"Brother, how could this happen? We...were we wrong? There are no people here at all. The books left by our ancestors and the fairy mountains overseas are all lies. There are no immortals at all."
"We can't find the immortal, we can't learn the skills, and we can't take revenge."
The girl with a delicate appearance and a hesitant look said.
"No, there will definitely be." The twelve or thirteen-year-old boy said, his tone full of determination and his eyes full of hatred.
Li Dai was surprised when she heard their conversation. She didn't expect that most people in the world outside the barrier had never heard of cultivators. Instead, they were full of fascination, thinking that there were fairy mountains overseas, where immortals lived.
Li Dai didn't take it seriously. It's normal if you think about it carefully. After all, this endless river is like the sea. It would be impossible for ordinary people to cross it in three to five years, so they regard it as a sea. make sense.
The end of the "overseas" is indeed the world of cultivation, but there is a barrier between the world of cultivation and the outside world, so people here cannot know the existence of the monks without special channels.
But there are no complete exceptions. For example, the old Taoist friend Qu Shiyou helped, and the ancestors mentioned by the young man and woman aged 12 or 13, were both monks. The ancestors were still given to the young people. That is to say, his descendants left a few words about the monks, the "immortals" in their mouths. Therefore, after their family was destroyed, the two children were protected and escaped. They wanted to find someone in the fairy mountains overseas. , learn skills, and then take revenge.
It was just a brief conversation between the two, and Li Dai analyzed all their situations. For these two children, Li Dai didn't know exactly how tragic the hatred of genocide they had experienced, but with such a mentality to cultivate, it must be fate. It is not easy to get carried away, and it is difficult to succeed.
Unless they have achieved success in cultivation and come back to kill mortals for revenge, one of the more deceiving things about monks is that once they become monks, no matter what grudges they have had in the past, they are no longer allowed to attack mortals or interfere in their affairs.
Otherwise, it will be easy to get entangled in bad karma and sow new karma.
Therefore, Li Dai had no intention of leading the two of them through the door. If they could pass through the barrier and find the world of cultivation with their own luck, it would be a kind of fate, and Li Dai would not interfere.
Therefore, Li Dai, who understood everything clearly, planned to bypass the two of them and go directly. With her speed, she didn't want them to see her and she would be completely invisible.
It’s just that the plan couldn’t keep up with the change. When Li Dai was five kilometers southwest of the two of them, the river suddenly boiled, and a huge demonic aura rushed straight towards him. The demonic aura was obviously evil and it was not normal. It is made through cultivation of means.
As the demon churned and stirred in the water, the misty rolling river suddenly boiled like a tsunami. Before the two young children had time to react, before they had time to be shocked and frightened, they were swept up by the ruthless boiling river water. It turned over and was swept into the river that was like boiling water.
Li Dai frowned. Two mortal children were about to die in front of her. They were captured by the evil monster in the water. It was obvious that they wanted to drain the vitality of the two young boys and girls. If she let it go, not only would it not be in harmony with her Taoism, but also The evil monster in the water, Zhu Zhou, continues to kill people, and I don’t know how many more people will suffer by then.
This place is separated from the real world of fellow cultivators. If ordinary monks have something to do, they will run to the main place where mortals live. It is not known how long it will take to meet the next monk to clean it up.
Maybe decades, maybe hundreds, maybe thousands.
Such a long time is enough for this little demon to become powerful, and in such a long time, more and more people will be killed by it. Although there will not be many people coming up from the river, it is not none.
When the evil demon grows to a certain extent, it can leave the water. The transformed evil demon that lands on the shore is a terrible disaster, an unimaginable disaster for a place where almost all mortals are here.
So Li Dai instantly understood the relationship in her mind and took action without hesitation.
But as soon as she took action, the evil demon was not slow to do so. As soon as the two young men and women were swallowed up and submerged by the ferocious river water, the river water that seemed to have fangs came towards Li Dai to cover them.
Li Dai narrowed her eyes, and she was determined to attack the evil monster in the water. She didn't expect that this ferocious monster had no intention of letting go of her 'fat', and seemed so... impatient.
fair enough!
Li Dai narrowed her eyes, and her gaze became even colder and serious. She pulled out the silk ribbon with her hand and flicked it. With the dozens of meters of white silk ribbon as the center, Li Dai stirred it up, and the surrounding hundreds of miles of river water formed a huge whirlpool, leading directly to evil spirits. Demon lair.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the scene at this moment is like a fairy from heaven.
The young men and women who were pulled out by the long silk silk saw this scene as soon as they were rescued. They opened their mouths in shock. The girl who was only about ten years old screamed excitedly:
"Brother, brother, it's the god of the sea. The god has come to save us."
And when the loose white silk ribbon fell, revealing Li Dai's hidden face, the two young men and women were completely stunned and speechless.
Gods... fairies are so beautiful.
