Chapter 330: Go to Faquan City
to drive the chicks back to Jinyun Valley. After destroying the bodies, Chen Che set out for Faquan City.
He knew most of the Faquan City from Meng Qianxun.
This is a city composed of independent cultivators. It is not within the scope of Hunyuan Sect and Zhaixing Sect, and its sphere of influence covers three states. There are three Jindan Dawan masters in total, who jointly manage this city.
Since the three city lords are all independent cultivators and are not subject to anyone's jurisdiction, they are highly sought after by independent cultivators.
Especially the evil cultivators and the calamity cultivators.
Many of the stolen items will appear here openly. Chen Yin once revealed that after the Thousand-Eyed Statue was lost,
he came here to look for it. Xiao Chan also said that if he couldn't get the Qingxu Guiyuan Pill, he would go to Faquan City.
For monks, Faquan City is a paradise.
Spiritual weapons, elixirs, and martial arts techniques, as long as you can come up with enough spirit stones, you can have everything you want, even the heads of the three city lords.
At the same time, this place is also a hell, with hunters everywhere. If you go in or out, you will be targeted. If you don't have enough strength, you will die.
In fact.
According to research, the predecessor of this city was once a black market.
So, it's a mixed bag.
To Chen Che, the feeling this city gave him was like a relatively famous nightclub in Xianmen. Although everyone knew about it, in fact, most people were isolated from it. Similarly, Chen Che knew about this place long before he reached Dan stage, but he just didn't want to set foot there.
However, everyone in the city has now put up their own bounty.
He must want to go and see what's going on, and check the other party's background. But Chen Che guessed that the person who put up the bounty was either Duobao Zhenren or Ye Yuanji. After all, these two were the only ones who had made enemies with him.
As for driving the chicks back, it was also to avoid exposing their identities.
Because the slaughter list is right there, everyone in the city can take the lead and whoever succeeds can get the reward, so it is not ruled out that there will be other people who will take the lead.
so.
At this time, Chen Che also came out in disguise, put on a gray robe, carried Dan Xuanzi's big sword box on his back, put on a bamboo hat, and covered his face with half a broken mask with a thousand eyes. He pretended to be exhausted and looked ten years older than his actual age.
Outside the area under the jurisdiction of Hunyuan Sect, the population immediately becomes several times thinner, and often there is no human habitation at all for hundreds of miles.
Even the villages we occasionally passed by seemed to have been abandoned for decades.
This is because there are many monsters and beasts in the wild, and mortals cannot resist them. Often, a small demon in the Qi Linking Realm can cause unrest in the entire village. If you encounter an evil cultivator, it is not an exaggeration to say that all humans and animals will become extinct.
"This must be the real bottom layer..."
When passing by a mountain village, Chen Che felt it was extremely weird. He scanned the village with his spiritual sense and found no one in the village. But in most of the villagers' tables and stoves, there were still cold meals, which clearly showed that the villagers had met with misfortune.
When passing by such areas, Chen Che would easily deal with the monsters that were wreaking havoc on the world if he saw them.
Of course, there are also mortals who gather into cities, and hundreds of cities form a country.
There are masters and warriors in the city, as well as a demon-slaying department. Or eradicate monsters, kill evil spirits, and hunt down evil people.
The mortals in the city lived and worked in peace and contentment. As for what ordinary people learn, most of them are incomplete skills. Even if you are very talented, your achievements are quite limited, and you will never reach the fourth level of Qi Chain in your lifetime.
There are about a dozen such human capitals, but as you get closer to Faquan City, such countries become increasingly rare.
Obviously.
These mortals also know that the most terrifying things in this world may not be the monsters.
After traveling at full speed for about two days, the mortal country had disappeared, as if we had entered a no-man's land. Not only are there no mortal humans, but there are also very few monsters. Everywhere along the way, one could see mountains collapsing, rivers changing course, and the earth tearing apart.
After feeling the surrounding environment, Chen Che couldn't help but frown.
