Chapter 455: Senior brother, the bird is catching the mantis, but the cicada follows behind!
The warm sunset shines on the street. In front of the gate of Nanke Immortal City, pedestrians were constantly coming and going, and noisy shouting could be heard constantly.
On the small tile-roofed house on one side of the street, Feng Yudie with dyed dark brown hair lay on the tiles, sticking out the upper half of her face from the ridge of the house, concentrating on looking at the two vendors selling elixirs across the street.
The two vendors were dressed like tourist cultivators, and the pills they sold were also the spirit-gathering pills commonly used by immortal cultivators. At first glance, there was nothing special about them.
But, that’s just the first glance.
Feng Yudie had been observing this small tile-roofed house for four days.
All the vendors on the street at the city gate were now treasures in her eyes.
An ordinary merchant would be 200% enthusiastic when facing customers, for fear that the customers would not buy the things on his stall.
However, those two people didn’t even bother to shout. When someone came over to look at the elixir, they acted like they didn’t want to sell anything.
If this was not abnormal, Feng Yudie went to take away two bottles of Spirit Gathering Pill last night, but the two people closing the stall didn’t even notice that there were only about twenty bottles in the stall, so they were doing business normally. they would definitely report to the city lord’s mansion and let people catch the thief.
Feng Yudie felt that there was definitely something wrong with those two people.
Moreover, she had previously met two masked men who were buying Ye Anping’s portraits.
Her intuition told her that the two “Loose cultivators” selling spirit-gathering pills were the two people she met that night.
Now, those two people had been guarding the city gate day and night for four days, which showed that they were extremely sure that Ye Anping would definitely come to Nanke Immortal City.
As for where did they get the news?
This was not important. What was important was that Young Master Ye would most likely come to this immortal city, which was enough for her.
This was it, the mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole follows behind!
Feng Yudie felt that she was a genius for being able to notice this point. The stupid hair on her head moved, and then she retracted behind the ridge of the room, turned over, and took Ye Anping’s portrait from the storage bag, opened her eyes, and looked at the sunset.
“Hey hey hey…”
For some reason, she liked to take out this painting and look at it for a while now when she had nothing to do. Every time she saw Ye Anping’s face in the painting, she felt quite comfortable.
Tread…
The sound of two crisp footsteps stepping on the tiles was heard.
Xiao Yunluo held a hornet’s nest and jumped onto the tile roof from the alley below, carrying a box of pastries she bought.
Seeing the second idiot lying there staring at the piece of paper, not noticing that she was back at all, Xiao Yunluo simply stepped forward, gathered her breath, and leaned over, wanting to find out.
However, before she was about to see the portrait on the paper, Feng Yudie quickly folded the portrait:
“Senior Sister Xiao~ is back…”
Xiao Yunluo was silent for a while, then sat down and put the pastry box aside:
“You idiot, something is wrong in this immortal city. When I passed by an alley before, I obviously smelled the stink of demonic insects, but it disappeared soon… I also used my spiritual sense to explore, but I couldn’t find out the reason. I’m afraid there is an insect cultivator above the Nascent Soul stage hiding in this immortal city.”
“Insect cultivators at the Nascent Soul Stage…” Feng Yudie frowned slightly and held her chin in thought for a while, “This place is only over a thousand miles away from Taibai Sect.”
Xiao Yunluo nodded in agreement, slightly pressing her head, trying to see what the painting in Feng Yudie’s hand was about.
“Yes, the hinterland of the Immortal Family in the Southern Domain. Although the Southern Domain is not like the Northern Domain where the mountains are covered with snow all year round, since the Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivators have arrived in such a place, it means that the demon cultivators may make big moves.”
Feng Yudie quickly rolled up the painting in her hand, put it back into her storage bag, and said with a smile:
“We’ll talk about it when Young Master Ye arrives. We won’t alert others, just pretend we don’t know anything and just keep an eye on it… Ouch!!”
Xiao Yunluo raised her hand, grabbed her face, twisted her eyebrows, and said:
“Show me the painting in your hand just now, what was painted on it”
“No!~ I bought it with my own money.”
“Look, it’s nothing special!” Xiao Yunluo reached out to touch her storage bag, “You’ve been staring at that painting and giggling every day for the past few days. Give me a look!”
Feng Yudie quickly rolled around to avoid it: “No!”
Suddenly, a male voice came from below the tile-roofed house:
——”Hey! Is there anyone on the roof?”
The two of them quickly moved lightly, holding their breath and concentrating. Seeing that the man didn’t seem to have any intention of exploring to the end, they breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other.
Xiao Yunluo sat down and opened the pastry box:
“Then tell me, what’s in that painting?”
“Hmm… Dao Painting!”
?
Xiao Yunluo was stunned and immediately recalled the book in her storage bag, but she thought it was unlikely, so she simply did not continue talking, picked up a piece of pastry and stuffed it into Feng Yudie’s mouth:
“Eat something!”
“Woo…”
…
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Unknowingly, the sunset on the street turned a little yellower and a little darker.