Li Dai didn't pay much attention to the expressions of the two babies. In her eyes, the babies in their early ten years were just two children. Although she was also young, as a cultivator, she was less than a hundred years old, and she was still a young female cultivator who couldn't be more tender. But from a mortal perspective, she is already a grandmother at the age of seventy-one, so it is easy for her to get involved. She looks at young people who are not practicing as if they are children.
Of course, if they embark on the path of cultivation, Li Dai will naturally treat them with a monk's attitude, seeing that they may be juniors, but they will not treat them like children, and will not have extra softness and sympathy.
To deal with the clam monster in the water, which had only just completed its cultivation, Li Dai didn't put in much effort at all. As soon as the ordinary silk came out, the clam monster showed its prototype, rolling in pain in the air and begging for mercy.
Li Dai saw that the whole body of the clam was filled with blood and black aura, and she didn't give it a chance to argue. She wrapped the long white silk around it and used her spiritual power. The little clam demon had no power to resist and screamed in agony. , and finally annihilated in ashes.
The two and a half-year-old children were stunned by such a clean and neat magical method. They even completely forgot that they were still tied up by Li Dai's other white silk and hung in mid-air.
Li Dai didn't even look at the shocked and surprised eyes of the two little ones. She stretched out her finger and pulled towards the rolling river surface. The deep river water, which was boiling fiercely just now, parted to both sides like obedient guards. Deep down, the boat the young man and woman were riding floated. Li Dai flicked the boat and the two children were sent back to the boat. By the way, Li Dai also threw a simple barrier around the outside of their boat. The two of them rowed over to say something, but Li Dai's figure flashed like smoke and disappeared.
For Li Dai, having achieved this step, she has already lived up to her Taoist heart. Even though she knew that the brother and sister had a blood feud and were dedicated to seeking Taoism, Li Dai had no intention of meddling in other people's affairs and leading them into Taoism. Throwing a ship barrier to them is also to ensure that they can survive on this endless river. If they encounter any monster, they will at least have a glimmer of hope and will not be completely passive and defenseless.
As for whether they can break through the barrier and find their own destiny on the other side of the world of cultivation, that depends on their own destiny.
There are so many unfortunate people in the world. If she had to meddle in everything, not only would it be easy for her to get involved in the cause and effect, but she wouldn't be able to control so much.
So here it goes!
She has never forgotten the purpose of her coming out, which is to find the son of a good friend and decide his life, someone who has some relationship with her. When she finds someone, she will ask him about his wishes. If the child wants to say, She could be the guide.
The son of a friend and the son of a stranger are naturally treated differently.
At the beginning, although Qu Shiyou categorically stopped the child's cultivation path because of his congenital physical damage and poor aptitude, and made a decision for him to let him be an ordinary person, but at that time the child was only three years old and could not do anything. I don't know, and the parents' decision cannot be changed. Now that the child is thirteen years old, he is a young adult with his own thoughts. If he really wants to practice, Li Dai will not stop him.
What's more, even if it was Qu Shiyou, she would have followed the child's wishes if she were here.
Not to mention that, Li Dai took out a piece of hair, activated it based on the blood induction on the hair, and headed in the direction pointed by the hair.
This hair was specially left for her by Qu Shiyou. It was left under the maple tree outside her cave that had enlightened the mind. He bought a small jade bottle and buried the hair under the special maple tree. Li Dai found it without much effort.
But judging from the breath guided by this hair, it seemed that it was still a little far away. Li Dai couldn't help but speed up the driving speed on the vast river.
As for the two people on the other side who were saved by her, they turned around and were completely forgotten. Of course, Li Dai forgot about the two mortal brothers and sisters, but they would not forget Li Dai's heroic appearance as an immortal, which made them even more determined. The existence of immortals is to find the fairyland.
They long to be as powerful as Li Dai, long to become a peerless immortal like Li Dai, long to...
The two people who are committed to the path of immortality have not yet entered the world of cultivation, because Li Dai has strengthened their determination to embark on this path. Many years later, even though they have understood that monks cannot withstand any real immortals, Li Dai Dai's fairy-like image also took root in their hearts, and they kept chasing her in corners unknown to Li Dai.
Speaking of which, their life experience is indeed a bit tragic. Their family members have been good people for generations. Although they are engaged in business and are the richest man in the Dajing Dynasty, there is not much money left at all. All of it is lost to them. My father used it to help the poor people. The rulers of the Dajing Dynasty were incompetent and greedy for money. The people were in dire straits and kept fighting among themselves. The Huns from the north kept attacking and provoking wars, but the ruler only cared about beauty and enjoyment. In order to give him In the Beauty Training Palace, in order to avoid defeat, the ruler charged their family members with the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and the whole family was executed. If they hadn't been secretly exchanged for their own children by loyal servants, and then pretended to be beggars after they came out, they were killed by their father. An old man who was a carpenter who had been rescued saved them and got them a boat so that they could escape. I'm afraid they would have died long ago.
As mortals, they are really lucky. Because of their family heritage, they are constantly rescued when they encounter danger. They were even lucky enough to meet Li Dai, because Li Dai casually created a barrier to save two people with no cultivation at all. Many lives were saved.
