Chapter 361: Senior brother, carry out the name of Xiao Liu
The midsummer of June was a hot and rainy season. On the mountains in the north of the Western Domain, dark clouds gathered and mist filled the fields. The cultivators who came and went there were either wearing rain hats or holding umbrellas.
However, after crossing the mountains and continuing to travel north for a few days, the originally overwhelming rain clouds gradually dissipated and were replaced by plummeting temperatures and amazing snow.
Black snow clouds shrouded the vast snowfield in the southwest of the Northern Domain. The flying boat carrying two people and one bird was close to the ground and passed through the path in the snow forest. It was like a phantom. The monsters waiting for prey in the snow forest, before they could see anything clearly, they had already reached the end of their field of vision.
On the flying boat, Ye Anping was wearing a black velvet jacket and carrying the Snow Spirit Sword wrapped in a bandage. He stared straight ahead and concentrated on steering the flying boat under his feet.
The Snow Spirit Sword was originally a spiritual sword forged from the thousand-year-old mysterious ice in the Northern Domain. When it came to the Northern Domain, it felt like it was at home.
Ye Anping simply didn’t put it in the storage bag, but carried it on his back so that it could feast on the cold weather of the frozen soil in the northern region, and also make Li Longling feel better.
Li Longling was born in the Yantian spiritual vein of the Chilong Mansion and had never even seen snow before.
After arriving in the Northern Domain, Li Longling had more and more clothes on her body. Now she had more than ten pieces of heavy clothes in her bag.
Li Longling, who was wrapped like a snowman and holding her fire phoenix, couldn’t bear it anymore and asked, “Ye… Mr. Ye, is it so cold in the Northern Domain… Ha-ha-ha-”
After a cute little sneeze, after touching the cold air, crystals instantly formed and stuck to her nose.
Ye Anping glanced back, and when he saw her like this, he unconsciously wanted to laugh. After thinking for a while, he walked up to her and picked her up. Then he sat down cross-legged, let her sit on his lap, and used his spiritual energy to shield her from the snow and cold.
Originally, if he did this, Li Longling’s fire phoenix would come directly to scratch his eyes, but now the fire phoenix seemed to be too cold and had no energy to care about it.
“Master Li, about tens of thousands of years ago, a black ice-cold tiger died here, and the cicada shell left behind formed a spiritual vein below the Northern Domain, which continued to radiate the cold air outwards, causing the Northern Domain to freeze all year round within a thousand miles. If you don’t use spiritual energy to protect your body, just adding clothes will be useless.”
“Aura… Is it possible to keep it protected with aura?”
“Yes.”
Li Longling had never understood this before and was slightly surprised for a moment and asked, “What about the newly born children? They shouldn’t be able to…”
“Stay indoors until you learn how to protect your body with spiritual energy, and then you won’t go out of the house.”
When Ye Anping said this, he felt nostalgic for some reason. The cultivation method he and Pei Lianxue used to survive the cold when they were young was taken from the cultivators in the Northern Domain, and said, “Although it is not easy in childhood, it is just as the saying goes, where there is water and land, there are people. If compared with the same realm, the spiritual sea of cultivators in the Northern Domain is generally wider and fuller than that of cultivators in another immortal realm, and they can tolerate cold spiritual energy is also quite powerful.”
“What about mortals? Aren’t mortals…”
“There are no mortals in the Northern Domain. This is a place of death for mortals. As for those who were born without spiritual roots…”
Ye Anping shook his head slightly and explained with his actions the fate of those who had no spiritual roots there.
“That’s it…” Li Longling also felt a little helpless about this, but she sighed inexplicably in her heart that the empress of Han Tian Kingdom could establish a country in such a place.
She had heard her father say before that Sun Juehu, the empress of the Han Tian Kingdom, was in his eyes the most powerful cultivator second only to the Immortal Danyue.
It seemed that as the head of the Chilong Mansion, she still had a long way to go. Li Longling sighed in her heart for a while, and then suddenly regretted why she was wrapped in so many clothes.
Ye Anping was holding her now, wearing so many clothes, even with his keen senses, he couldn’t feel Ye Anping’s body temperature and heartbeat at all…
“Master Li.”
“Ah… Huh!”
“We will arrive at Linghe Immortal City in a while. After that, I need you to do a few things, and then we have to change our identities.”
“Well, Mr. Ye, please elaborate, and then…” Li Longling pursed her lips and added, “Longling is fine, Palace Master Li is too raw.”
Ye Anping looked down at her, exhaled a little helplessly, and said, “Long Ling, I need to borrow your identity as the master of the Chilong Mansion, can you…”
“Okay, Mr. Ye, if you need anything from me, just take it directly. You don’t need my permission.”
Li Longling thought for a while and then added as if joking, “Even if Young Master Ye wants my body, that’s fine.”
Shouldn’t this be something only Yunluo could say?
