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At the dining table in the private room, Lan Tianzhi, wearing a cosplay costume, put down his chopsticks and talked to Yang Sheng.

He changed his theme today. He didn't wear the spearman's uniform, but a modified Hanfu that imitated an ancient nobleman. He was probably a character in a game CG.

"I don't deal in antiques, can you tell me about it?"

Yang Sheng had almost finished eating and put down his chopsticks.

Emily, Nina and Lina nearby had no pressure to lose weight and of course they enjoyed the food to their heart's content. Especially the latter, when they came across food they liked, they would usually order at least ten servings. They were simply the store's most welcome customers.

"It's nothing, it's just a bad habit left over from the old society. I don't know when those who play with counterfeit antiques started to have the right to speak in the antique circle. Gradually, a rule was formed that as long as the counterfeit is not exposed in person, it cannot be investigated afterwards. To put it bluntly, it's a group of people who have the right to speak in the antique culture circle, bullying those who don't know the business. To put it bluntly, it's just cheating. Later, I don't know how, this trend spread to our cultivation world, but we cultivators are different from ordinary people. Although there are those who cultivate their body and mind, there are more people who indulge in desires and act on impulse. Sometimes, the thoughts are not clear and become demons in the heart. The domestic security environment was also chaotic during that period..."

Lan Tianzhi took out a folding fan from his waist and unfolded it with a snap. His movements were graceful and elegant, and he really imitated the behavior of an ancient nobleman to the fullest.

"…Although we practitioners do not interact with the secular world, things like crime scenes or corpses

The things of the world of cultivation and the secular world are not distinguished, so it has caused many malicious incidents with bad influence. Later, the state specifically analyzed many cases and found the root cause. Together with the professional counterfeiters in the antique world, they made great efforts to rectify this unhealthy trend.

In addition, since ancient times, many people have been involved in mysticism and secret societies. There are official statistics in this regard. Among the various secret societies that have been uncovered, only 3% are relatively normal. The organizers are mainly due to their own lack of strength, or they have some opponents or enemies, so they use mysticism to disguise themselves. The remaining .something are all the dregs of feudal societies. They either take the opportunity to spread superstition, or take the opportunity to make money. Some also ask the congregants to sacrifice their wives, daughters and property. The most disgusting ones are some second-rate people who even believe in the Western Dark Church, thinking that they are the true gods in the world, and have carried out several sacrifice incidents in the country.

The state has vigorously rectified the order of the spiritual world, and the special affairs departments in various places also have the right and obligation to resolve disputes and conflicts. Now, no matter what kind of hatred or grudge, it is not more important than the law. Events such as vendettas are all prohibited. No matter what kind of conflicts there are, they can be arbitrated in the special affairs department. Therefore, the three percent of people have no basis for existence, and all secret associations have been banned."

Yang Sheng and his companions listened with great interest. Such a thing did not exist in the other parallel worlds.

Emily asked curiously, "But aren't you practitioners generally associated with feudal superstition? If you ban and crack down on those feudal sects, won't you also suffer losses?"

"Haha, scientific cultivation... Well, no, it's scientific cultivation. Even if there really are immortals, they are just stronger than ordinary people in terms of martial arts or other abilities. They can neither bring about the advancement of thought nor the liberation of productivity. Instead, ordinary believers have to provide for them, or occupy high-quality natural resources. Why believe in such things? Besides, cultivation is just training, it's just that the level that can be reached is higher. The country has long since discovered most of the principles of cultivation, and even cracked many of the techniques that have been passed down... Let me show you something. You may have been closed in the secret realm for too long and don't understand the things in the cultivation world."

Lan Tianzhi took out a small silk bag from his lower back. This was a special equipment only possessed by high-end practitioners in this mysterious country of the world, also known as the "Sumeru Mustard Seed" equipment.

When we say that only high-end practitioners have it, it doesn't mean that it is difficult to obtain, or that it is so expensive that ordinary practitioners cannot afford it. In the Dharma Ending Age when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is exhausted, this kind of equipment cannot maintain its special nature on its own. Either there must be supernatural resources such as "spiritual stones" to act as an energy source, or one must rely on one's own cultivation to refine high-level spiritual power to nourish the "Sumeru Mustard Seed" equipment in order to maintain its "space" characteristics.

