Seeking Immortality

After coming out of Jiuhua Mountain, Xu Qingfan suddenly felt as if he was in another world. Perhaps it was because he had stayed in Jiuhua Mountain for too long.

No matter how beautiful the scenery is or how good the environment is, if a person stays in one place for a long time, he will feel like he is in a cage. Originally, Xu Qingfan lived comfortably in the cave house in the back mountain, and he didn't have this feeling. But when Xu Qingfan really walked out of Jiuhua Mountain that day, looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance, and the green mountains, he really felt like he was out of a cage.

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan remembered his previous dream. If his cultivation in this life really reached the late stage of spiritual silence and could no longer make progress, then it would be a good choice to browse the beautiful rivers and mountains of the vast land of China for the rest of his life.

Xu Qingfan shook his head with a wry smile, threw these long-standing thoughts behind him, and controlled the "three-foot green silk" to fly quickly into the distance.

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Gushan Town is named because it is located at the foot of Gushan Mountain. It is said that the previous county governor felt that the name of Gushan Town was too superficial, so he gave the town a more elegant name when he traveled to Gushan. Unfortunately, both the residents and passers-by in the town still habitually called the town Gushan Town. And with the departure of the county governor who liked to name, no one mentioned the elegant name anymore, and it gradually became unknown.

The town is located next to the transportation hub and backed by the beautiful Gushan Shahe River, so it is quite lively. People come and go in the town, hawkers shout, and shops stand on the roadside.

At this time, a young man in his twenties came to the town. He was wearing a white robe made of unknown material, spotless, with a beautiful face and calm manners, as if he was a well-educated, elegant and knowledgeable nobleman, with a hazy and mysterious feeling on his body. But the strange thing is that this young man seemed to have never seen the world and looked around when he walked, as if he had never seen anything.

"Maybe he is a nobleman from a big city who has never seen a small town." After seeing the strange behavior of the young man, passers-by speculated.

This young man was Xu Qingfan who had just come down from Jiuhua Mountain.

It turned out that Xu Qingfan originally wanted to fly directly to the South Wilderness, but when he passed by this small town, he stopped and decided to go to this small town to see the excitement and experience the life of ordinary people.

Back then, Xu Qingfan was born in the South Wilderness, which was desolate and dangerous, with wild beasts rampant and sparsely populated. People built villages and lived there, so where would there be any towns? At that time, Xu Qingfan often yearned for the prosperity of the Middle Earth from the few descriptions in the books, but unfortunately he had never seen it.

Later, Xujiazhai was destroyed, and Xu Qingfan was accepted as a disciple by Lu Huayan and officially entered the world of cultivation. He never stepped out of Jiuhua Mountain, let alone experience the prosperity of the Middle Earth. Until now, Xu Qingfan often recalled the brightly lit and bustling metropolis he saw in the sky when Lu Huayan took him back to Jiuhua Mountain. Although this small town cannot be compared with the big city Xu Qingfan had seen before, the noisy atmosphere also aroused Xu Qingfan's deep desire to experience the prosperity of the Middle Earth.

So Xu Qingfan was curious about everything after coming to this town, because Xu Qingfan had never seen these things. And those passers-by who guessed Xu Qingfan to be a nobleman didn't know that the reason why the person in front of them looked around was just because he was a country bumpkin who knew nothing.

And as soon as Xu Qingfan arrived in this town, he immediately made a joke because of his ignorance.

As soon as he arrived in the town, Xu Qingfan suddenly found an old man selling a kind of figurine made of something unknown, the image of a general or a monster, all vivid and lifelike. This kind of figurine seems to be deeply loved by children. Xu Qingfan often sees a child buy a figurine and then leave happily.

"Maybe it's a decorative ornament." Xu Qingfan guessed secretly.

At this time, another child bought a figurine from the old man and then stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this scene, Xu Qingfan was surprised, thinking that this child didn't know anything and ate randomly, so he immediately took the figurine out of the child's mouth.

