In late autumn, the weather is slightly cold.

Outside Luoyang City, the sun is setting, and a convoy is slowly walking on an ancient road that has fallen into disrepair. This is an ancient road that has been abandoned for a long time. Since the beginning of autumn, the road is full of dead branches and flowers, and yellow leaves are all over the sky. A few faint crows kept circling around several unknown trees, sometimes letting out a few inexplicable wails. Crows are originally ominous birds, and it is said that crows can smell rotten gas, and the dying person will emit rotten energy. Therefore, the appearance of crows is always accompanied by a little bad luck.

The old ancient roads are full of deep pits and shallow holes, which have been in disrepair for a long time, and the horses are also walking hooves of different depths and unusual bumps.

I don't know how long no one has traveled on this ancient road, and as the convoy slowly passed, the wheels pressed out new tracks of different shades.

The leader at the front of the convoy was an old man sixty miles away, with half-white hair, a black coat tightly tied, and a large knife hanging from his waist. The scabbard was carefully wrapped in blue cloth, revealing only the hilt. On the left and right sides are a strong man in his forties and a young man. Behind it was a royal blue-roofed carriage, followed by three boxes of unknown goods, flanked by dozens of sword-wielding dart masters. One look at the bodies of these young dart masters is that they are all good players.

The last carriage was planted with a brightly colored flag, on which the word Weishan was written, and the autumn wind blew the hunting sound. The jargon is called to press the flag. If the green forest heroes along the way want to rob the dart, they have to see which dart bureau is the one that presses the flag. Weishan Dart Bureau is located in Nanlinzhou, Hexi County, and is also quite famous in the southwest generation of Dahua Dynasty. Fu Zhang, the current chief dart head, is an outer disciple of the Tianshan Sect, who was selected by the Tianshan Sect when he was young to go up the mountain to practice, but he has not been able to shape his appearance, and his practice is hopeless, so he has to go down the mountain to make a living. However, I have also learned some skills, and I have heard and seen the methods of those immortal masters. Although the cultivation is hopeless, some fist and foot kung fu is naturally higher than ordinary people. However, Fu Zhang is now old, and naturally there are not many times when he comes out to dart.

Hearing only a "boom", the young man on Fu Zhang's right side opened his bow and arrow, and shot a faint crow from the air with one arrow. The crow fell from the sky like a meteor, and with a "poof", it fell into the unknown weeds, and it was difficult to find it. Several of the other crows seemed to be aware of the disappearance of their companions and the impending danger. After a few wails, he hurried off into the distance. The ancient road suddenly returned to tranquility.

The team was about to cheer in unison, but Fu Zhang turned his face sideways, locked his eyebrows, and looked very displeased. The cheers were stiffly choked back.

Although Fu Zhang was silent, the people in the team knew that the old dart head Fu Zhang was a little displeased. Even if you want to cheer for the young darthead, you have to agree with the old darthead. Fu Zhang glanced back at the blue-topped carriage behind him, and was relieved to see that there was no movement in the carriage. Keep going.

The young man was Fu Zhang's only son, Fu Ke, Fu Zhang thought that his cultivation was hopeless, hoping that Fu Ke could embark on the road of cultivation, so he spent a lot of money to get a congenital pill, which can help ordinary people achieve facial sculpting, and most of those wealthy nobles will start taking innate pills when their children are young. It's a pity that Fu Zhang didn't have the opportunity to set foot in the cultivation, and the Innate Pill couldn't make Fu Ke give birth to the root of shaping, and he didn't have the opportunity to pass the county examination of Confucianism, so he had no hope of cultivation, but the cultivation path was only one or two out of tens of millions of people, and it couldn't be forced. Foucault has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he often walks darts on the road, and gradually he can also start to take charge of himself. It is said that he is also a young handsome man among the younger generation of dart masters.

However, this dart is a little abnormal, the father who has never been out of the mountain for many years personally escorted the dart, even he does not know what the goods are, and along the way to choose a secluded and difficult road, when he is about to Luoyang, he chose such a remote ancient road, so that Fu Ke is very puzzled, his father not only did not mention it, but also did not allow everyone to ask. Moreover, the people in the carriage did not say a word all the way, and the father's actions were extremely respectful to the people in the carriage.

The ancient road is long and barren, I can't say how many years it has been barren, at least I haven't seen half a figure along the way. Finally, there was smoke in the distance. In the past two months, I have been sleeping in the open air, and the dry food and coarse water have long run out of oil and water for these dart masters.

Getting closer and closer to the cooking smoke, I finally saw a dilapidated flag, on which there was a wine word that had been kneaded by the autumn wind, which was a dilapidated wine shop. But who would open a liquor shop on an ancient road that is not in front of the village, not in the back, and has fallen into disrepair. has been walking outside all the year round, so I naturally know that this wine shop must be unusual, and it is a black shop if it is not good.

"Stop" was still dozens of steps away from the wine shop, and a faint sound came from inside the carriage. Motioned for everyone to stop.

When Fu Zhang heard this, he immediately reined in his horse and stood in front. Everyone also cheered up, and the atmosphere was so strange that everyone felt a little unusual, and even the sound of breathing was suppressed. The weapon in his hand tightened his grip with nervousness. For the first time in days, the people inside the carriage were heard. Except for the sound of the wind and the hunting of flags, only the dilapidated gates of the liquor store creaked and swayed back and forth with the autumn wind.

