Chapter 357 Lingxiao Country

In the Baiyue area, the spiritual source is scarce, and the Dao disputes have led to the incomplete Dao veins. Many Dao sects are even too lazy to come here to preach.

There are also very few practitioners, and they all rely on the support of their respective kings.

The kings of Baiyue are all different people from all sides. What they have in common is that they have basically reached a dead end.

There is no hope of breaking through the fifth rank, and there is no hope of traveling outside the domain.

They have no choice, so they chose a very simple human method.

That is to gather the power of the people to achieve themselves, establish a country, and use this as the foundation of the Dao, and tie the entire national destiny, domestic mountains and rivers, people, and even more mysterious things to themselves.

At the cost of exposing a weakness that can never be concealed, and many more people who are tied and dragged down, they are promoted to the fifth rank.

The king of Baiyue can be said to be the easiest to target within the fifth rank.

Using your toes to think, you know that their Dao foundation is their country. If the country is destroyed, it is likely that they will drop directly.

However, Li Qi sighed.

The Lord of Baiyue, in Li Qi's eyes, was a typical owl, holding on to his dead mouse.

However, even this dead mouse was something that many people wanted but could not get... The method that could steadily advance to the fifth rank was a priceless treasure for many people, and not everyone could get it.

Thinking of this, Li Qi fell from the sky and landed on the ground. As always, no one saw him.

So he didn't even pass through the city gate and landed directly on a street in the center of the city.

Coming here, Li Qi looked around.

"This scene... is really familiar." Li Qi smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Because, in front of him, it was not the strange and magical scene of Wushen Mountain or Tang Kingdom, not the kind of prosperous and prosperous city, although the style is different, but it can be seen that it is very developed.

But it is a typical feudal city, just like the original Lizhou city.

The streets are narrow, and the streets are full of mortals. They each have some incomplete skills, but they can only be said to be barely useful. Even if they practice to the peak, they can't enter the rank.

Li Qi walked on the street, and sewage was flowing under his feet.

As he was walking, someone suddenly shouted from above: "Be careful! Be careful! Be careful!"

Li Qi looked up when he heard this.

He saw someone holding a toilet and preparing to pour it down, and the others around him hurriedly dodged.

Seeing this, Li Qi also hurriedly evacuated and quickly jumped to the corner of the street.

Only a splash was heard, and a servant on the attic on the third floor directly poured a bucket of feces down, splashing on the street.

Li Qi was a little nostalgic about this.

When he was a boatman in Lizhou, this scene was not uncommon.

The reason is also very simple. The drainage system in the city is very poor, there is no sewer, and the rich have toilet carts, relying on servants to collect feces and then transport them away.

Ordinary people don't even have toilets, so of course they urinate and defecate anywhere, usually finding a river or a hidden corner to solve the problem.

As for those who have a small building but are not very rich, they usually dump it directly.

Because someone will come to clean it up.

Li Qi still maintained his state of blending into nature, watching as someone gathered around him.

They were dung collectors.

These people also practiced martial arts, and were agile. They carried a bucket, shovels and pliers in their hands, shoveled away the dirt on the ground, put it in the bucket, and then went to the next place.

They used shovels for thin ones and pliers for dry ones, quickly collecting the dirt on the street.

This can be sold for money. When it is almost collected, it can be gathered together and sold to farmers outside the city to help them fertilize the fields.

Yes, although agricultural techniques, weather control, ground gas fermentation, and mountain god blessings and other agricultural production methods have long been popularized in Wushen Mountain and the Tang Dynasty, Baiyue is still using farmyard manure.

Li Qi knew that the fertilizers used by the human way were all pills, buried in the soil, and could maintain fertility for ten years.

This thing was originally developed by the farmers of the Human Way Baiyi, and has been widely used in various places where agriculture is needed.

Wushen Mountain directly allows the mountain gas to gather, which is more convenient.

But the two types of Baiyue have not been popularized yet, because they have too few practitioners.

At least an eighth-grade farmer cultivator, or a pharmacist who has learned farming techniques and pill formulas, can refine them.

Similarly, one must be able to command the local mountain gods to gather the earth's energy and fertilize the fields.

But in Baiyue, there are too few such people.

