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Chapter 386: A huge city on the top of the mountain

"Dang dang dang", the middle-aged man swung his sword, bringing out an impenetrable magical light curtain, knocking away the three arrows shot towards him. Judging from the force of the collision, the opponent should be a monk from the fourth floor.

His body just shook twice to dissipate the impact.

In the Forgotten Forest, affected by the forbidden rules of heaven and earth, the difference in brute force between the fourth and fifth level monks is not as huge as the gap in magic power.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a rumor that an outsider from the sixth floor broke into the forest and was killed by four third floor monks who worked together to plan and make a huge fortune. No one knows which one is true or false?

Ouyang Chao stared at the strange cultivator who was approaching quickly with a hint of sneer on his face.

It is a very dangerous and terrible thing to venture into the Forgotten Forest and lose the advantage of the Soul-Replenishing Talisman. It is like a phoenix falling to the ground with injured wings. No wonder others have bad intentions against it.

He also woke up from the barbarian stronghold in the morning. He heard that some foreign monks had killed two barbarian slaves. He didn't take it seriously at first. He didn't think it was necessary to make a big fuss with other monks over such a trivial matter.

Later, he heard the report from the leader of the barbarian tribe that the monk with tattered robes and black hair and eyes fell from the sky and was injured and unable to fly. He became interested and inquired carefully. He learned that there were three pioneers who went out hunting last night. The one who survived was a half-grown child who was responsible for making the noise. He witnessed the killing of his two companions.

Ouyang Chao took a group of barbarian warriors out to search, and unexpectedly, by chance, he ran into them while flying in front.

Xu Yuanchang was already about ten feet close. While in the air, he swung his left hand, "clang", and an arrow accurately hit the flying sword that was attacking from behind, knocking it off by about a foot. He used the force of his foot to step on the ground again.

"Crack", the big tree trunk was broken by him, and his speed doubled, moving as fast as lightning, and he pounced on the man diagonally above with a slightly changed expression.

Facing the long sword that was shining brightly, Xu Yuanchang suddenly shouted: "Heart illusion... soul!"

His voice became strange, as if it had a kind of heart-touching penetrating power.

Even if he cannot use the soul illusion technique, the "sonic bewitching" technique he has learned can play an unexpected role at the critical moment.

The man, who was about 20 feet away, was dazed for a moment, and his retreating figure suddenly stopped.

Knowing that something was wrong, his right hand holding the sword was completely out of control.

Xu Yuanchang flicked his right wrist, and the two flying knives were only a moment slower than the shout. The knife light shot out subtle waving arcs in the air. Under the sunlight, the light spots flickered and swayed. The superimposed "knife force" reached its peak when it pierced the man's chest and forehead.

"Bang" "Puff", the protection on the man's body, which was equivalent to the second-level protective light and the fourth-level treasure clothes, was broken by the attack of the sixth-level phantom flying knife.

The man was stabbed in the chest and forehead, with only the handle of the knife sticking out and trembling.

"You...you are a fifth-level...physical cultivator..."

The man's face was filled with fear. The other party was hiding too deeply and had evil intentions. Only a fifth-level physical cultivator could burst out with extraordinary speed and strength in a short period of time without relying on spirit-replenishing talismans. He had no time to swing his sword to resist. He dangled in the air for a moment, then fell to the ground with a plop and died.

After suffering such severe injuries outside, he still had a chance to survive, but in the Forgotten Forest, even escaping from the remaining soul became a luxury.

This is an ancient place where immortals punish sinners.

The souls that fell here could not escape the tragic cycle of becoming descendants of barbarians from generation to generation.

The barbarian warriors rushed to a place a hundred feet away and saw the high god who controlled their life and death falling from the sky with two knives in his body. They were so scared that they crawled on the ground, dropped their bows and arrows, hunting knives and spears, and trembled.

Xu Yuanchang made two leaps and landed in front of the man who died with his eyes open. He glanced at the barbarians kneeling on the ground in the distance and instantly understood that this was the barbarians' rule of survival to allow themselves to be disposed of by the strong. So he didn't need to rush to grab the corpse and escape.

He pulled out the two throwing knives, wiped off the blood and put them into his sleeves.

Ignoring the long sword stuck at the side, he searched out a stack of talismans from the man's left sleeve pocket.

As a senior talisman master who can draw fifth-level talismans, Xu Yuanchang studied it for a moment, joy appeared in his eyes, he picked up one of them and stuck it on his forehead. The talisman turned into a faint light and poured into his body. He was finally able to use the magic power that was sealed by the rules of this world... a very small part of it.

After feeling it for a moment, Xu Yuanchang roughly estimated that using a soul-replenishing talisman could maintain second-level mana for two hours. If the energy of the soul-replenishing talisman was used up at once, it could probably produce a strike with a strength between the fourth and fifth levels.

He had already seen the power of two fourth-level talismans exploding at the same time, which was weakened to only 20% to 30% of the lower realm.

From this, we can deduce that even if a fifth-level cultivator attacks with all his strength, he will not be able to hurt a fourth-level cultivator at all as long as he dodges in time.

