
When Ye Xiao was about to exit the city gate so that he could go to the Cloud Smoke Forest again, a guard came and told him to stop.
Ye Xiao stopped and looked at the guard. It was precisely the previous guard who wanted to benefit from him when he first came here, in Southwood City.
“What do you want?” Ye Xiao asked coldly. He would come out so that he could return to the Cloud Smoke Forest and search for the location where the treasure would be born.
Ye Xiao did not want to cause trouble but the matter itself came knocking on his door.
“I don't want anything from you. It's just that this City Lord from Southwood City wants to meet you. Please come with me and meet with the City Lord.” Said the guard.
Ye Xiao furrowed his brows. He had committed no crime or anything here, in Southwood City that could draw the City Lord's attention to him, then why would the City Lord of Southwood City want to meet him?
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized that all of these things happened because of the spirit stones.
“Sialang. Looks like, I have to be careful when spending spirit stones otherwise it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.” Ye Xiao cursed in his heart but on the surface he smiled at the guard and said, “I am in a hurry but please report City Lord that I will visit him when I will return again.”
Not wanting to start a fight, he secretly placed five low-grade spirit stones in the hands of the guards and hurriedly left the city.
The guard wanted to stop Ye Xiao from leaving the city, but when he saw the five shining light blue crystals in his hands, he stopped himself and did not try to make things difficult for Ye Xiao.
While Ye Xiao left hurriedly, he also carefully observed the actions of the guard. When he saw that the guards did not stop him anymore to leave the city, he heaved a sigh of relief.
Fuck those! I don't know who said it but this saying is true that money can almost solve ninety percent of problems.
But even if I have the entire low-tier spirit stone mine, it is not easy to take advantage of me. Next time when I will return here again, I will definitely tell you the consequences of taking advantage of me.
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Ye Xiao ran towards Cloudsmoke Forest and on his way there, he saw hundreds of martial artists moving towards Cloudsmoke Forest like himself.
He did not stop and continued moving forward. After getting the information about the Golden Fragrant Country, Ye Xiao knew that on his way to the Cloud Smoke Forest, he would find a place known as The Hundred Mountain Range.
The Hundred Mountain Range was actually a continuous mountain range with a heavy terrain. The Hundred Mountains was known as the Hundred Mountains not because there were hundreds of mountains here. There are only twenty mountains here. As one climbed the peak of one of these mountains, they would see the illusion that there were hundreds of mountains standing upright here. Just because there was an illusion at the peak of every mountain hence this place was known as the Hundred Mountains.
There was a legend about this place that tens of thousands of years ago, there was no Hundred Mountains. There used to be a huge river in this place, not these twenty mountains. One day, two experts came here from somewhere unknown and started fighting. They fought bloody battles with each other because of some sort of treasure.
The outcome of the battle was unknown but it was said that after that bloody battle, the Hundred Mountains appeared here and the previous great river shrank and became a small river. This river was exactly the river where Ye Xiao fell after being hit by the attack of the Barbaric Bulls King.
After the battle between those two unknown experts, many people came here to investigate the reason for the emergence of this Hundred Mountains but they failed to find anything. They did not even find a corpse here so the outcome of the battle remained unknown.
No one knew, where the two experts had gone after doing such a terrible battle here. Some people say that both people are immortal. They died here and before their deaths, they built a magnificent tomb for themselves and that tomb was this Hundred Mountains.
There are many other rumors like this but which one is true, no one knows.
Slowly, many magical beasts began to come here and take refuge in the Hundred Mountains. After only five hundred years of the appearance of the Hundred Mountains, it became a forbidden land. It became a forbidden land due to some events that happened here. It is said that every hundred years, a strange phenomenon occurs here. All twenty mountains became illusory and began to move in a circular motion.
Many people came back here to find the reason for this phenomenon, but after entering this mountain range during the phenomenon, only one-tenth of those people came back with a very frightened face.
They say that there is a very scary demon sleeping inside the mountains. Earlier, the moment they entered, this terrifying demon woke up and started attacking them. They fought very hard against the demon, but even after that, only a tenth of them survived. As for the other people, they were eaten by that terrifying demon.
There were even some cultivators in the Martial Ancestor Realm who were devoured by that demon.
The ones who survived and made it out, became strong after only decades.
How could only those who rose up with strength, come out of the mountains? Why is it that no one else but them gains power?
Many questions started coming out one by one. People started to get suspicious and thought that those people were not telling the truth so they started to force the survivors and rise up with force.
Forced by many, the survivors finally uncover an astonishing truth. And this truth was something that later made this Hundred Mountain Range a forbidden land in the Golden Fragrant Country.
Those people revealed that although there were terrifying demons within the Hundred Mountains, there were also many opportunities within them. Many rare herbs, ores, and treasures were within the Hundred Mountain Range.
But obtaining this treasure was extremely difficult. Even cultivators of the Martial Ancestor Realm were unable to obtain these treasures easily let alone cultivators under the Ancestor Martial Realm.
When this matter was made public, many people started to enter the Hundred Mountains even after learning that they could die here. They risked their lives for only one reason: they wanted to obtain the treasure for their strength to increase as well.
But to their disappointment, they failed to find a single treasure within the Hundred Mountains.
After years of searching and researching, a conclusion was made. It was only when a strange phenomenon occurred here that they were able to find a treasure within the Hundred Mountains.
After hundreds of years of the previous phenomenon, another phenomenon appeared in this place. The scene was exactly the same as before. All twenty mountains became illusory and began to move in a circular motion.
When this happened, many people re-entered the Hundred Mountain Range at this time. And everything after that was the same as what happened before.
This time, only less than a tenth of the people who entered into the Hundred Mountains managed to come out after surviving the same disaster.
They also said that there was indeed a terrifying demon within the Hundred Mountains. After surviving this disaster, these people also grew stronger after a few years.
From then on, every hundred years, many people began to enter the Hundred Mountains. Currently, these mountains were also a forbidden land.
But of the past three times, no one had managed to live after breaking into the Hundred Mountain Range. People said that perhaps, the demons inside became stronger and ate everyone who entered the Hundred Mountains.