Ding Qi thought about it, and with some hesitation, he took out Jing Wenshi and said, "Do you want to try it now?"

Zhu Shanxian: "Anyway, we won't waste time, let's take a look." If you succeed, it means that you have been able to turn your delusion. ”

Ding Qi: "Where does Senior Brother Zhu want to go?"

Zhu Shanxian: "There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, we will go to Suzhou!"

Ding Qi: "Suzhou is very big, where does Senior Brother Zhu want to go?"

Zhu Shanxian: "Shantang Street-Qili Shantang, a roll of cigarettes!"

Ding Qi was still a little hesitant: "Suzhou? Go out and turn left to Jinghu Hunan Station, the high-speed rail to Suzhou takes less than an hour." It's the weekend, so you can go whenever you want. ”

Xian Hao slapped Ding Qi's shoulder lightly: "This Suzhou is not the other Suzhou, it is the Suzhou written in the book, the Suzhou in the Kunlun realm, Senior Brother Zhu wants to find monsters...... Besides, how can it be convenient for you to use the high-speed rail, you can reach it in a blink of an eye with a spell, what else are we going to do?"

Zhu Shanxian nodded and said, "Senior Sister Xian is right, I want to go to the Demon Sect to become Tianle." ”

Ding Qi: "Then are you making a mistake? The book on the table is "iQue", I'll go back to the room and try a new copy of "Shocking Door" for you?"

Zhuang Mengzhou recommended a total of eight books to Ding Qi and others, all of which are series of works under the same world view, including ancient and modern Chinese and foreign contents. There is no story of Suzhou Shantang Street in "iQue", but in another book called "Shocking Door", the story begins in Suzhou Shantang Street.

In the first year of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi bid farewell to Hangzhou and transferred to Suzhou Assassin. When Bai Juyi arrived, he went to the Tiger Hill where King Wu was buried and saw that the local river was blocked and the waterway was not smooth, so he found craftsmen and officials to measure and design, and raised funds from merchants to dig a mountain pond river.

This river starts from the Changmen Monk Bridge in the east, reaches the Tiger Hill Wangshan Bridge in the west, the total length is more than seven miles, and a lively and prosperous Shantang Street is formed along the river, also known as the Seven Mile Street. The geographical location of Shantang River excavation is very good, not only conducive to drainage and irrigation, but also convenient waterway transportation, as soon as Shantang Street near the river appears, it has become a place where Suzhou's commercial and cultural scenery gathers, and later generations also call Shantang Street Baigong Dike.

Unlike many other tourist attractions, Shantang Street is not a relatively closed water town, but a bustling neighborhood outside the ancient city of Suzhou, with rivers and alleys extending in all directions. Shantang Street, along the north bank of the Shantang River, is the main body of the tourist area, it is not closed by walls or gates, and there is no card to charge tickets, it is a pedestrian street in the city.

In fact, the Shantang Street Scenic Area also sells tickets, with which you can visit several scenic spots that have been restored and protected by the cultural relics department along the way. If you don't buy this ticket, although you can't enter the interior of those scenic spots, it is not a big problem for the pleasure of visiting the mountain pond.

There are a total of seven stone beaver statues on the first line of Yanshantang Street since ancient times, and those seen now are all rebuilt according to historical legends in recent years, namely the Meiren civet of Shantang Bridge, the Tonggui civet of Tonggui Bridge, the Wenxing civet of Xingqiao, the Caiyun civet of Caiyun Bridge, the white male civet of Puji Bridge, the Haiyong civet of Wangshan Bridge, and the beaver of Xishan Temple Bridge.

In the books they read, there was a young man named Cheng Tianle, who had studied in Europe for several years without success, had to return to China and mixed up a diploma, was looking for a job everywhere, and was called to Suzhou by a classmate, saying that he had a promising big career and invited him to develop together, but in fact he was deceived into a pyramid scheme.

The headquarters of the pyramid scheme gang is in the alley houses near Shantang Street. Before Cheng Tianle entered the pyramid scheme, he walked on Shantang Street, and when he saw a beaver statue on the side of the road, he reached out and touched it, but it felt as if he had been struck by lightning, or electrocuted, or he might have won the jackpot. A demon cultivation technique left by the ancients was inexplicably integrated into his primordial spirit, and the spirit of the stone beaver statue was also taken away by him.

The spirit of the stone beaver statue is the embodiment of that demon cultivation method. In short, the secret cultivation method of the monster was actually introduced by Cheng Tianle. After Cheng Tianle was expelled from the pyramid scheme, he worked in a restaurant in Suzhou and practiced at the same time...... In the end, he founded a sect and became a generation of masters, and was respected as the Demon Sect, and also founded a sect called the Ten Thousand Variation Sect.

