Chapter 968

This time, the interval between the immortal's preaching was relatively long. The last time was only twelve years, but this time it was twenty years, so more people from the surrounding areas came to these ten villages, and even people from the distant prefecture city came.

Some human kingdoms have appeared in the prefecture, but for the villagers here, the country is still very far away. They don't even know where their capital is. The biggest place they know is the prefecture city.

According to people in the village who have been to the prefecture city, the prefecture city is very, very large, with a wall more than ten feet high. There are also many people in the prefecture city, and there are many things that the village doesn't have.

Only a few people in the village have been to the prefecture city. No matter what they say, how can others believe it? The wall more than ten feet high is indeed much stronger than the fence of their village. The fence of their village is at most one meter high, while more than ten feet is four or five meters high.

Gu Zheng has also heard of these, but according to his understanding, this so-called prefecture city is just an ordinary small city, with a wall more than ten feet high, and no more than six meters at most. In some cities he has seen and passed in the prefecture later, the lowest wall is three feet high.

As for the capital, almost all of them are four or even five feet high. The walls of ordinary cities are more than ten feet high, which is really not a big city.

However, now is the early stage of the prehistoric world, not the time when the human immortals dominated the prehistoric world. In this way, the city with a wall of more than ten feet is not small. At least ordinary beasts will not pose a big threat to such a city. If the beast is not particularly sensitive, it will not be able to jump onto the wall.

Unless a monster appears, even in the early stage of the prehistoric world, the witch and the demon will not kill ordinary people at will, especially the demon. They believe that the human race was created by Nuwa, one of the leaders of the demon race, so they are more tolerant of the human race, but only limited to ordinary people. They will not show mercy to the immortals who threaten them.

There are no strong people, just ordinary beasts. The current city is definitely the safest.

Aunt Cui's village is called Wuyuan Village. Why is it named like this? No one in the village knows it now. The old people in the village said that their village has existed for hundreds of years. How did they get here in the beginning, how did they gather into a village, and who their ancestors were? No one can tell clearly at present.

It's not that they don't know their ancestors, but at the beginning they didn't have any written records, and there were no educated people in the village. After a long time, all kinds of legends appeared. Guang Guzheng had heard of as many as five or six, and there were many he didn't know. As a result, no one could tell their origins clearly.

Basically, every few families had their own version of the story. Collected together, there were at least a dozen different versions, and there were none. Any one of them could be true, and any one of them could not be true.

However, there was one thing in common, that is, their ancestors came from the east, and the city was in the east. Many people wanted to go to the city in this lifetime. Unfortunately, if you go to the city on foot, it will take at least half a year, and a year to go back and forth. Many people can't walk so far at once.

This time, three families in the city sent their children here. They were all wealthy families. They all rode their horses and sent people to come directly. Otherwise, in such a short time, they hadn't arrived yet, and the immortal's sermon might have ended.

The arrival of people from the prefecture made the nearby villages lively again. Many people ran to see what the people from the prefecture looked like, or to see their carriages. Whether it was these ten villages or the nearby villages, there were at most some simple open-top ox-horse carriages. This kind of comfortable, luxurious two-horse or four-horse carriage had never been seen before.

For them, it was like a Mercedes-Benz suddenly entered a small mountain village in the 1970s on Earth China, which would attract onlookers.

The time before the immortal's sermon was getting shorter and shorter, and the number of people in the village gradually stopped increasing. With half a month left, all those who should have reported on the list had reported, and those who did not report were a minority, or they had no children and wanted to sell at a high price, or someone had said hello and was waiting for them to arrive.

"Finally reached the second level!"

That afternoon, Gu Zheng got up from the bed and exhaled a long breath. He had practiced in the village for more than two months, plus the previous two months, a full five months, before he practiced the Tiexian Xian Jue to the second level.

At this time, he especially missed the immortal pills and food cultivation of the past. If you want to do food cultivation, you must have good raw materials. These raw materials must be available in the prehistoric world, but Gu Zheng was too weak before and didn't dare to go out to look for them.

These days, he has also been supervising Tao to practice secretly, and Tao's progress makes Gu Zheng a little jealous.

In the same practice, he works harder than Tao, practicing hard every day, but Tao is lazy. When he is not watching, he will not practice at all. The time he practices every day is less than half of Gu Zheng, but his progress is much better than Gu Zheng now.

The second level of the Immortal Art of Tiexian, Gu Zheng's strength now is roughly equivalent to the middle stage of the second level of the internal strength practitioners on Earth. This strength is very powerful among ordinary people. Even a dozen adults can never be Gu Zheng's opponent.

Tao practiced casually, but his strength at this time is equivalent to the late third level, which is more than a little stronger than Gu Zheng. It can be said that if the two of them fight now, Gu Zheng is not Tao's opponent at all. Tao can deal with several Gu Zhengs alone.

Of course, a real fight is not just about strength, but also about various skills and tricks. If they really fight, Gu Zheng cannot beat Tao, but he can dodge it. If he uses some tricks, he can also make Tao suffer a little, but that's all. It's not completely impossible to truly defeat Tao, but the hope is very low.

