Early the next morning, the owner of the house told Qi Xuansu that Qi Niang had left.

Qi Xuansu was not surprised. Qi Niang had always been elusive and had no trace of coming and going. After breakfast, he also left this contact point and prepared to go to the Taoist ancestral courtyard.

The ancestral temple of Taomen is located in West Kunlun.

Kunlun is the ancestor of all mountains and the origin of the dragon vein in the world. It is located at the end of the Western Regions west of Liangzhou, and is tens of thousands of miles away from Huainan Prefecture where Qi Xuansu is now located.

It will take at least a few months to go back and forth from Central Plains to Kunlun. It is extremely inconvenient. Moreover, the road is full of desolation and sleeping in the open air. Many disciples of Taoism regard returning to the ancestral court to report their duties as the first kind of hard work.

Taoist sect was inspired by this and added flying boats in various places.

As the name suggests, the so-called flying boat is a large ship that can travel on the sea of ​​clouds. The manufacturing process is very cumbersome. It is said that the skeleton of the dragon is used as the dragon bone of the ship, the dragon ball is used as the driving force, and the various talisman formations can make the big ship leave the ground and fly in the sky like a dragon. Therefore, the flying boat is also called the dragon boat.

After having the flying boat, it only takes one day and one night to travel from all over the place to Kunlun.

For this reason, the Taoist sect hunted and killed dragons, causing dragons in the near sea and rivers and lakes to flee to the sparsely populated distant seas, which are now hard to see.

There are now twenty flying boats in the Taoist sect, and each flying boat can be carried by a hundred people. Due to the limitations of shifts and number of people, non-Dao disciples cannot take a flying boat, and even Taoist disciples cannot take a flying boat for free.

The dragon is watery, and the dragon ball needs to draw water to supplement its own consumption. If it is on a sea with rich water vapor, the flying boat will be like walking down the wind and consume very little. If it is on arid land, the water vapor is thin, the flying boat will be like walking against the wind and consume very much. Kunlun is located in the northwest inland and has few water vapor. In order to ensure that the flying boat can reach Kunlun smoothly, the water vapor of the dragon ball must be supplemented with "Xuanhuang".

The so-called "Xuanhuang", "The Nine-Dao Shendan Jingzhi" says: "Take ten kilograms of mercury and twenty kilograms of lead, put it in a caldera, and fire it under it fiercely. The lead and mercury spit out its essence, and it is purple, and it is connected with an iron spoon, and it is called Xuanhuang."

"Xuanhuang" belongs to metal, and gold produces water, so it becomes the "supplement" of dragon balls and the fuel of flying boats.

The Daomen has a Xuanhuang Department that specializes in refining "Xuanhuang" to maintain the operation of the flying boat. Many Dao people are engaged in this type of business. Each person's monthly wage is three yuan, and a year is thirty-six yuan. According to the expenses of ten yuan per family of three, it can not only support their wives and children, but also have a surplus of more than twenty yuan. It can be said that it is extremely generous.

Xuanhuang Department has more than 1,000 Taoist citizens, and the labor expenditure is nearly 40,000 Taiping money every year.

The price of raw materials is not cheap, and it is not considered the consumption of lead and coal sinter oil for the time being. You can buy six kilograms of mercury for a round of 1000 kilograms of mercury, and you can make one kilogram of "Xuanhuang". It costs about 1,800 kilograms of "Xuanhuang" to travel back and forth on a flying boat.

Because of this, the price of riding a flying boat is quite expensive. Each person costs 100 yuan per trip. You can only ride for free unless you have official duties and hold relevant certificates.

Qi Xuansu has no responsibilities. If he wants to take a flying boat, he must spend 100% of Taiping to buy a boat ticket. If he is reluctant or short of money, he can only rush to Kunlun by land and may not be able to arrive in time before August 15th.

After thinking a few times, Qi Xuansu still reluctantly decided to take a flying boat to Kunlun ancestral courtyard.

Another thing is that flying boats are not available at all times. Only on the first and fifteenth day of every month will there be a flying boat to Kunlun ancestral courtyard. If you miss it, you will have to wait for half a month.

Today is July 13th, and there are only two days left before July 15th.

Fortunately, Huainan Prefecture is the capital of a state. There is a flying boat port on Taiping Mountain outside the city. It is not far away, only half a day away.

Qi Xuansu did not dare to delay and immediately left the city and headed for Taiping Mountain.

Although Qi Xuansu has never been to Taiping Mountain, Taiping Mountain is not difficult to find. In addition to its function as a Feizhou Port, it is also located in the Luzhou Dao Mansion, and there is a second-rank Taiyi Taoist priest in charge.

Taiping Mountain is surrounded by mountains, and stone steps are built from the foot of the mountain to the hillside. After Qi Xuansu came to Taiping Mountain, he climbed up the stone steps in the mountains. After walking for about an hour, he could see a vaguely scattered terraces with clear layers. From a distance, it looked like steps built for gods and men in the sky. At this time, many people were burying and working in the terraces.

After walking for another journey, the mountain road gradually became steep and undulating, and finally came to a cliff under a cliff. There was a huge hanging basket, almost the size of an ordinary carriage. An iron lock was connected above the hanging basket, leading up to the vast clouds.

There is a huge cross-shaped mechanism next to the hanging basket, which requires two hands to pull. There is a ninth-grade Taoist priest guarding next to the mechanism.

After Qi Xuansu showed his certificate, he walked into the hanging basket. The ninth-grade Taoist priest next to him pulled the mechanism. Then he heard the "kaka" sound of the mechanism. The hanging basket began to slowly rise. It turned out that there was a noose winch on it, and he twisted the hanging basket up.

