Chapter 5: plot

On the lively and bustling Horseshoe Street, the crowds are surging and popular, which makes it a world apart from the secluded alley a few blocks away. Numerous monks walking around leisurely or in a hurry on this street. However, occasionally someone would look up at the sky, because of the existence of the Tianyin Mountains, the sky above Xilu City was always hazy, but for these casual cultivators, this was not something worthy of their attention. On the street, perhaps everyone has their own special story in the back, but they are never known.
In the first floor of Tianyi, the business is still booming, and dozens of counters, a large number of spiritual materials for cultivation are constantly being bought, in exchange for bags of spiritual crystals. Today’s Terran cultivation team, after tens of thousands of years of rapid development, has already had a nearly complete system. One of the most important common sense among them is that apart from the recognized talents and abilities, the most important thing is that monks want to practice immortality. It is the consumption support of these foreign objects' spiritual materials, and even to a certain extent, the importance of these spiritual materials is hardly under the talent of the monk himself.
A monk who regularly takes the elixir and has enough spiritual crystals to practice peacefully every day, even if his talent is slightly poor, his final achievement will definitely exceed that of a person with good talent but embarrassed and poor.
This is also the fundamental reason why a large number of casual cultivators are the bottom of the cultivation world, because casual cultivators are monks with no discipline and no background, because of all kinds of opportunities, they have deliberately or unintentionally stepped into the path of cultivation. Regardless, only in terms of financial resources, they are naturally countless times worse than the existing cultivation sect. No matter how good your talent is, but if you can't even guarantee the basic spirit crystals, how can you expect good results from cultivation?
After all, in the Hongmeng world, the human race is different from the demon race that was known as the proud son of heaven.
The demon race is a true race, and its natural body is a hundred times stronger than the human race. The most important thing is that the demon race can even directly absorb the spiritual energy of the world and practice the unique natal powers of the demon race, and call the wind and rain to move the mountains and fill the sea. The abilities are terrifying. In contrast, in the long dark age when the demons ruled the Hongmeng realms, the demons were the leader of the original Hongmeng races, but the human races were inherently fragile, and for some reason, the human race’s physique could not absorb a single trace. The heaven and earth aura, so there is no magical power at all.
The only difference between Terran is that it will be born...
In the vast and vast world of the Harmony, in the long dark age of the Heavenly Demon King’s Court, the fragile human race has always been at the bottom of all races. Although the population of the human race is so huge, it even exceeds the total number of all other races. It was more than ten times more, but it was arbitrarily invaded by the powerful races headed by the Yaozu, just like a large group of domestic animals raised in captivity.
How can a group of captive sheep and fat pigs expect them to fight against the violent tiger wolves?
The long years that the later generations called the Dark Age are not just nonsense. The human race at that time really did not see any bright prospects. A random upper-class race could humiliate the human race at will. The human race was forced to do all kinds of the lowest jobs, working as slaves and servants, working hard and providing support. Those who are high above the chosen family. Even in many cases, some powerful races headed by the monster race will directly slaughter a large number of human races when encountering major ceremonies such as sacrifices, funerals, and expeditions, and perform rituals such as living sacrifices or burials. The human race is regarded as one of the hundred tribes of Hongmeng just like them, rather than beasts like captive livestock.
In such terrible years, the fate of the human race can be imagined. If it were not for the reproductive power of the human race itself, it had always insisted on the reproduction of the race with a large number of people, even if it had been killed by the gods of the heavens.
Such a dark fate was suffocating and desperate, and it always shrouded the head of the human race like a dark cloud, until at the end of the Heavenly Demon King Court, a little thing that changed the fate of the entire Hongmeng realm was discovered.
That is the Lingjing, a small stone that is only produced in the place where the dragon veins of the Lingshan dragon gather the most spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth. The whole body is crystal clear, the size of the finger, the prismatic appearance, and it looks very beautiful. It was originally regarded as a useless low-end. Jewelry, but at a certain moment, or by chance, a destiny turned, somehow, someone discovered that the human race could absorb the spiritual energy from the heavens and the earth into the body through some special methods...
The invisible, colorless, tasteless, intangible, but ubiquitous aura of heaven and earth, which fills the universe of Hongmeng, is known to be the basic source of the various powers and supernatural powers of all races of Hongmeng. The reason why the monster race is so powerful and terrifying is that they are the only one who can directly absorb the spiritual energy of the heaven and the earth into the body with their physical bodies, and other Hongmeng races can almost absorb the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth by various methods, the only thing that cannot be done. This is the human race, and this is also the root cause of the human race's weakness and miserable destiny being bullied.
But since then, everything has changed.
All sorts of tragic past events, or magnificent legends and tragic wars, to this day, have become distant memories thousands of years ago. The monster race that was once powerful and impossibly arrogant, as well as other alien races that have also been arrogant, have long since disappeared on the edge of the Hongmeng world, or dissipated in the ruthless past of the years. Today, in this vast and vast world, the human race is the ruler and the human race is the master, which has already explained everything.
And the root of all this is just that small, beautiful, crystal clear and lovely little stone.
Spirit crystals are a must for the monks of all races. Only through this small stone can the monks absorb the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and as the realm of Taoism improves, the number of spiritual crystals required by the monks also increases. .
Without spirit crystals, there would be no cultivation.
This sentence applies everywhere.
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Spirit crystals are so important that people who have cultivated can't leave for a while, so in today's cultivation world, spirit crystals are equivalent to currency, replacing mortal objects of yellow, white, gold and silver. Right now in the first floor of Tianyi, casual cultivators who come and go have to purchase all kinds of spiritual materials needed for cultivation, and those who pay the first floor of Tian are all spirit crystals.
