Immortal cultivation starts with copying.

The city wall on the valley side is not the front line. There are two small cities about two miles extending from the city wall to the valley.

These two small cities are like two gate gods, guarding the left and right sides of the valley.

Each of these two small cities can accommodate 10,000 monks, and this is the front line of resisting the beast tide.

Recently, small groups of beasts have been attacking frequently, but they are basically strangled by the two small cities ahead, and few can reach Zhenhuang City.

Among the three people who were taken away with Chen Yunhao, two were alchemists and one was a weapon refiner.

The four of them were taken to a large courtyard covering an area of ​​100 meters, with hundreds of houses.

Chen Yunhao and others were assigned independent residences, and they were the only ones who had this treatment. Other ordinary cultivators had to live in one room with six or seven people.

Before Chen Yunhao and others arrived, sixty or seventy non-combatants had already moved into this large compound.

There are three or four large courtyards like this in Zhenhuang City.

The Five Elements Sect recruited nearly 20,000 cultivators in more than ten days, of which there were only about 300 to 400 alchemists, weapon refiners, and talisman makers.

After all, the resources are to be supplied to tens of thousands of people. Monks without any skills would not dare to come here casually, so it is not surprising that there are few people.

If Chen Yunhao didn't have the ancient mirror in his hand, he would not be proficient in the various arts of cultivation, just like most cultivators.

The Five Elements Gate did not restrict the actions of Chen Yunhao and others. Except for not being able to leave the city, they could move freely within the city.

So after settling down, Chen Yunhao wandered around the city alone, mainly to familiarize himself with the environment.

Although he went to Zhenhuang City to obtain resources, if the city was really broken, Chen Yunhao would definitely run away.

So you should first familiarize yourself with the situation in the city, so as not to panic and lose your way when the time comes.

Zhenhuang City is the bridgehead for human monks to enter the wilderness area, and it is also a must-pass place for monks to transit, so the business in the city is relatively developed.

Especially at this moment, the flow of people is restricted, but the flow of resources is not restricted.

Resources from the outside world can still be transported in continuously, especially since more than 20,000 monks have been added to the entire Zhenhuang City, and these people need consumption.

Therefore, the shops in the city have been doing very booming business recently. Although the prices here are much higher, compared with life, spending a few more spirit stones is nothing.

After walking around, Chen Yunhao basically knew the layout of the entire city.

Strictly speaking, Zhenhuang City is still small in scale and does not have much depth, but the area is just that big, and it has undergone several expansions.

The area of ​​Zhenhuang City is not as large as the West City of Yuxian City, so Chen Yunhao quickly returned to his residence.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I returned to my residence, someone knocked on the door.

Now the real war has not started yet, and these recruited non-combat personnel are relatively idle. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be the monks living on the left and right.

Standing outside the door was a tall and thin young monk. Judging from the badge on his waist, he was actually an alchemist.

"My fellow Taoist, my surname is Ma, and I live next door to you. Please visit us more often..."

The tall and thin monk named Ma said with a smile on his face.

Chen Yunhao frowned. Although the monk named Ma in front of him had a smile on his face, his eyes were wandering and his smile looked fake.

Even though Chen Yunhao was somewhat unhappy in his heart, as the saying goes, one should not hit a smiling person, so he could only reply with a hypocritical smile.

"Brother Ma, you're too polite..."

The two exchanged greetings and introduced their names to each other. The Taoist friend surnamed Ma was named Ma Jing.

He has reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. According to him, he comes from a small family and is an intermediate alchemist who is good at refining first-grade low-grade elixirs.

As for whether it is true or false, it is difficult to tell, and Chen Yunhao does not need to tell.

Everyone is just temporarily gathered together in Zhenhuang City. At most, they will go their separate ways in half a year. There is really no need to make close friends.

"Brother Chen, I have contacted four or five fellow Taoists. The war is about to begin, so it is best for you and me brothers to stick together for warmth."

"Brother Ma is right..."

Chen Yunhao agreed casually.

As the old saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. The number of non-combatants like them will only increase, and some dirty things will inevitably arise at that time.

Some people will form cliques, some will fan the flames, in short, everything is for profit.

Although there are many shops in Zhenhuang City, they are not enough to support the consumption of 50,000 to 60,000 people, so talents like Chen Yunhao who are proficient in all kinds of arts are needed.

Although Chen Yunhao disliked Ma Jing a little, he got rid of him after some perfunctory treatment.

In order to prevent anyone from disturbing him, he set up the Baji Locking Gate Formation.

Although there are dozens of people living in the huge courtyard, it is very quiet, and some fluctuations of spiritual energy can be heard from many rooms.

Now many cultivators are refining pills or weapons, and they may also be making talismans.

The existence of these people is to provide a steady supply of resources to the monks on the front line.

So Chen Yunhao simply closed the door and refused visitors on the pretext of making talismans.

Of course, in order to act more realistically, he had to go to the city every two days to buy some raw materials for making talismans.

In Zhenhuang City, there is no shortage of various raw materials, and they are delivered in a steady stream.

However, all kinds of finished magical instruments, elixirs, and talismans were in extreme shortage and had already been sold out.

This is a beast tide that has affected the entire continent. There are nearly 400,000 monks on the front line alone, and if you add those responsible for logistics in the back, there are still 700,000 to 800,000 people.

With so many people involved, and during wartime, the consumption is huge, and no matter how many resources there are, they are not enough.

When Chen Yunhao went to buy the raw materials for making talismans, some monks even stopped him halfway and asked to buy some talismans.

But Chen Yunhao didn't take action at the moment because it was not the right time yet.

If there is the corpse of a monster, it can be traded, because the Five Elements Sect ultimately recognizes the corpse of a monster.

This time, Chen Yunhao made a lot of preparations in advance.

There are even six or seven storage bags, and they are all large storage bags, for the purpose of storing monsters.

Thousands of cultivators were teleported from Zhenhuang City every day, and gradually the large courtyard where Chen Yunhao lived was full.

Later non-combatants would naturally be arranged to other places, and it could almost be said that they were evenly distributed from east to west.

Ever since Chen Yunhao arrived, he could hear screams and various loud noises coming from the direction of the valley almost every day, and he could also sense various spiritual power fluctuations coming from the direction of the valley.

This is a small group of monsters attacking the first line of defense.

The scale of the monsters is not large at present, and there have been no casualties in the first line of defense. Even the defensive formations of the two small towns on the left and right have not been broken through.