Chapter 1066: Infinite Saint

In that case, there is nothing to be afraid of. Qingyang took the noodles from the other party, smiled, and said, "Thank you, Sister Sun."

After that, Sister Sun helped Qingyang arrange a guest room, and Qingyang stayed in the inn. There was no conversation all night. The next morning, Taoist Mao returned to the village, and did not even go back to his own home. He came directly to the inn to talk to Qingyang. There were few outsiders in the first seven villages all year round. The old man Zhi was idle at home, and he got along well with Qingyang yesterday, so he also came to find him.

The three chatted for a while, and Qingyang gradually figured out some basic situations. They couldn't say how big the Fallen Ghost Abyss was, and they had never been that far. However, they had heard that there were a total of seven overlords in the entire Fallen Ghost Abyss, each occupying a large area, and the place where the first seven villages were located was under the jurisdiction of Wuliang Saint, one of the seven overlords.

They didn't know how powerful Wuliang Saint was and how big the scope of his control was. In their eyes, Wuliang Saint was a god-like figure, and they couldn't possibly contact him. They only knew that Wuliang Saint controlled ten immortal cities, and each immortal city had many small counties, and each small city controlled many towns. There were also many villages like Touqi Village under the towns. It can be seen how great the influence of Wuliang Saint was.

Calculated in this way, Wuliang Saint controlled a state in the Jiuzhou Continent. Ten immortal cities were ten prefecture cities. The territories of the seven overlords added together were almost comparable to the entire Jiuzhou Continent. However, the difference between the two was also very large. Most of the people in Jiuzhou Continent were ordinary people. The immortal cultivators were concentrated in the immortal cultivation sects and scattered cultivation cities. There were very few immortal cultivators in the secular world, and the proportion of immortal cultivators in the Fallen Ghost Abyss was much higher. Not to mention anything else, among the hundreds of people in Touqi Village alone, at least 10% had cultivation, although their cultivation was very low. Moreover, there is no government here. Whether one can hold a position firmly depends entirely on one's strength. The stronger one is, the larger the territory one occupies. The weaker one has to give up the territory. There is no strict boundary between the immortal cultivators and the ordinary people.

The town where Touqi Village is located is called Mayi Town. It is the center of more than a dozen mountain villages around it. It is three or four hundred miles away from Touqi Village. Villagers only go to Mayi Town when they need to buy something important. The county town above Mayi Town is called Tongguan County. It is almost more than two thousand miles away from Mayi Town. The distance is too far. In the entire Touqi Village, only a few people, such as the village chief Si Laoye, have been there.

The immortal city above Tongguan County is said to be called Kuzhong City. Anyway, no one in Touqi Village has been there. Kuzhong City is at least tens of thousands of miles away from Tongguan County. There is no peace everywhere outside. They, the low-level cultivators, will die if they go out. It is impossible for them to go that far. As for the place where Wuliang Saint Venerable lives, it is even more out of their reach.

After some inquiries, Qingyang roughly figured out his current situation. In the first seven villages, he only met low-level cultivators. It was impossible to get the elixir that could heal his injuries. He had to find a way to contact high-level cultivators. Not to mention the infinite true immortals, there should be some in Kuzhong City, but with his current strength, it was too difficult to contact high-level cultivators. If he didn't get the elixir by accident, he would lose his life, which would not be worth the loss.

Kuzhong City was at least tens of thousands of miles away from here. He definitely couldn't go there with his current strength. Not to mention how long it would take to walk there, the various difficulties and obstacles along the way were beyond his ability to deal with. Strength was respected here, and it was not a peaceful place like the Jiuzhou Continent. Qingyang couldn't think of a good solution for a while, so he could only take it one step at a time.

The three chatted for half a morning. Taoist Mao and Old Man Paper were about to leave when suddenly, a gong sounded outside. It was different from the small gong that Taoist Mao used when he drove the corpse. It was slow and crisp, and it took half a day to hit it. This gong sounded rapid and loud, and the whole village seemed to be able to hear it.

Hearing the gong sound, Old Man Paper and Taoist Mao's faces changed color at the same time. Old Man Paper said, "The big gong in the village hasn't sounded for a long time. The fourth master must be hitting the gong. There must be something bad."

Taoist Mao nodded and said, "Yes, usually this gong may not be struck once a year. I didn't expect to encounter it when I came back. Forget it, let's go out and take a look."

Then Old Man Paper, Taoist Mao, and Qingyang stood up together and walked out of the inn. The innkeeper's wife, Mrs. Sun, seemed to have heard it and soon followed behind.

Mrs. Sun's inn is in the center of the village, not far from where the bronze gong is hung. You can see it when you go out. In front of the bronze gong, there is a little fat man knocking it a few times every once in a while. At this time, the villagers also came out from their homes one after another and kept gathering here.

More than a hundred people gathered in the middle of the village soon, all kinds of men, women, young and old. Qingyang took a glance and found that at least 20 to 30 of them had cultivation, but most of them were in the early and middle stages of the Kaimai Realm. Only Taoist Mao and the paper old man were in the late stage of the Kaimai Realm.

The whole scene was noisy, and everyone kept asking what happened. Seeing that the heads of all the households had arrived, there was a creaking sound of a bamboo sedan shaking in the distance. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw four wooden men carrying a bamboo sedan coming towards this side. A middle-aged man sat on the sedan, but this middle-aged man was a little too fat, like a large pool of fat on the bamboo sedan, which almost broke the bamboo pole of the sedan.

This big fat guy is the village chief of Touqi Village, the fourth master. He is at the first level of Qi Refining and is the only Qi Refining cultivator in the whole village. The one who was beating the gong on the field before was his son, the third fat guy. Seeing the village chief coming, everyone greeted him and asked about the purpose of summoning everyone this time, but the fourth master was serious and kept his mouth shut, and did not reveal any information.

When the bamboo sedan came to the middle of the crowd, the fourth master turned over and got off the sedan. He looked around and saw that almost everyone who should come had come. He then said: "I think everyone is wondering why I am so anxious to summon everyone. In fact, I don’t want to, but the superiors have pressed the task down, and I am weak, so I have to summon you all to discuss it together."

"What is the matter that makes you so anxious?" The big fool behind couldn’t help asking.

The fourth master coughed a few times and said, "I will not hide it from you all. Yesterday afternoon, Maiyi Town sent an envoy to inform us that we will increase taxes and require the first seven villages to collect the money as soon as possible. If they can pay it within half a month, it will be fine. If they can't pay it in full, all the men, women and children in the village will suffer."