A Guide to Modern Cultivation

Whenever you arrive at a new city, the most important thing to do is not to visit some local places of interest in a hurry, or to some local special attractions full of humanistic atmosphere, but to get a general understanding of the city first. The basic situation in the world, especially when you are in a different world.

So Yunling and the others observed on the street for a while, found an inn to book a room, and then made some repairs, then turned around and walked out of the room to a well-known restaurant in the nearby city... It's really not because of their foodie attributes, But when inquiring about information in another world, especially in such a very prosperous big city, the best places to inquire about information are restaurants, restaurants, teahouses and other places.

After the two came to the restaurant, they ordered some of the main dishes in the local specialty store. They drank tea and ate one after another of the dishes served on the table in a leisurely way. Listening to them, they can hear something.

Not far away, there was a table of guests on the third floor. Their clothes were somewhat similar to those of Yunling and Yunling. Young people, from the appearance, they are all about 30 to 50 years old, and they should be disciples who have traveled inside and outside the sect.Among the five people, there were four male cultivators and one female cultivator. At this time, the female cultivator glanced under the window, and suddenly frowned and looked at a woman who was dressed up in a fairy-like way and looked like four in appearance. The [-]-year-old monk with a wrinkled face was being greeted by the bustard and others in a beautifully decorated flower house diagonally opposite him. He couldn't help but snorted coldly, and put down the cup in his hand heavily: "Hmph! It really is this kind of In such a dirty place, even the eyes of people are blind!"

A 25-six-year-old male disciple beside him smiled and said, "Why do you have to get angry with such ordinary people? They are happy to spend the unjust money, so let them go."

The junior sister was still dissatisfied, and angrily picked up the wine glass she had just taken and drank the wine in one gulp, and sneered again: "Some people are really ridiculous, they are obviously poor in cultivation, but they dare to pretend to be like this to deceive others Are you not afraid of being spread out by us, so that they can no longer bluff and deceive?"

On the other side, a young disciple in his early twenties with an immature face nodded quickly when he heard the words, with the same expression of indignation: "Senior sister is right, these people really embarrass me as a practitioner! Go to Hualou Lie to eat and drink here, and if something happens in the end and they can't solve it, don't we, disciples of the big sect, clean up the mess?!"

The 25-year-old male disciple shook his head again and said with a smile: "One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. Besides, those Hualou families have great fortunes, so the money for this little drink is still affordable. As for us—let's go out to practice and collect monsters." Conquering the demons is only to return the world to a bright future. To wipe out the demons and ghosts brought back after the restoration of the world as soon as possible is the duty of the people of my generation. Woolen cloth?"

After all, the people at the table were all convinced and nodded when they heard the words, and even the woman who looked angry before responded obediently at this time, looking at her senior brother with shining eyes, with an aura of a fan girl looking at an idol .

The two of Yunling listened, and saw that they were talking about their experience of killing demons and subduing demons all the way after leaving the mountain. They didn't mention the things in the city again, so they transferred their mental power to a table of guests diagonally downstairs. From time to time, I listened to the occasional conversations of passers-by walking and chatting on the street, and the whispered words of a few small kitchen workers, and then I roughly summed up what is the slightly weird atmosphere in Longcheng today. here?

Originally, although the scenery around the Bolan Lake was beautiful, it was winter at this time, except that the girls were still beautiful and delicious, and the flower boats in the lake were as lively as before, the pure natural and prosperous beauty was no longer there.The bleak and lonely scenery by the lake in winter is not very attractive to practitioners. Except for some monks who practice Taoism related to cold and cold, few disciples of the big sect will especially do it in this season. Specially ran to Bolan Lake to visit the mountains and play in the water.

But in recent months, strange and strange incidents have begun to appear in the three relatively large cities beside the Bolan Lake, as well as those places that have been split into large and small places that are now almost no different from villages.

The two of Yunling had heard about it when they were in Chongyan City earlier, and they knew that there were rumors that two of the lakeside cities had strange things happening from time to time, and they were suspected of being haunted by ghosts and ghosts; in the other city, a strange monster ran directly Devouring human beings made these three cities extremely restless.

Moreover, in this Long city, there were three or four flower houses one after another. After one night, the sister and the overnight guests in a certain flower house were found dead in the room by the maidservant early in the morning. The terrifying appearance of all the essence and blood being sucked out suddenly made some monks who came nearby to enjoy the autumn scenery rush over after hearing the news. In addition, some disciples of the big faction who had heard the news and were traveling nearby also ignored the news. Several cities came to fame.

