This official road is a gentle slope that goes down for about 100 miles.

After a hundred miles, it is already under the mountain, but the smooth road is not long, and after a while, it will go up to another mountain, and the official road will go around the mountain.

After everyone climbed halfway up the mountain, they did not rush to the road, but stopped one after another to look into the distance. Because they found a small village at the foot of the mountain.

The village is not large, there are about dozens of families, and at this time it is close to sunset, the mountain village is full of smoke, chickens and dogs smell each other, and there are people walking around from time to time.

The village is surrounded by patches of terraced fields, in the early spring, the crops also begin to turn green, from the mountainside, a piece of light green color will surround the mountain village, although there are no strange flowers and plants, the garden is full of fragrant color, but it seems to be quiet and peaceful, there is a sense of tranquility and ordinary, it seems that it can make people calm down more than the big city of cultivation, go turbidity and save the clear.

Zhou Yang is not the only one who feels this way, several people who have never been to the mortal realm feel the same way, and they are a little lost for a while.

The most fascinated is Li Xing'er, she looked at a small mountain village blankly, looking extremely obsessed.

"It's almost sunset, and we need to hurry. At this time, a discordant voice came, but it was Song Laohu urging everyone, and he rushed down the mountain first.

Zhou Yang and the others came to their senses and followed the horse.

The official road bypassed the mountain village, and after the crowd passed, the chickens, ducks, cats and dogs outside the village were frightened and fled in all directions.

Xing'er looked back on the horse with some nostalgia, and her heart was turbulent, and she blurted out: "Ordinary is the most beautiful!"

"Hmph, there is no aura, I see how beautiful you are!" Tiehu pursed his lips when he heard this.

After passing through the mountain village, the road of more than 100 miles is very smooth, and the speed is much faster.

After galloping for a while, more than ten miles away, everyone saw a city.

Nearer, the city is getting clearer and clearer, the city walls have come into view, all are made of blue bricks, about three or four zhang high, there is an enemy tower every other section, the enemy tower is full of people, as if there are sergeants walking around to inspect.

When they arrived at the city, everyone looked up, and three eye-catching big characters came into view: "Nine Heavens County"

This is one of the vassals of Zhou Tianzong, the county seat of Jiutian County of Jin Chengguo, and the small mountain village they passed by naturally belongs to Jiutian County.

The city gate is guarded by soldiers, all of whom are dressed in silver armor, although the material is much worse than the outer armor worn by the cultivators, just some mortal iron, but it still looks extremely dazzling, and some passers-by approached and showed awe-inspiring eyes.

At this time, the leader of the guards at the city gate was leading his soldiers to check on those who entered the city.

There is still a pillar of incense time to close the city gate, at this time the inventory is not too strict, the leader of the guard is in a hurry to close the door and go home, a little impatient staring at the people who entered the city, and constantly urging: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

When he saw Zhou Yang and the others, he was stunned, and then his face became extremely deferential, and he took three steps and two steps to come to the front of everyone, and bowed and said, "Subordinate Zhao Chun sees everyone's ......."

But before he could call out the immortals, Song Laohu had already waved his hand to stop him.

The leader of the guards couldn't say a word, but he didn't dare to be disrespectful.

A group of passers-by couldn't recognize these masters in front of them, but he had been guarding the city gate in Jiutian County for more than ten years, from a small soldier to the captain of the East Gate guard, his knowledge was naturally extraordinary, and he would meet cultivators entering the city every year.

Most of the cultivators in the Upper Council came in disguise, but occasionally he saw cultivators who were not disguised, so he recognized the identities of these people at a glance from their outfits.

In his eyes, Zhou Yang and his entourage are immortals, and when they see immortals, they naturally have to bow down.

Even if a cultivator doesn't have to deliberately restrain his aura, ordinary mortals won't recognize his identity, Zhou Yang was surprised in his heart, and couldn't help but admire the person in front of him a little, how could he see it?

In fact, he is also a fan of the authorities, and the outfits of his party are very different from those of mortals, not to mention the leaders of the guards, even those mortals who are waiting in line to enter the city, and they also look at them with strange eyes.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang looked at himself, and then looked at the robes of those mortals, and he already knew it in his heart.

It seems that you have to change your clothes in the future, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable to be stared at like a monster.

According to the usual practice, when each sect inspects the mortal subject country, unless there are special circumstances, they generally have to change their attire, and they do not show themselves as cultivators, but Song Laohu was in a hurry and forgot about this matter.

The leaders of the guards also felt a little strange, they came to this city in the costumes of cultivators, but they still wanted to hide their identities, why the hell?

But he didn't dare to ask, so he hurriedly closed his mouth and stood with his hands down, waiting for Song Laohu's orders.

The tiger took out a silver ingot from his bosom and handed it over, and said lightly: "Don't make a noise, let me wait to enter the city first." ”

"Yes, yes!" the leader took the money in a hurry, responded respectfully, and immediately ordered his men to disperse the crowd at the front, and let the tiger and his party enter the city first.

Those who lined up did not have any complaints, because these people were dressed strangely, and even the leaders of the guards were frightened and did not dare to come out, they must be dignitaries, they could not afford to provoke them, so they got out of the way one after another, and Song Laohu and others went first.

