The whole Jade Kyoto is very deserted, not only the eight winds do not move, but also reject people thousands of miles away, but Taiqing Square is the only exception, all kinds of shops gather here, the flow of people is the largest, and there are the most fireworks.

When you come to Taiqing Square, the first thing that catches your eye is a majestic statue of Taishang Daozu, which is ten zhang high. Shangqing Street and Yuqing Street intersect here, and the statue of Taishang Daozu is located at the point where the two intersect, which is not only the center of Taiqing Square, but also the center of Yujing.

It is said that in the earliest days, someone proposed to erect a statue of Xuansheng here, but Xuansheng refused, so it was changed to Taishang Daozu.

It's not that I deliberately belittle the Taishang Dao Ancestor, but there are too many statues of the Taishang Dao Ancestor, just in the Yujing City, there are not a thousand, there are also eight hundred, it's really not bad for this one, but Xuansheng's attitude is very resolute, not only Taiqing Square, looking at Yujing, Xuandu, and Zifu, from beginning to end, Xuansheng did not leave any statues. It is said that only the portraits of the Xuan Sheng are left in the Jinque and Zixiao Palace, and only real people and great people can witness the true face of the Xuan Sheng.

At this time, the sky is getting dark, and the lights are on.

Around the statue of Taishang Daozu, there are twenty-four sky lanterns hanging tassels, each of which is the size of a water tank, and slowly rotates around the statue of Taishang Daozu in a strange trajectory, illuminating the entire Taiqing Square.

After nightfall, Taiqing Square is extremely lively, with people coming and going, both wearing plackets and wide-sleeved cranes, and those wearing regular clothes like Qi Xuansu.

Around Taiqing Square, there are all kinds of shops, in addition to the regular shops such as restaurants and inns, there are all kinds of swords, jade, spiritual objects, rune paper, pen and ink, elixirs, medicinal materials, clothing, ingredients, wood, etc. After nightfall, they all have lights, and each house has more than one lamp, if you look down from above, it seems to give the whole Taiqing Square a layer of light.

It's a pity that there is a ban in Yujing, and Taoist priests below the second rank are not allowed to go against the wind, so except for real people, no one can see this scene with their own eyes.

The only thing that is not there is the Qinglou and the gambling house, the Daomen strictly prohibits such things that corrupt the atmosphere, and the wind and dust women are not qualified to enter the Jade Capital City, even the so-called Oiran is not allowed.

Qi Xuansu stood at the edge of Taiqing Square, his hands folded in his lower abdomen, looking up at the sky lanterns floating in the sky, recalling the scene when he first came here, he was dazzled, the sky lanterns, the surrounding lights, the statue of Daozu, and people coming and going......

Qi Xuansu came to Taiqing Square from the west along Yuqing Street, while Zhang Yuelu came to Taiqing Square from the north along Shangqing Street at this time.

It has always been sitting in the north and facing the south, and the north of Yujing is naturally Xuandu.

Although Zhang Yuelu had just been promoted from the head to the deputy hall master, her mood was not very good, and the downfall of the high-level Daomen and the undercurrent were surging, which made her extremely disgusted, but she had to be involved.

So she left the inner city of Xuandu for the first time and came to the outer city of Yujing, which can be regarded as a relaxation.

Although he is also a Taoist priest of the Four Grades of Sacrifice, Zhang Yuelu's status is incomparable to Sun Yongfeng, not to mention that Zhang Yuelu has been promoted to the deputy hall master, and there are half-immortals given by the Daomen, only in terms of residence, Zhang Yuelu was assigned a two-entry mansion located in Xuandu, and Tianjitang also exempted Zhang Yuelu from all lease fees, and the lease period was as long as thirty years.

There is no shortage of geniuses in the eyes of ordinary people, so the nine-grade Taoist system has been established, and what the Daomen lacks is immortals.

With the strength of the Daomen, it is possible to turn a waste person into an ordinary person, or an ordinary person into an immortal, but the cost of the latter is much higher than that of the former. And real people and real people also consume all kinds of resources. Therefore, Daomen treats this kind of natural immortal extremely favorably, whether it is a half-immortal thing, or a mansion in Xuandu, it is nothing compared to the cost of forcibly creating an immortal.

Zhang Yuelu walked alone in Taiqing Square, although she has a great reputation, but not many people have really seen her, plus she wore a very plain robe without any grade mark, instead of the rather eye-catching four-grade sacrificial wine Taoist Heyu, plus it is night, and the sky lantern is no longer bright, and it can't be used as the sun, so it didn't attract the attention of others.

Zhang Yuelu walked into a shop specializing in blades, most of the blades used by people in the Daomen are mainly swords, and they are quite disdainful of firearms, but this shop is the opposite, not only does not have a sword, but also mostly firearms and Qimen blades.

Zhang Yuelu used a sword, but it was difficult for the sea to be water, and after she had a half-immortal object, she was not interested in the long sword that was at most a spiritual object, but it was these strange things that could arouse her interest even more.

The shopkeeper is a six-grade Taoist priest, likes to fiddle with organs and other things, has a lot of research on firearms, once served in Tianji Hall, and later saved enough money, so he retired and opened this shop.

