Chapter 431 The Blind Old Man
People in the world calculate the affairs of the world, and everyone thinks that they have the pearl of wisdom, but in fact, everyone is someone else's calculation.
Wu Qi changed his appearance, and Shi Shiran returned to He'an City from outside the city. He did not return to the city to guard the palace, but just wandered along the streets in He'an City. With those demon puppets sitting in the city guard's mansion, it was no different from him being there in person. With the eighteen-headed demon immortals joining forces, Wu Qi really didn't have much to worry about here and around Ancheng.
Outside the city gate, the four great monks had already disappeared without a trace. They were so scared that they were stunned, they were so stunned that they were afraid of risking their lives, and those who were desperate for their lives were afraid of being shameless. When the blood madman followed Wu Qi's instructions and ransomed the oldest and ugliest prostitutes in He'an City one after another, and threw them one by one into the jars where the four great monks were praying for alms, some of the great monks had already practiced to the point of dry wells. In Wubo's state of mind, he couldn't stand the laughter of tens of thousands of monks in An City, so he dropped the vat and ran away in great embarrassment.
When Wu Qi returned to the city, more than a hundred old women were still standing at the gate of the four cities, cursing and scolding the monks. What's more, an old lady who was so old that she had only one breath left and who was trembling and might die at any time was waving a big red handkerchief and was jumping on her feet and roaring: "These bald donkeys, my aunt has taken a fancy to them." Bald head, that's what they got in exchange for smashing a hundred wooden fish and chanting sutras in their previous life! Auntie just hugged him and kissed him, why did he run away? You can't bear this kind of beauty, you deserve to be a bachelor for the rest of your life!"
In the Pangu Continent, no matter the territory under the jurisdiction of the human race or the sphere of influence of the cultivating sect, has there ever been such an unreliable thing?
More than a hundred old women were so frightened that the four great mountain guardian monks of Kinkakuji Temple fled. They were all eminent monks in the realm of souls! Tens of thousands of monks in He'an City were laughing until their stomachs ached. After Wu Qi entered the city, he could still hear these monks and mortals gathering together, discussing animatedly whether brothel girls could be used to deal with the great monks in the future. question.
With a click of his lips, Wu Qi listened proudly to the discussions among the people around him, and walked along the road.
After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, Wu Qi suddenly saw a bookstore on the side of the road. There was also a sign hanging at the door of the store, which said "It sells a map of Zhou Tian's rare things." Wu Qi's heart moved and he hurriedly walked into the store.
The Stolen Scripture records rare things in Zhoutian, but the Pangu Continent is expanding all the time. There may be new things emerging from the chaotic airflow every day. The Stolen Scripture was also a thing a long time ago, and it is impossible to accommodate the current Pangu Continent. All rare items on 6. Wu Qi felt that it was necessary for him to update the information on Stolen Dejing, as there were always new things emerging.
The huge shop was empty, with bookshelves on all four walls, and jade slips shining faintly on them. The reserves of these jade slips are not large, and the labels below are marked with words such as "Illustrated Special Products of Jingzhou of Dayu", "Illustrated Catalog of Specialties of Huangzhou of Dayu", "Comprehensive Collection of Purple Sea Monsters of the Western Ming Dynasty" and so on.
In the innermost part of the store,
Behind a small counter, an inconspicuous old man wearing a green robe and a linen hat, who looked like a farmer, was sitting on a wooden chair, shaking his head and silently reading a paper book. Next to the counter is a nine-story bookshelf with sixty-three jade volumes on it. The capacity of these jade volumes is at least a hundred times that of those jade slips. As expected, the labels below are also marked "Great Yu Ji Dong" An illustrated catalog of the specialty products of the Thirty-Nine Prefectures, a guide to the 108 Jedi elixirs around Dayu, and so on.
Wu Qi walked around the bookstore and finally came to the counter. He gently touched the tabletop of the counter with his fingers.
