I will survive with proficiency

"Girl, what do you think of Chen Dao's friend next door?"

Under the dim light, Brother Qiao tentatively asked, his daughter had returned with the team to collect medicine a few days ago.

"Father, why did you say this suddenly?"

The daughter understood the meaning of her father's words, and her face was blushed.

"Why can't dad say this? Your parents are old, sooner or later you have to go first. I think that fellow Daoist Chen is calm and calm, and he is not impatient. He is a person worthy of entrustment." Brother Qiao looked at his daughter micro-expressions.

"Father, my daughter hasn't spoken more than three sentences to Chen Daoyou." The girl muttered.

"What's the matter? Before your father and your mother became Taoist couples, they didn't even meet each other. Didn't these years go well?" Brother Qiao said indifferently.

After a pause, he moved forward slightly. He didn't know whether his daughter was shy or unhappy, so he said cautiously:

"Father asks you, if you are entrusted to Chen Daoyou, would you like it?"

Brother Qiao actually played drums in his heart.

On the one hand, I don't know what my daughter is thinking.

On the other hand, Chen Ping had tactfully rejected him. Although he thought his daughter was outstandingly beautiful, she was worthy of Chen Ping, but feelings were not a question of whether she deserved it or not.

"Father, my daughter doesn't want to." The girl lowered her head.

His face was burning hot.

There is one sentence that she didn't express. She has been very close to Ms. Xia from the City Lord's Mansion these years. She has seen the splendor outside, and her vision is no longer limited to the small and vast city.

In her opinion, Chen Ping's cultivation at the ninth level of qi training is barely passable.

Everything else is mediocre.

But she herself was already at the seventh level of Qi training at a young age, and she was not too far away from the ninth level of Qi training.

"You don't like Chen Daoyou?" Brother Qiao carefully asked for confirmation.

"My daughter doesn't want to." The girl lowered her head and said softly.

Brother Qiao sighed softly.

At this time, Brother Qiao's Taoist companion came in with the medicinal soup:

"It's fine if you don't want to. Then Daoyou Chen may not necessarily have thoughts about our daughter. He has moved here for so long, and he has never taken the initiative to come here except to treat your illness. If he is really interested, I am afraid he will find a reason to come here every day. But Then Fellow Daoist Chen is very kind to us, and he will send some valuable treasures to thank him."

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Separated by a wall, Chen Ping was naturally unaware of the discussions next door.

He picked up the oil lamp, took out a booklet of "Detailed Explanation of Ghost Cultivation 1, 2, 3" bought from a store in Haohan City, and flipped through it.

Across the sea from the vast city is Senluo State, which is exactly the place he wants to learn about ghost cultivation.

The so-called Sen Luo means all-encompassing.

All-encompassing, that is, mixed fish and dragons.

Senluo State is the only place on Misty Continent where ghost cultivators can be found.

As a city of cultivating immortals built on the coastline, Haohan City will often be the transit point and stopover point for caravans traveling between the two sides of the strait.

Therefore, this Xiuxian City also has a certain amount of information reserves for Senluo State.

The so-called ghost cultivation focuses on absorbing the energy of Yin spirits and strengthening oneself.

The promotion system of Ghost Cultivator is very different from Immortal Cultivator. It is not divided according to Qi training, foundation building, golden core, etc., but has its own system: Yin Gathering Realm, Soul Gathering Realm, Condensed Soul Realm, Yuan Swallowing Realm territory…

In terms of strength, it is slightly stronger than the corresponding realm of Xianxiu, and its main advantage lies in the unpredictable and unpredictability of its methods.

Generally speaking, ghost cultivation has two modes of self-cultivation:

One is to absorb the evil spirits of Yin and Yang in their own way, just like the immortal cultivator absorbs spiritual energy, and continue to practice and become stronger.

The second is to pay attention to devouring others, sucking essence and blood, and refining the remaining souls.

Because the first way is slow, most ghost cultivators will also take the second way.

Even the second extreme path is the main one.

It is precisely because of this that even in a more inclusive continent like Senluozhou, ghost cultivators are still feared by the public and not tolerated by the world. They can only hide among the general public in the form of casual practice, and practice secretly.

Even if there are some non-extreme ghost cultivating sects or families, most of them are in a state of seclusion.

