Chapter 274: Moqiu Tomb Robbery, Daring and Audacious

The arrival of the International Chamber of Commerce did not cause much waves in the Xia Dynasty. It was even less turbulent than the one caused by Yang Zhu.

To be more precise, only the Grandmaster level has any impact.

Even a master needs ten years to complete this journey. For ordinary people, it would probably take a lifetime. Even under the same sky, the distance can make people feel despair.

Although the rare items that Tao Shushan brought out were not recognized by the masters, his understanding of the fairyland in the Buzhou Mountains was genuine.

Therefore, even if there was no intention to trade, the remaining masters all stuck around him, trying to find out more news that was worth paying attention to.

Adhering to the philosophy that even if the deal fails, the friendship remains, Tao Shushan remained friendly even though no transaction was reached.

He seemed to be a really good guy, willing to tell him everything he knew, and even gave me a map to the Buzhou Mountains - that was a map compiled by the International Chamber of Commerce along the way.

This made the masters who had originally been quite skeptical of him feel a little ashamed. They never thought that he was so easy to talk to.

Seeing that Tao Shushan was so aware of the current situation, Wang Mang decided to make a deal with him. However, the thing he chose was not the Shengyan flower that he had been unable to take his eyes off, but the Anshenxiang.

A set of Flowing Clouds and Chasing the Moon clothes was exchanged for three incense sticks for calming the mind.

One was given to Gu Dan, one remained in the royal family, and the other was used when the Grandmasters needed it. As we all know, incense does not have to be burned out in one breath.

Among the many rare treasures that Tao Shushan took out, only this item could be of some help to cultivation. Even if it cannot be used now, it can be temporarily hidden as a foundation.

Gu Dan did not pester Tao Shushan to ask questions like other masters did. Anyway, the questions asked by those masters would definitely be recorded by someone, and it would be the same when he looked at them later.

At this time, in the Gu family courtyard, Gu Dan and Qing Pingzi sat opposite each other.

"What do you think?"

Gu Dan asked first.

"What he said should be true."

Qing Pingzi's eyes flashed with thought, but he still said: "There is a fairyland in the human world. It's a pity that we have wasted more than 40 years here, and we didn't know that other places have begun to practice the way of the fairy!"

"That's not the way to say it."

Gu Dan shook his head. He was not so concerned about gains and losses. Instead, he saw things more clearly. "When the stars fell from the sky at night, no one knew where they would eventually fall. If they fell into the vast ocean, wouldn't it be a waste of decades of time?"

"That's the truth, but I wasted more than 40 years of my life knowing that."

Qingpingzi's eyes were no longer as clear as before, but more gloomy, "It's still hard not to feel sad and regretful."

If he had directly chased after the group of meteorites at the beginning, he would have started practicing Taoism long ago!

But the bone of Dayong attracted his attention, and he was looking forward to the return of the immortal, so he stayed.

This delay almost killed me!

The fact that he didn't vomit blood showed that he had done a good job of nourishing his Qi.

"Forty years or so. There should already be cultivators at the foundation-building stage in that place, right?"

Gu Dan said calmly.

The level of a martial arts master is roughly equivalent to the Qi training realm in the immortal way, stronger than the middle stage of Qi training and slightly weaker than the late stage of Qi training. However, the master has an additional killing move of mutual destruction, so it is considered a draw.

But there is still a way to go further on the path to immortality, but the path to martial arts is cut off here.

In terms of foundation building, there is no doubt that he is far superior to the master. The aura revealed by the Shang character token in Tao Shushan's hand is also undoubtedly more than one level better than that of the master.

"It must be."

Qing Pingzi nodded, "The Qi training stage is not that difficult to begin with. It is the most common. Only after building a foundation can one truly embark on the path of immortality. Even if someone has built a foundation, without a hundred years of practice and without the help of any natural resources, it would be a foolish dream to achieve the Golden Elixir."

The Qi training realm is simply unable to display the power of the immortal way. A low-level Qi training cultivator will run out of spiritual energy after casting a few spells. Only after building a foundation can they display some of the power of the immortal way.

It is a road that becomes more terrifying the higher you go.

A cultivator in the Qi training stage can only be a registered disciple in some large sects. Only after successfully building a foundation can he truly join the sect and become a disciple of the lowest level.

There is a saying that goes, "You dare to call yourself an immortal when you practice Qigong? Go back to the mortal world and play with martial arts masters!" A truly capable person will not wait too long in Qigong.