The spiritual energy here is not only disordered and scarce, but also slightly violent. It is also filled with evil spirits, yin energy, and evil spirits - it is simply filthy and chaotic to the extreme, and it is obvious that people often take action here.
".—It seems we are almost at Faquan City."
Chen Che had a rough idea in mind.
Fighting is prohibited in Faquan City, but there is no such rule outside the city.
So once you leave the city, you will take revenge if you have a grudge and complain if you have a grudge. Those who are weak will die if they leave the city.
really.
Then his gaze focused and Chen Che looked into the distance.
On the horizon hundreds of miles away, a huge city seemed to appear on the endless plain, with many rivers running around it.
It is Faquan City.
According to Meng Qianxun, there is a spring in the center of the city, which constantly spews out spiritual energy, hence the name. There is also a "Seven-Colored Lotus Platform Array" in the city.
Although
this array has no offensive power, it has excellent defensive capabilities and is at the forefront even among the third-level top-grade arrays. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator would not be able to break through it in a short period of time. In the past, the Zhaixing Sect had a feud with a city lord of Faquan City and once led an army to the north,
but was blocked by this formation.
Later, for some unknown reason, the two sides shook hands and made peace.
But it was also because of this incident that Faquan City became famous and became a hiding place for evil cultivators and robber cultivators.
so.
Even if big forces like Zhaixingmen and Hunyuanzong enter the city, they have to abide by their rules.
"Let's go in first."
He then checked his own condition again to make sure there was nothing on his appearance that could reveal his identity. At the same time, he suppressed his aura to the great perfection of foundation building and headed straight for Faquan City.
Although Thousand Eyes' mask was broken and no longer had the power it had that day, it could still block spiritual detection.
Since he is disguised as an outsider cultivator, he should look like an outsider cultivator.
"Li, pat!"
Outside Faquan City, heavy rain was pouring down.
The chaotic spiritual energy also affected the climate of this area. Some places were as dry as a desert, while others were raining continuously.
The abundant water vapor turns into mist in winter, covering half of Faquan City.
In heavy rain.
Many monks walked forward, their steps were steady and their bodies were not stained with a trace of moisture. Some travel in groups of three or four, some travel alone.
Behind Chen Che, there was a person following him.
The other person was also wearing a bamboo hat and pretending to be exhausted. The two were only a few feet apart.
Chen Che left, and the other party left. Chen Che stopped, and the other party also stopped.
It is fair and upright to follow in their footsteps.
"How long are you going to follow me?"
Chen Che turned around and gave her a cold, warning look.
After setting foot in this area, there were naturally more monks nearby.
However, since he had just arrived here, he naturally had to be cautious and was unwilling to travel with others. But he didn't expect that even though he was unwilling,
some monks deliberately followed him. He followed all the way without hiding, just like they were a pair of companions.
Chen Che naturally knew that there was a trick in this world that took advantage of the opportunity to get close to someone and pretend to be a familiar companion. Then they commit fraud in the other party's name, putting the other party in trouble while they themselves can easily get away.
"Don't blame me, fellow Daoist. I'm new here, and I heard that Faquan City is a mixed crowd. If you're alone, you can easily become a target.
I see that you're alone too, so why don't we travel together?"
The other party hurriedly bowed and explained, "It will be better if you can take care of me inside and outside the city."
"Go find someone else."
Chen Che gave him a cold warning look and turned forward.
Lu Kai was also helpless.
He would need to have the courage to find someone else. Those monks either had a look of "keep away from strangers" written all over their faces, or they were filled with murderous intent. Either they were carrying a soul-calling banner, or they were hanging a string of monks' bones.
Only the swordsman in front of him looked a little normal, so he followed him all the way.
I originally thought that the other party would be easy to talk to, but I didn't expect to be rejected outright.
"Fellow Daoist, please stay," Lu Kai said quickly.
"You can just continue to follow me and give it a try!"
He raised his head slightly, and his eyes swept across under the bamboo hat. Then he waved his long sleeves and walked out in the rain.
Lu Kai paused and could not help but step back repeatedly.
