The arrival of the Chamber of Commerce of All Nations did not cause too much trouble for the Xia Dynasty, and it was not even as good as the trouble caused by Yang Zhu.
To be more precise, only the master level has an impact.
Even a grandmaster needs to travel ten years. For ordinary people, it probably takes a lifetime. Even under the same sky, the distance can make people feel desperate.
Although the strange objects that Tao Shushan brought out were not recognized by the masters, his understanding of the fairy garden in the Buzhou Mountains was genuine.
Therefore, even if there is no intention to trade, the remaining masters are still hanging around him, trying to find out more information worthy of attention.
Adhering to the concept of benevolence and righteousness, even though no transaction was concluded, Tao Shushan was always kind and cheerful.
He seems to be a really good old man, he knows everything he knows, and he even gave him a map to the Buzhou Mountains - it was compiled by the Chamber of Commerce of All Nations along the way.
This made the masters who were quite suspicious of him feel a little ashamed. They never thought that he could be so easy to talk to.
Wang Mang saw that Tao Shushan was so aware of current affairs, so he still made a deal with him. The item he chose was not the Shengyan flower that had made him unable to take his eyes away, but the Anshen incense.
A Liuyun Chaiyue suit was exchanged for three soothing incense sticks.
One was given to Gu Dan, one was kept in the royal family, and the other was used by the masters when needed. As we all know, the incense does not have to be burned out in one go.
Among the many rare treasures that Tao Shushan took out, only this one is slightly more helpful to his practice. Even if it is not used now, it can be hidden as a treasure for the time being.
Gu Dan did not pester Tao Shushan like other masters and ask questions. Anyway, those questions asked by the masters would have been specially collected by someone, and it would be the same when we read them again.
At this time, in the small courtyard of the Gu family, Gu Dan and Qing Pingzi were sitting opposite each other.
"What do you think?"
Gu Dan asked first.
"What he said should be true."
A look of thought flashed in Qing Pingzi's eyes, but he still said: "There is an immortal court in the world. It's a pity that we have wasted here for more than forty years, but we didn't know that another place has begun to practice the immortal way!"
"You can't say that."
Gu Dan shook his head. He was not so concerned about gains and losses. On the contrary, he saw more clearly, "When the stars fell in the sky at night, no one knew where those meteorites would finally hit. If they fell into the vast sea, Wouldn’t it be a waste of decades of traveling in vain?”
"The truth is so true, but I learned that I wasted more than forty years."
Qing Pingzi's eyes were no longer as clear as before, but more gloomy. "It's still inevitable that people will regret it."
If he had directly pursued those meteorites, he would have started cultivating immortality long ago!
But Dayong's bone attracted his attention, and he was looking forward to the return of the immortal, so he stayed.
This stay almost cost me my life!
If he didn't vomit blood, it was considered that his Qi nourishing skills were in place.
"For more than forty years. There should be monks in the foundation-building realm in that place, right?"
Gu Dan said calmly.
The master of martial arts is probably at the same level as the qi training in the immortal way, stronger than the middle stage of qi training, and slightly worse than the late stage of qi training. However, the master has one more killer move that kills both, so it is considered a tie.
But there is still a way to go up the path of immortality, but the path of martial arts has been cut off.
There is no doubt that the foundation building is far better than the grandmaster, and the aura revealed in the Shang token in Tao Shushan's hand is undoubtedly better than the grandmaster by more than one step.
"It must be there."
Qing Pingzi nodded, "The realm of Qi training is not that difficult in the first place. It is the most common. Only after building the foundation can one truly embark on the path to immortality. Even if someone builds the foundation, there is no time for a hundred years without any help. Practicing with the treasures of heaven, materials and earth, if you want to achieve the golden elixir, it is just a fool's dream."
The Qi-refining stage cannot show the power of the Immortal Way at all. The monks at the bottom of the Qi-Refining Stage will exhaust their spiritual energy after casting a few spells. Only after building the foundation can they show some of the power of the Immortal Way.
It is a road that becomes more terrifying as it goes up.
Monks in the Qi training stage can only be registered disciples in some large sects. Only after successfully establishing the foundation can they truly join the sect and become the lowest disciple.
There is a saying that goes well, how dare you call yourself an immortal even if you practice qi?
Go back to the mortal world and play with the martial arts master!
Those who are truly capable cannot look forward to refining their qi for too long.
