Chapter 480 Look for it openly

Chapter 480 Look for it openly

Chapter 480 Look for it openly

The buildings in the city are not all in line with human aesthetics, there are also some houses with strange shapes.

Some people who wanted to save trouble simply moved in the skull of some unknown giant beast and used it as a house after a few minor modifications.

There are skeletons of giant snakes, which can be rolled up into a tower, and can be made habitable after some decoration inside and outside.

Some also build nests in ancient trees.

In short, those who can afford such a house in the city are basically demon cultivators with considerable status in most major cities.

The roads that connect the city in all directions might be relatively regular if there were no such strange buildings. However, the roads have to turn and deform when they encounter these buildings, but they have to pass in front of the doors of those buildings.

There are all kinds of buildings, with tile roofs, thatched roofs, feather roofs, bark roofs, and glittering jewel roofs. Some have roofs but no roofs, and they like to be open to the air.

The people who control this city live on a mountain in the center of the city. The pavilions and towers on the top of the mountain are quite fairy-like, while the buildings below the top of the mountain seem unbridled. There are caves and shacks, stacked in a disordered manner, and from a distance, they have an evil feel.

The magnificent buildings on the top of the mountain seem to suppress the evil spirits below the mountain and also symbolize the order in the city.

Order is very important. Once order collapses, no one will come back, and no matter how many promises you make, no one will believe them.

Outside the city are rolling hills and endless grasslands, like rippling blue waves.

The heart-wrapped grass is a giant plant that is two meters tall. Its drooping leaves are very tough and people can lie down and sleep after climbing on them.

A long ribbon-like road winds through the grassland. There are horse-drawn carriages pulled by unicorn horses galloping back and forth, and there are also unicorn horses grazing on the grassland.

The colt has a thin, conical head with serrated teeth, erect ears like black leather, a black tongue in its mouth, and a body covered with fine scales that look like snake skin. It has sapphire-like eyes, a body as tall as a person, a waist like a leopard, a lion's tail, and solid iron hooves. It is as fast as the wind and has a strong load-bearing capacity, and can travel a thousand miles a day.

Here they feed on heart-wrapped grass. They can easily tear open the tough skin of the grass with one bite. After tearing it apart layer by layer, they gnaw on the core that is like a bamboo shoot heart.

Under the fallen grass in the grassland, there was probably a small colt nibbling on it.

The mist under the grassland had not yet completely dissipated, and it drifted towards the road, and was occasionally blown away by the passing carriages.

Occasionally, streams of light rise and fall on the mountains in the city, sometimes going far away and sometimes coming far away.

thump...

The sound of a bell from the top of a mountain in the city echoed in all directions, and the wind blew away the waves on the grassland, making them dance.

Shi Chun, who was leaning against the door frame, came to his senses, looked up at the sky, and saw that it was the noon bell ringing. It was noon.

Two little children holding windmills ran past the door hand in hand, laughing.

On the window of the building opposite, there was a civet cat guarding the window, curled up and taking a nap.

Through the window diagonally opposite, you can see a demon bat hanging upside down on the beam inside.

On the eaves not far away, there was a huge centipede crawling around, patrolling the house for its owner. It also seemed to be running on the roof following the street children, with its eyes flashing a dark and eerie light.

The third young lady, Dong Liangying, came out from the backyard, holding a bunch of flowers that her brother had just gotten today. She walked into the counter, picked up a pot, filled the vase with clean water, and then arranged the flowers.

It is boring to do the same work at the counter every day, so she likes flowers to embellish her life to make it more beautiful and fresh.

She was wearing a goose yellow dress, with a slender waist, eyebrows and eyes full of the beautiful whiteness of youth, bright eyes and white teeth. She was just over nineteen years old, which was very young in the world of cultivation. She was as young as a flower bud, and had reached the initial stage of martial arts cultivation.

There aren't many resources for cultivation, so this is the way to practice that accumulates bit by bit, and that's it.

For ordinary people who have fantasies but no ambition to put them into action and who only seek to live a stable life, the so-called practice is just to strengthen their body and prolong their life.

Her eyes accidentally touched Shi Chun's back leaning against the door frame. Her gaze slightly fixed, and she slowly lowered her head while holding the vase and sniffing the flowers, using the branches to hide her scrutiny.

