Bai Ya was supposed to go to unlock the relics of Xu Xianling, but the reason why he was so leisurely now was because he found from the treasure map that the cave of the innate martial artist was located near Wancheng.

Wancheng is the county seat of Nanyang County, Jingzhou, just north of Xiangyang, about only tens of thousands of miles away. In terms of the region of this world, it is already very close, that is, a teleportation between nearby cities can be reached.

Xiangyang was the last tourist point of Baiya to go to the Qin State, and since he wanted to follow this route to visit the Chu Realm, he naturally did not need to rush to retrieve the treasure.

Anyway, the map and the key to the cave are in his hands, and the things won't run away if they are left there.

In fact, when Meng Fang first handed over the treasure map to him, he wondered why the martial artist of the Xu Yi Sect did not receive the treasure of the innate martial artist, and later listened to Meng Fang, the old Jianghu, explain it again before he understood.

is different from Hu Sanniang, a lone traveler, although Meng Fang is also from the green forest, after all, he has been a scoop in Badong County for a long time, and he is more aware of the rumors of Xu Xianling.

There were many rumors about Xu Yi's retirement back then, but Meng Fang learned from his ancestors that two of them were true.

The first rumor is that the reason why Xu Yi retired in his heyday was indeed forced by the joint forces of the Central Plains Immortal Martial Sect.

The second true rumor is that after Xu Yi retired, he did create an organization called the "Panshan Sect", which compares the members of the organization to pangolins.

As we all know, pangolins are a beneficial animal in the mountains and forests, which can eliminate termite pests, protect forests, levees, and maintain ecological balance. However, this animal has high medicinal value, suffered from human indiscriminate killing, and is on the verge of extinction.

Xu Yi's metaphor is actually a satire on the self-proclaimed defenders of the Heavenly Dao in the Central Plains, but they can't tolerate these "green forest and beneficial beasts".

Xu Yi founded the "Panshan Sect", with the original intention of providing a shelter for some green forest thieves and righteous thieves, and giving guidance and teaching in martial arts.

However, with the passage of time, these green forest rivers and lakes have become masters and apprentices with Xu Yi.

Although Xu Yi had always opposed turning the Panshan Sect into his own sect during his lifetime, after his death, the "Panshan Sect" still became the "Panshan Sect", and Xu Yi was respected as the first generation patriarch of the sect.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Panshan Sect, it was very different from the ordinary Xianwu Sect.

First of all, the system is loose and the rules are simple. The thieves and thieves are all unruly, except for Xu Yi himself, none of them are convinced, and they are unwilling to live under others, so the Panshan Sect originally had no master.

The second is that Xu Yi didn't find any immortal and demon realms back then, and these green forest thieves and righteous thieves had no fixed place to live, and they couldn't meet each other for a few years, so the Panshan Sect didn't have a station at first.

First, there is no master, and second, there is no station, and the situation of this Panshan faction can be imagined. Perhaps Xu Yi expected this back then, so he has always opposed turning this mutual-aid organization into a sect.

However, to everyone's surprise, the Panshan sect has really survived tenaciously, and it has been passed down for nearly 600 years.

One of the most important factors in this is Xu Xianling!

Xu Xianling was originally Xu Yi's identity token used for mission hiring, and after his death, he was collected by several of his closest Green Forest warriors. These people have the most guidance from him, and they are apprentices in the de facto sense, inheriting his martial arts and spirit.

Although the Panshan faction was initially loosely organized, most of its members did not listen to orders, and their whereabouts were difficult to find. But these people never wanted Xu Yi's martial arts to be lost to future generations, so they used Xu Xianling as a medium of inheritance, and went to the rivers and lakes every once in a while to find disciples.

Not only did they use Xu Xianling to leave Xu Yi's inheritance, but after their disciples debuted, they would often get together to exchange ideas with each other.

Later, this act became the selection process of each generation of sect masters of the Panshan Sect, which could not only confirm the martial arts, but also expand and expand the martial arts inheritance of Xu Yi and other ancestors of the Panshan Sect.

Today's Panshan Sect disciples are still difficult to find, but it is rumored that they have a secret sect station, and they also have a strict door rule system, which is no different from ordinary small and medium-sized Xianwu sects.

However, the Panshan Sect still retains two traditions, one of which is that it continues to use Xu Xianling to select martial disciples and disciples from among the warriors of the Green Forest. It's just that Xu Xianling at this time is almost all newly created.

The second is that except for the martial disciples and disciples who voluntarily abide by the rules of the Panshan Sect, other Green Forest martial artists who do not want to be bound by the sect can leave the sect after they become artists.

It's just that from then on, they weren't allowed to mention the Panshan sect again. What they do on the rivers and lakes, the Panshan faction neither interferes nor comes out.

This extremely personal tradition of the Panshan Sect is the reason why Xu Xianling's relics were not taken away by the disciples of the Panshan Sect.

Because except for its original owner, who did not know life and death, no one knew that there was a relic in it, nor did they know where the relic was located.

It's ridiculous to say, but this is the tradition of the Panshan faction, and it is also the style of the Green Forest thieves for a long time!

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The Qianling area is located in a mountainous area, a small mountain town, and the population of the surrounding military cities is less than 50,000.

