longevity road trip

The old man Xu sat on the threshold of his broken thatched hut all night, he had no choice but to sell Xu San to Ren Yazi with red eyes.

After more than half a year, Xu San was bought by these people seven days ago, and finally came here.

Xu San silently followed these big guys who didn't look like good people. He didn't blame the old man Xu, nor did he hate the old man Zheng, the landlord, or the dentist. He just blamed himself for being illiterate and incompetent.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a little girl next to him who came out of the dental shop like him, wearing a sackcloth, tied with two braids, her body was dirty, there were a few grass roots in her hair, and her eyes were red. When he was about to cry, Yu San hurriedly covered the little girl's mouth.

There are a few other children who were so frightened that they couldn't help crying. If there was a big man with a bad temper next to him, he would slap him in the face. It seems that these people in the Taoist temple don't care whether these children are dead or alive.If you have a good temper, you don't care.

The burly man next to Xu San in a blue sermon robe obviously had a bad temper. Seeing Xu San's restless movement, he spat at him with a slap in the mouth, and slapped his big palm, making a faint sound of wind.

Xu San rolled on the ground a few times, got up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and showed a bit of stubbornness on his face.

Seeing Xu San's eyes staring at him, the big man became angry, rolled up his sleeves, slapped him twice, and kicked him again.

Another big man behind him urged him to hurry up, don't get in the way of others, the big man behind him might have a higher status, or his kung fu was better than him.

The big man in the blue sermon robe didn't kick and beat him anymore, he grabbed Xu San by his collar, lifted him, and threw him into the crowd. Others avoided him, only the little girl gritted her teeth and helped him up.

Zhang Shiping hung behind like a ghost, watching these people press the child into the cave.

There is a door at the entrance of the cave, and beside the wooden door there are about a dozen mortals with a little bit of mana on duty. Zhang Shiping's spiritual consciousness spreads over, and there are dozens of men, women, old and children locked inside, all listless and resigned to their fate.

After these people locked the group of children in, they went down the mountain.Zhang Shiping stared at the monk in Ge-colored clothes and black round hat, followed him down the mountain, and walked for dozens of miles, seeing that he was about to enter the city.

Zhang Shiping's figure was only a little faster, and when he was using his mana, a fiery red aura appeared in his palm. Zhang Shiping lightly recited a few formulas, and then opened his mouth, a cyan aura spit out from his mouth Finally, it merged with the fiery red aura, covering up the spiritual power fluctuations of the fiery red aura.

Zhang Shiping integrated the aura ball into the last carriage.

The invisibility technique is actually not really invisibility, this spell is just to use mana to run the skills, twist the air around one's body, so as to hide one's figure.

Zhang Shiping is not one of those high-ranking monks who can't disappear without a trace in public.There were so many people at the city gate, Zhang Shiping didn't want to cause commotion if he was seen appearing suddenly, and if he aroused the vigilance of those people, then he would have to act first.At that time, the situation of light and darkness on both sides will change, and Zhang Shiping is afraid that there will be many variables out of thin air.

Zhang Shiping can easily take down a monk with a sixth level of qi training, and he can also find out the news through soul searching, but this kind of cult has survived for so long under the noses of the major sects, so maybe the other party has some secrets It can prevent high-level monks from searching for souls.

Therefore, Zhang Shiping can only leave a mark on the carriage, and follow him after he enters the city, looking for clues.After the carriages approached the city gate, the dozen or so people who lined up at the city gate earlier, most of them were villagers who were going to the market nearby, saw the carriages and were driven by the coachman, and they all dodged and made way for that Ge Se The monk in the clothes took out a palm-sized sign from his arms and showed it to the soldiers guarding the city gate, and then entered the city as soon as possible under the watchful eyes of the soldiers.

Chapter 75

Qingyuancheng is the county town of Gyeongju. It can only rank second in terms of area in Gyeongju, but it is located in the middle of Gyeongju, connected to all directions, and has a prosperous economy.The name of Qingyuan City is not only in the mere state of Gyeongju.

The city of Yu and even several nearby countries know this city because there is a family here—the Li family of Qingyuan. The family’s incense is at its peak. It has passed through two dynasties and has been passed down for nearly 500 years.

However, the luck of the Li family is not as good as that of the Zhang family of Baiyuan Mountain. Zhang Shilong, the ancestor of the Zhang family, established the Zhang family in the world of cultivating immortals in Baimang Mountain with his own strength.

