Two days later, seeing that Yangtian Pavilion's business was back on track and all his injuries had recovered, Zhou left Tu Yan and returned to Anping City.
When he arrived in Xicheng, he went to the old man's house to clean his face. Sure enough, the house was empty and the old man was nowhere to be seen. Zhou Yang sighed and went straight to Lingtian without stopping.
It is late autumn now, and the big-leaf grass is about to mature.
Zhou Yang looked at the hundreds of acres of spiritual fields, sucking in the fragrance and spiritual energy emitted by the spiritual herbs and elixirs. He felt relaxed and happy for a while, and did not want to wake up from the aftertaste for a long time.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could be accompanied by spiritual herbs and elixirs in this life, forget all worries, throw away all worldly things, and be free and at ease!
When it was dinner time, Zhou Yang didn't come back for a long time, so Myolie came out of the stone house to call him to eat.
Seeing Zhou Yang standing in the spiritual field, seemingly comprehending something, Xing'er did not disturb him and stood not far away from him, watching quietly.
At this time, Zhou Yang didn't look like a seventeen-year-old boy at all, but like a man who had gone through many vicissitudes of life and was reflecting on life and comprehending the way of heaven. As time passed by, Xing'er seemed to be infected and couldn't help but close her eyes and meditate.
"Let's go back!" After a long time, Zhou Yang opened his eyes and looked into the distance.
"Oh." Myolie Li was awakened from her deep thoughts and responded hurriedly.
The two returned to the stone house one after another. Tiehu had already laid out the food. When he saw the two coming in, he muttered: "It takes so long to call someone. The food is cold and needs to be heated."
Seeing Tie Hu's look, Zhou Yang couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Senior brother, are you bored staying here?"
"Oh, it's not boring either!" Tiehu was stunned and replied after a moment.
"What does this mean?" Zhou Yang was confused.
"Staying here all year round, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of it. It's like eating only one kind of food, no matter how delicious it is, you will get tired of it. Do you think it's boring?"
"That's right, senior brother, you've already talked about philosophy! Then why aren't you bored?"
"Here, apart from guarding the spiritual fields and commanding mortals, the rest is all about cultivation. There is no such thing as boredom or boredom in the journey of cultivation. How can you improve your cultivation without spending years and months? If you don't improve your cultivation, how can you be in the world of cultivation? To gain a foothold? So I won’t be bored if I stay here all the time.”
Zhou Yang couldn't help but look at Tie Hu with admiration. After not seeing him for a while, it was rare for this honest senior brother to realize so many things.
The brothers and sisters Li Tong on the side were also dumbfounded after hearing this, wondering, is this still the carefree Tiehu? How could it be so deep!
Especially Xing'er, Zhou Yang's vicissitudes just now and Tie Hu's realization now made her feel that these two people suddenly seemed a little strange.
"Senior brother is right! Cultivation has no time. Which powerful person who has become famous is not the result of years of hard work! To be a cultivator, you must be able to endure loneliness, keep your original intention, and be able to internalize it in your heart and externalize it. Only by following the shape can we achieve the great road." Zhou Yang spoke with emotion, but also revealed a lot of new insights.
Brother and sister Li Tong also nodded thoughtfully.
"However, blindly practicing hard is not the right way. Without long-term training and actual combat, no matter how exquisite the skills and techniques you practice, they will not be able to display their essence and can only be said to be just words on paper."
Zhou Yang changed his tone and affirmed that penance was inevitable, but he also put forward additional opinions on penance, that is, the combination of penance and actual combat is the right way. This is his experience, inspired by Qin Ming.
Tiehu also began to think deeply, slowly digesting what Zhou Yang said.
"Senior brother, are you interested in going out?" Zhou Yang looked relaxed and said with a smile.
"Get out?" Zhou Yang's words woke up Tie Hu who was deep in thought.
"Yes, I'm going to Dingbeicheng tomorrow. Are you interested in going with me?"
"Okay, I wish I could have asked for it!" When Tiehu heard that he was going to Dingbei, he immediately changed as if he was a different person. His eyes shone and returned to his usual appearance. Li Tong and his sister were stunned when they saw this. This was the same person just now. Tiehu looks like a master, his face-changing skills are simply higher than his cultivation level.
Zhou Yang laughed: "Okay, let's eat first."
He was not idle that night, and continued to study the Wanli Chasing Wind Technique. When he got excited, he left the house and performed it himself according to the Taoist instructions. Not to mention, although he has not even completed the first level, his speed is a bit faster than before.
Early the next morning, Mo Weinan came to Lingtian. When he saw Zhou Yang, he bowed deeply: "Thank you so much, Brother Yang. I will never forget this kindness for the rest of my life!"
Zhou Yang smiled, waved his hand and said, "How?"
“The effect is quite good!”
The words of the two made Tiehu and the other three look at each other in confusion.
"You came just in time. Senior brother and I are going to Dingbeicheng. You can lend Qinglang to senior brother. Also, the two of us will be back in two or three days at most, or in five or six days at most. You, Tong Ge, and Xing Sister Er, you have to take good care of the spiritual field. Also, be careful to find out all the news about the Xuanfu Sect!"
"Brother Yang, don't worry, I will pay attention."
"That's good."
After a few more words of explanation, Zhou Yang and Tie Hu rode the green wolf out of the spiritual field.
He did not emphasize the benefits and disadvantages of Huang Lingdan to Mo Weinan. It would be useless to talk more. He believed that Mo Weinan was not a mediocre person.