"Spirit Stones" in this world are rare and priceless cultivation resources. Even people find them too scarce to use, so how can they be used on storage equipment whose storage space is usually less than one foot square? Refining high-level spiritual energy to nourish the "space bag" is an ability only high-level practitioners have. It is purely a matter of strength. Most practitioners do not have this ability.

Speaking of this kind of "storage equipment" with the appearance of a satin bag, its cost is very cheap in this world. You can buy one for a few thousand RMB, but in order to activate and maintain its function, you must be either very powerful or very wealthy.

For most ordinary practitioners, it is obviously not cost-effective to consume their own cultivation or spend a high price to maintain a "Sumeru Mustard Seed" with a storage capacity of about 1 foot square.

Lan Tianzhi is the former. With his current strength, the consumption of his own cultivation is within his tolerance. However, in recent times, he has made a lot of money by acting as a middleman to sell "cultivation resources" to Yang Sheng, and can be considered a cultivator with small assets.

What he took out from the storage device commonly known as the "Qiankun Bag" was a reading material.

Yang Sheng took it and looked at it for a few seconds, his expression turned into an "embarrassing" one.

Emily came over to take a closer look at the cover. She was stunned at first, then she couldn't stop laughing.

"Basic Breathing Technique (Introduction to Taoism)".

Produced and printed by the Ninth Bureau of Mystic Kingdom Education Press.

Seventh revised edition in 2004 - official version.

Yang Sheng flipped through a few pages, and a smell similar to the martial arts secrets in TV dramas hit him, except that this was a printed material, and it was extremely well made. Even the paper was not ordinary paper, but coated paper.

The illustrations above are not simple sketches, but are carefully drawn by painting masters, and are accompanied by a large amount of text descriptions and reference sources.

"Uh, wait, is this an officially published cultivation manual?"

"Hehe, you really don't know..." Lan Tianzhi looked at Emily and was a little surprised by her laughter. "It's no longer a secret book. It should be called a textbook now. Any practitioner who has officially registered with the Special Affairs Department can buy it at the book price."

"Is this... reliable?" Yang Sheng raised the "textbook".

"This is a joint revision of the three major Xuanmen orthodox sects, Longhu, Wudang, and Zhongnan. Six versions were tried out before this one was finally finalized. Our Special Affairs Department supervises and ensures fairness. Although the things placed here seem few, they are all the unique methods of the three major Xuanmen orthodox sects that will not be passed on to others. They are much more advanced than the breathing method of our Songshan School before."

Yang Sheng: “…”

He continued to flip through a few pages and said, "So, it was the government that broke the monopoly of this cultivation knowledge.

, pull the practitioners down from the altar?"

Lan Tianzhi was stunned, and with a click he folded the folding fan and slapped it on the palm of his other hand. He pondered for a moment and said, "Huh? How come you sound like you've studied Marxism-Leninism and Zhang Gai? But you're right, it's indeed like that."

Yang Sheng thought: "It seems that the ancestor of this world is named Zhang..."

On the surface, he said: "How fresh! Middle school textbooks don't have this kind of material. How hard is it to find it?"

"That's right," Lan Tianzhi nodded.

"But even a big tree has dead branches, and there will always be those traitors. The authorities are not worried about the spread of cultivation knowledge, especially to foreign countries..."

Yang Sheng stopped talking halfway and changed his words, "Ah, tsk, I forgot. Without the resources for cultivation, ordinary people probably can't cultivate anything. If foreigners cultivate these things, they will also learn the Taoism of the mysterious country in disguise. On the one hand, these are our things. If we can't compare with foreigners who have changed their ways in cultivation in these ways that are suitable for the physique of people in our mysterious country, then we might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill ourselves. On the other hand, there is no distinction between people in education. Hehe, since they have inherited our Taoism, they naturally have to worship us as their ancestors... Isn't this what Tongtian Sect Master does?"