The development of the Li family in Qingyuan is different from that of the Zhang family. In addition to the main line of Qingyuan City, the Li family also has [-] larger branches in various parts of Yu State.

The family has been passed down for so long, and some people in the main line of the Li family also know that there is a group of people in this world who have powers that ordinary people can't imagine, and can live forever.

The patriarchs and elders of the Li family dreamed of turning their own family into the high-ranking Cultivation Clan, just like the few notorious families in Yu Kingdom. There were rumors that they were the secular branches of the Cultivation Clan. Not to fight or to grab, but once their families speak out on a certain matter, His Majesty the Emperor of Yu Kingdom must carefully consider their suggestions. If the matter does not affect too much, then most of them will agree.

In such a comparison, the Li family of Qingyuan in the country of Yu is too ridiculous.

But if you want to practice, the first step is to have spiritual roots. This is also the most important step. Every few years, the Li family will invite monks from the Zhengyang Sect's hall in the city to help test the spiritual roots of the children in the family. , and in recent years, the Li family invited immortals from the concept of longevity.

Due to the high cost of asking immortal cultivators to help, the Li family in Qingyuan City had to pay a large amount of money every time, and such a big family couldn't help feeling heartbroken.

But why the Li family has spent more than [-] years and is still only a secular family, there is a big reason why the secular family's family management philosophy is strong and weak.

When monks from the Zhengyang School or the Temple of Longevity came to test their spiritual roots, what they tested were all direct descendants of the main line of the Li family, not a single branch.

If there are immortal cultivators in the branches, who will be the main one in the future?

In the final analysis, it is because of the different positions that one stands, and the attitude towards things will be obviously biased.

But there are only so many people in those direct descendants, and it is not so easy to have children with spiritual roots. However, after hundreds of years, a few disciples of the main line of the Li family who have spiritual roots have been tested.

The spiritual roots of these disciples are all middle-lower spiritual roots with three spiritual roots or even five spiritual roots. There is not even a single spiritual root. The monks stationed at the hall of Zhengyangzong in Qingyuan City are naturally not interested in recruiting.

For these children with poor spiritual root aptitude, for Zhengyang Sect or other sects, there is not much more and one less.Instead of spending a lot of effort to find qualified children in the secular world, it is better to recruit them directly in the world of cultivating immortals.

However, in order to prevent the sect from being full of family disciples or casual cultivators, the sect must absorb fresh blood from the secular world, so the high-level monks of the sect are more happy with children with upper-level aptitude in the secular world.

The Li family has a lot of power in the secular world, but in the world of cultivating immortals, they are blind. These Li family disciples can only make their way on their own.But these people were really unlucky, and they had a big fall in the cultivation of immortals, and they didn't even establish a Qi training family.Zhang Shiping didn't know about these things, and he didn't inquire about them.After he entered the city, there was a lot of traffic on the street, one store after another, Zhang Shiping closed his eyes, feeling the aura of the car and horse in front of him.

With a smile on the corner of Zhang Shiping's mouth, he looked to the east of the city, and he found that the cloud of spiritual energy was just to the east.

On Lianfang Street in the east of Qingyuan City, Zhang Shiping had just walked down the Lianfangfang gate of the Li family. It was written on the Li family's 200 years since the Li family started their careers in Yu State that they had eight Jinshi and 23 Juren.

Li Laoshangshu begged for bones a few years ago and wanted to go home for the elderly. His Majesty the 23-year-old emperor of Yu State returned the old Shangshu's papers three times in a row. It was not until the fourth time that the young Emperor Yu reluctantly accepted According to the old Shangshu's request.

Now that the Li family is in the imperial court of Yu State, there are quite a few disciples of that old Shangshu.And Lao Shangshu's eldest son is already a member of the Ministry of Rites, Wailang, and his third son is the governor of Yongen County, which can be said to be endless.

Zhang Shiping didn't go in directly from Lianfang Street. For such a high-profile family, even officials who pass by the archway have to get off the bridge to show respect. In front of Li's house, after all, the two big lions at the door are very fierce.

Li's mansion is very big, Zhang Shiping turned his head and circled around half a circle, seeing that there was no one around, he performed the invisibility and feathering techniques, and then he jumped into the mansion.

Zhang Shiping looked left and right, there was a rockery in front of where he was, and there was a pool with a water viewing pavilion in the middle of the pool.

