Seeking Immortality

Although there are many cultivators from various sects who cannot enter Ronghua Mountain, there are also many mortals who have lived near Ronghua Mountain for generations. Although Ronghua Mountain has gradually become a world of righteous cultivation over the years, and the number of cultivators from various sects is probably close to 40,000 to 50,000, the mortals still dominate the 300-li radius of Ronghua Mountain, with as many as one million people.

There is a reason why there are so many mortals in such a small area.

When the Righteous Alliance was established, it was based on the principle of layered defense in case of accidents. It was also thought that other cultivators would come continuously. If it was just Ronghua Mountain, it might not be able to receive them. Therefore, in addition to the many formations set up in Ronghua Mountain for solid defense, the masters also personally set up three large formations at 500, 300 and 100 li outside Ronghua Mountain, respectively, to surround the entire Ronghua Mountain. The defense is solid.

When the formation was set up, the mortals who originally lived near "Ronghua Mountain" could not be driven away. After all, cultivators are still human beings, and protecting humans is also one of the duties of cultivators. Therefore, the mortals within a radius of 300 miles were allowed to stay where they were and be protected by the Righteous Alliance, so that those cultivators below the stage of fasting could buy some things they needed in the mortal world on weekdays.

However, after the formation was set up, the Righteous Alliance got into unexpected trouble.

Over the years, the entire Shenzhou has been in chaos. Not to mention the natural disasters itself, even the battles between the gods in the sky are often just a residual force, which can destroy a village. In a few decades, the population of hundreds of millions of people in Shenzhou has been reduced by half.

In this chaos and despair. The mortals near "Ronghua Mountain" were protected by the "Qingxu Sect" and the Righteous Alliance, so they did not receive any major threats before and after the catastrophe. Although the chaos and despair in other places were heard from time to time, they felt too far away, as if it was something from another world, after all, it had nothing to do with them.

But when the news that the area near Ronghua Mountain was closed by the formation spread, the mortals 300 miles away from Ronghua Mountain suddenly thought. Isn't it because of the protection of Qingxu Sect that they can have such a peaceful life? "Ronghua Mountain" has been isolated from them for 300 miles, and even entering and leaving 500 miles is greatly restricted. So how should these mortals 300 miles away get along in this catastrophe and chaos? Where to seek shelter? How can they protect themselves?

For a time, the mortals within a thousand miles of "Ronghua Mountain" panicked and gathered together. Surrounding the isolation and protection formation 300 miles outside Ronghua Mountain, some knelt down and could not get up, or made loud noises. It seemed that the Righteous Alliance had abandoned them. The Righteous Alliance had no choice but to let these mortals pack up their belongings and gather them into the formation.

Even now, there are often a large number of refugees kneeling outside the formation to seek shelter. In this way, within 300 miles outside "Ronghua Mountain", it is really a rare densely populated place in the vast land of Shenzhou. Especially compared with the chaos and despair of the entire vast land of Shenzhou at this time, it is more lively and stable. It is a paradise on earth.

Except for the initial discomfort of the "immortals" flying around in the sky or directly descending into the crowd to buy and ask something, these mortals also accepted the new life very calmly. After all, in this era. Being alive is extremely lucky.

After adapting, these mortals no longer make a fuss about the immortals flying around in the sky. Some people even really established friendships with the immortals, and went around eating and drinking with the news of the so-called immortals all day long. And the young men of the latest generation, who were born in this situation, have taken it for granted that immortals and mortals coexist, and think that this is the way the world is.

Perhaps because mortals have a lot of contact with immortals, and those who grew up watching immortals flying around are extremely yearning for this flying ability, or in order to support such a large population, low-level immortals often use Taoism to help mortals farm and gain the worship of mortals. People are often seen kneeling in front of Ronghua Mountain to worship their teachers. In recent years, the Righteous Alliance has seen a large increase in low-level disciples, especially registered disciples. After Jiuhua joined the Righteous Alliance, it also accepted many disciples, among which there are several good seedlings.

In fact, the immortals also had a process from shock to adaptation when they saw the bustling mortal towns spread across hundreds of miles as soon as they came down the mountain.

The above is the situation near "Ronghua Mountain" in recent years.

And Xu Qingfan, after feeling that there was nothing to do, flew to the mortal world below "Ronghua Mountain".

