On the pedestrian walkway of the highway.
Two figures, one in front and one behind, stirred up gusts of wind as they sped towards the Lingji Protection Zone.
It was Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.
However, at this moment, apart from Zhang Yu using his 'sports car legs' to rush on the road.
Bai Zhenzhen's body occasionally flashed with electric light, as she was also using her newly learned 'Electric Light Steps' to follow behind Zhang Yu.
Unlike Zhang Yu, who focused on enhancing his physical strength, Bai Zhenzhen, because she was participating in the martial arts track, spent more time on cultivating martial arts techniques in addition to improving her Dao heart, mana, and physical strength.
This 'Electric Light Steps' was a combat technique that allowed Bai Zhenzhen to perform short-range high-speed movements in battle, making it more flexible, easier to change, and more explosive than 'sports car legs,' making this technique more suitable for combat. At this moment, she simply used it for both traveling and practicing.
And under the sunlight, Bai Zhenzhen could also feel a trace of warmth constantly flowing in her body, which was the true spiritual root absorbing the spiritual energy in the light.
However, the current true spiritual root gradually adapted to the regulation of light and darkness, and could understand Bai Zhenzhen's thoughts, and would not make her dim.
On the other side, Zhang Yu, under the sunlight, felt as if molten lava was flowing all over his body, frantically devouring the spiritual energy in the sunlight falling from the sky.
At the same time, he was also calculating in his heart.
The purpose of this trip to the Lingji Protection Zone was to go through Xiong Wenwu's connections to see if he could rent a spiritual vein position at a cheaper price for breathing exercises.
After all, in recent days... although his physical strength had been growing rapidly, the improvement of Dao heart and mana was too slow for Zhang Yu, relying solely on the cultivation method.
And it is said that spiritual veins are not only rich in spiritual energy, which can greatly improve the efficiency of mana refining, but also improve physical fitness, dispel diseases and prolong life after a long time, with countless benefits.
"Forget about renting the entire spiritual vein, let's see if the money in hand can rent a position so that Ah Zhen and I can breathe in the spiritual vein."
Although there had been income from the Dark Tutoring World, Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Song Hailong during this period, and he had also received the first endorsement fee of 200,000.
However, Zhang Yu's expenses were also quite a lot. For example, a Hunyuan Pill every three days cost 24,000, and each set of Nine Dragon Acupuncture cost another 10,500 yuan, and recently, because he had been focusing on body refining, the continuous improvement of his physical strength had also increased his food expenses to 1,500 yuan per day, and after the beginning of May, he also repaid 15,000 in loan interest...
Zhang Yu looked at his account balance again, and there was still 570,000.
He thought to himself, "Renting a position in a spiritual vein should not be a big problem, right?"
The two continued to speed all the way, and more and more factories gradually appeared around them. Wisps of white smoke continuously poured out of the huge chimneys, and they could also see some factories with the Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry signboard printed on them.
Just as Zhang Yu's eyes swept across this row of factories, he suddenly startled slightly: "What is that?"
I saw that on the land that was originally suspected to be a factory, there was only a ruin left at this moment, with broken walls everywhere, as if it had experienced a great battle.
There was even a palm print hundreds of meters wide on the hillside not far behind, and fragments of various towers, walls, and machinery remained on the hillside.
Patches of light curtains enveloped the ruins, and various warning signs appeared on the light curtains, just like the police line at a murder scene.
Zhang Yu said, "Is this a war?"
Bai Zhenzhen glanced at it and said, "Don't you know this? It was quite popular on the Internet half a year ago. It was just that a factory was investigated for tax evasion."
"The tax evader resisted on the spot, and all kinds of flying swords and magic weapons came out, killing most of the tax supervisors who came to investigate."
Zhang Yu was shocked. Were the tax evaders in Kunxu so fierce?
Bai Zhenzhen continued, "Then the tax supervisors invited the divine power of the Gongfu Heavenly Supervision God, and with one palm, the entire factory was reimbursed, and at the same time, the souls of most of the criminals were drawn away."
"Most of them?" Zhang Yu was surprised: "What about those whose souls were not drawn away? Are they dead or did they run away?"
Bai Zhenzhen said, "They committed suicide directly at the moment when the Gongfu Heavenly Supervision God descended."
Zhang Yu swallowed and once again rejoiced that he had not evaded taxes in Kunxu.
The two continued to speed all the way, and soon saw a huge arc appearing on the distant horizon.
It was the target of their trip.
It is said that a long, long time ago, this Lingji Protection Zone was once the territory of demon beasts, and there were even several powerful great demons haunting it.
The so-called great demons are powerful monsters, and now monsters are called demon descendants.
Unlike demon beasts, which are regarded as animals, demon descendants often have true wisdom and can integrate into social life and work.
But later, the great demons here were defeated by the company's security forces. The protection zone changed hands several times, and was eventually bought by Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry and operated to this day.
I heard that it still retains various natural landscapes and various demon beasts that originally lived there. Of course... these have all become assets of Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry.
And Zhang Yu could see clearly at this moment that there seemed to be an extremely huge glass cover, covering the continuous mountains and hills.
And as the two continued to approach, they could also see dense runes appearing on the glass cover from time to time, which was the power of the formation isolating the two worlds inside and outside.
In addition, Zhang Yu could also see many red warning words on it.
They were all similar to 'Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry Private Territory, please purchase tickets and enter from the main entrance'.
Bai Zhenzhen looked at it and cursed: "It's really stingy. Are they unwilling to reveal even a little bit of the air in the protection zone?"