There was a little girl in blue clothes in the pavilion, lying on the railing, throwing fish food into the water with her hands, laughing and laughing, and the maidservants next to her watched her third lady very carefully.

In the corridor, a maid came over with a plate, on which was a black medicinal soup in a blue and white emerald jade bowl, "Miss San, it's time to take your medicine."

"Xiao Lian, can you stop drinking?" The third lady frowned, pinched her nose, and took the medicine bowl. She seemed to have taken it many times, drank the medicine soup in one gulp, and then retched a few times .

Another maidservant immediately brought a bowl of warm water for the young lady to rinse her mouth.

Xiao Lian, the maidservant in Dai Qing who was carrying the medicinal soup, took a few steps back, took away the wooden tray, and walked towards the kitchen.Zhang Shiping saw it, and followed him up. The Li Mansion covers an area not smaller than the Temple of Longevity, and there are many various courtyards inside. People who don't know the layout will never know the way when they first come in.

After that Xiaolian put down the wooden medicine bowl in the kitchen and went out, Zhang Shiping let go of his consciousness, and when there was no one around, he flashed away, and the little Lian fell into a coma. Zhang Shiping picked a room without It was only after entering the room of a human being that the ten-year-old maid was awakened.

This Xiao Lian opened her eyes in a daze, and what she saw was a strange face. She just wanted to call someone, when she met Zhang Shiping's eyes. Lian was stunned, as if pulling her soul in, she gradually became dull.

The hands that were originally stretched out to push Zhang Shiping away, also weakened weakly at this time, the eyes of the whole person were closed, and the breathing became very gentle.

Zhang Shiping was chanting the formula, the five fingers of his right hand gathered the spirit energy, and circulated the mana in the dantian. He pressed his palm on the maidservant's head, which looked similar to the soul search technique.

This is an extremely gentle hypnotism. For mortals, Zhang Shiping has no hobby of taking people's lives for no reason.

When the Zhang family taught them, the biggest difference between cultivators and mortals is that cultivators possess great power.The first thing a monk needs to do is to be able to control himself, control his own strength, and not lose himself.

But half a quarter of an hour later, Zhang Shiping wiped the sweat from his forehead, and left with a bad complexion. Before leaving, he tapped the maidservant's brow lightly, inputting a bit of mana.

After half a cup of tea, the maid slowly woke up, touched her sore neck, her eyes showed some doubts, she couldn't remember anything about why she fell asleep in this room, but her expression With a sudden change, thinking about what else he hadn't done, he hurriedly opened the door and left.

Chapter 76 Two Appearances

After Xiao Lian, the third lady's maidservant who brought medicine, was hypnotized by Zhang Shiping, although Zhang Shiping didn't know directly from her where the monk in the Ge color dress was in the Li residence.

Because Zhang Shiping only described the man's appearance and clothes to the maid. The maid Xiao Lian didn't know the man, but according to the description of the man's clothes, Zhang Shiping learned from the maid that the man should be from the Li family. one of the stewards.

This answer made Zhang Shiping unbelievable, because how could a cultivator of the sixth level of qi training be just a steward in a mortal family like the Li Mansion? It's just a disguise.

Zhang Shiping wanted to ask who that person was and where would he be?Since Xiao Lian is just a maidservant, she doesn't know about these things.

After all, the Li Mansion is so big, there are several stewards alone, there are stewards from the inner court, stewards from the outer court, and more than a dozen stewards, big and small, scattered in the shops of the farm. Lian, it's normal to be unclear.

However, Zhang Shiping learned from Xiao Lian that there was something about immortal cultivators in Li's mansion. A high-rise building is called the Star Observation Building.

Mrs. Li often burns incense and meditates on the top floor of this building.Because the third lady served by Xiaolian is very loved by Mrs. Li, so this Xiaolian has followed the third lady to the Immortal Court many times.

As soon as I mentioned this, Xiao Lian, who was still in a hypnotic state, had a smile on her face. She was very happy that her young lady was loved so much. Zhang Shiping did not deny it. Every family has many loyal servants like this .

Of the more than [-] young masters and young ladies of the younger generation in Li's mansion, only the third young lady and the seventh young master can enter and leave the Banished Immortal Court at will. .

A family like the Li Mansion, which has been passed down for hundreds of years, attaches as much importance to human relations and etiquette as the royal family of the Yu Kingdom. The most talented children of the concubine are only in charge of a business of the family. Just give them a few taels of silver, there is a taste of letting them fend for themselves.Of course, living with a few taels of silver every month is much better than ordinary ordinary people.

