Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"Ah!"

"understood?"

"Master Sa, how did you do this? Are you using my system of discourse to answer my questions? But how did you do it?"

"I've said it all, the words are on your lips. Old man, I'm just a roundworm in your belly now." Sa Shoujian smiled, "This scene is your own. There is a field for cultivation in the human body, so you don't need to ask for these answers. It’s all in your heart, you just don’t know how to answer it.”

"This is also a golden elixir?"

Sa Shoujian nodded: "If you want to control your body and mind as you wish, you must shape it into a little Zhoutian - and this world is your little Zhoutian. By showing them one by one through the interior scenes, you can understand everything."

"Master Sa, can you teach me the trick you just did? Just read the questions you can answer directly. I need it urgently for the exam!"

"I know, I know, I know you're here for this. Look up." Sa Shoujian pointed to the middle of the giant peak in front of him, "This psychic heart is halfway up the mountain. If you learn, this time Just go halfway up the mountain.”

"Ah, I understand."

"No, there is one more thing you don't understand." Sa Shouguang emphasized, "Remember, don't talk to anyone."

"???"

"Have you seen those two children? Never, never, never talk to them."

"they are"

"It's your soul. Talking to them is equivalent to cutting your own brain open. Don't do it easily unless you know what you are doing. After a while, you will see many more people as you move forward. The more pure your cultivation is, the more people will probably see it. For example, in the world ahead there are people cultivating money, the white-browed old man on the top of the mountain, etc. - remember these one by one, and never interact with them say."

"Ah, I understand. But what will happen if you speak?"

"Do you know what 'the finishing touch' is? Or, has anyone ever said, don't give names to food? Because if you say something and have a name, your soul will begin to waver. Who are you - —This question is crucial. Because you can’t talk to yourself, just like you can’t shake hands with yourself the last second. And if you do this, then I ask you: Who are you here?”

"Ah" Shangluo nodded. He wanted to look back at the two children treading water, but he held back.

"That's right, it's best not to look at them at all. Don't make eye contact with any living beings along the way - otherwise, even if you are a heavenly being, you won't be able to control it. Wait until you become a golden elixir and completely control it. With this small piece of Zhoutian, it won’t matter if you hold a concert here. But now, you have to be careful and follow the rules.”

"Ah!" Shangluo suddenly stepped back, "Master Sa! Are you the same?"

"Tsk." Sa Shoujian took out his folding fan and patted Shangluo's head three times, "Do you understand now? Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Xianyue Sanxing Cave. I am neither here nor here. I am both in your heart. , and it’s not in your heart. When you really understand it, you will become a teacher - it doesn’t matter if you announce your name as a teacher at that time, I will be happy for you."

Chapter 617 Fangcun Mountain

"If you ignore that this is an interior scene, everything seems to be normal." Shangluo muttered.

It does look normal here, with a small country road extending along the stream to the town ahead. I don’t know where the road starts, but it extends far to the mountain peaks in front, parallel to the stream. There is a bus stop a few steps ahead. There is no bus shelter, just an ordinary stop sign. There was an old lady carrying a vegetable basket standing next to the stop sign, leaning on a cane.

"Oh, Master Sa, are there buses there? Why not take a bus?"

"Take the bus?" Sa Shoujian glanced at him, "Ah, that's fine too. That's fine too. Then go ahead."

Shangluo took two steps - he suddenly froze.

"Wait a minute, Master Sa, is there something wrong here? Why is it a bus? I remember this shouldn't be a countryside like Peach Blossom Land? Why is it like this?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the old lady waiting for the bus in front looked over.

Sa Shoujian didn't say anything, he just took out his folding fan, opened it one space, and stood in front of the two of them:

"If you want to ask about the 'existence' of this world later, please cover it up first. Otherwise, it will be easy to enlighten the spirits here. You are no longer an ordinary person, and the white dragon horse can grow vines and fairy mushrooms every time he urinates. ,clear?"

"Oh, I understand." Shangluo nodded.

"As for why it is constructed like this, it is your own conception of the 'countryside'. The countryside of the ancients was one thing, but the countryside you see is another. It seems that the countryside here is , is there such a bus?”

"Hmm. What if it's this way?"

"Usually it's a train station - young people these days, their understanding of the countryside is a train station."

"Train station? Why a train station?"

"This is what's different from you. When the Ming Dynasty began to modernize, cars had not been invented yet. At that time, there were only trains. So today's towns may not have 100% cement roads or asphalt roads, but 100% have train stations. In the countryside, Railways are as dense as capillaries, much denser than roads - buses are only available in cities, and only go as far as the suburbs. If you want to go to some remote towns, in addition to driving, you need to take a train. "

"Is that so?"