She originally thought about whether she could rub against the spiritual energy and air coming from inside across the boundary of the protection zone, but now it seems that they had already guarded against this point.
The two continued to move forward and came to the ticket office at the main entrance of the Lingji Protection Zone.
Seeing that the ticket price was only 5 yuan, Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu were shocked. What was the difference between this and free? Was Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry doing charity?
Bai Zhenzhen immediately retracted her stingy evaluation in her heart. Where was Red Pagoda Animal Husbandry stingy? It was simply too generous.
The two opened their mobile phones and wanted to see if there were any discounts, and were surprised to find that the rating of this protection zone was only
But after the ticket seller stuck the protection zone air meter, spiritual energy monitor, weight monitor... on their bodies, the two understood why the ticket seemed to be free, and why the rating was so low.
I only heard the ticket seller say: "The price of air in the protection zone is 1,999 yuan per cubic meter, the price of water per liter is 2,888 yuan, and the price of spiritual energy per unit is 3,999 yuan."
"The price list of all plants, animals, and even soil, stones, and other materials in the protection zone is in the user manual. I will send it to you. Please receive it..."
Zhang Yu looked at the dense price list in the user manual and was speechless.
Whether it was air, water, food, or anything else in this Lingji Protection Zone, it all cost money. Ordinary people might go bankrupt just by picking up a few stones.
Bai Zhenzhen said nervously: "Yu Zi, breathe less when you go in later. It's too expensive."
The two who bought the tickets first entered the closed cabin. With the closing of the rear cabin door, the two had completely isolated themselves from the outside world.
Then, as the front cabin door opened, Zhang Yu felt an incomparably fresh air rushing towards him.
Just taking a deep breath, Zhang Yu felt comfortable all over, and the flesh and blood all over his body seemed to relax.
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"This is... air?"
"What did I breathe before?"
He felt that the air he usually smelled was simply car exhaust compared to this.
"So I have been in such a bad air environment? Is it just that I am used to it?"
Zhang Yu walked out of the closed cabin and completely put himself in the environment of the protection zone.
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yu only felt as if he had been washed all over, and the qi and blood and mana in his body became more and more lively.
Even in this marginal area, Zhang Yu could feel that the concentration of spiritual energy in the air was almost the same as that of the quiet room in Songyang High School, which had a spiritual gathering effect.
And as the two walked quickly along the sightseeing road, the spiritual energy in the air became more and more concentrated, and even Bai Zhenzhen's spiritual energy billing had risen to more than 500, scaring her to quickly suppress the true spiritual root so that the true spiritual root would not breathe in spiritual energy for the time being.
Zhang Yu also felt that the spiritual energy absorbed from the light by the Great Sun Qi Sea was more concentrated. Practicing here for a day would probably be equivalent to practicing outside for several days.
Bai Zhenzhen patted her chest in fear and said, "This broken place is too easy to go bankrupt. Let's leave as soon as we see Xiong Wenwu."
Zhang Yu nodded in agreement. Staying in this Lingji Protection Zone made him feel more dangerous than staying at a gang fight scene.
He thought in his heart again: "Breathing and practicing in the outer area is so expensive. How much will it cost to go to the real spiritual vein?"
At this moment, he doubted whether he could rent a position in a spiritual vein this time.
Especially when he opened the map and looked at it, there were three spiritual veins in this protection zone, running through 7 major areas and more than 20 hills, but tourists could not enter them. Either they were private territories that had been rented out for a long time, or they were various pastures, factories, and plantations...
It can be said that all the areas that tourists can enter are on the periphery of the spiritual vein.
However, even the price of breathing and practicing in this outer area for a long time was unaffordable for him.
"Alas, ordinary tourists can only enter the protection zone and rub against the periphery of the spiritual vein to practice. They don't even have a way to get in."
At this moment, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen no longer expected to rent a position in a spiritual vein. He would be satisfied if he could find a way to rub against the air on the periphery of the spiritual vein cheaper.
"Let's go see Xiong Wenwu first and see what he says?"
The place where Xiong Wenwu agreed to meet them was the breeding base, which was located in a remote area on the edge of the protection zone.
The two moved forward along the map. Every time they passed a mountain peak, they could feel the spiritual energy rising into the sky from the mountain peak, which was heavily blocked by light curtains and formations. The spiritual energy was so concentrated that it seemed to be raining spiritual energy.
Even Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu really saw a drizzle falling from the mountain from time to time. The spiritual energy in the rain was steaming, which made them secretly tongue-tied.
These mountain peaks were the real locations of the spiritual veins.
Unlike the tourist area that Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were walking on at the moment, it was just the outer area of the spiritual vein, and they could absorb a little air and spiritual energy leaking from above.
Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen could not imagine what those people staying on the mountain were doing, and they needed to swallow such a huge amount of spiritual energy, and how much money would it cost per second?
And below the mountain peak, on the outside of the light curtain separating the tourists, on the side of the tourist area.
Zhang Yu would often see poor people carrying oxygen cylinders and water bottles, rubbing against the foot of the mountain, like small fish attached to a whale, absorbing the spiritual energy overflowing from the spiritual vein and obtaining a cultivation efficiency far exceeding the outside world.
No... Zhang Yu denied the idea in his mind just now.
"How can these be poor people? Being able to rub against the foot of this mountain to practice, according to the billing here... they are all rich people to us."
"There are really a lot of rich people in Kunxu."
Bai Zhenzhen on the side said: "I knew we should have brought oxygen cylinders, it's too uneconomical to breathe here."
Zhang Yu nodded in agreement.
More than ten minutes later, the two finally arrived at the so-called breeding base.