And the most important thing is that the various connections and family secrets that have been handed down by the Li family for hundreds of years will never be handed over to children who have no systematic education in the family, unless the family really has no successors.

For a family like the Li family, one or two prodigal sons are not afraid, but the fear is that the family will be controlled by some people who think they are very capable, and the family will be brought into the abyss. In fact, this kind of ambition and strength, but lost in the In the current situation, there are family patriarchs who can't recognize themselves clearly, people who think that everything is under control, and there are people in every dynasty and every generation.

After Zhang Shiping left the maid Xiaolian, in order not to let the people in the mansion find him, he walked through the yard carefully for two cups of tea.

He was standing outside a courtyard, and from a distance, he could see a six-story square building in the courtyard, which should be the Star Observation Tower that Xiaolian mentioned.Zhang Shiping was outside the courtyard, reciting a few formulas lightly, spreading out his spiritual consciousness more subtly, and the spiritual consciousness invaded the courtyard layer by layer like water waves.

The scope of spiritual investigation in the foundation building period is much stronger than that in the qi training period. When it is fully deployed, according to Zhang Shiping's spiritual consciousness, it is a full seven or eight miles, enough for him to search the entire Li Mansion.

But this kind of method is simple and rude, and it is naturally not as good as Zhang Shiping who consciously manipulates his own consciousness, with delicate and more subtle techniques.He didn't come here to demonstrate and kill, so there's no need to do this.

After a while, Zhang Shiping withdrew his consciousness and walked to the gate of the courtyard with confidence. There was a porter at the gate, and no other young men were standing guard.This courtyard is already in the mansion, and people from Li's mansion come and go, and it doesn't need to be strictly guarded like an ordinary military camp.

The plaque on the gate of this courtyard is written with the words "Xianxian Tower", which is free and easy, and really has a sense of immortality and independence. Zhang Shiping saw it and appreciated a few words. The person who writes calligraphy must be a master of calligraphy, and Zhang Shiping is ashamed of himself.

But Zhang Shiping just said a few words with emotion, he came here to do business.

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Observatory.

The monk Ge Yi whom Zhang Shiping met in the early morning was sitting on the futon on the sixth floor of the Star Observation Tower.

On the floor of the room is a picture of the Eight Diagrams of Innateness. In the picture, there is an exquisitely carved beast-head alchemy stove. Next to the alchemy stove are two apricot-yellow futons. One of them is the monk in Geyi, and the other is Sitting cross-legged on the futon was an old man with long white beard who was wearing a blue robe, with a bun on his head, and a white whisk placed across the palms of his hands.

Looking at it with the naked eye, this old man in a blue robe looks like a noble and clean monk, while the image of the other monk in Ge Yi has fallen by more than a few points.

This old man is the old Shangshu of the Li family who returned home, that is, the old man of the Li family. Since the old man Li came back, he has been addicted to cultivating immortals and alchemy.

A moment after the sixth-level qi-training monk Ge Yi sat down, Mrs. Li opened his closed eyes slightly, and said in an ethereal tone, "Friend Mo, have you settled the matter of longevity?"

This appearance is not at all as humble as the feminine man he entertained on the flower boat.

The monk Ge Yi bent slightly and said: "Li Daoyou, everything has been settled."

"Thank you Mo Daoist for your hard work." Old Master Li said to Mo Gu, his tone changed from ethereal to considerate.

Mrs. Li was smart since he was a child. He passed the imperial examinations all the way, won the Jinshi, won the second place, entered the court as an official, and finally became the Minister of the State of Yu for more than ten years. During his decades of ups and downs in his official career, he can do anything. Be calm.

But he, who has no spiritual roots, is the only one who is worried about the matter of cultivating immortals.Now that he is old and has a short lifespan, he is even more afraid of death, so he wants to practice immortality and alchemy in order to live longer.

In order to live longer, he even did not hesitate to exchange virgin boys and girls and that feminine man for pills.The monk's elixir did have some effect. After Mrs. Li took it, he felt much younger, so he became more dependent on the elixir.

As for where those boys and girls went, Mrs. Li has lived for decades, and his heart is like a mirror, where he doesn't understand, it's just that he is rarely confused.

