Chapter 175 Follow-Up

In fact, just like the ninth-grade warriors are called "innate warriors", various skills, sects, and Taoist traditions actually have different names for the cultivation realm.

For example, in this traditional Shinto, Li Qi knows that their cultivation realm is divided like this:

The period before entering the grade is divided into the initial heart seed realm, that is, to condense a heart seed and be able to sense believers.

Then there is the incense realm, which officially accepts worship and incense.

After that, slowly accumulate incense and shape the golden body. When the golden body is completed, it is officially set foot in the ninth grade, which is called the "golden body realm".

Then there is the body realm, the landscape realm, the same realm, and the spirit realm.

When you reach the spirit realm, you are promoted to the eighth grade.

Li Qi's path is actually like this. Every time he condenses a type of body god, his cultivation is considered to have advanced to a realm. The book briefly calls it the Five Mountains Stage, the Four Rivers Stage, the Sun and Moon Stage, and the Yuanshen Stage. The order of the four realms is not fixed. It depends on which one you advance to first, but you must complete them all.

There are also five realms in martial arts: training skin, training bones, training tendons, training flesh, and training organs. Only when all are completed can one be considered a "congenital warrior", that is, the ninth grade. After that, there are three realms: training intention, training heart, and training spirit. Then, the martial arts spirit will be tempered and advanced to the eighth grade, which can be called "both spirit and mind are united".

There are countless ways and methods in the world, and there are countless such realms. If you really want to unify and convert them one by one, it will be a life-threatening thing.

Therefore, there will be powerful people who unify the standards of all ways and divide them into grades one to nine. This behavior is called "standardizing the world".

You can imagine how difficult this behavior is.

To make a convincing standard, the first point is to understand the division of almost all ways and realms, know why they are divided in this way, and then find the common points of all ways in the world at different realms.

Only with common points can there be a premise for unified classification. I don’t know how much time it took the great man who did this to complete the statistical analysis of the Taoism in the world and find the common points between different realms and Taoism.

However, since then, the world has had a nine-grade classification system.

You can call it whatever you want within your own Taoism, but when you go out and meet someone with a different realm classification from your own, you still need a unified international standard to communicate.

But it is obvious that for some low-level practitioners, the nine-grade classification system alone is already an unknown secret.

What is common sense to Li Qi is an untouchable secret to these people.

The disparity of the world is so huge.

After communicating with this water god, the other party remembered Shen Shuibi's breath with trepidation, then bowed to Li Qi, took the reward, dived into the water, and used the mountain and water to send a message.

Li Qi put away the broken finger and carefully kept it.

This thing can be said to be the most valuable thing on Li Qi's body. No one would believe the body of a fifth-grade being, and it is also of great significance to Li Qi.

Every time he sees this finger, he can think of the despair and powerlessness he felt when facing the Curse Demon King and the Bear Killer King that day.

After doing this, Li Qi got on the horse again and said to the old horse: "Let's go, let's continue."

The old horse exhaled and accelerated again, rushing towards the Guangyang City Governor's Mansion.

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A few hours later.

It was dawn.

Li Qi squatted on the field ridge on the outskirts of the city, watching the rising sun, frowning and looking solemn.

The old horse was chewing young leaves on the side, turning his head from time to time to look at Li Qi, and found that he was still squatting in the same place like a wooden stake, so he continued to look up and chew the new young leaves on the tree.

As for why Li Qi became like this...

It has to start with what happened last night.

Last night, Li Qi visited the Guangyang Governor.

It was learned that the Guangyang Governor had returned to the capital to report on his work.

Then he turned to find the Guangyang Situ, who was in charge of taxation and organizing production.

Guangyang Situ was there, but he didn't even talk to Li Qi and kicked Li Qi out directly.

Then, he asked the gatekeeper to tell Li Qi that the White Rhino Army's commander had disobeyed orders on the battlefield and disrespected military orders, and had been dismissed. He was now in prison awaiting trial, and asked Li Qi to go back and make a report, and immediately withdraw the army to Guangyang for garrison. Guangyang City had its own military rations.

