Chapter 91 Evil World

Three days later, in a simple thatched cottage, curls of cooking smoke floated up with the aroma of rice.

Next to the stove, Xu Yang, who had been cleared of the suspicion of "corpse transformation", opened the lid of the pot and served a full bowl of brown rice. There were pieces of bacon buried in the rice. The fat melted into the rice, and it was even more fragrant.

Xu Yang picked up the chopsticks and sat down by the stove to eat without moving much.

In a short while, a large bowl of rice mixed with bacon went into his stomach.

After eating, he didn't wash the dishes. He put down his chopsticks and went to the yard directly, and started a set of boxing on the spot.

He walked like a tiger and moved like a dragon. His boxing was like wind and thunder, which was really majestic.

It was the unique martial arts, included in the "gongzi volume" under the thunder and lightning skill.

This skill originally came from the idea of ​​"heavenly thunder body tempering", which was very rough and could not be used for a long time.

It was not until Xu Yang, with the help of his dragon-like body, obtained the magical power of "driving thunder and holding lightning" and gained a deep understanding of the nature of thunder and lightning that this method was reborn and became a magical skill with amazing power and no hidden dangers.

It eliminated the dangerous drawbacks of "thunder from the sky, and everything was gone", and gradually mastered the power of thunder and lightning in a gradual way. It can temper the body and practice the method of "training the body", and it can enhance the inner essence and achieve the merit of "martial arts". It is a unique skill that combines two major systems and cultivates both inside and outside.

According to Xu Yang's idea, after practicing this skill to a certain degree, it can even seize the fortune of heaven and earth, and without the transmission of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie, it can practice the magical power of "driving thunder and holding lightning" and master the power of thunder and lightning.

But this is not the main reason why he is boxing at this moment.

Driving thunder and holding lightning also belongs to the martial arts system, which cultivates both inside and outside, and can also be practiced while sitting.

The reason why Xu Yang chose to practice boxing "dynamic pile" instead of sitting "static pile" is because the conditions for static pile are insufficient.

The so-called static pile is to sit in meditation, sit cross-legged and not move, and concentrate on circulating the internal breath. It not only requires considerable internal cultivation control, but also certain external conditions, such as the power of the Yuanling of Heaven and Earth.

Only by absorbing the Yuanling of Heaven and Earth, or swallowing elixirs, and external forces entering the body and turning into food and energy, and having considerable internal control, can the efficiency of static pile cultivation be greater than that of dynamic pile cultivation.

Xu Yang is a newcomer now, and has only been in charge of this body for three days. Where does his internal cultivation come from?

Not only can the internal conditions not be met, but the external needs are also difficult to meet.

In Xu Yang's perception, this world, this world, can only be described in two words.

Poor!

Extremely poor!

Not to mention the Black Water World where gods and Buddhas were everywhere before, it was far inferior to the Great Zhou and Tang, and the mundane world of the present world.

The Great Zhou and Tang, as well as the mundane land where the real body is located, although there is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is just that there is no pure spiritual energy, and there is still ordinary heaven and earth energy.

This world is different. Not only is there no pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but even the ordinary vitality of heaven and earth is extremely thin.

The vitality of heaven and earth is the root of all things. The result of thin vitality must be the poverty of the world.

This poverty is manifested in many places, the most obvious of which is the number, quality, and life span of organisms.

According to the memories of the original owner sorted out in the past three days, as well as the information Xu Yang learned from reading books, this world is indeed in a state of extreme poverty.

Let’s talk about life span. The life span of ordinary people in this world is extremely short, and they can only live for fifty or sixty years at most.

Take the Ma clan as an example. Xu Yang secretly checked the genealogy. There are more than ten generations of a clan, and hundreds of years have been passed down to this day. There are less than five people over sixty years old.

This is not normal, very abnormal.

Although the average life expectancy in ancient times was extremely low, generally between thirty and forty years old, it was mostly due to the population reduction caused by war and poverty, which lowered the average value, not that the life span of the ancients was so short.