When he descended from the sky into the bustling crowd, the crowd on the street was in chaos. They pushed and shoved to make room for Xu Qingfan to land. In the eyes of respect and admiration or awe of the mortals, Xu Qingfan stepped on the auspicious clouds, his temperament was ethereal and mysterious, and he slowly descended. He really looked a bit like the immortal in the legend. But what made the mortals feel a little strange was that the beast on the shoulder of this immortal was a crow-like thing? Could it be that this immortal with a delicate face and calm temperament was the legendary crow god?

Thinking of this, the mortals pushed and shoved again, making the space left for Xu Qingfan even larger, because in the legend, the crow god was in charge of bad luck, and wherever he went, people who saw him would be unlucky for three days...

Many people secretly decided in their hearts that they must bathe and burn incense after returning, and then find one or two Taoists to perform rituals for them to get rid of the bad luck on their bodies.

Xiao Hei rarely saw so many people. Although his two small eyes were still full of indifference, they kept looking around as his head turned. He seemed extremely curious and had no idea that he had been judged by his appearance by the mortals around him. He became a beast and even harmed his master.

Xu Qingfan, however, didn't care about the eyes and attitudes of the mortals around him, and just walked slowly towards an exquisite attic not far away. Just looking at the lively street party in front of him, he felt a little emotional in his heart. Over the years, he has been operating outside "Ronghua Mountain" all year round, and the scenes he has seen are all devastated, with beastly monks wreaking havoc, and no one alive within a hundred miles. None of the dead people had their bodies intact. Compared with such a noisy but peaceful scene, it was like heaven and earth.

After all, emotion is just emotion. One cannot indulge in emotion all the time. Just like Bai Yu's determination, it is just fleeting.

The vast land of China has developed to the present, but it has reached the point where there are merchants wherever there are people. Over the years, Ronghua Mountain will open the formation at a fixed place for a period of time. One is to allow those refugees seeking asylum. It can be entered, and secondly, it allows those bold businessmen to enter and buy.

But the place Xu Qingfan went to was a teahouse. In this place, the population was densely populated. The open space was either used to build houses or was opened up as farmland. There was no place to grow tea, and people were not eating enough, clothing or warm. When you have no fixed place, how can you care about something as elegant as drinking tea?

Precisely because of the scarcity of tea sources, there is only one teahouse around the entire "Ronghua Mountain", and it is extremely expensive. Except for a few cultivators and a few mortals with rich families, few people enter.

When Xu Qingfan first joined the Righteous Alliance, he accidentally discovered this teahouse. In this noisy world, and blocked by the high prices, it was a rare place of tranquility. He liked the environment here, and the tea art here was even better than Zhang Ningmei's. It was three points better, so whenever Xu Qingfan returned to "Ronghua Mountain" after completing his mission, he would go to this teahouse to drink tea and relax his nerves when he had nothing to do.

"Xu Shenxian, you are here."

As soon as Xu Qingfan stepped into this teahouse, the shopkeeper immediately greeted him. Seven years is neither long nor short, but it can change many things, such as turning Xu Qingfan back then into the current Emperor Yangzun, and such as Let a waiter back then become a shopkeeper now.

Xu Qingfan nodded, but the shopkeeper said: "The seat you usually sit in happens to be empty this time. Unless it is full, I will keep it there."

While talking, the shopkeeper led Xu Qingfan to the second floor of the teahouse and sat down at a corner. Most people like to sit upstairs near the window. Through the window, they can watch the bustling downstairs from upstairs and the various changes in the world. The feeling of enlightenment, as for what it is, I can't say.

Xu Qingfan was also like this originally, but at some point, he got tired of the noise in the world. He was already tired from being in the noise, so why should he feel the noise of others? So I chose a corner, quietly sipping tea alone, letting the world forget about me.

Seeing the shopkeeper leading Xu Qingfan in, everyone upstairs was stunned. At this time, the people upstairs were all mortals, and they were well-off people. They were all very discerning people, and they even understood the difference between gods and cultivators. The difference was that Xu Qingfan knew his status as an immortal as soon as he saw it. Although it was strange, he was not surprised. He just raised his hand to signal to Xu Qingfan, and then went to drink tea again.

"Old rules?"

After Xu Qingfan sat down, the shopkeeper asked.

Xu Qingfan nodded and was about to say something when he saw another person walking up from downstairs. The image of that person made Xu Qingfan slightly startled.