Chapter 2 Waiting
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July is the annual time for immortals to come here to recruit disciples. July is the hot summer and the scorching sun is on the verge of the sun. Zhou Liang arrives in June. This is one of his plans. Come to the mountain city for a month in advance to avoid missing the days when immortals come.
I found an inn. When I only had three meals a day, a place to sleep, and only ten copper coins a month, the boss accepted him and asked him to help in the kitchen. Da Chu was war-torn almost every year, and the number of displaced children was increasing day by day. Because the mountain city is close to the mountains of monsters and mountains and the blessed place for immortals, the war is difficult to affect. If this is in Tokyo, it is impossible to just ask for food and clothing for three meals a day!
Zhou Liang is satisfied, really satisfied. For a beggar child, this will be the first salary in his life, and the first one earned by himself. Although there are only a few ten coins... The treatment of child labor is naturally not many good. Xiao Zhou Liang has to get up before dawn every day. In addition to washing dishes and doing odd jobs, he also has to go to the front to serve food and wine to greet guests. Although unpleasant things happen to guests, it is much better than begging. A ten-year-old child has been without a father or mother for eight years. For him, he can't remember his parents' appearance, but he has come to this day step by step with the desire to survive. What kind of perseverance is this?
Every morning, Xiao Zhou Liang would get up earlier, run to the Monster Mountains to check out, get familiar with the surrounding environment, but don’t go in, and know clearly that only hunters and immortals can gallop inside the Monster Mountains, hunters and hunting groups can only hunt first-level monsters, and only those teams with immortal cultivators can kill second-level monsters, and then use the killed monsters to exchange gold and silver with the government, and there are also merchants who specialize in purchasing!
The prosperity of the mountain city is full of traffic during the day, and at night, the lights and wine shops, various casinos, and brothels are noisy and hustle and bustle. Of course, most of the casinos and brothels in the mountain city are for those hunters. When the hunters work hard to risk their lives, some die, and some return to the mountain city, this kind of livelihood of gambling life has caused the big men who are used to life and death to hunt monsters to hand over the gold and silver they just earned to those gambling houses and brothels.
It is said that more than half of the gambling houses and brothels are opened by the prefect of the mountain city. Those hunting men often just came out of the Monster Mountains. Except for the seriously injured, others either entered the gambling houses or entered the brothels. They didn't come out for many days. When they didn't have much money left, they were driven out by the gambling houses and brothels, they also considered whether they could go in again. Even if they knew that the money to enter the Monster Mountains once was enough for them to settle down in any place outside the mountain city, get married and have children, and even become a small landlord.
Unfortunately, there are many people who know this truth, but few people who can resist temptation! Some people can survive once or twice in the fight with monsters with their strength and luck, but it is impossible to survive every time! Hunters have become the consistent team with the greatest mobility of the entire mountain city, because the burly man you see this time may never be seen! They will disappear in the mountains of monsters forever!
Over the past month, Xiao Zhou Liang has been cautious and worked hard to do his own thing. The first thing he did when he went back every night was to sleep. He said the next morning that he didn't think about getting up. However, when he thought of the Beast-Driving Sect, the largest immortal cultivation sect in the Great Chu territory, came here to recruit disciples, he couldn't help but feel excited!
The monster mountain range in the Great Chu territory stretches for thousands of miles, and there are several immortal cultivation sects. The largest beast sect recruits disciples in July every year. Others such as the Hundred Beast Sect, Xingjian Gate, and Binggu are all under the Beast Sect. The time for each sect to recruit disciples is different, so this is staggered to show the difference. As the largest immortal cultivation sect, the Hundred Beast Sect recruits disciples every year, the Hundred Beast Sect follows in August, and the Xingjian Gate is in every day.
In March of the year, Binggu recruits disciples in the cold winter of December every year. They are very particular about each other. The Hundred Beasts Sect is rushing to recruit disciples after the Beasts Sect. They want to recruit some spiritual root disciples who are not favored by the Beasts Sect. The Beasts Sect is rich and full of talents. Some spiritual root disciples such as the Three Spirits and Four Spirits Sects are not favored by the Beasts Sect, but the Hundred Beasts Sect is worthy of it, and it is already the best choice for them.
Xingjian Gate recruits disciples in March, just in the spring and summer, when the stars open, which is related to the nine swords of the Star Sword Sect's highest unique skills. The Ice Valley recruits disciples in December every year, and the snowflakes are everywhere in the sky, which is related to the ice valley's highest unique skills. If you can receive an ice spirit root disciple, it is a blessing for them. Unfortunately, if the ice spirit root disciple is rare in a century, you will definitely be taken away by the Beast Control Sect, unless the descendants of the Ice Valley go down the mountain to find it themselves, this chance is no different from finding a needle in a haystack!
Zhou Liang is in a bit of a state of Kanter now. What he is worried about is that he has no spiritual roots. Even the five spiritual roots that no one likes the most is willing. That means he can enter the world of immortal cultivation, but what if he has no spiritual roots? He has no spiritual root potential at all?
Yes, I was originally a beggar without a father or mother. It was normal for me to have a one-tenth chance to fight for this one-tenth chance. What if I don’t have a spiritual root?
Thinking of this, Zhou Liang began to worry about gains and losses again.
"Zhou Liang, you little bastard. I asked you to serve the food. Did you hear that, be careful of the salary this month!" The shopkeeper's scolding came from behind! Zhou Liang hurriedly came back to his senses and went to the kitchen to serve the food for the guests.
He was still thinking in his heart, what if he didn't have spiritual roots? Zhou Liang, who had been worried about gains and losses for a whole day, couldn't sleep at night.
Without spiritual roots, it means that I cannot cultivate immortality. I cannot cultivate immortality means that my long journey this year is unnecessary. I may still be a beggar in Tokyo. However, what Grandpa Qin and Grandpa Qin said still remember that Grandpa Qin is watching me in the sky! Now I still have ten copper coins a month, and my salary may increase. In the future, I can learn some skills of reading and literacy, and I can also take root in this mountain city or near me and marry a wife. It seems that such an ordinary life is good, as long as the war does not affect it... Zhou Liang thought about it and then thought it was open, and his expression became slowly and naturally. He fell asleep deeply, and there was still a lot of things to do tomorrow!
July 15th, this is the day when the Beast-Driving Sect recruits disciples in the mountain city every year. On this day, Zhou Liang used the ten copper coins he had just received the day before yesterday to buy a piece of linen clothes, and then waited hopefully. At noon, the prefect really posted a notice!
Zhou Liang, ten-year-old Zhou Liang, a two-year-old orphan, a five-year-old begging, and a ten-year-old child laborer waited for this moment for hundreds of thousands of miles, a year and eight months!
Chapter completed!