Chapter 310 Happy Funeral

Changzhou City.

It was not much different from the secular cities he had seen before.

The walls were all made of bricks and stones. In this world where great power is concentrated in itself, the symbolic meaning is far greater than the practical meaning.

At the city gate, people coming and going were all secular mortals.

But as soon as he entered the city, he keenly noticed some differences.

The spiritual energy in this city seems... a little richer than the outside world?

Chu Mu was slightly stunned, a little unsure.

His spiritual sense probed out, and he carefully felt that the spiritual energy in Changzhou City was actually slightly richer than the outside world.

It was about 30% richer.

"Spiritual vein?"

Chu Mu was puzzled. Before coming, he had already inquired about the layout of the Changsheng Sect's spiritual vein market in the northern border. This was not a secret. You could buy a detailed map by spending some spiritual stones.

But in this Changzhou City, I have never heard of any spiritual veins or markets.

He checked for a moment, and the traces of the formation ban were clearly reflected in his spiritual sense.

There is a spirit gathering array in Changzhou City!

But... this array...

Chu Mu looked a little strange.

The most important function of the spirit gathering array is to gather the spiritual energy that is scattered between heaven and earth.

According to common sense, the spirit gathering array gathers the spiritual energy, and naturally it must be isolated with array prohibitions to prevent the gathered spiritual energy from leaking out, so as to better satisfy the cultivation of immortals.

However, the spirit gathering array in Changzhou City is not like this.

Rather than saying it is a spirit gathering array, it is better to say it is a spirit gathering core.

It just gathers the spiritual energy near Changzhou City to Changzhou, and it has no other effect.

But, what is the use of such a spirit gathering arrangement?

After walking around the city, Chu Mu's expression seemed to be getting weirder.

The biggest beneficiary of such a spirit gathering arrangement seems to be the secular people in Changzhou City.

The spirit gathering core gathers the surrounding spiritual energy, but does not isolate and occupy the spiritual energy. Day after day, the spiritual energy of the entire Changzhou City is naturally much richer than that of the outside world.

The secular people living in Changzhou City live in such a concentration of spiritual energy for a long time, and their bodies, lifespans, and even their descendants will naturally benefit from it.

But...

Is Changsheng Sect doing good deeds?

Chu Mu was a little unconvinced. Although a spirit gathering array ban does not require many spiritual stone resources, would the high-ranking immortal cultivators waste resources on this mortal for no reason?

He stopped on the street, and his eyes were also locked on a carriage that was slowly approaching not far away.

Five horses pulled the carriage, and there was a patrol officer leading the way. It was obviously a secular official of Changzhou County.

His spiritual consciousness moved slightly, and the gathered spiritual consciousness was like a beam of light. In an instant, it sank into the carriage and enveloped a middle-aged man sitting in it.

Just like pulling out a thread from a cocoon, in just a few breaths, his sea of ​​consciousness memories were all visible in his spiritual perception.

"So that's it..."

As the carriage passed by, Chu Mu muttered to himself, and he understood something.

Judging from the memories he just flipped through, the scene of gathering spirits in Changzhou City does not seem to be a special case.

In all counties in the northern border, wherever the population reaches a certain scale, it is the same.

Every few years, Changsheng Sect will send disciples to test the spiritual roots of young children in various places.

Those with outstanding spiritual roots will all be accepted as disciples of Changsheng Sect.

In this way, this kind of spirit gathering array is obviously normal.

After all, a sect is different from a family. The inheritance of a family lies in the children of the family.

And a sect is open to all.

The northern border is the private land of Changsheng Sect, and it is normal to spend a little effort to manage it.

A simple energy gathering array will consume at most a dozen low-grade spirit stones in a year.

However, it can enhance the cultivation environment of the Northern Frontier as a whole, and also allow Changsheng Sect to have more and wider fresh blood.

After all, spiritual roots are destined by heaven, and it is uncertain.

Although both husband and wife have spiritual roots, the offspring born will have a high probability of having spiritual roots, but this is only a probability, not an absolute.

There is always a chance!

With the huge base of secular mortals, this chance will naturally be infinitely magnified.

Changsheng Sect casts such a wide net, and the existence of the immortal world is obviously not a secret that secular mortals in the Northern Frontier cannot access.

"So... the immortal world in the Northern Frontier should be different..."

Chu Mu thought to himself, but for a moment, he didn't dwell on it too much. This seems to be a good thing for him.

If Mr. Li really wants to withdraw from the immortal world and live in seclusion in the secular world, it is impossible for him to settle in a city where the tentacles of Changsheng Sect extend.

The biggest possibility may be to live in seclusion in a secluded place like the old man in Qili Village.

With his mind wandering, he seemed to be aimlessly wandering around Changzhou City, and only left the city at sunset.

