Wanyao Youyun

Hua Luzhu returned to her own courtyard. There was a candlestick on the wall of the living room. She twisted it gently a few times, and the wall slowly moved sideways, revealing a row of steps leading directly to the underground. She went down the steps, and the wall behind her immediately returned to its original state.

There is a huge secret room underground, where many people are busy.

This is the core of Yanzi Tower, responsible for collecting, analyzing, and transmitting all kinds of news from the Shangming Empire and even the entire Fengmo Continent, including various events, the secrets of major families, various forbidden secrets, and so on.

"Miss, here is the detailed information about Shang Wu and the City Guard House. It has been sorted out. Please take a look." After seeing Hua Luzhu, Ma Zhong immediately handed her a stack of prepared information.

"You should immediately use the Green Bird to send a message to the branch, requesting reinforcements. If it is convenient, it would be best to send a master of the Ninth Five-Level Realm to take charge here. We will probably have trouble living in peace from now on." After taking the information and taking a few glances at it, he frowned slightly and said.

"Yes, Miss!"

"I didn't expect that this small city guard house is connected to the outside world. It seems that the Shangming Empire is very deep!"

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"In the next period of time, I will have to practice hard to deal with the revenge of the City Guards. I won't be able to go out with you often. You also have to be careful." Feng Huan came back to his senses and said to Hua Ziyun.

"Ah! Well then, you just practice hard, I'm going to go play by myself!"

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Feng Huan began a new round of training. In this life-and-death battle, he used his martial arts to the utmost and almost exhausted his true energy, which strongly stimulated his true energy beads and meridians throughout his body, speeding up the absorption of fresh energy. He felt that it would not take long before his cultivation level would be raised to the second level of Tongliu Realm.

Hua Luzhu sent him some training resources and a set of water-attributed swordsmanship. Feng Huan used this set of swordsmanship more to comprehend the use of water attributes, and the swordsmanship itself was mutually verified with the knife skills and integrated into his own swordsmanship.

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"Have you heard that recently, a remarkable genius appeared in the Great Mongol Nation. Not only was he born with all seven orifices fully opened, he also built an eight-diagram statue. His cultivation has even reached the seventh level of Tongliu Realm. It is said that he is striving for the eighth level."

"Isn't it? Kongtong Country has produced an even more powerful genius who is said to have successfully advanced to the eighth level of Tongliu Realm, and all that's left is to build a statue."

"Every time the Demon Sealing Ceremony comes, a group of dazzling geniuses will emerge. Most of these people usually keep a low profile and wait for the grand event to come, then make a splash. But this time, there seem to be too many geniuses!"

"That's right! But our Shangming Empire is not bad either, and Bing Ci's talent is also very strong. It's just that for some reason his cultivation is a little low. If we continue with our current cultivation, I'm afraid it will be difficult to enter a higher ranking."

While Feng Huan was in seclusion to break through the realm, there was already a turmoil outside, and all kinds of geniuses emerged like mushrooms after rain. Not only in the other four countries, but also in the Shangming Empire, many geniuses appeared. Moreover, for fame, training, or preheating, they challenged each other from time to time.

After a period of seclusion, Feng Huan broke through to the second level of Tongliu Realm as expected, and his martial arts skills also improved a little, but he still needed some actual combat to achieve a further qualitative breakthrough. So he got up and left Yanzilou without saying hello to anyone before leaving, and the Qianhuan Mask changed his appearance again, turning into a dark-skinned middle-aged man.

This time he planned to go to a free market in the imperial capital to take on an outbound mission in order to gain more practical experience and also to learn some information from the outside world.

The reason why the free market is a free market is that no one knows when it started. Some employers will post tasks here to hire cultivators and pay a certain price; and some cultivators with different purposes come here to accept tasks from time to time. Some come here to make money, some come here to cover up their tracks, and there are also young cultivators like Feng Huan who want to go out for training.