Then, he treated Li Qi as the White Rhino Army's messenger and issued a new military order to the White Rhino Army, asking the White Rhino Army to abandon the people and rush back to Guangyang City immediately.

The military rations of the White Rhino Army, if they were left to eat by themselves, would definitely be enough to rush back to Guangyang City.

Li Qi had no way to meet again, so he had to retreat and came to the outside of the city. He squatted from the evening until now, and he didn't change his posture until the sun rose.

Until a farmer came out to weed and loosen the soil, and saw Lao Ma chewing the tender leaves of his jujube tree.

"That man over there! What are you doing!?" The old farmer rushed up and drove the old horse away.

The old horse grumbled twice, and Li Qi quickly stood up: "Sorry, uncle, I didn't take good care of the horse, this is compensation!"

As he said that, Li Qi quickly handed over a few copper coins, taking the lead and suppressing the other party's momentum.

Then he apologized for a long time, and then led the old horse away.

The old horse looked unconvinced.

He only nibbled the tender leaves and didn't nibble on the flower buds, which was enough to save face!

Li Qi had to smile bitterly and sighed.

After thinking for a night, he had figured out the situation in Guangyang City.

Guangyang City, no...it might even be Guangyang Prefecture of Bailin State, ordered to abandon all the people near the town.

So, when I first met the army with the commander, they didn't bring any people with them, because they gave up everything!

The White Rhino Army did protect some of the people, but it was obvious that the commander of the White Rhino Army went to Guangyang City in person to find the chief officer in the hope that he would be allowed to bring the people with him.

However, this move was not approved, but he was directly stripped of his position and imprisoned in prison.

After that, it was what I encountered.

The general events were deduced, but Li Qi didn't understand what the purpose of doing this was?

Can Guangyang City really not support the hundreds of thousands of people? Impossible, Guangyang City definitely has enough food, and as for land, let them go to open up wasteland.

There may not be many fields that have been opened, but there are plenty of wastelands?

Since they can afford it, why not accept it?

Moreover, judging from the military equipment of Guangyang City, they are not lacking in strength. The town can be completely defended for them. Why give up? Why?

In the final analysis, what exactly was the purpose of Guangyang Prefecture to abandon the people outside the town? Even if a general wanted to rescue the people, he was directly dismissed and imprisoned.

This shows that they have zero tolerance for the issue of helping the people.

Li Qi couldn't figure out why Guangyang Prefecture did this?

There was no reason.

This was the point that Li Qi couldn't understand the most, but it didn't matter. Since it didn't work at the official level, Li Qi had to find a way to solve the temporary food problem first, and then solve the long-term survival problem.

It can also be solved without solving it, just like the attitude of the Guangyang City government, just give up the tens of thousands of people.

However, it is obvious that Li Qi can't do it.

He doesn't have to do this desperately, but he has to try it. What's wrong with trying it?

So, Li Qi led the old horse and walked into Guangyang City again. This time he didn't go to any government office, but went to a big restaurant.

He didn't eat here, he just ran outside the restaurant and looked at the deliveryman.

It was early in the morning. He had stayed outside the city for a night. The sun had just risen. There was still a thin mist in the sky. It was the time of cockcrow. The whole city was not active yet, but some people had already started working.

The first batch of people to start working were the ones who came to deliver goods.

Every day, fresh fruits, vegetables and meat would be delivered to major restaurants, pleasure boats, and major mansions to supply the day's business.

Li Qi was going to see where these delivery people came from and find the grain and vegetable distribution center in Guangyang City.

This was not difficult to do. The grain distribution center itself was public, and even nearby residents would go in to buy vegetables.

Li Qi quickly found this place through these grain merchants who delivered goods.

The grain distribution center in Guangyang City.

More than 100,000 stones of grain gathered here. The throughput here alone was enough for all the grain Li Qi needed.

Of course, that was based on the premise that the entire Guangyang City would be hungry for a day.

However, if the regulation was done well, the demand could be met without affecting anyone.

Li Qi squatted on the side of the road, watching the distribution center constantly transporting grain in and out.

Finally, he found a large enough grain team.

It was important to be large enough.

Then, he began to follow the grain team to see where the grain came from.

