Chapter 854 Treasure Hunter

Xihuang City.

Xihuang City is a city on the edge of Xihuang. There are many Qi-refining immortal cultivators living in the city who make a living by hunting for treasures.

This day.

A young and handsome boy, followed by a middle-aged man, entered Xihuang City.

The guide of Xihuang City, also known as the guide, could tell at a glance that this handsome young man was not an aborigine of Xihuang City, but from outside.

Because there are legends about the battle between immortals in the Western Wasteland, many immortal cultivators who are close to the Western Wasteland City, and even those from the Western Divine Realm, will come to the Western Wasteland City and want to hunt for treasures in the Western Wasteland.

Therefore, the profession of guide was born in Xihuang City.

Specifically provide routes for these sect youngsters who come to Xihuang City to hunt for treasures, or introduce experienced treasure hunters to earn an introduction fee.

In addition, the Pianpian young man's cultivation showed that he was in the Qi Refining Stage, and the middle-aged man behind him looked like a protector at first glance, but his aura could not be detected, so he must be in the Foundation Building Stage.

In Xihuang City, the aborigines basically do not have a foundation building period, only the immortal cultivators from outside will have a foundation building period.

But when entering the Western Wasteland, relying on the foundation building stage will not allow you to run rampant in the Western Wasteland. There are many dangerous places ravaged by wind and sand. Even if you enter the foundation building period, without the guidance of treasure hunters, it is easy to die in the Western Wasteland.

"One look at the robes on this man and the seniors behind him, he is from the sect, he is a fat sheep."

Therefore, more than a dozen guides came together and all bowed their hands to the young man Pianpian: "Is this man going to the Western Wasteland to hunt for treasure?"

However, the young man's eyes wandered around the dozen guides, and the protector behind him said nothing.

The graceful young man said with a smile on his face: "Yes, we are going to the Western Wasteland to hunt for treasures. I heard that there are many treasures left behind by the immortals in the Western Wasteland."

A guide said quickly: "Master, let me tell you, this Western Wilderness is dangerous. There are many Jedi. Even the foundation-building senior behind you may not be able to protect your safety when you enter the Western Wilderness." In a deserted place, it must be led by an experienced treasure hunter to ensure safety.”

Hearing this, the graceful young man said: "Oh, I have inquired about what you are talking about before coming here. I heard that in this Xihuang City, the father and son who have the most experience in treasure hunting are Hu Baye and Hu Jiuye? "

When the guide heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "So you have done your homework. Yes, in terms of treasure hunting experience in Xihuang City, they are the father and son Hu Baye and Hu Jiuye. They led the team, and no one Lost in the Western Wasteland."

"But what?" At this point, the guide rolled his eyes and said: "Hu Ba Ye and Hu Jiu Ye are famous, but it is relatively difficult to recruit them.

Hearing this, the handsome young man glanced at him and said with a smile: "If you don't ask me, I don't need to worry about it. You just need to take me to see Master Hu Ba and Master Hu Jiu!"

"Okay, please come with me!" Upon hearing this, the guide happily turned around and immediately led the way.

When the other guides saw this, they could only sigh and turn around to see if there were any other noble people who needed their guidance.

A quarter of an hour later, the guide stopped in front of a large courtyard and said to the handsome young man and the middle-aged man protecting the road: "Two gentlemen, this is the Hu family."

"Please wait a moment, gentlemen, I'll knock on the door!"

After that, the guide came to the door of Hu Mansion and knocked gently. After a while, a middle-aged man wearing steward's clothes opened the door. When he saw the guide, he obviously recognized him. He smiled and said: "It turns out to be Liu Le'er. Why, bring someone here to see Mr. Hu again?”

The guide, Liu Leer, first bowed to the steward of the Hu family, then gave up his position, revealed the figures of the handsome young man and the middle-aged guardian, and said to the steward of the Hu family: "These two men want to go to the Western Wilderness. They want to hunt for treasures in the land, admire the skills of the two Hu masters in Xihuang City, and want to ask the two master Hus to take them there. "

Upon hearing this, the steward of the Hu family took a look at the handsome young man and the middle-aged protector. He saw that the robes they wore were very high-end, and he couldn't detect the aura of the middle-aged protector, so he knew they must be at the level of Qi Refining.

Although Hu Baye and Hu Jiuye are famous in Xihuang City, they are just treasure hunters. They are only in the Qi refining stage and have not yet established a foundation. Therefore, they still dare not trust those who are building a foundation to cultivate immortals. Therefore, The steward of the Hu family said to the guide Liu Leer: "Okay, you go and tell them, and your mission will be completed."

When Liu Leer heard this, she immediately smiled and said to the Hu family manager: "Okay, thank you, Manager Hu."

After speaking, Liu Leer turned around and came to the young man Pianpian and the middle-aged guardian and said, "You two, I will lead you here, and then Manager Hu will take you to see Master Hu Ba and Master Hu Jiu."