In the Great Zhou and Tang Dynasties, there is still the mortal world. As long as a mortal does not engage in hard work that overdraws his life, such as "forging iron, rowing boats, and selling tofu", he can live to 70 or 80 years old, or even more than 100 years old without illness or disaster.

But it is not the case in this world. Even if ordinary people live a life of luxury and are free of illness and disaster, it is difficult for them to live beyond 60 years old.

Why?

There is no other reason, the Yuanling is scarce, the world is barren, and the world is hard!

Whether it is the innate source or the acquired supply, it is seriously insufficient, and the life span is naturally limited.

Not only the life source and life span, but also the quantity and quality are the same. Whether it is human beings, animals, plants, or all things, they are in a state of severe poverty, with short life span, small quantity, and low quality.

This is the feeling that this world, this world, gives Xu Yang.

Poverty!

Poverty!

Hardship!

This reminds him of the two major hypotheses of Taoism and Buddhism.

The end of heaven and earth!

The five turbidities and evil world!

In the end of the calamity, the Yuanling is silent, and all dharmas are destroyed!

Among the five turbidities, human life span is greatly reduced, and few people live to be 100 years old!

In this calamity, this world will surely be filled with evil dharma and chaos.

Xu Yang does not know whether the world is in chaos or not.

But based on what he has seen so far, this world is indeed in such a state of evil at the end of the calamity, with scarce Yuanling and poor heaven and earth, which is very unfriendly to cultivators like him and ordinary people.

Fortunately, he combined the strengths of hundreds of schools and practiced all dharma together, and did not rely entirely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for cultivation. If he were a cultivator from the real world and traveled to this world, he would definitely be blind and become a useless person who could not practice.

Without spiritual energy, what is the point of practicing?

Even he was severely weakened and affected.

The martial arts classics just do not rely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but cannot replace the spiritual energy of heaven and earth out of nothing.

Energy conservation is the law of conservation of all things. Wujing can be cultivated without the help of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but it still needs to rely on ordinary vitality and food resources to absorb nutrients and nourish itself, so that it can become strong.

It is impossible to create something out of nothing. It is completely unreasonable to practice peerless magic skills by drinking northwest wind.

The vitality of heaven and earth is scarce, and all things are malnourished. He has just arrived and there is no sufficient supply of resources, so his practice is naturally greatly affected.

How much nutrition can the bowl of brown rice and a piece of bacon just now provide?

It is not enough to support the static pile practice. You can only move, move the pile and punch, digest the nutrients provided by the food, convert them into qi and blood power, and transport them to the whole body to increase your practice.

It is extremely difficult!

Xu Yang currently has no good way to deal with this.

If the power of the soul is sufficient, the various skills and characteristics of the main body can be transmitted, then it can break through the world restrictions, ignore the poverty of heaven and earth, and accelerate the practice of Wujing.

But if this is not true, the current soul cultivation of the main body cannot transmit those high-level and efficient skills and characteristics at all.

He can only rely on "himself!"

A good cook cannot cook without rice. Facing the current predicament and unknown enemies, he has no good countermeasures.

He can only explore step by step and try a little bit.

...

After a set of boxing skills, the body's blood and qi are boiling, and it has improved a lot.

Because the original owner was assassinated, Xu Yang urgently needed the power to protect himself. After clearing the suspicion, he took out his meager savings and bought some meat and rice as a supplement for martial arts practice.

Unfortunately, his savings were too meager. The rice and meat he bought were only enough for three days, and the meal just now was the last one.

In this way, the effect of martial arts practice was not too strong, and it was barely improved to the level of ordinary adults.

There was no way. The original owner was a weak scholar, unable to carry anything on his shoulders or hands, and had been in a sub-healthy state for a long time. In three days, it would be good to be able to improve to the level of ordinary people.

Xu Yang returned to the house, took out the four treasures of the study, ground ink, spread paper, picked up the pen, and wrote. In an instant, the article was splendid.

In this world, there are many strange people, strange phenomena, strange things and strange talks!

For example, the development of the way of writing.

