"At present, it seems that the sub-consciousness of the body god cannot be brought back to the main world in its entirety, or that although it has been brought back, it is confined to the edge of the 'dream citation' and cannot leave to go to other places?"

With the rustling sound of rain outside the window, in the living room on the second floor of the attic, Zhao Qing suddenly woke up from a state of silence, and immediately felt the pain and discomfort caused by the sharp increase in the upper limit of mental power in a short period of time, and the center of his eyebrows seemed to be swollen and torn at any time;

Let her hurriedly concentrate and merge herself with heaven and earth, in order to share the huge pressure brought about by this sudden change, after more than two hours, she can barely recover her breath, knowing that the risk of this surge in mental power has passed.

Long before falling asleep, Zhao Qing's spiritual power had reached the limit of what her current physique could carry, and if she improved the "god" alone but could not balance the "essence" and "qi", she would face the crisis of separating the form and spirit.

Although she can still barely afford it for the time being, relying on the advanced realm such as "Wonderful Form and Spirit", there is no doubt that if the next time she falls asleep, there will still be a sudden increase in spiritual power of this level, and the probability of being able to continue to survive is quite limited, and she must wait for her body to come up.

has never had the experience of being blown up by mental power, and Zhao Qing can't say what will happen after this kind of thing happens, whether there is a way to recover as before, or it can be expected that the "Dream Citation" has the ability to prevent the "host" from self-destructing;

But according to her speculation, this problem of the balance of essence and spirit was most likely the main reason for her previous premonition that breaking through to the "Six Qi Realm" would lead to bad things.

And after her spirit stabilized, Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, and she sensed the "dream citation" that radiated light in the depths of her mind, and there were twelve more looming black dots around her, giving her a familiar and intimate feeling, which seemed to be her body and spirit cultivated in "dreams".

When Zhao Qing tried to touch these black dots with his mind, it was as if he was touching a piece of nothingness, as if he was separated by an insurmountable spatial barrier, close at hand but far away, difficult to really touch, and seemed to be limited to the area where the "citation" was located.

She secretly thought in her heart, guessing that the body gods could be specially bound and isolated by the "dream citation", even if it was limited by the rules, it should also have a special role, perhaps it could be regarded as an "independent" consciousness, and it would also be dreaming of the heavens.

"In other words, the so-called 'dreaming' is not that it is impossible to redo the dreams of the past experience and connect the plot in the dream."

"Assuming that 'dreaming into the heavens' and 'dreaming' do have something in common in this regard, I have been operating in the Huangyi world for so long, and it is a pity to leave forever, is there a way to return to the world I once dreamed of?"

According to the statistics of the harvest of 12,960 wisps of Jinxing's qi this time, Zhao Qing misses the two divine weapons she carefully refined, and has high expectations for the future of the powerful country she has established single-handedly, and she really wants to witness its future development.

Similarly, recalling the content of "Taiyi Mixed Underworld Explanation", she vaguely sensed that she had inherited the three major spiritual realms of the three steps of percussion, "self-realization, exogeny, and chaos", and although she did not make a breakthrough in skill in a short period of time, she was able to experience the deeper and subtle differences between heaven and earth.

With a significant improvement in the realm, a significant increase in the comprehension of the Dao, and several quick means such as the "Yuan Shen Transformation" that can still take effect in the current cultivation, the combat power that Zhao Qing can exert under normal conditions has been increased by multiples.

Considering that she would not be able to fall asleep again for the time being, and that it would take several months to fully digest the harvest this time, she also let go of the sense of urgency in her heart, knowing that the water mill kung fu was not very energy-consuming, and she just had time to take a casual stroll.

Originally, before falling asleep, Gao Yu sent an invitation to invite her party to a banquet in Dongguo Fuyang, but she inexplicably felt that it would be dangerous not to go, and Zhao Qing no longer felt that it was a trouble, on the contrary, she now felt that this matter may not be her own opportunity.

Instead of walking to and from the Huiji Martial Arts Academy as usual, this time she decided to experience another way that she had not experienced, so at the mouth of a harbor outside the Yuwang Temple, she found a boat that was about to sail to Dongguomen, and she didn't think the speed of the boat was slow, and sat straight up.