According to the customs and practices of the Baiyue people that Li Qi was familiar with, these grain transport teams were all gangs or interest groups doing this business.

These groups, with the exercises as the core, condensed into one, and then obeyed the higher-level groups, and then pulled up layer by layer until they reached the level of real practitioners, and finally dispersed and formed another social form.

Therefore, as long as you can trace it up layer by layer, you should be able to find the final origin of Guangyang City's grain.

After finding that, find a way to negotiate with the other party to solve the grain problem.

This is Li Qi's idea, so he is following the grain team now.

However, as they walked out of the city, turned a few rivers, and went around a few mountains, suddenly, the grain team stopped.

A burly man came out from inside, came to the back of the caravan, and said with a bow: "Who are you? Why do you always follow us? Have you lost your livelihood, or do you have bad intentions?"

"If you have lost your livelihood, it's not easy for everyone to survive in the rivers and lakes. Here are ten golds for the road. Leave them for the brothers to buy wine. Let's live in peace and go our separate ways."

"If you have bad intentions, my Jinlangmen is not easy to mess with! You can come and try!"

While speaking, he took out a bag of gold with one hand, and with the other hand, he suddenly pulled out the curved knife from his waist, swung out a knife wind, and directly split a large stone on the side of the road from it, with great power.

Li Qi was a little surprised, he didn't expect that he would be discovered.

Although he was following behind carelessly at this moment, in fact, his small world and the outside world were harmoniously integrated, and he had a faint feeling of being integrated with all things in nature. His own breath was greatly weakened. Although he was not invisible, as long as he hid his body well, it was difficult to be detected by sensing breath.

At least Li Qi thought this group of people was not good enough.

However, they were discovered.

Li Qi frowned and walked out: "Everyone, I have no ill intentions."

The middle-aged strong man was obviously relieved when he saw Li Qi come out on his own initiative, and he was alone. He cupped his hands and said: "The hero has been following us for at least two quarters of an hour. I'm afraid it's hard to convince people with such a statement."

"My Jinlangmen is doing serious business. Although we don't have much connection with friends on the road, we have had a chance to drink two cups of wine with Black Mountain Bee. We know the rules. A hero doesn't need to hide it."

Li Qi looked embarrassed and coughed dryly: "Ahem, I'm really not a road interceptor. If you don't believe me, I'll prove it to you."

After speaking, Li Qi stretched out his hand and gently pointed forward.

Suddenly, the two golden lines circled the entire convoy several times in the blink of an eye.

In just a breath of time, the golden lines advanced a full five miles and flew two or three circles around the woods and rocks near the convoy.

The golden lines condensed in the air without dispersing, shining and gorgeous.

Then, the source of the golden thread flew back into Li Qi's body.

Before the others could react, another breath of time passed, and the golden thread slowly faded and disappeared.

There was a rumbling and cracking sound, and the trees fell down in pieces all around, and the rocks broke all over the mountains, and even a knife mark was left on the cliff.

It was as if someone had drawn a ring nearby, and then the ring spread out.

Everything on this ring was cut in the middle, and the cut was as smooth as a mirror.

Trees fell, boulders split, and there was chaos all around. A bunch of small animals fled in all directions, fleeing to the farther reaches of the forest, startled birds out of the forest, snakes, insects, rats and ants panicked, and all kinds of small animals were terrified.

Of course, it was not just the small animals.

It was the same for people.

The man who had been speaking "road talk" in a serious manner before fell to his knees.

But his expression did not change, and he immediately shouted in a loud and full voice: "Senior, you are kind! I admire you, but I dare not disobey your orders! It is our honor to work for you!"

Li Qi was so embarrassed that his toes were clenched.

He was not used to being arrogant and bossy by force.

So he walked out: "No need to do this, I followed you just now, but I didn't want to show my face. I don't know how you found me? I should have hidden my breath."

The strong man said respectfully: "Senior, you don't know, my Jinlangmen skills can observe the vitality of people. Although you didn't reveal your breath, your vitality is strong, like the bright sun, it is hard to look directly at, just like the light of a bright moon in the dark night sky, it is really impossible to hide it!"

Li Qi felt his heart twitch.