It was really hard to walk in the wind and snow for more than a hundred miles.
The young disciples whose cultivation was insufficient all turned blue from the cold and were trembling all over. The older "senior brothers" were all cursing and very dissatisfied.
Fortunately, everyone has good cultivation and can travel much faster than ordinary people. More than a hundred miles can be covered in one day.
By dusk, a huge city appeared on the ground in front of them.
This city was built on a large mountain, or in other words, the entire mountain was the city.
Buildings one after another are stacked like steps, with a total of nine floors built around the mountain. This is the "Haoyang City" of Dafang City of the Haoyang Immortal Sect.
Haoyang City is not within the scope of the sect's mountain protection formation, and every building in the city is also covered with snow.
It's not that the mountain-protecting formation cannot cover Haoyang City, but that it is deliberately not covered by the mountain-protecting formation.
After all, this is a small market, used to do business with various sects, various cultivating families, and various casual cultivators. You have covered the sect's mountain-protecting formation here, and life and death are all under your control. Who dares to do business?
Looking from a distance, Haoyang City looked very lively.
In the sky, a huge flying boat crashed through the clouds, causing a "rumbling" sound to break through the sky, and landed at the airport terminal outside Haoyang City.
In mid-air, cloud carts, mechanical beasts of different shapes, and spiritual birds, either carrying people or pulling goods, whizzed past through the wind and snow.
Occasionally, we can see some practitioners flying in the sky on clouds or flying with swords, passing by in the air.
On the ground, groups of monks, driving pack animals or driving trucks, came and went.
This style of painting is just right!
The scene in front of him looked a bit like the "immortal world" in Xu Ke's imagination.
Xu Ke secretly sighed, as expected, the "Hedongfang" where I am is just a rural place, where people are working hard to farm, but now it has a normal style in the spiritual world.
"Haoyang City is ahead, we'll be there soon."
At this time, the skinny old man Liu Yongtian stopped, turned to look at everyone, and said: "Everyone cheer up, tidy up your clothes, and show off your appearance. When you enter the city, you don't want to be regarded as a beggar, do you? , move!”
After hearing Fang Zheng's words, a group of young disciples arranged their clothes one after another. Xu Ke even used a cleansing spell on himself to clean the mud spots on his clothes and shoes.
Those "senior brothers" didn't seem to care at all. They just shook their clothes casually a few times and dealt with it. They didn't seem to care at all about whether they were embarrassed or not.
Xu Ke also understood this.
These "senior brothers" are all in their fifties or sixties. They have been stuck in the early stages of Qi training for decades and have been unable to break through. They have no future at all and are just dawdling around.
For them, the path of cultivation in this life ends here. Sect assessments and promotion positions are completely meaningless to them.
They just want to accumulate some spiritual stones, exchange them for some cultivation resources and practice skills, and when they reach the age of eighty, they will "resign their old age and return home" to the sect.
Practitioners in the Qi training stage have a lifespan of one hundred and fifty years. This is also the limit of lifespan that mortals can achieve. Even if their cultivation level is not that good, they are still nourished by spiritual power. As long as they are properly maintained, it will not be a problem to live for another few decades.
Return to your hometown with the accumulated spiritual stones, cultivation resources and exchanged skills, get married and have children, establish a family, and go to the mortal world to enjoy wealth and wealth. This is the only pursuit of life for "senior brothers" from now on.
Almost all the large and small cultivating families on the periphery of Haoyang Immortal Sect came from this way.
So... they are already in bad shape, why do they need to be made bad?
Fangzheng Liu Yongtian didn't say anything about the "senior brothers"'s coping style. He himself almost had the same mentality of caring for the elderly, so what else could he say?
"Set off!"
With a wave of his hand, Fangzheng Liu Yongtian led a group of rabble towards Haoyang City.
After entering the city, Xu Ke felt the prosperity of Haoyang City more clearly.
Pedestrians and merchants come and go on the road, and various shops line the roadside. Xu Ke even saw several places like the "Chunfeng Tower" that Xu Ke had heard about for a long time.
"This is the Chunfeng Tower of Hehuan Sect."
"This is the Yunyan Pavilion of the Maiden Sect."
"This is... uh, bah, this is Mr. Bai's shop, and it's full of rabbits!"
Along the way, Senior Brother Wang introduced Xu Ke excitedly.
This made Xu Ke couldn't help but sigh: The service industry in the spiritual practice world is so developed!
There are nine floors in Haoyang City. The first floor is the trading market, which is completely open to the outside world. As long as there is no hostile relationship, any sect, any family, and any individual can do business on the first floor.
The second to ninth floors are the various industrial institutions of Haoyang Immortal Sect. For example: Sinong Hall, Talisman Hall, Danding Hall, Foundry Hall, etc., as well as the workshops under each hall, such as Talisman Paper Workshop, Lingmo Workshop, Lingjiu Workshop, etc.
Of course, these sect industries set up in Haoyang City can only produce mid- to low-end products, which are suitable for the two stages of Qi training and foundation building.
As for the high-end industries, the resource output that can be used for Jindan Zhenren's cultivation is all placed in the sect's residence "Haoyang Mountain".
The Sinong Palace that Xu Ke and others are going to is on the second floor of Haoyang City.
Although it is said that "the ranking is in no particular order", in fact, the Sinong Palace, which is ranked on the second floor, is considered to be the bottom among all the palaces and institutions of the Haoyang Immortal Sect.
As we all know, agricultural output value is never as good as industrial output value. How much money can a farmer earn for the sect?
Pass through the urban area on the first floor and enter the Sinong Hall on the second floor.
After entering the area under the jurisdiction of the Sinong Hall on the second floor, Fengxue was isolated by the formation.
This is not the sect's mountain-protecting formation, but the formation arranged by the Sinong Palace. Its main function is not protection, but insulation and moisture-proofing to protect various "agricultural products" stored in the warehouse.
For Xu Ke and his party, the biggest benefit of this array is that they don't have to be exposed to the wind and cold.
Walking into the area under the jurisdiction of Sinong Hall, Xu Ke saw that this area was not small, but there were not many shops. Most of the buildings were used as "warehouses" to store spiritual rice, spiritual tea, spiritual fruits, spiritual vegetables, and spiritual spirits. "Agricultural products" such as medicine.
In addition, there are two workshops here, one is the Lingjiu Workshop and the other is the Lingtea Workshop.
It is said that the Royal Beast Hall used to belong to the Sinong Hall. It was not originally called the Royal Beast Hall, but the Animal Husbandry. Later, for some reason, they split off and changed their name to Yushou Hall.
In addition, Sinong Hall originally had a Talisman Paper Workshop and a Pharmaceutical Workshop, but they were also taken over by the Talisman Hall and the Alchemy Hall respectively.
All this news came from senior brother Wang's gossip with Xu Ke along the way.
From this point of view, Sinong Palace's status in the sect is really low, and it seems that anyone can bully him.
Xu Ke suddenly felt that as a serving disciple of the Sinong Palace, he might not be so popular in the sect's large circle.
Of course, the road must be walked step by step, and we cannot aim too high.
Let’s talk about being promoted to the serving disciple of Si Nong Hall first!
