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outer space.

There is a manor with red walls and golden tiles built beside a lake in the ecological zone. There are two simple docks by the lake. Wang Ping is sitting on the dock fishing, Bu Qiong and Quan Wen are accompanying him, and Yu Lian is playing in the lake.

Wang Ping looked very relaxed. He placed the fishing rod casually at his feet and took a sip of tea from the teacup on the small coffee table next to him from time to time. There was a little demon nearby holding a teapot, using some secret method to keep the temperature of the tea, and from time to time he would come forward to respectfully pour tea.

"This place is great. It would be nice if I could drink tea and fish here all the time."

Quan Wen sighed softly.

Wang Ping looked up at the barrier maintained by the sky. There was some artificial fog inside acting as clouds, as well as a magic circle that maintained a constant temperature in the ecological zone. He did not respond to Quan Wen's sigh.

Bu Qiong, holding the fishing rod, glanced at Wang Ping and continued, "We spent countless resources to build this place, isn't it just so that we can practice here in the future?"

When Quan Wen was about to speak, there was movement on Wang Ping's fishing rod. It was a one-foot-long carp.

While hanging up the phone, Wang Ping said to Quan Wen, "You can just say whatever you want to say. I will do my best to help. After all, there is also a base of our Taiyan Sect here, so I should do my part."

Bu Qiong and Quan Wen looked at each other, and Quan Wen said, "It's still about the Zhongtian Mountains. We want to build a Taoist temple in the Zhongtian Mountains. We don't need a large area, just a mountain peak will do."

Wang Ping glanced at Bu Qiong and replied with a smile: "It seems that you don't understand what I mean. It's not impossible to leave a mountain in the Zhongtian Mountains for you, but now is not the time."

As he was talking, Yu Lian swam over, and he threw the fish he had caught to her. Bu Qiong asked in a low voice, "Forgive my ignorance, I don't know what you mean by friend."

Wang Ping cast the rod again and said, "Zhongzhou is ultimately the world of human cultivators. There must be people in the Zhongtian Mountains before there can be monsters."

Seeing Wang Ping speak so bluntly, Quan Wen's face flashed with embarrassment, and then he cupped his hands and said, "Everything is up to you, Taoist friend." He first discussed this matter, and then said, "There is another thing, which is what we mentioned last time, that we should jointly establish an organization similar to the Taoist Palace to manage the human cultivators and demons in Zhongzhou."

Wang Ping stared at the fishing line he cast out, and seemed not to hear Quan Wen's topic, while Quan Wen and Bu Qiong were waiting for his reply.

After a long while, Wang Ping finally spoke up and said, "This matter is not something I can decide on my own. I'll talk about it after I meet Kering."

The silence just now was not intentional on Wang Ping's part, but he suddenly felt that the fate and entanglement between the Xuanmen and Tianmen in this world suddenly had an inexplicable connection with him.

So he thought about the matter carefully and understood why there was such a connection.

In this world today, there are two alliances between Tianmen and Xuanmen. One is Vajra Temple and Taiyin Sect, who intervene in local affairs in the name of maintaining tradition. The other is Taiyan Sect, Diku Gate, Linshui Mansion, and Yuqing Sect which is independent of this alliance. This alliance should have been led by Zhenyang Sect, but now Zhenyang Sect has closed its mountain gate and is not involved in worldly affairs.

When the Zhenyang Sect was unable to move out, Wang Ping found himself becoming a key figure in another alliance. This was not intentional, nor was it his plan. He went through great pains to weaken his own existence, and even cut off the cause and effect between the Taiyan Sect and the Qianmu Temple, but he did not expect that he still could not escape the trend.

After thinking through these problems, Wang Ping had nothing to worry about. There must be a way to break the impasse under the general trend. Worrying blindly would only make him become timid like Zi Luan.

When Bu Qiong and Quan Wen heard Wang Ping's words, they knew that this was not an excuse. They looked at each other with helplessness on their faces. Although the affairs of Zhongzhou did not require the attitude of Vajra Temple, they still had to reach an agreement with them, just like the affairs of Xizhou did not require the attitude of Taiyan Sect, but Kaiyun still wanted to ask Wang Ping for his opinion.

"We will listen to you in everything."

Quan Wen kept a very low profile.

Wang Ping didn't like his behavior, so he said to him: "We are a cooperative, Daoist friend, there is no need to be so humble. Taiyan Sect also needs to rely on you in many areas."

He mainly didn't want to take on the responsibility of the demon clan, but at the same time wanted to get their help.

Quan Wen continued politely, "We are guilty, and we are able to leave the demon realm thanks to you, so we should follow your words."

Wang Ping shook his head. He could see that Quan Wen was probably pushed out by the demon clan to show weakness. Among the demon clan, only the rat demon could bow his head.

