nucmednet Chapter 280 Xiao Fan
Chapter 280 Xiao Fan
At this moment, Wang Bin was busy setting up formations in Baiyun City and had no idea that he had just experienced a major crisis.
"Husband! The true forms of the Huniu siblings are actually Golden Crystal Tigers. You are so amazing!
How did you get them to be your subordinates? Now Baiyun City will be much safer."
Du Juan spoke to Wang Bin through voice transmission. Wang Bin was extremely busy and asked her to ask Dongfang Wan. He really didn't have time to spare and had to speed up the arrangement of the formation.
He knew in his heart that Xihai City would probably have to make a decision within the next two days.
If the Chu family decides to take action, the Wang family members in Baiyun City will have to rely on formations for protection.
After two days, the formation of Baiyun City was finally completed.
During these two days and two nights, although there were several people helping out, the formation was mainly completed by Wang Bin alone.
This time, Wang Bin also noticed that other people didn't seem to be very good at this.
In his opinion, setting up the formation is not difficult at all. It is just a matter of copying the formation diagram. How difficult can it be?
Whether it's formations, alchemy or weapon refining, Wang Bin doesn't think it's that complicated, but other people in the family just can't learn it. It seems he has to find time to study the reason.
"The city lord is mighty!"
"Get rich!"
"Haha! Free houses! In the inner city! Everyone gets one, even mortals! Oh my god!"
Waves of cheers came from afar, and even though Wang Bin was more than ten miles away, he could hear them clearly.
Immediately afterwards, cheers spread rapidly and soon spread throughout Baiyun City.
Wang Bin used his spiritual sense to scan and understood what was going on.
It turned out that after the city defense formation of Baiyun City was set up, the City Lord's Mansion posted a notice to the public, announcing that everyone in Baiyun City this time, whether mortals or cultivators, would be able to get a house within the city defense formation.
You know, although people could build their own houses in the past, the houses were built outside the city defense formation.
The outer city of Baiyun City can neither enjoy the spiritual energy of the spiritual vein nor is its safety guaranteed.
Every time monsters attack the city, the houses in the outer city are the first to be hit and are always destroyed by the beast tide.
Take the beast tide more than 20 years ago, for example. At least half of the mortals in the outer city died in that disaster.
Who would have thought that during the expansion of Baiyun City this time, the City Lord's Mansion would actually give mortals a house in the inner city for free.
It was such a great thing that everyone was so excited that it was hard to express in words.
Xiao Fan from the Baiyun City Orphanage was the most excited at the moment, and kept shouting "Long live the city lord".
Xiao Fan was originally a scholar in Qinglong Prefecture of Qin State, who devoted himself to studying.
But one day, he saw someone flying with a sword. At that moment, the yearning for cultivating immortality in his heart was like a ignited fire, and he could no longer concentrate on his studies.
But he was already twenty years old, and had long missed the criteria for the Four Seas Merchant Alliance to come to the county city to select people every ten years.
More importantly, he didn't even know whether he had spiritual roots or not.
He inquired for half a month and found that there was no place in the entire Qin State where spiritual roots could be checked.
Later, he spent ten taels of silver and learned from a servant in Wang Junshou Mansion that there was a fairy city called Baiyun City a thousand miles away from Qin State.
Baiyun City is managed by the Wang family, and the county magistrate of Qinglongzhou is a member of the Wang family's immortal clan. However, because he has no spiritual roots, he was sent to Qin State to serve as the county magistrate.
The chief steward of Wang Junshou's family also came from the Baiyun City Orphanage. It is said that there is an orphanage in Baiyun City.
They specialize in adopting orphans without parents in the city and raising them into adults. Most importantly, they can help them test their spiritual roots for free.
After Xiao Fan got this news, he could no longer sit still.
He was alone, without parents, and had no worries. He immediately sold his few possessions and followed a caravan. After three months and a journey of more than a thousand miles, he finally arrived in Baiyun City, encountering many difficulties and dangers along the way.