Originally, Mo Gu, a monk in Ge Yi, had been persuading Mrs. Li in the past few years, and Mrs. Li couldn't bear it, but after seeing the extraordinary effect of the elixir of that feminine man, he still wondered if Mo Gu wanted to Cut off his path of eternal vision.

How can a commoner in Guizhou be able to cultivate immortality and live forever, while a dignitary like him can only be a mortal. God is really unfair. Thinking about it this way, Mrs. Li felt even more unbalanced.

It's just that in order to let Mo Gu do things for him, Mrs. Li didn't speak out, and hid it very well.

But Mo Gu is a cultivator after all, his spiritual sense is much sharper than that of ordinary people, he also understands somewhat in his heart, but Mrs. Li has kindness to himself, and he can only persuade him with good words. As for whether to listen or not, that is It's his business.

A few years ago, he would still say a few words, but now he doesn't want to say any more. Youdao is a goddamn ghost who can't persuade you with good words.The elixir in that feminine man's hand can indeed make people strong, but the erysipelas in this elixir cannot be resolved by the appearance of a mere mortal, Mrs. Li, who learns to meditate.

Thinking of this, Mo Gu got up, bid farewell to Mrs. Li, and slowly went down the Star Observation Tower.

Chapter 77 Mo Gu

Downstairs of the Star Observation Tower stood four handsome young men in their teens, standing in the four corners of the Star Observation Tower. They were all dressed up like Taoist boys. They were specially selected by Mrs. Li as his accompanying boy for Taoism.

These people are all orphans without father and mother. Mrs. Li bestowed the surname "Li" on these four people, and named them Li Feng, Li Jie, Li Song and Li Jing respectively, which means "reciting scriptures according to commandments".

Whenever Mrs. Li was meditating on the top floor of the Observatory of Stars and comprehended the principles of heaven and earth, these boys would protect the Dharma for him downstairs, staying close at hand.

Whenever Mrs. Zhang wanted to practice enlightenment, he would fast and bathe for the first three days. Mrs. Li and these boys only drank rootless water, and did not eat meat or drink. Old people have a more stable temperament and can withstand long-term exposure. lonely.

When Mrs. Li was meditating on the star tower, the four boys who would "recite scriptures" would defend Mrs. Li downstairs. Mo Gu, a cultivator of immortality, just smiled and shook his head when Mrs. Li was so particular about formality. Shake your head.

But these ten-year-old boys are originally active, and standing still for a long time is really a kind of torture.But they didn't dare to move around at will. Mrs. Li attaches great importance to cultivating Taoism.

In addition, there are some old servants who come and go, maybe someone is watching, if there is something wrong with the four of them, someone will talk about it, and then it will be heard by Mrs. Li, so they are eating and drinking like this now. The days of sorrow are over.

They have experienced not enough food and clothing, but they don't want to go back to the previous life.

Zhang Shiping walked slowly towards the Star Observation Tower, and the boys standing on both sides saw a stranger with a free and easy temperament, who looked like a noble son, coming over, thinking that he was a son of a family from somewhere.

Although they didn't know each other, they didn't dare to be rude. Li Feng, who was older, came over, "Young master, please stop. The old man is in meditation, so it's inconvenient to see guests."

Zhang Shiping's consciousness swept over him, and there were four people dressed as boys next to him, and there were twelve servants and servants all over the yard. These people didn't have any magic power, they were completely mortal.

There were several people on the top of the building, one of them was old and weak, under Zhang Shiping's consciousness, this person's body was like a lamp whose wick was about to be burnt to ashes, and the little light of life was like a candle in the wind.

And the other man with mana in his body was the sixth-level Qi-training monk he had pursued all the way from the Longevity Temple.

There are also a few people scattered all over the floor, with a long breath.

Seeing that Zhang Shiping was not talking and also standing still, Li Feng repeated the words softly. Zhang Shiping didn't entangle with the little boy too much.

The boy's eyes were immediately dull, and he was not in the least bit of energy.This kind of small method of using spiritual consciousness can only be used on mortals who don't have any mana.

For people who have mana or wear some magic tools such as amulets, it basically has no effect.Of course, if Zhang Shiping is a Jindan or Nascent Soul cultivator, then his spiritual consciousness can easily break through the sea of ​​consciousness of a monk in the qi training stage or the foundation building stage.

Zhang Shiping said a few words softly, Li Feng walked back to the original position like a puppet, Zhang Shiping stepped up the stairs step by step, when he reached the corner of the fourth floor, he happened to meet Mo Gu who had just come down, he grinned: