Chapter 714: Little Yu

A Yi walked in front, pulling a cart of stones angrily.

Li Li Banfeng followed behind, pushing the cart angrily.

A Yi asked angrily: "Do you know how much effort I spent to enter the Nine-Fold Gate of Hao Prefecture?"

Li Li Banfeng asked back angrily: "What did you spend so much effort to enter the Nine-Fold Gate of Hao Prefecture for?"

"I did it to get the seed soil!"

"Didn't you already get it?"

"I didn't get enough!"

"When do you plan to get enough?"

"When I can make an altar, I won't need to get it anymore."

"When do you plan to make an altar?"

"Only with the stones of the altar can I make an altar!"

"Aren't there stones now?"

"Who knows if these stones can make soil?"

"Can't so many stones make soil?"

A Yi said unconvinced: "What if none of them can? Don't I have to go a few more times and find stones from all over to be sure?"

Li Li Banfeng was also unconvinced: "Where do so many 'what ifs' come from?"

The two of them pulled the stones, arguing all the way, and returned to Gourd Head.

After unloading the cart, A Yi was still lingering in fear: "It was nearly impossible to escape just now. Before you go crazy, can you discuss it with me beforehand?"

Li Li Banfeng expressed confusion: "If I discussed it with you beforehand, would it still be called going crazy?"

A Yi said angrily: "I told you, Crazy Cultivation emphasizes retracting and expanding freely. Do you think you should go crazy for such a big matter?"

Li Li Banfeng expressed extreme confusion: "If I don't dare to go crazy for big matters, is that still called Crazy Cultivation?"

A Yi fell silent. She couldn't win an argument against Li Li Banfeng: "Forget it, stop spouting nonsense. Let's do serious business. Who knows which stone can be used."

The altar was so big that it was all blown into ruins, with stones everywhere. The flatbed cart A Yi temporarily made could only pull back a limited number of stones. These stones were selected by A Yi from different locations.

Li Li Banfeng picked up a stone and asked: "Can you make seed soil?"

A Yi shook her head repeatedly: "You're crazy beyond saving."

"He said he can't!" Li Li Banfeng put down a stone and picked up another, "Can you make seed soil?"

This one also said it couldn't.

After trying more than ten, Li Li Banfeng felt a stone was very special. Other stones were sharp-angled and irregular from the explosion, only this stone was relatively round.

He hugged the stone and asked: "Can you make seed soil?"

This stone's voice was small. Li Li Banfeng pressed his ear against the stone, listened for a long time, and looked up at A Yi: "He said he can't make seed soil. He said he is a first-class weapon."

"What?" A Yi was stunned for a moment, "He really told you that?"

Li Li Banfeng communicated with the stone again: "He said it, he's a first-class weapon."

Before the words fell, the stone cracked, splitting into a bloody mouth, biting at Li Li Banfeng's head.

The speed was so fast that A Yi saw afterimages.

Li Li Banfeng was a Cloud Three Traveling Cultivator, so his speed was naturally faster. He threw the stone into the distance.

The stone landed beside a pine tree, opened its mouth, and swallowed the pine tree in a few bites. It grew two branches as arms, two trunks as legs, grew a crown as a head, and grew two pine cones as eyes.

From stone to human form, it was completed in the blink of an eye. This stone monster sprayed a mouthful of pine oil, which landed on Li Li Banfeng's feet, first controlling Li Li Banfeng's footsteps, then immediately stepped forward and bit Li Li Banfeng's neck.

"Neck broken, broken, help!" Li Banfeng Yi let out a shrill cry. At the moment of being bitten,

Li Li Banfeng and Li Banfeng Yi swapped positions.

Li Li Banfeng directly used the Five-Horse-Dividing-Ruler technique, tearing the stone monster's limbs into pieces, but didn't break the stone monster's main body.

This was the quality of a first-class weapon; this stone monster could fight and could endure.

Li Li Banfeng and the stone monster circled each other for several rounds. A Yi shouted at the stone monster: "Stop fighting! You're in my territory, who are you showing off to?"

The stone monster said something to Li Li Banfeng, and Li Li Banfeng translated it for A Yi: "He said guarding the altar is his duty. As long as the altar is still there, he will fight us to the end!"

A Yi said: "The altar is no longer there now!"

The stone monster said something else, and Li Li Banfeng translated again: "He said he wants to avenge the altar. Taking one more enemy with him won't be in vain for his life's mission!"

A Yi laughed: "Fine, let all the old and young in the village come and take a look. I want to see how many enemies he can take with him!"

