The county seat of Yu County is also called Yu City, located in the center of Yu County, and is also the center of the entire Yuzhou, this is a giant city established because of Shao Zong, at the foot of the Shao Peak, this city has accompanied Shao Zong through countless years since its birth.
At this time, before Yang Junshan came to this city with a caravan he met halfway to this city with thousands of years of history, he couldn't help but recall what he had encountered on the road in the past two months.
Two months ago, when Yang Junshan set off from Xishan Village, he regarded this trip to the county seat as a trip, a trip to increase his knowledge, but the process of this journey made Yang Junshan feel quite creepy.
In addition to Mengyu County, Yang Junshan joined a caravan heading north, and the destination of this caravan was the same as Yang Junshan, both of which were Yucheng, the county seat of Yu County.
As for Yang Junshan's joining, especially after learning that Yang Junshan was a Martial Realm monk, the shopkeeper of the caravan welcomed him, and the addition of a Martial Realm monk was obviously helpful to the improvement of the caravan's strength, although in Yang Junshan's opinion, the strength of this caravan with three Martial Realm monks was strong enough.
However, after walking on the trade road opened between the mountains and forests for less than two days, Yang Junshan met a monk with a shaved head and dressed in linen clothes walking barefoot on the road.
Monk of the Buddhist clan!
Yang Junshan even had the idea of killing for a moment, but in the end he held back, and then he heard a burst of laughter suddenly coming from beside him.
"Haha, Brother Yang, don't panic, these people won't make trouble, you haven't seen such a person, have you?"
Shopkeeper Liu of the caravan and the other two martial realm cultivators looked at Yang Junshan's face with amused expressions, and the guardiness on Yang Junshan's face had not yet dissipated.
"So Shopkeeper Liu and the two Taoists have ever seen a person dressed like this?"
Seeing Yang Junshan's face full of doubts, Shopkeeper Liu explained: "To be honest, the old merchant was full of vigilance when he first saw these people, and even almost started to do it.
The other two martial realm cultivators also nodded in agreement, caravans like them, who walk in the wild all year round, are often wary and hostile to the people they encounter on the way, and even can kill people just by relying on suspicion, these are nothing.
In his previous life, Yang Junshan also followed the caravan when he was down, and he was very clear about the doorways inside, but Yang Junshan noticed the "these" in Shopkeeper Liu's words, so he asked: "Are there a lot of these people?
Shopkeeper Liu pondered for a moment and said: "Almost every time in the process of doing business, you can meet one or two on the business road, these people are very strange, they have always walked alone, and it is rare to see more than two people walking together, and many people are still barefoot, and every time they see them, they look dusty."
Shopkeeper Liu's chatter box opened, and when he had never closed before finishing, he continued: "But later it turned out that these people did not pose any threat to the caravan, but don't think that they can provoke wantonly without a threat, hehe, these people are not easy to deal with!"
When the Dao was not easy to deal with, a strange color flashed on Shopkeeper Liu's face, as if he remembered something, it seemed that Shopkeeper Liu had obviously suffered a secret loss under the hands of these Buddhist monks, otherwise it would not be possible to be so familiar with these Buddhist monks.
However, Shopkeeper Liu's words were not easy to deal with, which also made Yang Junshan suddenly think of one of the different types of Buddhist monks in the previous life, that is, ascetics!
Unlike other Buddhist monks who spread the teachings to develop believers and use believers' free offerings to hoard cultivation resources, ascetics regard suffering as a kind of practice, a kind of tempering of will.
But at this time, Yang Junshan thought of something again, and asked Shopkeeper Liu: "These ascetics are so weird, haven't they ever attracted the attention of the forces in various counties and towns along the way, and have they never come to check the details of these people?"
Shopkeeper Liu was stunned and said: "What's there to check here, everyone has their own way of cultivating, just like this kind of cultivation method of walking far away, the cultivation world is not without it, especially for some people who have special body training secret techniques, not to mention that this kind of walking on foot with the whole body is a kind of tempering of the will of the monks."
Yang Junshan blinked his eyes, not knowing what to do, and when he turned his head to look, the monk walked again after the caravan had completely passed, but the distance from the caravan was getting farther and farther until he disappeared at the end of the back road.
The last time they met, the ascetic with a sad face but couldn't see his approximate age was collecting several inhuman corpses that had been torn and bitten by the roadside.