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The boat connected by the "board on top" method has many significant advantages over monohull boats. Since the boat has two hulls and a "bridge" in the middle of the "plate connection", the overall width of the boat is greatly increased compared to the original monohull, and it is much more stable when driving.

Beneath the rigid sails on three sides, the cabin, which looked like a sturdy wooden shed, looked quite ordinary, though more than enough to carry seventy or eighty people, but there were no ornate decorations, no expensive furnishings, only some necessary furniture and equipment.

One of the most "extravagant" decorations is probably the woody aroma that permeates the cabin, which is the smell of the hull that has been precipitated over the years, which makes people feel refreshed.

The gentle river breeze and moist coolness blow across the faces of the passengers, bringing the scent of distant flowers and the fresh smell of rice fields, and the faint smell of aquatic plants in the air, which is also intertwined with the woody aroma to create a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere.

Because it was formed by the merger of two boats, the boat also left two small sterns. The two sterns were separated by a distance of three or four feet, forming a small body of water.

When the boatman began to set off, Zhao Qing had already moved a small bench and sat on the edge of the left tail of the boat, she was dressed in a pale blue satin dress, her hair was only coiled up with a simple bronze bamboo hairpin, and she calmly looked at the water in front of her that was constantly receding and moving away.

In the unique scenery of this ancient city, the waterway is the most vital vein. The meandering river is like the lifeblood of the city, connecting the past, present and future of the city.

At this moment, those speeding ships are like notes jumping along this lifeline, playing a beautiful and graceful music.

They are large and small, some gorgeous, some simple, but each one carries its own story and life. They break through the water, as if telling a journey of sorrow or joy.

The light sound produced by the friction between the hull and the water is like a soft music of transgression, and in every tiny note, there is a tacit understanding and harmony between the ship and the water.

The astonishing speed of these boats is not due to the mastery of the pilots, who sneak under the water with their true powers, like an oar, but because of a transcendent high-ranking monk who has turned up the speed of the river in the city.

Being able to manipulate the flow of water to make them flow faster than usual is undoubtedly beyond the cognition of many people, and Zhao Qing sensed the calm and deep power in the water, and knew that the reason why the water was in this state was essentially due to the high-speed flow of water in the river.

Continuing to dig deeper, the reason why the Water Movement Yuan Qi was in such a state of rapid flow was not that a high-level monk was deliberately casting spells to maintain it, but that the rules and directions of the natural flow of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi here, and the slight changes that had occurred.

Perhaps, in terms of external manifestation, there is no difference between the control of the Yuan Qi and the control of the Law of the Yuan Qi, but in fact, the two are like the shadow cast by an object, compared to its real entity, there is an insurmountable difference.

As far as Zhao Qing knew, except for the common radical changes from yin to yang, as well as a few changes such as the "Yuan Shen Transformation" and "Dark Energy Effect" that she was exposed to, there was no power under the "Six Qi" realm that could affect the Law of Yuan Qi, which showed the mysteries of the latter.

Suppose there is a master who has cultivated to the level of "sympathy between heaven and man" or even "the unity of heaven and man", and has never seen the heaven and earth vitality outside this waterway, then it is very likely that he will take the strange flow of the water vitality as a matter of course, and he will not be able to find the abnormality in it for eternity.

However, it is simply to change part of the vitality law in a waterway, so that the vitality of the water line flows straight down like from high to low according to the demarcated track, and the speed is significantly accelerated by the sudden narrowing of the "waterway", which can be clearly understood;

However, when it comes to the entire Huiji City, the water network that crisscrosses and crosses the city is innumerable, and it is undoubtedly much more difficult to keep many water currents that meet and hedge with each other in this state, and there are more mysterious changes in it.

Each tributary of the waterway network is given a different flow direction and velocity, which is both independent and mutually influential, achieving compatibility and balance with the changing environment.

These flow directions and velocities must be adjusted with precision, and the slightest carelessness can lead to chaos in the waterway network, which requires great skill and experience, as well as in-depth knowledge of the various vessels.