Quan Wen was a little anxious when he saw Wang Ping not expressing his opinion. When he was about to speak, he was stopped by Bu Qiong. Then he heard Bu Qiong say, "Daoyou, do you remember what I said before you went into seclusion? Daoyou Quan Wen and I are from the same gathering."

Wang Ping's heart moved when he heard this. He glanced at Yu Lian who was playing in the middle of the lake, then turned his head and looked at Bu Qiong and replied, "Of course I remember."

"On behalf of the party, I would like to formally invite fellow Taoists to join our party." Bu Qiong took out a communication token from her storage bag while speaking.

Wang Ping did not go to pick it up immediately. Yu Lian felt the change in Wang Ping's mood, swam quickly in front of Wang Ping and popped out of her big head. The figures of Quan Wen and Bu Qiong were reflected in her huge golden vertical pupils.

"We will not force any party members to do anything. No one except Bu Qiong and I will know your identity unless you reveal it yourself."

Quan Wen gave further explanation.

Yu Lian stretched her neck out of the water and spoke in human language, "Is there such a good thing?"

Bu Qiong kept handing over the communication token and said to Yu Lian, "The original purpose of the gathering was just for survival. You can think of our gathering as a market. If you are in danger, as long as you can afford the price, maybe someone will be willing to take the risk to rescue you."

This was just a polite remark, and Wang Ping could not possibly believe it. He saw from Quan Wen and Bu Qiong's eyes that their gathering was very stable. And to be able to keep a gathering stable with cultivators like Quan Wen and Bu Qiong, the one presiding over the gathering must be a cultivator in the fifth realm, or even two cultivators in the fifth realm.

Of course, they cannot be the True Lords. At most, they are from the Star God Alliance or the fifth realm of the demon race.

Various thoughts flashed through Wang Ping's mind. Yu Lian said in the spiritual sea: "Let's go in and take a look. It sounds similar to the gathering organized by Yuan Zheng before. There may be fourth-level cultivators from other sects in it. It would be good to obtain some important intelligence in advance."

This was also Wang Ping's idea, so after thinking for more than ten breaths, he stretched out his right hand and gently raised it upwards, and the communication token in Bu Qiong's hand was immediately rolled up by the wood spirit energy.

Seeing this, Quan Wen's smile deepened, and he reminded, "Our communication device is in the hands of a fifth-level star god. Since he is on the front line of the battlefield outside the domain, he usually does not appear. On the sixth day of every month, his apprentice will open the communication device for us to communicate with each other."

"It's the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. There's still half a month left. Is it mandatory to attend?"

Yu Lian deliberately asked with a curious tone. Bu Qiong shook her head and said, "The party does not force anyone to participate. Sometimes you may be the only one there. If there is something important, we will notify you in advance. Of course, it depends on your willingness to participate or not."

Wang Ping held the communication token in his hand and looked at it for a moment without making any statement.

Bu Qiong and Quan Wen did not continue talking about the party.

In the next few days, under the leadership of Bu Qiong and Quan Wen, Wang Ping inspected various important locations in the ecological zone, including the base under construction by Taiyan Sect, as well as the peripheral transfer array and spirit gathering array.

The spirit gathering array arranged here is no different from an ordinary spirit gathering array. The only difference is the material used to arrange the runes of the spirit gathering array. Under Wang Ping's "spiritual vision", there is a layer of very active energy particles on the surface of the gold powder that constructs the runes, which absorbs the spiritual energy under the starry sky like a magnet.

These absorbed spiritual energies converge along the already active rune lines of the magic circle to the bird's inner elixir at the core of the magic circle, and then are diverted from the core rune lines to provide energy supply for the entire ecological zone.

Wang Ping also saw the members of the bird tribe. Quan Wen specially opened up an entire mountain ecological zone for them. Just like Bu Qiong said, they loved to sing and their voices were not bad, but practitioners all liked quietness. It was okay to listen to them occasionally when they were in the mood, but it would be unbearable to listen to them all the time.

Generally speaking, the general structure of the ecological zone has been completed, but there are still some details that need to be worked out slowly, such as the time of alternation between day and night. Without the alternation between day and night, ordinary people and ordinary monsters simply cannot survive.

Although spiritual practice has nothing to do with ordinary mortals, the chaotic spirituality brought about by spiritual practice requires a large number of living beings to stabilize it. Otherwise, a lot of money would be needed to build equipment to stabilize the spirituality, and the maintenance cost would be very high. However, a human city not only does not require maintenance, but can also provide countless additional products.

In addition, the weather system and the circulation system need to be taken care of, otherwise the maintenance costs of various parts of the ecological zone will be very high. This step requires the mobilization of the third-level monks of the five sects of Xuanmen to formulate a special magic circle, but the side door can be used. It is not very complicated, but it is a bit time-consuming.