Then, the child cried loudly, and after others explained, Xu Qingfan realized that these figurines were made of saccharin, called "sugar men", and were originally for children to eat. Xu Qingfan was embarrassed to be a "bad guy" who took candy from children.

"Don't those big cities even have sugar men?" Passers-by speculated.

"Maybe this young man has been spoiled since childhood and has never seen a sugar man." Another person guessed, and the others showed a look of realization after hearing it.

Although Xu Qingfan did a bad thing with good intentions, he was a free and easy person. He soon didn't care and continued to observe the lives of the secular people in the Middle Earth with great interest. However, he didn't know that his ignorance of the world had already caught the eyes of some people with ulterior motives.

There is a kind of people in this world who live at the bottom of the world, yearning for something to gain without working, and have no other life skills except cheating. Such people are called "hooligans" or "hooligans" by others.

And those who are rich but ignorant of the world are called "sheep" by such people, such as Xu Qingfan's current performance in their eyes.

"Is this young man visiting our town for the first time? Do you want me to be your guide?" Just as Xu Qingfan was watching the lively scene around him with great interest, a clear voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Xu Qingfan frowned. The senses of a cultivator are very sensitive. He felt that this person had been following him from just now. His eyes flickered and seemed to have bad intentions, but Xu Qingfan did not care about these threats from mortals. He was still just watching the excitement by himself, but he did not expect that this person would come to him in public.

Xu Qingfan turned his head and looked at the voice, but was surprised to find that the person behind him was not as fierce or wretched as he imagined. Instead, he had a tall figure, handsome face, and a warm smile on his face. With his clear voice, he seemed to be quite talented.

"Am I wrong? Such a person does not seem to have ulterior motives." Xu Qingfan guessed secretly. But I don't know if you can judge a person by his appearance? People who look fierce and wretched are not necessarily bad people, and people who look handsome and sunny are not necessarily good people. In fact, having a good appearance often makes people lose their vigilance.

Although he thought so in his heart, Xu Qingfan still said lightly: "This is indeed my first time here."

"I am most familiar with this Gushan Town. How about letting me be your tour guide?" The man asked softly with a warm smile on his face.

"Okay." Although he didn't know what this person meant, Xu Qingfan was not used to rejecting others, so he nodded slightly.

It must be said that this man named Zhang Long is indeed a good tour guide. He speaks wittily and knows Gushan Town well. He can easily come up with all kinds of allusions, and Xu Qingfan listens with relish.

But with Zhang Long's leadership, Xu Qingfan found that the place he was walking was getting more and more remote, and later the two came to a dead end.

"What allusions are there in this dead end?" Xu Qingfan was sure that Zhang Long had other purposes for him, but he still asked with a faint smile.

At this moment, a group of hideous men suddenly emerged from the corner of the alley, holding stones or sticks and other weapons in their hands, and surrounded Xu Qingfan.

"Hand over all the money and valuables on you, otherwise don't blame me for not recognizing you." A bald man with the largest body shook the shiny knife in his hand and said viciously to Xu Qingfan.

"Pa~" A crisp sound rang out, and it turned out that Zhang Long slapped the bald head of the big man hard, saying: "How many times have I told you that we are not the kind of robbers with no taste and no skills, we are businessmen, and we must make money in harmony!!"

The strange thing is that the big man actually had a deep awe of Zhang Long, who was much smaller than him, and hurriedly agreed after hearing Zhang Long's lesson.

After teaching the big man a lesson, Zhang Long turned to Xu Qingfan and his expression became warm again. He said to Xu Qingfan in a gentle voice: "My dear, you said that I took you on a tour for such a long time. Shouldn't you give me some hard work fee? It's not easy for everyone to support their families."

Hearing the conversation between Zhang Long and the bald man, Xu Qingfan suddenly realized a problem in his heart. He didn't have any money! ! As a cultivator, the money of ordinary people is of course useless, but Xu Qingfan has decided to take a tour in this prosperous Middle-earth world. How can he do it without money?

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan's expression did not change, but he just asked lightly: "Then what do you think should be the hard work fee?"