Although the momentum of the waterway network in front of him was magnificent and huge, in Zhao Qing's eyes, it seemed to be an extremely sophisticated machine, and every detail was adjusted just right, full of the natural principles of heaven and earth.

Under the control of the law of vitality, the water flows are as if guided by an invisible baton, converging, colliding, surging and whirlpooling, making the entire waterway network full of dynamic beauty.

After refining her cultivation realm, she could even feel the agility and vitality contained in these regulated water flows, as if they were telling her some kind of gentle and distant artistic conception.

During the boat, the wide river is like an ancient jade belt, which skillfully connects the prosperity of the city and the natural silence on both sides. Sunlight poured down from the clouds and shimmered on the surface of the river like golden ripples.

On both sides of the waterway, ancient trees are verdant and sparkling with the river. The river is filled with a variety of plants, green reeds, and dense duckweed. Whenever the breeze blows across the water, the plants dance with the wind and spread out in layers.

Occasionally, a few laid-back waterfowl fly low across the water, breaking the tranquility of the water. And when the pleasure boat gallops by, or a fish jumps out of the water, rippling layer by layer, adding a bit of vividness and vitality.

At the intersection of each two waterways, stone bridges stand on the water, each carved with exquisite patterns, some carved with flowers, birds, insects and fish, and some engraved with historical stories. These stone bridges are like the veins of the city, connecting every corner of the city.

Thousands of stone bridges crisscross the bridge, like a huge transportation network, pedestrians flow on the bridge, and vendors set up stalls at the bridge, a lively scene.

With the gradual drizzle, whether it is the stone bridge, merchant ships, pleasure boats, or pedestrians, shops, and buildings on the shore, they all leave their own shadows on the water. These shadows ripple with the water, like a dream world.

The smoke willow paints the bridge, the wind curtain is green, and there are 100,000 people.

The clouds and trees surround the embankment sand, the angry waves roll frost and snow, and the moat is endless.

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Any large city, especially the capitals of various countries, usually has a vast area of hundreds of miles and a total population of tens of millions, and in order to make such a huge ancient city function properly, it must involve the transportation system within the city.

If ordinary people with little cultivation have to travel for several days to get out of the city gate once, and it is difficult to communicate with other areas of the city, then even if a huge city wall is built on the edge of this huge city, surrounding millions of people, it is not a good place to live.

The city is a place where resources are concentrated, and transportation determines logistics, and logistics capacity will limit the upper limit of the size of the city, and at the same time, the improvement of transportation capacity will bring about a reduction in communication and transaction costs to the city, which is the original purpose of the formation of the city.

A metropolis with a population of 10 million, which consumes countless materials every day, is far from being fully supplied by the area within the city, and requires a steady stream of food from the outside world to maintain the most basic survival of ordinary people.

For civilians, why live in a big city if the cost of living is so high that they are at risk of starvation?

Therefore, for these large cities, the design and operation of their transportation systems are particularly important. If the traffic situation in the city is not ideal, it will not only affect the city's economy and material flow, but also make the city lose its significance as a resource concentration center.

In order to solve the transportation problem, the high-ranking monks forcibly controlled the speed of the water flow in the city, so that the Yue people could "use boats as cars and poles as horses", which is a fairly typical example.

As a medium-sized passenger ship with no additional services, and the speed is blessed by the water in the city for free, the price of buying a "ticket" on the ship is naturally much cheaper than ordinary land transportation.

In fact, according to the "price tag" hung inside and outside the cabin, because the passenger capacity of the boat is quite fast, and the driving under normal circumstances is not more laborious than the boat, with more than 1 small coin per ten miles to calculate, the travel fee for a single person is only 2 + N small coins.

From the small harbor on the edge of Yuwangzong Temple to Fuyangli near the east Guomen of Huiji City, about 120 or 30 miles of water, the boat travels for more than an hour, and only needs 14 small coins for the road fare, which is quite affordable.

