Chapter 298: Immortal Fate? Immortal Fate! (Long chapter, please subscribe and vote~)

In the sixty-fourth year of the Xia Dynasty, autumn had just passed.

Gu Dan left the Xia Dynasty, which he had guarded for more than sixty years, and headed towards the Buzhou Mountains.

He became his old self again, walking forward with his staff in hand.

Along the way, never look back.

The whistling wind passed by his ears. He was alone, like a wild goose in the sky, flying alone, with mountains and rivers flowing behind him.

The sky is clear and the light is fleeting.

He did not appreciate the scenery along the way anymore. He had seen too many things in the world and was a little tired.

Only when he was tired of traveling would Gu Dan leave the human world, walk into the city, and taste the exotic food and liquor, but he would not stay for long.

Occasionally, when encountering people who are seriously ill, I would just attack them secretly without leaving any trace.

Although it is a foreign country and the accent has changed slightly, the difference in language is not that big. Even the writing is rarely different. The biggest difference may be that the clothing is more unconventional, but it can't be said to be unfamiliar.

Mr. Ji’s guess should be correct. A long, long time ago, there was probably an extremely powerful force that controlled the entire world.

Therefore, the creatures living in this world today, even if they are thousands of miles apart and the people of the two countries have never met in this life, still use the same language and writing.

However, few people want to understand the reason behind this. Everyone has their own things to do. The past glory is gone. What can we do today? He is just a lonely traveler in a thousand miles, a free man in the world, who stays here for a short time and is destined to move on to a farther place.

Traveling quickly all the way, occasionally stopping at the mortal world to ask around.

None of them can compare to the Xia Dynasty.

This made Gu Dan feel somewhat proud.

The efforts of him, his friends, and his successors are already remarkable.

After running almost non-stop, when Gu Dan finally arrived at the country around the Buzhou Mountains, he finally saw the rising mountains from a distance.

Even high in the sky, Gu Dan could not see the end.

What a magnificent mountain range that is!

It was like a huge monster that stood between heaven and earth, blocking the earth.

The sky is dotted with green mist, the morning glow makes a shirt, and even the sun seems to be just a bright lamp hanging in the sky, illuminating a small area.

This is the Zhou Mountain in the legend of the Xia Dynasty.

But it has collapsed and turned into today's Buzhou Mountains.

But even if it collapsed, it still lay between heaven and earth, like a crawling giant beast that could swallow the sky and the earth, blocking the way.

When his eyes actually came into contact with the Buzhou Mountains, even if it was just a glimpse from a distance, Gu Dan finally understood how powerful that was.

Grand and towering are not enough to describe its magnificence; it seems like something that should not exist in this world!

"Is this the Buzhou Mountains?"

Gu was so worried that he felt a little trembling. Even a great master was so small, like a mayfly, in front of such an absolute wonder of heaven and earth.

He came down from the sky and since he could already see the Buzhou Mountains, it meant they were really close.

If he flew over there again, it would be easy to expose himself. After all, there were foundation-building cultivators in the Buzhou Mountains. Although Gu Dan was not afraid, he did not want to meet them face to face.

His attire was no different from when he just left the Gu family compound, but after coming down, his appearance immediately changed. With his sophisticated disguise, even if Andy Hui came over, he would not be able to recognize him.

Not only his appearance, but also his figure has become slightly taller, his muscles have bulged, and at first glance he looks like a martial artist.

This time, Gu Dan made his appearance become much more ordinary. He was no longer as dazzling and eye-catching as before.

When you go out, you have to be on guard.

He even took off his Liuyun Zhuiyue suit and put on an ordinary black robe.

Staring at his new self in the mirror, Gu Dan stroked his beard and commented with satisfaction: "Well, not bad."

Calculating the time, it should be the 69th year of the Xia Dynasty.

It takes ten years to become a master, but Gu Dan took a little over four years.

Thirty-one years have passed since the International Chamber of Commerce arrived in the Xia Dynasty.

However, although the language and writing are the same, the records of years are very confusing.

Each place has different records of years, and they have to be converted into each other, which is quite troublesome.

