Chapter 156 Qingzhou Yancheng (two in one)
Qingzhou has always been relatively stable, mainly because the Ming Dianshi was established here more than 400 years ago, so it will naturally send a lot of people to station.
Yancheng is originally a small border town, and its location is neither good nor bad. However, there is a saltwater lake in the west of the city, which is famous for it.
As for why Zhang Daoling chose the Taoist Consciousness here, no one knows.
Thousands of kilograms of green salt can be exposed in the lake every day. It is a natural salt mine and has also made many people in the city make a living.
The main reason is that this green salt tastes salty and fresh, and it does not have the bitter taste of sea salt at all. It is not like the pure salty taste filtered by Mingdiansi using magic, so it is considered an extremely valuable specialty.
The sun was hanging high, and the temperature outside began to rise unknowingly, which made the passers-by on the official road look listless.
Zhou Bai and the other two drove a carriage, and Dao Ren Hou was sitting outside and was responsible for being a groom. He was half a man and half a corpse, and his bloodline was naturally not afraid of the heat.
Qingniuer and Xiaohao were in the car. They were about the same age. Although the latter was irrational, they were quite comfortable to get along with.
They have officially started during this period of time, and both of them have sacrificed their lives to complete.
Qingniuer directly sacrificed his right eye into an instinctive ghost weapon. Now his left eye has an ordinary brown pupil, while his right eye is completely black like a black hole.
He had no intention of concealing it at all, because only when it was revealed was always convenient to release the ghost-swalking power at any time.
Xiao Hao's natal is a bit special and was specially selected by Zhou Bai for him.
His natal ghost weapon is a spiritual material born from a different aura, called Sanshenghua, with a total of three petals.
If it grows in the demonic energy, the whole flower will appear strange green, and if it is born in the demonic energy, it will appear black.
After Xiao Hao's sacrifice, the Sansheng Flower turned into a white petal, a black petal, and a green petal. As long as he held the Sansheng Flower in his hand, no matter what magical power he released, his speed and power could reach the next level.
The only trouble is that Xiao Hao himself lacks intelligence. He relies on Zhou Bai's thoughts to guide him to complete the sacrifice bit by bit, and the time spent was several times that of Qingniuer.
Moreover, he sacrificed and refined the Three Life Flowers, just like Zhou Bai, and he took the path of exchanging the natal world with external objects. Only after being promoted by the object determination can he be transferred to the Dantian. Zhou Bai could not help Xiao Hao too much last time.
However, what is surprising is that his talent in practicing the fundamental method is not bad. Perhaps because he is a childish heart and has a pure mind, he is easy to focus on one thing.
The carriage was pulled by a thin horse. The weight of several people together was several hundred kilograms, but it still seemed extremely relaxed.
Because it cannot follow the path of the demon path, it has to use the dragon blood and dragon energy to polish its body bit by bit, so it is just right to use it as a coolie.
However, if someone knew that Zhou Bai and his men were so extravagant that they asked the dragon horse to pull the cart, they would definitely sigh and waste their talents.
Ah Huang was lying at Qingniu'er's feet. It had not changed for a long time, and its appearance was very different.
Although it was originally all yellow, its hair has turned black and brown, and its body is much richer. It is shiny and shiny. You can tell that the food is good.
Moreover, it originally emitted a faint demonic aura, but now it has completely restrained. It is impossible to tell that this is a monster on the surface.
The main contribution is Zhou Bai, who used the fruit of magical power to integrate a magical power called "yin seed" into Ah Huang's body.
The effect of the Yin seed magical power can store its own Yin energy in the seeds born in the dantian, which is considered a waste of time.
For Zhou Bai, it is better to give it to the ghost tree than to store the yin energy in the yin seed, which can also help refine.
However, after Ah Huang awakened this magical power, he not only gave birth to a yin species, but also a demon species.
It can store its own demonic energy and yin energy separately, so that the identity of the monster cannot be seen on the surface.
Ah Huang can now use the Yin Qi and the Demonic Qi, but it cannot be at the same time, because there is no natal balance between the two. Once the Demonic Qi and the Yin Qi are in contact with each other, it is like Mars hitting the Earth, and it is out of control.