Ye Anping was stunned for a moment, then simply smiled and asked, “Really! I might take it seriously.”
Li Longling was stunned for a moment. He learned this from the book Xiao Yunluo gave her. After a woman said this in the book, the man became shy and gradually fell in love…
Why was it different from what was written in the book…
“…”
“Just kidding.” Ye Anping shook his head and said, “Back to business, we have to go to a few stores in Linghe Immortal City in a while. When you enter the store, tell the shopkeeper this…”
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In the vast snowfield, a splendid city stood on the top of the mountains, like a lighthouse on land, guiding the way of the caravans.
Linghe Immortal City was a city that cultivators from the Western Domain must pass through after coming to the Northern Domain. Many cultivators who do business in the northwest and two regions would mostly rest here to cultivate. However, because of this, the evil forces in this immortal city were extremely Complex.
In the west of the city, there was a shop selling flint elixirs. The shopkeeper, who was over fifty years old, was holding a jade slip and reading the content on it with his spiritual sense. This jade slip was a manifest note on the black market.
In other words, it was the list of goods on the black market in other immortal lands. He was running a black market shop in the northern domain. Sometimes when he wanted to buy some rare artifacts that were not available locally, he could send someone across the border to pick up the goods and sell them based on the address recorded on the manifest.
However, when he saw a line on the inventory, the shopkeeper suddenly looked like an old man and murmured, “Are the second stage golden core formation cultivators in the divine transformation stage? Is the black market in the Western Domain that powerful? Cultivators can promote from the second-golden core formation stage to the divine transformation stage.”
Just when he was curious, two figures suddenly walked into the shop. The shopkeeper looked up and saw a girl wearing animal fur but with her eyes closed walking into the shop holding a fire phoenix. She suddenly looked confused and murmured, “A blind man leading a bird!”
However, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he noticed that the man wearing a bamboo hat and covering his face standing next to the blind girl was radiating spiritual power. He was immediately startled and rushed towards her, “I’m sorry, you two are here to buy flint? This way, please…”
The masked man narrowed his eyes slightly, touched the bandaged sword hilt on his back, and asked, “What did you just say about my lady?”
Li Longling quickly stopped and said, “Xiao Liu, step back.”
“Yes, miss.” Ye Anping quickly handed over his hands to apologize and stepped aside. Then, Li Longling nodded slightly and asked, “Glacier shines in all directions!”
Hearing this, the shopkeeper suddenly looked horrified, spread his hands, and invited the two of them to the back room, saying,
“Han Tianxue in the north turns out to be a distinguished guest, please come in.”
After entering the back room, the shopkeeper politely brought Li Longling a cup of hot tea, then sealed the four corners of the room with insulation talismans, closed the doors and windows, and once again apologized for the previous rudeness,
“I was rude just now. I hope the fairy won’t take it to heart. I just don’t know which senior introduced the fairy to you?”
“It doesn’t matter who introduced you.” Li Longling asked calmly, “I heard that you, the Seven Killing Sect, accept any job?”
The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and replied, “Ah haha… I don’t accept all jobs. This has been since the group of idiots from the Seven Killing Sect in the Western Domain attacked us six or seven years ago. Our Seven Killing Sect in the Northern Domain has restrained itself a lot. As long as we can take care of all matters that are not related to the major sects.”
Li Longling smiled and nodded, picked up the tea, took a sniff, and asked, “In this case, is it okay to kill three people?”
“It depends on who you want to kill and what price you want to give.”
“Two cultivators are in the middle stage of core formation, and one is a cultivator in the early stage of core formation.” Li Longling was silent for a while, raised her right hand as a palm, and spread her fingers apart, “Shall I give this number?”
The shopkeeper twisted his eyebrows and said, “Five hundred thousand! Kill three cultivators in the Core Formation stage!”
Li Longling smiled and replied, “One person has five hundred thousand spiritual stones. How many of you can kill, I will give you money.”
Big business!
The shopkeeper was also interested when he heard this, but the average price of a cultivator in the core formation stage on the market ranged from three to four hundred thousand, so he suddenly felt a little hesitant in his heart, “Girl, please tell me in detail about the three people you want to kill.”
“The first person with black hair and bloody eyes is a sword cultivator with a very demonic appearance. Her name is Gu Mingxin, and she is in the middle stage of core formation.”
With that said, Li Longling took out a portrait from her storage bag and sent it to the shopkeeper with spiritual energy. This portrait was drawn by Ye Anping himself on the road. He practiced it when he was bored in his childhood. The fine brushwork was much more beautiful and more similar to Xiao Yunluo’s “Erotic Pictures of Immortal Palace”. As long as his eyes were not diseased, it could be recognized.
“The second person is also a cultivator in the middle stage of core formation. He is a Dharma cultivator. He has a round figure and a round peach butt. His name is Lu Meimei.”
