Chapter 41 The Peaceful and Prosperous Era

When Er Gouzi came out of the library, he borrowed several books.

One was "The History of the Great Zhou Dynasty", one was "The Geographical Atlas of the Great Zhou Dynasty", and one was "Essays on the Immortal Way of the Great Zhou Dynasty".

He only flipped through these books casually in the library, and was deeply attracted by the contents.

He returned to the room with several books and spent three days to read these three books carefully.

Although he had learned from Li Banxian before and gained a lot of knowledge, he was always ignorant.

Until today, he knew the true appearance of the world.

From then on, his horizons were no longer limited to Sanchazi Town and Anchang County.

According to the book, before the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this land was mixed with humans and demons, and there were many sects.

Ordinary humans could only rely on a few large sects of immortal cultivation to survive.

These large sects of immortal cultivation are indeed not weak, and there are countless masters in the sects who can fly into the sky and hide in the ground, which is enough to ensure that there is no worry in one side.

Although these immortal sects belong to the human race, they have different positions and are divided into the righteous path, the devil path, the ghost path and other schools.

These schools are divided into various mountains. For example, in the righteous path, there are weapon sects, sword sects, puppet sects, and pill sects.

Even in these small mountains, there are many different groups, which are not in harmony with each other.

Different schools and mountains have their own thoughts and attack each other.

The human race has been fighting and attacking every other day, and it has never stopped.

As a result, they are often seriously injured and taken advantage of by demons, causing ordinary people to suffer.

It was at this time that a strange man who was born as a casual cultivator led the human cultivators to kill the demons and pacify the four directions, and finally established the unified Great Zhou Dynasty.

The new Wang Han learned from the lesson, suppressed the development of the immortal sects, and firmly controlled all resources and power in his hands.

Organize a powerful army of cultivators to compete with the surrounding demons and monsters and protect the dynasty’s territory.

Internally, the imperial examination system was used to select military scholars, military candidates, and military scholars, and a large number of talents were recruited to serve the dynasty.

Once a war broke out, these selected talents could play a huge role.

However, in order to maintain peace in the world, the Great Zhou Dynasty collected all the immortal cultivation methods into the hands of the government.

Those who privately passed on the cultivation methods were punished with serious crimes.

Ordinary people could not even get in touch with the cultivation methods. From then on, the world was peaceful and no one dared to have second thoughts.

The world was governed by immortal cultivators, and ordinary people were ruled by ordinary people. All under heaven were obedient.

According to the "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty", there were several large-scale rebellions by the people in history, and the momentum was huge at that time.

But the court sent a large army composed of immortal cultivators, and they slaughtered the rebellious people cleanly with a wave of their hands.

After countless times, those who dared to rebel and disobey their duties were killed cleanly.

The customs of the people in the Great Zhou Dynasty became more and more simple, and those unruly people could no longer stir up trouble.

From then on, the Great Zhou Dynasty entered a prosperous and peaceful era, which has continued to this day.

The moment Er Gouzi closed the "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty", he couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky to be born in a peaceful and prosperous era.

The "Essays on the Immortal Path of the Great Zhou Dynasty" gave a general description of the path of cultivating immortals.

Most beginners start with martial arts and practice various martial arts.

When a warrior can sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he officially steps into the threshold of the immortal path and becomes a cultivator of the first level of Qi training.

After reading this book, Er Gouzi realized that he had not only successfully entered the immortal path, but also had reached the third level of Qi training.

Sure enough, the master did not lie to him. He really risked the death penalty to teach him the precious immortal skills.

Sometimes I even doubt my master. I am really blinded by my greed and repay kindness with enmity.

Next time I meet my master, I must repay him well.

However, the master is indifferent to fame and fortune, and is aloof from the world. He looks down on worldly money and regards it as dirt.

If you give him some money and vulgar things, it will pollute the master's immortal spirit.

It is better to offer more tea on a regular basis.

