Chapter 211: Treasure Cart and Machine

Zhao Yu woke up at noon. When he woke up, Li Wuxiang had already rinsed his skin with water, applied some nourishing plaster to the exposed face, neck and hands, and then sat under the ancient pine tree in the yard to regulate his breathing. At the same time, he jokingly wondered whether a waiter from the Chenxiang Pavilion would knock on the door and say, "Hello, guest, would you like to stay longer?"

At this time, the door of Zhao Yu's room was pushed open, and her slightly panicked face appeared. Half of her face was bruised, and because it was still the end of summer, her hair was soaked with sweat and stuck to her cheeks.

Li Wuxiang was very familiar with the look in the eyes when he looked outside - it was the same look that a child would have when he wakes up from a nap and finds that school should have started at this time.

He smiled at Zhao Yu: "Are you awake?"

Zhao Yu quickly pushed the door open and walked out: "Brother...Master, I was a little tired last night. I'm not usually like this."

"I know, it's okay. Wash up, and eat and drink in my room. Eat and drink enough before you go on your journey."

Zhao Yu quickly went into the wing opposite. It only took him a quarter of an hour to finish everything from washing to eating and drinking. When he left the room, he was still chewing something and carried all the leftovers in the food box provided by the restaurant.

The two of them went out and walked to the front yard of the Chenxiang Pavilion and found five people already waiting there.

All these people were wearing tight clothes along the way, but they must have had a good rest last night, washed off the dust along the way, and changed into new clothes.

Especially Kong Jingci and Kong Jingyu - they changed into a sky-blue wide-sleeved Taoist robe with cloud-embroidered edgings at the collar and cuffs, and a snow-white undershirt underneath. They also wore a dark blue brocade sash with golden double fish buckles around their waists, and the treasure gourd was hung on two drooping green jade rings.

She had a single spiral bun on her head, a crown of agarwood lotus, and a gilded Tai Chi hairpin inserted on the side.

She wore light makeup on her face, a plain porcelain white base, with a touch of vermilion on her lips, and a pair of pearl earrings hanging from her earlobes.

In his previous life, Li Wuxiang had seen many women who looked very different after dressing up, but when he saw Kong Jingci at first glance, his heart still skipped a beat. Her appearance was originally only beautiful, but now that she was dressed up like this, she was as beautiful as a fairy, surpassing all the other beauties, even Zhao Yu was better than her.

When I took a closer look, I found that her makeup was not just ordinary makeup - the pair of pearl earrings on her earlobes must be some kind of treasure, emitting a very unobtrusive light. But just this little bit made her face look as if it was illuminated, appearing crystal clear and her skin as white as cream.

She glanced at Zhao Yu, then saw Li Wuxiang's eyes, and smiled slightly: "We are almost at the Great Tribulation Mountain. The road from here to the Great Tribulation Mountain is very lively, and the nearby noble families and sects will join in the celebration, so we need to dress up a little to avoid losing our dignity. Sect Master, you and Junior Sister Yu are so beautiful, so you don't need to dress up."

She was telling the truth. After coming to this world, Li Wuxiang was most confident in his own body, which saved him a lot of trouble. He smiled reservedly and said, "Then we can't travel on foot anymore?"

"No, no, just take a car." Tang Qilang replied, "My bastard junior brother took a car when he came here, so I seized his car and told him to go back. Sect Master, let's go outside."

After Li Wuxiang came to this world, he had seen a carriage in Jinshui - a large flatbed carriage. Later, when he arrived in Deyang, he saw a carriage with a canopy, which was very similar to what he had seen in movies and TV dramas before. Just by looking at the degree of bumps in the carriage when driving, he knew that it must be very uncomfortable to sit in.

So when Tang Qilang said "took a carriage", he thought it was similar to the horse-drawn carriages in Deyang. However, when he arrived at the carriage shop behind Chenxiang Pavilion, he really understood why Kong Jingci said that people here think that the places near the parish are "remote and poor".

