"Stop."
The woman's voice was cold, and her eyes swept over Gu Sheng's body like a knife.
"Who are you? What are you doing here at Xiaguang City?"
Gu Sheng frowned slightly, but soon relaxed.
He cupped his fists and saluted.
"I'm Gu Sheng. I'm new here. I just passed by and wanted to find out some information."
The woman's scrutinizing eyes stayed on Gu Sheng for a moment, as if she confirmed that he was not a dangerous person, and then relaxed a little.
"Turns out he's a foreigner. Remember, I, Purple Cloud Divine Sect, a big shot are in charge of the city these days. You'd better stay calm and don't cause any trouble."
Purple Cloud Divine Sect? Gu Sheng felt something in his heart.
He had heard a little bit about this sect. It was said that its power spread across several states and there were many masters in the sect.
But the purpose of his trip was clear and he didn't want to cause any complications.
"Thank you for reminding me. I'm just taking the road to Longevity King City, so there won't be any trouble."
Gu Sheng responded calmly.
The woman seemed satisfied with his attitude. She nodded slightly and then turned and left. Her purple robe rustled in the wind and quickly disappeared at the city gate.
Gu Sheng watched her leave with thoughts in her eyes.
This Purple Cloud Divine Sect behaves in a domineering manner, even interrogating passers-by when entering the city.
But these have nothing to do with him. He just wants to pass through the teleportation circle in the city as soon as possible and go to Longevity King City.
Just as he was about to enter the city, there was suddenly a rush of hooves and exclamations behind him.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way, everyone!"
Gu Sheng turned around and saw a giant beast that was three feet tall running towards the city gate.
The giant beast looked like a rhinoceros, but it had six legs. Its body was covered with blue-black scales, and the ground shook slightly with every step it took.
The giant beast carried a girl about fifteen or sixteen years old on its back. Her purple clothes were fluttering in the wind, and her little face was flushed with excitement.
"It's Purple Scale Beast from the Purple Cloud Divine Sect!"
Someone at the city gate exclaimed.
The crowd hurriedly moved away, and Gu Sheng also frowned and stepped aside.
He watched with cold eyes, feeling quite disdainful of this rampant behavior.
It seems that this Purple Cloud Divine Sect person is really domineering, even a young girl is so arrogant.
But the next moment, an accident happened.
A little boy about five or six years old seemed to be petrified. He stood blankly in the middle of the road, watching Purple Scale Beast's giant hoof about to fall.
"Be careful!"
Gu Sheng subconsciously wanted to take action, but saw that the girl in purple reacted faster.
She jumped off Purple Scale Beast's back without hesitation, her body was like lightning, and she flashed in front of the little boy.
The girl opened her arms, and a lavender light envelope emerged around her.
"Bang!"
Purple Scale Beast's huge hoof stepped heavily on the photomask, and the photomask shattered.
The girl groaned, blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, but she successfully protected the little boy, but she was knocked back several steps by the impact.
"Little brother, are you okay?"
The girl didn't bother to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, and squatted down and asked with concern.
The little boy finally came to his senses.
I cried out "Wow".
The girl hurriedly comforted him, took out a candy from her arms and stuffed it into his hand.
"Don't cry, don't cry, sister will give you candy."
This scene made Gu Sheng stunned.
He originally thought that this girl was a domineering young lady, but he didn't expect that she would put herself in danger for a child he didn't know.
After comforting the little boy, the girl turned and walked towards Purple Scale Beast, her little face full of anger.
"Xiao Zi! How many times have I told you not to run wildly when entering the city! Look, you almost hurt someone!"
The huge Purple Scale Beast actually lowered his head like a child who had done something wrong and let out a whimpering sound of grievance.
The girl patted its nose and scolded.
"If you do this again, I won't take you out next time!"
Purple Scale Beast seemed to understand, and the next step was obviously much slower, and he carefully carried the girl into the city.
Gu Sheng looked at the girl's leaving back, thoughtfully.
At this time, he noticed several warriors in uniforms standing at the gate of the city, who should be the defenders of the city.
"Brother, is there a teleportation circle in the city?"
Gu Sheng stepped forward and asked one of the warriors.
The warrior looked at Gu Sheng.
"Yes, there is, but it's not open these days."
"Why?"
Gu Sheng frowned.
The warrior lowered his voice.
"Did you see that girl just now? That is the eldest lady of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect. Her master, Purple Cloud True Person of the Purple Cloud Divine Sect, has been a guest in the city these days. The teleportation circle is temporarily closed and will be opened in three days at most."
Gu Sheng's heart sank.
Three days? He had no intention of staying here for so long.
"Are there any other nearby cities with teleportation circles?"
"The nearest one is Cloud Heaven City, but it's far away from here. It takes four or five days by carriage."
The warrior shook his head.
"It's better to wait three days."
