Just as Lu Yi thought, this was a brothel.
A secular world, an imperial capital, the most lively and prosperous area, the most magnificent brothel.
The brothel covers a large area, covering more than a thousand acres. The palaces, pavilions, carved beams and painted buildings inside are naturally needless to say. The room where Lu Yu is located is right outside the brothel, right next to the street outside. Standing on the corridor outside the room, you can directly see the bustling street outside.
It was the time when the full moon was at its highest, but the road outside, which was wide enough for 30 cars to drive side by side, was still bustling.
Lanterns of various colors were hung high on the various buildings on the roadside. Brothels, restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, rouge and powder shops, daily necessities, and all kinds of businesses were bustling with activity. Young men and young women were walking back and forth. Teams of warriors in armor were walking proudly on the streets, and cunning and sly-looking gangsters were sneaking around in every corner...
It is very lively, very prosperous, and the atmosphere of worldly life is extremely strong.
Lu Yi leaned on the railing of the corridor, holding a pot of old wine and swallowing it in big gulps.
He inexplicably thought of the capital city of Jishengtian Dayinhao, and of the tiger masters of the Hundred Tiger Hall who, under his command, worked hard to build the first street market with small blades and iron rods.
With the first street market, there were stinky tofu stalls, red oil wontons, brown sugar rice cakes, dandan noodles, grilled cold noodles, various kinds of meat skewers, and all kinds of strange and bizarre snacks that made people want to take out coins from their pockets.
Small businesses become big businesses, and sand piles up to form a tower, and water gathers to form an ocean. With a mountain of gold and silver, Baihutang started to trade in weapons and medicinal materials, the best steel knives, the best armor, and various medicinal materials to strengthen the body and replenish blood... As a result, Baihutang became stronger and stronger, conquered more and more streets, and gathered more and more money!
When Lu Yi's life was going smoothly, an inexplicable forced marriage plunged him into a bloody storm.
"Shock!" Lu Yi waved his hand and shattered all those old dreams.
Everything was gone like the wind. I don't know if it was decades or hundreds of years ago... Jishengtian, Yuanlingtian, Liangyitian, and Wushangtaichutian, the space dimensions kept rising, and all kinds of fighting and fighting kept intervening. Those past events seemed to have happened a long, long time ago.
It is clearly something that happened in this life, but it seems like something from the previous life, a little blurry and vague.
Instead, it was the things that happened in my previous life...
Haha, he was young and proud, and then he was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He lay on the sickbed and struggled to survive, but he saw the ugly side of human nature. He was still alive, but he was already busy fighting for inheritance... He was still alive, but in the hearts of some people, he was already dead.
Therefore, in this life, I don’t ask for anything else but to live longer and peacefully, and to be able to live well, freely and happily according to my own ideas, my own goals and my own thoughts.
I didn't expect that I would live to this day.
Downstairs, on the street, in the middle of the street, there was an extremely magnificent carriage, escorted by a dozen servants in brocade clothes and small hats, driving slowly. In front of the carriage, there were two official lanterns, on which were written the names of officials that Lu Yi was not very familiar with... But it was obvious that he was born into a wealthy family and held a high position. The carriages in front and behind all avoided this luxurious carriage.
In the carriage, a very beautiful young woman suddenly lifted the curtain of the car window and stared blankly at the side of the road, where a shabby-clothed scholar in a blue shirt was walking with a few companions among the crowds of people and cars, watching the excitement.
The two of them just looked at each other quietly, deeply and silently, in the crowd and the sea of ​​cars .
The luxury car continued to move forward.
The car window curtains were lowered.
Lu Yi looked through the solid carriage made of hardwood and saw the extremely beautiful woman crying silently.
He also saw that the blue-shirted scholar had red eyes, with a trace of moisture in his eyes that was imperceptible to ordinary people. He continued to chat and laugh with his companions, discussing the possible policy directions for the scientific expedition in a few months.
