Zheng Xian heard the noise in front of him, followed the sound and looked over, and saw the leader of the city guards guarding the city gate with a meaty face was holding the long knife in his hand and slapping a middle-aged man kneeling on the ground. The noise was made by the leader of the city guard.

The middle-aged man Zheng Xian who was kneeling on the ground looked familiar, it was the guy with a happy face who said not long ago that he would invite Zheng Xian to eat loaches at home.

Zheng Xian didn't expect that the guy who was jubilant just now would become what he is now in an instant.

I saw that the back of the knife in the hand of the city guard knocked the middle-aged man fiercely, and it had already knocked his head to the blood, and the middle-aged man didn't dare to move at all, so he knelt on the ground like that, and his face was full of blood and couldn't stop kowtowing, and he was kicked over, and immediately got up one after another, and continued to kneel on the ground and kowtow, and the blood stained the ground in front of him a lot.

The people around were a little silent, but more of them were watching jokes, and there was someone next to Zheng Xian: "Isn't that Li Si, what's wrong?

"Tsk, didn't you see the bear that he was carrying two loaches just now, did you? That mouth smiled crookedly, and his ass was twisted to the sky, and Lord Zhou asked him for a loach, and that kid was so stumbling, don't you think he deserves it?"

"Li Si too, you can give him whatever that guy wants on Sunday, it's good now, he was beaten for nothing, this head was bleeding, if he went home to get seriously ill, his daughter-in-law and the child who was about to be born were guilty. ”

"It's good that this kid is dying, Li Si's daughter-in-law is so smart, if this kid dies, I will be the first to take his daughter-in-law home, even if I bring a drag oil bottle, I don't care, that figure, that look, what does it feel like to hold it in my arms in the middle of the night? I can still sleep this night?" The man who spoke showed an extremely obscene look on his face, as if he had touched Li Si's daughter-in-law and pressed Li Si's daughter-in-law under him.

"Alas, your bastard talk is when I talk about it, but go don't be Li Si's face nonsense, I am familiar with that kid, don't look at him from childhood to a good old man, but if you talk about his daughter-in-law, he can fight with you with a kitchen knife. ”

"Cut, what's the big deal? Even if he tries hard, he's no match for me. The man said with a look of disdain.

It is said that this kid cut off his thigh meat and fed it to his daughter-in-law to survive, this kid can do anything for his daughter-in-law, don't you see that he is still a little lame when he walks now? This kid is so ruthless, you still can't get along with him? It doesn't matter what happens, it's the daughter-in-law's road, I remind you not to touch it, I don't have any other abilities, I just look at people most accurately. ”

The one on the other side stopped talking at this time, looking at Li Si's thighs with a pair of eyes, Li Si really couldn't see it if he didn't look carefully when he walked, the trend was a little limping, and there were actually many guys who were ruthless to others, and they dared to be ruthless to themselves, that was the real fierce person, once this kind of person fell into a desperate situation, he could do anything.

Therefore, it is better to offend those who offend people than to offend those who look horizontal on the surface, and it is better not to offend those who seem to be quite honest, but have the potential to be ruthless.

When Zheng Xian heard this, he suddenly understood, his previous words touched Li Si's heart, Li Si's daughter-in-law had to eat his flesh to survive, which was indeed not very glorious for a man who was the head of the family.

The basic people who know Li Si around are counting Li Si's mistakes, Zheng Xian also heard the clue next to him, this Zhou Tian is a second-class person with the word land branded on his shoulder, belonging to a kind of official, in front of the fourth-class person, the official is a very terrible existence.

In this Xuantian City, the officials not only dominate the hot springs, but also dominate the order, and are in charge of life and death, so no fourth-class slave dares to go against the officials.

Zheng Xian stood in the distance and watched, the back of the long knife in Zhou Tiantong's hand kept knocking on Li Si's head, and after knocking a few times, he saw that Li Si kowtowed and begged for mercy, and his Zhou Tian's majesty was almost shaken off, so he kicked Li Si's head and kicked Li Si out of the road, and then picked up the two loaches on the ground, pouted and shouted: "Get out of your mother's eggs!"

Li Siru was amnestied, and he didn't dare to look at Zhou Tian, so he immediately got up and limped into the city.

There was the laughter of the onlookers from behind.

Zheng Xian looked at all the smiling people around him in some surprise.

Li Si ran, and the crowd began to restore its previous order and continue to move forward.

It was Zheng Xian's turn, Zhou Tian had already reached the shadow under the city gate at this time, holding a bowl of tea and drinking herbal tea slowly, looking comfortable.

The guards guarding the city were quite lazy, and in fact, they didn't even look at the imprint on Zheng Xian's shoulder, so they let Zheng Xian enter the city.

This Xuantian City has been more than five hundred years now, and there has never been any invasion, so the guards here are very lazy one by one, and their minds are not on the door at all.

Zheng Xian immediately walked into this Xuantian City.

