Volume Two, Do Not Use the Hidden Dragon, Chapter 76
At the right time, the sun is shining, and there are many more students walking in the War Academy than in the morning.
Ninety percent of the students in the War College cannot go home during the Chinese New Year because they are too far away from their homes. Even if they are flying boats, they will take one or two months. Only a small number of students' homes are not far from the college.
Every year during holidays, these students stay in the college, or go to Tiannan City to have fun, or go to Tiannan City to earn some money. Although they don’t have to worry about food, clothing and accommodation in the college, after leaving the college, it’s not too expensive, let alone where is Tiannan City? The imperial capital of the Qingshui Empire, the prices in it are more than several times more expensive than ordinary cities. Although the college will pay a little pocket money every month, it is really a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, most students will go to Tiannan City to find some work, those with stronger strength will serve as a guarantee for some special venues, and those with handsome appearance will enter and exit some Red Buildings and Qing Pavilions. After all, among the nobles of the imperial capital, they are particularly fond of the Longyang interests. Those who are familiar with Tiannan City serve as tour guides for some newly entered the city. As the imperial capital, there are tens of thousands of outsiders every day. They really have no advantages. There are many taverns in the imperial capital, and those who serve tea, water, cut vegetables and wash dishes need manpower.
Of course, as a student in the academy, most of the students have excellent physical fitness. Many students will form a team of football teams and go to Tiannan City Tianmen Stadium to play games. The rewards you can get when playing in one game are more than a month than when you go out to play odd jobs. If you can win, you will be lucky enough to be favored by some nobles from aristocratic families and sign a contract, which is the fish jumping over the dragon gate.
At this time, in the college student dormitory area, a group of more than 20 people gathered at the door of Lingye dormitory.
Ling Ye cleaned the room and heard that the room was noisy, so he immediately left the room with an old broom and saw a group of students in college clothes walking towards his place.
Ling Ye just took a simple sweep and found that there was only one nine meridian practitioner in the twenty-five human world, two eight meridians, and four seven meridians, all of whom were less than six meridians, so he didn't care too much.
Ling Ye leaned the broom lightly against the door, smiled forward and walked a few steps. According to guess, these people should be his classmates. Now that we have met, we can say hello and get to know each other.
Among the group of people, the leader was naturally the most powerful Nine-Chief Cultivator among them. The boy in the head was Qiao Yuan, Dayuewan, and Wangxiu City. He was also considered a child of a wealthy businessman in the local area. After joining the army at the age of seventeen, he came to this war academy to study. He was also a little talent in cultivating immortality. After all, it is not easy to achieve the strength of a Nine-Chief Cultivator under the conditions of the academy. It is considered peaceful to get along with classmates in the academy, and he would not regard himself as a genius and treat people with nothing.
Qiao Yuan looked at Ling Ye. As an immortal cultivator, he could naturally feel Ling Ye's spiritual power fluctuations. Then he wanted to find out how strong Ling Ye was and release his mental power to approach Ling Ye.
Ling Ye's soul is so powerful that he can naturally feel Qiao Yuan's mental power being explored. Then he smiled and shocked his mental power being investigated.
Qiao Yuan took a step back and looked at Ling Ye. If Ling Ye hadn't had any intention of murdering him, the mental power just now would have been shattered by Ling Ye.
Since he knew that the person in front of him was not as strong as him, he was just now reckless and tried to peek at his cultivation level. He then took a step forward and apologized slightly to Ling Ye: "I don't know what classmate's class, why are you going to our dormitory?"
Seeing that these students did not mean to bully others with power, Ling Ye said, "I am a new student and I am assigned to the fifth grade Immortal Cultivation Class."
"What? How did the newcomers be assigned to our class?"
As soon as Ling Ye finished speaking, some students became confused. After all, there were no freshmen who came to the fifth grade.
Qiao Yuan looked at Ling Ye. He was not stupid after living for more than 20 years. It was not strange that he was so strong that he went to the fifth grade directly. After all, there was nothing to learn in the lower grade. Since he was new to his class and was so strong, as the class monitor, he immediately smiled and introduced himself: "Qiao Yuan, the class monitor of Xian Class 1, welcome to join our class 1."
"My name is Ling Ye, please keep it in check in the future." Ling Ye smiled at the people.
