Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 26 Leaving the Taoist Temple
"What if a hundred years later, I help you get a place as a teacher?"

"No, that's not what I mean."

Yi Dong refused straightforwardly.

A hundred years is still too long.

This year is already the 1877th year of Qiantian in the Immortal Kingdom. There are still 123 years left. The Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Kingdom must be changed, and the name of the Immortal Kingdom must also be changed.

At the beginning, the Immortal Kingdom had five emperors who rotated.

These five emperors do not refer to specific individuals, but the five strongest political parties in the fairyland.

Thirty thousand years ago, the rotation of the Five Elements and Five Emperors changed to the rotation of the Eight Trigrams and Eight Emperors, and the ruling parties in the empire became eight.

One hundred and twenty-three years later, the name of the Immortal Kingdom would probably not be "Qian" anymore.

Originally, Yi Dong had no official backing. Before the rotation of the Immortal Emperor, it was unnecessary for him to seek the lowest-level position in the Taoist sect. He didn't know whether he would be targeted by the new ruling party.

In this world, even if you don't become an immortal official, you can live a comfortable life as long as you don't commit crimes.

Not only cultivators, but even mortals don't have to live in fear in this prosperous era.

In the past, Yi Dong thought that many ordinary people were living in dire straits.

But after understanding it, I found that this was not the case.

Just like ordinary people in the city, they will basically not be harmed by gangsters or other messy people.

Whenever gangs appear, they will be suppressed by the authorities.

There is absolutely no soil for evil forces to survive in the city.

Similarly, there will not be any powerful families in the city.

A noble family is one that has spiritual veins outside the city.

Those in the city are the strongest but are just ordinary immortal cultivation families.

Likewise, the safety of ordinary people in towns and villages is also guaranteed.

In the fairyland, it is basically impossible for mortals in a village or a place to disappear inexplicably.

In many villages, there are mortal law enforcement officials. When a person dies inexplicably, it is a major case that must be investigated thoroughly, and sometimes even immortal cultivators are dispatched.

It can be said that as he got to know more, Yi Dong discovered that the law enforcement in the fairyland was extremely strict and that not even the slightest bit of soil for a cult would be allowed to be born.

As for colluding with local immortal officials and local aristocratic families to exploit the people.

That's basically none.

First, many people are eyeing the position of the immortal official, waiting for you to make a mistake.

There are eight ruling parties in the empire, and the composition of many immortal officials is extremely complex, making it very difficult for officials to protect each other.

As for local noble families oppressing the people, there are even fewer of them.

Because 30,000 years ago, the Immortal Kingdom once issued a policy to nationalize the spiritual veins of many aristocratic families.

At that time, the struggle between the aristocratic families and the meritorious families was once fierce, and the immortal officials almost fell into a civil war.

Finally, after a compromise between the two sides, the Five Elements and Five Emperors became the Eight Trigrams and Eight Emperors.

Now, on the surface, the power of the aristocratic families and the meritorious families maintains harmony, but if an aristocratic family does anything out of line, many local immortal officials do not mind nationalizing the aristocratic family's spiritual veins.

In the fairyland, life is stable as long as you don't try to stir up trouble.

In this case, there is absolutely no need for Yi Dong to join the Taoist temple.

Seeing that Yi Dong was so tactless, Ding Yunxian just let Yi Dong leave.

Ding Yunxian came from a powerful family and had seen countless geniuses. Compared with the people she had met before, Yi Dong's performance at Qingzhu Taoist Temple was just so-so.

So she didn't offer a higher price because she thought Yidong was worth just that much.

Yi Dong slowly left the yard where Ding Yunxian was.

"It seems that it is time to leave Qingzhu Taoist Temple."

Yi Dong was thinking, although Ding Yunxian's expression remained unchanged, after he rejected her proposal, even if she didn't do anything, her attitude would affect many people, including Instructor Kong.

In this case, there is no need to stay any longer.

After returning to his residence, Yi Dong took out the Taoist temple's communication panel and sent a message to Instructor Kong.

After waiting for a long time, perhaps after Instructor Kong contacted the dean, he replied to Yi Dong and said that he would help Yi Dong complete the resignation procedures tomorrow.

Yi Dong rode the green ox and left Qingzhu Taoist Temple.

Yi Dong looked at the green bull under him.

I vaguely felt that the aura of this green bull was even more mysterious.

During these three years, Qingniu had also read a lot of knowledge compiled by Yidong, and even often visited the places where students were taking classes.

Because in the past three years, Yi Dong not only helped Instructor Kong, but was occasionally seconded by other instructors to help.

As Yi Dong's spiritual beast, this cow can move around in most places within the Taoist temple.

Many teachers will not avoid a cow when giving private lessons.

In many people's impressions, spiritual beasts are not very intelligent.

The monsters in this world have never managed to transform into humans.

After research by the Taoist temple, it was found that the "natural posture" of each race is the best posture for cultivation.

Moreover, in the fairy world, there are many races that are stronger than humans, and humans are not a Taoist practice.

Generally, the wisdom of spiritual beasts will only be improved after years of training.

But Qingniu is obviously different.

This cow is not a simple-minded person. It is obviously very smart, but it behaves very stupidly in front of Yi Dong.

Qingniu might also know that Yi Dong knew it very well, because sometimes when it got anxious, it would blatantly look at the jade slips that Yi Dong had compiled in front of him.

