The road is vague

Chapter 46 Literary Man

Li Mo is no longer the rookie who made his debut in the world two or three years ago.

With different identities, the mentality is naturally different.

He looked Wang Ying up and down, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"So, their target is actually you?"

Wang Ying smiled lightly and did not deny it.

Li Mo knew very well that this person was a deep-minded person who was good at maneuvering between various forces. He was a meticulous person with great perseverance. Although he admired this person from the bottom of his heart, if he got too close to him, he might be sold out one day without knowing it, so he immediately drew his sword and shouted coldly.

"I remember your wanted poster, but the crime is unforgivable. Is the reward two hundred taels of silver?"

The air was filled with murderous intent, and everyone was suddenly shocked!
Li Mo didn't want to be passive and be fooled by the other party. The Jade Fox Wang Ying took the initiative to show up, and he instinctively sensed that there was something wrong behind this matter.

Wang Ying's smile was a little stiff, but she soon regained her composure.

"My reward is only two hundred taels. If Divine Doctor Li is willing to help me through this crisis, I am willing to share a great opportunity with you, Brother Li. How do you think?"

"What a great opportunity?"

Li Mo frowned and stared at Wang Ying.

"Back then, I persuaded Brother Li to go to Anle City to examine his spiritual roots. Now, Brother Li has become a high-ranking cultivator, and I am just an ordinary mortal. But did I lie to you or treat you unfairly back then in the Eighteen Mountains?"

"That's not true."

Li Mo put away his sword and responded calmly.

Seeing this, Wang Ying smiled slightly.

"Brother Li, do you know why Jiujiang Thunder Dragon Taishou, who had clearly fled to Xia Country, risked returning to Qian Country and wasted time and energy amassing wealth and refining silver essence in the Eighteen Mountains?"

"Ok?"

Li Mo asked in surprise: "Isn't it for refining magic tools?"

"It seems that Brother Li still doesn't know something. Let alone a martial artist in the acquired realm, even a martial artist in the innate realm, as long as he hasn't attained enlightenment and forged a golden elixir, he will not be able to control a magical weapon at all. At most, he can only rely on his internal energy to unleash sword energy and fist wind."

Li Mo looked thoughtful when he heard this.

Right.

After all, warriors are still mortals, and he doesn't quite understand things like enlightenment, but he is now quite clear about the difference between having spiritual roots and not having them.

Internal force and magic power, although there is only one word difference, the actual effects must be worlds apart. If a warrior can control magic weapons, then what is the difference between him and a cultivator.

"So you're saying that Taishou came back for something else?"

"Exactly!"

Wang Ying smiled.

"Back when Jiujiang Leilong dominated the Eighteen Mountains and became the chief leader, in addition to his astonishing martial arts, he also mastered the mysterious art of divination, which allowed him to locate ancient tombs. He returned because a tomb he had discovered contained a mysterious altar. He refined the silver essence not to create a magical weapon, but to complete the missing silver runes on the altar."

Li Mo was shocked when he heard this.

On the one hand, he was shocked by the methods of the Jade Fox Wang Ying. He didn't know how she served Taishou so well that he revealed such a secret.

On the other hand, he was shocked by Yu Taishou's discovery. Maybe the "Lingzhao Sword Manual" was found in this tomb!
If that's the case.

This so-called tomb might be related to the Lingzhao Mountain whispered in the misty dream.

"How do I know if what you said is true?"

Wang Ying naturally saw that Li Mo was moved, and she finally relaxed in her heart.

This person is not greedy for beauty and is very principled in doing things. When dealing with such people, you must be reasonable and balance the interests. As long as you can convince them, they will become good friends, but it is difficult for them to become obedient subordinates.

unless……

They occupy the so-called righteousness.

"Haha, whether it's true or not, Divine Doctor Li can judge for himself. I have five hundred taels of silver notes from the Daohua Trading Company here. Consider it as buying my life in advance. You won't suffer any loss no matter what. How do you say that?"

Li Mo secretly sighed at the other party's generosity.

