Xiao Chen calmed the spirit of the evil dragon, looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, he took out the Spirit Root of Heaven and Earth.
"#%..."
After the spiritual roots of heaven and earth came out, I was a little confused. Why did it change place again?
"Someone just left. Let's walk around here first."
Xiao Chen said to the spiritual roots of heaven and earth.
"#￥%..."
The Spirit Root of Heaven and Earth tilted his head and looked at Di Hai, then glanced at the Xuanyuan Sword in Xiao Chen's hand.
Xiao Chen flew into the air and landed above the Imperial Sea, his gaze cast towards a distant place.
I don’t know what’s on the other side of the sea.
What kind of existence is Tianwaitian...?
"Brother Long, do you have any sense? It's not the sense that I want to go down and play in the water."
Xiao Chen lowered his head and asked.
"No."
The dragon spirit replied.
"All right."
Xiao Chen nodded and looked in the direction of Luojian Peak. Maybe... the secret of Emperor Xuanyuan's Taoist temple really lies on Luojian Peak.
The day is a sword, the night is a knife...it can't be a coincidence.
There must be some secret hidden in this.
"What does the bearded man know? This guy knows far more than anyone else."
Xiao Chen muttered to himself that he still had to find a way to get some more information out of the bearded man.
But he also knew that if he had no news to exchange, the bearded man would not say much.
To put it bluntly, it's just an exchange of information.
Time passes by...
Two hours later, Xiao Chen gave up.
"Xiao Gen, go back first tonight."
Xiao Chen touched the head of the Heaven and Earth Spirit Root. The little guy was quite excited at the beginning, but now he has lost his spirit.
Obviously, it never found anything, so the searching process seemed a bit boring for it.
"Brother Long, let's go."
Xiao Chen first collected the spiritual roots of heaven and earth, then collected the spirit of the evil dragon, and flew to Xuanyuan Town.
He returned to the inn quietly and scanned the next room with his spiritual sense. Wang Pingbei was practicing.
"Is it so frightening that the Great Elder dares not sleep?"
Xiao Chen shook his head and fell asleep.
He was not worried at all that the Great Elder would come after him. Zhao Cangqiong had already said that the Great Elder and Shan Kui of Shanhai Tower had fought each other in a mutually destructive battle.
The conflict on the second floor will not ease in the short term.
At the very least, a bigger conflict has to break out before a period of peace can be ushered in.
During this period, even if the Great Elder was interested in him, he would most likely not come.
A night passed and the sky gradually brightened.
Xiao Chen woke up, called Wang Pingbei, and went out to have breakfast.
After breakfast, the two prepared to go out to sea.
"Brother Chen, didn't you say that we should take a walk around Xuanyuan Town first? No more walking around? Go straight to the sea?"
Wang Pingbei asked curiously.
"Well, let's stop turning and go out to sea."
Xiao Chen nodded.
"It is said that Xuanyuan Realm is on the Imperial Sea. If there is such a saying, then there will be no storm without wind..."
"Too."
Wang Pingbei said no more. After all, he was just a follower and had to listen to Xiao Chen.
When the two arrived at the beach, they found that there were already quite a few people there.
"Flying in the sky and out to sea? You have a lot of innate talent."
Xiao Chen looked at the people in the sky and counted them. There were about ten of them.
"What about us? Go out in the sky?"
Wang Pingbei asked.
"No, find a boat and go out."
Xiao Chen shook his head.
"Although flying in the air is faster and freer, it's obviously not as comfortable as a boat... I wonder what I can find by flying around on it."
"really."
Wang Pingbei pointed forward.
"There's a small dock over there. There should be a boat there."
"Walk."
The two came to the dock, where someone was renting a boat.
"Haha, has an industrial chain been formed?"
Xiao Chen was happy. There were too many cultivators going out to sea in search of opportunities, so naturally there were people doing this kind of business.
He picked a boat at random and set out to sea.
"Have you two just arrived in Xuanyuan Town?"
The boatman asked while rowing the boat.
"Yeah, yeah."
Xiao Chen nodded.
"Come and try your luck."
"Haha, there are obviously more people coming to Xuanyuan Town in recent days."
The boatman was a man in his fifties, wearing a coarse cloth shirt and carrying a bamboo hat.
His face was full of smiles and a bit of respect.
"Haha, business has improved a lot, right?"
Xiao Chen sat on the boat. A small boat like this wouldn't go very fast.
However, he was not in a hurry and wanted to take his time.
This thing... depends more on luck, rather than anything you can gain if you hurry.
"Well, it's okay, I earn some hard-earned money to live on."
Seeing that Xiao Chen and Wang Pingbei were not arrogant, the man became much more talkative.
They make money in this business, but it is risky.
In the eyes of practitioners, their lives mean nothing.
If you encounter someone with a strange temper or a demon who kills people without blinking an eye, it is easy to lose your life.
This group of people often go out to sea... and never come back.
"But I heard that there is something unusual happening in the Imperial Sea recently?"
Xiao Chen asked as he looked around.
In his opinion, the boatman was like a taxi driver...
When you go to an unfamiliar place and want to know something, asking the taxi driver is definitely a good way.
