Chapter 1389: Our past (1/2)

This sentence drew a roar of laughter from many tea customers. Everyone shook their heads and felt like You Rongyan, as if it was their great honor to beat the tax official of the court back.

While laughing, they cast a look of ”caring for mentally handicapped children” at Li Yao.

Li Yao had a thousand words in his stomach, wanting to deal with these long-term malnutrition, so he was black and thin, covered with scabies, described as wretched, and said to ordinary people who are completely two species from the cultivator.

However, under the gaze of their eyes, the thoughts went around for a long time, after all, they didn't know how to talk about it.

After leaving the tea shop, under the guidance of the teacher, he went to the local temple which is said to be very incense.

Along the Wujiang River, the power of the gods is extremely heavy and the incense is strong. There are many temples, Taoist temples and ancestral halls in various towns and villages, and even deep mountains and forests.

However, most of these theocracy incense is not the illusory gods and Buddhas, but the local sects, in the action of slaying demons and killing demons, the cultivators who sacrificed heroically.

It is said that after the death of a cultivator, a trace of heroic spirits will not die. As long as they receive incense to worship, they will still protect the environment and the people and protect the other side.

Therefore, after the death of Shiwumen cultivators, if the cultivation level and status are extremely high, they will build their own temples, even low-level cultivators with low strength will be attached to various ancestral halls, forever Enjoy the incense.

Every village here has more than one temple or ancestral hall, which is often the tallest building in the village. The blue brick mantle, stone lion bronze gate, and the nearby low and dilapidated mud shack are in sharp contrast.

In every temple or ancestral hall, the heroes of three or five cultivators are enshrined.

This is the most demanding thing. Every time a cultivator of Shiwumen falls, it will attract competition from all the villages and towns in Shiwumen. Everyone will come up with the most generous conditions, hoping to attract the heroic spirit to their own villages and towns.

How many heroic spirits are enshrined is a symbol of the strength of a village and town!

In the temple that Li Yao visited, a total of four cultivators were worshipped, including an elder and a head of Shiwumen. It is called the ”Four Holy Temple” and is said to be the largest one in Shili Baxiang. The temple, no wonder the villagers would say that the incense here is very strong and extremely effective.

In the Four Sacred Temples, there are four cultivators’ clay idols, painted with gold powder, and engraved in the dark, a few colorful and colorful amulet arrays that inspire glare, but there are also a bit of fairy aura, lifelike meaning, if the night makes ignorance When the villagers saw it, it was not surprising that it was a manifestation of a heroic soul.

There are also a few bronze medals, but they are engraved with the deeds of these cultivators, especially the reasons for their fall.

Li Yao took a closer look. The three cultivators all fell while fighting with the beasts in the mountains and forests. The head of the peak realm during the base-building period was chasing a powerful evil cultivator who had fled to the local area. Killed by the opponent.

These deeds made Li Yao not know what to say.

Cultivation sects obviously cannot live on the taxation of ten miles and eight townships. If they want to practice, they must hunt down spirit beasts and beasts in the deep mountains and old forests, obtain their flesh and blood, spirit pills and demon pills, and then dig them. This is where a sect is based on the emergence of natural treasures and crystal stone spirit mines.

Therefore, Shiwumen went into the mountains to ”slash demons and slay demons”, which is the need for the survival and development of the school, not purely ”walking for the sky.”

But from an objective point of view, it was indeed these cultivators who went on and succeeded for hundreds of years, not afraid of sacrificing to compete with monsters, ghosts, wolves, tigers and leopards for living space, and opened up a piece of land for ordinary people to survive.

When demons and tigers and wolves went down the mountain and raged, or evil cultivators from other places came in, the ”fairy masters” of Shiwumen had not been ambiguous.

Therefore, to ask the Shiwumen practitioners if they have contributed to the ordinary people in this area, Li Yao really can't say ”no” shyly.

”A Shiwumen cultivator who is so arrogant and arrogant towards the people today that he is dismissive and looks extremely abhorrent.”

”But maybe tomorrow he will enter the mountain and fight with the demons, unfortunately he has fallen!”

”Subjectively, he is of course purely for his own cultivation, collecting demon pills, animal bones, and various elixir. He has not considered the interests of the people at all; but objectively, he gave his life to protect the environment and the people. , Make a small contribution!”

”Is such an ancient Xiu a good person or a bad person?”

For a while, Li Yao couldn't think of the answer to this question.

What's more, did this ancient Xiu really have not considered the interests of the people at all?

Most of Shiwumen's cultivators come from Shili Baxiang and are natives.

Many cultivators’ eighty-year-old mothers and three-year-old children are ordinary people, and they all live here.

Once the fierce beasts and demons really raged down the mountain in groups, the families of these cultivators would also suffer annihilation.

When these cultivators are killing demons in the mountains and forests, do they really only consider their own interests, without any feeling of ”defending their hometown” in them?

People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless, how can we judge things in the world by simply ”right or wrong, good or bad”!

Li Yao secretly sighed and hesitated for a long time. Finally, as a modern cultivator, he gave a deep salute to the four ancient cultivators represented by these four clay idols, and yelled respectfully in his heart. A cry: ”Senior!”

In any case, these ancient cultivators represent the history of human civilization and the past of all modern cultivators.