C20 Seventh Young Master of the Xun Family
Even though it was just a small town based on Lanxin City, it was more than ten kilometers wide. With a few million people living here, it was obviously a small city, the only difference being that there were no city walls.
"Have you heard? Ten days ago, Ou Family sent some people to capture the slaves in the villages of the mortals, but one small team never came back. Ou Family later sent people to search for them, but not only could they not find them, they found out that the nearby villages had long since become deserted! "
"Is this disappearance real? I heard about it yesterday, too. I thought it was just a rumor spread by some people. "
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In a restaurant, some people were talking about recent events. In a nearby window, a white robed Shaang Ni was sitting there, listening to the conversations of the others in the restaurant. Although many people were talking quietly, they couldn't escape his sensitive hearing.
"Ou Family?" Shaang Ni stood up, placed down a piece of Spirit Stone, and left the restaurant. Spirit Stone had already been killed ten days ago, and from the Storage Bag that he had obtained from these few people, there were also some other items. He had already given the visualization diagram and cultivation technique to Uncle Ming and the others.
He had been in Tang Family Bay for the past eight days, so he had a certain understanding of the place. Tang Family Bay was controlled by the Ou, Xun, and Fu Clan, and there were still some gangs of various sizes, but these gangs were all subordinate to the three great clans.
After Shaang Ni left the restaurant, he came to a chaotic market. Not only was there a trade for the Spirit Artifact Pill, the most important thing was to find out more detailed information about it.
"Eh, Shaang Ni, you're here too, are you here for a trade?" A voice sounded. It was a young man wearing a grey robe.
"Hehe, so it's big brother Koo Jun. I have nothing better to do today, so I'm just walking around." Koo Jun, Shaang Ni met him when he just arrived at Tang Family Bay. The two were a year older than him, and the two lived in the same tavern. Every time Shaang Ni saw him, he would always feel that something was weighing down on his mind.
"Oh, I thought you were going to come here to trade. Do you want to drink together when we get back tonight?" Koo Jun and Shaang Ni had drank two nights of wine, and the two chatted merrily. Koo Jun was more direct with his speech, and did not like to beat around the bush.
"Hehe, actually, I have other thoughts too. I heard from someone that we can gather information about this place, and two days ago, we heard that Ou Family is recruiting many spirit miners. So we came here to inquire about the situation." Shaang Ni said with a smile. He still remembered the last words of Ding and Uncle Ming.
"Ou Family Spirit Mine!?" Koo Jun's face suddenly turned a bit dark when he heard that.
"What's wrong?" Shaang Ni noticed the change in Koo Jun's face and his eyes flashed. He felt that Koo Jun seemed to know something, so he remained silent and pretended to ask in a strange manner.
"Follow me!" The two of them returned to their rented inn in silence. When Shaang Ni followed Koo Jun into his room, they saw that Koo Jun's expression was serious, and he was very careful to check the situation outside the door. Shaang Ni only closed the door after he made sure that no one was around.
"Big brother Koo Jun, what's going on with you?" You want to be so careful? " Shaang Ni guessed that Koo Jun would reveal some unknown secrets.
"Brother Shaang Ni, you want to join Ou Family's mining army?" Koo Jun asked with a serious expression on his face.
"Mm, I do have this plan. I want to earn some cultivation resources to increase my strength. Is there a problem?" Shaang Ni sensed that something was wrong with Koo Jun's tone, so he asked while pretending not to understand.
I was originally a rogue cultivator, and I had a brother. Just over a year ago, my brother joined the mine team to get more cultivation resources, so I made an agreement with him for a year, but when the time was agreed upon, he didn't come back, so I started to ask around. Do you know what kind of information I had gathered? Koo Jun's voice was low and filled with sadness.
"What did you find out?"
"When the heart of the mine appears in the spirit vein, a large amount of demonic energy is released. Even the Spiritual Cultivator would not be able to last for more than a year in the mine, and will only know how to kill! All the miners were forced to enter the mines once they reached the mines. As time passed, word of the matter would spread and gradually, no one would be willing to go, so Ou Family began to capture and mine people from the surrounding mortal villages! " Speaking up to here, Koo Jun's eyes were filled with anger.
