Chapter 1088 Heading to Kuzhong City
I asked these two guys to do something to vent my anger, but now I am even more angry. Do these two guys have pig brains? What kind of thing are they doing?
Seeing that Sang Yuan's face was getting uglier and uglier, Ju Jiao hurriedly explained: "Brother Sang, we didn't know they were so powerful and could kill the late copper armor so quickly..."
The Ju brothers wanted to explain a few more words, but Sang Yuan didn't want to listen at all. He snorted coldly and left. The Ju brothers had no other choice but to follow him quickly.
After Qingyang and the old man came out, Shangguan Tongtong and others waited for a while. Seeing that no one came out of the deep valley, they closed the formation outside the deep valley. A large group of people gathered and returned to Tongguan County, and other contestants followed them one after another.
On Ma Xingchen's side, the other guards had already gathered around to check the situation. The young master was injured like this, and as a guard, he was suspected of dereliction of duty. If Mayor Ma knew about it, everyone would definitely be implicated. However, seeing the situation of the old man Zhi and Qingyang and others, they also suffered heavy losses. Knowing that they had also tried their best, they could only hold back their anger.
Ma Shi, who was sitting in the middle, hurriedly checked Ma Xingchen, then took out the healing pills for him to take, and then asked them what happened in the deep valley in the past three days.
Ma Xingchen did not hide anything and told them everything that happened. At this time, Ma Shi realized that the biggest contributor to the pre-selection of the Son of God was Qingyang. Before, he saw that Qingyang was the only one among the four guards who was not injured, and thought he was lazy in the deep valley.
This time when he came to Tongguan County, Ma Shi was also planning to do his best and leave it to fate. He didn't think that Ma Xingchen could get into the top ten. After this competition, everyone was going to go home, but he didn't expect that they would perform beyond their level and actually win the preliminaries of the Holy Son.
With the blessing of the ancestors, their Ma family will finally produce a genius. The rise of the Ma family is just around the corner. A big reward must be given after returning. Not only Qingyang and the old man who made great contributions in this process, but also the two old guards who fought to the death to protect the master, and everyone else will have a share.
Let's not talk about what Ma Shi planned for the time being. Seeing that most of the people outside the deep valley had left, Ma Xingchen, Qingyang, and the old man had also recovered some of their physical strength, and a group of people began to return to Tongguan County.
Ma Xingchen was too seriously injured, so Ma Shi specially arranged for people to cut down trees and make a stretcher for him. Qingyang and Zhi Laotou, as the great contributors to the victory of the Saint Son preliminaries, were also treated with great courtesy and supported by the guards all the way. Everyone was happy and did not rush to travel. When they returned to the inn they had rented in Tongguan County before, it was already the next day.
After returning to the inn, Ma Xingchen was arranged first, and then Ma Shi gathered all the guards together to reward them according to their merits. Qingyang and Zhi Laotou were rewarded the most, five spirit stones each. The two old guards who fought to the death to protect their master were compensated with two spirit stones each. The remaining guards had no merit but worked hard, and each received twenty gold. It didn't seem much, but it was equivalent to their ten-month salary. They did nothing, but got so many rewards for nothing. They should thank Qingyang and others.
Mayi Town is too poor. Before the departure, Mayor Ma only gave Ma Shi a dozen spirit stones for emergency. As a result, he was so happy today that he gave all of them to the guards. Now all that is left on Ma Shi is his personal property. He will definitely not pay for public affairs.
Later, Ma Xingchen and his party will go to Kuzhong City. It takes nearly half a year to go back and forth, which is tens of thousands of miles away. The expenses there are the biggest. But now there is no time to return to Mayi Town. In desperation, Ma Shi can only bite the bullet and go to the county lord's mansion to borrow a sum of spirit stones from Shangguan Tong as the cost of their trip to Kuzhong City to participate in the preliminary election of the Son of God.
Shangguan Tong was deeply impressed by Ma Xingchen, especially because he won the eighth place with the cultivation of the second level of Qi Refining, becoming the biggest dark horse in this preliminary election of the Son of God. He has a bright future in the future, and Mayi Town will not be able to escape. Shangguan Tong is not short of these spirit stones, so he readily agreed to Ma Shi's request.
Considering that all the candidates from Tongguan County were going to Kuzhong City together, and there was also the foundation-building cultivator Qingteng Sanren to protect everyone along the way, the safety was relatively guaranteed. It would be inconvenient if there were too many people. In order to save money, Ma Shi sent some guards back to Mayi Town to bring back the bodies of the guards who died in the battle, and also informed Mayor Ma of the situation here.
Ma Shi sent back a total of twelve people, including Fatty Sang and the one who was injured on the way, led by an old guard. Among the remaining six guards, there was the captain of the first level of Qi Refining, an old guard and two new guards, as well as Qingyang and Paper Old Man. They had made great contributions before and had outstanding abilities, so they had to be brought along no matter what.
After some planning, five days had passed. Paper Old Man had only suffered external injuries before, which looked serious, but in fact the impact was not very large. He has recovered in the past few days. Ma Xingchen's condition was more serious. Although he had taken Ma Shi's healing pills, it was not easy for his broken leg to heal. He still limped and walked much slower than others.
However, the five-day deadline had expired and the Tongguan County team was about to set off. It was impossible for everyone to wait for him alone, so Ma Shi asked the guards to make a simple bamboo sedan to take him. Usually, Ma Xingchen tried to walk by himself, and when he really couldn't walk or his legs hurt, he would use a sedan to carry him.
When it was time to set off, Shangguan Tong personally led people to see them off at the gate of Tongguan County. This time, they went to Kuzhong City not only for their own future, but also for the entire Tongguan County. If they performed well, Shangguan Tong, as the county lord, would also be proud.
Shangguan Tong did not say much, but urged everyone to work hard and get good results in the preliminary selection of the Holy Son of Kuzhong City this time, and fight for a bright future for themselves.
After Shangguan Tong finished speaking, the team set off. The leader was Qingteng Sanren from Kuzhong City. In addition, there was a third-level foundation-building cultivator sent by the county lord's mansion. The journey was long and dangerous, and Qingteng Sanren might not be able to handle it. One more person could share some of the pressure.
The entire team had about a hundred people. They all knew that the journey to Kuzhong City was long, so the guards they brought with them were streamlined. Some, like Ma Xingchen, had only six guards besides him and Ma Shi who was in charge. Some, like Shangguan Yan, only had ten guards following him. Of course, because of the difference in status, the number of guards they brought was also different. For example, Shangguan Yan's guards were at least mid-stage Qi Refining cultivators, which was many times better than Ma Xingchen's side.