No wonder those Jiuyuan people are nervous, this is really a very old man.
However, the old man's smile is very gentle, and his eyes are also very warm, which makes people feel good at a glance.
The soldier's expression softened slightly, and he saluted the old man with a spear in his hand, "My great witch, these two city guards will lead you to the temple."
Yan Mo nodded to him, "Thank you, child."
"Others... you are here for the first time, and you don't have a fixed place to stay in the city. In order to prevent you from running around and offending people you don't need to offend, we will arrange accommodation for you. Super yuan crystal coins for one day, but the place is enough for so many of you to live."
As soon as Yuan Zhan heard that he was going to separate from Yan Mo, he immediately said: "Can we go to the temple together? We won't go in, just wait outside."
Elder Hao also came over, "There is no need to find another place, they can live with us."
The soldier said, "You Da Ao know them?"
Elder Hao was about to answer, Yan Mo smiled first and said, "It's not considered acquaintance, we met on the road and exchanged some food with them."
Elder Hao didn't understand what he meant, but he didn't refute it either. Yan Mo just didn't want any trouble between him and Yuan Zhan in Heitu City or Tucheng in the future, which would affect the Da'ao tribe.
The soldier asked Yan Mo: "Are you sure you want to live with the Da'ao people?"
"It would be best if you have arrangements." Yuan Zhan saw Yan Mo's eyes and understood what he meant.
The soldier didn't seem to be surprised by Jiuyuanren's choice, and called two soldiers waiting on the side, "Take them to the temple, and then take them to the Baibu Camp in Beicheng."
"Thank you, little brother." Yan Mo held a bone staff in one hand and put the other hand on his left chest, thanking the soldier.
The soldier's face was still stern without a trace of a smile, but he suddenly whispered something to Yan Mo: "The great witch of Jiuyuan, the temple can see through all witchcraft, and there, don't lie."
The soldier returned to his post after speaking.
Yan Mo recalled this sentence in his heart and smiled. He called Ding Ning, took out a small box of wound medicine from his pocket, asked him to slip it to the soldier quietly, and told him the purpose.
The soldier didn't refuse the gift because it looked too shabby, but turned around and made a gesture.
Perhaps it was because of Yan Mo's appearance that it was easy for people to like him. Perhaps their little leader explained to them that the two city guards who led the way were not domineering, nor did they urge them, but just walked ahead silently.
Seeing that the soldiers leading the way did not stop them, the Da'ao people also came over to join the Jiuyuan people.
"Mo Wu, I'm sorry, I didn't know that shamans must visit the temple when they enter the city." Elder Hao quickly explained.
"It's okay, presumably the shamans of the various tribes will not leave the tribes casually. Do you know anything about the temple in Black Earth City?"
Elder Hao shook his head, "The temples in each city are the most mysterious, and the warriors there are also the most loyal and powerful. It is difficult for us to know about the temples."
"Then where is the Baibu Camp in Beicheng?"
"I know there. In fact, we live in Beicheng. People who are not in Heitu City basically live in Beicheng. Baibuying is a place for envoys and merchants from various tribes and subordinate cities to live. But if it is not Guests invited by Heitu City have to pay Yuanjing coins to live in Baibuying. The cheapest houses there also cost one Yuanjing coin a day, which is quite a rip off."
In a few words, they followed the soldiers leading the way around two walls and passed through another door before they really entered the Black Earth City.
Yuan Zhan whispered to Yan Mo: "They built so many walls and turned around, is it to prevent the enemy from rushing in all the way?"
"right."
"We'll do the same when we go back."
"I have a better design, I'll talk about it when I go back."
As soon as they entered the city, Ding Fei and Da Da immediately said "oh".
"A lot of people!" Ding Ning also exclaimed.
Jiufeng's little paws grabbed Yan Mo's skirt and sneaked out a small head, but Yan Mo pushed back a little with his fingers.
The Da'ao people held out their chests, feeling a little proud of Ding Ning Ding Fei's exclamation. Bing squinted at them and let out a cold snort, isn't there just too many people
A strange sense of familiarity arose in Yan Mo's heart. It wasn't that he had been to this city, nor that he had seen the people here, but that this lively atmosphere reminded him of his previous life.
Although the population of Heitu City is not comparable to that of any city in his previous life, it is much, much larger than that of Jiuyuan.
