In the end, Shu Guan did not subsidize a Forgotten Talisman for Mr. Tan. It had been a long time since the incident, and it was meaningless to post a Forgotten Talisman now.
Moreover, Young Master Tan is indeed a very sensible person, especially today's matter was handled very sensibly, which saved them a lot of trouble.
So before leaving, Shu Guan even said a sincere thank you to Young Master Tan, scaring the dignified son of the mayor of Jingcheng City so much that he stood there for a long time and couldn't recover.
For the five disciples of the Seven Immortals Alliance, what happened at Jinfulou was just an episode in their search mission.
In fact, this kind of episode in Jinfu Tower was not the only one they encountered.
For example, one time, they met a family going to a funeral, but the dead man mutated into a corpse on the way. If they hadn't happened to pass by, that family might have died at that time.
Another time, they met a group of prostitutes who were running around in the world. However, they were actually using juggling as a cover-up, but in fact they were exploring the market and committing burglaries in the middle of the night.
The leader of the group of people selling solutions is actually a practitioner. His strength is very low. He is only at the level of five or six Xiao Zhoutian in the Qi-entraining stage. He even only knows one Taoist technique, which is called Luosuo Technique. This group of selling people is a practitioner. People rely on this Taoist technique to travel around the world, staying in one place for five or six days at most. Nothing has ever happened before, but this time they were unlucky and were met by disciples of the Seven Immortals Alliance who were on a search mission.
In short, although after more than ten days of searching, they still did not find the hiding place of the men in black, they had solved a lot of other supernatural incidents.
And if we add in the supernatural things discovered by the first two batches of disciples during their searches, in the past few months, practitioners hiding in Jingcheng who had not been noticed by the Seven Immortals Alliance before have been found. Four or five.
When talking about these things, Yang Jianqing, Rui Jianqiao and Huiming, the three more senior disciples of the Seven Immortals Alliance, could not help but feel sad for a while, because their Seven Immortals Alliance now controls Jingcheng and even the entire Chuzhou cultivation world. The power is indeed getting weaker and weaker.
In the past, let alone thousands of years ago when the Seven Immortals Alliance was at its peak, even hundreds of years ago, there were actually things about practitioners that they didn't know about in places like this. It can't happen.
But now, next to the bed, there is only room for others to snore.
As for the reasons, one is because the power of Taoism is getting weaker and weaker, and it is difficult for powerful Fetal Movement Realm experts like Li Zhixia, Master Sanmu, and Su Jie to detect the situation in the entire Jing City.
Another more important reason is that the Great Dao is declining. There are fewer and fewer people who can practice it, and the number of disciples in their Seven Immortals Alliance is also getting smaller and smaller.
For example, Shan Si Guan had thirty-one disciples five hundred years ago. Even in Li Zhixia's generation, there were fifteen senior brothers. But now, the number of Shan Si Guan's disciples, excluding senior brothers, is only six. There are only eight people, even if we include the other two disciples that Li Zhixia took in but died in battle.
The situation at Guiyuan Temple is similar. Huiming, Nagarjuna and their generation only have seven disciples.
Yuelan Academy has a slightly larger number, but during this period, many people went crazy and died. Today, there are only one second-generation disciple.
Precisely because of the small number of people, it has become increasingly difficult to control and suppress the entire Jingcheng and even Chuzhou cultivation world.
"That's why there are those hidden places in Jing City."
Finally, Yang Jianqing sighed and said.
…
In the afternoon of this day, around five o'clock, Shu Guan and others came to a block away.
Looking around, this is a neighborhood dotted with low-rise wooden houses.
This block is not big, only about fifty or sixty acres of land, but in such a small place, there are countless wooden houses crowded like pigeon cages. It looks so dilapidated, chaotic, and dirty. There is a long wall surrounding the outside, leaving only a few doorways for entry and exit. The people who come out of it have empty eyes and numb expressions, like walking zombies who have long lost their passion for life.
This is a neighborhood where the poorest people at the lowest level in Jingcheng live together. Shu Guan has seen many such slums in Jingcheng, but every time he comes to such a place, he still feels a lot of discomfort in his heart. Feelings, some pity and sympathy, but also many more complex emotions.
At the intersection of this block, most of the green paint has peeled off, and on the colorful and dilapidated street signs are written a few vaguely legible words: Pig Cage Walled City.
This is the name of this neighborhood.
At this time, Shu Guan and the other five people were under the street sign, looking at the entrance of the Pig Leng Walled City opposite. The entrance was simply made of bamboo slices, and there were actually a few wintersweet plants planted outside the door.
It was March in spring, but a few wintersweet trees were blooming extremely beautifully, giving this dark and depressing neighborhood a bright color.
Looking at the wintersweet that bloomed in March, Shu Guan was thoughtful, and then thought of what Yang Jianqing had said.
