Chapter 1061: Breaking willow branches at Baqiao to enter Chang'an, the sound of bells throughout the city congratulating the Golden C

"Yan Yan Shixiong! Why did you let me give that person a slash as soon as we met?"

Ning Ning Qingchen led the white deer, walking leisurely on the official road.

Brother Qian Chen smiled: "Didn't you not give it? He ran fast... in the blink of an eye, you couldn't slash that blade!"

Ning Ning Qingchen put her hands behind her back and smiled: "I'm not Yan Yan Shixiong; what reason is there to slash someone just because I meet them?"

"But his escape technique has a taste of the Zhu Wuchang Sect!"

"And the speed and skill with which he suppressed that thread of affection just now made it impossible for me to slash along the thread again. Looking at it this way, Yan Yan Shixiong probably didn't misjudge him!"

"That's right, Yan Yan Shixiong calculated it with his fingers and knew this person wasn't doing anything good."

Brother Qian Chen was smug: "As for the Zhu Wuchang Sect?"

"They must have gained experience from being slashed by the Taiyin Severing Affection Blade! That escape technique is like reincarnation, suppressing the thread of affection and winding it on the Three Lives Stone, using it to replace the body and mind to guard against your slash. Looking at it, it's quite pitiful. I don't know how many people were slashed before they gained such experience!"

Ning Ning Qingchen thought about it and giggled: "Thinking about it, it's true. Affection threads are connected, whether near or far, and even if you've only met once, the moment your heart moves, as long as that thread of affection has wound around, the Taiyin Severing Affection Blade can slash along it. Even possession or pointing can't escape it."

"The only way is reincarnation!"

"I didn't expect the Zhu Wuchang Sect to really develop an escape technique for reincarnation. Thinking about it, it's quite mysterious and has the foundation of a Great Divine Ability."

Brother Qian Chen also sighed: "The demon path is truly vibrant! If the reincarnation escape technique is cultivated to a profound level, it might really be like reincarnation, avoiding all karma and escaping without a trace. Thinking about it, it has the potential to become one of the top three escape techniques in the Earth Immortal Realm!"

As they spoke, a stone bridge spanned the river, and pedestrians were coming and going in an endless stream.

"Is that Baqiao in front?"

The Ba River is located east of Chang'an, and there is an ancient stone pillar bridge on it, built by Duke Mu of Qin in the past, named Baqiao.

The stone pillars on the bridge were simple and ancient, carved with many patterns, and many ancient gods rested there.

Ning Ning Qingchen looked at the stone piers one by one along the bridge, and the green willows on the riverbank were like shade. Brother Qian Chen was also quite interested; after all, breaking willow branches at Baqiao was a custom that shone brightly in later history and was hard to forget.

He could only sigh that the Central Lands of the Shenzhou are, after all, the Shenzhou; essentially, they are the various heavens of the Immortal Realm.

Even though they are down and out now, their foundation is not ordinary.

The stone pillars of Baqiao are extremely ancient, worthy of being called relics!

Essentially, they are totem stone pillars transported back from Yiqu.

I don't know how many tens of thousands of years of faith tempering they have undergone. With Brother Qian Chen's vision, these stone pillars could not be destroyed even by a Yang Spirit True Person exerting all their strength.

But here, they were scarred, and when touched with a finger, one could feel many mottled marks.

There were also many divine lights hidden within, and many ancient charms needed the right timing to stimulate the mysteries hidden within them.

The willow trees by the roadside didn't know how many times they had been replaced, and the oldest could be traced back to the third year of the Earth Emperor of Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han.

But Brother Qian Chen looked toward the past.

No matter how many times those willow trees sprouted again, their form remained the same...

They had already become gods!

"No wonder it's 'breaking willow branches at Baqiao.' With these willow branches in hand, ordinary vengeful ghosts really don't dare to offend, and even if a ghost king from another place comes to Chang'an, if they cause trouble, I'm afraid they could be beaten half to death by the common people of Chang'an holding willow branches."

