"Don't miss it when you're passing by. It's a secret medicinal wine handed down from our ancestors. A man drinks it as fiercely as a tiger. Master, why don't you come and have a drink?"
"Fellow fellows, come and see. The chest is broken with rocks, the oil pan is used with bare hands, the silver spear is stabbed in the throat, the stunts in the arena are endless, exciting. The rich are doing it for money, and the poor are doing it for themselves."
"Fortune telling... fortune telling..."
Outside the gate of Daomen Mountain, various stalls lined both sides of the road, including wine sellers, medicine sellers, melon sellers and dates sellers, jugglers, fortune tellers, and opera singers.
The sound of shouting and shouting can be heard endlessly, and there is an endless stream of wealthy people from all over the world. It is very lively.
Since the Great War between Taoism and Buddhism, the Taoism Sect has been in decline for thousands of years. Normally, there may not be visitors for a month or two, but during this time, practitioners from all over the world have almost leveled the threshold of the Taoism Sect.
They all came for Zhang Xiaopeng.
Because there is a news circulating in the world that Dao Zu has found his way to the land of his ancestral origin. The best proof is that his new disciple Zhang Dayong came from the land of his ancestral origin.
So all the practitioners came to the Taoist gate one after another, wanting to know where the way to the ancestral place was.
Less than twenty days have passed since Qingyun Bang appeared, but there are already no less than a thousand cultivators who have come to the Taoist sect after hearing the news, and the number of people visiting every day is increasing exponentially. This is because the news is reaching the door at an extremely fast speed. It spread in all directions.
If you leave it alone, don't clarify, don't refute the rumors, you may even attract cultivators from Beiqiong and Gunan.
Thanks to Zhang Xiaopeng, the Taoist sect finally became lively after thousands of years.
The stalls set up on both sides of the road are all Taoist disciples.
At a glance, there were people from all three religions and nine streams, which made the practitioners shake their heads. They felt that except for Taozu and the two major disciples Qingqu and Fufeng, the rest of the Taoist sect was just rotten fish and shrimps.
The Taoist sect is really in decline.
All the practitioners who come here lament it.
However, the Taoist disciples who set up the stall did not feel ashamed at all and turned a deaf ear to the ridicule and ridicule of the practitioners, because business was very good every day and their pockets were getting bigger day by day.
Whether they wanted face or money, they chose the latter without hesitation.
In fact, they have long been accustomed to this.
Disciples from other sects receive a monthly salary every month, and those with outstanding qualifications can receive key training from the sect, but disciples from the Tao sect have nothing because the entire Tao sect, including the Taoist ancestors, are paupers from top to bottom.
Therefore, the disciples who join the Taoist sect are very miserable, and all the cultivation resources need to be solved by themselves.
This also led to the Taoist disciples being forced to possess special skills, such as ancestral secrets, chest crushing, fortune telling, etc., all of which were easily mastered.
"Uncle Master, please don't come back, let us earn a little more."
The Taoist disciples all prayed in their hearts.
However, the one who makes the most money is undoubtedly the leader, Lu Wuya, who directly sends his disciples to guard the mountain gate and sell tickets.
Do you want to know the news of Zhang Dayong's return as soon as possible?
Buy a ticket and go up the mountain.
The tower near the water gets the moon first.
It’s not too expensive, five star pills.
Want to stay in the mountains?
Stay one night and get three star pills.
Have a meal?
Two meat and one vegetable, cheap, one star pill.
You’re here, why don’t you burn incense and pray for peace?
A stick of incense and a star elixir.
Bring your own incense?
no.
Only use our incense.
Want to visit the mountains over there?
Yes, the ticket costs three Star Pills.
Do you want to go to the cliff where Erye Fufeng was imprisoned for five hundred years?
Ten Star Pills.
Do you want to visit the eldest and second master’s caves?
Ten Tongxuan Pills.
Want to visit Daozu’s cave?
Is it expensive?
It’s not expensive, you only need ten Baiwu Dan to visit for a whole day.
What, someone sneaked up the mountain without buying a ticket?
That would be great.
Catch him and punish him with a hundred Tongxuan Pills.
No money?
Then just stay and work to pay off the punishment.
Clean the latrine, repair the leaky roof, knock down the courtyard wall, and pull out the grass on the mountain.
What, can’t finish pulling it out?
Okay, pay the money.
In order to make money, Lu Wuya went to a crazy and outrageous level.
Once you enter the mountain gate, you can barely breathe and have to pay.
Even the cave where Daozu, the uncle and the second master practiced were turned into a paid visit point by him.
Lu Wuya didn't want to be like this, he was forced to do so because of poverty.
He has been the leader for more than three hundred years, but he has never sent a monthly report to his disciples.