One of the cultivators sitting on a small wicker chair with a carpet placed in front of the city gate looked up at the sun that was about to set in the distance and sighed slightly:
P”Uncle Master, the sun is setting soon, so the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect will probably not come today.”
The other person heard this and glanced at him:
“It’s up to him whether he will come or not. The Seventh Elder asked us to watch from the south gate, so we will watch. If he comes, we will report him. If he doesn’t come, we will wait for the elders to tell us to leave.”
“What the disciple means is that he is just a young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect. There is no need for us to go to war, right? The elders have already used the insect net. This will not alarm the entire city’s immortal cultivators just to catch a cultivator in the core formation stage, right? It’s so far away from here. Taibai Sect only has a thousand miles of land.”
“… Spring of life.”
“Um?”
“A young cultivator like you doesn’t quite know what Spring of Life means. It is a top-quality insect instrument. Even the sect master couldn’t sit still after hearing the news. As far as Hehuan Shu is concerned, Spring of Life is a nearly perfect dual cultivation cauldron, and for us insect cultivators, the Spring of Life cultivator is the best insect feed.”
“Really?”
“Naturally, the spring of life is born from the true dragon, and since ancient times, the magic weapons refined by the true dragon and the worms fed by the true dragon are the best. Let’s put it this way, if you can get a fingernail of the young master of the Hundred Lotus Sect, feed it to your young insect, and it can break through the realm directly.”
“But even if we are caught, the elder will probably not give us a piece of meat.”
“Anyway, keep an eye on it.”
——”Eh? How do you sell this Spirit Gathering Pill?”
Looking at the guests, the man called “Uncle Master” raised his head with an indifferent expression and answered lightly:
“Three hundred spirit stones in one bottle, five in one bottle.”
“It’s cheaper…”
“If you don’t buy it, get out.”
“Hey – why do you have such an attitude in business…”
And just when he was dealing with the guests, the demonic cultivator next to him bumped his waist with his elbow and tried his best to signal him to look in the direction of the city gate:
“Uncle Master… Hmm~hmm!”
The demonic cultivator uncle turned around and saw a young man wearing the Xuanxing Sect uniform, followed by two women wearing the black and white Daoist uniforms of the Taibai Sect, walking in from the opening of the city gate.
The young man was solemn and solemn, and he was at least 90% similar to the painting they bought at a painting stall in Dongcheng District.
He quickly smiled at the guests in front of him, spread his hands, and said:
“Here we come, I’ll give you fifty less spiritual stones.”
“? What do you mean? You just told me to get out…”
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Ye Anping walked from the shadow of the city gate downstairs and stepped into the street paved with stone bricks. Like a visitor, he smiled cheerfully and glanced at the merchants and vendors in front of the city gate building, and couldn’t help but sigh:
“The immortal city in the southern domain is much prettier than the western region. The white walls and blue tiles have a quiet and elegant charm.”
Elder Cao, who was walking in front and provided the guide, heard this and turned around with a smile:
“One side has water and soil, and one side has people. The water towns of the Southern Domain have the beauty of the Southern Domain, and the mountains and forests of the Western Domain have the beauty of the Western Domain. Regardless of whether they are good or bad. Young Master Ye is so impressed.”
Zu Lingzhi looked disgusted and whispered:
“Pretending.”
But then, she also leaned next to Pei Lianxue and said:
“Sister Pei, there are a lot of delicious food in Nanke Immortal City. Can I take you for a stroll later?”
“I won’t go until senior brother goes.”
“Oh, Elder Cao took him shopping, and I will take you shopping. We two girls have similar interests, so I will take you to buy rouge.”
…
Seeing Zu Lingzhi continue to please his junior sister, Ye Anping felt helpless for a moment.
Ever since she met Master Hehua that day and Pei Lianxue helped him block Zu Lingzhi’s sword, she had been doing everything possible to please his junior sister along the way.
Zu Lingzhi was indeed a girl who wanted to be strong and had no friends in the game. She had seen how powerful her junior sister is, so it was understandable that she wanted to make friends with her junior sister.
But…
Ye Anping inexplicably saw the shadow of Feng Yudie on the current Zu Lingzhi, and immediately shook his head and sighed:
“Sigh…”
However, fun is still fun, and trouble is still trouble.
He was still aware of this matter in Nanke Immortal City.
Although it was only about a thousand miles away from Taibai Sect, it was not actually a particularly prosperous immortal city.
There were only two or three Nascent Soul cultivators in the city, making it the weakest defense among all nearby fairy cities.
In other words, elders from the Hehuan Sect had already come to tie him up, so if the demon cultivators didn’t give up, then Nanke Immortal City would be their best place to start.
However, according to his estimation, if someone really set up an urn for him in Nanke Immortal City, the person who set up the urn would be a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator at most, and most likely an insect cultivator or a ghost cultivator.
After all, this place was too close to Taibai Sect. The higher the cultivation level, the harder it was to hide one’s aura.
If there was a demonic cultivator in the Divine Transformation stage squatting there, it would be impossible for Taibai Sect’s sect-protecting formation not to detect it.
However, it’s just right.
