Journey To Longevity

There are many great rivers originating from Baimang Mountain. One of them meanders and flows through Yu, Qi, Qi, and Yu, four secular countries, large or small. The last one is called Pingcang River. The river is in Yong'en County of Yu State, where it meets another river named Lushui, and after a long journey, the vast soup pours into the boundless ocean.

The Pingcang River divides the seventeen counties of the Qi State into two. Fengyi County is located in the south of the Pingcang River. The land is fertile and the water network is densely covered. With a lot of water and heat, crops such as rice grow vigorously and are harvested twice a year. It is the first-class grain production area in Qi.

As a county city, Fengyi City also relies on rivers, lakes, canals and other water conservancy and transportation, attracting merchants from various countries and counties. There are many ships stopping and going around here every day, even if some docking fees and The coolie money, the county government and the various aristocratic families earned a lot of money. Of course, such unseemly things are naturally taken care of by those on the gang road.

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After nightfall, if someone looked down from the sky, except for some scattered lights nearby, only this county town was brightly lit.

A young man wearing a blue robe and a well-groomed mustache was walking slowly on the street. This is Zhang Shiping who drove ten days from Baimang Mountain, and arrived at Fengyi County of Qi State tonight. Although the gate of the city has already been closed, Zhang Shiping is not an ordinary person, so why wait until tomorrow to enter the city.

At this moment, the night is as cool as water, the sky is full of moonlight, there is no curfew in the county town, there are endless hawkers on the street, and there are fireworks and willow fields in restaurants and theaters, which is even more lively.

Zhang Shiping was walking on the street, a few teenagers with flower arranging on their head and wearing brocade clothes of various colors happened to pass him by. Those few people all had blue faces, dry eye sockets, and a look of dissoluteness. Surrounded by servants, they talked and laughed and turned into a fat and pink pavilion.

Oh, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Li, Mr. Huang, Mr. Chen, you are here, Yanniang misses you so much. A woman in her thirties with a dusty face was holding a peach blossom fan at the door, and saw that Several young masters came over and hurried up to greet them with a smile.

One of the young men in royal blue brocade clothes hugged the coquettish woman, and he couldn't find where his other hand was, causing the woman to groan proudly, Mr. Zhang. Already hugged left and right, and walked in with a smile.

When Zhang Shiping walked over, he happened to see the mark of his Zhang family tattooed on the cuff of that person. He frowned slightly. He didn't like this person's frivolous behavior, but he didn't go up and scold him directly. He is just a mortal, so why should he get angry, not to mention that most of these people are bastards, they just want to have fun, if they try too hard, it will cause disaster instead.

If this person was not from the Zhang family, Zhang Shiping would have been lazy to take a look. The Zhang family has been passed down for more than 400 years, and there are all kinds of birds when the forest grows up. If I get angry even for such trivial things, wouldn't the state of mind that I have cultivated for many years be equivalent to practicing in vain. The good or bad of each branch of the Zhang family is naturally watched by people from the patriarchal hall of the family, but those people in the patriarchal hall are concerned about the reputation of the Zhang family outside, and they don't care about whether a person is greedy for money or lust. In small matters, as long as there is no harm to the general.

Things have primary and secondary, severity, and priority. If you care about everything, Zhang Shiping doesn't need to practice.

Zhang Shiping planned to go to the Zongmen hall in the east of the city first to see what the situation was like. If he has time in the future, he will go to see what the Fengyi Zhang family is like, and then he will have to ask and train him. It is nothing more than the old problems of some aristocratic families who are extravagant and impetuous, moaning without illness.

The Zhengyang Sect has several secular halls in a dozen or so nearby secular countries, and there are three or five monks in each hall. These people are all in their 40s, 50s, or even over 60 years old, and their cultivation bases are only five or six levels high, and the low ones have two or three levels of qi training, and their spiritual root aptitude is not good enough, and they have no hope of building a foundation. .

Originally, in this secular world with insufficient aura, the speed of practice was as slow as a snail, and because the sect cultivating monks who came here, whether it was voluntary or forced by the sect, anyway, many monks here have a kind of self-defeating mentality. , After a long time, the practice was abandoned, and these people sometimes fell instead of rising.

The gate of Fengyi County of Qi State is in the east of this county. There is a saying that the east is rich and the west is rich, and the south is poor and the north is humble. The people who can live in the east of this city are either prominent officials or aristocratic families. Live in the west of the city.

There is a large garden in the east of the city that is the most conspicuous. It is a full circle of three and a half miles from the gate. There are countless Qionglou Yuyu built inside. The lights are still brightly lit inside after nightfall. The lights and candles for one night will consume fuel. It can feed a family of three for a whole year.

And let’s not talk about the bells ringing, the servants in groups, etc., the gate alone is taller and larger than other families. Three points of confidence.

Zhang Shiping walked to the gate and walked in directly using the invisibility technique. The servants in black who guarded the gate didn't notice.

The information Zhang Shiping got from the mission was that the two middle-stage qi-training monks sent by the sect disappeared one and a half months ago, and there was no other news except that the two sent a message about the evil cultivator at the beginning.

Zhang Shiping thought that maybe the entrance of the Zongmen, Fengyi County, had already been occupied by evil cultivators. He has to investigate carefully first. If he swaggers in, usually with his foundation-building cultivation, he will not encounter any danger in this worldly world, but in case, there is only one life.

The garden was very large. After Zhang Shiping walked for a while, he saw that in the corridor ahead, there were two servants holding lanterns in front, and twenty or so maidservants lined up in a long queue at the back, holding various dishes in their hands, walking slowly.

Zhang Shiping followed behind, and after walking for a while, those people entered a small courtyard, where several tall candles of thick butter were lit, bright as day.

He looked over, and there were eight people sitting in the banquet, the young ones were in their thirties, and the old ones were over seventy. There was a handsome maid waiting behind each of them, and the sound of silk and bamboo in the room reached Zhang Shiping's ears.

Sitting at the top is a monk named Zhao Dezhu. Zhang Shiping matched his appearance with the image he saw from the Zongmen mission. Except for his older face, everything else was the same. After all, he was already in his sixties. .

Zhang Shiping performed the Celestial Eye Technique. He looked at all the people on the table from a distance. The monk Zhao Dezhu sitting in the first place had a monk a few years younger than him on the left and right. Only three of them had aura, and the rest There is no aura in the body, and they are all mortals.

There are four sect cultivators at the entrance of Fengyi County, and now Zhang Shiping has seen three of them, so this entrance is considered normal. He thought for a while, could it be that something happened to the two monks in the middle stage of Qi training in the sect on the way back to the sect?

Zhang Shiping lowered his head to think, and felt that there was something wrong, and he would not be able to remember it for a while. All of a sudden, Zhang Shiping raised his head, his pupils shrunk, and cast his Celestial Eye Technique again to look at the three sect monks on the table.

The breath of these three people is dark, as if they have practiced some method of restraining their breath to hide their cultivation. When Zhang Shiping first watched it, firstly, the distance was a bit far away, and secondly, he thought it was because in this secular world with insufficient spiritual energy, they were here for Condensing one's own spiritual power and spiritual pressure, preventing the mana of one's dantian from collapsing into the outside world.

But when he took a closer look, he found that the two people on the left and right were actually at the seventh level of Qi training, and Zhao Dezhu in the middle was even at the eighth level of Qi training. In this secular world, it is considered good that these three people have not regressed in their cultivation bases. How could they have made such great progress? If they can have such aptitude, how could they be sent to the secular world by the sect to guard the hall? It is really suspicious .

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