Perhaps I heard the voice of the horse team, and an old lady slowly walked out of the dilapidated main building, only listening to the sound of "dong dong" crutches, and staggered down the steps of the main building, only to see that the old lady was full of silver hair, dressed in a black and purple cotton robe, and leaned over, perhaps because of the rickets. The old lady's body appeared to be shorter. The whole face was very yellow, full of wrinkles, and the old and faint eyes seemed to be a little unopen, and the old lady walked very slowly. What should have been a heavy step is walking very lightly.

Pushing open the broken wooden door, the old lady coughed a few times and asked casually, "It's someone from the Tianshan Sect who came." ”

The man inside the carriage did not answer. Fu Zhang's face changed, and the other party actually knew the nobles in the car.

"We're from the Weishan Dart Bureau. Foucault raised his sword. Tsundere said.

"Leave something behind, maybe I'll consider sparing your life. The old lady said lightly, obviously to the people in the carriage.

"This old man, we are the Weishan Dart Bureau, but we are just escorting a batch of ordinary goods to Luoyang City. Fu Zhang explained.

"If you don't want to die, hurry up and hand over the thing, the old body just wants to take this thing this time. The old lady looked up and said. When he looked up, he gave people a very strange feeling, and his cloudy and faint eyes suddenly became brighter.

"It turned out to be the ghost woman of the Underworld Sect who came. The curtain of the carriage gently lifted a corner, and an old man in a green shirt poked his head out and stood on top of the carriage. Fu Zhang's expression also tightened, as if he was facing a great enemy.

"The Tianshan Sect was originally a branch of the Xuanmen, how come the dignified Tianshan Sect Master is now also dressed as a Confucian person, why is the Tianshan Sect now switching to the Confucian lineage? The ghost woman scoffed.

These words made Liu Defeng, the sect leader of the Tianshan Sect, a little embarrassed. Since the orthodoxy of the world, the Dahua Dynasty has followed the national policy of deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism, and it is Confucianism that enters the scientific examination, so whether you want to soar and become a member of the court in the Dahua Dynasty, or want to enter the Tongwen Palace to practice the avenue and become a great man who can live forever, you must learn Confucianism. Each county holds a county examination every year, and 100 students from each county are selected to become Confucian children. The state examination is held once every two years, seven or eight counties in small states, and more than a dozen counties in large states, but regardless of small states and large states, one hundred more people are taken, called Confucianism, and a county examination is held once every three years, and another hundred people are taken, and those who pass the examination are called Confucian students.

Every year, only fifty people can have the opportunity to enter the Academy Palace through the competition, and only then can they be expected to enter the avenue and learn immortality. However, there is one exception to one kind of person, which is the genius lucky person who has an innate cultivation body, that is, a natural shape. There are only one or two people in this kind of innate body. Naturally, Buddhism and Taoism will secretly send people to Dahua to find this innate body and bring it under their doors. However, the influence of Buddhism, Taoism and other spiritual sects in Dahua has long since diminished.

Fortunately, Buddhism has a deep influence in the countries of the Western Regions, almost everyone worships Buddha, and Taoism is more authoritative in the 36 countries in the east, and even the succession of the monarchs of various countries needs the blessing of Taoism and nodding in agreement before they can ascend to the throne. This is why the incense of Buddhism and Taoism has not been broken. But this is all outside the borders of Dahua. Covering an area of 10,000 miles and with a population of 100 million yuan, Dahua is the prosperous center of the continent.

For millions of years, since the originator of cultivation, Gupan, passed down the path of cultivation, coupled with the implementation and evolution of ancestors from all walks of life, many geniuses have been born, opened mountains and established sects, and proved their own ways. The major cultivation sects, hundreds of schools of thought are singing together.

However, the major sects are constantly fighting for the technique and cultivating the spiritual vein, and then gradually formed the three major sects of cultivation. In the east, there is the Qingyun Temple, which is in charge of the Taoist Niu Er, and in the Western Regions, there is the Wuliang Temple, the holy land of the Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Xuanmen branch has not been at the helm for various reasons, so it has gradually declined, and the other sects and veins have long since died out, and although the major branches of the Xuanmen have not dissipated, they have gradually become second- and third-rate small sects. The Tianshan Sect is one of them, but it is better than those sects that have long disappeared in the long river of history.

This time he came to Luoyang City, and Liu Defeng, the sect leader of the Tianshan Sect, brought something important to hand over to Dong Xi, the head of the Confucian Palace of Tongwen. I hope that Dong Xi can give him some advice, after all, he has been stagnant for many years in the peak realm of peeping at the door, and there is no way to query the classics in the sect, if there is no way, he can only wait for the longevity to run out, and the limit will come.

Gu took a lot of thought to come this time, and even wore a Confucian costume, plus the things he offered, hoping that Dong Xi could give him some guidance to help him break the mirror as soon as possible and increase his longevity. Ordinary people feel that those who practice the Great Dao can fly to the sky and escape to the earth, live with the sky, and are omnipotent, in fact, those who practice also have a limit of longevity, but they are much longer than ordinary people.