After everyone visited the immortal pond, the master of the sect held a banquet in the front hall of the ancestral hall to entertain the guests, accompanied by more than 30 people. Since ancient times, Jiufang Empty Island has still adopted the Nine Elders Deliberation System, which is a bit of a shadow of a primitive clan society. There are a total of nine clan elders here, and each clan elder is also assigned two deputies, most of whom also serve as leaders of various administrative villages outside.

The so-called clan elders are not necessarily very old, this is just a title, for example, Wen Jie and Long Jun are among the clan elders, but they are only thirty or forty years old. Above the clan elder is the patriarch, also known as the island owner, and now it is Zong Feixia, a ninety-six-year-old old demon. Whenever there is a major matter on the empty island, the patriarch will convene all the clan elders to discuss.

If it was a particularly important matter, the elders would gather all the clansmen in the square to discuss it. However, it is impossible for more than 10,000 clansmen to express their opinions, and it is still the dozens of clan leaders who represent everyone's wishes.

At today's reception, the important people of Jiufang Empty Island were all present. Zhu Shanxian had judged correctly before, the visitors who had been to Jinshan Courtyard were either these important people or their children, and the clansmen who were now planning to visit Jinshan Courtyard were actually these people.

Many of the dishes at the dinner are no different from the outside, but the ingredients are very fresh, they are produced locally that day, and the wine is also home-brewed. There was nothing to say that night, so an independent two-story building was arranged by the fairy pond for the two guests to rest. The owner of the island confessed, and the idlers were not allowed to disturb them, nor were they allowed to watch from a distance.

The master of the sect told Ding Qi and Xian Hao that if there was something to say hello loudly, there was a small two-story building by the immortal pond fifty meters away from them, and there were people on duty there twenty-four hours a day, and they would fly over when they heard the call. They are free from the empty island in the nine, without any restrictions, the only taboo is not to trespass into the courtyard where the master of the sect island lives and the back pavilion of the ancestral ancestral hall.

After nightfall, the lights on the nine floating islands gradually go out, and this fairyland-like outer world is peaceful and quiet. Outside the small building, there is a tall laurel tree, its leaves gently swaying in the breeze, and the sound it makes is also subtle. Xian Hao sat on the treetops, looking at the moonlight in the sky.

The laurel treetops are very thin, and under normal circumstances, people can't sit at all, but in fact, she is suspended in the air. Ding Qi walked out of the house, held the trunk of the tree and touched the branches, and also climbed the laurel tree and sat beside her. Xian Hao stretched out her hand, and a teapot and two cups flew out of the window, she grabbed the teapot and poured tea on both cups and said, "The people here grow their own self-harvested and homemade black tea, and it tastes very fragrant." ”

Ding Qi took the cup and tasted it, and said: "Although it is not impossible to bring out the things in the fairyland, it is also extremely difficult, and the products can only be used for oneself. The products or services that can really be traded with the outside world can only be provided by the Sishuiping outside, and many of the materials needed by the people here must also be transported from the outside. ”

Xian Hao: "So they can't really be isolated from the world. ”

Ding Qi smiled: "Although since ancient times, the residence of the clansmen here has been outside Sishuiping, but in the past hundred years, the clan has moved into the Fangwai world, and there has been more than one generation. Nowadays, almost all the clansmen are born in the world outside the Fang, and this is the world they are accustomed to. ”

Xian Hao waved her hand, and the teapot flew back into the room, she changed her reclining posture and said: "It feels really free, not only can fly, but also can control things in the air, every ordinary person here lives like a fairy." ”

Ding Qi also changed to a reclining position, looking like he was being supported by the branches and leaves on the treetops, and looked at Xian Hao sideways and said, "Don't fall asleep if you lie down too comfortably, otherwise you will fall." ”

Xian Hao glared at him and said, "How can you fall asleep!" Whether it is controlling the body to fly in the air, or controlling objects in the air, you need to keep your mind in a very focused state, especially controlling foreign objects at the same time in flight, it is not simple, so I deliberately tried it. ”