At A Yi's command, someone passed the word, and many villagers came to watch.

Seeing himself surrounded, the stone monster wasn't afraid. His body hung in mid-air, and he said a few words to Li Li Banfeng, preparing for a fierce battle.

Li Li Banfeng said: "This stone is really tough. He said killing one is enough, killing two is a profit, and today he wants to kill until not even a chicken or dog is left in this place."

A Yi laughed loudly, and the villagers followed suit.

For some reason, Li Li Banfeng also wanted to laugh.

There was a cornfield nearby. The stone monster burrowed into the field and ate half a mu of corn.

The corn stalks became limbs, the corn leaves became weapons, and the stone monster grabbed a two-foot-long corn beard and rushed toward a group of villagers.

An hour later, Uncle A Gen blew the lusheng, A Long played the moon lute, and the stone monster held the villagers' hands and danced happily.

A Yi called the stone monster over and offered him a glass of wine. After drinking, the stone monster was in a hurry to go back to dance,

but was stopped by A Yi.

"Seventh Brother, he seemed to speak just now. What did he say?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "He said he wouldn't surrender!"

A Yi shook her head: "I don't care if he surrenders or not. Ask him which of these stones can make soil? Say it or not?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "I've asked those stones, they all said they can't make soil."

A Yi gritted her teeth: "I don't believe it!"

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "Can stones lie?"

A Yi continued to grit her teeth: "I don't believe you!"

Li Li Banfeng said angrily: "Then why do you ask me?"

A Yi was speechless.

The monster asked: "You must know which stone can make soil. Say it or not?"

The stone monster asked Li Li Banfeng to translate: "He said he absolutely won't say!"

A Yi said angrily: "Then lock him up, blow music in his ears, and don't let him come out to dance!"

What kind of punishment is this?

Li Li Banfeng found it hard to understand, but he could confirm one thing: this stone had already been hit by some kind of Crazy Cultivation Technique, a technique Li Li Banfeng didn't know.

The stone was locked in the dungeon. Uncle A Gen and A Long played music in front of the dungeon door, and A Yun led the girls to sing in front of the dungeon door.

The stone monster persisted for more than an hour before speaking to Li Li Banfeng.

"He said he won't betray the stone that can make soil, but he wants to catch up with an old friend."

A Yi ordered the stone monster to be released.

The stone monster left the dungeon, searched through the pile of stones for a while, and found three stones, placing them to one side.

A Yi asked the stone monster: "Are these all your old friends?"

The stone monster didn't say much and continued to dance with A Yun.

Those three stones all cried out that they couldn't make soil.

A Yi took these three stones back to her residence and studied them with Li Li Banfeng.

Li Li Banfeng said: "Why don't I go back to the altar and get more stones? I'll go by myself, they might not discover me."

A Yi shook her head: "It's too late, we've already returned to Puluo Continent."

Li Li Banfeng was shocked and looked at the stone blocks outside the window: "Can that first-class weapon also be brought into Puluo Continent?"

There was a first-class weapon in Boundless City, which was Jiang Linger.

Boundless City never dared to cross the border, and the border line wouldn't allow first-class weapons to pass.

A Yi carefully examined the stones: "It won't work outside the village, but it works inside the village."

This was not easy to understand, and A Yi didn't explain much. Regardless, she had indeed brought a first-class weapon into Puluo Continent, which made Li Li Banfeng have some associations.

"In terms of transportation capacity alone, which is stronger, Gourd Village or the little train?"

A Yi smiled: "You have to ask the little train!"

Li Li Banfeng asked tentatively: "Do you know where the little train is?"

A Yi looked at Li Li Banfeng and smiled playfully: "Right behind you."

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Li Li Banfeng deliberately looked behind him: "Is it really behind me?"

A Yi came to Li Li Banfeng's ear and said softly: "I couldn't be sure before, but I saw it clearly just now. You took out the key before you detonated the dynamite."

"My movements were so fast, and you still saw it?" Li Li Banfeng had indeed taken out the key to avoid the explosion.

"I might not be sure about other things, but I can't be wrong about that key, because that key was made by me and the old train together," A Yi took two pliers from the cabinet and handed them to Li Li Banfeng, "The little train seems to have some problems. These are the pliers used to build the little train back then. Take them back, they might be useful now."

Li Li Banfeng took the pliers, and A Yi took out a jade bracelet.

"Give this to A Yu. She's grown up, and I haven't given her anything good. This can be considered my contribution."

Li Li Banfeng took the bracelet: "Who is A Yu?"

"A Yu is my sister. She was sent into the little train by the Peddler back then. She should have woken up after so many years.

