Tao and Heaven

Chapter 78 Entering Luoshui and Seeing the Great Struggle

In the eighth month, at noon in Luodu, a market is held, where people from all over the world come to trade and gather goods from all over the world. After trading, everyone gets what they want.

There are thirteen categories of markets, including the common markets of medicinal materials and treasures, tea markets, horse markets, vegetable markets, rice markets, etc. There are also markets opened according to the seasons.

March is the silkworm market, April is the brocade market, May is the fan market, June is the incense market, July is the seven treasures market, August is the osmanthus market, and September is the medicine market.

The prosperity of Luodu lies in the fact that eight markets out of the thirteen cities are open all year round. If there are no goods to be delivered from one place, merchants from other places will naturally send them to sell. At worst, there are substitutes.

Gu Wen and his party walked through the medicine market, where they were overwhelmed by all kinds of rare treasures. Gu Wen bought everything he saw that had spiritual power. He spent more than a hundred taels of silver in one trip, and he only robbed three hundred taels from the official ship.

Silver is still valuable, but Gu Wen has been in Longqiao for too long and the threshold is too high.

The herbs he bought were not good. After taking all of them, he didn't even have one celestial marrow left. In Ao Tang's words, they were all auxiliary herbs and could not be used as the main herbs for alchemy, but it was better than nothing and saved them from having to look for them themselves.

Suddenly, a wave of magical power was heard, and Gu Wen's ears moved slightly. He looked up at the southeast eaves as if he had predicted the future. It was a three-story restaurant, which stood out in the entire capital.

Soon after, two figures shot up into the sky, stepping on the silk tassels hanging from the eaves. Just like in a martial arts novel, they stood on each side of the eaves, one holding a sword and the other holding a gun.

This immediately caused countless people below to exclaim and gather around to watch.

"No. 22 on the Human Ranking, Luo Bing, please give me some advice, Brother Dao."

"No. 11 on the Human Rankings, He Huan."

The two men attacked within a radius of less than ten steps from the eaves of the house. The swords flashed and the spears collided. The swordsman opened and closed his swords vigorously, while the spearman was like a swimming dragon. Each of them had his own style, but it was definitely not something that ordinary people could do.

Gu Wen looked at the gunman in white clothes and asked in surprise, "Why is he here?"

Ao Tang asked in a voice transmission: "Do you know him?"

"He Huan is my friend. He was in Bianjing before, but now he has come to Luoshui."

Gu Wen was a little dazed. He didn't expect that a month had passed in the blink of an eye. He escaped from Bian Jing and walked and stopped all the way to Luoshui.

And a month had passed since he went from being a house slave to being a free man.

Ao Tang stared at He Huan for a moment, then recognized him and said, "So it's the guy from Yin Yang Qi Sect. I remember he has good aptitude and possesses an extremely yang body. He can quickly advance his cultivation as long as he has intercourse with a woman."

"There is such a divine body?" Gu Wen took a breath of cold air. He asked in a voice transmission, "Doesn't that mean that as long as the yin and yang intercourse is enough, one can become an immortal?"

His interest in sex was only in the physiological reactions, and after practicing, he was able to completely control it, so he was not very interested. But when it came to increasing his cultivation, it was different, not to mention that this extremely yang body was against an ancestor in his memory.

Huangdi had three thousand concubines and ascended to heaven in broad daylight.

There are also stories that Huangdi ascended to heaven after having sex with 1,200 women, but they basically all talk about the union of yin and yang. The cultivators in this world are also not opposed to the union of yin and yang, but their philosophies are different. Only the Pure Cultivation Sect emphasizes a pure mind and few desires.

Buddhism has the Laughing Buddha, and Taoism has the Yin-Yang Sect.

Ao Tang said: "This kind of method is theoretically the most in line with the heaven and earth, but the yin and yang of the heaven and earth do not only exist in intercourse. After the fourth realm, the strength is actually in the middle and lower levels. However, this boy is extremely intelligent and is not pleased by beautiful people. He lacks many causes and effects."

