ninety thousand miles

Chapter 448 Golden Sword

The next morning, Li Chuan, Wen Gu, Ying Yao Shuang and the other two boarded the fairy boat and left Tianju Mountain for Yashan County.

The day before, Li Chuan had not had time to take a closer look at his newly acquired sword. He had nothing to do on the Immortal Boat, and he could not understand the conversation between Wen Guying and Yao Shuang on Taoism, so he took out the sword to study it.

The first thing he saw was a heavy sword with a blue blade and a mighty white lion head on the hilt. He pulled it out, but he couldn't swing it. Thinking it should be more practical, he picked and chose again, and finally got the one he has.

This is a hollowed-out gold-thread sword. Li Chuan swung it a few times and found it fit his hand very well. Although it was still a little heavy, it was not so heavy that he couldn't hold it after a few swipes.

When Elder Mi saw that he had chosen this sword, he praised him for his good luck. When he asked about the sword, Elder Mi just told him to practice with it more and he would be fine once he got used to it.

Li Chuan held the hilt of the sword and looked at it carefully. The light flowing on the golden thread was reflected in his eyes.

"Is this the sword you took from Sword Island?" Wen Guying walked around and sat in front of him. "Let me see it."

"Well, this one." Li Chuan handed the sword to Wen Guying and said, "Should I also find a sword manual to practice with? Do you have one that I can practice with?"

Wen Guying took the sword and asked as he looked at it, "Didn't Elder Mi give it to you?"

"He just let me demonstrate it myself." Li Chuan replied.

"Then when we get to Yashan County, I will teach you three moves and practice the posture first." Wen Guying said.

"Okay, I will study hard." Li Chuan was eager to try.

As he was talking, Yao Shuang also came over and said, "We will arrive in Yashan County in the evening. Senior Brother Jiang and Junior Brother Liu will not go to crowded places. The demon ruins known so far are also in places where few people go..."

"Senior Sister Yao, sit down and talk slowly." Wen Guying asked Yao Shuang to sit down, and then asked: "Where do you think we should start?"

After Yao Shuang sat down, he continued quickly and clearly, "Two places. One is Huaian Mountain. Eight thousand years ago, a secret realm appeared in Huaian Mountain. The other is the Four Diseases Cave. One hundred and eighty years ago, the demon cultivator Liu Yu became the king of the Four Diseases Cave and brought disaster to the world. Until thirty years ago, he died under the sword of the great general Chang Rimu of the Great Jiang Dynasty. After that, there was no more great demon causing trouble in Yashan County."

Yashan County is such a great place. Li Chuan thought so?

Yao Shuang said: "So I think that Brother Jiang and Brother Liu are most likely to be in Huai'an Mountain and Sibing Cave. If they are further away, they may have gone to Nantang. Although it is only separated by a river, there are many monsters and ghosts in Nantang, and there is even a ghost town."

"How much do you know about Prince Su's affairs?" Wen Guying asked.

"Master Chu told me everything." Yao Shuang replied.

"Let me tell you again." Wen Guying told Yao Shuang everything about Prince Su, starting from Xuanshui Mountain.

After he finished speaking, he said: "Yesterday, the old palace master looked at Yashan County. He saw that many causes and effects were entangled in it. He suggested that I should not use Xuanmen methods directly, but use Prince Su as the clue and slowly explore."

"Then let's listen to the old palace master." Yao Shuang said.

Wen Guying said, "Brother Li is a doctor of astronomy from the Imperial Observatory. Currently, the people from the Monster Hunting Division have entered Yashan County. When we get there, we should ask them if they have found any clues. We can also ask them to pay attention to the movements of Huai'an Mountain and the Four Disease Caves. If they find anything, we will not miss it."

"Okay." Yao Shuang said.

"Let's slow down and let Brother Li have a good rest for the night, and then enter Qingtan County tomorrow morning." Wen Guying said.

"Okay." Yao Shuang still agreed, then she stood up and said, "I'm going to practice. Call me out when we get to Qingtan County."

"You go ahead." Wen Guying said.

Li Chuan always felt that something was wrong between Wen Guying and Yao Shuang, so after Yao Shuang left, he asked: "You just mentioned that the old palace master, is he..."

"It's true," Wen Guying denied, and then he explained: "Senior Sister Yao doesn't like to interact with mortals, she...she doesn't like to interact with cultivators either. When I was training with her before, she set a few goals and went straight for them. She was bold and didn't listen to advice..."

It was the first time that Li Chuan heard Wen Guying praise someone for being brave. "So this time in Yashan County, with her here, we should have no time to rest," Wen Guying said.

"You haven't had much free time before." Li Chuan told the truth.

Wen Guying pushed the golden sword back in front of Li Chuan and said, "Her attainments in the relics of gods and demons are not inferior to Jiang Mei. She mentioned Huaian Mountain and the Four Disease Caves. I guess these two places must be related to the relics of the demons."

Li Chuan put away his sword and said, "Let's go investigate. The demon spirit didn't come to Tianju Mountain, but now that I'm in Yashan County, she should show up, right?"

……

The next morning, Li Chuan and his two companions appeared on the streets of Qingtan County.

Li Chuan found a breakfast stall and sat down, and ordered three bowls of lumpy noodles. While waiting for the noodles, he listened carefully to the conversations of other people at the stall, while observing his surroundings, comparing Qingtan County with Jinhong County.

It seems that Qingtan County is more prosperous.

After the noodles were served, Li Chuan took a sip. The flavor was different from that in Yunqiao Township, sour and spicy, very appetizing. After eating a bowl, he was still not satisfied, so he ordered another bowl.

While eating slowly, he suddenly heard a tinkling sound coming from not far away. Li Chuan looked in the direction of the sound and saw several people in strange clothes walking towards him.

He is a demon hunter.

Li Chuan felt that the atmosphere around him suddenly changed. He looked around and found that everyone was looking straight ahead, with their heads down eating noodles, and no one was talking anymore.

So he also lowered his head to eat noodles, and Wen Guying and Yao Shuang did not say anything.

After those demon hunters left, conversations finally began to be heard again in the awning.

"We are catching more and more monsters."

"When Prince Su was alive, how could there be so many monsters?"

"The demon hunters are crying thieves."

"Don't talk nonsense... I heard that something big happened in the Monster Hunting Department a while ago..."

Li Chuan was just about to hear what the big deal was, but the topic was changed.

"After the Demon Hunting Division arrived, the soldiers became more disciplined."

"yes……"

After finishing his noodles, Li Chuan asked the stall owner how to get to the county government office, and then he followed the direction the stall owner pointed to the county government office. When he arrived at the gate and showed the token of the Imperial Observatory, the gatekeeper took them to an annex room to wait and served them tea.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, someone opened the curtain and walked in, saying, "You are finally here."

Li Chuan recognized the person who was speaking. He stood up and asked in surprise, "Mr. Zou, why are you here?"

Zou Jingping said: "The general knew you were coming, so he let me come first. I heard you would come before winter, so I hurried and finally arrived before winter."

Then he asked, "You are more than a month late. Did something happen?"

Li Chuan knew Zou Jingping's ability, and he said, "Mr. Zou, it's great that you are here." He explained, "Nothing happened, it just took a little longer for my refining equipment to work."

Then he asked, "What is the current situation in Yashan County?"

(End of this chapter)