The free market is mainly populated by cultivators at the Tongliu realm. If the cultivation level is too low, it is difficult to complete the task, and employers are unlikely to choose such cultivators to participate in their tasks. Those who have reached the 94th realm are already considered big shots here. They will not look at other people's faces for such a small amount of money, and there is no need to train in this way, because they are basically experienced veterans.

When Feng Huan arrived at the free market, there were already quite a few people gathered in groups of three or four. Some were bargaining with their employers, and some were discussing the details of the tasks.

Generally, employers will post simple task instructions on the task wall in advance when issuing tasks, including the task time, location, number of people required, remuneration, and approximate task content.

The most common task is caravan escort. Many businessmen transport goods between two cities. In order to ensure their safety on the road, they hire cultivators to escort them.

Feng Huan walked around the free market, and the tasks he saw were basically of this type. When he was considering which task to take, a few people suddenly came. One of them was an older man who didn't look like a person with cultivation, and he was followed by a few people dressed as servants.

As soon as they arrived at the free market, some people came up to them and asked, "It's Manager Yin. What tasks will your mansion issue today?"

It turned out that this person was Yin Shoucai, the chief steward of the powerful Yin family in the city. He had no cultivation skills and was only in charge of various business operations for the Yin family. If the most powerful person in the imperial capital was the high priest Huang Hualong, then the one with the greatest financial resources must be the Yin family. The Yin family's industries involved all walks of life, the most important of which was the pharmaceutical industry.

When a cultivator reaches the late stage of Tongliu Realm and wants to break through, the spiritual herbs of Mingliu Grass are not very effective. Without other auxiliary means, the progress will be very slow. Pharmacists can extract the essence of various spiritual herbs and refine different medicines according to different formulas. Some medicines can assist cultivation, and some medicines have other functions.

Pharmacists are very scarce in Fengmozhou, because not everyone has the talent to become a pharmacist. For example, someone like Feng Huan, who can only awaken the water attribute, cannot become a pharmacist in the usual system. And the direct descendants of the Wang family, there are always a few people with this talent in each generation. Every head of the family must be a well-known second-level pharmacist, and the current head of the family, Yin Kexing, is the only second-level peak pharmacist known in Shangming Country.

The Yin family's wealth is so rich that it can rival a country, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. The Yin family often has tasks that require outside cultivators to complete. So when the housekeeper Yin came to the free market, he was surrounded by a group of cultivators who often made a living there.

"Scatter aside, be quiet and listen to what the old butler says!" The servants around Yin Shoucai shouted loudly when they saw everyone surrounding them.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Ahem, everyone, listen to me. Today's mission is a bit special. It's different from the usual ones. It's not about escorting a caravan, nor is it about going into the mountains to collect herbs."

Without leaving everyone in suspense, Chief Steward Yin continued, "As everyone knows, our Wang family was founded on medicine. The previous heads of the family may not have the highest cultivation, but they must be the best at making medicine. So for the sake of inheritance, whenever a descendant with higher qualifications appears in our Yin family, he will be specially trained."

"This time is even more special. Two young masters with unprecedented talents have appeared in our Yin family. The head of the family decided to open the ancestral land for these two young masters, allowing them to enter the trial and find the inheritance of their ancestors."

"Our mission this time is to hire twenty people to accompany the two young masters into the ancestral land. The remuneration is generous, but I would like to state in advance that the dangers inside are unknown. The ancestral land of my Yin family has not been opened for a long time, and I don’t know what the environment inside is like now!" Butler Yin glanced at everyone and stopped talking.

"So this is ah!"

"The pay is high, but the risk is also high. I heard that many years ago, some people went in, but few came back, and those who came back disappeared later. I won't go, I'm afraid I'll spend all this money and die!"

"Wealth and honor are achieved through risk. If you are so timid, when will you be able to break through to the ninth level?"

Some people give up because of the danger, while others decide to face the challenge head on. A seemingly insignificant choice may determine the rest of your life.

Steward Yin looked at these people coldly without much expression, and left. Before leaving, he said that those who wanted to go should wait here at 7 am tomorrow, and the two young masters would come to select people.