Entering the main hall of the city lord's palace, the guests and hosts took their seats.
Xia Yu then said, "City Master Liu, you are older than me and are my senior. Your seniors are much more knowledgeable than me. This time, I am here to ask for something from you."
City Lord Liu laughed and said, "We can't talk about begging. If Brother Xia has something to say, it doesn't hurt to just say it."
"That's right, I heard that there is a kind of market where practitioners trade and buy. It is different from the shops on our streets, but the practitioners themselves exchange items..."
As soon as Xia Yu said it, City Lord Liu understood.
He smiled and said, "There are two kinds of markets you mentioned. One is the public market, which I went to when I was in the capital; the other is the ghost market, which is formed spontaneously by a group of practitioners and over time, forms
It has a large scale and is held regularly.”
"Yes, yes!" Xia Yu said happily, "That's why I came here this time. I wanted to go to the ghost market to buy some herbs, but I just don't know where they are."
City Lord Liu smiled and said, "You came to find me, but you came here."
Then he added, "There is a ghost market three hundred miles away from Liujing City. It opens twice a month. With my ability, I would not have had the chance to go. It happened that I knew the organizer of that ghost market.
One of my seniors, I will take you there when the time comes."
"That's great!" Xia Yu was pleasantly surprised.
What he was looking for was this kind of ghost market where practitioners traded with each other to find the herbs he needed.
City Lord Liu said again, "Do you know why a market like this is called a ghost market?"
"I would like to hear the details." Xia Yu is a newcomer on the path of spiritual practice, so how can he understand this.
City Master Liu then smiled and said, "There is a huge danger in going there alone. Especially if you buy or sell valuables, there will be people chasing you and robbing them along the way. So everyone who participates in the market has their faces covered or wearing masks.
, when everyone trades, they are also sneaky. Therefore, it is called a ghost market."
"That's it." Xia Yu smiled and nodded.
City Lord Liu said again, "When you go to the ghost market, you must not show off your wealth. Even if my senior is in charge of the ghost market, if you leave the ghost market, someone will still take risks."
"I understand." Xia Yu nodded.
He was not too worried. After all, he had the Ghost Emperor with the strength of the Changhe Realm in his hands. If someone really wanted to kill someone and seize the treasure, he would have to be prepared to be killed!
At that moment, Lord Liu City counted the days and said, "In five days, it will be the first ghost market of the year. Then you can come here in the afternoon, set off in the evening, and arrive in the evening."
"Okay, see you in five days." Xia Yu stood up and clasped his fists in thanks.
Seeing Xia Yu about to leave, City Lord Liu hesitated for a moment and then said, "Brother Xia, wait a minute... Two masters of Lingxi from the Yanyang Sect came to find you yesterday. I want to advise you that there is a sect's cultivation behind you.
Or, try not to offend too much."
"What? What's going on?" Xia Yu looked shocked.
He killed Master Yuding yesterday and then found a random place to spend the night without knowing that anyone was looking for him.
"Didn't you see it?" City Lord Liu was quite surprised and said quickly, "They are two practitioners from the Yanyang Sect, one male and one female. The male is at the fifth level of the Lingxi Realm, and the female is at the fourth level of the Lingxi Realm. They
They came back under the leadership of Xia Yang of the Xia family, it was the Xia family who should have informed them..."
"Damn it!" Xia Yu turned pale with anger.
Xia Yunxiao didn't regard him as his son at all, but he actually informed Yanyang Sect that he was going to kill him, right?
"If anything happens to my mother, the Xia family will be buried with her!"
Xia Yu gritted his teeth and left in a hurry.
After walking out of the city lord's mansion, he threw a flying sword and turned into a rainbow.
City Lord Liu secretly complained in his heart, so he also left the mansion, called a fast horse, and went straight to Hongya Mountain.
About ten minutes later, Xia Yu arrived at Hongya Mountain.
When the light came to the ground, Xia Cai and others were busy working.
Seeing Xia Yu coming back, Xia Cai took the initiative to smile and said, "Sir, since we have occupied Hongya Mountain, we cannot be idle. I am going to recruit a group of people to restart the mine."
Xia Yu didn't respond and asked, "Where is my mother?"
"In the house."
Xia Yu quickly walked into Yunzhu's house and saw my mother sitting in the house.
