This official road is on a gentle slope, going all the way down, about a hundred miles away.
After a hundred miles, we were already at the bottom of the mountain, but the smooth journey was not long. After a while, we went up to a peak again, and the official road went around the mountain.
After everyone climbed halfway up the mountain, they didn't rush on their way, but stopped to look far into the distance. Because they discovered a small village at the foot of the mountain.
The village is not big, with about dozens of households. It is approaching sunset, smoke is rising from cooking stoves, chickens and dogs are smelling each other, and there are people walking around from time to time.
The village is surrounded by patches of terraced fields. In early spring, the crops also begin to turn green. Viewed from the mountainside, patches of light green surround the mountain village. Although there are no exotic flowers and plants, the garden is full of fragrant colors, but it looks peaceful and peaceful. , there is a sense of tranquility and ordinaryness, which seems to make people calmer, remove turbidity and retain purity than the big city of Xiujie.
Zhou Yang was not the only one who felt this way, several people who had never been to the mortal realm felt the same way, and they were a little distracted for a moment.
The one who was most fascinated was Myolie Li. She stared blankly at the small mountain village with an extremely obsessed expression.
"It's almost sunset, we have to hurry up." At this time, a discordant voice came, but it was Song Laohu who was urging everyone, and he rushed down the mountain first.
Zhou Yang and others woke up and urged their horses forward.
The official road bypassed the mountain village. After the people and horses passed by, the chickens, ducks, cats and dogs outside the village were frightened and fled in all directions.
Xing'er immediately looked back with some nostalgia, her heart was in turmoil, and she blurted out: "Ordinary is the most beautiful!"
"Huh, you don't have aura, I don't see how beautiful you are!" Tiehu curled his lips when he heard this.
After passing the mountain village, the road for more than a hundred miles was very smooth and the speed was much faster.
After running for a while, everyone saw a city still ten miles away.
As we got closer, the city became clearer and clearer. The city walls came into view. They were all built of blue bricks and were about three to four feet high. There were watchtowers every other section. There were figures on the watchtowers, like soldiers. On patrol.
When they arrived at the city, everyone looked up and saw three eye-catching characters: "Jiutian County"
This is Jiutian County, one of the vassal states of Zhou Tianzong, Jin Chengguo. The small mountain village they passed by naturally falls under the jurisdiction of Jiutian County.
There were soldiers guarding the city gate, all wearing silver armor. Although the material was much worse than the outer armor worn by cultivators, just ordinary iron, it still looked extremely dazzling. Some passers-by approached and looked in awe.
At this time, the guard leader of the city gate was leading his soldiers to check people entering the city.
There was only one stick of incense left before the city gates were closed. At this time, the interrogation was not too strict. The guard leader was anxious to close the door and go home. He stared impatiently at the people entering the city and kept urging: "Hurry up, hurry up. !”
When he saw Zhou Yang and others, he was stunned for a moment, and then his expression became extremely respectful. He came to the crowd in three steps and then saluted and said, "My subordinate, Zhao Chun, is here to see you all..."
But before he could call out the immortals, Song Laohu waved his hand to stop him.
The guard leader was unable to say a word, but he did not dare to be disrespectful at all.
The passers-by could not recognize the old men in front of them, but he had been guarding the city gate in Jiutian County for more than ten years. From a small soldier to the captain of the east gate guard, his knowledge was naturally extraordinary. Every year he met cultivators entering the city.
Most of the cultivators who joined the meeting came in disguise, but occasionally he would see cultivators without disguises, so he could recognize the identities of these people at a glance from their attire.
In his eyes, Zhou Yang and his entourage are immortals. When an ordinary person sees an immortal, he will naturally kneel down and pay homage.
Even if the cultivator does not have to deliberately restrain his aura, ordinary mortals will not recognize his identity. Zhou Yang was surprised and couldn't help but admire the person in front of him. How did he recognize it?
In fact, he was also a fan of the authorities. The attire of his party was very different from that of ordinary people. Not to mention the guard leaders, even the ordinary people waiting in line to enter the city looked at them with strange eyes.
Seeing this, Zhou Yang looked at himself and then at the robes of those mortals, and he understood clearly.
It seems that I have to change my clothes first, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable to be stared at like a monster.
According to the usual practice, when various sects inspect the mortal country, unless there are special circumstances, they usually change their attire and do not show themselves as cultivators. However, Song Laohu forgot about this in a hurry.
The guard leader also felt a little strange. They came to this city wearing cultivators' clothes, but they still wanted to hide their identities. Why on earth was this?
But he didn't dare to ask, so he quickly closed his mouth and stood with his hands down, waiting for Song Huo's instructions.
Tiger took out a silver ingot from his arms and handed it over, saying calmly: "Don't make any noise, let me wait until we enter the city."
"Yes, yes!" The leader nervously took the money, responded respectfully, and immediately ordered his men to disperse the crowd at the front and let the tiger and his party enter the city first.
Those waiting in line didn't have any complaints, because these people's costumes were strange, and even the guard leader was so scared that he dared not show his anger. They must be dignitaries, and they couldn't afford to offend them, so they all moved out of the way, letting Song Laohu and others go first.
