Luojing is located on the bank of the Luohe River, in the middle of the plain, is the largest city in the world, its city is square, the road of horizontal nine roads, vertical nine roads will divide the whole city into different sizes of squares, there are more than one million people here to beg for a living.

Shi Xuan took the ** flag, dressed as a Taoist priest, and walked through the bustling crowd of Suzaku Street. He has been coming to Luojing for seven or eight days, and these people have been asking around about the location of the Huilongguan, who knows that this Taoist temple is not famous, no one knows at all.

In the end, Shi Xuan sneaked into the yamen of Luojing Mansion, looked through the list of temples, and asked the Jinian Shushu Office who was in charge of this matter, only to find the location of the Longguan this time, which turned out to be in the most remote corner of the west of the city.

Turning the corner, the flow of people in front of me gradually became scarce, and when I walked to Anle Fang, I could only see children playing on the road, and the surrounding houses were dilapidated, and they had not been repaired for a long time.

Few outsiders come here, and as soon as Shi Xuan entered the workshop, the children followed him sparsely, giggling, as if they were watching the excitement.

Huilongguan is the northernmost part of this Anle Fang, and it is also the least populated place, there is not a single family in the surrounding hundreds of meters, only a dilapidated Taoist temple stands there alone.

When Shi Xuan saw Huilongguan, he almost didn't believe his eyes, this was too broken, I was afraid that it had not been repaired for decades, and he could even see that some of the roofs of the houses were damaged.

Walking to the door of the Taoist temple, looking at the door in front of him that seemed to fall down if he pushed it, Shi Xuan knocked lightly three times, and then three times, who knew that no one would answer the door for a while, Shi Xuan had to knock a few more times, and then waited for a while, but still no one came to open the door.

Shi Xuan had no choice but to use his internal qi and knock on it, the door was shaky, and it was about to fall, when a crisp and lazy voice came from the Taoist temple: "Who, in broad daylight, knocking on the door, are you annoying." ”

With the sound of slow footsteps, the door in front of him was finally pulled open before it fell, and what appeared in front of Shi Xuan was a handsome and handsome beautiful Taoist boy, frowning and shouting to Shi Xuan: "Let's go, there is no one you are looking for here." ”

"Poor Dao is here to find the Daoist of the Thief Spring. Seeing this, Shi Xuan had no choice but to explain his purpose directly.

When this beautiful Taoist boy heard Shi Xuan's reply, his eyes, which were still a little sleepy, also opened, and he looked Shi Xuan up and down, and finally a perfunctory smile pulled out at the corner of his mouth: "I also said when that old Taoist priest will take a fancy to you like this, but it seems that you are because of that incident, since you know his name, then come in, he is reading the scriptures in the quiet room." ”

Shi Xuan didn't understand what this Dao Tong meant, but since he let himself in, let's seize the opportunity.

Walking behind Dao Tong, Shi Xuan tried his best to get words out of his mouth, but Dao Tong's mouth was very tight, and he didn't even tell Shi Xuan his name except for yawning all the time.

Walking to a dilapidated room, Dao Tong spoke: "This is the quiet room, you can come in with me." After speaking, he didn't knock on the door, he just pushed it open and walked in, and Shi Xuan had to follow behind him and go inside.

The ashram was empty, with only a futon and a desk. On the futon sat a Taoist priest in his thirties with a high crown in a black robe, exactly the same as Chu Yuyan's description, with an ordinary face and two mustaches, which was very obscene. However, with his ability to look unchanged for decades, he far surpassed Shi Xuan.

The Taoist priest sat on the futon, the scripture book in his hand was almost falling to the ground, his eyes were looking at the scripture, but it was tightly closed, his head was little by little, and there was a suspicious object that looked like saliva at the corner of his mouth.

Dao Tong walked in front of him and stomped his feet heavily, he immediately straightened up, his head straightened, woke up, and looked at Dao Tong in a daze, Dao Tong said disrespectfully: "You have guests." Then he turned and walked away without looking back.

The Taoist priest touched his mouth and muttered, "Old, old, the Taoist master has reached the age where he can fall asleep while reading scriptures." Then he raised his head and looked at Shi Xuan with sleepy eyes: "Are you looking for Dao Ye?"

"Zunjia is the head of the Dao of the Thief Spring, and the junior Shi Xuan. Shi Xuan still replied respectfully.

"It's Daoye, hey, it's a pity, it's not a beautiful boy. The thief sighed with some regret. Then he pointed to the ground, "Sit down, what are you looking for Dao Ye, Dao Ye doesn't remember to owe you a favor, and he doesn't owe you money." ”

Shi Xuan didn't dislike it, he directly sat cross-legged on the ground, and said directly: "Dao Chief, do you still remember the Fire Spirit Bead?"

"Eh, are you the girl's concubine? No, depending on the age, is it her son, well, the Taoist is sitting up straight, he really owes her a chance, what do you want to say directly." The thief rubbed his sleepy eyes.

Shi Xuan didn't want to take advantage of Chu Yuyan's opportunity like this: "The younger generation is determined to visit the Daomen, and I heard that Mrs. Yuyan mentioned that there are Daomen masters here, so I didn't come to ask for this opportunity for her." ”

"Superior, Daoist is not high. Thief Quanzi said a joke that was not funny, and then whispered and scratched: "Senior brother in charge, that old fool, as for sending Dao Ye to this place where birds don't and there are many troubles?" After complaining, he continued: "Actually, you don't have to look around, as long as you break through to the Qi Induction Period, you will naturally understand where the Dao Gate is." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Shi Xuan was a little excited when he saw that the thief Quanzi really knew something.

