After this wave of attack from the sand lizard, the enemy seemed to be deeply afraid of Jiang Chen's methods and did not launch another attack.

After Shui Born took on the role of presidency, Shui Youning also had a rare rest time. She returned to her carriage and sat down quietly.

As a great contribution, Jiang Chen was naturally invited into the carriage by her. She was extremely curious about Jiang Chen's identity and couldn't wait to ask what was going on.

This beast car is very luxurious and is worthy of being used by a great immortal cultivator like the Shui family. It is very spacious inside. The cabin is made of mahogany, with a light blue exquisitely carved wall panel. There is also a large and comfortable white soft couch in the cabin, exuding a faint fragrance.

The wall panels on both sides contain mezzanines, which contain some foods such as books, wine, candied fruits, etc. At the windows, there are two rows of curtains woven in red satin.

Now, Jiang Chen and Shui Youning are sitting on this white soft couch, with a small table among them.

Shui Youning picked up the teacup, raised his jade hand lightly, filled Jiang Chen with a cup of tea, and then placed it in front of Jiang Chen with a slightly awkwardness.

From this we can also see that this young lady Shui rarely does this kind of thing of serving tea and pouring water.

After nodding to show his gratitude, Jiang Chen took the teacup and felt the faint fragrance of the tea leaves and the trace of the body fragrance of his daughter on the teacup, which made him sneeze. After drinking a small sip of tea, Jiang Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath and praised: "It smells so good!" I don't know whether he praised the fragrance of tea or the fragrance of human beings.

Shui Youning looked at him shyly, revealing her daughter's shyness. She glanced at Jiang Chen and said in a soft voice: "I didn't expect that Brother Jiang would hide it deeply. Although you are only in the early stage of foundation building, the strength you have shown before is probably not your opponent even in the middle stage of foundation building."

"Miss is too much, I'm just lucky. The camp I selected is easy to defend and difficult to attack by the mountain and wall. Although the number of sand lizards driven by the enemy is limited by the terrain and cannot be surrounded from all directions, so only twenty or thirty skeletons can block the front. Then use the dead sand lizard corpse to summon the skeletons, and naturally you can defeat the more with less and play the role of a 40 kilogram to beat a thousand kilograms." Jiang Chen said modestly.

"Brother Jiang, you shouldn't just talk about the eldest lady! This is so good. If you don't dislike me, just call me Youning!" Shui Youning's pretty face flushed, and she said with a bite of silver teeth.

After hearing this, Jiang Chen had to nodded slightly and said, "Since the eldest lady said that, Jiang naturally felt respectful and obedient! I just don't know where the enemy attacking the Shui Family Caravan came from? I heard you say it before. It seems that someone from the Wang family?"

Shui Youning's white teeth bit his red lips and said quietly: "Yes! The three major families in Jingzhou are the Lin family, the Wang family and our Shui family. Although they are both one of the three major families in Jingzhou and they all live in Xiangyang City, the capital of Jingzhou, they are harmonious on the surface and have many internal conflicts. It's okay for the Lin family to say that their business is mainly mining, planting spiritual grass gardens, and hunting monsters, so they have no conflict with our two families."

"And there are many conflicts between us and the Wang family, because both of us are keen on market operations and the competition between each other's stores is fierce. Over the past few hundred years, our two families have fought openly and secretly, but this time the Yiling Cave Palace has opened, which has made the open and secretly fights that are usually openly and secretly even more intense!"

"Oh? Yiling Cave Mansion is open? Where is that place?" Jiang Chen asked with interest when he heard this.

"What? Brother Jiang, you came to Xiangyang today. Didn't you go to Yiling Cave?" Shui Youning was shocked when she heard this.

"This... I'm here to participate in the alchemist qualification assessment, because I heard that only Xiangyang Prefecture in Jingzhou has a branch of the alchemist." Jiang Chen was embarrassed to spread his hands and said.

"Brother Jiang is actually an alchemist? It surprised Youning!" Shui Youning couldn't help but open her cherry mouth wide. However, she soon realized that this was indecent and quickly stretched out her white and tender jade hand and covered her small mouth, with an extremely moving expression.

"Well, I'm a little familiar with alchemy. I just don't know if I can enter the eyes of those who are in the Alchemy League." Jiang Chen said self-deprecatingly. Although he still has some confidence in getting the alchemist qualification, he still has no idea what the results will be obtained in the end.

