Fairy cage

After treating Er Niang's eye disease and arranging chores, Yu Lie left Yu's house in Qian County that night. He waited in the crowded boat station and bought a ticket to Qianzhou Daocheng.

In the realm of mountains and seas, according to the division of power stipulated by the Taoist court, there are roughly three levels, namely states, counties, and counties. The state level is the highest, and the city where it is located is called "Daocheng", followed by the county town, and the county town. It is the lowest class, including towns and villages.

Although he was already an eighth-grade Taoist disciple, Yu Lie had some status in Qianquan County, but when he boarded the boat, he found that it was just like the rumors, almost all of them were Taoist disciples, and there was no preferential treatment.

When he buys a ticket, he can only buy a ticket that gets a second-class seat. For the first-class seats, Zhouche said there were no tickets available, but looking at the salesperson's deathly face, it was obvious that the other party didn't bother to pay attention to him.

In addition to second-class seats, the remaining trains can also purchase tickets without seats, but such tickets are not located in regular carriages, are not mixed with second-class seats, and cannot stand on the aisle.

The seatless carriage is located in a carriage that transports pack animals and monsters. There is a mixture of people and animals, the smell is unpleasant, and there is not even a window.

This kind of ticket is what Taoist disciples and below can buy, that is, the ninth-grade Taoist boy is the first-class.

Regardless of whether you are a middle-ranking person, a high-ranking person, or a low-ranking mortal, you can only board the car like an animal and take the animal passage instead of the pedestrian passage.

Various noisy sounds rang in Yu Lie's ears.

He squeezed into the crowded crowd, and after dilly-dallying for a while, he finally stepped into the boat, which was as wide as a building.

Among them, when he was moving slowly on foot, right above the heads of the Taoist disciples, he was guided by Taoists wearing standard Taoist robes in the boat cart station, and respectfully sent a Taoist to enter the dragon boat.

The Taoist priest was sitting cross-legged on an exotic flying carpet. When he passed by the heads of Yu Lie and others, he inadvertently glanced at everyone with his peripheral vision, and a cold feeling suddenly appeared in everyone. On the body of a Taoist disciple.

The crowded crowd all shuddered, causing many people to bump into each other, arousing bursts of spiritual light.

Although the Taoist disciples walk in crowds, just like ordinary people going to the market, they are still people with status after all, and they do not really crowd around each other. They all have protective charms on their bodies, which can also effectively prevent some thieves who are good at fishing in troubled waters. Take action.

Although everyone staggered for a while, no Taoist disciple dared to look up.

It wasn't until the Taoist priest riding the exotic flying carpet at the top entered the dragon boat. Next to Yu Lie, there was a middle-aged Taoist disciple who said two words in a sigh:

"Divine consciousness."

Hearing this, Yu Lie narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself:

"Sure enough, this cold feeling is the feeling of being swept naked by other people's spiritual consciousness. In this way, the Taoist just now is at least a Taoist official."

Yu Lie was brave enough to raise his head and look around, and found that the exotic flying carpet that the Taoist had just used to get on the carriage suddenly flew out of the carriage, and then fell back to the side of the crew, and was carefully rolled up by the other party. stand up.

In the peripheral vision, the rest of the column also saw the carriages further ahead. There were also scattered Taoist priests flying on the upper level of the dragon boats. Some of them were walking on the air, some were riding flying carpets, and some were riding mounts. Scattered and scattered.

This made Yu Lie secretly ponder in his heart:

"Such flying instruments are actually just things used in boats and carriages to see off guests. The Taoist just now was not walking on the air, but on a flying carpet. The other person's cultivation level may only be in the middle among the seventh-grade Taoist officials. inferior."

Among the Taoists who fly on dragon boats, those who ride on flying carpets are the most ordinary.

However, even if the Taoist just now was just a seventh-grade Taoist who had just broken through, compared with the current Yu Lie, he was still a whole level higher than Yu Lie and was worthy of Yu Lie's envy.

Before entering Qianzhou Daocheng, Yu Lie once again felt the clear hierarchy under the "Nine-Rank Taoist Law" system.

They continued to crowded into the dragon boat, and when they finally entered the carriage, there were already many people sitting inside, wearing all kinds of clothes. There were also people wearing strange clothes and speaking in mixed voices.

The temperament of these people is that they are all Taoist disciples.

Yu Lie and others stepped in, causing a slight commotion.

There was also a passenger who seemed to be the same as him. The other person seemed to be a new Taoist disciple riding a dragon boat for the first time. He opened his mouth and whispered:

"So many people.", "So many Taoist disciples!"

Such exclamations immediately aroused the laughter of some Taoist disciples sitting around. Some people chatted: "Where is this?"

"A small place, Diving County, there is only one station here."

Someone else opened his eyes from his sleep, glanced at the people boarding the dragon boat looking for seats, and muttered:

"Is this too many people? When you get to Zhoucheng, you will realize that not many of the people in the carriage can live a decent life."

Yu Lie was alone. He listened to the discussion in the carriage and his heart was full of sighs.

