Chapter 34

Following the sound and looking downstairs, I saw several people downstairs arguing.

One of them was about forty years old, dressed in rough clothes, his hands were full of calluses, he looked honest and looked like an old farmer, he was talking excitedly at this moment, and there were several young men in gold clothes standing opposite him, He sneered at the old farmer.

With just one glance, the students upstairs already recognized those men in gold clothes.

Cai Junyang snorted coldly: "Those guys from Tianshen Palace have come out to make trouble again."

Although I didn't see what happened, but the old farmer was a stall owner, and he was setting up a stall on the street. At this moment, he was guarding a book in his hand tightly. Everyone could guess without asking, that this was probably a business dispute.

Hearing what Cai Junyang said at this moment, Peng Yaolong had already burst into laughter, and said: "The bastards of Tianshen Palace, don't stay at home well, run out to bully Liangshan, how shameless are you?"

Those Tianshen Palace disciples raised their heads upon hearing the sound, only then did they see a group of Moon Washing students in the Tianxiang Building, their faces changed at the same time.

The leading student from Tianshen Palace seemed to know Peng Yaolong, and said angrily: "Peng Yaolong, this matter has nothing to do with you, mind your own business!"

Peng Yaolong looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Kang Guoran, you don't care if it matters or not, I still like to meddle in your business, what's the matter? If you are not convinced, let's go to Yanwutai for a fight."

The student named Kang Guoran immediately fell silent, obviously not daring.

On the other hand, Tang Jie was curious and asked, "Yan Wutai?"

Wei Tianchong told him: "This is where we will compete."

"Why can it be used now?"

Wei Tianchong laughed and said, "Do you think Xiaoyao Palace has such a large formation and so many puppets, just for display? Tang Jie, do you know that these days, just the disciples fighting in private in Hongmei City has already It's been hit hundreds of times."

"So many!" Tang Jie was also taken aback: "With that strength, can't we wait until the official competition?"

"The problem is that some people don't think so." Cai Junyang said.

Following Wei Tianchong and Cai Junyang's explanation, Tang Jie finally understood.

In this Xianyuan meeting, there were actually only 120 real formal participants, that is, 20 people from each of the six major factions.

However, because it involves the six major factions competing for supremacy, the marriage of a daughter in the Xiaoyao Palace, sex and knives are always the goals people pursue, so it attracts tens of thousands of viewers. Coupled with a large number of servants, entourages, and merchants who came to hear the news, new audiences were driven by it, and the cycle went back and forth, making Xianyuan a rare event.

Under such a grand meeting, what was originally a simple question of the ownership of the Xiaoyao Palace gradually evolved into a struggle for strength among the six major factions.

Who among the six major factions is weak and who is strong has been a topic of endless debate for thousands of years. Because it is about survival, the six major factions have never held a conference similar to a contest of martial arts. For the six major factions, it has become The benefits of being the number one of the six factions are far less than the risks of being the last of the six factions.

In their position, conservatism is king. You can't move forward a few steps, but retreating back is a cliff.

The Fairy Fate Club inadvertently provided such an opportunity, through this grand meeting, the strength of the students from both sides can be tested.

Since the strength of the students does not represent the strength of the sect, the victory or defeat will not hurt the muscles and bones, so the six major factions dare to go all out to promote the contest-the more they are not afraid of losing, the more daring they are to fight.

This is the upper factor.

In addition, the six major sects themselves have never been in harmony, just like the people from Qianqingzong and Tianyahaige who stare at each other when they meet, Qijuemen and Tianshen Palace, Beast Lianmenmen and Xiyue Sect have always been at odds with each other. . It's an emotional element.

There are many students from the other six sects, and there are always some students who are not selected but have good strength. They are eager to become famous and recognized by others. They cannot show their heads and feet at the official Xianyuan Conference, so they are looking for opportunities in private. This is a personal factor.

In the end, there are too many people and too many things, and disputes are inevitable. There is also a need for a channel to vent and deal with it. This is a management factor.

It is precisely because of these reasons that before the official start of the Xianyuan Conference,

In fact, countless good shows have been staged lively.

Some students even took this opportunity to become famous, and suddenly became influential figures in Hongmei City.

Among them, there are six major sects, as well as other small sects; there are students who formally participate, and students who have not obtained the qualification to participate;

Peng Yaolong is one of these influential figures. He has fought several times in the martial arts arena in the past few days, and he has won by absolute knockout. Among the top ten voices of the Fairy Fate Club, he is considered a relatively high one.

That's why the student named Kang Guoran shrank when he heard Peng Yaolong speak.

Knowing this, Tang Jie asked Cai Junyang: "What about you? How did you perform in the martial arts arena?"

Cai Junyang pouted and replied: "I didn't go, I didn't want to expose myself so early."

Most of the formal contestants did not participate in the martial arts performance before the official competition. They had to preserve their strength and hole cards to deal with the more important official competition.

Even those who participate are often just playing for fun and don't show their cards. For example, Peng Yaolong's consecutive victories only depended on brute force, and no one knew what else he had behind this brute force.

