This sentence attracted many tea lovers to laugh, and everyone shook their heads and was honored, as if they were to beat the tax officials of the court back, which was their great honor.

While smiling, they cast Li Yao a look of "caring for mentally retarded children".

Li Yao had thousands of words in his stomach, wanting to treat these long-term malnutrition, so he was black and thin, covered with scabies, and described it as vulgar, and was completely different from the cultivator.

However, under their eyes like this, their thoughts went around for a long time, but they didn't know how to start.

After leaving the tea shop, under the guidance of the teacher, he visited the local temple, which is said to be extremely incense-rich.

Along the Wu River, there are extremely powerful gods and strong incense. There are many temples, Taoist temples and ancestral halls in various towns, villages, and even in the deep mountains and forests.

However, most of the places where these divine incenses are worshipped are not illusory gods and Buddhas, but cultivators who sacrifice heroically in the actions of killing demons and eliminating demons.

It is said that after the cultivator dies, a trace of heroic spirit will be immortal. As long as he receives incense, he will still protect the people and protect the safety of the people.

Therefore, after the death of the cultivators of Shiwu Sect, if they have extremely high cultivation and status, they will build their own temples. Even low-level monks with low strength will be assigned to various ancestral halls and enjoy incense and worship forever.

There are more than one temple or ancestral hall in every village here, and it is often the highest lobby of the villages, with blue bricks, mantle tiles, stone lions and copper doors, and the low and dilapidated mud huts nearby.

In each temple or ancestral hall, there are three or five heroic spirits of cultivators.

This is the most intimate thing. Whenever a cultivator in Shiwumen dies, it will attract competition from all villages and towns in all villages and towns. Everyone has the most generous conditions, hoping to lead the heroic spirit to their own villages and towns.

The number of heroic spirits worshipped is a symbol of the strength of a village and town!

In the temple that Li Yao visited, a total of four cultivators were worshipped, including an elder and a leader of Shiwumen, called the "Four Holy Temple". It is said to be the largest temple in the ten miles and eight villages. No wonder the villagers would say that the incense here is very strong and extremely effective.

In the Four Saints Temple, there are four cultivators' clay idols, covered with gold powder, and several colorful talisman arrays that stimulate glare and are engraved in the dark, which are a bit of fairy-like and lifelike. If they are seen by ignorant villagers at night, it is not surprising to think that they are heroic souls.

There are also several bronze medals, but they are engraved with the deeds of these cultivators, especially the reasons for their fall.

Li Yao took a closer look and found that the three cultivators all fell while fighting with ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests. The head of the peak realm of the Foundation Establishment Period was killed by the other party while chasing a powerful evil cultivator who had wandered to the local area.

These deeds of death made Li Yao not know what to say.

It is obvious that it is impossible for a sect to survive by relying on rents and taxes from all over the countryside. If you want to practice, you must go to the deep mountains and forests to hunt spirit beasts and monsters, obtain their flesh and blood, spirit pills, and then dig out various treasures of heaven and earth and crystal stone spirit ores. This is the foundation of a sect.

Therefore, going into the mountain to "slay demons and eliminate demons" is a need for the survival and development of the sect, not a purely "handing the way for heaven".

But objectively speaking, it is indeed because these cultivators have been going on for hundreds of years, competing for the survival space with demons, ghosts, monsters, wolves, tigers and leopards for hundreds of years, which has opened up a land that can barely survive for ordinary people.

When demons and tigers and wolves go down the mountain and rage, or when evil cultivators from other places come in, the "Immortal Masters" of Shiwumen have never been ambiguous.

Therefore, if you ask whether the cultivators of Shiwu Sect have contributed to the ordinary people here, Li Yao really couldn't say "No" with a shameless face.

"A cultivator from Shiwu Sect is arrogant and domineering to the people today, and looks extremely disgusting."

"But maybe he will go into the mountain to fight with the demons tomorrow, and unfortunately fall!"

"Subjectively, of course, he was just collecting demon pills, beast bones and various spiritual medicines for his own cultivation, and he never considered the interests of the people at all; but objectively, he devoted his life and did make a small contribution to protecting the country and the people!"

"Is such a Gu Xiu considered a good person or a bad person?"

For a moment, Li Yao couldn't think of the answer to this question.

What's more, has this Gu Xiu really not considered the interests of the people at all?

Most of the cultivators of Shiwumen come from the ten miles of towns and are natives.

Many cultivators' 80-year-old mothers and three-year-old children are ordinary people, and they all live here.

Once ferocious beasts and demons really go down the mountain in groups and rage, the families of these cultivators will also suffer a catastrophe.

When these cultivators slay demons in the mountains and forests, they really only consider their own interests, and do not have a slight feeling of "defending their hometown"?

People are not plants and trees, so who can be ruthless? How can things in the world be judged by simple words "right or wrong, good or bad"!

Li Yao sighed secretly, hesitated for a long time, and finally, as a modern cultivator, he bowed deeply to the four ancient cultivators represented by these four clay idols, and shouted respectfully in his heart: "Senior!"