"Brother Jiang, I can only say that you shocked me! You know, an alchemist is very popular. If you can really get the qualification of an alchemist, even my Shui family will rush to hire you as a weird person!" Shui Youning slightly calmed down his excitement just now and said.

"You have won the award and haven't taken the exam yet. Maybe it's hard to say that I'll be beaten as soon as I go to the reference." Jiang Chen smiled and asked, "Youning, you haven't said what happened to Yiling Cave."

"Okay!" Seeing Jiang Chen seemingly impatient, Shui Youning hurriedly explained: "Actually, this is the case. In our Jingzhou, there is only one city that is not managed by the sect, that is, our Xiangyang City. Do you know why this situation occurs? You must know that although our three major families have Nascent Soul cultivators, there is only one. In Jingzhou, who does not have Nascent Soul cultivators? Compared with the first-class sects, the strength of our three families is not worth mentioning at all!"

After hearing this, Jiang Chen had to smile bitterly and shook his head and said, "Jiang really doesn't know about this situation. Wang Youning solves the doubts!"

After hearing this, Shui Youning smiled with her lips and said with a charming face: "This reason is actually very simple. The reason why major sects do not get involved in Xiangyang City. In addition to the four neutral interstate organizations such as the Dan Alliance, Fu Alliance, Qi Alliance, and Formation Alliance in the city, which makes it inconvenient for them to start a war. The biggest reason is that there is a mysterious cave outside our Xiangyang City. Because its value is too great, any sect that wants to dominate this city will attract siege from other sects. In history, there are also many first-class sects who want to occupy Xiangyang City and dominate this cave, but in the end they all end up with a sect destruction..."

Shui Youning picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip, and then started to tell Jiang Chen in detail.

It turns out that this cave is located on an island in the Han River outside Xiangyang City. This island is dozens of miles in radius and is surrounded by clouds and mist all year round. When mortals enter, they will lose their direction, and even the spiritual consciousness of immortals cannot penetrate it. Some bold monks have entered it, but they still cannot find the path after walking for a long time.

Some nearby monks found out from the top of history that this place turned out to be the cave of Yiling Sanren, an ancient monk in the God-Cultivation Stage. Most of these clouds and mists were their bans.

Later monks guessed that there was a treasure of Yiling Sanren buried in them, so they tried every means to break the ban. However, how could ordinary people break the ban of monks in the God Transformation Stage? After countless monks failed to try, they gave up their idea of ​​entering and exploring.

However, as time went by, after thousands of years, these bans gradually became somewhat invalid. Later, three casual cultivators discovered that the ban in the cave was not always in operation.

Every one hundred years, a month will stop. At this time, you can pass through the clouds on the island and walk through the entrance of the cave.

At this moment, the three casual cultivators discovered that there were three keyholes in red, yellow and blue at the entrance of the cave. They guessed that if they could match the keyhole in the entrance of the cave, they might be able to open the gate of the cave and enter the cave.

It is a coincidence that these three casual cultivators were originally thieves and were good at unlocking locks. So they immediately started to work on this matter.

Of course, the materials used to open the cave door key built by ancient monks are naturally very different from those used in the ordinary mortal keys. Although the three casual cultivators are late-stage foundation-building monks, they are also well aware of the way to unlock the lock. It took more than 80 years to find all the materials and match these three keys.

And they finally opened the door of the cave and went in to explore it. Only then did they find that this was really a cave, which contained countless spiritual herbs and medicines, heaven and earth treasures. Of course, there were also many monsters and dangerous places. But if they could enter it, it would be a great opportunity for the monks, and they might greatly improve their cultivation.

This not only contains the martial arts, magic weapons and spells collected by Yiling Sanren, but also the strange flowers and plants he planted, and the monsters and monsters he tamed. There should be all kinds of courtyards and pavilions inside. It is larger than any cave they have seen before. It is completely a small world.

However, they also found that there were also many ban agencies in it. If they were not careful, they would end up deadly.

Therefore, the three of them did not dare to go deeper. They only obtained a few martial arts and ancient treasures from the outside, and left in a hurry.

After they came out, their strength was greatly improved by one stop due to their huge gains in the cave and they successfully advanced to the Golden Pill Stage.

