About half an hour later, in the small Taoist temple at the highest point of the Aries Cave, looking at the empty sky and floating white clouds in front of him, Xue Wangxu held a cup of hot tea in his hand, gently blowing the heat emitted by the tea, and gradually felt that his soul seemed to be equally empty.

"Our Aries Cave will have a new Zhenshan Elder? She's going to be my new uncle? ”

At the door of the Taoist temple on his side, there was a middle-aged man with a Taoist bun with a serious and cold face, who was the heir of the next generation of cave masters in Baiyang Cave after Du Qingjiao returned to his hometown, and the only existing disciple of Xue Wangxu, Li Daoji.

Seeing Xue Wangxu's rare relaxed look, Li Daoji, who had also watched the battle before, was puzzled, and his eyebrows like a knife were unconsciously raised slightly, and he couldn't help asking: "Master, what is the origin of the other party?" Is it from Zhao Jingzhong? ”

"I don't know."

"However, as far as I know, the sword moves and artistic conception made by Zhao Qing are very different from the most blazing Zhao Sword Furnace 'Death Sword' in the world, and they are not among the 'Great Rebellions' known to Great Qin. All in all, there should be no big hidden dangers in identity. ”

Xue Wangxu patted his arm and thigh, which had been numb and bruised not long ago, and suddenly laughed like a child, and said happily: "I only know that she has now joined our Aries Cave, and in the battle just now, she has completely made the reputation of this sect. ”

"After being low-key for so many years, is it necessary for Changling to know everything?" Li Daoji's fingers stroked the slender ring sword on his waist, looked towards the white clouds in the distance, couldn't help but sigh, and asked calmly.

"The pursuit of cultivation is to be comfortable and comfortable, and after a lifetime of silence, it should be beautiful in the end." Xue Wangxuan stroked the few white beards, with emotion in his eyes, and replied gently:

"By the way, if you have time, just help me take a look, Zhao Qing's 'junior sister', and the new Ding Ning, what are you doing now?"

With many complex emotions emerging in his heart, when Li Daoji was about to turn around and leave, a piece of brightly colored and beautifully carved jade in Xue Wangxu's sleeve quietly cracked into two flat parts, and then stuffed one of them into the other party's hand, adding:

"By the way, I'll also send this half of the 'token' over."

……

After taking a while to walk around Baiyang Gorge, he roughly understood the situation of this sect, and Zhao Qing was now staying in the Jingshi Cave in the gate, and learned the detailed information of Baiyang Cave, Changling, and even the Great Qin Dynasty and the whole world.

In the Great Qin Dynasty, the first-class sects are naturally the Minshan Sword Sect and the Lingxu Sword Sect, both of which have thousands of inner disciples and tens of thousands of miscellaneous disciples in the outer court, and the thousands of inner disciples accumulated in the past few decades are the best talents from all over the Great Qin Dynasty and even the subject country.

These two major sects are naturally high, and all the other sects cannot be compared with them at all.

In addition to these two major sects, there are more than ten first-class sects in the Great Qin Dynasty, among which several sects such as Hengshan Sword Academy are prosperous because they have received strong support in addition to outstanding princes and generals, and the rest such as Moxu Sword Cave and Zhengyi Academy are also profound sects.

The Aries Cave can recruit students with cultivation qualifications every year, but there are only dozens of them, and among all the students who have come out, there are very few cultivators who can reach the top grade of the fourth realm.

If only the students who are still studying in the Aries Cave are counted, then the highest cultivation is only the middle grade of the three realms, which is slightly lower than the teaching of the dozen or so students in the door who only have the upper grade of the three realms to the upper grade of the fourth realm.

On top of these teachings held by the past graduates of Baiyang Cave and can be regarded as the registered disciples of Xue Wangxu and Du Qingjiao, there are only a few people such as Li Daoji, who are cultivators above the Fifth Realm Divine Thought, and can command flying swords with amazing lethality.

However, the strength of a sect is definitely not determined by the number of cultivators in the third, fourth, or even fifth realms, but is always determined by the cultivators at the top of that sect.

Therefore, when it was believed that there were two Seven Realm Grandmasters, the name of the Aries Cave quickly spread throughout the various forces of Changling and entered the ears of many high-level figures, causing a lot of impact.