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Two skilled helpers were hired to work on the bow deck and in the cabin, and the owner of the boat, an old shipman in his fifties, with a short beard, a clear face, a rectangular face, and a penny about four feet long in his hand, sat alone on the right stern of the boat.

When the rain became heavier and heavier, the old boatman glanced at her, unhurriedly took off a robe from the wooden frame on the side, draped it on his body, and then grabbed the penny and pointed diagonally to the same position on the left tail, signaling Zhao Qing to use the rain gear on it.

Noticing that the other party did not seem to be drenched in the rain at all, the well-informed old boatman was not very surprised, and stood up with his legs slightly bent, and walked a little swaying, his hands like dead wood weathered by time, firmly grasping the boat's penny.

Suddenly, he pierced the penny in his hand suddenly, plunged into the water between the two tails, and then recovered and provoked with a swift movement, waving the action lightly and falling leaves, looking at the level of his strength, has reached the realm of lifting weights.

Surprisingly, the target of the old boatman's penny was not the big fish in the river as ordinary people imagined, but a small and light bronze coin, the hole of which was pierced by the tip of the penny, and then with a shock of his arm, it flew up and landed in a pottery urn beside him.

I don't know, in the rapid flow of water, why did such a small Ge coin appear, and it was collected by him with a penny in time as if he had expected it in advance?

When the old boatman suddenly got up and sat back down, his robe rose slightly, revealing the old man's legs, which were a little weak before, and they were actually a pair of prosthetic limbs made of bronze, faintly revealing a cold and hard luster of golden yellow, which made people feel a unique perseverance.

Now it seems that the original identity of the old boatman should have been a member of the division of the Yue State Xiliu, that is, a full-time sailor, and he had a lot of merits, so he got this rather rare prosthetic compensation after the war, and after leaving the army, he became an ordinary boatman.

"I have traveled dozens of times by boat to Fuyangli, and I can be regarded as an old connoisseur. Hey, I'm revealing a secret here, do you two want to hear it? ”

"The 'leg-shaped device' attached to the broken leg of the boatman is not the kind that foreign torturers barely put on and can only walk slowly, but a 'golden bone' that is deeply integrated with skeletal muscles and can exert fifty or sixty percent of its strength."

"'Golden bones'? I heard that the cultivation of the second level of 'meridian alternation and blood and qi circulation' of the second level of Yang Jin, rashly implanting other artifacts in the body is very prone to serious consequences, and there are even cases of death...... Does this 'old golden leg' actually have such a profound cultivation? ”

"Now, the little pig knows why I should wait a little longer to find this guest boat before traveling, right? How can other ships easily see such masters? Several passengers seated next to each other lowered their voices, exchanging information they knew about the old ship's home.

"Alas! I quit my job of 75 small coins a day, and dragged my family to the area of Fuzhong and Datang, hoping to be assigned a better field......" Another simple farmer looked at his wife who was holding the baby in his arms, muttered to himself, and prayed to the Eastern Emperor and the Western Queen Mother.

"Look at the guy sitting in the corner, why is he dressed differently?" "It's not that it's just different from our people, it seems that even the dozen or so Waiyue people over there don't seem to have such a style." "Excuse me? Ask your father ......"

In the cabin, which is about five feet square, the passengers are busy with their own business. Some people are chatting, some are napping, and some people, like Zhao Qing, are enjoying the beautiful scenery of the waterway.

They may be merchants who procure goods, simple farmers, or literati who travel everywhere, they have their own stories and experiences, but they meet on this simple boat.

This is a very common thing, it belongs to the Huiji City, and it can be seen everywhere on medium and large ships, but what particularly caught Zhao Qing's attention is that half of the more than 70 passengers in the boat this time are carrying heavy luggage, and they are people from other places who have come from afar.

As we all know, Goujian, the king of Yue, is currently implementing the good agricultural policy of "everyone has a private furrow", aiming to redevelop the Shanhui Plain, which has been reduced to the "inferior" Yangzhou in the "Yu Gong" after the great flood of ancient times, and now the sea invasion has completely receded, and redeveloped it into a fertile paddy field area.