"What is this?"

Gu Wen thought of his partner's habit of marrying a wife based on love alone. There is a song with the lyrics "You ask me how much I love you", and other than that, status, appearance, and chastity are not considered.

He Huan may have hundreds of wives, but he doesn't feel that they live in a crystal palace, but rather run a charity relief home. Ao Tang asked, "Suppose you are engaged to a daughter of heaven, and then look for another woman because of your physique and skills, what will happen?"

Gu Wen glanced at Yu Hua beside him inexplicably, and then replied, "He will die."

"At least they became enemies. This is karma." Ao Tang said in a teaching tone, "Although I like to watch young people in love, you should be careful, Second Ancestor. Don't get involved with too many women. At least you should be very careful about matters between men and women."

"Love is hard to understand, so don't get involved."

"rational."

While the two were talking, the winner had already been decided. He Huan shot his opponent down with one shot, and he fell into the brothel on the next street. Suddenly, there was a burst of screams from women, and the crowd of onlookers blocked the road.

They were just competing, but they caused chaos on several streets.

He Huan laughed loudly, then pointed his gun downwards, but because of the buildings, it was unclear who he was targeting.

"Even if you all come together, you may not be able to take away my eleventh place on the list."

"How did you lose the tenth place?"

"Humph, I lost to Brother Hongchen because I am not as skilled as him. Do you have any Dharma images? You are showing off your skills in front of experts and welcoming heroes from all over the world. There are not many capable people here. You are just a bunch of chickens and pot dogs."

Perhaps he was too arrogant, or perhaps they already had a grudge against each other. Another man flew into the air and fought with He Huan again. As expected, he was also defeated.

Gu Wen found a teahouse nearby and sat down. He heard singing and saw a young man in white standing on the Luo River, looking down on all the geniuses, showing the style of being ranked eleventh on the Human List.

Lao He can still fight.

The people watching the show in the teahouse seemed to be familiar with these people and even knew their rankings on the list.

The twentieth talisman genius on the Human List, the fifteenth swordsmanship prodigy on the Human List, and the ninth on the Earth List, the Vajra Indestructible. Such words were constantly sung, and people at the dinner table kept arguing about who would win and who would lose.

As for the specifics of these people, the public did not know, but they only knew that a month ago, more and more strange people and things poured into this place, and people fought every day. At first, when people saw them flying around, they were scared and hid, but later they were no longer afraid.

The storyteller in the teahouse, Lang Lang, said loudly: "The last time the book was told, Master Bujie and the fairy Fuyun Gong Ruoyun were fighting on the river bank. The fairy Fuyun Gong Ruoyun was from the fourth Yunxiao Sword Sect of the military strategists. She was so beautiful that she could only be defeated by a master of swordsmanship."

Gu Wen from upstairs dropped a tael of silver and asked, "Old sir, who is the fifth military strategist?"

The storyteller picked up the silver and said, "Sir, I heard these from outsiders. We ordinary people don't know. We only know the first Zhejian Mountain, the second Qianlong Villa, the third Hunyuan Sect, and the fourth Yunxiao Sword Sect."

"And the first one is the famous swordsman of Luoshui, Qingfeng Sword Xiao Yunyi. At this time, we have to talk about the story of Master Xiao who broke through Lianyun Village alone and cut off the river with one sword. It is said that he had a marriage with Fairy Fuyun."

A beautiful woman with a great reputation, a chivalrous man who fights bandits single-handedly, and a warrior with the strength to move mountains.

It is so dazzling to watch, and it feels like a great struggle.

This is also a scene that cannot be seen in Bian Jing at all. In Bian Jing, people who enter the world are very well-behaved, so much so that Gu Wen did not notice the existence of the cultivators for a long time.

The world belongs to the Zhao family only in the image of Bian Jing. In reality, the sect and the Zhao family share the world.

(End of this chapter)