Wonderland

Chapter 452
On the inner side of the courtyard, near the mountain wall, is a simple and simple stone gate, about ten feet high or low.

A strong golden-red aura is also shining on the stone gate.

Xiao Lin came to the stone gate, and then the pitch-black token in his hand floated in the air, and a faint golden aura shot out from it, hitting the stone gate.

Then the pitch-black token fell into Xiao Lin's hands again, and the Shimen also moved away to both sides with a "Zha Zha" sound, revealing the dark corridor inside.

Xiao Lin walked in, the golden-red spiritual light separated automatically, the corridor behind the stone gate was very spacious and tidy, and when Xiao Lin stepped into it, a strong spiritual energy rushed towards his face, which made Xiao Lin feel refreshed. Couldn't help but took a deep breath.

The aura here is actually several times stronger than the aura of the cave he rented in Black Rock City. It's no wonder that the cave here needs 800 yuan of low-grade spirit stones for a year, and you really get what you pay for.

Xiao Lin entered the tunnel, and the stone gate at the back was closed again. After going deeper than ten feet, Xiao Lin came to a mountainside. Any spiritual grass had obviously been harvested and taken away by the previous owner.

And around the mountainside, there are four stone gates. On the stone gates are [rest room], [practice room], [spirit beast room] and [alchemy room]. Seeing this, Xiao Lin smiled slightly. This cave built by Yushui Palace, It's really thoughtful, even the [Spiritual Beast Room] [Alchemy Room] is available.

As for the spirit field in the mountainside, Xiao Lin naturally didn't care about it, and he would not transplant the spirit grass into this spirit field even if he had the spiritual wood space.

As usual, Xiao Lin first searched the inside and outside of this cave, not only passed the spiritual inspection by himself, but also released the spirit-eating fire Gu to search every corner carefully.

After confirming that there was no problem, Xiao Lin pushed open the door of the practice room, walked in, sat cross-legged on the futon in the center, took out a crimson jade pill and swallowed it, and then began to practice [Green Luan Birth and Death] Jade Cold Jue].

With the operation of the formula, a faint white mist began to appear around Xiao Lin's whole body, and at the same time, a faint dark green aura began to emanate from his body.

And Xiao Lin has also entered a state of meditation, ignorant of external things.

Early the next morning, Xiao Lin woke up from his trance, feeling the majestic mana in the sea of ​​qi, and he couldn't help showing a carefree expression on his face.

He got up and left the cave where he practiced, and entered Jinxia Fairy City. As usual, he wandered in various streets and alleys. Counting the time, the time agreed by Jiang Yingxue and him was not far away.

However, it is not easy to find someone in the Jinxia Fairy City with so many people, and Xiao Lin does not want to let everyone know about his search, so he can only be patient and search slowly.

What Xiao Lin was most worried about was that if Jiang Yingxue wasn't in Jinxia Immortal City, he would have to find out when and what month to go, but no matter what, he had to look for it first.

Soon, more than half a month passed, except for the four hours of homework every day, Xiao Lin spent most of the rest of the time looking for Jiang Yingxue in the fairy city.

He first searched from the area inhabited by immortal cultivators in the west of the city. He would walk through almost every alley, and with his powerful divine sense, he scanned it slightly, and everything in a radius of thousands of feet was fully displayed in his mind.

Unfortunately, every time he walked through an alley, he shook his head slightly, and then walked into the next alley.

In the south of the city is a large area of ​​houses for mortals, with a radius of forty to fifty miles. Most of these houses are made of wood, small and dilapidated, and the streets and alleys are much narrower than the residences of immortal cultivators.

The place where mortals live is also divided into three, six, and nine grades. Some of the merchants either do errands for some commercial companies to earn spirit stones that are considered expensive by ordinary people, or they recruit some people themselves. Form a small fleet to travel between the surrounding fairy cities and earn freight for transporting goods.

These people basically have some industries in the south of the city, spread their branches and leaves, and become big households among mortals.

The Jiang family is one of the big families, and among these big families, it is enough to rank in the top three.

The ancestor of the Jiang family was originally an immortal cultivator. He had cultivated to the middle stage of foundation establishment, but after entering the middle stage of foundation establishment, he could no longer improve, and his realm stagnated.

Later, when he was more than a hundred years old, he was also disheartened about the path of cultivation, so he started a business in desperation. He himself also married several wives. But it is absolutely impossible to turn a pheasant into a phoenix.

Unexpectedly, this person does not have much talent in practice, but he is quite lucky in business. Not only did he get close to a few large trading houses, he attracted the shipping business, and at the same time he was selling various monster materials. This piece is also quite talented, and it's very popular.

After nearly a hundred years of development, he used the accumulated spirit stones to not only buy a large piece of land in the south of Jinxia Fairy City, but also to build a fleet of hundreds of ships.