Ding Qi nodded: "This requires a considerable degree of concentration, noticing several items while controlling oneself, and with the help of synaesthesia, it is difficult for ordinary people to do without special training, but people here are accustomed to it." ”

Xian Hao: "This is caused by their living environment, they have received such training intentionally or unintentionally since they were young, everyone is, as long as their IQ is normal, they can learn it." ”

Ding Qi: "But the gravity here is actually not abnormal, it is the same as the outside world. ”

Xian Hao: "When I arrived at the square during the day, I saw an old man flying in the sky, flying over with a chair, controlling things while flying, and having a good time. He sat in his chair and smoked the cigarette pouch pot, and the soot was still falling down normally. The environment here doesn't naturally cause osteoporosis, but people here seem to be very thin. ”

When he was in Jinshan Courtyard, Ding Qi found that Liang Lu, Long Qingqing and others were obviously strong and weak. This is relative, not to say that these people are unhealthy. The local residents they met in Sishuiping all looked normal, but after entering Jiufangli Sky Island, they found that they were all in good health.

Thousands of people had gathered in the square to see the excitement, and at a glance, Ding Qi didn't find a fat man, which was a bit strange. The reason, of course, is not that they are not living badly and malnourished, but that they are over-consumed.

Here you can control things with your mind, and many things don't have to use your body, of course, it will lead to many people who are not diligent and weak, and they should gain weight, but this is not the case. Whether it's flying or mind control, in many cases, it also requires physical exertion.

Picking up a teapot in the air or flying up a mountain is much less physically exerting and easy to do than picking it up with your hands or walking up it. But it is also because it is too easy, and you only need to move your thoughts to do anything, so the daily activity of the local people is far more than that of normal people, but much more physical exertion than that of people outside.

Therefore, large fitness centers have been built in every village outside, so that these people should exercise well after going out, and the latest local policy guidance is also to encourage people to pay attention to exercise and strengthen their muscles.

The two lay on the treetops for a while, and Ding Qi sighed: "This place is really blessed!"

Just hanging in the air, it doesn't seem to consume any physical strength, but in fact, it is necessary to maintain a state of mental concentration all the time, and people will be very tired after a long time, and the consumption of energy is very large, and the consumption of energy is the consumption of physical strength. In this regard, the local people are naturally much more capable than the outsiders, because they have undergone continuous intensive training since childhood.

Not only are they energetic, but they are also able to maintain a state of "entry" for long periods of time with a high level of sobriety and concentration, which is difficult for most ordinary people to do.

Xian Hao: "Have you solved your doubts?"

Ding Qi: "I already have a rough understanding, I will walk around tomorrow, observe it carefully, and then find the right person to ask." ”

After breakfast the next day, Ding Qi was still wearing his own clothes, while Xian Hao changed into local clothes, and the two wanted to wander around the Nine Liberation Sky Island at will, and told the master of the sect that he didn't need to send someone to accompany him. The master of the sect said with a smile: "Please take care of everything, don't see outside." Everyone here knows you, and even if you don't know each other before, you will know who you are when you meet you. ”

Ding Qi is still walking, but the speed of his feet is very fast, and Xian Hao is beside him, sometimes walking and sometimes flying, his appearance and posture are very wonderful. The main island covers an area of several tens of square kilometers, and around the foot of the mountain is a pedestrian walkway, paved with elaborate colored bricks.

This round-the-island trail has eight forks in the road, with eight floating jade steps leading to the other eight islands. The atmosphere of life here is obviously also influenced by the outside era, and there is a billboard at the intersection, the slogan is "down-to-earth", and there is a line of small words with a dash under these four big characters, "The clan elders will proclaim!"

If this is also a township, then the main island is equivalent to the township government and the market town, and the other eight sub-islands are eight mountain villages. Scattered houses have been built on the island, each with beautiful courtyards, fields on gentle slopes near the houses, and shops and workshops in the villages.