"From the perspective of cultural diffusion, this is a really big picture..."

Yang Sheng read it and muttered to himself as if explaining it to Lan Tianzhi.

The latter was still pondering the previous part. After hearing this, he was silent and thought for a long time. He asked, "Who is Tongtian Sect Master?"

Yang Sheng said without even raising his head, "In myths and legends, there is an unknown ancestor of cultivators. According to legend, he accepted many disciples, regardless of race or region. As long as they worshipped him as their ancestor, even beasts and monsters, he would spread the great way to heaven. In ancient times, he was a top internationalist force."

"Well, maybe I haven't read enough books. I haven't seen any records of this passage in any classics..."

"Who knows if it's true or not, maybe it's just an ancient myth or legend."

Yang Sheng finished reading "Basic Breathing Technique (Introduction to Taoism)", closed his eyes and silently read for a while, opened his eyes to check again, and handed it back to Lan Tianzhi, asking: "Is this the only basic reading material? Are there any others? Give me a few more."

"The great way is to keep it simple, but we... most of the basic reading materials of the current cultivation sects, in addition to this basic introductory cultivation knowledge, also include "The Criminal Law of the Mysterious Kingdom", which is the first introductory mental method. Do you want to read it?"

Lan Tianzhi looked at Yang Sheng and asked mischievously.

"That's not necessary..."

Yang Sheng thought: "I watched a lot of legal education videos by Zhang San, the lawless criminal, so I don't need to study criminal law specifically. Besides, whenever I get into a conflict with someone for no reason... it's usually the job of the lawyers I recruit..."

"But this mysterious country in this world does give people a lot of surprises. I didn't pay attention to these details before..."

……

The next day, I saw a very ordinary two-story red brick house by the river.

This place is about ten kilometers away from Shannan City, on the boundary between the urban outskirts and the rural areas. However, due to environmental protection and river protection policies, the original farmland was moved to a farther place.

Most of the villagers have moved away, leaving only a few elderly people who are reluctant to leave their hometown.

So the houses here are very cheap... Don't get me wrong, the land here is agricultural in nature and the property rights cannot be purchased, even for cultivators, but it is still possible to rent.

Because of the river protection policy, the farmland around the village has been converted back to forest or restored to wild wetlands, so the environment is very good.

This "very good" refers to Yang Sheng's family. For ordinary people and even the practitioners in this world, the conditions here are a bit poor. It is very humid and there are many mosquitoes. Without certain basic conditions, it is a bit painful to live here. This is also the reason why the original villagers moved away.

Two of the three connections are available here, namely water and electricity, but there is no sewer. The original villagers and residents discharged their wastewater directly into the river. Natural water bodies have self-cleaning capabilities, and what the villagers discharge is domestic sewage. Considering the residential density, it does not cause any pollution to the environment at all, and may even provide a lot of nutrients to the surrounding environment.

For example, the toilet here is called a "clean water toilet". When people use it to relieve themselves, fish that eat dirt will start eating below... This catfish, which is of unknown species, is rarely caught and eaten in this area. Even if it is caught by accident, it will be thrown back into the water with disgust.

Not only Yang Sheng, but the three girls in the family, including Luo Ruier and Zhuo Yisi who appeared secretly almost every day, all remembered the appearance of this fish. They would probably never eat the same fish as these fish when they return to other worlds...

Similar to the "Songshan Temple", Yang Sheng's family rented an independent courtyard here to live in. It was a two-story bungalow with yards and balconies in the front and back. It was somewhat similar to the villa community in Shanghai City in the "World of Heavenly Demons and Insect Pests". The houses were all located by the water, but the conditions here were more wild and primitive.

Moreover, we cannot invest in improving the living conditions here... The reason is that the entire village is going to be abandoned, and only some elderly people are still alive, so the appearance of this place is preserved.

If these elderly people want to improve their living conditions, that's fine, but Yang Sheng's family, who are tenants, cannot.

It's not that there are no other better places to live, nor is there no money. Yang Sheng can just sell some things or show some "magic power" to get

A lot of wealth.

