Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 100 Make a plan and then move

After learning the location of the target, Lu Zhong did not act rashly.

Decided to proceed carefully, lest he fall into the trap carefully set by others and put himself in danger.

At the same time, there is a prerequisite for doing it, that is, to find out the route to Yongling City first.

In everything, we must leave a way out first, which is the foundation of our life.

The shop street at noon is still bustling as usual.

There was a lot of hawking on the street, and there were constant big and small transactions. Perhaps it was the appearance of the Luoyunzong fleet, and the price of some spiritual objects had risen, especially the defensive shield talisman such as the golden light talisman, which had risen to twelve in just one morning. Lingshi, and there is no sign of stopping.

Thinking that he was going to commit murder later, Lu Zhong decided to buy a batch even though he had a lot of golden light talismans on him.

After some bargaining, he spent a hundred spirit stones to buy nine golden light talismans.

Turn around and come to the end of the shop street. This place is similar to the Tongfu Teahouse in Qingliufang. It is a good place to inquire about news.

Lu Zhong quickly stepped into an alley, and used the qi-watching technique to make sure that no one was nearby, so he changed into an inconspicuous gray sermon robe, put on a black veil hat to conceal his appearance, restrained his breath, and passed through another alley. get out.

Before long, he selected a teahouse.

There were quite a few monks sitting in the teahouse. Judging from their short-sleeved trousers attire, they should all be casual cultivators looking for food in the wilderness. When they saw someone walking into the teahouse, they shot at them one after another, but they all disappeared soon. After all, a discerning person would know Lu Zhong's intention at a glance.

Going straight to the shopkeeper, Lu Zhong said what he wanted.

"Going to Yongling City at this time? Fellow Daoist, I advise you to think twice, the road has not been smooth recently." The bearded shopkeeper who was wiping the cup in his hand stopped his movements and said.

"I know." Lu Zhong said calmly.

The shopkeeper with the beard was just a habitual reminder, seeing that the visitor had made up his mind, he didn't say any more, and motioned to the stairs next to him: "Come on, there are many people here, let's go up and talk."

Came to the private room on the third floor.

After Lu Zhong sat down, the shopkeeper with the beard spread out a map.

It can be seen from the map that the Yanling Mountain area is adjacent to the Yongling area, separated only by the extremely steep Hanshan Mountains, the Jufeng Pass is a pass in the gentle mountains, and the Qingsong Road is a road often used by caravans If you want to go from Yanling Mountain to Yongling City, the best choice is naturally these two.

As long as you respect the monks guarding the pass and a few spirit stones, you can easily cross the extremely steep cold mountain and natural danger.

"If it was half a month ago, although there were not many options for fellow Taoists to go to Yongling City, there were at least three or two safe routes. But now... anyone with a discerning eye can see that the battle is about to start, and the safe route must go through the wind resistance and barriers." Qingsong Road has already been blocked." The shopkeeper said with a look of regret.

After a pause, he pointed to a red line on the map and continued.

"Fellow Daoist's only choice now is to forcibly enter the cold mountain trail. For all the information about this route, you only need to pay twenty-five spirit stones for information, and I can provide all of it here."

After hearing this, Lu Zhong thought deeply, discharged twenty-five spirit stones, nodded and said:

"make a deal!"

When he got the news, he read it on the spot.

After reading it, Lu Zhong finally understood what the shopkeeper meant by "forcibly breaking through".

As the name suggests, if you want to walk this cold mountain trail, you will encounter many dangers along the way, including challenges from the weather and possible dangers along the way.

The dangerous areas are all marked on the map, and they are circled with red circles. There are as many as a dozen places.

Monsters, ghosts, evil cultivators entrenched... There are many sources of danger.

Fortunately, as long as you follow the route and don't actively provoke the sources of danger along the way, even a monk in the early stage of Qi refining can pass. As for his cultivation in the middle stage of Qi refining, the possibility of encountering fatal danger is even lower, at most Having some trouble.

Walking out of the teahouse, Lu Zhong looked at the scorching sun hanging high in the sky, with a flash of determination in his eyes.

Decided, choose to do it tonight!
……

At this time, the bright moon is in the sky and the night is dark.

Lu Zhong changed into a gray Taoist robe, checked that there was no problem with the magic weapon on his body, found an empty space, opened a hole in the white cloud shield, and walked out of the bamboo forest quickly.

At this moment, there are still many monks on the street at night, and from time to time there will be gorgeous carriages passing by.

The houses on both sides are brightly lit, and occasionally laughter can be heard.

Avoiding all the pedestrians along the way, Lu Zhong came to the target location - Kang's Villa.