[Because the roadbed of railways is wider than that of roads. ] Apollonia added, [Although mainline railways are very expensive, those rural railways are basically just two tracks laid on sleepers, which is much cheaper than building roads. However.] She paused:

[But you can be sure that this is indeed the countryside you envisioned. The countryside in other people's minds is not like this. 】

"That's true. By the way, when did you appear next to me?" Shangluo hadn't noticed the figure next to him before. As if she had been there all along, Apollonia suddenly spoke behind her.

[I just heard that this is your hometown, so I wanted to come and have a look. Well, I still don’t know what your home is like. 】

"It's not really his hometown." Sa Shoujian looked ahead and behind him, "Peach Blossom Spring may not be everyone's hometown, it's just that everyone has such a 'countryside' in their mind. Just like the front. .”

The folding fan was still blocking the way, but Shangluo still remembered the old lady on crutches in front of him - next to the bus stop.

"Are there really so many people using crutches these days? No, even if the old ladies these days are old, they rarely use crutches. They usually push a stroller to go out. Where are you?"

"It seems not?"

"That's because you think there should be a cane here - you think if an old lady appears in a quiet countryside, she should walk slowly here with a cane."

"Ah," Shangluo covered his forehead, "So I actually have such a stereotype? I'm really shallow. I don't even dare to imagine what the next three levels will be like."

There are three levels of city gates and twelve levels of pavilions on the mountain ahead, which seemed quite normal at first. According to the scenery seen in the traditional "inner scene", the "Fangcun Mountain" should have springs symbolizing the Ren and Du meridians, various peaks and mountains symbolizing wisdom and the heart, forests and fields, as well as alchemy tripods and city fortresses.

but now

"Eh???" Apollonia ran to the bus stop sign first, "Shangluo, look, it says the terminal is the 'Fangcun Mountain Scenic Area Gate'."

"Ah, I know." He shook his head and said, "There is such a big mountain in the town, and there are many ancient buildings on the mountain - I must regard it as a scenic spot here. I don't even have it in my mind. The Shiwanda Mountain, where Taoist monks live in seclusion, must be a scenic spot if there is one. I just don’t know if I should buy tickets when I go home."

The bus came, coming from nowhere and stopped at the bus stop.

[Eh~~] Apollonia walked up, [The pedals of this bus are so low! How? 】

"Because it's an electric bus - can you please stop talking in my head? You are obviously standing next to me."

【My pleasure. Hey, hey, what's going on with your electric car? Can it really be driven as a bus? 】

She changed the topic, but Shangluo didn't pursue it.

"As for electric vehicles, the buses in my mind are all like this."

[Wow, is this Zhong Guo’s technology? It’s too powerful. 】

"Just in case, let me ask." Sa Shoujian asked, "Are those 'smart weapons' you mentioned all powered by electricity?"

Shangluo nodded: "But we don't need electricity here. We have a way."

The "bus" has already started moving. The voice was the same as the one Shangluo was familiar with, with the buzzing sound of an electric motor. The scenery outside the window faded back.

Unexpectedly, this small world brought him many scenes of his hometown.

After emerging from the woods, before entering the town, he saw fields on both sides of the road. Small tractors plow the fish-scale fields interspersed with fish ponds. The fields were winding and winding, rising and falling with the terrain - he had never been to the countryside much, and he didn't know if the real countryside looked like this. But there are indeed many differences between this place and the "Ming Dynasty during the Shaoping Period" outside.

[Hey, you guys also eat fried dough sticks? 】

Shangluo looked ahead and saw that the breakfast stall on the roadside was indeed selling fried dough sticks. Take the fried dough sticks out of the oil pan and place them vertically on the iron rack next to the oil pan to drain the oil.

Next to the breakfast stall was the stop before entering the town, and the bus stopped next to the stall.

Sa Shoujian reached out of the window and took out a few one-yuan coins: "Boss, here are two fried dough sticks."

"Huh???" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "Can't you speak?"

Chapter 618 Small Town

"Just because you can't say it doesn't mean I can't. I'm not you." While reaching for the dough sticks, Sa Shoujian also looked at the telephone poles outside, the cake shops on the street, and the colorful cakes displayed in the newsstands. Drinks, "Nice, it's a nice place."

When he came back to get the fried dough sticks, he opened the plastic bag and took a bite——

Sa Shoujian was stunned.

He looked up at Shangluo: "You are really not picky about food. What kind of oil is this?"