The other students were not thinking too much. Since they said they were newly transferred students, they would be classmates who went to school together from now on. After all, no one would be full and pretend to be a student in their own class, and they were cleaning the dormitory with a broom.
Since everyone is all classmates in the future, these students also started to talk and laugh, introduced their names and went back to their dormitory to rest, and there were five or six others who helped Ling Ye clean together.
Why did he keep asking Ling Ye about various things during the cleaning process? Qiao Yuan was also a person of some knowledge. Seeing the red gold-edged skirt he was wearing on Ling Ye, he immediately said, "Ling Ye, why don't the big family in the capital send to win over students?"
After all, they graduated in less than a year. Many students with good strength have been hired by major forces in the capital to pay high prices instead of returning to the army to serve.
In order to fully understand the students' situation, some aristocratic families will insert some people as students, and if necessary, they can win over good students first. As long as the money is given enough, the academy will not care about the poaching of students. Although the academy is nominally training military talents for the empire, some good students are still poached. But then again, it is still very difficult to poach those top-notch ones. First, the price is high, and second, those top-notch students basically return to the army and return to the army, and the empire also rewards the corresponding military ranks. These are not something that some aristocratic families can do.
Ling Ye smiled and said, "I just arrived at the college today and I haven't even been to the city. What kind of family would it be?"
"The clothes you wear are not something that ordinary people can wear." Qiao Yuan said to Ling Ye. Seeing Ling Ye stunned, several other students who were not aware of their skills looked at Ling Ye in confusion.
Qiao Yuan stepped forward, smiled and picked up Ling Ye's sleeve, touched it, and said to several classmates, "This set is not a set of 500 mysterious gold, so you can't even touch it, let alone wear it on your body.
"Hold the grass, the squad leader, this dress is more than the reward for us to kick a moon at Tianmen." Yu Hong stepped forward and pulled up Ling Ye's sleeve and looked carefully. "Don't say it, it's so delicate and comfortable."
Several other students also gathered around.
Ling Ye was also surprised after hearing this. Although the clothes were good, Ling Ye felt that they were not worth much money. He thought the clothes he bought were expensive for more than ten taels of silver. After all, the clothes of immortals were treated specially and would not be easily torn by spiritual power. Otherwise, wearing ordinary mortal clothes and fighting with people, the clothes would be torn a few times and the clothes would be torn apart after a few spiritual powers. What is the point of fighting? However, this clothes actually cost 500 gold. If it were gold, it would be 50,000 taels. What is this concept? Just this piece of clothing can support a small town of 10,000 people for a year.
Ling Ye moved and said, "This clothes were given by someone, and I don't know they are so expensive."
"Your friend is generous enough. He must be a big family member. If you have time to introduce it to us," Qiao Yuan said with a smile.
Ling Ye smiled and didn't continue talking. If he had known that this clothes were so expensive, he wouldn't have worn them.
There are so many people who are good at doing things. In less than an incense stick, the room has been cleaned up very clean and tidy, with only a few items such as bedding. As for these items, you can apply to the college logistics department, and Ling Ye does not need to spend money to buy them himself.
After chatting with Qiao Yuan, Yu Hong and others for a while, Ling Ye left the college and saw a depression at the lock of the Xuantie Gate of the college, and he didn't smile.
After leaving the academy, Ling Ye found a deserted grove to put on a set of loose clothes, put on a mask of human skin, and then rushed north for half an hour before heading to the south of Tiannan City.
Looking up, the city walls went straight into the sky, like the barriers of heaven and earth were isolated from the city. Such city wall defenses could not be attacked by human resources alone, and they were really solid.
After entering Tiannan City, there were traffic on the bustling avenues, the attics on both sides were flying in the air, and red lights were set under the eaves, and pedestrians passed by were endless, making a prosperous scene.
When Ling Ye first arrived in Tiannan City, he spent some money to lead the way directly to the location of the treasure in the south square of Chengnan.
After arriving at the square, Ling Ye first saw the attic of the Formation Refining Guild, and then the Luoshui Pavilion next to it. Ling Ye Ling Ye frowned without any hesitation, and then went straight into the Jubao Pavilion.
The Jubao Pavilion in Tiannan City is much more luxurious than the Jubao Pavilion in Qingjiang City. Since it is the first day of the Lunar New Year, there are more guests coming and going than before. If you don’t have VIP cards and other priority, you will probably have to wait in line.