The streets of Heitu City are not as spacious and clean as Jiuyuan. Garbage, sewage, and human and animal feces can be seen everywhere on the road. People live, walk, and do business in such streets.
Children came out of the streets and alleys in groups, chasing and playing and running away.
Two women were tearing each other's hair by a well in the street, beating and cursing, and a crowd of onlookers.
Warriors in leather armor, armed with spears, marched through the streets in a procession.
The sound of "pang bang" beating on wood in the roadside shop can be heard endlessly.
A group of naked slaves came from the other corner of the city gate dragging a huge boulder with a rope, and entered another street that looked cleaner under the whipping and shouting of the slave head.
"This way." The soldiers leading the way turned their heads and reminded them not to go the wrong way.
As soon as you enter the city gate, it is not a straight avenue, but a Xing-shaped intersection. You can see several streets, some lively and some quiet.
The guards took them to a road on the left. This road is relatively quiet, but there are shops on both sides of the road, and the most sold are meat and furs.
Da Da saw a row of big fish heads hanging in front of a shop, and wiped his saliva.
After passing the butcher's street, they came to a street that seemed to be dedicated to the manufacture of wallets and weapons. After that, they walked across a flat road paved with large stone blocks, passing a huge statue with a rock man in the center. The square came to a huge building made of huge black stones.
Everything is huge, this is Yan Mo's impression of the central building of Heitu City.
Yuan Zhan and the others couldn't help raising their heads. This building is very tall, probably the most central pointed building they saw on the high ground outside the city.
It can't be seen outside the city. Only when I got here did I realize that this building is not a single building, but a pagoda-shaped building complex.
The complex consists of three megalithic buildings in a triangular shape.
These three megalithic buildings are also the cornerstones of the pointed building, like the base of the pagoda.
Above the tower base are layers of tower chambers, until the topmost spire.
"Wow, it's so tall. As expected of Zhongcheng, it's no worse than our Jiuyuan." Ding Fei said the last sentence in a low voice.
Ding Ning flicked his forehead.
Ding Fei grinned in pain.
Da Da hurriedly reached out to rub Ding Fei, but Ding Fei opened it.
Yuan Zhan looked at this giant pagoda-shaped building up and down, as if he wanted to record all its structures in his mind.
"Jiuyuan is a big land, and I don't need such a tall building. I like to be down-to-earth." Yan Mo seemed to see what he was thinking, and bumped him lightly.
"The stone house we live in is too small, you should live in a bigger one, even bigger than this one!" Yuan Zhan said seriously.
Yan Mo laughed and rubbed his hair casually, "Let's talk about it later."
The two warriors also stopped at this time, stood under the steps of the huge black stone building, turned their heads and said: "The temple is in front of you, don't wander around, just wait here. Great witch, come with us."
Yuan Zhan took a step forward, "I am a warrior who belongs to our Dawu. Wherever the Dawu goes, I will go."
"No!" The two warriors refused straight away, "We can only bring witches into the temple. Warriors are not allowed to step into the temple without permission."
Yan Mo pressed Yuan Zhan, "Two, my soldiers will not go in. You said this building is a temple, so the other two are the palaces of King Wu Shang?"
The two fighters did not answer, "If you are allowed to stay, you will know later."
Yan Mo nodded, turned around and confessed to Yuan Zhan, asking them to wait in place, and then quietly transferred Jiu Feng from his arms to Yuan Zhan's.
Yuan Zhan grabbed his arm, "Be careful. If you haven't come out in the middle of the sun, I'll go find you."
"Take care of them and don't let them cause trouble." There were also quite a few people outside the temple and in the square. Although their attire was unobtrusive, their poor appearance could sometimes cause trouble.
There are many and very high steps, Yan Mo probably counted them, there are about ninety-nine steps.
Unauthorized soldiers were not allowed to enter the temple, and the two leading soldiers only sent Yan Mo to a side door of the temple, and explained Yan Mo's origin to the soldiers guarding the gate there, then stepped aside, and then signaled Yan Mo to follow inside people go in.
As soon as Yan Mo entered the temple, he first smelled a faint fragrance.
Then he saw stone-carved censers at intervals along the road in the temple, and the fragrance came from those censers.
It's really extravagant, the first layer of the temple is willing to use so many spices.
He seemed to remember that spices were luxury goods in ancient times? Or is this kind of spice abundant in Black Earth City
This scent seems to have a calming effect, a bit like sandalwood, and there seems to be a bit of magnolia flower scent in the middle, no, this scent...