Just now, he felt a real sense of oppression from Chen Che, like a ferocious beast. His intuition told him that the man in front of him was probably even more terrifying than the monks around him. If the other party wanted to, he could take his life in an instant.
After all, Lu Kai was also in the late stage of foundation building, so he was naturally not a fool.
He immediately realized that the person in front of him was hiding more deeply than he had imagined. He was not someone to be easily dealt with. He had to stay away from him, otherwise he would die without knowing how.
Faquan City, a huge city wall.
The houses here are of different heights, just like a refugee camp. There are men and women, old and young, mortals, monks, and even barefoot children of three or five years old.
Obviously.
They are the bottom of Faquan City and don't even have the qualifications to live in the city.
However, through the city gate, one can see that Faquan City is extremely luxurious, and the further in you go, the more prosperous it becomes.
When seeing Chen Che passing by, the people outside the city looked at him with either awe or envy. During this time, Chen Che also felt several scrutinizing gazes. His spiritual consciousness followed it and discovered that there were actually several foundation-building monks hiding among them.
There were quite a few mid-stage cultivators among them, and some even used their spiritual consciousness to scan him wantonly.
Obviously, these people are hiding here, looking for suitable prey.
Chen Che pursed his lips calmly and directly released the aura of perfect foundation building. Those scrutinizing eyes seemed to be frightened and immediately retracted their gazes, not daring to look at him any more.
The great cultivator who unscrupulously used his spiritual sense to scan Chen Che covered his eyes and screamed, scaring the surrounding cultivators so much that they scattered.
But at this moment, a child of seven or eight years old came up quickly and bowed, saying:
"Senior, is this your first time in Faquan City?"
"How do you know?"
Chen Che lowered his head and looked.
I saw this child, wearing only shorts in the middle of winter, barefoot, with some mud on his face, shivering from the cold, and his lips were chapped. If they were on Diyuan Star, they would be in the second or third grade, still playing on their parents' laps.
"The monks who come here often don't stay here for too long. They usually just pass through."
The child bowed and said, "I can be your guide. I guarantee you will be satisfied--"
Chapter 331: Slaughtering the Ranking
"Price?"
Chen Che looked over.
"Senior, please give me a few ounces of spiritual sand,"
the child bowed.
"Let's go."
Chen Che nodded slightly.
This was his first time in Faquan City, and he really needed a local to help him get familiar with the place as quickly as possible.
After all, he came here during the winter vacation of Zhurong Taoist Temple and would not stay here for long, only about a month at most.
Zhou Lian was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed again, then stepped forward to lead the way:
"Senior, this is your first time here, so please remember one thing."
"No matter what happens, no one is allowed to fight in the city. Even if you encounter a big problem, you must suppress your resentment or anger. Because this is a rule jointly formulated by the three city lords, and everyone in the city has tacitly agreed to this rule. Whoever dares to break the law will be attacked by others."
"But once you leave the city, there is no such rule, and you can retaliate afterwards. Some people in the city will deliberately provoke the other party to make them take action..."
Chen Che nodded slightly.
Since it is a rule, there will definitely be people who find loopholes.
"If you want to buy medicine pills, you have to go to the Baodan Chamber of Commerce. As long as you have spirit stones, you can buy anything from the Qi Chain to the Golden Core Realm there."
"If you want to buy weapons, you can go to the Xuanbing Building. There are alchemy furnaces and even evil weapons. These places are all the city lord's properties. I heard that many of them came from the city lord's hands. Their quality is the highest, so they are quite popular."
"As for Tianshang Renjian, it is a famous treasury in Faquan City. There are not only female cultivators, but also male cultivators. It's a good place to get drunk and dream."
Chen Che looked over: "How do you know so much?"
"I've been here since I was a child. I led the way for two years, but others didn't want to recruit me because I was young."
Zhou Lian followed.
"Where are your parents?"
"They're gone."
"I want to know about Tubang."
Chen Che asked softly, squinting his eyes slightly and looking at the child seriously again.