"Ahhh this"

Sa Shoujian said nothing more. He finished the fried dough sticks in his mouth and stopped eating. Just use a fan to cover it, and as soon as it appears, a bag of fried dough sticks is put away.

"It can't be wasted. Take it away. Well, take it out and let the others have a taste."

"Ah, Master Sa, there's no need for that!"

"Hey." Sa Shoujian waved his hand, "When you go out, you have to bring something back."

As he said that, he recalled the taste:

"No, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the oil. Why does it stink?"

"Probably adding a little ammonium bicarbonate, which will decompose ammonia when heated, can make the dough sticks more fluffy. It's non-toxic and harmless. It's not a technical work, but it's a little smelly."

Sa Shoujian hesitated for a while - he was hesitating whether to take it out to others to eat.

"Boss, do it again!"

After making a decision, Sa Shoujian bought a lot more and kept them as they were.

"Bring it back to the crew and give it to the emperor to try."

"Okay." Shangluo could no longer stop the leak of this fried dough stick, so he had to give up. But he also noticed one thing:

"By the way, Master Sa, what did you pay just now?"

"This." Sa Shoujian turned the fan over, revealing a row of coins. A row of chrysanthemums on the back and "1 Yuan" steel-core nickel-plated coins on the front.

"This is it! It's from my home."

"It still looks like it, right?"

"Exactly the same! Can you give me a few to commemorate? I haven't encountered these in a long time."

The bus drove slowly through the town, and Shangluo weighed the coins in his hand. The heavy coins feel quite comfortable in the hand, and they fit tightly without making any noise when placed in the pocket.

This town that was created based on his "memories" was a place he had never been to, but it still made him feel nostalgic.

However, this was not enough to make him feel sad. It's not because he has a stronger mentality, it's because he's living quite well in Yujing, and he's a little too happy to miss his childhood. After seeing the scenery of my hometown, it would be nice to take a commemorative coin back as a souvenir, but it would not make me feel sad or sad.

"We're here." As he was weighing the coins, Sa Shoujian from behind patted him on the shoulder.

"Are you here? It seems we haven't reached the bottom of the mountain yet."

"Get off here first."

Shangluo glanced at the stop sign next to him - it read: Boiler Room.

Boiler room. This is actually the second to last stop, only one stop away from the last stop, the "Fangcun Mountain Scenic Area Gate".

Part of the upstream stream water passed by here and was pumped into the boiler room.

The chimney of the boiler room was smoking, and the boiler inside was burning brightly.

"Where is this?" Shangluo asked. Although this is his inner scene, he doesn't know what these correspond to.

"The place where water and fire meet." Sa Shoujian replied, "This is actually the Alchemy Cauldron."

"Danding? This boiler room is actually Danding?"

"It's normal. The world in your interior has turned into something you are familiar with. For example, the fields you saw earlier are the 'Iron Ox Plowing Workers' that move the breath. What is grown there is not rice. It's money - but logically speaking, one has to use the power of the animal to pull the plow to judge the difference between an ox cart, a sheep cart, and a deer cart. Your tractor is a tractor, and I don't know which tractor is considered an ox cart, a sheep cart, or a deer cart in your case. Deer cart. After all, Fangcun Mountain has become a tourist attraction."

"Ah, if it's not an attraction, what should you see here?"

"If it's not a scenic spot, the one in front of it shouldn't be the gate of the scenic spot, but a Weilu Pass and a city gate. You actually have some problems, I have to give you some advice."

He looked at Shangluo: "The interior is related to the movement of breath, and everything here has meaning. Fangcun Mountain has a solid barrier at the foot of the mountain, and evil spirits cannot get in. Your place has become a scenic spot ticket office, then Wouldn't it be possible to get in just by taking the money? You have to be careful behind the scenes to prevent evil spirits from sneaking in."

"Then how do I verify it?"

"Go up." Master Sa Tian pointed at the top of his head, "This is how to get information from outside this world. Even I may not be reliable, do you understand? But I just gave you a few coins, you can go out on your own Take a look to see if you can take it out - don't think it's rude. There's Fangcun Mountain in front of you to move your energy, so you can't be too careful, even I have to check it out."

"I understand." Shangluo and Apollonia communicated for a while, and then "escaped" temporarily for a while.

Within three seconds, he reappeared.

"No problem, I threw those coins outside. Shaping the spiritual energy into shape is the great power of the heavenly master, right?"

"It's just a small trick, and you don't have to be at my stage to use it. But immortals are not something that can be invented at will - the so-called immortal must be able to understand all things. As long as someone is imitating me, I will know it immediately. If If you can't even tell that someone is imitating my face, how can you be a heavenly master?"

[Ah, do I need to swipe my card? 】