Zheng Senlin is not a cultivator, he is a scientist. Scientists do not pay attention to gradual progress in cultivation. They pay attention to directly solving problems and finding answers directly by solving equations.
If you are short of spiritual stones, look for spiritual stones; if you are short of exercises, look for exercises. As long as the strength allows, whoever has the most resources will look for them.
However, Lin Zhengxiong was still a little timid about approaching the emperor directly. After all, he is a local, a small frontier family, and it is natural for him to be afraid of the imperial power.
But he is also afraid of Zheng Senlin. In his opinion, "Master Zheng Immortal" is now a god-like figure who can transform ordinary practitioners into innate Taoist bodies. That should be more powerful than practitioners of golden elixir or above - in theory, he He is not afraid of imperial power.
Choose between the two powers.
After a compromise, Lin Zhengxiong agreed to go together, but before that, he ordered Lin Xi, a woman in red, to take over the family, and then moved the whole family to the depths of the wilderness - if something happened, the family would not be affected.
Bianhuang Town is on the edge of the empire, and the imperial city is in the middle of the empire. You have to travel through 11 counties to reach it.
Based on the map here, Zheng Senlin roughly judged that the distance in the middle should be about 1,800 kilometers to 2,200 kilometers. It was a long way, but fortunately, everyone who set out this time had special skills.
The three original characters have all been transformed through several surgeries, and Tu Xiaoling and Lin Zhengxiong have also reached the seventh stage of foundation building. After reaching the late stage of foundation building, they can already fly with swords over long distances. In terms of absolute speed, they may Not as good as Zheng Senlin and the other three, but they travel long distances across mountains and rivers and are faster.
In this way, everyone traveled thousands of miles. Two days later, they rushed from the edge of the empire to the center of the country - the imperial city of Xuexia City.
The original name of "Xuexia City" was "Xuexia City", and the name also expressed submission to the Xueling Sword Sect.
In a world where individual capabilities are greater than those of the group, imperial power should be under "strong individual power", and any system emerges based on the environment.
Walking on the road of Xuexia City, compared with Bianhuang Town, the population here is many times more dense, but the proportion of monks is much smaller.
After all, most of those who go to border towns to make a living have some ability. Otherwise, not only will the risk be in vain, but a single industry will also make it difficult for ordinary people to survive.
Within the Imperial City, although the proportion of cultivators is not very high, there are many more high-end cultivators.
Along the way, I met no less than two foundation-building masters on the street alone - masters of this level are the bosses behind the scenes in Bianhuang Town and are rarely seen on weekdays.
Zheng Senlin ignored these people and walked through the streets and alleys, leading the team to the gate of the inner city of the imperial city.
This is a city within a city, which feels a bit like the ancient Forbidden City on earth, with vermilion walls for tall families. It's just that compared to the Forbidden City on Earth, the buildings here are larger, and there are magic circles carved everywhere on the walls and on the ground.
"Would you like to break in?" Once here, there were not many choices. Kesha, who knew Zheng Senlin's usual style of doing things, looked excited.
The last time she was in the alchemy civilization, she didn't have time to break into the royal family. This was a great regret in her life.
So at this time, Kesha was eager to give it a try.
"Master Immortal, please think twice!" Standing outside the "Forbidden City", Lin Zhengxiong's old timidity returned. Before Zheng Senlin could reply, he persuaded: "This inner city is no better than other places. The entire inner city , all built from the associated mines of spiritual stones. There are at least twenty or thirty masters in the foundation-building stage inside, and because the magic circle is huge and connected into one, it has strong lethality. Even if you break in at the golden elixir stage, you may not be able to kill your entire body. And retreat.”
"Fart, you've never seen a master of the Golden Core stage take action, so you're talking nonsense here." Kesha retorted, but the latter remained silent.
"With dozens of foundation building stages and magic circles, it's really not advisable to break through." Although Zheng Senlin likes to solve problems straightforwardly, he doesn't like to take reckless risks.
"Let's collect information from around and find a way to lure them out..."
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Zheng Senlin's operation was smoother than expected.
Originally, according to his plan, he planned to let Tu Xiaoling feign an attack and then lure the real master out for a fight.
But after some inquiring in the imperial city, they got the news that the Qingmang Hunting Ceremony would be held in two days.
This ceremony is not actually a grand ceremony, but on the Qingmang Festival every year, if any of the princes and grandsons are adults, they will go to the Qingmang Mountain near the imperial city to hunt monsters.
First, the royal family values bravery, and second, it is a traditional celebration that demonstrates the royal bloodline’s ability to practice.
When the time comes, many members of the royal family will follow.
This year, two princes happened to come of age at the same time, and the ceremony was held in two days.
This was an excellent opportunity for Zheng Senlin. When he was in the imperial city, he led his team to follow the hunting team from a distance.
The entire royal hunting team is huge, with thousands of people. In addition to the honor guard, there are three layers of protection. On the first level, there are about 3,000 inner city guards. They are all low-level monks. They practice standard techniques, and their overall ability is around the sixth level of Qi training.
Then there is the first floor of the Royal Guards, all young masters who have practiced Qi for more than eight levels.
Finally, there are the Ouchi masters. Each of these Ouchi masters has reached the foundation building threshold. The two leaders of the team are already solid masters in the foundation building stage.
Among the dozens of people in the royal family, there are also four foundation-building masters. With this level of force, ordinary people would not dare to spy on them.
"The people who are guarding are not very well guarded. This seems a little different from the earth..." Han Dong sighed after sensing something. The scene was a little different from what he thought.
"It should be so. Cultivation here only depends on two resources, one is blood and the other is spirit stones. The probability that the royal family can produce a master is still very high."
"Their system is even more unfair than the people on Earth." Han Dong still lamented, "Ordinary people can only be ordinary people throughout their lives. No wonder technology cannot develop. It is so unfair to ordinary people."
"It shouldn't be that science and technology cannot be developed, unless those in power are suppressing it..." Zheng Senlin looked at the street. Although it was noisy, there was a sense of lifelessness in his bones.
A world where individual force is higher than that of the group is extremely dull.
The huge injustice, after the rules are formed, suppresses all ambitions, desires, technology or other new things.
The escort struck the bell and left the imperial city.
The people around me look lively on the surface but indifferent on the inside.
Zheng Senlin also followed the team and left all the way.
Qingmang Mountain is more than a hundred kilometers away from the Imperial City, and is the closest mountain where a large number of monsters are inhabited.
The area around the imperial city is already a place rich in spiritual energy, and there are also many monsters and beasts on this mountain.
When Zheng Senlin was following the team from a distance, he found that some people were following him around. He was still confused at first, but after a while, the bodies of some mutilated animals and monsters began to appear on both sides of the road.
These are all worthless scraps left behind after the hunting team kills them. These people who were following from afar would rush forward to grab the things the royal family didn't want when they saw them. They could also exchange them for a small amount of wealth.