When he saw Zhang Yuelu coming in, he didn't rush to greet him, but let Zhang Yuelu browse by himself.

Zhang Yuelu's gaze swept over many firearms, including the "Divine Dragon Handcuff" produced by the Shenji Battalion in the 36th year of Jiushi, and then his gaze fell on a cigarette stick.

No matter how talented Zhang Yuelu is, after all, he is young, and the knowledge and experience that he needs to accumulate over time are limited, and it is impossible to know everything, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Shopkeeper, why do you still have a cigarette stick here?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled slightly: "This is not an ordinary cigarette stick, but a kind of Qimen blade, the famous 'barricade', the outside is open." ”

Qi Xuansu just walked into this shop at this time, and when he heard the words of the shopkeeper, his eyes fell on the cigarette stick, and he immediately remembered the long smoke that Qi Niang never left for a moment.

Only then did he know whether Qi Niang's blade was the long smoke or the Qimen blade.

However, Qi Niang has never used it, but only used it to smoke. Qi Niang occasionally made a few shots, all of them were killed with bare hands, fast and accurate, so that the opponent had no time to react, and the hand knife was even sharper than the real knife, so that Qi Xuansu couldn't see the depth.

Zhang Yuelu's gaze shifted from "blocking the face" to Qi Xuansu's body.

Zhang Yuelu, as an immortal in the stage of returning to the truth, has reached the realm of manifesting infants, corresponding to the realm of the holy womb of the scattered people.

It is not difficult to see from the names of the two realms that the two realms belonging to different lineages are quite similar.

The lineage of the Sanren is very interesting, it is like picking several realms from other inheritances and putting them together, and it is like an imitation of the immortals. To sum up, the immortals are well-read, proficient in everything, and the scattered people are also well-read, and everything is sparse. Therefore, there is a saying of "little immortals" in the line of scattered people, but this title is more derogatory than praised.

There is even a saying that the Sanren One Pulse was originally the product of Daomen's attempt to mass-produce the Qi Immortals, but the Daomen failed, not that the Daomen could not replicate the Qi Immortals, but that they could not be mass-produced, and the cost of copying a Qi Immortal was too high, so high that the Daomen felt that even if the cultivated Qi Immortals did not die halfway, they would not be able to recover the cost, so they had an additional Sanren lineage outside the five ancient inheritances.

Zhang Yuelu, as the proud son of heaven who has initially entered the upper echelons of the Daomen, knows that this statement is not a rumor, but the truth.

Since the beginning of Xuansheng, in addition to reusing young people, it has vigorously advocated various innovations, so there is no lack of bold moves within Daomen, and the imitation of immortals is only one of the more influential examples, and all kinds of semi-immortals are also the result of Daomen's attempts to imitate immortals.

Let's go back to the Sanren themselves, because the Sanren originate from the immortals, so there is a subtle connection between the two, just like in the same lineage, people in the high realm can easily see through the reality of people in the lower realm.

Therefore, Zhang Yuelu immediately noticed Qi Xuansu's existence, and even Qi Xuansu's realm cultivation could not hide it from her.

A Kunlun stage of the scattered people, the realm of Inner Dan.

This is nothing, but what interests Zhang Yuelu is that there is a breath of anger in this peer.

Let's call it "murderous".

This is not something that can be accumulated by one or two lives, let alone a son of a family who can be raised by killing a few servants, and many men in black who are often on the battlefield are just like this.

Zhang Yuelu's intuition accumulated in Beichen Hall told her that this peer was not a native of Yujing, and most of them were from the local provincial government.

The real person in charge of Tiangang Hall once said that the Taoist priests raised in the Yujing flower garden cannot withstand the wind and rain, so Tiangang Hall must recruit Taoist priests from the local Taoist government, which is also the reason why Tiangang Hall is always understaffed.

Zhang Yuelu asked Zhangtang Zhenren why he didn't change this situation.

The answer was simple, the hard-working gardener who raised this flower garden was very satisfied with the current scenery and would not allow anyone to change it.

can make the real person in charge of the hall speak so vaguely and dare not speak out, then the identity of the gardener is already self-evident.

Just when Zhang Yuelu was a little distracted, Qi Xuansu had already asked the price, he wanted to add himself a life-saving weapon, firearms were the best, but he was frightened by the price of hundreds of Taiping dollars, and he didn't hesitate, and turned around and left the store directly.

Zhang Yuelu also lost the interest of continuing to watch, and left the store.

The two of them left the store one after the other, and a young female crown came forward, presented two wedding cards, and asked enthusiastically: "I wonder if the two of you can enjoy the ceremony?" ”

Both of them were stunned.

Immediately, I saw that many people were gathered in the City God Temple not far away, and the atmosphere was warm, and it was actually a wedding.

The big wedding pays attention to the morning and dusk, which means to go to the bride in the morning and hold the wedding at dusk.

In the 12th hour, dusk specifically refers to the 11th hour, which is the period from 19 o'clock to 21 o'clock in the western time.

Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu invariably took out the pocket watch and opened the cover.

It's exactly the right moment.