Everlasting prosperity

After receiving the letter from Xuanqingmen, Ji Anjun and Xiao Yizhi left immediately.

Baihui Baihui, the place where moisture gathers, is filled with cloudy air.In the place where there is no living thing, no bird dwelling.

Some people in the world even call it the "ghost world".

Looking at the place filled with fog and stench, Ji Anjun frowned tightly.Once you enter this endless swamp, you will lose your way, not to mention looking for an entrance to an underground city in this emptiness.

The most troublesome thing is walking in the swamp.Anyone who has encountered or heard of it will know that there is no land in the swamp, and once it is deep in it, unless there is an external force, it will have to be resigned to fate.

If they didn't know that there was still a way to travel in this Baihui, it would be impossible for Ji Anjun and Xiao Yizhi to venture into this dangerous place.

"Yuan Qian, in my opinion, it's better to look around to see if there are any houses around. If we rush in, even if we search for ten or eight years, we won't get anything." Xiao Yizhi said softly, looking at everything in front of him.

Ji Anjun nodded, and replied, "That's fine, this place is really scary."

As soon as they turned their heads and walked back, a white figure appeared in front of the two of them, and when they took a closer look, it was a man in a bright white Taoist uniform, with a whisk in one hand, and the other behind his back, walking slowly towards them .

"Qi Zhixuan, the generation master of the Xuanqing sect, met the two masters." The man bowed slightly, and said respectfully.

This person is all white, his hair is tied up high, and a silver hair crown stands in his hair. There is a cold air around him. He looks clear and cold without eating fireworks.

"Why are you here?" Xiao Yizhi was a little puzzled.

He knew this person, from the mouth of the man in black, and he knew that it was also this person who was tied to everything between him, Xuanqingmen, and Ghost Shadow Hall.

"I already knew about the last letter from the Lord. Baihui is the origin of my Xuanqing Sect. It has always been guarded by my Xuanqing Sect master. No one in the world, except me, knows about this. Where is the intersection of Fengdu City? Since I know that the two masters are looking for this Fengdu City, I will wait here so that I can take you in." Qi Zhixuan said slowly, not in a hurry.

Hearing these words, Xiao Yizhi became much clearer.

"But I heard that Xuanqing Gate is very far away, how dare you come here before the two of us?" Ji Anjun asked.

A few days ago, the head of the Ghost Shadow Hall said that it would take half a month to go back and forth, so why did Qi Zhixuan rush ahead of him?Unless, the Xuanqing Gate is near this Baihui.

"Below Baihui, there is Fengdu City. Above Baihui, there is Xuanqing Gate." Qi Zhixuan replied without directly telling.

Below the Parkway is the underground, above the Parkway, is it the sky?

"Master Qi, don't you want to ride the wind and go straight up to [-] miles?" Ji Anjun couldn't help joking.

Xiao Yizhi slightly turned his face to the side, evoking a smile.

Hearing this, Qi Zhixuan squinted his eyes and stared at Ji Anjun, pursed his thin lips, and said after a while, "A thousand miles away from Baihui, there is a floating island. Because of the fog, it looks like it is floating in the air from a distance, so it is called It is above Baihui. Here is the Xuanqing Gate."

Hearing Qi Zhixuan's explanation, Ji Anjun touched his nose embarrassingly, and smiled awkwardly, "That's how it is, disrespect and disrespect."

"My lord has never visited Xuanqing Sect, and I have retired from Xuanqing Sect for a hundred years. It is common sense that people don't know where it is. My lord, don't worry about it." Qi Zhixuan lowered his eyes and responded respectfully.

"That being the case, if there is a chance, I will go with Yizhi, how about it?" Ji Anjun said with a smile, looking at Xiao Yizhi who was standing aside, asking for something in his eyes.

"I'll follow you." Xiao Yizhi responded, meeting Ji Anjun's eyes.

When Ji Anjun heard this, he smiled knowingly. Just three words were enough to make him happy for a long time.

Qi Zhixuan, who was on the side, looked at these two people, and finally understood why the fool in Guiyingtang repeatedly emphasized that there would be two masters in the Xuanqing Sect, and asked him to look at Xiao Yizhi for good.

"My lords, please follow me." Qi Zhixuan couldn't help interrupting the inexplicable atmosphere between the two, and said.

