Broken Night

Chapter 92 - First Steps to Forbidden Land

After these years of learning the pattern, if it used to be to gain power, now Xu Yan is really interested in the pattern. That is an amazing power.

In the previous world, the art of exercise alone has exhausted his life's energy.

Coming in this world, the pattern of lines has changed his view of the world upside down. It never occurred to him that a world could be seen in this way. As Xu Tian said, everything is a pattern, and the human body itself is a huge pattern. Then flowers, trees, birds and beasts, even the trajectories of the wind blowing, the rhythm of the dancing flames, and the ripples of the lake water are all patterns.

When you start seeing the world in this way, the world becomes different.

This started to make Xu Yan fascinated by this subject, and since he came to this world to learn tattoos, he even felt that his forging skills were advancing by leaps and bounds again.

A pattern born from heaven and earth?

Of course, you have to open your eyes!

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The next day, Zuo Chengzhe spoke to Bai Yun and took Xu Yan towards the Branded Mountains.

Along the way, Xu Yan also felt a little strange.

There are soldiers everywhere.

Xu Yan was a little unfamiliar with officers and soldiers.

Even in Zhinan and Yeshi, the two cities where he stayed for a long time, he didn't see many officers and soldiers. Although they are officers and soldiers, they are still mainly ordinary people, and occasionally one and a half of them are tattooed. As for the tattoo artist... Naturally, they would not be so disqualified as officers and soldiers on patrol.

Hearing Xu Yan's question, Zuo Chengzhe explained while walking: "Generally speaking, officers and soldiers have to look at the arrangements of the local city lord. To Nancheng is a very strange place. The city lord is considered an exile, so he doesn't cause trouble, so he doesn't care. Not to mention Yeshi City, with the Xie family as the city owner, it is enough to deter Xiaoxiao, and no one dares to make trouble in Yeshi City.”

"But it's different here. Lan Chao attaches great importance to the major forbidden areas."

Xu Yan also nodded when he heard the words, he had seen this from the archives.

One of the volumes given by Xu Tian is "Forbidden Lands and the Interests of the South", and this book explains the relationship between the South and the Forbidden Lands.

The so-called forbidden land means that there is a natural or acquired crisis in it. But as the so-called misfortune and good fortune depend on each other, when there is a crisis, there is a benefit. Like the Branded Mountains, there are not only tattooed beasts running rampant, but also various unknown dangers. In the south, it is more deliberately maintained, such as regularly dispatching a team of tattooists or tattooists to record the various tattooed beasts that branded the mountains to prevent people from killing them indiscriminately.

Not only that, but also to maintain the ecology and protect the growth of the beasts.

The so-called too much is too much. For the behemoth of the Blue Dynasty, they value the endless interests more than the locusts crossing the border in one breath.

So the officers and soldiers here are just the first layer of defense.

When Xu Yan and Zuo Chengzhe continued to walk, they had already seen the tattoo artist and the tattoo artist. Among them, an old man's eyes swept over Xu Yan slightly, and Xu Yan felt a sense of trembling. That is the power that suppresses from all aspects of the spirit, just like the fourth elder of the Xie family who I have seen before. Obviously, there is also a tattoo artist of the ten-pattern realm in front of him... No, it is even stronger, maybe it is already the peak of the ten-pattern realm.

And the existence of this level still has to be kept here.

It can be seen how strong Lan Chao's protection of the forbidden area is.

For Zuo Chengzhe and Xu Yan, the officers and soldiers guarding here did not pay much attention to them.

The silver taels for admission were only used as a token to subsidize the imperial court's conservation of forbidden areas. After all, for a normal tattoo artist or tattoo artist, the reward for killing one or two tattooed beasts is far more than the entry fee.

Those like Zuo Chengzhe and Xu Yan typically have a strong family atmosphere. An adult strong family member brought a teenager into the forbidden area, looking for suitable materials, and finally engraving into the palace for the future. This is already a common sight in the forbidden area.

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After walking into the forbidden area, Xu Yan only felt refreshed for a while.

In the air alone, there is a burst of breath that permeates the spleen and lungs.

On the other hand, Zuo Chengzhe's habit of being a teacher for many years still caused him to introduce in broken thoughts: "The concept of the north and the south lies in the difference between the tattoos. But for the tattooed beasts, the south will also kill them. After all, the tattooed beasts will be killed. The whole body is full of treasures, whether it is used to make the Noble Phantasm of the tattoo artist, the tattooed soldier of the tattoo artist, or the tattooed food for the tattoo chef, etc., the value of the tattooed beast cannot be replaced.”

"It's just that compared to the north, we in the south attach more importance to the continuous growth, and maintain a balance in the number of beasts killed. If the speed of the growth of the beasts in the imperial court cannot catch up with the speed of death, the entire forbidden area will even be destroyed. The seal will not let people enter until the beast grows back."

"And in the north, there are not so many restrictions. Kill as soon as you see it. Of course, there are many more tattooed beasts in the north than in the south."

Although I have read it in the collection for a long time, after all, reading thousands of books is not as good as walking thousands of miles. It really feels like walking into a forbidden area and listening to it from Zuo Chengzhe's mouth.

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As I said just now, this kind of picture of an aristocratic family bringing its children to practice is really not special.

After walking for a while, Xu Yan and Zuo Chengzhe had also seen such a combination several times. An adult led a boy or girl, but after meeting, they just nodded slightly and left. After all, this is a forbidden area, and in the forbidden area, the laws and regulations of the Lan Dynasty are not as big as they imagined.

Even all kinds of black and black people are very common in forbidden areas.

So everyone is quite restrained and keeps their distance.

Zuo Chengzhe was very cautious, but Xu Yan, who was beside him, had no sense at all: "Wow! This is an evergreen. It is said that this evergreen blooms all year round until its life dies. This is a good tattoo. It would have been better if the tattoo had been implanted in that serious injury.”

Zuo Chengzhe, who was beside him, twitched his face, watching Xu Yan like a beggar constantly pulling out some plants he couldn't understand from the ground, and then throwing them into the small bag with patches that he had been carrying. The surprising thing is that the small bag has been stuffed with things, but it has not bulged at all.

Because of Xu Yan's style of plucking the wild goose and leaving the skin behind, they moved very slowly, but they still walked towards the depths of the Branded Mountains.

Along the way, the surprise on Xu Yan's face became more and more prosperous.

It is really a treasure here, and the various tattoos found here are excellent. He even found a hundred-year-old [Ambergris], and Zuo Chengzhe on the side knew a little about ambergris. The [Panlong] pattern on his arms was carved into the palace with ambergris as the main material.

The value of these hundreds of years has reached at least 70,000 taels.