, he established the Qingyan Market under the name of the Ancient Sword Sect and massively absorbed powerful cultivators. At the peak of his career, there were six Nascent Soul elders in the Qingyan Market, more than twenty Jindan cultivators, and more than five hundred subordinates.

With so many people, it is naturally impossible for everyone to have an identity tag.

So he came up with a method of "nominal disciple". When he needed to go on a mission, he would use the name of the Ancient Sword Sect, and return the identity badge after the mission was completed. Over time, the Qingyan Patriarch created a complete identity points system based on this logic, and the Qingyan Market grew bigger and bigger.

The Zhang brothers were such nominal disciples.

The two brothers took the mission this time to earn cultivation resources for the foundation-building realm. For this mission, the two brothers also offended a person who had a better background than the two brothers and had a Jindan family behind him. Although the relationship was a little distant, it was still a support. Zhang Shi flattered Chen Luo so much because he hoped to use Chen Luo's reputation to offset this disaster. Compared with the greedy Elder Qu, this senior was obviously easier to talk to.

"yes."

Zhang Shi sighed with some regret.

He put the things at the door and turned to walk out.

This senior was too cautious, and was very different from the Nascent Soul Patriarch they had in mind.

"I don't know what realm this senior is at, and whether he can stand up to the Huang family's ancestor."

In the room.

Chen Luo put the rewritten puppet's head back together and raised his right hand. A large piece of translucent spiritual whiskers flew out from the fingertips of his five fingers. These spiritual whiskers connected to the back of the puppet's head like tentacles. Strands of ring-shaped spiritual power spread into it along the spiritual whiskers. Soon, the puppet lying on the table came to life.

"Your Majesty."

The puppet sat up, turned his head ninety degrees, and spoke respectfully.

“Not bad.”

Chen Luo nodded with satisfaction and put the puppet into his sleeve.

Although the puppetry here is a little different, the essence remains the same. As long as you grasp the core of the puppet, you can easily figure out the structure of the puppet here. The puppeteers in the external brain have already gone dormant and started to study new puppetry.

'Sword Domain.'

Chen Luo turned around and looked at the map hanging on the wall next to him.

This map was sent to him by the Zhang brothers not long ago. It showed all the landforms near Qingyanfang City. There were also general markings for areas farther away, but the level of detail might not be as high.

According to the description of the Zhang brothers, the Sword Domain is not peaceful.

There are a lot of dangers in the Sword Domain, including natural disasters and ferocious beasts. If you are not careful, you will be dead. Only the place protected by the Ancient Sword Sect can ensure safety. However, if you want to practice in the place protected by the Ancient Sword Sect, you must pay spirit stones. Although it is not much, it is also a considerable expense for most casual practitioners.

On weekdays, you need to prepare spiritual stones for cultivation. It can be said that every step requires a large amount of spiritual stones. The Zhang brothers are doing relatively well. Both brothers are foundation-building cultivators and have the status of nominal disciples. The worst are those who have neither strength nor spiritual stones. It is almost impossible for them to turn over, unless they are extremely rare geniuses.

"Mirage beast."

Chen Luo looked at the jade slip beside him, which contained a description of the natural disasters and ferocious beasts in the Sword Realm.

Mirage beasts are the most common one. Mirage beasts appear almost every once in a while, coming as mist and leaving as clouds, and it takes no more than a cup of tea from appearance to disappearance. According to the description of the Zhang brothers, a Nascent Soul cultivator was once devoured by a mirage beast. The devoured Nascent Soul cultivator never appeared again, and the family of the Nascent Soul cultivator was also eliminated from the Sword Domain.

"It sounds a bit like the legendary world."

After coming here, Chen Luo has been trying to enter the legendary world, but unfortunately he has not succeeded so far. The legendary world here is like it does not exist. No matter how Chen Luo tries, he cannot use it, and the method of "returning to reality" cannot be used.

Putting down the jade slip, Chen Luo pushed the door and walked out.

"senior."

Zhang Chen, who was waiting at the door, was startled and immediately became alert.

"Have you ever seen a mirage beast?"

