Chapter 3 This is Cancer

It is a capital crime for civilians to practice Taoism privately. This is the iron law of Daxia. After all, if they practice Taoism, the court cannot do anything about it.

But at first, Ji You couldn't speak the same language as them...

This world uses the ancient Chinese system, but the pronunciation is very different.

He couldn't understand or speak, so he could only pretend to be crazy and pose professionally in overalls and basketball on the street all day to avoid arousing suspicion.

The immortal book he picked up deep in the Yunling Mountains was regarded by him as the foundation of his life.

What can you do in ancient times without mobile phones at night? Repair it!

Gradually, he began to have some understanding of the Taoism, and listening to the scholar in the tree reading aloud, he became more familiar with the language and wanted to know more about this world.

Then he learned from a book called "Xia Lu Xian Gui" that it was a serious crime for commoners to cultivate immortality privately...

There are only two ways out left for him.

One is to work harder and cultivate to perfection in the lower three realms before reaching the age of twenty. When the seven major immortal sects see him, they will exclaim that they have found a treasure, and the imperial court will be helpless.

Secondly, there is a mountain stronghold to the north of Yuyang County. All the people in the stronghold are private cultivators who hate the Immortal Sect and the imperial court. In order to expand their power, they are inviting many heroes to join them. It seems that there is a good future for them, and the path to promotion is relatively transparent.

Ji You thought about it and decided to go up the mountain next autumn to prove his worth as a peerless bandit.

The reason was simple. There were too many orthodox immortal cultivators who were living off the people's blood and sweat. He didn't want to be the straw that broke the camel's back for poor families like Lao Qiu's...

At noon the next day, as the sun was rising, it was the day for the land settlement in Yuyang County. The officers in charge of this matter walked through the street in three rows, holding killing sticks, looking very majestic.

"Hurry up, hurry up, move faster, don't dawdle."

"This year, the immortals have blessed us, and there will be no disasters or harm. It is a good year. However, our Great Xia is currently at war with the Wuman outside the Northern Plains, and the treasury has been empty for a long time. Therefore, the Grand Master has ordered that the tax revenue must be in full this year."

At the urging of the police, thousands of households in Yuyang County opened their cellars, moved out 60% of the prepared grain, carefully counted it, divided it into two parts, and registered it.

One of them is the land tax of Daxia, and the other is the offering from the Immortal Sect.

A thousand years ago, there was a chaos of war among the countries in Qingyun World. In order to build a lasting hegemony, Taizu of Daxia made an agreement of offering sacrifices with various immortal sects.

According to the agreement, as long as the hermit immortal can help Daxia unify the Central Plains, more taxes will be collected every year to be used as offerings to the immortal sect.

In the past, immortals would go down the mountain to slay demons and monsters, and treat illnesses and exorcise evil spirits for children in the village. But after Daxia took control of the Central Plains, those legends became mere dramas.

Later, a dispute over religious power arose in Qingyun World. Each immortal sect recruited disciples, and the share of immortal offerings increased every year, making it difficult for the common people to breathe.

As for themselves, they all hid in the fairy mountains to attain enlightenment and practice, eating the fat of the people, seeking the mysterious way to immortality, and not caring about worldly affairs.

To the people of Daxia who had long been numb, this seemed to be the natural law passed down from ancient times.

But when Ji You, an outsider monk, first learned about the relationship between offering and being worshipped, there was only one word in his mind.

cancer.

The immortal sects, immortal ways, and immortals are like disordered cell tissues, cutting off the sustainable development of society and unscrupulously squeezing the vitality of this world.

This is cancer.

Ji You stepped out of the threshold of the Ji family's ancestral home and watched the officers walking by on the street. He thought to himself that things had come to this point, so he should eat first.

The Yuyang Ji family was nominally gone, and their land had been completely occupied by other families. Although they did not have to pay taxes, eating became a problem.

Not only food, he also lacks a beautiful master, a charming senior sister, and a loli junior sister, these basic configurations of a time traveler.

As for Old Qiu, his family couldn't even afford the taxes and salaries for this year, and they had to borrow from his father-in-law, but he didn't want to cause any more trouble.

Fortunately, all the businesses on Paifang Street were once the property of the Ji family, so he still had some reputation here. He could choose a shop to work as a slave and still have enough food to eat.

But just as Ji You walked to the door of the restaurant, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the main road of Paifang Street.

