Chapter 1389

This sentence also attracted a lot of tea people's laughter, everyone shook his head, with honor Yan, as if to beat back the tax official of the imperial court, is their great glory.

While laughing, they cast a "caring for mentally retarded children" look at Li Yao.

There are thousands of words in Li Yao's stomach. He wants to say something about these ordinary people who have been suffering from chronic malnutrition and are black, thin, scabied and obscene. He and the practitioners are totally two species.

However, in their eyes like this, I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't know how to talk about it.

After leaving the tea shop, under the guidance of the teacher, he went to the local temple, which is said to be very fragrant.

Along the Wujiang River, there are many temples, Taoist temples and ancestral halls in every town and village, even in the mountains and forests.

However, most of these sacred incense are not the illusory gods and Buddhas, but the local sects who sacrificed their lives in the action of killing demons and demons.

It is said that after the fall, the practitioners will not die out. As long as they are offered incense, they will still protect the territory and the people, and protect the peace of the people.

Therefore, after the death of the practitioners of shiwumen, if their accomplishments and status are extremely high, they will build their own temples, that is, low-level monks with low strength will also be assigned to each ancestral hall to enjoy the incense forever.

There are more than one temple or ancestral hall in every village here. It is often the highest hall in the village, with blue brick, man tile, stone lion and bronze gate, which is in sharp contrast to the low and dilapidated mud shacks nearby.

In every temple or ancestral hall, the spirits of three or five practitioners are worshipped.

This is the most popular thing. Every time a practitioner falls in shiwumen, all the villages and towns in shiwumen will compete with each other. They all offer the most abundant conditions, hoping to bring the spirit to their own villages and towns.

The number of heroes worshipped is a symbol of the strength of a village!

In this temple, Li Yao visited, a total of four practitioners were sacrificed, including an elder and a leader of Shiwu gate. It is called "four holy temple". It is said that it is the largest temple in Shili and baxiang. No wonder villagers will say that the incense here is strong and extremely effective.

In the temple of Four Saints, there are four clay figurines of the practitioners. They are painted with gold powder and engraved with a few bright and colorful runes. They are full of Fairy Spirit and lifelike. If they are seen by the ignorant villagers at night, it's not surprising that they are regarded as heroes.

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

Li Yao took a closer look. All the three practitioners fell down when they were fighting with fierce animals in the mountains. The leader of the peak state in the foundation period was killed when he was chasing a powerful evil practitioner who fled to the local area.

Li Yao didn't know what to say.

To cultivate a sect, it is obviously impossible to live only on the taxes of ten li and eight townships. If you want to cultivate a sect, you should go to the mountains and forests to hunt and kill spirit beasts and demon beasts, get their flesh and blood, spirit elixir and demon elixir, and then excavate all kinds of natural resources and precious stones. This is the foundation of a sect.

Therefore, it is necessary for the survival and development of the school to go into the mountains to "kill demons and demons", rather than simply "acting on behalf of heaven".

But objectively speaking, it is these practitioners who have been fighting for living space with demons, ghosts, wolves, tigers and leopards for hundreds of years, which has opened up a land for ordinary people to survive.

When demons, tigers and wolves are rampant down the mountain, or evil practitioners from other places rush in, the "immortal masters" of shiwumen are not vague.

Therefore, to ask whether the practitioners of shiwumen have contributed to the common people here, Li Yao can't say "no" with a shy face.

"Today, a practitioner of shiwumen is arrogant, bossy and dismissive to the common people. He seems to be extremely hateful."

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

"Subjectively, of course, he went to collect demon pills, animal bones and all kinds of elixirs just for his own cultivation, without considering the interests of the common people; But objectively, he gave his life and did make a small contribution to the protection of the country and the people! "

"Is such a Gu Xiu a good man or a bad man?"

For a moment, Li Yao could not think of an answer to this question.

What's more, did the ancient monk really not consider the interests of the common people at all?

Most of the practitioners of shiwumen come from shilibixiang, and they are local people.

Many practitioners' 80 year old mothers and three-year-old children are ordinary people, all living here.

Once the fierce beasts and Demons really come down the mountain in groups, the families of these practitioners will also be destroyed.

When these practitioners cut off demons and demons in the mountains, are they really only considering their own interests, without any feelings of "defending their hometown"?

People are not plants. Who can be merciless? How can we judge things in the world with simple words "right or wrong, good or bad"!

Li Yao sighed and hesitated for a long time. Finally, as a modern cultivator, he gave a deep salute to the four ancient cultivators represented by the four clay figurines, and called respectfully in his heart: "elder!"

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

No past, no future?

As he was about to turn and leave, Lee noticed a detail.