“Yes.”

Zhang Chen responded immediately. Unlike his brother Zhang Shi, he would always be very nervous when talking to Chen Luo.

"Mirage beast is one of our names. Compared with 'beast', I think 'realm' is more descriptive." Zhang Chen described the mirage beast he had seen, and asked a question at the end.

Beasts and worlds?

Chen Luo frowned.

"Can we get the things left behind by the mirage beast?"

"this"

Zhang Chen was embarrassed. This request was beyond his ability. For a foundation-building cultivator, the mirage beast was like the Qingyan Patriarch, and they were both beings that could not be provoked. Normally, he would hide from them, so how could he dare to provoke them?

"What is the Haunted Night?"

After knowing that this request was beyond the capabilities of the Zhang brothers, Chen Luo did not ask any more questions, but turned the topic to another natural disaster in the jade slip that needed attention. The description in the jade slip was not clear, but only mentioned it briefly.

There are two major disasters in the Sword Realm.

The first plague was the mirage.

The second plague was the Night of Ghosts.

"The Ghost Night refers to the period from 11:00 to 1:00 on September 15th every year. On this night, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will turn into evil energy. Ghosts will return from the underworld on this night. Only places engraved with the sword seal of the Ancient Sword Sect can avoid the impact of these ghosts."

Hearing the noise, Zhang Shi walked in from outside.

"The strength of ghosts varies. The weakest ones are only at the Qi Refining Stage, while the strongest ones are comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage. These ghosts cannot be killed. Even if they are shattered by thunder magic, they will be reborn and return soon. The founder of the Ancient Sword Sect once sneaked into the entrance of the underworld, and after returning, he never mentioned it again."

Chen Luo subconsciously touched the soul flag on his waist.

He would definitely not miss this kind of disaster! When the next ghost night comes, he will definitely go to exorcise the demons and avenge his dead apprentice! !

Who is the dead apprentice?

It doesn't matter.

At worst, he could go back to the grave and pick one up. He was familiar with this.

"You two brothers have helped me a lot. If you have any difficulties, please tell me. If conditions permit, I can help you once."

Chen Luo was very satisfied that the Zhang brothers understood his intentions.

Calculating the time, the flying boat was almost at the end of the land, and he needed a reason to integrate into this place. The Zhang brothers were a good starting point.

"Thank you, senior!"

A hint of joy appeared on the faces of the two brothers.

They had been running around for so long, waiting for this sentence. In the next chapter, they told the story of the feud between the two brothers and the enemy, even the cause and effect, and the family behind the enemy, without hiding anything.

"Do people from the Jindan family still need to fight for this kind of resources?"

Chen Luo frowned.

In his impression, Jindan cultivators can already gather qi to condense crystals and will no longer be constrained by spirit stone resources.

"Of course. The higher the level of cultivation, the more spiritual stones are consumed. The spiritual stone veins near Qingyan Market have long been mined. The cultivation resources of all the immortal cultivators in this area are earned through market missions."

Listening to Zhang Shi's description, Chen Luo gradually discovered the problem.

It seems that none of the cultivators in this place know the art of gathering qi.

The source of the spiritual stones they used for their practice were all collected from mineral veins. This backward method was completely different from the world of immortal cultivation that Chen Luo had come into contact with.

"Did the ancient magic circle really take me back to the ancient times? That's not right."

If it was ancient times, why did the Ancient Sword Sect exist? It couldn't be that this sect had existed from ancient times to the present day. And the remnants of the 'heart demon' he saw in the desert, etc., were all problems.

Boom!

The flying boat fell from the sky and landed outside a huge city.

The sky here is filled with rosy clouds, and immortal cultivators fly in every moment. From a distance, it looks like a fairy city of white clouds, which is quite spectacular.

"Senior, we have arrived at Qingshi City."

Zhang Shi and Zhang Chen, the two brothers, landed from the flying boat with Chen Luo. The two brothers still had the identity tokens of the disciples of the Ancient Sword Sect on them. As "nominal disciples", the first thing they had to do was to return the tokens.

(End of this chapter)