I don't know if she's willing to see you."

"Do you feel you owe her?"

A Yi put down the stone in her hand, her expression mixed: "I wasn't very good to her, not very good from childhood to adulthood. When I wanted to be good to her, I couldn't see her anymore.

I did see her in a dream that day. I asked her what she wanted. Whatever she wanted, I would give her,

even mountains of gold and silver, I wouldn't hesitate. That's the truth."

Li Li Banfeng sighed: "Actually, she doesn't want mountains of gold and silver. She only wants you to teach her more Crazy Cultivation techniques."

"Really?" A Yi looked at Li Li Banfeng affectionately.

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Really."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and A Yi kissed Li Li Banfeng: "I was talking about my sister!"

Li Li Banfeng raised his hat brim and continued to look at A Yi affectionately: "Actually, I am your sister."

A Yi couldn't help but laugh.

"You don't believe me?" Li Li Banfeng's figure suddenly disappeared. He used the key to return to the Portable Abode.

After a while, a halo appeared at A Yi's feet, and Miss Nine suddenly appeared in front of A Yi.

Li Li Banfeng used the Linked Bridal Chamber technique to swap Miss Nine out.

A Yi looked at Miss Nine in surprise: "Are you really my sister?"

Actually, Li Li Banfeng was standing in the corner of the room, but A Yi didn't notice.

Miss Nine didn't seem to want to see A Yi and turned to leave, but didn't know where to go.

A Yi pulled Miss Nine's hand and said softly: "Why didn't you tell your sister earlier? Sister missed you so much. Who would have thought I'd have seen you long ago."

Miss Nine frowned: "What crazy talk? I just came out. When did you see me?"

A Yi stared at Hua Jiuer for a long time: "It's also my fault for not looking carefully before. Even if you were wearing men's clothes, I could still recognize you."

"When did I wear men's clothes? Talking to you is really exhausting!" Hua Jiuer's eyes were a bit red, but she didn't want A Yi to see, so she deliberately turned her gaze elsewhere.

"Yu'er, stop saying angry words, sit down quickly." A Yi helped Hua Jiuer sit by her side.

Hua Jiuer turned her face away: "Who is Yu'er? I'm Hua Jiuer. Don't call me wrong."

"Hua Jiuer?" A Yi was stunned, then suddenly sank her face, "Girl, did you become someone's concubine?"

Hua Jiuer was shocked: "How did you know—what nonsense are you talking about?"

"You're called Hua Jiuer, did you become someone's ninth concubine?" A Yi's face looked even worse.

"What if I'm the ninth?" Anyway, she had been seen through by A Yi, so Hua Jiuer didn't care about the cold, and said with a stiff neck, "Being someone's concubine is better than you. You're so old and still can't get married!"

"Bah!" A Yi spat at Hua Jiuer, "You still have the face to say that? I can't get married, but I can marry a wife. You became someone's ninth, do you know how shameful that is!"

"You're scolding me?" Hua Jiuer wiped her face, "You're a woman, what wife are you marrying? Who is more shameful between us!"

The sisters started fighting.

Li Li Banfeng didn't stop them. A Yi and Hua Jiuer fought for a whole night, and the newly repaired building was beaten into ruins.

Qiu Qiu Luoye had nowhere to sleep, found a place to set up a tent, and sighed for a long time: "If I could dream of Seventh Autumn City tonight, even dreaming of the New Land would be fine."

In the New Land, the Land Deity Chen Chen Zuixiang slowly appeared. He held a wine pot, took a sip from the spout, looked at the spider in front of him, and asked: "You're here to seek refuge with me?"

This spider was the size of a water buffalo. It arched its eight legs, lay on the ground, its head against the ground,

expressing submission to the Land Deity.

Chen Chen Zuixiang asked: "What level of cultivation do you have?"

The spider wrote a "three" on the ground with its front leg.

Chen Chen Zuixiang wasn't too satisfied: "Your cultivation isn't high, and you can't speak. I really don't want to take in someone like you."

The spider spat out a silk sac, which was about the size of a pumpkin. Breaking open the silk sac, it was full of silver dollars.

Chen Chen Zuixiang looked down: "Where did this money come from?"

The spider lay on the ground, kowtowing, as if to say it had saved it.

Chen Chen Zuixiang was very angry: "How can a strange monster get so much money? This money definitely doesn't have a good source!"

The spider held the silk sac with its front claws and kept kowtowing.

Chen Chen Zuixiang reached out, and the silk sac flew up and disappeared.

