Immortal Road

"Okay, I can finally take a rest." Qingchuan said happily.

Ishikawa hesitated for a moment, looked for a secret place, set up a concealment formation, and said to Qingchuan: "You wait for me in the formation. As long as you don't leave the formation voluntarily, the foundation-building monks will not find you, so you Don’t worry. I’ll come back to you when I know the way.”

When Qingchuan heard that Ishikawa wanted to leave her here, he said anxiously: "Brother Shitou, I want to go with you too."

Ishikawa smiled and said: "What are you going to do? You have spent enough time playing along the way. You stay here and understand the Taoism. Once we arrive at a suitable cultivation country, you can retreat and advance. Only Only when you become a monk at the sixth level of Qi training can you enter the gate of cultivation."

Qingchuan naturally understood this truth, pouted, and said pretending to be angry: "Then I will practice here and won't go with you. You can come back early."

Ishikawa nodded, introduced Qingchuan into the concealment formation, and then walked slowly along Pearl Lake.

Most of the shepherds and merchants who rest here will live by the lake, where it will be more convenient to get water.

Not long after, Ishikawa had already met several shepherds. Naturally, Ishikawa would not stop and continued moving forward. After walking around Pearl Lake for a quarter of an hour, Ishikawa discovered a group of camels carrying a large amount of goods.

Surrounding the camels, there were many men in black holding swords and waiting in full formation.

This is obviously a relatively large caravan.

"Go away, stay away from us. Otherwise, don't blame me for being rude." A middle-aged man in black shouted loudly when he saw Ishikawa.

Ishikawa also knew what these people were worried about, so he raised his hand and said, "I got lost here on the lower route, and I would like to borrow a map."

"This is Pearl Lake. If you keep going north, you will reach the Fire Nation. We are going south. No matter whether you come with us or not, we will not take you with us." The man in black yelled with a vigilant look on his face. road.

Ishikawa smiled bitterly and shook his head. The man in black was too sensitive, fearing that Ishikawa was a horse bandit.

But this person clearly stated that this place was Pearl Lake and the Fire Nation in the north. This allowed Ishikawa to basically determine his position.

It's just that this person said it in vain, and Ishikawa didn't dare to believe it completely. It was still early anyway, so Ishikawa planned to go around the camel group and find someone to ask again.

At this moment, a man in rich clothes walked out of the camel group. This man was about forty years old, slightly fat, and very well-dressed. He should be the manager of the caravan.

"This friend, can you come to the tent and talk to me?" the middle-aged man shouted towards Ishikawa.

The black-faced man who had just mocked Ishikawa looked shocked and received a kick on the butt. He quickly ran towards Ishikawa and said, "My master, please come over and talk."

The middle-aged man continued: "My Gong family has been doing this business for generations, traveling from south to north, and has accumulated a lot of maps. If this friend wants to see the map, please come in and take a closer look."

When Ishikawa heard the word "map", his steps stopped. Other things really couldn't attract Ishikawa.

Ishikawa bowed his hands and strode into the camel group.

The monks in black looked at Ishikawa with horrified expressions on their faces. Although they are not very clear about the value of this batch of goods, it is definitely a sky-high figure.

Under this situation, the caravan owner Gong Yuliang actually let a stranger enter the caravan. What surprised everyone was that the two of them entered Gong Yuliang's tent one after the other.

Gong Yuliang's tent was huge, ten feet long and wide. And all kinds of furniture inside are also available. There is also a thick camel hair carpet on the ground.

As soon as he entered the tent, Gong Yuliang immediately closed the tent, suddenly knelt down on his knees, and said: "My subordinates were very disrespectful just now. I hope my senior will forgive me."

Ishikawa squinted his eyes and looked at this person. This person could barely be regarded as a cultivator, but his qualifications were not high. He could only use his spiritual power slightly, and had not even reached the first level of Qi training.

"Get up." Ishikawa used spiritual power to lift Gong Yuliang up.

"Thank you, senior." Gong Yuliang walked to a box, took out several large scrolls, spread them out on the ground, and said, "Senior, please take a look, this is the map around the quicksand ridge."

Ishikawa took out the map in the jade slip and compared it slightly with this one. It was almost the same.

The maps used by cultivators are naturally more accurate than those used by mortals. But there are also distinctive things on Gong Yuliang's map. There are many red and blue dots marked on this person's map.

The red dot is where the caravan stopped, and the blue dot is where tribute needs to be paid to the horse bandits. It seems that the Gong family does have a plan. There are forty or fifty places that need to be taken care of on the entire trade route.

This caravan set out from the Cangyun Kingdom, passed through the Fire Nation, and crossed the Quicksand Ridge before arriving at the Nanliang Kingdom. If a mortal wants to go back and forth, it may take several years. After briefly looking at this picture, Ishikawa also had some admiration for this person.