If it weren't for the fact that this city was located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain, and together with Youyang, it guarded the exit of the Xiangxi Post Road, and was called the "throat of Hunan and Guizhou", and it would have been abandoned by the kings of Chu in previous dynasties.

The human habitation of the Shenzhou World is very precious, almost every inch of land, but there are also some terrains that belong to chicken ribs. Because to build a city in such a place, the population gathered is not large, transportation is inconvenient, and a large number of garrisons are required, and the consumption exceeds the output.

Why is there a military garrison around every human city in Shenzhou?

They were not only there to defend against bandits and suppress rebellions, but more importantly, to protect the main city and the surrounding peasants from the beasts of the mountains and forests.

Most of the beasts in the mountains and forests of this world have brute beast genes, and their ferocity is far greater than that of Baiya's previous life. In some cases, they will gather to storm the human city and turn into a herd of beasts to attack the city.

In this case, unless humans detect the movement of the herd in advance, it will be a terrible massacre, so the presence of the city protector army is very necessary.

However, because of the existence of the city protection army, when humans set up the main city, they must consider how to support these armies.

The distance between human cities is tens of thousands of miles, and hundreds of thousands of miles away, even if there are flywheel treasure ships and big post roads, it is still too reluctant to transport a large amount of food.

Therefore, an important condition for setting up the main city is that there must be enough arable land near the main city.

A city like Fuling is fine, after all, it is hilly terrain and terraced fields can be cultivated. But Qianling is uncomfortable in this kind of city, Wuling has steep slopes and deep valleys, rugged terrain, and the mountains are covered with thick rocks, and there is no way to transform them into cultivated land.

If it weren't for the strategic route of Hunan and Guizhou, and there was still a Yuan River to fish, the kings of Chu would have given up here long ago.

Bai Ya did not stay in this small city for long, and soon teleported to Wuling City, the county governor of Wuling County.

Wuling was built in the pre-Qin period, and it was a city built after Zhang Ruo, the commander of Shu County, appointed by King Zhaoxiang of Qin, attacked Chu. Originally, Wuling was called Zhang Ruocheng, and later became the political and economic center of northwest Hunan Province, which has a history of nearly 6,000 years.

Wuling, unlike Qianling, is one of the transportation hubs in the north and south of China. Because it is close to the Yuan River and Dongting Lake in the east, the land here is fertile, with a good water conservancy and irrigation environment, and it is the famous "land of fish and rice" in the south of the Yangtze River.

Today's Wuling spans the Yuanjiang River and is divided into two urban districts, north and south, and is a super city, comparable to Wuhan in the previous life of Baiya.

Together with the six surrounding moats, it has a population of no less than 600,000, which is more prosperous than the Liangzhou City that Baiya has seen in the northwest before.

Seriously speaking, this city cannot be counted as a single city, because it has a total of two county guards, which are not subordinate to each other, and are both directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and belong to the joint city.

This kind of joint city is a unique product of Jiangnan, and the location of the main city of the Terran is very important, and a large area of arable land is needed around it. The Jiangnan region has a dense water network and many tributaries of the Yangtze River, so cities will be established on both sides of the river.

Relying on the river to strengthen the connection between the two banks, over time, this kind of joint city will be formed.

Not only Wuling, but also the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are mostly such cities, such as: Jiangxia, Lujiang, Shouchun and so on.

Therefore, except for the plains where the granaries of Guanzhong and Hebei are located, the other large cities with large populations are basically in the south of the Yangtze River.

When he arrived at Wuling City, Bai Ya no longer continued to use the teleportation array.

He has plenty of time, and he plans to take a boat along the Yuan River to enjoy the scenery, and he is about to enter the beautiful Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake is on the south bank of Jingjiang, another tributary of the Yangtze River, connected to the Yuan River, also known as Yunmengze, and the name of Dongting comes from the Dongting Mountain in the lake.

In the previous life of Baiya, Dongting Lake underwent several drastic changes since the Ming Dynasty, and its area has shrunk from 6,000 square kilometers to more than one-third.

On the eve of the crossing of the white cliffs, the fairyland Yunmengze had turned into a huge muddy pool, and the Dongting Lake he saw at that time was like a drooping old woman, and it was no longer beautiful.

However, this Shenzhou world is different, it has experienced the great fission of heaven and earth, and although Dongting Lake is still a lake in depth, its area is comparable to that of the ocean. And because the islands in the lake are like chess, all over the shallow water and light, every time the lake is foggy, it is like a fairyland on earth, which is mysterious and magnificent.

If you want to enjoy Dongting well, you need to take a cruise. He had taken a flower boat with Wang Peng, a knife washer, before, and felt very good, so he decided to draw the gourd in the same way this time.

However, the fare for all the painting boats and the flower boats is not expensive, and he now has only some broken silver left on him, and it is estimated that he cannot afford to buy a ferry ticket, so he has to find a way to get some money first.

As a disciple of Qingcheng, of course he couldn't learn from the Green Forest warriors to "rob the rich and help the poor", so he had to go to the pawn shop to drop something.

Fortunately, he came all the way, and he still had some "trophies" on his body, and there were still a lot of healing and qi tonifying pills left from the sect, and it was estimated that it would be enough to lose some.