The City Lord of Merchant City looked at Chu Xiu in front of him with a solemn expression. Although he was born in Green Capital, the martial arts he inherited were the martial arts of the human race from ten thousand years ago. Apart from paying more attention to the physical body to adapt to this environment with thin vitality, it could be said that it was of the same origin.
However, the saber strike from the outsider in front of him was simply amazing. It had even forced him to use the little internal force in his body to resist it.
Just as the City Lord of Merchant City wanted to continue attacking, Chu Xiu suddenly stretched out his hand and said, "Wait, don't you realize that there is no point in us fighting now?
You can't kill me, and I can't kill you. If we continue to fight, both of us will suffer.
I don't want to die, and you are the City Lord of this city. If something happens to you, how will you resist the other forces around Green Capital? Also, the Black Storm that you mentioned needs to be resisted by you, the City Lord.
In that case, why don't we make a deal?
I know what you want. Isn't it medicinal pills? I have plenty of them here. "
As he spoke, Chu Xiu directly took out a large number of medicinal pills from the secret space box, piling them up to the height of a person. These medicinal pill bottles had three big words written on them: Blood Recovery Pill.
These medicinal pills were the Blood Recovery Pills refined by the Zhen Wu Hall in the past. Because the level of the Zhen Wu Hall's alchemists was limited at that time, they could only refine these things. Chu Xiu conveniently took some and treated it as promoting his own products.
Later, when his physical body was destroyed, the secret space box also entered the Blood Soul Bead because it contained space inside. Although it was a little damaged, it did not affect its storage function. Therefore, Chu Xiu did not replace it. He did not expect that it would come in handy today.
Chu Xiu opened a bottle of pills. Although the medicinal fragrance was not very strong, it was extremely obvious in such a barren place. It caused every cultivator in Merchant City to stare at it with wide eyes. Their eyes were frighteningly red.
For these people in Merchant City, anything that contained a trace of power was the key to their survival.
Medicinal pills were refined from the essence of heaven and earth. A bottle of low-level medicinal pills might be digested in the outside world in an hour. Some martial artists from large sects ate them like chewing candy.
But for the martial artists in Merchant City, a bottle of medicinal pills could even let them live for a year if it was just to maintain their vitality.
Once again, he waved his hand and the medicinal pills disappeared into the secret space box. Chu Xiu said lightly, "Now, can we sit down and talk calmly?"
The City Lord of Merchant City let out a long breath and said in a deep voice, "Let go of my granddaughter first."
Chu Xiu waved his hand, and the blood shadow dissipated. He threw ten bottles of Blood Recovery Pills to Shang Qi and said, "A greeting gift. I am a broad-minded person, and I repay evil with good, so I won't hold it against you for lying to me just now."
Shang Qi glanced at Chu Xiu and immediately ran to Merchant City's City Lord's side.
However, she did not keep the ten bottles of medicinal pills. Instead, she handed them to a martial artist who was not young and said softly, "Give the medicinal pills to the people who were injured last time. Let them use them first."
Chu Xiu glanced at Shang Qi in surprise. At this time, the City Lord of Merchant City let out a long breath and said, "Please come in!"
A faint smile appeared on Chu Xiu's face. It seemed that no matter where it was, strength was the most important. The rules here were the same.
Today, if Chu Xiu did not show his strength, he would have been killed and robbed like those outsiders. He would not have been invited into the city.
Chu Xiu calmly walked into the shopping center and looked around at the same time.
This Merchant City was called a city, but in fact, it was extremely desolate. There were only some simple houses built with stone in the entire city. That's right, all of them were made of stone.
Compared to the outside world, the only difference here was that there was no annoying yellow sand.
The City Lord's residence was the same. The only difference was that it was slightly bigger than the stone houses in the outside world.
Sitting on a stone table with Chu Xiu, the City Lord of Merchant City said in a deep voice, "Now you can say it. What do you want to trade? As you can see, I don't have anything here. There are only some ancient martial arts passed down. However, your martial arts inheritance is even stronger than mine. It is useless for you to take it. "
Chu Xiu said, "Don't worry, what I want to trade is not too difficult. It is just some information. By the way, I have not asked for the City Lord's name."
The City Lord of Merchant City said expressionlessly, "I am Shang Tianliang. However, there are very few people who call me this name."
In this Merchant City, Shang Tianliang's seniority was the highest. Naturally, no one would call him by his name.
Chu Xiu's expression was slightly strange. Shang Tianliang, breaking his conscience?
Coughing, Chu Xiu said, "I am very curious about this Green City. I heard from Shang Qi that you came here after the ancient calamity 10,000 years ago? What was the situation then? What was the ancient calamity? "
Shang Tianliang laughed coldly and pointed at himself. "Wrong. I should say that we came here before the ancient calamity. We are just the descendants of a group of refugees."
