Chapter 200: Getting Together Midnight Curfew

The outer city area of ​​Qianzhou Daocheng is extremely dangerous. Generally speaking, only those desperadoes who think they have powerful powers, or those who have to go to the outer city to make a lot of money, will often go there to hunt and hunt. Treasure hunt.

More importantly, I am actually willing to suffer in the inner city. After all, although life in the inner city is frustrating, it is not very risky.

But if you go out of the city to wander in the outer city, once you die, everything will be lost.

Yu Lie thought about this, and there was a troubled look on his face.

To be honest, if there was a better opportunity, he wouldn't want to venture into the outer city.

He has a cautious temperament. When he was a Taoist boy, he could work hard for more than a year, accumulating thick and thin. Now he is cautious and has achieved success in cultivation. Even if his mind is agitated, he is more willing to accumulate slowly.

Concerned, Yu Lie sighed softly on his face: "It's a pity that time waits for no one."

Now it is less than half a year since he turned eighteen.

If he does not prepare some resources and means for his survival in this short half year, when he takes the Tao Palace test, he will probably lose this rare opportunity and be unable to enter the Tao Palace at once.

According to what Yu Fenggao said, if you take one slow step, you will probably be slow every step of the way and for the rest of your life.

Even if Yu Lie only delays for one year and can worship in the Taoist Palace again the next year, the gap of this one year will probably turn into decades of ups and downs in the future, which will be difficult to make up for.

As for what the consequences will be, Yu Lie still doesn't know, and Yu Fenggao didn't talk about it in detail, but it must be enough to make people regret.

And according to what Yu Fenggao vaguely revealed, a large part of the annual Taoist palace test is related to foreign worlds and alien creatures. Even if it is not involved, if the Taoist disciples participating in the test have rich experience in traveling outside the territory, they will also It will be a big plus and cannot be ignored!

The above two points are the main reasons for Yu Lie to go to the outer city.

In particular, he is a Taoist disciple from the Heihe River Basin. This group of Taoist disciples from Heihe have no experience in entering the secret realm. If Yu Lie does not go out to hang out in the outer city, he may be Compared with ordinary Taoist disciples, they have even less experience.

Thinking about it, Yu Lie's eyes were firm, and he no longer had so many worries, but instead began to think about how he should ensure the safety of his experience in the outer city.

Yu Lie thought in his mind:

"Generally speaking, when you go out to the outer city for the first time, it's best to pay someone to lead the way, or join a powerful team. But I don't have any extra spirit stones in my hands at the moment, and I'm not familiar with the place..."

Cousin Yu Fenggao is a good candidate, but the other party has been busy preparing for the next Dao Palace test recently. Sister-in-law Luo Sen refused to even let him go out to work for fear of delaying Yu Fenggao's cultivation.

If Yu Lie wanted to let the other party take him to hang out in a dangerous outer city, he would probably get a rejection and hurt the relationship between both parties.

Apart from Yu Fenggao, Yu Lie has no other familiar, reluctant but trustworthy people in the city for the time being. He didn't dare to just find a team and join in the adventure in the outer city.

Because before departure, both sides of the team will sign a contract with each other and cannot attack each other. If there is any violation, once discovered, the Taoist court will severely punish them, and even deprive them of the Taoist treasure for decades.

But this also requires that the person who went out has a chance to come back alive before he can report on the other party again.

If the person cannot come back and no one reports him, the Taoist Court will not repeatedly interrogate other people for a dead person.

Only those who have signed a contract that must ensure the safety of their employer, and if the employer dies, the rest of the team will suffer heavy penalties, can this be considered the best way to ensure safety.

However, if you want to sign such a contract with other people in the team, you have to spend a lot of spiritual stones, which is equivalent to hiring the entire team by one person. Yu Lie does not have so many spiritual stones.

After thinking about it, Yu Lie's mind suddenly fell on someone.

His eyes flickered, thinking in his mind: "Miaomu, fellow Taoist Miao..."

Although this person was his enemy, he didn't know that it was Yu Lie who broke her arm. Whether the two of them were enemies or not was a question.

Moreover, Miaomu's strength is similar to that of Yu Lie. If there is a conflict, it is not certain who will live and who will die.

What's even more special is that if Yu Lie's guess is correct, this woman is most likely one of the Taoist disciples who have been messing around in the outer city.

In the diving hotel, most of the Taoist disciples who have just entered the Taoist city choose to work in the workshop and become Taoist priests.

