Estranged

Chapter 29: How many enemies do you have!

Tianchui Waterfall is the most bizarre place in Jiuchongyuan.

It has no real sense of dominance.

Because here, everyone will lose their spiritual power and become ordinary people.

On the contrary, ordinary people will gain supreme spiritual power here, and experience the power that cannot be experienced outside.

But this place is not accessible to ordinary people at all. They may have died in the first abyss, let alone come to Tianchui Waterfall.

When monks are trapped in one place, lose their spiritual power, and everyone is equal, what greets them is not a paradise of mutual respect and love, but a more cruel law of the jungle.

The monks who are stronger and more powerful stand out and become the people who are in charge of the power of Tianchui City. These five people are called the five elders.

"After dark, there will be a large number of vultures here, eating human flesh for a living. If they can't eat human flesh, they will go crazy and their strength will increase greatly, so they will kill more people."

"So there is a default rule here. People who have no shelter after dark are food for vultures. Unless you can survive their attacks by yourself, no one will lend a helping hand. Because if you die, it means that others can live."

Chen Ting was stunned.

"Then what if everyone hides in the house and doesn't go out? Don't those vultures also have no food?"

Xu Jingxian: "This requires the use of the second rule, the strong are respected. Here, if you are useless after your spiritual power disappears, you can only be thrown out as food for vultures. Don't look at that person just now. As a waiter, he is actually good at martial arts, at least he can draw with me."

Chen Ting: "Is there no one who can leave here?"

Xu Jingxian: "Of course there is, but only those who leave know the opportunity to leave, and they can't come back and tell the people here. What's more, not everyone wants to leave."

Seeing her meaningful expression, Chen Ting understood it all at once.

Some people want to go out, and some people don't want to leave.

Being able to become a Master Ren who is held up and offered as an offering here is no worse than outside.

It's better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. Although the sea and sky are vast outside, the competition is more intense.

"Also, every three days there will be a martial arts competition held at the highest Yunding Building in the city. The winner may be selected as a servant next to the elder. It can also improve the status in the city and get money from fields and houses. It is most suitable for those who are newcomers and empty-handed. Participate. Is Daoyou Chen interested?"

Chen Ting subconsciously asked: "Then what if we lose?"

Xu Jingxian grinned: "If you lose, you will naturally be thrown out to feed the vultures!"

Chen Ting: ...

"If you don't want to participate, you have to participate. Foreign monks, if there is no money circulating in Tianchui City, they will not be able to guarantee their basic necessities, and they will soon be on the streets. But, not everyone needs to participate. You can also take shortcuts. Become a master directly, want to know?"

Xu Jingxian's eyes fluttered, and she couldn't help being coquettish when she saw that the two were not cheering.

"Why don't you make a sound, are you two dead people!"

Chen Ting: ...I feel that what you are going to say is not a good thing.

"You don't need to ask, do you?"

Xu Jingxian: "Then I want to say, if you can be favored by the elders, you don't need to compete in martial arts or fight vultures, and you can become a master who can eat and drink well."

Chen Ting: "With Fellow Daoist Xu's appearance, there is naturally no problem."

Xu Jingxian giggled: "To tell you the truth, I helped Chen Daoyou to find out. Among the five elders, there is an elder Hou who loves men but not women's clothing. The guards around him are all young men with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Chen Daoyou is handsome. We fall in love at first sight, then we can ascend to heaven with chickens and dogs!"

Chen Ting: ...

He said in his heart that the witch is indeed a witch, and it is not serious when she speaks.

"What? You don't look down on those people?" Xu Jingxian's thoughts were still unfinished, "It's a coincidence that Chen Daoyou's old friend is now eating and drinking by the Fifth Elder's side. If there is a chance to meet, please Chen Daoyou to help the slave family. Let her guide and guide us!"

Chen Ting was puzzled: "Who?"

Xu Jingxian: "Guan Xiashang."

Chen Ting showed surprise: "This, could it be that you misread it?"

