Myriad Paths

In the Baiyue area, spiritual sources are thin, and Taoist disputes have led to many incomplete Taoist channels. Many Taoists don't even bother to come here to preach.

There are very few practitioners, and they all rely on the support of their respective kings.

The princes of Baiyue are all different people from all sides. What they have in common is that they have basically reached the end of the road.

There is no hope of breaking through to the fifth level, and there is no hope of traveling outside the territory.

They had no choice, so they chose a very simple humane method.

That is to gather the strength of everyone to achieve oneself and establish a country, using this as the foundation to tie the entire national destiny, domestic landscape, people, and even more mysterious and mysterious things to oneself.

At the cost of exposing a weakness that absolutely cannot be concealed and having many people who hinder and hold him back, he was promoted to the fifth level.

The leader of the Baiyue Kingdom can be said to be the easiest to target within the fifth rank.

If you think about it with your toes, you all know that their foundation is their country. If they destroy the country, they will probably lose their products directly.

However, Li Qi sighed.

In Li Qi's eyes, the leader of the Baiyue Kingdom was a typical owl, clinging to his dead mouse.

However, even this dead mouse is something that many people can only ask for... The method that can stably advance to the fifth level is a priceless treasure for many people, and not everyone can get it.

With this thought, Li Qi fell from the air and landed on the ground. As always, no one saw him.

So he didn't even pass the city gate and landed directly on a street in the center of the city.

Coming here, Li Qi looked around.

"This scene... is really familiar." Li Qi smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Because, in front of him, there was not the strange and imaginary scene like that of Wushen Mountain or the Tang Dynasty. It was not the kind of prosperous city. Although the style was different, it could be seen that it was a very developed city.

It is a typical feudal city, just like the original Lizhou City.

The streets are narrow and full of mortals. Each of them has some incomplete skills, but they can only be said to be barely useful. Even if they reach the peak of cultivation, they will not be able to reach the top level.

Li Qi walked on the street, with sewage flowing under his feet.

As I was walking, someone suddenly shouted from above my head: "Be careful! Be careful! Be careful!"

Hearing this, Li Qi looked up.

I saw someone above holding a toilet and was about to pour it down. Others around me hurriedly avoided it.

When Li Qi saw this, he quickly evacuated and jumped to the corner of the street.

There was only a splash, and from the attic on the third floor, a servant poured a bucket of excrement down, splashing on the street.

Li Qi actually missed this a little bit.

When I was a tracker in Lizhou City, this scene was not uncommon.

The reason is also very simple. The drainage system in the city is very poor. There are no sewers. Rich people have toilet trucks and rely on servants to collect the feces and transport it away.

Ordinary people don't even have toilets, so of course they defecate anywhere. They usually find a river or a hidden corner to solve the problem.

As for those who have a small building but are not very rich, they usually just dump it.

Because someone will come to clean it up.

Li Qi still maintained his natural state, and looked at people coming around him immediately.

It's a dung picker.

This group of people also practiced the technique. They were dexterous, carrying a bucket on their shoulders, and had shovels and pliers in their hands. They shoveled away the dirt on the ground, put it in the bucket, and then went to the next place.

Use a shovel for thin things and pliers for dry things, and quickly collect the filth on the street.

This can be sold for money. When you have collected enough, you can gather them together and sell them to farmers outside the city to help them fertilize their fields.

Yes, although methods of increasing agricultural production such as agricultural techniques, weather control, soil fertilization, and blessings from mountain gods have long been popularized in Wushen Mountain and the Tang Dynasty, Baiyue is still using farmyard manure.

Li Qi knew that the fertilizers used by humans were pills of elixir, which could maintain fertility for ten years if buried in the soil.

This thing was originally developed by humane farmers and has been widely used in various places where agriculture is needed.

Wushen Mountain directly allows the mountain energy to gather, which is more convenient.

However, Baiyue and Baiyue are not yet popular because there are too few practitioners.

It requires at least an eighth-grade peasant monk, or a pharmacist who has learned peasant magic and elixir recipes to refine it.

Similarly, you need to be able to command the local mountain gods to gather the earth's energy to fertilize the fields.

But in Baiyue, there are too few such people.

An ordinary eighth rank is enough to become the leader of a state. If one can reach seventh rank, one can basically reach the top of power in Baiyue, and the next step will be the king of the country and their lackeys.

With such a level of cultivation, it is naturally impossible to popularize these things.

Although this scene brought back memories, Li Qi still shook his head.

Baiyue, Baiyue...

Thinking like this, Li Qi suddenly became interested. He led the old horse, keeping his body in a natural state, and walked towards the river in the city of Lingxiao Kingdom.

Every city must have a river. After all, rivers are the life of the city. Without rivers or lakes, it would be difficult to get water.

For cities in Baiyue, there is no such convenient thing as running water. They have to go to the river to fetch water to drink water.

It is precisely because of this habit that water poison occurs.

People pooped and peed in the water, and there were many dead bodies in the water, but others had to go to the river to fetch water.

If there is not enough fuel for boiling, it is easy to be infected with water poisonous insects and have worms in the stomach, so you can only consult the local witch doctor.

There are very few doctors in Baiyue, and local witches are responsible for most of the medical treatment.

Li Qi used to pull boats in the water every day, so he was infected with water poisonous insects. His belly swelled hugely and was full of squirming insects.

Later, Uncle Liu hired a witch doctor for him, surrounded him with eggs and flowers, chanted spells and danced, and finally he had diarrhea and pulled out all the water poison, and then he recovered.

If you don't even have the money to hire a witch doctor... you'll probably die.

Li Qi recalled his past in Baiyue and led the old horse to the river.

There are other trackers by the river.

These trackers are basically not wearing any clothes. It is very dangerous to wear clothes to stretch the rope. If the rope and clothes are mixed together, they can easily be pulled into the water.

Of course, there is also the factor of reluctance.

The clothes are too expensive, and the stretchy ones are easy to wear, which makes me feel so distressed.

Looking at those trackers, Li Qi couldn't help but think back to what he was like when he first came to this world.

Probably similar to them.

The trackers were panting from exhaustion and kept shouting slogans.

The water flow keeps going down, but some boats need to turn around and enter the dock, or enter some tributaries. In this case, they need to go in reverse direction.

If a boat wants to move backwards in the water, it naturally has to be pulled by people.

Li Qi shouldn't have cared about it originally. According to the witchcraft, all this is 'as it should be'. Unless it affects the balance of nature, there is no need to interfere too much.

However, he somewhat empathizes with it, after all, he has experienced it himself.

So, Li Qi stretched out his hand, and a spell composed of many wisps of Qi was condensed in his hand.

This is a suppressive technique.

He hooked his other finger, and saw a tiny insect in the water caught in his hand, and then stuffed it into the suppression technique.

This is a very famous trick in witchcraft, the curse, which is a technique that uses spells to subdue people or things.

He muttered something: "The shadow accumulates and forms, and it can interact with people. It is called water poison. It poisons the countryside and kills many people..."

Following his spell, the Gu insect began to struggle crazily.

But Li Qi was already at the seventh level, how could he let these water Gu break free?

As he continued to chant the spell and the suppression technique took shape, he twisted the water poison in his hands and threw it into the river.

I only felt a burst of coolness, sweeping across the entire river in a flash!

If someone looks at all the water bugs in the entire river, they will find that all the water bugs in the entire river have been 'suppressed', and there is a magic that seals them all at the bottom of the river.

At the same time, Li Qi's face suddenly turned purple.

This is the backlash of the curse.

Curse all the water poison in the entire river...

It's not one species, but dozens of different parasitic species, which creates a chain reaction that changes ecological ranges.

It is true that the ecological niche occupied by water bugs in the ecosystem can be filled by other life forms, or it can be gradually occupied by other water bugs from outside, but there will definitely be a lot of turmoil in the middle.

This turbulence is the source of backlash, the resistance from the world where this great river is located.

Fortunately, Li Qi's cultivation was already quite strong. He was just bruised for a moment, but he quickly swallowed the backlash and returned to normal.

There is indeed something in the world's backlash, it's just a river. This river's status is at most eighth level, but it can slightly hurt him.

Outside the territory, Li Qi estimated that the backlash he would endure by suppressing an eighth-grade world would be no more than this.

Of course, he hasn't tried it, just an estimate.

This was the first time that Li Qi was disgusted with such a huge scope and group.

"This thing...if it is used to suppress the way of heaven..." Li Qi thought for a moment.

Just when he subconsciously began to think based on his discovery, he suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

There is a... uh, man in the distance?

His body exudes an aura similar to that of an official, but too inferior.

It should be a degraded official position unique to the Baiyue countries.

