Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 340 Differences between North and South, Fulfillment of Agreements

Under the mountains, the city towers.

The word Tianshu is engraved on the city tower, and the city gate is wide open, revealing the bustle of people.

When the young man first entered the world of cultivating immortals, everything was so new and he kept looking around.

Chu Mu stopped in front of the city gate and looked at the word Tianshu on the city tower. His previous understanding of the Changsheng Sect in Chudu came to mind.

The Changsheng Sect is located in the Changsheng Mountains.

The Tianshu City in front of us is one of the Seven Cities of Immortality.

The so-called Seven Cities of Immortality refer to the seven cities surrounding the entire Immortality Mountain Range. In a sense, they can also be regarded as the acropolis of the Immortality Sect.

Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, Yaoguang.

Named after the Big Dipper, the seven cities surround Eternal Life.

According to legend, it symbolizes eternal life like the Big Dipper.

But there are also legends in the world of immortality, saying that the seven cities of the Big Dipper are actually a magnificent formation covering thousands of miles, protecting the Changsheng Sect within it.

This statement is naturally difficult to distinguish between true and false.

After all, in tens of thousands of years, there has been no crisis that can push the Changsheng Sect into a truly desperate situation.

Whether it is true or false is naturally unknown.

However, the prosperity of the Beidou Seven Cities is extremely famous in the entire world of Dachu Immortal Cultivation.

The millions of monks of the Changsheng Sect have been passed down for tens of thousands of years and have continued to thrive. Coupled with the dominance of the Changsheng Sect in Dachu, one can easily imagine the prosperity of the Seven Cities of the Big Dipper.

Chu Mu looked around. Under the towering city gate, there were bustling immortal cultivators. When he stopped here, if there were immortal cultivators coming here, he subconsciously slowed down and lowered his voice.

"Senior, are you new to Tianshu City?"

When they arrived at the city gate, a disciple of the Changsheng Sect came over immediately.

"According to the rules of the city, you need to register first when entering the city for the first time. Could you please move on, senior?"

"Row."

Chu Mu nodded, waved to Wangcai, and followed the Changsheng Sect disciple to the side of the city gate.

After the incident in Chudu, Xu Changqing sent several messages the next day. One was to inform him of the subsequent evolution of Chudu, and the other was about the cancellation of the wanted order.

In other words, he had been carrying a wanted order for many years, and his status as an evil cultivator for many years had been canceled after the Chudu Demon Rebellion.

In this way, even if he swaggers into Tianshu City, it will be fine.

However, after a simple registration and a ring representing an identity certificate, Chu Mu led the young man into the city.

"Fighting is prohibited in the city. You can take a tour on your own. If anything happens, just send a message."

Chu Mu handed the young man a transmission talisman and a spirit stone bag, and gave a casual instruction.

"Senior, please react, junior will understand."

The young man responded immediately.

Chu Mu nodded slightly, and the young man couldn't wait to leave.

He looked around the streets. There were endless pavilions and bright lights, and there were many shops. At a glance, it seemed that everything was available.

Chu Mu took out the message order and sent out a message. He casually walked into a wine shop on the street, ordered a pot of spiritual wine and sat down.

Like all the markets he had visited before, this rare place for leisure and relaxation for immortal cultivators was extremely noisy.

Many low-level immortal cultivators sit together in twos and threes, talking about the past and the present. All kinds of interesting things can be heard everywhere.

A mouthful of spirit wine entered the throat, and a burning stinging sensation entered the abdomen, and finally exploded in the abdomen. The scorching heat swept through him, as if he was on a stove. It was a hearty experience.

Chu Mu drank a few drinks alone, but after a while, he was walking downstairs in a hurry. Under the respectful guidance of the waiter, Xu Changqing walked up the stairs.

"I happen to be in town on business."

Xu Changqing explained, still as brief as before, and sat down at the table.

"Fellow Taoist, if you come a little later, I'm afraid our appointment will have to be postponed."

"What happened?"

Chu Mu asked and then explained: "Chu taught the son of an old friend for three years. He was almost isolated from the world and knew nothing about the outside world."

"It's not a big deal."

"Due to the real demon incident, the frontline was peaceful for a period of time. Recently, the war has resumed..."

Chu Mu asked tentatively: "Hanhai, have you returned to the Righteous Alliance?"

Hearing this, Xu Changqing's face became a little more solemn, and he shook his head: "Although we haven't openly betrayed each other yet, it's almost there."

"In recent years, the war against the Righteous Alliance in Hanhai has been delayed with various excuses. Even the annual offerings to the sect have been delayed with excuses and have not been paid for several years. "

Speaking of this, Xu Changqing's voice became a little colder: "Everyone in the world knows that he wants to take advantage of both sides!"