"Captain, who are these strangely dressed bottoms? Could it be from Fanbang?" When Song Laohu and the others entered the city, they couldn't even see their backs, and a young guard asked the leader suspiciously.

"Okay, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, if you know more, your boy's home for dinner will be difficult to protect!" The leader of the guards reprimanded the man, and he shrank his neck in fright, not daring to say more.

Zhou Yang and the other cultivators who came to the mortal city for the first time were all curious, and they all looked around the city. They felt that this place was similar to the city of Xiujie, except that the buildings were a little smaller, but the streets were wide and there were many pedestrians.

Most of the ground is paved with bluestone, and there are also shops on both sides, but instead of selling all kinds of cultivation materials, they are daily necessities used by mortals.

There are tea houses, sprinklers and small stalls in the city, and they also found a gambling house and two green buildings.

It's sunset, most of the other shops are closed, and the streets are lit up with restaurants, gambling houses, and Fengyue establishments. And, of course, the inn.

And their goal now is the inn.

Along the street all the way to Lixu, I saw two huge lanterns in the distance, one lantern had the word Yuntong on it, and the other lantern had the word inn on it, but it was "Yuntong Inn" arrived.

The innkeeper saw that there were many people, his eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, although he was a little curious about the outfit of these people, but no matter who he was, he always came to live in his hotel, and he was a guest from afar, so he could earn money just by entertaining him well.

"One person in one upper room. Song Laohu said expressionlessly.

"Okay, all the guest officers, please come back! Xiao Er, what are you rubbing, it's not good to serve!" The shopkeeper responded, and hurriedly ordered Xiao Er to place the horses of the group, and personally let everyone go upstairs in the back.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you still want to eat?" the shopkeeper led the way in front of his courteous head, and asked Song Laohu when he turned back.

"Okay, bring the good food you are good at here to the table, and ten jars of good wine. The tiger commanded, and handed the treasurer two silver ingots, which amounted to twenty taels.

These gold and silver are the currency of the mortal realm, they are precious things, but they are worthless to the cultivators.

"Thank you, guest officer, I'll do it!" Seeing this, the shopkeeper immediately smiled happily, and after arranging the rooms for everyone, he immediately trotted to buy wine and food.

After only waiting for a pillar of incense, Xiao Er put the wine and food on the table one after another, and everyone gathered around the tiger's guest room to eat and drink.

"Not bad, not bad. Tiehu boasted while eating, because the dishes made by these mortals were no worse than those they ate in Anping City, and the taste was very good.

Of course, it is still much worse than Song Laohu's table of receiving the wind banquet.

Zhou Yang also savored the dishes on the table, not to mention, red, green, green, meat, vegetarian, the taste was really good, he couldn't help but move his fingers, and the food was very refreshing.

After tasting the delicacies of the mortal world, everyone dispersed to rest.

Zhou Yangpan sat in the guest room and did not meditate. The mortal world is the mortal world, and the aura here is extremely thin, and it is not suitable for cultivators to cultivate at all.

He was rummaging through the jade slips in the storage bag.

As early as when Tu Yan was in place, Zhong Pengfei had given him hundreds of Ziyuan Sect classics, covering a wide range of books, and he wanted to find out some records about mortal countries.

He hadn't cared about these things before, but now that he had come to the mortal realm, he had to learn about the conditions and customs of this place. But it takes some effort, and you have to sink into the divine sense to probe piece by piece.

Because some texts do not record only one event, but may be several kinds of records in one piece, so you need to look them up one by one.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and after turning over hundreds of pieces of jade slips, Zhou Yang finally found a record about the mortal kingdom in northern Hezhou.

This chronicle records in detail the mortal regions in the northern part of Hezhou, and of course the situation in the mortal countries of the ten cities in the extreme north.

There are 3,000 main cities of the cultivation realm in the northern part of the Hezhou continent, and there are tens of thousands of attached cities and small cities, but there are mortal realms outside of the thin spiritual energy, and the total number of zeros and zeros together is 100,000, and the population is extremely large, much larger than the number of cultivators.

The specific number of mortals is not recorded in the jade slip, but it must be a terrifying number.

Although there are many mortal countries, they are relatively concentrated, and the area they occupy is much smaller than that of the Boundary Cultivation City.

Taking the Ten Cities in the Extreme North of Hezhou as an example, within the Ten Cities is only the middle zone of Dingbei City, there are twenty-five mortal countries, which belong to three Cultivation Boundary Cities. Among them, there are thirteen factions in Dingbei, which is the largest number of mortal vassal states among the three cities.

And the Tongzhou Commercial Bank has the most mortal countries among the various factions in Dingbei, reaching six. Among them, the country where Meng Siquan inspected and left a message to the prince was among them, called the Dashun Dynasty.

The crown prince, who was at a disadvantage in the rivalry between his uncle and nephew, has long since passed away, and the current emperor is his grandson.

Zhou Yang's current location is one of Zhou Tianzong's two mortal subject countries, called Jin Chengguo, and the other is the Fengcang Kingdom, which is adjacent to Jin Chengguo.