C17

The outskirts of Chang'an could be said to be an extremely good place--west to Chang'an City; south to a mineshaft that was extremely rich in ores; east to a stream that was suitable for the entire leveling process from level 45 to the Beginner; and north to the official road, the path where the system's NPCs would use their darts.

Sikong Lan, on the other hand, had set up the "House of Thoughts" at the center of the four locations, just at the edge of the land deed. Deep Thinking took up a total of 320 square meters of land, a total of five bamboo houses. Besides the main house in the middle which was two stories high, the other four were all one story high, forming a circle around the main house.

Si Kong Lan set up a bamboo house on the east side as an open space, along with tea, snacks, and other things to make it easier for levelling players to rest. On the west side, a bamboo house was set up to require permission to enter, with the aim of helping people treat their patients. The other two bamboo houses and the main house were set up as closed areas, so other than Si Kong Lan, no one else was allowed to enter.

It wasn't until the sun had set that the crowd finally left. At the same time, Si Kong Lan also asked everyone to find him some books on medical techniques and zither music. After everyone had left, Si Kong Lan walked into the southern bamboo house. There were three bookshelves in the room, only a few books were there as a backdrop. In the middle, there was a bamboo table with a set of four treasures on it. On the right, about half a meter away from the wall, there was a zither.

Si Kong Lan sat in front of the zither and gently caressed the zither. After that, he began to play a zither. A heart-stirring "Heart Cleansing Melody" melodiously spread out. Everywhere the zither music passed, whether it was a wild animal or an NPC who happened to pass by, both of them stopped and listened attentively.

A melodious melody filled the air. This was not a sound attack, so even if Sikong Lan injected his internal energy, he could not turn the melody into a murderous demon note. He could only use his internal energy to spread the sound even wider... The crisp zither music suppressed all irritability in the world as the melodious melody washed away all the demons in his heart …

After the song ended, the only sounds that could be heard were the faint sounds of the wind blowing, and the chirping of the birds had also disappeared. Si Kong Lan stretched his back and walked out of the bamboo house. Then, he began to write a name for each bamboo house. These names, once named, cannot be changed unless the house is demolished. The system would also recognize the name of the house, attic, and other building facilities.

The bamboo houses on the east side, which provided tea, were called the "Coffee Bar"; the bamboo houses on the west side, which treated patients, were named the "Private Hospital"; the southern bamboo houses, which housed books, were named the "Tranquil Mind"; and the bamboo houses on the north side, which were named the "Observation Platform", while the main house in the middle was named the "Star Observation Tower".

In the beginning, there were only some animals standing far away and listening. After a long time, there were some deer, rabbits, and other similar values that were suspected and worth the experience, staying by Sikong Lan's side to listen to music. They completely used Sikong Lan as a music broadcasting station and the only flaw was that Sikong Lan only knew that one song, "Heart Cleansing Song".

As time passed, Sikong Lan began to lose interest in the Heart Cleansing Melody. Since no one sent the new melody to Sikong Lan, Sikong Lan gradually dropped from three hours to two hours, then to half an hour per day. Although there were a few miners who would occasionally go to the southern mines to mine, and occasionally come to the coffee shop to amuse themselves, they would never want a pot of liquor because that was not a price they could afford to pay. In short, Sikong Lan gave money almost every day to four NPCs. Fortunately, Ye was a god of wealth, otherwise Sikong Lan would have long since closed the coffee shop.

With the appearance of a large number of medical books in the martial arts world, Si Kong Lan also became indifferent to playing the zither and started to diligently study the art of medicine. Apart from the "Compendium of Materia Medica", the "Divine Farmer Herbal Scripture" and the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", five of the ten legendary medical books of Jianghu were bought by Leaves and handed over to Sikong Lan. As for the other two books, he didn't know who had acquired them: the "General Theory of Eight Meridians", the "Jin Yi Fang Fang", the "Copper Man's Acupoint Acupuncture Meridian", the "On Warm", and the "Ling Shu Su".

