Zhao Ling swung her beautiful legs and walked to a long table in the center of the hall. She put down the street distribution map of Tianyun City in her hand and said softly, "Mr. Wu."
Wu Yi, who was sitting in the corner not far from her, had always seemed to have little sense of presence. He only stood up with a smile when he heard her calling him.
Pang Jian took a look and found that this was a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar, holding a feather fan in his hand.
"Everyone come and take a look."
Wu Yi waved his hand.
Pang Jian, Meng Qiulan, and Yang Yuansen all leaned towards the long table.
The two people who had been standing behind Yang Yuansen did not move, and remained where they were like cold stones.
"This is the mansion where the trapper boat is moored."
Wu Yi pointed to a circle drawn with ink on the street map with his feather fan and said, "Tianyun City is no different from most cities in our Fourth Realm. There are four streets in total, connecting the four gates leading to the outside of the city, divided into four districts: east, south, west, and north..."
He introduced himself to the crowd.
Pang Jian leaned over and memorized the entire map in his mind, trying not to miss any details.
"The East District is the Shangguan family's, and there are also houses of the powerful people who are attached to the Shangguan family. The Blood Moon ship is in one of the lavish houses, which is right here."
"In the West District, civilians live there. Most of our spies in the city are here."
"The North District is home to many families of guest officials who are loyal to the Shangguan family. The guest officials usually stay in this area when they don't go out."
"The southern area is full of independent cultivators, and there are some shops, taverns and inns. Those who come to Qianli Yunze to hunt beasts, or stop in Tianyun City, almost all move around in this area."
"… "
Wu Yi pointed and told everyone the layout of Tianyun City, saying that the city gates in the east district had the strongest defenses, while the west district was the most lax.
Except for Yang Yuansen who was just pretending, everyone else listened very seriously and thought as they listened.
Especially Pang Jian, his eyes were sharp, as if they wanted to freeze on the distribution map.
Wu Yi, who was acting as a military strategist, couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw his extremely focused expression.
He suddenly smiled and said, "Hong Jian, right?"
Pang Jian nodded.
"This is the Blood Moon stronghold. If you were our leader, what would you do?"
Wu Yi asked with a thoughtful look.
Pang Jian, who was thinking about this, looked at the structural diagram of Tianyun City on the table and said without raising his head: "It depends on our goal. The main thing is to seize the beast blood and meat collected by Blood Moon, or to kill Blood Moon's people."
"We still need to save people!"
Meng Qiulan interjected, looking at Pang Jian with a gloomy look, thinking: "As soon as this kid saw that I promised Yang Yuansen to send Bai Wei and Bai Zhi away, he didn't even want to save them. He is really cold-blooded and realistic."
"Killing is not the purpose. The main purpose is to take the blood and meat of the beasts. Saving people... is just a by-product." Wu Yi said with a smile.
"Then there is no need to arrange people. Just block the people entering and leaving this mansion and create as much chaos as possible."
"If possible in the early stages, it would be best to arrange for our people to poison the well water and food."
"When we take action, it would be best if Tianyun City is in chaos. If several districts are on fire and fighting and turmoil break out, it will be convenient for us to do anything."
After experiencing the hardships in Bagua City and communicating frequently with Luo Hongyan recently, Pang Jian has more ideas about such things.
After he finished speaking, he found that everyone was silent, and he couldn't help but look up.
Meng Qiulan, Zhao Ling, and Yang Yuansen all looked at him strangely.
Wu Yi's eyes lit up.
"Hong Tai, that bastard, brought up a nephew who is just as vicious and evil as he is!"
Yang Yuansen grinned and snorted, "I only thought of blocking the door and leading people to charge in at night. You used poison and created chaos, causing riots in the entire Tianyun City. These are all taught by Hongtai, right?"
Pang Jian was silent.
Zhao Ling's eyes were as sharp as knives, flashing with a strange light. She stared at Pang Jian for a moment before saying, "Mr. Wu, what do you think?"
