If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 764 Encountering Robbers on the Road
Almost a month had passed since leaving Daiyi City, and it was already the end of February in Daqin.

Spring is not yet obvious, but the ice and snow in the north have basically melted and the temperature has risen.

Xiaoyu traveled more than two thousand miles in twists and turns, stopping and starting.

She passed through many places, especially visiting seven county capitals and twenty or thirty county towns.

She was surprised and disappointed by what she saw and heard along the way. She felt heavy-hearted, yet also felt a sense of joy as if she were seeing the familiar mountains, rivers, and famous cities from her previous life.

The reason for the surprise is that the Southern Continent in this world is very different from China on Earth in the previous life in terms of geography and territory.

There are many place names here, and she is very familiar with them.

For example, Yanmen Pass, Taihang Mountains, Yanmen County, Juyong Pass and Yanshan Mountains.

Xiaoyu had even traveled to the above areas in her previous life.

Arriving at a place with a familiar name, she felt inexplicably delighted.

However, although the names were the same, the topography, cities and mountains were so different that she couldn't recognize them at all.

In the China of Pangu's world, there are many counties and cities that she has never heard of.

It's not that the name has been changed, it's that the world is bigger, the Southern Continent is bigger, and the Chinese Divine Land is also bigger.

Many places that did not exist in China on the original earth were added out of thin air.

But after Xiaoyu read ancient books such as Shan Hai Jing, he was able to find those place names.

It is roughly the combination of the real China on Earth and the famous places in ancient mythological books such as Shan Hai Jing and Shui Jing Zhu, which together constitute the Shenzhou of today's Pangu world.

This added a lot of novelty to Xiaoyu's journey.

But to her disappointment, the great Chinese nation that foreigners longed for was not very different from the Yingxiang Mansion she had seen in the Xisha region.

Most areas are not as prosperous as Yingxiang Prefecture.

It is not the case that everyone in the Qin Dynasty is as good as a dragon and every household practices martial arts.

If you hadn't come to the Great Qin, there would be immortals everywhere, and the "Zhenyuan Boss" would be worse than a dog.

Today in Daqin, from the countryside to the county government, there is a kind of manic fatigue.

People's livelihood is in decline, and the official laws are strict and the rules are obsessive.

If the entire country is like a big machine, the gears and screws on the machine are the people of the country.

Well, now the gears of the Daqin machine have been broken into many small holes, but the machine is still running at high speed.

However, the Qin Dynasty did have the aura of a superior state.

Human immortals are not everywhere and are still relatively rare, but the number of high-level human immortals who have mastered martial arts is frighteningly large.

A hundred miles is a township, and you may encounter one or two high-level immortals in a township.

If you enter the county town, you can even find high-level human immortals among the patrolling soldiers of the city defense camp.

As a result, Xiaoyu, who had just arrived in the south, saw a high-level human immortal. He came forward, bowed and shouted, "Hello, Dad. I'm from XX and want to go to XX. Can you tell me how to get there?"

After a period of time, she met enough high-level human immortals, and their moves and martial arts became too repetitive. She became numb and had little motivation to become her godfather.

As for the number of human immortals and true essence warriors, at least the northern part of Daqin is not much stronger than Yingxiang Prefecture. Of course, Yingxiang Prefecture is already the most essential place in Xishu and even Xishayu, and it cannot become a common phenomenon in the west.

Ordinary prefectures and even counties in Daqin can reach or even surpass the level of Shudong in terms of immortal martial arts combat power, which is actually quite terrifying.

All the human immortals in Yingxiang Mansion are stuck in the "Yuandan Realm", while the human immortals in Daqin have no worries about their future. With enough resources and qualifications, they can break through.

However, the Qin Dynasty today is clearly in a period of transition and lacks successors: the people are so miserable and poor that even eating is a problem, and they have no energy to practice martial arts.

The scenes of people starving to death that Xiaoyu saw along the way made him feel very heavy.

The people's hardship was caused by three reasons: first and foremost, the corvee was too heavy, many fields were left barren, and there was a lack of male adults in the family, so they could not farm or take care of the children.