Although he did not know what was going on with this mausoleum, at least he could be sure that this book was not that easy to obtain. It was said that the [Shennong Herbs] could only be obtained after completing an extremely abnormal mission, but no one knew about the quest process, nor did they know how to trigger it. On the contrary, the [Yellow Emperor's Classic] was the easiest of the three books, if you dared to find trouble with Lie Zhenbei.

Although the remaining seven medical books were the top ten legendary medical books, the only books that were of use were the , the , and the . The estimated price was not less than five million gold taels. As for the remaining five books, they weren't of much use. Of course, if it was given to someone else, it would be enough for a beginner physician to become a senior physician through studying.

Although Hua Tuo and He Zu Dao had been expelled from the sect, at this moment, Si Kong Lan was living a full life. Basically, he would repeat three things every day, read a medical manual to remind him of his medical skills and medical experience, play a heart clearing melody for an hour to calm his boring mind, and then conveniently learn a , practicing for a period of time every day.

When a person's behavior becomes a habit, he begins to regard it as a law, and if he does not do it, he will feel uncomfortable.

Many rich players started to come over to have a pot of alcohol. Although it was a bit expensive, it could at least save them a lot of time in the city, and once they walked to the right side of the restaurant, they could see a pharmacy called the "Private Hospital". Although the price of the medicine was the same as the one in the system, the effect was much better than the System's.

Looking at the coffee shop which was gradually balancing its balance, Sikong Lan smiled and stroked the zither strings, continuing his "Pure Heart Song" which could calm all negative emotions in his heart. Even though this song was already 100% proficiency, Sikong Lan, who was seriously lacking in music, could only continue to play this song.

It was not that no one sold music books, but rather, the merchants valued the interests of money. In the system's consignment interface, it was basically all magic notes. The demon note was a new martial art that was added after the system was updated. As long as one had a strong inner force and an ancient zither, they could play the formless zither music that could injure people.

Si Kong Lan took a fancy to the Demonic Sound Zither Manual of last night. Helpless, when she wanted to learn it, the system had requested for her to use a Yin energy inside her to learn it. Originally, she would not reject any kind of martial arts, but this piece of music was an exception, so she had no choice but to put it back on the consignment interface. (TL: Inner Qi.

"Hey hey hey, who opened this shop?" A rough roar interrupted the zither music of Sikong Lan. Even the animals around Sikong Lan were scared away. "This place is already under the control of our Chang Le Gang, if you want to open a shop here, you have to pay a protection fee!" "Do you hear me? Tell the boss to come out immediately."

Sikong Lan frowned and put the guqin to the side. She then stood up and walked towards the man with the blade: "I'm sorry, I don't know if you are being ungracious to me?"

"You're the boss?" The fierce-looking man looked at the thinner Si Kong Lan, then laughed loudly, "From today onwards, Chang'an has officially entered into the domain of our Chang Le Gang. If you want to open a shop here, that is fine! A protection fee of 100 gold taels per day. "

Si Kong Lan frowned. Could this be the legendary robbery? Although he was displeased, he did not say anything on the surface. "I'm sorry. Everyone, please go back. You do not need to protect this place." As soon as he said this, the thirty players in the coffee shop all stood up. Many of them were already Level 40.

"More people than us?" The fierce-looking man laughed in disdain, "I have been observing this damn place of yours for a long time!" As he spoke, he whistled and 40 or so players rushed out. All of them were armed and had excited expressions on their faces.

"Dear Imperial Consort Lan!" An unruly and hearty laugh came from the crowd, "I'm getting more and more miserable, so I'm back to see you!" Before he could finish his words, a figure flipped over from the crowd and lightly stepped on the head of a person. With a leap, the person stood beside Sikong Lan, his right hand holding onto Qinglan like a little chick.

After hearing the desolate laughter, Si Kong Lan felt goosebumps all over her body. Just as she was about to escape from the scene, she saw that Xiao Li had already arrived beside Si Kong Lan. She casually threw her right hand and threw the seemingly finished punishment, Blue Luan, onto the ground. Sikong Lan rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Why didn't you tell me when you came back?"

