Chapter 43: Fire and Water
As soon as he finished speaking, Ah Jin also learned like Ah Qing, and he dodged into the rockery in the vine blue, and disappeared.
Ah Huang was stunned for a while by these two goods, why don't you hide when you go to a strange place one by one, as long as Lao Tzu faces it himself, he looks at the lush mountains opposite, and then looks down at the rockery rattan basket like a basket of flowers in his hand, and the black mustache on his chin is almost angry and upturned.
Nai Naidi, sure enough, is a good companion of the five elements, and is about to open the way into the city, the gold and wood are completely open, and they are left with their own soil, and they want to open their legs and hurry by themselves, which is really unbearable for uncles and aunts!
However, Ah Huang's nostrils had purple smoke for a long time, and he finally deflated, so he had no choice but to change the rattan basket, hang it under his neck, put his hands behind his back, whistle, unfold the earth escape, and exerted his divine sense along the road to find a larger-scale city, Shi Shiran galloped away.
Ah Huang walked all the way, and his speed was not calculated, and he did not stop at all small places such as villages and towns, small towns, etc., almost across half a planet, so he slowed down, because he had already found a large and wide city in front of him.
The big city covers an area of about hundreds of miles, surrounded by a thick wall more than ten zhang high, behind the female wall can also see a team of guards patrolling the city, looking from afar, it looks like a towering castle standing on the plateau, the shape is majestic, there are many buildings scattered in it, and most of them are dominated by towering spires, a bit like the castle of the medieval West on the earth, but it is not a little more than a little wide.
Naturally, there are soldiers guarding the city gate and officials guarding the city to collect the entry tax, Ah Huang is too lazy to deal with those low-level monks, and directly escapes into the city, until the most prosperous street inside, only then does he take advantage of the lack of people to show his figure, Shi Shiran stepped on the bluestone road and walked slowly.
Although he restrained his aura and pretended to be a wandering monk like Danchu, the arrogance of the cultivator was always indelible, and he didn't care about people when he moved forward, and he was dressed in a strange way that made passers-by look sideways, but he didn't dare to ignore it.
There are countless pedestrians on the bustling streets of the city, and they are mainly dressed in simple linen clothes, although they are all colorful, the styles are very consistent, all of them are short fights, and people who wear Taoist robes like Ah Huang are rarely seen.
Ah Huang looked a little strange, but he didn't intend to ask why, his goal was not to them, but to find a detailed star map of the central star field as soon as possible, and it was best to get the relevant astrolabes as soon as possible, and these were not in the hands of ordinary people in the city, but only high-level monks who often crossed the star field could collect.
As he walked, he spread his divine sense and scanned everywhere, as if no one in the city had ever left his own star, whether it was a monk or a large family, including the tallest city lord's mansion, there was no star map or a astrolabe.
He had no choice but to settle for the next best, first from a shop that dealt in all kinds of books and jade slips, took a piece of jade slips illustrating the geographical features of the planet, stood under the eaves of a tall house, and pressed it between his eyebrows to watch it carefully.
Originally, this area was a star field on the edge of the central star field, called the Qingtong Star Domain, but now this planet is the only living planet in the star field called Fangduo Galaxy, called the Crane Star, the planet is vast and sparsely populated, rich in products, and is the origin of many complete basic cultivation resources.
Due to the thin foundation of the original cultivation exercises, once the local cultivators are lucky enough to get married, most of them go out to find opportunities, and generally do not return, so there are few high-level monks, only at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and they are all the kind of old and unpromoted, decadent home-based elderly care type.
This large city is called Lapa City, it is the second big city in this star, and it is one of the three super cities in the city, the city-state covers a wide area, but the population is only one million, mainly low-level cultivators, and the ordinary city residents mainly buy and sell cultivation resources, and win profits for livelihood and basic cultivation.
In fact, the city is a regional material distribution center, and the cultivation resources that are cultivated by themselves or collected from the wild within a range of thousands of miles around are all gathered here for the bulk purchase of alien visitors, so although the population is small, there are many materials for transport, and there are almost everything needed for ordinary Five Elements cultivation here.
"The population is sparse, a big city with a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are less than a million people?" Ah Huang looked very strange, looked up at the people coming and going on the street, and said in his heart, "According to this pedestrian density, the population of this city is not five or six million. ”
Ah Huang looked at the pedestrians, and suddenly noticed a regular situation, the pedestrians did not walk around casually while browsing the shops on the street, but seemed to converge towards the east of the city like a slow flow of water flowing downward.
He suddenly became curious, so he looked left and right, and picked a lone pedestrian at once, and saw that Xiu Wei was also Danchu like he pretended to be, that person was nearly middle-aged, with a full face, a little rough and arrogant, but his eyes were calm, not like a blind and reckless person.
