Chapter 333 Yongliang Mansion
No one spoke that night. The next morning, Qingyang and Lu Dingshan reunited and went to Chen Biwang's residence together. Senior Brother Chen had been waiting for a long time. In addition to him, there was a young man in his early thirties who was only at the first level of Qi Refining. He should be the Tao family member that Senior Brother Chen mentioned.
After everyone gathered, they left the outer courtyard together and headed towards the mountain gate of Qingfeng Hall. As the four of them walked and talked, Qingyang and Lu Dingshan soon had a detailed understanding of the Tao family.
The head of the Tao family was named Tao Youcheng, who was about sixty years old and had a third level of Qi Refining. In addition to Tao Youcheng, the Tao family had two other Qi Refining cultivators. One was Tao Youcheng's younger brother Tao Yougong, who was at the second level of Qi Refining. The other was Tao Youcheng's son Tao Zhengyou, the young man next to him at the first level of Qi Refining. The rest of the Tao family were at the Kaimai realm.
The Tao Youcheng brothers have limited qualifications. They are nearly sixty years old and are still in the early stage of Qi Refining. Therefore, they have long lost hope for their future and have invested all their energy in their son Tao Zhengyou, so Tao Zhengyou has broken through to the Qi Refining stage at a young age.
Who knew that something unexpected happened half a year ago. The head of the family, Tao Youcheng, accidentally heard that a treasure had appeared in a dangerous place. He took several members of the Tao family to look for the treasure, but they were trapped inside.
After hearing the news that the head of the family was trapped, the Tao family spent a huge price and organized many cultivators to rescue him. As a result, the people were not rescued, and the people who rescued people also had accidents inside. It was more difficult to find people afterwards. On the one hand, the Tao family could not pay such a high price, and on the other hand, the result of the previous rescue made most cultivators daunted.
In desperation, Tao Zhengyou remembered that the ancestors of the Tao family had some origins with Qingfeng Hall, so he traveled thousands of miles to Qingfeng Hall, and finally asked Qingxin Sanren, the head of the outer courtyard, for help, hoping that Qingfeng Hall would send a few people to help rescue people because of Wuxin Sanren in the past.
Everyone has heard Uncle Qi tell the story, and now that they have heard Tao Zhengyou's personal account, they have a more real understanding of the matter. It takes several months to go back and forth from Yongzhou to Qingfeng Palace. If it weren't for being desperate, Tao Zhengyou would not have come all the way to Qingfeng Palace. It can be seen that there is really no other way.
Considering that Wuxin Sanren was once the head of the outer courtyard of Qingfeng Palace, and considering Tao Zhengyou's filial piety, he will help this time no matter what.
The four of them walked and talked, and soon they left the mountain gate of Qingfeng Palace and headed towards Yongzhou. The four people's cultivation is not high, and they can't reach the level of flying with swords. As for flying spirit beasts, let alone Qingfeng Palace doesn't have them, even if there are, they can't afford to rent them, so they can only rely on their two legs to travel.
From Qingfeng Palace to Yongzhou, it is a full 20,000 miles. If an ordinary person comes to walk, it will take nearly a year to walk such a long distance. Fortunately, the four of them all had the cultivation of the Qi Refining Stage, and their speed of traveling was several times faster than that of ordinary people. They could walk at least three or four hundred miles a day. If they were not delayed on the road, two months would be enough to cover a distance of 20,000 miles.
Because they had something on their minds, Tao Zhengyou was worried about his father, Qingyang and Lu Dingshan were looking forward to returning to Liangzhou after finishing their work, so everyone traveled very fast.
There were very few cultivators walking in the secular world. The Zhongzhou where Qingfeng Hall was located was relatively prosperous, and some independent cultivators could often be seen. Once they left the Zhongzhou territory, there were fewer and fewer cultivators outside, and sometimes they could not see a cultivator for three or two days.
The four of them did not encounter any interference along the way. Unknowingly, two months had passed, and they gradually entered the territory of Yongzhou.
Yongzhou was indeed a desolate place. Not only were there few cultivators, but there were also few ordinary people. Occasionally, a secular city was seen, and the number of people was pitifully small, not as good as Liangzhou. If compared with some places in Zhongzhou, the capital city of Yongzhou was sometimes even inferior to some towns.
As for cultivators, they were even rarer. I didn't see any for more than ten days. It was not until I approached Tujiao City, the only city of independent cultivators in Yongzhou, that I encountered more and more cultivators.
Tujiao City was established no earlier than Yuling City. It is said that a long time ago, there lived a monster that was about to evolve into a dragon in the nearby mountains. Later, this monster was slaughtered by a powerful cultivator because of its evil deeds. From then on, this independent cultivator city was named Tujiao City.
Perhaps this place is very suitable for monsters to survive, or perhaps there are too many cultivators in other places, and the monsters on the Jiuzhou continent are forced here. In short, there are many monsters near Tujiao City. The large number of monsters will naturally attract cultivators to come here to make a living. As long as they are willing to take risks, they can always gain something. So Tujiao City gradually developed into its current scale.
The situation in Tujiao City is similar to that in Yuling City in Liangzhou. Although the number of cultivators is less, the total number may be only half of that in Yuling City, but because of frequent battles with monsters, the quality of cultivators here is better than that in Yuling City. Tian Shengcai, who is on good terms with Qingyang, comes from here.
After walking nearly 20,000 miles in one breath without resting for two consecutive months, even an iron man can't stand it. After arriving at Tujiao City, the four of them stopped here and rested for three days.
Taking advantage of their free time, Qingyang, Lu Dingshan, and Chen Biwang also went to the market in Tujiao City, but didn't find anything that caught their eyes. The market here can't be compared with that of Qingfeng Palace. The only thing that is relatively abundant is monster materials, and the price is very cheap. If you buy some here, you can earn a lot of spirit stones when you return to Qingfeng Palace in the future.
It was just that Qingyang had used up all his spiritual stones when he came here, and he was reluctant to use other good things to exchange for monster materials. Buying and selling would also take a lot of energy, so Qingyang just looked around and didn't buy anything here. However, Lu Dingshan and Chen Biwang each bought a lot.
Three days later, the four continued to set off, leaving Tujiao City and heading north. After walking for another seven or eight days, they arrived at Yongliang Prefecture in Yongzhou. If Yongzhou is the most desolate state in the entire Jiuzhou Continent, then Yongliang Prefecture is the Yongzhou of the entire Yongzhou.
At this time, let alone cultivators, even ordinary people are hard to meet. I don't know what the Tao family thought at the beginning, and they actually moved to such a place. No wonder it only took a hundred years for the Tao family, which once produced a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, to fall to this point.
In a small valley dozens of miles away from Yongliang Prefecture, the four finally arrived at the destination of this time, Tao's family. It doesn't look like a family of immortal cultivators, but more like a country manor. In the middle are dozens of houses surrounded by a yard, and outside are farmlands that extend all the way to the outside of the valley.