Chapter 61: Prosperous Zhongzhou
Ah Huang was very excited, flapping his wings and flying between the sky, up and down, extremely fast.
Zhang Xu and Feng Ping firmly grasped its feathers to avoid being thrown from the air, and it was a hundred feet high from the ground.
Yes, Zhang Xu has already left the Iron Sword Villa and is on his way to Zhongzhou.
Xiong Xian, Zhu Kun and others persuaded them, seeing that Zhang Xu could only stop if he didn't change his mind, they also knew that if Tiejianmen wanted to develop and grow, it would not work at all by closing the door. As the master of a sect, it is also good for Zhang Xu to go out and have a long experience.
Xiong Xian persuaded Zhang Xu to bring a few more people, but he was also refused.
"What danger can I do if I fly in the sky on a vulture? Who can intercept me in the air except the Infant Monk? Zhang Xu politely refused.
Xiong Xian and the others thought about it, the speed of Eagle Eagle Ah Huang they had seen, that is, ordinary gray feather eagles could not catch up, and except for Yuan Ying, even Jindan Monk only had the ability to float in the air for a short time, and it was almost impossible to chase and kill Eagle Vultures.
In the end, Feng Ping recommended himself, and showed the ability of Tu Dun, who was able to escape with Zhang Xu Tu Dun at a critical moment, and thought that he would need an errand runner after all, so Zhang Xu agreed to take him. Wei Suo also wanted to go, but he didn't dare to speak, he also knew that his low cultivation was a burden.
So, under the farewell of all the elders and disciples of the Iron Sword Gate, Zhang Xu and Feng Ping left the villa on the eagle vulture. Su Man just said goodbye silently, did not entangle any more, and went straight back to his cave to do penance after sending him off.
Only by soaring in the air can we see the vastness of the flying yellow world and the beauty of the rivers and mountains.
From Wuzhou to the north, across the territory of a hundred miles wide and mighty river, Zhang Xu was also shocked by the smoke and waves. Although the Yangtze River in another time and space is magnificent, it is only a few miles wide, and it cannot be compared with the vast river below.
Due to interest, Zhang Xu let Ah Huang fall on an uninhabited sandbar in the center of the river, cast a spell to get a few river fish and grilled them, and watched the beautiful scenery of the river while eating, and continued to hurry.
The further north, the more prosperous it is, you can see the continuous Qianmo, many houses, and a city for dozens of miles.
The Great Zhou Dynasty has been established for more than 1,000 years, the population is multiplying, and most of the states are overcrowded, which is why it has opened up other worlds. Of course, the Otherworldly Conquest is a war of monks, and it has little to do with mortals, but after all, monks are also from mortals, and the more the population base, the more potential for cultivation.
The most prosperous place in the world is Zhongzhou, Zhongzhou is far bigger than other states, and Zhongzhou has the Zhongxiu of heaven and earth, there are three thousand miles of Yunsong Mountains, everywhere is a spiritual land, among which the Zhongyue Mountains are as high as 10,000 thousand, it is the highest spiritual land, and the name of Zhongzhou also comes from Zhongyue Mountain.
To the east of the Yunsong Mountains, there is a plain with a territory of thousands of miles, with the most fertile land in the world, and forty percent of the population of the Great Zhou is in Zhongzhou.
The beautiful clouds and mountains of the world, the vast plains, and the endless population are the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Even in the past few hundred years, the various sects have developed rapidly through otherworldly hunting, but they still can't shake the foundation of the Great Zhou.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is located in Zhongzhou City, which is located in the eastern plain, but the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty lives in the Zhongyue Palace for most of the year, and there is the largest Zhongzhou Academy in the Great Zhou Dynasty at the foot of Zhongyue Mountain. And the temple built on the top of Zhongyue Mountain is the most sacred place in the entire Feihuang Realm, and only in the temple can the Yuanying monks have the possibility of ascending to the immortal realm.
In fact, the name of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the dynasty, but in fact it is just a feudal system, and the various sects are equivalent to the princes, and the Ji family of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the co-lord of the world. With the exception of Zhongzhou, Wuzhou, and Beizhou, the other states were actually controlled by the various sects. For thousands of years, the Great Zhou court and the various sects have been fighting openly and secretly. The Great Zhou court established a chamber of commerce and tried to control the states through the chamber of commerce, but it was also strongly resisted by various factions, as evidenced by the hunt in the beast spirit world that Zhang Xu had just experienced.