"This forbidden forest... seems to be a good place to hone your skills."

Xu Yuanchang thought to himself that with the few soul-replenishing talismans he had seized, he could make great use of them and would not have to worry about being ambushed or besieged in the forest. He took out a set of replacement clothes from the space in the Fantasy Fairy Ring, quickly changed his tattered clothes, cast a spell to clean off the mud and dust, and he suddenly looked refreshed.

He took out a few fifth-level talismans and put them into his sleeves, and hung the sword around his waist.

Then he carefully searched the man on the ground and found several jade pendants, jade plaques, dark gold hairpins, and a green jade bead tied on the man's left wrist. He recognized at a glance that the green jade bead was a treasure in the storage space.

He used magic power to erase the marks on the beads and probed his spiritual consciousness into them. The three-meter-wide space was almost full of materials, and there were two bags of sparkling gems, full of spiritual energy. They were inferior to his crystal marrow stones. He guessed that they were the currency circulated in the world of cultivation, and there were more than ten thousand of them.

Xu Yuanchang naturally looked down on the third- and fourth-level materials that took up space, as well as several fourth-level treasures, robes, and the like. He found two dozen soul-replenishing talismans, which were the good things he urgently needed, as well as a dozen books. He flipped through them briefly, but he didn't recognize any of the words in the books. He searched the entire space but couldn't find the feng shui map.

The man's body was thrown into space, leaving it to be devoured by the Yin-Yang Phantom Fire Spirit.

All other items including the jade beads were stored in the space. He didn't have time to deal with them for the time being. He didn't want to attract the investigation of a certain sect because of the marks left on some items. When it was time to keep a low profile, he would quietly avoid trouble and make a fortune. This was his usual style of doing things.

Picking up all the arrows that fell nearby and throwing them into space, Xu Yuanchang flew into the air. He didn't want to waste time here.

He didn't want to have any interaction with the barbarians kneeling on the ground.

When the leading barbarian man saw that the immortal was about to leave, he hurriedly got up and shouted "gruntly", gesticulating anxiously, as if he wanted to keep the new immortal as their patron saint.

Xu Yuanchang took a glance and realized the barbarian's intention of offering the woman to him by putting his hands in front of his chest in an exaggerated gesture. He flew away without looking back, soaring above the forest. He was not flying fast, and he looked into the distance, feeling particularly relaxed.

It was not until this moment that I had the time to appreciate the ubiquitous prohibitions and rules.

After flying for a while, they found the big river in the forest that Peng Guihe had pointed out to him. They saw a fortress with rock walls built on several hills high up on the river bank, and many barbarian men, women, and children with chestnut hair were working there.

Seeing the monks flying in the sky, the barbarians did not show any hostility, panic, or other attitudes.

Xu Yuanchang flew eastward along the river bank, enjoying the exotic scenery.

Less than three hundred miles away, they saw a barbarian fortress built on the top of a mountain. A monk in black flew out of the stone fortress. He had a gloomy face and his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

Xu Yuanchang ignored him and flew slowly past the edge of the fortress.

The black-robed monk stared at him for a long time, then turned back in disappointment. In the end, he did not dare to chase after him to argue about the other party's crime of aggression and provocation, as he was worried that his fist was not strong enough.

Xu Yuanchang used up a soul-replenishing talisman and flew about two thousand miles. He changed another soul-replenishing talisman and continued. Two monks flew down from the high mountain beside the river and blocked Xu Yuanchang. One of them was a beautiful and charming woman who performed a blessing ceremony with graceful manners. Her eyes were as tender as water and her voice was as beautiful as an oriole.

However, the woman's words and actions were destined to be like talking to a deaf person.

Xu Yuanchang didn't understand at all, nor did he need to understand. From the other party's expression and tone, he guessed that the woman wanted to invite him to be her companion. He glanced at the man and woman expressionlessly, knowing that the honey trap was not working on him, so he raised his body and flew over and left.

The man and woman were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats. The look in his eyes just now revealed the indifference of someone who had been in a superior position for a long time, which made their hair stand on end and they dared not move.

They actually dared to block the way of an old monster and tried to take advantage of the tiger, so they hurriedly flew away.

Life in the forest is full of excitement and unknowns.

No one knows which will come first, the accident or the surprise.

In the afternoon, when the sun was setting, Xu Yuanchang flew to the end of the winding river. In front of him was a huge river about ten miles wide with a terrifyingly blue water surface. It surrounded and isolated the entire Forgotten Forest. The river was surging and rushing, and occasionally there were huge waves several feet high, with a terrifying momentum.

Flying across the middle of the river, the forbidden rules that suppressed the entire body quietly disappeared into thin air.

Only when you lose something, you know how precious it is.

Xu Yuanchang silently felt the magic power surging like a river flowing through his meridians again. The powerful strength he had lost was restored, which made him feel heroic.

He will come to this place again next time, so that he can experience the seamless transition between monks and mortals.

It has different benefits in tempering the mind, refining the soul and improving magical powers.