In the Kunlun realm, there have been many cultivation sects since ancient times, but the Ten Thousand Variations Sect is very special, it is specially designed to guide the cultivation of demons. The apprentices who are happy to collect all day are also monsters, originally pigs, horses, cows, sheep, etc., all of them are mixed with the appearance of people in the world, among them, of course, there are fox spirits, beautiful women and snakes.

Zhu Shanxian had just been to Suzhou in the second half of last year, when he participated in the cadre study class organized by the superiors, and on the last day of the study class, he also organized everyone to visit the local scenic spot - Tiger Hill, the first scenic spot in Wuzhong. After coming out of Tiger Hill, Zhu Shanxian did not go to the drinking party that his classmates had saved privately, but walked around Shantang Street by the way.

District Chief Zhu remembered the story of the Demon Sect Cheng Tianle at that time, and he used the Qi Prospecting Technique on Shantang Street to look around, and ran to the surrounding alleys and houses to look for it, but after all, he didn't find the monster, and he never forgot it afterwards. At this moment, he heard that Ding Qi could enter and exit the Kunlun Realm in the delusional realm, so he made this proposal.

Hearing Ding Qi's rhetorical question, Zhu Shanxian explained: "Think about it, Senior Sister Xian ordered two dishes from the Tang Dynasty in Zhiweilou, and she has already skewered from "iQue" to "Lingshan", and it is not impossible for me to string "Shocking Door" again." Since it's a delusional realm, you have to open your mind a little bit, so it's a test!

Ding Qi finally nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll try." ”

The book recommended by Zhuang Mengzhou, Ding Qi has read it many times in his spare time, and with his current cultivation, of course, it has long been condensed into the heart book, and the world described in the book is also equivalent to condensing into the heart realm. He also felt that Zhu Shanxian's words were very reasonable, the so-called Kunlun realm was a complete world, not limited to what had been described in the book.

Ding Qi took out Jing Wenshi and cast a secret method on the book on the table, and at the same time opened the "Heart Book" in his mind to a certain "page", and a portal immediately appeared in front of him, and the portal was the Shantang Street in the "Heart Book". He asked Zhu Shanxian and Xian Hao: "The test is successful, the portal has been opened, it should be Shantang Street over there, have you seen it?"

Zhu Shanxian and Xian Hao both shook their heads and said, "We can't see it, only you can see it!"

Ding Qi sighed: "It's still the old way, I'll take you in." ”

The three of them appeared together at the head of the Shengdu Bridge on Shantang Street, the time was just after the sun had set, and there were many pedestrians and tourists around, but everyone was not surprised by the sudden appearance of the three people, as if they had been here for a long time. A short walk from the front of the Sangdu Bridge is the Shantang Bridge, where the Meiren civet in the seven stone beaver statues is located.

Ding Qi also deliberately climbed over the railing to touch the head of the stone beaver statue, neither being struck by lightning nor feeling electrocuted, and of course he did not touch any demon cultivation techniques. This section of Shantang Street is a lively commercial and tourist area, along both sides of the Shantang River are quaint buildings and shops, many of which are newly renovated, and there are also many historical sites.

Walking along the bustling Shantang Street, Xian Hao suddenly asked, "Ding Qi, have you been to Shantang Street before?"

Ding Qi shook his head and said: "I only came to Suzhou for two days, and I went to visit the garden at that time, and then I thought of Tiger Hill but I didn't have time, so I didn't come to Shantang Street." ”

Zhu Shanxin quipped: "Your tone, walking in the garden is like visiting the kiln." ”

Ding Qi said: "Senior Brother Zhu thought too much, I was still a student at the time, and I was not a leading cadre, so how could I go to any kiln, just to visit the garden." ”

Xian Hao: "Who did you come with at the time?"

Ding Qi: "I came with my classmates." "The last time he came with his ex-girlfriend Jiajia, he was in graduate school and Jiajia was an undergraduate, both of them were at Jinghu University, and they can also be said to be classmates.

Xian Hao glanced at him and didn't say anything, while Zhu Shan smiled and said, "Senior Sister Xian, those are all things in the past, why are you still asking? This is Ding Qi's delusional realm, and at this moment, in the delusional realm, you are here with him." ”

Xian Hao seemed to remember something again, and asked, "Since you haven't been to Shantang Street, what is this place like, and how do you know?"