For this trip to Taibai Sect, he needed it just in time.
At this point in time, the two factions of demonic cultivators invaded the Southern Domain.
But according to what was written on the jade slip sent by Brother Liang a few days ago, he would have to deal with it for a while before he could meet Zu Yuan at Taibai Sect.
As the saying goes, everything was ready but the east wind was needed.
He needed to wait for the “East wind” he evoked to reach the Southern Domain before he could step into the Taibai Sect.
Thinking of this, Ye Anping smiled and asked:
“Well… Senior Cao, you shouldn’t be in a hurry, right?”
Elder Cao naturally understood what he meant and responded with a smile:
“Young Master Ye is a guest, so I naturally have to fulfill my duties as a landlord. I will find a place to stay in the city soon. I will accompany you, Mr. Ye, to visit the Immortal City for a few days before we continue on our way. Anyway, we are only a thousand miles away from Taibai Sect. To control a sword at normal speed, it only takes one day at most.”
“Then it’ll be hard work.”
Ye Anping accepted with his hands, pretended to admire the scenery, glanced left and right, and followed Elder Cao toward the inner city.
There was a lot of noise in the streets.
And probably because of his handsome face and the Taibai Sect uniforms worn by Elder Cao and Zu Lingzhi, many pedestrians on the whole street were looking toward them without realizing it.
Even if Ye Anping could guess that there must be a spy from the Demonic Cultivator inside, it would still be difficult for him to catch the Demonic Cultivator’s spy at a glance.
Although it doesn’t matter if you can’t find it, the feeling of being peeked at is quite unpleasant.
He thought for a while, then simply looked at Pei Lianxue who was following him, and called:
“Junior sister, although the Moon Shadow Sword Sect is also in the Southern Domain, the customs here are different. This is your first time here, so look around more and don’t keep your head down.”
Pei Lianxue, who ignored Zu Lingzhi like Feng Yudie, her ears twitched when she heard the words, and she immediately heard the implication:
——What the senior brother means is that there are bad guys on the street!
The orange eyes started to turn, and like Ye Anping, they examined the stall owners and passers-by on the roadside.
Then, she saw a slightly swaying hornet’s nest on top of a tile-roofed house a little further away.
“…Senior brother.”
Pei Lianxue quickly pulled Ye Anping’s sleeve and said:
“At ten o’clock.”
This was his former teacher’s sister’s twelve-point reporting method.
Ye Anping quickly looked toward his ten o’clock direction, and then saw a hornet’s nest protruding from the ridge of the house, and was stunned for a while.
Why does it look so much like Yunluo’s head…
Did she follow? Then Feng Yudie probably followed?
Ye Anping originally wanted Xiao Yunluo and Feng Yudie to stay in Xuanxing Sect and practice well, but now they have come with them…
——Then come along.
“Sigh…”
Ye Anping sighed slightly and whispered softly:
“Tian.”
“Why!”
In an instant, a spiritual light that only he could see emerged from his forehead, and then turned into a human form. Xiao Tian crossed his chest and showed his figure. He quickly looked around, then nodded his nose, and immediately said to Ye Anping:
“Anping, I smell the smell of demonic cultivators… and the smell of Yudie.”
Ye Anping raised his eyebrows slightly and asked with his eyes: Where is it?
Xiao Tian was stunned for a moment, and then he stretched out his arms like a scarecrow, pointing one hand toward the roof of the tiled house with a hornet’s nest head, and the other hand toward two casual cultivators on the other side who looked like they were selling spirit-gathering pills.
“There!”
“…”
Ye Anping glanced in two directions, ignored Xiao Yunluo, and then turned to look at the two casual cultivators on the street.
“One is in the middle stage of core formation, and the other is in the late stage of foundation building! Anping, they used magic weapons to hide their cultivation.”
Since demon cultivators in the middle stage of core formation can watch the streets here, then there is probably a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage in the city?
Insect cultivator or ghost cultivator?
With this question in mind, Ye Anping thought for a while, pretended to want to buy the Spirit Gathering Pill, turned around, and walked in the direction of the two people.
“Two fellow Daoists, how do you sell the Spirit Gathering Pill?”
“…Three hundred spirit stones in one bottle, five in one bottle.”
“Oh~ the price is quite expensive.”
“Senior, if you want it, junior, can I give you a fifty-fifty discount?”
“That’s not necessary.”
When Ye Anping was chatting with the man, Elder Cao, who was walking in front of him just now, also noticed that he was coming to buy the Spirit Gathering Pill, so she followed him with Zu Lingzhi.
Elder Cao looked at the Spirit Gathering Pill on the stall and raised her eyebrows slightly:
“Master Ye, are you still short of this? If you need it, can I give you a few bottles?”
Ye Anping smiled and waved his hand, pointed at the two people behind the stall, and replied:
“No, no, juniors certainly don’t lack these things. It’s just that I think these two people look like demonic cultivators, so I just came here to take a closer look, hahaha…”
As soon as these words came out, whether it was Elder Cao, Zu Lingzhi on the side, or the two people behind the stall, the expressions on their faces instantly became solemn…
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