"Building the foundation."

Murmuring these two words, Gu Dan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The Grandmaster is equivalent to Qi training, so how does the Grandmaster compare to the Foundation Building?

It should be possible to touch it.

At least when the business token revealed its aura, Gu Dan didn't feel much of a threat.

"With your strength, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator should be unable to do anything to you."

Qingpingzi naturally understood what Gu Dan was thinking and spoke immediately.

Gu Dan's real strength is not his cultivation, but his special healing method that can restore himself! Even if a foundation-building cultivator fights him and both are injured, he will be full of energy again in an instant, and the foundation-building cultivator who has lost more than half of his spiritual energy can only sigh helplessly.

In a protracted fight, martial arts is undoubtedly the way to kill the lower-level cultivators of the immortal path.

According to Qing Pingzi's calculations, as long as no Jindan-stage cultivator takes action, Gu Dan will be able to run rampant.

The martial arts are not that bad, and the bottom level of the immortal path is not enough to look down on all living beings.

"Besides, it's not like we can't practice the way of immortals. Our previous martial arts training is also the foundation of our lives, so it's not in vain."

Qingpingzi added.

The combat power of a martial arts master is genuine. Even if he starts to practice Taoism, he does not need to abandon his martial arts training. It’s just that there is no way to make progress at the same time.

"I know."

Gu Dan nodded slightly.

In normal practice, from Qi training to foundation building is not really a difficult hurdle, but going further from foundation building can easily take a hundred years.

If the true immortal does not return within a hundred years, no one in the world can pose a threat to him.

Of course, it is impossible for Gu Dan to just sit back and enjoy his martial arts skills and wait for others to surpass him.

He did not waste these years, but has been sorting out the path of martial arts, studying the classics of his predecessors. The martial arts insights he left behind when compiling "Shennong's Herbal Classic" are a summary of them.

In addition, he practiced the White Lotus Visualization Diagram every day, and his soul had improved. His strength was no longer the same as it was at the beginning, but he had never had the opportunity to show it.

Now he is just in the process of accumulation. It would be ridiculous to think that he has made no progress.

Even if there was really a foundation in front of him, Gu Dan was very confident that he could take it down.

"I'm ready to head to Buzhou Mountains."

After chatting casually, Qingpingzi brought up the serious business again.

"Um."

Gu Dan was not surprised.

Qingpingzi has no attachment to this place. He doesn't even care much about his two apprentices. He just lets them go their own way and whether they can succeed depends entirely on themselves.

That is to say, Zou Dan and Zhuang Sheng competed with each other and both became masters. People who didn't know them would think that Master Qingpingzi was very powerful.

However, two masters also emerged from Gu Dan's Gu family courtyard, and both received direct help from him, which was not inferior to Qingpingzi's deeds.

"You're not going?"

Gu Dan's reaction was calm, which surprised Qing Pingzi. "That's the path of immortality, destined to be better than the path of martial arts!"

"Of course I will."

Gu Dandan said: "But, maybe not now."

"The Xia Dynasty no longer needs your protection. The surrounding areas are also the most powerful in the Xia Dynasty. There is no possibility of being bullied. What are you still doing here?"

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Qingpingzi was a little puzzled, "Isn't it natural to pursue a higher level of power?"

Gu Dan shook his head and did not answer.

Qing Pingzi then said, "One life in the mortal world is no more than a hundred years. Those who fail to become masters in the mortal world are destined to leave many years before me. Moreover, you are stronger than the master and have a longer life span. Even the master cannot be considered as your companion. If you continue to stay in the mortal world, you can only watch your old friends grow old with your own eyes.

When power reaches a certain level, or even shows a huge difference, only cultivators of the same realm can be friends. This is not groundless.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator would need to spend a year or so in seclusion, while a Golden Core cultivator's time in seclusion would be many times higher. After one session of cultivation, the child who was born at the time might have grown up, and after another session of seclusion, the child would be already very old. It is no exaggeration to say that they are people from two different worlds. Even if they meet for a short time, they are destined to be people from two different worlds.

People and things in the mortal world are too short-lived for the immortals, just like mayflies that live in the morning and die in the evening. If you linger in them, you will hurt others and yourself."

"I said at the beginning that I would protect the mortal world for the rest of my life."

Gu Dan said calmly.