"The one who's on the slaughter list has to go to the slaughter house———"
Zhou Lian was stunned. He didn't expect that this seemingly kind-hearted cultivator would actually come to the slaughter house. However,
there are all kinds of people in Faquan City, so he was not surprised and quickly explained:
"Originally, there was no massacre list. This place was built by the second city lord. He started out as a robber cultivator, and built this building just to make it easier to connect with employers."
"But later, there were more and more employers, and more and more people to be killed. Even the second city lord couldn't kill them all. Later, he simply posted those names, and the rest of the cultivators took orders from him." "
Later, the scale became bigger, so he simply made a massacre list, and there were rules for killing people by posting on the list."
"Second City Lord, the lord of Faquan City also does this business?"
Faquan City is not as dirty as Chen Che imagined. Instead, the streets are clean and orderly. From the outside, it is not much different from Jinyun Valley Market and Hunyuan City. The only difference is that undisguised evil practitioners can be seen everywhere.
When he heard that the massacre on the list was done by one of the city lords, he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
"—This is Faquan City."
Zhou Lian smiled, but didn't dare to say anything else.
Chen Che is a cultivator but he is just an ordinary person. He often speaks out of turn and an unintentional word can bring about fatal disaster.
"Just say whatever you can."
Chen Che would not argue with a seven or eight-year-old child, so he nodded casually.
Zhou Lian nodded repeatedly, and then went on to introduce some things in Faquan City. There are not many rules in the city, and the most important thing to remember is that you cannot fight with others. Apart from this, mortals and monks live together.
Don't worry if you accidentally offend others, just stay in the city.
Of course, we also have to be wary of some people who are determined to take revenge.
There are also cases where people hid in the city for three years and died as soon as they left the city. The easiest thing to do in the city is to use spirit stones to clear the way.
On the way, I met Lu Kai again.
The other party was led by a young man in his twenties, sitting on a blood bull, and walked straight towards the Baodan Chamber of Commerce. The two of them flashed past each other on the street, and when the latter saw Chen Che, he hurriedly bowed respectfully.
Chen Che nodded slightly, which counted as a greeting.
"Senior, we have arrived at the slaughter house."
After a moment, Zhou Lian stopped in front of a three-story building but did not go in. The small building was plain and covered a large area. The outside was filled with wine jars, making it look more like a restaurant. The only thing was a white banner with the word "Tu" hung on it:
"Please come in. I won't go in--"
Chen Che nodded slightly and stepped in.
The interior of the slaughterhouse also looked like a restaurant, with monks sitting in groups of three or four at each other's tables, drinking and chatting, making it seem particularly lively. What's different from ordinary restaurants is that there are bounty lists hung around.
The list includes portraits, names, cultivation levels and bounties.
even.
There were also a few cultivators on the list who sat in the slaughterhouse drinking openly, and the people around them pretended not to see anything.
With just a glance, Chen Che saw his own list. Not only was it extremely conspicuous, but it was also larger than the Foundation Establishment Realm's:
Chen Che from Yunzhou, Jinyun Valley.
Golden Core Realm cultivation.
The bounty is three hundred thousand spirit stones.
In addition to him, there are seven or eight other Jindans, but the list has turned yellow, and it is obvious that it has been posted for a long time.
Only the one I own still looks brand new, and it is obvious that it was put up not long ago.
The shopkeeper was a white-haired foundation-building cultivator who was casually fiddling with an abacus. There were also a few servants wearing white coins walking back and forth, carrying wine.
As Chen Che was looking around, a woman wearing a black iron helmet with only her eyes exposed walked straight towards the counter.
Without saying a word, he took out a head and put it on the table.
"Xuzhou, Lu family, Lu Ping."
The shopkeeper took out a photo stone and compared it with it, then nodded slightly, "The reward is 15,000, and 30% of the cost of slaughtering the people will be deducted. Here are 10,500 spirit stones. Count them."
At the same time, he turned to the servant and said,
"Tear up Lu Ping's list."
With a rustle, the servant tore up the list and threw it into the coal stove, which meant that the target was dead.