Qi Zhixuan, who was originally cold, was inexplicably struck by the way these two people got along. In the past 30 years, he has never been out of the Xuanqing sect, and the troubles in this world are only through Chu Tiancheng, the master of the Ghost Shadow Hall. Only then can we know the report.

That person would tell him a lot of interesting things in the world, things in the world, things about love between men and women, family affairs, palace secrets, stories about festivals and holidays, and many things he has never seen before.

But he couldn't go out of the mountain, because the descendants of the Xiao family have not yet appeared, so he, the generation head of the Xuanqing sect, will guard the Xuanqing sect for the rest of his life and hide in the rivers and lakes until the Xiao family reappears.

Fortunately, Xiao Yizhi is here.

He finally came.

"Wait, this Gu worm hit hard." Xiao Yizhi said suddenly, but stopped.

This Gu worm was brought along with the letter sent by the falcon, and it was placed in a wooden box one or two fingers big.

Xiao Yizhi gently opened the lid of the box and watched the movement of the Gu insect.The Gu worm kept bumping against the wall of the box, eager to rush out.

Qi Zhixuan came over, stretched out his hand to pinch the Gu worm, and threw it into the swamp, ignoring Xiao Yizhi's puzzled expression beside him.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yizhi asked puzzledly, slightly angrily.

"That student died here." Qi Zhixuan replied like this, and then said again, "Since the body is scattered, the body is gone, and the Gu worm is also useless."

After all, he glanced at Ji Anjun behind Xiao Yizhi, with a look of confusion in his eyes, blinked, then turned back and walked forward.

Ji Anjun took a step forward, leaned close to Xiao Yizhi's ear, lowered his voice, and asked, "Is he prejudiced against me?"

Xiao Yizhi's ears were itchy from his warm breath, he turned his face sideways, and accidentally wiped his lips.

But Qi Zhixuan in front felt that no one was following behind him, so he turned his head and took a look.

Really blind!

"Cough cough!"

"Don't think about what you have!" Xiao Yizhi frowned, reprimanded in a low voice, and then hurriedly followed.

Am I thinking too much?

Ji Anjun was thinking.Forget it, after all, this Xuanqing sect has recognized Xiao Yizhi as the master, so there may not be any inappropriate behavior, even if there is, he will definitely be able to protect Yizhi.

After walking for an hour, it was about the center of the swamp.The surrounding fog became thicker and thicker, but the stench dissipated a lot, and there were bursts of earthy smell in the air.

I saw Qi Zhixuan rose up with palms together, with enough breath, he pulled out the folding sword in the floating and sinking, and sent it straight down, turning and twisting, only heard a muffled sound from below.

Then I saw that the center of the huge swamp was divided into two halves, slowly withdrawing to the left and right sides, and a stone wall rose from the edge, pouring all the swamp into the two sides, without any drop of swamp.

In the middle of the stone path is a stone step that goes down to the ground. At a glance, it is bottomless, like an abyss that is about to suck people in and then swallow them up.

Among them, there are bursts of Yin Qi, and the air of sealing the earth rushing towards the face can't help but make people tremble.

Looking at the underground scene, Ji Anjun couldn't help frowning.

The city of Fengdu is the capital city of the underworld, where the souls of the dead are gathered. It is said that after seven to seven days, the souls will enter the next place and go to the 49th floor of hell.

This underground scene is really like the ghost world of the underworld, full of Yin Qi.

Qi Zhixuan took out three fire pockets from his pocket, handed two to the two people behind him, and then cut a spark in the air, and a ball of flames was born.

"Let's go."

The three of them entered the swamp together, and when the last person, Ji Anjun, was completely submerged in the darkness, the stone wall behind him slowly closed with a dull sound, closing the opening that reached into the sky.

In this way, the three talents really entered the darkness.

"Da da da!"

The footsteps of the three of them became the same.

"Puff--puff--"

The torch burns slowly in the air.

Flickering sparks flickered in the quiet darkness, and three white shadows loomed under the fire shadows.

Xiao Yizhi and Ji Anjun walked behind Qi Zhixuan for an unknown amount of time. They were used to observing the two people around them, but now they could only look at his back and followed closely. The surroundings were completely dark, and they could not see anything else at all. .

Gradually, a ray of light appeared in front of the three of them.

What caught the eye was a bronze gate as high as four feet, with stone pillars of the same height standing on both sides, and a roaring dragon was carved on it, soaring through the clouds and fog, as if it was about to soar into the sky.