The handsome young man glanced at Guanshi Hu, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his waist, and ten pieces of white low-grade spirit stones appeared in his hand. He threw it towards the guide Liu Leer and said, "This is your introduction fee."

"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master." After receiving these 10 low-grade spiritual stones, Liu Leer's eyes turned into chrysanthemums with laughter. Then he glanced at Manager Hu and told him with his eyes that he would give him some low-grade spiritual stones.

This was a deal between Liu Leer and Manager Hu. He would bring the person over, and Manager Hu would introduce the person to Master Hu Ba and Master Hu Jiu. If other guides come with their cultivation levels below the foundation building stage, Manager Hu will not let them in.

If you are not allowed in, there is naturally no introduction fee.

Manager Hu nodded slightly to Liu Le'er, and then said to the handsome young man and the middle-aged guardian: "Please come in."

"Thank you." The Qi-refining boy bowed to the Hu family steward. As expected of someone from a large sect, his etiquette was thorough.

The middle-aged man behind him remained silent.

The Hu family steward didn't care about this. He also knew that for people from large sects like this, the guardians behind them were only responsible for safety and would not take care of other trivial matters.

The Hu family steward invited the Qi-refining boy and the middle-aged man to the Hu family's waiting hall, and asked a maid to serve two cups of tea, saying, "Please wait a moment, I'll go and invite Mr. Hu."

After that, the Hu family steward left the waiting hall and went to Mr. Hu Jiu's cultivation residence to ask for instructions.

Mr. Hu Ba was practicing at this time, but Mr. Hu Jiu had just come out of retreat yesterday, so this was why the Hu family steward invited the Qi-refining boy and the middle-aged man in.

Soon, the steward of the Hu family saw Master Hu Jiu, who was playing with a broken fragment in his hand. He didn't know what material the fragment was made of, but it should have been brought from the Western Wasteland. He was studying it carefully. When he saw Steward Hu reporting, he asked Steward Hu to come in and play with the fragment while saying, "What's the matter?"

Steward Hu bowed and said, "Master Jiu, are there any more immortal cultivators from outside who want to enter the Western Wasteland to search for treasures?"

Hearing this, Master Hu frowned slightly and said unhappily, "My father is in seclusion practicing, didn't I tell you clearly a long time ago? , during the period of retreat and cultivation, did you not bring anyone into the Western Wasteland? "

The Hu family steward heard this and said helplessly: "Reply to Master Jiu, I will obey Master Ba's order, but the other party is not small. He should be from a large sect outside, and the protector behind him is a foundation-building cultivator."

Hearing that it was a foundation-building cultivator, Master Hu Jiu's frowned brows slightly relaxed and said, "Okay, I'll go meet them."

Seeing that Master Hu Jiu did not continue to blame him, Steward Hu felt relieved and quickly got up and took Master Hu Jiu to the waiting hall.

Arriving at the waiting hall, Steward Hu introduced to the Qi-refining teenager and the middle-aged protector: "Two masters, this is my Hu family's Master Jiu."

The Qi-refining teenager looked up at Master Hu Jiu and saw that he was in his early thirties, but his actual age should be older, because Master Hu Jiu was a seventh-level Qi-refining cultivator, and he had already inquired about these when he came to Xihuang City.

He said, "Mr. Hu Jiu is right. Where is Mr. Hu Ba?"

Mr. Hu Jiu glanced at the middle-aged guardian sitting upright, bowed to the young Qi-refining boy, and said, "My father is in seclusion, I wonder which sect you are from? What's your name? What's the name of this senior?"

The young Qi-refining boy said, "I see. I am Yu Qing from Lingshan Sect. This is my guardian. You can call him Senior Liu."

Mr. Hu Jiu's mind turned, and he had searched for information about Lingshan Sect. Lingshan Sect is a Jindan Sect on the edge of the Western Divine Region. It seems that Yu Qing's father should be a Jindan cultivator, otherwise, there would be no foundation-building cultivator as his guardian.

Since he already knew Yu Qing's identity, Mr. Hu Jiu had to be careful.

In the eyes of these Jindan Sects, the treasure hunters of Xihuang City are not up to par.

If they could stay in the Western Divine Region, how could they settle in Xihuang City?

Therefore, Master Hu Jiu ordered the maid to serve spiritual fruits and the best spiritual tea, and enthusiastically entertained Yu Qing, and then said: "Do you want to enter the Western Wasteland to search for treasures?" Yu Qing nodded and smiled: "Of course, if I didn't want to enter the Western Wasteland to search for treasures, why would I come from the Western Wasteland City to find Master Hu." Master Hu Jiu's heart moved slightly. For cultivators like Yu Qing who came from a large sect, they all knew in their hearts that most people just wanted to experience the feeling of treasure hunting, so he said directly: "Master Yu, to tell you the truth, in the Western Wasteland, treasure hunters have searched so many times. Although they haven't set foot on all of them, they are likely to return empty-handed. I hope Master Yu will be mentally prepared in advance." As a senior treasure hunter, Master Hu Jiu must be mentally prepared for this, otherwise Yu Qing will not find the treasure, and in anger, let the protector behind him take action, which will be bad. Yu Qing smiled and said, "I know this, but I came with clues this time, and I will definitely not return empty-handed."