He lives here simply because it is relatively secluded and allows him to think about how to develop in this world.

We have been playing for more than ten days, and the girls are not tired, but they feel a bit like aesthetic fatigue. They can also relax here.

Being regarded as a middle school student with a second-year syndrome from a "secret realm" made Yang Sheng feel somewhat amused and helpless.

He didn't expect this world to be so special, and the "Dark Church", werewolves, vampires and so on, these settings are old jokes from many years ago. He didn't expect that there really is a world with such a background.

Moreover, the mysterious country is worthy of being a mysterious country. Under such circumstances, it can manage all aspects of national governance in an orderly manner. Many people in the past and now would never have dreamed that a mysterious country with extraordinary practitioners would be like this, right?

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The auction or exhibition is in a week.

During this period, Yang Sheng read all the "basic textbooks" that the Special Affairs Department could find.

In addition to "Basic Breathing Techniques (Introduction to Taoism)", there are several other basic introductory textbooks from other schools, such as "Tantric Visualization Method" and "Basic Body Building Method". Although the core ideas of these schools may not be exactly the same, the paths they take are basically the same.

After all, in this Dharma Ending Age when spiritual energy is exhausted, there are only a few paths that can be taken.

There are beings who can call the wind and rain or perform some great magical powers or large-scale spells, but they all seem to be surviving in the "secret realm". If they come to the real world, not only will they not get any supplements, but their extraordinary powers will also be consumed in order to maintain their own existence...

In addition, under the influence of Juche ideology, the angry-eyed Buddha of Buddhism, the rage of the common people, the chivalrous spirit of martial artists, etc. are not encouraged. Modern weapons and equipment and warfare systems do not require these practitioners to defend the country. Under Dongfeng Express, all beings are equal.

Not to mention Dongfeng Express, in close combat, the practitioners in this world may not be able to defeat a team of well-trained ordinary soldiers. After all, "supernormal" has been retired under the laws of this world, and now is an era of technology dominated by mortals.

The remaining extraordinary power was reduced to a mere tael and was unable to fight against the modern tactical system that had already been developed.

However, there is one thing: a gun is faster than seven steps away. However, if practitioners use firearms, they can reverse the saying "times have changed" to a certain extent. In other words, if practitioners are used as soldiers to establish a special operations team, it is still very promising.

These are not what Yang Sheng considered... To be precise, he had already built such a team a long time ago, and the security and combat forces in Guanyingshan are all of this type of armed forces.

His main interest lies in the basic introductory textbooks on refining equipment, alchemy and formations.

These textbooks list some basic refining techniques, pill recipes, and the identification and introduction of commonly used elixirs and magical instruments. Take the "Tianji Pavilion" that appears most frequently in fantasy online novels as an example. This sect is best at refining instruments, alchemy, and formations, and it publishes basic textbooks in this area.

In addition, in their alchemy teaching materials, there is a photo of the pill production line in the "secret realm" of their sect. Yes, you read that right, it is a production line. The ancient sect of cultivation keeps pace with the times, and has built a fully automatic basic pill production line because of the mechanical and chip technology of the outside world. There is also a fully automatic alchemy furnace that took ten years to develop and carefully adjusted various parameters. It is said that it can refine dozens of intermediate pills.

It is said that in order to make this fully automatic alchemy furnace that can refine intermediate-level elixirs, "Tianji Pavilion" recruited many disciples of the Aetiyuan, and gathered three thousand prematurely aged and balding Aetiyuan, and finally made this "Bagua Furnace No. 1"... Anyway, it's not a magic weapon, but a pharmaceutical production equipment?

Except for a few complex intermediate and advanced elixirs that still need to be manually refined, Tianji Pavilion has taken the lead in completing industrial upgrading in the cultivation world... Now, at least in refining elixirs, they no longer need to maintain a large number of diligent disciples, but instead need a large number of mechanical design, manufacturing and automation, as well as software engineers.

After seeing this explanation in the textbook, Yang Sheng felt very strange. He couldn't tell whether this was Tianji Pavilion advertising their own sect or demonstrating some aspect of their abilities.