There is a rosette stone basin on the stone pillar, and inside it is a group of Changming bonfires.

In front of the bronze door are two stone statues, black and white.They look sinister and ferocious, staring at them, as if they want to see through your heart, one is holding a pen and paper in one hand, the other is holding a crescent moon sickle, one seduces the soul and the other kills.

Qi Zhixuan took a step forward and walked slowly towards the bronze door.

"Dang--! Dang-dang!"

The crisp and powerful bronze sound echoed in the air, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

I saw Qi Zhixuan took a few steps back, looking up at the heavy bronze door.

After a long while, the bronze door slowly opened, and the heavy dust on the top of the door shook off profusely.The door made a "quack" sound, and then a ray of light shot out from inside, and the noise came.

"Bang!"

The door is fixed.

Qi Zhixuan looked back at the dazed two people behind him, stretched out his hand as a gesture, and smiled slightly.

"Lord, please."

Immediately, Xiao Yizhi collected his attention, took a step forward, and walked forward.

Fengdu City is located on the ground floor of Baihui. It is not exposed to sunlight all the year round. The place is naturally cold and humid, so stones had to be brought in to build houses.If it is cloudy and rainy on the ground, some water will still leak from the top. Therefore, the people in the city here built stone walls to cover the sky, and there are stone pillars soaring to the sky everywhere to resist the stone walls.

There was no light in the city, so the people in the city had to introduce sparks to illuminate the entire Fengdu city. The everlasting light continued, and night was day, and day was night.

"It really is a city that never sleeps, there is no difference between day and night." Ji Anjun sighed.

"It's not entirely the case. People in the world will always be tired, and there are fixed hours in the city for work and rest." Qi Zhixuan turned around and responded.

Looking at the scene around him, Xiao Yizhi was amazed. There was a capital city under Baihui thousands of miles of swamp, which surprised him to the extreme, and the scene in the city was so prosperous that it was like heaven and earth. He didn't know what mood to use. to express.

"By the way, since we've come here, why don't we investigate where the relief food is located earlier." Ji Anjun changed the subject and said so.

He didn't come here for pleasure. The snow disaster in Jiaodong displaced thousands of victims and spread to Gaoping, and now it has spread to Liyang King City. If it develops like this, the whole country may be in danger.

Hearing Ji Anjun's words, Xiao Yizhi turned his head to look at him, blinked his eyes, and realized the purpose of this trip.

"Don't worry, my lord, the city lord of Fengdu City is the head of the four halls under my Xuanqing sect, and he will definitely help." Qi Zhixuan responded with a slight bow.

Hearing this, Ji Anjun calmed down a little, took a breath, and nodded in understanding.

The city of Fengdu is not like a capital city above ground, there are few large numbers of foreign merchants, the only merchants are also visited by the city lord himself, and then followed by the merchants in the city, but also because of this, the business in the city does not need to flourish on the ground, some merchants are They negotiated privately, tried their best to establish a good relationship with the city defenders, and then sneaked out of the city, left the swamp, and went to the four countries on the ground to discuss.

In the long run, some merchants in the city became rich overnight, while others became more and more depressed.The city lord has also thoroughly investigated this for many years, but the way is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high. Rao if the ban is imposed again, this private business still exists and intensifies.

"I've met the sect master!" City Lord Jiang Yuan said respectfully, starting with his hand.

A few days ago, he received a report saying that the head of the Xuanqing Sect would go down the mountain in the near future, which really surprised him. Could it be that the Xiao clan is now alive?

Now it seems that it is true.

"I have seen the two masters." Jiang Yuan bowed to the two behind Qi Zhixuan again.

"The city lord is polite." Xiao Yizhi responded, stretching out his hand to gently support him.

Jiang Yuan looked at Xiao Yizhi, and glanced at Ji Anjun behind him. He heard that the master was taken in by Ji Anjun due to a sudden family change, and now lives in the Gaoping Palace. Looking at the relationship between the two, it seems that the two should obey in the future. personal.

"I heard that the head of the sect is going down the mountain. I really never expected that ten years ago, I left, but now I think about it, it seems like another day." Jiang Yuan sighed.

"I came here this time to thoroughly investigate the grain robbery case, and discuss the past. You and I will talk about it some other day." Qi Zhixuan lowered his eyes and said indifferently, his sword eyebrows slightly frowned.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan paused and replied, "Okay, okay, your temper really won't change for hundreds of years."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to ask everyone to sit down, and when they were all seated, he stretched out his hand to lift the teapot on the table, and put the upside-down sapphire porcelain cups one by one.

"Cuckoo"

Cups of steaming tea are presented in front of everyone.

"I only heard that I was asked to thoroughly investigate a batch of imported grain, but my Fengdu City is no longer what it was decades ago. There are many private merchants in the city, and I can't control it at all, let alone a batch of grain. There are tens of thousands of grains in and out of Fengdu, and I don't know where to start. Can I know some details so that I can start to deal with them?" Jiang Yuan described the situation in the city in detail, and then begged for more details .

Xiao Yizhi and Ji Anjun looked at each other, and then at Jiang Yuan.

"A month ago, a snowstorm broke out in Jiaodong, causing thousands of victims. After the court learned about it, it allocated a batch of relief food to Jiaodong. However, due to the snowstorm in Jiaodong, the surrounding roads were blocked, leaving only one mountain road with Gaoping. It is time for disaster relief." When the food was escorted into Gaoping Prefecture, it was robbed by people from Ghost Shadow Hall, and the person who dispatched the mission didn't even know Ghost Shadow Hall." Xiao Yizhi said slowly, while stretching out his hand to take a sip of tea, he stopped down.

Ji Anjun glanced at him, and then said, "According to Ghost Shadow Hall, one of them disappeared after transporting this batch of relief food to Baihui. We learned that he died of Huashisan. The relief food should appear in Fengdu City."

"So, this batch of grain is official grain. Generally speaking, the official grain is not only of good quality, but also has the official seal printed on the sack outside. But if the other party changes it, how can I find it?" Jiang Yuan sorted out his thoughts, asked again.

This statement is true, the other party must have come prepared to rob the relief food, Fengdu City is the best proof.

Thinking about it this way, they exchanged the sacks and put on ordinary business seals. Fengdu City is so big, how would they find the exchanged relief food among the thousands of grain bags?

"City Lord, have you discussed with the grain merchants on the ground?" Ji Anjun asked suddenly.

"There are quite a few, but they are all high-security merchants. I don't know what the Lord's intention is to ask this?" Jiang Yuan was a little puzzled, so he asked directly.

Hearing Jiang Yuan's answer, Xiao Yizhi suddenly understood something.

He and Ji Anjun have traveled to the four countries for more than a year. Apart from having fun, what they do most is to experience the customs and customs of different countries and understand the different atmospheres of different countries.

"Gao'an's rice looks crystal clear and shiny, and it is moist, soft and glutinous when eaten. It is reasonable for the city lord to introduce Gao'an's rice." Xiao Yizhi explained, and seemed to be hinting at something.

When Xiao Yizhi mentioned it like this, Jiang Yuan understood instantly, and his eyes lit up when he slapped his thigh.

"But what about the rice in Beili?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"Beili's rice is rough and dull. It can absorb water and disperse without sticking. It is relatively dry and hard when eaten." Xiao Yizhi continued to explain.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan finally understood that there was such a gap, but once he took a bite, he could know where the rice came from.

And Ji Anjun on the side looked at Xiao Yizhi's nagging mouth, and couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, he was delicious.

"But it's not likely that every family will eat it!" Jiang Yuan suddenly realized something and exclaimed.

Ji Anjun on the side laughed lightly and said, "If the city lord transports more than [-]% of the rice from Gao'an, it will not be difficult to find out where there is rice from Beili in the city."

"Is there a way for the Lord?" Jiang Yuan leaned over and asked in a subdued voice.

Ji Anjun glanced at him, and said with a smile, "A person who hides disaster relief food for himself will openly feed it to others, and he will consume it secretly."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan was at a loss for words, what a fool!

Xiao Yizhi looked at Jiang Yuan's deflated appearance, and smiled lightly.It is actually not difficult to find out where the grain is.After all, Fengdu City is only so big, even if the whole city is searched, it can be found out.

But if they were scattered all over the place, it would be a exhausting task.

Two days later—

The four gathered again in the City Lord's Mansion, and a man in shabby clothes was kneeling in the main hall, tremblingly looking at the four people in front of him.

There are bags of grain bags outside the house, full of them.

"This person is the one who hid the disaster relief food."

Fortunately, it did not ship out of Parkway.

Ji Anjun thought so.