As a foundation-building family, the Kang family has a lot of business in Yanling Mountain Fang City. In order to facilitate the arrival and departure, they specially rented this mansion covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. Basically, the Kang family came to Yanling Mountain Fangshi, will choose to live in it.

All he has to do now is sneak in.

It can be known from the qi-watching technique that there is no protective shield in the Kang family hall now.

This is normal. After all, the operation of formations consumes a lot of spirit stones, and at least a medium-sized formation can protect more than ten acres of land. In the absence of spiritual veins to supply spiritual energy, once it is activated, the spirit stones burned every day are at least Double digits, the price is so high that even the Jianji family can't afford it.

Lu Zhong walked around and found that the Kang family mainly used strict patrols and various light and dark sentries to form a multi-layer defense line to prevent outsiders from invading.

It has to be said that in the case of having enough manpower to patrol, doing so really saves Lingshi.

With the help of scene backtracking, Lu Zhong easily found out the law of action of the patrol team, as well as the light and dark sentries hiding in various places. Using the stealth method learned from the old man with thousands of faces, he sneaked into the Kang's villa quietly and started Find out where the target is.

Soon, he discovered something.

In the backyard of the annex, there is a well-guarded private courtyard.

At this moment, there is a group of people drinking and having fun in the courtyard, the beauty in her arms is in a mess, and she is very happy to drink wine.

"Congratulations, third brother, for finding such a treasure!"

"That's right, that's right, when this treasure is given to the patriarch, the old man, the third brother's status in the clan will be higher than that of the second family and the first line. At that time, even if it is the foundation pill, maybe he will have a chance to taste it!"

"Hahaha, I will accept your auspicious words. When I become prosperous in the future, I will definitely not forget the contributions of my seventh brother and fifth sister. You are welcome to come and drink. We will not be drunk tonight!"

The monk with a horse face laughed and said, this person is Kang Shaoqing who Lu Zhong was looking for.

Seeing that there were many people on the other side, Lu Zhong patiently lurked and decided to collect more information.

Every once in a while, the scene backtracking will be used once.

Gradually, Lu Zhong determined the cultivation levels of several people in the courtyard.

Kang Shaoqing's cultivation is naturally the highest, and his whole body is full of aura in the vision of Qi Wangju, at least he is also at the sixth level of Qi Refining, and his aura is obviously higher than that of him who just broke through.

As for the sixteen guards around the outside, they were basically on the second and third floors of Qi Refining, except for a big man with a scarred face who was on the fourth floor of Qi Refining. For a small private courtyard, such a configuration is not shabby.

Soon, the moon will pass.

The clear moonlight scattered, reflecting the ground a silver light.

At this time, everyone in the court began to disperse.

Kang Shaoqing pondered for a while, and soon got up and walked to a room in the courtyard.

Through the backtracking of the scene, Lu Zhong knew the situation in the room.

It is a meditation room.

Kang Shaoqing was sitting cross-legged in the quiet room at this time, bursts of spiritual light glowed on his body, and his breathing moved rhythmically, as if he was concentrating on refining the spiritual wine.

Seeing him concentrating on practicing, Lu Zhong had an idea in his mind.

Walking quietly to a wall, the straight-line distance between the two was less than one foot at the moment. With the help of backtracking and precise positioning, he could directly hit Kang Shaoqing's vitals with the Golden Biting Sword.

It's just that he was about to launch a sneak attack with the Golden Biting Sword, when Kang Shaoqing's eyes exploded.

Lu Zhong was taken aback by his actions, thinking he had been discovered, but soon saw Kang Shaoqing's head fall to the ground, and a subtle light flashed away.

"This... this method is a bit familiar!"

The next moment he was surprised to see that there was an extra figure in the room out of thin air.

It was Bai Xiaohan!
She held a blue talisman in her hand, which was exuding a little spiritual light at the moment.

Behind the wall, Lu Zhong's eyes widened in shock.

"Invisibility Talisman!"

Unexpectedly, Bai Xiaohan even had this kind of talisman.

Lu Zhong became more and more confused about the origin of this woman.

In the previous contact, Bai Xiaohan felt very pure, but she was a female cultivator with the halo of an alchemist. Later, she accidentally ran into her killing people and seizing treasures, and she was labeled as an evil cultivator.

But now, she actually attacked and killed Kang Shaoqing.

Why is this again?
Suppressing his quickened breathing due to shock, Lu Zhong carefully observed Bai Xiaohan with the help of scene backtracking, and then saw that the other party searched his body skillfully, and quickly searched all of Kang Shaoqing's belongings, as well as all valuables in the quiet room , Not even letting go of the small bag of spirit stones hidden in the hidden compartment on the floor.

specialized!

