Chapter 150 Home

At the end of July, autumn begins to take hold.

It is the time when the autumn wind is so cold and the white dew turns into morning frost.

The war between the barbarians and Daxia at Hantie Pass subsided a little, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

The demon race established Tianbao Pavilion in Jiuzhou, a business that directly serves human cultivators.

In addition, the impact of the Tianshuyuan Autumn Fight is gradually expanding.

Chu He, whose hand bones were cut off, was taken back to Youzhou, and no news was heard from him afterwards.

At the same time, because Qiu Dou's result was beyond everyone's expectations and was too quick and decisive, questions about Ji You's physique also spread.

Upon learning that he seemed to possess a physique comparable to the Chu family's Seven Aperture Exquisite Body, everyone seemed to see the rise of a thousand-year-old family.

However, what is puzzling is that neither Princess Changle's feelings nor the daughter of the Yunzhou Lu family's feelings were responded to.

"It is said that Ji You is not interested in women?"

"Yes, I heard from the people in Tian Academy that he never looked away when facing a woman, and he would never look at her more than once."

"How could there be such a gentleman in the Qingyun world?"

"I don't find it strange, because only people like this are worthy of what Lingjianshan said about the sword heart being clear and having no thoughts outside of it, and wandering freely in the immortal way."

However, whenever such rumors leak out, those who know the inside story always say it’s bullshit.

In particular, there was an Immortal Emperor named Rulong who hated such rumors to the core.

He said that before he entered Tian Academy, he was still a pure young man from an aristocratic family, and it was by following this gentleman that he learned to appreciate buttocks.

Amidst this public opinion storm, the princess of Chongwang Mansion looked even more gloomy.

Before she handed the letter and hairpin to Ji You, she seemed to have never thought that she would be rejected. She even thought that Ji You might be more proactive than herself. However, she never expected that she would be talked about now, and her face was ugly for several days.

Especially when someone compared her with those women who also wanted to become Ji You's Taoist partners and pointed out how she was inferior, she felt even more ashamed and angry.

So even though the atmosphere among immortal cultivators was open, Princess Changle still felt a little resentful towards Ji You.

At this time, Ji You was sitting in a carriage. As autumn deepened, he left Tianshu Academy and headed northwest.

There were three people sitting next to him, namely Kuang Cheng holding a book, Pei Ruyi resting with his eyes closed, and Cao Jinsong constantly checking the map.

There is no rush to select the palace for the inner courtyard, but the autumn recruitment in the academy is about to begin.

As in previous years, Cao Jinsong and Pei Ruyi need to go to Fengzhou to select students and choose talented disciples to enter Tianshu Academy.

This period of time happened to be the visiting day for students of Tianshu Academy, so after the Autumn Fight came to an end, Ji You decided to go with them and return to Yuyang County.

Before setting off, Ji You made a special trip to Xuwu Mountain.

The young master of Lingjian Mountain was still in seclusion. When he saw him while he was resting, he hugged him with a cold face, then stared at his chest for a long time, and then kicked him out with a slightly annoyed look.

In Ji You's words, she is a heartless woman...

As for Kuang Cheng, he was responsible for temporarily bringing the matter of "the demon tribe entering Jiuzhou to trade" to an end, so he took the opportunity to take leave and returned with Ji You.

Perhaps because he is highly valued by the Emperor of Daxia, and because of his good performance in the "tax corruption case" and the "demon trade case", he is now a Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue and concurrently serves as the Director of the Reception Office of the Sixian Supervisor.

He was only one step away from earning a place for his family to practice Taoism.

However, Kuang Cheng's official career was relatively smooth, but he still had difficulty in dealing with beautiful women.

He still didn't know how to get along with Wei Rui. The two seldom met, but they did exchange more letters.

"Fengzhou has three places for cultivating immortals, and all three are from the Zhenbei Army."

"In addition, there are six sons of officials in Fengzhou who are practicing Taoism in several nearby immortal villages. They are almost qualified to be admitted. I paid special attention to a few of them when I came here last year. They should not be much different this year."

As the carriage shook, Cao Jinsong held the scroll in his hand and muttered to himself, his heart full of hope.

The source of this expectation, after all, is because of Ji You.

Looking back to a year ago, he came to Yuyang County for Fang Ruoyao, but ended up finding a man who had reached two realms in one night and completed the lower three realms before he was even twenty years old.

But now, this person who has reached perfection in the lower three realms has opened the inner courtyard with his sword.

Afterwards, the carriage slowly stopped at a small town in Fengzhou called Yunxia Town. Everyone planned to rest here first, eat and drink, and then continue on their journey.

Yunxia Town is located on a vast and endless earthen wall, surrounded by yellow earth and numerous gullies, making it barren and desolate.

When they walked into the town, they saw countless square pits arranged neatly on the ground, but there was no house standing on the ground.

As we got closer, we saw that the pit was three meters deep, more than fifty meters long and wide, with a ramp leading to the bottom of the pit. There were cave dwellings on all four sides, with doors and windows clearly visible. These were the traditional dwellings of Yunxia Town.

There are no stones and not much wood here. The people of Yunxia Town dug the ground to build courtyards and have lived here for a thousand years.

In addition to Yunxia Town, there are countless other poor towns like this one in Fengzhou where people live in the earth.

In the yard they were approaching, an old farmer with dark skin was walking out of a cave. When he saw them, he immediately bowed his head and knelt in the pit, trembling all over.

Ji You and Kuang Cheng were standing above and watching at this time. After seeing this scene, they subconsciously avoided it and then left in silence.