The Great Wall Legion needed laborers to escort food and fodder, which was a normal requirement for the survival of the country.

Queen Mother Zhao of Xianyang needed 500,000 brave men to help her build her mausoleum.

Xiaoyu felt that she was digging her own grave. Well, literally, Queen Mother Zhao was indeed digging her own grave.

But for people of this era, it was natural and reasonable for common people to build a tomb for the emperor.

Secondly, the harvest season in Daqin has not been very good in recent years, with drought in the east of the Yellow River and floods in the west of the Yellow River.

Finally, there are so many bandits in the Qin Dynasty.

Xiaoyu is a lonely young Taoist priest. In the martial arts novels of the previous life, he would definitely be someone who should not be provoked and everyone in the martial arts world would know.

But after she passed through Dai County and had not yet completely walked out of Hengshan County, she had already met the King of Qibo Mountain.

Just after leaving a county town called "Zhongli" and less than twenty miles out of the city gate, Xiaoyu was stopped by a group of bandits.

"Hey, little Taoist priest, this road——"

Just as the bandit leader with a yellow scarf on his head was about to shout, Xiao Yu got ahead of him and shouted, "I don't have a penny, but I do have a pair of 'Fire God Palms'. Do you want them?"

She spread out her clean white palms, and suddenly a three-foot-high flame rose up.

There were about twenty bandits jumping out of the woods.

Like the Qin soldiers, they also had their hair twisted to the right, but they wrapped their heads with yellow scarves. Their clothes were in a mess, some wearing cloth clothes, some wearing tattered leather armor, and only eight of them held iron weapons in their hands.

The leading bandit was 1.9 meters tall, with a leopard head and a face like Guan Gong. He had his chest bare, revealing a tattoo of a roaring tiger on his chest, and held a two-foot-long hatchet in his hand.

The two younger brothers beside him should be "centurions". Their physique and weapons are much better than the others.

"Little Taoist priest, you dare to scare me with such a little trick?"

The tall and thin fellow swung the machete in his hand at the half-man-high stone on the roadside, "Puchi!"

The blade burst out, palm-wide, half a meter long, and bright red, very dazzling. The power was also very good, leaving a three-inch depth on the granite.

The temperature in the air has obviously risen a lot.

"See? Your little magic is totally not enough in front of me." The tall and thin man touched the two whiskers on the corners of his lips proudly.

Xiao Yu was really shocked, and immediately opened his spiritual eyes to carefully feel the energy in the bodies of the bandits opposite him.

There are thirteen "True Yuan Realm Bosses", five of whom have integrated Gang Qi into their True Qi, and are "Refining Gang Bosses", and the other eight have integrated the Disha Qi, and are "Refining Sha Bosses".

Not to mention in the Quicksand Region, it is rare even in the north where Xiaoyu has been.

The difficulty and level of refining the Gang and the Sha are actually not too high, but if you want to refine the Gang and the Sha, you must at least have the corresponding immortal martial arts secrets.

Any secret manual for cultivating Gangqi and Shaqi will not only cultivate Gangqi and Shaqi, but will generally have matching combat skills and secret methods.

To put it bluntly, if you mix the Gang Qi and Sha Qi into your True Qi, there must be a purpose, a certain effect you want to achieve, and why you need the secret technique.

A bandit with secret skills is no ordinary bandit.

Xiao Yu became interested and asked, "Even though you are all powerful martial artists, I really don't have any money!"

The man with a leopard head and a red face shouted at her, "Little Taoist priest, don't act like a traitor. We know you.

Your Taoist name is 'Luo Bo', and you are known as 'Thunder Hand' in the martial arts world. You are good at fortune-telling with coins, curing diseases and saving lives, and exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts.

Seven days ago, he entered Zhongli County and drove away the evil spirit that was calling souls away in the middle of the night for the old master of the Huang family, and was rewarded with twenty gold coins.

The next day, you helped the Luo family silk shop to arrange the feng shui layout and got two hundred coins.

After that you."

He blabbered and recounted everything Xiaoyu had done in Zhongli County in the past few days, and finally said proudly: "Do you understand now? We have been targeting you for a long time, and we know exactly how much money you have."