After Ling Ye took out the three-star guest elder order of Jubao Pavilion and handed it over to a front desk man, he then said calmly: "Sell the corpses of monsters."
The man looked at Ling Ye in a little surprised, and then said with great respect: "Please come with me, elder."
After hearing this, no one looked at Ling Ye. The identity of the elder of Jubao Pavilion was not simple. Even some aristocratic families had to give him a lot of courtesy. Although the purpose of Jubao Pavilion would never participate in any struggle between forces, everyone knew that the power of Jubao Pavilion was probably the same as the five great immortal sects, so being able to become an elder of Jubao Pavilion must be as simple as that of the surface.
Ling Ye is wearing a mask now and doesn't care about the surprised gazes from the people around him. Then he follows the man into the inner hall. After entering the inner hall, a beautiful woman takes the man, and then takes Ling Ye through several corridors and takes him to a separate monster in the trading hall.
The appraiser is a sixty-year-old man. Ling Ye didn't say much, but went straight to the topic and took out all the monsters left in the storage bag and said: "These are all sold, I don't know how many they can be sold."
The old man stepped forward and took a look one by one, then turned around and told Ling Ye that he had 17,000 mysterious gold.
Ling Ye was stunned after hearing this and questioned: "Just take a look like this and set the price all?"
"Guest Lord, this is Mr. Meng, the four-star treasure appraiser in our Jubao Pavilion. Mr. Meng has not made any mistakes in the appraisal of the things Mr. Meng has identified." The woman next to him explained.
Ling Ye was shocked after hearing this. There were not many four-star treasure appraisers of this level in the Jubao Sect, and their status in the Jubao Sect was far beyond the reach of the three-star guest elders, and then said politely: "So that's the case. But I'm the younger generation who questioned Mr. Meng. Please don't blame me." He will stay in Tiannan City for five years in the future, and it is definitely necessary to come to Jubao Pavilion to do business. This kind of four-star treasure appraiser is very shameless. You can't leave a bad impression on Mr. Meng because of his doubts just now. You'd better be polite.
Meng Hongdao didn't care. Seeing Ling Ye so respectfully, he smiled and said, "It's not a problem. After all, there are not many people who can recognize things at a glance, so it's normal for you not to know."
"A Yue, put away all these!" Meng Hong returned to his seat.
Ling Ye walked forward and put the six golden bells locked sky plates one by one and said, "Please also ask Mr. Meng to appraise it."
Meng Hong looked at it and frowned, saying, "The One-Star Array Disk seems to be ordinary, but there is another way." While saying that, he picked up a formation disc, pointed his right hand into the formation disc, and a red spiritual power penetrated into the formation disc, activated the formation, and the purple formation pattern appeared.
"This is the Purple Thunder Source," Meng Hong said in shock, and then conducted a more careful assessment. After a quarter of an hour, he looked at Ling Ye with disbelief. Meng Hong waved his hand and isolated the inside and outside of the room.
"Mr. Meng, are you?" Ling Ye saw Meng Hong isolating the inside and outside of the room, and immediately stepped back and asked.
"My friend, don't worry, this matter is too horrible. I have no malicious intentions, but I just isolated the information from the inside and outside." Meng Hong saw Ling Ye looking at him vigilantly and said with a smile: "I have countless treasure appraisals in my life and have read countless classics. Among them, I have also known more about the spirit of heaven and earth than other monks. I can be sure that this formation pattern was carved by the purple thunder source."
Ling Ye breathed a little relieved, and then said, "Old Meng may have misunderstood. This is just carved by my thunder-type spiritual power condensed spiritual silk, and it is definitely not carved by some purple thunder source."
After saying that, he cried in his heart: Ziji Lei Source. He thought of Li Lin's explanation, "Heaven and Earth produce spirit, and all things condense souls." This heaven and earth essence is originally condensed by various rules of heaven and earth in the world to a certain extent, and the spiritual consciousness is transformed. The origin of purple thunder that he melted last time is the power of the mine attribute rules of heaven and earth to be condensed for thousands of years. He has already begun to have consciousness, so is it the purple thunder source? If this is the case, what about that red thunder? Isn't it powerful?
"I'll ask my friend to release the spiritual silk and you'll know that I have no malice." Meng Hong said.
Ling Ye was a little confused, and then pointed his right hand and flew towards Meng Hong.