Thief Quanzi stretched and moved his neck before lazily replying, "That's not what happened. At the end of antiquity, several golden immortals in this great world fought a big battle with their respective disciples, and two fell, and the remaining one finally took that step, and then left here to create a big world to verify their own way. And this big world is miserable, how powerful is the Golden Immortal War, tsk, Dao Ye can't imagine it now, but at least it destroyed the most prosperous immortal cultivation world in ancient times, I don't know how many immortals above the Yuan Shen didn't escape, and all fell. I said, you kid doesn't pour a cup of tea for Daoye, Daoye is also very thirsty when he talks about ancient times. ”

Shi Xuan sweated slightly, and hurriedly went out to find hot water and tea, but there was dust everywhere in Huilongguan, and there was nothing, and Shi Xuan couldn't find it when he looked for Daotong, so he had to fetch well water by himself, went to the kitchen to boil a pot of hot water, and returned to the quiet room with boiled water.

Thief Quanzi didn't dislike it, drank half a sip of water, and continued: "Fortunately, there is the Tongtian Lingbao Shenxiao Palace left by the Taigu Yu Yu Dao people, which suppressed the vitality of the riot, and also left a tenth of the size of the big world is still intact. The Ancient Golden Immortal Battlefield and the destroyed Immortal Cultivation Realm were filled with yellow sand, storms, spatial cracks, and so on. Shenxiao Palace is the closest place from there, isolating it to prevent expansion, and at the same time sleeping to regain its strength. This is the land of Middle-earth. ”

"But what does this have to do with the Qi Induction Period?" Shi Xuan asked suspiciously.

Thief Quanzi pursed his lips, as if he felt uncomfortable sitting, moved the futon back, and then half-leaned against the wall: "This big world has been destroyed so badly, the natural vitality has passed, and there are not many elixirs and materials left. The rest of those cultivators lived within their means, and they no longer regained the grandeur of the ancient cultivation world. Especially in this Middle Earth, there are basically no major sects, because one is close to the Western Wilderness, that is, the ancient immortal cultivation realm, the vitality is the most rare, and the second is that the Shenxiao Palace recovers its strength here, and the remaining scarce vitality is also occupied by it. ”

"So?" Shi Xuan seemed to understand a little.

"Therefore, as long as someone breaks through the Qi Induction Period and can attract the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, they will all be moved out of the Middle Earth by the Shenxiao Palace. However, to be able to break through to the Qi Induction Period in such a poor Middle Earth, it is really a rare good material and beautiful jade, the age is not too big, if the body and soul are not exhausted, the major sects are all vying for it, so I discussed it with Shenxiao Palace, and the place where I moved out is fixed, and the major sects have people guarding there. Thief Quanzi took a sip of the rest of the water and narrowed his eyes in comfort.

"I see, I said that so many masters who broke through to the induction period are gone. Shi Xuan suddenly realized, and then asked, "Then can't this vitality be restored?"

"If there is still the Golden Immortal Dao Ancestor, he will be able to restore the old view for more than a hundred years at most, but unfortunately, after this, there has never been a Golden Immortal Dao Ancestor in this big world, if it weren't for the Shenxiao Palace, which is at the peak of the Tongtian Spirit Treasure, many big worlds would have already occupied this place. Thief Quanzi yawned, and then continued: "However, the cultivation world outside the Western Wilderness and Middle Earth, after these hundreds of thousands of years of recovery, can be regarded as being able to see. And the Western Wilderness is now almost stable for hundreds of thousands of miles on the periphery, and at least a few market towns and cities protected by formations have been built. ”

"Are there other big worlds?" Shi Xuan was curious.

Thief Quanzi seemed to remember something, and sighed a little: "The heavens and all the worlds, the trillions of worlds are not a joke, there are hundreds of millions of worlds with cultivators, you look at the starry sky, those that are moving are the subsidiary stars of our world, and those that are static are the projections of the worlds that are close here, such as the Big Dipper, which is actually the projection of the Big Dipper world." ”

"Okay, do you really want to go to the cultivation world?" Thief Quanzi retracted his eyes, changed his obscene and lazy appearance just now, and asked with a serious expression.

"Yes, the younger generation needs someone to guide them, they need to communicate with others, and then stay in Middle-earth, I don't know how many years it will take to break through to the Qi Induction Period. Shi Xuan originally wanted to ask why there were twenty-seven great worlds with particularly bright projections, but now he could only restrain his mind and answer solemnly.

Thief Quanzi smiled: "It's a pity that you are not a beautiful boy, otherwise the Taoist master would have accepted you as an apprentice." ”

Then he immediately turned pale and asked solemnly: "Have you thought about it?" With your cultivation, in this land of Middle-earth, it is to be windy and rainy, and you can enjoy the envy and reverence of others, and maybe one day there will be a beautiful girl lying on the ground, crying and shouting and begging you to take her as an apprentice, or even in the room. The people around them all respectfully shouted 'Immortal Chief, Immortal Chief'. When you compare yourself to others, you are superior to others. Tsk, looking at your expression, I should have enjoyed it too, right?"

Shi Xuan remembered that he had been seen with admiration and awe before, so he had to answer honestly: "Yes." ”

Thief Quanzi continued to wrench his face: "Do you know that when you reach the cultivation world, you don't know how many people are better than you, and now in the cultivation world, because of how many years of strict apprenticeship and scarce resources, many families have been formed, so there will be talents and cultivation speed that are better than yours, and there will be nothing inferior to you but you can enjoy many resources, so cultivation will throw you far away, there will be useless but powerful backstage so they look down on you, you are in the cultivation world, you are a pawn! You may die in some inexplicable battle one day. ”

After breathing a sigh of relief, Thief Quanzi finally asked solemnly, but in a flat tone, "Even so, do you want to go to the cultivation world?"

――――Scared, why are there so many books missing in front of me?