Mountain dwelling practice: I am a gentle guest in the world

Chapter 652

From the casual chat, I learned that since the mortal world is prone to disasters, the city lords in various places pay more attention to the reproduction of the population. If you want to be free and unmarried, then work hard to pursue the immortal path, improve your cultivation and stay away from the mortal world.

Here, boys and girls have the opportunity to change their destiny before the age of 16.

Because every two years, disciples from the sects would go down the mountain to visit and test the spiritual roots of young people. Some sects would only accept people with more than two spiritual roots, some would accept people with three spiritual roots, and small sects with little reputation would not even reject people with four spiritual roots.

No one wants the five spiritual roots. They consume too many resources and we cannot afford them.

The big sects have no shortage of resources, but they are not willing to be taken advantage of. It is more difficult to cultivate a person with five spiritual roots than to cultivate five geniuses with single spiritual roots. The five fingers are of different lengths, and even if they are cultivated, they may not be omnipotent, and there will always be a few relatively weak ones.

Unlike a single spiritual root, although five single spiritual root cultivators also have their own strengths and weaknesses, they are definitely much more reliable than one with five spiritual roots.

To give a more straightforward example, if there are two places in the sect that urgently need assistance from water spiritual roots and fire spiritual roots, if there is only one cultivator with five spiritual roots, which one should be supported first? If there are five cultivators with single spiritual roots, it will be much more convenient.

After hearing this, Sang Yue felt a little depressed.

She had never tested her spiritual roots, but when she heard something not so good, she immediately thought it was about her. Since she entered Taoism, she had basically achieved some success in the magic she practiced, and had never deliberately practiced the five elements magic, so she didn't know which one she was better at.

I hope this is an illusion and she should have more confidence in other aspects of herself besides singing.

"...In short, if a child's spiritual roots cannot be detected at the age of 16 and no sect is willing to accept them, they will have to accept their fate and marry according to their family's arrangements..."

After hearing these words, the three of them felt a little heavy.

It can be seen that the purpose of life for mortals in the spirit world is to live and reproduce. Unlike people on Earth, they can choose whether to get married or not, which is easy and burden-free. There is no need to emphasize other life pressures, as each time and space has its own pressures.

Of course, in the eyes of these three people, not being able to choose one's own marriage is a terrible thing.

But in the local area, there is nothing wrong with arranged marriage after the age of 16. What bothers young people most is that if the person their elders like is different from the one they like, then it's all over. This is often the biggest conflict between the two generations.

"Don't think that you can be independent just because you were chosen by the sect," the guests at the next table said, as it was rare for a stranger to chat with him. "It's not true..."

It is said that cultivators who have reached the Golden Core stage or above can easily be arranged by the sect to practice dual cultivation, so that they can rapidly improve their cultivation and help consolidate the sect's status.

It's not just the competition between countries and cities, the competition between sects is even more intense and fierce. If you are not careful, someone will steal your skills, or in more serious cases, you will be instigated by spies sent by the enemy, and there will be no peace within.

More serious consequences include the destruction of the sect and the death of its people, with no hope of reincarnation.

It is said that cultivating immortals is to defy fate and fight against heaven. But this is not true. In addition to demons and monsters, the opponents of cultivators are more malicious from their own kind. Some people are so cruel that even demons and monsters have to admit that they are inferior to them.

Therefore, although the mortals in the spiritual world envy and yearn for the life in the sect, if they really cannot enter, they can accept their fate calmly.

The life span of a monk is indeed longer than that of an ordinary person, but their fate is not necessarily better than that of an ordinary person. No matter whether it is a sect or a small sect, there are many cases of entire families being slaughtered by others. It is the law of the jungle.

Sometimes I feel that the short life of mortals may not be a bad thing, as there is an eight out of ten chance that monks who live long will not have a good end.