He practiced cultivation mainly for self-protection, and he didn't really like fighting and killing.

Although the path to immortality is good, his life is too long, so long that there is no need to fight for time and add to one's regrets.

Qingpingzi glanced at Gu Dan's youthful face for a few seconds and said angrily, "Well, for you, maybe another 10 or 20 years won't make a difference."

There are many things in this world where it is impossible to have the best of both worlds, all because there is not enough time.

Although the Grandmaster can practice the way of immortality, he cannot guarantee that he will be able to break through and advance before the deadline, so he has to come up with many ways, and even give up some things.

If given a choice, who wouldn't want to live according to their own wishes? The imperial capital of the Xia Dynasty, where Mo Qiu's tomb is located.

After the Xia Dynasty was established, Wang Mang announced the death of Mo Qiu.

Then a tomb was set up for Mo Qiu in the imperial capital for people to pay their respects.

According to the standards of Mohism, even the tomb of the great master Mo Qiu is not luxurious at all, and can even be said to be quite simple.

There are no reliefs or burial objects. It is so simple that there is only a lonely little mound and a tombstone. Apart from that, there are no other unnecessary decorations.

Even the poorest families are no better than this.

But this is Mo Qiu's tomb after all. Even if Wang Mang followed the Mohist philosophy and kept it extremely simple, he couldn't just leave it there and ignore it.

So Wang Mang ordered people to build a small courtyard outside the tomb and arranged guards to guard it.

This place is open. During the day, people and students who have come from far away and have heard of Mo Qiu's deeds will come to pay their respects.

After dusk, the door is closed, waiting for the next day when the newlyweds with gratitude will come to visit again.

The night has unknowingly enveloped the world. The bright and clear moonlight illuminates all things, casting down silver frost. The misty and cold moonlight actually seems somewhat gentle at this moment.

The surroundings were very quiet. At night, even the imperial capital was no longer as bustling as it was during the day and there was little movement.

Working at sunrise and resting at sunset is the iron rule for most people in this era. For ordinary people, night means time to rest.

And today, in the darkness, a man in black walked step by step to the gate of the courtyard where Mo Qiu's tomb was locked.

There is a couplet written on the left and right sides of the door.

[A few frog drums echoed along the river bank, and thousands of fireflies lit up the night stage. ]

The man stared at the couplet, then jumped lightly, and like a roc spreading its wings, he flew over the courtyard wall and flipped inside.

After landing in the yard, the man glanced around and found that there were actually two lines of words in the yard. This time, the tone was much louder.

[Kick the worldly road with both feet, and carry all the worries of the past and present on one shoulder. 】

He continued to look forward. There were no extra decorations in the yard, and he saw the tomb of Mo Qiu at a glance.

It is just as the people of the Xia Dynasty said. The tomb of the saints and heroes they believed in was just a simple small mound of earth, and a tombstone that looked like it was made of ordinary stone with the four words "Tomb of Mo Qiu" inscribed on it.

There is not even a biography. Is this a sign of simplicity or shabbyness? Or did the person who left the tombstone think that Mo Qiu's deeds no longer needed to be introduced? He shook his head and shook off those messy thoughts.

The man in black walked forward, passed the tombstone and came to the small mound.

This is already disrespectful.

But even more disrespectful is yet to come.

The true energy in the black-clothed man's hand bloomed in the silver-white world, like an extremely sharp long sword, which directly flattened the small mound of earth and then moved aside.

The true energy is released, he is a martial arts master! The man in black was very careful, and he continued to dig down cautiously, turning over the earth without causing any irreversible damage. Soon, he saw a sarcophagus lying quietly in the ground.

The man in black showed obvious joy on his face. He carefully shook off the dust to the side and dragged the sarcophagus out lightly.

When the sarcophagus was opened directly, as expected, there were no burial objects inside. It seemed that Mohism was consistent in its words and deeds.

But the man in black remained frozen in place.

It was understandable that there were no burial objects, but the question was, where was Mo Qiu's body? ! ! ! Inside the sarcophagus, there were only folded coarse linen clothes.

The one who enjoys the worship and incense offerings from the people of the Xia Dynasty is not the real Moqiu, but just a cenotaph?! No matter how frugal one is, he would not even want a corpse after death, right?

This is completely against the ethics of the time! The man in black was filled with astonishment.

"What are you doing?"

Just as he was in a daze, Xun Ke's cold voice rang out behind him.

(End of this chapter)