Chapter 5: The Vast World
A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and Zhou Qing finally had a preliminary understanding of the world after reading the book in his hand.
This world is very big, there are countless large and small dynasties, but most of these dynasties are controlled by the cultivation sects behind them, after all, there are very few cultivators, most of them are mortals, and most of the monks are from mortals, but they rarely pay attention to mortal things, and they will support a representative to manage, and most of the monks will stay in the sect to cultivate, because most of the sects are built on the major spiritual veins.
According to the book, the existence of monks in this world has probably gone through hundreds of millions of years, and in such a long time, countless sects have been born and destroyed, and dynasties have changed. In the long river of history, only the five major sects are still standing, these five sects originally belonged to the same sect, but because of the disagreement in concept, they were finally divided into five sects, named after the five elements, which are the Fire Spirit Holy Sect, the Water Spirit Holy Sect, the Earth Spirit Holy Sect, the Golden Spirit Holy Sect and the Wood Spirit Holy Sect. The five major sects are located in the five directions of the east, west, north, south and middle of the continent, and the influence is active and wide, dividing the entire continent into five regions, namely the fire spirit domain, the water spirit domain, the earth spirit domain, the gold spirit domain and the wood spirit domain five parts, although these five sects are separated, but they are in the same breath with each other, so they stand out from this rolling historical torrent and become the only five top sects on the mainland, with many masters in the door, occupying the top spiritual veins on the continent.
In addition to these five major sects, there are countless sects of different sizes, distributed in various regions of the continent. These sects are divided into levels by good deeds, and are divided into four levels: first-class sects, second-rate sects, third-rate sects, and non-streamed sects according to the number of people and cultivation, this statement is recognized by the vast majority of people, and many of these sects are attached to the five top sects in order to survive.
Speaking of monks, I have to say that the cultivation realm, the cultivation of this world starts from mortals, theoretically everyone has a spiritual root, mortals practice martial arts, some qualified will break through to a special realm, sense the innate realm, will sense the aura between heaven and earth, so as to awaken the spiritual root in the body, open their own cultivation path, the spiritual root belongs to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, this is the spiritual root attribute of the vast majority of people, of course, there are some special spiritual roots, mutated spiritual roots like wind spirit root, thunder spirit root, ice spirit root and so on. It's not that the mutated spiritual root is the best, most of the aura between heaven and earth is composed of the five elements aura, and the mutated spiritual root needs to go through a series of transformation processes to absorb these spiritual aura, and the cultivation speed is much slower than that of the five element spiritual roots, perhaps for compensation reasons, these mutated spiritual roots will be much stronger than the five elements spiritual roots when they cast spells.
After awakening the spiritual root, the road of cultivation begins, starting from the practice of qi, the twelve layers of qi can be completed and you can start to build the foundation, and then form a golden pill, called the knot pill realm, the knot dan realm can be called a master, the knot pill is called the yuan baby, the yuan baby realm is a great power, is the pillar of the major first-class sects, the yuan baby is the god, this realm rarely walks on the mainland, it is rumored that the five major sects have the god of power, and some people are rumored to have several top first-class sects also have the god of power, the truth is unknown. This book also records the division of the realm of demon beasts, from the beginning of knowing how to absorb spiritual energy to the sixth layer of the qi training period are called primary spirit beasts, also known as first-order spirit beasts, the seventh layer of qi training to the consummation of qi training corresponds to the second-order spirit beast, the first and middle stages of foundation building correspond to the third-order spirit beasts, the late stage of foundation building to the realm of perfection corresponds to the fourth-order spirit beasts, and so on, the realm of the gods corresponds to the ninth-order and tenth-order spirit beasts. The demon clan is naturally strong, and often the demon beasts of the same realm need several human monks to match, and some powerful bloodlines can even fight beyond the level, but the lack of cultivation can only rely on a long life span to slowly accumulate cultivation, and the old tree demon has cultivated for tens of thousands of years before it can break through to the ninth order when its life is about to end, standing in the top position of this world.
Zhou Changqing silently considered his situation in his heart, he must now get a cultivation method first, Zhou Changqing learned from the map that the large mountain range where the old tree was originally located was named the Cangbi Mountains, the Cangbi Mountains are vast, this Zhou Changqing has long understood, from the map Zhou Changqing also found an interesting thing, the place where the sycamore forest was located was marked with an extremely dangerous sign before, Zhou Changqing asked the inn Xiaoer, it turned out that three years ago, when Zhou Changqing's three demons fought and later transformed, the movement was too big, and Cangbi City could be seen, for which many demon clans also impacted Cangbi City, and the traces on the city wall are proofAt that time, the monk of the Fire Spirit Sect who was in charge of guarding Cangbi City took action to quell the trouble, and the Elder Jin Dan of the Fire Spirit Sect once said that there was a peerless demon king there, and Zhou Changqing was noncommittal.
