A thousand years is a long time, long enough for several dynasties to rise and fall and fall, but a thousand years is actually very short, so short that it is only a snap of a finger in the long river of the universe, and it is not even far from the vicissitudes of life.

But even in the eyes of an old monster like Wu Zhiqi who survived the flood era, the vitality that the human race has brought to this world today is a drastic change that has not been seen in countless billions of years before, and a thousand years apart is really too long.

The human race has long since changed from the primitive state of living in caves and wearing animal skins when it was first born, hungry for raw meat and thirsty for animal blood, to living in a house built of bricks and tiles, wearing linen and even satin, and it is even more tired of eating and not getting tired of being fine, and it has long ceased to be barbaric.

He traveled all the way, through thousands of rivers and mountains to the most prosperous place in the world, only to find that he was nothing more than an undead ghost of the old era, and the new era seemed to have long since lost the ship to carry him.

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Before being locked in Turtle Mountain, Wu Zhiqi had also been to the capital of the human race, and he still remembered that it was in a place called Pingyang on the east bank of the Yellow River. And he went all the way to the west, only to find that the world had already changed. Now the Terrans are no longer loose alliances, but more like an incomparably huge tribe, the tribe is called Shang, and its capital is built in a large city called Chaoge.

Chaoge City was originally built with a magnificent atmosphere, since the Shang King moved the capital, there is more expansion, west of the Taihang Mountains, east of Qishui, three mountains stacked green, two waters surrounded. The wall that spreads and towers is ten zhang high, take the big bluestone and pile it up, mix glutinous rice and animal blood to make sticky glue and stick it firmly, and build three city walls. When the construction of the city wall began, the king of Shang ordered that after the completion of the construction, the supervisor of the construction of the wall was to cone the gap of the city wall, and where the sword entered the wall an inch, ten craftsmen would be killed, so that the construction was completed in 20 years. There are also cultivators who set up layers of formations to resist the invasion of demons, and every Shang king has strengthened the city wall and stabilized the formation as the primary task, so that it took 500 years to build the first male city in the world.

Chaoge city gate nine ridges seal ten dragons, towering and majestic, and painted Xuanniao relief directly above, Xuanyao a pair of phoenix eyes are smart and majestic, as if there will be a phoenix sky fire erupting at any time, burning out the charm of the ghost who tries to invade the song in vain.

In ancient times, the people were simple and simple, and there were few things to make trouble, and the control of the city gate was not strict, as long as a piece of shell coins issued by the imperial court was presented, it was proved that the people of the Shang Dynasty could enter the city.

Wu Zhiqi was wearing a dusty linen dress at this time, and he was even unnoticeable in the crowd. When he walked to the gate of the city, Wu Zhiqi's eyelids, which had been lowered, opened slightly, and with two thin fingers, he took out the shell coins that had been robbed from the bandits in the mountains, and was allowed to enter the city by the officers and soldiers with his head down.

It's just that the moment he walked in front of the city gate, the "Xuan Vortex Divine Water" that had been slowly rotating in his abdomen suddenly began to spin backwards, as if he was resisting some pressure. He raised his head slightly and glanced at the tall Xuanniao, looked at its eyes like a rhino, and saw that some crimson phoenix heavenly fire suddenly jumped out of those eyes, Wu Zhiqi was expressionless, and used his own blood power to suppress the abnormal changes in the divine water in his body, and slowly walked into the city.

The phoenix sky fire in the eyes of the Xuanniao God flashed, and the late autumn season was cold and bleak, but the people at the gate of this city felt a trace of dryness from the bottom of their hearts as if they were illuminated by the scorching summer sun. Xuanniao's eyes spun and swept carefully at the gate of the city, and found that there was nothing abnormal, so he had to slowly extinguish the flame unwillingly, and returned to his arrogant and indifferent appearance, looking at the subjects majestically. Wu Zhiqi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if he was discovered by Xuanniao here, not only would he run away in vain for so long, but he might also be caught directly. Back then, it was Ji Wenming and Di Shun who saved his life, but if the current human race knew his identity, there was a good chance that Wu Zhiqi, who had lost all his mana, would not end well.

Wu Zhiqi walked on the wide streets of Chaoge City, listening to the enthusiastic hawkers around him, and the bursts of aroma coming from the roadside from time to time, his stomach began to growl. He glanced at the restaurant called "Fairy Mash Pavilion" on the side, and it seemed that business was not bad. So he walked into the store, sat down by the window on the second floor, took out a few shellfish coins from his arms and handed them to the man, and after pointing to a few signature drinks and dishes on the wall, he quietly turned his head to look at the crowd coming and going under the window.

He hid his figure from the bottom of the East China Sea, traveled thousands of miles to Chaoge City, and there was a faint feeling of being watched along the way, and he knew that nine times out of ten it was Ying Long who was pulling the heavenly machine to calculate his situation, and he had to use the "Xuan Vortex Divine Water" to barely isolate the heavenly machine along the way.

It's just that he has no true qi now, and he can only do this by relying on the precise control of the natal divine water for countless years, and it is also thanks to the Xuanxuan Vortex Divine Water that is the number one spiritual water in the flood wilderness, otherwise I am afraid that it would have been discovered by Ying Long a long time ago. However, he found a wonderful thing, that is, the more he walked towards the place where the human race lived, the less the feeling of being spied on, and when he passed through the statue of the Xuanniao at the gate of Chaoge Castle, that feeling disappeared completely.