Brother Qian Chen reached out of Baqiao, broke off a willow branch, weighed it in his hand, and felt he could beat the Ear Dao God!

Willow trees are naturally easy to communicate with, and Chang'an is the most active place for human spirit and affection in the ancient famous city.

Perhaps in the past, during the Heavenly Zhou period, these few willow trees were just camphor willow children stained with a bit of human spirit, like the Ear Dao God's origin, although they didn't have the opportunity to know more and more secrets like the Ear Dao God, they obtained some divine path secrets from the stone pillars on Baqiao, which led to their transformation and allowed them to avoid various disasters in between. They cultivated a method of constantly suffering disasters and constantly being reborn. Now, they should also be aware of the environmental changes in the Earth Immortal Realm and have taken the initiative to fall into a deep sleep, the divine object hiding itself, only revealing its mortal body.

"The Earth Immortal Realm is truly down and out!"

Brother Qian Chen turned his head to Ning Ning Qingchen: "The older and more brilliant the ancient city, the more one can feel it... Now, a Yin Spirit Venerable is enough to preside over a large aristocratic family, but looking at these willow trees at Baqiao, one knows that during the Immortal Qin and Immortal Han periods, the Yin Spirit was just the level of a willow tree by the roadside or a stone pier under a bridge!"

"Chang'an is extremely ancient and brilliant. I'm afraid the city is sealed with countless taboos and creations, but in this era, it has fallen into silence!"

Brother Qian Chen looked at Chang'an from afar. For a time, the past and future, history and the present, everything about it overlapped before his eyes.

Ning Ning Qingchen had also seen this ancient city in the reflection of time.

Strictly speaking, in terms of bustle and prosperity, Chang'an at this time cannot be compared with the peak of the Kaiyuan period of the Great Tang, but the true ancient city of Chang'an in the Earth Immortal Realm exuded an ancient, majestic, more condensed, and heavy aura.

"It is worthy of being an ancient city that can be compared with the sun!"

Chang'an was bustling, and Ning Ning Qingchen leading the white deer didn't look too conspicuous; there were too many cultivators coming and going!

Many of the evil youths riding dragon-species warhorses had Penetrating Law cultivation.

Dragon-species horses, which were rare even in the Northern Frontier, were held by everyone here, and many had the bloodline of the heavenly horses that Emperor Wu of Han had traveled hundreds of millions of miles to beg for from Dayuan.

Besides the common Daoist and Confucian-robed cultivators in the Central Lands, there were even monks from the Western Continent riding white elephants, swaying and queuing to enter the city.

Witch tribes from the Southern Wilderness, three-eyed people with a third eye on their foreheads, and Hu merchants from the West.

There were even alien races with cracked skin like stone people; feathered people with wings on their backs; Tocharians spitting fire from their mouths and noses; alien women with snake hair...

Just at the city gate, there were many alien races rare in other places. In the Gui Xu, the many ominous things Brother Qian Chen peeped into in the fruit of destruction, especially the scene of the destruction of the Quanrong Kingdom, made Brother Qian Chen think that these existence that were like humans but not humans should have been slaughtered by the Supreme.

Seeing them today, there were actually quite a few.

I don't know which corner they were dug out from, and they were eager to enter Chang'an.

But the city gate pass in front, which was like an iron curtain and almost like a small mountain, made Brother Qian Chen understand something!

Opening his Dharma Eye, he saw the Chang'an divine light overflowing. Outside the countless buildings on the ground, there were countless worlds floating and sinking in the divine light. Ancient halls and divine towers were majestic, and the most ancient divine realms were almost close to the Heavenly Realm, but there were still many seals in the deepest part of divinity.

"This is not just an ancient city, but a divine city!"

"In the countless realms that approach the Heavenly Realm upward and the Netherworld downward, it is crowded with gods. Compared to the flying boat markets overseas, this is not a fairy city specifically serving cultivators, so there is less strangeness, but..."

Brother Qian Chen looked around: "Gods and humans live together, and there are even more gods than humans. The four gates built during the Immortal Han seem to be suppressing the divine abilities and magic powers that cultivators in the city can mobilize."

"Entering the city, I'm afraid that even a Core-forming cultivator would find it difficult to mobilize the heaven and earth primordial Qi to respond..."

"Coupled with so many gods hidden in the city, it also ensures that mortals are not affected by cultivators!"

Entering the city required verification, but there was a special city gate tunnel that allowed cultivators to enter and exit.

A Buddhist Heavenly King was enshrined here, holding a treasure umbrella, embroidered with countless precious pearls, named "Multi-hearing." Every cultivator entering the city had to be looked at by him.

This god was not summoned by talismans, nor was it a spiritual response manifested by the laws of heaven and earth.

It was a real wisp of this god's divine sense!

"Buddhism has infiltrated to this extent!"

Brother Qian Chen was a bit emotional. That's right, such a huge Chang'an, wanting to maintain a stable order, especially managing so many cultivators entering and exiting, had to rely on the divine path.

In fact, the maintenance of order in the Central Lands mostly relied on the divine path.

In the past, when Brother Qian Chen was an insignificant rogue cultivator, when he went to remote places like the Great Marsh of Jiuzhen Commandery, there were City Gods sending Day-Wandering and Night-Wandering Gods to monitor, so as to avoid the tragedy of demon cultivators slaughtering the people and refining demon treasures.

If there were no divine path, the Central Lands would have been ravaged by demon cultivators long ago.

In fact, even the demonic disasters had to rely on the military families, organizing in the form of demon armies, first breaking through the order of the divine path, using Blood Malevolent God-Slaying Arrows, Profound Dark Earth-Splitting Nails, and Daoist Yangshen-Slaying Arrow Arrays first, and then slaughtering the city and killing people, sweeping through everything.

The military families were hated by many, and the divine path was worshipped by people, which was not without reason!

Multi-hearing Heavenly King looked at Brother Qian Chen and Ning Ning Qingchen, but didn't say anything. A wisp of divine machine hung down from the Mixed-Origin Umbrella, turning into a travel document.

Brother Qian Chen also nodded at it, and the two sides passed each other in a friendly manner.

After all, there was still a bit of incense affection!

Not long ago in Huairen Town, in order to guard against the Little Murong demon army, when Brother Qian Chen inscribed restrictions with Buddhist chanting methods, he had invited the spiritual responses of the four of them down, although they didn't attach their divine sense, they still had a response, which counted as a meeting.

Multi-hearing Heavenly King looked deeply at Brother Qian Chen's departing back. Beside him, the Great Strength Ghost King asked curiously: "Heavenly King, who is this person? To be so valued by the Heavenly King?"

"Can a lower-world cultivator also catch the Heavenly King's eye?"

Multi-hearing Heavenly King shook his head: "The Earth Immortal Realm is different!"

The Ghost King laughed: "These years, the Earth Immortal Realm has declined severely, and the Primordial Spirit can be called a king and hegemon! In the past, during the Immortal Han Chang'an, we followed the white horse, and that Chang'an... was full of Primordial Spirit True Immortals, and there were even the auras of several Daoist Lords. Beside it were the holy traces of the Supreme Daoist, the origin of the Wen Shi Daoist Venerable... The gods in the city, the most ancient could be traced back to the creation of humans by Wa Huang!"

"Scared me so much that I didn't even dare to raise my head, honestly following behind the white horse, carrying the scriptures..."

Multi-hearing Heavenly King sighed: "That's right! The Earth Immortal Realm is the homeland of the Buddha! In the past, the Western Continent was also full of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, although not like the thousand Buddhas sitting together in the Jetavana Grove of the past, it was also full of traces, unlike now, where the Great Asura Sect almost occupies half of the Western Continent!"

Great Strength Ghost King whispered: "Why doesn't the Heavenly King..."

"My true body has now entered the Heavenly Court, guarding the Heavenly Gate. Sending down a divine sense is fine, but I really cannot make a move with my true body. Moreover, the Great Asura Sect has the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor behind it, and if I anger him... those few Asura Kings, I'm not afraid, but this mess in the Western Continent is also..."