But since the Buzhou Mountains can be seen here, the influence of the Buzhou Mountains has naturally radiated here.

The years used here are quite uniform.

Seventy-nine years since the immortal came!

The day when the stars fall from the sky on a moonlit night is regarded as the dividing time of the year here.

That day was also the day when the Zhou Mountain collapsed, causing the destruction of dozens of surrounding countries.

It’s just that people’s reproductive capacity and adaptability are also extraordinary. Only seventy-nine years have passed, and now there is a huge population here. There is no sign that a tragedy that destroyed dozens of countries occurred here decades ago.

"Thirty-one years have passed. Excluding the time spent on the journey, Qingpingzi and his team have also been developing here for twenty years."

Gu Dan looked at himself who was completely unfamiliar to him and muttered to himself, "I wonder if Qingpingzi is still alive?"

When the news of the Buzhou Mountains reached the Xia Dynasty, Qingpingzi had already reached the end of his mastery.

He still borrowed the power of Dayong's bone to forcibly prolong his life, but the price was very heavy, and he was no longer human.

Even so, this kind of forced life extension has its limits. After such a long time, if Qingpingzi has made no progress on the path to immortality, Gu Dan might come here just in time to collect his body.

It is also worth mentioning that before Qingpingzi left, he secretly took Dayong's bone away.

The royal family of Dayong even sent people to Gu Dan to complain, but Gu Dan and Gong Shangguo had already left the Gu family compound by then. Dayong had no choice but to swallow its anger and had no place to speak out.

In addition to Qingpingzi, there are also more familiar figures such as Zou Dan and Zhuang Sheng, who are probably also here.

Therefore, this place is not a completely unfamiliar land to Gu Dan. This is the real reason why he wants to change out of his Liuyun Zhuiyue suit.

When you go out, people are treacherous, so who doesn't wear a vest? What does Xia Chao's Gu Dan have to do with me? "Now, I'm going to call."

After thinking for a while, Gu Dan thought of a good name, "Let's call him Kong Zhai!"

He changed his clothes, rearranged his appearance, adjusted his body shape, and even his voice sounded low and powerful, completely different from the past. He also changed his name so that no one could recognize him.

This is what it means to truly change your appearance and become a new person.

After packing up everything, Gu Dan left the inn. He asked someone and heard the news about the fairyland on earth.

He came at a good time, as the Fairyland on Earth was recruiting people.

To be precise, it should be the group of immortals in the fairyland on earth who would send messengers to the mortal world to recruit children at the beginning of spring every year.

The only difference from the vernacular novels is that this group of unreliable immortals cannot tell at a glance who has spiritual roots and whether they can practice immortality. They must go to the Immortal Trial Platform once.

The simplest and most direct way is to try it with spirit stones. Whoever can absorb it and absorb it quickly has spiritual roots.

However, this kind of lavish financial means is not accepted by the Immortal Court today.

However, what really surprised Gu Dan was that the news from the International Chamber of Commerce was a little delayed.

Today, there are not just five fairy palaces, but six.

During the thirty-one years, a new source of spiritual energy was found in the Buzhou Mountains, and naturally one more source was added to the Immortal Court.

Even within the same mountain range, the nearest and farthest fairy courts are separated by more than a thousand miles of mountain roads! Not only that, the six fairy courts also have their own unique features.

The first five fairy palaces discovered correspond to five kinds of spiritual roots.

Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth!

It is not their inherent attributes, but the result of the monks' day-to-day efforts.

Practitioners with the same spiritual roots will naturally practice a little faster in the immortal house with corresponding spiritual energy, and their competitiveness will also be staggered.

Even if the cultivator is not in the corresponding immortal workshop, it will not affect the normal practice, it will just be a little slower.

The fairyland on earth is just the name given to it by mortals. If it is divided according to the degree of suitability for spiritual root cultivation, it should be the Gold Workshop, the Wood Workshop, the Water Workshop, and so on.

As for the sixth Xinxianfang, which was established only more than 20 years ago, it did not dare to compete with the old predecessors for cultivators, and took a new name, called Ningfang.

It is a completely neutral place that does not please any cultivator with any spiritual roots, and the conditions are the most relaxed.

