Postscript 1: Occultation of the Moon (I)
The Occultation Booth is a place name, and it is not the beach of the Occultation Lake, but the ground stall, located in the city walls of the Occultation Town.
The town of Occultation has walls, which are hollow, like a twenty-kilometer-long box-like building with three floors inside. The windows on each floor are facing the city, and every 500 meters there are stairwells and toilets.
From the outside, it looks like a classical city wall in the eastern country, but inside it is a three-story pedestrian street and a free market.
Yangyuan Valley has a rule that no stalls can be set up on the top of the city wall, all stalls are within the city wall, numbered, and the reservation and use of each stall can be found on the special website.
The clear width of the pedestrian street within the wall is six meters, the width of three meters on the side against the outer wall is the stall area, and the width of three meters on the side against the inner wall is the pedestrian walkway.
The size of each stall is three meters by five meters, each person can only apply for one booth at a time, and the use time of each reservation shall not exceed three days.
What if there is not enough stall? You can find several partners to apply for adjacent booths at the same time.
For example, if someone wants to sell snacks, they can find two more people to apply for three stalls together, fry pot stickers and make spicy soup in the middle stall, and set up tables and chairs on the stalls on both sides.
The 20-kilometer, three-story inner city wall is equivalent to a 60-kilometer-long pedestrian street, with a total of more than 10,000 stalls, with an average of one to 2,000 stalls opening every day.
Eighty percent of the stalls are usually vacant, and stall holders can choose their preferred seats when applying for reservations, a bit like choosing a seat in a movie theater.
It is a huge free market, the busiest pedestrian street in the spiritual world, and anyone who is registered with the International Association can enter with a certificate.
A first-level cultivator can come in and shop for something, but if you want to set up a stall, you must at least be a fourth-level cultivator.
The simplest stall can be a small pony with a furoshiki in front of it. You need to bring your own tables and chairs to set up your stalls, or you can rent them temporarily at the official market service center.
The things sold at the stalls don't necessarily have to be natural treasures and magic elixirs, if anyone thinks that their wontons are good, they can also pick and choose to sell wontons.
Li Xiaoyang, the designer of the market, originally planned to charge no booth fees and management fees, but later decided to charge a nominal fee to facilitate the registration and management of stall use and the identification of stall holders.
The booth fee is very cheap, 100 yuan per day for a single stall, and no transaction tax is charged. Goods sold here can be sold in cash, bartered, or even exchanged on other terms.
Yangyuan Valley only stipulates that it is not allowed to buy and sell, nor is it allowed to deceive.
Ever since the appearance of the Moon Occultation Stall, it has become the only major trade gathering in the spiritual world since ancient times.
In fact, at the meeting of the Zhengyi Sanshan Society, each sect will also "set up stalls" to communicate with other sects. However, the Zhengyi Sanshan Festival is once every 60 years, and the moon occultation stall is open 24 hours a day.
The people who come here to set up stalls and shop are not only the students and disciples of Yangyuan Valley, but also monks from all over the world. Here you can find all kinds of strange things, which you have never seen or even imagined.
In fact, after the completion of the city wall of the town of Occult Moon, it was first used as a dormitory by the construction team of the Eastern Kingdom. The local climate is not cold, the interior of the city walls is very large, the living is very comfortable, and various functional facilities can be arranged.
The construction team can take a car from here to the Fengjie Town and the construction site of Zhongyuan City in the north, and it was not until the prototype of Zhongyuan City was built that the city wall was vacated to build a moon shelter.
By the time Huanxiang was established ten years ago, the daily scene here was like the Fang Market described in many Xianxia.
Huanxiangguo's term of office is not five years but ten years, and he can be re-elected, but Feng Zibin only served as the general seat for half a year.
Feng Zibin will take office on June 11, 2032, and will no longer hold the position of chief executive at the end of the year. From January 1, 2033, the new general seat of Huanxiangguo will be replaced by Wang Fengshou, and the term of office will also be recalculated.
Wang Fengshou's first term has not yet ended, but Char's fourth term in the kingdom of Jili has just ended. Charles served as the general seat of the country for 20 years, and finally retired in the first half of this year.
Charles is still very young, now only forty-two years old, and he is now the rector of Mowang University. It is said that Principal Xia also came to the moon booth to set up a stall and sign and sell books on the spot.
