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Chapter 69
The Six Elements Mountain Range is located on the border of the southern border of Huai Country. This mountain traverses from east to west and is tens of thousands of miles long. The east and west sides respectively extend into other countries.

To the north of the mountain is Yongzhou of Huaiguo, and to the south of the mountain is the boundary of Xingguo, another country.

The Six Elements Mountain Range is located in Huaiguo and several surrounding countries. It is undoubtedly a huge monster. There are many famous rivers and mountains in it, and there are countless peaks that can be named.And to the east of it, there is a small mountain about a thousand feet high, called Dongshan Peak.

Dongshan Peak is inconspicuous in the Liuxing Mountains, but its mountain is shrouded in smog all the year round, and there is always thick fog wandering around. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, it gives people a sense of ethereal.

And at the foot of the smoky Dongshan Peak, there is a small market town called 'Dongshan Fangshi'.

The market town is not big, and it looks like an ordinary small town from the outside. There is an entrance facing the mountain pass to the north of Fangshi.

The guards at the gate were two young men in blue clothes, both in their 20s.

One of the young men had a mature face. He was sitting cross-legged on a stone bench at the moment, with his eyes closed, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, as if he was holding on to something.

On the other side, a young man of the same age as him was leaning against the wall of the gate of Fangshi, lazily looking at his serious appearance, and suddenly said after a while:
"Hey, hey, let me say Zhou Wen, you won't be able to break the bottleneck for a while. Does it take so much effort? The gatekeeper doesn't look good, so you can count on me alone, right?"

Interrupted by this young man who seemed half-hearted, Zhou Wen immediately stopped practicing.

He opened his eyes, first glanced at the other party with apologetic eyes, and then sighed:

"My aptitude is not as good as Brother Wang's. Naturally, I dare not waste any time. I can cultivate a little bit. I hope Brother Wang will take care of me."

"Tch, my aptitude is good? If I had good aptitude, I wouldn't be reduced to being a gatekeeper here. I was paid half a piece of Lingshi a month, and I had to save up for four months to exchange for a Qi Gathering Pill. No one did it!"

"Who says it's not? If it weren't for your low strength and my lack of qualifications to go into the mountains to gather medicine or hunt monsters, otherwise the spirit stones I would have earned would be much more than this." Zhou Wen echoed.

"Hey, don't mention it, I heard that a group of monks went into the mountain a few days ago, but they couldn't find the spirit grass, but they were attacked by the monster and killed most of them. Why do you think it's so difficult for us casual cultivators to cultivate immortals? It's better to go back to the secular world and feel comfortable being a big landlord with peace of mind."

This week, Zhou Wen's companion is surnamed Wang, named Wang Gui, who was originally a child from a small mountain village in Yongzhou. When he was young, by chance, he picked up a book of cultivation skills from the mountain, and happened to have spiritual roots, and since then he has successfully stepped into the cultivation of immortals. way.

Unexpectedly, over the past ten years, his cultivation base has been affected by his own aptitude, and his improvement has been very slow.Seeing that the [-]th year is coming soon, the realm of cultivation has been stagnant, and has been troubled by the hardships of the journey of cultivating immortality, so the idea of ​​going home to support the elderly also came into being.

There are not a few monks who have Wang Gui's thoughts. In Dongshanfang City, there are many monks with mediocre qualifications. It is difficult for them to return to the secular world because of their cultivation.

As their cultivators, they can live a prosperous life in the secular world, enough to enjoy their old age comfortably.

Some are lucky, and among the offspring born with spiritual roots, they will be able to pass it on again, and maybe it will evolve into a family of cultivators in a few decades.

The road to immortality is extremely difficult, especially for these helpless casual cultivators. Those who can persevere in cultivating for decades can be regarded as the generation of great perseverance, and more of them just abandon their cultivation halfway , Gradually indulge in pleasure.

Zhou Wen is different from that Wang Gui. He has no father, no mother, no relatives, no reason. The only thought in this life is to improve his cultivation. He only hopes to step into the legendary foundation building period as soon as possible, and truly become a real living person who can fly into the sky and escape from the ground. fairy.

Therefore, whenever he had free time, he would meditate and practice, and he didn't dare to delay for a moment. Even if he took over the job of guarding the gate of Fangshi now, he would sneak in and practice a little bit.

A month and a half of Lingshi's wages, even if it is this, in this Dongshanfang City, it can be regarded as a good job. If you go to work elsewhere, you may be paid even less.

Like those monks who have just stepped into the threshold of cultivating immortals and only have the first or second level of Qi training, they can only work as shopkeepers in those shops. The requirements are not high, and the wages are also low.

To guard the gate of Fangshi, a monk with at least the third level of Qi training can be competent. Zhou Wen and Wang Gui are both of the third level of Qi training, and they can be regarded as the best among low-level monks in this Dongshan Fang City.

In addition to working in Dongshanfang City, there are many other ways to earn spirit stones, including what Wang Gui mentioned just now, going into the mountains to gather herbs and hunting monsters.

Both are extremely dangerous. There are countless powerful monsters in the Six Elements Mountain Range. Even if you just enter the mountain to take elixir, you will inevitably be attacked by monsters.

Therefore, although the spirit grass in the mountain is very valuable, and the materials obtained from hunting monsters can be exchanged for a lot of spirit stones, few low-level monks dare to enter the mountain easily. Xiu organized a group to go into the mountains to find the elixir.As for taking the initiative to hunt and kill monsters, one would have to have the cultivation base of the late stage of Qi training to dare to take the risk.

"By the way, these days I've heard people say that there are wild spirit grasses appearing on the side of Niutou Mountain. It is said that there are very few monsters in the mountains there. Many monks who practice Qi training on the first and second levels have gone to try their luck. Is there any news about this?"

Zhou Wen is a life-saving person. Although he needs a lot of spiritual stones to assist his cultivation, he is even more afraid of death.Therefore, in the past few years, he has hardly stepped out of Dongshanfang City. He usually stays in the rented room to practice hard, or occasionally accepts some errands to earn Lingshi, and he will go there when the Lingshi is almost saved. Exchange some pills for cultivation at the stall.

Then it is to retreat again, and go back and forth like this for several years.

Because of this withdrawn personality, Zhou Wen has almost no other friends in Dongshanfang City, except for the workers he met when he was working for others.

"Hey, Brother Zhou, you are too ill-informed about this news. How long has this happened? The spirit grass has been harvested long ago! It's too late to go now! We went to Dongshanfang City a few days ago There were a total of more than 100 monks, and in the end, in order to snatch those spiritual herbs, more than a dozen died and more were injured. Alas, fortunately, I thought the journey was too far and did not go, otherwise I would have been beaten to death on the way!"

Having said that, Wang Gui curled his lips with a look of rejoicing.

"Those brats who are practicing Qi at the first and second levels don't understand at all. Spirit grass is so good to get. Even if they are picked in the barren mountains and the wild, they will be robbed by sneak attack. Not to mention the spirit grass is gone, maybe it's a little girl." Life is not guaranteed."

(End of this chapter)