Entering the Forgotten Forest might be an adventure for other cultivators, because their strength has dropped drastically, their spiritual awareness cannot reach far, and they are worried about being plotted against and murdered by cultivators with ulterior motives. But for him, who has a physique as strong as that of a physical cultivator, it is a novel experience of eating a lot of meat.

Slowly landing on the lush green hill opposite, breathing in the fresh and abundant active spiritual energy that was at least three times richer than that in the Thousand Square World.

Xu Yuanchang was extremely sure that he had ascended to the upper realm, although he didn't know where he was yet.

His spiritual sense spread to the middle of the river and encountered an invisible forbidden rule. Xu Yuanchang turned and scanned to the southeast. His spiritual sense extended to three hundred miles away, but he was unable to reach beyond that.

Compared to when he was in the lower realm, the range of his spiritual sense exploration was limited by the rules of heaven and earth and was reduced by about 30%.

After staying for half an hour, he had a rough idea of ​​how to adapt to his own magic power and illusion.

A ray of light streaked across the sky from the river and flashed away over the top of the mountain at an extremely fast speed.

Xu Yuanchang had already restrained his breath. He could tell at a glance that the cultivator flying by was a fourth-level cultivator, so he followed him from a distance and flew to the southeast. He used a superb invisible illusion technique, which, although slightly inferior to the one he used in the lower world, was more than enough to deceive the young cultivator in front of him.

Beyond the 500-mile mountainous area, an endless plain spreads out below.

The fields are crisscrossed, smoke from cooking rises, the sounds of chickens and dogs can be heard, and the village and farmland are in good order.

The river meanders like a jade belt. There is a small town every ten miles or so, and the official road connects to the city a hundred miles away.

From time to time, monks flew through the sky, either in groups of three or five, or alone.

After flying for another thousand miles, they saw endless mountains in the distance. A huge city was built on the top of the mountains, which was still more than two hundred miles away. The sight of it from afar was quite shocking.

Xu Yuanchang dispelled the illusion and slowly approached the majestic city with the mountain as its base.

The huge city gate, which is hundreds of feet high, flies to both sides, forming a pair of majestic horns. Cultivators fly in and out in large numbers like crucian carp crossing the river. All is well organized, and the upper, middle and lower passages are divided according to the level of their cultivation.

Xu Yuanchang was not in a hurry to enter the city. He stayed fifty miles away and looked at the huge city of cultivators with a radius of at least three hundred miles.

In the sunlight, a faint light flickered upwards along the city wall, separating the inside and outside of the city.

The whole city is filled with fairy spirit and mystery.

He saw that the city defense was arranged with the corona and stars pulling the heaven and earth into a great formation, which could gather spiritual energy and keep it from dispersing, and had countless magical uses. He had studied how to break the formation for decades and was quite knowledgeable about the star formation.

The monks coming and going passed by Xu Yuanchang silently observing him. Some of them couldn't tell the Taoist's depth, so they used their spiritual sense to probe him a little, and then ran away in panic as if they were pricked by a needle.

About a quarter of an hour later, a middle-aged man wearing a long gown with dark patterns on it passed by and stopped.

About a hundred feet apart, the man bowed and greeted her.

Xu Yuanchang returned the greeting and said, "Hello, fellow Taoist."

He couldn't understand the other party's words and needed to find someone to inquire. The cultivator who came up to him seemed to be of the same level.

The man had thick eyebrows, a thin face, and a short beard. There was a hint of surprise in his eyes, and he changed his words to say, "Shi Qiyuan from Hufeng Mountain, nice to meet you, fellow Taoist. What's your name?"

"I am Xu Yuanchang, you are polite."

Xu Yuanchang did not deliberately restrain his cultivation. There was a subtle sense of connection between cultivators of the same level. He guessed that Hufeng Mountain was a sect.

The man smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Xu looks unfamiliar. Are you traveling through our Qiaojiao City?"

Xu Yuanchang followed up the conversation and replied, "Yes, I have heard of your great name for a long time. After visiting Jiaojiao City, I will go to the Forgotten Forest to see it for myself." He extended his hand to invite them and flew towards the city gate, saying, "I wonder if there are any famous bookstores, inns, restaurants, and treasure shops in Jiaojiao Fairy City?"

The man gestured and flew into the city side by side. He said with a smile, "Shi can recommend a few old shops to you so that you can make your trip worthwhile."

After a few words, the two men closed the distance to ten feet, and flew into the distinctive upturned city gate while chatting and laughing.

With Shi Qiyuan's introductions along the way, Xu Yuanchang could not recognize the shop signs, so he wrote down the locations of the shops.

At the end of the main road, the two bowed and said goodbye.

Xu Yuanchang went back to find a famous bookstore, walked in, and said to the monk who came to greet him: "I need to learn the initiation jade slips for the local common language and the Forgotten Forest Barbarian language. Can you recommend a few other jade slips? I will also need to introduce the local cultivation world's classics later."

The waiter was used to this kind of situation and stretched out his hand to make way for the inner room.

"Senior, please come inside!"

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(End of this chapter)