After reading Guixiu's introduction, Chen Ping opened the Senluozhou map he bought again.

Judging from the map, the hermit family that Xiyue recommended is in the east of Senluo Prefecture.

The journey is still very far away.

He leaned over his desk and read the information and maps repeatedly, and finally planned a relatively safe road, carefully marked it on the map, and marked the sphere of influence and various risk areas along the way.

For Chen Ping, he only hoped that the hermit family recommended by Xiyue would not have moved.

Otherwise, you will have to find another ghost to repair.

That would be really troublesome.

At the same time, he was thinking in his mind, after entering Sen Luo Continent, observe slowly, if Sen Luo Continent is too dangerous, beyond the risk tolerance, then give up decisively and go back home.

Close the booklet and map, and continue to draw symbols.

In this way, the days passed day by day.

The time for drawing talismans always passed quickly, and another two months passed. Chen Ping had been in this vast city for nearly 7 months, and he cleaned up the talismans in his hand.

In addition to the income from drawing talismans intermittently in the past few years, I already have a lot of talismans in my hand.

There are already 2,611 white shield talismans, and there are more than 1,000 other talismans such as Wanli talisman and Fuling talisman.

These talismans can be exchanged for thousands of high-grade spirit stones, and the harvest is not bad.

Maybe stay for a while and leave.

this day.

While Chen Ping was drawing talismans, he suddenly heard noises coming from outside.

And the bell from the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

After coming to Vast City for so long, this was the first time I heard the bell.

He walked out of the house and saw some monks running in a panic outside, and some other neighbors were standing in the yard looking up.

Taking advantage of the situation, Chen Ping looked up, only to find that the protective array of the entire vast city had been activated.

On a large upside-down bowl, there are silk patterns shining, and the rhythm is pervasive.

In Brother Qiao's courtyard next door stood two female nuns, one was Brother Qiao's daughter, and the other Chen Ping also recognized was Xia Xiaoxun from the City Lord's Mansion.

"Dare to ask Fellow Daoist Xia, why did you activate the Great City Defense Formation?" Chen Ping asked.

Chen Ping didn't ask Brother Qiao's daughter, but felt that the little girl blushed every time she saw him during this period, and deliberately avoided contact with him. It is likely that she learned about her father's promise of a Taoist companion from Brother Qiao.

In order to avoid embarrassment between each other, Chen Ping didn't ask her.

On the contrary, it was Xia Xiaoxun who appeared next door more frequently in the past two months.

Every time she saw Chen Ping, she would greet her generously.

He's a good communicator.

"That's the bell that my Xia family will ring when the worst situation arises. I have to go." Xia Xiaoxun looked serious.

Hastily bid farewell to Chen Ping and daughter Qiao.

Chen Ping glanced at the chaotic street, and returned to the house calmly.

Then quickly release the consciousness.

The result was a shock. In the sea area only more than 30 miles away from the vast city, a row of spirit ships armed to the teeth are rapidly sailing towards the vast, menacing.

Obviously not good stubble.

The three words 'Seagull City' were written on the flag on the spirit ship.

Chen Ping had heard of these Immortal Cultivation Cities, just over a thousand miles away from Haohan City, and it was also a small Cultivation City built on the coastline.

Even smaller than the vast city.

It was so small that there was only one Foundation Establishment monk.

I heard that Seagull City and Vast City are not friendly because of the similar functions.

Something is wrong.

What's going on with this vast city?

There is obviously no confrontation between the two cities, why are there no precautions at all? Let the other party touch the door of the house before ringing the bell?

Chen Ping focused on 'checking' those spirit ships again.

It was found that there were three foundation-building monks on the deck of the spirit ship, and there was no aura of golden core.

This made Chen Ping breathe a sigh of relief.

These people pose no threat to him.

But this vast city is obviously no longer suitable for staying.

Chen Ping began to tidy up the things.

He was not prepared to participate in such a battle for territory between Xiuxian City and Xiuxian City.

There is no right or wrong in such a battle between Xiuxian cities, only benefits, just like the food chain among animals on the grassland, the weak eat the strong.

Poor antelopes will only starve to death wolves.

He had no intention of interfering with such a conflict.

After all, he is just a passerby and has nothing to do with anyone here.

