Chapter 214 Being Targeted
After passing through the passage, there is an empty underground river behind. The river is very wide, with no end in sight. The river is covered with fog, and some fishing boats are floating on the water, with strange paper figures standing on them. Looking up, there are dense prohibitions and constantly changing formations above. There is a prohibition against flying, and no one can fly in the air.
A wooden boat floated over. The length of the boat was only about four or five meters. A swaying octagonal lantern was hung on a bamboo canopy in the middle. The light inside flickered, making it particularly conspicuous in the foggy river.
"Guests, please come aboard."
The paper man on the boat made a childish sound. Chen Luo glanced at it and walked onto the wooden boat. The paper man pushed the bamboo pole and the wooden boat left the shore and rowed towards the center of the river.
This place should be in the belly of the mountain.
Chen Luo stood at the front of the wooden boat, and the fog on both sides kept receding. Looking back, the place behind him had disappeared, and the wooden boats surrounding him had also disappeared, leaving only the dark river water around him.
The paper man paddled the wooden boat stiffly, and each of its movements overlapped with the previous one. It looked like it was not moving. But Chen Luo knew that these were just illusions. The long river below was a third-order formation, and even the brain of the hanged man could not fully understand it.
The wooden boat sailed for about a cup of tea, and the surrounding scenery slowly changed. Some wooden boats like his began to appear around. Most of these wooden boats were empty, and occasionally there were living people on a few boats. These people, like Chen Luo, were foundation-building cultivators.
Cultivators at the Qi Refining Stage are not yet qualified to enter this place.
After rowing for a while, the boat slowed down and there were more and more lights around. Finally, the wooden boat stopped and Chen Luo saw a wooden platform house floating in the water. This wooden platform house was also a boat. The hull was like a small house with a shaking sign hanging on it.
"Guest, we have arrived."
The paper man rowing the boat said something, and then froze in place, losing his spirit. Chen Luo did not stop, but walked step by step on the water to the wooden platform in the middle.
Not long after Chen Luo came up, two more boats came over and two people got off.
Including Chen Luo and the people who were originally on the platform of the wooden house, there were five people in total.
"Old Lei, why is it you again?"
A person on Chen Luo’s left saw the fat middle-aged man who stood on the stage at the beginning and said something.
"What bad luck! Why are you, the monkey, here again?"
Lei Laogui, who heard the voice, also turned his head. After seeing the person who was speaking clearly, a look of disgust appeared on his face. Judging from his expression, the two of them must have known each other for a long time.
"This time, with just the two of us old men, maybe the chances of success will be much greater."
The skinny monk chuckled and walked to the side of Lei Laogui.
The other two people and Chen Luo did not speak, and the two did not even blink. Most of the people who came here were here to refine corpses. Black Stone City has always been doing this business of raising corpses. However, the best refined corpses are too expensive. Some picky corpse refiners have come many times but still cannot buy the refined corpses they want, so they just stay here.
In addition to purchasing refined corpses, this place also conducts some shady transactions. Many things that are not convenient to do openly can be traded here.
For example, obtaining a place in Blackrock City and reselling materials banned by the Blackrock Patriarch.
Dangdang
The sound of the wooden pole knocking echoed in the air. Everyone fell silent and saw a hunched old woman walking out of the wooden house in front of them.
"Those who want to join Black Rock City come in, and those who want to buy corpses stay."
After the old woman said something, she turned around and walked into the house. One of the people immediately stood up and followed the old woman.
"After joining Black Stone City, all the karma on you will be borne by us, and your future cultivation resources and skills will be settled. But at the same time, you will also be bound to Black Stone City in the future, this blood contract."
The voice gradually faded away, and Chen Luo withdrew his consciousness.
Can Black Rock City be added here?
Don't all the foundation-building cultivators come to the door and join after saying a word? At most, there is a difference in status and treatment, and they can get the badge of guest officials. But at the moment, it seems that the power of Black Stone City is greater than he expected, and the Black Stone Ancestor who occupies the third-level spirit vein is stronger than he imagined.
To Chen Luo now, Jindan cultivators are still great figures. Since he started practicing, he has only come into contact with a few Jindan cultivators. Among them, the leader of Shenhu Xianmen and the Black Stone Patriarch have only heard of them and have never seen their real bodies. The only two people he has really come into contact with are the two people he met by chance when he was in the Fox Clan.
Granny Hu and Senior Gu from the fox clan.
He was the only Jindan cultivator he had ever met, and he left a deep impression on him at the time.
Not long after, another person walked out.
"Those who want to buy the refined corpse just need to register and pay the deposit, and then they can go back." This person was a bald monk with a shiny head. His face was covered with black words tattooed on it. When you looked at him, these black words would distort, making them look like living things.
curse!
Chen Luo saw the power of these black words at a glance. This guy was a ruthless person. He tattooed the curse words on his face. Anyone who fought with him would be attracted by his aura as soon as they saw him, and then suffer his curse.
