Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 310
Changzhou city.

It was not much different from the secular cities he had seen before.

They are all city walls made of bricks and stones. In this world where great power is concentrated on itself, the symbolic significance is far greater than the actual significance.

At the city gate, all the people coming and going are worldly mortals.

But as soon as he entered the city, he was keenly aware of something different.

In this city, the aura seems to be... stronger than in the outside world?
Chu Mu was slightly startled, a little unsure.

Exploring his spiritual sense, he felt carefully that the spiritual energy in Changzhou City was actually slightly richer than the outside world.

It's probably about [-]% richer.

"Spiritual veins?"

Chu Mu was confused. Before he came, he had already inquired clearly about the layout of the Changsheng Sect in Lingmaifang City in northern Xinjiang. This was no secret. He could buy a detailed map by spending some spiritual stones.

And in Changzhou City, I haven't heard of any spiritual veins or squares existing.

He inspected it for a moment, and the traces of the formation were clearly reflected in his spiritual perception.

In this Changzhou City, there is actually a spirit gathering formation!
It’s just...this formation...

Chu Mu looked a little strange.

The most important function of the Spirit Gathering Formation is to gather the overflowing spiritual energy from the heaven and the earth.

According to common sense, the Spirit Gathering Formation gathers spiritual energy, so it is natural to block it with the array to prevent the gathered spiritual energy from leaking out, so as to better satisfy the cultivation of immortals.

But this is not the case with the Spirit Gathering Formation in Changzhou City.

Rather than saying it is a spirit gathering array, it is better to say it is a spirit gathering core.

It just gathers the spiritual energy near Changzhou City towards Changzhou, and has no other effect.

But, what is the use of such a gathering arrangement?

After walking around the city, Chu Mu's expression became increasingly weird.

The biggest beneficiaries of such a spiritual gathering arrangement seem to be the secular people of Changzhou City.

The spirit-gathering core gathers the surrounding spiritual energy without isolating and occupying the spiritual energy. It gathers and spills day after day. The spiritual energy in the entire Changzhou City is rich, and it is naturally much richer than the outside world.

The secular people living in Changzhou City, if they live for a long time under such a concentration of spiritual energy, their bodies, life span, and even future generations will naturally benefit.

only……

Does the Changsheng Sect do good deeds?

Chu Mu didn't quite believe it. Although a Spirit Gathering Formation didn't require much spiritual stone resources, a high-ranking immortal cultivator would waste resources on this mortal for no reason?
He stopped on the street and his eyes were fixed on a carriage approaching slowly not far away.

The five-horse carriage and the patrolmen clearing the way were obviously some secular officials from Changzhou County.

His consciousness moved slightly, and the gathered consciousness was like a beam of light. In an instant, it submerged into the carriage and enveloped a middle-aged man sitting in it.

Just like peeling off a cocoon, in just a few breaths, the memory of his sea of ​​consciousness was clearly visible in his spiritual perception.

"I see……"

As the carriage passed by, Chu Mu murmured to himself, realizing something.

Judging from the memories I just reviewed, it seems that the gathering of souls like this in Changzhou City is not a special case.

This is the case in all counties in northern Xinjiang, wherever the population reaches a certain size.

Every few years, the Changsheng Sect would send disciples to test the spiritual roots of young children in various places.

Those with outstanding spiritual abilities will all become disciples of the Changsheng Sect.

From this point of view, such a ban on the spirit gathering formation is obviously normal.

After all, a sect is different from a family. The inheritance of a family lies in the children of the family.

But Zongmen is inclusive of all rivers.

Northern Xinjiang is the private territory of the Changsheng Sect, so it is normal to put a little effort into its management.

A simple energy-gathering formation, after one year, would only consume more than a dozen low-grade spiritual stones.

However, it can enhance the practice environment of Northern Xinjiang as a whole, and also bring more fresh blood to the Changsheng Sect.

After all, things like spiritual roots, which are destined by heaven, are uncertain.

Although both husband and wife have spiritual roots, there is a high chance that the offspring will have spiritual roots, but this is only a probability, not an absolute.

There's always a chance!

With the huge base of mortals, this kind of eventuality will naturally be magnified infinitely.

With the way the Changsheng Sect casts such a wide net, the existence of the world of immortality is obviously not a secret that is inaccessible to the mortals in Northern Xinjiang.

"That being said... the world of cultivating immortals should be different here in Northern Xinjiang..."

Chu Mu thought to himself, but for a moment, he didn't worry too much. This seemed to be a good thing for him.

If Mr. Li really wanted to withdraw from the world of immortality and live in seclusion in the secular world, it would be impossible for him to settle in such a city extended by the tentacles of the Changsheng Sect.

The biggest possibility is that, like the old man in Qili Village, he lived in seclusion in a secluded place.

With his mind wandering around, he wandered around Changzhou city aimlessly. It was not until sunset that he could leave the city.