Li Qi had some understanding of this.

This degraded version of the official position only provides strength and blessing, but does not provide the corresponding status.

In other words, it can only strengthen your existing strength, but it will not directly upgrade you, and it will also cause a burden to the user.

If the official position is too high and your own cultivation is not good, then you will not get the blessing of this official position. Just the luck of a state brought by this official position can overwhelm people with low cultivation.

It is essentially similar to a magic weapon, but more mysterious, and incomparable to the official positions in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Qi looked at the man, wearing a robe, black and white, with a yin-yang fish on his head.

He is a wild Taoist priest...

The reason why they are called wild Taoist priests is because the Taoist sect’s orthodox head crowns have strict requirements.

Whether it is a lotus crown, a five-crane crown, or a coiled dragon crown, there are particular requirements for whoever wears the crown. If you wear a crown indiscriminately, you will be severely punished by the elders of the sect.

Only those wild Taoist priests who do not have orthodox inheritance and cannot figure out the difference will wear crowns indiscriminately.

Although the Taoist priest in front of me looks like a fairy, he has a yin-yang fish on his crown and rotates back and forth. You can tell at a glance that this is a wild fish.

"I've met the Taoist priest." Li Qi cupped his hands and looked at the Taoist priest not far away.

This Taoist priest is also in the seventh grade. He should be the prefect here, right?

Speaking of which, Li Qi only knew that this was Lingxiao Kingdom, but he didn't know where in Lingxiao Kingdom it was, so he could inquire about it.

After all, in addition to reminiscing about the past and doing something to make himself comfortable at the moment, he suppressed the water poison, and the other reason was to attract people.

Suppressing the water poison is no small matter, and it will definitely attract important people.

But I saw the Taoist priest over there, smiled at Li Qi, cupped his hands and said, "I wonder who this master is? This curse-repelling technique is really amazing. You really have a kind heart, and you can't bear to see these mud-legged people suffer." ”

"I'm not a good person, I just feel the same way." Li Qi shook his head.

He is indeed not a good person. Now, he has no intention of changing the Baiyue Kingdoms. After all, it is very difficult to completely change, and it will also break many existing balances.

When he reaches the third level or even stronger, he may be qualified to do this.

As Li Qi said, he has no intention and cannot change many things, so just let everything take its course.

He is a good person in a narrow sense. If he encounters bad things like Jin Buhuan in Qingwu City, he might help him, but if he really wants to benefit the world, Li Qi still doesn't have the heart.

Today I felt the same for these trackers, so I did this, so that the trackers in this big river can feel better in the future, that's all.

But he could not make Baiyue as developed as Chang'an of Tang Dynasty and let everyone live a good life.

"If you can empathize with others, you are already a good person. How many people in the world can't even empathize with others." The Taoist priest sighed and said.

It seemed like he felt something too.

"I wonder who you are?" Li Qi raised his hands and asked the Taoist priest.

"I am Xiamu Xiulan, the prefect of Calyx Prefecture. Seeing that your husband has suppressed water poisonous insects in this big river in our prefecture, I came here to express my gratitude." The Taoist priest bowed and saluted Li Qi.

"No need to be polite, it's just a little effort." Li Qi said.

But he immediately said: "Sir, it takes a little effort for me, but I have to work hard for at least ten years, so I still have to accept this gift."

When Li Qi heard this, he no longer shied away and accepted the gift.

However, he was a little dumb.

Calyxzhou...Huacalyx?

Is this name, in other states, just the flower stalk, petals, corolla, and stamens?

Is this really the Flower Kingdom of Lingxiao?

Is the name given to the Lord of Lingxiao too casual?

Mu Xiulan finished her salute and then looked at Li Qi: "I don't know where you are coming from, sir, and where do you want to go? When passing by Ezhou, can you please show me your friendship as a landlord?"

When Li Qi saw this, he immediately said: "I came from Liesu. I want to pay homage to the Lord of Lingxiao and take a look at the appearance of Zunfo Mountain. As for the banquet, won't you disturb the prefect?"

"Why are you bothering me? If you have Mr. Pengpi here, you will naturally be radiant. You can't ask for it." Mu Xiulan said: "Moreover, if Mr. wants to visit the King of the country, if I introduce him to you, it will be better than a headless fly." It’s better to go up.”

Li Qi was waiting for the other party to say this.

Hearing what the other party said, he said, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."