However, the Yin-type magical power also made Ah Huang barely considered a dual cultivation of demons and ghosts, with a lot of potential. The alien aura can stimulate each other and improve the speed much faster, although there is still no possibility of transformation.
Zhou Bai lay on the top of the carriage, facing the sky. Although the sunlight was a little vicious, he was naturally not afraid of his cultivation. The surface of his body was covered with a thin layer of yin energy.
He turned his head to look at the roadside, his pupils getting smaller and smaller, and then turned directly into blood-red.
In the system panel, the words Yin and Yang Eye have become ghost eyes. Unlike the temporary upgrade before, he has been promoted permanently this time.
In addition to the strengthening of the original ability of Yin and Yang Eye, the ghost pupil also had many strange abilities, but the situation of pulling himself into the ghost domain did not appear again, which also made him secretly relieved.
Zhou Bai's ghost eyes stared at a broken bone exposed in the soil on the roadside, and then he used his magical powers.
There was no change in the eyes of others, but the broken bones were constantly pieced together in his eyes. After a few breaths, Zhou Bai could see the phantom of a corpse on the spot.
Then a memory appeared in his mind. A gangster chased the passing scholar, two people one by one, but the gangster was obviously much faster.
After the scholar was caught up, a sharp knife stabbed into his heart, and then the package on his body was plundered, and no one paid attention to his body.
As time goes by, wild beasts or rotten birds continue to fall, and fewer traces of bones exist, and soon only one broken bone is left.
This is the extra ability of Ghost Pupils. As long as it is a corpse, even if it is a wreckage the size of a fingernail, Zhou Bai can learn the cause of his death through the wreckage.
This ability seems useless at first glance, but in fact it is not the case. He has found demons with his ghost eyes several times on the road, and such corpses are everywhere on the road.
This also added a lot of progress to his accumulation of points, and the accumulation of Yin Qi after the Yin Yang eyes advances is indeed signs of accelerating.
Zhou Bai considered that after this Taoist discussion meeting, he would be promoted to several more alien magical powers, especially the two combinations of magical powers, Swallowing Ghost and Luoyu, which would be the most obvious improvement in his strength.
The promotion of Buddha and demon magical powers is also in the plan, but Buddha and demon magical powers are mutually restricted, and the promotion must be done together to avoid one's rise and the other's rise and fall.
The magical power of immortality is what he is most confused about. If he is promoted, it will definitely make the Niwan Palace more stable, but the True Soul Realm is a demonization that controls the soul.
If Zhou Bai's soul cannot even demonize, it will not be the first step to die, so we can only make a long-term plan.
However, others are afraid that their souls will lose control, but they will turn around, afraid that their souls will be too stable. If they say this kind of trouble, they will definitely attract grudges.
Fortunately, Zhou Bai was able to increase instability by promoting alien magical powers. He tested the upper limit of the Lingyun Biaozhu, but he still needed to grasp the degree of it himself.
It is only half a day away from Yancheng, and there are more and more people on the official road.
There are also Ming Diansi who are like Zhou Bai and the others, but they are consciously separated from each other for a while and are cautiously not coming forward to make friends.
As the carriage advanced, Zhou Bai stood up and looked into the distance, and saw a silver-white lake in the northwest direction.
He could clearly smell a faint smell of salt water in the air, and immediately knew that he was not far from his destination.
Daoren Hou touched the stubble that was sighing, and couldn't help but sigh: "The salt lake in Qingzhou is a piece of gold mine exposed on the land. I have eaten the green salt here, and the taste is..."
He then sighed again: "It's a pity."
Daoren Hou is now half a human and half a corpse, and in fact, the deterioration of taste is already very serious. However, now he has mastered his true body slightly better. But I imagine that the most subtle changes in food ingredients in normal people usually do not need to think about it.
Qingniuer and Xiaohao poked their heads out of the carriage window. The latter was very excited, which might have reminded him of the sea.
However, Qingniu'er's eyes were a little dim: "Brother Bai, I feel so resentful. There are many people dead in this lake."
Zhou Bai nodded, his face a little complicated.
This lake is extremely beautiful, and it may be because it is mixed with a large amount of crystals, so it emits a colorful light in the sun.
Even the lake water is silver-white, like a mercury mirror, which makes people feel refreshed.
