"This is a storage bag, you will also have it in the sect in the future, it is not a rare thing."

Tang Ping said, piled up the food on the table, and said, "Since you have taken it out, let's take a look, this is the map of Central Continent drawn by the Tang family themselves, the Tang family has been walking around all these years, and after arriving at a place, they will add a few strokes to the Tang family's own map, and there will be these, but it is estimated that it is much rougher than the map of the sect." ”

Saying that, Tang Ping unfolded a paper tube, pressed it with the food box on one side, and the other side was still upturned, so she hugged Xiaobai over and let it press the upturned paper edge on the other side with her paws, and then said to Yan Xuan, "Come, Sister Yan, let's look for your house first." ”

Yan Xuan looked at the map and was also interested, and said while looking at it: "My family is in the incense picking city of Nanyao. ”

"Southern medicine, southern medicine" I saw Tang Ping's tender white finger scribbling around on the map, and after looking for a while, he pointed to a place with his finger and said, "It's really hard to find here." ”

Yan Xuan looked carefully, and there was a small black dot in a dense landscape marked on the map, next to it were two words the size of mung bean grains: Nanyao, followed by a smaller small character like a sesame seed: Ruan.

"There's no way, it seems that the Tang family's map can't find the incense city." Tang Ping said a little apologetically.

"I really didn't expect that Nanyao was so small, I think the incense city is big enough, every time I go out, I will get lost, I can't find the fragrance city on the map."

Yan Xuan thought that every time she went out before, she was taken by her mother, otherwise she would really get lost, but when she thought of her mother, and then looked at the small black dot that represented the southern medicine country, Yan Xuan's heart couldn't help but hurt, and she didn't know how much of the landscape was separated from her hometown, and she didn't know how good her mother was now.

"It's true that the country of southern medicine is not a big country, maybe other maps dedicated to recording southern medicine can find the city of incense, but I don't have that kind of map."

"What does this Nguyen character mean?" Yan Xuan asked, pointing to the little Ruan character.

"That means that the country of Nanyao belongs to the Ruan family, think about it, is the emperor of your Nanyao surnamed Ruan."

"Yes, that's right." Yan Xuan nodded, according to her generation, one of the aunts in her family was the concubine of the lord of the Southern Medicine Kingdom, and the emperor was surnamed Ruan.

"Here, this is Fuquan, my home is here." At this time, Tang Ping pointed to a place to show Yan Xuan, and sure enough, there were two words next to a black dot: Fuquan, and there was a smaller word behind it: soup.

It turned out that Tang Ping's home was there, Yan Xuan thought.

"Well, that stinky boy's home is here, hey, it's a big country, and the emperor's surname is Tian." Tang Ping found Qian Chao's Qi State on the map again.

Yan Xuan looked at this map, the huge piece of paper was full of pen and ink, it was the first time she had seen such a map, but she could also identify what was a mountain, what was a big lake, and what was a big river from the map. This map is extremely exquisite, the peaks of the mountains, lakes and rivers are staggered, between these mountains and rivers, a small black dot represents a country, dense small black dots spread on the map, each black dot has a few words behind it, telling the person who looks at the map what country it is, and which family it belongs to.

Yan Xuan looked at the mountains and rivers and dense countries, and couldn't help but sigh: "There are so many countries!" ”

"More than seven hundred and forty." Tang Ping said.

"What?"

"I said that there are about 740 large and small countries in Middle-earth."

"There are so many!" Yan Xuan was shocked for a moment, and asked Tang Ping again, "That means there are more than seven hundred and forty families, right?" ”

"The number of families is much larger," Tang Ping said with a smile, "It can't be calculated like this, the larger families can control a country, but there are still many small families who don't have the strength to control the country, only one county and one county, and more small families can only be alone." In addition, there are some big families who are not interested in controlling any country, and the whole family is hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests outside the world, so the number of families is too much, anyway, I don't know how many families there are in the world. ”

"So where are we now, can we find it on the map?" Yan Xuan asked.

"Well, then we have to change the map," said Tang Ping, grabbing another paper tube and spreading it on the table, still pressed by the food box and Xiaobai.

This map is significantly different from the previous map, in addition to the same landscape logo, the most obvious thing is that the paper of the map is painted with different colors, light blue, light red, light purple, etc., dividing a map into irregular areas.

"This one is the distribution of the Zhongzhou sects and families, and the different colors are the spheres of influence of different sects, here," Tang Ping pointed to the pale blue place and said, "This blue is the boundary of the Five Spirits Sect, we are in the Youming Valley, where is the Youming Valley?" Where, where, here! It's really hard to find. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a place on the map for Yan Xuan to see, and sure enough, in the corner of the words of the Five Spirits Sect on the map, there was a place marked with three very small characters of "Youming Valley", and a small lotus flower was also drawn.

"What is this?" Yan Xuan pointed to the small lotus flower and asked Tang Ping.

"Oh, that, it should be Little Lotus Lake, my sixth grandfather told me that it can be reached by following the road in front of us and crossing a mountain col, it doesn't seem to be too close, but it is said to be the most beautiful place in this Yuming Valley, we can go and see it in the future." Tang Ping looked at the place where Yan Xuan's finger was.

Yan Xuan looked at the other colored places on the map, the names of the countries on the previous map were gone, but obviously there were a lot more black dots, some big and some small, each black dot had small characters next to it to mark the existence of a family, and there was only one small black dot and a Ruan character in the location of his own southern medicine country, and all the black dots were densely distributed in different color areas.