The old man sitting behind the counter put down his book and slowly raised his head. A simple smile appeared on his wrinkled old face: "Well, there are customers. I wonder what the customers need? Does the shop have any collection? I dare say that there are all kinds of books, but there are always some books and maps of all kinds."
"Uh, Wu Mao looked at the old man's smiling face" and said nothing for a long time.
The old man couldn't see anything wrong when he was reading with his head down, shaking his head, but when he raised his head, two pale, dull eyes were exposed. This was clearly a blind old man. Thinking of the way he was shaking his head while reading in a state of intoxication, Wu Qi felt very strange in his heart.
After a while, Wu Qi finally smiled and asked, "May I ask, is there an atlas here?" "
The old man put down his hand: "Atlas? Yes, there is an atlas from Anle County, as well as maps from several surrounding states. But you get what you pay for. The atlas from Anle County is worth a thousand gold chains or a low-grade spiritual stone. One hundred yuan, map books of several surrounding states? A map of one state is worth one hundred thousand gold chains or ten thousand low-grade spiritual stones." Adding an additional state will increase the price by 50%! "
Blinking his eyes, Wu Qi looked carefully at the old man's pale eyes and asked curiously, "How big is this state?" "
The old man laughed: "The guest doesn't even know how big a state is, so he comes to buy an atlas? Are you interested in traveling in love?" After pondering for a moment, the old man said: "There is a Tianma Hall in the Imperial Court of Dayu. The Pegasus raised inside are all kinds of Pegasus with the blood of mythical beasts, and the fastest Pegasus can run 100 million miles in a day and night!"
Pointing out nine fingers and turning them back and forth, the old man said cheerfully: "A Pegasus gallops for ninety-nine and eighty-one days, and the area it covers is the standard state of the Yu Dynasty! So one hundred yuan of low-grade With spirit stones, you can buy a map of a state, it’s very cheap!”
Hearing the old man's words, Wu Qi couldn't help but click his lips, this state is actually such a huge piece of land?
After pondering for a moment, Wu Qi lowered his voice and asked, "Well, old man, do you have a map of the entire Pangu Continent here?"
While Wu Qi was silent, the old man tremblingly took out a clay tea bowl from under the counter and took a slow sip of tea. The old man suddenly heard Wu Qi's question. The tea spurted out far away, and he coughed violently. It was as if a tea leaf had clogged his throat. The old man coughed until his face turned red and his breath was held in his throat, unable to come out.
Wu Qi hurriedly turned to the counter and massaged the old man's chest vigorously with one hand. With the other hand, he supported the back of the old man's neck and shook it gently, knocking out the thick and long tea stem from the old man's throat. The old man coughed, and finally his breathing became smoother. He gasped several times before his breathing calmed down.
Rolling his eyes and glaring at Wu Qi, the old man muttered: "Guest, please stop joking." It almost stopped the old man. An atlas of Pangu Continent? Hey, except for the Pangu Mountains and Rivers Sheji Map from the Forbidden Palace of the Yu Dynasty and the Zhoutian Mountains and Rivers Mirror from the Heavenly Court, these two treasures can show the entire face of Pangu Continent. Who knows what Pangu Continent looks like now? "
Picking up the tea bowl and taking another sip of tea, the old man shook his head and said: "If the Divine Seal Throne is a high-level immortal official of Heavenly Court, and can get part of the map of Pangu Continent from Heavenly Court, it will have been searched back and forth hundreds of times. There are only a few leaves left. How can it be possible to provide the atlas to other people for the atlas of those places where Pangu Continent was reborn? Heaven is still busy sending reliable immortals to scrape the land." "
Dumbfounded, Wu Qi asked hurriedly: "What about Dayu's place?"