These five hundred taels of silver are equivalent to fifty spirit stones. When Pingshan Society was preparing supplies, they only took out five hundred taels.

It seems that the Jade Fox Wang Ying reaped a huge reward after that battle.

Li Mo naturally had no reason to refuse. He was short of money at the moment, so he took the banknote from the other party.

He had never seen the so-called silver notes before, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at them out of curiosity.

"Who did you offend? How do you want me to help you out of this crisis?"

Wang Ying's expression turned serious.

"That man is also a cultivator who calls himself Wen Dao Ren. Not long after you left, I followed Tai Shou's instructions and found the mausoleum, but I ended up running into Wen Dao Ren."

Wendaoren?
Li Mo was slightly shocked!
"After he discovered me, he asked about Taishou's whereabouts. I failed to deceive him and fled back to the Eighteen Mountains in a panic. Who knew he would chase me there too? I had no choice but to flee the Eighteen Mountains again and hide in Tongchao Town. Then he chased me there again and sent the Black Wind Mountain bandits he had recruited to chase me everywhere."

Li Mo's face turned very ugly.

"You actually let me deal with a monk?"

Wang Ying hurriedly said, "Brother Li, you don't know. That Taoist Wen is weak and must be a wandering cultivator. How can he be compared to you? Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to escape from him so many times. I think it must be the wandering cultivator that Tai Shou invited from Xia Country, who is skilled in runes, to help him repair the broken runes on the altar. If this helper is powerful, Tai Shou will definitely be worried."

Having said that, how could Li Mo gamble his life for this?

Jade Fox Wang Ying continued to speak.

"Besides, I'm not asking Brother Li to kill him. I just need Brother Li to escort me to the vicinity of the county town. This is in Daqian territory after all. Under the bright and clear sky, Brother Li is a disciple of Lingmu Sect. How dare he act rashly?"

"this?"

What Wang Ying said makes sense. This place is within the territory of Daqian.

But the other party was a cultivator after all, and he was only at the fourth level of Qi training, and had no magic weapon to protect himself, so it was still too dangerous.

Even if Tai Shou had brought a weak cultivator with him out of fear, he couldn't be too bad, right?
There will still be considerable risks.

However, the conditions Wang Ying offered were too difficult for Li Mo to refuse. After hesitating for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk.

No matter what, he is also a disciple of the Lingmu Sect of the Daqian Kingdom. The other party is just a casual cultivator in the Qi training stage who even Wang Ying can't do anything about. How dare he fight with him for life and death in the jurisdiction of the Lingmu Sect? The worst that can happen is that he can just take a step back.

Besides, the people from the escort agency are also a great help.

You can hide in the dark and observe first. It would be best if everything is peaceful.

Thinking of this, Li Mo took a look at the carriage and found that there was no one else in Wang Ying's carriage. He immediately signaled Xiong Shaoan to get off the horse and follow him into the carriage.

"Hehe, thank you, Brother Li."

Seeing this, everyone in the escort agency couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After quickly packing up the bandits' bodies, they rushed towards the county town.

After setting off again, Li Mo sat in the carriage and looked at Wang Ying.

"Where is that ancient tomb? I want you to tell me right now."

"no problem."

Wang Ying leaned over to Li Mo's ear and told him the detailed information about the ancient tomb.

Li Mo nodded continuously, his eyes shining, as if thinking about something.

……

the other side.

Wen Daoren was a man who looked to be in his forties, with a deformed, short, and hunched body.

When the escaped Black Wind Mountain bandit came here to report the news, his face suddenly changed when he learned that a cultivator was passing by nearby and was killing people.

Faced with the Black Wind Mountain bandits who were begging him to come out of the mountains, Taoist Wen remained unmoved, his face as gloomy as water.

"No, we can't stay here any longer."

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, quickly shook off these Black Wind Mountain bandits, and fled into the distance.

Wang Ying was right.

Taoist Wen was indeed the helper Tai Shou invited to repair the altar runes. He was quite accomplished in the art of rune prohibition, but his personal strength was not worth mentioning.