For people who have all five elements, these six places are the same no matter where they go. The one closest to Gu Dan is Ningfang, so naturally he plans to go there while Ningfang is recruiting people.

Without wasting any time, Gu Dan soon arrived at the foot of the Buzhou Mountains.

Looking up from the bottom, it seems as if you see a pillar connecting the sky and the earth, towering into the clouds, with no end in sight.

Under normal circumstances, people cannot live on this kind of mountain.

But the immortal method naturally has its mysteries. It is not impossible to change the world, let alone a mountain of dead objects?

What really surprised Gu Dan was that he saw many people at the foot of Zhou Mountain.

Usually there are some men in uniforms leading hundreds or thousands of children.

Those children were not that young. The Immortal Court had certain requirements for accepting people. The youngest had to be twelve years old, and the oldest could not be over eighteen years old, with the exception of the Grandmasters.

Not long after Gu Dan arrived here, a fellow in a white uniform with shifty eyes came over and asked with a smile, "Do you want to cultivate immortality?"

"Who are you?"

Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly.

The man with shifty eyes pointed at his uniform and raised his head proudly, "Don't you see what I'm wearing? Don't you understand this?"

"Please help me solve this problem."

Gu Dan was not annoyed and spoke quite politely.

"Come with me!"

The man waved his hand and took Gu Dan to a place under the shade of a tree with his back to the crowd, where people around could not see him.

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He cleared his throat lightly and said in a trembling voice: "I am the messenger sent by Ningfang to recruit immortal disciples. You should understand from the clothes I wear. I am called Lao Wang, and I have been helping Ningfang recruit immortal disciples for eighteen years!"

Lao Wang was quite familiar with the place and started by saying, "I don't think your age matches yours. Are you a master? Or do you just want to join in the fun?"

Although Ning Fang's standards cannot be considered a dead line, it is impossible for ordinary people to exceed the rules. Gu Dan looks to be in his thirties or forties at this time, which is definitely higher than Ning Fang's requirements.

"He is indeed a master."

Gu Dan nodded and did not deny it.

He came here to cultivate immortality, not to be a grandson.

It's not that it's impossible to pretend to be a teenager, but it's too troublesome. That's not pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger, that's pretending to be an earthworm to dig the soil. It's really unnecessary.

Anyway, foreign masters are not new or surprising to the Buzhou Mountains. They are just enough.

"oh?"

Old Wang's eyes lit up, and he said happily, "I see that you are very impressive and extraordinary. I can tell at a glance that you are not an ordinary person. How should I address you?"

Hey, that wasn't your attitude just now.

Gu Dan said calmly: "Kong Zhai."

"Since you are a master, it will be much easier to explain. From your appearance, you must have just arrived not long ago, right?"

Lao Wang asked.

"After hearing about the events here, I came here day and night."

Gu Dan nodded and did not deny it.

"Do you know the rules of Ningfang?"

Lao Wang asked again.

"Please explain this to me."

"Then we have to talk about it."

Lao Wang coughed dryly and said in a slightly strange tone: "I have been helping to recruit immortal disciples in Ningfang for eighteen years, and I actually know some inside information."

He rubbed his hands but said nothing more.

Gu Dan laughed, naturally understanding what he meant, and without any stinginess, he pinched a small piece of gold the size of a thumb and handed it to him.

It was not a loss for Gu Dan to exchange a little money for valuable information, as there was no use for him to keep it anyway.

"Grande!"

Old Wang's eyes lit up. He made a fortune! This master knows how to behave! "Since you are so open-minded, I will tell you everything I know!"

Lao Wang's attitude became more and more friendly. He looked at Gu Dan with a rather fiery look and took the initiative to say, "Speaking of these immortal houses, they are actually all the same. Only our Ning House is much more lenient towards cultivators. What's more, you are a Grandmaster, who is much stronger than these people!"

Old Wang pointed his finger at the children who were waiting anxiously at the foot of Mount Buzhou and said.

"How do you put it?"

Gu Dan asked.

"These people, don't think that they have the opportunity to practice the way of immortals since childhood. Even if they really have spiritual roots, there are still many things waiting for them!"