Chu Mu frowned, and seeing Xu Changqing's gloomy expression, he changed the subject and said, "Is there any news about the real demon?"

"After the incident in Chudu, there was no whereabouts."

"There is a prince in the sect who personally used the tracking technique. We only know that this person went north. He should have left the Dachu Immortal Realm and arrived on the grassland."

As he spoke, Xu Changqing looked at Wangcai who was lying aside. When he felt that he was already in the middle of the second level of cultivation, he was obviously a little surprised: "Is this the spiritual beast of Taoist friend?"

"right,"

Chu Mu nodded and raised his hand. Wangcai immediately moved his body and leaned his head over.

"It is not easy to train a secular dog to a mid-level second-level monster!"

Xu Changqing sighed with emotion: "It is a great blessing that this beast can follow you, fellow Taoist."

"There will be an auction held in the Baibao Pavilion in the city recently. Changqing heard that there will be several Spirit-enlightening Pills being auctioned in this auction. If you are interested, you can go and participate."

"Enlightenment Pill?"

Chu Mu raised his eyebrows, obviously interested.

"Yes, in addition to the Ling Qi Pill, there should be a lot of final treasures."

"This is the first time that Baibao Pavilion has entered Tianshu City. In order to build a reputation, it will definitely bring out some treasures from the bottom of the box."

Chu Mu nodded. Although he had never heard of the name Baibao Pavilion, it was not difficult to understand Xu Changqing's words.

After all, the turmoil that swept through the world of Dachu Immortal Cultivators was, in the final analysis, a turmoil caused by the excessive power of local families that overshadowed the ruling authority of the Changsheng Sect.

And this turmoil is said to have emerged thousands of years ago.

For several generations, the heads of the Changsheng Sect have not stopped suppressing the major families.

Under such circumstances, threatening forces will naturally not be allowed to exist in areas directly controlled by the Changsheng Sect.

As far as he knows, up to now, in the area ruled by the Changsheng Sect, it can be said that "centralization of power has been completely completed!"

The entire north is under the direct jurisdiction of the Changsheng Sect, and there is no country within a country that occupies one place.Such a one-size-fits-all approach naturally greatly harms the interests of immortal cultivators within the Changsheng Sect.

In order to appease the dissatisfaction caused by this one-size-fits-all approach, the Changsheng Sect also has additional measures and regulations.

For example, the Changsheng Sect had completely liberalized the leasing of shops in the city as early as the Yuhuang Valley.

As long as they are monks within the sphere of influence of the Changsheng Sect, including the disciples of the Changsheng Sect, they can rent shops and open businesses, and they are all protected by the Changsheng Sect.

Under this situation, commercial banks, large and small, naturally emerged one after another.

And this so-called Baibao Pavilion is obviously one of them.

Being able to open a trading company to this Tianshu City means that it is naturally quite powerful.

It is very obvious that these so-called trading houses are not significantly different from the immortal cultivating families in the south.

It's just that one has his own territory, and the other has no territory.

Many immortal cultivating families in the north registered a trading firm with the Changsheng Sect. Once the family's influence was added to the trading firm, the transformation from a family to a trading firm was completed.

Even because of the special nature of the trading house, it can avoid family bloodline restrictions, and its attraction to casual cultivators has also increased sharply.

Of course, although the facts seem to be the same, if we look at the overall strategic level, this step of the Changsheng Sect is extremely perfect.

No matter how powerful the trading house is, it will always be within the ruling system of the Changsheng Sect, rather than being a self-contained entity like the southern Xiuxian family, a country within a country.

The conversation was like meeting old friends, and the two of them had a great time talking.

The True Inheritance of Immortality and the direct son of the Nascent Soul of Sword Dao. These two identities destined Xu Changqing to be exposed to things and hear secrets that only a few people could know.

For Chu Mu, the conversation was replenishing the insights gained from years of seclusion.

At sunset, the two of them walked out of the restaurant.

"Chang Qing has reported the matter of fellow Taoist to the sect master, and the sect master has given a decree. With this decree, fellow Taoist, when you enter the sect, you can go directly to the Sutra Pavilion and stay for 24 hours. In addition to the true secrets, you can take any two volumes."

Xu Changqing handed over a jade talisman: "Fellow Taoist, you can go on your own. Changqing has some trivial matters, so I won't be with you for now."

"It's okay."

Chu Mu nodded and watched Xu Changqing leave. Only then did he look at the palm-sized jade talisman.

The whole body is pure white, and the jade quality is warm and moist. When held in the hand, there is a biting coldness. Both the front and back sides of the jade talisman are white and flawless, without any traces or patterns.

But in the perception of spiritual consciousness, one can feel a faint vitality of vegetation flowing in the jade talisman.