"I shouldn't have accepted this money of unknown origin. Seeing you're pitiful today, I'll make an exception once. You must give me an explanation for this matter in the future."

The money was accepted, so he was kept. The spider was overjoyed and continued to kowtow, expressing gratitude.

"Whatever you do here, there must be rules. I'll go get you a contract." Chen Chen Zuixiang turned and walked two steps, when he suddenly felt something sticky on his face.

He had bumped into a spider web.

Where did this spider web come from?

Before Chen Chen Zuixiang appeared, he had carefully checked, and there was no spider web nearby.

He could never have imagined that this spider web was secretly spun by the spider while talking to him. During the whole process of spinning the web, Chen Chen Zuixiang hadn't noticed at all.

"What do you want to do? You dare—" Chen Chen Zuixiang spoke halfway, and a ball of spider silk blocked Chen Chen Zuixiang's mouth.

He wanted to spit out the spider silk, but the spider silk was tightly stuck to his throat and tongue, and he couldn't spit it out at all.

He wanted to use the wine in his mouth to melt the spider silk, but all the wine was used up, and the spider silk remained intact.

He couldn't imagine how high the cultivation of this spider was.

That spider turned into a human form, which was He He Jiaqing.

He He Jiaqing had stolen techniques from a biological body cultivator and made some improvements to the techniques.

He used to look down on the techniques of body cultivators, but today his attitude changed; some body cultivator techniques were indeed easy to use.

He He Jiaqing wrapped some spider webs around Chen Chen Zuixiang and pulled a few times, and blood beads seeped out of Chen Chen Zuixiang's body.

"I have some things to ask you now. What are the names of the Land Deities who came to receive the land with you, and what are their Dao gates?" After speaking, He He Jiaqing loosened the spider web in Chen Chen Zuixiang's mouth.

Chen Chen Zuixiang looked at He He Jiaqing with cold light in his eyes. He wouldn't say.

He wasn't afraid; this was his territory.

He He Jiaqing smiled: "Do you think that in your territory, I definitely wouldn't dare to kill you?"

Chen Chen Zuixiang really thought so. "I can't kill you, but someone can." He He Jiaqing waved his hand, and Seeing Seeing Datou walked out from behind with a knife.

He He Jiaqing's cultivation was above the clouds. According to the Peddler's rules, he couldn't kill Chen Chen Zuixiang in this territory.

Seeing Seeing Datou's cultivation was still at the ground level. If he killed Chen Chen Zuixiang in this territory, it wouldn't count as violating the Peddler's rules.

But wouldn't the Peddler investigate this matter?

Seeing Seeing Datou was He He Jiaqing's subordinate. If He He Jiaqing participated in this matter, even if he didn't do it himself,

he might still be held accountable by the Peddler.

But this business was tacitly approved by the Peddler, and the Peddler wouldn't delve into some details.

Chen Chen Zuixiang still wanted to break free from the spider web, and a strand of spider silk wrapped around his neck.

He He Jiaqing jumped onto the spider web and swung a few times: "I'll relax the conditions a bit. Tell me their names first, and I'll let you go. If you still don't cooperate, I'll take half your life first, just half."

Lan Qiao Yi opened his eyes, lying on the bed, looking at the ceiling with a dull gaze.

Xie Gong persuaded: "Brother, eat something. You haven't eaten for three days."

Zhu Jin persuaded: "Brother, if you don't eat, you'll starve us to death."

Lan Qiao Yi didn't eat, and Xie Gong and Zhu Jin didn't dare to eat either.

Lan Qiao Yi coughed twice and said: "Have you found the thief who destroyed the altar?"

Xie Gong said in a low voice: "The Ministry of Justice sent people to investigate, but there are no clues yet."

Lan Qiao Yi coughed until his chest hurt, and asked again: "How many days will it take to repair the altar?"

Zhu Jin said: "Brother was sleeping just now, so I happened to look at the Ministry of Works document. Restoring it to its original state will take three years. If the craftsmanship is simplified, one year will be enough."

Lan Qiao Yi waved his hand: "Simplify it!"

Xie Gong said: "Brother, be cautious. The altar concerns etiquette. Matters of etiquette should not be taken lightly."

Lan Qiao Yi covered his mouth and coughed up a mouthful of blood: "If this hatred is not avenged, I am not a man. Tell the Ministry of Justice to send more people. If they still can't find the identity of this evil thief within three days, dismiss everyone from the Minister of Justice downwards!"

