Chi Yao wanted to level up first before exploring the world, but he couldn't just sit down somewhere and start practicing without caring. Although his practice does not emphasize that he must meditate quietly, if there is external disturbance, it will always have an impact.
So while maintaining this rhythm of breathing, he walked deeper and deeper into the forest, trying to find a truly secluded place.
But I never expected that as I walked, I didn't find a secluded place. Instead, I saw a series of courtyards and pavilions, market vendors, and even a Taoist temple and monk's hut.
This place doesn't look like a quiet mountain forest, it's simply a bustling hodgepodge town.
Of course, what made him more fortunate was that the scene where Ying Zheng turned into a streamer and flew away didn't seem to be noticed by anyone here.
After letting go of the worry of being watched, Chi Yao did not insist on going into seclusion immediately. Since he settled here, he would just take the opportunity to inquire about the basic situation of this world.
Their clothes seem to be very different from mine, and after listening to a few words, their speech habits are also quite similar. So Chi Yao simply walked out openly and sat in a teahouse along the street.
"Waiter, serve me a pot of good tea!"
"Come on - come on!"
A young man in a coarse gray shirt with a yellowed towel on his shoulder gave a long shout, half-bent, and walked quickly and steadily to Chi Yao's table.
"What would you like, sir?"
"Tell me what signboard you have here?"
Chi Yao asked casually while waiting for the waiter to clean the table and look over it, with a faint silver light between his fingers.
When the waiter saw it, the smile on his face became more sincere and flattering:
"Hey, it seems that this is your first time coming to our Qingzhou! To be honest, we have outstanding people and countless good things. But if we really want to talk about the most famous one, it should be the eight-hundred-mile vast Spring God Lake named after it. ——Spring God Tea!”
"oh?"
While Chi Yao searched for the terms Chun Shen Lake and Chun Shen Tea in his mind, he threw out a small piece of broken silver and asked, "Tell me in detail?"
"Eh--"
The waiter used the skill of wiping the table to put the shadow under his sleeve in the blink of an eye, as if by magic, and then explained, "Actually, there are some allusions to the name of Spring God Lake. The center of the lake under our feet The island is called Laoshan. Are our guests curious as to why it is named a mountain even though it is an island?"
"Haha, keep talking."
"Hehe, actually, a long time ago, when there was Spring God Lake here, this mountain was not called Lao Mountain, but Prison Mountain."
The waiter deliberately lowered his voice, as if the two of them were discussing some big secret.
"Since it is called Prison Mountain, there will naturally be prisoners. The identity of this prisoner is not simple. She is the Spring Goddess, the daughter of the Jade Emperor!"
Hearing this, Chi Yao frowned and couldn't help but activate the Tian Gu Qi Watching Technique and carefully looked at the waiter in front of him and the other people in the teahouse.
The breath in these people's bodies is very weak. Even if there are a few martial arts practitioners among them, in the previous world, they would have been at most the level of killers in the net.
But even this kind of person can tell anecdotes about the Jade Emperor in a serious manner... Do miracles really often appear in this world?
This made Chi Yao become more cautious.
"Who dares to imprison the Jade Emperor's daughter?"
"Hehe, most people naturally don't have the courage, but the person who built this prison mountain is the Queen Mother of the West!"
The waiter's smile was a little narrower, as if he was secretly trying to figure out the family relationship between the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West.
"Um……"
Seeing this, Chi Yao suddenly became suspicious of Cai Cai's guess.
If there really were gods in this world who appeared frequently, this waiter wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous, right?
"Then what?"
"This prison, of course, will not have a good environment. There were no lakes around the prison mountain at first, it was just a bare basin. Until later, a land immortal became angry and drew a circle along the prison mountain with a sword, causing it to collapse eight hundred times. , then water gushed out of the lake. Over time, the lake became the Spring God Lake and the mountain became Laoshan."
When he said this, Xiao Er's face was full of yearning, while Chi Yao was secretly shocked.
"A sword draws a circle and collapses eight hundred miles?"
This is a bit too outrageous. If eight hundred miles is the diameter, well... even if it is the circumference, it is quite terrifying.
There is no doubt that it has exceeded his current definition of "human". Being able to do this can indeed be called a fairy.
"I wonder if this immortal...has other deeds?"
"I don't know about that, but the Spring God Tea before the rain is famous far and wide. There is news that it will become a tribute soon! If this is true, ordinary people will not be able to drink it~"
"That's a pity. You really need to hurry up and try it."