"Generally speaking, the family in which color the map belongs to the sect represented by that color, Sister Yan, you see, this piece is our Five Spirits Sect, here is Muyang Sect, here is Meng Cailou, above Meng Cailou is the Sky Cliff. Below the Muyang Sect is the Lion Forest, and here, here is the Nine Eternal Plains, which is the farthest away from our Five Spirits Sect. ”

"And what about these?" Yan Xuan asked, pointing to some small pieces of color that were relatively fine.

"Those are some relatively small sects, compared to our Five Spirit Sect in terms of numbers, so the place they occupy is much smaller, but they can't be underestimated, as long as they can open a sect, my sixth grandfather said that they must not be underestimated, there are always some things that others can't compare, that is the foundation of their foothold, otherwise they would have been swallowed up a long time ago."

"Annexation?" Yan Xuan didn't understand a little.

"What do you think? Big fish eat small fish things are the same everywhere, this picture was drawn about fifty years ago, I dare to say that there must be a change in the boundary between the various sects here, if it is not annexed, what else can it be, don't look at the harmony between the big sects, in fact, it is all punched and kicked behind the scenes, but it is inconvenient to put it on the table. ”

"Ah Ping, what do the immortals want these lands for? They have all become immortals, flying around, are they still rare mortals? ”

"Of course not, probably for two reasons, but also what my sixth grandfather told me, one is that most of the good things are born and grown, even if you can't see it now, who knows what good things will be found in the future, of course the ones on your own territory are your own, and of course there are more opportunities when the territory is large."

"Second, it's because of people, whether it's a sect or a family, if you want to strengthen yourself and continue the inheritance, you must have someone, but most of the cultivators are busy practicing by themselves, how can they have so much time to marry wives and have children, of course, the cultivators also have descendants, but after all, there are not many, the main source of monks is still people with spiritual roots among mortals, you don't think that the Five Spirits Sect just relies on the first election once every sixty years to supplement the newcomers, when the monks of the sect walk around, they find that children with spiritual roots are a major event for them. When the place is bigger, the population will be larger, and the children who find spiritual roots that can practice will have a greater chance. That's why the sects will try their best to expand their territory. ”

"That's right." Yan Xuan said, feeling that the relationship between this sect and the uncles in those rooms in his family seemed to be similar.

"Then, Ah Ping, what are we practicing for?" Yan Xuan asked the final question in his heart.

"Wow! Sister Yan, I really don't know how to answer you with this question. Tang Ping said embarrassedly.

"Am I asking too stupidly?" Yan Xuan asked cautiously.

"No, your question is not too simple, but too difficult, I asked my father and my sixth grandfather this question. My father's answer is very simple, practice, you can live longer, do you know Sister Yan, as long as you enter the Qi refining period, the life span of a monk can be at least one hundred and fifty or sixty years old, Sister Yan, have you heard of a few people in your family who can live a hundred years old? Don't say 100 years old, 70 years old in the world is rare. ”

"Then what did your sixth grandfather say?"

"Over the mountains and mountains, see the sky outside the sky." Tang Ping said.

"Finished?" Yan Xuan asked.

"That's right, that's what he said, although my sixth grandfather is very annoying most of the time, sometimes there is some truth in what he says." Tang Ping said.

"Over the mountains and mountains, see the sky outside the sky." Yan Xuan nodded slowly while repeating this sentence.

"One hundred and fifty or sixty years old, I thought that all cultivators could live forever."

"How can there be such a cheap thing, but with the improvement of cultivation, the lifespan can increase with it, and the higher the cultivation, the longer the lifespan. In fact, if you want me to say that the monks are the ones who are most afraid of death, why would they be sarcastic and try to improve their cultivation? ”

"Ah Ping, then why are you practicing?" Yan Xuan suddenly asked Tang Ping for no reason.

"What do you think?" After Tang Ping heard this, she looked at Yan Xuan with a smile.

"Is it to climb over the mountains beyond the mountains......"

"That's right! Naturally, it is necessary to see all over the world. Ha! Tang Ping said and waved her small fist, grabbed a piece of candied fruit from the food box and stuffed it into her mouth.

While eating, he said to Yan Xuan vaguely: "Sister Yan, you don't know, I am not liked by those elders in my family. One is that I have a wild temperament and love to cause trouble, and many children in my family who are about the same age as me have complained to me; The second is that my father can't be regarded as a monk, so he basically has no status in the family, so they look at me with that face, and they don't look down on me one by one. So I don't really have a good impression of the Tang family. ”

"Aren't you having a good time in your family?" Yan Xuan asked.

"Well, I'm very unhappy, but no one bullied me, my sixth grandfather has almost lived in the Tang family since he found out that I have a spiritual root, so even if I cause trouble, there are people to protect me, who I bullied, his parents don't dare to go to my sixth grandfather to theorize, but after a long time, it's boring."

"Later, my sixth grandfather told me that I was a scourge of the Tang family, and he wanted to take me to the Five Spirits Sect to practice, and I was not allowed to stay at home, so I came here."

Yan Xuan sighed in his heart, blaming himself for being stupid, and thought that Tang Ping was a bag at home like herself, but she didn't think that she was a little devil that no one in the family could provoke, but it was right to think about it, what kind of thing about her performance since she saw this girl was like a loss?

"Sister Yan," Tang Ping looked at Yan Xuan and said, "You asked me, and now I will ask you, why do you practice?" ”