Chapter 169 The trouble of the water family
Along the way, the guards of the Shui Family Caravan all looked alert, afraid that someone would rob. However, their luck was obviously good, or the bandits thought they were hard bones and difficult to chew. So since they left the Han Dynasty, they have been safe.
About ten days later, the caravan entered the territory of Song State, only three days away from Jiangling City.
Jiang Chen is very calm these days. Except for the convoy getting off at the inn when he was parked at the inn, he stayed in the carriage and did not go out the rest of the time. He had already used the breath-retention technique to reduce his breath to the middle stage of Qi refining. In this way, among the group of Qi refining cultivators in the carriage, it seemed extremely ordinary.
The captain of the Shui family caravan, Shui Boen, had no cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building and his spiritual sense was not strong, and he was just as close as Jiang Chen, and could not see through Jiang Chen's breath-catching technique. Seeing that Jiang Chen was just silently reading some jade slips in the carriage, and his behavior was not abnormal, he turned his attention away from him.
Jiang Chen looked ahead and saw a towering mountain in front of him. According to Shui Born, if you cross the mountain, you can see Jiangling City. The first destination of their trip was arrived.
This time, the reason why he wanted to go far and wide was not to choose to go directly to Xiangyang with the thin man's caravan, but to follow Shui Boyne, the caravan that detoured by the detour, just to come to Jiangling.
The purpose of Jiang Chen coming to Jiangling was to visit the Hundred Poison Demon Lord who lives in this city.
According to the old monster of Heavenly Demon, the Hundred Poison Demon Lord is his old friend and he keeps one of his treasure chests in his hands. If Jiang Chen reaches the foundation-building stage, he can rely on the Heavenly Demon Order to find the Hundred Poison Demon Lord and Rong the treasure chest from him.
According to the map drawn by the old monster in Heaven, the Hundred Poison Demon Lord lived in Jiangling City. Jiang Chen was also very curious about what treasure would the old monster in Heaven.
At this moment, a black eagle flew from a distance. It fluttered its wings, flew crookedly, with blood on its body, as if it was injured.
"Uncle En, it seems to be the black-winged iron eagle used by scout Song Laosan to send a message." A guard from the Water Caravan pointed to the eagle in the sky.
Seeing this, Shui Born's face changed suddenly. He said in a deep voice: "Send the signal to attract this iron eagle. Song Lao San is afraid he will be in trouble!"
The guard immediately took out a whistle from his arms, blew it hard, and immediately made a sharp whistle.
After hearing the sound, the black-winged Iron Eagle flapped its wings and slowly landed towards the caravan, and finally landed on the shoulders of the guard.
The guards were also frightened to catch the Zongyi Iron Eagle. The spirit bird was covered with scars, with blood dripping on its claws, wings and abdomen. The bird's head was even more burning.
On the right claw of the Black-winged Iron Eagle, there was a small paper tube tied up. The guard untied the paper tube, walked to Shui Born, and handed the paper tube to him.
Shui Born took out a tightly wrapped small note from the paper tube, expanded it and looked at it, and his face suddenly became solemn.
Seeing that Shui Born's expression changed drastically, the guard asked tremblingly: "Uncle En, what news did Song Laosan send back on the note?"
Shui Boyne took a deep breath, looked around, and saw everyone looking at him, Fang Yangtian laughed and said, "It's nothing big! Song Laosan said that there were many monsters on the way from Jiangling City to Xiangyang City. Let's deal with it carefully."
After hearing this, the guards immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Which road is there no monsters? This is a common thing.
But looking at the embarrassing appearance of the black-winged Iron Eagle, could this monster belong to a bird? There were a few clever guards speculating.
"Everyone speed up the trip! Enter Jiangling City earlier, take out the goods before talking about the next step!" Shui Born quickly put away the notes and said seriously.
Everyone nodded, then returned to their respective cars and continued on the road. However, they did not notice that the worry on Shui Born's face became heavier.
After speeding up the trip, the caravan arrived in Jiangling City after only more than two days.
Jiang Li thought to himself: It seems that the Shui family caravan also has great strength and reputation in this Jiangling City. When the convoy entered the city, the guards at the gate of the city could even be questioned, and some signs could be seen.