Ding Qi seemed to ask rhetorically and seemed to be talking to himself: "I have never been to the Kunlun realm before! The brain has the function of deducing and processing all kinds of information, which is the brain supplement as the saying goes. ”

Zhu Shanxian shook his head and said: "Teacher Ding, this is not a brain supplement out of thin air, I have been to Shantang Street, and this place is exactly the same as the Shantang Street I have seen." ”

Xian Hao was surprised: "It's so amazing! If it's really exactly the same as the mountain pond in reality, then I'm afraid we won't be able to find the monster, didn't you find it last time?"

Zhu Shanxian suddenly gestured and said, "Shhh, be quiet, I seem to have seen a fox spirit!"

I saw a young girl appear in the crowd in front of me, she had just come out of a shop with the guise of "meat and bone roast", still carrying a bag of packed things, twisting her waist and walking forward. The waist is really coquettish, and the figure is extremely bewitching, wearing a floral cheongsam, and the curves of the whole body look so attractive.

Interestingly, although her waist twisted so sexily, the bag in her hand was not swaying. Ding Qi and the others only saw the back, but then looked at the eyes of the passers-by who came over to them, both men and women, almost all of them were attracted by this woman.

Ding Qi whispered: "Senior Brother Zhu, how do you know that people are fox spirits, is this an adjective or a noun?"

Zhu Shan replied: "I went to the country of birds and beasts last time, and I had the experience of turning into a beast, and I got an artifact qi mirror, well, you also call it the demon realm, and my Juemen Wangqi realm has greatly improved."

In the Kingdom of Beasts, Lao Tan was incarnated as a rhinoceros, but I later saw that he was Lao Tan. Now that I'm here, the woman I see is a fox, and I feel very seductive. I didn't find the location of the Ten Thousand Variations Sect last time, but this time I followed her, maybe I could show it. ”

Xian Hao frowned and said, "Old Zhu, are you sure you are not mistaken?"

Zhu Shanxian: "Absolutely not mistaken, that is a fox spirit, you can also try it, don't look at it with the naked eye, look at it with the original spirit, don't look at her manifestation, but look at her qi ......"

Xian Hao: "I mean, it's not good to sneak around a girl's house on this street? ”

Zhu Shanxian: "Of course, it is not convenient for me and Teacher Ding to be two big men, but Senior Sister Xian, it doesn't matter to you, and you are the best at tracking, so you shouldn't be revealed by her." ”

Xian Hao: "That's not for sure, she's not an ordinary person, she's a fox spirit who only walks the way! Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to show off here......

The two of them were still arguing quietly, but Ding Qi suddenly shouted at the woman, "Zhang Xiaoxiao——!"

This voice startled both Zhu Shanxin and Xian Hao, and the woman turned her head when she heard the voice and said, "Who called me?"

Her voice is not very brittle, soft and slightly nasal but very good, inexplicably giving people a feeling that her bones are crispy. A chubby middle-aged man next to her hit her foot, and another young man almost crashed into a lamppole.

Ding Qi walked up to the front and whispered, "May I ask if it is Zhang Xiaoxiao of the Ten Thousand Variation Sect?"

Zhang Xiaoxiao blinked a pair of watery eyes and said, "It's me, may I ask if you are ......?"

Ding Qi hurriedly explained: "My name is Ding Qi, these two are my senior brother Zhu Shanxian and junior sister Xian Hao, we are both from the outside world, and we specially visited Shantang Street in Suzhou, wanting to visit the Demon Sect Cheng Tianle. ”

Zhang Xiaoxiao showed a look of surprise and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Teacher Ding Qi, you really came." Now it's not ancient times, and no one has ever called my sect master an adult, we all call him Chengzong. Mr. Cheng knows that you will come, and he will hold a banquet for you in the Ten Thousand Variations Sect tonight, and if Cheng didn't expect to meet me here, please come with me......"

The vixen's eyes were not big, but they were full of charm, and Ding Qi saw the fat man with his foot and the young man who almost hit the street lamp, if it were another occasion, he might have thought that he had met a colleague who seemed to be proficient in the most clever hypnotism in the legend, which only appeared in film and television works.

When Zhang Xiaoxiao opened her mouth to speak and blinked her eyes, Ding Qi even felt that her consciousness was in a trance, as if she would subconsciously follow the instructions of this voice. But Ding Qi didn't get hit, his cultivation had already broken through the Xingshen Realm, and in a blink of an eye, he understood what was going on, and the other party might have used some kind of means to disturb his consciousness.

When Ding Qi reported himself, this feeling disappeared, and the other party should have withdrawn the means. Sure enough, it's a fox spirit, this is the talent and magic spell mentioned in the book, and it has surpassed most hypnotists in the world.