An ordinary eighth-grade cultivator is enough to become a state leader. If you can reach the seventh-grade, you can basically reach the top of power in Baiyue, and above that are the kings and their lackeys.

With such a level of cultivation, it is naturally impossible to popularize these things.

Although this scene evoked memories, Li Qi still shook his head.

Baiyue, Baiyue...

Thinking of this, Li Qi suddenly became interested. He led the old horse, maintained his body in harmony with nature, and walked towards the river of the city of Lingxiao.

Every city must have a river. After all, the river is the life of the city. Without a river or a lake, it would be difficult to even get water.

For the cities of Baiyue, there is no convenient thing like tap water. They have to go to the river to fetch water for drinking.

It is because of this habit that water parasites are rampant.

People poop and pee in the water, and there are many dead bodies in the water, but others still have to go to the river to fetch water.

If there is not enough fuel to boil water, it is easy to get infected with water parasites and get worms in the stomach, and you can only seek help from the local witch doctor.

Doctors are rare in Baiyue, and local witches and shamans undertake most of the medical treatment.

Li Qi used to pull the boat in the water every day, and he was infected with water worms. His belly was swollen and full of worms wriggling inside.

Later, his uncle hired a witch doctor for him, surrounded him with eggs and flowers, chanted spells and danced, and finally he had diarrhea and pulled out all the water worms, and then he recovered.

If there is no money to hire a witch doctor... then he will probably die.

Li Qi recalled the past in Baiyue and led the old horse to the river.

There were other boatmen on the riverside.

These boatmen basically did not wear clothes. It was dangerous to pull the boat with clothes on. If the rope and clothes were tangled together, it would be easy to be pulled into the water.

Of course, there was also the factor of reluctance.

Clothes were too expensive, and it was easy to wear out when wearing them to pull the boat, which was too painful.

Looking at those boatmen, Li Qi couldn't help but start to think about what he looked like when he first came to this world.

It was almost the same as them.

The boatmen were panting and shouting.

The water was flowing down, but some boats needed to turn around and enter the dock or some tributaries, and they had to go against the flow.

If the boat wanted to go against the flow in the water, it would naturally have to be pulled by people.

Li Qi should not have cared about it. According to the witch, all this was "should be so". Unless it affected the balance of nature, there was no need to interfere too much.

However, he felt a little bit of empathy, after all, he had experienced it himself.

So, Li Qi stretched out his hand and condensed many spells composed of air in his hand.

This is a suppression spell.

He hooked his other finger, and saw a tiny worm in the water that was caught in his hand and then stuffed into the suppression spell.

This is a very famous trick of the witch, the curse, which is a spell to subdue people or things with a spell.

He chanted: "Shadows accumulate to form shapes, and can interact with people. It is called water poison, which spreads poison to the countryside and kills many people..."

As he chanted, the poison worm began to struggle frantically.

But Li Qi was already a seventh-grade, how could he let these water Gu break free?

As he continued to chant the spell, the suppression spell took shape, and he twisted the water Gu in his hand and threw it into the river.

He only felt a burst of coolness, and it swept across the entire river!

If someone looked at all the water Gu in the entire river, they would find that all the water Gu in the entire river were "suppressed", and there was a spell that sealed them all at the bottom of the river.

At the same time, Li Qi's face suddenly turned purple.

This is the backlash of the curse.

Curse all the water Gu in the entire river...

This is not a species, but dozens of different parasitic species, which will cause a series of chain reactions and cause changes in the ecological range.

It is true that the ecological niche occupied by water Gu in the ecosystem can be filled by other life, or gradually occupied by other foreign water Gu, but it will definitely cause a lot of turmoil in the middle.

This turmoil is the source of the backlash, from the resistance of the world where this river is located.

Fortunately, Li Qi's cultivation was already quite strong. He only turned purple for a moment, and soon swallowed the backlash and returned to normal.

The backlash of the world is indeed something. It's just a river. The status of this river is at most eighth grade, but it can cause him minor injuries.

If it is outside the domain, Li Qi estimates that the backlash he will suffer from suppressing an eighth-grade world is no more than this.

Of course, he has not tried it, it's just an estimate.

This is the first time that Li Qi curses such a huge range and group.

"This thing... if it is used to suppress the way of heaven..." Li Qi thought for a while.

Just as he subconsciously began to think based on his discovery, suddenly, he raised his head and looked into the distance.

