Liang Yan entered the courtyard and bowed his hands to the seven people who had arrived one by one. Jin Yuye's expression was as usual when he saw him greeting her, no different from others, and she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
Just as she was thinking secretly about how to speak to Liang Yan, she suddenly heard footsteps outside the courtyard, and then a jade-faced middle-aged man with a short haircut and a green Taoist robe stepped in and walked towards the west gate.
Hao cupped his hands and confessed:
"I am so involved in trivial matters that I have delayed the time of the city lord and all my colleagues. Please forgive me."
"It doesn't matter!" Ximen Hao waved his hand and said, "Junior Brother Shi has worked hard to stabilize Zhiyuan City, but I, as the city lord, have done very little, so I feel a little sorry."
Liang Yan was slightly stunned when he listened. Although he knew that Zhiyuan City was controlled by Huang Jue Palace, Guang Han was wearing a Taoist robe when he saw him twice, and he was also practicing the Five Elements Technique.
With the magical power of ice, I felt that this person should not be from Huang Jue Palace. But just now Ximen Hao addressed him as "Junior Brother", which was really puzzling.
"Do people in the Demon Sect also like to wear Taoist robes and practice Taoism?"
Liang Yan didn't say this in his heart, but subconsciously asked Jin Yuye next to him.
Seeing that he was finally willing to take the initiative to talk to her, Jin Yuye couldn't help but feel refreshed and replied: "Brother Liang is right, but you don't know something. This Shi Guanghan was originally a disciple of Nanshan Temple, but he was only a disciple of Nanshan Temple."
Shi Guanghan joined the Huangjue Palace thirty years ago, and Shi Guanghan has a rare appearance in Nanshan Temple for hundreds of years, so he was promoted to the Huangjue Palace and enjoyed the privileges of being a disciple of the Huangjue Palace.
Resource treatment.”
"I see!"
Liang Yan nodded silently after hearing this. No wonder the deputy city master, a monk from the Demon Sect, always wore a Taoist robe. Although this was strange, most cultivators, except for Confucian disciples, were informal and carefree. He
It is estimated that the senior officials of Huangjue Palace will not care about how you dress.
At this time, several people who were also Sword Suppressors, including Ximen Hao himself, a total of nine people, had all arrived. Ximen Hao glanced at everyone, and then slowly said:
"I have to trouble you fellow Taoists with today's matter. After the matter is completed, the city lord will naturally not break his promise to all the benefits promised in the summoning order!"
Among the people, Songhou was the first to open his mouth and said with a smile:
"Haha, Lord Ximen is so polite. We will do our best for today's affairs!"
Next, Qiao Wanli, Gou Shishuang, Liu Jing and others also echoed it, and some even congratulated Ximen Hao in advance on the flying sword, and the advanced sword embryo stage is just around the corner.
Ximen Hao naturally thanked him one by one for this. At this moment, he suddenly heard a young man's voice say: "City Lord Ximen, before I take the sword, I have a request for you. I wonder if you can grant it?"
Ximen Hao frowned when he heard this. He turned around and saw that the person speaking was Liang Yan.
"What else does Brother Liang have to ask for?" Ximen Hao asked after thinking for a while.
"If the sword acquisition is successful this time, Liang will not need to summon the spiritual stones and treasures in the order. He will only ask for a handful of monkey hair from the Four-Season Split Flame Monkey, and ask the city lord to fulfill his request."
"Hahaha! What do I think?" Ximen Hao laughed after hearing this: "It's just a bunch of monkey hair. This is not difficult. I, Ximen Hao, agreed. As long as the sword is successfully retrieved, these are all easy to talk about!"
When Liang Yan heard his agreement, a stone finally fell to the ground in his heart.
In fact, he also used some careful thinking. He did not bring up the matter during the banquet that day, but waited until the moment before the departure day.
Because there are more than eight foundation-building monks in Zhiyuan City. According to Liang Yan's guess, there are about ten more. These people are all monks who came here to compete for quota and failed.
If it was brought up too early and Ximen Hao didn't want to agree, then he would have enough time to find someone else to take Liang Yan's place.
That's why Liang Yan waited until the moment before taking the sword before bringing it up. He believed that as long as Ximen Hao didn't attach too much importance to the Four Seasons Splitting Flame Monkey, he could reluctantly agree to it.
Of course, this method also has disadvantages. If you meet a monk with a bad temper, you may fall out on the spot. But Liang Yan made several observations and found that Ximen Hao is sensible and seems to be a person who only seeks profit. He will not do this for such a thing.
The trip to get the sword has been delayed until now.
Sure enough, Ximen Hao agreed without hesitation. He still waited there, as if to say: "If you have any other requests, please put them forward now!"
But after a while, seeing that no one responded, Ximen Hao coughed and said loudly: "Since everyone is ready, let's set off to the sword-making place."
Ximen Hao spoke and pinched the magic formula, and the escaping light appeared from his body, turning into a purple rainbow and flying into the air first.
Liang Yan knew that Ximen Hao attached great importance to the "Purple Thunder Tianyin Sword", so he kept the place where the sword was hidden secret. Even the eight people who participated in taking the sword still don't know where to go to get the sword.
But now that Ximen Hao is leading the way, they naturally don't need to worry about it themselves. The eight people in the field, including Liang Yan, also made their own secrets and flew into the air, with various rays of light walking side by side, following a purple rainbow.
He leisurely left Zhiyuan City and flew towards the southern suburbs outside the city.
The nine people flew for about three hours when they suddenly saw towering mountains and green vegetation in front of them. They actually arrived near a mountain range.
"This is Yangping Mountain. The power of earth fire is strong in the heart of the mountain. If you have juniors who practice fire-based skills, you may consider coming here to practice. You will definitely get twice the result with half the effort." Ximen Hao said with a smile.
After everyone heard this, they knew that he couldn't have chosen an irrelevant place to chat with everyone. It seemed that the place where the sword was hidden was here.
Sure enough, Ximen Hao, who was flying in front, suddenly lowered his escape light and flew towards a valley below surrounded by many peaks. Seeing this, everyone followed closely behind Ximen Hao and dived towards the valley.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Several piercing sounds passed through the air, and then nine figures landed on a pile of boulders in the valley. The nine people stood in silence. What appeared in front of them was a huge open space with overgrown weeds.
It looked empty.
Just when everyone was confused, Ximen Hao, who was standing in front, suddenly raised his hand and took out a jade tablet. A burst of red light flashed on the jade tablet, and a moment later a red light beam flew upward diagonally.
At the same time, in the open space in front of everyone, a red beam of light suddenly flew out and merged with Ximen Hao's beam of light in mid-air.
The two beams of light merged into one, shattering the scenery in front of them into pieces. When everyone came back to their senses, there was no huge open space in front of them, it was clearly a vast magma!
In the middle of the magma, there is a cauldron as big as a roof. Most of this cauldron is sunk in the magma, with only the furnace lid and corners exposed.
At this time, an old man with gray hair in Confucian robes was sitting cross-legged above the magma, holding a jade medal identical to that of Ximen Hao in his hand. Obviously, the other red light just now was emitted by him from inside the phantom array.
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"Thank you for your hard work, fellow Taoist Baili!"
At this time, Ximen Hao smiled slightly and said respectfully to the old man in Confucian robes suspended in mid-air.