After Lu Cheng's soul came to the Yuaniao Realm, he used the newly practiced soul fusion method to completely merge with Lu You's soul, and then separated it again, releasing Guan Sangyue from the small world, and his true soul returned.
Before leaving, he left 10 drops of the essence of the mountains and rivers to Lu You. These essences of the mountains and rivers were all obtained by Lu Chan by selling gold objects in the First Bird Realm. The concentration of spiritual energy in the First Bird Realm is much higher than that in the Yuaniao Realm. The Yuaniao Realm is the first place developed by humans, so its spiritual energy is almost exhausted, and it is difficult to find the essence of mountains and rivers here.
After the fusion of soul and soul, Lu You has all the memories and emotions of Lu Cheng. This is a complete clone. Except for the slightly lower skill, it is no different from the original body.
In recent years, his realm has also improved. He has reached the fifth level of Tianwu, and his ability to protect himself has improved a lot.
He and Guan Sangyue walked together in the world, and he no longer felt lonely.
Both of them are "celestial monks", equivalent to the Yuanying and Buxu levels of the Immortal family. They are still young in appearance, and their bodies are full of vitality. Love needs to be constantly recharged. It doesn’t mean that once you reach a certain level of cultivation, you will become bored with watching it. Even if we treat each other as guests, we still need to make eye contact, which is better than being alone thousands of miles apart.
At this time, the Bashu area was still relatively sparsely populated. There are primeval forests everywhere, and there are wild beasts and monsters in the forest, but these monsters cannot pose a threat to them.
The road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky. At this time, there is no plank road from Bashu to Hanzhong. If people from Bashu want to go out, most of them go along the Yangtze River. Taking a boat is not an option. Due to the lack of shipbuilding technology, the water in the Yangtze River is so strong that the boat will capsize if not careful.
Fortunately, there are still monks at this time. The path that is difficult for ordinary people is not difficult for monks. Monks can climb mountains and ridges, and control the wind and sky.
Lu You and Guan Sangyue wore the sky-shielding talisman and did not want to show off their full power to avoid being suppressed by the Witch King, so instead of riding the wind and flying in the air, they took steps and climbed mountains and ridges honestly.
According to Lu You's judgment, in addition to witch kings like Han Yun, there are also foreign shaman kings like the wood god Jumang in this world. There may even be the fire god Jumang, the water god Gonggong, and the golden god Lushao. A peak wizard king might come here. Otherwise, there would be no catalog of tombs and cairns in later generations.
Ju Mang took Bao Kuang and tore apart time and space to come to the Yuaniao Realm. This so-called "Yuaniao Realm" should be the ancient earth. Because of this, his tomb would not be discovered in Wulian County until thousands of years later.
Since there is a top witch king like Gou Mang here, Lu You and Guan Sangyue can only travel carefully, not daring to make any mistakes.
Although Lu You avoided Jumang who stayed on the seashore in the east, he still remembered the tombs of Lingshou and Gonggong found at the source of Sanjiang River in the west, which was not very far from Bashu.
Lu You stood on a high mountain, opened his third eye and looked around.
His spiritual consciousness is already four thousand miles wide. It is like a high-power radar that can scan everything around him. However, the scanning of spiritual consciousness is proactive. Once it touches a figure at the level of the Witch King, it may cause people to panic. If he reacts violently, he might kill him!
Therefore, he did not release his spiritual consciousness, but used his third eye to observe. Human eyes can either actively scan or passively receive. Active scanning requires the use of spiritual consciousness and can see far away; passive reception does not require the use of spiritual consciousness. Even if you stand on the top of a mountain, you can only see two hundred miles away.
He used a "semi-active scanning" method to see within nine hundred miles of his surroundings.
Nine hundred miles of spiritual consciousness is still at the peak of the spiritual witch, and cannot even reach the elementary level of the celestial witch, so it will not attract the attention of people at the level of the Witch King. This can also be regarded as a way of keeping a low profile.