This kind of battle doesn't even have much relevance to casual cultivators, at worst, change to a city lord.

It is more related to the City Lord's Mansion.

Chen Ping quickly packed up the things, took back all the formations, wiped away his traces in the house, and went out.

Now that the city defense formation has been activated, and the entrances and exits have been closed, he can no longer leave the city normally.

He thought about it, he was not in any danger, and there was no need to destroy other people's defensive formations.

As long as the battle starts, at the point of battle like the ferry, the moat formation will first tear a hole, and then just leave from there.

"Everyone, Seagull City is attacking suddenly, everyone, get ready for battle, mortals and monks in the early stage of Qi training can stay behind closed doors."

"Fellow daoists in the late stage of Qi refining, please go to the ferry to fight. We will share weal and woe, and everyone who participated in the battle will be thanked by the city lord's mansion afterwards."

"Everyone."

There were city guards running down the street and shouting.

The narrow streets were full of hurried monks.

Chen Ping walked out of the yard, ready to follow the flow of people towards the ferry. But at this moment, he suddenly felt a very cold breath penetrated into his body.

Not a magic attack.

But a breath.

Yin spirit evil spirit?

Chen Ping was stunned for a moment. Since he raised Xie Chong, he has a sharper perception of things like evil spirits.

This breath is related to evil spirits.

But the breath doesn't seem to be very strong, and he himself has a good body training, so he naturally rejects such filthy things.

Chen Ping calmly dispelled the evil aura, and at the same time walked along the flow of people nonchalantly, pretending not to notice it.

Divine Consciousness carefully scanned the surrounding crowd.

Soon, a tall and thin monk in the crowd caught Chen Ping's attention.

I couldn't help being taken aback again.

Pretty good at disguising.

The interest rate is not bad, if it is not that my level is too high, he may not be able to spy out it. This person seems to be at the late stage of Qi training, but in fact he is at the ninth level of foundation building.

Chen Ping saw that the tall and skinny monk didn't stay long after he breathed in him, and squeezed to the other side again, and sneaked up on another monk in the late stage of Qi training.

Then came the third late-stage Qi training monk.

Good guy.

Specially select monks in the late stage of Qi training to start.

This time, Seagull City has spent a lot of money to capture the vast city.

There are three Foundation Establishments on board, and there is actually one more here.

And it is the foundation building nine floors.

Chen Ping could only think that this tall and skinny monk was the mastermind of Seagull City.

I didn't expect to meet my colleagues here.

He is also a person who understands the law of evil spirits.

Chen Ping was very interested, but after this episode, he became vigilant and used his spiritual sense to constantly check the real cultivation of the surrounding monks.

The entire vast city is not big, and there are only more than 2,000 monks in total, which is easy to investigate.

After the investigation, it was found that there were quite a few people who had collected their breaths, but only this one had collected their breaths from foundation building to the Qi refining stage.

After checking the cultivation base, they almost arrived at the ferry.

A large crowd of monks stood in front of the ferry, and City Lord Xia was giving an impassioned speech. In stark contrast, in the sea area behind City Lord Xia, a row of dark spirit ships were already visible to the naked eye.

"Everyone, it's time to test our combat power. Seagull City is worthy of coming to attack our vast city? Don't worry, everyone, there is a large formation protecting the city. If they dare to come today, I will dare to let him come. Come back." City Lord Xia's voice was loud.

The guards below were silent.

These are the loyal forces of the vast city.

In the back, countless casual cultivators stood on the rocks of the cliff, some of them stared at the rows of spirit ships decisively, some of them communicated in low voices, and some of them retreated silently.

But these have nothing to do with Chen Ping.

He mixed in the crowd, as long as a corner of the protective formation was opened, it was the moment when he left.

Of course, he has always kept a sense of consciousness to observe that tall and thin monk, and he doesn't mind sending him away when the time comes.

The spirit ship of Seagull City sailed out of the ferry very quickly.

On the largest spirit ship, a middle-aged monk stood at the bow, his robe was blown backwards by the strong wind, and he looked extremely energetic:

"Xia Wuzhi, the old man has found out that you are in collusion with the demon cultivator in an attempt to overthrow me and other righteous immortal cultivators. Today, the old man is here to do justice for the heavens, why don't you just get caught?"