After receiving the money, Lao Wang really kept his word and said incessantly: "If it is a low-grade spiritual root, then you have to sign a fifty-year contract with the Immortal Square to plant spiritual bamboo, spiritual rice and other things for the square owner and others. There are only a few things that fall into your hands every year.

If it is a medium-quality spiritual root, a thirty-year contract must be signed, and the conditions are similar.

Only those with superior spiritual roots can escape the disaster, but it is hard to say whether a genius of that level can emerge in a year, and most people just run away to work as laborers."

"oh?"

Gu Dan was quite surprised. The International Chamber of Commerce did not say anything about this. "Will they agree?"

"Hey, so what if they don't want to? That's the Immortal Square, the Immortal Square! Apart from here, where else can they practice the way of the immortal? Several markets are like this, and there's no point in changing places. Do they have any choice?"

Old Wang sneered, "By the time they finally get to devote themselves to the path of immortality, they are already in their seventies or eighties. How can they achieve anything?"

My goodness, aren’t these serfs? Gu Dan was amazed. “What’s the difference between this and robbery?”

"What you said, how can robbery take away their fifty years of time?"

Lao Wang said without hesitation, "The higher-ups are very smart!"

"How dare you say that?"

Gu Dan never expected that an "immortal envoy" who hadn't even practiced cultivation himself would dare to complain about his own forces.

"If they dare to do it, why can't we say anything? Every year there are cultivators denouncing it in the Immortal Square. It can be said that everyone in the Immortal Square knows about it, isn't it? It won't cause any trouble if we say a few words."

Lao Wang said indifferently.

"What about the Grandmaster?"

Gu Dan asked curiously.

"The Grandmaster's treatment is much better, and it only takes ten years. It's a pity that you came too late. If you had come ten years earlier, the Grandmaster would only have to sign a five-year contract.

But it’s not bad to come here at this time. It is said that the Immortal House has already started discussing having the Grandmaster sign a fifteen-year contract.”

Lao Wang sighed.

"oh?"

This really shocked Gu Dan. Although the Grandmaster was just that in his eyes, he was still the pinnacle of the mortal world.

Before, when the International Chamber of Commerce mentioned the Grandmaster, the Immortal House did not dare to provoke public anger. But now they are actually starting to treat the Grandmaster like a slave. This is extraordinary!

However, Gu Dan understood what Lao Wang meant after he said it casually.

Now, there are more than thirty foundation-building cultivators in the six immortal pavilions.

It's no longer the time when there are only two or three kittens.

As time goes by, those who can break through through hard work do have the opportunity to be promoted, and naturally there are more and more people like them.

Today, when the foundation-building monks join hands, they are no longer afraid of arousing the anger of the masters.

What's more, the emergence of the immortal path in the Buzhou Mountains has actually greatly suppressed Fanchen's belief in practicing martial arts.

If you can't become a master in martial arts, that's all.

To become a grandmaster, one must practice hard for at least forty to fifty years. Normally, those who can achieve the status of a grandmaster before the age of fifty are considered to be gifted.

But the problem is, to become a master not only requires one's own efforts, but also the interaction of the five elements. Those who can become a master can practice immortality.

If that's the case, why spend forty-five years of hard work to hone your martial arts and then cultivate immortality? Isn't that like taking off your pants to fart? After all, those who have the conditions will of course come to Buzhou Mountain to try it first. Even if low-grade spiritual roots need to sign a fifty-year contract and progress slowly during this period, it is also an accumulation of immortality and will be helpful in the future. Isn't it better than practicing martial arts? Anyway, practicing martial arts also takes so many years, and people have already planned it out.

Times have changed, and things are very different.

The immortal way here is no longer as weak as it was when it was first born, and it is time to give the Grandmaster some face.

This has been less than a hundred years. If it were a few decades later, the masters would probably be treated equally.

"When I came here, I heard that this was a fairyland on earth. This is what the fairyland looks like."

Gu Dan was quite emotional, but he didn't know what to say.

"Hey, they're talking about immortals, but aren't the ones who actually practice cultivation still individuals? How different can they be?"

Lao Wang said: "Fate is fate, even the people above need fate!"

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