Before ending her journey in outer space, Que Cai got the news and came to pay a visit. She is now not only responsible for the construction of the transfer array of the outer base of the ecological zone, but also for the preparation and construction of the Taiyan Taoist temple in the ecological zone.

On the second day after returning to Zhongzhou Star, Wang Ping controlled a puppet of Zhongshan Kingdom to hand over an invitation letter to Kaiyun, inviting Kaiyun to Haizhou Road for a chat.

Kering did not refuse.

...

Although it is early winter, Haizhou Road is still sunny. After years of maintenance by Taiyan Sect disciples, the dilapidated Haizhou Road has long since recovered its vitality.

However, except for the border with Hushan Kingdom in the south, there are no people to be seen in most other areas. Although the Lan Kingdom court has been encouraging people to open up wasteland in Haizhou Road in recent years, there are very few responses.

The towns along the border were where some landlords and powerful people were forcibly relocated by the Lan Kingdom's court. In addition, in recent years, whenever someone from the court committed a crime, they were all exiled to Haizhou Road without exception, which prevented Haizhou Road from being empty.

Zi Luan also encouraged Tai Yan Sect's side disciples who had entered the country and had a cultivation level above the entry level to build a mountain gate in Haizhou Road to attract people to settle there. However, the effect was not good, because those who practiced in Haizhou Road would often be harassed by the monsters from Hushan Kingdom. In the end, Zi Luan also adopted the system of exile and sent some disciples there.

Wang Ping faced the sunlight in the sky and landed on an unnamed mountain. He looked out at the dense jungle around it and finally fixed his gaze on an official road that ran through the jungle. This was currently the only official road on Haizhou Road.

Yu Lian lay on Wang Ping's shoulder, followed Wang Ping's gaze and said, "The disciples of Tai Yan Sect have restored this place too well, causing miasma inside the jungle, making it too difficult to open up the land."

Wang Ping smiled and said, "After another hundred years of population growth, even without the imperial court's order to reclaim land, most of the jungle in Haizhou Road will disappear."

Yu Lian thought about it and did not refute. After a long silence, she said, "Mortals may look as weak as ants, but sometimes they can burst out with powerful strength."

"This is just the tip of the iceberg of their power. If we really let them develop freely, perhaps mortals can compete with the cultivation world."

"I do not believe."

Wang Ping smiled but said nothing. There were some things he could not explain.

Yu Lian tilted her head and looked at Wang Ping's smile, her eyes sparkling with light, and said, "Are you talking about a combat item similar to the 'Power Pill'?"

Nowadays, the specially made "power pill" on the market can threaten incoming monks, but the price is very expensive. Of course, the most important thing is that if the protective device on its surface is removed, ordinary people can detonate it by injecting a trace of energy, but if there is no accident, ordinary people cannot escape after detonating it.

Wang Ping reached out and gently stroked Yu Lian's head, then looked up at the blue sky and said, "Our guests have arrived."

As he spoke, he released his own aura, then he and Yu Lian built a auspicious cloud and ascended into the air. After a moment, a golden light was seen flying towards him quickly.

The golden light stopped a hundred feet in front of Wang Ping, and Kaiyun appeared in a yellow Taoist robe, holding a whisk, stepping on an illusory golden lotus, and performing a one-handed Buddhist salute to Wang Ping.

"Fellow Daoist, are you ready to entertain guests here? Why don't you invite me to your Taoist temple and sit for a while?" Kaiyun's tone was calm, and he seemed to be intentionally trying to get closer to Wang Ping.

"I don't care, but I'm afraid that you might have concerns, so I invited you here." Wang Ping responded with a smile.

"Why should I worry? Would you harm me in your dojo?"

"In that case, fellow Taoist, please come this way..."

Wang Ping bowed, made an invitation gesture, and then flew towards Qianmu Temple on a cloud.

Kering followed closely behind on the golden lotus.

Yu Lian lay on Wang Ping's shoulder, looking vigilantly at Kai Yun who was following behind, as if to prevent the old guy from launching a sneak attack.

When they arrived at Nanlin Road, Kaiyun suddenly said, "There should be no more dynasties and temples in Zhongzhou."

Wang Ping, who was leading the way, raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He scanned the towns in various places on Nanlin Road, stopped, looked back at Kaiyun, and asked, "What do you mean, fellow Taoist?"

"It literally means that since the divine weapon has landed in Xizhou, no more divine weapons should appear in Zhongzhou. Otherwise, the destiny of the world will be unstable and spiritual chaos will occur."

Kaiyun and Wang Ping looked at each other and said. (End of this chapter)