"This fellow Daoist is invited, but he is walking alone?" Ah Huang judged the situation and carefully stepped forward to greet him, he had long been accustomed to the treatment of people in the alien domain, although he still used his mind to talk to people, but there were words in his mouth, which was very similar to a direct conversation with people, and it was not easy for anyone to see through.
This person suddenly saw someone coming to say hello, he was slightly stunned, and when he saw that it was a monk in a Taoist robe who was wearing a Taoist robe and cultivating like himself, he stopped and grinned: "Hehe, Daoist friends are from the sect, how can they go alone?"
Ah Huang said with a smile: "Poor Dao is a cultivator of the alien travel party, seeing so many people moving forward, I can't help but be curious, and I don't know where to go. ”
This person was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Daoist friends are not small, this is the beginning of Dan dare to leave the star to travel, in the lower Dan for a long time, even the other two big cities of the star have not been to it." ”
Ah Huang said with a smile: "Poor Dao also came by a large flying boat with acquaintances to purchase materials, and by the way, he walked around in this city, hehe, I haven't told Poor Dao yet, where are so many people going?"
This person patted his head and said: "You see that I will go wrong as soon as I speak, tomorrow is the day of the opening of the city's water and fire recruitment conference, and the location is on Qingyao Mountain in the east of the city. ”
"What is this?" Ah Huang didn't understand the local customs, and naturally he didn't understand what this so-called Water and Fire Recruiting Conference was for, and he was afraid of revealing his stuffing, so he asked tentatively, "The poor road is from an alien, and the people and the earth are unfamiliar, I don't know what the mystery of this water and fire recruitment conference in your city is?"
When this person heard this, he couldn't help but be a little disgusted: "Brother, isn't there this assembly on your planet?" Hehe, you and I are both Danchu monks, and I don't seem to be a few years older than the next one, so I don't blame you for calling you a brother. ”
Ah Huang was suffocated when he heard this, feeling that this water and fire recruiting conference was unified all over the world in the central star field, and he didn't understand that he almost said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said: "Poor and famous, my brother is not strange, I also left the sect for the first time to travel, so I thought that there was a difference between this recruiting conference and my hometown." ”
Brother Yi said with a smile: "Brother Mai, don't blame those who don't know, in fact, it is still the same to select suitable candidates for water and fire attribute cultivation, and to go to the water and fire twin stars to observe and help, and it is the great grace of the joint meeting of the three alliances to descend for a thousand years." ”
...... Continued, Ah Huang then cautiously interrogated the words of the old man, and finally figured out the reason for this water and fire recruitment conference, it turned out that as early as a thousand years ago, two associated pure attribute planets suddenly appeared on the other side of the central star field, one was pure Mars, and the other was pure Mercury, and appeared at the same time on the edge of the outermost Qi Qi star field in the central star field.
When they appeared, the almost white fireball and the deep black water ball, like the sun and the moon appearing in the dark, shocked the entire Qiqi Star Domain for a while.
However, the water and fire twin stars do not stay fixed at the edge of the Qiqi star field, as if passing by for three years, and then quietly lead away, nowhere to be found, after ten years, they reappear on the edge of the outer edge of Qiqi, still suspended and moved for three years, and then disappear again, and the cycle continues, so far it has been at least a thousand years.
After the appearance of the Water and Fire Twin Stars, at first the cultivators of all levels who were looking at them from a distance were just curious, but then gradually some cultivators of the two systems of water and fire felt that the closer they were to them, the more beneficial it would be for them to enter the realm of cultivation, and then the news spread, and more and more cultivators of the two systems of water and fire went to approach them as if they were worshipping and cultivating.
The central star field and its vassal star fields are so vast, with hundreds of millions of cultivators of all levels of water and fire, when every ten years come, the water and fire twin stars pass by again, and the nearby asteroids and meteorite belts are crowded with monks of all levels of water and fire, because the extremely flame-like water and fire yuan force is widely dispersed, and all kinds of flying machines should not approach too much, lest they be affected and damaged, so cultivators can only stay on asteroids or meteorites.
As the years go by, those who occupy the best position to contact the twin stars of water and fire are all super forces with great energy, so once there are external forces that are evenly matched, there will be a phenomenon of you fighting and fighting, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.
Later, after the ruling of the joint meeting of the three alliances, the observation and cultivation area was forcibly divided, and the far and near areas were demarcated according to the cultivation behavior, so that the major forces in the central star field could have a fixed territory, and no longer fight for the distance from the water and fire twin stars, so as to avoid the grudge from getting deeper and deeper.
High-level cultivators have a relatively fixed place to observe and cultivate, so for low-level cultivators, they are too close to cultivation to bear, and there is no place for high-level cultivators to compete for, and there is also a place to be stained a little farther away.
This can be regarded as a good thing that the joint meeting of the three alliances has done for the low-level monks of the two systems of water and fire, after all, the high-level monks also come from the low-level cultivation, so the joint meeting of the three alliances has shown great favor and made a far-reaching and cake-sharing motion.