However, reality gave him a slap in the face.
Baiyun City is indeed a fairy city. He can see cultivators flying with swords every day. There are also two places in the city where spiritual roots can be tested, but one test requires ten low-grade spirit stones.
This was simply a fantasy to him. After asking around, he learned that a low-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for one hundred taels of gold. If he used gold to exchange it, he would have to spend one hundred and ten taels to get one piece.
All his assets added up to only three taels of gold, which he saved by living frugally.
Moreover, eating and staying in inns in the fairy city are ridiculously expensive. An ordinary meal that costs only one or two taels of silver in Qinglong County City will cost ten taels of silver in Baiyun City.
The larger shops only accepted gold. He had been in Baiyun City for a month, and his money was gone, and he hadn't found an opportunity to test his spiritual roots.
He originally planned to go back, but he was unwilling to do so. If he had spiritual roots, it would be a shame to give up like this.
He discovered that at least half of the mortals in Baiyun City thought the same as he did.
He also often heard that some people went on adventures in the Monster Mountain Range next to Baiyun City, dug up a spiritual medicine, and could sell it for dozens of low-grade spirit stones. Then they could use the money to test their spiritual roots, join the Baiyun City patrol reserve team, and embark on the path of cultivating immortals.
Every time he heard this kind of news, his blood boiled.
But soon, the harsh reality poured cold water on him. Over the years, Baiyun City had grown increasingly powerful, attracting more and more cultivators and mortals alike. It was almost impossible to find spiritual herbs within fifty miles of Baiyun City. Even the seedlings had been dug up.
If you want to gain something, you have to go deeper into the Monster Mountain Range.
But the Monster Mountain Range is already full of dangers. Not only are there monsters in it, but even more dangerous are the fellow travelers.
Many people were killed by their peers. After all, everyone wanted to embark on the path of cultivation.
Most people have practiced martial arts and need to strengthen their bodies before formally practicing Taoism, but Xiao Fan is just a weak scholar who can't do anything.
Fortunately, the Wang family was kind-hearted and distributed food for free twice a day at the orphanage gate. Xiao Fan relied on this to barely survive.
Later, the orphanage discovered that he could read and was a scholar in the past, so they hired him to teach the orphans in the orphanage to read and write, providing him with food and accommodation, and a salary of one low-grade spirit stone every two years. Only then did Xiao Fan finally gain a foothold in Baiyun City.
Moreover, it is too dangerous for mortals to explore the Monster Mountain Range. People he knows often go there and never return, which only strengthens his dream of becoming an immortal.
It was not until the monsters attacked the city a few days ago that he witnessed the real magic.
The sky was filled with thunder, like a divine punishment, which wiped out tens of thousands of monsters in the blink of an eye.
All the mortals in the city were shocked by this scene. They had seen cultivators cast spells before, and although they were very powerful, compared to this earth-shattering lightning, they were like children playing house.
Moreover, after Baiyun City successfully defended the city, the city lord asked each mortal to choose a monster corpse.
Xiao Fan was naturally ecstatic. Any monster corpse could be sold for a few low-grade spirit stones.
However, he knew too little about cultivating immortals, and he didn't know which monsters were more valuable.
At first, he chose a large and seemingly intact monster corpse, but was driven away by the steward of the brother-in-law of the wife of the third son of the Wang family.
In the end, he could only choose a tattered monster, and even so, he sold it for three low-grade spirit stones.
He also encountered the first immortal opportunity in his life. He picked up a storage bag under the corpse of a monster. His heart almost jumped into his throat at that time.
Unfortunately, he is a mortal and cannot open the storage bag.
Unexpectedly, just two days later, the City Lord's Mansion actually gave these mortals a house in the inner city of Baiyun City for free.
If this house is sold, it can at least fetch a few hundred low-grade spirit stones. I can then check my spiritual roots and start my journey of cultivating immortals.
All the mortals around him were almost crazy with excitement, and many of them were discussing selling their houses and returning to their hometowns to get married and have children.