The hanging basket couldn't stop rising. Qi Xuansu looked up and saw white mist. After a while, he could see clouds floating past his head. After a while, he entered the clouds and mist and looked down, but he saw a vast white area and could not see anything.

After a long time, the hanging basket stopped. When I arrived at the top of the mountain, the first thing that caught my eye was a huge archway made of white jade. The four golden characters "Tai Ping Wu You" on the archway were shining with golden light in the sun.

When ordinary people see it, they actually make the names of Jinyuan and Yinyuan a archway. However, those who know the inside story will not think so. They only think that the Taoist sect is so grand, because the names of Jinyuan and Yinyuan are obtained from this archway. It can be said that there was first this archway, and then there were Wuyou Money and Taiping Money.

Not far from the archway is a giant wheel, ten feet high, slowly turning and flowing. The giant wheel is connected to many long mechanisms, Qilin arms, and I don’t know where to go.

This is the first time Qi Xuansu has been here, and she feels extremely shocked.

The top of the mountain is the same as below, and there is also a cross-shaped mechanism next to the huge winch, and there is also a ninth-grade Taoist priest standing. It is no wonder that he saw Qi Xuansu like this, and introduced: "That is the Heavenly Mechanical Wheel, and Dao Brother can only sit on the hanging basket. It is because of this thing that there are nine Tiangang Wheels in the mountain, which maintain the operation of the entire Taiping Mountain."

Qi Xuansu has some inexplicable understanding of the word "running". He only has the word "running". Of course he knows what it means. As the saying goes, "the sun and the moon move, one cold and one heat", it means running over and over again, but mountains are dead objects, and they cannot move like the sun, moon and stars. How to run?

But he didn't want to show his timidity, so he didn't ask deeply, and continued to move forward.

After passing the archway, there is a straight stone road, and then there is an extremely long staircase.

When he approached, Qi Xuansu suddenly realized that these steps made of unknown materials could move, and they were divided into two parts, moving upwards on the left and downwards on the right. As long as he stood on the steps, he would not have to take steps, he would go up and down with the steps under his feet. From below the steps, a clear "kick" sound came. Qi Xuansu looked carefully and saw that gears were rotating continuously through the gaps between the steps.

Qi Xuansu was even more surprised.

These steps are actually alive? It is also because of the Heavenly Mechanism Wheel?

In a blink of an eye, the steps have reached the end. There is a magnificent palace, three feet high, carved beams and painted roads, with white as the main color, like a palace in the sky. There is a huge sundial and a huge drip on the left and right sides of the door to calculate the time. Entering the palace, paving the ground with black marble, like a mirror, can reflect human figures.

Qi Xuansu accidentally looked up and saw that the dome of the palace was actually a star map. I don’t know what material it was. The stars of all sizes not only emitted a faint light, but also were slowly moving according to some law. It was daytime and it was not obvious. If it was night, I don’t know what a magnificent scene it would be.

At this time, Qi Xuansu seemed to have entered the palace and felt dazzled.

No matter what, Qi Xuansu, a seventh-grade Taoist priest, has seen some worldly appearances. Even so, it can be imagined that if an ordinary person came here, he would definitely think that this place was a fairyland in heaven. No wonder some people called the Taoist ancestral courtyard as the Baiyujing in heaven.

Qi Xuansu calmed down and looked around. He found a counter made of black marble not far away, and walked over quickly.

A beautiful girl standing behind the counter, also a ninth-grade Taoist priest, saw Qi Xuansu showing her certificate and asked with a smile: "Is this fellow Taoist going to Kunlun ancestral court?"

Qi Xuansu had already put the prepared large ticket in his sleeve bag. At this time, he slowly took out a large ticket with a faint ink fragrance and said in a deep voice: "A ticket to the ancestral courtyard."

"Okay." The lady crown took the official ticket with a denomination of 100 yuan, and skillfully took out a special jade plaque and handed it to Qi Xuansu. "Please go to the back hall to wait for the flying boat. When boarding the boat, please show the Taoist's plaque and this jade plaque."

Qi Xuansu took the jade plaque and looked through it. There was nothing surprising. It was just that the number "Sixty-three" was embossed on the front, which meant that Qi Xuansu was the sixty-third person who wanted to take this flying boat.

Qi Xuansu put away the jade token and walked towards the back hall in the direction of the female crown finger.

When I arrived at the back hall, I suddenly realized.

The entire wall facing north of the aft hall is not a brick and stone structure, but is replaced by western glass, and the situation outside the hall is clearly visible.

I saw a lake outside the hall, shining colorful light in the sun.

In the hall were cushions arranged in fixed arrangements like chess boards. At this time, many people were sitting in groups of three or three, all Taoist disciples, most of them were sixth-grade Taoist priests and fifth-grade Taoist priests, and there were several fourth-grade Taoist priests. However, seventh-grade Taoist priests like Qi Xuansu are rare. After all, one hundred flat money is not a small amount. With the wealth of seventh-grade Taoist priests, it is not so luxurious.

However, no one dared to underestimate Qi Xuansu. The seventh-grade Taoist priest who could take out 100 Taiping Money to ride a flying boat went to Kunlun ancestral courtyard again, and most of them had a good background.

Many people just glanced at Qi Xuansu, then closed their eyes again and calmed down.

Qi Xuansu sat cross-legged in an inconspicuous corner, closed her eyes and rested, waiting for the flying boat to arrive.

For congenital people, meditating for two days without eating or drinking is not difficult.

After a day passed, I suddenly heard someone say, "The flying boat has arrived."
Chapter completed!