He still clearly remembers that when he received the leader's ring from the previous leader, the former leader held his hands with tears in his eyes and said: "Wuya, I really can't hold on any longer. I leave the responsibility of the monthly routine to you, you must do it, this is my biggest regret in this life."
So he has made up his mind to seize this opportunity to make a lot of money, and then give monthly reports to his disciples.
Under Lu Wuya Yanguo's plucking operation, the Taoist sect became a gold-swallowing cave in the eyes of the practitioners, and its reputation plummeted.
In order to seduce the cultivators at the foot of the mountain and spend money to go up the mountain, Lu Wuya would secretly spread the false news that Zhang Xiaopou had quietly returned to the mountain gate every day.
But if Zhang Xiaopou really appeared in front of him now, he would most likely put Zhang Xiaopou into a sack and hide it to prevent Zhang Xiaopou from cutting off his financial path.
Yun Miao Peak.
Under the thousand-year-old pine trees on the top of the mountain, Qingqu and Liu Chengqian were playing chess.
The two of them struck like swords, killing each other until the sky was dark.
Snapped!
Liu Chengqian dropped a black stone and surrounded the few white ones left in Qingqu. He then smiled and said, "It's become a siege. You lose."
Qing Qu replied: "That's not necessarily the case."
Snapped!
After saying that, he dropped the sword on the tip of Liu Chengqian's sword.
Snapped!
Liu Chengqian immediately dropped a piece, and ate the white piece that Qingqu had just dropped, and said: "Do you want to break out of the siege at all costs? But the general is not here, who can lead you to break out of the siege? And I have at least two people on my side General."
Qingqu lost another piece, but he continued to press forward Liu Chengqian's sharpness, saying: "Let's kill him!"
Snapped!
"It's useless. A fight between trapped animals will only increase casualties."
Snapped!
"I have the home field advantage."
Snapped!
"My army is pressing down on the territory, crushing it with absolute strength. Your home field is equal to nothing."
Snapped!
Snapped!
Snapped!
The two men were making moves faster and faster, and the cold murderous aura overflowed from the chessboard. The surrounding temperature dropped sharply, the air seemed to be condensed, and the mountain wind and leaves stopped.
Snapped!
Liu Chengqian made a move, and his solemn expression suddenly relaxed. He clapped his hands, shifted his gaze from the chessboard to Qing Qu, and said with a smile, "You lost."
Qingqu looked at the chessboard and said with a smile: "I just lost three pieces, it's not bad."
Liu Chengqian was startled when he heard this. He lowered his head and looked at the chessboard. He was confused by Qingqu's "only lost three pieces" because he felt that he had at least won Qingqu's fifteen or sixteen pieces.
But when he saw the chessboard clearly, he was surprised to find that Qingqu was not talking nonsense. He had indeed only won three pieces. Only then did he realize that he had been beaten so happily just now. He was confused by the siege and thought he had won a complete victory, but in fact it was only a narrow victory.
Liu Chengqian smiled and shook his head, and then suddenly lowered his voice and said: "My ancestors and Xiaoyao Tianzun are here, and they are bound to win. Dao Ancestor is not at home, so be more careful."
Qingqu nodded,
Said: "Thank you, Brother Chengqian, for reminding me."
Then he reached out and touched the chessboard and said: "Perhaps when we meet again, we will be on a real battlefield. Don't rush forward like a fool, otherwise you will die without knowing how. Don't forget This is my home court, and the sword is ruthless on the battlefield."
"The same words are given to Brother Qingqu. We are each our own masters, and we will be ruthless under the sword." Liu Chengqian replied.
"Easy to say."
"Farewell." Liu Chengqian stood up and saluted.
"Wait a minute."
"Brother Qingqu, do you have anything else to explain?"
"Settle the account."
"What account?" Liu Chengqian looked confused.
"What about that? Accompanying fee." Qing Qu touched the tip of his nose.
"What?" Liu Chengqian was stunned.
"Ahem..." Qingqu coughed dryly and said, "Our leader said that since you are my friend, we won't charge you entry fee, accommodation fee and food fee, but I will charge you for accompanying me. It must be settled. I have played eight games of chess with you in the past two days. I will charge you ten Holy King Pills for each game, for a total of eighty Holy King Pills. Please pay the bill."
Liu Chengqian opened his mouth in astonishment and looked at Qingqu with a stupid expression.
"Don't pretend to be stunned, hurry up." Qingqu urged.
"Are you crazy?"
"Stop talking nonsense and give me the money quickly. If you dare to default on your debt, I will let you go to the toilet to pay off the debt."
"Here, here, go ahead, why don't you grab the next set of ten Holy King Pills?"
"It's a bargain but you're still good. Ten Holy King Pills invite an extraordinary swordsman to play a game of chess with you. Do you think it's expensive?"
"Not expensive, not expensive at all, very cheap, very cheap."
"..."