Tiehu had not been out for a long time and was in high spirits. He even sang a little tune when he ran up. His theory was neither boring nor boring. At this moment, he was no longer bored, and Zhou Yang couldn't help but laugh.
After entering Anping City, the two went straight to the East City, because the teleportation array leading to Dingbei City was right outside the gate of the East City and belonged to Tongzhou Trading Company.
After passing through four or five streets and several residential areas, they finally arrived at the boundary street between the east and west cities.
There are also guards from Tongzhou Commercial Bank on Boundary Street, but compared to the guards from Xuanfu Sect in Beicheng, this place is much more casual. As long as they are permanent residents of West City, they can enter East City at will, while residents of other urban areas do not have such treatment. , all must carefully check their identity before entering.
It is said that Tongzhou Commercial Bank and Cangshou Palace have a close relationship, and it seems that what they say is true.
The streets in the East City are wider, and the surrounding pavilions are taller and more gorgeous than those in the West City, and even the North City is inferior. What surprised Zhou Yang even more was that the cultivators on the road were not as serious as in other areas. Instead, they were talking and laughing, and even talked eloquently. Some taboo words were not avoided, and the degree of freedom was very high.
The way Tongzhou Trading Company governs is really special. As long as they don't openly oppose the trading bank, the cultivators in Dongcheng can speak freely and discuss the relationships between the various factions and some interesting things about the sects without restraint. The purple-clad guards patrolling Tongzhou Commercial Bank did not pay any attention to this, which was really strange.
"Purple-clothed guards!" Zhou Yang was shocked. He suddenly remembered the three purple-clothed men who were injured by him before. Their attires were exactly the same as those of these purple-clad guards. Could it be that the people they met that time were the guard disciples of Tongzhou Trading Company?
This is really possible! Two of the three men in purple were injured by him, which was a big deal. If they were recognized, it would be difficult to do anything good. Although speech is free here, it does not mean that you can freely kill business guards.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yang winked at Tie Hu, urged Qing Lang, and accelerated towards the east city gate.
Dongcheng is also very large. The two of them had to walk through the streets and alleys, but they couldn't go fast. It took them a full hour to reach the outside of Dongcheng.
As expected, there was a teleportation array in the open space outside the city gate, with two merchant guards in green robes standing on the left and right.
Zhou Yang thought in his mind that the disciples of Tongzhou Commercial Bank were clearly divided into different levels and the hierarchy was very strict. The patrolling guard disciples wore purple robes, while the disciples guarding the teleportation array wore green robes. From this point of view, the clothes of other disciples should not be the same.
At this time, he thought of the clothes Liu Menglong often wore, and thought that Tongzhou Trading Company was really interesting.
There is a spiritual beast foster care center not far from the teleportation array. Zhou Yang and the others stored the green wolf there, paid the fee in advance, and then came to the teleportation array.
It's not that spiritual beasts are not allowed to teleport, but they have to pay extra and have to occupy a quota just like cultivators. Moreover, some low-level spiritual beasts cannot stand the pressure of long-distance transmission, so under normal circumstances, cultivators will store their spiritual beasts.
At this time, there were cultivators waiting beside the teleportation array. After the two of them arrived, there were already five people waiting, and there were only five left to make up the number.
Zhou Yang didn't want to spend two thousand spirit stones to teleport alone, and he didn't have too many spirit stones to spend.
While waiting, he paid special attention to the teleportation array.
This formation is indeed much more exquisite than the teleportation formation leading to Tu Yan City in the North City. In the middle of the formation is a teleportation platform. It is unknown what kind of material it is made of. The platform can accommodate ten cultivators.
There are four golden dragons made of gold crystals around the platform, tightly surrounding the platform. There is a groove in the mouth of each dragon, which is where the spirit stone is embedded. The teleportation array requires the energy of the spirit stone to activate.
The one in front of us is a mid- to long-distance teleportation array that exceeds thousands of miles, and it is estimated that it requires the use of second-grade spiritual stones or above.
While they were waiting, cultivators from Dingbei and Anping were constantly coming out of the formation.
If someone wants to teleport over, the four golden dragons will shake and their colors will change. When the cultivators in the teleportation array walked out, the golden dragon returned to its previous color.
At this time, only five cultivators came out of the teleportation array, and the leader was a young man in his twenties, dressed in colorful clothes, with the eighth level of Lingtai cultivation level. Among the four people following closely, there was actually a cultivator in the early stage of Tianyuan, and the other three cultivators were also at the peak level of Lingtai.
Judging from the attire and cultivation of these five people, they must be either rich or noble, and they are definitely not ordinary cultivators.
This reminded Zhou Yang of the Tu family and the He family's children going out for training, and his face gradually darkened.
Three more people came one after another around the teleportation array. At this point, they were still short of the last two people, but these two people could not get together.
Zhou Yang and Tie Hu waited for two hours. It was already noon, and there would be fewer people teleporting during this time period.
The eight people were a little anxious. One of the red-faced young cultivators said: "Fellow Taoists, if we wait any longer, we still don't know when we will be able to gather the number of people. It is very unwise to waste a lot of time. You guys think this is good, We divided the two thousand spirit stones equally and set off immediately, which saved a lot of time and didn't cost a few more spirit stones."
Zhou Yang naturally had no objection, and several others nodded in agreement. However, there was a short, fat, small-eyed cultivator who did not speak, but closed his eyes to rest.
The young man took a step forward, cupped his fists and said, "Brother, what do you think?"