The largest local store also has the shadow of a certain era, called "Xiandao Supply and Marketing Cooperative", which can not be regarded as state-run, it should be said that it is a public unit of Xiandao, there are sales points on each island, mainly selling various goods purchased from outside, the pattern is similar to that of modern supermarkets, there are some local specialties on the shelves, and the currency used here is RMB.

Since there are farmland and vegetable fields on the island, of course, there are also water conservancy and irrigation facilities, all of which are built according to the topography, and there are lakes and dams on the high ground, which is a semi-artificial and semi-natural reservoir. Where does the water come from in the mountains? There is also rain in the islands, and a stable climate cycle has been formed in the interior of the world.

After the revision and development of the Nine Liberation Islands, the family rules have been very perfect, and have been considered for various situations that may arise, and some of the provisions are even similar to the rules of the Qin Gaotai Heavenly Kingdom, and have been compiled into a compulsory textbook for the upper grades of primary school, which is a textbook outside the provisions of the national nine-year compulsory education syllabus.

The policy of liberalizing the islands, or clan rules, not only protects agriculture and handicrafts, but also limits their scale, because no matter how large the scale of this fairyland, the resources are also limited, and it is necessary to protect the environment.

Therefore, the scale of production of the island's farmland and workshops is based on the premise that if the door needs to be closed for a long time under special circumstances, the local production can ensure the most basic daily life of the people in the fairyland. However, under normal circumstances, no one will be satisfied with the most basic life, and everyone still prefers the convenience brought by modern civilized society.

There is no centralized power supply system in the outside world, but almost every household has installed solar panels and energy storage devices, and these products must be purchased from outside. Solar energy is mainly used to ensure the most basic lighting needs, and occasionally small electrical appliances are charged, the most important is to charge mobile phones, and large power generation equipment such as diesel generators are prohibited from being brought in.

You can also swipe your mobile phone here, but the mobile phone doesn't have any network signal, you can't make calls or get on the Internet, you can only use it as a stand-alone version of the handheld entertainment facilities, you can download things outside to watch or play inside.

Ding Qi found that many old people were also playing, and asked his children to download some new content when they went out, because they saw it from other old men and old women.

Ding Qi and Xian Hao walked through the village and were warmly welcomed by every family, and the locals were so hospitable that there were never any outside guests. People bring out the best things in the house and invite them to taste, and almost every family has to leave them to eat, serving all kinds of home-made side dishes and snacks.

The master of the sect is right, everyone knows them, even if they didn't meet yesterday, they will know who they are when they meet today. Of course, Ding Qi and Xian Hao couldn't eat at every house, so they could only politely decline, taste some snacks and praise a few words.

They also saw wineries and oil mills on the island, where the wine was made using traditional techniques, and the oil was also low-temperature wood-pressed rapeseed oil using the traditional process. The traditional low-temperature wood pressing process is actually very inefficient, if it is not handled well, there are more impurities in the oil, and the shelf life is relatively short, but the taste is very good, and the things that the locals usually eat are also fresh.

Processing wood oil is a very tiring job, but here it is different, not directly with human power to control the press, but with the idea to control these old-fashioned equipment, of course, much less labor, and do not require too high output.

The area of the eight sub-islands is about a dozen square kilometers, which is quite not small, and the nine islands together only live more than 10,000 people, in fact, it seems very empty, with a large area of natural garden-like mountains.

The residents of the island should have been instructed to only receive guests at their own homes, and did not follow the two guests around, otherwise Ding Qi and Xian Hao would have to pull up a team of thousands of people behind them. They didn't have lunch, they had eaten all kinds of snacks at each house along the way, and when they walked to the fifth island in the afternoon, Ding Qi finally found the person he was looking for.

It was in the middle of a mountain forest, and there was no one else around, and a teenage boy was bouncing down the mountain, and from time to time he looked around with a wary gaze, as if there was some secret. His jumping posture is also interesting, like a big stride gliding, running with a short flight that controls his body.