Looking up, three mahogany carriages decorated with pearls and emeralds passed by along the street. They were extremely luxurious and seemed to be out of place compared to the mud-brick houses on both sides.

An old man and a woman sat in the two carriages in front. They were both wearing white robes embroidered with gold and had luxurious swords tied around their waists. There was a faint aura around them and they had expressionless faces, looking like immortals.

The third car arrived soon after, and in it sat another woman, wearing a gauze dress with scattered flowers, with eyes like water. She sat in a dignified posture with a bit of pride, quite like a lady from a noble family.

However, when the woman in the carriage saw Ji You on the roadside, she frowned slightly and reached out to lower the bead curtain.

After this quick glance, the three horse-drawn carriages drove along the street towards the county government office.

"It seems that the immortal from the Heavenly Academy has come to visit and wants to take Fang Ruoyao to Shengjing. Why doesn't Master Ji go with him?"

"Young Master Ji is very handsome, so naturally he would look down upon an immortal sect like the Heavenly Academy."

Ji You came to his senses and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see two diners in the restaurant staring at him with malicious expressions.

One of them is called Jia Sicong and the other is called Dong Wei. They were both classmates of the original Master Ji.

When his family business was still in existence, Master Ji was a dissolute young man who would curse at any dog ​​he saw on the street, so he made many enemies among his peers.

Jia Sicong walked up to him and said, "Miss Fang will leave for Shengjing the day after tomorrow. She specially hosted a banquet for guests in her mansion the night before. We all went, but we didn't see Master Ji? What your fiancé did is really disheartening."

"Brother Jia is confused. Didn't Fang Ruoyao break off the engagement with him a long time ago?"

Shengjing is the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom. The Nishan Tianshu Academy, the leader of the seven great immortal sects of the time, is located there. It is said that Emperor Taizu was originally a saint who came from the Tianshu Academy. After his kingdom was established, he naturally built his capital on the Nishan Mountain.

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

According to legend, Shengjing City was extremely prosperous with tall pavilions and terraces, which attracted countless literati and poets, who wrote immortal works such as "Shengjing Fu" and "Ode to Jing".

Fang Ruoyao has now been selected as a disciple of Tianshu Academy, and it is natural that she will go to Shengjing to enroll. The people in the county say that she has reached the pinnacle overnight, which is true.

"Ji You, don't pretend to be deaf."

Ji You leaned over the counter and said, "Boss, this young master wants two baskets of fresh dumplings."

Jia Sicong was stunned for a moment, then he became furious: "What two baskets of fresh dumplings? I've already eaten them!"

"I'll help you eat."

Ji You looked at the steaming dumplings and said, "You're talking so much, can't you afford it?"

After hearing this, Jia Sicong blushed: "Do you think I'm the same as you, a wild orphan? Not to mention two cages, what would happen even if I had ten cages?"

"Then I'll need ten baskets, three of the meat ones, and keep the remaining seven. I'll go home later and get a basket to carry them away."

Dong Wei stared with his eyes open for a long time. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. It was not that Ru Niang was being made fun of by us, but that she was trying to get a meal.

Seeing that Jia Sicong was about to open his mouth, Dong Wei immediately grabbed his elbow and said, "Stop talking, he's drooling."

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After his ears were quiet, Ji You found a seat by the window, picked up a pair of bamboo chopsticks from the chopstick holder, and began to enjoy this gift from nature.

There were ten baskets of fresh dumplings. He ate three of them himself and planned to put the rest in a basket to take back to the Qiu family. Qiu Ru, that silly girl, was having a good time.

As I sat there, the leisure time at noon passed quickly.

Ji You calculated the time and felt that Old Qiu should have returned from his father-in-law's home in Sanshilipu, so he planned to go home to get the basket.

But just as he stood up, the conversation of several diners at the door attracted his attention.

"Have you heard that something happened at the third house east of Nanya River outside the city?"

"What's up?"

"A five-year-old girl was spotted by an immortal from Fengxian Villa. He said she was extremely intelligent and had boundless potential. He wanted to use her to make medicine."

"When did this happen?"

"At noon today, I heard that the father and daughter were borrowing food from Sanshilipu..."

"There hasn't been an immortal in our county for thousands of years. How could a little girl have the magical power of immortality?"

"How can we know about the immortals' affairs? Anyway... that girl from the Qiu family... ah..."

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