He glanced at the towering Immortal Mountain in the distance, pondered for a moment, raised his hand and flipped it over, and the jade talisman disappeared into the storage space.

He turned around and walked into the restaurant, renting a guest room to rest for the night.

It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that Chu Mu walked out of the restaurant and headed straight for the majestic mountain gate of the Changsheng Sect.

In the secular world, it is said that there is no hope for success, but in the world of immortality, this statement is more realistic.

According to the world of immortal cultivation, Tianshu City is located under the Changsheng Mountains. It seems to be very close, but in fact, it is hundreds of miles away from the towering mountain gate of the Changsheng Sect.

He was almost a hundred miles out of the city gate when disciples from the Changsheng Sect flew over and stopped him.

The saying that in the important place of the sect, those who trespass will perish, seems to show the tyranny of the Changsheng Sect.

"Senior, please!"

A jade talisman was revealed, and the attitudes of several Changsheng Sect disciples changed instantly. They bowed and watched Chu Mu raise his head across the six-hundred-mile boundary.

After six hundred miles and dozens of interrogations, Chu Mu finally arrived at the majestic mountain gate.

At this moment, the jade talisman in his hand suddenly floated in front of him as if it was touched by something, its faint fluorescent light flickering and swaying, as if guiding him forward.

Chu Mu looked at the majestic fairy mountain in front of him, the stretches of towers and palaces, and the flickering lights, and he felt a rare sense of uneasiness in his heart.

Following the guidance of the jade talisman, the disciples of the Changsheng Sect that he saw along the way all stepped aside and sent Chu Mu off respectfully.

When he first stepped into the Changsheng Sect, Chu Mu originally thought that he could have a good look at this huge sect.

But the moment he stepped into the Changsheng Sect, before he could take in the scenery, the jade talisman suspended in front of him suddenly glowed with light, and then he felt an irresistible force sweeping him over.

In just an instant, it seemed that an extremely long distance had been crossed. When he stepped back to the ground, a majestic pavilion covering an area of ​​several hundred acres had already entered his field of vision.

The pavilion is in the shape of a tower, spiraling upward layer by layer, soaring into the clouds that its height is difficult to tell with the naked eye.

Countless formations and forbidden weapon patterns were lingering on the pavilion. As soon as the spiritual consciousness sensed them, an indescribable and terrifying spiritual pressure suddenly emerged, almost suffocating.

In front of the pavilion, a disciple of the Changsheng Sect walked in and out. Although it was bustling with people, it was extremely quiet. Even the footsteps seemed to be made subconsciously.

Chu Mu walked in holding a jade talisman. To his surprise, this time, without any investigation or obstruction, he walked into this magnificent pavilion.

Between rows of neatly arranged spiritual wood bookshelves, there is a vastness that can be seen at a glance. Above the bookshelves, they are all shrouded in light fluorescent light, or there are rows of books, or jade slips are piled up.

Each compartment, each volume, has a nameplate indicating the name and effect of the secret technique.

A disciple of the Changsheng Sect shuttled in front of the vast sea of ​​bookshelves, maintaining extreme silence in his words and deeds.

Chu Mu stared blankly at the vast bookshelf in front of him, and then looked at the stairs leading to the second floor. Thinking back to the towering sky he had just seen, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

It's so vast, but he only has 24 hours...

He lowered his head and looked at the jade talisman, as if to strengthen his sense of urgency. A countdown of time also appeared on the jade talisman.

He did not dare to delay. As his consciousness dispersed, the nameplates of dozens of bookshelves around him came into his perception. They were all basic spells and various technical knowledge.

Obviously, the first floor of the Sutra Pavilion is most likely filled with jade slips from some basic classics.

As he went up the stairs, he was blocked by a faint light film, but when he touched it with the jade talisman, the light film immediately dissipated and he could move forward unimpeded.

He went straight upstairs, and every floor was blocked by formations. Until he reached the eighth level of formations, the jade talisman failed and he could not move forward even half a step.

He stepped back from the stairs and looked at the eighth-floor Sutra Pavilion in front of him.

It is still as vast as the first floor, as vast as a sea of ​​smoke, and the end cannot be seen with the naked eye.

The number of books in this Sutra Pavilion was beyond his imagination.

When he came to a bookshelf, jade slips came into view.

There are dozens of jade slips on a whole bookshelf, all of which are fire-attribute cultivation techniques.

There are even several jade slips with the markings of ancient techniques.

The effectiveness of the exercises are clearly marked on each nameplate.

Without exception, they are all high-level techniques that are rare in the outside world.

Any volume, if exposed to the outside world, would probably cause quite a stir.

But on the eighth floor of the Sutra Pavilion, it is just an ordinary volume among the vast sea of ​​secret techniques.

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　This chapter is four thousand.

　　
　
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