Lord of Bones

Chapter 167 Xingcheng
Xingcheng, located in the northeast of Yuanzhou, is the largest city in its territory and the only big city in the Great Xia Dynasty that can rival the royal city.

It is nearly 5000 or two hundred miles away from Yangyan City, and the mountains are far away.

There are hundreds of millions of Yuan people in the city plus ordinary people who cannot cultivate Yuan.

Xingcheng faces the sea and is built along the coast.

But it is impossible to see the shadow of the sea from the city, because there is a city wall that is six hundred miles long, and the lowest point is two hundred feet high.

The long city wall was built 10 years ago to resist the attacks of monsters in Xiaoxing Mountain.

Daxia stationed 3000 million troops in Xingcheng to guard it.

Xiaoxing Mountain is surrounded by the sea on three sides. No one knows how big it is.

Xingcheng is close to Xiaoxing Mountain, so there are a lot of mercenaries here.

If you want to enter Xiaoxing Mountain, you can only pass through the Zhengdong Gate of Xingcheng.

Outside the east gate, there is a land promenade about [-] miles wide that connects with Xiaoxing Mountain.

The closer to Xiaoxing Mountain, the wider the land corridor.

After traveling three thousand miles along the land corridor, one can truly enter the edge of Xiaoxing Mountain.

The monsters in Xiaoxing Mountain will launch a beast tide every few decades and come to Xingcheng through the land corridor.

Although Xiaoxing Mountain is full of dangers, there are many natural materials and earth treasures inside, especially a lot of high-grade materials.

Most of the things on rare monsters can be found in the mountains.

As a result, many primitive people entered Xiaoxing Mountain to collect materials, dig out natural materials and earth treasures, and hunt and kill monsters.

With the improvement of cultivation base, the cultivation resources required are expensive.

If you are lucky, if you enter Xiaoxing Mountain once and get something, you can practice steadily for many years.

.........

noon.

The scorching sun in the sky is like fire, baking the earth.

In the woods a hundred miles away from the largest west gate of Xingcheng, two figures, one blue and one green, rose and fell among the towering trees.

It was a pair of young men and women, judging from the breath of life emanating from the bodies of the two figures, they were only 27 or [-] years old.

The man walked through the big tree like a spirit monkey, exuding a bit of unrestrained taste, there seemed to be lightning flashes in his eyes, his angular face was extremely handsome.

The woman's jade hand lightly raised, and a cyan elemental force was shot out, smashing the branches blocking the front in an instant, and blasting a path on the big tree.

Under the black hair fluttering in the wind, there was a breathtakingly beautiful face, with skin like snow.

Seeing that the tree branch in front blocked the way again, the woman waved her palm again, and then used her jade finger to stroke a strand of black hair near the corner of her eye, looking at the man who was jumping up and down not far away, and asked, "Xiao Yuanzi, are we really Are you going to Xingcheng?"

Li Yuan looked back, smiled slightly, and said: "Didn't you hear what the people in the town said, Xingcheng is a prosperous place. After recovering from the injury, I hardly rested, refining the elixir for several months. It's just to go to Xingcheng to find some treasures. Maybe there will be some good luck."

Now, more than half a year has passed since Li Yuan and his two left Linxing City.

He has been recuperating in the nearby forest and mountains, wandering, refining medicine, and avoiding the investigation of Dongtian Jiao.

Now that the wind has almost passed, I only come out for activities.

"I don't know how long it will take to reach Xingcheng?" Li Yunqing looked forward and murmured.

"Hurry up, if the map is correct, there should be a hundred miles away. With our current speed, we can arrive in two hours." Li Yuan said.

.........

at dusk.

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing finally arrived in Xingcheng.

Xingcheng is much bigger than Yangyan City, and much more prosperous.

The two of them walked onto the wide street, and the traffic was busy.

Patrolling soldiers can be seen everywhere to maintain order in Xingcheng.

Some teams are all at the Void-Treading Realm, while others are all at the Origin Force Realm.

Each patrol team has at least [-] people.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, anyone who reached the age of 16 and broke through to the third level of Qi Refining Realm could apply for enlistment and receive training resources.

Here, you can occasionally see teams led by Yuan Danjing.

There are not only many soldiers on the street, but also many mercenary teams gathered together, which are also very powerful.

After walking for a while, Li Yunqing asked, "Xiao Yuanzi, where are we going now?"

Li Yuan shrugged, chuckled, and said helplessly: "I don't know either. In the past few months, I only ate some monster flesh and blood occasionally. There was no processed food, and the taste was not very good.

"How about we find a restaurant, have a good meal first, enjoy it, and then find an inn to settle down and stay there."

"En." Li Yunqing nodded slightly.

She came to Xingcheng for the first time, and she was also unfamiliar with it.

Xingcheng is not any other small town, if you are not careful, you may provoke some powerful forces.

The two found a good restaurant, and the business was booming.

There are no vacancies in the VIP room upstairs.

They could only find a seat in the lobby and order some good food.

The hall was too noisy, the two quickly finished their meal, and asked the restaurant boy for a better inn nearby.

According to the guide, it didn't take long to find the inn that the restaurant boy said.

The main building of the inn has ten floors, and there are several five-story auxiliary buildings next to it.

There is a plaque at least three feet high hanging on the main building, with two simple characters "Guangxuan" written on it.

Walking into the inn and looking around, the hall is full of various decorations carved from fine wood.

The seats placed in the hall are engraved with different primitive patterns.

The whole hall exudes a breath of cohesive mind, and the environment is particularly elegant and unique.

Li Yuan walked towards the lobby counter.

The maid behind the counter asked with a standard service smile, "Master, do you need a guest room, a training room, a treasure refining room, or a medicine refining room..."

"Pharmacy room? Is there any difference?" Li Yuan was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and asked.

The maid explained: "In the refining room, there is a high-quality furnace and an excellent fire-type earth spirit.

"Moreover, the room in the refining room is specially made of unique materials. The medicinal fragrance emitted by the refined medicine is processed by special equipment, so it cannot be smelled from outside. It is very safe, and outsiders cannot spy on it."

Li Yuan asked: "Is there a guest room together with the medicine refining room?"

The maid nodded and said: "Yes, this type of room is on the top tenth floor, and the price is relatively expensive. Young master, are you sure you want one?"

"Help me open one." Li Yuandao, and then added, "I don't need the furnace cauldron, nor do I need the fire element earth spirit."

Soon, the maid went through the formalities for Li Yuan.

"Is it Yuan Shao?"

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing were about to go upstairs when a big man's voice suddenly stopped them.

I feel the voice is familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere.

The two turned around and looked at the past at the same time.

I saw a burly man in a cloud-pattern brocade suit smiling warmly at them, respectful.

"It's really Yuan Shao. I thought I had the wrong person. We haven't seen each other for seven years." The big man grinned.

Li Yuan tried hard to recall, and asked uncertainly: "You are Zhou Xuwen, President Zhou?"

"Well, I didn't expect Yuan Shao to remember me. Come to our Guangxuan, how can we accept your Yuanshi. Yuan Shao, you can stay as long as you want. You don't need to pay any Yuanshi." Zhou Xuwen nodded.

A few years ago, when Li Yuan was in Yanyan City, he had dealt with Zhou Xuwen.

At that time, Zhou Xuwen was dressed in coarse sackcloth, and he looked like a rough man at first glance.

With the brocade clothes on her upper body and her current attire, she still looks a little rich.

Zhou Xuwen brought Li Yuan and Li Yunqing to the VIP reception room.

Li Yuan had a good impression of Zhou Xuwen and had a good impression of him, so he didn't refuse, not to mention that it was rare to meet an acquaintance in Xingcheng.

According to Zhou Xuwen's narration, Guangxuan Inn is the property of Yunliu Chamber of Commerce in Xingcheng.

When he was in Yanyan City, because of the elixir given by Li Yuan, the Yunliu Chamber of Commerce became popular in Yanyan City, and Zhou Xuwen was later transferred to Xingcheng.

The refining material market in Xingcheng is hundreds of times larger than that in Yanyan City. Zhou Xuwen is now the shopkeeper of one of the material stores.

Now, although his cultivation has broken through to the early stage of the Void-Treading Realm, in Xingcheng, the early-stage of the Void-Treading Realm is nothing.

Zhou Xuwen gained a firm foothold in the Xingcheng branch of the Yunliu Chamber of Commerce by virtue of his experience in materials.

The shop he manages is not far from Guangxuan Inn, so he often comes here to walk around.

Li Yuan and Li Yunqing didn't talk much, they kept listening to Zhou Xuwen talk about his development in the past few years.

In the end, Li Yuan also briefly said a few words about his experience in the past few years. Except that his cultivation was true, everything else was nonsense.

After chatting about his experience, Zhou Xuwen told Li Yuan and Li Yuan about the situation in Xingcheng carefully.

In Xingcheng, people and places are unfamiliar, Li Yuan and Li Yuan are willing to listen to this information.

For more than half a year, he had refined a large amount of elixir, and was worried about how to get rid of it, but Zhou Xuwen took the initiative to deliver it to his door.

The Yunliu Chamber of Commerce wanted to enter the pill market, but was being suppressed by the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce. Li Yuan also wanted to dampen the momentum of the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce.

He knocked on the table and said with a slight smile: "Shopkeeper Zhou, from what you said, it seems that your chamber of commerce is not developing very well in the pill market in Xingcheng."

Zhou Xuwen smiled wryly: "Wan Xianyun, a king-level pharmacist, sits in the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce, and there are many condensed-level pharmacists in their chamber of commerce. Our disadvantage is obvious."

"What? Are you still supplying them with a large amount of materials?" Li Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Ah... there is no way, they have a large quantity, and they have pressed the price of materials very hard in the past two years. If this continues, our chamber of commerce will always be a head short of them." Zhou Xuwen frowned and sighed sighingly. very melancholy.

Li Yuan looked out of the window at the moonlight: "Shopkeeper Zhou, talking with us for so long is not just for chatting."

Zhou Xuwen smiled awkwardly when he heard the words, and said, "I know the forces behind Yuan Shao. There are many high-level alchemists. I don't know if they can cooperate with our chamber of commerce."

"Cooperation?" Li Yuan smiled slightly, "It's not impossible. It's just that we can only cooperate for a short time. Because there are not many people coming to Xingcheng with me this time, and it won't be too long.

"You can ask the person in charge of your chamber of commerce and Xingcheng to come here tomorrow and talk about it in detail. I dare not say anything else, but in the Xingcheng elixir market, I guarantee that you will beat the Wanmeng chamber of commerce to the ground. "

Hearing this, Zhou Xuwen was overjoyed, and nodded without hesitation: "No matter how long the cooperation is, as long as we can cooperate with Yuan Shao, we can wish for it.

"I'm going to tell President Yun right now. You all have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow morning, the president and I will wait for the two great masters again."

After Zhou Xuwen left, Li Yuan and Li Yunqing went directly to their room to rest.

After a day's journey, my body is also tired.

Living in forests and mountains for more than half a year, it is time to relax in a spacious and comfortable place.

The decoration of Guangxuan Inn is simple and elegant. The materials used, bonsai and green plants all release a breath of physical and mental comfort.

The two walked to the tenth floor, and saw the house number of the room they were in on the outermost innermost side, with "Tiantian No. [-]" written on it.

Looking down from the corridor at the door of the room, you can clearly see the door of the lobby on the first floor.

After not stopping much in the corridor, Li Yuan opened the door and pushed in. Li Yunqing followed behind and walked into the room.

This is a suite, and two middle-grade primordial stones are needed to live there for one day.

Yuan Shi and Li Yuan didn't care, not to mention they didn't need to pay the fee now.

The room is larger than expected, with tall bonsai plants on both sides of the door.

The entrance is the living room, at least eight feet square.

The furniture in the living room is all high-quality wooden furniture, carved with exquisite and simple patterns, and the floor is covered with carpets.

On the right is the bedroom through the curtain door, and the round table in the center of the room can seat six people.

Further inside, bypassing the huge partition, is a super large, somewhat quaint dark red bed with gauze curtains.

The supplies on the bed are all first-class.

The bedroom window is open, and you can have a panoramic view of the night view of Xingcheng.

Through a relatively low door with curtains, it is the bathroom.

Opposite the bedroom is a study room, a few sheets of rice paper are placed on the high-quality black pear wood table, and various brushes are hung on the pen holder not far from the table.

There is a stone door connected to the study, open the stone door, and inside is the medicine refining room.

The lighting in the refining room is relatively dim, the area is about the same size as the living room, and the height exceeds two feet.

There are only a few fist-sized windows in the entire refining room, and the surrounding walls are all made of special stone materials.

Although it is not as good as the material used for the duel table in the duel field, it is also a high-quality stone material, and there is no problem in resisting the attack of Nirvana.

After carefully inspecting the room, for safety's sake, Li Yuan asked Ling to engrave a three-way Yuan pattern lock array in the bedroom before he and Li Yunqing fell asleep peacefully.

.........

late at night.

Yunliu Chamber of Commerce Xingcheng Headquarters.

The white-haired old woman in a purple moiré dress sat above the hall, gently picked up the teacup, took a sip, and put the teacup down slowly.

"Zhou Xuwen, it's so late, why do you have to meet the old man face to face?"

The white-haired old woman looked at Zhou Xuwen standing in the middle of the empty hall, feeling a little angry.

If Zhou Xuwen hadn't crushed the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce in Yanyan City back then, with his cultivation at the beginning of the Void-Treading Realm, it would have been impossible to see this old woman with the perfect peak cultivation of the Yuandan Realm.

Zhou Xuwen wiped the fine sweat from his forehead, bowed and said, "President Yunyun, it's not an urgent matter. Give me the courage to disturb the president's rest."

"Urgent?" Hearing this, President Yun frowned slightly, and asked, "Did something happen to you?"

"No." Hearing these words, Zhou Xuwen quickly shook his head, "President Yun, seven years ago, the young master who sold me pills in Yanyan City came to Xingcheng.

"I stayed in Guangxuan today, let me meet. I proposed to him the intention of cooperating with our Chamber of Commerce, and he did not refuse. But I want the person in charge of Xingcheng of the Chamber of Commerce to talk to him."

"This is Xingcheng, not that little Yanyan city. Don't be fooled by that little baby." President Yun sighed softly, then picked up his teacup and sipped it.

Hearing this, Zhou Xuwen was taken aback, and said immediately: "He said it was only a short-term cooperation, but it can beat the Wanmeng Chamber of Commerce's elixir market in Xingcheng to the ground."

Hearing these words, President Yun spit out the tea he hadn't swallowed yet, coughed twice, and hurriedly said, "He said it himself?"

Zhou Xuwen nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "Yes. That's why I came to disturb you so late. Whether it's true or not, you will meet him tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)