"Building the foundation."
Whispering these two words, Gu Dan narrowed his eyes slightly.
Grandmaster is equivalent to Qi training, but how does Grandmaster compare to foundation building?
It should be possible to touch it.
At least when the Shang token showed its aura, Gu Dan didn't feel much of a threat.
"With your strength, there shouldn't be much you can do as a foundation-building monk."
Qing Pingzi naturally understood what Gu Dan was thinking and said immediately.
What is really great about Gu Dan is not his cultivation, but his special healing method that can restore himself!
Even if the foundation-building monk fought with him, both sides would suffer losses. In an instant, he would be full of energy, and the foundation-building monk, who had lost more than half of his spiritual energy, could only do nothing.
In terms of long-term fighting, martial arts can undoubtedly kill the bottom monks of immortality.
As long as there are no golden elixir-level monks to take action, according to Qing Pingzi's calculation, Gu Dan is enough to run amok.
The martial arts are not that unbearable, and the bottom of the immortal path is not enough to despise all living beings.
"What's more, it's not like we can't practice immortality. Our previous martial arts training is considered the foundation of our lives and is not in vain."
Qingpingzi added.
The fighting power of a martial arts master is genuine. Even if you start to practice the immortal way, you don't need to abandon your martial arts cultivation. It's just that there is no way to go hand in hand.
"I know."
Gu Dan nodded lightly.
In normal practice, it is not really difficult to practice qi to build the foundation, but building the foundation further can easily take hundreds of years.
Within a hundred years, if the true immortal does not return, no one in the world will be able to threaten him.
Of course, Gu Dan couldn't just sit back and wait for others to surpass him with his strength in martial arts.
He has not wasted his time in these years, but has been sorting out the path of martial arts, studying the classics of his predecessors, and the martial arts experience he left behind when compiling "Shen Nong Baicao Jing Yao" is a summary of it.
In addition, the White Lotus Visualization Diagram is also practiced every day, and the soul has improved. His strength is no longer the same as before, but he has never had the opportunity to show it.
Now he is just in the process of accumulating. It would be ridiculous to think that he can't make any progress.
Even if there is a foundation in front of him, Gu Dan is confident that he can take it down.
"I'm ready to head to the Buzhou Mountains."
After the small talk, Qing Pingzi brought up business again.
"Um."
Gu Dan was not surprised.
Qing Pingzi didn't have any attachment to this place. He didn't even pay much attention to his two apprentices. He mainly wanted to be a laissez-faire person, and whether he could succeed or not was all up to him.
That is to say, Zou Dan and Zhuang Sheng fought hard and became masters. Those who didn't know thought that Qing Pingzi was such a powerful master.
However, there were also two grandmasters in Gu Dan's Gu family courtyard, and both of them received direct help from him. Their deeds were not inferior to Qing Pingzi's.
"You're not going?"
Gu Dan's reaction was calm, which surprised Qing Pingzi, "That is the path of immortality, and it is destined to be better than martial arts!"
"Of course I'll go."
Gu Dan said immediately: "But, maybe not now."
"The Xia Dynasty no longer needs your protection. Now the Xia Dynasty is the most powerful in the surrounding areas. There is no possibility of being bullied. What are you still doing here?"
Qing Pingzi was a little puzzled, "Isn't it natural to pursue a higher level of power?"
Gu Dan shook his head and did not answer.
But Qing Pingzi said again: "One life in the world of mortals only lasts a hundred years. Those in the world of mortals who do not become masters are destined to die many years before me. What's more, you are stronger than the master and have a longer lifespan." , not even the master can be considered as your companion. If you continue to stay in the mortal world, you can only watch your old friend grow old with your own eyes.
When the power reaches a certain level and even shows a world of difference, only monks of the same realm can be friends. This is not groundless.
It takes a year and a half for a Foundation-Building monk to retreat. A single retreat for a Golden elixir monk improves exponentially. It may be that once he practices, the child who was born has grown up. If he retreats again, he will be old again. It is said that it is two years. It’s no exaggeration to say that people from two worlds are destined to be people from two worlds even if they meet briefly.
People or things in the mortal world are too short-lived for the immortal world, just like mayflies that live and die, lingering in it, hurting others and themselves. "
"I said at the beginning that I would protect the mortal world for the rest of my life."
Gu Dan said calmly.
He practiced mainly for self-protection, and he didn't like things like fighting and killing that much.