The outside of this Xuantian City looks sturdy and unusually decent, but when you walk into the city, it suddenly reveals its original form, the city is desolate and decadent, it is like a refugee slum, but Zheng Xian immediately remembered, this is the south of the city, where the lowly fourth-class slaves live, this should be the most barren place in this city, isn't this a refugee grotto?

Although this city has four gates, it is only this one gate that is really open to mortals, and there is no choice.

As soon as he entered the gate of the city, Zheng Xian saw that it was like a primitive tribe, with mud houses everywhere, and the air was filled with a smell of earth.

Because there is no wood and even grass is very little, so these houses are quite short, only the roof is used grass, and then look closely to know that half of these houses are basically buried in the soil, so on the one hand, it is a saving material, and on the other hand, because the house is low, so it is relatively strong.

Although it is dilapidated everywhere, you can still feel the strong breath of life, and there are many vendors selling along the street at the entrance of the city, shouting one after another, and even giving Mr. Zheng a sense of prosperity.

At this time, it is the time when mortals end their heavy work of the day and come back from outside the city, and it is also the most lively time at the city gate, where the merchants sell everything, pots and pans, all kinds of farm tools, and the most are cloth and clothing, all kinds of food, and some things that Zheng Xian can't recognize, I don't know what the use of the road is.

Zheng Xian is like walking into an archaeological museum at this time, everything here is original, including the shouting, all exude an ancient atmosphere.

Civilization is like an intersection that appears by chance, one way and another there, compared with the mortal world, the city in this fairy world is still stuck five hundred years ago, no, it looks even more backward, people wear clothes can rarely see cotton fabrics, most of them are hemp, and it is not the kind of fine hemp, it is the product of the roughest handicraft workshop.

Zheng Xian swam through the city for a full hour, and the sky had begun to darken.

Zheng Xian finally had some detailed understanding of this city.

The city is simply the definition of the country in this world, the city and the mortals between the city are not allowed to move with each other, so under the freedom to be imprisoned, there is no collision of ideology, culture and knowledge, although a city has a population of 100,000, but the wisdom that the 100,000 population can produce is limited after all, and there is no way to compare with a million people, the population can not flow, ideas can not collide, people's creativity will be reduced to the extreme, and even society has begun to regress, the city where the population can not flow is like a pool of stagnant water, floating in it with all kinds of rancid stench accumulated over hundreds of years。

This is Zheng Xian's most fundamental understanding of the cities in the immortal world, at least the two cities that Zheng Xian came into contact with.

And it is the immortal cultivators who are distinguished by sects that cause such a result, these guys are the biggest stumbling block to the progress of human civilization......

As the sky grew dark, lights began to flicker in the city, and Zheng Xian was now in the West District, where third-class people with earthen characters engraved on their shoulders could live, so they could see the night view of the city that was brightly lit.

Zheng first walked here to understand why the city gate was opened in the dilapidated slum in the north of the city, the reason is actually very simple, not only the people in this city are not allowed to go to other cities, even the fourth-class people in the city are not allowed to walk around with each other, the city is divided into five parts, and the south of the city is a place where fourth-class slaves are treated with the imprint of the ground character on their shoulders, and in principle they are not regarded as people.

The west of the city is inhabited by third-class people, and these people can be regarded as the people in the city in the true sense.

The north of the city is inhabited by a second-class people, and these people are officials, such as the Zhou Tian who guards the city rules the north of the city.

The eastern part of the city is inhabited by slaves, real slaves, but these slaves have the highest status among the mortals in the entire city, because only they are worthy of touching immortal cultivators, or they are mortals who specialize in serving immortal cultivators.

This is somewhat like the servants of God, but rather the leaders of the mortal world, and the pope is technically equivalent to the servants of God, who have a high position in the mortal world, even above the king.

And in the middle of the city, there is also an area, this area is inhabited by immortal cultivators, and the immortal cultivators of the land gate are the kings of this city, and all the power of life and death is in their hands.

But they did not come to the city very often, only twice a year, once a year, at the Harmony Ceremony, and they would come to the city, and the servants of the city, the slaves of the first class, would choose for them a thousand pure virgins. The other time is the annual dream ceremony, at this time, all the people in the city who are over fifty years old will be taken away by the immortal cultivators of the land gate, where exactly to take them, no one knows, but they have never returned. However, most people have a natural fear of Dreamland Terrace, thinking that it will not be a good place.

Zheng Xian doesn't need to think about it, he is old, he can't farm, he can't give birth, for immortal cultivators, it's like a fat pig with enough fat, it's time to kill and eat meat!

Under such difficult living conditions, fifty-year-old people have basically been squeezed out of all the value that can be squeezed out, can no longer create any value, but begin to consume resources constantly, and the vitality of life has begun to gradually dissipate, at this time, if you do not eat the vitality of the squeezed out of them, every day of delay will waste a day of resources, and at the same time scatter a part of the vitality of the force.

This kind of relationship between immortal cultivators eating people and mortals being eaten is really too naked.

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In the previous chapter, there was a saying that the north of the city was inhabited by third-class people, and after the revision, it was said that the north of the city was inhabited by second-class people.