In front of the four clay figurines, there are dozens of dishes of roast chicken, fermented meat, steamed buns, Youth League and dried incense.

Li Yao knows that the poverty of the local people is so great that he can't even afford to drink millet porridge, and such delicacies as roast chicken, bad meat and steamed stuffed buns with white flour are even the most important delicacies for the Chinese New Year.

The villagers bought these things for the four clay figurines. I don't know how much effort they spent, how much effort they made, and how much heart they represented!

However, these things are slowly rotten in front of clay figurines, and finally they are cheap.

Outside the temple stood a few children with unkempt clothes and dirty faces, like beggars. But they stood on tiptoe, drooling, staring at the offerings, watching the roast chicken and the bad meat go bad, but they did not dare to step forward and even lick.

Li Yao heard the thunder in the belly of the children.

At the bottom of my heart, a little bit of affection for Gu Xiu just rose, and it was suppressed in an instant.

At this time, there was another burst of wailing in the village outside. The wailing seemed to be contagious. At different times, the whole village, even several nearby villages, were drowned by the wailing.

When Li Yao turned out of the temple to see, he saw that the whole village had already raised hundreds of white banners, and many people were familiar with them to the polar regions.

"The day before yesterday, shiwumen's elder Lei led 20 new immortal masters into the mountain for trial. Unfortunately, he startled a strange python that had been dormant for ten years and was about to turn into a dragon. Lei Changlao and six new immortal masters fell down, fell down!"

Within the scope of Shiwu City, hundreds of miles around, the guns rang out and burst into tears.

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Li Yao spent one day tracking and killing the strange python with a red tumor on its head. He took out the corpses of Lei Changlao and three practitioners in the period of refining Qi from its abdomen. He gathered them carefully and put them at the intersection of the three roads at the foot of the mountain when there was no one in the starry night.

After bowing to them three times, he went back to Wujiang wharf and his boat.

After that, I went all the way to the east to investigate the towns along the river, but I put away the arrogance of modern civilization and put myself in the perspective of the local aborigines.

When the river goes to the East, the ten or twenty towns are almost the same, with the cultivation sects as the center, and then expand outward, and the practitioners are really superior, arrogant, and superior to the imperial power.

However, the landform of the middle and upper reaches of the Wujiang River is almost the same as that around the "Shiwu city". The mountains are high and the forests are dense. There are many fierce beasts and demons. Without the fight between the practitioners and demons, ghosts, tigers, wolves, dragons and snakes, ordinary people can't live at all.

If Li Yao is a local farmer, what can he do in the face of ferocious demons and tigers and wolves, except to place all his hopes on the "immortal master"?

If Li Yao was a local practitioner, he would not feel guilty for this kind of relationship. Instead, he would feel that he was protecting the territory and the people, removing demons and defending the way. He was in danger of dying every day. Is it not natural for the people to worship, worship and revere themselves?

This truth, however, can not be explained clearly!

A few days later, they finally drove out of the middle and upper reaches of the Wujiang River with high mountains and dense forests, and into the hills and plains of the middle and lower reaches of the Wujiang River.

After arriving here, we gradually enter the southeast high land with the strongest spirit of Da Qian, and the degree of development is greatly improved. Naturally, there are not so many primitive forests, nor so many monsters and monsters, wolves, tigers and leopards.

The hills and farmland here are highly utilized, and it's hard to find a piece of wasteland the size of a fingernail.

After thousands of years of annexation and accumulation, most of the fields and forests belonged to the local aristocratic families, and then they were rented to farmers for farming.

However, the great family name is attached to a certain cultivation sect, and there are many "Lingtian" with rich aura and the best quality, which is directly owned by the cultivation sect and has no reason to fall into the hands of ordinary people.

There is little land and a lot of people here. Every inch of land is worth every inch of money. Most of the influence areas of the cultivation sects are intertwined.

Therefore, the biggest enemies of the cultivation sects in the middle and lower reaches of Wujiang River are no longer demons and wolves, but other cultivation sects!

Here, Li Yao saw the struggle between the two cultivation sects for the first time.

Under the leadership of seven or eight Zhuji friars, nearly a hundred practitioners of the Qi refining period fought with their respective sects. Like two groups of furious tigers and wolves, they collided with each other fiercely. The swords killed and the swords enchanted the soul. They were extremely cruel, and had no Taoist friends at all.

Just half an hour after the conflagration, three foundation building monks and more than 20 gas refining monks fell.

And the reason is not for any supernatural power, nor for any natural resources, but for a cow, a common ox!

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Sorry everyone, today I went with my wife for the post-operative review. I didn't come back until the afternoon, so the update was late.

It's still three o'clock today. Don't worry~