How did Ding Qi know that her name was Zhang Xiaoxiao? There really was a fox spirit in the Ten Thousand Variation Sect, and her name was Zhang Xiaoxiao. In the books he has read, Zhang Xiaoxiao is just an inconspicuous small character, but Ding Qi remembers it very clearly, and has condensed the story into his heart.

He felt that what Zhu Shanxian and Xian Hao said was a little too abrasive, and now the tips of the woman's ears in front of him were moving slightly, and the other party should have heard their whispered conversation. If you continue to talk about it, it is estimated that it will really cause misunderstanding, Ding Qi simply shouted it directly, if he shouted it wrong, it didn't matter, and it turned out that he called the right person.

In fact, after Zhu Shanxian reminded him and Xian Hao's girl that they were a vixen, Ding Qi also saw it. Ding Qi got the secret transmission of Juemen's Qi Technique from Zhu Shanxian, and he also had his own secret method of cultivation, feeling that his breath was not like a human being, and then he closed his eyes and looked at it with a primordial spirit, as if he was looking at everything in heaven and earth in his heart, and what he saw was indeed a fox.

The fox had a beautiful red fur and a fluffy tail flicking around as its body writhed...... When he opened his eyes again, he was still the bewitching woman in front of him. This is the first time Ding Qi has seen a monster in his life, and of course, this is the experience of delusion.

Not mentioning Ding Qi's inner activities, Zhu Shanxin wondered: "Zhang Daoyou, how did you know that we would come today?"

Zhang Xiaoxiao replied: "It was Mr. Mei Yeshi, the leader of the Two Kunlun Alliances, who said that he happened to be a guest of the Ten Thousand Variations Sect today. I just came out to buy something, before going out, the chief manager of Zi Hao had an order, he told the master of the Mei League, there are three visitors from outside the party have gone to Shantang Street to visit the Wanbian Sect, and asked us to pay attention to it when we go out, and if we see the guests, we will bring them over, so you can come with me. ”

Xian Hao asked again, "How did the Mei Alliance Master know that we were coming?"

Zhang Xiaoxiao said: "How do I know this, anyway, the master of the Mei League has great powers, and it is not unusual to know what people don't know." ”

Ding Qi secretly said in his heart: "Anyway, it's a delusional realm, and it's not uncommon to have this kind of thing." ”

When he continued to walk forward with Zhang Xiaoxiao, Xian Hao seemed to walk between Ding Qi and Zhang Xiaoxiao unintentionally, separating the sight of the two of them anyway. And Zhu Shan leaned over to Zhang Xiaoxiao and asked, "Zhang Daoyou, are we going over like this?" I heard that the station of the Ten Thousand Variations Sect is far away from the other end of Shantang Street, and there are still several kilometers to go. ”

Although Zhang Xiaoxiao no longer uses the charm technique, her expression and tone are still full of charm, and she smiled coquettishly: "Of course you don't have to go over, let's take a boat, it's all ready." ”

There are cruise boats on the Shantang River that run from the Shantang Bridge to Tiger Hill, which are only available in the real world today. But on the side of Tonggui Bridge, there was a small boat parked at this moment, with two sharp and slender ends like a shuttle, and the cabin could accommodate five or six people, and Zhang Xiaoxiao led them onto the boat.

At this time, it was already dark, and large cruise ships were shuttling back and forth in the Shantang River, and the shops on both sides of the river were lined up and brightly lit. Their little boat just went from boat to boat, without oars, without a penny, without a rudder, and of course without a motive, and just drifted on its own, while the tourists in the river and on both sides of the river were not surprised, as if they had not seen it.

Taking a boat tour of the mountain pond has a unique taste, and the scenery on both sides of the strait unfolds slowly like a picture scroll. The two banks of the Shantang River are bounded by the Beijing-Shanghai Railway Bridge, which is divided into two distinct sections.

The western section is the local government, cultural protection, tourism department to restore the style of the tourist street, neatly planned shops, black tiles and white walls look brand new, but the old building on the window ridge, the wall under the boundary stone, the river bridge still reveal the traces of antiquity. The eastern section still retains the original appearance of the old alleys, in addition to restoring the landscape with important cultural relics along the way, there is no large-scale renovation, it is still a typical old Suzhou residential area, slightly messy but has another vitality.

When we arrived near Tiger Hill, it was a brightly lit and lively commercial area, but after the boat sailed past Tiger Hill, there were no pleasure boats in the Shantang River, and there were no voices on both sides of the river, and only the windows of the houses and the lights under the eaves were reflected in the water.