In any case, these ancient cultivators represent the history of human civilization and the past of all modern cultivators.

Without a past, how can there be a future?

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Li Yao noticed a detail.

In front of the four clay idols, dozens of plates of roast chicken, stew, buns, green dumplings, dried fragrant offerings are offered.

Li Yao knew that with the poverty of the villagers here, they could not even afford to drink millet porridge, roast chicken, terribles, white bread, etc., and they were even the supreme delicacies that they didn’t even think about during the Chinese New Year.

The villagers spent a lot of effort, effort, and effort to buy these things for the four clay idols, and how much they put in, representing their feelings!

However, these things are slowly in front of the clay idol, and finally they are cheaper than snakes, insects, rats and ants.

Outside the temple, there were a few children with unclothed clothes and scattered faces, like beggars, standing on tiptoe and drooling, staring at these offerings, watching the roast chicken and the trash bit by bit, but they didn't dare to go forward and even lick it.

Li Yao heard the thunder and agitation from the children's stomachs.

A hint of affection for Gu Xiu just emerged in my heart, and I was instantly suppressed again.

At this time, there was another loud cry from the villages outside, and the crying seemed to be contagious. At a moment, the entire village, and even several nearby villages were drowned out by the crying sounds.

When Li Yao left the temple to see, he saw that the entire village had already carried hundreds of white banners, and many people were familiar with it.

"The day before yesterday, Elder Lei from the Shiwu Sect led twenty new immortal masters to the mountain to try, but unfortunately, a monster python that was about to turn into a dragon fell and fell!"

Within the entire Shiwu City, there were hundreds of miles of radius, and the sound of cannons was heard and crying.

...

Li Yao spent a day tracking and killing the monster python with a red tumor on his head, and took out the corpses of Elder Lei and three Qi Refining Cultivators from its abdomen, restrained them carefully, and placed them at the intersection of three major roads at the foot of the mountain while there was no one in the night.

After bowing to them three times, he returned to Wujiang Wharf in a complicated mood and above his own boat.

After that, he went all the way east and inspected the towns in the Yangtze River, but he put himself in his pride from modern civilization and looked at the problem from the perspective of local indigenous people.

The river went east, and then the 10 or 20 cities and towns were almost the same. They centered on one cultivation sect and then expanded outward. The cultivators were indeed high-ranking, showing off their power, and overwhelming the imperial power.

But the entire middle and upper reaches of Wujiang River are almost the same as the surrounding area of ​​the "Shiwu City". The mountains are high and dense, and there are many ferocious beasts and demons. Without the fighting between cultivators and demons, ghosts, tigers, wolves, dragons and snakes, ordinary people cannot survive at all.

If Li Yao was born as a local farmer, what could he do when facing the extremely vicious demons and tigers and wolves, except to place all hope on the "Immortal Master"?

If Li Yao was a local cultivator, he would probably not feel guilty about this kind of relationship. Instead, he would feel that he was protecting the country and protecting the people, eliminating demons and protecting the way. He was so hard to practice, and he was in danger of dying every day. Isn’t it natural for the people to worship themselves, worship themselves, and fear themselves?

But no matter how you explain this principle, you can't explain it clearly!

A few days later, they finally drove out of the middle and upper reaches of Wu River with high mountains and dense forests and winding rivers, and entered the hills and plains of Wu River in the middle and lower reaches of Wu River.

When we arrived here, we gradually entered the southeast fertile land with the richest spiritual energy of Daqian. The development level was greatly improved. Naturally, there were not so many primitive jungles, nor so many monsters, wolves, tigers and leopards.

The hills and farmland here are highly utilized in a variety of ways, and it is difficult to find even a piece of barren field the size of a fingernail.

After thousands of years of mergers and accumulation, most of the fields and forests belong to local wealthy families and are then rented to farmers for farming.

The rich clans are attached to a certain cultivation sect, and there are many "spirit fields" with strong spiritual energy and the best quality, which are directly owned by the cultivation sect and will never fall into the hands of ordinary people.

The land here is small and dense, and every inch of land is valuable. Most of the sects of cultivation are intertwined and entangled.

Therefore, the biggest enemy of the cultivation sect in the middle and lower reaches of Wujiang is no longer demons and tigers and wolves, but other cultivation sects!

Here, Li Yao witnessed the battle between two cultivation sects for the first time.

Under the leadership of seven or eight foundation-building cultivators, nearly a hundred Qi Refining Cultivators beat the battle flags of their respective sects, like two groups of furious tigers and wolves, rushing together fiercely, with swords and swords killing their souls, extremely cruel, with no sympathy of fellow Taoists.

In just half an hour, a total of three foundation-building monks and more than twenty Qi-refining monks fell.

The reason is not for peerless magical powers, nor for heaven and earth treasures, but for a cow and an ordinary plowing cow!

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Sorry, I accompanied my wife to go for a postoperative re-examination today, and I delayed until the afternoon before coming back, so I updated it late.

Today is the third update, don't worry
Chapter completed!