When the caravan passed by, Shopkeeper Liu stopped and called a few guys to dig a pit with the ascetic to bury the dead.
"Hey, it was attacked and killed by a fierce beast," Shopkeeper Liu sighed and said, "In recent years, there have been more and more fierce beasts, and they have become smarter and smarter.
The expression on Yang Junshan's face was uncertain, and the demonic aura that haunted in the woods by the roadside that had not yet dissipated earnestly told him who the real beast was.
"Isn't it strange that the number of fierce beasts is increasing and attacking pedestrians on the road so frequently?" Yang Junshan suppressed the emotions in his heart and asked pretending to be puzzled.
"At first glance, Brother Yang, you are a person who has never traveled far, what's so strange about this barren mountain and wild forest, that is, we, the perennial merchants, the caravan running back and forth only noticed it, and then those beasts only haunt the old roads of the deserted mountains and mountains where there are few people, but no beast dares to approach the villages and towns where people live.
"Then you can report to Shao Zong and find out why these beasts have become so smart and why they frequently attack passers-by, is that okay?"
"Why do people help us?" The mockery at the corner of Shopkeeper Liu's mouth was no longer concealed: "The lives of us merchants are not worth so many jade coins, no matter how fierce a beast is, no matter how smart it is, it cannot become a human.
Yang Junshan was now surging with another impulse, he really wanted to tell Shopkeeper Liu loudly that the beast was not a beast, but a monster beast that had gradually opened up its spiritual wisdom, and when the monster's cultivation reached a certain level, it was really able to transform into a human, but at that time, the worst was the strength of the real human realm, so it was not a disaster that could be described.
"Okay, the bodies of these people have been buried, Brother Yang, it's time for us to hit the road too!"
Yang Junshan did not respond, but turned around and walked to the ascetic who was about to continue walking forward, clasped his hands together, and said: "Amitabha, the master invites you, I don't know what the master will call?"
The ascetic monk was obviously shocked by Yang Junshan's etiquette and words, and the sadness on his face seemed to have dissipated a lot, and he quickly bowed back and said: "Amitabha, the poor monk Jiahui has seen the benefactor, and he does not dare to be the benefactor 'master'.
Yang Junshan smiled and said: "Don't worry about this master, the junior just has a question and wants to ask the master, dare to ask the master what he thinks of this beast eating people?"
The Buddhist monk named Jiahui pondered slightly, and said: "Everything has a spirit, all living beings are equal, people are hunting fierce beasts, and fierce beasts also eat people, and the causal cycle of all things on earth is nothing more than this!"
"Hehe," Yang Junshan's laughter was unclear whether it was mockery or something else, he just arched his hands and said, "I have been taught, Master, we will have a time in the future!"
Only after the Jiahui monk stood in place and watched from a distance that Yang Junshan's caravan disappeared from his field of vision, and then slowly turned around and left.
What the Jiahui monk didn't know was that when Yang Junshan returned to the car, he saw Shopkeeper Liu and the others looking at him with extremely strange eyes, which made Yang Junshan feel extremely uncomfortable.
"Three, what do you mean?"
"The ascetic usually doesn't speak, many people who try to contact them think they are deaf and mute, and the old man also helped an ascetic by chance, so he opened his mouth to thank the old man, and it was precisely because of that time that I got to know them," the shopkeeper Liu said with a face full of incredulity: "Your son can actually get close to that ascetic as soon as he comes up, can you do it?"
Another martial artist cultivator surnamed Wei in the caravan also said: "Seeing that you and that person are extremely skilled in saluting and making incisions, you were very familiar with them before you felt your feelings, you are not kind!"
Yang Junshan hurriedly made amends and said: "Don't get me wrong, this ascetic is indeed the first time I have seen him, but I have seen some people who claim to be from the Buddhist clan, dressed very similar to the ascetic, but those people are eloquent and can often tempt others to become their believers, and then collect the material resources needed for cultivation from the believers.
"Oh, are those people Buddhist monks?" Shopkeeper Liu thought about it, but he didn't know that his "those people" were the ascetics he met on the road, or that he had also seen the missionary Buddhist monks that Yang Junshan was talking about.
After following the caravan into Yucheng, Yang Junshan separated from Shopkeeper Liu and others, spent a few jade coins to rent a puppet, and Yang Junshan walked towards the refining workshop set up by the Shao Sect in Yucheng.
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