Especially some unknown things, they often know them all.
"I haven't heard of it. There are just too many people."
The man shook his head.
"But I see that you two are very impressive, you must be very lucky people, and you will definitely gain something."
"Hahaha, I'm borrowing your good words."
Xiao Chen laughed.
"This guy is really good at saying nice things."
Wang Pingbei, who had been expressionless all this time, also smiled.
"If there is any harvest, I will reward you handsomely."
Xiao Chen looked at the man and said.
"That's good."
The man smiled even more broadly. Even though it was just talk, but...what if?
"How long have you been a boatman here?"
Xiao Chen asked casually.
"It's been three years."
The man replied.
"I used to make a living in the town, and later I followed my brother to the sea... I can earn more in the sea than in the town."
“Is there any risk at sea?”
Xiao Chen asked again.
"some."
The man said this and hesitated.
"Fortunately, the adults I met were all very nice."
"Um?"
Xiao Chen was stunned. The risk did not come from the sea? But from the practitioners?
"My brother went to sea and never came back, leaving behind an orphan and a widow..."
The man's voice became much deeper.
"Most practitioners won't do anything to them, but not all..."
As a cultivator from the outer world, Wang Pingbei still understood what was going on.
“…”
Xiao Chen fell silent. So this was the risk.
"My Lords, which direction are we going?"
The man smiled and changed the subject.
Facing powerful practitioners, ordinary people are just ants.
There was nothing they could do but accept their fate.
"Any direction."
Xiao Chen said casually.
"Please tell me a direction."
The man said hurriedly.
He didn't dare to just choose a direction. What if he didn't find anything and was blamed?
"Over there."
Xiao Chen pointed in a direction and said.
"Are you from Xuanyuan Town?"
“Yes, the ancestors are here.”
The man nodded.
"So you know Blacksmith Zhang?"
Xiao Chen looked at the man. He wanted to test the blacksmith Zhang's background.
"Blacksmith Zhang? Blacksmith Zhang from the back street? Of course I know him."
The man nodded.
"Speaking of which, our two families are somewhat related. My grandfather's grandfather is a brother to someone in his family..."
"oh?"
Xiao Chen is quite lively, and he is related to her? He should know her better, right?
"Tell me about Blacksmith Zhang."
"Blacksmith Zhang is not an ordinary person, and he has a strange personality..."
The man didn't dare to ask why he was interested in blacksmith Zhang.
"My father told me that when Blacksmith Zhang was young, he left Xuanyuan Town... and then came back many years ago."
"Um?"
Hearing this, Xiao Chen's eyes flashed.
Even Wang Pingbei felt that something was wrong.
Then, he thought of what Blacksmith Zhang had said to them, that his ancestors had left, and he came back to return to his roots!
This statement is different from what the boatman said!
Who is lying?
It is most likely the former!
"Then what?"
Xiao Chen remained calm. Why did Zhang the Blacksmith lie to him?
"Haha, you really asked the right person. My family also lives in the back street. If I didn't have some relatives, I wouldn't be able to understand him."
The man laughed.
"It's called Blacksmith Zhang, but he usually only makes swords... If we want to make something, let's go to South Street and find Blacksmith Tan."
"Blacksmith Tan? There are two blacksmiths in Xuanyuan Town?"
Wang Pingbei asked curiously.
"Yes."
The man nodded.
"Blacksmith Tan makes some daily necessities...Blacksmith Zhang rarely interacts with people in the town. He is only slightly familiar with people in the back streets. However, his disciple often comes out."
"Did he bring that disciple back from outside? Or did he recruit him in Xuanyuan Town?"
Xiao Chen asked again.
"Not from this town."
The man shook his head.
"He brought it back from outside. I saw it at that time... Oh, yes, there were three people at that time. I didn't see clearly who the other one was. But all along, there were only two people on Zhang the Blacksmith's side. I thought I was seeing things many times."
"Three people? Two people?"
Xiao Chen's heart moved. Who is the other person?
Could it be that he is also the 'guardian' mentioned by the Ghost King?
"I heard that Xuanyuan Town has a guardian? Do you know about this?"
Xiao Chen thought about it and asked.
"I know, but many people in this town don't believe it. Only a few people think that there is a guardian here."
The man nodded.
"Young people in particular don't believe it anymore..."
"Guardian God...are there any legends about him?"
Xiao Chen felt that even if he didn't find anything in the sea, it was still a gain.
"Well, it's hard to say."
The man hesitated and shook his head.
"Give."
Xiao Chen thought he didn't want to say it, so he took out a few gold particles.
Money makes the world go round. If you give me money, are you afraid that you won't be able to get the answer?
When the man saw the gold particles, his eyes lit up, but he still shook his head in embarrassment.
"Why, you still think it's not enough?"
Wang Pingbei stared when he saw this.
"No, it's not that it's too little, it's that I don't dare to say it."
The man panicked and said quickly.
"There are only three of us here, why don't you dare to say it? Don't worry, what you said is known to you, me, and him, and no fourth person will know it."
Xiao Chen said as he handed him the gold particles.
"Then...then let me tell you?"
The man hesitated.
"If I tell you, you can't kill me."
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