Chapter 52 Comrades in the Capital
"Yichuan!"
This is the second Xiuxianfang City that Lin Shan has heard of! Immediately I started to ask questions impatiently.
Master Huang Xian had no choice but to slowly tell him about the situation in Yichuan. It was similar to the Yinchuan described by Guangnan San people, both in terms of scale and flow of people.
Lin Shan hurriedly asked about Yi Chuan's whereabouts. Master Huang Xian did not hide anything, and told him the specific location was somewhere in the Yanyun Mountains, the way in and out of the magic circle outside Fang City, etc.
Seeing Lin Shan's eagerness to try, Master Huang Xian advised him not to go alone. The land of Yanyun in the north was not very peaceful, and there were often monks who would kill people and steal goods.
"How did you get there, brother?"
Lin Shan was very suspicious of how Master Huang Xian got there. His strength in the early stages of Qi training seemed to be not as good as his own.
Master Huang Xian hesitated for a moment, thinking that he only had a few more years to live. The Supreme Elder vaguely hinted that he probably wanted to keep Lin Shan to take over the role of Nightingale in his place.
He simply told Lin Shan about his past experiences to avoid lightning.
It turned out that Master Huang Xian only received a casual cultivator inheritance when he was fifty years old, and luckily entered the period of Qi training. After practicing for three years, I reached the peak of the third level of Qi training and encountered a bottleneck.
He estimated that it would take twenty years to break through this bottleneck.
This was the first time Lin Shan heard of someone practicing so slowly! He and Guangnan Sanren are both a year and a half old! Sure enough, there is no worst in cultivation qualifications, only worse.
Master Huang Xian didn't pay attention to Lin Shan's expression, saying that he had no choice but to go out and travel in search of opportunities, and ended up being spotted by the current Supreme Elder Nightingale. After saying this, he glanced to the side.
The Supreme Elder had no expression on his face and was drinking tea by himself.
Next, it is not difficult to predict that the Supreme Elder will hire Master Huang Xian as a worshiper. According to the market price, he will receive five spiritual stones a year.
Lin Shan's expression turned ugly when he mentioned this. Master Huang Xian is worth five yuan, but I only have three yuan?
The Supreme Elder next to him was a little embarrassed, but as he got older and became thicker-skinned, he just laughed.
Master Huang Xian didn't know about the quarrel between the two people. He said that he had not been a guest minister for a year at that time, and he heard other loose cultivators in the capital talking about the news about "Yichuan" in Xiuxianfang City in the north.
Master Huang Xian heard about it for the first time and was immediately overjoyed. Before my butt was hot from sitting, I immediately resigned from the position of worship to the Supreme Elder and ran directly to Yichuan!
As a result, when he arrived at the Yanyun Mountains, he couldn't find the entrance. He happened to meet another casual cultivator and invited him to go to Yichuan together. Huang Xianshi Pi Dianpian followed, but unexpectedly he was deceived miserably.
After that man brought Master Huang Xian to Yichuanfang City, he persuaded him to borrow a loan at a high interest rate!
That’s right! There are also loan sharks in the world of cultivation!
Originally, Master Huang Xian thought that he didn't have a single spiritual stone in his pocket, so he was a poor man and not worth mentioning. What's more, if someone wants to kill him, his cultivation level is so low that he can do it in the Yanyun Mountains. There is no need to help him enter Yichuan.
So without a fortified position, I believed the man's lies.
But I didn’t expect that the casual cultivator was a personal trafficker! To be precise, human traffickers in the world of immortality!
After Master Huang Xian borrowed money from usury, he spent it all within a month. Then because he couldn't repay the interest with compound interest, he was forced to sign a twenty-year contract of betrayal to the organization that borrowed the money.
In the next twenty years, he became a member of the slave market in the world of cultivation and was sold to other cultivators. He served others all day long, like a servant.
Twenty years later, the cultivator who bought him was still trustworthy and let him go free. Of course, it is also possible that he is in his seventies and is not qualified for the labor force.