We have known each other for a long time. Wang Ping has been here for a year.

One year is neither long nor short in terms of time spent together.

The whole family is quite accepting of this person, the only one who has some doubts is his father.

What's wrong with saving money, being capable and doing one's duty? But this is exactly where his father occasionally has doubts. Although it is a good thing for their family to be able to pick up this bargain, his father's philosophy is that there is no such thing as an easy bargain in the world.

She was still young, so naturally her ideas were difficult to reconcile with her father's. She felt that her father's ideas were too harsh and that there was no perfect person in the world.

The only thing she found strange about Shi Chun was that no matter how they got along with this man, he seemed to keep an invisible distance from their family, even though his words and actions seemed intimate.

She used to think this was good as it gave the family peace of mind, but as time went on, she started to feel that it wasn't so good.

There are three women in the family. There is no other man in the house except Shi Chun. What's more, Shi Chun is not bad looking, and the calm and indifferent aura on Shi Chun is not something you can see in the neighbors. After living together for a long time, it would be against human nature to say that the three women have no feelings for him at all.

In addition, Shi Chun was very poor, which made people think that the problem was not serious. Dong Liangying was in the front office, and she had heard some people mocking Shi Chun for wanting to be a live-in son-in-law.

But the boundaries drawn by Shi Chun's words and actions were very clear, and the daughter who grew up in such an environment would naturally abide by her duties, so there was no ambiguity on both sides, and everything was pure and innocent.

So Dong Liangying would only observe Shi Chun quietly like this occasionally, trying to figure out what Shi Chun was thinking about while leaning against the door. No man would stay here for this little money his whole life, he would have to leave sooner or later, right?
Her sisters also said that he might have to leave sooner or later.

A tall man with thick eyebrows and big eyes suddenly appeared at the door. Dong Liangyu knew him. He was Wang Ping's friend Gao He and a former colleague at the horse farm. After Wang Ping came here to work, Gao He would often come to the library to read books, and he often emphasized that he, like Wang Ping, was a person who liked reading.

Occasionally I would come and have a meal, and I became familiar with the people there.

Wu Jinliang ran up the stairs without bothering to talk to Shi Chun. He looked inside first and immediately saw Dong Liangying. He waved and shouted, "Miss San, I'm taking Wang Ping to buy some things. I'll be back soon."

Dong Liangying dusted his hands and said to Shi Chun who looked back, "I'll watch over here. It's time for lunch, so come back early."

Shi Chun bowed slightly to express his thanks and said it was okay to leave for a while. He was paid low wages, so he had this freedom.

Before turning around and leaving, Wu Jinliang couldn't help but turn his head and look at Dong Liangying a few more times, sighing in his heart, this guy is really incomparable. He can live in the homes of three beautiful women just for reading a book. How can this be justified?

After leaving the library, he sighed, "The beauty in books is real."

Shi Chun was too lazy to pay attention to his evil thoughts.

After the two of them walked through the streets and into a remote area, Wu Jinliang whispered, "There's news from home. An Wuzhi's cultivation has broken through to the Earthly Immortal realm. Damn, the progress of the divine fire attribute in improving cultivation is too fast. At this rate, I really don't know to which realm they will be able to resume their normal cultivation progress."

Shi Chun was unable to give an answer to this question, as there was no precedent to refer to. The only predecessor they knew of so far was Situ Gu, who absorbed six flowers. As for those who absorbed ten or twenty flowers, they really didn't know who to use as a reference.

Tong Mingshan and Zhu Xiangxin have both broken through to the great perfection realm of human immortals, but their progress is generally much slower than An Wuzhi's. They don't know whether An Wuzhi has a higher talent for cultivation or his fighting skills have certain advantages.

No matter what, it is a good thing for our own people to make rapid progress in cultivation.

Even this progress was not achieved by the increase in the power of the divine fire out of thin air, but was accumulated by spending a large amount of cultivation resources. Over the past three years, nearly 2 billion yuan has been spent on Tong Mingshan and the other two. Although it hurts, Shi Chun still fully supports the improvement of the three's cultivation.

With Tong Mingshan's poor performance in the weapon refining competition, Shi Chun took out several sets of fire-based cultivation techniques for the three to choose from. These were cultivation techniques hidden on the remains brought out from the tower in the center of the lake in the Divine Fire Domain. He asked them to each choose one that suited their own practice.