In the next few months, Chu Mu wandered around Changzhou County aimlessly.

There are 28 counties in Changzhou County. Perhaps due to the desolate nature of northern Xinjiang, the area of ​​Changzhou County is several times larger than the counties in the south.

The territory is vast, but Chu Mu dug almost three feet into the ground.

Every time I go to a place, the first thing I do is to look up the memories of the local people with status.Although the soul search technique will cause harm to the soul being searched, the root cause of this damage lies in the instinctive resistance of the soul of the soul searcher.

And when he searched for mortal souls, the gap was too big to offer the slightest resistance. It was like being in a deserted place, and there was no harm, let alone detection.

If he wanted to, it would be easy to plant a slave mark, distort memory, and change thoughts with just a thought.

The boundary between the immortal and the mortal is undoubtedly terrifying.

Under this condition, Chu Mu's search progress was obviously very fast.

After all, Mr. Li is an immortal cultivator, even if he is determined to return to the secular world, the essence of an immortal cultivator cannot be changed.

If you settle down in one place, it is impossible not to leave traces behind.

Especially according to what the man said, Mr. Li is planning to get married and have children, placing his hopes on future generations, so the news must be quite big.

Shitang County.

One of the people inspecting hundreds of households patted his head in a daze, as if he was confused about his lack of concentration in broad daylight.

On the side of the street, Chu Mu withdrew his consciousness and looked obviously strange.

"The old tree is blooming, and eight flowers are blooming in a row..."

This is an interesting incident that happened in Shitang County more than ten years ago in the memory of those hundreds of households.

In Tongyou Village, Shitang County, there is an old man. It is said that he worked abroad in his early years. Now he is old and has accumulated a lot of wealth and returned to his hometown.

In such a matter, according to common sense, it is supposed to provide peace of mind for retirement.

But this old man, contrary to common sense, took eight concubines, all of them beautiful girls...

This kind of thing is undoubtedly an interesting thing that people talk about in Shitang County.

But this kind of thing seems obvious to any immortal cultivator.

In the world of cultivating immortals, you can see almost every day in any town or city, those cultivators who are desperate for their own immortality, give up their immortality, return to the secular world, marry wives and reproduce, and then pin their hopes on their offspring.

After all, it is not easy for ordinary cultivators to find a Taoist companion in the world of immortality.

But secularity is obviously different.

This kind of old tree blooming, coupled with the allusion of coming home after old age, it doesn't take much to guess that he must be a cultivator who has retired to the secular world.

"Tung Oil Village..."

His eyes moved slightly, and he took a step forward, followed closely by Wangcai.

To him, a journey of dozens of miles was only a matter of seconds.

A mountain village surrounded by mountains came into view. The houses in the mountains were all ordinary mountain village houses.

But outside the village, there is a mansion covering several acres, which is very conspicuous.

only……

Chu Mu stood in the sky, frowning.

In the field of vision, this big house is now full of mourners, with white flags standing in the forest and paper money flying.

He landed in the sky, and his spiritual consciousness had invaded the mansion.

Everyone in the courtyard was wearing linen and mourning. In the lobby, a group of men and women in mourning knelt down and mourned. In the coffin, the corpse was lifelike.

He looked at the corpse, and the old face of the corpse perfectly matched the face in his memory.

With his consciousness withdrawn, Chu Mu stood in the field in a daze, not moving at all.

"Hey!"

Finally, he let out a long sigh, and when he exhaled a thick breath, he could not hide his sadness.

He didn't want to see too much of life and death.

Too many people who were in their prime of life and on their path to immortality suddenly fell, their souls were extracted, and their flesh and blood were refined into spiritual materials. There were too many to count.

At the end of his life, Mr. Li could give birth to a blood heir, enjoy the happiness of family, and then die like this...

For a cultivator, this may be a rare blessing.

This should be regarded as... a happy funeral!
"Let's go and worship."

He waved his hand, showing no interest.

One person and one dog, under the influence of the concealment method, walked into the mansion as if there was no one else around. The guests, hosts and servants in the mansion all turned a blind eye.

In the hall, Chu Mu respectfully bowed down.

After paying homage several times, he looked at the people kneeling and wailing in the hall.

Most of them were women, and among them were three children of different ages, kneeling in the hall ignorantly and at a loss.

His eyes moved, and he looked at one of the middle-aged men who looked like a butler. His spiritual consciousness invaded, and his sea of ​​consciousness and memory could be seen at a glance.

More than ten years ago, Mr. Li returned to this place, built a house, married a wife and took in concubines. This man has also been the housekeeper of the Li Mansion and has been working hard to this day.

Flipping the memory, checking every detail, he never missed anything.

A quarter of an hour passed before he slowly withdrew his consciousness, his eyes moved, and finally settled on the children in the hall.

According to memory, these three children are the heirs left by Mr. Li over the years...

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(End of this chapter)