Chapter 924: Living in Central Continent

"Mr. Gu, do you know where this Xinghe Village is and which area of ​​Dongzhou it is located in?"

This was a question he urgently wanted to know.

However, when he asked this question, Mr. Gu was immediately stunned, with a look of extreme astonishment on his face.

Seeing the astonished Mr. Gu, Lu Fan couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong, Mr. Gu, is there any problem?"

Under his questioning, Mr. Gu looked at Lu Fan with a strange expression and said:

"This is not Dongzhou, but Zhongzhou!"

After Mr. Gu said this answer, Lu Fan suddenly froze on the spot, with a look of disbelief on his face and murmuring in his mouth.

"Zhongzhou, how did you get to Zhongzhou..."

At this moment, Lu Fan felt suspicious of life and couldn't believe that this was true.

After all, he was still at the center of Dongzhou when he was sucked into that space vortex.

But now he appears in Zhongzhou, the holy land of martial arts.

Faced with such a situation, anyone would be as uneasy as him.

After all, there is a vast endless sea between Dongzhou and Zhongzhou, and the distance in between can accommodate two Dongzhous.

Seeing Lu Fan like this, neither Gu Lao nor Yaya made any noise to disturb him, but just waited quietly.

After a long while, Lu Fan calmed down and looked at Mr. Gu with a complicated expression:

"Mr. Gu, can you tell me the details here and tell me everything you know."

The original plan of him and the old Taoist priest was to find out what happened in the Origin Stone Secret Realm and then reach Central Continent through the teleportation array.

But I didn't expect him to come to Central Continent in this way.

Since he appeared in Zhongzhou, it must be the same for the old Taoist priest, but he did not appear in the same area as himself.

After all, he and the old Taoist priest were sucked into the space vortex at the same time.

At this moment, Mr. Gu also vaguely guessed that Lu Fan should be a monk from Dongzhou, but he came to Central Continent due to some accident, so he was so shocked and surprised.

However, he didn't ask too much and just answered Lu Fan's questions.

Following Mr. Gu's detailed explanation, Lu Fan finally understood the general situation of this area.

It turns out that the place where Xinghe Village belongs is a small area in the northwest of Central Continent, and the entire area within a hundred miles is governed by a sect called Yang Ling Sect.

All large and small forces within the territory need to pay a certain amount of spiritual stones or equivalent resources to Yang Lingzong every year.

If you don't pay the resources, you will either move out of this area or be directly destroyed by Yang Lingzong.

But even if you move to other areas, you still have to pay resources to the ruling sects in other areas.

If you don't pay the resources, there will still be two consequences.

Therefore, the large and small forces within the territory can only obediently pay resources to obtain peace.

The Yang Ling Sect was the absolute overlord within a hundred miles, but it was nothing at all above.

Because there are other stronger sects above Yang Ling Sect, Yang Ling Sect and forces like Yang Ling Sect also have to pay resources to stronger forces.

If you are unwilling to provide resources and pay, the only way is to be destroyed.

This situation is not an isolated case, but is the case throughout Central Continent.

Therefore, forces large and small are all frantically searching for resources and competing for talents.

For a small vein of spiritual stone, several major forces can fight to the end. It shouldn't be too cruel.

In addition, the monks in the outside world are also extremely cruel and vicious, and there are countless horse thieves and mercenary groups who kill and loot.

Once a lone monk encounters horse thieves or a mercenary group that specializes in plundering.

If you are lucky, you only need to hand over the storage ring and storage bag to save your life. If you are unlucky, you will be killed directly.

Even the Golden Core cultivators will be killed at any time outside, let alone the Qi Refining Realm cultivators at the lowest level.

Therefore, low-level monks like Mr. Gu can only choose to live in seclusion and hide in very remote places.

Although there is no way to search for resources to improve cultivation, it is much safer.

But even so, there are still some gangs of horse thieves who will come to small villages like theirs.

For example, the Xinghe Village where Mr. Gu is located is composed of some low-level casual cultivators.

And most of them are older like Mr. Gu and cannot continue to improve their cultivation. They can only wait for death in such a barren land.

A few years ago, a gang of five horse thieves found Xinghe Village and demanded that Xinghe Village provide a thousand low-grade spiritual stones every year.

If they fail to hand over the spiritual stones they stipulate, they will massacre the people in the village.

Faced with such a threat, the monks in the village had no other choice but to obey.

This situation has been going on for three years.

Because of this, many monks in Xinghe Village have fled, and now there are less than thirty people left.

There is only one month left before this year's offering day, and the 1,000 pieces of low-grade spiritual stones needed for the offering are less than 200 pieces.

Therefore, more than ten people out of the more than thirty people left in the village escaped.

Mr. Gu originally wanted to escape with Yaya.

However, Xinghe Village is surrounded by mountains and there are a lot of ferocious beasts inside. He and Yaya cannot escape at all.

There is a city twenty miles away.

But entering that city requires an entry fee of three low-grade spiritual stones per person.

Fighting is strictly prohibited after entering the city, but it is very safe.

It's just that you must have a place to stay after entering the city. If you don't have a place to stay, you will be arrested by the city guards and sent to mine resources in the veins.

But finding a place to stay is easier said than done.

Living and resting anywhere in the city requires spiritual stones, as well as eating.

What's more important is that the three low-grade spirit stones can only stay in the city for three days. After three days, you must pay the spirit stones again or choose to leave.

Mr. Gu can't get a foothold in the city alone, let alone with Yaya.

So even if he wanted to escape, there was no way.

However, he had found a very hidden cave in the mountain, and planned to take Yaya to that cave when the group of horse thieves came to ask for the provided resources.

Now that I have Lu Fan, I naturally want to take Lu Fan with me to hide there.

After Mr. Gu finished speaking in great detail, Lu Fan was secretly surprised.

Before, I only knew that Zhongzhou was a holy land of martial arts.

But he didn't expect that Zhongzhou, known as the Holy Land of Martial Arts, would be so cruel, many times more cruel than Dongzhou.

After a brief silence, Lu Fan looked at Mr. Gu and asked curiously: "Mr. Gu, what are the strengths of those five horse thieves?"

These five horse thieves were able to force the people of Xinghe Village into this state. Could it be that those five horse thieves were very strong?

"Those five horse thieves are all at the Foundation Establishment level, and the strongest one is at the Peak Foundation Establishment level."

Lu Fan couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard that the five horse thieves were all in the Foundation Establishment realm.

How dare all five people in the Foundation Establishment Realm be so arrogant.

But after thinking that the strongest person in Xinghe Village was only Gu Lao, who was at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, he understood.

The Foundation Establishment Realm is indeed very weak, but in the eyes of Mr. Gu and others, those five people are extremely terrifying existences.

After taking a breath, Lu Fan said nothing more or continued to ask.

Then he asked Mr. Gu to serve him a bowl of brewed spiritual liquid, and then asked Mr. Gu and Yaya to serve a bowl each.

The three of them just sat at the door with a bowl of elixir and started drinking...