Song Ciwan followed Xie Yunxiang into a puppet car, which felt very strange at the time.
She did not conceal this novelty, so Xie Yunxiang asked her: "Brother Xin Dao has never been to our Pinglan City before?"
Song Ciwan said: "I used to live in the mountains with my elders and devote myself to cultivation. Indeed, I rarely saw such scenery."
Xie Yunxiang immediately said seriously: "It turns out that brother Xin Dao is actually a descendant of a hermit cultivator family. No wonder he has such cultivation at such a young age!"
Having said this, he started talking and immediately enthusiastically introduced Pinglan City to Song Ciwan.
Let’s talk about the puppet car they are riding in first.
This puppet car has a wonderful shape and looks like a huge square palace lantern. Four wheels drove leisurely on the street under the palace lantern.
There were glazed tiles on the top of the palace lantern, and clear jade bells hung at the four corners. Xie Yunxiang took out a yuan bead to stimulate the vitality in it. When he waved to the puppet car, the jade bell made a tinkling sound, and the puppet car started to move. He parked himself next to Xie Yunxiang.
The classic-looking door of the puppet car opened automatically. There was no driver inside, only two rows of seats on the left and right, with a square table standing in the middle.
After Xie Yunxiang asked Song Ciwan to sit down, he put the Yuanzhu in his hand into a gossip plate in the middle of the table.
The Bagua Disk looked like a solid object at first glance, but as soon as the Yuan Pearl was released, it automatically fell into the Bagua Disk and disappeared in an instant, as if it had fallen into deep water.
Xie Yunxiang reached out to touch it again, and the words on the Bagua plate lit up with glimmering light.
——Those are the names of each neighborhood in Pinglan City!
Xie Yunxiang's finger touched the words "Mingyuefang", the door of the puppet car closed automatically, the wheels rolled again, and the car started to drive.
This kind of automation, to be honest, is actually a bit shocking.
Even though Song Ciwan had memories of his previous life and had experienced that era of highly developed technology, he couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder when he saw this kind of puppet car.
Will the development of science and technology and Taoism actually lead to the same goal at some point?
No, they are still very different.
Xie Yunxiang introduced the puppet car with a sense of pride in his tone.
He said: "Brother Xin Dao came to the world from seclusion and chose to come to our Pinglan City. He is really right! Among the eighty-one counties in the Great Zhou Dynasty, apart from our Cangling County Pinglan City, there is no other city. There can be such a wide variety of puppets.”
Speaking of puppets, they are indeed a major feature of Pinglan City.
Not only the puppet car at the moment, but also the iron puppet and green ball combination that previously guided Song Ciwan to Wangjiang Cave.
Xie Yunxiang actually said in a nonchalant tone: "Those are chanting puppets. They look huge, but they are actually useless iron lumps. They move extremely slowly and have no intelligence."
"It's not as good as the Five Imperial Puppet we are riding on. After putting in the Yuan Pearl, it can travel in the wind. It is so fast that it can travel through 180 square meters of Pinglan City without any problem!"
"The little thing above the Ode Puppet is called the Sound Rabbit. It can repeat some fixed words. Most of these Ode Puppet and Sound Rabbit are the work of the disciples of the Puppet Sect. Our palace master saw something interesting, so he took them all Bought it to lead the way along the street."
When Song Ciwan heard this, he couldn't help but asked with interest: "Puppet Sect?"
Xie Yunxiang immediately changed from being indifferent to looking forward to it. He sighed and said, "Yes, the Puppet Sect!"
"There are a total of 108 sects in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are three major sects in our Cangling County! They are the Puppet Sect, Qionghua Pavilion and Qixing Sect... If you can enter these three major sects, your path to cultivation will be It will be at least 80% smooth.”
Speaking of this, Xie Yunxiang felt both excited and lonely.
When he was young, he also dreamed of joining the three major sects. Unfortunately, it was wasted for many years, and the dream was still just a dream after all.
When people reach middle age, their path to spiritual practice is no longer smooth, so what else can they do?
But I heard Song Ciwan say: "Fellow Daoist Xie can serve as a deacon in Wangjiang Cave Mansion, which is better than countless ordinary monks. Fellow Daoist Xie said that the Shangzong is good, don't you know how many people are envious of Fellow Daoist Xie!"
What he said was so beautiful.
Especially the "Xin Mian" who said this was a Qi Refining monk. Xie Yunxiang was startled and was a little moved at that time.
The scales of heaven and earth appeared, and a ball of Qi was collected: [Human desires, the joy, ignorance, and confusion of those who are cultivating immortals in the middle stage of Qi transformation, can be sold for one, two or three coins. 】
Xie Yunxiang turns out to be a sweetheart!
Song Ciwan was actually a little surprised. She didn't expect to collect the human desire of a Qi Transformation monk so easily.
She didn't know that Xie Yunxiang's environment had exposed him to too much sophistication and indifference. He originally made friends with Xin Mian for the sake of many connections. This kind of friendship cannot be said to have any bad intentions, but there is no doubt that his motives are utilitarian.
Unexpectedly, Xin Fu was not very experienced in the world, but there was a kind of sincerity and consideration in his words that was hard to see in ordinary qi-training monks.
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Xie Yunxiang also didn't know that Song Ciwan's sincerity actually had conditions and limits.
The "young man who is new to the world" that he thought was actually just one of Song Ci's most important figures.
Of course, none of this will prevent the two from getting along.
As the saying goes, the white head is as new and the top is as old as before.
Some people are destined to fall in love at first sight. For example, Xie Yunxiang and Song Ciwan were riding in a car and talking. As they drove along, they gradually felt like good friends.
After Xie Yunxiang finished talking about the puppets of the Puppet Sect, he started talking about the size of Pinglan City.
Speaking of Mingyuefang again, Mingyuefang is located in the southeast of Pinglan City. It is the most charming place in Pinglan City.
There are a total of 180 squares in the entire Pinglan City. These squares are large and small.
If a person walks in a large square at the speed of an ordinary mortal, he may not be able to reach the end in a day or a night. As for a small lane, no matter how small it is, its length from north to south is at least a thousand feet!
Xie Yunxiang clicked his tongue and sighed: "Brother Xin Dao has come all the way. It may be unimaginable. In Pinglan, most mortals have never left the city in their entire lives."
"Not to mention leaving this city, even if they just want to leave the neighborhood where they are, many mortals will find it difficult to do so in their lifetime."
"Alas! Actually, we can't get out of this, and I can't say whether it's good or bad."
Xie Yunxiang said: "In the city, in the shops, it is better to be more or less safe. Even if you open your eyes and see your head for the rest of your life, it is better than rushing out with your head in a hurry, hitting your head and bleeding for some reason. Brother Xin Dao, you are better Say so?"
Song Ciwan felt that his words seemed to mean something.
Is he talking about mortals or himself?
In the human heart, no matter what choice you make, there will always be a third point that is difficult to reconcile!
Song Ciwan said: "In life, what we care about may not be whether to stay or go out...but whether we have the right and ability to choose freely."
Xie Yunxiang was startled and was about to speak when he suddenly heard a jade bell ringing outside.
The classical carved wooden door of the puppet car opened automatically, and the noise from outside rushed in.
Seeing the towering gatehouse in front and the crowds of people coming and going, Xie Yunxiang suddenly said happily: "Brother Xin Dao, Mingyuefang is here!"
