The reason why Fang Tian accepted the appointment of the city lord on the imperial side was mainly due to two considerations.

One is that he stirred up the wind and rain on other people's territory and made a lot of noise, and now people have issued a recruitment order and want to include him in the system, so he agrees, and both parties are happy. If it came to this point, he still maintained the identity of a casual cultivator, and his influence was getting bigger and bigger, it was hard to say what would happen next, that was what Fang Tian didn't want to see.

The second is for spiritual considerations.

In the previous night conversation, Fang Tian had mentioned a method to Wizard Muluo: "Plug your ears with cotton, cover your eyes with cloth, abandon meditation, abandon induction, eat every three days, and do your best." ”

This is actually the beginning of spiritual practice.

Free a person from the chaos of the world and use all his energy to face his body and mind.

The corresponding theme of this method is the words "clear" and "quiet".

Because it is quiet, it can be cleared.

Because of the Qing, he was able to see his own true face and face his body and mind.

But tranquility is just the beginning after all.

Meditation cannot only fall on tranquility.

Just as one cannot remain a baby forever. Although it is said that "the water in the mountain spring is clear, and the water in the mountain spring is turbid", the clear spring is only a corner of the appreciation, but it is not an ideal whole.

The sea is.

In previous lives, many people came to countries, regions or tribes that still maintained or remained mostly primitive and backward. I often sigh: "Although it is backward here, the folk customs are very simple." Why do we have development, but we have lost this simplicity?"

Quite a few people sighed deeply.

What's more, a tendency towards "anti-civilizationism" has even been born.

In his previous life, Fang Tian was also confused here, but now. But the reason for this has been understood.

Being in the turbid spring, looking at the clear spring, I feel that it is a kind of beauty, but I don't see it, although the turbid spring is turbid. But it began to explore, to evolve, and to walk on the road to the sea.

The vastness and breadth of its prospects, the depth and immeasurability, are by no means comparable to the so-called clear springs.

Therefore, even if the spring water in the mountain is clear, for the sake of the future, it is still necessary to go out of the mountain.

Otherwise, in the end. After all, it will become a stagnant water that has lost any vitality.

This is true of the society of the group, and the same is true of the life of the individual.

The same is true of practice that is rooted in life.

It can even be said that the "quietness" in cultivation is just a start, and "insight into the world and cultivation of human feelings" is the beginning.

Therefore, the eighty-one chapters of "Lao Tzu" are called "Tao Te Ching" in later generations.

The Tao is the practice of the individual.

Virtue is the association and grafting of individuals and groups.

Even if you don't talk about these serious things, let's talk about some imagination. You are out of the world, you are clear and quiet, and you have great powers. You live the same life. But if you are alone between heaven and earth, at any time, all you can face is the eternal sun, moon and stars, desolation and loneliness.

What's really the point of saving like that?

Therefore, throw yourself into the world, and seek transcendence in the world. Seeking development in the earthly world is the right path of cultivation, and it is also the whole path of cultivation.

In short, in a word, if you are separated from the world, you don't need to talk about spiritual practice.

Because no matter how much you practice. All you can gain is just a pale life.

If you don't even understand this, the so-called cultivation, to the end, is just to cultivate a section of grass, trees, bamboos and stones in the mountains, and then return to the earth under the wash of time.

That's what Fang Tian doesn't take.

So at this time, he is the lord of the city.

The appointment on the part of the empire could not have come at the right time. But even if he doesn't have this appointment, after being promoted to a mage, he will still find a way to experience the ups and downs in the world.

The main purpose is clear, and the means that fit the main purpose can be thousands.

Being the lord of a city is just one of them.

Because he didn't take Xiao Qiqi and the others out to play, Fang Tian's time for the day was free.

So after meeting with the guests of the Five Cities in the morning, the meeting with Owen and the others, which was originally scheduled for the evening, began in the afternoon.

Time, afternoon.

Location, maple forest side courtyard, in the martial arts training ground.

Characters, all the main mercenaries of Maple Forest, Grote and Nanjin Sanlao, and Fang Tian.

Man is tripartite, but it is divided into two parts.

Fang Tian stood solemnly with his hands down, quietly looking at the group of people opposite.

And the people on the other side, whether it was Grote or Nanjin Sanlao, whether it was Owen Anderson or Frank Skinny Monkey and others, they were all like Fang Tian, standing with their hands down.

After the training camp, a completely different atmosphere appeared on them.

If he had followed their training every day before, Fang Tian's feelings should not be as great as they are now, and he would not feel the fragrance of the so-called Zhilan Room for a long time. But because of an unexpected retreat, when I came out again, it was forty-three days later.

So at this time, in Fang Tian's opinion, the changes in Owen and the others were very great.

In Fang Tian's eyes before, most of the Fenglin and others, except for a few such as Owen Anderson, were not so much a martial artist, but an ordinary person who knew martial arts.

