Chapter 651: Baili Pu
The forbidden formation of Linyuan City has a deterrent radius of more than two thousand miles. Generally speaking, the deterrent power opened by the forbidden formation is mainly aimed at demon beasts, and this deterrent power cannot form real damage, but suppresses the blood and spirit of demon beasts, so that their actions, reactions, and even thinking and minds will be affected to varying degrees.
Although Terran monks are also affected by it, and it is mainly reflected in the divine sense, this influence is almost negligible compared to monsters or barbarians. Unless there are extremely special circumstances, such as a city being attacked by a Terran monk, it will trigger a deterrent interference against the Terran monk. Throughout the history of the Wu Dynasty for tens of thousands of years, this situation has only happened a few times in the early days of the Wu Dynasty, and with the submission of the six major sects one after another, in the past seven or eight thousand years, the Wu Dynasty city has hardly activated the deterrence and prohibition against the Terran monks.
Although the Terran monks were almost not affected by the deterrence of the forbidden city protection, the rules of Linyuan City could not be broken. Unlike Cangshan County, where you can fly ten miles out of the city, the rules of Linyuan City are stricter, if there is no special talisman for Linyuan City defense, ordinary monks need to go out of a hundred miles before they can fly.
The reason why such a rule was made was because Linyuan City was so big, and there was an endless stream of monks entering and leaving the city every day. Even with such a rule, the mid-air near the castle was filled with the sound of the monk's sword flying by the ear. All of these people held the sword talismans issued by the city defense, some of them were post bearers who transported urgent mail from and from the official family, and a large number of them were the sons and daughters of the powerful people in the city.
As for those ordinary monks who have no roots, even if you are a master in the late stage of foundation building, you can only follow the flow of rules and regulations.
A hundred miles away from Linyuan City, the flat and wide road gradually raised dust, and it became much more bumpy and difficult to walk. On the side of the road more than ten miles ahead, there is a belt of fluttering banners and wine shops.
Sending you a thousand miles, there will always be a farewell, no matter how good a friend is, it will not really send a thousand miles, but for the Linyuan monks, there are friends from afar, and when they leave, they are sent out of the city gate a hundred miles away to come here, which is the time of the precious parting.
This wine shop and restaurant is where many merchants see the business opportunities and have opened branches here, turning to the monks to send off and drink. Even top restaurants such as Juxiangzhai and Zuixianting have branches here.
Behind this restaurant and restaurant, there is also a large number of shops that can provide accommodation. These shops were not afraid that the monks would drink too much and stay overnight, but to provide a place for those caravans to go out of the city to repair.
In the caravan, all cultivators were mixed, except for a few who served as guards, or even a dozen foundation building masters, most of the monks were in the Qi refining period. And the number of all the monks combined, that is, a quarter of the entire caravan, and the rest of the majority were unopened barbarians mixed with mortals.
The daily march of the caravan basically fell on the shoulders of mortals and barbarians, such as driving carts and moving goods, lighting fires to rebel, setting up tents to feed cattle, such heavy tasks that the monks would not do. They would rather take slower mortals with them than carry their own goods.
As the old saying goes in caravanserans, a successful caravan is not about how fast they can go, but how far they can go. Barbarians and mortals were responsible for transporting goods and daily work, and monks ensured the safety of the caravan, and the two worked together to ensure that the caravan traveled thousands of miles.
Many caravans carrying goods out of Linyuan City leave the city early in the morning, and when it is almost dusk, they will choose to stay here for one night to make one last repair, and the leader of the team will take this opportunity to thoroughly examine the entire procession.
For the wine shops and restaurants on both sides of the road, noon is the busiest time, and the monks are quick to go out of the city in the morning, and they will be delivered to the place in half a day. The friendship is general, everyone finds a restaurant, eats a casual meal, says some clichés about reuniting in ten years, and then leaves. As for those who have deep friendships, when they think of this, they may be closed for decades, and it is difficult to say whether they can see each other again in this life. This meal is possible from noon to night, or even until midnight.
And for those who receive merchants, the daily evening time is the busiest time of the day. Those foundation building masters in the caravan will often wait until tomorrow morning to return, and even if they return early, they will all go to the high-end restaurants in the front row to eat.
Qi refining cultivators don't have that much style, most of them set off with the caravan early in the morning, according to the abundance of spirit stones in each animal's skin bag, there are also people who go to the front to eat, but most of the qi refining cultivators still let the store where they live prepare meals. Although the dishes here are not as delicate as the big restaurants of Juxiangzhai, they are better in quantity and affordable, and the wine provided by the store has both high-priced Yuehua wine and an ordinary spirit wine with a gold leaf, although the reputation is not as good as Yuehua condensation, but the spirit wine produced in various places also has a unique flavor in various places.
However, the Qi refining cultivators' meals were generally called to their respective houses to eat, and some monks simply did not eat them, or ate some spiritual fruits, so they went directly to meditate. In terms of the urgency of cultivation, Qi refining monks are much more "diligent" than Zhuji monks, after all, the longevity is limited, even if the young man opens his pulse, it is only a hundred years of time, once he is stumbling, he is just a birthday star who lives a few years longer than ordinary people.
The mortals in the caravan gathered together in groups to eat at the big table in the front hall of the store, or the big boss in the caravan to treat, or the night before the gambling money won the treat, in short, everyone gathered together at a table, not only lively, but also everyone ate a lot of dishes.
As for the most disadvantaged barbarians, there is no place for them in the front hall at all, so they can only fetch a pot of rice directly from the back kitchen and squat in the corner of the courtyard to eat.
The rules of the restaurant are also to follow the qi refining monks in each house first, and then take care of the mortals at the big table in the front hall, and finally what is left in the kitchen, burn it indiscriminately, or simply pour the leftovers of the monks and mortals into a large vat and drag them to the backyard for the barbarians to eat.
"Bailipu" is an inn specializing in caravan business, the location is relatively partial, in the outermost area of one hundred and twenty miles outside Linyuan City, unless it is a regular customer who turns back, most of the caravans have not come here and have been "cut off" by others.
However, the "Bailipu", which has been deserted for more than half a month, has been busy since noon today, and finally looks forward to the old patron, a small caravan going to the imperial city. Although the brigade had not yet arrived, the messenger had already arrived early and informed the store to prepare meals and clean up the house.
In such a remote location as "Bailipu", the main customer can only be this kind of small caravan going inland. From Linyuan City to the Imperial City, although you also have to pass through many barren mountains and dangerous places, compared to the boundless wild grasslands, it is simply not too safe. If you can encounter a few red-eyed pigs along the way, it is already a relatively big danger. In fact, for this kind of small caravan in the inner area, the demon beasts are not enough to worry about, and the really terrible ones who are robbing houses and houses are scattered and scattered.
At dusk, the caravan arrived as promised. The shopkeeper of Baili Shop, surnamed Baili, but the guests were troublesome, so they all called him the white shopkeeper, and the white shopkeeper was also easy-going, so he simply changed the surname Bai, saving a lot of trouble.