City Lord Xia stood at the front of the team:

"Hmph? Mengda, what's the matter? You need to find such an excuse if you want to annex the vast city? No wonder the nearby city lords of Xiuxian City look down on you."

Munda was unimpressed:

"Xia Wuzhi, it's a fact that you worked for Moxiu. The old man has solid evidence, and you still want to argue?"

As he spoke, he held up a transparent bottle with one hand.

"Evidence?" Xia Wuji sneered.

Before Xia Wuzhi could finish speaking, Meng Da shook his hand, and the transparent box flew into the sky, appearing in front of everyone in an instant.

It was a transparent bottle with the word 'Xia' engraved on it, and it contained half a bottle of white powder.

Soon, Mengda's hand shook again, and the bottle returned to his hand, snorting coldly:

"This is the evidence. This jade bottle is unique to your Xia family, right? The thing inside is a lethal poison specially used by the demon cultivators to deal with us orthodox monks. The old man has sent many spies over the years. It was found in the mansion, Xia Wuzhi, do you have anything to say?"

As soon as this thing came out, the loyal monks of the City Lord's Mansion on the side of the vast city remained silent and unmoved.

But Sanxiu didn't know who took the lead, and there was a low voice of discussion.

Chen Ping grinned.

I always feel like I have heard this routine somewhere before.

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The conversation is still going on.

Chen Ping didn't pay attention to their wrangling, but secretly released his consciousness and began to scan the spirit ships on the opposite side.

As a result, he couldn't help being slightly surprised by what his spiritual consciousness saw.

In the cabin of the main ship, he actually 'saw' a familiar face.

The face she saw in Luoyue City back then.

——A demon cultivator.

Chen Ping quickly checked his memory:

Back then in Luoyue City, when Yun Haitang and Bailiye entered the cave to destroy the eyes of the mist formation, a female demon cultivator with a ninth-floor foundation entered the cave in an attempt to sabotage the plan.

'Yes, this is the man. '

'I didn't expect to appear here. '

Is it a coincidence?

Or has this seagull city already turned to the demon cultivator?

He scanned all the spirit ships carefully again, because there was a certain distance, he couldn't sense the magic energy, and couldn't know if there were other magic cultivators present?

But the monk's strength can be tested clearly.

There are a total of three foundations on the deck of the spirit ship, two in the middle stage of foundation establishment, and one in the early stage of foundation establishment. None of these three people restrained their aura, and their cultivation base was outwardly extended.

Chen Ping had seen these three people a long time ago.

In fact everyone saw it.

But there were still two people in the cabin who restrained their breath.

One of them converged on the first floor of foundation building to the sixth floor of Qi training.

By the side of the female demon cultivator.

The other person is the female demon cultivator, who has restrained herself to the seventh level of Qi training.

As for the real cultivation

It is still the ninth floor of foundation building.

It hasn't improved in so many years.

Chen Ping wondered if he could perceive something wrong, so he felt it carefully again. This time, he could even sense the faint fluctuation of spiritual power caused by the instability of the female demon cultivator's breathing technique.

That's right, it's the foundation building nine floors.

If the breath-holding technique cannot be practiced to the extent that it is astonishing as a celestial being, it will be useless in the situation of being crushed by the big realm.

If it is true that this demon cultivator and the tall thin monk who has been lurking in the vast city are indeed from Munda.

That.

Munda's picture is probably not as simple as just a vast city.

There are only two mid-stage foundation establishments in Vast City, and one of them has not fully recovered from being poisoned. And Seagull City actually dispatched six foundations, including two of the ninth floor.

It takes such a large amount of money to just win a vast city?

Chen Ping didn't know the reason, but judging from the current situation, Chen Ping was more inclined that the female demon cultivator didn't appear here by coincidence, but had a plan.

A Munda in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment might not be able to make Foundation Establishment Nine Cities obey orders.

So, Munda might be controlled by Moxiu? .Thinking of this, Chen Ping felt a current flow through his body.

There won't be another fog formation, will it?

But then he vetoed this idea. If he really wanted to control the entire domain with the Mist War, it would not be enough for a foundation-building nine-level demon cultivator alone.

Just when Chen Ping was wondering, he heard a voice from beside him:

"Does Chen Daoyou think I have a chance of winning by waiting for the vast city?"

