Chapter 54 Huilongguan

Luojing is located on the bank of Luo River, in the middle of the plain. It is the largest city in the world. The city is square, and nine roads horizontally and vertically divide the entire city into different sizes. Every day, no less than one million people make a living here.

Shi Xuan held the Soul-Bewitching Banner, dressed as a wandering Taoist priest, and walked through the bustling crowd on Zhuque Street. He has been in Luojing for seven or eight days. These days, he has been asking around for the location of Huilong Temple. Who knows that this Taoist temple is not famous and no one knows it at all.

In the end, Shi Xuan sneaked into the Luojing government office, looked through the temple list, and asked the old clerk who was in charge of this matter, and then found the location of Huilong Temple, which was in the most remote corner in the west of the city.

After turning the corner, the flow of people in front of him gradually became sparse. When he arrived at Anlefang, he could only see twos and threes of children playing on the road. The surrounding houses were dilapidated and had not been repaired for a long time. At first glance, it was a place where poor people lived.

Few outsiders come here. As soon as Shi Xuan entered the square, children followed him in a sparse manner, laughing and joking, as if they were watching the fun.

Huilong Temple is located in the northernmost part of Anle Square, and it is also the least populated place. There is no family within a few hundred meters around it, and there is only a dilapidated Taoist temple standing there alone.

When Shi Xuan saw Huilong Temple, he almost couldn't believe his eyes. It was too dilapidated. It was afraid that it had not been repaired for decades. Even some roofs of the houses were damaged.

Walking to the door of the Taoist temple, looking at the door in front of him that seemed to fall down with a push, Shi Xuan knocked lightly three times, and then three times again. Who knew that no one came to answer the door for a long time, Shi Xuan had to knock heavily a few more times, and then waited for a while, but still no one came to open the door.

Shi Xuan had no choice but to use his internal energy and knocked on the door. The door was shaking and about to fall down. At this time, a clear and lazy voice came from the Taoist temple: "Who is it? Why are you knocking on the door in broad daylight? Are you annoying?"

With a slow sound of footsteps, the door in front of him was finally pulled open before it fell down. A handsome and beautiful Taoist child appeared in front of Shi Xuan, frowning and shouting to Shi Xuan: "Go quickly, there is no one you are looking for here."

"I am here to find Taoist Master Daoquanzi." Seeing this, Shi Xuan had to state his purpose directly.

When the beautiful Taoist child heard Shi Xuan's reply, his eyes, which were still a little sleepy, opened. He looked Shi Xuan up and down, and finally pulled a perfunctory smile at the corner of his mouth: "I was wondering when the old Taoist priest would like someone like you, but it seems that you are here because of that incident. Since you know his name, then come in. He is reading scriptures in the quiet room."

Shi Xuan didn't quite understand what the Taoist child meant, but since he was allowed to go in, he would seize the opportunity.

Following the Taoist boy inside, Shi Xuan tried every way to get words out of him, but the Taoist boy was very tight-lipped. Besides yawning all the time, he didn't even tell Shi Xuan his name.

When they arrived in front of a shabby room, the Taoist boy said, "This is the quiet room. Come in with me." After saying that, he didn't knock on the door, but pushed it open and walked in. Shi Xuan had no choice but to follow him inside.

The quiet room was very empty, with only a cushion and a desk. Sitting on the cushion was a Taoist priest in his thirties wearing a black robe and a high crown. He was exactly the same as Chu Yuyan's description, with an ordinary face and two small mustaches, which made him look a bit vulgar. However, his ability to keep his appearance unchanged for decades far surpassed Shi Xuan.

The Taoist priest sat on the cushion, and the scripture in his hand almost fell to the ground. He looked at the scripture with his eyes tightly closed, and his head nodded. There was a suspicious object at the corner of his mouth that looked like saliva.

The Taoist boy walked up to him and stamped his feet heavily. He immediately straightened his body and head, woke up in shock, and stared at the Taoist boy. The Taoist boy said in a flat and disrespectful manner: "You have a guest." Then he turned around and left without looking back.

The Taoist touched his mouth and muttered to himself: "I'm old, I'm old, I can fall asleep even when reading scriptures." Then he raised his head and looked at Shi Xuan with sleepy eyes: "Are you looking for me?"

"You are Taoist Daoquanzi, and I am Shixuan." Shi Xuan still answered respectfully.

"It's you, Taoist. Alas, it's a pity that you are not a beautiful boy." Daoquanzi smacked his lips with some regret. Then he pointed to the ground, "Sit down, what do you want to see me for? I don't remember owing you a favor or money."

Shi Xuan didn't despise him, he just sat cross-legged on the ground and said directly: "Master, do you still remember the Fire Spirit Pearl?"

"Hey, you are that girl's lover? No, judging from his age, could he be her son? Well, I am upright and I do owe her an opportunity. Just tell me what you want." Dao Quanzi rubbed his sleepy eyes.

Shi Xuan didn't want to take Chu Yuyan's opportunity away like this: "I am determined to seek the Dao Sect. I heard Madam Yuyan mention that there is a Taoist master here, so I came here not to ask for this opportunity for her."

"Master, I am not a Taoist master." Dao Quanzi told a joke that was not funny, and then complained in a low voice: "The old confused head brother, is it necessary to send me to this place with so many troubles?" After complaining, he continued: "In fact, you don't have to look around. As long as you break through to the Qi Induction Stage, you will naturally understand where the Dao Sect is."

"What do you mean?" Shi Xuan was a little excited when he saw that Dao Quanzi really knew something.

Duanquanzi stretched and moved his neck before replying lazily: "That's not all. At the end of ancient times, several golden immortals in this big world led their disciples in a great battle and fell. Two of them were killed, and the remaining one finally took that step, and then left here to create a big world to prove his own way. But this big world is miserable. How powerful is the Golden Immortal War, tsk tsk, Tao Master. It’s unimaginable now, but at least it destroyed the most prosperous world of immortality in ancient times. I don’t know how many immortals who were above the soul escaped, and they all fell. I said, you kid didn’t even give Master Dao a cup of tea. I was very thirsty in ancient times.”

Shi Xuan was sweating slightly and hurriedly went out to look for hot water and tea leaves, but Huilongguan was covered with dust everywhere and there was nothing. Shi Xuan couldn't find it even if he looked for a Taoist boy, so he had to fetch water from the well himself and boil a pot of hot water in the kitchen. He returned to the quiet room with boiled water.

Dioquanzi didn't take it too seriously, drank half of the water, and continued: "Fortunately, the Tongtian Lingbao Shenxiao Palace left by Taoist Yu Yu from ancient times suppressed the energy of the riot, and also left behind a tenth of the size. The big world is still intact, but the ancient Golden Immortal battlefield and the ruined Immortal Realm are full of yellow sand, storms, space cracks, etc. The Shenxiao Palace is isolated to prevent expansion while sleeping to restore strength. . This is the land of Middle Earth.”

"But what does this have to do with the Qi Entrainment Period?" Shi Xuan asked doubtfully.

Duanquanzi curled his lips, as if he felt uncomfortable sitting, moved the futon back, and then leaned half against the wall: "This big world has been so badly destroyed. The natural vitality has passed away, and all kinds of elixirs and materials have also been destroyed." There are not many left. The remaining cultivators live within their means and no longer have the grandeur of the cultivation world in ancient times. Especially in this Middle-earth, there are basically no major sects, because firstly, it is close to the Western Wilderness, which is the ancient world of immortality. The vitality is the rarest, and secondly, the Shenxiao Palace has regained its strength here, and the remaining scarce vitality has been occupied by it. "

"So?" Shi Xuan seemed to understand a little bit.

"So as long as someone breaks through the Qi-Entraining Stage and can attract the vitality of heaven and earth, Shenxiao Palace will move them out of the Middle-earth. However, if someone can break through to the Qi-Entraining Stage in such a poor Middle-earth, it is really a rare good talent and beautiful jade. , if he is not too old and his body and soul are not exhausted, all the major sects are vying for it, so he discussed it with Shenxiao Palace. The place to be moved is fixed, and there are people from all the major sects there. Guard." Duanquanzi drank the rest of the water in one gulp and narrowed his eyes in comfort.

"So that's it. I said that so many masters who have broken through to the qi-entraining stage have disappeared." Shi Xuan suddenly realized, and then asked: "Then this vitality cannot be restored?"

"If there is still the Golden Immortal Dao Ancestor, he can adjust his vitality and restore his old outlook in more than a hundred years at most. Unfortunately, since then, there has never been a Golden Immortal Dao Ancestor in this big world. If it weren't for Shen Xiao, who is at the peak of the Tongtian Lingbao, Palace, there are many big worlds that have already occupied this place." Pirates Quanzi yawned, and then continued: "However, the cultivation world outside the Western Wilderness and the Middle Earth can be considered to be able to recover after hundreds of thousands of years. See. The hundreds of thousands of miles outside Xihuang have almost stabilized, and at least a few market towns and cities have been built with formation protection. "

"Are there other big worlds?" Shi Xuan was curious.

Duanquanzi seemed to have thought of something and sighed a little: "The worlds in the heavens and the worlds are no joke. There are billions of worlds with practitioners. Look at the stars. Those moving ones are our world. The stationary stars attached to the world are the projections of the nearby world, such as the Big Dipper, which is actually the projection of the Big Dipper world. "

"Okay, do you really want to go to the spiritual world?" Duanquanzi withdrew his eyes, changed his wretched and lazy look, and asked with a serious expression.

"Yes, the juniors need guidance and exchanges with others. If they stay in Middle-earth, it will take who knows how many years to break through to the qi-entraining stage." Shi Xuan originally wanted to ask why the projections of the twenty-seven big worlds are particularly bright. Yes, now I can only calm down and answer solemnly.

Duanquanzi smiled: "It's a pity that you are not a beautiful young man, otherwise the Taoist master would have accepted you as his disciple."

Then he immediately changed his face and asked solemnly: "Have you thought about it? With your cultivation, in this land of Middle-earth, you can get the wind and the rain, and you can have both glory and wealth. Enjoy the envy and reverence of others. Maybe one day there will be a beautiful girl lying on the ground, crying and begging you to accept her as your disciple, and even the people around you will respectfully say "immortal, immortal." "You are superior to others. Judging from your expression, you must be enjoying it, right?"

Shi Xuan remembered that he had been looked at with admiration and awe by others before, so he could only answer honestly: "Yes."

Duanquanzi continued to make a face: "Do you know that in the world of cultivation, there are many people who have better cultivation than you? Moreover, in the world of cultivation, due to the strict recruitment of disciples and the scarcity of resources, many families have been formed, so There will be people who are better than you in talent and cultivation speed, there will be people who are not as good as you in everything but can enjoy many resources, so their cultivation will leave you far away, there will be people who are useless but have a strong backing and therefore look down on you, you are in the world of cultivation , just a little pawn! Just a low-level disciple who is looked down upon by most people! You may die in some inexplicable battle."

After taking a breath, Duanquanzi finally asked solemnly but calmly: "Even so, do you still want to go to the cultivation world?"

————Oh my god, there are so many missing books in the queue ahead of me.