"Clues?" Hu Jiuye's expression moved: "Could it be that Fellow Daoist Yu has a treasure map in his hand?"

Yu Qing smiled and nodded, "Yes, I do have a treasure map in my hand. This time I came here just to ask your Hu family to take me to the location of the treasure map."

Yu Qing reached out his hand to touch his waist, and a black tortoise shell appeared in his hand, with white lines on it.

He put the tortoise shell on the table in front of Hu Jiuye, motioning Hu Jiuye to check it out. Hu Jiuye picked up the tortoise shell to look at the white lines. The more he looked at it, the more familiar it felt. It looked like somewhere in the Western Wasteland. Suddenly, his eyes moved and he put the tortoise shell down.

Then he said to Qing solemnly: "Yu Daoyou, the pattern on the treasure map is indeed there. My Hu family knows where it is. However, please understand that my Hu family cannot go to that place."

Yu Qing frowned and looked at Master Hu Jiu and said, "Why can't we go?"

Master Hu Jiu sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, that place is where my grandfather, Master Hu Qi, was buried. Therefore, my father has warned that no one in the Hu family can go there in the future."

Yu Qing pondered for a moment and asked, "May I ask how much cultivation Master Hu Qi has when he enters that realm?"

Master Hu Jiu heard this and said, "7th level of Qi Refining!"

Yu Qing pointed to the middle-aged man sitting next to him and said, "Then please rest assured, Master Hu Jiu. Uncle Liu is at the fifth level of foundation building and can protect us."

Hu Jiu felt amused when he heard this, but he also knew that this was what the outsiders said because they were not familiar with the Western Wasteland. He explained, "Daoyou Yu, you can't get into the Western Wasteland by practicing. It has nothing to do with practice, but experience, which is the experience that generations of treasure hunters have explored with their lives."

"Nine generations of my Hu family are treasure hunters. It was the sacrifice of seven generations that established my Hu family's top position in the treasure hunters of the Western Wasteland City. This was all earned with their lives."

Yu Qing heard He didn't care about his explanation, but said: "Then I dare to ask Master Hu Jiu, your Hu family has been treasure hunters in Xihuang City for generations, but why?"

When Master Hu Jiu heard his words, he was silent, and finally sighed and said: "Of course, it is for someone in the Hu family to build a foundation one day."

Yu Qing smiled and said: "What if I use a foundation-building pill as a reward for the Hu family to lead me this time?"

Hearing what Yu Qing said, Master Hu Jiu's heart trembled, and his eyes were moved. Boiled eggs are too precious to the Hu family. His father, Master Hu Ba, is now at the 8th level of Qi Refining and will soon break through to the 9th level of Qi Refining. If there is a boiled egg, it means there is a chance to build a foundation.

Once the foundation is built, you can get rid of the identity of a treasure hunter and leave this spiritually barren Xihuang land to enter the Western Divine Region to gain a foothold.

However, the decision-maker for the Hu family was not him, but his father, Mr. Hu Ba. Even if he wanted to agree, there was nothing he could do. So he said to Yu Qing, "Yu Daoyou, please wait for me for a moment. I will go to the place where my father is practicing in seclusion and discuss it with him."

Yu Qing was not in a hurry, and nodded and said, "Okay, then you go."

Mr. Hu Jiu warned the steward of the Hu family to entertain him well, and then left the waiting hall and came to the place where his father, Mr. Hu Ba, was practicing in seclusion, interrupting Mr. Hu Ba's seclusion.

"What's the matter?" Mr. Hu Ba looked at Mr. Hu Jiu calmly.

Master Hu Jiu said, "Father, a young Qi-refining boy has come to Lingshan Sect in the Western God Realm, followed by a foundation-building protector. He wants father and me to take him to the Western Wasteland to search for treasures."

Hearing this, Master Hu Ba said, "Go and refuse him. I have always told you that treasure hunting is just one of the means for my Hu family to earn cultivation resources. To earn cultivation resources, you must first improve your own realm, so that you can better guarantee your own safety when you go treasure hunting next time."

"Father, it's not that I don't want to refuse them, but the reward they offer is too high." Master Hu Jiu said.

"How high?"

"A foundation-building pill!"

"What?" Master Hu Ba heard this and lost his voice slightly.

"The other party is willing to give up a foundation-building pill?" Master Hu Ba didn't believe it at all.

Master Hu Jiu said, "The other party has a treasure map, and the territory on the treasure map is exactly where grandpa was buried. I suspect that the cultivator from Lingshan Sect also wants to find that treasure, so he is willing to give up a foundation-building pill as a reward."

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