Immortals and Mortals Living Together

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Dozens of miles ahead lies the shady forest beyond the mountains.

Qin Yi strolled into the woods, looking at the scenery on both sides with a sense of amazement in his eyes.

This is an ordinary pear tree, and it's fruiting season. The pears on the tree are bright yellow and look very tempting. However, upon closer inspection, you'll find that all these pears are quite strange.

Some are inexplicably tilted, some are even upside down, and the shapes of the pears are bizarre and twisted, with no sense of regularity whatsoever. You can see some shaped like an "S" and others like a "B," and it's hard to tell whether they're pears or some kind of artificial cookie. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder would find it extremely unpleasant to walk through here.

Qin Yi casually picked a pear that looked slightly more pleasing to the eye, shaped like a buttock, and probed it with his Divine Sense. It was indeed an ordinary pear, without Spiritual Qi or toxins, and had everything an ordinary pear should have.

Qin Yi took a bite. It was a wild pear, sour and astringent, nothing special.

He shook his head, ate the pear, and continued walking.

The rules are too strange. If they are completely disordered, a pear should not taste like a pear. It might taste bitter or salty, but it still tastes like a pear in our minds. Even the medicinal properties of pears are completely consistent.

Perhaps, as Liusu said, what it looks like is merely a superficial perception. Its essence is a pear, and that is the core element.

As long as you grasp the essence, this place isn't much different from the Divine Continent. After all, it's still within this world, a region under the same Heavenly Dao rules. It's just that certain circumstances have caused local distortions; it's not like we've gone to a completely different world with entirely different rules.

It still depends on the characters; their thought processes are the key to this trip.

Qin Yi really hoped to meet other people before visiting Tai Huang Jun, so he could get a feel for the local customs and culture. He didn't want to end up feeling miserable after traveling hundreds of miles through deserted areas...

This is quite possible. In the Divine Continent, the area around a mountain range where a cultivator of the Radiant Sun resides is either a sect or Rogue Cultivator, and there may truly be no other human presence.

When Qin Yi passed through the forest and reached the mountain range ahead, he was dumbfounded.

There was a clear road between the two mountains, and at the end of the road was a city!

There's actually a city here!

From afar, you can still see cultivators flying in and out of the city walls... Is this a city where cultivators live?

Qin Yi cautiously approached, but people passed by without paying him any attention, treating him like an "outsider." When he reached the city gate, there was no one guarding it. The so-called gate was not a regular archway; instead, bricks and stones were piled up to form the shape of a smiling face, its gaping mouth serving as the door. It was somewhat eerie, yet also a bit comical.

Qin Yi entered the city gate with a belly full of ellipses.

The moment I entered, I sensed that there were many ordinary people around, the kind who had no cultivation whatsoever, setting up their own stalls to sell vegetables, and some people were cooking, with the aroma of food wafting through the air.

In this seemingly ordinary urban atmosphere, a cultivator at the late stage of the Qin Xin realm sat on a duck-shaped Law Artifact and slowly flew over the vegetable market.

The vegetable vendor was still cursing. "Stop pretending! So what if you can fly?!"

The monk casually plucked a bird from the sky, broke off its wing, and tossed it to the old woman. He then snatched a large cabbage from her stall, crunching it raw as he flew away, muttering to himself, "It can't fly now, are you satisfied?"

The old woman put the bird away and loudly proclaimed, "A bird caught by an immortal, ten taels of silver! Don't miss out if you want to absorb some of the Immortal Qi's aura! Who knows, eating it might give you Spirit Root!"

A passerby spat and said, "Who are you trying to fool? Maybe he'd cut off his own bird to eat."

Qin Yi: "..."

Turning around, I saw a notice flashing at the city gate, its Law Power breathtaking.

The Law Power light shone brightly, and the words on the notice jumped out and grew larger one by one, with sharp, powerful strokes that gave off a somewhat ferocious look.