There are Lingzong monks in Cangbi City, this city is a barrier against the demons of the Cangbi Mountains, and naturally Lingzong monks will be sent to guard, and the five major Lingzong and many large and small sects have discussed and decided to take turns to guard, and there will be a rotation every ten years, led by the five major Lingzong. Last year, the Fire Spirit Sect ended this guardian mission, and now a Jindan elder of the Earth Spirit Holy Sect is leading the monks of the major sects of the Territorial Spirit Domain to guard Cangbi City. Zhou Changqing didn't want to go to this elder of the Earth Spirit Sect to get the opportunity to worship the Earth Spirit Holy Sect, he was a wood demon incarnation, the spirit root must belong to wood, the Earth Spirit Sect was not suitable for him, on the contrary, the Wood Spirit Domain was not far from the Cangbi Mountain Range, and it would definitely be more suitable for him.
When he was wandering around the city two days ago, Zhou Changqing heard that there was a caravan recruiting guards, and the destination of this caravan was Guanglong City in the Wood Spirit Domain, anyway, Zhou Changqing didn't have a destination now, so he planned to go there to have a look.
The weather was nice, the sky was cloudless and the breeze was blowing. A long procession slowly out of Cangbi City, to the west, at the forefront of the team is more than ten horses riding horses, these people are good martial arts masters, in the mortal is considered the top master, this is the caravan spent a lot of money to invite, in the middle of the team is a long convoy of goods, Zhou Changqing roughly swept a few glances, most of them are animal skins, and there are some medicinal materials, all of which are relatively ordinary things on this side of the Cangbi Mountains, each car is equipped with a coachman, Zhou Changqing is one of them. There is nothing unusual about this team, but what caught Zhou Changqing's attention was a carriage close to the back of the team, in the carriage was the owner of the caravan, a fat man and his daughter, but the coachman was a little different, Zhou Changqing clearly saw the fluctuation of mana in his body, although the mana was weak and pitiful.
The wind and waves were calm along the way, and the occasional beast would be cleaned up by the master in front of the team, and Zhou Changqing was also happy to be idle, lying on the carriage with a small grass in his mouth, chatting and bragging with the coachmen in the carriage before and after him from time to time.
The coachman of the carriage behind Zhou Changqing is an old coachman surnamed Wang, who is about fifty years old, and has been a coachman for nearly 20 years. The driver in front was a young man named Cui Laifu, who had just started this line of work, and he was still a little shy, a shy guy.
"I said Xiao Cui! You said that you are not good at doing it at a young age, you have to do this, not to mention the danger of this business, and you can't make any money! If I were at your age, I would definitely go to a martial arts hall to practice martial arts, maybe I would be able to break through the innate at any time and go to the big sect to be those high-ranking monks. "Old Wang Tou began to educate young people.
"My family has no money to send me to the martial arts hall, and there are two younger brothers at home, and it is really difficult for my father to earn money alone, so I came out to find a job to do, so as to subsidize the family. Cui Laifu lowered his head and said a little embarrassed.
"It's also a filial child! If you want to practice martial arts these days, you won't be able to do it without a little family background!" the old king sighed.
"But that kid in my family, I have already sent him to the martial arts hall, I heard the master of the martial arts hall say that the kid is now a little hot, the old man, I just smash the pot and sell iron to let him practice martial arts well, maybe one day I can have a monk master in my family!" The old king's face changed quickly, and then he changed to a triumphant expression.
"Xiao Zhou! I see that you are not a person who is short of money, how can you become a coachman, can't you endure the hardships of martial arts! It's not that the old king said you, you can't become a talent like this! As the old saying goes, only when you suffer hardship can you become a master!" After the old king finished speaking, Xiao Cui, began to say to Zhou Changqing.
"Uncle Wang, I am already a congenital martial artist, and this time I am going to go to the sect to learn art!" Zhou Changqing was not annoyed by Lao Wang's preaching, and said honestly.
The old king's face was full of disbelief, and he said that he was young and had a good face, so he couldn't help but shake his head.
There is only one of the most dangerous places on this trade route, and that is the Green Wolf Territory, which is a small jungle where it is said that a group of green wolves are active, and many caravans have suffered here. It was noon when the team arrived at the Blue Wolf Territory, and everyone decided to take advantage of the early time and pass through this jungle at full speed, and if they were lucky, they should be able to pass through this dangerous area before dark, and most of the green wolves will only come out to hunt at night.
Entering the jungle, the convoy sped up, everyone's faces were full of vigilance, careful of the dangers that might arise around them, but it backfired, after walking for nearly two hours, the team still encountered a small group of green wolves that came out to feed, and more than a dozen people in front of the team shot at the same time to try to destroy this group of green wolves in the shortest possible time, but they didn't expect to fall short, or escaped a few. The hearts of the people in the team sank to the bottom, and many people showed desperate expressions on their faces.
Sure enough, the team marched for less than half an hour and was surrounded by wolves, the only monk in the team finally made a move, a huge fireball flew into the wolves, followed by a violent explosion, more than a dozen green wolves were killed on the spot, flesh and blood flew, the wolves retreated in horror, but did not retreat.
"It's a monk! There's a monk in the ranks!
The mood of the crowd was high, as if they saw hope.
Zhou Changqing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he saw that the wolves did not retreat, the team still knew the wolves very well, this animal is extremely cunning, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, I'm afraid that things are not so easy to solve.
"Whew......"
"Whew......"
A long, loud wolf howl came from the depths of the jungle in the distance, causing the wolves to respond, and a huge cyan wolf slowly walked out of the woods.