Chapter 46 The Thief Blocking the Road

Mo Juren was also the leader of a mortal sect in Lanzhou in his early years. He knew how difficult it was for one person to fight alone compared to the division of labor and cooperation of the entire sect.

As the saying goes, every profession has its own specialization. It is obviously more profound and efficient to cultivate a skill in depth and then share what you have learned with your disciples than to try to do everything by yourself.

However, it is still quite difficult for a casual cultivator to integrate into these immortal cultivation forces.

Immortal cultivation sects generally only accept boys with spiritual roots and train them from a young age so that they will have loyalty and a sense of belonging to the sect. Family forces, on the other hand, focus more on cultivating their own blood relatives.

Of course, these sects and family-based immortal cultivation forces will occasionally recruit some worshippers and retainers. As long as they are strong enough or have a special skill, such as alchemist, talisman master, weapon refiner, formation master, etc., they are also very popular among various forces.

Mo Juren also asked indirectly about the matter of possession of another's body, which frightened Jin Guang. He thought that Mo Juren was attracted by his three-inch-tall dwarf body, and Mo Juren was speechless.

Jin Guang didn't really know much about possession of another's body. He had only heard that it was an "evil technique" that only disciples of the evil sect could perform.

In the Kingdom of Yue, all larger forces and sects have magical instruments to detect souls, in order to prevent evildoers from using various methods of taking over bodies, possession or manipulation to sneak into the sect and act as spies.

Mo Juren felt even more disheartened upon hearing this, and from then on he gave up the idea of ​​finding an opportunity to infiltrate a large sect to practice in the future.

Fortunately, I have that piece of magical porcelain. If I work hard to cultivate precious medicines or refine pills in the future, I can exchange some of them. As long as I can exchange them for spirit stones, I believe I won't have to worry about the problem of cultivation resources for the time being.

From now on, I'd better be a free and independent cultivator and see if there are other opportunities.

The two walked for several days on the mountain road surrounded by mountains. When they were still several miles away from Maoxiang Valley, they came to the entrance of a gorge. One side of the gorge was a mountain and stone wall, and the other side was adjacent to the river. In the middle was a single rocky road, and the terrain was extremely dangerous.

The cloud-winged bird came back from exploring the way, chirping, and found that there were people lying in ambush inside.

The golden light grabs the power,
"Master Tie, this place is called Yuzui'ao. It has a peculiar terrain and is the only way to enter the valley from this direction. I have never heard of any thieves daring to appear here. Master Tie, please rest assured that I, Jin Guang, have a good reputation here. If there are really petty thieves, leave it to me to deal with them. Master Tie, just watch over them."

So before the two of them arrived at the gorge, they did not go in, but stood there quietly for a while. Sure enough, they saw that the people who were ambushing inside could not bear it anymore and rushed out all at once.

When the little thief at the head of the group saw the visitors wearing gold and silver and looking gorgeous and noble, he thought that two big fat sheep had come and he was so happy that he almost smiled crookedly.
"This is my land, this tree... oops!"

Before he could finish his extremely fluent jargon, he was hit on the head by the little boss behind him, and the words were cut off.

The small leader recognized Master Jin Guang and immediately stopped his ignorant subordinate from speaking underworld jargon.
"Oh, it turns out that you are here, Master Jin Guang. It's been a long time since I last saw you. I am a newcomer who doesn't know a great man. I hope you can forgive me, Master."

Jin Guang snorted expressionlessly, put his hands behind his back, and looked up at the sky and asked,

"Who are you from? How can you be so tactless that you even want to rob me, Master Jin Guang?"

"No, no, we are hunters who moved to the mountain village. I am Bazhi, and I have seen the Master several times."

The little leader quickly apologized,
"Isn't it the birthday of our Madam Xiang of Maoxiang Valley in a few days? There are too many people coming to celebrate her birthday, and Maoxiang Valley is too busy to handle it. So all the villages in the four directions have contributed their manpower and, at Madam Xiang's request, have specially stood at the entrances of various valleys to help welcome the distinguished guests. Hehe..."

This group of people is a mess and has no order. Looking at their behavior, I'm afraid welcoming guests is secondary, and taking the opportunity to make some money is their main purpose.

Jin Guang did not bother with them any more, and said fiercely, "Since you are here to welcome guests, why don't you quickly get out of my way? If you delay our journey, I will make you little shrimps fly away with a flip of my hand."

The little leader hurriedly gathered his men aside, leaving a path for them to enter the valley, and bowed and asked,

"No, no, I don't want to. Maoxiang Valley welcomes you all. We respectfully welcome our distinguished guests into the valley. Please, please, please..."

Jin Guang snorted coldly, feeling that he had done his job well, he quickly changed his expression and let Mo Juren go first.

"Hey, please, Mr. Tie. After passing Yuzui'ao, you can see the Maoxiang Valley."

Mo Juren's eyes sparkled as he stared at the entrance thoughtfully. Before he had taken a few steps, another person appeared in the gorge ahead and stopped them again.

"Wait!"

The man who spoke was wearing a leopard skin coat with off-shoulder design, revealing half of his muscular upper body, and had three fiery red feathers in his hair. He stood in front of the entrance to the gorge and shouted,

"I am Tiegulu, a subordinate of Madam Xiang. On behalf of Maoxiang Valley, I welcome the three of you."

This person spoke politely, but his tone was extremely arrogant. He stared at the cloud-winged bird on Mo Juren's shoulder with his squinting triangular eyes and said,
"Master Jin Guang is also an old acquaintance of Maoxiang Valley, so he is welcome. But this one should be a new guest who has not been here before, right? You should know that Madam Xiang has always liked all kinds of small pets, birds and animals. I see that the little bird on your shoulder is quite smart. Are you willing to offer this bird as a birthday gift for Madam Xiang?"

Mo Juren's eyes turned cold. How dare he set his sights on the Cloud-winged Bird? Did he want to snatch it away?

The cloud-winged bird seemed to have sensed the unfriendly gaze and began to chirp while flapping its wings. Mo Juren quickly touched its head to comfort it.

Jin Guang looked solemn and explained in a low voice,

"On the surface, this man is a subordinate of Madam Xiang, the master of the Maoxiang Valley, but in another way, he is a direct disciple of the master behind the scenes, the immortal cultivator Master Hei Jue. Although this man does not practice immortality, he has extraordinary martial arts skills. He has always acted arrogantly because he has the support of Master Hei Jue."

Every immortal cultivator that Mo Juren had met, from Yu Zitong, Han Li to Master Jin Guang, had given him different kinds of "shocks". Having learned his lesson many times, he naturally did not dare to be blindly arrogant again.

Therefore, one absolutely does not want to have a conflict with Master Black Zetsu without knowing the whole story.

However, Mo Juren could not tolerate people like Tiegulu who relied on the power of others to act arrogantly in front of him.

So he snorted coldly and smiled.

"Oh, this is indeed my first time in this Maoxiang Valley. Since I know that Madam Xiang likes small pets, I will prepare them separately. Why do you need to step in and do a second-hand business of borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha?"

After saying that, he silently used the Sky Eye Technique. As his eyes closed and opened, a gleam of light flashed and his momentum rose sharply.

The power of immortal cultivators has a natural suppressive effect on mortals. Under the sharp gaze of Mo Juren that penetrated his bones and marrow, Tiegulu felt uncomfortable all over.

It was like a fish nailed to a chopping block waiting to be skinned, shaking and sweating unconsciously, yet unable to move...

(End of this chapter)