Chapter 106: Kitayama Castle

Taoist Aoki didn't want to fall into a sad mood. He turned off the topic and said:
"If this spirit-gathering elemental array can continue to refine, the effect of the spirit-gathering can be increased by 10 to 20%. In addition, I estimate that there should be room for improvement in the array..."
To cast the Frost Knife, the Guixi Department must first place the iron of the forged blade in a cold place for several years to get rid of impurities.
Speaking of putting impurities in a place with ample spiritual energy, Chen Xun thought that there is no more suitable place than the virtual element space, and asked Taoist Qingmu: "How can I improve the spirit gathering elementary formation?"
"I heard that the Yunzhou sect has a secret talisman, which can be used exclusively for refining to store the magic. If you can replace the six mysterious talisman bronze seals with the magic amulet, I guess the power of the magic circle can be stronger. It’s just that what I have learned throughout my life is limited, and the hope of improving the Spirit Gathering Element Formation can only be pinned on you..."
Chen Xun thought to himself that even if the Ju Ling Fu Yuan Array could not be improved, Daoist Qingmu's achievements in making talisman refiners were not comparable to those of master craftsmen.
In the past year and a half, in addition to refining a set of spiritual gathering elements with Taoist Qingmu, in addition to learning the method of refining, more importantly, he has learned and experience of Taoist Qingmu's life on the talisman making device. , Have all learned.
In this way, he not only improved the Spirit Gathering Element Formation, but also refined other magic formations and runes.

The next day, Chen Xun and Zong Ya went to the Walled City of Tianma Lake to prepare some items needed for a long trip.
Although not as cold as the cold wave three years ago, this year, after the winter in Mangyaling Beishan, it was also exceptionally cold.
The Wild Horse Creek is frozen, the mountains far and near have long been covered with white snow, and there are even small-scale herds of animals on the edge of the North Mountain.
However, after the Tianma Lake Walled City was formed, more than a thousand casual repairs poured in. Small-scale beasts appeared on the outskirts of Tianma Lake. It was called killing all the scattered repairs, and it did not threaten the black mountains and black snakes further south. Of the stockade.
Over the ridge of Canglong Ridge, which is like a knife-edged upside down, Tianma Lake’s east and west walled city stands on both sides of the Yema Creek. The stone walls are high. There are iron cables running between the two cities and thick slabs are laid to form a huge iron cable bridge for carriages and horses.
Xicheng is the territory of the Guixi Ministry, and Dongcheng is the territory of the Nine Clan.
Chen Xun would not run to the West City if nothing happened, and the Xunxianzhai run by Zhao Tu was also in the East City.
The stone wall is more than ten meters high, and the ancient seal with the word "Beishan" is engraved on the stone beam of the south city gate.
Chen Xun looked up at the two characters ancient seal, and smiled slightly:
The Guixie Department built a Walled City in the West City. It was named after Tianma. The nine ethnic groups did not follow suit to build the East City. Instead, they took the word "Beishan" alone, which is somewhat intriguing.
Chen Xun, as a guest of the Nine Clan, but was hired by the Nine Clan and never entered Beishan City. The Nine Clan’s two Yuan Pills every month were delivered to Xunxianzhai on time. He was somewhat ashamed.
Two long and criss-cross streets traverse the city, and there are endless streams of traffic. Along the streets are shops selling tea, salt, cloth, iron, and various fresh products.
Zuo Chonggu was promoted by the nine ethnic groups as the city lord of Beishan City.
At this time, there were more than ten shops specializing in the collection and sale of cultivation resources such as Xunxianzhai in the East City, all of which were built around the city lord's mansion.
At this time, a majestic scaly horse galloped up the street.
The scale horse is very spiritual, fast and fast, and can still flexibly avoid other carriages, horses, and pedestrians. You can see Zuo Qiu's body penetrating through the armor of the faint spiritual memory, jumping from the scale horse, and walking over happily, hugging Chen Xun, Zong Ya's arm laughed loudly:
"Haha, I heard someone came into the city with a blue-skinned leopard, I guessed it was you."
Seeing an acquaintance, A Qing jumped with excitement, leaped at Zuoqiu's face and licked.
Zuoqiu was so scared to hide, and asked Chen Xun, "What kind of alien is your leopard? Why don't you have the slightest majestic aura?"
The ordinary black leopard has a lifespan of three to five hundred years. At this time, Ah Qing, who was only in his early three years, was still a baby. Chen Xun laughed and watched as Ah Qing was jumping around in the city, and said to Zuo Qiu :
"During this period, I have been practicing with Senior Aoki, and I forgot to take a trip to Beishan."
"My uncle is in good health?" Zuoqiu asked with concern. "My uncle doesn't allow me to wait for a visit. I don't know how his old man is doing?"
"Senior Aoki will practice in retreat after a while, maybe you should go and meet." Chen Xun said.