"Captain, who are these strangely dressed people? Are they from foreign countries?" When Song Laohu and others entered the city, and even their backs were invisible, a young guard asked the leader doubtfully.
"Okay, don't ask what you shouldn't ask. If you know too much, it's hard to protect your kid's food!" The guard leader reprimanded the man, and he shrunk in fear and didn't dare to talk anymore.
Zhou Yang and other cultivators who came to the mortal city for the first time were very curious and looked around the city. They felt that this place was similar to the city in Xiujie, except that the buildings were slightly smaller, but the streets were wide and there were many pedestrians.
The ground is mostly paved with bluestone, and there are many shops on both sides. However, they do not sell various cultivation materials, but daily necessities used by mortals.
There are teahouses, restaurants and stalls in the city, and they also found a gambling house and two brothels.
It's sunset now, and most other shops are closed. The lights on the streets are all restaurants, gambling houses and romantic places. Of course, there are also inns.
And their current goal is the inn.
After walking along the street for a while, I saw two huge lanterns in the distance. One lantern had the word Yuntong on it, and the other lantern had the word inn on it. But it was "Yuntong Inn".
When the innkeeper saw so many people arriving, his eyes narrowed with laughter, and he hurriedly stepped forward to greet them in person. Although he was a little curious about the attire of these people, no matter where they were, they were here to stay at his place. , I am a guest from afar, just treat me well and I will make money.
"Each person will go to the same room." Song Laohu said expressionlessly.
"Okay, gentlemen, please come back! Waiter, what are you waiting for? Why don't you wait for me!" The shopkeeper responded, and hurriedly asked the waiter to put the horses of the group in place, and then personally moved everyone to the upstairs behind.
"Dear guests, do you still want to eat?" The shopkeeper led the way diligently and turned back to Song Laohu.
"Okay, let's serve a table with the delicious dishes you specialize in here, and ten jars of fine wine." Tiger ordered, and handed the shopkeeper two more silver ingots, a total of twenty taels.
These gold and silver are the currency of the mortal kingdom, and they are valuable things, but they are worthless to cultivators.
"Thank you sir, I'll get it done right away!" When the shopkeeper saw this, he immediately burst into laughter. After arranging rooms for everyone, he immediately trotted off to buy food and drinks.
After only waiting for a stick of incense, the waiter placed the food and wine one after another, and everyone gathered around the tiger's guest room to eat and drink.
"Not bad, not bad." Tie Hu praised while eating, because the dishes made by these mortals were no worse than the ones they ate in Anping City, and they tasted very good.
Of course, it was still much worse than Song Huhu’s Fengfeng Banquet.
Zhou Yang also tasted the dishes on the table carefully. Not to mention, they were red, green, meaty and vegetarian, and they tasted really good. He couldn't help but move his fingers, and he felt very happy eating.
After tasting the delicacies of the mortal world, everyone dispersed to rest.
Zhou Yang was sitting cross-legged in the guest room, not meditating. The mortal world is the mortal world, and the spiritual energy here is extremely thin and not suitable for practitioners to practice at all.
He was rummaging through the jade slips in his storage bag.
As early as when he was slaughtering Yan, Zhong Pengfei got him hundreds of volumes of Ziyuanzong classics, covering a wide range of topics. He wanted to find some records about the mortal country.
He didn't care about these things before, but now that he has come to the mortal country, he has to understand the situation and customs of this place. However, this requires some effort, and one has to sink into the spiritual consciousness to explore piece by piece.
Because some classics do not only record one kind of event, but may record several events at once, so you need to look them up one by one.
Fortunately, hard work paid off, and after going through hundreds of jade slips, Zhou Yang finally found a record about the mortal kingdom in northern Hezhou.
This chronicle jade slip records in detail the mortal area in the northern part of Hezhou, and of course also includes the conditions of the mortal countries in the ten cities in the far north.
In the northern part of the Hezhou continent, there are three thousand main cities of the cultivation world, and there are tens of thousands of affiliated cities and small towns. Beyond the thin spiritual energy, there is a mortal country. The total number of zero and zero totals is one hundred thousand, and the population is extremely large. It is much larger than the number of cultivators.
The specific number of mortals is not recorded in the jade slips, but it must be a terrifying number.
Although there are many mortal countries, they are relatively concentrated and occupy a much smaller area than the Cultivation City.
Take the ten cities in the far north of Hezhou as an example. Within the ten cities is only the middle area of Dingbei City. There are twenty-five mortal countries, which belong to three boundary-building cities. Among them, each faction in Dingbei has thirteen, which is the largest number of mortal subjects among the three cities.
Tongzhou Commercial Bank has the most mortal countries among the Dingbei factions, reaching six. Among them, the country where Meng Siquan inspected and left a message to the prince was called the Dashun Dynasty.
The prince who was at a disadvantage in the competition between uncle and nephew has long since passed away, and the current emperor is his grandson.
Zhou Yang is currently located in one of the two mortal kingdoms of Zhou Tianzong, named Jincheng Kingdom, and the other is Fengcang Kingdom, adjacent to Jincheng Kingdom.