In this way, after Master Huang Xian regained his freedom, his subsequent experience was similar to that of Guangnan Sanren. He worked everywhere and encountered obstacles. In the end, he could no longer survive and had to leave Xiuxianfang City and return to the mortal world.
After returning, Huang Xianshi shamelessly returned to Nightingale and found the Supreme Elder.
This old boy has been running away for twenty years, and he still has the nerve to come back after running away! Naturally, the Supreme Elder would not give him a good look, but in the end he still treated him as a guest.
From then on, Master Huang Xian stopped thinking about cultivating immortals and simply enjoyed himself behind closed doors all day long. This has been the case for another twenty years.
...After hearing Master Huang Xian’s experience, Lin Shan was even more speechless.
It doesn’t matter that there are still human traffickers in the world of immortality, even loan sharks dare to touch them! You have such a big heart.
However, Huang Xianshi's experience reminded him that the world of immortality was far more sinister than he imagined, and low-level immortality cultivators were just lambs in the eyes of some people.
However, Lin Shan had made up his mind and decided to go.
Seeing that Lin Shan could not be persuaded, Master Huang Xian could only give the Supreme Elder a helpless look, but he did provide Lin Shan with a piece of news.
"About every ten years, the immortal cultivators in my small circle here in the capital will go to Yichuanfang City to exchange some things. You can go with everyone, it will be safer with more people!"
Lin Shan's eyes lit up and he quickly asked how long it would take.
"Within a month!" Master Huang Xian said with a look of urgency on his face, and added: "I will go this time too, and I can take you with me then.
Within a month or so, Lin Shan could certainly afford to wait, and it would be easier to take care of him if there were more people.
However, Lin Shan was a little worried about the fellow cultivators that Huang Xianshi mentioned: "Brother Huang, what kind of cultivation are those fellow cultivators you mentioned?"
Master Huang Xian smiled softly, "Don't worry, those who wander around in the mortal world are basically in the early and middle stages of Qi training. As for the later monks, they usually find ways to stay in the land of spiritual veins, try every means to cultivate to the point where Qi training is perfect, and compete. A first-line opportunity to break through and build foundation”
Then the old man thought about it again, took out a stack of paper charms from the storage bag on his waist, put it to his mouth and said a few words, and then the paper charms scattered and flew out of the hall and disappeared.
Lin Shan looked at Master Huang Xian's operation with a surprised look on his face, not knowing why.
Master Huang Xian touched his goatee and explained to him with a smile: "I have informed several fellow Taoists in advance that you are going to Yichuan together. By the way, we usually have to meet before departure. Let's just schedule it for tomorrow. I will take you there. Meet them!”
Lin Shan nodded and asked about the paper charms just now.
Master Huang Xian explained the transmission talismans and told him that they were worthless. One spiritual stone in Yichuan could buy a hundred of them, and they could fly to a designated location within ten miles. The disadvantage was that they might be intercepted by other monks.
Lin Shan asked again how many immortal cultivators there were in the entire capital? But this time Master Huang Xian was stumped.
He thought hesitantly, "On the surface, I'm probably in my thirties or forty, but secretly, I should be in my seventies or eighties."
"So many?"
Lin Shan suddenly felt that the capital was not very safe either.
At this time, the Supreme Elder on the side also explained to Lin Shan: "The capital is the headquarters of all the major forces in the world, just like the nightingale hidden in the Bowang Palace. And other government palaces, and even the royal palace, have major forces sitting there, who can enshrine them. There are many powerful immortal masters.”
Lin Shan suddenly remembered that the greatest power in the Song Dynasty was the royal family.
"What about the royal family? They worship more immortal masters, right?"
The Supreme Elder and Huang Xianshi on the side showed a rare look of solemnity:
"They don't need to worship the immortal master, because the royal family was originally established with the support of the cultivation world. There are three sects of foundation-building monks stationed in rotation! No one dares to break into the palace!"
Lin Shan next to him heard that there were foundation-building monks in the palace!
Then his fantasy of peeping at the concubine taking a bath was wasted?
(End of chapter)