Imperial examination!
Policy discussion!
Examinations are a nightmare. From the Dayin Dynasty of the Supreme Saint Heaven to the unknown country of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, those secular scholars cannot escape the constraints of examinations.
The carriage moved slowly forward.
The scholar in blue robe walked leisurely in another direction.
In the crowd and traffic, the scholar in blue and the extremely beautiful young woman were like two small sampans in the tide of the world, pushed by the torrent of fate and heading towards their "destined" and unpredictable future that they were powerless to resist no matter how reluctant they were.
'Destiny'!
'Powerless to resist'!
The power to defy fate!
Lu Yu took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked into the depths of the endless sky. The giant dragon transformed by the avenue of power was more eye-catching in the sky of this secular world than in the sky of Yuncha Ridge.
Of course, it is invisible to the naked eyes of ordinary mortals, but Lu Yi can see it clearly.
An invisible net covers all the mundane passers-by in this world.
Maybe it's fate, maybe it's greed, maybe it's luck, or maybe it's disaster... All kinds of greed, anger, and ignorance, all kinds of worldly desires, based on various laws of the great way, have evolved into a colorful net, forming this world of mortals and covering all living beings.
And that big net, no matter what kind of destiny force or what kind of "power" it is, in the end, is somehow involved in the avenue of power.
In Lu Yu's heart, he had a deeper understanding of the avenue of "power".
'Strength' is definitely not just about swinging your fist to break someone's head, or swinging your sword to pierce their heart, or letting out a bolt of lightning to turn their mountain gate into ashes. Are these the manifestations of strength?
Not only that!
It’s definitely more than just that!
The Avenue of Power, in a more obscure, more sublime, and more bizarre way, reconciles, blends, brews, and ferments with many other great laws, transforming into all sorts of understandable and incomprehensible 'weird forces' that dominate countless living beings between heaven and earth.
Everything in the world is shrouded in "power".
This force can be space, time, the five elements, yin and yang, wind and rain, snow and frost...
"It's a really nice city, full of nice people."
Lu Yi thought about the young man in green shirt who was sad but forced himself to smile in front of his companions as if nothing had happened, and chuckled: "If King Qiu Gui is interested, why not help the couple? I think that with your management in this world, it would only take a word to accomplish that."
King Qiu Gui was dressed in a worldly robe, looking extremely ostentatious, like a large embroidered purse. He stood upright in front of Lu Yi with his hands behind his back.
Hearing what Lu Yi said, King Qiu Gui laughed: "What an interesting fake monk... How about giving me a reason? Why should I help them? Make them happy?"
King Qiu Gui smiled maliciously: "A few years ago, I was like a stray dog, surrounded and blocked by the army, and almost fell into death. It seems that no one thought of helping me?"
He pointed at Lu Yi and smiled: "Besides, you fake monk, you beat my two sons until they vomited blood! You embarrassed me in public! Two sons of the emperor, hey, you were beaten to vomit blood by a monk!"
Lu Yi smiled and nodded.
He raised his head and said quietly, "A long, long time ago, I was in a certain world... Well, I have forgotten what that world was called. I only remember that it existed in the form of stars and was mostly aqua blue. Perhaps, it can be called 'Blue Star'?"
"In that world, I am just an extremely pitiful and helpless... ant."
"But that world is wonderful. There are many people who are in love, talented people, people who are both in love and talented... They wrote many wonderful and beautiful sentences to express their emotions. I remember some of them."
"I am a shameless plagiarist." Lu Yi laughed loudly, and his laughter spread to the street below, startling many young men and women passing by. The next moment, a few beautiful words were recited from the mouth of Lu Yi who was clapping and laughing.
'Red tender hands. Yellow wine. Spring scenery all over the city. Willows on the palace walls. The east wind is bad. The joy is thin. A heart full of sorrow, years of separation. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Spring is the same as before. People are thinner. Red tears soak through the silk. Peach blossoms fall. The pool pavilion is empty. Although the mountain alliance is still there, it is difficult to entrust a brocade letter. Mo Mo Mo.'
