Strange mountains and rivers

After bidding farewell to Zhou and Cao, Chen Huaisheng went straight to his hometown with complicated emotions.

Guzhen is located in the northwest of Liao County, while Yuanbaozhai, Luohamburger, Fengtongling and Heimuya stretch out like four fingers, and the palm of the hand is Guzhenyi.

Yuanbaozhai is equivalent to the little finger, extending to the bottom, and above it is equivalent to Fengtong Ridge where the ring finger is, and above it is equivalent to Blackwood Cliff on the middle finger, and the index finger is Luo Burger.

Chen Huaisheng did not stay in Guzhenyi, although it seemed quite lively. Compared with Zhugouguan, there were far fewer people there, and there was even a Xiaofang City.

Relying on the power of the Jianbu Talisman, Chen Huaisheng finally arrived at the door of his house at the right time.

In fact, Yuanbaozhai cannot be called just a village, but should be regarded as a village settlement.

Its location is like a gold ingot, hence its name Yuanbaoyuan.

It is high on all sides, and there is a circle of depressions going in, and then there is a slightly higher flat land in the middle, which is also the result of the original plateau.

Especially the north and south sides are the highest. The north side is called Motianping, and the south side is called Zheyunling.

A tributary of the Youhe River, called Changxi, flows in from a gap in the west, surrounds the plateau along the depression, and then flows out from the gap in the southeast corner.

Compared with the towering mountains in the north and south, the east and west sides are much lower, just some winding hills, and there are many depressions in them, which have become the main transportation route into Yuanbaoyuan.

Chen Huaisheng did not take the side of the valley where the Changxi River flows out, but took the trail further north. This is the main passage into Yuanbaoyuan from the east.

A wooden sentry tower that he had never seen before stood at the intersection. Chen Huaisheng was surprised and felt that something was wrong.

Not all people in Yuanbaozhai live in Yuanbaoyuan. In fact, there are more than 3,000 people and only 2,000 people live in Yuanbaoyuan, and there are more than 1,000 people living in the southeast outside the gap of Yuanbaoyuan along the long road On the valleys and skyscrapers on both sides of the stream.

Although the skyscraper is high, the top of the mountain is a flat land with an area of ​​about a thousand acres.

This place is full of spiritual energy. Nearly a hundred acres have been cultivated to grow Jiahe and jade wheat, and the rest are planted with millet and wheat used by the common people. There are nearly a hundred households and five to six hundred people living here.

The sentinel on the sentry tower also saw Chen Huaisheng walking quickly and alone.

"Whoever comes, stop!"

Chen Huaisheng stopped and looked up, but he didn't recognize who it was for a moment.

There are nearly 4,000 people in Yuanbaozhai, divided into five major surnames and about a dozen minor surnames.

The five major surnames account for more than 400 households and nearly 3,000 people, namely Chen, Yin, Zheng, Song, and Zou.

The two surnames Chen and Yin have the largest population, followed by the three surnames Zheng, Song, and Zou, and the rest are other minor surnames such as Huang, Liu, and Sun.

"If you are a visitor, you'd better go back as soon as possible. Yuanbaozhai is very unsafe right now and we can't receive guests at all..." The people on the sentry tower were quite polite, "If you are a hunter, Yuanbaozhai welcomes you. Just need help hunting.”

What comes next is intriguing. Ordinary visitors are not welcome, but hunters are welcome. What does that mean?

Chen Huaisheng didn't bother to think too much, "I am Chen Huaisheng, the sixth eldest son of the seventeenth room in the Chen family..."

Hearing what Chen Huaisheng said, the people above him suddenly became excited, slid down the ladder, walked over quickly, and looked at Chen Huaisheng up and down.

"Huaisheng from the seventeenth room? You are back. I am the twenty-second Taoist student from the ninth room."

Chen Huaisheng was also a little messy in the wind.

If the Chen family were divided into more than thirty rooms in total, it would have too many branches over the years, and each room could basically involve three or four generations, so it was too difficult for him to recall who the twenty-two of the nine rooms were at once. It’s embarrassing.

However, he claimed to be twenty-two and also mentioned his name. Chen Huaisheng could also roughly know the genealogy. Anyway, they were all from the Chen family.

"Brother Daosheng, what's going on? Why did you build a sentry tower?" Chen Huaisheng exchanged greetings with the man in his thirties who approached, "What happened?"

The burly man was still holding a hunting knife in his hand, with a frightened look on his face, "You have been gone for a few years, and you don't know the situation here, especially in the past few months, a lot of things have happened here. ,..."