Why is it said, because Principal Xia did not give notice in advance, but someone was in a secluded position in the southwest corner of the city wall one day and found Mr. Charles sitting there setting up a stall to sign and sell books.
On the special website of Yangyuan Valley, it does not disclose information such as who, at what time, in what stall, what things are sold, etc., and also advocates that the stall setters should not disclose it to the outside world.
There are many rumors about the moon occult stall, it is said that the elders of Zhengyi Sect have set up stalls here to sell dates, and the leaders of the Kunlun League have also set up stalls here to sell vegetables...... Someone also spent 200 yuan to buy a box of Chunrong Dan.
The rumors are true, because the box of Chunrong Dan is sold by Hua Zhenxing. In fact, Hua Zhennei has sold more than one box, and the price ranges from ten yuan to 2.5 million yuan.
Hua Zhenxing also comes to set up stalls from time to time, often with Manman. The stalls are often filled with small gadgets such as bamboo magpies and light beads, as well as consumables such as gold thread bamboo strips.
After the disciples of Yangyuan Valley break through the four realms, the mentor will take them to select a spiritual plant golden thread bamboo in the valley and pick it back to process the bamboo magpie. This is one of the basic lessons of the disciples in the valley.
Some disciples still have leftover materials after making bamboo magpies, and there are also many disciples who have not made them after consuming all the materials. What should I do if it is not made? Either ask for help from someone who has leftover materials, or go to the occultation booth to find the right materials.
There are also disciples who have made bamboo magpies with materials distributed by the sect, but they are not satisfied with the works of practicing hands, or after the refining level is higher, if they want to find better bamboo magpies made of materials, they can also go to the moon occultation stall to find them.
Some of the stalls in the moon occultation stall are even regularly put up by the mentors assigned by Yangyuan Valley, not only the golden thread bamboo, but also the materials for sacrificing the magnolia knife and spring water talismans are also sold.
Hua Zhenxing, as the chief tutor, will of course also help the disciples in the sect with these small favors.
Hua Zhenxing sometimes puts a box of Chunrong Dan on the stall. Monks from all over the world walked past the stall, but they didn't necessarily see it, because Hua Zhenxing had cast a hidden spell.
Masters who can see through this spell usually don't deliberately dismantle the stage to buy this box of Chunrong Dan.
What about those who can't see through spells? Whoever can see this box of Chunrong Dan is either Hua Zhenxing wants him to see it, or it is a coincidence under certain circumstances.
For different people, Huazhen Xing will set different prices, ranging from ten yuan to 2.5 million yuan, each with its own fate.
I won't talk about ten yuan for a box, but now that the price of Chunrong Dan has dropped to two million, why can it still be sold here for two and a half million?
In fact, 2.5 million can not only be sold, but some people want it!
Because 2 million is only the supply price obtained by dealers in various countries, some people in many countries want to get a box of Chunrong Dan, and they pay far more than that.
It is not only Hua Zhenxing who has sold Chunrong Dan in the moon occultation stall.
For example, the sixth-level tutor welfare of Yangyuan Valley will send a box of Chunrong Dan every year, and if you don't need it and don't want to give it away, some people will also choose to sell it at the moon covering stall.
Therefore, many cultivators around the world want to try their luck at the moon stall whenever they have the opportunity.
It is not easy to come across the Chunrong Pill at the Moon Occultation Stall, but there are two other popular elixirs that can often be bought, namely the Yangyuan Pill and the Chunfeng Pill.
The combination of Yangyuan Pill and Chunfeng Pill is the best elixir to assist in the cultivation of Yuanjutsu, and there are many buyers.
Today's nourishment technique, in the so-called upper class society of countries around the world, has become the standard of identity and fashion. As long as you have a little status, if you haven't practiced the Yuan Cultivation Technique, you will be embarrassed to talk to people in social situations.
There was a time and place where many people liked to hang a full marathon or half marathon certificate in their office, indicating that they could run a full marathon or half marathon.
Such a certificate is hung out, as if to declare good health, energy, and tenacity, and the further subtext is that it can not only be qualified for the current position, but also assume more important responsibilities.
Then the world's Nourishing Master Certificate comprehensively covers and transcends the above meanings. Many people even open their certificates and hang them in a prominent place in their office or meeting room.