Xu Jingxian sneered: "I didn't expect that the witch didn't sacrifice her appearance, but the saint of the famous sect couldn't bear it first?"

Chen Ting: "I didn't mean that..."

The two were still bickering, but Chang Ming was silent. When Xu Jingxian thought about it, he found that he had already fallen asleep sitting up with one hand resting on his forehead.

Chen Ting also saw it, so he stopped arguing.

Xu Jingxian said: "Chen Daoyou, please, don't disturb our Minglang's rest."

Chen Ting was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you book two upper rooms?"

Xu Jingxian: "That's right, Ming Lang and I share a room, and you share a room alone."

Chen Ting: ...

He looked at Xu Jingxian's natural look, unable to speak, so he left silently.

Seeing Chen Ting closing the door and leaving, Xu Jingxian suddenly said, "I saw real grass."

Chang Ming opened his eyes.

He was resting with his eyes closed, not falling asleep.

"I found it?"

Xu Jingxian narrowed her eyes: "You really admitted that you were lying at that time?"

Chang Ming said as if nothing had happened, "I just didn't expect to be found by you so easily."

"Who says it's easy, it's a coincidence!" Xu Jingxian was indignant.

At that time, on the Rainbow Bridge, several people fought among themselves, Guan Xiashang fled, and Xu Jingxian chased after him.

The nosy Chen Ting stopped her, causing her to be involved in the huge waves along with Chen.

As a result, Chen Ting disappeared, but she and Guan Xiashang both came to the Third Abyss.

Here is a huge iron chessboard, with people as the chessboard and luck and life as the bet, once you make a mistake, it will be wiped out and will cease to exist.

The iron chessboard is life and death, and when someone leaves, someone will come. Xu Jingxian and Guan Xiashang replaced the person in front because of the dead chess, and became the two chess pieces at the starting point.

In order to change from a dead chess game to a living chess game, the two cooperated for a short time. Needless to say, they escaped from death in a thrilling way.

"A few days ago I went to see the competition in Yunding, and I saw the real grass. It grows in the lake outside the Yunding Building. The center of the lake is full of exotic flowers and plants of Lu Jianmu, one of the five elders. No one dared to move it. Once On the night of the full moon, I saw a glowing flower plant floating on the lake, the shape is exactly the same as what you said."

Xu Jingxian was excited for a moment, but then she tried to calm down again.

"It's a pity that those flowers and plants are all treasured by Lu Jianmu. He doesn't allow anyone to approach them at all, because the Yunding Building is his other courtyard, and his people are stationed upstairs all year round. As long as someone approaches the lake, they will be found immediately."

"Also, the five elders are very powerful in Tianchui City. It is impossible for you to escape from the world. The money on my body is still obtained from one person. The money here is used up very quickly. Now I will pay you all." If the room fee is paid, it will be spent soon.”

She didn't say how she got the money from that man, and Chang Ming didn't ask either.

In Tianchui City, stealing and looting is legal. As long as Xu Jingxian can survive, Xu Jingxian is a demon cultivator, and he will not have those moral burdens in his actions.

"I'm a little puzzled." Chang Ming said, "Since Guan Xiashang can also become the new favorite of the Fifth Elder, it is not difficult to make the Fifth Elder fascinated by you by the means of a fairy, and then gain a firm foothold. It's easier than it is now for the elders to plan to grow real grass."

Xu Jingxian cast a wink: "Isn't it because they are waiting for you, because they are afraid that you will be unaccompanied when you come here!"

Chang Ming: "Then I am really honored."

When he said this, he was lazy, but there was no flattered expression on his face.

The two of them knew very well that they didn't have such a deep friendship, and Xu Jingxian certainly didn't go close to the Fifth Elder out of some kind of reserve.

Maybe their relationship is a little closer than Chen Ting or others, it's all because of the secret of growing real grass and non-conflicting goals.

Seeing that he was as motionless as a mountain, Xu Jingxian curled her lips and didn't want to pretend anymore.

