215 The Land of Cold Suffering
A few days later, Su Chen's imperial sword caught up with Ji Yuanzheng, Zhuang Bufan, and other four Penglai Immortal Sect foundation building monks who were rushing to the north.
Ji Yuanzheng looked at Su Chen with a heavy look, and seemed to have some worries, and couldn't help but say, "Senior Brother Su, this is going to the mortal world to visit the old people?"
"I went to the mortal world and looked at it. ”
Su Chen nodded slightly.
"Now that you have become an immortal cultivator, don't worry too much about mortal dust. Years have passed in a blink of an eye, but the mundane world has been turned upside down. Even immortals are powerless to change this worldly torrent. ”
Ji Yuanzheng shook his head lightly and persuaded.
Su Chen also felt deeply about this, thirteen years ago, he helped Zhao Taishou extinguish the rebellion of the Giant Whale Gang in Wu County, but he only calmed down for a few years. But just thirteen years later, an even greater disaster befell Wu County. The chaos that should have come has come after all, but in a different way.
"Senior Brother Ji seems to know a lot about the mortal world?"
Su Chen was a little strange.
"I am a monk from Chaoge Immortal City, a descendant of the Ji family. However, there was some chaos in the family in the early years, so when he was young, he was sent to the mortal world to avoid trouble, and he stayed in the mortal world for more than ten years and saw a lot of mortal affairs.
When I first stepped into the cultivation of immortals, I used to remember the old people like you... It's just that just twenty or thirty years later, there will be vicissitudes of life, everything is a matter of right and wrong, and the past can only remain in memory. ”
Ji Yuanzheng said indifferently.
Only then did Su Chen understand, no wonder he always felt that this Senior Brother Ji was not much like a disciple of the family in Chaoge Immortal City, and he had a feeling of being trained for a long time.
Immortal cultivators who have grown up in the mortal world and cultivated all the way have overcome obstacles along the way, and they don't know how many difficulties they have survived, and they are well versed in low-key ways. With Zhuang Bufan, a disciple of the Zhuang family, as well as Ge Yun and Sun Ruoxiang, two immortal cultivators born in Penglai Immortal Sect, the difference in temperament is still obvious.
Sun Ruoxiang has been cultivating in Penglai Immortal Sect since she was a child, and this is the first time she has gone out of the mountain gate, and she is quite curious about the mortal world. She couldn't care about the strangeness between her and Su Chen, and hurriedly asked, "Senior Brother Su went to the mortal world this time, can you see anything interesting?"
She had asked Ge Yun and Zhuang Bufan before, but they had never been in the mortal world, they were only familiar with Chaoge Immortal City and Penglai Immortal Sect, and they knew very little about mortal affairs, and they couldn't say it.
She asked Ji Yuanzheng, but Senior Brother Ji didn't want to say more, so he had to come and ask Su Chen.
"There's nothing fun in the mortal world. I went there and saw only a large area of drought and countless displaced people. ... Maybe a prosperous place like Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty is more lively. ”
Su Chen sighed.
"Drought?"
Sun Ruoxiang's eyes widened in surprise, "I've seen in books that the drought in the mortal world seems to be a long time without rain. But I've never seen it with my own eyes, and I don't know what the drought looks like. But isn't there water in the river, why don't they go and get water?"
Penglai Immortal Sect has sufficient aura, and it has been smooth for thousands of years, and there is no such thing as drought at all. Even if there was no rain for a long time, the water cultivator could naturally cast a spiritual spell to rain, and it would not affect the growth of the spirit plant in the spirit valley.
Sun Ruoxiang has never been out of the mountain gate since she was a child, and her ears and eyes are only the prosperous scene of Penglai Immortal Sect, and she has never experienced all kinds of natural disasters in the mortal world.
Immortal cultivators seize heaven and earth to create, and naturally there will be no many sufferings of the people.