After everyone entered the city, the noisy and boiling sound suddenly rushed towards him, making Jiang Chen, who had been in the empty wilderness for more than ten days, was a little difficult to adapt for a while.
The scale of Jiangling City is actually not larger than that of Tianmo City, but perhaps because of its better planning, the entire city gives people a magnificent feeling. The vast streets are filled with people, revealing the vast popularity of the city.
Jiang Chen found that among the monks coming and going in the city, there were obviously fewer ghost cultivators emitting yin energy on their bodies. In the Heavenly Demon City, almost one out of every three monks was a ghost cultivator. And here, not one out of the thirty people was a ghost cultivator.
It seems that even in the Demon Sect, there are only a few people. After all, normal people don’t like to deal with zombies and ghosts every day. Relatively speaking, the Han Kingdom is already the most concentrated area of ghost cultivators in the Demon Sect.
Shui Born took the convoy to a large trading company in the city, delivered dozens of trucks of goods transported, and then began to reload new goods and prepare to take them to Xiangyang City.
Xiao Wei and the coachman in the caravan can finally have a good rest.
Shui Born announced that except for the group of people on duty, the other coachmen, guests, and guards who were not on duty were on duty, were all on holiday for three days. He himself moved a chair, sat at the door of the shop, and half-closed his eyes to calm down.
Jiang Chen had a vague feeling, as if Shui Born was waiting for someone to appear. However, he did not dare to make arbitrary assertions.
"Forget it, what happened to the Water Caravan or had any plans? What does it have to do with me? As long as I can arrive in Xiangyang safely!" Jiang Chen thought to himself: "I'd better go find the Hundred Poison Demon Lord first! Let's see what the old monster of the Heavenly Demon left me."
His identity is a guest riding in the Water Caravan, and his movements are completely free. He just needs to say hello to the deputy leader.
So, Jiang Chen spoke to Shui Qin, a deputy leader who was in charge of passengers, and then left the business and walked towards the north of the city.
Shortly after Jiang Chen left, a beautiful woman walked out of the inner courtyard of the business, about twenty-three or four years old. She was wearing a blue dress and a short skirt, and her steps were very fast.
Behind her, there were a large group of guards. The clothes they wore were the same as those of the caravan, and they were obviously from the Shui family.
When everyone in the caravan saw this woman, they immediately looked awe-inspiringly and did not dare to show up.
Shui Born hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said, "Hello, Miss!"
The beautiful woman nodded and then said softly: "I finally convinced the Ruan Trading Company to sell all the remaining amethyst sand to our Shui family. Uncle En, please tell everyone to pack the goods as soon as possible! Then we will immediately rush back to Xiangyang! Time is tight now, so we can't afford to take it!"
Shui Born nodded, but then he looked worried and whispered to the woman: "Miss, before entering the city, Song Laosan, who had been sent to the front to inquire about the news, came back. He said that there was a group of masked bandits in front who could not find out about his cultivation to ambush the caravan. Judging from the actions of Xingzhe, there were ten*** targeting our caravan, and he suspected that it might be from the Wang family."
When the stunning woman heard this, her pretty face changed suddenly. She asked anxiously: "Where is Song Laosan? Why didn't he come back?"
Shui Born sighed and said, "Song Laosan has been found and killed by that group of people, but before he died, he finally passed the news back with the Black-winged Iron Eagle. I don't dare to explain it to everyone now, for fear of causing turmoil. I only said that there may be monsters ahead."
After hearing this, the stunning woman nodded and said, "Uncle Eun, you did a good job. Now, in order to cover up, we disguised the convoy as an ordinary caravan. Not only did we recruit guards from outside, but we also took Yixingke. Although we could deceive many people, it also caused people to talk too much. In order to avoid causing unnecessary panic, keeping confidentiality from everyone is the best choice."
After Shui Born nodded, Fang asked with concern: "Miss, should we change to the water route? If we go directly from Jiangling to Xiangyang, we will not only have to pass through the desert, but also have a very likely encountering the Wang family's interception!"
"It's too late!" The stunning woman sighed. If we walk through the water, we have to go around Jiangxia City and then hire a boat to Xiangyang. We are afraid that it will take two months to go back. But in a month, the Yiling Cave will be opened! We must send the amethyst sand back to the family before the Yiling Cave is opened!"