After the war, Gou Jian deeply felt that the main grain-producing area in the core area of the Yue country, that is, the mountainous area in the south of Huiji, the original 12.3 billion mu of fields was insufficient, and most people lived a life of farming, fishing and hunting at the same time as "farming with the land and feeding the birds and deer", which was difficult to support the driving force of the country's rise and could not appear in the grand occasion of the people of Wufu.

Therefore, when he and Wen Chong ordered the large-scale expansion of the San'in Waterway and the San'in Land Road, which extended from the east and west of Huiji City, they also planned a large area north of the foothills of Huiji Mountain, between the east and west rivers, for the construction of water conservancy projects and the reclamation of fertile agricultural land.

Among the many large-scale projects, the "Fuzhong Pond" is undoubtedly one of the most important, with an astonishing area of 2 billion mu in the initial planning, and it is expected that about 1.4 billion mu of paddy fields can be reclaimed in ten years, so that the center of gravity of Vietnam's agricultural production has begun to shift from the hills to the plain water network area.

"The food and soil are uneven, and the land is not cultivated", every poor household who migrated to the rich middle pond can be granted 100 acres of righteous land per household free of charge, contributing to the growth of the strength of the country, producing a large amount of food supply to the entire Shanhui Plain, increasing the carrying capacity of the population, so as to achieve a virtuous circle.

"There are no homeless people in the ancient times, and when the food festival is held, the people live in peace, enjoy their palaces, serve the letters, hand in the letters, and immigrate here. In this world, the rule is uneven, the people are not harmonious, the people are uneasy about their residences, and they are not happy with their palaces; The old and sick use money, be cunning and hard, and travel to the people; Thin things are gluttonous, and the people are worried. ”

If the country is not well governed, and the common people have no land to cultivate, they will become "nomads" who have no permanent place to live and wander around, and these people have a rather limited loyalty to their own country, and are more willing to migrate wherever the living conditions are better.

Due to the loss of the total population of Vietnam in the war in the past years, Gou Jian also has a policy related to the migration of people from other places into Vietnam, treating "naturalized" foreigners equally, and also distributing land, and considering that Vietnam has been in a state of zero land for a long time due to recuperation;

Even if you look at the four seas of Kyushu, it is also the best migration choice for nomads, so that "the people of Dongyi, Xiyi, Guyi, and Juwu all hear that the people of the Yue Land eat more, and the government is thin and trustworthy, and the waves return to it, and the Yue Di is the majority of people."

The natives in the eastern seas, the foreign Yue people near the junction of Yue and Chu in the west, and the south turned out to be the contempt of the subject countries of Yue, so forget it, but the last "sentence Wu" actually refers to the "upper country" Wu State that the Yue State is now subject to, but it is a little difficult to do.

The good and decent people of Shangguo left behind the rich land of Wu, which was known as the world's most powerful country under the rule of Wu Wangfucha, and ran to Yueguo, which undoubtedly proved the loss of people's hearts under Fucha's continuous wars and military projects.

The living conditions of the country have caught up with the level of the big countries, and normally speaking, this should be a good thing to boost the self-confidence of the Yue people, but the key problem is that the Juwu people who migrated here are still enemies with national hatred and family hatred with the Yue people.

And the passengers on the boat this time, after several young people secretly questioned and were affirmed by the elderly, four middle-aged people with Wu Di style were faintly isolated in a corner of the cabin, and from time to time they were intimidated by the Yue people who pretended to draw their blades.

Leaving the country of Wu and migrating to the country of Yue, along the way, people looked at them with strange eyes, these four middle-aged people may have long been accustomed to this kind of indifference and rejection, they tried their best to shrink in the corner, for fear of attracting the attention of others.

However, after enduring the humiliation for nearly half an hour, the Wu people were also a little unable to hold their breath, and three of the able-bodied people took the initiative to pick up the Wu hooks they were carrying from their packages and unabashedly placed them in the most easily drawn position on their bodies.

This provocative action instantly made the already tense atmosphere on the ship even more tense, and both sides showed a tense posture, making the air seem to freeze.

…… (End of chapter)