The Southern Liang State is a vast country, with a territory nearly 100 times that of the Wu State, and is a medium-sized country in the Middle Earth Continent. Such countries are common in Middle-earth. Because the Southern Liang Kingdom is located in the Great Plains, there are many rivers and rivers in its territory, the land is fertile, the wind and rain are smooth, the grain harvest is bumper year after year, and the people are living a stable life.

However, the most amazing thing about the Southern Liang Kingdom is not the vastness of its territory, nor the fertility and richness of the land. It is the folk of the Southern Liang Kingdom, and there are countless legends and stories of immortals descending to earth, even the most remote border towns are no exception.

The story of ordinary people's homes, such as "One year, there was a fairy who went down to earth, fell in love with a poor scholar who studied hard in the cold window, and wanted to marry forever, but encountered the evil demon to obstruct and break up. ”

There are also more legendary stories above the imperial court, such as "In a certain year, a great immortal in the lower realm appointed the Southern Liang Kingdom as the champion of the dynasty as a disciple and taught the three volumes of the Book of Heaven. Zhuang Yuanlang pondered and meditated for ten years, and suddenly realized overnight, let go of the mundane, and drifted away, for a time the civil and military of the full dynasty, from the emperor to the courtiers, all envied not thinking about the government, thinking about the way of flying immortals. ”

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the people who wrote these legends and stories were scholars, and a large part of these legends were based on scholars. The storytellers in the restaurants and tea shops in the southern Liang country talked about these legends and stories, painting and spitting, as if they had seen it with their own eyes. And the people in the audience were even more fascinated by it, leisurely fascinated, and wished that they were the poor scholars, the champions.

Because there are too many stories of immortals, so that the Taoist temples of all sizes in the territory of Nanliang Kingdom have hung up the signboards of a certain immortal to attract men and women, and the incense is extremely prosperous. Up to the ministers of the Southern Liang court, down to the people of Limin, no matter whether they meet real immortals or false immortals, big temples and small temples, spiritual or not, first worship to express sincerity and then say, maybe one day which true immortal in the temple will ascend, and the shit luck of blessings and chickens and dogs will fall on their heads.

It is said that most of the territory of the Southern Liang Kingdom is the Great Plains, but to the west of it, there is a plateau Gobi that is far more vast and vast than the Southern Liang Kingdom, and I don't know how many times. The Gobi is barren, sparsely populated, and birds and beasts are extinct. The most important thing is that this Gobi does not belong to the Southern Liang Kingdom, nor does it belong to any other country.

It is said that a long time ago, about three to five thousand years ago, there was an eloquent emperor in the Southern Liang Kingdom, and suddenly had an idea to put the vast plateau Gobi in the west under the jurisdiction of the Southern Liang Kingdom, and immediately discussed with his ministers with great interest the strategy of sending troops.

But the matter of sending troops has not yet been negotiated a result, the ambitious emperor, and dozens of imperial ministers who had participated in this matter, died violently in just a few days, the Southern Liang Kingdom changed overnight, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne.

Since this accident, the folk of Nanliang have rumored that the Gobi on the plateau is the land of immortals, and it is strictly forbidden for secular mortals to set foot on it, and if you accidentally offend the immortals, you will suffer bad luck

The winding post road in the western frontier of the Southern Liang Kingdom ended when it extended to a border town. It's a remote town that's peaceful and tranquil. The streets are neat, the ground paved with blue bricks is simple and old, and the thatched houses on both sides of the street are scattered, which can accommodate at least one or two thousand people.

In the early morning, the smoke curled in the town, and some townspeople had already gotten up to work.

The second rode a horse and came to the town along the official road post road of the Southern Liang Kingdom. Looking at the appearance of the two of them, they are both very young. One was about seventeen years old, with an ordinary appearance, wearing a coarse green shirt and carrying a package, calm and gentle. The other was about fifteen years old, with a sharp sword at his waist, and his face was still full of childishness, looking around from time to time.

Early in the morning, there weren't many people on the streets, only the two of them.

The two of them talked as they rode their horses slowly.

"Brother Ye, the last time I followed my father to this Xianyuan City, I only remember passing through the Southern Liang Kingdom and this westernmost town in the Southern Liang Kingdom. But I can't remember what the way to go. ”

They are none other than Ye Qin and Nan Zhongjie. It took them more than half a year, eight hundred miles of wind and dust, night and night, and constantly changing horses, before they arrived in the western frontier of the Southern Liang Kingdom from the distant Wu Kingdom. It's just that when he got here, he encountered a small trouble, and Nan Zhongjie couldn't remember how to go for the last part of the journey.

Nan Zhongjie looked at the Gobi outside the town in a daze, and said with some shame.

Ye Qin restrained his horse and looked towards the plateau, the entire plateau Gobi was shrouded in a white morning mist, and there was almost no edge to see. Even if this Xianyuan City is on this Gobi, it can't be seen with the naked eye at all.

This made him a little helpless, seeing the ground, but forgetting the road on the last part of the journey.

Ye Qin said: "If you really can't think of it, let's stay in the territory of Nanliang Kingdom for a while." The Southern Liang Kingdom is so big, and it is close to Xianyuan City, there must be a lot of immortal cultivators here, let's see if we can find one or two immortal cultivators, and ask how to get to this Xianyuan City. It's better than looking around in the Gobi without a clue. ”

Nan Zhongjie nodded ashamedly: "It's okay, Brother Ye, let's go back to Nanliang Kingdom first." The Gobi is too desolate, and it would be terrible if you met a few monks with malicious intentions. ”

The two of them rode back along the official road.

In the town, an energetic old woodcutter was passing by with a load of dry firewood, and when he saw Ye Qin and Nan Zhongjie, he was surprised, and hurriedly put down a load of dry firewood.

Ye Qin was taken aback, and in surprise he used the spirit eye technique to investigate the old woodcutter, and found that this was just an ordinary woodcutter with no mana, and couldn't help but wonder: "Old man, how do you know that the two of us are immortal cultivators?"

The old woodcutter hurriedly smiled happily: "When I was young, I met an immortal by chance, and the immortal asked me to cut down three loads of wood, bring some oil, salt and tea goods and send them to Xiancheng." The old man has been doing this work for decades, and he has seen many immortals. Now although the old man is old and dizzy, he can see at a glance the bearing and demeanor of the two immortals, which are no different from the immortals in the fairy city, and they must be immortals. ”

Ye Qin was even more surprised: "You have seen a lot of immortal cultivators?"

The old woodcutter smiled and said, "But isn't it, there are many immortals with high mana in the fairy city, and there are many ordinary people like old decay." ”

Ye Qin and Nan Zhongjie glanced at each other and were overjoyed. They were worried about not knowing where to find the road to Xianyuan City, but they didn't expect to meet an old woodcutter who was familiar with the situation, which helped them a lot.

"So, does the old man know where the fairy city is?"

"The old man is about to pick up firewood and go to the fairy city. If the two immortals want to go to the immortal city, the old man is willing to go together. ”

"Thank you!"

The old woodcutter walked ahead with firewood, chattering along the way, and talking a lot about the immortals he had met before. There are some vulgar and trivial affairs in Xianyuan City, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc., which are unwilling to be done by immortal cultivators, so naturally they mortals are indispensable to do these jobs. Working for the immortals, you get a lot of gold and silver, and you have a lot of benefits. There are not a few worldly mortals like the old woodcutter in this town.