"These five people, Lu Jianmu, who is suspected of growing real grass, is said to have never been close to women. He is obsessed with raising flowers and planting grass. His biggest hobby is to collect all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. Do you think it's strange? They went to Jiuchongyuan Come here to grow flowers and plants? But his martial arts is the highest among the five, and the guards around him are also old people who are over five years old.

"And Xu Fenglin, do you remember? It was the genius sword cultivator of the Donghai School. He also came to Tianchui City. He also killed the original five elders and became one of the elders himself. But this person is very arrogant. When I was outside I have fought against him, and he knows me."

"There is also a man surnamed Hou who doesn't love women, but likes men."

Chang Ming: "Where is the one Guan Xiashang is attached to?"

"The elder's surname is Liu. He's very weird. He doesn't see people during the day, but he likes to hide in the dark at night and watch the vultures chasing and devouring the exiled. Apart from that, I haven't found any more useful information. You can't act rashly. These five people are not easy to get along with, and none of them are normal!"

After Xu Jingxian finished complaining, she finally expressed her intentions.

"Let's cooperate. You go to sign up for the cloud top competition tomorrow. If you win, stay with the elders as bodyguards. We will have more opportunities. Find out the temperament and preferences of these five people, and then you can find a way to introduce me. You must want to Get out of here soon? I heard that there are some unknown secrets under Yunding Lake, which are related to entering and exiting Tianchui City. I also want to get Yangzhencao and leave here. Our purpose is the same. Two people working together are better than one It's good to wander around."

Chang Ming: "I can't go."

Xu Jingxian: "Why?"

Chang Ming: "Someone is going to kill me, and if I show up, it's like throwing myself into a trap."

Xu Jingxian: "Who?"

Chang Ming: "Yun Weisi."

"Yun Weisi?"

Xu Jingxian repeated the name, suspecting that she had heard it wrong, "In the past, the leader of the Taoist sect, was Jiuchongyuan the master Yun Weisi?"

Chang Ming: "Not bad."

Xu Jingxian raised her voice: "Why did you mess with him again?!"

Chang Ming: "He is Yunhai, and Yunhai is him."

Xu Jingxian was puzzled, but after thinking about it, she didn't seem surprised.

Yun Hai appeared abruptly, disappeared inexplicably, and his abilities were even more unfathomable. Xu Jingxian would not find it strange if he was Yun Weisi, but—

"How can you make enemies wherever you go? First our suzerain, and then Yun Weisi, tell me, besides the two of them, how many enemies do you have?"

Chang Ming thought for a while, but said unsurely, "There should be two more."

The more apprentices take in, the more enemies they will have. If I knew that I took two less in the past, I would be less worried now.

Xu Jingxian: ...

Chang Ming: "But except for Yun Weisi, no one else is in Jiuchongyuan."

Xu Jingxian said angrily: "I shouldn't have believed your nonsense at the beginning! I even entered here with you, and now I can't get out even if I want to. Seeing that the real grass is in front of me, I can't see it! I knew you were so useless , why should I bother talking, why not cooperate with Chen Ting!"

Chang Ming didn't take her complaint to heart.

"According to what you said, the real grass is outside the Yunding Tower, even if it is heavily guarded, it is not completely impossible."

Xu Jingxian shook her head without thinking: "No! I know what you want to say. At night, although there are five guards in Yunding Lake, all the vultures will come out. Only the selected sacrifices will be forced to be exposed. It's scary, you can't even imagine it, I also had a night of disbelief and wanted to go to the lake, but I was almost targeted by vultures."

She showed a look of lingering fear.

Being able to sit on the position of Lingbo Peak's master, Xu Jingxian has had blood on her hands all these years, and she can show such an expression, which shows that those vultures are not ordinary raptors.

"If you don't believe it, after dark, you can open a window in the house and peep from afar."

Xu Jingxian's tone was faint, almost eerily low.

"After dark, the city of Tian Chui is another world."

Knock knock knock.

As if in response to her words, there was a knock on the door.

Chang Ming coughed twice, but did not move.