What interests Ishikawa even more is that one of the stopping points of this caravan is the cultivation town.

"Junior has a few words, I don't know whether to say them or not." Gong Yuliang said hesitantly.

"Say it."

"If this junior guessed correctly, the senior should be a cultivator from the Southern Liang Kingdom. The junior has some properties in both the Fire Nation and the Cangyun Kingdom. Although his spiritual power is not particularly abundant, he is very quiet. More importantly, the senior There is no need to worry about identity." After Gong Yuliang said these words, he looked at Ishikawa with some fear.

"How do you know I'm from Nanliang Kingdom?" Ishikawa frowned slightly.

"This junior is just guessing. I have received information that the Qingyun Sect in Nanliang is attacking the Wuling Sect. This kind of fight between sects naturally involves a lot of things. Many seniors have left Nanliang to seek a place for cultivation in other countries. . And the senior just said that we need to look at the map, so I made a bold guess."

Ishikawa nodded, secretly thinking that this person was very thoughtful. He said: "Just know this, don't tell anyone else, otherwise you will be in danger."

"This is natural." Gong Yuliang said quickly.

"You know clearly that there is a war between cultivators in Nanliang, but you still want to go there and join in the fun?" Ishikawa asked.

Gong Yuliang said with a smile: "I am just a mortal, and the business I do has nothing to do with the seniors in cultivation. In their eyes, I may be like an ant. So it is easier for me to survive than the seniors in the Qi training period. . Besides, the market is good at this time, so we must not waste business opportunities.”

Ishikawa smiled bitterly, shook his head, and stopped talking about it. Then he asked, "What if I enter the Fire Nation and don't have a certain identity? What is the identity you are talking about?"

Gong Yuliang said respectfully: "Although cultivators can move between various countries, the time they stay is limited. Every cultivation country has a cultivation alliance. The mission of the cultivation alliance is to expel foreigners who have long been settled. Monks. To prevent the number of these foreign monks from consuming a large amount of the country’s cultivation resources and weakening the country’s monks.”

"You know quite a lot." Ishikawa said. Although Gong Yuliang was also exposed to cultivation, he knew too much.

"There were also several cultivators in the ancestors of the Gong family, but they gradually declined. When it came to my grandfather's generation, the spiritual qualifications were extremely low, and there was no sect to accept them, so they had to start this business. As for me, although I have already touched The threshold for the first level of Qi training is reached, but it is still unknown when he will be able to enter the first level of Qi training." Gong Yuliang's face showed a trace of bitterness.

Gong Yuliang said hurriedly: "Although our Gong family has declined, we still have a few tokens from the Fire Nation. As long as the seniors are willing, they can practice in my Gong Mansion."

Gong Yuliang took out a small sign from his arms, handed it to Ishikawa and said, "As long as senior goes to the Fire Nation and finds his family brother, Gong Yutang, he will naturally arrange a residence for senior."

Ishikawa took it away without politeness and threw it into the storage bag.

Ishikawa naturally knew what this person was thinking. He just wanted Ishikawa to practice in the Gong family and strengthen the Gong family's prestige. Maybe you can also give some guidance to the next generation of the Gong family.

And after Ishikawa just arrived in the Fire Nation, he had no place to stay for the time being, so he simply accepted the token and went to have a look if he had nowhere to go.

When Gong Yuliang saw Ishikawa accepting the token, his face showed a look of ecstasy.

Ishikawa pondered for a moment, pointed at the cultivation town on the map and said, "I need you to do me a favor."

"Senior, please speak." Gong Yuliang raised his hands and said, "As long as this junior can do it, he will definitely do his best."

"There is a Spiritual Mine Pavilion above the Cultivation Town. If you get there, by the way, ask the two shopkeepers of the shop if they are willing to follow your caravan to find me."

Ishikawa touched it from the sky and pulled out a small sign.

"The shopkeeper of Lingkuang Pavilion is very old and has some mobility difficulties. The second shopkeeper is a cultivator. But as long as you show this token, they will naturally believe you and know what is going on."

Gong Yuliang carefully wrapped the small sign and put it away carefully, saying: "Senior, don't worry, I will definitely bring your words to them."

"If they want to come, they can come. If they don't want to come, that's fine." Ishikawa took out two bottles of pills. "This bottle of elixir is a commission paid to you. If you do it well, you will get more in the future."

Ever since Water Monkey entered the Immortal Mansion, the herbs in the Immortal Mansion have been in dire straits.

Apart from brewing spiritual wine, Water Monkey's only pleasure is refining elixirs, but these elixirs are only used by monks in the Qi training period and are of no use to Ishikawa who has already established a foundation.

By now, a lot of low-level elixirs have been accumulated.

These low-level elixirs were nothing to Ishikawa, but to Gong Yuliang, they were definitely very rare treasures. It can even help Gong Yuliang reach the first level of Qi training stage.