When ordinary people are in a state of peace and happiness, they envy the monks' long and carefree life. When monks are not able to die well, they envy the short but peaceful and happy life of ordinary people. No matter which kind of person is, if they cannot get what they want and cannot let go, they will inevitably experience the eight sufferings.

"...So, we should be down-to-earth and live a good life in the present more than anything else." The guest at the next table said earnestly, and the stall owner nodded as he listened. They were not monks, but they had been in the secular world for decades and still had some vision.

The three girls from other places were dressed in their own clothes. They were probably unwilling to accept the marriage arranged by their families and went out to look for the immortal mountain sect. They were still eating ordinary food in the mortal world, which meant that they had not yet found a sect that suited them.

It can also be said that they have not yet found a sect willing to accept them.

The three girls were obviously in their early twenties, and even if they had three spiritual roots, no sect would be willing to accept them. Unless they had two spiritual roots, but two spiritual roots could eat ordinary food in the mortal realm with gusto, and their future was still worrying.

How could Sang Yue and the other two not see what others were thinking? They looked at each other and smiled faintly, without making any refutation for themselves.

People have different abilities and different thoughts. There is no need to instill your own life philosophy into insignificant people. It cannot be said that ordinary people are superficial and can only see the small world in front of them. Different environments create different attitudes towards life.

"Are you a local?" Seeing that the stall owner was not busy, Sang Yue couldn't help but ask, "How many years has this town been here?"

"You've asked the right person about this question, young lady." The stall owner was a friendly person. He sat down to rest as there were no new customers. His wife and daughter were busy clearing the dishes from other tables. "From what you guys said about Xingyunzhou, you must be guests from a foreign land..."

Foreign lands refer to people who come from other worlds. They are not necessarily all monks, but also ordinary people who travel through time by chance.

As a mortal in the spirit world, I have some common sense in this regard, and calling it the native land is the best way to identify the origin of the other party. In fact, Xingyun Continent is divided into two realms, one is called Xingsui Continent, and the other is called Qingyun Fairyland.

The Xingsui Continent is a realm where humans, demons, monsters and other creatures live together. It is also a cage where the sinful immortals of the Qingyun Immortal Realm are exiled.

One can imagine the character of the exiled sinful immortal.

Over the past tens of millions of years, countless sinful immortals have been exiled to the Xingsui formation. Even though their immortal bones have been removed and their cultivation has been abolished, they are still violent and manic by nature, and still have the energy to cause harm in all directions, seriously destroying the ecological balance of this continent.

Especially since mortals were raised as sacrifices by them, the population dropped sharply.

There was a shortage of people, and in order to avoid extinction, those sinful immortals had no choice but to harm other creatures as substitutes for the population, causing all living beings to suffer unspeakably.

But six hundred and seventy-four years ago, a female fairy was demoted to the Xingsui Continent.

If other sin immortals were violent, she was even more violent than them. The proof was that she beat up all the sin immortals. She took those who obeyed her as her subordinates, and beat those who refused to obey her until they were killed, and absorbed their skills for her own use.

In just a hundred years, all the sinful immortals, demons, and cultivation families in the entire Xingsui Continent submitted to her.

Why is she so powerful? Because she is the eldest princess of the Fairy Emperor Yungong, the master of the Qingyun Fairyland. She is a general guarding the border of the Fairyland, specializing in fighting against the demons and monsters that try to capture the Fairyland Yungong. How can she not be fierce?
As to why he was demoted, no one knows.

But there are rumors that the Immortal Emperor learned that the Xingsui Continent was destroyed by the sinful immortals and all the people were suffering. He could not bear it, so he sent his most capable daughter to the lower world to rectify the evil forces.

After conquering all the powerful forces, she directly proclaimed herself emperor on the Xingsui Continent.

No matter why she was demoted, under her rule, all realms finally kept to themselves and did not invade each other. Therefore, the stall owner's ancestors lived in peace in Daliang Town for more than 300 years, which was an unprecedented blessing.

The empress's merits are still talked about by the older generation and passed down from generation to generation.