It's like Einstadt, who was wearing a white coat and had few hairs on his forehead, arguing with Tesla, the father of alternating current, about whether it is better to practice the hand triple burner meridian or the foot triple burner meridian first.

But apart from that, the contents of these textbooks are very scientific, rigorous and practical.

Take some of the pill recipes in the textbooks for example, they have all been subjected to double-blind comparative experiments, and they also list in detail the groups of people who are not suitable for them... In Yang Sheng's opinion, this is completely unnecessary. Except for pills for healing and detoxification, most of the pills are not for ordinary people. Moreover, many drugs that stimulate the limits of the human body have much more intense effects than stimulants or some drugs beginning with the letter A.

Some of them are even poisonous, telling practitioners that one step leads to life and death. How could such things be popular among ordinary people?

In terms of the introduction of elixirs and magical instruments, the Tianji Pavilion's textbooks list in detail the characteristics of a large number of elixirs and magical instruments. Although in the Dharma Ending Age, including in the Western world, most magical instruments have become ineffective, there are still some props that can decide victory or defeat in life and death situations, or props like the "Qiankun Bag".

Yang Sheng is most interested in the basic knowledge of formations.

The Ji Pavilion published some formation knowledge in the textbooks that had been kept secret in their sect in the past but is now almost completely invalid. This stuff is useless in most situations in this world, but for Yang Sheng, it made up for one of his shortcomings.

Because many runes and Taoist symbols may have become invalid in this world, but when they are taken to other magical worlds, they will restore the corresponding effects or produce different mutations... For Yang Sheng, who has the "Anxunsi System", sorting out these contents is not very laborious.

Among them, Tianjimen also introduced a lot of knowledge about sleight of hand and ancient version of optical camouflage. Although the corresponding runes and formations are invalid due to the loss of mysterious power, they still have a certain confusing effect, physically.

Yang Sheng read it with great interest and benefited a lot.

In addition, those cultivation methods such as breathing techniques, body-building techniques, and visualization methods are also of great reference value to him.

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The Shannan City cultivator auction was held in a large hall in the city center.

It is a closed venue with a high level of security measures, and the exhibition content is not open to the general public.

However, if you are a repairman, you only need to scan a certain APP applet of the Special Affairs Department at the security desk at the door, and you can scan the code to enter.

The identity cards of practitioners are different from those of ordinary citizens.

Moreover, Yang Sheng and his family have special passes given by Lan Tianzhi, so they can use the VIP channel.

In most worlds, "money power" is one of the most useful powers, and this world is no exception.

After entering the exhibition, Yang Sheng saw many people he knew in addition to the practitioners.

Some time ago, in order to raise start-up funds, Yang Sheng met many people under the introduction of Lan Tianzhi and Xiao Yuanjian. The things he sold included cultivation resources, so he became familiar with the local practitioners who were at least relatively wealthy.

In addition, there are some tonic products with health care functions, so he has met many local wealthy people. Moreover, because the special resources he sells are extremely effective, Yang Sheng is quite popular among these practitioners and wealthy people.

The auctions were held in some business halls of the exhibition. The list of auction items was available at the reception desk of each bar.

In addition, stalls for ordinary practitioners are provided in the hall of the venue, which are used for practitioners to trade some supplies privately, or to supply some more popular practice supplies to related manufacturers.

For example, the "Tianji Pavilion" almost monopolizes half of the elixir market share in the mysterious country. The "Tianji Pavilion" itself controls a "secret realm" that is said to be very large, which produces a fixed output of medicinal herbs that require a spiritual environment to survive. At the same time, they have completed industrial upgrading, and all low-level elixirs are produced on automatic production lines... This makes it impossible for ordinary alchemists who still rely on their hands to work to compare with them. Not only do they have high-quality original raw materials, but the production costs are also lower.

Thinking about their "Bagua Furnace No. 1", Yang Sheng felt that the style of this thing was more fantasy than the "Sword Immortal" concept of cultivation in their current sect.

In addition to selling medicine, "Tianji Pavilion" also sells items such as refining items, spellcasting consumables, and even magic weapon blanks.