However, there are also a small number of Taoist disciples who cannot get used to such a hard life and are unwilling to rely on others. They are more willing to venture into dangerous outer city areas.

The more Taoist disciples come from small and dangerous places, the more likely they are to hang out in outer cities.

Yu Lie thought about it for a moment, and immediately decided to go find Miaomu first.

He thought in his heart: "Even if Miaomu is not one of the Taoist disciples hanging out in the outer city, she does not have a stable livelihood and no permanent property in the city, and her relationship with the Taoist disciples in the outer city should be closer. I can also pass She went to inquire about it. And, I can persuade her to go out together..."

After sorting things out, Yu Lie immediately pushed open the door and walked out of the medicine refining hut where he had been in seclusion for many days.

Buzz!

The formation opened, followed by a clang sound.

Outside the door of Yu Lie's medicine refining compartment, there were actually some bottles and jars placed, blocking the small door of the small house. As soon as the door was opened, it was pushed down.

A voice of surprise sounded: "Hey! It's Fellow Daoist Yu. Fellow Daoist, you can be considered released from seclusion. How about it? Your cultivation has greatly increased? Have you achieved a breakthrough?"

A curious voice came from the rosacea Taoist disciple, who popped up from a corner with his head stretched out.

This made Yu Lie's originally happy mood suddenly dim as if he heard the crow of a crow.

To be more precise, Yu Liebi frowned secretly when he heard the crow.

The man with rosacea turned a blind eye. He sniffed, looked at the rest of the team suspiciously, and muttered: "I can't see any change in my cultivation. What on earth did you do in the cubicle? This delay was in vain." So many days of work.”

This guy's cultivation level is far above the rest. He is an old Taoist disciple. He is in his forties and belongs to the lower rank of the eighth rank. He has been a lower rank Taoist disciple for many years.

Therefore, Rosacea can roughly identify Yu Lie's true energy through his aura.

Yu Lie just cupped his hands and said calmly: "Pindao's retreat has delayed the business of the pharmacy. Fellow Taoists can just cut off Pindao's share of the money. There is no need to be polite."

After saying that, he immediately closed the compartment door and left.

Only Rosacea was left hurriedly walking out, looking at his leaving back with half annoyance and half suspicion.

Rosacea snorted: "You kid, I haven't seen you for a few days, and your attitude is even more rude than before. You are simply inferior to your predecessors!"

On Yu Lie's side, he heard the cold snort of the rosaceous Taoist disciple behind him, and he also sneered in his heart:

"Old man, I'll give you something good sooner or later!"

If Yu Lie was still quite hesitant about leaving the city and did not dare to go alone, but he was not afraid at all just from having a conflict with this rosacea.

Because for old Taoist disciples like Rosacea who are working hard in the Tao city, let alone a low-level Taoist disciple, even if the opponent is a mid-level Taoist, it is difficult for him to master high-level spells.

Otherwise, the other party would never end up in an inferior pharmacy and have to work hard.

As for superior magicians, generally speaking, only those who are also superior magicians can compete, pursue, and restrain them.

Taoists use talismans and other things that are more powerful than the best spells, because after all they are foreign objects, they cannot be used as they wish, and they are not as convenient as spells.

As long as Rosacea doesn't have any superior spells in his hand, Yu Lie can basically escape from him even if he can't defeat the opponent, and at most he will suffer a small loss.

However, Yu Lie was not going to fall out with Rosacea on the spot, and he would just continue to ignore him for now.

After sneering, Yu Lie hurriedly walked out of the pharmacy.

But when Yu Lie walked out of the workshop, and was about to step out of the workshop completely, his steps suddenly stopped, and he froze near the door of the workshop, and did not step out of the door again.

Yu Lie frowned and looked at the sky, then looked back at the huge time sign in the workshop, frowned and said to himself:

"I didn't expect that now is the time to be ugly."

After being in seclusion for many days, Yu Lie couldn't distinguish between hours. He saw the lights in the pharmacy were brightly lit, the fishy smell was everywhere, and the Taoist boys were busy, so he subconsciously thought it was still daytime.

As a result, when I came out now, it was pitch black outside the workshop.

The workshop, which was originally very busy and crowded during the day, now became silent and strange.

In the thick darkness of the night, those plaques and other objects that were partially glowing with spiritual light were also dim. There were only silent spirit boats and hearses floating uninhabited in the Dao City like ghost carriages.

Qianzhou Daocheng was as quiet as death in the middle of the night, and there was no sign of any living creatures in the city.