Lu Yu has now broken through 480 million acupoints and cultivated transcendental power, initially breaking through the "scale claws" constraints of the cultivation rules of this world... His every word and action naturally exudes supernatural powers, not to mention that he has practiced Buddhism diligently and is now acting deliberately.
Countless men and women along the ten-mile long street all heard Lu Yi's chanting, and they all remembered it clearly in their minds, word for word, without any mistakes or omissions. Especially the original author 'Lu You', which radiated a dazzling golden light in everyone's mind...
For a moment, countless infatuated men and women had red eyes and confused hearts at the same time. They froze in place, all of them stunned.
A little later, several girls in luxurious clothes screamed and cried out at the top of their lungs, "Who is Lu You? I want to have a baby for you. Lu You, Lu You, you shameless heart-stealing thief, get out here!"
Lu Yi smiled, grinning from ear to ear, very proudly: "This is the ability of our ancestors!"
On the street, the poor scholar in blue shirt suddenly shook, turned around abruptly, panted, and ran wildly towards the luxurious carriage that had already gone far away, chasing after it wantonly. As he ran, he screamed at the top of his lungs: "Xiaoyuan, wait for me, wait for me, wait for me to be called by the Donghua Gate, and I will definitely come to ask for marriage!"
Lu Yi smiled at King Qiu Gui, who also had a goose-like expression in front of him, and urged him softly, "Go quickly, go quickly... Helping others to do good things should be a good story, and it is also a good deed... That scholar is talented!"
'Talent'!
King Qiu Gui's face twitched violently.
The talent of the Supreme Taichutian... hehe, the great way of heaven and earth was sealed by Taichu Emperor and several other emperors, and the laws of the great way were all within the network of laws they had drawn up.
Ninety-nine percent of the talent for writing and poetry was controlled by the people around and confidants of those great emperors.
Titles like 'The Immortal of Calligraphy', 'The Immortal of Poetry', 'The Saint of Painting', 'The Saint of Music', etc., they are the real 'immortals', the real 'saints', they have occupied 70% to 80% of the great way of calligraphy, painting, poetry and lyrics, and the inestimable wisdom of the Supreme Taichu Heaven has shared the remaining bit of talent. Therefore, just like the incident in the ancient city of Loulan in the lower world, a noble lady like Linghu Jun could only recite one or two lines of doggerel.
Moreover, it was a limerick of such terrible quality that it made one spit.
This is true for Linghu Jun. Ordinary people in the secular world, even scholars who specialize in studying, can all have profound skills in poetry.
Lu Fu's poem "Red and Tender Hands" was like a violent thunderbolt that stunned King Qiu Gui.
Prince Qiu Gui condensed the Dao Fruit of the Emperor's Seal, but he took the inferior path of 'Swamp Miasma'... He also liked to be pretentious, but the power of poetry and songs was controlled by the people around some bigwigs, and the level of the doggerel he recited was not even as good as Linghu Jun!
At this moment, this beautiful poem made King Qiu Gui's heart inexplicably soften for a moment.
He turned his head and waved his hand quickly at the dark corner at the end of the corridor. Standing in the shadow, waiting for their own father and Lu Yi to have a falling out, Shaoyao Jun and Yueji Jun, who were rushing up to beat Lu Yi, turned around and left in anger, leading a group of thugs whose weakest cultivation had also entered the realm of Great Heavenly Lord, and walked straight towards the blue-shirted scholar.
Two emperors' sons, a large group of heavenly kings and great celestial monarchs, went to matchmake a mortal scholar who had no accomplishments.
This kind of thing is the first time that has happened in the Supreme Taichu Heaven since the beginning of time.
"Interesting!" King Qiu Gui's expression eased a lot. He took two steps forward and came in front of Lu Yi. With a wine jug in his hand, he gently touched the wine jug in Lu Yi's hand, then took a few big gulps.
