Chapter 1063: Hometown
Blackwater City, a small city on the southeastern border of the Great Cloud Country, is also Han Shuo's ancestral hometown.
Because of its proximity to an unusually wide Blackwater River, it got the name of Blackwater City.
Unlike the Giant Wood Country, which has a large population and has more than ten sects of cultivation, the Great Cloud Country is a little weak among the many countries in the Central Plains Continent.
Not only does it not have any elixir or mineral resources that can be used, but even the population can only rank at the lower middle level among many dynastic countries.
So much so that there are very few Xiuzhen sects that have set up dojos in the Great Cloud Country, and with the Qingyang Sect's branch dojos here, there are only four in total.
Moreover, these four dojos are all in the national county of the Great Cloud Country and the other three large county towns, and in a small and medium-sized city like Blackwater City, there will not be any cultivation sect favored here.
Not only is there no dojo of the Xiuzhen sect set up, but human monks rarely come to this barren place, and even if there is, most of them are mainly passing by, leaving only the legend of the immortal's flying sword and longevity to the 20,000 people in Blackwater City and its surroundings.
Walking on the gravel road of Blackwater City, the potholed ground tells the backwardness and barrenness of this small border town.
When Locke entered Blackwater City, he used Han Shuo's appearance, and he was dressed in a Taoist robe, with a bun of hair, and a wooden sword hanging obliquely from his waist, so that the officers and soldiers on duty in Blackwater City were stunned that no one dared to come forward and ask him to collect the entrance fee.
In the Great Cloud Country, the status of Taoist priests is very high, and the lord of the country who has no spiritual root but wants to cultivate immortals and immortals not only curry favor with the four cultivation sects in his country, but also bring those small groups of monks who have no formal sects and only have the Qi refining period and the foundation building period in the sect, and they have also benefited a lot.
The Taoist priest represents a privileged class, and even the local court officials have to be respectful when facing the Taoist priest.
Of course, this phenomenon of blind worship has also bred many liars to go out to swagger and deceive, and many 'fake Taoists' who don't even have a sense of qi have become popular in Dayun China.
If it weren't for the Qingyang Sect and the other three Xiuzhen sects who needed to maintain their reputation and clean up these swaggering fake Taoist priests from time to time, the entire Great Cloud Country would probably become extremely chaotic because of this.
Blackwater City hasn't been to the 'True Daoist' for three years.
Why do you want to emphasize that he is a true Taoist, because two years ago, Lord Zhizhou, who was newly appointed in Blackwater City, burned to death the Taibai Guan Lord, who had been a powerful man in this place for four years, with only his fifteen family members, and pierced the deception that the Taibai Guan Lord had Taoist magic power.
"This Zhu Zhizhou has some courage and courage. Walking on the troubled streets of Blackwater City, holding a bronze mask in his hand that was very popular among the people of the Central Plains Continent in the Qingyang Realm, Locke smiled.
"How do you sell this mask?" Locke casually asked the stall owner in front of him.
The stall owner was a swarthy old man in a short coat and a straw hat, and judging by the bulging muscles of his arms and the calluses on his fingers, Locke guessed that most of the bronze masks on the stall were made by the old man himself.
"Master Taoist, don't want money, don't want money, take it if you like. The old man estimated that he had never seen a few Taoist priests in his life, and when he was questioned by Locke, he stammered a little. He was excited.
Recently, it's almost the Red Lantern Festival in the Great Cloud Country, and this mask is the mask worn by the people of Blackwater City when they put out lanterns when they visit the Heishui River at night.
The appearance of the mask is often fangs and claws, based on folk legends about monsters and ghosts, and the Great Cloud Kingdom is so barren that not only are not too many monks willing to come here, but even demon beasts and evil cultivators rarely visit this place.
So much so that the monsters and ghosts that really exist in the Qingyang Realm, in the eyes of the residents of Blackwater City, only the legends passed down by their ancestors are left.
Locke suddenly wanted to buy this bronze mask because he thought of the title of Joss Maskless, although it is still not clear how stable the mask that Jos has been wearing is, but listening to the introduction of Kayla and Ashar and other women, the power of Maskless is only stronger than the negative energy fusion bead, not weaker than it.
The alchemical mask was a testament to the Inheritor of the Will that Joss and Kayla's mentor had passed on to him on his deathbed.
You must know that Jos and Kayla's mentor was a famous alchemy master in the Western Isles hundreds of years ago, and there are few excellent alchemy props from this master.
If Jos takes in an apprentice or has a child to inherit his mantle, it is likely that the Maskless Mask will become the inheritance of Jos's will and pass it on to his next generation.
But if Jos doesn't take in apprentices or give birth to children, then there is a high probability that the Mask will be passed on to Angelina.
It was just an ordinary bronze mask, how could it have the power of one-ten-thousandth of Jos's faceless mask, and he put it on his face as if he were playfully wearing it, and Locke threw a thumb-sized piece of broken silver into the old man's stall.
There was really nothing that attracted Locke in Blackwater City, or there was actually nothing in the Great Cloud Country that attracted Locke, in addition to the turmoil he had caused in the Giant Wood Country, there was also a reason why this was Han Shuo's hometown.
No matter how he said that he could be regarded as occupying Han Shuo's identity, it was reasonable that he should also take a look, one of the excuses he used to leave the Hailan Sect was to return to his hometown to visit relatives.
It is very eye-catching to wear a bronze mask on the street in broad daylight, especially since Locke is still wearing a robe at this time.
The Great Cloud Nation was not the center controlled by the Qingyang Sect's forces, and two of the three small Xiuzhen sects here were pro-Hailan Sect.
This was also the time when the Hailan Sect accepted disciples, and Han Shuo was extremely lucky to be accepted by the outer sect of the Hailan Sect by virtue of the qualifications of the three lineages of miscellaneous spirit roots.
Searching for and absorbing Han Shuo's memories, Locke walked towards the southwest city of Blackwater City.
This is the area where the middle class of Blackwater City lives, and the people who live here, or have read about it
He has achieved a certain degree of fame in the book examination, or he is a small accomplished businessman, at least he has no worries about food and clothing in raising children.
Locke had only been walking for less than five minutes, and he was followed by a group of people, most of whom had not seen a Taoist priest for many years, and were very curious and adored by this monk who might have some incredible means.
The monks of the Qingyang Realm are still relatively friendly to the human people, unless it is those evil cultivators who are thirsty for killing, otherwise under normal circumstances, the monks will not care about the ordinary people who are like ants, and the ordinary people will not dare to blindly provoke the powerful monks.
A group of people followed him, staring at him with countless curious, adoring, disdainful, or happy eyes, which made Locke a little uncomfortable.
With a slight tap of his toes, under the incredulous gaze of hundreds of onlookers around him, Locke actually disappeared out of thin air in front of their eyes!