At some point, Brother Qiao's family squeezed to Chen Ping's side.

Before Chen Ping could answer, another person took up the topic:

"What's the chance of winning? The three foundation-building cultivators on the opposite side, and the only foundation-building cultivator on the vast city side who can really participate in the battle with all their strength, is City Lord Xia. It will only be a matter of time before the city's protective formation is broken."

"Hey, I don't know if we will be implicated when the city is broken?"

Chen Ping smiled:

"Don't worry, then City Lord Meng is a good person at first glance. Even if he annexes our vast city, he will never embarrass us casual cultivators."

As soon as these words came out, several monks around him showed bitterness, while the tall thin monk in the crowd at the far end couldn't help but twitched his mouth slightly.

Chen Ping 'sees' in his eyes.

Sure enough, it was the people from Munda.

"How can Meng Da be such a good person? Hey, Chen Daoyou doesn't know. Hey, this man is very lustful. No beautiful female nun can escape his clutches. His family is established in this way, and this man will take revenge. I I'm afraid it will be bad luck this time."

Brother Qiao's face beside him was extremely ugly.

The girl next to him was holding the corner of the robe tightly, her face pale.

"Chen Daoyou, why don't you?" Brother Qiao glanced at his daughter.

Chen Ping was speechless.

What time is this.

Still thinking about this:

"Don't overthink it, you'll be fine."

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The pull ahead is still going on.

Chen Ping was actually very curious. In such a sure-win game, he only needed to push flatly, but why did Na Mengda insist on talking nonsense, as if he had to occupy a huge moral high ground before giving up.

"Comrades, Xia Wuji colluded with the demon cultivator, and he deserves death, but this has nothing to do with you. As long as you turn against Xia Wuji and help me kill him, not only will you not suffer any crimes of continuous sitting afterwards, but you will also be punished." Get rich rewards from me, Seagull City." Munda roared.

"Hmph, you said collusion with Moxiu is collusion?" Xia Wuzhi's face was dark.

As soon as the words fell, a huge phantom of a skull suddenly floated above the heads of seven or eight monks in the late stage of Qi training in Seagull City.

The phantom let out a terrifying roar.

These seven or eight monks include casual monks and monks from the City Lord's Mansion.

All are high-end combat power.

All of a sudden, there was chaos in the vast city, and the monks quickly retreated and flew sideways to distance themselves from the seven or eight monks who had phantom skeletons.

Everyone is full of vigilance.

Before the war started, the vast city was already in chaos.

"Xia Wuzhi, you still say you are not a demon cultivator?" Meng Da asked loudly.

"Friends of the vast city, kill those demon cultivators and eliminate harm for us and everyone."

"Fellow Taoists of Seagull City, follow me to attack the city. Kill all rebels."

"Break!"

Munda roared.

Following this explosive roar, the originally pleated and brilliant protective formation flickered a few times, and the lines of the formation quickly dimmed.

Xia Wuji was shocked, and suddenly looked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion.

His face was pale.

This defensive formation is his only reliance.

Now suddenly gone.

All the monks in the vast city showed panic, including those loyal monks in the city lord's mansion.

"Someone destroyed the eye of the formation." A disciple of the Xia family was the first to react and galloped towards the city lord's mansion.

"Hahaha, it's late. Kill~"

Munda laughed wildly.

But just as he shouted the word 'kill', he stopped immediately, and suddenly turned his head to look at the cabin.

The other monks who were just about to launch an attack also stopped and turned to look at the cabin.

There was an irresistible sense of coercion.

The sense of coercion that makes them want to kneel down.

Immediately afterwards, a female cultivator with a cold face came out of the cabin, her eyes burning.

Mengda was stunned for a moment. The big magician who came to help out said that he would only take action in extreme situations. How could she come out in such a favorable situation?

But immediately he sensed something was wrong.

He found that the female devil's eyes were fixed on a person on the other side of the vast city.

Not only Munda, but almost everyone noticed this scene.

On the deck of the spirit ship, everyone silently dispersed to make way for the female devil.

On the side of the vast city, the scattered cultivators around Chen Ping also noticed something was wrong, and also quickly dispersed.

Chen Ping was highlighted all of a sudden.