Chapter 72: To the Mundane
The lord of the Kiln City was killed by Sanxiu, and once the news spread, this remote place would become bustling.
Zhong Lingge didn't plan to stay, so he hurriedly greeted Ai Ye'er and the others, and left the kiln city that was unmanaged.
Lin Xiaojiu chattered excitedly all the way, happy for the rescued cultivators, and happy for the innocent mother and son.
"If the forging is really successful, this child will be shackled for a lifetime, and his mother will be forced to activate the formation, and he will also bear huge karma. Fortunately, the surname Geng died! Hum! These wicked people will beg for mercy before they die, and why won't they do anything while they are alive? It's not as good as our ghosts! ”
"Of course you might as well, you're the cutest ghost in the whole region."
Hearing Zhong Lingge's praise, Lin Xiaojiu wagged his tail proudly, his eyes flashing with happiness.
"Hey, hey, really? Don't make me happy by saying nice things! ”
"Of course it's true, you're the only ghost in the whole lower domain, of course it's the cutest!"
Lin Xiaojiu was not annoyed by her teasing, and laughed along with her good-naturedly, and when she flew hundreds of miles away, she curiously asked what would happen to Dingcheng in the future.
"Will the nearby clans choose another city lord to sit in charge? If the cultivators were unwilling, they wouldn't have fallen into chaos, right? ”
"Chaos will definitely be chaotic, but it is also inevitable. Originally, there was no city lord in the Immortal Cultivation Domain, not only in the Tai Chi period, but even in the period when the lower domain had just been differentiated, and the city lord was a position that only appeared in the past five hundred years. ”
The city of the Immortal Cultivation Domain is the crystallization of the labor of the monks of the whole region, not only the clan has contributed, but also the scattered cultivation has made great efforts to build, and there are even demon cultivators, demon cultivators, and ghost cultivators in the Taiji period. and other provinces to work together to build a city.
Since ancient times, the city was built to facilitate everyone's trading, after the cultivation of the immortal domain was divided into two, the monks of the lower region began to continue the ancient style of Taiji to build the city, and the city lord had not been set up in the first five hundred years, let alone the city fee.
"The Seven Clans and Eight Clans have gained a firm foothold in five hundred years, and greed has gradually risen, and they have begun to fight the idea of the city. Leasing shops, collecting management fees, city entrance fees, and various fines add up to a large amount of money. ”
"So they let their own people be city lords, nominally as town guards, but in fact just to collect money?"
"At the beginning, it was like this, but after five hundred years of improvement, the position of the city lord has been continuously improved, and there are still many city lords in the lower region who are conscientious and responsible, which has played a role in deterring and managing norms, and it is not good to kill them with a stick."
Zhong Lingge didn't feel the responsibility of the city lord itself, just like she didn't feel the concept of the sect and the family itself, she hated the people who sat in those positions and did evil.
"However, in a remote place like here, there is no need for several cities to exist at all, and the surrounding clans have been building cities in the past one or two hundred years, which is indeed a bit excessive."
This is only a small corner in the east, and there are five or six cities in a mountain range, and the kiln city and the ding city are just two of them.
"If I am a casual cultivator, I will definitely take the opportunity to overthrow the city lord system of Dingcheng, and divide the territory near Dingcheng into a free area, no longer charge to enter and exit, and the rent of the store, public security management fees and other income will be used on the casual cultivation myself, as long as I am willing to carefully formulate the rules, it will not be worse than now."
"Mmmm, I believe you, what you say is good!" Lin Xiaojiu heard it in a fog, she only felt that Lingge was clever, and everything she said was right.
Zhong Lingge didn't think much about the future of the city and the scattered cultivators, she took the lead and led the scattered cultivators to take the first step, and the next step by step required them to explore the path on their own, she couldn't have been dragging others in front of her.
It was not her intention to take on too much responsibility, she did so much by mistake, and the purpose at the beginning was to be lazy, and she pushed it here with a push.
If you go any further, you won't be able to get too easy and be lazy.
"We walked around the city along the way, inquired about the news of Bingyi, and after passing through eight cities and crossing a mountain, we could reach the mortal world, and we would be able to reach it in less than two months if we didn't rush and walk slowly."
The mundane region of the lower region is located in the gap between the five major plates in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and in the mundane gap in the east, there are five large countries, seventeen small countries, and many nomadic or hermit tribes.
The major sects of the Immortal Cultivation Domain have set up enrollment points at the border of the gaps, which is convenient for ordinary children with spiritual roots to sign up, and it is also convenient for countries and tribes to pay tribute.
It is not that the mundane aura is completely devoid, but the aura is so thin that it is difficult to cultivate during the qi refining period, but the mysteries of heaven and earth are endless, and the mundane will occasionally give birth to some heavenly and earthly treasures with aura.
For monks, it is a waste of time to look at these mortal things more, and the sects with a little face do not accept ordinary tribute.
Only those small sects, which are already too poor to operate, will collect ordinary tributes and sell them for catty, or refine and purify the parts with spiritual energy, and use them as low-grade materials to refine low-grade magic weapons.
The female cultivator entrusted to Zhong Lingge's phoenix jade pendant is from the largest country in the east, the Xia Jin Kingdom, and the current Xia Jin Emperor and Empress are her biological parents.
Zhong Lingge walked all the way to look at the jade slips she left behind, in addition to the scripts and miscellaneous anecdotes, there are a few jade slips that are her experiences and perceptions of traveling all over the world, occasionally mixed with memories of ordinary childhood.
In these meticulous records, Zhong Lingge gradually had a more complete image in his heart.
This female cultivator named Xia Yun has lived an extremely privileged and exquisite life from birth to the age of five, her father, queen mother and queen are loving and harmonious, and she and the crown prince and brother are treated equally, and she can even take the courses of the future monarch together.
Riding and archery kung fu, reading and literacy, Xia Yun is not inferior to the brothers and sisters in the clan, and her intelligence is far greater than that of ordinary four or five-year-old children. The royal family was well-informed, judged that she might have a spiritual root, and happily sent her to the enrollment point for testing, and sure enough, the five spiritual roots of Xuanpin were measured.
In order to let her enter the sect, her parents begged people to visit many recruitment points, and three of them were willing to accept it, but the premise was that the Xia Jin Kingdom wanted to pay tribute to them, and it was impossible to exhaust the treasury.
Xia Yun, who had ideas since childhood, categorically refused, and took the initiative to ask her father to send her to the mountain where the old national teacher lived in seclusion, knelt and begged for a day and a night, and finally knocked on the door of the old national teacher, and put her in the door to learn to induce qi into the body.
The old national teacher did not accept her as an apprentice, but only taught her what he knew all his life, and let her go to the Immortal Cultivation Domain to seek a breakthrough when she was thirteen years old.
Xia Yun was mentally prepared before going to the Immortal Cultivation Domain, knowing that this was a place where chaos and opportunities coexisted, and he also knew that as soon as he entered the Monk Domain, the identities of any prince and nobleman would become floating clouds.
But she still resolutely embarked on the path of cultivation, full of longing, vowing to do an unusual casual cultivation and break out of her own world!
However, it backfired.
There are too many monks in the world like Xia Yun, who come to the Immortal Cultivation Domain with a passion of blood, either alive or dead, and the results they seek are far from the causes they want to plant.
This is the cruelty of the Heavenly Dao, and the living beings can never imagine when the next catastrophe will come and what the consequences will bring.
Zhong Lingge is no exception.
(End of chapter)