But in the end, the Great Zhou court is the descendant of the Ji sage, and although the various sects are fighting with the court, they dare not openly rebel against the court, and they dare not openly send troops to rebel.
There are mortals and monks in the entire Feihuang Realm, the imperial court and the local government are the institutions that manage mortals, and the Chamber of Commerce is the tool of the Great Zhou Dynasty to try to control the world. And the Chamber of Commerce is located on Zhongyue Mountain.
Zhang Xu and Feng Ping were intercepted by the patrol monks of the Chamber of Commerce when they took Ah Huang at a distance of 100 miles from Zhongyue Mountain, and three birds flew towards the eagle vulture, and there were three monks of the Chamber of Commerce on each bird, and Zhang Xu stopped for interrogation.
took out the order of the head of the Iron Sword Sect and informed them of the purpose of going to Zhongzhou, Zhang Xu was let go, and then a flying bird led Zhang Xu to Zhongyue Mountain, and stopped dozens of miles away from the mountain range, because the main mountain of Zhongyue did not allow spirit birds to rise into the air.
Ah Huang and Zhang Xu have the same mind and are not afraid that it will get lost, Zhang Xu ordered Ah Huang to fly to play, and then walked to Zhongyue Mountain with Feng Ping.
The closer you get to Zhongyue Mountain, the more you feel that it is steep and beautiful, and it is worthy of being the first mountain range in the world, but to Zhang Xu's surprise, it is also too lively here, and it is not like the spiritual mountain where cultivators live at all. Along the way, there were monks everywhere, and all kinds of shops on both sides of the road were opened by monks, selling all kinds of items related to monks, food, clothing, housing, and transportation. There is also a shop specializing in selling barbarian slaves, which are said to be barbarian monks from the northern wilderness grasslands who came from Beizhou and captured.
Zhang Xu and Fengping passed by on the road, and from time to time enthusiastic clerks came out of the store to solicit business, among which there were many beautiful female shopkeepers.
"Well, that's too lively. Tubaozi Feng Ping was dumbfounded, he has always only begged for a life in Wuzhou, and never came to Zhongzhou, he thought that the Qiongshan where the Wuzhou Chamber of Commerce is located is already lively enough, but he didn't expect that this Zhongyue Mountain is a hundred times more lively than the Qiongshan!
"It is precisely because of the prosperity of Zhongzhou and the large number of monks that it is not easy to make a living!" Zhang Xu said with emotion.
"Two, do you want a spiritual armor? Each piece of spiritual armor in our store is from the master's handwriting, and it is carefully made by the master of instrument cultivation, which is inexpensive and functional. "Passing by a shop selling spirit armor, a male cultivator stopped the two of them in their way and introduced enthusiastically.
"This benevolent brother, seeing that your cultivation has reached the foundation building, why don't you participate in the hunting of the other world to refine your cultivation skills, why bend to this small shop?" Feng Ping said incredulously.
"Hunting in the other world, if you want to fight with the fierce beast monks of the other world, and earn that little bit of spirit stone, it is simply a life of nine deaths, and you can earn spirit stones safely and steadily, so what if a fool participates in hunting in the other world?" said disdainfully, "My ideal is to open my own spirit armor shop, but I don't want to go to the other world to die!"
"Why do you say that? Our monk Xiuzhen is originally fighting against the sky, even the Jindan Archmage will also go to the other world to fight, so that he can temper his mana and become a primordial infant. If everyone is as afraid of war as you are, how can we Flying Yellow Realm open up so many other worlds, and how can we have a steady stream of cultivation resources?" Feng Ping said angrily, the hunt he participated in and lost an eye because of it, and it was said that he was sent to death, which made him extremely angry.
"If you want to go to the other world, it's your business, and you don't need to go to the other world, and the barbarians over there are brewing to attack my Da Zhou, so you can just sign up for the army." Anyway, I don't go to fight such a thing. Hey, do you want to buy the spirit armor or not, don't buy it and don't hinder Lao Tzu's business!hillbilly!" The male cultivator finally became angry.
"Who are you calling a hillbilly?" Feng Ping sparked in one of his eyes, and his hand pressed against the hilt of the magic sword at his waist.
"Why, if you want to draw your sword, let me tell you, it is forbidden to fight privately in Zhongyue Mountain, and the violators will be assigned to the state as military slaves, so you can draw your sword and give it to Lao Tzu?"
