Chapter 30 This painting style is right
Braving the wind and snow to rush on the road, and still have to walk more than a hundred miles, I really suffered.
Those young disciples with insufficient cultivation were all blue from the cold and shivering all over. Those older "senior brothers" were cursing one by one and were very dissatisfied.
Fortunately, everyone has cultivation bases, and the speed of traveling is much faster than ordinary people. More than one hundred miles, and it will be covered in one day.
In the evening, a huge city appeared on the land ahead.
This city is built on a big mountain, or in other words, the whole mountain is the city.
Buildings layer by layer are stacked like steps, and a total of nine-story buildings are built around the mountain. This is the Dafang City "Haoyang City" of Haoyang Xianzong.
Haoyang City is not within the coverage of the Zongmen Mountain Protector Array, and the buildings in the city are also covered with snow.
It's not that the mountain protection formation couldn't cover Haoyang City, but that the mountain protection formation deliberately didn't cover it.
After all, this is a square city, used to do business with various sects, various practice families, and various casual cultivators. You have covered the Zongmen mountain protection array here, life and death are all under your control, who dares to do business?
Looking from a distance, Haoyang City looks very lively.
In the sky, a huge flying boat crashed through the clouds, making a "rumbling" sound of breaking through the sky, and landed at the airport pier outside Haoyang City.
In mid-air, cloud carts, mechanical beasts of different shapes, and spiritual birds, either carrying people or pulling goods, broke through the wind and snow and roared past.
Occasionally, some practitioners who are flying in the sky with clouds or flying with swords can be seen, passing by in the air.
On the ground, groups of monks came and went, either driving pack animals or driving trucks.
This painting style is right!
The scene in front of me is a bit like Xu Ke's imaginary "world of cultivating immortals".
Xu Ke secretly sighed, sure enough, the "Hedong Fang" where I live is just a rural place, and it is full of hard work in farming haha, now it is a bit of a normal painting style in the world of practice.
"The Haoyang City is ahead, we will be there soon."
At this time, the skinny old man Liu Yongtian stopped, turned around and looked at the crowd, and said, "Everyone cheer up, tidy up your clothes, and show some appearance. After entering the city, you don't want to be treated as beggars, do you? , move!"
Hearing Fang Zheng's words, a group of young disciples arranged their clothes one after another. Xu Ke even performed a cleansing technique on himself to clean up the mud spots on his clothes and shoes.
Those "senior brothers" didn't seem to care, they just shook their clothes casually a few times and dealt with it, as if they didn't care about losing face or not.
Xu Ke also expressed his understanding of this.
These "senior brothers" are all in their fifties or sixties. They are stuck in the early stages of Qi training for decades, and have been unable to make a breakthrough. They have no future at all and are just dawdling.
For them, the road of cultivation in this life is over, and any sect assessment or promotion is completely meaningless to them.
They just want to accumulate some spirit stones, exchange them for some cultivation resources and cultivation methods, and when they reach the age of eighty, they will "retire and return to their hometown" to the sect.
Cultivators in the Qi training period have a lifespan of one hundred and fifty years. This is also the lifespan limit that mortals can achieve. Even if their cultivation base is not good enough, they still have spiritual power to nourish them. As long as they are properly maintained, it will not be a problem to go back and live for decades.
Bring the accumulated spirit stones, practice resources and exchanged exercises back home, get married and have children, establish a family, and enjoy wealth and honor in the mortal world. This is the only life pursuit of the "senior brothers" in the future.
The various big and small practice families around Haoyang Xianzong almost all came from this way.
So...they are already bad, do they need to be bad?
"Set off!"
With a wave of his hand, Fangzheng Liu Yongtian led a group of mobs towards Haoyang City.
After entering the city, Xu Ke felt the prosperity of Haoyang City more clearly.
There are pedestrians and merchants coming and going on the road, and there are many shops beside the road. Even the places Xu Ke had heard about for a long time, similar to the "Spring Breeze Building", saw several of them along the way.
"This is the Spring Wind Building of the Hehuan Sect."
"This is the Yunyan Pavilion of the Maiden Sect."
"This is...uh, bah, this is Bai Xiangmen's Pushuo Pavilion, and it's full of rabbit masters!"
Along the way, Senior Brother Wang happily introduced Xu Ke.
This made Xu Ke couldn't help sighing: The service industry in the practice world is so developed!
Haoyang City has nine floors. The first floor is the Trading Square City, which is completely open to the outside world. As long as there is no hostile relationship, any sect, any family, or any individual can do business on the first floor.
The second to ninth floors are the various industrial organizations of Haoyang Xianzong. For example: Si Nong Hall, Talisman Hall, Danding Hall, Casting Hall, etc., as well as the workshops under each hall, such as Fuzhi Workshop, Lingmo Workshop, Lingjiu Workshop and so on.
Of course, these sect industries set up in Haoyang City can only produce medium and low-end products, which are suitable for the two stages of Qi training and foundation building.
As for the high-end industry, the output of resources that can be used for Jindan Daoist cultivation is all placed in the Zongmen's resident "Haoyang Mountain".
The Sinong Hall, where Xu Ke and others are going, is on the second floor of Haoyang City.
Although it is said that "the ranking is not in particular order", in fact, the Si Nong Hall, which is ranked on the second floor, is considered to be the bottom of all the halls and pavilions of Haoyang Xianzong.
As we all know, the value of agricultural output will never be as good as that of industrial output. How much money can farmers earn for the sect?
Pass through the square city area on the first floor and enter the Si Nong Hall on the second floor.
After entering the area under the jurisdiction of the second floor of the Sinong Hall, Fengxue was isolated by the formation.
This is not the Zongmen Mountain Protecting Array, but the array arranged by the Temple of Sinog. Its main function is not protection, but heat preservation and moisture-proof, to protect various "agricultural products" stored in the warehouse.
For Xu Ke and his party, the biggest advantage of this magic circle is that they don't have to suffer from the wind and cold.
Walking into the area under the jurisdiction of Si Nong Dian, Xu Ke saw that this area is not small, but there are not many shops. Most of the buildings are used as "warehouses" to store spiritual rice, spiritual tea, spiritual fruit, spiritual vegetables, spiritual “agricultural products” such as medicines.
In addition, there are two workshops here, one is the spirit wine workshop and the other is the spirit tea workshop.
It is said that the Yushoutang used to belong to the Sinong Hall. It was not called the Yushoutang, but the Animal Husbandry. Later, for some reason, it was separated and renamed Yushoutang.
In addition, the Hall of Sinong originally had a paper talisman workshop and a pharmaceutical workshop, which were also taken over by the Hall of Fulu and the Hall of Danding, respectively.
These news were all gossiped by Senior Brother Wang with Xu Ke along the way.
From this point of view, the status of Si Nong Dian in the Zongmen is really relatively low, as if anyone can bully him.
Xu Ke suddenly felt that the identity of this Si Nong Hall executive disciple might not be so popular in the big circle of the sect.
Of course, the road has to be taken step by step, and we should not aim too high.
Let's talk about being promoted to the executive disciple of Si Nong Hall first!
(end of this chapter)