"In the village where I was born, everyone was captured. In the end, not even the elderly and children were spared! Just half a month ago, my parents were also captured. I came here to save them! So you must not go, for the past few years, there have been no breakthroughs in the Ou Family mines! " Koo Jun clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into the flesh of his palms!
"What!?" Shaang Ni was shocked by Koo Jun's words. He had thought of many possibilities, but did not expect it to be like this. He calmed down and said: "Then how do you plan to save your parents?"
"I don't know either. I have been at the market area for the past few days, inquiring about the location and environment of the Ou Family mine. I plan to sneak in and see if I can find Father and Mother first." Koo Jun's voice was filled with grief and indignation. He guessed that his brother was probably in trouble, but his parents had only been captured for half a month. He still held onto that last sliver of hope.
"To tell you the truth, I also wanted to look for someone in the mine, but it's been a year. Now that you mention it, the person I'm looking for is probably dead. Ai!" He originally wanted to join the mining army to find Ding's brother, but now it seemed that there was no need. In that kind of environment, a mortal probably wouldn't be able to survive for half a year, or even shorter.
"You also …?" Koo Jun looked at Shaang Ni in surprise. Surprisingly, he had the same goal, but it was too long a period of time since he could not find Shaang Ni even if he wanted to.
Shaang Ni bid farewell to Koo Jun and walked alone on the street. He was feeling a little down as he had promised Ding and Uncle Ming, but now he realized that it was impossible. The person he was looking for was the elder brother of Ding, the eldest son of Uncle Ming.
"Out of the way, all of you!" Just as Shaang Ni was engrossed in his thoughts, a carriage suddenly came from the front and drove away all the people walking in the middle of the street. Although Tang Family Bay was the gathering place of the Spiritual Cultivator, there were still many mortals there, and at this moment, a little mortal child who was only a few years old stood in the middle of the street.
After he put down the child, the mother of the child immediately took the child and thanked Shaang Ni. Shaang Ni's eyes were filled with anger as he glared at the driver and the two youths, one male and one female, also happened to look in Shaang Ni's direction. Seeing Shaang Ni's gaze, the woman was instantly displeased.
"Where did this brat come from? His eyes are truly annoying!" the woman said in a haughty voice.
"Oh, Ling'er, if you don't like it, how about I cut out his eyes! Xun Er, dig out that brat's eyes and have him kneel down and apologize! " The young man said to the driver as he pointed at Shaang Ni.
The driver called Xun Er stopped the carriage and jumped down from the carriage, walking towards Shaang Ni. When Shaang Ni saw the person's robe, there was a word: Xun on the chest: "It's the people from the Xun Family of the three great families!"
"Brat, it's fine if you meddle in other people's business, but you're still looking at my Seventh Young Master like that. You can only blame yourself for being blind!" As Xun Er spoke, he reached out his hand to grab Shaang Ni, but how could Shaang Ni let him grab it? He dodged and retreated.
"What great prestige, it was unreasonable that he almost bumped into someone!" Shaang Ni said.
"Haha, how laughable. In Tang Family Bay, my Xun Family is the truth. Those mortals that splashed everywhere, let alone one of them, even if it was ten or a hundred of them, it doesn't matter!" At this moment, the young man from the carriage also walked down and said indifferently to Shaang Ni.
"It's actually Xun Family Seventh Young Master. Hey, what's so annoying about this young man? He has to offend Seventh Young Master, I think he's going to die for sure!"
"This young man is too reckless, who doesn't know Seventh Young Master is famous for being a popinjay in Tang Family Bay …"
"Shh, lower your voice. Do you want to die? "If you dare to discuss this with Seventh Young Master, you should hurry up and leave. Be careful or else you might get involved too!"
"I heard Seventh Young Master became Spiritual Disciple half a year ago. This young man is in trouble!"
The surrounding people kept on discussing, but they did not dare to shout out loud, afraid that Seventh Young Master would hear something that would bring disaster to them. Some people spread out and kept a distance from Shaang Ni.