Alas! A vulgar person like me will never understand the master's state of mind.

Er Gouzi was only happy for a short moment when he learned that he was a cultivator and had the third level of Qi training.

It seems that there is nothing to praise about the third level of Qi training, and it is not worth being proud of.

The characters recorded in the "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty" are all above the foundation building.

Only after the tenth level of Qi training can you build the foundation, and above the foundation building there is the golden elixir, and above the golden elixir there is the primordial infant.

In the next few days, Er Gouzi was accompanied by books every day, eager to learn the knowledge in the books.

Every two or three days, he went to the library to borrow a few books to read.

It took him more than ten days to learn the details of all the books in the library.

As expected, there were all kinds of books, but not even a single immortal cultivation method could be found.

The "History of the Great Zhou Dynasty" was true. In order to stabilize the world and facilitate governance, the government took away all the immortal cultivation methods from the people.

He felt that the cultivation methods left by the master were not very complete, and there were many places that were not detailed.

Moreover, at most, they could only be cultivated to the tenth level of Qi training, and there were no more methods after that.

He still did not give up, and found Deputy Hall Master Sima, wanting to find out where he could get the immortal cultivation methods.

The answer was similar to what he guessed, and all the folk cultivation methods were taken away and destroyed by the government.

Only those who passed the military examination and served the Great Zhou Dynasty had the opportunity to obtain the cultivation methods rewarded by the dynasty.

It seems that if you want to pursue the path of immortal cultivation and obtain the immortal cultivation skills from formal channels, the martial arts examination is the only way.

All other methods have the risk of losing your head.

After staying in the county for more than ten days, Er Gouzi finally left the county with a large bag of books on his back.

Most of these books are martial arts skills, military strategies and tactics, which will be helpful for the future martial arts examination.

When he had just walked out of the county for more than ten miles, a man and a woman came towards him.

The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful. At first glance, they were the sons and daughters of wealthy families who had never been exposed to the sun or done rough work since childhood.

"Is that Mr. Zhang?"

The two bowed to Er Gouzi from a distance and asked.

"That's right, I wonder if you two have any advice?"

"We are Ding Xiu and Ding Xiang from Dingjiazhuang. We are here to invite Mr. Zhang to visit Dingjiazhuang on the orders of the head of the family."

Ding Xiu said, presenting a big red invitation with both hands.

Er Gouzi took the invitation and saw that the cover was decorated with gold foil and had three big golden characters "Dingjiazhuang".

He had heard people mention Dingjiazhuang in Zhengwu Hall. It was considered rich and its status was comparable to that of the Sima family.

However, Dingjiazhuang was relatively low-key and did not participate in government affairs.

Today, he saw that it was indeed well-deserved. This invitation alone was worth hundreds of coins.

Since they had invited him so kindly, he would go to Dingjiazhuang to ask for money.

He immediately followed the two people and turned from the official road into another road. The three of them were warriors and walked very fast. They soon walked more than ten miles of mountain roads.

When they turned around a valley, they saw a very wide field in front of them, which was golden in color.

What a rice field!

As a farmer, he would subconsciously observe the growth of crops at first sight wherever he went.

The large golden rice fields in front of him were blown by the wind, like rolling waves.

The rice seedlings are growing vigorously, and the ears of rice are plump and drooping, a scene of good harvest.

But now it is autumn and winter, and the grass is withering. The rice in other places has been harvested long ago.

"Why haven't you harvested the rice here yet?"

"Hahaha..."

"This is the specialty of our Dingjiazhuang - cat tooth rice, which is very popular in the whole Sanyang County. Hongyan Tower in the county town uses our rice to cook rice and make wine."

The Ding brothers and sisters seemed very proud when they introduced their own specialty to Er Gouzi.

"Cat tooth rice is a variety cultivated by our Ding family ancestor himself. It needs to grow for 10 months before it can be harvested."