Not everyone can get started with the cultivation of the Yuan Cultivation Technique, but many people will also declare in social occasions that although they have not yet started, they are practicing the Yuan Cultivation Technique, and they have already realized a lot.
This has also led to another ancient industry, the issuance of fake certificates.
Someone will buy a very elaborate certificate of the cultivator, and when necessary, it will be inadvertently seen
But such a false certificate can't deceive the insider, for example, it is impossible to use it to sneak into the moon covering stall, whether it is a stall or shopping, and it will be confiscated by the doorman on the spot.
Who wouldn't want to get a real certificate? As a result, Yangyuan Dan and Chunfeng Dan are also in short supply, and they are often out of stock and cannot be bought.
Many people can't enter the moon shelter stall by themselves, so they will ask a familiar cultivator to help pay attention to it, and if they are lucky, they will buy it quickly.
Although the art of cultivating the Yuan has become popular all over the world, the proportion of people who can get formal teaching in the world is not high, and it cannot learn and practice blindly on its own, and must have the guidance of a teacher who cultivates at least the four realms.
Huanxiangguo has incorporated Yangyuan art into the compulsory secondary school curriculum. So what other countries in the world can do this? At present, there are only three, namely, the kingdom of Chili, the kingdom of Nilang, and the kingdom of Tema.
Today, people finally understand what happened to the "Yangyuan Alliance" proposed by the heads of state of the three countries.
Not long ago, Feng Zibin, who had not been heard from for nearly ten years, finally appeared in public again and announced a gift. All female citizens of Huanxiang Country can get a free box of Chunrong Dan as long as they meet the following conditions at the same time.
1. Be at least 25 years old.
2. There are two or more children, and the father of the child is also a citizen of Huanxiang Country.
3. There is no crime or the criminal act has exceeded the prescribed period of the corresponding penalty.
As long as you meet the above conditions, you can apply and then participate in the lottery once a year until you win the lottery.
The lucky ones may win the lottery in the first year, and will definitely win the lottery within 10 years, because the probability of winning the lottery is increasing gradually, and the probability of winning the lottery for the tenth application has reached 100%.
What about female citizens who don't meet the above criteria? As long as you are at least 25 years old, you can also participate in the lottery, the probability of winning the lottery is different, you can only guarantee that you will be able to win the lottery within 20 years, but you need to buy it at your own expense, and you can't give it away for free.
If someone does not approve of the practice of self-worship, they can not apply.
In fact, no more than 20 draws can buy a box of Chunrong Dan at a flat price, which is the envy of people in other countries around the world.
This was the last time Feng Zibin appeared in public so far, and then this person, as it had been for nearly a decade, seemed to disappear from the world again. But until there is no updated news, he seems to have always existed like this.
It was the weekend, Yun Mo got up early in the morning and took the intercity express rail from Feisuogang Station to Baoyue Town Station, and the ride time was only about ten minutes.
There is no restriction on the business hours of the stalls, only the time limit for the application and use of the stalls, and the stalls can theoretically be set up from 0:00 on the first day of application.
In fact, there are many monks who go there in the middle of the night, they come from all over the world, and many of them stay in the inns of the town of the Occultation of the Moon.
But Yun Mo knows very well that the so-called chance sometimes does not depend on how early you go, the moon shelter stall that does not close 24 hours a day, there will always be someone who will go earlier than you.
She got out of the train and came to the nearest entrance to the fast rail station, and showed the doorman the sixth-level Yuan Cultivation Instructor certificate. The doorman's eyes were very surprised and amazed, and even a little awe-inspiring.
The guards here are newcomers, born in the Valley of the Five Hearts, and live in Occult Moon Town, so they don't know Yun Mo.
After Yun Mo entered the city wall, he went directly to the third floor. There are not many "tourists" in the early morning moon occultation stalls, and there are not many stalls, even fewer on the third floor.
Yun Mo was not in a hurry to buy things, he was just wandering around. She walked about ten kilometers, from the southeast corner of the city wall to the northwest corner, and the number of people around her gradually increased.
At this time, she suddenly stopped and bowed to salute, and said in a voice with divine sense: "Master, Master, you are also here." ”
There were two people standing by the window not far ahead, it was Hua Zhenxing and Man Man.