In this world, the world is poor, everything is difficult to grow, various resources are limited, people are not well clothed, and they are not well fed. It is normal for people to live in hardship.

According to common sense, if people's lives are so difficult, then the way of writing must be even more difficult to climb, because reading is very expensive, the four treasures of the study, classics, are all valuable things, how can ordinary people afford it?

But this world is different.

The price of writing is very cheap!

Whether it is the four treasures of the study, such as pens, ink, paper and inkstone, or ordinary printed standard books, the price is very low, even ordinary people can easily consume it.

For example, the "original owner" Ma Wencai is a poor scholar. His parents died early, he was alone and helpless, and his life depended on the support of the clan. So his family has a lot of books, and the four treasures of the study are not missing, and there are even a few spare sets.

This is obviously unreasonable!

There must be a reason for the smoke without a fire, and there must be a demon when things are abnormal!

There must be a reason.

As for what the reason is...

Xu Yang is not quite sure at the moment.

But a glimpse of the leopard can reveal a clue!

In such a poor world, the price of writing is so cheap that even ordinary people can write and stand out, and even have a bit of the meaning of "everyone in the world learns to write, and everyone is like a dragon"...

This reminds Xu Yang of what he did in the Great Zhou and Tang.

When he was in the Great Zhou and Tang, in order to gather the wisdom of all living beings to deduce the martial arts classics, he used iron-blooded means to complete the national policies of public ownership of land, liberating people's power, and improving production, so that ordinary people can have no worries about food and clothing, and have sufficient resources and time to practice martial arts to strengthen their bodies.

At that time, the price of meat, rice, paper, books, medicine, and all kinds of material prices related to "martial arts" in the Great Zhou and Tang world were all forced down by him using "increasing production", "price supervision", "strictly prohibiting manipulation", "popularization of all people", etc., so that everyone can benefit from it.

To this end, he killed many, many people, making a large group of merchants, dignitaries, aristocratic families and other interest groups unbearable. They wanted to rebel against him again and again, but he killed them again and again, leaving many heads and corpses everywhere.

It can be said that the martial arts prosperity of the Great Zhou and Tang Dynasties was completely established by his unparalleled martial arts and iron-blooded wrists, stepping on the blood and corpses of countless interest groups.

To be honest, such a system is not a correct strategy for governing the country, because it seriously violates human nature. If someone else did this, it would have been overthrown by various forces and groups, and the country would have been destroyed.

It was him, with his invincible martial arts, dominating the world, and with many skills and characteristics, he cultivated a group of almost loyal disciples who worked for him, so that he could suppress the dissent of all parties and promote the national policy of "spreading martial arts throughout the world".

Even so, there are still a group of people who don't know how to live or die, and try to stop the chariot with a mantis arm.

It can be seen that the implementation of this law is difficult, and it touches too many interests. Unless there is a powerful force that cannot be resisted and cannot be confronted to implement it, it is impossible to succeed.

Then the question is.

The Great Zhou and Tang, the martial arts spread all over the world, and he is the one who promotes it behind the scenes.

What about this world?

Who promoted the "Wen Mo Zhi Dao", who made those businessmen, powerful families, and Confucian and Legalist schools not control the upward channel of "Wen Mo Zhi" and not earn the lucrative profits from it, and sell literary and artistic items so cheaply that even ordinary people can read and realize such a prosperous era of literature and Taoism?

Who is it?

Xu Yang doesn't know.

But he can be sure that there must be an extremely powerful force behind this, an extremely powerful extraordinary force.

Only a great power beyond the ordinary can suppress the "human nature" self-interest and force those interest groups to make such concessions as bleeding and cutting flesh.

How powerful is this extraordinary power?

Xu Yang still doesn't know.

But with his own "Martial World" as a reference, Xu Yang can be sure that this force is either a super individual who is powerful enough to suppress everything and sweep everything, or a group of interests that are popular and the general trend.

The former can suppress the group's dissent with personal power and force the world to develop according to his will.

The latter is that all major forces and groups have common interests and needs and form cooperation that is the general trend.

Is it the former or the latter?