After the demons dispersed, the hotel owner Jin Xiaoye had not left, and the spider demon Zhu Zhiyang was also waiting downstairs. Kong Qi and Demon Sect Cheng Tianle have important matters to discuss in private, which may be a crucial plan for the development of the demon cultivation world in the future, and the two of them are not good to go upstairs to disturb.

I don't know how long it took, Cheng Tianle went downstairs first. The second demon hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Mr. Cheng, are you done talking?" Kong Qi has always regarded himself very highly, and we are very careful when talking to him, for fear of displeasing him. Unexpectedly, he and Mr. Cheng fell in love at first sight today and chatted alone for so long. ”

Cheng Tianle smiled: "I said a lot of things, and Cheng Mou also gained a lot." …… Jin Daoyou, take the liberty of asking, it is very rare for so many fellow demon cultivators in the market to get together like you. And everyone at the table today has known each other for many years, how did you know each other? ”

Jin Xiaoye and Zhu Zhiyang glanced at each other a little embarrassed, and replied apologetically: "We demon cultivators have indeed known each other for many years, and we didn't meet by chance in the market, but there was another fate. Mr. Cheng asked about everything, but I swore that I would not mention the reason to others, so it was a little inconvenient to say. But I think Mr. Cheng will know the reason in the future, I don't know where Mr. Cheng is going to go after passing through this place? ”

Cheng Tianle replied: "I want to go to the 100,000 mountains to see." ”

Jin Xiaoye and Zhu Zhiyang were both slightly stunned, and hurriedly said: "You should walk more in the mountains and rivers of the world, this is also a testimony of practice, I wish Cheng a smooth trip!" …… Mr. Cheng came here and wanted to ask you to spend a few more days, and I would like to entertain you well, but since you have other arrangements, I dare not delay you. ”

Cheng Tianle said goodbye and left, and not long after, Kong Qi also walked downstairs with a calm face with a treasure bag. The second demon stepped forward again and greeted, "Daoist friend Kong Qi." What did you talk about with Mr. Cheng? After taking so long, why is it still the same face? ”

Kong Qi looked out of the door and seemed to say to himself: "The demon sect is a heavenly pleasure, deceiving the world and stealing fame, after all, it is a human being, not a demon!" …… Someday, he'll regret it. After speaking, he left without saying hello, leaving the two demons in place.

Jin Xiaoye and Zhu Zhiyang looked at each other, and Jin Xiaoye said: "It's a little wrong, listen to this meaning, how did Mr. Cheng offend Kong Qi?" ”

Zhu Zhiyang whispered: "Maybe it hurts your self-esteem and you haven't been taken seriously." Mr. Cheng shouldn't have praised him much. ”

Jin Xiaoye: "Looking at Kong Qi when he left, it seems that we have offended him too." ”

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It was an accident to meet Jin Xiaoye during the trip, and it was even more an accident to meet Kong Qi, Cheng Tianle didn't know that he had offended Kong Qi inexplicably, so he didn't think much about it at all. In Cheng Tianle's view. Yun Wu and Kong Qi were both people he had never met before, but the situation of the two was very different.

Continuing on, he left the city, and the village he was going to was now within the jurisdiction of this prefecture-level city, but the place was very remote. If you follow the road, you will have to pass through a county town and enter the mountains. When Cheng Tianle came, he checked all kinds of detailed maps, and when he got nearby, he checked the divine information left by Daoyang. It was found that the place is now marked on the map, and the name is "Wuling Township".

This name should be taken from Tao Yuanming's "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", which also seems to indicate that it is like a paradise unknown to the world. Cheng Tianle also didn't know that the village of 500 years ago has now become an administrative township. It was even marked so clearly on the map, and he guessed that the place he was looking for might be near Wuling Township, so he would go to the town where the township government was located to take a look.

From the map, the township is a bit far from the surrounding villages and towns. There is only one lonely road to reach. Walking on this road, Cheng Tianle found that few people usually pass by here. This is not an official highway. To be exact, it is only a mechanized road in the countryside, and the paved loess is paved with fine gravel, barely enough for two tractors to go wrong.

If you drive on such a road, if there is a car on the opposite side, the other car has to stop on the side of the road as much as possible, and half of the wheels hit the grass outside the roadbed to barely miss it. But in fact, there are almost no cars on this road, even more deserted than the road that Cheng Tianle saw on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and even the tractor rarely runs in ordinary times, but there are occasional cars here, all kinds of cars.

Cheng Tianle observed the marks left by the road with his divine sense, horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, ox carts, wheelbarrows, bicycles, motorcycles, agricultural tricycles, and automobiles had all passed here, but the most recent traces were left at least half a month ago. The road is deserted but not as inhospitable as the Tibetan Plateau, and when Cheng Tianle sets out from the nearest village, it is flanked by rolling hills, and from time to time you can see patches of fields, wild flowers blooming along the road, and there are various wild fruits in the forest.