Man Man nodded and said, "You came early, what good things are you looking for?" ”
Yun Mo: "I often come here on weekends, not deliberately looking for anything, but to open my eyes and gain a long insight." ”
Hua Zhenxing waved his hand and smiled: "Then follow us for a walk and see what your chances are." ”
Yun Mo is a personal disciple of Hua Zhenxing, only twenty-two years old this year, and he has been in the Chunrong Dan Center for less than two years, but he has already completed the cultivation of the Five Realms, and has obtained the certificate of sixth-level Yuan Cultivator and Senior Seedling Cultivator of Oil Fruit Tree.
Yun Mo's father, Yun Fusheng, was a member of the Straw Shoe Gang. When it comes to straw uppers, it must have been at least 22 years ago, that is, in 2020.
Because in mid-2020, all the members of the Straw Shoes Gang joined the Big Gang and reorganized into a new league. In this way, Yun Fusheng is also the first batch of members of the new alliance.
In the old port of Africa, the members of the Straw Shoes Upper set up many handicraft workshops and small processing factories and repair factories.
Yun Fusheng set up a bamboo and wood processing factory to produce all kinds of daily utensils, such as cups, plates, bowls and chopsticks, beds, stools, tables and chairs, baskets, pots and buckets. Many products are also sold in grocery stores, so he often deals with Old Man Yang.
Yang Tehong is undoubtedly a very learned figure in his eyes, and in March 2020, when Yun Mo was not born, he asked Old Man Yang to help him name the child.
Old man Yang named Yun Mo, which can be used by both men and women.
In the civic education system of Huanxiangguo, the age of primary school enrollment is normally from after reaching the age of five to before reaching the age of eight, that is, the three years of five, six, and seven, and the specific time can be chosen.
Yun Mo went to elementary school at the age of five, went to middle school at the age of ten, and began to practice the art of cultivating yuan in middle school.
The education of Yangyuan is also divided into time periods, with Secondary 1 to Secondary 2 only teaching introductory and first-level content; Secondary 3 to Secondary 4 are taught to Level 2; In the fifth grade of secondary school, the content of the third-level nourishing technique will be taught.
This is different from the fee-based courses of associations that are available all over the world, mainly taking into account the age of the children.
Yun Mo's talent is excellent, he became a first-level cultivator in the first year of middle school, a second-level cultivator in the third grade of middle school, and a third-level cultivator in the fifth grade.
During his college years, Yun Mo's cultivation broke through the four realms and the five realms successively, and after graduating from university, he entered the Chunrong Dan Center to work. Now she has been working for less than two years, and she just passed the sixth-level nutrient qualification assessment at the beginning of the year.
How did she become Hua Zhenxing's personal disciple again? Although Yangyuan Valley has created a new way of cultivation and inheritance, it also embraces the traditional master-apprentice inheritance model.
If there are particularly optimistic seedlings, you can also accept apprentices in the way since ancient times. In this case, no additional public resources can be used, but the Master can invest various resources privately.
Shizun's personal resources and energy are limited, so he can only select the heirs with the most outstanding talents and conduct to cultivate them carefully.
This kind of master-apprentice inheritance relationship is very demanding, and if the disciple commits something, the master is also responsible. Therefore, it has a formal ceremony, and it must make a corresponding vow, enter it into the genealogy of the sect, and invite the elders of the same sect and the same way to witness.
Let's introduce the experience of Hua Zhenxing in the past ten years.
After graduating from university, Hua Zhenxing worked in Chunrong Dan Center for two years, during which he "obtained" the fourth-level Yangyuan Master certificate, and finally "became" an intermediate Yuanyang tutor, and then was transferred to Xintian Town No. 1 Middle School.
According to Yangyuangu's instructor rotation system, the period of assignment to middle school is usually five years, usually starting from the first grade, bringing a class of freshmen to graduation, but Hua Zhenxing took over halfway.
The original tutor had been taking that class of students for four years, but for some reason they were transferred, and Hua Zhenxing took over the graduating class of middle school and finished the fifth grade with this batch of students.
Tutor Hua Zhenxing is not only responsible for the teaching of the whole grade, but also takes over as the head teacher of the 54th class and teaches the chemistry course of the whole grade.
There are a total of six classes in this grade, with 270 students, and before Hua Zhenxing took over, compared with the same period indicators of other schools in China, the entry rate and promotion rate of Yangyuan art teaching were the lowest.
