Chapter 1400 Mingshan
Unlike the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers on Wanjuanshu Mountain, Mingshan is located in the extremely cold Northeast, with a foot of snow all year round, and the mountains are full of unique scenes in the Snow Country.
The nearest teleportation circle to Mingshan is more than three hundred miles away, and the distance is also particular.
Near the foot of Mingshan Mountain are dozens of larger villages. Although it is always bitterly cold, it is not covered with snow all the year round like on the mountain. In spring and summer, there are still crops that can live, and some game in the mountains will be traded from distant towns. Acquisition, so days are not bad. At least it is stable, even if the evil spirits were rampant everywhere before, it will not be affected here.
Moreover, there is a Dafang City near Mingshan, and many things in it also depend on the output of the villages at the foot of the surrounding mountains and human helpers, which can be said to be interdependent.
Over time, Ming Shanzong and the people in the village at the foot of the mountain have long been familiar with each other.
In the words of the common people at the foot of the mountain, the monks and gentlemen on the mountain are all kind, and anyone in the village who has any ailments also asks these monks and masters for help to heal them, and even the occasional calamity strikes, they are also stopped by the monks and masters. I offered a good card to the master monks in the mountains, and prayed for the master monks to be as powerful as the heavens!
Two months ago, these villages at the foot of Mingshan received news from Mingshan that a big gathering would be held in Mingshan on the ninth day of September. At that time, monks from all over the Jingjiu Dynasty would gather here and stay on Mingshan. At least five days before leaving. During this period, disciples of the Mingshan Sect will come down to the villages to guide them, and at the same time coordinate and maintain the villages from excessive influence from various monks. Notifying in advance also allows the people in the village to have a psychological preparation.
This is not the first time this has happened. The villagers at the foot of Mingshan Mountain have been prepared for a long time, and even geared up to prepare a lot of things early, just waiting for this big rally in Mingshan to make a good fortune for the family.
Master monk from other places? Although there are good and bad rumors, but at the foot of Mingshan, there are monks and masters on Mingshan to take care of them, so even the children in the village will not be afraid.
What's more, although Mingshan is big, it can't accommodate tens of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people. According to past experience, there will always be many non-local monks who come to Mingshan and cannot go up the mountain, so they gather at the foot of the mountain to hold a meeting and make a fuss for a few days. .
People always have to eat and drink when they get together, and monks and gentlemen are not short of money. This place is hundreds of miles away from the big city, and it is a place of bitter cold. It is normal for melons, fruits and vegetables to be more expensive, and they can accept four or five times the price. of.
As for drinks, homemade fruit wines are always very popular, and those who pay attention to finding two jars of spirits will definitely be sought after.
Every grand event of the Ming Shanzong is also a grand event for the villages at the foot of the mountain, and they even form associations to deal with this good opportunity to make money together.
However, no matter whether it is the Mingshan sect or the people in the village at the foot of Mingshan, they would never have thought that this grand event would be different from the previous ones from the very beginning.
Just ten days ago, some monks who were far away began to appear scattered around Mingshan. These are all monks who are not qualified to go up the mountain. Either they are from small sects that are not popular, or they are unknown casual cultivators, or disciples from some sects who have not got a place to go up the mountain but want to come to join in the fun and try their luck.
After these monks came, although most of them were also keen to discuss who would be the most popular in the next sword test meeting? Who can win the championship in the end? How many top masters will fight in this sword test meeting? etc.
However, the monks who chatted enthusiastically were all casual cultivators and disciples of the lesser sects, and the disciples from the second and third rank sects who came to join in the fun and try their luck did not chat about these topics as enthusiastically as before. On the contrary, they went to Mingshan I just found a place to stay, and then basically wandered around the city, trying to see if I could miss a place to go up the mountain, and there was nothing else to do.
Some people at the foot of Mingshan who delivered food even felt that the faces of these monks and masters who did not get together to be lively were not very good, and they seemed to be frowning as if they had something on their minds.
In addition, the number of sects and the number of participants who expressed their intention to participate in this session of the sword test conference are also much higher than previous sessions, and it can even be called the largest session in hundreds of years. Especially the first- and second-rate sects, there are teams of twenty or thirty to come up the mountain. And there are quite a few third-rate sects, almost all of whom sent people over against the quota limit given by the Mingshan sect. They didn't take the places to resell a few as in the past.
This crop also made many keen people in Mingshan Sect notice it, and tasted some taste from it. In addition to the eyeliner and news channels arranged by the Mingshan sect in each sect, and the news in the hands of Wanjuan Shushan, the matter is actually in the end.
There is only so much meat in the pot. If you want to scoop up a few more spoonfuls of meat for yourself, it will definitely reduce the amount of meat in other people's bowls. If you eat more, it depends on whether your arms are strong enough and your fists are hard enough. Otherwise, you will have to vomit as much as you eat, or if you are unlucky, you will have to vomit out with blood.
However, both Mingshan Sect and Wanjuan Shushan boasted that they were strong and strong, not to mention that they still walked together, this time even if the following sects were preparing to gather for trouble, they would have the confidence to deal with it. And as long as they take back the momentum from below this time, the rear will be much more peaceful, and there will be more room for them to flex their fists.
Sure enough, as the ninth day of September approached, more and more sect disciples gathered, and there was an obvious trend of clear distinctions. The first, second, and third-rate sects gathered together more than before, and there were no disciples or casual cultivators who were not in the first rank. Go over to make fun of it.
This is like adding a piece of ice to the excitement, and gradually people who don't know it start to feel that this year's sword test meeting is different.
And until the eighth day of September, another change occurred.
At the foot of Mingshan Mountain, banners were suddenly unfurled, and a group of marching monks came down from the official road and set up camp fifteen miles away from the gate of Mingshan Mountain. Judging from the fluttering banners, it was the famous Golden Sword Camp of Fenghong Villa in Jingjiu Dynasty who came, and the scale was not small, probably half of them came.
Leading the army was the chief general of the Golden Sword Battalion, and Shen Hao, the head deacon of foreign affairs. In any case, there were several banners belonging to the Xuanqingwei Black Banner Camp besides the banner of the Golden Sword Camp, indicating that the Xuanqingwei Black Banner Camp outside of the Golden Sword Camp had also sent people.
What is this for?
Although people from Fenghong Villa or Jing Jiuchao were invited to watch the ceremony as usual, there was no precedent for the Golden Sword Battalion to be dispatched, and is it too close to set up camp fifteen miles away? The sharpness makes people frown.
In order not to cause trouble, the monks who were close to the tent of the Golden Sword Camp hurriedly avoided, causing the nearby villagers who were planning to take advantage of the conference to make a fortune suddenly dumbfounded.