Wu Yi coughed and said awkwardly, "My idea is similar to his, there are only a few minor changes that need to be made. But overall, I have the same idea."
After saying that, he nodded towards Pang Jian with some sympathy, praising him, "The guy from the upper realm is indeed more... thorough than us in doing things."
Meng Qiulan, who had been silent for a while, finally came to her senses and said, "Hong Jian, you go out first."
"Master Meng, can you give me a few more of those pills that can suppress qi and blood?"
Pang Jian made a request.
"what are you up to?"
Meng Qiulan was stunned.
"I plan to enter Tianyun City and check out the area in advance. I need to find out the specific situation around the mansion first, because the map is dead, but people are alive."
Pang Jian replied.
The admiration in Wu Yi's eyes became even stronger.
"Oh, okay."
Meng Qiulan gave him a few more wax yellow pills and warned him, "You only need to take this when you are near the Wuding Ferry, and it only lasts for a quarter of an hour. You are both in the Marrow Cleansing Realm, and unless you two fight, the other party won't be able to detect your actual cultivation level, so you don't have to be so cautious."
Pang Jian nodded, took the pill and left.
"Meng Lao, when did he advance to the Marrow Cleansing Stage? Does he have any combat experience?"
As soon as Pang Jian disappeared, Zhao Ling suddenly asked questions like a string of bullets: "We must find out whether his Marrow Cleansing Realm can be effective and whether it will hinder us."
"He should have been promoted half a month ago." Meng Qiulan said.
"Just got promoted? Previously, you were arranged by Hongtai to practice hard in another place?"
Zhao Ling shook her head and said disappointedly, "It seems that we can't regard him as a helper who can share the pressure with us. Without much fighting experience, it's useless for a newly promoted Marrow Cleansing Realm cultivator to have a good brain or be cautious. When he really faces those guys from Blood Moon, I just hope he doesn't get scared silly."
"Hey, it's a pity that Hongtai died early and didn't have time to adapt to the cruel battlefield of our Dark Ghosts." Yang Yuansen laughed a few times and said, "Zhao Ling, you are the youngest in the Marrow Cleansing Realm, you should still be able to keep it."
…
In the evening.
Tianyun City.
Pang Jian easily entered from the west gate using the card given by Fan Liang.
Walking on the dirty streets and looking at the small houses built of gray stone, blue stone, black stone and white stone, Pang Jian was touched.
The common people living in the West District were poorly dressed, lived in small houses, and were busy all day long.
They either sewed clothes to supply the practitioners in the city, or worked on newly reclaimed land outside the city and grew crops in exchange for silver.
After a lifetime of hard work, most people don’t live to be fifty.
Not to mention seeing the scenery of the upper realm, most of them will never have the chance to leave Tianyun Shattered Land in their lifetime.
Thinking that he had already left Beiqi and was able to move around in Tianyun as a cultivator, and that he had also been to the Bagua Formation in the fifth realm and seen those powerful alien races rising into the sky, Pang Jian felt that he was still lucky.
On the streets of the West District, Pang Jian, who was neatly dressed and had clean fingers, looked around with emotion.
Each member of the Dark Alley Gang is a smart guy, and you can tell at a glance that he is a person who has embarked on the path of spiritual practice.
So no one dared to provoke him, but just wondered why he didn't enter through another city gate.
After wandering around the West District, taking note of the situation on the street and comparing it with the map in his mind, Pang Jian went to the South District.
The South District is obviously much more lively.
There were many wandering cultivators on the street, and loud voices could be heard from the taverns, shops and inns on both sides.
This is completely different from the streets of Bagua City.
"Finally, I've reached a place that's somewhat popular."
Muttering to himself, Pang Jian casually walked into a shop.
After coming out, he had a lot more Earth Fire Stones in his storage bag, but he didn't get anything when he wanted to buy the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts.