"This city has only two rules: First, Iron Law: cultivators are forbidden from bullying mortals. If all the mortals die, the cultivators will also become extinct. You bunch of idiots, watch your step! Second, also Iron Law: cultivators are not allowed to fight in any form within the city. For the reason, please refer to the first rule!"

In this Land of Disorder, there are two "Iron Law"... It is chaotic, but in fact, it is orderly. However, if we are to talk about order, there seems to be no other restrictions or order beyond these two rules.

No, there are still basic social rules, such as trade, and at least among ordinary people there is silver as currency.

Qin Yi walked slowly along the road and soon saw the brothel.

It was evening, and the brothel was already bustling with activity. Passing by the main gate and looking inside, I could see the atmosphere of wine and flowers in the flower hall.

What left Qin Yi speechless was that he noticed one or two of the courtesans among them possessed cultivation abilities.

It was a very low-level method, more like a forced enlightenment through initiation, and it didn't allow for any further cultivation. It was probably a way to attract customers, unlike the way the girls in the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace Prostitution Sect it for cultivation. But this method was indeed effective; Qin Yi saw that the table was full of cultivators drinking and carousing.

In the traditional Immortal Dao, a cultivator who drinks and dine with women is hardly a cultivator at all... However, having been exposed to this kind of thing at the Ten Thousand Dao Immortal Palace, Qin Yi was much calmer about it.

The meaning here is different from that of the Celestial Palace; it roughly means that cultivation is done at will...

This kind of place where immortals and mortals live together is really quite interesting.

Further on, they came across a "Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion," its interior shimmering with light and exuding an ethereal aura. No ordinary people entered or left; only those with cultivation abilities. Qin Yi's heart stirred slightly; this was probably a shop Law Artifact. He could go in and take a look.

The first counter on the left after entering is the Cultivation Method cabinet, which is full of paper books. One of them has a store label at the bottom: "Our best-selling book". Upon closer inspection, the title is "Even Useless Spiritual Roots Can Cultivate".

The others are titles like "A First Exploration of Immortal Cultivation," "Do You Have Spirit Root?", and "Test Your Comprehension"...

"What the hell is this? Is it for mortals?" Qin Yi wiped away his cold sweat. How could this place be so cute? Is it really a place that "must never come to"?

"Of course, it's for ordinary people to see." A waiter hurried over from another counter. Seeing that Qin Yi seemed to possess cultivation, he said, "Sir, are you from out of town? You should go into the inner room; that's where you'll find what you're looking for."

"Let's take a look outside first, it's quite interesting." Qin Yi asked, "Is this where all mortals participate in cultivation?"

"If you want to fix it, then fix it. Whether you can get it to look decent depends on your talent."

"Don't you want to join a sect?"

"Sects?" The waiter hesitated for a moment. "The sects are all Demon Sect. Those who want to go can go, and those who don't want to go can stay away."

"Are all sects Demon Sect?"

"The Demon Sect only uses force, that's their only rule. What else can they do? How can Righteous Path that follows the rules establish itself here? Wouldn't it be better to go north?" The waiter suddenly realized, "Sir, you're from the north?"

Qin Yi simply asked, "So what's the rule between you and your boss? You work for him, and he pays you a salary, isn't that the rule?"

"So we're just mortals. Isn't cultivation all about escaping this humiliation? If I had cultivation, would I be like this?" The waiter looked at Qin Yi with disdain. "You're a cultivator, and you're asking this? I think your achievements are limited."

Qin Yi was speechless, then suddenly realized how damn reasonable it made sense. Isn't the purpose of cultivation to break free from the shackles and live a free and unrestrained life?

He thought for a moment, then asked, "Don't monks also have to abide by this Iron Law?"

"The higher one's cultivation level, the fewer rules one needs to follow. Those who cultivate aim for the day when they can establish Iron Law." The waiter's eyes grew even more disdainful. "Sir, you should go back to elementary school and repeat your studies. You've wasted your life, really."