The old man twisted his mouth and said with a chuckle: "This side of Dayu? Well, the governor of a county has atlases of several nearby counties, and the governor of a state has atlases of several nearby states." In addition, there are corresponding marching atlases for the generals who guard various places. When it comes to the atlas of the entire Pangu Continent, "Maybe no one can think of it except the emperor!"
Wu Qi was silent, he frowned helplessly and sighed: "Well, old man, do you know there is a place like Xiongyuan?"
The old man's pale eyes turned around. He looked at Wu Qi in surprise and said with a smile: "Don't you know, guest," Youxiongyuan is where the capital of Dayu is? "
Wu Qi clapped his palms hard and said with a smile: "So the capital of Dayu is in Xiongyuan? Then, is it difficult to get to the capital of Dayu?"
The old man shook his head bluntly: "It doesn't matter if people from the human race pass by. If you are a cultivator, take one step in and chop it into pieces!"
The simple and direct answer made Wu Qi feel suffocated. Is it okay for people from the human race to have Xiong Yuan there? If a cultivator takes one step inside, will he be cut into pieces? Wu Qi asked with a bit of resentment: "Is it possible that those immortal officials from heaven will be cut into pieces if they go in?"
The old man nodded repeatedly and said: "Don't talk about those immortal officials going in. Once upon a time, Taiyi Jinxian accidentally entered Youxiong Yuan and chopped it into pieces!"
Wu Qi took a deep breath and clicked his mouth with difficulty.
He smiled and said: "Where is Taiyi Golden Immortal? What kind of existence is that?" "
The old man twisted his mouth and said with a smile: "Taiyi Golden Immortal is powerful, but those who cultivate immortals dare to enter the tens of billions of miles around the capital of Dayu." They will all end up with that. Unless they are the angels sent by the Great Heavenly Emperor in response to Ziwei, the supreme jade hub of heaven, other immortals will die if they go in!
Wu Qi was silent, he sighed, and took out a small pile of high-grade spiritual stones: "Old man, please give me the atlas of the nearby states and the catalog of the 108 dangerous places around Dayu. Just give me a copy! Well, there are also pictures of those rare things, give me a copy too! Tsk, immortal cultivators are not allowed to enter the capital of Dayu? This is really boring!"
The blind old man chuckled, and he diligently took out a few jade volumes and jade slips and handed them to Wu Qi. He quickly put the high-grade spiritual stones that Wu Qi had placed on the counter into his pocket. He smiled at Wu Qi and said, "It is a good idea for our guests to travel around the Pangu Continent. Young people, it is always good to walk more and see more! But those who are cultivating immortals, it is best not to get close to the capital and prefectures of the Yu Dynasty. City, county and military garrison, otherwise there will be death."
With a click of his lips, Wu Qi shook his head, casually took out a bag of spiritual tea he collected at Wanxian Star and handed it to the blind old man.
"That's all, let's think of something from heaven! Tsk, isn't it just a map?" Wu Qi muttered and complained, and then smiled and said to the old man: "Thank you, old man, this tea is good, please try it Try this!"
The blind old man was stunned for a moment, then he took the tea bag with a smile, took out a bag of tea leaves from the counter and handed it to Wu Qi: "The customers are very enthusiastic. This is the first time in so many years that a customer has given tea leaves to the old man. Yes. Well, this tea smells good. However, the guests also try the old man’s camellia, and the taste is also extraordinary."
Wu Qi took the tea bag disapprovingly, chatted a few more words with the blind old man, then shook his head and walked out of the bookstore.
While walking on the street, Wu Qi suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned around and looked around. Where was the bookstore?
Originally, the bookstore's neighbors were a restaurant and a butcher's shop. Now the bookstore has disappeared without a trace. The restaurant and butcher's shop are right next to each other, and business is booming.
A chill rushed up from the bottom of his heart. Wu Qi looked at the small bag of tea in his hand and muttered in a low voice: "What the hell did I see?"
In the clear sky and white sun, Wu Qi's own cultivation is like this, how can any ghost dare to appear in front of him?