"I was imprisoned in Zhugou for a night, and I heard that there were more monsters?" Chen Huaisheng keenly felt that this was probably the case.

Fengtong Ridge and Luohamburger are only a few dozen miles away from here. Besides, it is a mountain road. For people, it is a long way across several mountains. Ordinary people may not be able to go there in a few years.

For monsters such as the Ghost-beaked Tit and the Bald-tailed Wolf, it is meaningless. An hour of running can take you a whole day.

It wants to attack a certain place, but it doesn't care about the distance in the minds of humans.

"Hey, have you heard about it too?" The burly man said with a ferocious face, "Damn, last month a red-tailed wolf came to Motianping and wandered there for several days. Two of the Chen family died, and the Yin family Three died, one from each of the Zheng and Song families, and four others died..."

Chen Huaisheng took a breath of cold air, more than ten people died at once, and they must all be strong.

"I had no choice but to invite a casual cultivator from Guzhenyi. I paid him 20 spirit stones and two pounds of magic golden vines, but he only stayed for three days..." The tall man gritted his teeth and said, "I just ran away. The spirit stones retreated." Halfway through, we didn't give the Golden Golden Vine, and we agreed to kill the red-tailed wolf, but as a result, he had two encounters with the red-tailed wolf and didn't dare to go up to it."

"How heavy is the loose cultivation energy?" Chen Huaisheng asked subconsciously.

"I just broke through the first level of Qi refining..." The burly man's face was also a little ugly: "This guy is not very capable, and he doesn't have any magic weapons. Instead, he blames us for our poor cooperation and not having enough weapons and magic tools to deal with it. Damn it, if we had A magic weapon of sufficient weight is still worth spending a lot of money to invite him to come to?"

The red-tailed wolf is a character with higher combat power among the first-order monsters. It is stronger than the ghost-beaked tit, but the ghost-beaked tit flies fast and is small, making it harder to hunt.

Anyone who knows anything knows that if you want to hunt down the red-tailed wolf, you need at least the second level of Qi Refining.

When facing the red-tailed wolf at the first level of Qi Refining, the best thing you can do is protect yourself. If you want to hunt it down, you need considerable assistance or other auxiliary magic weapons.

There have been one or two Taoist cultivators in Yuanbaozhai almost every year for so many years, but there are very few who have become Taoists, and even if there are those who have become Taoists, they are basically no longer in the local area and have gone to other metropolitan areas.

The only ones left behind are those who have never entered the Tao.

Although their own combat power is much stronger than that of ordinary mortals, when it comes to hunting down red-tailed wolves with a Qi Refining Level 1, without adequate training and supplemented by special magical tools and talismans, they may not be able to cope with it. .

From the perspective of the casual cultivators, Yuanbaozhai's lack of cooperation is correct.

"Why go to Guzhenyi to invite people and not go to the county to invite people from Lingyun Sect?" Chen Huaisheng couldn't help but asked: "Lingyun Sect should at least have a Taoist temple in the county, right?"

"Lingyun Sect seems to have had trouble at home." The burly man shook his head, "We went to the county first to look for Lingyun Sect's people, but there were only two people from Lingyun Sect staying in the county. I heard that this was the case. Son, I refused directly, saying that I didn’t have the energy to take care of such small things for the time being.”

When he was in Dingling, Chen Huaisheng heard from Cai Jinyang and Qiao Zhun that the Lingyun Sect did not attach much importance to Liao County and the small counties of Pang County.

Although Yiyang Prefecture is nominally its base, Dingling, Xiyang, Zhugao, and Anfeng counties are the counties that Lingyun Sect values ​​most.

In addition, he is actively competing with Baishimen for influence in Huozhou Prefecture, so he doesn't care much about Liao County and Pang County, two counties with a small population and located in the south.

Chen Huaisheng was also speechless.

Even Lingyun Sect, a local sect, can't control it by itself, who else can you count on?

Of course, it seems impossible to say how much damage a first-level monster can cause to a place.

That's about ten lives. Monsters are always going to cause harm to the place. Which county in this mountainous area doesn't kill thirty or fifty people every year because of this situation?

It's just that the red-tailed wolf killed more than ten people at once. The key is that the wolf has not been able to hunt and kill, and it will continue to harm this area.

As for Lingyun Sect's reputation, it's hard to say whether it was an excuse or whether something really happened.

While the two were talking, a sound of gongs came from the distance again, and the burly man's expression suddenly changed: "It's the black-tailed wolf that's coming!"

"Isn't it a red-tailed wolf?" Chen Huaisheng asked in surprise, thinking that the other party had made a mistake out of desperation.

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