One strength can defeat ten skills. No matter how much you know, it is useless if your strength cannot keep up. This made Gu Zheng depressed for a while. He could only think about doing some good food cultivation in the future to strengthen himself.

However, Tao's strength is always a good thing. Besides, he is now obedient to Gu Zheng. He will not listen to anyone except Gu Zheng, even Aunt Cui who has been taking care of them.

In the middle, there is a small episode.

Once Gu Zheng practiced behind closed doors in the name of taking a nap. Tao was bored and ran out. As a result, some children in the village teased him. As a result, he did not do anything, but showed a fierce look on his face, which scared the children to tears.

Several children cried, and their adults were unhappy. They found Tao together. One adult wanted to teach him a lesson, but Tao threw him far away and he couldn't get up for several days.

Fortunately, Gu Zheng had always told him not to have conflicts with anyone here. Even if there were conflicts, he was absolutely not allowed to use heavy hands. He remembered this, otherwise he could have thrown the man to death.

A child could throw an adult out. No one else dared to do it after seeing this scene. Soon everyone in the village knew that one of the two children adopted by Aunt Cui was particularly strong, and adults couldn't do it. After that, no one dared to provoke him, and no one dared to provoke Gu Zheng, which made Gu Zheng more peaceful.

Since discovering that Gu Zheng's food was delicious, Aunt Cui often asked Gu Zheng to cook and she helped. Because Aunt Cui's family had delicious food, some people began to come to eat and drink. After this incident, almost all the people who came to eat disappeared, which made Aunt Cui and Gu Zheng feel relieved.

There was still half a month before the time for the immortal to preach. Fortunately, before that, Gu Zheng broke through to the second level. With the current strength, plus the power of Tao in the late third level, the two of them could basically walk sideways outside as long as they didn't encounter the two tribes of witches and liches, or immortals.

According to Gu Zheng's plan, he and Tao should leave at this time.

He didn't want to attend the so-called immortal's sermon. According to the description of the villagers, although Gu Zheng didn't know what method the immortal used to create the previous scenes, he could at least be sure that he was a powerful person, at least a real immortal.

Real immortals, whether celestial immortals or golden immortals, were not something Gu Zheng could deal with. Before he was sure of self-protection, it was better to stay away from them.

Therefore, Gu Zheng's plan was to sneak away before the immortal's sermon. He already had a new goal, which was to go to the capital city, where there were more people and more resources, to see if he could buy some high-quality raw materials, so that he could make food cultivation. With food cultivation, his cultivation would be faster. Now he just wanted to enhance his cultivation, and there was no need to worry about his state of mind.

A once-powerful quasi-saint who couldn't even cultivate his state of mind again was a joke.

After all, the village is too small to obtain the cultivation resources he needs. Only the prefectural city or even a larger city has such an opportunity. As for going into the mountains or the wilderness to search for it himself, Gu Zheng has no plan for the time being. Their strength is still too weak. If it is on Earth, it doesn't matter. There are few strong people there, but this is the prehistoric world. There are even strong people with quasi-saint strength. If you run into a powerful character, you will probably be finished.

So before you have enough strength, Gu Zheng should keep a low profile.

At present, the biggest problem for the adults is their age. After practicing for a few months, their bodies have grown a little, faster than ordinary children, but the growth is limited. At present, they look like four years old at most, and this is because of their height.

With such a body, it is definitely not convincing to make deals with others. After arriving in the prefectural city, Gu Zheng will have to find a way to find an agent. The immortal power he can use is limited now, but some small immortal skills can already be used, and it is still no problem to control an ordinary person.

With an agent, no matter what they do in the future, it will be much more convenient.

"Why did we sneak out!"

At night, Gu Zheng took Tao and quietly left the village. With their strength, as long as they didn't want to be discovered, no one could see them. But Tao looked a little unhappy. He was awakened from a good dream. It would be strange if he was in a good mood.

"Don't ask too much, let's go over there first!"

Gu Zheng shook his head at him. He didn't want to leave this time. He lived with Aunt Cui for more than two months. Aunt Cui treated them well. Gu Zheng couldn't just leave like this. He had to prepare something for Aunt Cui to make up for it.

What's more, Aunt Cui took out the two quotas she had this time. Regardless of whether this quota was useful to Gu Zheng, it was indeed of great use to Aunt Cui, so it was even more impossible for him to just leave casually.

There was money in the prehistoric world, and gold and silver were common here. Gu Zheng had understood it during this period. It was a pity that there was almost no gold and silver in such a village. People in the village mostly traded by barter. Only in the city would there be currency such as gold and silver.

Even if there was, Gu Zheng couldn't steal it to give to Aunt Cui. If that were the case, he wouldn't be helping Aunt Cui, but harming her. So Gu Zheng could only go out and look for it himself and find enough to compensate.

Not long after leaving the village, a white horse appeared beside them.

This horse has been at Aunt Cui's place recently, and Gu Zheng feeds it. It never eats anything given by others except what Gu Zheng gives it. Many people have come to the village these days. Someone has taken a fancy to this horse and wants to buy it. He took out a gold ingot that the village has only heard of but never seen and gave it to Aunt Cui, but Aunt Cui did not sell it.

