The county seat of Yujun is also called Yucheng. It is located in the center of Yujun and the center of the entire Yuzhou. It is a giant city built because of the Shaking Sky Sect. It is at the foot of the Shaking Sky Peak.
, this city has accompanied the Shaking Sky Sect through countless years since its birth.
At this time, Yang Junshan followed a caravan he met on the way to this city with thousands of years of history. He couldn't help but recall what he had experienced on the road in the past two months.
When Yang Junshan set out from Xishan Village two months ago, he regarded this trip to the county as a trip, a trip to increase his knowledge. However, the process of this journey gave Yang Junshan a rather creepy feeling.
After removing Mengyu County, Yang Junshan joined a caravan heading north, and the destination of this caravan was the same as Yang Junshan's, which was Yucheng, the county seat of Yu County.
As for Yang Junshan's joining, especially after learning that Yang Junshan was a martial artist monk, the caravan manager welcomed him. The addition of a martial artist monk would significantly improve the strength of the caravan.
Help, although in Yang Junshan's opinion, this caravan with three warrior realm monks at its command was already strong enough.
However, after walking on the commercial road opened between the mountains and forests for less than two days, Yang Junshan encountered a monk with a shaved head and linen clothes walking barefoot on the road and passed by him in a caravan.
When speaking, this person even put his hands together in a slight salute.
Buddhist monk!
Yang Junshan even had the violent thought of killing someone for a moment, but in the end he held it back, and then he heard a sudden burst of laughter from beside him.
"Haha, brother Yang, don't panic, these people won't cause trouble. You haven't seen such people, have you?"
Shopkeeper Liu of the caravan and the other two martial artist monks looked at Yang Junshan with amused expressions on his face, the wariness that had not dissipated yet.
"So Shopkeeper Liu and the two fellow Taoists have seen people dressed like this before?"
Seeing the doubtful look on Yang Junshan's face, shopkeeper Liu explained: "To be honest, the old merchant was very wary when he saw these people for the first time, and even almost took action. On the road in this barren mountain and forest
, when a person walks on the road like this, it is difficult not to associate them with the robbers who cut the path."
The other two warrior realm monks also nodded in agreement. Caravans like them, who walk in the wild all year round, are often wary and hostile to the people they encounter on the road, and can even take action based on mere suspicion.
Killing people, these are nothing.
In his previous life, Yang Junshan had followed the caravan when he was down and he knew the doorways inside very clearly. However, Yang Junshan noticed the "these" in shopkeeper Liu's words, so he asked: "Are these people?
Are there many? From the tone of the shopkeeper, it seems that I often meet these people!"
Shopkeeper Liu pondered for a moment and said: "Almost every time when doing business, you can meet one or two on the business road. These people are very strange. They always walk alone. It is rare to see more than two people.
They walk in groups, and many of them are barefoot. Every time I see them, their faces are full of dust."
Shopkeeper Liu opened his chat box and never closed it until he finished speaking, and continued: "But it turned out that these people are indeed no threat to the caravan, but don't think that they can provoke them without any threat because they are not a threat. Hehe, these people
None of them are easy to deal with!"
When he said that it was difficult to deal with, a strange color flashed across Shopkeeper Liu's face, as if he had recalled something. It seemed that Shopkeeper Liu had suffered hidden losses at the hands of these Buddhist monks, otherwise he would not have been able to deal with these Buddhist monks.
The monk is so familiar.
However, shopkeeper Liu's words that were difficult to deal with suddenly made Yang Junshan think of a different kind of anomaly among the Buddhist monks in his previous life, that is, the ascetic monk!
Unlike other Buddhist monks who widely spread their teachings and develop followers, and use the free offerings of believers to hoard cultivation resources, the ascetic monks regard suffering as a kind of practice and a kind of tempering of will. Compared with other Buddhist monks, they use exquisite methods to
The illusion of lotuses spitting out of the mouth and golden lotuses emerging from the ground was created through illusions to defraud believers of their materials and money. The ascetic monks obviously made Yang Junshan more sympathetic.
But at this time, Yang Junshan thought of something again and asked shopkeeper Liu: "These ascetic monks are so weird, haven't they attracted the attention of the forces in the counties and towns along the way? Didn't the Shaking Sky Sect come to check the details of these people?"
?”
Shopkeeper Liu said in astonishment: "What's there to check? Everyone has their own way of cultivation. Just like the practice of walking far away, it is not uncommon in the world of cultivation, especially for those who practice special body-building secrets.
, not to mention that this kind of physical walking is a test for the monk’s will.”
Yang Junshan blinked, not knowing what to say. When he turned to look, the monk walked again after the caravan completely passed by, but the distance from the caravan fell further and further until he disappeared at the end of the back road.
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Then, as Shopkeeper Liu said, they met two more ascetic monks walking on the road. The last time they met, the ascetic monk with a sad face but whose approximate age could not be clearly seen was collecting several bodies on the roadside.
A corpse that has been bitten and has no human shape.
When the caravan passed by, Shopkeeper Liu stopped and asked a few men to dig a hole with the ascetic monk and bury the deceased.