Multi-hearing Heavenly King shook his head constantly. Even gods and Buddhas have things that don't go their way, and it's very difficult.

"The ancient gods of the Earth Immortal Realm have all been slowly squeezed into silence by the Heavenly Court!"

"They were the first batch of innate gods, obtaining the Primordial Spirit Dao fruit opened by the Supreme Daoist, only then did they have human hearts, but this kind of human heart is formed by the belief of humans. These years, their belief has withered, so naturally, they no longer respond."

"And the Heavenly Court itself intervened directly, which was very hostile to the Supreme Daoist, and even cut off the gods pardoned by the Heavenly Court."

"Only then did the Heavenly Court introduce Buddhism into the Central Lands, borrowing the momentum of Buddhism to entangle the karma with the Daoist sect!"

"Gods and Buddhas are both promoted, and the integration of the three religions is the general trend... The Supreme Daoist has no responsibility for governing the world, and has no divine path holy treasure in his hands, so he cannot pardon the gods, so he cannot occupy the mainstream of the divine path in the Central Lands, and the Primordial Dao, which has this ability, is not on the same path as them."

"Secondly! The Supreme Daoist has merged with the Dao, although there are several Daoist Venerables supporting him, it is still difficult to compete with the Primordial Daoist Ancestor for the orthodoxy of the divine path."

"These years, the Earth Immortal Realm has continued to decline, and even the immortal path is already lacking in successors."

"Relying solely on the power of the Earth Immortal Realm, after so many years of strikes by the Heavenly Court, it has long been unable to hold on! Unless it fights the Heavenly Court now... but after the defeat of the Immortal Qin and the failure of the Immortal Han to open the Heavenly Realm, the remaining few Daoist Lords have all ascended. If they don't fight then, it's too late to fight now!"

"Now, I'm afraid it's time for the Heavenly Court to make a move and completely conquer the Earth Immortal Realm..."

"Otherwise, according to the official history of the Great Desolation, the next immortal dynasty will be born, and it will gather the momentum and hearts of the Earth Immortal Realm, which will make it even harder to make a move."

Multi-hearing Heavenly King was not entirely on the side of the Heavenly Court.

It was just that the Jade Emperor had laid out his layout with patience for millions of years, slowly wearing down the Earth Immortal Realm. Now it was time for the harvest, but he didn't know if this Heavenly Emperor could raise the thunderous power.

After all, the foundation of the Earth Immortal Realm was still there, and there were countless relatives and friends in the Heavenly Realm. The longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for the Heavenly Court.

The infiltration of dripping water piercing stone had reached its limit, and the divine path of the Earth Immortal Realm had been broken. It was time for a great establishment.

But Multi-hearing Heavenly King had one more thing he didn't say.

That was—the biggest variable in the Heavenly Court's plan might be the person who just walked past!

"There will inevitably be a great battle in the divine path of the Earth Immortal Realm... when the time comes, I'm afraid I won't be able to avoid being involved. It's better to establish a good relationship first."

This calculation of Multi-hearing Heavenly King was hard to tell outsiders.

Brother Qian Chen playfully toyed with the travel document stamped by Multi-hearing Heavenly King.

This time, he restored Li Er's appearance. As soon as he stepped into Chang'an, he felt several meaningful gazes cast upon him. Now, the news of his entry into Chang'an should have been sent to the desks of those who cared.

At this moment, a bell sound that shook the heavens suddenly came from the imperial palace!

Many people around looked up one after another, counting the number of bell sounds.

After a while, someone shouted: "Thirty-six rings! Someone has attained the First Grade Jin Dan again!"

"The bell sound came from the palace; I don't know which prince attained the First Grade Jin Dan... There were thirty-six bell sounds in Huayin the day before yesterday, shaking the Shenzhou! Some people guessed that someone in the Hongnong Yang clan attained the First Grade Jin Dan, but there has been no news yet."