It was said that when I and She Shuangbai parted ways last time, in the wine shop where they were, one of the waiters was a Taoist boy, and the shopkeeper was a Taoist disciple.

Although the location of the station wine shop is special, this has already surprised Yu Lie, but now he did not expect that the seventh-grade Taoist officials who were rarely seen in the past could just see five or six of them at a glance, and they had some status in the city. Taoist disciples were even walking around in the carriage.

According to the discussion in the dragon boat carriage, it seems that in the real Taoist city, there is a vast world. Will the eighth-grade Taoist disciples be inferior to dogs?

The gap between them was so huge that for a moment Yu Lie felt as if he was living in a dog's body in the past in Blackwater Town.

It should be noted that the original Blackwater Town and the two surrounding Taoist towns only had one seventh-level Taoist official in one town. The eighth-level Taoist disciples could dominate, and the ninth-level Taoist boys could also boss them around.

Not only did Yu Lie sigh in his heart, but the several new Taoist disciples who boarded the dragon boat with him also looked surprised.

Some people even began to doubt whether they should go to Daocheng.

This person muttered: "In Diive County or places below Diive County, we can live a decent life, but when we go to Daocheng, it is not necessarily the case."

Among this group of new Taoist disciples, one person may have learned about this situation from his elders. The other person's eyes were surprised, but his face still pretended to be calm, and he chuckled and said:

"Taoist disciples, apprentices of the Immortal Way, since they are apprentices, how can they have a great future? I heard that Taoist disciples in ancient times were just existences like eating."

The man shook his head: "The three-level forces of prefectures, prefectures and counties, prefectures, counties and below are just places where the Taoist court supports the population. Living like a human being in such a place can only be used to dominate the heads of mortals." Just a blessing.

Why care about these fictitious things? Taoism is the most important thing. "

The words of the other party made the new Taoist disciples who were communicating with them look slightly embarrassed, and some people were shocked and shouted:

"Brother Luo is right! A real man should aim for a distant future!"

"Haha! You're welcome."

Taoist surnamed Luo cupped his hands and walked around, and happened to find Yu Lie's seat. Then he sat down happily with his Taoist robe, and then held his hands towards Yu Lie calmly:

"The poor Taoist Luo Xiaofang has met this fellow Taoist."

The other party recognized Yu Lie's face and said in surprise: "You see, fellow Taoist, you are fresh and young. Is this your first time going to Zhoucheng?"

Yu Lie saw that this man seemed to have some knowledge in his words, so he didn't mind the other person's familiarity, so he said politely: "That's right, poor Taoist Yu Lie."

The two sat next to each other, and after exchanging pleasantries, they started communicating with each other.

Suddenly, Luo Xiaofang asked: "Brother Yu, do you know why only prefectural cities are called 'Daocheng', and counties and counties cannot be called this way?"

Yu Lie's mind was moved and he said curiously: "Brother Luo, please tell me."

Just at this moment, the huge dragon carriage moved, and the entire carriage shook and swayed, causing the two people's bodies to sway.

Outside the window, the scenery quickly receded. Everyone suddenly felt their bodies lightened, and found that the dragon chariot had submerged into the sky, and the clouds were passing by quickly, like soaring clouds and mist.

Luo Xiaofang pointed to the scene outside the window and said with a smile:

"Daocheng, the holy place for cultivating Taoism, is a place where true Taoists gather. In counties and other places, there are still mortals, but in Daocheng, even those who scavenge on the roadside are at least Taoist boys. Mortals cannot enter on their own.”

He paused, staring out the window with bright eyes: "From now on, Brother Yu, you and I will truly step into the world of Taoists and come into contact with the prosperous age of immortality!"

Hearing this, Yu Lie subconsciously asked: "How many Taoists are there in the city?"

An answer that completely surprised Yu Lie:

"The city of Qianzhou covers an area of ​​100,000 miles, and there are about 40 million permanent Taoists in the city."

Yu Lie's pupils shrank: "Forty million Taoists!?"

"Even if the ninth-grade Taoist boys account for the vast majority, how many of them should be eighth-grade, seventh-grade, and sixth-grade and above..." He was speechless for a moment.

But immediately, Yu Lie suddenly realized that "forty million" Taoists were not outrageous.

It should be noted that the size of the area of ​​100,000 miles is larger than the entire world in his previous life, and the Shanhai Realm is an immortal world, not a mortal dynasty. It has many ways to support its population, and can also feed foreign lands. One state can support tens of billions of people. No problem at all, it just depends on whether you are willing or not.

It's just that the Blackwater Town where Yu Lie used to live was too shabby and too small, with insufficient background and lack of ordinary people, which made him feel uncomfortable with it.

"Besides, if there were not such a huge number of Taoists, how could the Shanhai Realm reopen the prosperous age of immortality, raise immortals, and what should be used to conquer foreign lands?!"

Yu Lie thought excitedly and looked out the window.

Judging from the ancient times, he is now finally leaving the mortal world and officially entering the monastic world.

hold head high!

The dragon chariot traveled across the sky, as huge as a mountain, breaking through the sky, rushing toward the location of Qianzhou Daocheng.