"Forget it. Zhang Xu grabbed Feng Ping's hand, "I was barked a few times by the dog, do you really want to deal with it." ”
"Master, I'm just angry, you said, we fought for our lives in the other world, and earned so many resources for the Chamber of Commerce, but we were called fools!"
was dragged away, Feng Ping still said angrily.
"Occupying the most prosperous place in the world, peaceful for thousands of years, Zhongzhou people naturally breed a comfortable heart, naturally yearn for a comfortable and glamorous life, and Taizu's fighting spirit has long been exhausted. Although the Great Zhou Dynasty organized a chamber of commerce to fight against the various sects, if the concept does not change, I am afraid it will be more difficult to balance the various sects. Zhang Xu sighed.
The first purpose of coming to Zhongzhou was to visit the little Lori Lin Xi, so Zhang Xu did not find an inn to live in first, but inquired directly about Lin Xi's location.
According to Lin Xi's letter, she is now studying with the archmage Lu Shanhe, and Lu Shanhe, in addition to serving as a formation talisman master in the Zhongzhou Chamber of Commerce, is mainly a professor of the formation talisman department of Zhongzhou Academy, so Lin Xi's address is Zhongzhou Academy. Zhongzhou Academy is easy to find, located on the north peak of Zhongyue Mountain.
The five peaks of Zhongyue Mountain, the middle peak is the palace of Zhou Tianzi, the top of the mountain is where the temple is located, the most sacred but, there are royal troops stationed, and it is forbidden for idle people to approach.
The east peak is where the chamber of commerce is located, the east side of the east peak slows down and gradually transitions to the plain, so the flat land is the most, the buildings under the mountain peak are also the most, many shops and monks are in the east of the east peak, belonging to the prosperous commercial area of Zhongyue Mountain, according to statistics, there are more than 100,000 monks living nearby.
The north peak is small but the scenery is very quiet, it is opened as Zhongzhou Academy, it is the holy land of monks in the world, every year there are countless monks from all over the Great Zhou to Zhongzhou to apply for Zhongzhou Academy, and the academy accepts students very strictly, and only recruits two or three hundred people every year, among which a considerable proportion comes from the recommendation of the major sects and the children of the elders of the Zhou Chamber, so there are few opportunities for ordinary monks.
However, as long as you can be admitted to the academy, your identity will be different immediately, not to mention that you can learn all kinds of high-level exercises, and after graduation, you can enter the Chamber of Commerce and hold important positions, and there is hope for you to marry a child or even a yuanying.
Therefore, even if it is extremely difficult to enter the academy, there are countless monks who rush to it, and most of those who fail the exam will stay and prepare to take the next year's exam. The price of goods in Zhongzhou is extremely high, and it is naturally not easy to live here, and if you can't pass the exam, you have to find a way to make a living, so various shops came into being.
There are more monks, the greater the opportunity, even the monks who do not take the academy entrance examination also like to come here to beg for a living, so for thousands of years, there are more and more monks in Zhongyue Mountain. Later, the Chamber of Commerce simply divided the east of the East Peak into a commercial area, and foreign monks were only allowed to live east of the East Peak, and the other four peaks were forbidden to monks to enter privately, including the North Peak, where the academy was located.
Therefore, as soon as they came to the foot of Beifeng Mountain, Zhang Xu and Feng Ping were stopped by a team of soldiers, who were also composed of monks, and the captain led by them had the early cultivation of the foundation.
"The academy is forbidden to break in!" Captain Zhuji said coldly.
"We are from Wuzhou, and we are here to meet Grand Master Lu Shanhe. Feng Ping stepped forward to explain the purpose.
"Master Lu, as a professor of the academy, has such a lofty status, how can you see it when you see each other? ”
Zhang Xu sighed, greeted him with a smile on his face, and stuffed a storage bag into his hand without a trace: "We do know Master Lu, and we also ask Brother Tai to be accommodating." ”
Flipping the storage bag in his hand, there were more than a dozen spirit stones by feeling, and the captain finally showed a smile on his face: "Since you know Master Lu, it's easy to say." Who, you lead the two of them to the gate of the academy to register. ”
Under the leadership of a sergeant, the two finally came to the gate of the academy, and the monk guarding the door listened to the appeal of the two, and was not embarrassed at all, and immediately sent someone to run to the mountain peak to deliver the letter, which relieved Zhang Xu, who still wanted to spend money.
"Brother in charge, brother in charge. After a while, a crisp voice sounded, and Zhang Xu, who was talking to the monk guarding the door, looked up and saw the little Lori Lin Xi running over with a smile on her face.
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