The facts have once again proved the foresight of the candle, but since you have such magical powers, why have you not heard from them for 1,500 years, and where are you now? Wu Zhiqi looked at the brown and yellow dead leaves fluttering and falling on the side of the street, and felt a little cold.

Just as he was worried, the guy brought the wine and food, and shouted with a smile: "One pound of good Xifeng wine, two pounds of braised beef, and one roast chicken!" Wu Zhiqi sniffled and opened his eyes, which had been slightly closed.

Merchants are good at drinking, so they study the wine-making process, this Xifeng wine is the most proud work of businessmen, its mellow and elegant, sweet and refreshing, all flavors are coordinated, and the tail is clean and long, so that Wu Zhiqi has been listless in his eyes, a rare flash of light.

Speaking of Wu Zhiqi as an ancient beast clan, he has always been in human form for a thousand years, and even if the meridians are broken, he has not returned to the beast body, because the beast clan is different from the demon clan. The demon clan has changed a lot, and they are all transformed by a body of mana, so there are many tails and hairs that cannot be fully taken care of, and the transformation of the human body is not complete, and after the mana is consumed, it will be beaten back to its original form in an instant.

The powerful one in the beast clan is to completely transform the muscles and bones of the whole body into a human body, so even if the calculation power is exhausted, it will not return to the beast body, but the mana will not recover for a day, and it can only walk in the world in human form for a day.

Thanks to Wu Zhiqi's human body now, if he really showed his true body, he didn't know how much he would have to eat to fill his stomach after being hungry for a thousand years.

It's just that now although he is in human form, he is still not used to using chopsticks, so he reached out and tore open the fat chicken legs, picked up the wine with one hand, and began to eat and drink. Wu Zhiqi was eating smoothly, when suddenly a somewhat sloppy red-faced gray-clothed old man sat down across the table, unceremoniously poured himself a glass of wine, and without saying a word, tore off the other chicken leg and began to gnaw. Wu Zhiqi's eyes that had been half-asleep opened a line, flashing a gleam, Wu Zhiqi only cared about eating and didn't speak, but just accelerated the speed of eating, the old man didn't speak, just blindly reached out and grabbed meat with Wu Zhiqi to eat, and then added wine to himself.

So there was such a strange and funny scene in the tavern of Chaoge City, an old man whose face became more and more red the more he drank, and a man in sackcloth whose face became more and more gray the more he drank, both of them did not say a word, just sat opposite each other and drank and ate meat.

Wu Zhiqi looked up at the stunned restaurant guy on the side, took out a greasy hand and directly took out the shellfish in his arms, and then was busy drinking and eating meat. After the guy got the money, he hurriedly served the wine and food to the two masters.

The two of them were in a hurry, the plates on the table were piled up, and the wine jar on the ground was scattered all over the place, and the man was worried that the store was running out of wine, and he did not dare to disturb the two strangers, and this silent war finally stopped after the old man's satisfied wine burp.

The old man gently patted his obviously bulging belly, and sighed with satisfaction: "I haven't met such a sensible offspring for a long time, and the old man is very satisfied with this meal!" After speaking, he was about to get up and pat his buttocks and was about to leave.

Wu Zhiqi's pale face finally rose a hint of ruddy after drinking so much wine, and then he opened his mouth to say the first words in a thousand years other than self-talk, his voice was dry and withered, like the branches of a thousand-year-old tree being slowly broken, and like two gears that had rusted for a long time biting each other, and even the words were extremely slow: "My meal of wine...... It's not that tasty. After finishing speaking, he didn't look up at the old man, but just poured himself another glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.

After hearing this, the red-faced old man actually sat down, his two messy and gray eyebrows twisted together, and he sighed sadly: "The old man has no money. ”

Wu Zhiqi didn't answer, only looked at him quietly with lowered eyes, the wine in his hand didn't stop, and the last jar of wine was about to bottom.

When he drank the fifth cup, the old man finally twisted his weak beard, which did not have a few left, sighed and said: "Alas, it is not a secret, the old man was a doctor who traveled the world, and saw that the strong man had an old disease, and in line with the way of saving the world, he wanted to break off the scabies for the strong man, but the strong man did not seem to be worried, but drank a lot of alcohol, hurt his internal organs, and asked me how to speak." ”

Wu Zhiqi's heart moved slightly, but his face was extremely indifferent, and he still drank non-stop, saying, "This disease...... Not all medicine can be cured. ”

Seeing that he was relieved, the old man immediately squeezed his eyebrows and waved his big sleeves: "The old man's name is Chu Shu, and he travels all over the world just to seek diagnosis and treatment of incurable diseases, so as to improve his medical skills, and the aphrodisiac is used to get rid of the disease, what is the disease that cannot be cured?"

Wu Zhiqi didn't answer, only drank.

Seeing that he was unmoved, the old man Chu Shu smiled and stretched out his hand to dip some wine, and wrote a word on the table: "According to the old man's divine judgment, the solution to your illness should fall on this word." ”

Wu Zhiqi opened his drunken and hazy eyes and saw that the wine on the table slowly evaporated, and the word was clearly the word "water".