They had passed through the barrier in a daze, and they did not encounter any monsters as Li Dai thought. Instead, they were new monks. They encountered several evil cultivators, all of whom were interested in their bodies. Pure people who had not practiced before Yin and pure yang physiques are the top furnaces, and evil cultivators will naturally not let them go.
But precisely because of the barrier Li Dai threw on the boat, they were rescued by the upright monks, and Li Dai didn't know this.
Of course, because she did not investigate deliberately, Li Dai was busy dealing with the clam demon and did not discover the special physique of the two people, otherwise she might have made an exception.
After all, Li Dai likes to study special physiques.
Not to mention the near miss between the two Fu brothers and sisters, after Li Dai speeded up, she was out of the river and arrived at the landing port in half a day.
Judging from the length of the river, ordinary people need to row to the monks' barrier, which is a full 30,000 miles away. It took Li Dai a few days to get out. The two brothers and sisters had to reach the end, the end of the fairy mountain they said. , I’m afraid it will take several years.
I have to say, thinking about it this way, those two children are indeed very perseverant.
Not to mention those things, after Li Dai got into the river, she covered her face with a veil, an impervious kind, so that when mortals stared at her and saw her, they would not fall into the river and fall into the river.
After entering this coastal place that calls itself the Dajing Dynasty and is said to be relatively developed, Li Dai didn't notice anything strange at first. She just paid a couple of silver to enter the city, and Li Dai frowned slightly.
Although she is a monk and doesn't know much about the actual prices of things for mortals, is the entry fee of one tael too expensive?
Fortunately, when she had not started practicing, she had collected a lot of gold and silver, and even more money, so she only doubted it for a moment and didn't think much about it.
Li Dai could feel the lingering breath coming from her hair. Knowing that her friend's son was relatively far away and safe, she didn't rush on her way anymore. In this coastal city, she had better ask around first to see if she could hear anything. Got any useful news.
However, just after Li Dai's floating figure entered the city, there was a commotion behind him, and then there were sounds of beatings and shouts for help.
Li Dai turned around and saw a large number of scantily clad and skinny refugees pouring out of the city gate.
They were ancient refugees in the true sense. They were all sallow and skinny, and they seemed to be rushing in frantically just to get into the city.
"Hurry, stop, and kill anyone who resists!" The leading soldier who defended the city reacted and immediately gave the order. Then there was the sound of a group of city gate guards drawing their swords to kill, one after another, without mercy, harvesting those crazy and desperate people. life.
Li Dai's eyes darkened, and she wanted to walk over, but was suddenly pulled back by an old man who was carrying a load of goods. He said seriously:
"Little girl, you have a good heart, but don't meddle in other people's business. If you are killed as a refugee, you will lose more than you gain."
Li Dai tightened her mouth, not looking at the screams in the Shura field, not looking at the blood that dyed the city gate red at that moment, her heart was boiling. At this time, Li Dai actually hated the idea that monks should not interfere with mortal matters. An ironclad rule.
Li Dai took a deep breath and remembered the ferocious looks of the gatekeepers. She turned to look at the old man of the family who was sighing, "What on earth is going on?" Isn't this coastal sand city one of the most prosperous cities in the Dajing Dynasty? Why are there so many refugees who look like they are starving to death?
"Hey." The old man sighed again, "It's all caused by these troubled times." As he said that, he suddenly covered his mouth, as if he was afraid of leaking something, and looked at the front where refugees were still being killed. The city guard breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that they didn't notice him.
Then he whispered to Li Dai: "The little girl is not like me, who is from the Dajing Dynasty. It is not safe for you to be alone outside. Don't be like my little granddaughter... Hey, let's not talk about that. Little girl, if you don't dislike it, first Go and stay at my old man’s house. In this case, except for those officers and soldiers, other bandits will not dare to do anything to decent citizens with status.”
"After all, we still need the money that we pay every year."
Li Dai didn't feel any malice from her, and as a local, he should know more because he was older, so Li Dai nodded without much hesitation and followed the cargo bearer back.
As soon as Li Dai left, the gangsters who had been staring at Li Dai gave up their intention of robbing Li Dai and selling her.
Nowadays, the rulers are corrupt and need a large number of businessmen to provide money. Therefore, even if there are many refugees and gangsters, businessmen cannot rob them. Robbing them is equivalent to robbing the ruler's money, and he will not live.
This is indeed the case. Since the ruler robbed the Fu family, the richest man in the Dajing Dynasty, three years ago, other businessmen were frightened and almost immediately took out all the money of their families, free of charge. His house was confiscated again, and because of this, all the money the businessman earned, except for his own food and living expenses, was donated to the government.
In this way, no one but officers and soldiers would dare to bully business people, large or small.
This is also ridiculous and has a funny reason. Therefore, if Li Dairuo becomes a person under the protection of a merchant family, no one is really bold enough to look for trouble.
And Li Dai left with the old salesman, which explained everything.
Of course, Li Dai was completely unaware of the twists and turns involved.