According to the information they got, this Zhao Qing who suddenly appeared was Xue Wangxu's master, and when he was on an expedition to Zhao with the army for decades, he was besieged for a period of time due to the unfavorable war, and felt that his skills were likely to be lost, so he accepted a Zhao apprentice locally.

Considering that the impact of this kind of thing was not very good, and that the Qin Dynasty's foreign wars were not as victorious as they were later, after returning to the Qin realm by luck, he did not disclose the news, but left a few letters before his death, as well as a token used to identify the other party.

As for Zhao Qing himself, because he sent Qin people as his teacher, he was naturally ostracized in Zhao, so he hid in the mountains and lived in seclusion and penance, and it was decades after that, until he cultivated the Seven Realms, he did not leave the customs until he reached the Seven Realms, and found that the world had changed, and Qin had destroyed Zhao......

It sounds like this story is not very reliable, it seems to be a plot made up and eye-catching, but after all, it has been personally endorsed by the grandmaster Xue Wangxu, but it is not something that ordinary characters can question.

If there really is any problem, presumably the Heavenly Supervisor and the Divine Capital Supervisor, who are responsible for tracking and investigating the cultivators, should be able to gather a large amount of information and find out in a short period of time.

Similarly, for Zhao Qing, if he wants to forge a true enough identity, he needs to know some relevant information in order to make it flawless.

Coupled with her desire to explore the cultivation system of this world, she felt that the cultivation method of refining the Natal Sword was quite unique, and the Jingshi Cave in the Aries Cave was naturally an indispensable place for her.

……

In the records of many cultivation classics, in ancient times, when many powerful sects chose mountain gates, they first chose spiritual veins to live in, and over time, they carved the mountains they lived in like jade, arranged formations according to the trend of mountains and rivers, or carved mountains into the air, or dug out huge underground palaces or plains underground.

However, after all, the Aries Cave is only a small sect, although it has three insignificant spiritual veins, and a large number of grottoes in the mountains have been excavated, but the overall layout is quite ordinary, far from being comparable to this kind of real big sect.

Its Jingshi Cave is actually a cave with many ventilation holes on the top, as if it is always bathed in soft skylight, and the bookshelves on the four walls of the cave are full of various classics.

In addition to a few secret sects such as the "Aries Ice River Sword Rune Sutra", the Jingshi Cave of the Aries Cave contains all the mental formulas of the Aries Cave, including the understanding of many generations of Aries Cave practitioners on their own cultivation path.

Not only the exercises of the main sect of Baiyang Cave, but also some ancient books and classics collected by the predecessors of the sect, as well as the spoils obtained by the people in Baiyang Cave who participated in the foreign expedition of the Great Qin Dynasty, came from the scattered classics of the practice places of the Zhao, Han and Wei dynasties.

At a glance, there are "Health Sutra", "Finger Xuan True Formula", "Vipassana True Introduction", "Enlightenment True Heart Formula", "Aries Thirty-four Sword Sutra", "Nine Ink Separation Tips", "True Fire Discernment", "Red Phoenix Divine Illumination Sutra", "Five Yang Positive Body", "Meditation Streamer Method", "Sitting Delusion Heart Sutra", "Amaterasu Self-Reflection" and so on......

Even the disciples of this sect will only enter the scripture and history library for the first time after about half a year of study.

And the history of the cave is divided into inside and outside.

The mental methods and some records of the outer cave are relatively easy to understand, and most of them have no special restrictions on cultivation, so any disciple in the sect can read and study them.

The classics of the inner cave are more profound, especially the experience of many predecessors on some exercises, which may not be completely 100% correct, and need to be screened by themselves.

Therefore, only disciples who meet certain requirements in certain aspects and must also contribute to a certain level within the sect will be allowed to enter.

Of course, for Zhao Qing, who has the identity of an elder of Zhenshan, she can read the Jingshi Cave for any time, both inside and outside, and even has the permission to borrow and annotate the classics in the cave.

……

For ordinary practitioners, the cultivation classics in this kind of scripture and history cave are as vast as a sea of smoke, even if they are neatly categorized, they must be dazzling, so like most sects' scriptures, the scripture and history cave of Baiyang Cave is not particularly organized, and all kinds of classics are placed in order.