The tall man with rat whiskers added, “We also know that you are a Taoist priest who does not abide by the rules and regulations.

The cakes from Furongji, the old duck vermicelli soup from Yingkelai, and the sorghum red from Xiaoyin Hutong."

As he spoke, his mouth almost drooled, and he shouted with envy and jealousy: "I have always heard that Taoist priests eat wind and drink dew, and do not eat worldly food. You are so greedy, are you a fake Taoist priest?"

Xiao Yu sighed, “Am I so ostentatious in Zhongli County?
In total, I only did seven or eight deals, earned less than fifty gold, and ate some local specialties."

She usually doesn't stay in a county town for so long.

The name of Zhongli County is a bit special. She had "started" it in her previous life.

At first, Xiao Yu was just curious. After walking around Zhongli County, he found that the county was not large in size, but it had a long history. There were many buildings and houses that were recorded 300,000 years ago.

Of course, she only confirmed that some of the family houses and collections had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, or even longer.

As for the family itself, they said that they had lived here for generations. But at least in terms of power, they did not have any obvious ancient heritage.

Xiaoyu was delayed for a few days, mainly stealing books!

Emperor Ying Zheng did not burn books or bury scholars alive, at least he did not kill Confucian scholars on a large scale.

Many of the doctors in the Xianyang Palace were great scholars from all over the country!

However, in the process of unifying the Chinese writing system, Emperor Renhuang also issued an order prohibiting Confucian scholars from favoring the past over the present or using the past to satirize the present. He also ordered officials to search out all the books in the private sector and send them to Xianyang.

The management of civilian scholars was also too harsh.

In the northern counties she passed by, the academic atmosphere was not as strong as that in Western Shu.

At that time in the Qin Dynasty, it was very difficult to find a few rare books with a long history and recording ancient events.

When Xiaoyu was in Xishu, he could see bookstores everywhere he walked on the street. In Daqin, bookstores only sold the four treasures of the study, not books, and only the official schools in the county could read and buy books.

The books that scholars can read are all carefully selected by Emperor Ying Zheng.

To be honest, the books recommended by Emperor Ying Zheng are not bad at all, and can even be called classics.

Some teach people how to repair houses and dig wells, some teach them how to tame war horses, and some teach them how to cure simple diseases with a "prescription worth a thousand gold coins".
There is a modern saying, "Learn math, physics and chemistry well and you will not be afraid to travel around the world."

Now Xiaoyu wants to say: After reading the books on Ying Zheng’s reading list, you will not be afraid of farming, being a craftsman, or performing any type of corvee labor.

Obviously, this kind of book is of no use to Xiaoyu.

The ancient books that Xiaoyu stole were all "ancient secret books" hidden in dark rooms and cracks in walls.

She was not targeting Zhongli County. She had done similar things to any rare and ancient books she encountered on the road.

It’s just that there are a lot of them in Zhongli County.

Asking her adoptive father to deduce the secret method of immortal martial arts can only strengthen her physique.

Stealing books, reading, and learning ancient characters (the characters of the six countries were not unified and the languages ​​of different places were different) can broaden her horizons and enhance her understanding of the world, especially China.

She gained a lot.

After she travels around Daqin, the knowledge in her head alone will be enough for her to return to Liusha Territory and become a "great scholar of the time."

When Dou Gengyan was passing on the "Dou family's noble and upright spirit", she said that one must travel thousands of miles and read tens of thousands of books in order to cultivate a noble and upright spirit.

Xiaoyu feels that the speed at which his righteousness has improved during this period is almost comparable to his martial arts skills.

"Little Taoist priest, you are not a bad person, and you are not very conspicuous in Zhongli County. But it is almost dark now, and you are still refusing to leave in such a good state.

He insisted on walking alone on the mountain road, beating a fisherman's drum and singing a strange tune.

If we, the Mengshan Volunteers, don't step out to stop you, we would be unworthy of our status." The red-faced man shouted.

Xiao Yu looked up at the dark sky, then scanned the surrounding mountains and wilderness, and nodded: "Walking on the mountain trail at this time is indeed a bit insulting to your profession."

(End of this chapter)