He learned from the shop owner that the flesh and blood of the ferocious beasts were controlled by the Shangguan family, and most of the flesh and blood of the ferocious beasts hunted by independent cultivators in Yunze were bought by the Shangguan family at low prices.
—This is also the main tribute that the Shangguan family pays to Blood Moon.
The shopkeeper also told him that the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts were for sale in several towns outside Tianyun City and some strongholds in Yunze, and asked him to go there and try.
Pang Jian continued to hang around in the southern area, visiting different shops, and gradually had more poison powder and poison in his hands.
Passing by a pavilion where there were sounds of cheerful laughter, Pang Jian, who was standing at the corner of the street, saw a familiar person.
Blood Moon Fee.
Fei Zheng was drinking and having fun at a window upstairs, being fawned over by several men in brocade clothes.
Several of them were accompanied by beautiful ladies, and they frequently toasted Fei Zheng of the Blood Moon.
In front of the door of the building called Fuxiang Tower, there were city guards wearing Shangguan family uniforms guarding it and no one was allowed to enter. It seemed that this place was specifically meant to serve Fei Zheng.
Fei Zheng, who did not try to get rid of the smell of alcohol, had a red face and enjoyed the service of the dignitaries from the lower world with bleary eyes.
To him, no one in the entire Tianyun City dared to cross him, so naturally he would not care about those casual cultivators walking on the street.
When he was in the Blood Moon of the upper realm, he had to behave himself, but when he arrived at the Tianyun City of the lower realm, he became the emperor.
Even the city lord Shangguan Dong had to serve him carefully, offering him the best wine and the most beautiful women in the city, which made him reluctant to leave.
"It seems that he is not on the hunting ship every night. This should make it easier."
The man stayed in the dark, and after watching silently for a while, Pang Jian left quietly.
He then wandered around the North District and the East District, walking along all four streets of this not-so-large Tianyun City, and carefully compared them with the map in his mind.
Finally, after taking a waxy yellow pill, he came to the mansion in the East District where the "Unfixed Ferry" was docked.
The "Wuding Ferry" has no cover at all.
It was parked in the courtyard of the mansion. The deck was higher than the pavilion, and the blood-red crescent moon in the black banner was extremely prominent.
This group of Blood Moon practitioners never seemed to have thought that anyone would dare to attack them.
Pang Jian also learned from Meng Qiulan and Zhao Ling that before this, the Dark Ghost did not dare to attack these sects in the upper realm, for fear that they would be ruthlessly wiped out by the sects in the upper realm.
That night.
Pang Jian settled down in a shabby little building belonging to an Angui in the western district where civilians lived. He took out a white jade porcelain bottle from his arms.
He lifted the cork and waited for a wisp of rich energy and blood to dissipate. Then Pang Jian looked at Luo Hongyan above the crystal lotus. Although she was in a miniature form, she was still extremely beautiful.
He was distracted for a moment.
It is precisely because he can see Luo Hongyan often and has seen such a face that can bring disaster to the country and the people that he can remain calm towards women like Bai Wei and Bai Zhi.
"This is not Yunze Town anymore."
Luo Hongyan, whose spiritual consciousness was overflowing, sensed the situation briefly and knew: "Has the dark ghost decided to take action?"
"Well, they are planning to take action in Tianyun City, probably in the next few days."
Pang Jian explained the situation and his detailed understanding of Tianyun City, and then asked: "What is your real combat power? You have to tell me clearly so that I can have an idea."
"If I join the battle now, as long as the enemy I encounter is not a master of the Yinling Temple who is proficient in the art of soul-binding, I can kill any marrow cleansing realm cultivator." Luo Hong smiled and explained, "I won't go to the third realm because there are too many strong people in the third realm. It's too dangerous for us with our current cultivation level."
"As for the fourth realm, as long as we are careful, there is actually nothing to worry about."
Luo Hongyan said proudly.
"Okay, then I'm relieved."
…
(End of this chapter)