Gu Sheng weighed secretly.
Cloud Heaven City is indeed too far away. Instead of rushing, it is better to wait here.
Anyway, he had nothing urgent to do, so he could just experience the prosperity of Xiaguang City.
"Thanks for letting me know."
Gu Sheng bowed his hands in thanks and stepped into the city gate.
As soon as we entered the city, we were greeted by the hustle and bustle.
The wide streets are lined with shops and crowded with pedestrians.
Gu Sheng noticed that the number of warriors here far exceeded Tianyou City, and was not even inferior to Blazing Sun City, which he had been to before.
You can feel the real power fluctuations almost every few steps, and there are many masters with strong auras among them.
"This Xiaguang City is indeed extraordinary."
Gu Sheng thought to himself.
"For a city of this size, there might be king-level experts stationed in it."
He decided to stay calm these two days and avoid causing unnecessary trouble.
After all, Purple Cloud Divine Sect's big shot is here, who knows what changes may occur.
Xiaguang City The sunset dyed the inn golden. When Gu Sheng stepped onto the wooden stairs, the wooden boards made a slight creaking sound.
He had just paid two low-grade Spirit Stone for a room, and the unique cold touch of the spirit stone still remained between his fingers.
Just when he reached the corner of the second floor, a pinprick of mental power suddenly struck from the room on the right and locked onto him with precision.
"Huh?"
Gu Sheng frowned, and the silent mental power in the sea of consciousness instantly surged like a furious wave, crushing the power of prying eyes.
"Click."
There seemed to be an invisible sound of shattering glass reverberating in the air.
The next moment, the door of the guest room suddenly opened, and a man wearing a bronze mask poked his head out, his sinister gaze directed at Gu Sheng through the eye holes of the mask.
The man has a slender figure and is dressed in a black robe without wind. He exudes the fourth level of the Heavenly Martial Realm pressure.
"What do you mean by this?"
Gu Sheng stood with his hands behind his hands, his voice calm but with a coldness that could not be ignored.
The masked man snorted coldly.
"Heavenly Martial Realm is just a third-level person, but you are qualified to question me?"
He deliberately released stronger pressure, and the candlelight in the corridor swayed accordingly.
Gu Sheng had displeasure in his eyes.
"It's not polite to spy on others."
"It is your honor to be investigated by me."
The masked man spoke arrogantly, and his right hand was already on a snake-shaped dagger at his waist.
Just when the atmosphere was tense, a female voice as clear as a bell came from the room.
"Tong Jiu, don't cause more trouble."
The sound was like a clear spring flowing through a mountain stream. Gu Sheng immediately recognized the beast-controlling girl controlling the giant monster at the city gate!
When the masked man heard this, although he was unwilling to do so, he still snorted and retreated into the room, closing the door heavily.
The sound of the wooden door hitting the door frame echoed in the corridor, causing the shopkeeper downstairs to look up.
Gu Sheng glanced at the closed door thoughtfully, then turned and walked towards his room.
I opened the window and looked out, and I saw that in the backyard of the inn, the giant monster beast that looked like a unicorn but had six legs was chewing grass leisurely, its scales glowing purple and gold in the sunset.
"People from the Purple Cloud Divine Sect?"
Gu Sheng whispered to himself, tapping the window lattice lightly with his fingertips.
He had read in ancient books that among the Seventy-two Divine Sects in southern Xinjiang, only Purple Cloud Divine Sect was good at taming this strange beast named "Purple Gold Beast".
Driven by curiosity, Gu Sheng sat cross-legged on the bed and separated a ray of spiritual power as thin as a gossamer, quietly penetrating the wooden partition and exploring into the next room.
".Purple Cloud Divine Sect Those old guys are so contemptuous of others!"
The angry voice of the masked man came.
"We have come all the way here, and we are just so perfunctory?"
"Tong Jiu, be careful what you say."
The girl's voice was still crisp, but a little more majestic.
"Master ordered me to repay the favor. If they don't know what's good, there's no need for us to force it."
After a rustling sound of clothes rubbing against each other, the girl continued.
"But Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven is about to open, and the sacred pool inside is very important to me. I heard that three places will be auctioned this year."
Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven? Gu Sheng was refreshed.
When he was in the Heavenly Realm, he once heard someone mention that Seventy-two Divine Sects controlled thirty-six Grotto-Heaven and thirty-six blessed lands in southern Xinjiang, each of which was a holy land for cultivation.
Among them, the sacred pool in Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven has the magical effect of washing marrow and cutting bones.
"Auction?"
The masked man sounded dissatisfied.
"As a young lady, you actually have to compete with those ordinary people?"
"Rules are rules."
The girl's voice was calm.
"We'll go to Purple Cloud Residence tomorrow. It's too early to say this now."
With a muffled sound, what appeared to be a masked man slapped the case and stood up.