Putting down the wine pot, King Qiu Gui looked at Lu Yi seriously: "Who is Lu You? If possible, can you introduce him to me? How did he write such wonderful words? Could it be that he is a minister of the Wenhui Pavilion in the Heavenly Palace? Is he a civil servant appointed by the Great Emperor Taichu? But, it seems that there is no such person in the Heavenly Palace!"
Lu Yi just smiled and looked at him.
Lu You, what kind of person is he?
You ate an egg, which was very delicious and nutritious. You don't have to know the old hen that laid the egg, right? Moreover, even if Lu Yi intended to take King Qiu Gui to find the old hen, with Lu Yi's current cultivation, he really couldn't do it...
King Qiu Gui looked at Lu Yi expectantly.
Outside on the street, there were infatuated men and women crying and rushing towards the brothel, wanting to find Lu Yi who had just recited the poem. A large group of thugs from the brothel blocked the door, pushing and shoving with those men and women, and it was quite lively for a while.
Seeing that Lu Yi remained silent for a long time, King Qiu Gui could only sigh and shook his head helplessly: "You are a boring person. I don't know why those people in charge invited you here."
"Invite?" Lu Yi touched the back of his head. With his cultivation and his current physical strength, there was still a fist-sized lump of flesh swollen high on the back of his head. Lu Yi laughed strangely and said, "Your way of inviting guests is quite polite."
King Qiu Gui's eyes became very strange and a little dangerous.
The gaze that had originally become somewhat gentle because of the song 'Red and Soft Hands', now returned to its unpredictable and elusive state, as if filled with poisonous miasma in a swamp and full of dangers... Obviously, although King Qiu Gui has condensed the Emperor's Seal Dao Fruit, he is still at the level of being influenced and controlled by the 'Emperor's Seal Dao Fruit', and has not yet completely 'controlled the Dao Fruit with his true self'.
There is an uncontrollable flow of the Taoist charm from him.
Lu Yi noticed the change in King Qiu Gui's attitude, and he laughed: "It can be seen that you are also a grudge holder. Well, the things you did were not glorious... You colluded with the Linghu family and the members of several other families, poached your own father, and secretly and stingily got some resources to help yourself become an emperor..."
King Qiu Gui interrupted Lu Yi and said, "If it were me, I would not just hit you on the head a few times..."
Taking a deep breath, King Qiu Gui said in a deep voice: "'Dad'? Hey... poaching... hey... what do you know? If not for this, when will I be able to achieve the throne of the Great Emperor? With my talent, qualifications, character, and talent, if I..."
Pursing his lips in dismay, King Qiu Gui waved his hands vigorously, as if to throw away all the depression in his heart: "There is nothing to say to you, you don't understand anything, you don't know anything..."
Lu Yi immediately followed his words and said, "I don't understand, I don't understand, so I have always wanted to ask a question - you are the biological son of Emperor Taiyu. With the authority of the emperor, if he is willing, you can definitely choose a more powerful and potential path, and condense the Emperor Seal Dao Fruit more easily and obtain the position of the emperor. Why?"
King Qiu Gui's already depressed expression became even more gloomy, as if a thunderstorm was about to descend on a gloomy swamp that buried countless corpses... There were wisps of invisible and traceless cold water vapor floating out of his body, but Lu Yi could easily feel it, and the water vapor contained terrible toxins.
That was swamp miasma, mixed with countless rotten corpses, countless rotten plants, countless poisonous insects and snakes that reproduced and mated in it, spewing venom. All kinds of terrible things were mixed together, and it was a terrible poison that was generated after countless years of brewing and fermenting in the filthy mud.
Not only is it extremely poisonous, but it is also extremely filthy, and is most adept at polluting the soul and defiling the body.
Lu Yi frowned and took two steps back.
"King Qiu Gui..." A gentle voice came from the end of the corridor: "Let Master Fahai... Hee, let Master Lu Yi come over."