Lu You looked at the distance with a radius of nine hundred miles, and then went to a place with Guan Sangyue. Walking all the way down in this way, we quickly walked around the Bashu region.
Finally he found the "Silkworm Bush".
"Cancong" does not refer to just one person, but to an entire clan called "Cancong clan". The leader of this clan, the person with the highest skill, is called "Cancong" by the world.
The generation of "Silkworm Cong" that Lu You and Guan Sangyue found was not particularly powerful. He was just a second-level celestial witch.
Because the spiritual energy is gradually declining
Because of this, it is becoming increasingly difficult for monks in the Yuaniao Realm to become Heavenly Witches and Heavenly Martial Masters. Only major clans that have some elixirs that have been treasured for many years, or occupy places with spiritual veins, can cultivate "Celestial Level Monks" ”. And figures like the Little Witch Emperor Dayi were all old guys who had been practicing for who knows how many years. At that time, their spiritual energy had not yet collapsed.
"Silkworm Cong" is a sericulture expert. His eyes protrude forward like a crab, his hair is combed into a "vertebral bun" on the back of his head, and his clothes are crossed to the left.
Seeing this man, Lu You remembered the bronze Zongmu statue unearthed in Sanxingdui in later generations. It's just that the eyes of "Silkworm Cong" don't protrude so much. The bronze vertical-eyed statue is the result of artistic processing.
The "Cancong Clan" is a closed clan. As outsiders, Lu You and Guan Sangyue did not go directly to contact this group of people. Instead, they built wooden houses on the mountains dozens of miles away and lived in them, observing from a long distance. them.
Sometimes, members of the Cancong clan come over to the mountains to pick wild fruits and mushrooms. They happen to meet Lu You and Guan Sangyue, and they can chat with each other for a few words.
Gradually, Lu You learned that the reason why Cancong had "Zongmu" was the result of practicing a certain skill. The deeper the skill, the more prominent his eyes were. Through "Zongmu" combined with the annual big sacrifice in the clan, he could communicate with God and see some strange things. scene.
A few months later, in the crisp autumn weather, Lu You and Guan Sangyue came down from the mountain and followed a clan member of the Cancong clan to visit the "young master" of the Cancong clan. This man was named "Canming" and was the son of the clan leader Cancong.
Lu You said that he was a merchant who came over the mountains from the east. He brought some shell coins and spirit grains with him, and wanted to do business with the Cancong family in exchange for some silk or other rare items.
At the beginning, Can Ming didn't pay too much attention. He had seen many traveling merchants like this, and they were often spiritual warriors who had the ability to cross mountains and ridges.
He asked the tribesmen to bring silk and woven brocade, and exchanged spiritual grains and shell coins with Lu You. Unexpectedly, Lu You ate as much as he brought out. He took out all the inventory he had for many years, but still couldn't satisfy the other party's appetite.
And at this time, Lu You took out a few more tungsten-cobalt alloy instruments made by "Quancheng Knife Factory", which immediately attracted the attention of Canming and the rest of the Cancong clan, making them very eager.
The Cancong clan is a clan that is good at raising silkworms. They can only make bronze wares, not even iron wares, let alone hard tungsten-cobalt alloys. Moreover, the swords are also engraved with runes. Such swords have a beautiful luster. There was no flaw from head to toe, making Can Ming and others unable to put it down.
Can Ming told Lu You: "You are here by chance. My father has been in seclusion for the past two days and will not come out until the Mid-Autumn Festival. All the treasures in the clan are in my father's hands, so please wait for a while."
He bargained further with Lu You and finally settled on a price, allowing Lu You and Guan Sangyue to live nearby. At the same time, he urged the tribe to raise silkworms and spin silk, and collected silk from tribesmen living far away. Even so, it was not enough, so we could only wait for the clan leader, Cancong, to come out of seclusion.