Sad looked at Sikong Lan, then laughed: "After I tell you, you will definitely run! Just like this stinking brat! " He continued to poke around with his hand, looking at Sikong Lan who was about to turn around and leave, and said, "So, I started running around in the big cities as soon as I got out of seclusion, and finally found this guy in Xiangyang City! He only told me where you were after I tortured him. "

"About that …" "How many minutes did he persist before telling you where I am?" As he spoke, he also secretly poked a few blue dots with his fingers.

"After enduring my second blow, I admit to everything." Si Kong Lan said with an expression that said she thought too highly of the cyan blue light. 'Second hit, it was just a few seconds!?'

The fierce-looking man looked at the desolation and the nothingness, and his face gradually became extremely fierce: "You actually dare to ignore the evil intentions of my Longevity Sect's Deputy Sect Master! I will bury you all today! " As he spoke, he waved his hand to signal for everyone to attack.

A look of disdain appeared on Desolation's face as his right hand clenched into a fist. With a tap of his finger, one of the men felt as if he had been struck. His body immediately slowed down, but there was nothing wrong with it. Desolation, however, seemed to be indifferent. Relying on the two fingers on his right hand, he pointed continuously into the air. All the members of the Lucky Faction who were hit by the finger slowed down, spitting out blood. Most of the enemies were unharmed.

"What kind of martial arts is this?" Si Kong Lan performed Waves to avoid the attack of a member of the Laughing Gang. He turned his hand and thrusted out a Basic Sword Technique, but it only scratched the opponent's clothes on his chest. "Why can't you hurt him?"

"..." Desolate continued counting people, his figure took a few steps back, and he said embarrassedly, "There's nothing we can do, the inner force is too weak, we can only slow them down a little. Basically, no one can stop me if I want to run, what do you think? "Jealous!"

Si Kong Lan could only bitterly smile. With the help of the enemy's saber, he relied on the attribute of his abnormal gold-plated armor. With a light leap, he had already withdrawn from the encirclement of more than ten people. Although he had been practicing inner force and lightness techniques every day for the past few days, he was still unable to break through the bottleneck. His proficiency and level had never been able to break through.

Other than the remaining six players who were Level 40 and above, the rest of the thirty or so people in the coffee bar had already been viciously killed. Of course, of the thirty or so people in the coffee bar, at least twenty of them were miners … Because he had been ignored from the start, Blue River had been trampled to death in the free-for-all battle. Of course, most of this was due to Desolate Land leaving Blue River with only a layer of blood on his body, making him completely unable to move.

Besides the ten low-leveled players, the rest of the guild members had already started attacking with their lives on the line. Those six Level 40 or so players were originally just passengers to begin with. Seeing the enemy's increasing attacks, they had long since seized the opportunity to escape. Who would risk their lives for an unknown boss like him?

"Haha, how was it?" The ghost under Saber laughed loudly, "As long as you hand over 500 taels of gold every day, I'll let you go!" Otherwise, if you want to die, you can just get destroyed by us! "

"Wasn't it a hundred taels just now?" Si Kong Lan said in surprise, "Why did you raise the price!?"

"It was just a moment ago. Didn't you see more than ten of my brothers die?" The ghost under the blade said with a look of disdain, "If you say another word, then it'll be one thousand gold taels a day!"

"Don't push it too far!" Si Kong Lan roared.

"One thousand gold a day."

"You …"

"Haha …" A hearty laugh came from behind the crowd, "You dare to tease a good girl in broad daylight … "Oh, no, you're wrong. Let's do it again …" After a series of coughs, everyone looked at each other blankly.

Three seconds later, the voice rang again, "Haha …. Under broad daylight, he actually dared to take liberties with a woman! This is bullying my Central Plains! Scoundrel, see how I exorcise the devil today, representing the moon... Oh, wrong. It represents the Sun's annihilation of you! To witness this great moment of history with my sword! "