There is a man in the distance... uh, man?

He exudes an aura similar to an official position, but it is too inferior.

It should be a degraded official position unique to the Baiyue countries.

Li Qi knows a little about this.

This degraded official position only provides power blessing, not corresponding status.

In other words, it can only strengthen your existing power, but will not directly upgrade your level, and it will also cause a burden to the user.

If the official position is too high and your own cultivation is not good, then you will not be blessed by this official position. The luck of a state brought by this official position alone can overwhelm people with low cultivation.

It is essentially similar to a magic weapon, but it is more mysterious and cannot be compared with the official position of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Qi looked at the man, wearing a robe, a black and white dress, and a yin-yang fish on his crown.

He is a wild Taoist priest...

The reason why he is called a wild Taoist priest is that there are strict requirements for the orthodox Taoist crowns.

What kind of lotus crown, five crane crown, coiled dragon crown, what kind of crown should be worn by what person is there are all particular, and wearing a crown randomly will be severely punished by the elders of the master sect.

And only those wild Taoist priests who have no orthodox inheritance and can't figure out the difference will wear a crown randomly.

Like the Taoist priest in front of him, although he looks like a fairy, there is a yin-yang fish on his crown, which rotates back and forth, and you can tell at a glance that it is wild.

"Meet the Taoist priest." Li Qi bowed and looked at the Taoist priest not far away.

This Taoist priest is also a seventh-rank priest. He should be the governor here, right?

Speaking of which, Li Qi only knew that this was Lingxiao Country, but he didn't know where in Lingxiao Country it was, so he could ask around.

After all, he suppressed the water Gu, in addition to recalling the past, and doing something to make himself feel better at the moment, another reason was to attract people to come.

Suppressing the water poison is not a trivial matter, and it will definitely attract important people.

The Taoist priest over there smiled at Li Qi, bowed his hands and said: "I wonder where you are from? This method of cursing is really amazing. You are really kind-hearted and can't bear to see these peasants suffer."

"I am not a good person either, I just feel the same way." Li Qi shook his head.

He is indeed not a good person. Now he has no intention of changing the Baiyue countries. After all, it is very difficult to change completely, and it will break many existing balances.

When he reaches the third rank or even stronger, he may be qualified to do this.

As Li Qi said, he has no intention and cannot change many things, and everything should be left to nature.

He is a good person in a narrow sense. If he encounters a bad thing like Jin Buhuan in Qingwu City, he may help, but if he really wants to seek welfare for the whole world, Li Qi still doesn't have the heart.

Today, I felt the same pain as these boatmen, so I did this thing, so that the boatmen on this river can feel better in the future, that's all.

But he couldn't make Baiyue as developed as Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, so that everyone could live a good life.

"If you can feel the same pain, you are already a good person. How many people in the world can't even feel the same pain?" The Taoist sighed and said so.

It seems that he also has some feelings.

"I wonder who you are?" Li Qi bowed and asked the Taoist.

"I am Mu Xiulan, the governor of Ezhou. Seeing that you have suppressed the water poison in this river in my state, I came here to thank you." The Taoist bowed and saluted Li Qi.

"No need to be polite, it's just a little effort." Li Qi said.

But he immediately said: "Your little effort will cost me at least ten years of hard work, so you still have to accept this gift."

Hearing this, Li Qi no longer refused and accepted the gift.

But he was a little speechless.

Ezhou... Huaye?

This name, does it mean that other states are the flower stalk, petal, corolla, and stamen?

Is this really the Lingxiao Flower Kingdom?

Is the name of the Lingxiao King too casual?

After Mu Xiulan finished her greetings, she looked at Li Qi and said, "Where are you from, and where do you want to go? Passing by Ezhou, can I show you my hospitality?"

Seeing this, Li Qi immediately said, "I came from Liesuo and want to pay my respects to the Lingxiao King and take a look at the appearance of Zunfoshan. As for the banquet, won't it bother the governor?"

"Why would I bother you? It's a great honor for my humble place to have you visit me." Mu Xiulan said, "Besides, if you want to visit the King, it's better for me to introduce you than to bump into him like a headless fly."

Li Qi was waiting for the other party to say this.

When he heard the other party say it, he said, "Then I'd rather obey your order than be respectful."