Immortal cultivators' impressions of natural disasters are only the catastrophe of the Jindan monk and the occasional spiritual mine crisis incident. Only when the spirit ore veins are exhausted and the supply of spirit stones is lacking, it will be a big crisis for the major sects in the immortal cultivation world.
The catastrophe of robbery in the immortal cultivation realm that is even greater than this is estimated to have only been encountered once in thousands of years. Most foundation building monks will never encounter it in their lifetime.
"There is still a little water left in the river, only enough for people and livestock.... ”
Su Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly.
This is a long story, but without excellent irrigation facilities, even if there is some water in the river, the water level is so low that it is difficult to irrigate the countless arid fields by hand.
"By the way, haven't you encountered a lot of outcasts? As the immortal envoys of the Penglai Immortal Sect, we want to suppress the rebellion in Middle-earth. Senior Brother Su, did you kill all those homeless people?"
Sun Ruoxiang was very curious, and asked excitedly.
"The homeless people are just a group of hungry people, what are you going to do with them? ”
Su Chen didn't have a good airway.
"Shouldn't we be killed when the exiles often rebel? aren't we, the immortal envoys, going to inspect his rivers and mountains for the emperor of the mortal world and quell the rebellion!"
Sun Ruoxiang couldn't help but be surprised.
"The Tang Li clan has its own atmospheric luck, which is more related to the luck of the Middle-earth people. The five great immortal sects of Shenzhou, including the immortal envoys of our Penglai Immortal Sect, are just patrolling the world on the orders of the upper realm to prevent demons from usurping the country. We are the immortal envoys, only eliminate demons and evils, and do not interfere in mortal affairs. The instructions of the upper realm are not to be discussed at will!"
Ji Yuanzheng lightly raised his finger and pointed to it.
Sun Ruoxiang looked up at the sky and shut up with interest.
Penglai Immortal Sect is a great sect of the ages, and it is one of the top immortal cultivation forces in Shenzhou Middle Earth, but this is not the end of the road to immortal cultivation.
Many immortal cultivators know that in the legend, above the Penglai Immortal Sect, there is a more mysterious upper realm. It's just that these disciples in the foundation building period can't reach it, maybe they only know a little bit about the level of the Yuanying Ancestor.
Ge Yun smiled and said, "Senior Sister Ruoxiang, since you are so curious, it is better to wait for this trip to Qingwu Immortal City to end, and I will accompany you to Chang'an, the largest city in the mortal world, to see the excitement and visit the legendary ten miles of lanterns on Chang'an Street." It is estimated that all kinds of things in the mortal world are also quite interesting. ”
"Okay!"
Sun Ruoxiang nodded excitedly.
...
"It's almost there!"
The five foundation building monks of Penglai Immortal Sect had been slightly delayed for a few days before, but after the five of them gathered, they accelerated to the north and flew for nearly half a month.
The land is depressed, and the climate is getting colder.
This is already a place close to the north, bitterly cold and desolate.
There is very little green shade on the land, and it is full of desolate rocky mountains, and the rolling hills are rolling across the land, and the color is gray.
Mortal people are rarely able to live in this bitter cold land, and most of them are poor.
Immortal cultivators are naturally quite rare.
However, there are quite a few kinds of spirit mines here, which have attracted some low-level Qi refining period monks to settle in this bitter cold and desolate place, mining and earning spirit stones for a living.
If you are lucky enough to dig out a spirit stone vein, it is even more developed, and it is simply digging money from the ground.
Qingwu Immortal City is an immortal city that has risen because of ore. There is not much aura here, and there is no spiritual field, only mining, which is the only main business.
Qingwu Immortal City is completely different from Chaoge Immortal City.
This is not so much an immortal city, but a border town, because of the barren property, the monk population is significantly smaller, and only thousands of Qi refining stage monks live together.
Qingwu Immortal City is a gathering place for some immortal cultivation families and many scattered cultivators, and it does not belong to any immortal sect. However, because it is closest to Penglai Immortal Sect, most of the ore is sold to Penglai Immortal Sect, so it accepts the protection of Penglai Immortal Sect. Once in trouble, he will ask Penglai Immortal Sect for help.