"Subordinate, go get ready now!"
Footsteps moved towards the door.
Gu Sheng was about to take back his mental power when he suddenly heard the girl chuckle.
"Don't you think it's rude that you've been eavesdropping for so long?"
The voice rang directly in his consciousness, so startled that he almost jumped out of bed.
"Why don't you come over and talk?"
This time it was an actual invitation from the next room.
Gu Sheng stood outside the door, with an almost imperceptible spiritual power condensed on his fingertips.
That strand of power penetrated into the cracks of the room like a snake, wandered around the room silently for three times and then quietly returned.
"There are no restraints and no ambushes."
Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
"This girl is either extremely naive, or she is confident."
The moment he pushed open the door and walked in, a breath of fresh air like melting water from a snow-capped mountain hit his face.
Miao Muqing was sitting on a low couch by the window, the moonlight passing through the window lattice casting mottled light and shadow on her body.
She looked to be only seventeen or eighteen years old, but she had eyes that seemed to see through the world.
"Fellow Daoist Gu is finally willing to come in."
Miao Muqing The corners of his lips were slightly raised, and his voice was completely different from the previous one in the courtyard, with a strange rhythm.
"I thought we had to wait until dawn."
Gu Sheng didn't answer, his eyes quickly swept across the room.
There was a celadon oil lamp placed on the simple wooden table, and the wick made a subtle crackling sound when it burned.
There is a half-person tall rattan box in the corner, with complicated southern Xinjiang totems carved on the lid.
"Sit."
Miao Muqing pointed to the futon opposite.
"I invited you here just to talk about something."
Gu Sheng is not moving.
"Ms. Miao, you might as well say it directly."
"You should be cautious."
Miao Muqing chuckled, and suddenly raised his hand and made a strange gesture in front of him.
A lavender light curtain instantly enveloped the entire room.
"You can speak with confidence now, this is a soundproof barrier."
Gu Sheng's pupils shrank.
This enchantment technique can be performed smoothly and smoothly, at least only the Golden Core Stage monk can do it.
He secretly runs True Essence in his body, ready to respond to emergencies at any time.
"Don't be nervous."
Miao Muqing seems to have seen through his wariness.
"I'm not interested in your origins. No matter which Central Continent family you come from, or whether you are a wanted criminal by the three major divine religions, it has nothing to do with me."
Gu Sheng's heart skipped a beat.
How does this girl know the Central Continent accent he deliberately concealed? How could you guess that he was evading pursuit?
"My name is Miao Muqing, from 'Thousand Soul Valley' at the southernmost tip of southern Xinjiang."
She continued talking to herself.
"This time I came to Zixia City to borrow Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven."
"Borrow Grotto-Heaven?"
Gu Sheng finally spoke, his voice low.
"Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land is the foundation of the sect. How can we just borrow it?"
Miao Muqing did not answer immediately, but took out a sapphire hairpin from his sleeve and pinned it gently on his temple.
The purple gems inlaid on the hairpin glowed with a strange luster under the light.
"My sister Miao Ren and I are one body and two souls."
She said suddenly, her tone as calm as if she were talking about the weather.
"We have shared this body for eighteen years. Normally Ren'er is awake and I am asleep. This time because Purple Cloud Divine Sect rejected Master's advances, I had to wake up and deal with it."
Gu Sheng's breathing was stagnant.
Two souls in one body? Does this legendary physique really exist? He subconsciously released his spiritual consciousness to explore, and sure enough he sensed two completely different soul fluctuations in Miao Muqing's body.
One is as lively as a spring breeze, while the other is as calm as a deep pool.
"So."
Gu Sheng considered the words.
"The one talking to me now is sister Miao Muqing, and the one during the day."
"It's Ren'er."
Miao Muqing nodded.
"She has a simple personality and is not suitable to deal with these things."
Gu Sheng was silent for a moment and suddenly asked.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because we need cooperation."
Miao Muqing Look directly into his eyes.
"If Purple Cloud Divine Sect people don't deal with me, it will be difficult for me and Ren'er to complete the tasks assigned by Master alone."
Gu Sheng A sneer curled up at the corner of his mouth.
"Miss Miao, I think too highly of you. I'm just a casual cultivator passing by, so I have no virtue."
"You can lurk in Zixia City for half a month without being discovered, avoid the eyes and ears of the three major divine religions, and buy 'Bone-Eroding Incense' on the black market in the south of the city."
Miao Muqing interrupted him with sharp eyes.
"This kind of ability is exactly what I need."
Gu Sheng A chill ran down his spine.
She even knew about his purchase of banned drugs! How extensive is this girl's intelligence network?
"Admired."
He exhaled slowly.
"Since Miss Miao has investigated so clearly, she must also know that I have no intention of staying here for a long time."
Miao Muqing suddenly stood up, her figure looking particularly slender under the moonlight.