The knock on the door sounded again.

Xu Jingxian resigned to her fate and went to open the door.

It was the waiter just now, followed by two people, all dressed in black.

Xu Jingxian recognized them at a glance. The clothes meant that they were people around the Fifth Elder.

"Master Changming."

The two of them didn't even look at Xu Jingxian, they looked directly at Chang Ming behind her.

"We, Elder Xu, would like to invite you to be our guest."

Chang Ming: "Which Elder Xu?"

Xu Jingxian: "Xu Fenglin?"

The man in black: "It's Elder Xu Fenglin."

Xu Jingxian looked at Changming: "Do you know Xu Fenglin?"

Chang Ming: "I have never met each other before, and I have never known each other before."

Xu Jingxian asked the man in black: "Why is Xu Fenglin looking for my Minglang?"

The two men in black didn't speak, but they didn't leave either, as if Chang Ming would forcibly take them away if he disagreed.

"Also please, Mr. Changming, don't make it difficult for us."

Xu Jingxian raised her eyebrows, and immediately realized that this was a good opportunity.

They were still thinking about how to get close to the Fifth Elder just now, so Xu Fenglin sent someone over.

Chang Ming didn't think so.

He felt that the visitor was not good.

an hour ago.

Xu Fenglin got a report that someone wanted to see him.

Since he took the position of elder in Tianchui City, there are countless people who want to see him like crucian carp crossing the river.

There are very few people who can really get Xu Fenglin to see him.

When he first heard this request, Xu Fenglin's expression didn't fluctuate at all.

"not see."

He closed his eyes and continued to meditate.

"The guest said that his name is Yun Weisi."

Xu Fenglin suddenly opened his eyes.

"What did you say his name was?"

"Yun Weisi, he said he came from the other side of nothingness."

Xu Fenglin stood up.

"Ask him to come in!"

Xu Fenglin looked down at his clothes, and even reached out to smooth them.

After confirming that there was nothing inappropriate, he took a step forward.

He is aloof by nature, and when he was in the teacher's school, he had never paid so much attention to Yi Rong, and he wanted to please someone.

But the name Yun Weisi represents a kind of accident.

He was afraid it was an imposter and he would be disappointed.

But after a while, when the other party came down to him under the guidance of his attendants, Xu Fenglin knew that this person was indeed Yun Weisi.

This kind of elegance is unmistakable.

"Daoist Yun."

"Xu Fenglin." Yun Weisi said without any turbulence on his expression.

"Yes, do you remember me?"

Xu Fenglin was excited for a moment, but quickly suppressed it.

Yun Weisi looked at him for a while.

"Twenty years ago, your master brought you to visit me."

Xu Fenglin felt that his heart became brisk and fluttering according to his expression.

"It's me, Yun Daozun entered Jiuchongyuan. After 20 years of separation, there has been no news of him. Today, I still have the same demeanor."

Yun Weisi: "Why did you come in?"

Xu Fenglin: "I want to imitate Daoist Yun and train myself in the most dangerous place."

Yun Weisi: "It's not easy to get to Tianchui City, you are very good."

The corners of Xu Fenglin's mouth curled up.

"I thought it would take a lot of hardships to get to the other side of nothingness, but I never thought that I would see you here in advance. It is rumored that in Jiuchongyuan, only Daoist Yun can come and go freely, and shuttle between Jiuchongyuan. It turns out that this legend actually It’s true, it’s really extraordinary.”

Yun Weisi: "Tianchui City is very special, and I can't use my spiritual power here."

Xu Fenglin: "But with your force, it is easy to become the ruler of Tianchui City. If Daoist Yun is willing to stay, I am willing to hand over the position of elder."

Yun Weisi: "No need, I came here only to kill one person."

Xu Fenglin: "Who?"

Yun Weisi: "Nine directions are ever bright."

Xu Fenglin said without thinking: "As long as you want, I can do it myself!"

He didn't even think about why Yun Weisi wanted to kill him, he just opened his mouth and made a promise.