Over there, a palace lantern suddenly lit up, and the pale yellow light sprinkled down, illuminating a bright young girl in an aqua green dress, who had a literary and spirited demeanor and a bit of a lofty spirit.
The girl's hairline was a bit high, so her forehead appeared extremely broad. The light shone on her forehead, and it was bright and dazzling.
When King Qiu Gui saw the girl, the poisonous aura around him subsided immediately, and he said angrily, "Why is it so troublesome? Is this guy worth the leaders' energy and attention?"
Lu Yu raised his eyebrows. What King Qiu Gui said was not pleasant to hear.
Hey, he thought that he was still quite valuable. Didn't he see that Emperor Taiyu and Lady White both favored him? Although that favor came more from Yinyuan, having such a top-notch and wonderful sworn brother like Yinyuan also proved his own value!
Lu Yi smiled at King Qiu Gui and said softly, "You seem to have a problem with Emperor Taiyi? 'Dad'? Well, could it be that he is not your biological father? Instead, he is the enemy who killed your father? Tell me when you have time. I like to listen to people talk about their own grievances, joys and sorrows."
Lu Yi smiled and walked along the corridor.
King Qiu Gui put his hands behind his back and stared at Lu Yi's back with a stern look. After pondering for a long time, he shook his head and muttered in a low voice: "I still can't see why he is worth the efforts of the leaders."
After mumbling something, a hint of curiosity flashed in King Qiu Gui's eyes. He followed Lu Yi and came to the end of the corridor. There was no way out here, but with the green-skirted girl gently waving her hand, the lights flickered, and a section of the corridor appeared out of thin air. At the end, there was a red lacquered palace door, which was silently opening.
The girl in green nodded to Lu Yi, rolled her eyes at King Qiu Gui, and walked into the door gracefully. Lu Yi and King Qiu Gui followed closely behind, and as soon as they entered the door, a large area of ​​sunlight like water poured down.
Outside, the moon was high in the sky.
But in this portal, there is a complete landscape of mountains and rivers, with a red sun hanging high in the sky. In the blue sky and white clouds, several huge white cranes are slowly spreading their wings.
This is a small world filled with Buddhist charm.
Lu Yi closed his eyes and quietly felt the thick and tangible Buddhist rhythm that filled the void.
In my ears, there are evening drums and morning bells , and the atmosphere of the mortal world is rolling. However, the atmosphere of the mortal world here is very different from the atmosphere of the "end of the mortal world" in the great array of lust and desire that Lu Yi laid with the four pillars of heaven. The atmosphere of the mortal world in this small world is bright and agile, full of "positive and uplifting" atmosphere, and full of "magnificent and vigorous" vitality.
Lu Yi opened his eyes.
There is water on all sides and mountains and peaks in front... It turns out to be the remains of an ancient Buddha, sitting cross-legged between the sky and the water, with his hands in a seal, a look of compassion on his face and lifeless eyes, looking down at Lu Yi.
The surroundings were filled with blue waters, and it was a large lake. On the lake, white sails dotted the surface, and fishermen were casting nets to catch fish in their small boats. Someone even lit a fire at the bow of the boat, boiling a pot of fish soup that was fragrant and even floated with the wind to the small hill in the middle of the lake that was formed by the remains of the ancient Buddha.
Just like the Buddhist charm that fills this small world, this world is very vivid.
"The song 'Red and Soft Hands' just now was very good." A sweet and pleasant voice came from the ancient Buddha's palm. Lu Yi raised his head and saw several thatched cottages on the 'halfway point' of the mountain transformed from the ancient Buddha's remains.
A girl wearing a white feather dress with faint white-gold flames under her skin was standing on the edge of the Buddha's palm, looking at Lu Yi with a smile.
"Come?" The girl waved at Lu Yi.
"Come!" Lu Yi jumped into the air and stepped onto the Buddha's palm.