Chapter 30: Thirty-three days, the world and the underworld
"Ahem, ahem!"
Under the shade of a tree, Zhang Qing, who had turned his red robe into a white robe, opened his eyes and saw a pair of curious immature eyes looking at him.
"You're awake!" The green voice obviously came from a child, and then Zhang Qing felt that he was being helped up.
Leaning against the tree, Zhang Qing glanced at the river not far away, and nodded slightly at the fleeting fishtail.
Around, seven or eight children looked at Zhang Qing, some happy and some regretful, and then saw Zhang Qing's gaze towards the river.
"You floated from the river, and we thought you were dead, but if you were dead, we would be able to take your things."
Some children were speechless, but they were quickly squeezed out by the children around them and replaced by a talker.
"It's good that you're not dead, do you have amnesia, do you already remember where you came from and how you fell into the water? Why don't we give you a name? ”
Zhang Qing asked the children a little amusefully where they had heard their stories, and then told them, "My name is Jing, and I came from far, far away." ”
"It's a strange name, the names of the people in our village are at least two words, and the town is too." An older girl spoke.
"Looks like you've really come from far, far away." For children, the town is far enough, and as far as it goes, it really has to be added several very.
Not far away, several adults dressed in linen came towards the place, presumably some child had shouted over to them.
"This is Xiaojia Village, if you walk more than ten miles to the east, it is Saltwater Town, and if you walk north from Saltwater Town for a while, it is Anning City, if Childe wants to go home, it is the most convenient and safer to go to the city."
The last sentence was said by a man who looked at Zhang Qing's body and said nothing.
"Thank you, big brother, and all of you." Zhang Qing said to a few adults, and then arched his hand at the children, making them blush one by one and salute him in return.
Zhang Qing's palm fell on his waist, crushed the jade pendant through his shirt, and then took it out and put it in the palm of his hand for the children in front of him to choose, and several adults on the side were eyelids.
"Childe, this seems to be too valuable."
Zhang Qing shook his head, "My life is worth more than that, by the way, is there a specific route from here to Saltwater Town?" ”
This is Zhang Qing's purpose, and for the people of Xiaojia Village, broken jade is indeed worth a lot of money, and there is no reason to refuse.
"Childe came up from the water, even if he has his own identity, if the town doesn't recognize it, it's still more troublesome, it's better to use the road guide in our village, it just so happens that a team will go to the town tomorrow, so I can explain the situation for Childe."
Xiaojia Village can't support people like Zhang Qing, so taking the road in the village to lead out will inevitably cause some trouble, but it will be much more convenient if there are people from the same village, and the guards in the town are all acquaintances, so they won't pay attention to the last question.
Although the flow of people in Jiang Guo is troublesome, in fact, no one will care too much about one or two.
"That's fine." Zhang Qing had no reason to disagree, and stayed in a family that night, perhaps because of broken jade, the family was so enthusiastic that they even killed a chicken for the first time.
"It's nothing, the broken jade given by Gongzi is enough to buy a hundred pieces of money when it arrives in the town." This is what the man of that family said to Zhang Qing the next day.
For this, Zhang Qing just smiled helplessly, the fragments of the Zhang family's jade pendant were actually reduced to the point where they could only be exchanged for a hundred chickens, if those elders were here, I am afraid that they would not have to be locked up for another two months.
"Yin Li is dead, and I haven't left a flaw, because nothing will happen to the family, right? Besides, I have to find a chance to tell my family that I'm not dead yet, so don't stand up for it. ”
"And that girl, I don't know how things will develop later, but I really can't control it now."
While thinking about it, Zhang Qing suddenly looked at the man on the side, "What did Brother Xiao say just now?" ”
Zhang Qing's sudden inquiry made the swarthy man a little cramped, "Just now I said that the broken jade given by the son can make the family live a good life for a few years, but it's a pity that it can't be selected by the immortal family like the next village, and it will be rich for a lifetime." ”
"Is there also a legend of immortals in Xiaojia Village?"
"Naturally, there is, and the son is going to Anning City, where it is said that reality is enshrined."
Some people in the team looked at Zhang Qing, they thought that the immortal was probably what this son looked like?
And they are people of two worlds.
"It's funny." Zhang Qing smiled slightly.
In the middle of the round, Zhang Qing had already left the team of Xiaojia Village, appeared in Saltwater Town and then along the road in Anning City.
In the Jiang Kingdom, Anning City is located in a rich interior, and there are almost no natural and man-made disasters, so everyone can be at peace, and the people in the city often smile.
Especially in recent days, there seems to be some kind of festival, and the large number of vendors on the roadside, no matter what they sell, will sell some strangely shaped masks by the way.
"Childe, buy one, Halloween is approaching, let's have a good time, right?"
"Halloween?" Standing in front of a stall, Zhang Qing was holding a silver-white mask that seemed to reflect light, and couldn't help but wonder.
In the mortal world, this can also be a festival?
Looking at the happy crowd around him, Zhang Qing suddenly laughed, "Boss, how much is this?" ”
Yes, even if there are really ghosts in this heaven and earth, and there are many ghosts, what can they do, as ordinary beings, they can do very little.
"Is there really a ghost in the world?" Walking in the crowd, Zhang Qing looked for the direction of the aura gathering, and listened to the young children around him curiously asking about their elders.
Then I found an interesting answer in a perfunctory voice.
"People who do bad things will go to hell when they die, and they will become ghosts, and there are some poor people who will become hungry ghosts, drowned ghosts."
"That ghost doesn't seem to be very scary."
Zhang Qing coughed almost subconsciously, his face was a little strange.
The Zhao family, that's how they promote ghosts?
Hell, it's not that simple.
The catastrophe was accompanied by the catastrophe, and two hundred years ago, in the chaos of Yunmengze, there was the shadow of ghosts.
And it's not a simple ghost.
Heaven and earth are divided into turbid qi, and it is said that when heaven and earth first opened, the clear qi rose and formed for thirty-three days, so the current immortal method needs pure aura to refine.
The turbidity sinks, sinking into the deepest abyss in the world, and there is no place to fall, forming a Yin Si earth corresponding to thirty-three days, in which the ghosts are endless.
The convergence of turbidity is the world on earth.
There are immortals in the sky, there are all things in the world, and there are only ghosts left in the underworld.
However, the immortals in the sky and the ghosts of the Yin Division are all because of the human world.
Immortals are simple, ascending, and ghosts are also simple, but they are by no means casual in the mouths of mortals, ghosts themselves are not lowly terms.
But in the case of human beings, mortals with spiritual roots, if they do not practice and do not become cultivators, then after they die, they will sink into the underworld and become a ghost life.
Therefore, there will be so many immortal cultivation families in the immortal cultivation world, countless times more than the sect forces like Jinlan Sect, and it is because of this matter.
In all fairness, what cultivator would want his bloodline relatives to become ghosts?
Once you enter the stage of qi induction in cultivation and draw spiritual energy into your body, then life and death will not return to heaven and earth, and there will be no such problem.
And the source of everything is actually because of the spiritual root.
Because of the spiritual root, whether it is life or death, it is already different from mortals, and people with spiritual roots can step into the cultivation world in life and see the immortal heavenly gate, and when they die, they will also become ghosts that can be cultivated.
In short, no matter what, as long as there is a spiritual root, it is destined not to live ordinarily.
But there are also more troubles as a result.