The soft luster and the crisp and sweet spirit crystals knocking and percussively constituted scenes of scenes that made the monks intoxicated and indulged. In the flickering light and shadow, faces were reflected in the pursuit of the dream of growing into a fairy. Even though this road is extremely difficult and long and tortuous, most people will fall on the road, either far or near, but there are still countless successors who devote themselves to it desperately.
Perhaps, becoming an immortal and longevity is always an irresistible temptation for a mortal. What's more, once you practice the Tao, even if you can't become an immortal, you can still increase your life span by several times and have the power of moving mountains and seas. Who is there? Are you fascinated?
After inspecting the lively scene in the front hall and making sure that there is nothing unusual as usual, Shen Tai walked slowly to the gate of the first floor of the sky and glanced around to the left and right.
Everything is as usual, as in the past, it seems to be another peaceful day.
The few Xuanyinmen disciples standing or sitting like idlers at the door, when they saw Shen Tai approaching, all smiled and nodded in greeting. In fact, with their Dao Xing realm, the worst is that they have cultivated to the Ning Yuan realm. It can be said that they have truly stepped into the avenue of cultivation. There is a world of difference in identity from the outer disciples who are still trapped in the Qi refining realm. . At least in the Xuanyin Sect, ordinary outer disciples should be respectful when they meet these inner disciples, and they usually won't pay attention to these weak people.
But Big Boss Shen Tai Shen, with such a sky and first floor as capital, the spirit crystals that shine every day are also living, and this alone is enough to make him different.
The expression on Shen Tai's face was also gentle, and he nodded to these people with a sweet smile, his eyes swept, and standing in the forefront, the face of the bearded man who had spoken to Shen Shi stopped for a while, and then Shi Shiran went back again.
After passing through the noisy shop halls, Shen Tai returned to the back courtyard and sat down in a secluded pavilion in a small garden. He looked at the surrounding trees and grass, silent, as if thinking of something.
After a while, a figure walked over from the other side of the small garden, but it was the disciple of the Xuanyinmen with a beard who had secretly guarded the first floor of the sky outside the door. At this moment, his face was indifferent and his steps were brisk. His eyes seemed to be sweeping aimlessly in the small garden, and then he seemed to have accidentally seen Shen Tai in the pavilion. After a slight pause, he walked over.
"Boss Shen, it's so leisurely." The beard smiled and walked into the pavilion.
Shen Tai glanced at him, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, but the expression in his eyes seemed to be a little cold, but the tone was still as gentle as usual, and said: "Brother Chen has worked hard, please sit down."
There was a round stone table in the pavilion, and four stone benches next to it. After the two sat down separately, Brother Chen didn't speak, but looked at Shen Tai with a deep meaning in his eyes.
Shen Tai didn't hesitate, he seemed to take out an ordinary small wooden box from his arms at random, put it in front of him, and calmly said: "I received a little gadget a few days ago. Maybe it will meet the brother's heart, please smile. "
Senior Brother Chen took a look at him, picked up the wooden box, exerted a little force with his fingers, opened the lid of the box only a little bit, and saw a gentle blue light flashing.
His hand suddenly stopped in midair.
"Patter!"
With a crisp sound, the lid of the wooden box was firmly closed by him.
Brother Chen’s breathing seemed to be a little heavy, and he didn’t know whether it was agitated or nervous, or a bit of panic, but after a while, after stabilizing his mind, his face returned to normal, but he looked towards Shen Tai's eyes are already completely different from before.
"Boss Shen is a good trick." He stared at Shen Tai for a while, and whispered.
Shen Tai squinted his eyes slightly, and seemed to laugh at himself a little bit, and said: "It's no big deal. I have been here for more than ten years and created the situation of Tianyilou today. Doing these little things is actually nothing. "
Senior Brother Chen took a breath, put the wooden box in his arms, stood up, and said, "Since Boss Shen has done this, everything will be as we agreed to before."
Shen Tai nodded, and after a moment of silence, he whispered: "I hope you can believe it."
Senior Brother Chen raised his brows and said, "Boss Shen, don't worry, I don't dare to talk about others, but this is enough to boast about the credibility of the contract."
Shen Tai nodded slowly. Seeing his appearance, he seemed to believe in the promise of the person in front of him, but this senior brother Chen was clearly a disciple of the inner door of Xuanyin. At this moment, he talked with Shen Tai to the end, but he kept saying that he would contempt. What, it's faintly weird.
Seeing that Brother Chen turned around to leave, Shen Tai suddenly changed his face and said, "Brother Chen."
The man with the beard paused, turned around and said, "What?"
Shen Tai looked at him and said, "Shen Tai has something unclear. I want to ask my senior, but I don't know which senior instructed him to deal with Old Monster Li?"
Senior Brother Chen smiled slightly and said, "Boss Shen, you have asked too much."
Shen Tai pursed his lips, smiled, Brother Chen arched his hand, turned and strode away. Only Shen Tai was left in the pavilion. The short and stout figure slowly turned around and raised his eyes to look into the distance. The towering Tianyin Mountains were shrouded in endless clouds in the distance.
After a long time, he whispered to himself softly in an inaudible voice: "How dare you directly conspiracy against the great real person of the Yuandan realm, who would this person be..."
(Suddenly living a day of two shifts a day, I feel stressed when I get up in the morning... But I still insist on staying, there is still a chapter at 7 in the evening^_^)