After doing this, Bai Xiaohan activated the invisibility talisman again and disappeared.

Seeing this, Lu Zhong backed away quietly, and deliberately chose the opposite route to her. After he had already familiarized himself with the patrol route and the location of the light and dark posts, he left the Kang's villa without anyone noticing.

On the quiet street at night, there was no one there, only the footsteps of the patrolling law enforcement team came from afar.

Various thoughts swirled in Lu Zhong's mind, thinking over and over the reason for Bai Xiaohan's appearance just now.

When he returned to the bamboo forest courtyard, he thought of a possibility.

"Isn't she here for Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring?"

At this time, there was a "buzzing sound" from the token around his waist, but someone touched the white cloud shield.

Lu Zhong went outside to dissipate part of the cloud.

A slender figure stood outside the protective shield. After the other party lifted the veil on his face, a face that Lu Zhong had seen not long ago in the Kang's villa was revealed. It was Bai Xiaohan who assassinated Kang Shaoqing just now.

Lu Zhong was startled, and couldn't help guessing the other party's intention.

Without knowing whether it was good or bad, he didn't dare to open the white cloud shield immediately, for fear of accidentally following in Kang Shaoqing's footsteps, so he asked without changing his expression:
"Fellow Daoist Bai, come here so late, what are you?"

"Heck..." Bai Xiaohan covered his mouth and smiled charmingly: "Of course it's to return the spirit ring to Fellow Daoist. Didn't you just see it in the Kang's villa? Unexpectedly, Fellow Daoist Lu is not as simple as it seems Well, if I hadn't been the first to take the shot, I guess Kang Shaoqing would have died in the hands of fellow daoists, right?"

This woman found me?
Thinking of the opponent's invisibility talisman, Lu Zhong thought that it was very possible. Bai Xiaohan had a way to hide his breath, and coupled with the invisibility effect of the invisibility talisman, he just got the three magic effects necessary for an assassin.

Under such circumstances, it is not impossible for the other party to discover the self that is consciously hidden very well.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhong felt very depressed.

Punched a few spells into the formation token, opened a small hole in the white cloud shield, and signaled the other party to come in and speak.

He wasn't afraid that Bai Xiaohan would be bad for him, after all, the thin silk magic weapon was only powerful for sneak attacks, and it could only work when the target was unprepared, and more vigilance wouldn't make waves.

Lu Zhong had a vague guess that the other party's intention for coming was definitely not as simple as returning the spirit ring.

"Oh, fellow Daoist Lu is quite courageous, aren't you afraid that I will harm you?" Bai Xiaohan smiled as if joking, and raised his left hand Bai Jie, looking back and forth at Lu Zhong.

Seeing that Lu Zhong didn't reply, she suddenly felt very bored, and said in a low voice: "You're just kidding, how can I be unfavorable to fellow Taoists? I give you the spirit ring, let's go on."

As he spoke, Bai Xiaohan slowly threw something out.

Lu Zhong took it vigilantly, and found that it was Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring.

"Tell me, what fellow Daoist Bai wants Lu to do?"

Bai Xiaohan wanted to say something, but he hesitated to say something. He squinted his eyes and said with a smile on his face: "A while ago, I found a hidden spiritual vein in Youyun Valley. There is a rare spiritual thing in it that is not easy to get. Fellow Daoist, go there with me and take this spiritual object away."

It turns out that there really is a hidden spirit vein!
Combined with the other party's words, Lu Zhong couldn't help but think of the wood spirit he killed earlier. It might not really be a wandering monster, but it probably came from this hidden spirit vein.

Unexpectedly, she was discovered by her?
"No problem! When do we leave?"

"Of course immediately!"

Bai Xiaohan continued to narrow his eyes and smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Lu...wouldn't you think that the Kang family wouldn't suspect you if it wasn't your fault? The Xiuxian family has always been domineering. The more likely approach is to catch the suspect and torture him until the truth comes out."

Lu Zhong was suffocated in his heart, thinking that there is indeed such a possibility.

Fortunately, after he decided to do it tonight, he decided to leave at night.

All the things in the bamboo forest courtyard have been put into the storage bag, except for one white cloud formation.

It doesn't take much time to collect the formation, and it won't be as troublesome as setting up the formation. Lu Zhong only needs to pull out the formation flag one by one, and finally take away the central formation bead of the formation.

After finishing these, he followed Bai Xiaohan out of the workshop.

Of course, this kind of situation will inevitably lead to one person, and that is Fang Yunjing, the formation master who has turned into ashes.

Lu Zhong was always vigilant all the way, so as not to accidentally follow in this person's footsteps.

The two of them traveled overnight and soon came to Youyun Valley.

(End of this chapter)