Wandering among the students of the Qingteng Sword Academy who had been allowed to enter the outer cave due to the merger of the two factions, Zhao Qing quietly flipped through the many classics in the Jingshi Cave, from which she obtained a lot of information she needed, and paid special attention to books such as "A Brief History of Changling Practice" and "Records of the Great Qin Counties".

The general status quo of the Sword Dynasty world was slightly different from what she imagined.

Although it is also located on the earth, the names and sizes of most of the terrain and landforms are the same as in previous lives, and the main countries are Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin, which look very similar to the Warring States period.

But in fact, perhaps because there are elements of cultivation and there is no Xia Shang Dynasty, there are many places in which they are not in line with the Warring States period in history.

For example, relying on the productive forces that are far more developed than normal feudal dynasties, the total population of the existing four dynasties of Qin, Chu, Qi, and Yan should be about two or three hundred million, and the major dynasties all have millions of soldiers.

For example, as the capital of the Great Qin Dynasty, Changling roughly covered the Yongcheng city in the previous history, but it was much larger in scale, with a population of more than 4 million, making it the largest city in the world.

The second largest city of the Qin Dynasty was named "Changluo", corresponding to the Luoyang area, which originally belonged to the Han Dynasty and had a population of more than one million, at the same level as Chudu, Qidu and Yandu.

After the fall of the Zhao, Han and Wei dynasties, the Great Qin Dynasty had set up forty-three counties, and although it lost a large number of young and middle-aged people in the war, the total population still reached nearly 100 million, and it is still growing rapidly.

The territory of the Qin Dynasty seems to be more than half of the Shandong Peninsula, the Jianghuai region, and the eastern coast than the historical Qin, Zhao, Han, and Wei;

In the northeast, Yanmen, Changshan, Guangyang, Jiaodong and other counties are bordered by Yanqi, in the southwest Yangshan, Jiujiang, Ba and other counties are bordered by Chuqi, and in Longxi, Beidi, Yinshan and other counties, they are bordered by Chu and Wushi.

But when it came to the Chu Dynasty, it was completely different, becoming the real "Western Chu", occupying Central Asia, the Western Regions, Qinghai, Guizhou and other places, and its territory presented a huge C-shaped shape, encircling the western part of the Qin Dynasty.

The Yan Dynasty is the closest to its historical position, but it also extended outwards a lot, and occupied the entire northeast beyond half of the North China Plain.

As for the Qi Dynasty, except for the enclave in the Shandong Peninsula that was sandwiched between the Yan Dynasty and the Great Qin Jiaodong County, it was basically located in the southern region, adjacent to Great Chu in the west and Great Qin in the north, and the territory included Cangwu, Lingnan, and Jiaozhi, and basically ruled the Indochina Peninsula.

The location of the Lushan Huimeng is the junction of the Qin Dynasty with Chu and Qi in the southwest, and belongs to the Wushan area.

Generally speaking, the territory of the four dynasties together is roughly equivalent to the territory of the peak period of Chinese history in the previous life, the Qin Dynasty occupies the essence of the territory, the Chu Dynasty has a huge territory, and the current national strength is obviously above Qi and Yan.

After all, it is a world where transcendent cultivation has been popularized, and with a history of thousands of years of cultivation development, it is normal for the expansion capacity of a large country to increase.

The total area is much larger than that of the Qing Dynasty in the previous life, and it is not a problem to feed a population less than the 400 million people at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Hundreds of years ago, before the establishment of the first great unified dynasty, the "You Dynasty", the rulers of this world were super sects that were extremely powerful and no less powerful than the current dynasty.

However, with the emergence of the You Dynasty and its demise under the rebellion of many sects, after the battle of the Eight Realms with the participation of many Eight Realms, many ancient inheritances were cut off, and the current cultivation world has become a lot weaker.

Despite this, in the past hundreds of years, the world still does not know how many grandmaster-level figures have been produced, how many kinds of exercises have been created, and how many powerful means of borrowing the vitality of heaven and earth have been created.

The Minshan Sword Sect and the Lingxu Sword Sect of the Great Qin Dynasty studied the means of the imperial sword to the extreme, while many sects of the Great Chu Dynasty, the Great Yan Dynasty, and the Great Qi Dynasty were beyond the reach of cultivators of other dynasties in terms of refining weapons, talismans, and yin qi.