Although Bolan Lake has expanded several times after the fusion of heaven and earth, the distance between the surrounding cities is much farther than before and other cities, and there are many rocks and trees around the lake, but it is good Because of the unimpeded waterways and the traffic of ships, the three cities and the surrounding inhabited places are still bustling, and there are frequent exchanges between them.The horrific and strange incident that happened before happened occasionally in the other two cities besides Longcheng, so the incident spread more widely. In addition to the disciples of the major factions who came here to catch and subdue demons, there were many The casual cultivators who practiced lowly, but are very good at fooling around, dressed themselves up as immortals and came here to eat free food, came here to dawdle.

Those people are old-fashioned and old-fashioned, they are very good at acting and speaking, and when they go out to do things, even if they are confronted head-on by the disciples of the big school, and the other party wants to expose the fact that their practice is mediocre, they can still be talked about by them. Fooling in the past, ordinary people don't know who is telling the truth?They would even be fooled into believing it was the truth, and instead think that those disciples of the big sects were not able to do things well with their mouths, and respected this group of big fools as honored guests.

The five Dapai monks who ate on the same floor as Yunling and the others met several times on the way, and even two of them were bluffed by those bluffing casual cultivators, who made these big-name disciples very angry.

But in the city, the way monks usually meet in the wild, they might draw their swords at each other if they don't agree with each other, or they will rob each other if they are not careful, naturally they can't do it in the city, especially in front of ordinary people. As a result, these big sect disciples had no choice but to turn a blind eye to this group of cockroach-like bugs. Seeing that those who were deceived did not know who they were, they felt even more angrily in their hearts and decided to let those people be cheated by this group of guys. It's also a good lesson.

So the swindling casual cultivators, the monks who really want to subdue the demons, and the wealthy businessmen who come to this gentle town to enjoy the winter every autumn and winter, can recite a few sour poems in an attempt to become famous in brothels, and delusional to be famous in various flower houses. Scholars who were sought after by famous actresses and wanted to show off their knowledge rushed to and gathered in these three cities during this period of time, which caused Yunling and the two of them to see the mixed fish and dragons after entering the city, which was somewhat inexplicable.

As in the past, after eating a meal in the restaurant, the two of Yunling got a general idea of ​​the freshest and biggest bustle in the city.After a meal, they wandered around the streets and alleys again, not to mention the local area of ​​Longcheng, even the other two cities, as well as the towns and villages that are now divided into pieces and scattered in a large circle around Bolan Lake. All the things have been poured into my ears.

After the sky gradually darkened, the two found that this city was really different from other towns. The streets and alleys were extraordinarily lively after nightfall, especially the imposing buildings, which were lit up with big and small lights. The small red lanterns have a sense of sight that vows to decorate this small city into a city that never sleeps.

I went back to the wharf of Bolan Lake that I visited during the day. The lights on the lake are like stars falling into the lake. The beauty of this lake, which is slightly bleak in winter, is so beautiful that it is far and near. At this time, only some shadows can be seen vaguely on the mountains, but at this time, with the reflection of the moonlight and the lights on the flower boats in front of the lake, together with the reflections of the stars in the sky and the flower boats in the water, this place is embellished. It feels like falling into a dream, like a dream.

At this moment, even if the two of them had no plans to swim in the lake today, they would definitely be tempted to see such a beautiful scenery. Jing was moved in his heart and couldn't help walking towards the pier.

Unlike most of the merchant ships and ferries that are moored here during the day, the ferries have already pulled over to the inconspicuous corners of the lake. Instead, small boats with black awnings are moored by the pier at this time, responsible for picking up and guiding them. The guests swim to the large flower boats in the lake.

This is because there are too many flower boats in the lake, which makes the pier originally built on the shore of the lake not enough, and this is a scenic spot after all. It will greatly damage the appearance of the place.

If the scenery is completely destroyed, no matter how good-looking the girls are here and how good the service is, those arty rich businessmen, literati, talented scholars, or some powerful figures who pay attention to ostentation, or monks with aloof Taoism will treat this The place full of tackiness is dismissed, thereby reducing the business of this generation of Polan Lake.

So, I don’t know when, another way of boarding has become popular here—send a bunch of awning boats, and wait until nightfall to dock around the various piers. When guests rent a boat, the boatman will row the boat. Take them to the familiar big flower boat.Over time, this has become an unspoken rule for local passengers to go boating on the lake. People who come here also feel that this way of going to and fro to get on the flower boat is very unique and interesting, and gradually formed such a A transshipment procedure.

Yunling and Wei Jingcheng came here to gain knowledge, not to challenge the original system of this world and this region, so they boarded a small black-covered boat when they arrived at the pier. When the boatman asked the two of them what level of flower boat they wanted to go on, or if there was a girl they admired, the two said that they just wanted to listen to a song and watch a dance, so they hoped to get on a boat with young ladies and musicians For boats with higher skill points, the boatman immediately looked dazed, and he shook the boat and rushed towards a certain light and elegant flower boat that didn't look particularly large in the lake.