The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 89 The Spirit of All Things
Since the founding of the country, the Tang Dynasty has a vast territory and numerous feudal towns, which can be roughly divided into ten commanding mansions and 360 prefectures.

And Tanzhou is a state under the jurisdiction of Jiangnan Daotong, a remote state town that is not considered wealthy.

According to some unreliable official records, during the Yuanhe reign of Emperor Xianzong, Tanzhou had six counties, 69 townships, and about 440 households.

And Changsha County, or Changsha County, is one of the six counties under Tanzhou.

"This should be the first time I have traveled far in my life, right?"

Muttering softly, I saw Pei Wende walking alone on the only official road leading to Changsha, and from time to time looking at the pedestrians on both sides.

It was different from the mountain trails I had walked before.

The official road of Datang is a road that is uniformly built and maintained by the government. The whole process is paved with cobblestones and bluestone slabs.

Thanks to this, Pei Wende only felt that his footsteps were a little lighter, and he no longer had the difficulty and pain of walking through the mountains before.

"The road of this era is much more difficult than I imagined."

In Pei Wende's previous life in the 21st century, the distance from Weishan to Changsha was at most a few hours' drive.

Affected by the inherent impression of his previous life, Pei Wende didn't feel how far this journey was at first.

Therefore, he intentionally or unintentionally ignored Li Yanran's surprise and admiration when he heard that he planned to go to Changsha alone.

It was only when Pei Wende officially descended the mountain and moved in two ways with Hui Jibing that he realized that he seemed to have underestimated the difficulty of the journey.

The Tang Dynasty in this era is not comparable to China in the 21st century.

In a remote place like Tanzhou, it would be nice to have an official road built by the government and maintained all year round.

Most of the remaining country roads are not even "roads", at best they are some traces of pedestrians who come and go.

The roads built by a few local governments themselves, not to mention that the materials are not comparable to the official roads, and it is very lucky to be able to leave when there is a lack of funds for maintenance all year round.

It can be said that even Pei Wende, who has amazing physical strength, couldn't hold on this way from those rural roads in the mountains.

However, Pei Wende knew in his heart that he had only just stepped out of the boundary of Weishan Mountain, and he was still nearly a hundred kilometers away from actually arriving in Changsha.

"Ten miles have different sounds, and hundreds of miles have different customs. It's really not an exaggeration."

Can't help but sigh, Pei Wende finally knows why there is a saying in ancient China that "there are different sounds in ten miles, but different customs in a hundred miles".

Just looking at the road conditions, apart from those scholars who want to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and businessmen who are on the go all year round, which ordinary people would run out?
Not to mention the beasts and robbers that may be encountered along the way, they are definitely disaster-like existences.

Thinking of this, Wen Wende especially admired Zen Master Lingyou who trekked mountains and rivers all the way while holding himself as a baby.

Only by experiencing it personally can we know how hard Zen Master Lingyou was at that time.

[So, you can retire in Tongqing Temple with peace of mind! 】

[These monsters and ghosts that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, leave it to me and Huiji to deal with them! 】

Considering that Li Yanran's body has not fully recovered, someone must stay in Tongqing Temple to watch the house.

Pei Wende, who had long noticed that Chan Master Lingyou might have been seriously injured when he was young and had sequelae, ignored the other party's objections and insisted on letting him stay on the mountain.

In his words at the time, the old man had to obey his old age obediently, and stop running around like young people.

As for Pei Wende himself?
Ze and Hui Ji Ze split into two groups, going to Mulian Temple and Changsha County respectively.

After all, there is also a sorcerer Taoist priest of unknown depth at Mulian Temple, so Huiji, who is more experienced and better at tracking, is naturally a perfect fit.

"The top priority is to solve the problem of how to get to Changsha before dark."

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Almost at the same time, the little green snake seemed to be aware of Pei Wende's troubles, and quietly emerged from his collar.

"hiss!"

Under the cover of Pei Wende's clothes, the little green snake, who had concealed his figure, was spitting out snake letters, and at the same time looked at the humans passing through the official road with curious eyes.

"hiss!"

On this official road, which is enough for two or three carriages to run side by side, people of all colors are driving carriages with goods galloping on it, showing a scene of prosperity and wealth.

However, although this official road is not as rough as the mountain trail, it is not so easy to walk.

Even for a practitioner like Pei Wende, it is very difficult to find a place to rest, let alone those farmers and businessmen who are already in a hurry.

The pedestrians who came and went braved the scorching sun, sweating profusely and looking weary, but they did not dare to stop at all, for fear of delaying the time.

As for the occasional post stations and teahouses on the road, they are already overcrowded.

Whenever one person leaves, two people will squeeze in immediately, making the already hot air even more turbid.

"hiss!"

Silently watching the passing crowd, the eyes of the little green snake are full of human confusion at this time - it cannot understand the "abnormality" of these human beings.

In the common sense of the little green snake, any creature who wants to embark on the path of cultivation must first activate his spiritual wisdom and become a master.

After opening the nine orifices and refining the qi veins to become a demon, then one has the opportunity to turn the acquired nature into the innate, and embark on the real path of detachment.

Just like the little green snake itself, it is born with fewer nose and ear openings than other animals.

Therefore, if the little green snake wants to embark on the real way of cultivation, it must first make up for the defects of these two orifices, so as to increase its success rate of avoiding catastrophe and transforming into a demon.

In other words, creatures like humans are born without the hundreds of years of hard work of ordinary monsters, and can be said to be one of the most suitable species for cultivation.

But why do these human beings, as far as I can see, clearly possess the spiritual wisdom and nine orifices that monsters dream of, but they don't think about how to get rid of their own congenital defects?

Instead, they braved the scorching sun and ran in the fields to pursue the wealth and rights that were not brought with them in life or taken away in death?
"hiss!"

The little green snake who couldn't figure it out shook its head lightly, then looked up at Pei Wende who was sweating profusely but still walked forward.

Just like those businessmen that the little green snake can't understand, Pei Wende, who seems to be out of tune with his kind and independent, is also an object that it can't understand.

How could there be such a person as Pei Wende in this world—just because of his own sense of justice and compassion, he would go all the way to Changsha to get rid of ghosts?

From the point of view of the little green snake, this is even more incomprehensible than those businessmen who are trying their best to pursue wealth.

It can be said that those businessmen are doing it for their own benefit, but people like Pei Wende are clearly doing their best for the benefit of others.

In the end, the little green snake can only attribute all this to the particularity of the human race.

Perhaps this is also the reason why human beings can get rid of their own animal nature and become the real "spirit of all things" above demons and ghosts?
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(End of this chapter)