Shui Born naturally understood the importance of this batch of amethyst sand to the Shui family, but he still reminded carefully: "But if we walk as planned, it is easy to crash into the enemy's ambush..."
After thinking for a while, the stunning woman said, "Then change the route of traveling in the desert slightly. If you don't walk from the official road, you will change to the path. Although you will walk for three more days, you will probably be able to avoid the ambush from the enemy!"
"Okay! I can only do this now!" Shui Boen sighed. He naturally knew that if the Wang family really wanted to ambush them, how could they not send people to keep an eye on the whereabouts of the convoy. But now that time is tight, they can only treat dead horses as living horses, and take one step at a time.
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After passing through several streets, Jiang Chen followed the map's guidance and arrived at the entrance of a house.
He looked up at the courtyard and saw a wooden sign hanging on the horizontal plaque at the door, with the two big words "Weifu" written on the flying dragon and flying phoenix.
There is also a lion statue made of bluestone on both sides of the door of the mansion. A layer of white mortar is painted on the outside of the courtyard wall that extends from the door. However, it seems that no one has taken care of it for a long time, and the lime in many places has fallen off, revealing the blue bricks inside.
Jiang Chen released his spiritual consciousness, but found that he could only reach outside the courtyard wall of the courtyard and could not detect the internal situation. It seemed that there must be a formation restriction in this courtyard that isolates the spiritual consciousness.
In desperation, he could only grab the door knocker at the door and knocked it suddenly for a while.
A moment later, the gate of the house opened. An old man in the butler's clothing, about 60 years old, with two long beards, walked out.
Jiang Chen looked at the old man and found that he could not feel the fluctuations of his spiritual power. There were only two possibilities: one was that the old man was a mortal, so of course there was no spiritual power. The other possibility was that the old man's cultivation was much higher than his own, and he could converge his spiritual power to the extreme, so that he could not sense it at all.
Although he could not tell what the old man was, for the sake of security, he naturally treated the old man as a master, neglected him enough and caused him to kill himself.
"Brother, who are you looking for?" the old man asked with a confused look on his face.
"I'll look for Senior Hundred Poison Demon Lord!" Jiang Chen replied respectfully.
"My brother must be a saint!" The old man said calmly after hearing this: "You may have found the wrong place. This is the Wei Mansion in Jiangling City. The Wei family is not a family of immortal cultivation, but just a big family of ordinary mortals. There are no big figures like Demon Lord, Heavenly Lord, Saint, etc.."
Jiang Chen was slightly surprised, but immediately discovered the problem. If this place was just a mortal family as the old man said, how could they have set up restrictions to isolate spiritual consciousness in the house? Moreover, mortals were frightened when they saw the cultivator, and they would not have a calm expression like this old man.
He had guessed at this time that it seemed that the so-called Demon Lord of the Hundred Poisons does not like others to worry about it.
Jiang Chen's eyes rolled and immediately sent a message to the old man: "I am the descendant of the old demon monster. I'm here to find the Hundred Poison Demon Lord. I'll tell you about important things!"
"If this old man is really a mortal, then I will never hear my voice transmission." He thought to himself.
At this time, the old man finally showed a look of surprise in his eyes, and then he made a move away: "Brother, please come in!"
Jiang Chen was overjoyed and thought to himself that there was indeed a chance.
The old man led Jiang Chen to the living room and sat down, presented a cup of tea, and then asked in a deep voice: "Is that old monster dead?"
Jiang Chen was shocked and wondered how could this old man know that something happened to the old demon monster? You know, what the Tianmo Sect has announced to the public is that the former sect leader, the old demon monster, has gone into seclusion and has not yet come out of seclusion. He has left a notice before seclusion and passed the sect leader to the great elder of the original sect. Tu Junde, who is known as the Venerable of the Heavenly Demon, has become the supreme elder and no longer cares about the common affairs of the sect.
Jiang Chen guessed that the reason why Tu Junde did not dare to announce the death of the old monster immediately was that he was afraid of causing panic among the disciples in the sect and boosting the morale of the Blood Shadow Sect.
Therefore, now, except for Jiang Chen and Tu Junde, people from inside and outside the sect, they all think that the old demon monster is still in seclusion and is still safe and sound.
But how could this old man know about the death of the old demon monster? Jiang Chen was shocked.
Chapter completed!