Meng Hong fixed her two spiritual silks, then carefully investigated, and finally said, "That's right, this is exactly the condensed by the Ziji Thunder Source."
Ling Ye asked, "Why do you say that?"
"The thunder power contained in your spiritual silk is different from the thunder and earth-level spiritual power absorbed by ordinary thunder and spiritual cultivators. If the thunder and spiritual power are refined in the body, there will be flaws and cannot reach the purest thunder power. However, your difference is that the purple thunder source, the condensed thunder power is directly condensed from the origin." Meng Hong said, and then continued: "What surprised me the most is that you actually have the two-type spiritual power of Feng Shui. It is really a natural resource to integrate with this thunder and spiritual power. I don't know that the delicious thunder source is from my view. I don't know that since you are integrated with the thunder source, it is not easy for outsiders to take it away."
Ling Ye listened to his explanation and then said, "I'm going to hide it from Mr. Meng. Maybe Mr. Meng is right, but I really can't come out of that purple thunder source. My thunder power is when I broke through the nine veins and was hit by a purple thunder. Then when I was not awake, I woke up and found that my spiritual vein had entered and turned purple." Ling Ye said, he did not come out of that purple thunder source. At that time, the original source of the purple thunder disappeared. So he casually said that he was hit by a thunder, and he was lucky enough to die. He also caused disguise that there was a trace of thunder and lightning in his body.
However, Ling Ye didn't know whether the origin of the purple thunder belonged to the essence of heaven and earth, it would disappear.
"Hmm?" Meng Hong obviously didn't believe it.
Ling Ye was circulating his spiritual veins, and the nine spiritual veins appeared in the air behind him at the same time. The purple spiritual vein in the middle was the most eye-catching.
Both of them looked at the spiritual vein statue above Ling Ye in surprise. After seeing this, Meng Hong said, "There is such a strange thing, which is unheard of. It seems that my friend is really a blessing in disguise. A trace of the power of the origin of thunder and lightning is retained in the spiritual vein. He is really the darling of heaven."
Ling Ye then put away the spiritual vein realm and said, "What about these array plates?"
"Although these array plates are one-star array plates, they are still condensed by the spirit of heaven and earth. Their effect is several times stronger than before. If the price is taken out for auction every once in a while, it will be much higher than selling these six at once. I wonder what I think." Meng Hong said, after all, rare things are expensive, and hunger marketing is the reason.
Ling Ye thought about it and it was indeed the reason, and then said, "Then I will auction the Jubao Sect one by one, so the things will be placed in Jubao Pavilion first." He believed that such a large force as Jubao Pavilion would not do anything to seize property. "In addition, please ask Jubao Pavilion to keep this secret for me. After all, even Mr. Meng mistakenly thought that I had the spirit of heaven and earth. If some other ordinary monks knew about it, the consequences would be unimaginable."
"Don't worry, my friend, I feel that this matter will not be heard from Jubao Pavilion." Meng Hong said, and this was also obvious. If Ling Ye accidentally leaked it out, he would not be dependent on him Jubao Pavilion.
After the formation plate was handled, Ling Ye asked Xun Yue for five first-level flying swords, forty ordinary Xuangang swords, and a bottle of Huiling Pill. As for the high-quality jade, he would rather go to the jade store where he installed the door to choose it.
Ling Ye handed his platinum card to Xun Yue.
After Xun Yue left, Meng Hong said to Ling Ye: "I think my friend has just entered the capital for the first time. I have been here for decades and have some friendship with the major families in the city. I don't know which family you are."
"I am indeed the first time I came to the capital, and I don't know much about it. I wonder if Mr. Meng can say a little bit about it for me." Ling Ye asked.
Meng Hong sat on the chair and smiled and said, "Then I will tell you something."
In this Tiannan City, in addition to the Nantiandao Sect and the Nan family of the royal family, there are also the Lan family of the Dongcheng, the Zhang family of the West Prefecture, the Han family of the South Courtyard and the Badao of the North Hall.
Needless to say, the Nantian Dao Sect and the royal family, known as the most immortal sect in the empire, let's talk about the Lan family first. They live in Fengqi Mountain twenty miles east of the city and have also set up Lan Mansion in the east of the city. The current head of the family, Lan Xicai, is said to have reached the level of cultivation in the middle of the Linghai Sea. He was suffering from the meritorious efforts of leading troops to suppress the bandits in the wild fairy mountain and was named the General of the State by the Empire. Although he has no military power, he is also an important official in the court.
The Lan clan has very strict rules, so the children in the clan are quite restrained in their behavior. If they meet, they can get along with each other. In the new generation, the Lan family is so sweet that they are like a king and a general. They are known as the four heroes of Tiannan together with the third prince Nanjing Feng, the eldest grandson of the Zhang family, and the Han family Han Jinghe. Now at the age of 26, they have the strength to be masters of the Baquan Mai. They can be said to be both civil and military. It is a blessing for the Lan family to have this woman."
After Ling Ye heard Lan Yanzhao, he didn't know what he said was Lan Xiuxiu, and then he thought that Sister Lan had such amazing sisters. Lan Xiuxiu Ling Ye already felt that she was very powerful, and she didn't expect that there were even more powerful people who were called the Four Heroes of Tiannan. It can be seen that the Lan family is extraordinary and can teach two such excellent women.
"The Zhang family in the west of the city is in the iron sword forest ten miles west of the city. The current family advocates Zhang Huaiyi, the first realm of Linghai. His father Zhang Wanli is a precept elder in the Nantiandao Sect. Although he rarely participates in the family affairs, he is also powerful in all directions. Since the Zhang family is an emerging family for thousands of years, the children in the clan have different qualities and are domineering, so you need to pay more attention to their family members in the city. Zhang Lan, the eldest grandson of the new generation, is good. He has achieved the cultivation level of the Baquan Mai Master in less than 30 years old, and is also one of the few core disciples in the Nantiandao."
Ling Ye had heard about Zhang Bu, isn’t Zhang Hui a member of the Zhang family? It seems that he will not have any contact with Zhang family in the future. If Zhang Hui was in the Zhang family and came to cause trouble for him, he would not be afraid.
"The Han family, who travels to the middle road in the south of the city, acts relatively low-key and is not convenient to say much. In addition, the Badaotang in the north of the city is a powerful organization, an organization for bodyguards. It has many members and is also a place where the fish and dragons are mixed.
If my friend lives in the capital for a long time, these forces must not be offended easily."
As soon as Meng Hong finished speaking, Xun Yue had already returned with the things Ling Ye wanted to buy.
"The total cost of eight thousand mysterious gold has been deducted from the card." Xun Yue handed the card and storage bag to Ling Ye. Ling Ye immediately put it away, said a few more words to Meng Hong and left Jubao Pavilion.
After leaving Jubao Pavilion, Ling Ye went directly to the formation refining guild opposite.
After entering the guild hall, although there are not as many personnel as Jubao Pavilion, there are many shortages. The rare formation masters outside are common here. The arrogance of these formation masters outside has to restrain their points when they arrive here. After all, everyone is a formation master, so who is afraid of whom?
Ling Ye watched around and came to the counter. A slightly handsome male receptionist asked politely: "I don't know what the formation master needs help."
"If you want to test the formation master, what are the procedures?" Ling Ye asked. After all, the purpose of coming here is to test the formation master, and then buy some books about formations from the guild. If you want to buy the non-former master, it is very expensive and you won't even sell it.
"If the formation master is assessing the badge for the first time, you need to first conduct the basic knowledge of the formation in the defense hall on the first floor. After meeting the standards, you can conduct the next round of formation refining assessment. The formation refining assessment requires a compass, and the assessment array rules are given by the guild. If the formation can be successfully refined within the corresponding time and the formation effect meets the standards, you can become a one-star formation master. If you are assessing two-star formation master or above, you can save the first basic assessment." The receptionist explained quickly. "In addition, the assessment requires registration in the guild in advance, and the guild will arrange a fixed assessment time based on the number of people."
After hearing this, Ling Ye thought to himself: There are so many things to pay attention to when taking the Formation Master Badge. Don’t take the exam first, and it’s not too late to come after finishing other things.
After Ling Ye thought about it in his heart, he immediately asked: "Then how do you collect this used array plate?"
"The used one-star compass is purchased by one of the ten Xuanjin, and one hundred can be exchanged for a new one-star compass. If there is a waste compass that needs to be processed, please go to the left passage of the hall and enter the second room, which is the recycling area."
After Ling Ye thanked him, he walked into the passage on the left side of the hall.
Chapter completed!