Time has passed, and it has been more than half a month since Xu Dao left seclusion.
A simple carriage was walking on the road, crushing the bumps on the road and making a rumble sound.
There was a muscular man with gray hair and a fur hat driving the car. Next to the man was a Taoist priest in a gray robe, but he was leaning on the frame of the car and taking a nap, paying no attention to his surroundings.
Suddenly, the curtain of the closed carriage was opened, startling the two of them, and they looked back again and again.
A young girl peeked out from the carriage. She had snow-white hair, a beautiful and delicate face, and her eyes were actually crimson. She was obviously not an ordinary person.
The girl looked around outside the carriage, then looked at the north intently, running her eyes, and after a few dozen breaths she shouted in surprise:
"Sir! We are almost arriving at Wudu."
She saw a city come into her eyes from a distance of dozens of miles and was seen by her. This move made the girl even more extraordinary.
After hearing the girl's cry, both the man driving the carriage and the Taoist priest who was dozing off quickly came to their senses, raised their heads and looked ahead.
It was a pity that the eyesight of the two men was obviously not as good as that of the girl. They could only vaguely see that there was indeed something like a hill coming out in front of them, but they could not confirm whether it was a city or a hill in front of them.
The girl screamed in surprise, the man and the Taoist talked in low voices, the carriage waited for a moment, and a cold voice came from inside:
"I know, call me after you enter the city."
As soon as this voice came out, the noise in the carriage immediately fell silent, and only a chorus of voices sounded:
"Yes, sir."
The four people in this car were none other than Xu Dao and his three swordsmen, Chen Wan and Su Jiu.
And the road they drove the carriage on was also the route of the capital of Wu State. It connected all the major prefectures and counties of Wu State and could lead directly to the capital.
It is said that after Xu Dao came out of seclusion, he originally planned to fly directly into the capital of Wu Kingdom with his sword, and then make other plans. However, after only flying for less than ten days, he suppressed his temper and descended from the air, and first found a random place.
Stop in the city and inquire about news.
This is because, as he had been wary of at the beginning, after leaving the southwest boundary, the places he went to were not only crowded with people, but also sacred places, and the number of people practicing Taoism also began to increase.
In particular, every city, no matter how big or small, is guarded by powerful Taoists, and there are even some in some towns.
Among them, the prefectures and counties with the largest number of people have Taoists who are at the same level as Xu Tao, that is, the foundation-building Taoist priests are in charge!
From the city where Xu Dao settled all the way to Wudu, there were at least eight or nine large cities on the way.
In other words, just walking to Wu Capital, he would pass by eight or nine foundation-building Taoist priests, not to mention the Taoist priests who may exist in Wu Capital, where the essence of Wu Kingdom lies.
This made Xu Dao, who had just come out of the remote southwest border, feel nervous, so he thought about it and released Su Jiu and the others from the flying flags, preparing to keep a low profile.
After appeasing the three of them, he purchased some bicycle frames in the city where he settled, then pretended to be a young master, and then continued to rush to Wudu. Along the way, he also inquired about the local customs and customs in order to reduce the impact of the closed environment in the southwest.
coming influence.
After another six or seven days of traveling, Xu Dao actually had a clearer understanding of the territory of Wu State and recognized his own position.
It turns out that the southwest border where he was previously was not only regarded as a remote area by the Wu people, but also regarded as a place of wilderness and miasma, an uncivilized place.
Even Jiangzhou City, the essence of the southwest, is still the place where the Wu court exiled criminal officials and committed crimes against the people.
In other words, when Xu Dao came out of the southwest, he looked a bit like a country tycoon who had just come out of a remote mountain village.
Among the forces related to cultivation, in addition to the Danyao Hall under the command of Danyaosi, Taoist sects such as the White Bone Temple and gangsters are also present in various regions in Wu.
Fortunately, most of them were built by Taoist disciples, and there are still only a few Taoist temples with foundation-building Taoist priests in charge.
But even so, this situation still shocked Xu Dao.
Because of the dispersion, almost every city in Wu with a population of hundreds of thousands can have a foundation-building Taoist priest in charge.
In the State of Wu, Taoist priests were not truly immortals. They were only heard of by name but not seen in person. Their rarity was only comparable to that of county governors and state herdsmen.
Of course, the reason for this is also related to the long life span of the foundation-building Taoist priests and their difficulty in dying. Compared with the short life span of ordinary people, which is only fifty or sixty, or even thirty or forty years, Taoist priests can live for a hundred years and naturally accumulate a lot of money.
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But no matter what, after Xu Dao came into contact with this news, he suddenly felt that not only was he a little drifting, but he was also looking at the sky from a well, and he actually thought that after building the foundation, he could travel freely in Wu Kingdom.
It should be noted that in "Hundred Solutions to Cultivation", after a Taoist builds the foundation, he only has the qualifications to travel around the world and can save his life, but not that he can act recklessly.
In the carriage, after receiving Su Jiu's notice, Xu Dao stopped his visualization and thought about the above things.
After a long time, he exhaled a breath of turbid air, letting go of his depression and cheering himself up:
"In the Kingdom of Wu alone, the number of foundation-building Taoist priests scattered throughout the country can reach hundreds or hundreds. So the Erhai Taoist Palace, which is highly respected by Taoists, has exquisite Taoism and many benefits.
It also far exceeded my expectations.”
"If I can enter the Taoist palace to practice, it will definitely help me go further on the road to immortality!"
The large number of Taoist priests means that the resources for cultivation are still tight and have to be fought for. However, it also means that although the current world is not the prosperous age of immortals and martial arts thousands of years ago, it is not that the Taoist industry is in decline and immortality is hard to find.
This made Xu Dao, who had been following the wrong path, very happy.
He was still thinking secretly in his mind:
"Even if you can't enter the Taoist palace, there are so many Taoist priests who share the same problem... No, Taoist friends who are in the same Taoist way are here. If you have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and practice experience, you should be able to save a secret to the golden elixir.
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After all, in just a southwest region, with a population of two to three million and about 20 Taoist priests, there can be things like ghost magic, fake relics and elixirs. The Taoist priests in other regions of Wu should not be inferior to the southwest, and each of them can
Have a family background.
Just as Xu Dao was calculating in his mind, he suddenly raised his head as if being touched by something.
Without greeting the three people outside the carriage, Xu Dao suddenly opened the curtain, walked out of the carriage, and looked up to the north.
Only a city came into his sight. This city stood within five miles. It was wide and tall, with endless walls, more than ten feet long. It was as tall as a mountain, and it was handling the flow of people. It was like a giant beast that shocked the first time he saw it.
every one of it.
It turns out that Xu Dao and others have already arrived at Wudu and are about to enter.
But what Xu Dao was looking at was not the city itself.
In his field of vision, the city was bustling with people, and the auras of all the people rose up, one after another, filling the entire city like a heavy fog, which meant that the city's population was nearly one million.
And in the sky above the city, there was a gigantic thing floating in it, with only some of its frightening scales and claws visible, but its head and tail could not be seen.
This giant object was larger than the body of the mirage in Shezhao Dragon Palace, and a red aura of red ribbons hung down from its body, falling into the city and permeating the entire city.
Xu Dao looked at this object and a word suddenly popped into his mind: