Hu Qingshan was slightly stunned when he heard Ye Li's words. Ye Li looked at him and then told him the decision made by the three bandit leaders. After knowing the details, Lin Shiyu, who was standing next to him, said "good" twice again and looked at Ye Li with eyes full of gratitude.
Hu Qingshan thought for a moment and said, "I am willing to stay and work for the Travel Merchants Association."
After Ye Li nodded, he reconnected the joints of his hands and feet.
The bone had been dislocated for a day and the muscles were stiff. Ye Li forcibly put it back together. The pain made Hu Qingshan burst into tears.
But compared to being able to move freely, the pain is nothing.
Afterwards, Ye Li let Lin Shiyu ride one horse, and he and Hu Qingshan rode another horse, and they quickly returned to Yeyu City.
After seeing his granddaughter and good friend again, Lin Shiyu couldn't help but burst into tears. Compared with the last time, this time his tears were filled with joy.
In the next few days, after Li Xifeng and others solved the problem of the bandits, they left Yeyu City and started to hold trade fairs in other places.
After resting for a few days, Ye Li followed a hunting group into the mountains to hunt monsters.
After staying in Katayama County for nearly a month, he went to the next nearby county.
Along the way, Ye Li would stop in each county for nearly a month, taking on some missions along the way, buying demon pills from traveling merchants, or going hunting on his own.
He had previously obtained more than 4,000 high-quality spirit stones, as well as various elixirs and artifacts from the three leaders of Mangxiong Village. However, after a careful count, he found that these spirit stones were basically provided by traveling merchants, and the spirit stones in Xiong Sanba's Qiankun bag were mostly of medium and low quality, and the number was really not much.
Even so, his gains at this time were enormous. He used to be amazed at a Red Flame Pill worth one hundred top-grade spirit stones, but now, after only a month of going out, the number of spirit stones on him had become more than four thousand.
Zhao Wanyin once said that the price of a pill that can activate the Yin-Yang attribute talisman root is only three magic stones, which is about three thousand high-quality spirit stones.
Of course, this price is usually just the reserve price of the auction. If a pill with yin and yang properties appears in the world, countless people will scramble for it. After the bidding, no one knows how much a pill can be sold for.
With the huge sum of money in hand, Ye Li felt more confident. At this time, he finally fully understood the benefits of wandering the world. Once there is an opportunity and strength, anyone can become rich overnight.
In half a year, Ye Li traveled through six counties along the way from Shanhai County.
He would stay in each county for a period of time. Although he had never encountered something like the incident at Mangxiong Village, he had experienced many dangerous situations.
During the past six months, he has worked as a bodyguard, been hired to fight bandits, hunted many monsters, and even helped a wealthy businessman collect debts.
In his eyes, all experiences are special experiences. Only by participating in these tasks can he truly integrate into the world.
When he arrived at his final destination, Fulong County, Ye Li was already eighteen years old. It was March after the beginning of spring, a season when birds were singing and grass was growing.
After going through a lot of things, Ye Li's face has become more mature. His sharp eyebrows, starry eyes, angular face, and tall stature make him look extremely handsome.
After half a year of continuous hard training, Ye Li's current realm has almost reached the peak of the early Linghai period. Relying on the accumulation of countless demon pills, his training speed is incredibly fast, and he may break through to the middle Linghai period in a few days.
What made him most satisfied was the improvement in his talisman drawing speed. He could already draw the nine-character six-character talisman, and he had also cultivated the Extreme Flame Finger to the nine-character three-character realm, and the flame had turned completely green.
With his strength greatly increased, he was full of anticipation for the opening of the ruins in a month.
After all, powerful strength can often allow people to gain more opportunities in such secret places.
Soon, he followed Ye Hao's footsteps and arrived outside the Golden Dragon City.
According to the map left by Ye Hao, the location of the ruins is in the misty valley not far from Jinlong City.
As the name suggests, the Misty Valley is a huge valley filled with fog. There are many monsters in the valley, and the fog persists all year round, making it very easy for people to get lost.
Because there was still a month before the ruins were opened, Ye Li did not rush to the valley to check it out, but chose to stay in Golden Dragon City to rest first.
Entering the Golden Dragon City, the constant noise coming from the surroundings attracted Ye Li's attention. He had been to at least a dozen cities along the way, both large and small, but no city could compare to the bustling Golden Dragon City in front of him.
The result of this crowded and bustling situation was that he had to look for five inns in a row before he finally found one with one room left, while the other four inns were all full.
At first Ye Li thought that this city had always been so lively, but after some inquiries, he found out that it was not the case. The reason why it was so lively here was because a competition for refining external talismans was going to be held here.
This competition was organized by Ou Qianxie, the master of the Weapon Foundry Hall. The reason for holding the competition was said to be that he hoped to find some people who were suitable for learning weapon casting technology in the competition, and join their weapon casting hall to become weapon casting apprentices.
Even Ye Li, a descendant of an aristocratic family from a remote area, had heard of the name of the Foundry Hall, which was a very old workshop for refining talismans.
When Ye Li heard these things from the waiter, he felt a little confused, because as far as he knew, the Weapon Foundry was very large and old, and there had always been countless people who came here to line up to join them. So why would they now need a competition to select apprentices
Ye Li asked the question in his mind, and the waiter explained: "Sir, you may not know that the Weapon Casting Hall was opened in our Jinlong City nine hundred years ago. With the development of nearly a thousand years, branches have been opened all over the country.
However, there has been a long-standing feud between the most recent generation's head master Ou Qianxie and his junior fellow master Duan Qianye, to the point where the two have even separated.
Although Master Ou Qianxie was the person in charge, somehow the entire Foundry Hall sided with Master Duan Qianye. In the end, Master Ou Qianxie left the Foundry Hall in a rage, holding his badge. He declared that he would use facts to prove that Master Duan Qianye was wrong.
The name of the Weapon Foundry Hall was in the hands of Master Ou Qianxie, so after he left, although Master Duan Qianye had the support of almost everyone in the hall, he still could not use the Weapon Foundry Hall's name, so now it has been renamed as the Treasure Foundry Hall.
Master Ou Qianxie will need to recruit new apprentices and reopen a new foundry hall."