Even though he had mastered the advanced wind control skills and was good at escaping, Yu Lie wisely found a place near the workshop gate with a slightly stronger aura, and meditated cross-legged on the spot without setting foot outside the workshop. Half step.

Because in Qianzhou Daocheng, there is such a rule:

When the time comes, you will be responsible for life and death!

During the day and early midnight in Qianzhou Daocheng, the rules are strict and the laws are complete. Many ghosts and gods are everywhere and pervasive like flies, ensuring the operation of the Daocheng and suppressing many Taoists.

But when Zishi comes, the entire Taoist city will seem to be sleeping, and there will be no ghosts and gods wandering on the streets. Only in major workshops, hotels, buildings, etc., there are still Taoist laws, and no one can do anything about it. If you violate the law, you will be severely punished, even worse!

As for the places outside the buildings such as workshops, hotels, and buildings, it is possible to fight and fight, and Taoists each rely on their abilities.

As for why there is such a rule that hinders livelihood in the bustling inner city area, and what its purpose is, Yu Lie is not sure.

What he only knows is that once midnight arrives, unless it is a big deal, do not leave the hotel or other places. Otherwise, if you go out on the street, you will probably be picked up, collected, and guarded. The body will be picked up the next day. Disappeared without a trace.

Of course, if you are brave, you can also go to the streets in advance to collect other people's corpses and hunt for windfalls.

Yu Lie cautiously sat cross-legged inside the workshop door until the end of Yinshi, then opened his eyes and looked outside the workshop.

It was not far from sunrise at this time, and it was the time of day when the weather was the coldest and darkest. Faintly, Yu Lie seemed to hear whistling and roaring sounds coming from the streets in the distance.

In the past, he would leave the workshop when the sky got slightly dark and return to the coffin to practice breathing, so he had not seen the Daocheng after that.

Suddenly, Yu Lie's ears twitched slightly, and he realized that he had heard correctly. There was indeed movement somewhere outside the workshop.

A Taoist with a frightened face suddenly ran out of the darkness.

He was still wearing the Taoist robe from the workshop, and he seemed to be from the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce. He looked young, but Yu Lie didn't recognize him.

The spiritual light in the Taoist body faded, and when he saw the door of the workshop, surprise burst out in his eyes.

When he saw someone else in front of the gate, the frightened Taoist shouted: "This fellow Taoist, save me!"

Yu Lie raised his eyelids slightly, but looked at the other party indifferently and stood still.

Whoosh, right behind the opponent, arrows were immediately shot out from the darkness, and a piece of talisman turned into a golden knife and struck quickly.

The man rushed towards the door with all his strength, and a flash of light suddenly appeared on his body, dragging out a series of afterimages. He narrowly avoided the attack and approached the door of the workshop. After passing the dividing line, he was inside the workshop.

The Taoist's face showed ecstasy.

At this time, two vague Taoist figures walked out of the darkness behind him. Both of them just looked at the fleeing Taoist quietly without raising their hands. They seemed to know that they had lost the chance to capture and kill the fleeing Taoist. Last chance.

The escaping Taoist swooped and successfully ran into the workshop and crossed the dividing line.

In an instant, the man's face showed even greater joy, as well as the joy of surviving the disaster.

He turned his head and looked at the two Taoists who had stopped behind him, and then at Yu Lie who was standing not far away.

The Taoist was overjoyed, and was about to say something as he turned to Yu Lie, who was not far away.

But something clicked.

The happy look on the Taoist's face froze, he smiled strangely, his neck tilted, and his head suddenly fell off.

Bang!

His body burst into pieces and turned into a puddle of bright red flesh, pressed tightly against the door of the workshop, as if it was a smear of blood from a mosquito that had been swatted to death.

Faceless ghosts emerged from nowhere, with human bodies and hands, and muttered stupidly: "Curfew, curfew, those who go must not be remonstrated, and those who come must die."

"Die, die, die!"

The ghosts chanted in unison, whizzing and pounced on the blood stains, and rolled up the bones and blood, making the ground as clean as new.

Only a head and an empty Taoist robe floated up, lifted up by the ghost, and flew back into the workshop strangely.

Yu Lie looked in the direction where the ghost flew and saw another Taoist.

The Taoist was pointing at the door of the workshop, his body steaming with energy, and his dark robes were windless and automatic.

This Taoist was also faceless, but he seemed to be aware of Yu Lie's gaze.

Seeing Yu Lie looking over, Wu Mian bowed to Yu Lie from a distance, and then retreated into a corner of the workshop.