Even the three dynasties of Han, Zhao, and Wei, which had perished, in addition to the hundreds of tantric practices, the Nanyang Danzong of the Han Dynasty, the sword furnace of the Zhao Dynasty, and the Yunshui Palace of the Wei Dynasty also had extremely amazing achievements in alchemy, sword smelting, and water control.

There is no doubt that the brilliant achievements created by the cultivators of this world will definitely bring Zhao Qing great gains.

In particular, the military talisman of industrialized and standard equipment has almost entered the era of extraordinary industrialization.

In the Great Qin Dynasty, tens of thousands of local troops stationed in an inner county were equipped with powerful talismans that were enough to fight against one or two ordinary Seven Realm Grandmasters; The entire dynasty's millions of troops combined, that was not something that any cultivator below the Eight Realms could compete.

In addition, she also noticed that although the world of the Sword Dynasty was somewhat similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the previous life, there had never been such an ideological change as a hundred schools of thought, at most it was just the rudiments of some Dao, Dharma, and Buddhist thoughts, which could not play a guiding role in cultivation.

Quickly browsed through the many historical records in the Aries Cave, Zhao Qing knew very well that many of the contents in it had traces of incompleteness and modification, mainly aimed at the content related to Bashan Sword Field and Wang Jingmeng.

Because Emperor Yuanwu once used dishonorable means to steal the exploits of Wang Jingmeng and Bashan Sword Field through shameless betrayal and conspiracy, in order to avoid the spread of deeds that are not conducive to himself, he burned and rewrote all the history books of the Qin Dynasty in recent years.

Since the beginning of Yuanwu, no one has dared to say Wang Jingmeng's name anymore, only daring to refer to "that person", as if it has become his unique synonym.

As the most outstanding figure in the Great Qin Dynasty for decades, affecting the dynasty up and down, and being unavoidable in many aspects, the various deletions and alterations of books involving the content of Wang Jingmeng and others have caused many obstacles for Zhao Qing to understand the historical records of recent years.

However, although Emperor Yuanwu and others did a lot of shameless things, he followed the results of Wang Jingmeng's reforms, and now he has achieved the amazing results of all the people having their houses, cultivators having their fields, having enough food and clothing, cooking oil with fire, and even every household must have meat within a few meals.

It is precisely because of this that in the minds of almost all Qin people, Yuan Wushi is a rare virtuous emperor, Empress Zheng Sleeve and Liangxiang, naturally he is also a saint's virtuous helper, and gradually forgot the Bashan Sword Field that was jointly destroyed.

In this case, how should a person's merits and demerits be measured?

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing casually put a few books introducing the Zhao Realm sect and the properties that are helpful for cultivation, and looked at Ding Ning, who was also located in the Jingshi Cave and was walking towards a futon in the side space, preparing to practice "Cutting the Three Corpses without My Natal Elemental Nerve".

As the faint brilliance on the surface of her body gradually faded, she lifted the sight shield to prevent others in the Jingshi Cave from disturbing her, and appeared directly in front of this "person".

……

At the same time, an ordinary carriage seemed to be driving aimlessly in the streets and alleys of Changling.

In the humble carriage, sat a thin man in a crimson brocade robe, with a short beard and a young face.

His hair was a little gray, and the nails on his hands were slightly yellow.

He looked a little decadent and lonely, but everyone in Changling knew that it was just an illusion.

All the people in Changling think that he is ruthless, cunning, and cruel.

Because he is the head of the Divine Capital Prison, the head of the Chen Prison.

During the long and boring inspection, Supervisor Chen hung his head slightly, as if he had fallen asleep, but at a certain moment, he slowly raised his head and lifted the curtain.

The unmarked carriage was moving into the shadows by a high wall.

When he lifted the curtain, many streams of heaven and earth vitality silently poured out softly from his body.

Without even a trace of the wind, layers of crystal-like brilliance quickly converged around his body, as if countless mirrors had been formed, refracting the surrounding light.

He was obviously wearing a heavily colored crimson robe, but even if there were passers-by, he could only see the curtain of the car as if it was being waved by the wind, but he could not see him coming out of the car.

At this moment, it was as if he was transparent. (End of chapter)