Shang Tianliang pointed at himself and the outside at the same time. "Before the ancient calamity began, those top forces already had a way to avoid it.
However, our ancestors did not. We were just a group of refugees who were unwilling to be abandoned. We tried our best to find a way to survive.
This space was discovered at that time. Our ancestors worked together to blast open a door at the weakest point of the space. Then, dozens of forces, maybe even hundreds of forces, moved here.
"At that time, they called this place Green City. It was like spring all year round. The Heaven Earth Yuan Qi was extremely rich. It was a good place to live in seclusion.
However, the funny thing is that our ancestors neglected one point. If this place was really a paradise, why would those big sects give up on this place?
This place could not be considered a world. It could only be considered a relatively large independent space. Everything inside was extremely unstable.
About 3,000 years ago, the Heaven Earth Yuan Qi disappeared. In the end, even the environment became extremely barren. There has not been a single drop of rain here for decades.
You can see the situation now. Survival has become a problem. The forces and families that came in back then have all been broken up. They have formed a group to survive. Merchant City is such a case.
If I had known this would happen, my ancestors might as well have stayed there and resisted. Through you later generations, I also know that under the great calamity, not all lives were destroyed. After ten thousand years, I have been struggling at death's door, while those who resisted the great calamity outside, they have once again flourished in martial arts. "
After listening to Shang Tianliang, Chu Xiu felt that their ancestors were just unlucky.
Except for those who were truly desperate, no one was willing to sit and wait for death.
In the end, fate made a fool of people. Those who really sat and waited for death survived. Meanwhile, the descendants of those who dared to fight for opportunities were waiting for death here.
"By the way, what is going on with the Great Ancient Calamity? Where did those people in ancient times go? "
Shang Tianliang shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"You don't know?"
"I just don't know. Don't imagine our ancestors to be too strong. In ancient times, they were not even the top first-rate forces. They were only second or third-rate forces.
The Great Ancient Calamity has long been predicted by some divination grandmasters. Moreover, in the later period, the earth dragon turned over, meteorites fell from the sky, Heavenly Fire and Earthly Fire erupted at the same time, and all kinds of natural disasters occurred continuously. It was as if the world was going to be destroyed. These scenes proved that the divination grandmasters were right.
However, the real reason might be that no one knows what happened except for those who stood at the peak of martial arts at that time.
In the records of my ancestors, those top sects seemed to have a plan to take away some of their disciples, or even not all of them.
Even those top sects couldn't take away all of their disciples, let alone us. "
Chu Xiu rubbed his head. It seemed like the Great Ancient Calamity was not that simple. Instead, he had thought of things too simply.
If the reason for the Great Ancient Calamity was really known to everyone, then it would not be a mystery anymore. Those who survived the Great Ancient Calamity should know about it.
At that moment, Shang Qi walked in with a tea tray made of stone. There were two cups of murky water and a few grayish-white things.
Chu Xiu raised his eyebrows. Could this thing be drunk?
Shang Qi seemed to know what Chu Xiu was thinking. She snorted and said, "In Green City, having water means life. Shang City is rooted here because there is a cave a hundred feet underground. They can receive some water from there every day. Also, these pastries are made from the Puyu Tree."
Chu Xiu took a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, frowning slightly.
The taste was like chewing wax; it made him feel like he was chewing white ash.
Shang Qi said lightly, "It's not delicious, but if you eat it, you can survive."
Chu Xiu knocked on the stone table and said, "Is the situation in this place already so bad? For such a thing, we have to fight each other desperately. The number of people who die for it is probably more than the number of people it can save. "
Shang Qi lowered her head and didn't say anything. Shang Tianliang paused and said, "But if we don't fight desperately, everyone will starve to death. You come from the outside world, so it should be hard to imagine what it looks like when a Real Pellet State martial artist starves to death, right?
This is the rule of Green City. For everything that can save one's life, one can fight for it with one's life!
Even when food is the most scarce, two neighboring forces will fight even if there is no conflict and there is no benefit.
Because after a fight, those who survive are all powerhouses. Similarly, a group of people die, the pressure of food resources is reduced, and the remaining people can continue to live. "
Chu Xiu shuddered when he heard this. Lu Jianghe, who was in the Bloodsoul Bead, felt the same way.
Whether it was Chu Xiu or Lu Jiang He, they had a lot of blood and lives on their hands.
But everyone they killed had a reason. For fame, for profit, for hatred, these were all acceptable.
But here, there was no hatred. In order to survive, they had to kill. This place was simply hell on earth.
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