I have been studying for four years, and there are less than thirty beginners in the Yuan Cultivation Technique, among which there is only one person who has broken through the second realm, Yun Mo.
It only took one year after Hua Zhenxing took over, and he created the highest level of teaching achievements in the history of Yangyuan Technique.
By the time of graduation, 120 students in this grade had obtained certificates at all levels, of which 97 had obtained the certificate of second-level cultivators, and 10 of the 97 had become third-level practitioners.
This is a miracle in the history of education in Huanxiang Country!
The ordinary teachers and students who had not yet arrived in the four realms did not know Hua Zhenxing's identity, but Director Hua personally came to the No. 1 Middle School of Xintian Town to take over this grade, and Yangyuan Valley also sent a team that did not disclose his identity to assist and observe.
They summarized the teaching practice experience of Mr. Hua and compiled a set of reference lesson plans for all the Yangyuan art instructors in this position to learn.
Hua Zhenxing himself believes that this set of reference lesson plans does not match the five-year teaching plan of Huanxiangguo Middle School, because he only took over the last year halfway.
So after sending off this graduating class, he transferred himself to the newly established No. 2 Middle School in Occult Town, from the first grade to the fifth grade of middle school, took a complete class of students, and wrote a more complete set of reference lesson plans with the assistance team.
Hua Zhenxing spent five years at Occultation No. 2 Middle School, but the teaching results did not break the record set by him in Xintian No. 1 Middle School, but it also reached the second highest level in the history of Huanxiangguo.
Hua Zhenxing worked at the Chun Rong Dan Center for two years and as a teacher in a middle school for another six years before transferring himself to the International Association of Nourishing Arts, based in Bikong Lake, where he still works in the association's information management department.
The Information Management Department of the Association is responsible for the application for booth reservation for the occultation stall, including the registration of the stall holders.
Hua Zhenxing has known Yun Mo for a long time, and later became Yun Mo's homeroom teacher, and he is very optimistic about Yun Mo's talent, and he paid attention to guiding and cultivating during middle school...... This may also have something to do with the dreams of the year.
After Yun Mo was admitted to Feisuogang University, he broke through the cultivation of the four realms, and then he knew that Hua Zhenxing's identity was actually the chief tutor of Yangyuan Valley, and he was very fortunate to be accepted by Hua Zhenxing as a personal disciple.
Today, Hua Zhenxing and Man Man are not here to set up stalls, but also to go shopping, since they have met Yun Mo, let's take their disciples to go shopping.
The moon shelter stall is very large, with a total length of 60 kilometers of pedestrian streets, if you don't master the five realms of the imperial form and supernatural powers, you can't finish shopping in one day.
Even if you have the magical powers, it is impossible to walk so fast when you go to the market. Besides, even if you go fast, you can't meet all the good things, and this kind of thing still depends on chance.
The town of Occultation is also shrouded in a magic circle, and the city wall is a part of the formation, which can isolate the divine sense.
The divine sense cannot penetrate to other floors, nor can it penetrate the stairwells in front and behind, and usually only the 500-meter section of the street where the person is located is usually explored.
The three of them continued to wander around, and walked about a kilometer away, when Hua Zhenxing and Man Man suddenly stopped.
The 500-meter-long section of the street here has hundreds of stall spaces, but only one stall is set up at this moment, which looks very empty.
The stall was set up by a woman in a long white dress, but there was no trace of dust on the floor, and it was like a floating cloud that happened to be frozen in a painting.
It is described as about twenty, which is clearly in front of you, but it feels like you are standing in the distance.
In front of her was an antique long case, the stall was five meters long, and this long case accounted for more than four meters. There is no such thing for sale in the market service center, it is obvious that she brought it herself, and it should be a space artifact.
Manman said: "I have read the application record of today's stall, and no one has applied here, and no one should set up a stall. ”
Hua Zhenxing: "It wasn't illegally moved from another location, she didn't make an appointment to register at all."
But she shouldn't have done it on purpose, maybe she heard about this place and came to see it, but she didn't know the market rules, so she followed the example of others, found a place and set up a stall......"
As he spoke, Hua Zhenxing actually smiled. Yun Mo wondered, "Master, do you know her?" ”
Hua Zhenxing: "Yes, long time no see. ”
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