It is also impossible for people here to fly or control things with their minds all the time, which requires a high state of mental concentration, and no one can stand it. In fact, most of the time people are in a normal state, but they can save a lot of effort by carrying local habits when they are in a hurry, working and doing things unintentionally.

The young man ran down from the mountain, and happened to see Ding Qi and Xian Hao walking in the mountains and forests, so he quickly stopped, and said in a somewhat shy and curious tone: "Are you just guests from outside?"

Ding Qi smiled: "We are guests from outside. What's your name? I saw you in the square yesterday. ”

The kid did go to the square yesterday to see the excitement, and he fell to the ground and stood farther away, but Ding Qi remembered him. The boy replied, "My name is Ari, and I live at the bottom of the mountain." How the hell did you get in?"

Xian Hao: "It was the ancestor who invited us to come, and we are friends with many people here. ”

Ah Rui rubbed his hands a little excitedly and said, "That's the case, that's great!"

Ding Qi didn't ask, he took out a handful of things from his pocket and handed them to Ah Rui and said, "You just ran to the mountains to play, and you haven't had lunch yet, right? There are a lot of dim sum here, and they are the best you have here." ”

Ding Qi and Xian Hao walked around for so long, and they also grabbed some delicious and easy-to-carry snacks and carried them, and took them out at the moment and handed them to Ah Rui. Ah Ruidu took it and put it in his pocket, tasted a few bites and said, "This should be the sugar gnocchi made by Grandma Long's family, this is the fried noodles of Wuxi's family...... This one is the most delicious, I don't know who made it. ”

Ding Qi pointed to a few big stones next to him and said, "Eat slowly, can I ask you a few questions?"

Ah Rui also sat down and said, "You can ask whatever you want, but after you go out, you have to keep it secret, and you can't tell outsiders, the ancestor must have told you." ”

Xian Hao nodded and said, "Yes, the ancestor of the sect has already told us, otherwise he would not have invited us in." ”

Tintze asked, "How old are you?"

Ari: "Thirteen years old, in junior high school. ”

Tintzy: "When did you learn to fly?"

Ari blinked and said, "Three or four years old, the earliest thing I can remember was learning to fly, but at that time I was very bad at flying, and I was always shaky." ”

Dingzi: "What about the other kids?"

Ari: "They're all the same. ”

Xian Hao interjected: "Did it all start when I first remembered?"

Ari: "Yes, yes, yes, it's all from the time I can remember. Some people are late, some people are early, and the earliest thing that can almost be remembered is that they slowly learned to fly. ”

Xian Hao: "People here can fly and control things, which is enviable. Can you show us that? Can you make that rock float?"

She pointed to a small stone on the ground, and Ari smiled a little ostentatiously, "That's not easy!" As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and pointed at it, and the stone floated to a height of more than a person and hovered in the air.

Xian Hao: "You don't have to point your finger at it?"

Ah Rui put down his hand and said, "You don't need to point your fingers, but you can get used to it, and it seems to feel more relaxed." ”

Xian Hao asked again, "What if you don't have to look at it?"

Ari closed his eyes and said, "You don't have to look at it." ”

Xian Hao: "You can't see it, how do you know where it is?"

Ari: "I can control it, I can feel it." ”

Xian Hao: "Let's do a little test, can you turn around and don't open your eyes, let go of this stone, can you still feel it?"

Ah Rui did as Xian Hao said, only to see the stone slowly fall to the ground. In fact, he can directly "loosen" the stone, but the local people have been taught and developed a habit since childhood, that is, the items under control cannot be suddenly released, and must be placed in a fixed position. From this detail, we can also see how they have learned and trained this ability since childhood.

After the stone was out of Ari's control, Xian Hao said again: "Don't open your eyes and don't turn around now, can you still make that stone float?"

As she spoke, Tintzi pointed lightly, and the stone had moved silently. Ah Rui tried for a long time, and finally shook his head and said, "No, this can't work, I can't feel it and I can't control it...... I haven't done this before, and I usually see something and control it. ”