“As for the third person, he is a cultivator who is in the early stage of core formation. His name is Wu Tianci, and he is a physical cultivator.”
Li Longling took out two more portraits and sent them to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper saw that the painters of the three portraits were very good, so he did not ask about their appearance. He was silent for a while and asked, “Do the three of them have any magic weapons or spiritual treasures on them?”
“I don’t know about this, but the price I just mentioned is also guaranteed.” Li Longling smiled, “There is no upper limit of five hundred thousand, as long as you get the head, you can ask for one million.”
The shopkeeper was silent for a while, holding his chin to evaluate Li Longling, and then looked at Li Longling. Seeing that she didn’t have any valuable jewelry on her body, he said,
“Since the fairy was introduced by someone, she should also know my rules. If it’s a small business, forget it, but you have to kill three monks in the core formation stage…”
His words stopped abruptly at this point, which meant that he needed to pay a deposit or put the spirit stone with him first so that she would not be able to pay him when the matter was completed.
Li Longling naturally heard the implication of his words, and now she understood what Ye Anping meant by borrowing her identity as the master of Chilong Mansion. She shook her head slightly, picked it up with her sword finger, took out a piece of fiery red jade seal from the storage bag, and put it on the table, “I don’t know, can this be used as a deposit?”
“This is…” The shopkeeper squinted and observed for a while, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he looked up at Li Longling’s closed eyes, the fire phoenix on her shoulder, and her mid-stage foundation-building cultivation.
All of this was in line with the Master of the Chilong Mansion that he had heard about a few years ago.
“Are you the Lord Li of Chilong Mansion?”
“Do you still need to ask?” Li Longling smiled, turned, and pointed at Ye Anping, who was standing beside her, staring at the shopkeeper’s every move, and said, “This is my guard.”
“That’s it… But we are the Seven Killing Sect of the Northern Domain. It doesn’t matter if you want to buy something, but if you want to kill someone, the Seven Killing Sect of the Northern Domain will not kill the cultivators of the Western Domain.”
“These three people are in the Northern Domain at the moment, but as for where exactly they are, I don’t know. I only know that they are in the Northern Domain.”
“So that’s how it is…”
Since it was a job given by the master of the Chilong Mansion, she would not refuse the five hundred thousand spirit stones.
Although the Chilong Mansion was upright, the chamber of commerce under her government more or less relied on the black market. If she lost the credibility of the black market, the black market could also prevent her chamber of commerce in the Chilong Mansion from doing business.
As she had revealed her identity, it was enough to show her sincerity. The shopkeeper stood up, cupped his hands, and said, “Then we will take over the matter. After it is completed…”
“Just take their heads or their storage bags and come to the Chilong Mansion to get the spirit stones from me. A trip to the Western Domain with hundreds of thousands of spirit stones is not too far.”
“Understood.”
“Then I won’t stay and take my leave.”
Li Longling put the jade seal on the table back into her storage bag and knocked on the table gently. Ye Anping stepped forward, gently lifted her, and then took her out of the house.
After watching the two people leave, the shopkeeper looked at the three paintings left on the table. If this happened, it would be 1.5 million spiritual stones.
According to the rules of his Seven Killing Sect, he could take away 10%, which was also 150,000. He only needed to send these three portraits to the Chief of the Seven Killing Sect, and then wait a few months to receive 150,000 yuan, which was almost a free spirit stone.
“Hehe… Hahaha…” The shopkeeper laughed for a moment, picked up the three portraits, and ran out of the backyard to find the cultivator who contacted the chief helmsman to deliver the message.
Li Longling, who walked out of the store, seemed to be tired, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Ye Anping beside her with the eyes of the fire phoenix, “Master Ye…”
“Huh!” Ye Anping asked gently, “What’s wrong? This is your first time dealing with a gangster cultivator?”
Li Longling nodded. She was a good girl who had never even been in a gambling house. It felt weird to have her deal with a gangster cultivator.
Her father had taught her before that she should not deal with those cultivators who were in the black market, otherwise she would miss her future.
“Um.” Ye Anping suddenly felt unethical about taking a good student to vote. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying,
“You’ll be fine once you get used to it.”
Then he took out a list from his storage bag and crossed out the first line with his finger.
“The Northern Domain’s Seven Killing Sect is over, we still have to go to six places to place bounties.”
Li Longling took a long breath and asked, “Mr. Ye, do you often deal with these people in the black market?”
Ye Anping smiled and said, “It’s my first time too.”
“I do not believe.”
“Really.”
“I don’t believe it!” Li Longling curled her lips and bumped him with her shoulder, “Mr. Ye, your image of an upright scholar in my mind has been completely ruined.”
“Don’t make trouble, go to the next store and try to finish it before nightfall today. Let me think about it, the store in the Seven Killing Store should be… the rogue shop on Xiancheng West Street in Linghe…”
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