Chapter 174 The Wonderful Entrance

Mo Juren saw Honglian Sanren in the restaurant and joked,

"Sister Honglian, you've had a pretty good time these past two days. You could almost say you were living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, haha."

Hong Lian San Ren immediately stopped his practice and bowed to Mo Ju Ren,

"Brother Zhang! I am not just greedy for this appetite, but the 'Fierce Beast Blood Drink' produced by the Spirit Beast Mountain is very unique,"

"If I can understand the method of preparation, I can learn from it when I prepare spiritual tea in the future... I'm sorry to make you laugh, Brother Zhang."

Mo Juren smiled and said,
"I see. It seems that I have wronged Sister Honglian. This is what I have already told Sister Hu and the others. I am planning to go to the secret market."

"We will be leaving Spirit Beast Mountain early. I wonder if Sister Honglian wants to wait for Sister Hu and the others, or follow me?"

Honglian looked towards Mo Juren and said,

"Of course... I will go with Brother Zhang."

Mo Juren had long known that Honglian would make such a choice, but it was also a good thing. With Honglian's strength, she would not become a burden to him even if they went together.

So Mo Juren said,

"That's good. Then you can follow me to the inn to register, and then we can enter the secret city together in the evening."

The so-called registration, in fact, the most important thing is to obtain an identification spirit tablet from the inn, and then buy a set of "black robes" that must be worn to enter the secret city. Mo Juren paid thirty spirit stones and brought back three sets in total.

After avoiding others, Mo Juren brought Honglian back to the room.

Madam Xiang in the room and Honglian Sanren who came in were both shocked to see a strange female cultivator suddenly.

Moreover, before Mo Juren left, he was still in the image of Zhang Tie, but he had changed when he came back. Fortunately, the first "Tie Ye" that Madam Xiang saw was also this elegant image in white clothes, so she did not feel strange.

So Mo Juren introduced them to each other.
"Sister Honglian, this is my old acquaintance, Madam Xiang; Madam Xiang, this is my new acquaintance, Sanren Honglian."

The two of them bowed silently, and Mrs. Xiang smiled first and said,

"So you are Sister Honglian. My name is Ma Yi. If you don't mind, you can call me Sister Ma..."

Honglian Sanren interrupted her and said,
"I dare not, Fellow Daoist Ma, have you and my elder brother Zhang been staying in the same room all this time?"

Madam Xiang seemed to sense a hint of hostility in Honglian's words. She looked at Mo Juren again and saw that he looked as if he was staying out of the matter. After a brief thought, she said,

"Haha, fellow Daoist Honglian really guessed it right. Master Tie and I haven't seen each other for a long time. We had a good chat and time passed really quickly."

Honglian frowned immediately, her face turned unfriendly, and she said meaningfully,
"Daoyou Ma, this is such a beautiful lady. I wonder which one's 'Madam Xiang' she is? She must be very much loved by her fellow Taoists, right?"

Madam Xiang continued to look at Mo Juren, then smiled and said,

"Madam Xiang is just an old name. I am alone now, so how can I have a Taoist partner?"

Honglian wanted to say something, but Mo Juren said,
"You two don't need to think too much. Just take a rest here for a while. When night falls, follow me into the secret market."

So, under Mo Juren's arrangement, the two girls sat on either side of the room and practiced in silence.

After midnight, Mo Juren and the other two changed into black clothes. This set of black clothes from the Secret Market was a wide robe with big sleeves that covered the person from head to toe, and even the face was covered with a scarf, so the face could not be seen at all after putting it on.

And the most important thing is that this black robe is also a cassock, which can block the inspection of monks of the same level. Everyone who enters the secret city wears this robe, so they can hide their identities from each other.

It is also easy to find the entrance to the secret city. Just continue to input magic power into the identification tablet, and it will generate a tiny gravitational force to lead the monks there.

The closer you are to the entrance, the stronger the sense of gravity from the spirit tablet will be, so you can find it yourself without asking others.

The three of them followed the guidance of the sign and came to a building in the market town. When they looked up, they found it was the "Huanmiao Tower" of Huadaowu.

During the day, this place is a store specializing in selling talismans and formations, but at night it becomes the entrance to a secret market.

However, the waiter at the inn also said that the location of the entrance to the secret city is not fixed each time. This time it appeared in the shop run by Huadaowu, which may just be a coincidence.

Outside the Huanmiao Tower, the entrance to the secret city had just opened, so many monks in black robes gathered in front of the Huanmiao Tower, waiting to enter.

Mo Juren saw two people standing on the opposite side of the road from a distance. Upon closer inspection, they were both disciples of the Yellow Maple Valley. One of them was Guan Zhengyi, who was in the Foundation Establishment Stage! He was carrying a set of bows and arrows on his back, making him very easy to identify.

I wonder if this person has caught up with the fleeing Black Jue Master when he came back? Fortunately, everyone is wearing black robes at this time. Even if he has the foundation-building cultivation, it should be difficult for him to see through the identities of himself and Madam Xiang.

However, he was not too sure about the true ability of the foundation-building cultivator, so he did not dare to look over there any more. He could only pray secretly that he would not pay attention to this side.

There were two monks also dressed in black guarding the entrance, verifying the identification tablets of everyone entering one by one.

Suddenly, the two of them found that two of the signs were not right, so they pushed the two people in line out of the queue, took off their hoods, and saw that they were disciples wearing Huangfeng Valley clothes.

The two gatekeepers said fiercely to the two men who were caught,

"How dare you use a used logo to test it? How dare you fish in troubled waters!"

After saying that, he looked across the street and perhaps recognized Guan Zhengyi's cultivation as a foundation-building cultivator, so he suppressed his anger a little and said,

"Humph, I'll let you off this time, but if you dare come again next time, I'll break your legs! Get lost!"

The two Huangfeng Valley disciples who were dragged out had no choice but to run back across the street to report in disappointment. They saw that Guan Zhengyi did not scold them. Instead, he apologized, nodded slightly to the people in the queue, and then left with the three of them.

Mo Juren noticed that two people in the team responded to Guan Zhengyi, and from their backs, he roughly guessed who it was.

These two people are most likely the two young men from the Yan family, the siblings Yan Yu and Yan Ling. I just don’t know if the beautiful Yan Ruyan is also with them.

Mo Juren guessed that Guan Zhengyi sent two disciples to sneak into the secret city together, probably with the intention of protecting the brother and sister.

It was probably a spur-of-the-moment idea, so it didn't get any official identification, which is why it was slipped out.

While paying close attention, he soon saw that the two people who were suspected to be from the Yan family in front of the team were indeed let in.

Then it was the turn of Mo Juren and his two companions. The disciple guarding the gate placed their identification tablets in his hand and tested them with a special instrument. After confirming that they were correct, he allowed Mo Juren to pass.

Under the cover of night, the entrance to the Fantasy Building seemed somewhat dark, as if there was a layer of gauze-like mist blocking the view. Even if one got close, one could not see what was inside the door.

(End of this chapter)