Chi Yao pretended not to see through the waiter's marketing strategy of selling anxiety. He was not short of money anyway, and threw out a small piece of broken silver again, "Let's talk about that immortal. I've loved hearing about this since I was a child!"
"Hehe, then you can ask!"
The waiter's hand turned into a shadow and put away the money. While calling the kitchen to serve tea, he chuckled and said, "Although there is no news about the immortal who created the lake with his sword, we actually don't lack the traces left by the immortal here. Far away. Let’s not talk about it, let’s talk about Xiangfan City, where the prince’s government is, where there are handwritings left by the immortals of Longhu Mountain!”
Finally hearing a familiar name, Chi Yao quickly asked: "Longhu Mountain?"
"You haven't heard of the famous Longhu Mountain, have you?"
The waiter could hardly find a sense of accomplishment, "Speaking of Longhu Mountain, that's incredible. It was originally the ancestral home of Taoism, and now it is revered by the royal family. All the four heavenly masters suppress the world. Immortal figure!”
The waiter told the story of Longhu Mountain with more enthusiasm than Chunshen Lake, so after his description, Chi Yao had a general understanding of Longhu Mountain in this world.
The most basic settings of the Taoist ancestral court and the position of the Heavenly Master have not changed, and it is not as miserable as the Longhu Mountain in the world of bad people. It can be said that the Longhu Mountain here is doing quite well, and there is a faint hint of the world of the court. Shoulder posture.
The only regret is that the person recognized as the best in the world is not the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain.
When Chi Yao asked this question, the waiter hesitated for a while, and then said that there is no recognized number one in this world, because the recognized number one in the world he claimed to be number two.
"The Lord of East China Sea Martial Emperor City, Wang Xianzhi?"
This name was like a depth charge, suddenly awakening a memory deep in Chi Yao's mind.
"It turns out that this is snow..."
He remained silent for a moment, as if to make final confirmation, and asked the waiter again: "So, the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain is not named Zhang?"
"Zhang? Not sure."
The waiter shook his head like a rattle, "I heard that the surnames of the Celestial Masters all have the surname of Guo. However, there are recent rumors that there is a young Celestial Master named Qi Xianxia. A Celestial Master with the surname Zhang... is unheard of."
"That's it..."
While he was talking, the Spring God Tea that he ordered just now was also brought to him.
When drinking tea in a teahouse, there are naturally no beauties to demonstrate the complicated and mysterious techniques of washing and brewing tea. But the tea leaves picked before the Qingming Festival are curled like green snails or sparrow tongues, with a uniform layer of fine white hair on the edges. The green tea floats gently in the white porcelain tea cup, just like spring-dyed lake water. Just looking at it, It's so refreshing.
Chi Yao picked up the tea leaves and took a sip. He felt that the bitterness and slight sweetness were intertwined on the buds on the tongue. It was indeed a mouthful of fragrance. But if I really want to compare it with other famous teas that I have drunk before, I don’t feel that it has any special characteristics.
It seemed that Chi Yao's expression showed that he was not too fond of Chun Shen Tea. The waiter quickly explained: "The guests don't know. Generally, after the first sip of tea, the fragrance will gradually fade away. But it is about to get better. Moreover, the Spring God Tea in our Laoshan Mountain is of better quality than the surrounding areas. Only bamboo, plum, orchid, cinnamon, and pine are allowed to be planted in the tea garden, and no bad wood is mixed in, so the fragrance of the Spring God Tea in Laoshan Mountain is longer. There is no fertile earth air and green leaf air yet.”
Um……
How should I put it? Although after his explanation, Chi Yao still couldn't taste the so-called "fertile soil Qi and Qingye Qi", but he finally managed to understand what was so good about this tea.
He nodded slightly, put down his wine glass, and continued the topic: "Since we just mentioned the number one in the world, is there any ranking below?"
"Of course."
It can be seen that although he is currently just a waiter in a teahouse, the waiter also has a heart that yearns for the world. Talking about the deeds of these masters is more enthusiastic than promoting his own tea.
"However, I can't even remember all the martial arts commentaries. I only know that after the Lord of Emperor Wu City, the recognized second in the world is the Peach Blossom Sword Immortal Deng Tai'a. He is also the recognized sword god in the world. I picked up a peach blossom branch casually. Leading the way of swordsmanship. As for the third one...it's a little hard to say."
"Oh? What's a bad term? Could it be that he is some kind of master of magic?"
Although Chi Yao had already guessed the result, he still teased with a smile.
