"Dad, I want to cultivate, I asked the Taoist today, and he said that from the tenth day of the first month of next month, the White Mist Gate will recruit disciples in the state capital, and as long as you test the spiritual root, you can worship the White Mist Gate Cultivator. During dinner, Yang Xuan mentioned to his father.

"Xuan'er, it's not that your father doesn't support you, those who have spiritual roots should be one in a hundred, right? We have been blacksmiths for generations, and our entire village has never had a cultivator, you, don't always hold on to ethereal illusions, live a down-to-earth life with iron, after two years, save some money, and your father will marry you a daughter-in-law, and you won't be cranky anymore." Yang Xiong sighed, shook his head and said.

"Dad, I want to give it a try, if I find out that there is no spiritual root, I will follow you to the iron!" Yang Xuan still didn't give up, after he saw the ability of that Taoist priest with his own eyes today, he believed that there was really such a magical Dao in this world, and his desire to cultivate the Dao was even stronger.

"But do you know how far it is to get to the state capital from here? How many hundred miles are there? You grew up in the village and have been to Taoyuan Town as far as you can? Besides, it's not easy for us to work hard to make some money, and it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money to go back and forth. Yang Xiong sighed helplessly.

Yang Xuan listened, stopped talking, and silently turned over to the bed. Father and son didn't say a word all night.

In the following days, Yang Xuan was soulless, and he always recalled the scene when Daoist Wang Xi used the Dao method to kill that demon tiger, and he was listless in his work.

Yang Xiong knew his son's stubborn temper very well, and he couldn't pull back the nine cows that had decided, so he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh again and again.

It's November. One night, Yang Xiong came back very late, and when he came back, Yang Xuan was lying on the bed in a daze. Yang Xiong handed a bag of animal skin to Yang Xuan: "Xuan'er, Dad knows that if you don't try it, you will blame me for the rest of your life, I came today to change some dry food, and there are some broken silver in it, you take it on the road." Also, I went to ask the village chief, and the village chief said that one of his distant relatives in the town was going to transport a shipment of hides to the state capital tomorrow, and you could follow his convoy there. ”

"Really, Dad, you're so good!" Yang Xuan heard this, his eyes immediately lit up, and he jumped up from the bed excitedly with the animal skin bag, staring at his father, for fear that he had heard it wrong.

"Xuan'er, your mother died early, and your father finally pulled you up. Dad has figured it out these days. Since you want to cultivate the Tao so much, then you should give it a try. But you have to promise me, if it doesn't work, you will honestly go home for me to make iron and marry a daughter-in-law!" Yang Xiong said with a dark face.

"Dad, I promise you!" Yang Xuan asked happily, "When will you leave?"

"Early tomorrow morning, the village chief will take you to town. ”

Early the next morning, Yang Xuan followed the village chief to a caravan in Taoyuan Town and found the leader of the caravan. The leader was a rough-faced man, dressed in dark black linen clothes, his trouser legs were tied up with rope, and a distinct scar on his face stretched from the middle of his eyebrows along the wings of his nose to the corners of his mouth, which looked hideous and terrifying.

"Lao Mo, this is the son of our village blacksmith, named Yang Xuan, I want to go to Liangshan Prefecture to participate in the entrance assessment of Baiwumen, I am young, the road is far away, and it is not safe, just if you are going to deliver goods over there, please take care of it on the road." The village chief accompanied the smiling face and handed over a bag of things: "These some souvenirs and a little silver tael are considered to be the cost of the road." ”

"Don't worry, Lao Yang, leave it to me. The scar-faced man's name was Mo Dabiao, he took the bag without saying a word, threw it into the car, and then looked at Yang Xuan with interest.

"Xuan, call Uncle Mo, listen to Uncle Mo along the way!"

"Uncle Mo!" Yang Xuan stepped forward and shouted loudly.

"Good boy, don't be timid at all, look at your bones, you are a good seedling for striking iron!" Mo Dabiao patted Yang Xuan's shoulder, then turned around and shouted, "Brothers, are ready to go!"

said that it was a convoy, but in fact, it was four donkey carts, plus Yang Xuan, a total of thirteen people, all of whom followed Mo Dabiao to sell animal skins and fabrics, and traveled back and forth between Taoyuan Town and the state capital all year round. The city where the state capital is located is called Zhongzhou City, which is a large city with 70,000 or 80,000 people. The political, economic, and cultural center of the entire Liangshan Prefecture.

"Uncle Mo, how far is it to Zhongzhou City?" Yang Xuan and Mo Dabiao walked with a donkey cart at the back.

"There are more than three hundred miles, according to the speed of our progress, if nothing else, it will take four days to arrive, and it will be the tenth day of the first month there, we will stay in Zhongzhou City for two or three days, sell the animal skins, if you don't pass the assessment, you can come back with us!" Mo Dabiao walked as he put some of the tools he had just checked on the donkey cart.