Xie Gong persuaded: "Brother, calm your anger. In my opinion, don't rush to pressure the Ministry of Justice. Think about the cause and effect of this matter. This thief could break into Hao City, enter the Nine-Fold Gate, destroy the altar, and retreat unscathed. Ask yourself, how many people in this world have this courage, and how many have this ability?"

Lan Qiao Yi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, thought for a moment, and said slowly: "Could it be that the thief leader came in person?"

The thief leader referred to the Peddler.

Zhu Jin nodded: "I think it's him. Besides him, no one else would dare to do this. Brother, you are focusing on the general trend, intending to use chaos to control chaos, letting them be chaotic until they are exhausted, and then capturing this group of rabble in one fell swoop. Who would have thought he would destroy our altar? Now the general trend is gone..."

Pu l!

Lan Qiao Yi coughed up another mouthful of blood.

Zhu Jin hurriedly persuaded: "Brother, don't get angry. I think this matter isn't because the Peddler is too capable, but because there is a traitor at the altar, otherwise he couldn't have come and gone so smoothly."

Traitor?

The person in charge of the altar is Yang Yang Yueze, a confidant promoted by Lan Qiao Yi despite opposition. Now you say traitor.

Lan Qiao Yi coughed violently, and his throat felt a burst of fishy saltiness again.

Xie Gong told Zhu Jin not to speak anymore: "Brother, don't worry too much about the past. Let's think about the consequences. That newly created land that day..."

This could only be said halfway, because Xie Gong had only guessed half of it.

Zhu Jin still didn't understand: "What happened to the newly created land that day?"

Lan Qiao Yi struggled to sit up from the bed: "Bad. Let Shu Wanjuan go to the New Land, quickly, they are going to be harmed!"

Before he finished speaking, Lan Qiao Yi fainted, his whole body limp on the bed.

Zhu Jin still didn't understand: "Who is going to be harmed?"

Xie Gong was terrified and was about to call the medical officer.

Zhu Jin said: "Second Brother, why don't we not call the medical officer first, and call the cook instead."

Xie Gong was stunned: "Why call the cook?"

Zhu Jin said: "Since he's gone, let's eat something."

Ding-dang-dang, ding-ding-dang!

Li Li Banfeng pushed open the window, seeing the Peddler entering Gourd Village. The sound of the rattle-drum wasn't right today, and the cart wasn't walking steadily either.

"Foreign soap, snow cream, matches, candles, foreign iron shovels..."

Midang!

The cart jolted, and quite a few goods fell off.

The Peddler bent down to pick them up, and Li Li Banfeng helped him pick them up.

A Yun brought a girl to buy snow cream. This girl was called A Mi, and Li Li Banfeng knew her.

A Mi had been abandoned by her parents, her younger brother had been imprisoned for fighting, and her grandfather owed a debt from gambling. When she first came to Gourd Village, A Mi cried all day long and didn't look like a human.

Now she had let go, her complexion looked better, her figure was fuller, and she had grown into a pretty girl.

Some came to buy snow cream, some came to buy leather buckets. The business was quite good today, but the Peddler was pushing the cart with great difficulty.

A Yi walked down from upstairs and looked at the wheels: "Where did you get these wheels? They look too unsightly."

The Peddler patted the cart: "That's why I came to find you. Make it look decent."

A Yi checked: "This broken wheel isn't worth repairing. It's not worth it. I'll change it for a new one for you!"

The Peddler nodded: "Name your price for labor and materials, I won't pay a cent less."

"Isn't it awkward to talk about money? What kind of friendship do we have? I tell you, this can't be repaired in a day or two. You have to leave this cart here for a few days."

A Yi pushed the cart into the building, and the Peddler followed and asked: "Did you do something big recently?"

"No!" A Yi shook her head.

"Really not?"

"It wasn't me who blew it up!" A Yi still shook her head.

The Peddler looked at Li Li Banfeng.

Li Li Banfeng handed the Peddler a cigarette: "I blew it up."

The Peddler took the cigarette: "I put in a lot of effort to help A Yi build the road to Hao City. Your explosion cut off this road."

The Peddler asked: "Why blow it up? New Land and the border line are the two major cruxes of Puluo Continent. This road is related to the New Land."

Li Li Banfeng said: "New Land and the border line are both important, but there is one thing that is even more important."

"What thing?"

"Capital," Li Li Banfeng said, "You can't let the Inner Continent come to Puluo Continent to do business whenever they want. You have to let them know what capital is, and let them know how painful it is to lose money."

The Peddler smiled, rolled a cigarette, and handed it to Li Li Banfeng.

PS: Not only does the Peddler give cigarettes, he also has good things to give to Li Li Banfeng.