"The Demonic Way...that's only available in Beimang. However, although this third person is not a Demonic Way, he does things more boldly and wantonly than any other Demonic Way master."
The waiter looked around, took half a step closer, and lowered his voice at the same time.
"The invincible official Cao Changqing is said to be a remnant of the Western Chu Dynasty. He was originally just a scribe with no power to restrain a chicken. But he felt the suffering of his homeland, so he gave up writing and took up martial arts, and became the pinnacle of the world. One of the characters. He broke into Tai'an City alone three times to assassinate the king and kill the king. Although he failed to succeed, he always escaped with his body intact, leaving the great masters helpless and helpless, and became a stepping stone for his romantic career."
"Haha, that's indeed a win-win situation!"
The more Chi Yao listened, the more convinced he became about the background of Fang Tiandi.
Swordsmanship in the Snow is indeed a world between martial arts and fairy tales.
Compared with the Nine Heavens Xuannv in the Mingyue of the Qin Dynasty who only existed in the history of Loulan, the connections between heaven and earth in this world are more frequent.
Not to mention the frequent rises of people, there are even many immortals and gods with the level of giants in the heavens reincarnated and descended to earth.
Moreover, the relationship between humans and immortals is far from as harmonious as that between Jiutian Xuannu and Chi You and Huangdi. The immortals are constantly picking up the luck in the world to meet their own needs.
In this world, the definition of luck is slightly different from other worlds. It is more like a grid position, and the total amount of luck is constant. It may shift, but it won't increase or disappear out of thin air.
Therefore, immortals coveting luck in the world will lead to insufficient luck in the world.
This is the biggest contradiction in the world.
The battle between humans and immortals!
In addition, there are also disputes between Jianghu and the court.
But that's more complicated, so I won't talk about it for now, but Chi Yao has some guesses about Ying Zheng's inexplicable flight before.
"After I took away my personal Dragon Luck, Ying Zheng was equivalent to a little bit of his own true spirit plus the incarnation of the Great Qin's national destiny. But there happened to be a Great Qin in the history of this world, so that's it. That Qin Emperor actually returned He is not completely dead, but is in reincarnation. In this way, there is a problem with his identity. After all, there is only one true spirit, and it is impossible for two people with the same identity to exist in the world at the same time. So he is going to be forced by heaven. Has the past been merged with the current reincarnation?"
Thinking of this, Chi Yao suddenly felt a little hopeful.
Because in this world, the contemporary reincarnation of Emperor Qin is the protagonist Xu Fengnian.
This guy combines many elements such as bitterness, deep hatred, family and country, a harem of three thousand, romance in the world, etc. He is a very complex and interesting character.
But if you watch it until the end, the ending of the story will leave you with a somewhat depressing impression.
At least Chi Yao thinks so.
After watching the ending of Xue Zhong back then, he could not help but compare him with another classic martial arts protagonist.
Shuanglong of the Tang Dynasty, Kou Zhong.
The identities and experiences of the two of them were very different, but in the end they both gave up their careers, subordinates, etc., which they had worked hard for half their lives, and chose to retire bravely and live in seclusion with their wives.
Retiring from the world after the story is finished was once a very popular ending. But whether it is Shen Lang, Yang Guo, or Linghu Chong, the identities of these people are very simple. They are just Jianghu people, and their enemies are also just Jianghu people. They can find a deserted island to live in seclusion without fear of being found. They suffer from it later, but it's not big enough that they can handle it on their own.
Even if it is Zhang Wuji, the Mingjiao under his command has a rebel status in addition to the Jianghu status, but his own retreat does not delay the Mingjiao's continued pursuit of Yuan.
But if we make an assumption that after Zhang Wuji retired to seclusion, the Mingjiao failed to seek Yuan Yuan, would he, the former leader, still be able to live a good life by then? The best ending is to be captured by Zhao Min and become a male favorite, right?
Now let’s take a look at Xu Fengnian’s choice.
He stationed the Northern Territory for the Central Plains Dynasty, used a corner of Northern Liang to resist the Beimang Empire that unified the prairie, and defeated the Northern Liang army under his command to almost total loss. Then he said that this way the court would no longer be afraid of and target Beiliang.
Hiss~ This is true, but it makes people feel uncomfortable listening to it.
His multiple identities as the Heavenly Zhenwu Great Emperor and the reincarnation of the Founding Emperor of Qin were even somewhat blinded!
Chi Yao firmly believed that Xu Fengnian's choice was definitely not the best way to solve the problem.
Now if this guy could be replaced... and let Ying Zheng handle this situation, the ending should be a little different, right?
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