"I didn't expect the next First Grade Jin Dan to come so quickly!"

"The last time there was such a continuous attainment of Golden Cores was the Shenzhou's Twenty-Eight Characters. Could it be that after more than a sixty-year cycle, the new generation of young geniuses is about to grow up?"

"The last time, the South took the lead. This time, Chang'an should finally show off!"

"This generation's Shenzhou's Twenty-Eight Characters, are we still listening to those old people in the South to comment? My Northern men are countless, but only the Crown Prince and the Buddha's son were selected! Any cat or dog in the South can be listed in the Twenty-Eight Characters. This time, it should be our Great Wei to comment on the geniuses of the world!"

The rogue cultivators coming and going whispered to each other, looking at the sky where the second bell sound echoed, their eyes burning.

Literature has no first, martial arts has no second.

However, wanting to argue about high and low in cultivation and Daoist practice is difficult to come up with a standard that convinces the world.

Over the years, many aristocratic families in Southern Jin have engaged in various evaluations, assemblies, and discussions on the profound, creating a nine-grade system for Foundation Establishment and Penetrating Law to compare.

But the one that truly penetrates the hearts of the people and is recognized by people is the Nine Grades of the Jin Dan.

Above the Jin Dan, it is too far away, and the distance from ordinary cultivators is too far, and the Primordial Spirit rarely makes a move, making it difficult to discuss high and low.

And below the Jin Dan, there are many people.

Many rogue cultivators have cultivation mostly at the Penetrating Law level. Creating a Foundation Establishment ranking is inevitably criticized by people.

Most rogue cultivators think like this: Can't I express my opinion on someone whose cultivation is not as good as mine?

Rankings created in this way are difficult to convince the public.

Only the Jin Dan stage is the threshold for most rogue cultivators, and the grade of the pill comes from ancient times, and now there are

Most loose cultivators think this way: Can't I express my opinion about someone whose cultivation is not as good as mine?

Such a ranking is difficult to convince the public.

Only the Jin Dan stage is the threshold for most loose cultivators, and the rank of the core comes from ancient times; now with various new theories, 'no regrets in core formation' also establishes the future.

Various achievements in the future are all visible and countable.

Thus, the twenty-eight characters of the Shenzhou that were created were deeply rooted in people's hearts and were famous for a time.

As the leading few people successively achieved Yang Spirit and Yin Spirit, they were increasingly valued by the world.

Listening to the discussion of the loose cultivators beside him, Brother Qian Chen smiled and asked: "How does Ning Ning Shimei feel about being famous in the world soon?"

Ning Ning Qingchen pondered: "I am wondering when the Guanghan Palace will come to the door?"

Brother Qian Chen put his hands behind his back and said proudly: "Let them come! I want to see if they have the guts to take you away from me!"

Ning Ning Qingchen smiled: "That's because you've been eyeing their spiritual treasure for a long time and can't wait!"

"What do you mean their spiritual treasure?" Brother Qian Chen frowned slightly: "I also want to ask, why is my Ning Ning Shimei Ning's spiritual treasure in their hands? They are called Guanghan Palace, but they can't just swallow the inheritance of the Guanghan Fairy!"

Ning Ning Qingchen pursed her lips slightly; Yan Yan Shixiong's heart is a bit bad.

But I can't say...

Yan Yan Shixiong is a good person in most cases; as for why he has some bad thoughts, those people should reflect on themselves. After all, Yan Yan Shixiong is good to everyone else, why is he so bad to you?

"Congratulations to the Sixth Imperial Prince for achieving a first-rank Jin Dan, the Immortal Dao is in sight!"

Someone in the distance shouted loudly.

"So it's the Cao family! It seems that the Cao family really took a big advantage in the Return to Ruins, and they can even smash out a second first-rank Jin Dan!"

Brother Qian Chen looked over there and smiled: "It's just that originally no imperial prince could compare with Cao Cao Xuanwei in momentum. The timing of this second first-rank Jin Dan is a bit thought-provoking!"

(End of chapter)