So the three of them got married and had children in Xiangyang City, lived there, forming three families: Lin family, Wang family and Shui family.

Later, the heads of these three major families agreed that every hundred years, the island's ban will become weaker and you can enter the cave, and the descendants of the three people or disciples will open the cave door with the keys they wore at that time.

Shui Youning sighed at this time, "Because there are many restrictions in it that are very dangerous, the cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage will almost die for a lifetime. The treasures inside are not very valuable to the cultivators in the Jindan stage. Therefore, only the cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage are the most suitable... In another three months, it will be the time when the Yiling Cave is opened every hundred years. This time, the difference from the past is that our Shui family, the Wang family and the Lin family are all looking for materials to prepare ancient secret keys everywhere, because the last time we entered the cave, we found a closed treasure house gate. "

"Although the nearby ban has been eliminated, the gate is very strong and cannot be broken. Therefore, a secret key to open the gate must be prepared. Among the goods we escorted this time, there is amethyst sand for making secret keys. The Wang family must have received this news, so they wanted to rob this batch of amethyst sand, so that our Shui family could not prepare the keys and lost the opportunity to enter the treasure house."

She said with a worried look on her face: "As far as I know, the Lin family has already prepared keys, and the Wang family has collected all the materials for refining keys. Only our Shui family has suffered a serious illness because of my father's practice of exercises, and has put aside the time. The main energy of the family was focused on finding famous doctors for my father. The search for key materials was interrupted. It was not until recently that my father's layoffs that we began to rush to purchase the materials."

"But most of the available refining materials on the market have been taken away by the Lin family and the Wang family. We are now going to buy them, and we have suffered a lot of losses in terms of price and quantity. Almost all of the family's savings are spent on the materials for preparing keys for my father's meals."

"This batch of amethyst sand is one of the important raw materials for preparing keys, and the second batch will not be purchased in a short time. If they are robbed, my Shui family will not be able to enter the secret treasure house. All the efforts made by the family will fail, and they may be unable to recover."

Speaking of this, Shui Youning's pretty face turned sad and almost burst into tears.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but be shocked. He asked in confusion: "But aren't your Shui family still having Nascent Soul cultivators and Jindan cultivators? If the Wang family does such a thing, aren't they afraid of causing a war between the two families?"

"Things are not as simple as you think!" After hearing this, Shui Youning smiled bitterly: "First of all, we are still harmonious on the surface, even if we and the Wang family are not broken up. Each of the three major families has a Supreme Elder in the Nascent Soul Stage, but they only want to practice and advance, and almost ignore the family affairs. In a year, there are ten months of running around outside to find rare grasses. Unless the family is about to collapse, they will not take action easily."

"If the fighting between the Jindan stage monks is not restricted, it will cause both the participating families to lose money, greatly damage their vitality, and induce forces from other places to peep. Therefore, more than a thousand years ago, the patriarchs of our three major families had an agreement that even if there are internal conflicts, the Jindan stage monks must not attack the other family members, otherwise, the other two families will unite to attack the one that breaks the agreement. In this case, the contest at the Foundation Establishment Cultivator level is the limit of the struggle between families."

"But the Wang family also knows that if the robbery is an unwise act that angers our Shui family, they will pretend to be bandits. As long as we can ensure that we are all killed, even if our Shui family guessed that it was their actions, they would suffer from no evidence and would have to suffer a loss. But now that we have sent people to ask for help and Brother Jiang is here to help, the situation will naturally change greatly!" Shui Youning said with a gleeful look on his face.

Only then did Jiang Chen understand the ins and outs of the three major families in Jingzhou, the reasons for open and secret struggles, and what happened to Yiling Cave Palace.

"By the way! Brother Jiang, I wonder if you are interested in going to Yiling Cave?" Shui Youning's beautiful big eyes blinked and asked in a voice.

"Of course there is interest, but after hearing your tone before, it seems that only people from the three major families can enter?" Jiang Chen was happy at first, but then asked in confusion.

He was naturally interested in entering the Yiling Cave, which is said to be a lot of treasures. Although the cave has been visited by monks many times, since there are still a large number of monks visiting each time, it means that it is of great value. People who practice immortals pay attention to opportunities, and they may gain something in the cave.
Chapter completed!