At this time, Fang Ruoyao also got off another carriage, followed by her maid Shuang'er.

Fang Ruoyao originally had no plans to go home to visit her relatives, but when she learned from Pei Ruyi that she was going back to Yuyang County, she decided to return as well.

Afterwards, the six of them found a secluded place to stay, took out the food they had brought with them and rested.

"Look here, Luoyue Immortal Manor. A student I was optimistic about last year is practicing here. This immortal manor is inherited from Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion, so this student may not be the only one watching me. So we have to go here first, then we will go back to Yuyang County, and then pick up the other students and return."

Cao Jinsong pointed to a place on the southwest side of the Fengzhou map and muttered to Ji You and Pei Ruyi.

Ji You heard the voice and said, "I'm going to the provincial capital."

Cao Jinsong turned his head and looked at him: "Don't be too anxious about establishing a family. After all, you are alone now."

"The Qingyun Immortal Rules don't say that a person can't establish an aristocratic family. Besides, this year's tax collection is about to begin."

"You want to take the tax? If you do this, you will probably be hated."

Fengzhou has no local aristocratic families, but there are many immortal villas that inherit their teachings from other immortal sects, just like Fengxian Villa.

The power of these immortal villas is not that great, and the cultivation level of the villa owners is at most at the Rong Dao realm.

It was difficult for these immortal villages to survive and grow among the aristocratic families in Yunzhou, Youzhou and Zhongzhou, so they moved to Fengzhou and accounted for as much as 20% of Fengzhou's taxes.

Part of these taxes were consumed by the Immortal Manor, and the other part was transported away and given to the immortal families for consumption.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The people of all nine provinces suffer, and those of Fengzhou suffer the most.

Cao Jinsong knew that Ji You wanted to establish a noble family on his own now, because he wanted to fight against all the foreign immortal villas in Fengzhou on his own and get back the tax quotas as a local noble family.

But even though the Qingyun Immortal Rules were jointly formulated by the seven major immortal sects, the source of deterrence still depends on people.

Although Ji You entered the inner courtyard, he was only at the Tongxuan realm after all. Those foreign immortal villas might not really be willing to hand over the taxes to him.

Cao Jinsong actually wanted Ji You to establish a family here, but it was a little too early now.

"Teacher, Junior Brother Ji is not alone."

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Cao Jinsong turned and looked at Pei Ruyi.

Pei Ruyi opened her mouth: "I will join too."

"But there are only two of you..."

"Not just the two of us, but also Ban Yangshu, Wen Zhengxin, and Bai Rulong. They told me about it before we left."

Pei Ruyi looked at Cao Jinsong and said, "I failed to enter the inner courtyard, and I have been thinking for several years about where I can go after leaving Tianshu Academy. I think I have found my home now."

Among the seven holy sects, the Rong Dao realm might not be considered a high level of cultivation, but in Fengzhou, this level of cultivation was already the best.

A villa with three people in the Rong Dao realm is enough to have a certain deterrent power.

Cao Jinsong was silent for a long time and then stood with his hands behind his back: "Then before returning to Tian Academy, let's go to the state capital."

Ji You and Kuang Cheng looked at each other, then raised their hands in front of them and bowed to the ground on the earthen wall covered with flying yellow soil.

Fang Ruoyao was standing not far away, watching them in silence.

"Let's eat first. It seems that we still have a long way to go."

"yes."

After a hasty lunch, the group of six boarded the car, crossed the flying loess and criss-crossing gullies, and headed towards Danshui County, the headquarters of Luoyue Xianzhuang.

Danshui County is one of the largest counties in Fengzhou and is located in the hinterland. The student Cao Jinsong mentioned is Xiang Fu, the daughter of the prefect Xiang Xuan.

Xiang Fu has been practicing with the immortal cultivators of Luoyue Villa since she was a child, and she had reached the initial stage of Ninghua last year.

In a place like Fengzhou, being able to reach this level is actually considered a rare talent.

However, Luoyue Immortal Manor also belongs to Xuanyuan Immortal Mansion. It is still unknown whether Xiang Fu is willing to follow Cao Jinsong and enter Tianshuyuan.

Cao Jinsong planned to first test Xiang Xuan's attitude, deal with the prefect, and then go to see Xiang Fu.

However, when the six people arrived at the prefect's mansion, they found Xiang Fu was there.

"Luoyue Xianzhuang moved away half a year ago."

"Moved away?"

Xiang Xuan was a middle-aged man with a ram beard. He nodded to Cao Jinsong after hearing the question: "To answer the Immortal, they did move away, but... we didn't see when they left."

Ji You and Kuang Cheng couldn't help but look at each other: "Is the building deserted all of a sudden too?"

"Yes, at that time Fu'er had been sent back home for more than half a month. I thought moving away was an excuse, but in fact it was because she was naughty. So I waited for a few days and prepared some gifts to visit Xianzhuang, but found that the manor was already empty."

Ji You frowned slightly: "Same as Fengxian Villa?"

Kuang Cheng raised his long sleeves and said, "This is good news. With one less immortal manor, there will be one less obstacle for Brother Ji to establish his family."

Like Pei Ruyi, Cao Jinsong also thought this was good news.

They originally came here to recruit Xiang Fu. At first they were worried that she was too close to the people in Xuanyuan Immortal Palace and would not be willing to go to Tianshu Academy. They never thought that such a good thing would happen.

(Seeking monthly ticket...) (End of this chapter)