Chapter 297: The Xizhou People Protecting Food
Zhong Linger raised her eyebrows, "You think I can do something that even the Heavenly Dao can't throw away?"
Qingxuan laughed, "You can't throw it away, but you can collect it. Isn't Canghai going to evolve into a small world? This is the ready-made material!"
Zhong Ling'er held her chin with her hand and pondered for a while, then said to the others, "Let's fly up and take a look!"
Looking from below, one could only see some rocks and soil exposed between the layers of white fog. When one reached the top, the first thing one saw was a group of people pointing inside the city and it sounded like they were discussing the style of the city walls and the purpose of some of the houses.
I tried with my hand but was blocked by an invisible barrier. Just as Wen Jinyan said, it seemed that something was wrapping around the city and no one could get in.
Zhong Ling'er wanted to fly higher to overlook the entire city, but she found that she couldn't fly up at all. It must be that the laws of nature did not allow anyone to explore.
Zhong Ling'er probed her spiritual sense into the city again, only to find that the city was in deathly silence, without any sound or breath of life. However, she and Ling Ji had learned ghost magic, so they could sense that there were countless souls roaring in the city.
This is a dead city, a city with countless corpses and souls!
"Junior sister, Junior sister is here too!"
"Ah! I saw my little sister alive!"
"Hello, Junior Sister, I like you!"
Zhong Ling'er smiled and waved to everyone, and then someone shouted, "Look, the most beautiful lady, she is really the most beautiful lady!"
“Ahhh! Ouyang Ruochen, I actually saw Ouyang Ruochen!”
Zhong Ling'er withdrew her hand and swallowed back what she was about to say. These people were fickle and she didn't want to play with them anymore.
He casually threw out a few array bases, but suddenly a strong wind appeared and shattered one of the array bases.
"Zhong Ling'er, what are you going to do? This is not yours."
Zhong Ling'er looked up and saw a gloomy-looking old man glaring at her.
"I didn't say this is mine. I just saw that the underground soil and rocks in the city were rather loose, so I used the formation to help fix it, to prevent it from falling apart halfway through the move."
The old man snorted coldly, "You don't have to pretend to be kind. Who knows if you have set up a formation so that only you can enter, and take the opportunity to occupy this city for yourself!"
Zhong Ling'er was speechless. If only it were that simple. If she dared to rob it, the cultivators in the immortal world would overthrow the Taiqiong Sect.
Wen Jinyan quietly approached Zhong Ling'er and said, "This is the elder of the Zhu family in Xizhou. He is always difficult to talk to."
Zhong Ling'er nodded, collected the array base that she had thrown down, and then looked up at the sky. "I just want to stabilize the soil and rocks underground. It's up to you to decide whether to let me help you."
Then Zhong Ling'er raised her hand and hammered several array bases into the ground in the city. Everyone could see clearly that the array bases passed through the inexplicable barrier and fell to the ground unhindered.
Elder Zhu was shocked and puzzled. He threw two spirit stones in but they were blocked back. Others who didn't believe in it threw things in, but nothing could get in. Everyone looked at Zhong Ling'er, hoping she could give an explanation.
"Junior sister, someone has tried it before and found that it takes ten Mahayana cultivators or above to cast a spell together to open this barrier. Why can your formation base go in?"
Zhong Ling'er smiled and said, "I've already said that I'm only helping to stabilize this city to prevent it from falling apart. We can talk about the rest later."
No one stopped Zhong Ling'er anymore. She began to circle around the city, continuously throwing the formation base into the barrier. It took her three full days to set up the formation. Finally, Zhong Ling'er activated the formation, and a flash of light appeared above the city, and the entire city was raised a few points higher.
During these three days, Zhong Ling'er witnessed the undercurrents among the aristocratic families in Xizhou.
Among the four great families, the Zhu family had the most visitors and was the most rude, treating the city as their own property. Of course, in the previous life, this city in the sky did belong to Xizhou, and finally fell into the hands of the Zhu family.
Only two people from the Qi family came, but they obviously did not have a good relationship with Qi Haoran. Qi Haoran was supposed to be the young master of the Qi family, but no one gave him the respect he deserved. Zhong Linger asked the fifth senior brother and found out that this was the third master of the Qi family's man, who had always been at odds with his father.
The people of the Yuan family were quite polite. Of course, as long as they didn't mention the Sky City, everything else would be fine.
Then there is the Bai family. This family hid aside and watched, not showing up, but they kept everyone's every move in their hands. They even specially called Hu Sheng over and watched her set up the formation. They can be said to be the most scheming.
The four great families in Xizhou all have one characteristic, that is, they do not allow others to approach the Sky City. They are even very hostile to others and are quite protective of their food.
It seemed that not long after this incident in the previous life, turmoil broke out in Xizhou. I don’t know if it was related to this incident. Zhong Ling'er looked at the fifth senior brother who was still jumping up and down, and decided to let him continue to be silly and happy, and she took on everything.
After quietly moving away from the crowd, the seven decided to go to Xizhou while enjoying the scenery. There was no other way, as Xizhou did not have a long-distance teleportation array, and it seemed that no one had a formation array either. They could only fly by flying swords.
Zhong Ling'er suggested checking the situation of the four Taiqiong trading companies in Xizhou, so she did not go directly to the Qi family, but first came to Baihu City where the nearest Baihu family was located.
The city of Xizhou makes people feel uncomfortable. To enter the city, each person has to pay a head tax of 100 spirit stones. Zhong Ling'er lost 700 spirit stones and was very unhappy.
The buildings on both sides of the street were of exotic style. Qi Haoran introduced them to the others, saying that the white ones with tiger claw marks belonged to the Bai family, the green ones with wings patterns belonged to the Zhu family, the Qi family had a dark red phoenix feather pattern, and the Yuan family had a yellow fist pattern.
Three quarters of the street are occupied by shops of the four major families, and the rest seem to be owned by Tianji Pavilion and Qianjin Pavilion. Zhong Ling'er frowned secretly. If the business of a city is monopolized by a few big families, how can this city develop well? The business environment is too bad.
Bai Luochen stopped a passerby who was in a hurry and asked him how to get to Taiqiong Commercial Bank.
The passerby said impatiently: "Where are you going? You can't buy anything. Go, go, don't waste your time."
"How is it possible that we can't buy anything? We can wait in line!"
Zhong Ling'er interrupted, but the passerby laughed coldly, "Little sister, you won't be able to buy anything even if you wait for a hundred years. If you don't believe me, turn left in front and try it yourself."
Zhong Ling'er and Bai Luochen looked at each other. It seemed that there was indeed something wrong with Taiqiong Trading Company!
Zhong Ling'er changed herself into men's clothes and became a boy. The others smiled and changed their clothes as well. Then the seven of them came to the door of Taiqiong Trading Company.
There were only two sturdy men standing outside the door, and their ferocious looks scared passers-by away. The owner of Taiqiong Trading Company inside was sitting behind the counter, with a sad face and sighing constantly, which formed a sharp contrast with the smiling faces of the other owners.
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