"Ah..." Hearing what Chen Xun said, Zuoqiu knew that his uncle was going to sit dead this time. If he couldn't break through, he would sit down and return his soul to the wild.
Standing on the street, Zuoqiu was filled with melancholy for a while. After a while, he still said with emotion, "My uncle persuaded the tribe to ask the uncle to return to Zuo Ji, but he has no intention of this. ."
Chen Xun was inconvenient to comment on the internal affairs of the Zuojibu, but he also knew that Zuo Chonggu was determined to expand, and only then thought about bringing back Daoist Qingmu who was expelled from the tribe 30 years ago.
Taoist Aoki has no intention of mundane affairs, but even if he doesn't return to the Zuosashi Department, he always cares about his tribe.
It is said that if you want to cultivate, you will feel mundane, but who can do it easily?
Leaving aside this heavy topic, Chen Xun said:
"Zhao Tu is in the city. He usually takes care of him a lot. I should have come to thank you earlier; I have only shown up until now. On the left side of the clan leader, won't you blame me?"
"What do you do with these polite remarks, it is natural for you to practice cultivation now?" Zuo Qiu smiled, "It happened that you left the customs this time, Qianlan and Master Lingyin are now in the city as guests..."
Hearing that Su Lingyin and Qianlan were also in the city, Chen Xun was taken aback, thinking that although the Nine Clan’s nasty incidents had happened secretly in the past two years with the Guixi Tribe, on the surface they were unhappy, and I have not heard of them recently. Something special happened. As the elder of the Academy, what did Su Lingyin run to Beishan?
As for Su Lingyin, Chen Xun was also inconvenient to inquire about Zuoqiu.
"That's great, I haven't seen Qianlan for almost three years," Chen Xun felt warm when thinking of the stubborn little girl back then, and asked, "Is Jianfeng in the city?"
"Jianfeng just took a group of people out of the city the day before, and he should be back in two days; he kept telling me that he would go to Wu Mang to see you, but he was afraid to disturb your cultivation..."
In addition to hiring Keqing, the Nine Clan also dispatched barbarians to form the Xuncheng Camp as a standing force. At this time, there were more than 120 elite barbarians above the middle rank, and there were six Wumang who entered the Xuncheng Camp and waited for dispatch.
The cultivation base is only part of the strength.
Zuo Qiu stepped down on the scale horse, body armor, and profound soldiers at the waist. It can be said that they are all first-class equipment of the True Sun Realm. Even if the cultivation base is only increased to the eighth level of the marrow washing, the combat power is less than before. More than double.
More than one hundred and twenty elite savage weapons, all equipped with armor mounts, for the moment, they can still contend with the forces of the Gui Xi Bu in the West Bank.
As early as many years ago, Zuo Chonggu was only half a step away from the birth-returning state. Last winter, he was given an elixir by Su Lingyin and finally entered the birth-returning state. He is currently the first person of the nine races.
From this point of view, Su Lingyin was much more authentic than the rest of the Su family, and he didn't have to accept the thousands of spiritual pills that the Nine Clan enshrines every year without giving any return.
Su Lingyin gave the elixir, and more importantly, showed the posture. It was also a key reason for the Nine Clan to contend with the ghost tribe and restrain other casual cultivators.
As the Lord of Beishan City, Zuo Chonggu also personally controls Xuncheng Camp.
Zuoqiu, Gu Chen, Gu Jianfeng and others all held important positions in the City Lord’s Mansion and Xuncheng Camp.
In the past two years, Zuo Chonggu mobilized a large number of people to build Beishan City, and at the same time attracted diasporas and encouraged all ethnic groups to move their populations to the East City.
At present, in addition to the highly mobile casual repairs and business trips in Dongcheng, more than 20,000 wild people have entered the city, which is comparable to a small town.
The wild tribe has a characteristic, that is, like the birds, beasts, and plants on the wasteland, they are extremely fertile.
Although the tribes of the northern mountains in Mangyaling lost nearly half of their population during the three-year cold wave beast attack, only two or three years have passed, and the villages of Manzhai are all dolls rolling in the mud.
In even less than ten years, Beishan’s lost population will be completely made up.
This also provides vitality for Beishan City.
A large number of people have moved in, and the main products of the nine ethnic groups have gathered. In terms of population and trade scale, Beishan City quickly overwhelmed Tianma City controlled by the Guixie Ministry in less than two years.
In the past two years, except for Su Lingyin and Su Qingfeng who enshrine the treasures of heaven, material and earth, and medicinal herbs worth almost five or six thousand talisman, all the profits obtained by Beishan City have been used in the construction of the city and the construction of Xuncheng .
For the other eight ethnic groups, it is also quite worthwhile.
In the past year, a large number of Wumeng products have been distributed through Xunxianzhai, and the benefits they have obtained are far beyond the past.
The once-in-a-year cold wave is the biggest survival threat for the Beishan tribes, and perhaps the construction of Beishan City has changed.