As for the heirs, he was also quite lucky. As a foundation-building cultivator, it was very unlikely that he would be able to bear the next generation, but he happened to encounter such a small probability event. Not only did he give birth to a son, but also a couple. twin.

Although the twins don't have spiritual roots, they are very healthy in vain and fat. Anyway, this person is no longer attached to the path of cultivation, and he is not entangled in the fact that his child does not have spiritual roots.

He also began to concentrate on raising two sons so that he could inherit the family business in the future.

These two sons did not disappoint him either. When they grew up, they not only managed the family property they left in an orderly manner, but also made the Jiang family full of descendants in the lineage. Later, after the man died, the Jiang family was completely destroyed. took root in the south of the city.

And in the following hundreds of years, there were also several descendants of families with spiritual roots, and two of them even entered Yushui Palace and became outer disciples of Yushui Palace.

This also allowed the Jiang family's position in the large area south of Jinxia Xiancheng to be completely stabilized.

The spirit stones earned by the family through business will also be given priority to the heirs of the family who have spiritual roots to practice, and in turn, the Jiang family's children who worshiped in the Yushui Palace can also protect the Jiang family in turn, at least let the Jiang family do their best. When doing business, I have a little more confidence.

After hundreds of years of development, the entire Jiang family has hundreds of direct descendants alone. As for collateral, illegitimate children and those who changed their surname to Jiang midway, there are at least a thousand people, occupying a large area of ​​the south of the city.

In the Jiang family's courtyard, dozens of teenagers from seven to eight years old to about 20 years old are practicing body training. Ordinary people in the world can't practice immortality because they don't have spiritual roots. Therefore, the rich clans who have the conditions will choose young adults in the clan , to practice body training.

After all, during the transportation of the fleet, there will be occasional attacks by monsters, and the cost of hiring immortal cultivators to escort them is too high, so the metropolis will use body refiners trained by the family to protect the safety of the cargo.

In the corner of the house, there was a small pond. Several women were hammering and washing their clothes. While they were washing their clothes, they occasionally peeked at the children of the family who were practicing body training, their faces full of obsession.

Although not only men can practice body training, but in some big families, only strong and strong men in the family are selected for training. After all, men are better than ordinary men in terms of physical fitness and talent for body training. woman.

What's more, the cost of cultivating an elementary body refiner is not small.

Except for a petite woman who looked sixteen or seventeen years old and kept her head down, hammering and washing her clothes, the rest of the women would sneak peeks from time to time, seeing those Jiang who were exercising and showing their strong muscles with their upper body naked. The son of the family showed a shy expression from time to time.

"Xiaolu, I heard that the second young master has formally proposed to the master to accept you as a concubine. In this way, you won't have to do these lowly jobs like us soon. You can't forget us when you get rich. .”

"Xueying, don't worry, we are good sisters. When I marry the second young master, I will definitely introduce you to other Jiang family children, and at least I can keep you in my room."

"Sister Xiaolu is still very interesting. I heard that the fourth young master's body training technique is about to be advanced. Once the advanced level is successful, he will become a real body refiner. At that time, he will be eligible to marry and have children. The young master has a strong physique, no matter what, he must marry three wives and four concubines."

"That's right, those of us laundry girls who have been selected by the Jiang family since we were young, have hope."

"That's right, but what about her?" The beautiful woman named Xueying glanced at it, and the petite woman who was still washing her clothes with her head down snorted coldly.

"This is the young lady of the Jiang family. Although she is only an illegitimate child, she still has the blood of the Jiang family in her body. It's a pity that she will lose money when she is born."

"You." The petite woman couldn't help raising her head when she heard the words, revealing an ugly face. Her face shape is perfect, and her facial features are also extremely coordinated. The only shortcoming is that there is a spot of blood between her eyebrows. The imprint extends from the center of the eyebrows up to the forehead, and down to the right cheek.

At first glance, it seemed as if someone had slashed her face with a knife, destroying every bit of her supposedly pretty face.

When the petite woman heard that Xueying woman said that she was a loser, she couldn't help showing a sad and angry expression on her face, her big eyes were misty, and she seemed to want to refute, but in the end she swallowed all the rebuttals that came to her mouth Go down, bow your head again and wash your clothes.

"I'm not wrong. I heard that when she was born, a white light flashed. When the midwife saw her, she even grinned at the midwife, which scared the midwife to death. The birthmark on her face became more and more serious. It grows bigger, and if it continues to grow like this, I am afraid that within a few years, that face will be covered by birthmarks, haha."

"Hehe, yes, and she is the life of her parents. Her mother died of dystocia when she was born, and her father was also killed by a sea monster on the day she was born. It is said that she was killed in front of many people. swallowed it alive."

(End of this chapter)