Although the way of immortality is good, his life is too long, so long that he does not have to fight for time and add regrets to himself.
Qing Pingzi glanced at Gu Dan's somewhat young face for a few times, and said angrily: "Well, for you, it's probably not far behind the ten or twenty years."
Many things in the world don't have the best of both worlds, all because of lack of time.
Although the Grandmaster can practice immortality, there is no guarantee that he will be able to break through and be promoted before the deadline, so he has to come up with many ways and even give up some things.
If given a choice, who wouldn’t want to live according to their own wishes?
The imperial capital of the Xia Dynasty, where Moqiu's tomb is located.
After the founding of the Xia Dynasty, Wang Mang announced the death of Mo Qiu.
Then a tomb was set up for Mo Qiu in the imperial capital for the world to pay their respects.
According to the standards of the Mohist family, even the tomb of the giant Mo Qiu is not luxurious, and can even be said to be quite simple.
There are no reliefs or burial vessels. It is so simple that there is only a solitary small earth bag and a tombstone. Other than that, there is no extra decoration.
Even the poorest families are no more than this.
But this is Mo Qiu's tomb after all. Even if Wang Mang follows Mo Qiu's philosophy and is extremely simple, he can't really just leave it there.
So Wang Mang sent people to build a small courtyard outside the tomb and arranged for guards to guard it.
This place is open to the public. During the day, people and students who have come from thousands of miles away and have heard about Mo Qiu's deeds will come to pay their respects.
Every evening after dusk, the door will be closed here, waiting for the grateful newcomers to come and visit again the next day.
Night has unknowingly enveloped the world, and the bright moonlight reflects off everything, sprinkling silver frost, and the ethereal and cold moonlight actually seems a bit gentle at this time.
The surroundings are very quiet. At night, even in the imperial capital, there is little movement due to the bustling daytime.
Working at sunrise and resting at sunset is an iron rule for most people in this era. For ordinary people, night means a time for rest.
But today, in the darkness, a man in black walked step by step to the door of the small courtyard where Moqiu's Tomb was locked.
There is a couplet written on the left and right sides of the door.
[Sounds of frog drums are heard on the river bank, and thousands of fluorescent lights surround the night platform. 】
The man glanced at the couplet, jumped lightly, and like a roc spreading its wings, jumped directly over the courtyard wall and climbed inside.
After landing in the courtyard, the man glanced around and found that there were two lines of words in the courtyard. This time, his tone was much louder.
【Two feet kick over the earthly road, one shoulder carries all the sorrows of the past and present. 】
He continued to look forward. There were no unnecessary furnishings in the yard, and he saw the location of Moqiu's Tomb at a glance.
Just as the people of the Xia Dynasty said, the tomb of the saints and heroes they considered was just a simple small earthen bag, a tombstone that looked like an ordinary stone, with the words "Tomb of Moqiu" written on it.
There is not even a biography. Is this simple or shabby, or does the person who left the tombstone think that Mo Qiu's deeds no longer need to be introduced?
He shook his head and got rid of those messy thoughts.
The man in black walked forward, passed directly over the tombstone, and came to the small dirt bag.
This is already disrespectful.
But the more disrespectful thing is yet to come.
I saw the true energy blooming in the silver-white world in the hands of the man in black, like an extremely sharp long knife, directly leveling all the small dirt bags, and then moved them aside.
The true energy is released, he is a martial arts master!
The man in black moved very carefully, and continued to dig downward cautiously, turning over the mound of soil without causing any irreversible damage. Soon, he saw a sarcophagus lying quietly underground.
The man in black showed clear joy on his face. He shook the dust aside carefully and gently pulled out the sarcophagus.
Opening the sarcophagus directly, as expected, there were no burial objects inside, so the Mo family was consistent in their words and deeds.
But the man in black still froze in place.
It is understandable that there are no burial objects. The question is, where is Mo Qiu's physical body? ! ! !
Inside the sarcophagus, there were only overlapping coarse linen clothes.
The people who enjoy the worship and incense of the Xia Dynasty are not the real Moqiu. Is this just a tomb? !
No matter how frugally you pursue it, you won’t even want your body after death, right?
This is completely against the ethics at this time!
The man in black's eyes were filled with astonishment.
"What are you doing?"
While he was dazed, Xun Ke's icy voice sounded behind him.
(End of chapter)