"Hey, he was attacked and killed by ferocious beasts," Shopkeeper Liu sighed and said: "In recent years, there have been more and more ferocious beasts, and they have become smarter and smarter. Many ferocious beasts that used to walk alone have now learned how to
In order to join forces, many caravans have been attacked in recent years, and news of monks being killed has spread."
The look on Yang Junshan's face was uncertain, and the evil spirit lingering in the woods on the roadside that had not yet dissipated clearly told him who the real ferocious beast was.
"Isn't it strange that the number of ferocious beasts has increased and they attack pedestrians on the road so frequently?" Yang Junshan suppressed his emotions and asked pretending to be puzzled.
"Brother Yang, you look like a person who has never been far away. Is it any wonder that so many people died in this barren mountain and forest? It is only those of us who have been doing business all year round and the caravans running back and forth who are aware of it. Besides, those ferocious beasts
It only appears in old roads in barren mountains with few people inhabiting it. However, in villages and towns where people live, no ferocious beast dares to approach them. Are we supposed to go deep into the mountains and forests to hunt ferocious beasts?"
"Then you can report to Shaking Sky Sect and find out why these ferocious beasts have become so smart and why they frequently attack passers-by. Is that okay?"
"Why should they help us?" Shopkeeper Liu's sarcasm was no longer concealed: "The lives of us businessmen are not worth so many jade coins. Besides, ferocious beasts are still ferocious beasts after all. No matter how smart you are, you can't become a human being. If you
A tide of beasts has formed, but we don’t have to run into the barren mountains and ridges to look for them!”
Yang Junshan now has another impulse surging. He wants to tell Shopkeeper Liu loudly that the ferocious beast is not a ferocious beast, but a monster that has gradually opened up its spiritual intelligence, and when the monster's cultivation reaches a certain level, it is
It is true that those who can transform into human beings, but at that time, the worst thing is the strength of the real person, then it cannot be described as a disaster.
"Okay, the bodies of these people have been buried. Brother Yang, it's time for us to get on the road!"
However, Yang Junshan did not respond. Instead, he turned around and walked to the ascetic monk who was about to continue walking. He clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, Master, I have invited you. What is your name?"
The ascetic monk was obviously shocked by Yang Junshan's etiquette and words. The sad look on his face seemed to have dissipated a lot. He quickly clasped his hands and bowed in return and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk Jiahui has seen donors and does not dare to be a donor."
The title of 'Master', I wonder if the donor has ever had contact with the same clan of poor monks, so why is he so familiar with our clan's etiquette?"
Yang Junshan smiled and said: "Don't worry about this master. I just have questions and want to ask the master. May I ask what the master thinks about this vicious beast biting people?"
The Buddhist monk named Jiahui pondered for a moment and said: "Everything has spirit, all living beings are equal, people are hunting ferocious beasts, ferocious beasts also eat people, the cause and effect cycle of all things in the world is nothing better than this!"
"Haha," Yang Junshan couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or something else in his laughter. He just cupped his hands and said, "I've learned a lesson, master, and we'll see you later!"
After that, Yang Junshan turned around and got on the caravan's carriage and left. Only Monk Jiahui stood there and watched from a distance as the caravan that Yang Junshan was in disappeared from sight, and then he slowly turned around and left.
What the Jiahui monk didn't know was that when Yang Junshan returned to the car, he saw shopkeeper Liu and others looking at him with extremely strange looks, which made Yang Junshan feel extremely uncomfortable.
"Three of you, what do you mean?"
"The ascetic monk is usually silent. Many people who try to contact them think that they are deaf-mute people. It was a coincidence that the old man helped an ascetic monk. Only then did the man say thank you and say a few words to me.
It's because of that time that I got to know them a little bit," Shopkeeper Liu said with a look of disbelief on his face: "You are actually able to get close to that ascetic monk right from the get-go, how capable are you?"
Another warrior monk in the caravan named Wei also said: "Seeing that you and that man are very skilled in saluting and making incisions, I feel that you have been very familiar with them before, how unkind!"
Yang Junshan quickly apologized and said: "Don't get me wrong, you three. This is indeed the first time I've seen this ascetic monk, but I have seen some people claiming to be from the Buddhist clan before. Their clothes are very similar to that ascetic monk, but
However, those people were eloquent and could often persuade others to become their followers, and then collected the material resources needed for cultivation from the believers. These people called themselves the Buddhist clan, and each called themselves Buddha, so they used the name of the Buddhist clan.
It is human etiquette to meet that ascetic monk, but you are wrong!"
"Oh, are those monks from the Buddhist tribe?" Shopkeeper Liu was thoughtful, but he didn't know that the "those people" he mentioned were referring to the ascetic monks he met on the road, or that he had also seen what Yang Junshan said.
Those Buddhist monks who preached.
After entering Yucheng with the caravan, Yang Junshan separated from Shopkeeper Liu and others, spent a few jade coins to rent a traveling puppet, and Yang Junshan walked towards the Shaotian Sect's weapon refining workshop in Yucheng.