Chapter 523 ; Chang'an City 200 Years Later (Three Watches)

In addition to the Jade Emperor, Sun Wukong is also a worthy target, his strength is strong enough, although he can't beat Rulai, but it is not much worse than Lai, except for Rulai, the entire Western Heaven, it is estimated that few are his opponents.

Of course, with the exception of Randen and Maitreya, who are the same generation as Rulai, these two are past Buddhas and future Buddhas, and their strength is also very strong.

And Sun Wukong's demon king brothers are also objects that can be wooed, although they are only demon kings, but there are some powerful ones, like the Bull Demon King, his strength is very strong.

Xu Fan didn't know how strong it was, because he heard it from Sun Wukong, but the specific strength was not much worse than Sun Wukong, and the two were probably between them.

But these thoughts were all overwhelmed by Xu Fan, whether it was the United Jade Emperor or Sun Wukong, the first thing Xu Fan had to do was to improve his strength.

His current strength is strong enough, even if it is not worse than Rulai, but he still needs stronger strength, at least, at his current level, his strength is at the upper level, and he has the confidence to destroy Lingshan.

Otherwise, everything is empty talk, and he has been in Huaguo Mountain for nearly two hundred years, and if he continues to stay here, Xu Fan feels that it will not help him much.

Therefore, Xu Fan planned to leave Huaguo Mountain and return to Nanzhan Buzhou, which is the Shenzhou where the Central Plains Datang is located.

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Chang'an City, from Taizong to the present, has passed more than two hundred years, Chang'an City is still the same Chang'an City, but the once prosperous Tang Dynasty, after several ups and downs, has begun to float.

Today's Datang, compared with the prosperity of the past, is more chaotic, bandits and bandits from all over the country are endless, occupying the mountain as the king, claiming the king as the hegemon, although the government has been sweeping, but sweeping away one, there will be another one soon.

And the current Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is being done by Li Yi of Tang Xizong.

He is the eighteenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he is also the earliest emperor in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time, he can be regarded as an emperor who witnessed the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yi was born in the deep palace, grew up in the hands of eunuchs, the life scene in the palace can bring him is that he can play unscrupulously, he is indeed an emperor who is keen on amusement, cockfighting, gambling geese, riding archery, sword lance, law calculation, music, Go, gambling, he is almost all good at making a living, but in terms of government and politics, he will not know it at all.

Often make some confused decisions.

Listening to the words of the eunuchs, such as levying additional taxes, forced the people to have no way to live, so that bandits were rampant everywhere, and the people were blind.

And because the previous emperors died early, he was also afraid that he would find death, so he followed the example of Emperor Gaozong, and looked for people from all walks of life to refine pills for him.

And this national teacher is also a guy who has achieved a little success in cultivation.

With the passage of heaven and earth aura, it became more and more difficult for Terran monks to cultivate.

The various sects also closed the mountain gate one after another, blocking the spiritual energy in the mountain gate with the mountain sealing array, and at the same time arranging the spirit gathering array to absorb the spiritual power between heaven and earth for their own use.

Even a big sect like Dragon and Tiger Mountain is no exception, because the flow of spiritual energy has become more and more serious, and if the mountain gate is not closed, I am afraid that even if it is an innate in the future, it will be very difficult to cultivate.

And this national teacher also knew where he got a cultivation method to suck the souls of other living beings as nourishment, and he captured all kinds of beasts for his own cultivation, and in the end, he found that among all the beasts, snakes were the most suitable for his cultivation method.

So, it was he who issued an edict asking people to help him search for snakes for him to cultivate.

Of course, you can also choose not to help him catch, but only if you can afford to pay the taxes, and if you can't, then sorry, you will be sent to the border to fill the army.

With the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Saiwai Fan State gradually had a heart of disobedience, Turpan, Turkic, and Khitan clans, all had obvious disobedience, and the Tang Dynasty also waved troops to the north three times, but it failed to do anything to them.

Because the Tang Dynasty could no longer afford to fight.

The treasury has long been empty, and the Tang Dynasty has reached the most critical moment, but unfortunately, Li Yi doesn't know these at all, except for amusement or amusement every day, the life and death of the people are completely ignored.

Instead, all the positions in the court were handed over to the eunuchs, and the eunuchs colluded with the prince, so you can imagine what the chaos has become in the world today.

Walking into Chang'an City, although there are many pedestrians on the streets, compared with the once prosperous and lively Chang'an City, it is too lonely.

On the street, a white figure was walking in the crowd, he was wearing a white robe, black hair tied behind him, handsome facial features, tall figure, and looked very handsome.

The face also has a faint smile, giving people a kind of spring vitality.

It was a world of difference from the many numb expressions around him.

"Chang'an City, sure enough, it's still in decline." Standing on the street, Xu Fan sighed helplessly.

Even if it is as prosperous as the Tang Dynasty, it cannot avoid decay.

Although he doesn't know who the current Tang Emperor is, Xu Fan can be sure that it will definitely not be Li Shimin, if it is Li Shimin, it will not be like this in the Tang Dynasty at all.

In fact, Xu Fan had long talked about Li Shimin's inability to live now, although he gave Li Shimin a bottle of pills, but could Li Shimin eat all the pills? .

No, unless he eats it all at once, but the pill must be taken every once in a while, which makes Li Shimin unable to take it all at once.

And the consequence is that he can't take the pill behind, because no one wants him to take it, and as for who it is, Xu Fan doesn't bother to guess, after all, Li Shimin is dead.

Looking at the surrounding streets, although there are still a lot of vendors, Xu Fan saw a lot of beggars on the streets, you know, in the former Chang'an City, you can't see such a thing as beggars.

Moreover, when entering Chang'an City, the thin dragon qi in Chang'an City once made Xu Fan think that he was in the wrong place.

That thin dragon qi can't be compared to even the former Suzhou, and it doesn't even have one-fifth of the strength.

The kingdom is about to die, and evil will come out.

This sentence is not unreasonable, when a country is on the verge of extinction, even if it is dragon qi, it will become extremely thin, and this has become an opportunity for monsters.

From the time he entered Chang'an City to the present, although only a minute or so had passed, Xu Fan had already felt the breath of hundreds of monsters in Chang'an City.

You must know that more than two hundred years ago, when Xu Fan entered Chang'an City, he couldn't feel the breath of a monster, which shows that the Tang Dynasty has fallen to a certain point.

"Uncle, please enjoy your meal, I haven't eaten for a few days, uncle, please."

Just as Xu Fan was thinking about the past, a voice sounded in his ears.

Xu Fan looked at it when he heard the sound, and saw a young man with a dirty face and a foul smell on his body, holding a broken bowl and looking at him with a look of hope.

The young man's face was a little dirty, black and not slippery, it looked like he hadn't been washed for at least twenty or thirty days, his cheeks were sunken, the bags under his eyes came out, and there was a hint of demand in his eyes, which was the hope of life.

Xu Fan looked at his chest cavity and found that it was sunken a lot, thinking that he hadn't eaten for a long time.

Xu Fan looked at the alley behind the young man, where was it, and there were many pairs of eager eyes, looking at the place where he was, or rather, at the young man in front of him.

Most of them were six or seven years old, and the older ones looked like they were eight or nine years old.

"Please." Seeing that Xu Fan did not scold himself like others, but looked at himself and behind him, the young man suddenly felt happy on his face, and his heart was playful.

"Do you want me to reward you with food?" Xu Fan retracted his gaze and looked at the young man in front of him.

"Yes, uncle, as long as three copper plates, let me buy five steamed buns is enough, I don't want more." Juvenile Road.

"I didn't say I'd give you money."

Hearing Xu Fan's words, the young man was stunned and his face was stunned.

"I said, I'm going to give you a chance to eat, do you want it?"

"Uncle, you say?"

"You don't need to call me uncle, you can call me young master, I'm not as old as you call me."

"Yes.... Yes, young master. ”

"Those little guys over there are also with you."

"Yes, young master, we haven't eaten for a few days, if we don't eat, I'm afraid we won't be able to live."

"Eating is just a small matter, what about me now, I still have something to deal with, what about you, just wait for me here." After speaking, Xu Fan took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, almost two taels.

"This broken silver belongs to you, you can take it to buy food first, if you want to have food in the future, don't go hungry, you can continue to wait for me here tomorrow, I will come to you, of course, if you don't want to, then you don't have to wait." Xu Fan smiled slightly, and then threw the silver in his hand into the young man's bowl.

But the young man didn't look at the broken silver in the bowl, but looked at Xu Fan with a look of disbelief.

"What you said is true, young master?"

"Do you think it's necessary for me to trick you into being a little beggar?"

"Okay, let's talk about it first, I'm leaving, remember my words, you want to follow me, wait for me here tomorrow."

After speaking, Xu Fan turned around and left directly.

Leaving the young man blankly watching Xu Fan go away.

"In this world, there are still good people, and in the future, there will be no need to starve again." Looking at the broken silver in the bowl, the boy smiled sincerely.

At this moment, he was very happy.

He hadn't been happier in a long time since his parents died.

"Brother Ping, how much money did that person give you just now, I saw that he seemed to have taken out the silver for you."

"That's right, Brother Ping, I'm so hungry, if you get the money, go buy food, I'm so hungry I can't hold on." A child covered his stomach and said.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you good news, the man just said that as long as we wait here for him tomorrow, we won't have to go hungry again."

"Really?" Hearing Li Yueping's words, several children were overjoyed.

"Then there can be a fake, he told me in person, and, you remember, when you see that person, you have to call him young master, do you understand?."

"But, Brother Ping, that person can't be a bad person."

"Bad fart, just like we are so thin, even the thieves don't want us, what can people plot against us."

"Okay, it's a lot, let's go buy something and come back, don't say you're hungry, I'm hungry too."

"Brother Ping, I'll go with you."

"I'll go too."

"And me." A group of people who were still very hungry just now suddenly became energetic again when they heard that they wanted to buy food.

Subsequently, a group of little beggars followed Li Yueping to buy steamed buns and eat them.

For them, steamed bread is enough, although the silver Xu Fan gave is enough to buy other better food, but for them, steamed bread is enough, save a little, and they can eat it for a month.

(End of chapter)