“This cow, will it learn modern methods and change its own skills into modern ones?” Yi Dong had a doubt in his mind.

The cow under him must have inherited some memories, because Yi Dong had seen it practicing more than once in Zijin Mountain, and the practice seemed to be different from what it was doing now.

However, even if Yi Dong knew that this cow had learned Jin Xiu's martial arts, he would pretend not to know.

After all, he had no intention of training this cow.

This cow and its mother cow left a large group of little blue cows in Zijin Mountain, but none of them inherited its bloodline. Not to mention auspicious beasts, they were not even spiritual beasts. It was obvious that it gave birth to a bunch of hybrid cows with inferior bloodlines.

It can be seen that this cow mostly just dealt with Yi Dong's words perfunctorily.

In addition, Yi Dong felt that taming beasts was very troublesome. Not only did he need to replenish his spells from time to time, but he also needed to prepare various supplies for the beasts in conjunction with some special spells.

This is really troublesome, so this green bull is nominally Yi Dong's spiritual beast, but in fact it is a "free bull".

It is possible that this cow could run away at any time.

In this situation, Yi Dong naturally didn't want to train this cow which might become someone else's property at some point in time.

The situation we are getting along with is just right now.

It doesn’t matter whether this Niu Xiu practices the current technique or not.

This cow will not ask Yi Dong for advice, but will study on his own and will not waste his time and energy.

Yi Dong also pretended that the cow was a normal cow and did not have any expectations of it. He just treated it as a mount.

Walk to Bowang County.

Yi Dong always feels a sense of disconnection.

In the Taoist temple, there are all kinds of high-performance "high-tech" magical instruments.

However, in the city, it is normal to see spiritual beasts or even ordinary beasts pulling carts.

Qingniu couldn't speed up because the streets were too crowded.

There are abundant supplies on the market, and there are basically no ragged people on the streets. Whether they are mortals or cultivators, they are all well-dressed.

In this case, perhaps Bowang County is too poor, or perhaps the spiritual stones are too high-end.

Yi Dong was in charge of the production of many parts for Lingshi flying cars and flying boats within the Taoist temple.

With his current knowledge, he can manually create dozens of flying cars.

Building a flying boat is still difficult.

The main reason is that there are too many magical instruments on the flying boat now, and basically an "artificial instrument spirit" is needed to integrate them.

Yi Dong has never been exposed to knowledge about artificial spirit objects.

Of course, if it was an old version of the flying boat that the ancient cultivators used, which had some messy metaphysical formations and was welded with a few pieces of high-end alloys with inexplicable names, Yi Dong could easily make it.

However, that kind of flying boat has a slow flying speed. It takes ten days or half a month to travel from one county to another. It also consumes spiritual energy for automatic driving. It is extremely rubbish and has no value even if it is built.

Just like in the past when there were airplanes all over the world, no one would use a hot air balloon to travel around.

Therefore, Yi Dong currently does not have the ability to build a means of transportation, so to move long distances, he still has to take a flying boat in Bowang County.

Along the way, Yidong found many shops, but there were not many new versions of magical instruments.

It was not until we arrived at the Feizhou station that we saw the familiar "civilized scene".

Fortunately, there are spirit stone storage facilities in many places in the cities of the empire, just like banks.

In these places, Yidong can store and access spirit stones.

Otherwise, since there are no standard storage bags in this world, it would be a problem for him to travel.

However, what made Yi Dong a little uncomfortable was that the Lingshi card could not be used by swiping.

The main reason is that Jin Xiu’s hands-on ability is too strong now. If the spirit stones are turned into digital currency, the number of law enforcement personnel in the fairyland may increase by dozens of times.

Yi Dong took out spiritual stones at the flying boat station, bought a ticket, and then waited quietly for the flying boat to take off.

Before leaving the Taoist temple, Yi Dong asked Master Kong and several other teachers to write letters of recommendation and went to visit another Taoist temple.

Yi Dong planned to check in at each Taoist temple one by one.

By the time he visits all the Taoist temples in Qingzhou, Yi Dong should have gained some fame.

By then, you can take the opportunity to visit each of the noble families.

Most of the Taoist temples are modern knowledge.

Most of the knowledge retained by the aristocratic families is probably from ancient times.

However, all kinds of knowledge can be applied to other areas, so Yidong doesn't mind it.

Moreover, in Taoist temples, there is generally little history about the establishment of the fairyland and the period before its establishment.

The more knowledge Yi Dong came into contact with, the more curious he became about how the fairyland was established.

Was it established by invaders from the fairy world or by local strongmen?

Of course, he doesn't care about world peace.

I just want to understand why the Immortal Kingdom is so wary of sects and cults.

Could it be that somewhere, the Immortal Kingdom is still fighting against unknown enemies?
Moreover, why does the Immortal Kingdom attach so much importance to mortals?
If you want to know about history, you should know about it among these aristocratic families.

One hundred thousand years is a long time for mortals, but not very long for a family of immortal cultivators.

In Yi Dong's previous life, there were many aristocratic families with a history of thousands of years or even longer. Many people didn't know about this because their circle was too high-level.

Knowing history is of no use to the present.

But what if he achieves the Dao Foundation Establishment or even the Dao Golden Elixir?

If he succeeds in building the foundation of the Great Dao or even attaining the Golden Elixir of the Great Dao, and is used as cannon fodder by the Immortal Kingdom, then he will have to practice slowly and strive to become an ordinary cultivator.

(End of this chapter)