As we drifted farther away, the hills became more undulating and steeper, turning into a raised mountain. The farmland is gone, and the eyes are full of lush mountains and forests, and you can hear the chirping of all kinds of birds, and from time to time you can detect the traces of wild animals in the forest, such as animals, insects and snakes. The road winds around the mountains, like a intestine, and the scenery you see is like a landscape painting scroll that is constantly changing.

Cheng Tianle walked on the road with a slight surprise, the climate in this area is warm and there is more precipitation, if no one takes care of it, even if there is no one to take care of it, even weeds will grow quickly in the rubble. This seemingly desolate mountain road is actually very carefully repaired, there are few weeds on the road, the gravel is paved very fine and even, and the rammed earth of the roadbed is also pure and mature soil without humus impurities. This is the ancient method of building a post road a long time ago, and under the corresponding engineering and technical conditions, the manpower and material resources invested are no less than the construction of a modern regular road.

This road may not have been built by a generation, it may have been paved over a long period of time or even hundreds of years, and it has been maintained by people for generations, and it is probably related to that demon cultivation village. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to imagine who can invest such a vast but traceless labor in such a remote mountainous area, unless it is to use supernatural mana.

The further he went, the more Cheng Tianle confirmed his judgment. Because the mountain is getting more and more dangerous, the absolute altitude of the 100,000 mountains is not high, no more than 1,500 meters, it is a zone where hills and fault folds are intertwined, and the Hengduan Mountains that Cheng Tianle just walked through not long ago are not the same, the terrain is not so dangerous and majestic.

However, the terrain of the road is becoming more and more like the Hengduan Mountains, and the absolute altitude of the surrounding mountains has reached more than 1,000 meters, and the main feature is that the drop is very large, and there are many subsidences and fault zones. Cheng Tianle saw several naturally formed sinkholes in the mountains and wilderness along the way, some of which were hundreds of meters in radius and more than 100 meters deep at the bottom.

As we continue to move deeper into the mountains, the water flow becomes more and more strange, sometimes you can hear the sound of water, but you can't see the stream, it is an underground river rushing. Gradually, more rivers emerged from the surface, and many deep ravines were cut between the mountains. The width of this road has always remained the same, but it is no longer in the valley between the two mountains, and it is often hung between the cliffs, like the plank road carved out in ancient times.

Above is a cliff, a half-hollow structure has been excavated, and below is a deep ravine of several hundred meters. Cheng Tianle also noticed that the rock formations here are very complex, ranging from hard granite to loose conglomerate, and in some places it is very prone to collapse. The road is extremely cleverly constructed, and it is the most difficult to excavate, the hardest and densest rock formations to pass through, avoiding all the loose geological areas in the mountains that are prone to collapse.

Cheng Tianle also noticed a phenomenon that Wuling Township should be connected to electricity and telephone. When you go from the nearest village, you can still see the old black wooden telephone poles on the side of the road, with wires and communication cables. But after walking for more than ten miles, the telephone poles disappeared and the lines were buried in the ground.

No matter how difficult the road was to build and how treacherous the terrain was, it was always wide and narrow, and a ditch was dug on the side of the road to bury the cables. This cable project should be newly repaired in modern times, and the investment in manpower and material resources is also huge, which may not be anything in the plains, but it is really a bit staggering here, but ordinary people will not notice it.

Cheng Tianle thought about it, if the Ten Thousand Variations Sect was also in this deep mountain, gathering the power of all the demons in the current dojo, and without anyone else, he could use his magical power to dig a ditch on the side of the road and build it, it would be possible.

How to describe the twists and turns of this road? Sometimes you can see the road on the opposite hill, but it takes more than ten miles to walk there. Along the way, you can not only see large and small sinkholes, faulted cliffs and light and dark streams, but also see a landform that can often only be seen on the plateau - flowstone beach.

Flowstone beaches are generally located above the alpine vegetation zone and below the permanent ice and snow zone, and due to various weathering, large rocks continue to crack, and rocks and gravel slide slowly along the steep slopes, forming fan-shaped clastic slopes. There are many such gravel slopes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which seem to have no grass, but in summer, under the moisture of the high mountain snowmelt, sparse and low vegetation will grow among the gravel.

However, the altitude of the 100,000 mountains is not too high, the climate is warm and humid all year round, and the roots do not reach above the snow line, so the flowstone beach is purely caused by geological reasons. It doesn't look desolate, it's full of vegetation and wildflowers, and the steep slopes are actually very unstable layers of gravel. It is impossible to build roads in such a place, and the road that Cheng Tianle took was bypassed.

Another feature of this road is that there are cables buried on the side of the road, but there is not a single street lamp along the way. Cheng Tianle walked nearly fifty miles, twisting and turning in the mountains, but he didn't even see a sign! Cheng Tianle thought about it carefully, except for seeing a sign pointing to Wuling Township at the entrance of the nearest village on the road, and then there was no more street sign.

ps: It's past the middle of the month, there are too many emotions that are hard to say, only three words - ask for a monthly pass!

And two more words - thank you!