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

Chapter 656

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. Let Ah Shui continue to chat and laugh with Ah Lu and Ah Xing, while Sang Yue discusses in a low voice with Tu Qingyun.

He chose a place he had visited as a child and sent the image to her through his spiritual consciousness. It was late at night, and everything was quiet. He quietly put his daily necessities into the ring, put away the formation plate, and disappeared into the guest room at the same time.

Instead of being in fear all night, it is better to take a risk and leave this place of trouble overnight.

There is no need for Aman at this time. If it cuts through the void, no one knows where it will fall. It is better to use space teleportation to go to where she wants to go quietly.

The fluctuations of spiritual power that cut through the void were too great and easily attracted attention.

The two's intuition was correct. Not long after they left, three spiritual consciousnesses came over one after another. They looked at every house, and the places where spiritual energy surged were the focus of the spiritual consciousness.

Anyone who has the ability to let his spiritual consciousness probe here will naturally be able to see the target person's origin at a glance.

The Demon Palace collapsed, and the monks who were suspected of getting the treasure were killed. They died a bit unjustly, as they really didn't get the treasure. The three winners were unwilling to accept this, and began to wonder if the onlookers might have picked up a big leak behind them.

It took a long time to check whether they had hidden anything in a radius of thousands of miles.

A group of monks did come to Daliang Town, and they arrived at the same time as the butcher brothers. Some of them stayed in inns, some sneaked into farmers' houses to rest, and some inexperienced people deliberately chose to stay in the dilapidated temple outside the town.

Although he has no experience, he is definitely a good person.

The monks who chose to rest in inns and farmhouses were taking ordinary people as hostages in disguise, betting that the powerful would not dare to kill innocent people. Many powerful people did not care about karma, but those who had sympathy for the poor would most likely show mercy.

There are many cases of waiting for the monks to leave the farmhouses or inns before taking action, but accidents often happen during the waiting period.

There are many variables, so some powerful people will not wait at all. They will either rudely pull the person out directly, or kill ordinary people together. But there are still people who test the patience of the powerful and do not hesitate to implicate innocent people in order to save their lives.

Fortunately, the three spiritual consciousnesses that came this time did not kill innocent people indiscriminately, but only searched for locations where spiritual power appeared.

It did not affect ordinary people, it only targeted the source of spiritual power and searched their souls.

To say they are ruthless is because they did not harm ordinary people; to say they are merciful is because they directly used soul search, completely disregarding the life and death of these low-level monks, or whether they could remain sane after the soul search.

If one has a strong will and can withstand the torture of the soul search, one will only be weak for a period of time before recovering.

If one's willpower is weak, the soul search will end as an idiot.

The original intention of these powerful people was to find the magic weapon of the Demon Palace, and they had no intention of hurting anyone. If they hurt someone, then they hurt someone. Just as they did not deliberately take someone's life, but if someone became an idiot, it was because of the person's low cultivation level, and it was not anyone else's fault.

The cultivators who had been to the Demon Palace had more or less traces of the residual aura of the seal on them, and the three spiritual senses used this to find the onlookers in the source of spiritual power.

As soon as the butcher brothers returned to the inn, Sang Yue used the Dust Purification Technique on them, and there was almost no energy left in their bodies.

Before leaving, he put away the array disk and cast a cleansing spell on the two guest rooms to clean up the aura of the group. When the three spiritual senses searched, the two guest rooms were completely ignored and no trace could be found.

The next morning, the waiter of the inn knocked on the door to deliver water, but there was no response after knocking for a long time.

Seeing that the door was not locked, I pushed it open and took a look. The beds were cold and neatly made, with no signs of anyone staying there last night. Both rooms were like this, not as lively as yesterday, so I guessed that the guests had left overnight.

Just go ahead. These guests paid a silver ingot when they checked in, which was a full 100 taels, enough for them to stay for a few days. Now they are leaving and they are not allowed to refund it. I guess they don’t want it anymore.

As expected, he was a generous rich man. The waiter was very happy and excitedly carried water to the guest room that he had just checked into last night. Not long after, a horrified scream tore through the tranquility of the small town...

Away from the dangerous area, Sang Yue and his group came to the place where Tu Qingyun had been when he was a child.

Unfortunately, the village there has become a ruin. Looking around, there is not a single intact house. Some are completely collapsed or half collapsed. The strange damage does not seem to be caused by a natural disaster, but more like a beast passing through.

After arriving here, the group did not rush out.

After a whole day of resting in the space, Sang Yue rested and ate and drank enough. Sang Yue weighed her own skills, and then condensed a light curtain to trace the source of the external environment, and indeed saw the surging beast tide.

I saw in the tracing of the source that there is no one living nearby.

Just over a decade ago, on the night when the beast tide came, fortunately, disciples of the sect arrived in time to rescue some survivors and sent them to a city thousands of miles away.

The sect disciples said that the vibration of the earth's crust caused the earth veins to cross and disorder, resulting in changes in the ground's aura. The aura that seeped out of this area was particularly favored by birds and beasts, and they would appear in the village from time to time.

In other words, this place is no longer suitable for human habitation.

Not to mention the villages, even the towns a hundred miles away were all relocated. After the intervention of the sect disciples, the cities a thousand miles away were willing to accept these disaster victims. Of course, those who did not want to go could find a better place on their own, and no one forced them.

As for whether the other place would be willing to accept them, it is unknown. Anyway, the disciples of the sect don’t have the time to make a special trip to plead for them.

Over the past decade, as the sect disciples said, there has been a tide of beasts from time to time, with varying sizes. For ordinary people, it is enough to have a strange beast enter the village, not to mention that they come from time to time.

Fortunately, the villagers have already moved away, and occasionally some wandering cultivators come here to rest, and if they encounter strange beasts wandering here, they can have a good opportunity to learn from them.

Sometimes it is a human who dies, sometimes it is an animal that dies.

Some people subdue the beasts for their own use, and both the man and the beast leave safely; sometimes the two sides fight hard and each finds a chance to escape. Looking back on the past few years, everyone came to the conclusion that this place is indeed not suitable for living.

Who wouldn't want to live in a place with beautiful scenery? Besides, most of Sang Yue's group were cultivators, and low-level cultivators also had their own aspirations.

But this place is obviously not suitable, we need to look for it again.

"How about we go to the city and look for one?" Lu Qingzi suggested, "Settle down in the city first, and then slowly look for a better place to practice. But the question is, do unmarried young people have to pay taxes in the city?"

Everyone is poor to begin with, and we can't always ask Asan to take out the spirit stones, as that will empty her family's fortune sooner or later.

"Also, do we need a pass or ID to enter the city?" Tang Xingzhu suddenly thought of this. "By the way, should we change our names? It seems that all cultivators have a Taoist name..."

"If you want to enter the city, you do have to change it," Tu Qingyun looked at everyone and said, "but it's not us who have to change it. There is a gate five miles away from every city, and there is a half-life stone next to it..."

Test each person's first half of life or previous life to come up with a suitable Taoist name, and then get an identity token.

It is any city, whether it is in the mortal world or a city of monks.

This is to facilitate the mainland government to keep track of every cultivator's whereabouts at any time, unless the other party does not enter the city and does not pass any checkpoints. Many independent cultivators who do not want to be known by others are like this, and often illegally cross the checkpoints.