"...And this kind of abnormal fluctuation of spiritual energy will often cause some strange phenomena to appear within the area affected by it, such as flowers and plants growing particularly lush... In short, they are some strange phenomena that you will notice as long as you pay attention to them. .”
The wintersweet blooming in March is naturally a strange phenomenon.
So far, Shuguan has only seen a similar vision once. When he was in Taoyuan Village, his second senior brother Mu Yao performed a Taoist spell in front of him, causing the osmanthus in his yard to bloom several months in advance.
It's just that although there are a few wintersweet trees that are still in full bloom in March not far away, standing here I don't feel any special fluctuations in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
So Shu Guan frowned slightly and looked at Third Senior Sister Rui Jianqiao.
At this time, Nagarjuna, like him, looked at his senior brother Huiming with confusion.
However, Yang Jianqing, Rui Jianqiao and Huiming looked the same.
As if he knew what Shu Guan was wondering about, Rui Jianqiao smiled, shook his head and said:
"Then the vision here is not that, but there is another reason."
Yang Jianqing also turned around and said:
"Yes, because this is the place of seclusion."
It turned out that this was a hidden place. Shu Guan once again looked up curiously at the chaotic and dilapidated neighborhood.
Now, he already knew what the Hidden Land meant, because Yang Jianqing had explained it to him and Long Shu in detail a few days ago.
The word "Yin Lun" has a special meaning in the world of cultivation. It also has another name, which is "Dun Jia".
Dunjia is a great path, in which moral principles are all-encompassing. Like the invisibility technique from which the invisibility talisman comes, it is just a minor skill in the great path of Dunjia.
Even if it is an invisibility technique, in fact, the true meaning of Tao is not just the body that needs to be hidden.
The so-called small hidden in the wild, the medium hidden in the city, the big hidden in the court cannot fully describe the Taoist meaning of invisibility.
When you practice invisibility to a high level, you are the one who is hidden.
You are hidden between heaven and earth, but no one knows your existence.
Among the seven immortal sects, the Tianyin Sect is the best at the art of invisibility. It is said that even the other six immortals still do not know the true identity of the Tianyin Sect leader.
Of course, these hidden places in Jingcheng have nothing to do with Tianmen, they just borrow the two names of "hidden places".
As for the Hidden Land, even their disciples from the Seven Immortals Alliance cannot easily set foot there.
Because there are also practitioners in the hidden land, some practitioners who live among ordinary people.
The original intention of the Seven Immortals Alliance was to continue the order of the practice world in the heavenly era, and to protect the return of immortals to immortality and the return of mortals to mortals.
Any practitioner who dares to violate this heavenly rule will be punished mercilessly.
However, the Seven Immortals Alliance will not pay attention to other practitioners who have not violated the heavenly rules. After all, they are not the original heaven, and they do not have the ability to govern all practitioners in heaven and earth.
But in the beginning, when the Seven Immortals Alliance was at its peak, there was no place of retreat in a big city like Jingcheng, especially where Shanmen, a branch of the Seven Immortals Alliance, was located. The practitioners at that time, Even if the Seven Immortals Alliance ignores them, they usually don't dare to do anything that would displease the Seven Immortals Alliance.
But two to three hundred years ago, this situation slowly changed. As the strength of the Seven Immortals Alliance gradually weakened, the respect of other practitioners for the Seven Immortals Alliance gradually decreased.
So the hidden place appeared.
There are some quite powerful practitioners in the Hidden Land. They promised the Seven Immortals Alliance that they would never violate heavenly rules, but the Seven Immortals Alliance disciples were not allowed to enter the areas they designated at will.
If we really want to subdue these cultivators who rule the world as kings, the Seven Immortals Alliance can do it, but the price will be very huge, and it is really not necessary.
Therefore, these hidden places and the Seven Immortals Alliance coexist in a tacit understanding, and the two do not disturb each other.
Of course, this is only if nothing serious happens.
"This time, the masters of our three major immortal sects have come forward and have negotiated with several hidden places. We can enter the hidden places, but there are two conditions."
"One is that you cannot stay for more than an hour, and the other is that after entering, you will only be able to search for the whereabouts of the men in black, but you will not be able to interfere with anything else in the Hidden Land."
While walking towards the Pig Cage Walled City opposite, Yang Jianqing explained to the others, and then said with regret:
"So our academy has obviously found some traces of the girl in Yinle City, a hidden place in Jiangyang, but because of the second condition, we still have to withdraw and stay in the hidden place. Extraterrestrial.”
Shu Guan's expression changed after hearing this, and he couldn't help but ask:
"Does that mean that after a practitioner breaks the rules of heaven, he only needs to hide in these secluded places and everything will be fine?"
"It can't be said that. When our Seven Immortals Alliance agreed to the existence of these hidden places, we also agreed that they would not protect practitioners who violated the laws of heaven."
"But unless we have clear evidence or know the specific hiding place of the cultivator in the Hidden Land, we can only seek permission from the host of the Hidden Land before we can go in and search for it. Not only is it troublesome, but it also depends on the location. The personality and temper of the host.”