At this time, Tang Jie and the others had figured out what had happened.

It was nothing more than that the old farmer was selling a commentary on arrays that he got from somewhere, and these students from Tianshen Palace wanted to buy it after seeing it.

The Dao commentary is not a rare thing, it is nothing more than a little bit of Dao practice experience recorded by a certain cultivator.

There are a lot of cultivators who know the Dao of Formation in the world. If they are not famous, they are usually not of much value.

However, each cultivator usually has some unique understandings of his own. From references, it may be possible to have something worth learning, so there is still some reference value.

The few students from Tianshen Palace obviously wanted to buy it for reference, but they didn't expect that the old farmer, who had never seen the world, mistakenly thought that it was a rare commodity to live in, and even asked for three thousand spiritual coins.

How could those students accept such a price, but they didn't want to just give up, so they argued with him. They were young and energetic, and they spoke aggressively, coupled with their noble backgrounds, intentionally or unconsciously, they carried a sense of threat. Unexpectedly, the old farmer was not afraid of death, but in the end they rebelled, but they took the meal while they were eating. The students of the Xiyue faction were brought out.

Therefore, if this matter is wrong, it is not entirely because the people of Tianshen Palace want to bully the market, and the old farmer is also a little allergic, but Peng Yaolong and the others would not consider these. The incident of Gu Changqing three years ago caused the relationship between the Moon Xi faction and Tianshen Palace to take a turn for the worse. Now that he has the opportunity, Peng Yaolong refuses to let it go. He sneered and said, "Why? shrink?"

That Kang Guoran's face was blushing, obviously he was very angry with Peng Yaolong, but his skills were not as good as others, so he could only bear it.

At this time, a voice sounded from a distance: "If I say that I, Tianshen Palace, can only bully civilians, then what is your brother Peng only looking for challenges that are weaker than yourself? Want to stage a martial arts stage? All right, I go with you!"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of a group of people from Xiyue Sect changed at the same time, only the people from Tianshen Palace turned their heads excitedly, and shouted together: "Senior Brother Yun!"

I saw a group of people striding forward in the distance, the leader holding a book in their hands, but they were not wearing the golden shirts of Tianshen Palace, but a white robe, which looked like jade, but like a white-faced scholar.

As soon as this person appeared, Peng Yaolong's expression darkened: "Yun Wuji!"

Tang Jie looked back at Wei Tianchong, he was new here and didn't know much about the situation here. Wei Tianchong has already explained to him: "Yun Wuji, a seven-year student of Deity Academy, one of the official participants of Deity Palace, a genius student of Deity Academy, fought twice with Senior Brother Peng, and each of them won one match. He He is also currently the student who claims to be the most likely to be chosen by the little palace lord... he is handsome!"

Cai Junyang flicked his forehead, pretending to be unrestrained: "There's nothing so rare about a little boy. To be a man, you have to be manly. It's right to be introverted and not showy. Don't make yourself look like a big bear, and don't make yourself a lady." Cavity!"

Qi Shaoming next to him said leisurely: "If you put it this way, I think I am quite suitable."

Cai Junyang snorted: "It's more feminine."

Ye Tianshang asked: "Then what about me?"

"It's more masculine."

"...Just you." Qi Shaoming and Ye Tianshang confessed to him together.

Cai Junyang laughed: "Where there is, I mean that someone like Tang Jie is the most suitable."

Tang Jie coughed: "I have nothing to do here, so don't drag me into the water if you talk about yours."

They were chatting and laughing, but Peng Yaolong and Yun Wuji stared at each other, the atmosphere was solemn and tense to the extreme.

The two of them stared at each other up and down like this, Peng Yaolong's eyes were staring like donkey's eyes, and Yun Wuji also kept his books in his hands, standing upright, looking at each other without giving in, if eyes can kill, The two are afraid that they have already cut each other into pieces.

Finally, Peng Yaolong took a deep breath and said: "Okay, okay, very good! Yun Wuji, if you want to fight, then fight!"

As he spoke, he flicked his sleeves, and the person flew out like a cannonball into the distance, towards the martial arts arena, Yun Wuji snorted, and in a blink of an eye, he was also stepping on a silver sword Chasing after Peng Yaolong, the two disappeared in the blink of an eye, one behind the other.

Seeing this, the rest of the students also rushed to the martial arts arena together, obviously wanting to cheer for their senior brothers.

"Let's go, Tang Jie, let's go too." Wei Tianchong pulled Tang Jie.

Tang Jie shook his head: "You guys go first, I'll come back later."

After saying that, he went downstairs, but walked towards the old farmer selling books.

When he came to the old farmer, Tang Jie pointed to the old farmer's book and said, "Can you let me have a look at your commentary on formation?"

The old farmer probably saw that Tang Jie was with the people who had spoken out to help him out of the siege before, so he hurriedly said: "Young master wants to see, of course you can. If it weren't for the son's friend to speak out, the little old man might be killed." That day, the bad guys in the shrine snatched the treasure away."