"It's a pity that the Jade Fox escaped, otherwise I would be the only one in the world who knew that secret. Damn it! But it doesn't matter. With her aptitude, it would take her ten years to reach Taishou's level of internal strength. By then, I would have been long gone, hehe."

As for the possibility that the Jade Fox Wang Ying would share the news of the tomb with others, Taoist Wen had never even thought about it.

After all, in his opinion, no one would be willing to share such a great opportunity with others unless they were forced to do so.

And what he didn't know was.

This Jade Fox Wang Ying had no idea of ​​the value of the tomb. The so-called great opportunity she spoke of was just sweet talk to deceive Li Mo and get him out of the current crisis.

In her opinion.

Since everything in the tomb had been moved away by Taishou, leaving only an altar of unknown purpose, the most valuable thing must be in Taishou's cave. When she won the final victory in the internal strife of the Pingshan Society, she happened to discover the location of Taishou's cave, which she accidentally recorded in a passage of her experience in "Turtle Breathing Technique"!
As long as you reach Xia Country and find his secret cave, you can obtain the real wealth in that tomb!
That's it.

Amidst the various ulterior motives of each party, Li Mo took Xiong Shaoan and first exchanged the reward silver in the county town. Then they had a smooth journey and arrived smoothly near the county town of Anbei County.

Li Mo, who had been worried all the way, finally breathed a sigh of relief and sighed that this mission was not in vain.

Xiong Shaoan really couldn't help but feel curious.

"Brother Li, I didn't understand what you said to them on the road earlier."

"That's underworld jargon. It's best if you never understand it in your life."

Say it.

Li Mo looked at Wang Ying.

"We're almost at the county town. How are you planning to leave?"

Wang Ying smiled happily.

"Thank you very much, Divine Doctor Li. I am quite experienced in the art of disguise. If we meet again in the future, I will definitely repay you for saving my life. See you later."

After saying this, she took cover of a forest and jumped off the carriage without hesitation, the whole process was smooth and effortless.

The people at Leishun Escort Agency were completely unaware of it.

It was not until they entered the county town that the people in the escort agency discovered that their employer was no longer there. Although Li Mo said that she had quietly left in the middle of the journey, the people in the escort agency, led by Manager Lei, obviously did not quite believe it. However, they did not say much, nodded, and left.

"Master Lei, do you think that the master of the family has been…"

"Shut up!"

Shopkeeper Lei glared at the man and led everyone away.

Li Mo received a total of 380 taels of silver for the heads of nine Black Wind Mountain bandits. Except for the scarred man, the others were minor characters, and there were three that didn't even have a reward.

However, Li Mo was already very satisfied, as this was equivalent to thirty-eight spirit stones.

Then Li Mo inquired about the branch of Daohua Money House in the county town, and successfully exchanged 500 taels of silver. Together with the small change he found from the corpses of the Black Wind Mountain bandits and the reward from the government, the silver in his storage bag now reached more than 900 taels, almost 1,000 taels.

If the spirit stone reward for this commissioned task is included, he actually earned a hundred spirit stones after completing this task!
As for the exchange method of spirit stones and silver, you can go to the market at the foot of Qingming Mountain, or go directly to the weapon refining hall of the master's sect to exchange them, which is very convenient.

"It's almost time to make the elixir."

After Li Mo estimated the cost of the auxiliary spiritual medicines needed to buy the Qi Gathering Pill, he couldn't help but feel excited. He originally thought that it would take three or four months to gather the required spiritual stones.

I didn't expect that I would get lucky this time.

the next day.

Li Mo took Xiong Shaoan on a flying boat. Amidst Xiong Shaoan's constant excited exclamations, they returned to Lingmu Gate again and handed it over to Uncle Xiong who issued the mission. The entire mission lasted a full fifteen days.

"Not bad!"

Uncle Xiong was very satisfied and paid the mission reward to Li Mo on the spot.

Li Mo happily put it away and turned to leave.

(End of this chapter)