Yan Mo bowed his head, he remembered what the soldier said to him, his eyes darkened immediately, how should he respond
Take the corresponding antidote? But he already felt something was staring at him.
Thanks to the special physique bestowed on him by the guide, the effect of this drug on him will not last more than three minutes. If someone came to ask him something at this time, he might not be able to help but confess, but after three minutes, when his body can gradually adapt to the drug, do you want to ask the truth from him again? hehe!
"Little Wu, is there anything good in this temple?" You are unkind, I am unrighteous, who told you to use drugs that deprive people of their minds to harm people as soon as they come up.
It took Wu Guo a while to respond, "It seems that there is, I'm not sure, I have lost half of my strength now, and my sensing ability is not as good as before. I have to get very close to feel it."
"Then you'd better work hard to sense, otherwise you won't be able to eat any delicious food."
Wu Guo groaned twice, then fell silent, wondering if she was trying to sense it.
The gatekeeper only took Yan Mo for a short distance, and after crossing a stone gate, he handed him over to a young godservant in his twenties.
The scent is stronger here.
The god attendant stood on the steps, wearing a white linen gown, tied in the middle with a belt, one arm was exposed outside, wearing two yellow bone rings inlaid with gemstones on the arm, looking down at Yan Mo below.
"Are you from the tribe at the end of the Blackwater River?" the servant asked casually.
Yan Mo lowered his head, "Yes."
"Your tribe is called Jiuyuan?"
"yes."
"Head up."
Yan Mo raised his head, looking a little confused.
The young god servant smiled proudly, his expression was like that of a personal disciple of a great national hand seeing a barefoot doctor in a remote country.
"Tell me the name of your witch power."
"Mo, my witch name is Mo."
"What witchcraft do you have?"
"My witch power... I can grow wooden thorns from my body, like, like this." The old man seemed to be struggling a little, but soon he calmed down again, and a wooden thorn grew out of his palm to show the young godservant.
"Is it poisonous?"
"No."
The god attendant took the wooden splinter, looked it over and over for a while, found nothing special, and threw it to the side plate casually.
"What else do you want?"
"I will also brew herbal medicine to help my people heal their wounds and illnesses."
"Will it be poisonous? How many kinds? Have you brought it?"
"Poison? No, the ancestor god does not allow me to use poison. It is the behavior of a despicable person and will be punished by the ancestor god."
"Ancestor God? A small tribe dares to use the name of the ancestor god." The young god servant laughed, "What is the source of your witch power?"
"The source of witch power? I don't know."
"I'm sorry you don't know. You have awakened the divine blood, but there is no divine blood mark on your face. Do you know how to cover up the mark?"
"Yes, there was a wandering warrior who passed by us once, and he exchanged food and women with us in this way."
"What level is your divine blood now?"
"Two levels."
"You're only two levels old?" The young god servant was even more disdainful, "What level is the most powerful fighter in your clan? What is his ability?"
Yan Mo's mind flashed. This answer was related to Yuan Zhan's performance after the war. He should have said honestly that Yuan Zhan could control the soil, but somehow he suddenly thought of the legend of Hei Tu City, and thought of the city's ruler. Bearing the name of the blood of the God of the Earth, he temporarily changed his words to: "Our most powerful fighter is also a second-level divine blood, and his ability is to control plants."
Yuan Zhan, who was waiting under the steps outside the temple, suddenly felt his ears itch, and he had an inexplicable premonition that big trouble was coming to him.
Inside the temple, the servant was still asking: "Oh? It seems that your clan may have a little blood of the Mu clan."
"yes."
"Did you bring Yuanjing coins? How much? What level?"
"Bring it, there are only first-level Yuanjing coins, and there are one hundred and thirty pieces."
The god attendant curled his lips, as if he was in no mood to ask further questions, but perhaps because of his duty, he asked some questions one after another, including the population, specialties, climate, and living environment of the Jiuyuan tribe.
Yan Mo answered one by one according to the appearance of the original tribe he remembered.
"You said that your fighters are going to the Black Earth Warrior Training Camp to challenge their training leaders to obtain selection qualifications?"
"yes."
"Hey! I wish you good luck. When you go out, the gatekeepers at the gate will give you a white sign. If you want to walk, live or trade in the Black Earth City, you must wear that sign. If the sign is lost, You will be arrested and killed immediately as spies. Go!"