But when the carriage gets closer, you can see that there are more than a dozen salt miners in the lake. They usually have naked upper bodies, rough and dark skin, and no hair on their heads.
The miners' eyes are blood-red, which is not born like this, but stimulated in salt water.
In order to support their families, they usually have to dive into the salt lake and go under the water to pick up some exposed salt mines, usually the size of a fist, but after they are extracted, they are only one or two grams, which is extremely rare.
Because of long-term soaking in salt water, the miners' eyes and ears will be greatly damaged, and their skin will unknowingly absorb salt, causing problems in their blood and body.
Their lifespan generally does not exceed forty, and they are extremely painful when they are about to die. It is said that the bones and joints of the body will be extremely itchy, just like countless ants crawling in it.
Then even the skin will start to itch until the internal organs start to bleed and eventually die.
Yancheng does not actually have much control over such miners. In fact, with Mingdiansi on its back, this small town does not need to rely on green salt to make money. Usually, many people who are forced to go to the forefront will try it.
They were lucky in their hearts, and they could meet the immortals of Mingdiansi from time to time in Qingzhou. Many miners would be given spiritual pills to treat, but this is also the reason why this high-risk business still exists now.
Many children from mine farmers by the lake looked at the pedestrians passing by on the official road with curiosity. Compared with them, the children like Qingniuer were already lucky, and at least they could meet Zhou Bai's help.
When the carriage drove past the salt lake, an ordinary small town appeared in front of them. Compared with the prosperous Hangdu and the lively Songdu, Yancheng seemed much more ordinary.
The population of this small town is too sparse, with only tens of thousands of people, and there are many elderly people among them, which makes Yancheng look a little lazy.
Daoren Hou looked at the dozen old men basking in the sun at the city gate and couldn't help but say, "This is too outrageous. Will the Daoism of Mingdiansi be held here?"
"What's wrong?" Zhou Bai asked with a complicated expression.
The carriage had not yet entered the city, but Dao Ren Hou denied it first: "No, this small town does not seem to be a place like a prosperous era like the Taoist Church. Why do I feel that even if it is placed in our Hangzhou?"
It is indeed as he said, passers-by in and out of the city gate can see that they do not look like they know that the grand event is held in the city.
"Who told you that it was held in the salt?" Zhou Bai said in a strange tone, with a different meaning in his words.
"Ah?" Daoren Hou was stunned for a moment. Just when he was puzzled, he heard the other party say again.
"Look at the top of your head."
He subconsciously looked into the sky, and there were thick clouds floating above it that seemed to block the sun, and the rest were not discovered.
Zhou Baize smiled and looked at Qingniuer who was poking his head out, and asked at him, "Qingniuer, you see it."
Qingniu'er nodded, with shock in his eyes. When he was in Hangzhou, he did not find any difference when he was living with ordinary people, but at this moment he felt the gap between immortals and mortals.
"I'll stop keeping it, let's talk about anything..." Hou Daoren saw nothing, and it was difficult to understand the dialogue between Zhou Bai and Qingniuer like a hoarse fan.
"Where are you looking again?" Zhou Bai pointed his fingers and emitted two faint lights, which fell into the eyebrows of Xiaohao and Daoren Hou. They felt their eyes chill and their gazes became slightly different.
Then Hou Daoren subconsciously looked at the sky, and then he opened his mouth wide and subconsciously cursed his mother.
I saw an island that was several times larger than salt floating in the sky, rising and falling slightly as the breeze blew.
In addition to the central islands, there are also many smaller islands floating, which are connected to the central islands by iron chains.
With Zhou Bai's eyes, he could still see someone walking through the iron chain and walking between the islands.
"This is the damn Diansi, otherwise it would be a bit too unlucky to put it in this small town." Daoren Hou sighed. If it was really the kind of person who set up a ring on the open space in the town, it would be really not in line with the identity of Ming Diansi.
"Let's go, I don't feel that a few practitioners in this city are gathered. I'm afraid they have all gathered up. Let's go up as soon as possible. The bottom is really boring."
Zhou Bai turned over and jumped out of the carriage, then guided the carriage towards the city gate.
The guards standing at the gate of the city knew in advance that a large number of immortals would arrive. Perhaps through some magic weapon, they bowed respectfully to Zhou Bai and his party, and put them in without stopping them.
Chapter completed!