For the next few months, Chu Mu wandered aimlessly around the entire Changzhou County.

Changzhou County has 28 counties. Perhaps because of the desolation of the northern border, the area of ​​Changzhou County is several times larger than the counties in the south.

The area is vast, but Chu Mu almost dug three feet into the ground.

Every time he arrived at a place, the first thing he did was to check the memories of the local people of status.

Although the soul-searching technique will cause harm to the soul-searched person, the fundamental reason for this harm is the instinctive resistance of the soul of the soul-searched person.

And when he searched the soul of a mortal, the gap was too big, there was no resistance at all, it was like entering an uninhabited place, there was no harm, let alone detection.

If he wanted to, it would be easy for him to plant a slave mark, distort his memory, and change his thoughts with just a thought.

The boundary between the immortal and the mortal is undoubtedly terrifying.

Under this condition, Chu Mu's search progress was obviously very fast.

After all, Li Laonai is an immortal cultivator. Even if he is determined to return to the secular world, the nature of an immortal cultivator cannot change.

If you settle down in one place, it is impossible not to leave traces behind.

Especially according to what the man said, Mr. Li is planning to get married and have children, placing his hopes on future generations, so the news must be quite big.

Shitang County.

One of the people who inspected Baihu slapped his head in a daze, as if he was confused about his lack of concentration in the broad daylight.

On the side of the street, Chu Mu withdrew his consciousness and looked obviously strange.

"The old tree is blooming, and eight flowers are blooming in a row..."

This is an interesting incident that happened in Shitang County more than ten years ago in the memory of those hundreds of households.

In Tongyou Village, Shitang County, there is an old man. It is said that he worked abroad in his early years. Now he is old and has accumulated a lot of wealth and returned to his hometown.

In such a matter, according to common sense, it is supposed to provide peace of mind for retirement.

But this old man, contrary to common sense, took eight concubines, all of them beautiful girls...

This kind of thing is undoubtedly an interesting thing that people talk about in Shitang County.

But this kind of thing seems obvious to any immortal cultivator.

In the world of immortality, almost every day in any city, you can see immortality practitioners who despair of their own immortality, give up their immortality, return to the secular world, marry and reproduce, and then place their hopes on their descendants.

After all, it is not easy for ordinary cultivators to find a Taoist companion in the world of immortality.

But secularity is obviously different.

This kind of old tree blooming, coupled with the allusion of coming home after old age, it doesn't take much to guess that he must be a cultivator who has retired to the secular world.

"Tung Oil Village..."

His eyes moved slightly, and he took a step forward, followed closely by Wangcai.

For him, a journey of dozens of miles was only a matter of seconds.

A mountain village surrounded by mountains came into view. The houses in the mountains were all ordinary mountain village houses.

But outside the village, there is a mansion covering several acres, which is very conspicuous.

only……

Chu Mu stood in the sky, frowning.

In the field of vision, this big house is now full of mourners, with white flags standing in the forest and paper money flying.

He landed in the sky, and his spiritual consciousness had invaded the mansion.

Everyone in the courtyard was wearing linen and mourning. In the lobby, a group of men and women in mourning knelt down and mourned. In the coffin, the corpse was lifelike.

He looked at the corpse, and the old face of the corpse perfectly matched the face in his memory.

With his consciousness withdrawn, Chu Mu stood in the field in a daze, not moving at all.

"Why!"

Finally, he let out a long sigh, and when he exhaled a thick breath, he could not hide his sadness.

He didn't want to see too much of life and death.

Too many people who were in their prime of life and on their path to immortality suddenly fell, their souls were extracted, and their flesh and blood were refined into spiritual materials. There were too many to count.

At the end of his life, Mr. Li could give birth to a blood heir, enjoy the happiness of family, and then die like this...

For a cultivator, this may be a rare blessing.

This should be regarded as... a happy funeral!

"Let's go and worship."

He waved his hand, showing no interest.

One person and one dog, under the influence of the concealment method, walked into the mansion as if there was no one else around. The guests, hosts and servants in the mansion all turned a blind eye.

In the hall, Chu Mu respectfully bowed down.

After paying homage several times, he looked at the people kneeling and wailing in the hall.

Most of them were women, and among them were three children of different ages, kneeling in the hall ignorantly and at a loss.

His eyes moved, and he looked at one of the middle-aged men who looked like a butler. His spiritual consciousness invaded, and his sea of ​​consciousness and memories could be seen at a glance.

More than ten years ago, Mr. Li returned to this place, built a house, married a wife and took in concubines. This man has also been the housekeeper of the Li Mansion and has been working hard to this day.

He turned over his memory and checked every detail. He didn't miss anything.

A quarter of an hour passed before he slowly withdrew his consciousness, his eyes moved, and finally settled on the children in the hall.

According to memory, these three children are the heirs left by Mr. Li over the years...

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