While talking, the group finally arrived at the gate of the Pig Cage Walled City.
At the gate of the walled city, many people were coming in and out.
But Yang Jianqing did not walk in directly. Instead, he stopped in front of the gate and stood next to the blooming wintersweet trees.
Then everyone else stopped.
Shu Guan didn't ask anything, knowing that Yang Jianqing had his own intentions. His eyes fell on the wintersweet trees beside him. On the branches of the wintersweet trees, there were blooming bright red plum blossoms the size of copper coins, exuding a faint fragrance.
Then he saw the branches of several wintersweet trees, all of a sudden waving in the wind.
Shu Guan felt the slight changes in the spiritual energy between the petals.
The people inside should know they are coming.
And two or three minutes later, a figure walked out from the gate of the Pig Cage Walled City.
Of course, there were still people coming in and out at the gate, but the eyes of the five Seven Immortal Alliance disciples fell on one of the young men at the same time.
It was a young man who looked to be around 25 or 26 years old. He was wearing a jacket and bloomers and was dressed like a gangster.
As for appearance, he is not handsome at all. His facial features are a bit rough, and there is a lazy smile on the corner of his mouth, but it also reveals a bit of evil. His body is as strong as a cheetah, and his sleeves are rolled up high, revealing two pieces of bronze. With his strong arms, the whole person is full of a unique masculine charm.
With a cigarette in his mouth, the young man walked to the gate. He lowered his head, struck a match and lit it, then took a deep breath. Then he raised his head and glanced at Yang Jianqing. He glanced at Shu Guan and the others and spit out a Smoke ring after smoke ring.
They were extremely round smoke rings, and even though they grew rapidly in the air, they did not damage their regularity.
One inside another, from small to large, as if invisible sound waves were suddenly embodied.
Seeing this scene, Shu Guan suddenly felt admiration.
Because this is a unique skill that he has been practicing for a long time but has not been able to master.
"Rui Rui, last time I asked you to have tea with me, I had to wait there for a long time, but you broke the appointment. Shouldn't you give me an explanation today?"
The young man ignored the others, but said to Rui Jianqiao with a playful smile.
Rui Jianqiao glanced at him, then placed her delicate hands on the piano case, and a faint sword cry like a dragon's roar came from inside the piano case.
The young man's expression suddenly became serious.
"Don't be angry, Ruirui, I was just kidding."
"Okay, Nan Fei, can we go in?"
Yang Jianqing frowned, took a step forward and said something indifferently.
The evil young man he called Nan Fei glanced at Yang Jianqing with disgust and said:
"I'm most annoyed by the people in your academy. If it weren't for meeting Rui Rui, I wouldn't even bother to come out."
The young man leaned on the bamboo door, holding a cigarette in his hand and waved impatiently towards the inside of the walled city:
"Go in, remember the agreed terms, one hour, and find the person you are looking for, and don't mind other things inside."
"Everyone, be careful."
Yang Jianqing nodded to the others, and then walked towards the gate first.
Then Huiming and Nagarjuna entered side by side.
Nan Fei should also know Hui Ming. When Hui Ming passed by him, Nan Fei said with an evil smile:
"Monk Huiming, we have just opened a very nice Siam massage parlor in the walled city. Do you want to take you there to relax? Don't worry, your master's clairvoyance cannot see what happens in the walled city. What do you want to do? Nothing is a problem.”
Huiming answered honestly:
"The master can't see it, but the Buddha in the poor monk's heart can."
"Besides, the poor monk is just a bhikkhu, not a monk. Nanfei Donor must not call him anything he wants."
"Who can figure out those messy names you Buddhists use?"
Nan Fei flicked the ashes from his cigarette and muttered something noncommittal.
Longshu, who had already entered the door, immediately turned around and glared at Nan Fei fiercely.
"Hey, the little monk has a very cool face. Are you new to the temple? He is not very capable, but his temper is not bad. At first glance, he seems to be a man who can't escape and is obsessed with things."
Nan Fei chuckled.
If Huiming hadn't held Longshu back, Longshu might have pounced on him right now.
Then came Rui Jianqiao. Rui Jianqiao didn't even look at Nan Fei, but just walked in holding the piano case.
Nan Fei looked at Rui Jianqiao's slim back with a smile, whistled and shouted:
"Rui Rui, actually I like the way you can't take a joke."
Shu Guan, who was walking by him, stopped and stood in front of Nan Fei, looking straight at him.
"What are you looking at!"
Nan Fei blew a smoke ring into Shu Guan's face and said with a leisurely and contented expression.
Shu Guan smiled slightly at Nan Fei.
"You are the meanest person I have ever seen, so I am a little curious and want to take a closer look."
Then the smile on Shuguan's face disappeared, and his expression became extremely serious:
"Also, please stop making random jokes on my senior sister."