Tang Jie said indifferently: "Is it a baby or not, you have to see it before you know."

As he spoke, he turned the pages of the book casually, and Tang Jie's heart shuddered suddenly when he saw a few words.

"Exploring the Mysteries of the Ancient Formation".

Exploring the ancient array? This turned out to be a commentary on the experience of exploring the mysteries of the ancient array?

Tang Jie immediately understood why those disciples of Tianshen Palace were interested in this book of formations.

The Nine Absolute Zhuxian formation is the ancient formation!

The history of cultivating immortals in Qixia Realm has been tens of thousands of years. Over the past tens of thousands of years, with the development of history and the change of environment, many fairy arts and fairy arts have already changed. For example, physical training, which was said to be the most popular in ancient times, is almost hard to find nowadays. People like Tang Jie and Peng Yaolong can be regarded as physical cultivation. If they were placed in ancient times, they might not even be as good as a baby.

The ancient formation is also very different from the current formation. It is precisely because of its principles, mysteries, and so many different ideas that it is difficult for many formation masters to decipher the ancient formation. Because in front of the ancient formation, a lot of their knowledge is useless.

Theoretically speaking, if one can understand the mysteries of the ancient formation, grasp the principle of operation, and know how to break it, then it doesn't matter if you have military experience or not.

If I don't have the key, I will smash the door, and if I can't open it, I will pry the door.

Because of this, Tianshen Palace has been collecting all kinds of knowledge about the ancient array, its operating principles, etc. over the years. Now when it comes to understanding the ancient formation, even Qijuemen may not know much better than them.

This can also understand why those disciples of Tianshen Palace bought this ancient formation. It's just that they should have discovered it along the way, so they didn't have that much money, so they didn't expect the other party to ask for such a high price.

At this moment, Tang Jie opened it and looked carefully, and saw that there were three ancient formations recorded on it. Therefore, the whole book was divided into three parts, and each part was the process and feeling of deciphering an ancient formation.

Although the cultivator finally cracked only one of the three ancient formations, and the remaining two ended in failure, he also recorded the situation at that time, to what extent he cracked it, and for what reason he failed.

From a reference point of view, this is of great help to Tang Jie in cracking the Nine Absolute Zhuxian Formation. After all, he doesn't know what he will face when he enters the Ten Square Valley.

Unexpectedly, such a good thing happened when he first arrived in Hongmei City, Tang Jie smiled lightly.

Exploration or adventure?

Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Tang Jie didn't know.

But he knew that if it was a bait, then at least the bait was indeed very fragrant, very fragrant, so fragrant that he couldn't be tempted.

Holding it in his hand, after a while, Tang Jie said: "This thing is good, but it's a bit off. I'm interested in the formation, but it's impossible for me to buy it with 3,000 yuan."

The old farmer laughed and said: "The three thousand dollars is just an asking price. If you really want it, I can give you a cheap one, how about two thousand five hundred?"

Tang Jie smiled and said: "You really want money and go crazy. With the experience of exploring ancient formations, how many ancient formations do you think there are in the world? Besides, if they really exist, will you be able to destroy them with this thing? Not necessarily. Studying it is of no benefit to the current formation. Two thousand and five... I'll give you two hundred and five, which is about the same."

The old farmer was also in a hurry: "Young Master, what you said is that there are at least three ancient formations on it. As you said, ancient formations are hard to find, and an idler may not come across one ancient formation in a lifetime, let alone three."

He was also in a hurry, and he said everything for the sake of promotion, but Tang Jie's eyes flickered to listen.

He laughed and said: "Since that's the case, let's use one hundred yuan for an ancient formation. I'll give you three hundred yuan. If you're willing to sell it, then sell it. If you don't, I'll leave."

After saying that, he gestured to leave.

Seeing this, the old farmer was anxious: "Sell, sell, sell you!"

Tang Jie threw down three hundred coins, took the book and left.

Watching Tang Jie take the book and leave, the anxious expression of the old farmer gradually calmed down, and he said as if talking to himself: "He bought the book, but he seems to be a little suspicious. His offer of three hundred yuan should be a temptation. Me, if I were the real seller, I shouldn't have agreed to such a low price. Especially when I was arguing with the disciples of Tianshen Palace for 3,000 yuan before, it's too unreasonable to drop it to 300 now! My lord, I always feel that You asked me to agree too early just now, and now I'm afraid it will deepen his suspicion."

"It's right to have doubts, and it's good to have doubts." A voice rang out: "If he is innocent, why should he be suspicious? Only because he has ghosts in his heart, he will be suspicious. So it is possible that he is Tang Jie, Maybe it was 80% originally, but now it is 99%!"

The old farmer suddenly realized: "It turned out to be like this, your lord is wise! That Tang Jie would never have thought that what we want is his suspicion."

"No. It doesn't matter whether he was fooled or not. What matters is whether he has the courage to do what he wants to do. Now it seems that at least this person has great courage. Even if he knows it's bait, he will Dare to swallow... that's good, that's good!"

"Then we now..."

"Give him more chances."