The woman in the black iron helmet took the spirit stone, glanced at it quickly, stuffed it into the storage ring, turned around and left the slaughterhouse.
Immediately, several drinkers who were still drinking followed quietly.
Looking at the head on the counter, Chen Che raised his eyebrows.
This Lu Ping was a great foundation-building cultivator from Lu Qinglian's family. The two had met once before in Hunyuan City. Unexpectedly, he was put on the slaughter list and was slaughtered.
"Do you want to take down the list or publish it?"
The shopkeeper greeted Chen Che with a smile when he saw him approaching.
"What about revealing the list, and what about publishing it?"
"Revealing the list means writing down the names on the list, killing the people, and then getting spirit stones from us. Publishing the list means writing down the names of your enemies, and as long as the price is right, someone will do it for you. However, you have to pay first. The higher the price, the more people will reveal the list."
"I don't know the other person's name, I only know his nickname.
"Features? Appearance? Where do you live, who is he from?"
"I don't know any of them-"
"That's troublesome."
The shopkeeper frowned, shook his head slowly, and said:
"Even if the list is published, we don't know where to find the person who reveals the list. It's basically an unsolved case. You don't want to waste your money, do you? Unless this person's nickname is extremely famous, you might as well tell us-."
"Wan Jia?"
Chen Che, who was a professional, tried to say the name.
"I know this person."
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, nodded slightly, and said:
"Wan Jia, I don't know his real name, and I don't know his origin. But he is well-known in Faquan City, and he has some property in the city. He came here once a few months ago and stayed for a while. He even put his name on the list in our building." "
But this person is a Jindan Zhenren. Do you really want to put his name on the list?"
Seeing Chen Che nodded, the shopkeeper continued:
"It's just that the price of a Jindan Zhenren is not low. Of course, there is no limit on the price in our building. Even a spirit stone can be put on the list,
but--"
"Four hundred thousand spirit stones."
"Pay the spirit stones first."
Chen Che paid the spirit stones without saying a word.
Dan Xuanzi, Feng Qianghao and Gu Hang provided him with about 200,000 spirit stones, and he had to pay the rest himself. However, he is a person who will not suffer any loss. If the other party dares to hang him, he will definitely hang the other party as well.
After a few waves of assassinations, he immediately knew who was attacking him. If they really are those two people, I will be able to take action myself in the future.
The guests drinking in the building were originally surprised that Chen Che was going to post a list to kill a Jindan, and now they were even more surprised that he directly took out 400,000 spirit stones.
"What if I kill the other person?"
Chen Che thought of another question.
"You can keep the reward, but we will deduct the handling fee, which is 120,000 spirit stones."
The shopkeeper replied.
What a great guy! Chen Che's mouth twitched slightly.
No wonder the second city lord didn't come out to rob and kill people. He can make a lot of money by just lying down and earning the agency fee. Then, the shopkeeper drew a list in front of Chen Che. Unfortunately, there was no appearance, only the two words "Wan Jia".
The word "Golden Elixir" was written below, and then some notes about the news in the city were added.
Chen Che took a few glances, all of which were things he didn't know.
"Done!"
Ordering the servant to post the list of "Wan Jia" in the building, the shopkeeper looked at Chen Che with a smile, "Sir, the list has been released, and all you have to do next is wait for the news."
"However, Wan Jia is not a local cultivator in Faquan City. He is suspected to be a robbery cultivator, or a real person from another place. He only comes once every few years. If you have other things to do, you can go and do it now. If not, you can stay in the city and wait. Unless he never sets foot here again in this life-"
"Got it."
Chen Che adjusted the mask on his face, and then pointed to the list on the wall, "If my name is put up, how can I take it down?"
Perhaps because he had received a big customer, the shopkeeper seemed extremely enthusiastic and explained patiently, "It can't be taken down. Once on the list, even the employer has no right to revoke it. If a guest's name is on the list, you can only kill him until others dare not to take down the list." "
I see."
The corner of his mouth twitched. He thought he could easily take his name off.
It seems that in the end, the only way to stop killing is killing.