"Wait, I brought this this time."
When the bald monk was about to leave, the skinny monkey who had spoken earlier suddenly called out to him, then took something out of his arms and handed it to him.
The bald monk took a look and then pointed at the wooden house.
"Go in and choose one. There is an iron corpse in the third coffin."
Seeing this, Chen Luo immediately called out to the other person.
"My fellow Taoist, I..."
"Didn't you understand what I said? Pay the deposit and go back to wait for the time." The bald monk looked impatient and interrupted Chen Luo before he could finish his words.
"Then how can he buy it?"
Chen Luo immediately became unhappy. He had already walked to the door, how could he be sent away with just a few words? Not to mention that the skinny monk came here with him. Why could others buy but he couldn't?
"He has the Black Rock City Elder Order. Do you have it?"
Perhaps sensing Chen Luo's level of cultivation, the bald monk spoke in a rare good-tempered manner.
"Elder's order?"
"There are three elders in Black Stone City, all of whom are great cultivators who have reached the Perfect Foundation Establishment stage. If you have the ability, just go and ask them for the token. There is no point in talking to me here."
"If there is a queue, how long will I have to wait?"
"Who knows? If you're lucky, you'll be able to buy it tomorrow, but if you're unlucky, you won't be able to buy it even if you wait three years."
After saying that, he didn't stay any longer and turned back to the cabin.
The late stage of foundation building is very powerful, but it also depends on where you are. This is Black Stone City, the practice place of Black Stone Ancestor. Let alone the late stage of foundation building, even if it is a great cultivator who has completed the foundation building, he has to line up honestly according to the rules.
"Let's go. We'll have to wait until next time."
Lei Laogui next to him said something.
He had been waiting for several months and had long been accustomed to the ways of Black Stone City. As long as you did not overwhelm the Black Stone Patriarch, you had to follow his rules.
After taking a look at the skinny monkey entering the wooden house, Chen Luo could only pay the deposit like Lei Laogui and leave by boat.
"It's hard to find corpses with potential. For corpse cultivators like us, a good corpse can greatly improve our combat power. A corpse cultivator with a strong soul can refine several corpse puppets by himself. There are even old demons with strong consciousness who can refine hundreds of zombies at a time. That scene is really great."
Lei Laogui was chatting with Chen Luo nearby.
It's still some time before the boat leaves the lake, and since we're just sitting around anyway, we might as well chat.
"Who is the old demon you mentioned who refined hundreds of zombies?" Chen Luo asked.
If you can’t buy a corpse puppet, you can communicate with fellow corpse refiners.
A great foundation-building cultivator could be suffocated by such a small difficulty?
“Who else could it be? It’s naturally the leader of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, one of the three major forces in Black Stone City, the Black Zombie Taoist.” When this name was mentioned, Lei Laogui’s eyes were full of envy.
The Black Zombie Taoist of the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
Chen Luo nodded and said nothing more.
After a while, the wooden boat brought them back to the passage. Lei Laogui did not speak to Chen Luo anymore and left along the passage first. Chen Luo followed him out.
After leaving the Puppet Pavilion, Chen Luo did not stay in Black Stone City for long, but went straight out of the city along the mountain road.
Returning to the outer city again, Chen Luo found an inn to stay in.
The inner city is too close to the Black Stone Ancestor, and with the Jindan Ancestor around, many things are inconvenient to do. It's much easier in the outer city, where many foundation-building people like Chen Luo live, and the control here is far less strict than in the inner city.
Sitting cross-legged in the house, Chen Luo closed his eyes and began to sense the pale-faced monk he met in the passage during the day. He wanted to see where this person came from and why he had the aura of Madam White Bone.
He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a thumb-sized black beetle.
This beetle was the means he left behind to trace the whereabouts of the pale-faced monk. Just as Chen Luo was about to control the insect, a spiritual power fluctuation suddenly came from his spiritual sense.
Anyone?
Chen Luo instantly restrained his breath and stopped his movements. His first thought was that the people from the Demon Clan had come looking for him. He didn't have many enemies with cultivators now, and the leader of the Demon Clan was the first one. After all, he had just given the other party a big gift not long ago, so it was normal for him to be targeted.
rustle
A slight sound was heard.
"It's an air-eating bug!"
'There is a kalpa of cultivation.'
A thought emerged from the brains of Wang Zangxiao and the insect cultivator woman from Shancheng.
Chen Luo's consciousness spread out and instantly captured the abnormal point. Outside his window, there was a sesame-sized insect attached. Like his beetle, this insect had no cultivation fluctuations and was a common insect used by insect cultivators to capture auras. An ordinary cultivator would definitely ignore this kind of insect, but Chen Luo happened to have studied the "Strange Insect Secret Book" and with the help of the two insect cultivators' external brains, he immediately discovered something was wrong.
(End of this chapter)
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