Aunt Cui said it very simply. This horse is not hers, but the two children's. Only the two children can sell it, but they are young and the adults are not here. Only when the adults are here can they talk about buying and selling. Just asking her is not okay.

Some people have also had ideas about this horse, but this horse king does not recognize anyone except Gu Zheng, and does not eat other people's things. It is impossible to steal it. Once someone tried to steal it by force, but was kicked by the horse. In addition, Tao showed a little strength, and no one wanted to take this horse anymore.

"Little White Dragon, go ahead!"

Gu Zheng jumped onto the horse's back and pulled Tao behind him. There was a simple saddle on the horse's back, which was made by Gu Zheng himself. It was very small and double-saddled. He made it for himself and Tao.

Little White Dragon was the name he gave to the white horse. It was a bit of a joke here, imitating the name given to Tang Monk's white dragon horse. Unfortunately, his white dragon horse was a real dragon, but his was just a horse.

And Tang Monk didn't know when he would appear in the future. It was still the period of witches and liches. After the witches and liches war period, the human race would gradually become stronger. Then there was the famous Conferred God War. After the Conferred God War, there was the story of the journey to the West.

Now the so-called Tang Dynasty has no trace at all. The Buddhas of the West have not really appeared. Even the two saints of Buddhism are estimated to have limited cultivation at this time and have not yet become saints.

They did not become saints, Gu Zheng was sure of this, the reason was very simple, the Three Pure Ones, and the two saints of Buddhism, were human after all, if they became saints, with so many saints, even if the twelve witch ancestors joined forces, they would not be their opponents, how could the world be ruled by the witch and lich races.

Such a simple truth made him know that the ten saints of the prehistoric world later, now do not have strong strength, or in other words, he did not know about others, at least he knew that the saint Tiexian later, now is just a child, that is, him.

Gu Zheng was heading to the south, where there was a big bamboo forest.

The place Gu Zheng was going to was this bamboo forest, in which there was a kind of porcupine, which was very big, had fangs, and was not small in strength. This kind of porcupine was very fierce, and wolves would run away when they saw it, unless it was a whole wolf pack. According to the people in the village, even tigers would go around when they saw porcupines.

Porcupines are fierce, but they taste delicious. Porcupine teeth and fur are purchased by people, which can be exchanged for a lot of food. Porcupine fur is very hard, but very light and thin, which is very suitable for defensive leather armor, so it is very valuable.

The village used to organize hunting, which was to hunt porcupines. They only dared to hunt one each time, and they were not always successful, but once they succeeded, the harvest was not small. Not to mention the delicious pork, the fur and teeth can be sold at a good price. If they go back and share it, each family can have more food to eat for several days.

Unfortunately, since Aunt Cui's husband and father-in-law got into trouble five years ago, the village has never hunted porcupines again. They no longer have the strength to do so and can only catch some simple prey.

Gu Zheng's target is porcupines, and not just one. Only by returning with a few more can we make up for Aunt Cui's loss this time.

Little White Dragon ran very fast and soon arrived at the bamboo forest. Although Gu Zheng was not afraid of porcupines, he did not dare to be careless. After carefully observing the situation, he dismounted and led Tao inside. As for Little White Dragon, he asked it to wait outside the forest.

Little White Dragon is the horse king, and it is very strong, but fighting is not its strong point. Porcupines are very fierce beasts, and Little White Dragon may not be its opponent, so there is no need to bring it.

Besides, the bamboo forest is full of tall bamboos, and Little White Dragon cannot move around inside, and its strong point of speed will be limited. It is better to let it wait outside.

Bamboo is the food of porcupines, especially bamboo shoots, which are the favorite of porcupines. Usually, where there are many bamboo shoots, there must be porcupines there. This is the experience summarized by the villagers. In the past, they also used this point to set traps and catch porcupines.

Gu Zheng did not look for it at the edge of the bamboo forest, but directly pulled Tao inside. Although he entered the inside, his vigilance did not decrease. If there was anything wrong, he would take Tao out at any time.

There should be no demons or witches in this bamboo forest. It is too close to where humans live. Neither the witches nor the demons like humans and don't like to get close to humans. This is different from the later period. Some demons even pretend to be humans in order to enjoy the glory and wealth of the world, but not at this time.

At this time, the entire human race is a weak race in their eyes, just like the immortals of the prehistoric human race in later generations facing monsters. When it comes to monsters, they always despise them, and they will call them evil beasts openly or secretly.

After walking for half an hour, Gu Zheng suddenly stopped. There was a large bamboo shoot field not far ahead. Gu Zheng also noticed that there were other beings here, and there were more than one.

Soon, under the moonlight, Gu Zheng saw six green bright spots in the distance. Six, that is, three wild beasts. He was not sure whether they were porcupines, but this was the territory of porcupines. Even tigers would not survive here. Seeing such obvious wild beast eyes at this time, it was very likely that they were porcupines.

"What is that!"

Tao was not afraid at all, but was a little curious. Gu Zheng discovered that Tao had never been afraid of anything until now, and had never shown any fear. No matter what happened, he was only curious.