"Uncle Mo, I will definitely be selected!" Yang Xuan stopped and looked at Mo Dabiao and said firmly.

"Haha, you kid, cultivation is based on spiritual roots, which is different from striking iron, as long as you work hard, but without spiritual roots, there is no way to cultivate the Tao!" Mo Dabiao laughed for a while, and then asked curiously: "Why do you think about going to cultivate?"

"Because I want to be a strong man, specializing in killing those harmful demons and monsters! By the way, Uncle Mo, have you ever seen demons and monsters when you are outside the world?"

"I don't see many demons and monsters, robbers and thieves have encountered a lot, in the early years when I was on the road, I once encountered thieves robbing, and the goods were all gone, and I also escaped death, leaving this ugly scar. Mo Dabiao pointed to Yang Xuan and pointed to the scar on his face: "But in recent years, I have slowly heard more strange things, many things have appeared demon beasts, as well as zombies, and some people say that there are half-orcs on the northern border in the north of the Biqi country, I don't know if it's true or fake, after all, I've never been to the Biqi country, it's too far, and it's all hearsay." ”

"Biqi Country, Biqi Country, is our Gaochang National University?" Yang Xuan had never heard of so many interesting things, and finally ran into Mo Dabiao, and couldn't help but want to break the casserole and ask the end.

"The Biqi Kingdom is much bigger than our Gaochang Kingdom, I heard that there are four or five Gaochang Kingdoms so big." Mo Dabiao watched Yang Xuan listen with relish, and the more he spoke, the more energetic he became: "Our Gaochang country has six states, and the Biqi country is as big as four or five of ours, think about it." ”

"And what about outside the Beechcraft?"

"The country of Biqi goes all the way north, through the Valley of the Divine Dragon, it is the country of the alliance, our Gaochang country goes all the way to the south and there is the Cangyue Empire, I heard that it is bigger than the country of Biqi, and there are many places and countries in addition to these two countries, but I can't say it, boy, this world is very big, we ordinary people can't go out, only those masters of the Tao can travel all over the world!" Mo Dabiao said here, also with infinite emotion and yearning.

For the first time, Yang Xuan knew that this world was so big that he couldn't imagine it, and he had always thought that Zhongzhou City was far away, and Gaochang Kingdom was the whole of the world, and it seemed that he was really a frog at the bottom of the well! Mo Dabiao said that those masters of cultivation could travel all over the world, and his desire for cultivation became even more fervent.

Stop-and-go along the way, fortunately it was relatively smooth, and I didn't meet the bandits, bandits, monsters, and zombies mentioned by Mo Dabiao on the way. Four days later, on the morning of the 11th lunar month, the convoy finally arrived outside Zhongzhou.

The city of Zhongzhou is twenty miles in circumference, and the city wall is three zhang high and one zhang two wide. On the high city wall, there are many flags, which is very spectacular, and Yang Xuan's heart is boiling with blood boiling.

The group passed through the interrogation of the soldiers at the city gate in turn, and then finally entered Zhongzhou City. As soon as he entered the city, Yang Xuan's eyes began to be dizzying, full of a variety of goods, bustling crowds, various trading markets, shouting, bargaining, one after another, it was really full of people, and it was very different from Taoyuan Town.

"Boy, I'll take the convoy to the bazaar to settle down first, and then I'll take you to inquire about the assessment. Mo Dabiao said to Yang Xuan as he greeted the men in the convoy and was about to rush to the fur market.

"Get out, get out!" As soon as the loud shouting fell, four or five people rode horses against the crowd and rushed over without slowing down, led by a young man in Tsing Yi, riding a white horse, the whip in his hand was raised high, and he was heavily pumped on Yang Xuan, who couldn't dodge, Yang Xuan's back was in a hot pain, and he was about to catch up with the theory, but was pulled to the side of the road by Mo Dabiao.

Watching those people rampage all the way and walk away, Yang Xuan touched his hot back and asked angrily, "Uncle Mo, why are you pulling me!"

Mo Dabiao hurriedly opened Yang Xuan's linen clothes and looked at his back, which was covered with deep blood. Mo Dabiao sighed and said, "Child, looking at the horses of those people, they are obviously the dignitaries and nobles of Zhongzhou City, we can't afford to mess with them!"

"Uncle Mo, this road is not theirs, and I didn't provoke them, why did they whip me?" Yang Xuan was still angry.

"Child, listen to what my uncle said, this world is the law of the jungle, sometimes people are more terrible than beasts, which of these dignitaries and nobles is not the lord of bullying, if they are not happy, they will not only beat people, but also kill people! Ordinary people like us, who have no power and no power, even if they are killed, can only accept their fate. So, you have to remember, don't be impulsive outside, endure the calm for a while!" Mo Dabiao persuaded bitterly, he had seen too many tragedies in his life, but what could he do.

"Uncle Mo, when you say this, it seems that sometimes people are more hateful than beasts, demons and monsters, and when I cultivate the Dao Technique, I will definitely not let this kind of thing happen again!"