Recently, Qingwu Immortal City didn't know why, some Qi refining period monks who were mining suddenly died in the mine, Qingwu Immortal City couldn't find out what the reason was, and the people were panicked, so they hurriedly asked Penglai Immortal Sect to send foundation building monks to investigate the situation.
Ge Yun and Sun Ruoxiang didn't care too much about this, but a few Qi Refining Stage cultivators died, and it wasn't a big deal.
...
Ji Yuanzheng, Su Chen, Zhuang Bufan and other five people, the sword flew to the sky above the Qingwu Immortal City.
There are many cliffs here, and a green black castle is built against the mountain, all of which are strong fortresses made of blue rock. There are no buildings on the surface of the fairy city, all of them are opening up the inside of the cliff and digging a large cave for the residence of the fairy city.
The cold wind was howling, and the foundation building monks in the sky also felt a little cold.
Sun Ruoxiang, Ge Yun and the others were greatly disappointed when they saw the gray and barren appearance of Qingwu Immortal City. Originally, I thought I could have a play, but it didn't seem to work.
Five people fell outside the city.
Ji Yuanzheng took out a golden transmission note and shot it towards the Qingwu Immortal City.
Not long after, I saw a gray-robed old man in the foundation building realm leading many Qi refining stage cultivators of Qingwu City out of the city gate, and hurriedly greeted them.
"This city lord, how can he be a foundation building monk?"
Zhuang Bufan was very surprised when he saw it.
Monks can worship in any Immortal Sect, large or small, become an official disciple, and enjoy various benefits. Even if it was a big city like Chaoge Immortal City, the city lord was just a Qi refining cultivator.
Qingwu Immortal City is a small immortal city, but there is a city lord in the realm of the foundation building period.
Ji Yuanzheng nodded slightly, "This city lord is a monk of a local big family, and he spent a huge price in his early years, and he was lucky enough to get a Zhuji Dan and cultivate to the foundation building realm. But he didn't go to the Five Great Immortal Sects, but stayed in this Qingwu Immortal City. ”
Before he came, he had obtained a lot of information about Qingwu Immortal City from Deacon Zhou. However, a lot of information is delayed, and you have to go into the Qingwu Immortal City to check it out in person before you can come to a conclusion.
Zhuang Bufan was still puzzled, "The Zhuji Dan can only be refined by a Jindan-level alchemy master, and only by winning the official disciple quota of the Five Great Immortal Sects can they get the Zhuji Dan, how did their scattered cultivation in the outside world get the Zhuji Dan?"
I think that at the beginning, he Zhuang Bufan, Su Chen and other monks of Chaoge Immortal City were all selected by the disciples of the Five Great Immortal Sects once every ten years, and they stood out and won a reward from Zhuji Dan.
It is conceivable that it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to obtain the Zhuji Dan refined in the hands of the major immortal sects.
Ji Yuanzheng was silent and did not answer, there were some secrets of the Immortal Sect involved here, and he couldn't say it.
Su Chen understood in an instant that most of the immortal sects in this Qingwu Immortal City intervened, and they wanted to use the hands of local monks to control this Qingwu Immortal City.
The Tsukidan that the city lord of this Qingwu Immortal City obtained... Maybe it was given by Penglai Immortal Sect. Otherwise, the city lord would not have gotten close to Penglai Immortal Sect.
But since this city lord was a foundation building monk, why didn't he find out the cause of death of those Qi refining stage monks?
Su Chen was a little more vigilant in his heart, I am afraid that this trip is not so simple.
When the five of them saw a group of people from Qingwu Immortal City coming, they stopped talking.
"Jiang Zhen, the old lord of Qingwu City, welcome the five Penglai Patrol Immortal Envoys! I have been waiting for you for a long time, and you have worked hard all the way, please hurry up in the city. The gray-robed old man saw that there were five foundation building monks from the Penglai Immortal Sect, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed his hand.