"Mom." Xia Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Yunzhu smiled and said, "Although we have left the Xia family, you are from the Xia family after all, so we should try our best to have a good relationship."
Xia Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Has anyone been here?"
"Xia Yang came here yesterday with his two junior uncles."
It turned out that when Zhao Qingchen and the three of them came to Hongya Mountain, they asked Xia Yu and found out that Xia Yu had gone back to the city to get something. For some reason, everyone missed it.
So Zhao Qingchen and the others did not alert the enemy, but asked Xia Yang to come forward and say that he came to visit Yunzhu.
Yunzhu was quite happy, chatting with these people and talking about Xia Yang's childhood.
Everyone was chatting happily, but Yunzhu didn't know the purpose of these people coming, and thought they were good people.
After hearing this, Xia Yu secretly called him lucky.
Fortunately, people like Zhao Qingchen come from a well-known family, and they also pay attention to some rules in doing things. If it were Master Yuding like this, I would probably have died eight hundred times.
It seems that I want to find a good place to settle my wife.
"Mom, this is the guqin I brought back for you." Xia Yu patted the storage bag and released the guqin.
Yunzhu was pleasantly surprised. She hadn't played the piano in many years.
In fact, after not playing it for many years, she no longer wanted to play it. Because her technique was unfamiliar, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to play the songs she used to play.
But when Xia Yu gave her a piece of music score, she spent the past two days looking at it and pondering it. The more she looked at it, the more she liked it, and she couldn't help but feel itchy.
Seeing Xia Yu take out the piano, she couldn't wait to play it without looking at the music score. She had already memorized it in her heart.
The tinkling sound of the piano sounded, and Xia Yu felt a lot more relaxed.
The beautiful master said that this piano score can be used as an introduction to cultivation. When I get started in cultivation, the beautiful master will give me some powerful piano scores, so that I can protect myself, and Xia Yu can feel more relaxed.
He walked out of Yunzhu's room, raised his hand to call Xia Cai, and asked, "Where are Xia Yang and the others?"
Xia Caidao said, "After they arrived, they chatted with the concubine's wife, and then wandered around. Later in the evening, the leading male practitioner suddenly discovered something, shouted to the devil to leave, and then chased him with his sword.
Go out. Then the female cultivator left with Xia Yang and never came back."
"Devil?" Xia Yu raised his eyebrows.
"It seems so."
Xia Cai couldn't explain clearly. He only said that the three of them originally wanted to wait for Xia Yu's return in Hongya Mountain, but then they discovered some kind of demon and hurried away.
"What's going on?" Xia Yu couldn't figure it out, so he gave up for now.
But not long after, he saw City Lord Liu chasing after him on horseback.
"City Lord Liu, why are you here too?" Xia Yu was quite surprised.
City Master Liu smiled bitterly and said, "Those three people are all from high-level sects, and I'm afraid that you will form grudges with them. We are all casual cultivators, so it's better not to provoke these sect disciples, otherwise the sect will issue a killing order.
Even the Great Zhou Dynasty dare not protect you."
"Fortunately, they didn't touch my mother, otherwise I wouldn't care about their sect disciples." Xia Yu sneered.
This world is a world of the weak and the strong. As long as you have enough strength, what about the big sects?
"It's better not to offend if you can," City Lord Liu advised, then looked around and asked, "Aren't the three of them in Hongya Mountain?"
Xia Yu then said, "Originally, they wanted to wait for me here, but one of them suddenly shouted that the devil should leave, and then they chased them together."
"Devil?"
City Lord Liu's eyes lit up, "Recently, there has been a demon incident in Liujing City. Could it be that this demon happened to come to Hongya Mountain and was encountered by them?"
Xia Yu thought about it and thought it was very possible.
Otherwise, why did those three people leave in such a hurry?
He must have discovered the traces of the demon cultivator, so he pursued them.
City Lord Liu said again, "These high-ranking sects have the responsibility to hunt down demons. Let them encounter them, but they will help us in Liujing City subjugate demons and eliminate a harm."
After saying that, he asked again, "Brother Xia, they still want to find you when they come back, why don't you take this opportunity and leave quickly."
At this moment, suddenly a bright firework shot up in the distance and exploded in the sky, and in the exploding light and mist, a huge word "魔" appeared.
City Lord Liu exclaimed, "This is the demon-killing order from the Zhengdao Sect!"