The skills of those ancient powerful beings should be much stronger than the cultivation methods of their original sects.

Of course, if he had a good technique, he would definitely give it to Wu Jinliang first, there was no doubt about that.

However, among the nine martial arts in the tower, six are fire-based martial arts, and there are only three for Wu Jinliang to choose from. In fact, there is no choice but to see which one is more suitable for you. No matter how good the martial arts is, if it does not match your talent, it will be useless if you cannot practice it.

After trying many techniques, Wu Jinliang finally chose a technique called "Zhu Xiang Gong".

So Shi Chun stopped passing this skill on and only gave the other two skills to other people in Mingshan Sect to choose from, to see who was suitable for practicing.

Chu Jingtang declined the offer outright. He was born in the 'Bi Lan Sect' and practiced water-based techniques. If he were to switch to a technique of a completely different nature, he would have to give up all his cultivation and sources of power before he could practice again. He was unwilling to endure that pain, nor was he willing to give up the cultivation he had practiced for many years.

Wu Jinliang had suffered a lot when he tried to cultivate other skills. It was not pleasant to rebuild the source of his skills. He had thought about giving up. After all, he had money and no worries about food and clothing now. It was only under the severe reprimand and pressure from Shi Chun that he persisted. It took him almost two years to rebuild it successfully.

It was only after he had crossed that threshold and entered the right track of practicing "Zhu Xiang Gong" that Shi Chun quietly took him away from the capital of Shengshenzhou, personally urging Wu Jinliang to pass that level.

At this time, Shi Chun, who had been pondering for a while, felt a little sense of crisis. His subordinates' cultivation level improved so quickly, and it was hard to predict what the future would be like.

In the short term, everyone might remember his kindness or rely on the cultivation resources he provides, but what about the future? Do you expect a person who is high above you to always be ahead of you?
Thinking of this, he felt like he could no longer stay dormant and missed those magic ways again.

After thinking it over again and again, he suddenly said, "I've been looking here for more than a year, but I still can't find any clues about 'Que Si Xiang'. It's not a good idea to keep wasting time like this. I have to change my mind."

Wu Jinliang knew he had other ideas when he heard them, so he asked, "What do you mean?"

Shi Chun pondered and said, "If the person related to 'Que Si Xiang' is really hiding in this area and cannot be found in secret, then why not look for him in public?"

Wu Jinliang was curious, "How do you find it openly?"

Shi Chun casually grabbed a small cookie box and handed it to him, "Actually, I have some 'Quesixiang' too, you can smell it."

"Ah?" Wu Jinliang was stunned, his face full of questions. He quickly took it and opened the lid. He saw a piece of black ointment. He looked at it carefully and put it to his nose to sniff. He could smell a refreshing fragrance. He couldn't help but wonder, "Could this be the 'Death-Repelling Fragrance'? The legendary fragrance should be much stronger than this."

Shi Chun said indifferently: "If a shop says that they have 'Que Si Xiang' in their shop, and someone who doesn't know 'Que Si Xiang' smells it, it's normal to react like you. But if someone who knows 'Que Si Xiang' smells it, how will they react?"

"What's the reaction..." Wu Jinliang suddenly realized what he had in his hand, and realized that the thing in his hand was not the dead fragrance at all. "You mean, lure the people out, and if they have any unusual reactions, then conduct targeted investigations?"

Shi Chun took back the small cookie box from his hand, closed it and put it away. "If I were the person who was related to the 'Que Si Xiang', and heard that there were also 'Que Si Xiang' on display in the shops in the city, I would probably be tempted to come and take a look. It won't hurt to take a look."

As he said this, he suddenly turned around and stopped going into the remote area. Instead, he walked back to the busy main street from where he came. He gave an explanation with his back to him, "It's not easy for you and me to come forward. Send Chu Jingtang, Lao Changtai, and Xiao Sheng to handle this matter."

With his current strength, he can convey his ideas and will to the capital of Shengshenzhou at any time even though he is far away here. He only needs to arrange two or three people near two or three Xunmen as communication nodes. The people who receive the message can immediately pass through the Xunmen to pass on the message to the next node. The expensive round-trip fees in and out of the Xunmen are no longer within consideration here.

(End of this chapter)