Yan Mo walked back "in a daze".
"Little witch?"
"Inside... it needs to be further inside. It seems that there are delicious things. Go a little further inside."
"No chance, next time."
When they got to the entrance of the temple, the guards there showed Yan Mo six white dominoes, but they didn't give them to him immediately.
Wu Guo suddenly said: "Huh?"
Yan Mo immediately asked in his mind: "What did you find?"
"Take those dominoes!" Wu Guo suddenly shouted energetically, as if on a stimulant.
"Don't yell that loudly in my head, wait."
The cold wind blows, and the fragrance almost disappears.
Yan Mo shook his head intentionally, and his expression seemed a little puzzled.
The gatekeepers are probably used to seeing this expression, and one of them smiled lowly, "People who smell the scent of black sparrow for the first time are a little uncomfortable, and you will like it very much when you smell it again later."
"It's the first time I've smelled such a nice fragrance. It would be great if I could get this kind of fragrance in exchange." Yan Mo laughed nonchalantly.
The gatekeeper probably saw that the old man Yan was more pleasing to the eye, looked around, and whispered to him: "If you have more Yuanjing coins, you can replace the white cards with green cards. White cards represent the lowest status. It is impossible to get a good price if you want to trade in the city with a white card."
"How to change? Who to ask? How many Yuanjing coins?"
"This kind of domino that represents the status level can only be replaced by the god attendant of the temple. I know a god attendant who is easy to talk to. A green card only needs ten second-level yuan crystal coins. Don't be too many. If you find other people, they I will definitely let you change all the cards to green cards, so that you will spend more yuan crystal coins, but in fact, you only need to change one.”
"Ten level two? So many!" The old man Yan's old face instantly wrinkled into an old chrysanthemum.
"Hey, I think it's not easy for you when you're too old. Well, if you have other things, you can add a few second-level Yuanjing coins."
"But, but I don't even have a second-level Yuanjing coin."
"Then there is no way. Take it, this is your domino, don't lose it."
"Wait, can you show me what the green card looks like?" Yan Mo thought to himself that Wu Guo was so happy to see the white dominoes, so he should like the green cards more, right
The goalkeeper didn't know if he saw how old he was, so he grabbed a green card and shook it at him, "See? This is a higher-level green card. With it, you can trade with people in the city." Negotiate a good price."
Wu Guo: "Don't want green ones, but white ones!"
Yan Mo looked at the green card enviously, "Can I exchange the Yuanjing coins after I get them?"
"Let's talk about it after you get enough Yuanjing coins. Then the price might not be the same." The gatekeeper threw six white dominoes to the old man Yan, and closed the side door, indicating that the reception was over.
Inside the door, the young god attendant was also there, and he had been hiding behind the door to eavesdrop.
"I can't even take out a few second-level yuan crystal coins. It seems that what he said before should be true." The "kind" soldier said to the young god attendant.
The young godservant made a "hmm", turned around and walked towards the temple. He had already decided that this was a poor and small tribe that was not worth noting, and it was not even worth extracting oil and water. A second-level sacred-blood fighter, let alone participating in the selection, will probably be killed by the training leader of the black soil warrior training camp as soon as he meets him.
Outside the temple, the old man sighed heavily, as if he was a little sad because of the poverty of his tribe, but Ru Yuanzhan knew him well, and when he saw him for the first time, he knew that the old guy was secretly happy.
"You didn't cause any trouble, did you?" Yan Mo walked down the steps and said when he saw a few people.
Bing rolled his eyes, what trouble could he cause in such a short time
Ding Ning Ding Fei squeezed over curiously and asked what was going on inside the temple. Yan Mo handed out the dominoes to them, telling them to wear them well and not to lose them.
Wu Guo shouted in his mind, "Mine! I found it, give it to me!"
Yan Mo replied to him: "Let's talk when we go back."
Yuan Zhan stretched out his hand, seeming to support Yan Mo, but actually whispered in his ear, "What good thing have you done?"
Yan Mo glanced at the two soldiers ahead who were about to take them to the Baibu Camp in Beicheng, turned his head and said in a low voice, "Your ability to control plants has been upgraded to level two, right?"
"Hmm. So?" Yuan Zhan felt very bad.
"So from today on, you can use the second-level plant ability to fight!"
Yuan Zhan, "..."
Yan Mo patted him on the shoulder, "Son, I believe in you."