The focus of their lives is not on cultivation, or even on mercenary missions.

Where?

Nowhere is it.

It can only be said that this is just a group of guys who eat and wait for death, with no pursuit and no goal. -- Because with their group and martial arts, it is barely enough to live a living.

So I just lived like that.

That state can last for a year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years without the slightest change.

Fang Tian had no doubt that if there were no major changes in the outside world, then their lifestyle and psychological state would continue like that forever. It lasted until the earth was desolate. Fang Tian even guessed that the people at the bottom of this world might be in such a state nine times out of ten. ――

Because the ascending channel is not obvious, and because the basic survival can barely be guaranteed, it has been living in a state of confusion.

Otherwise, what else can you do?

The quest for power?

The power was all concentrated in the hands of mid-to-high-level cultivators and family members. As an ordinary citizen, there is no qualification to pursue it at all.

Chasing wealth?

That's even funnier, if you don't have even a little bit of power, then even a little bit of wealth is a blessing in disguise. In such a case. The pursuit of wealth is not the pursuit of a better life, but self-inflicted misfortune.

Quest for knowledge?

Is there a 1 percent literacy rate in the world?

Thinking of this, Fang Tian sighed in his heart.

It was also at this time that he realized that what he brought to Owen Anderson and others was not only the possibility of further advancement in martial arts. There are many more life changes. At this point, there is no need to say some of the things that I wanted to say.

The next moment, Fang Tian took out the letter of appointment given to him by the imperial side from the well and passed it to Owen.

Owen took it cautiously but puzzled, looked down, and then was shocked and then overjoyed.

"Little brother, you ...... You're already the lord of the city?" Owen said loudly with excitement as he looked up.

"Yes. A few days ago, after I was promoted to mage, the empire appointed me as the city lord of this thousand-mile land. Fang Tian said lightly.

It was only then that the rest of the crowd knew what was going on.

So the people waited for a while, and there was a big uproar.

Fang Tian can ignore this appointment indifferently. But everyone else, even Grote and the three elders of Nanjin, could not have the slightest indifference.

A city lord, a city lord appointed by the Empire, and a large city destined to develop into a large city under the control of the Empire. There are so many things that can be decided and influenced, so many that for a while, everyone is even a little incredulous.

"Little brother, we don't have to sell our goods to those damn dealers in the future?"

After a while, after a round of uproar, a brother from Fenglin said this.

Also, for them, this may be the biggest resentment in their hearts, so the first thing that comes to mind is this aspect.

Fang Tian smiled and nodded.

Coming to this world, after all this time, Fang Tian already knew a lot, and he was very fortunate that when he first came here, he didn't get anything out of winemaking.

In this world, it can be said that almost all commercial activities are under the control of the empire, and they need the right to operate.

The management of management rights was mostly arranged by the local imperial cities.

This means that without an appointment from the city, it is illegal to sell the sake brewed or something, or even if it is just to transport the goods to the city to sell.

And in this world, illegal, dangerous.

Receiving Fang Tian's nod, Fenglin and the others cheered unwillingly. If you can handle those goods by yourself, then even if it is the same harvest as before, its income can directly increase several times, even if it is less than ten times, five, six, seven or eight times.

Sharjah, who was sitting in the bamboo forest outside the town, only shook his head when he saw this.

Xiaoyou serves as the lord of the city, but all these guys think of is this, this is really ...... Is......

Sharjah didn't know the word "pearl casting darkness", but what came to his mind was such a thought. In fact, as the lord of a city, is there more to it than that?

Don't they know that every qiē in a radius of thousands of miles must be ruled by the lord of a city?

Sharjah thought so, but he was a little demanding of the maple forest.

As a group that originally lived at the bottom, even Owen, who was the leader, was just like all the brothers in the group, begging for a living within the town. Not to mention all the various cities under the empire, how can people like them know all the aspects of a small city?

Among them, only those who have reached a certain level know the situation.

Just like Fang Tian's previous life, in ancient times, the world was in a great wilderness, and the people had no food to wrap their stomachs, Jin Hui Diyun: "Why don't you eat minced meat?"

As an emperor, his words are taken for granted. But they don't know that underneath it, resources and information are so poor that they have nothing.

In fact, not to mention the Fenglin group, even Fang Tian, who had been appointed as the city lord, how much could he know about his identity? It is certain that there will not be too much.

This night, the maple grove celebrated.

Bonfires and barbecues decorate the evening. And the Maple Grove group, including Owen Anderson and others, were all drunk.

Of course, in terms of the wine of this world, their drunkenness is more of a psychological drunkenness, closer to heartiness and intoxication, and it is impossible to say that alcoholism and drunkenness are like mud or something.

After the party, Fang Tian's fourth Kaspersky was announced.

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