The car he saw was very large and square, and its length was like a minibus he had seen in his previous life, and even its height and width were similar.

But the overall look is more like a square pavilion, with a wooden base and a wooden roof supported by low wooden walls and pillars. Because it is summer now, there are no window panels on the sides, but bamboo curtains are rolled up.

The car has three pairs of six wheels in total. The main body is made of wood, but the edges are not covered with iron, but a circle of thick black material.

Li Wuxiang frowned, walked over and touched it - it was really rubber?! At least it felt exactly the same!
Seeing that he was interested in the wheel, Tang Qilang seemed surprised. He walked to Li Wuxiang and was about to speak when he heard Li Wuxiang say, "Where did you get this thing? Was it passed down by Taiyi?"

Tang Qillang was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Master, you also know this? It was passed down by Taiyi, but not all of it - the sect said that when the Great Emperor was still Emperor Ye, he said that a kind of tree could be found overseas, and he also roughly explained how to extract the juice of the tree and how to make it. Our sect didn't really find that kind of tree overseas until a few years ago, and it took another sixty or seventy years to make this thing according to the method described by the Great Emperor." So Li Ye is really a time traveler.

He had always known about this, but it was only now that he felt he had finally found solid and irrefutable evidence. But by this time, he was no longer surprised.

Tang Qilang led them to the car, and Li Wuxiang found that the layout of the car was similar to that of this world. It was divided into two rooms, front and back. There was a small wooden bed in the back room, covered with bedding, which could be used for rest during long journeys. The larger room outside was a long seat against the wall like a pavilion corridor, covered with cotton pads, and a small wooden table in the middle.

After getting on the car, Tang Qilang told the driver in front: "Let's go."

The cart was still pulled by horses, three in total, one in front and two in the back. The cart was so big and there were so many people, Li Wuxiang was worried that the horses would not be able to pull it.

At first, the carriage did start slowly, but Li Wuxiang did not hear any creaking sounds, and the axles turned very smoothly. Then the carriage started to move slowly, and the three horses were not struggling much.

When driving on the cobblestone roads in the city, he could feel the road while sitting in the car - he could experience the feeling of the wheels rolling over the tiny bumps on the road, but the unnecessary bumps and vibrations were all eliminated, leaving only gentle ups and downs.

Once out of the city and onto the loess road, there were more potholes. But Li Wuxiang didn't feel the car was bumpy when running on this road - when it encountered a big pothole, the car body would lift slightly, and when it fell, it would be pulled immediately, without any unnecessary shaking.

Li Wuxiang was even more surprised at this time. He had driven many cars in his previous life, but even with the industrial level in his previous life, there were few chassis that could achieve this level. He couldn't help but move forward, sit next to Tang Qilang, and ask: "Are all the cars like this around here?"

Tang Qilang laughed: "This is the precious carriage of our Tiangong Sect. Do you feel comfortable sitting in it, Sect Master?"

Li Wuxiang nodded: "It's very comfortable. I can't imagine how much effort we have put in to feel this comfortable."

Tang Qilang still had a smile on his face, but he was stunned for a moment before he slowly let out a breath: "Sect Master, you... actually know this too? Oh, this is the first time I've met someone who knows this. Regardless of whether he knows this or not, he knows how much effort went into making this car!"

"To be honest, many people have ridden this car before, but unless they are from our Tiangong School, they would at most say it is 'quite comfortable' - but they would never imagine how much effort it takes to make it 'quite comfortable'!"

Li Wuxiang nodded again: "Then how did you do it? Was it also passed down by Taiyi?"

"That's not the case. It's the art of talismans and mechanical devices. This is the specialty of our Tiangong Sect. It's not that I won't tell you, Sect Master, but it's really hard to explain. Our Tiangong's mental methods are the most bizarre to practice among the thirty-six sects."

"Then what is your sect's treasure? The hammer in your hand should also be a real weapon, right? I remember that the sect's treasures of the thirty-six sects all seem to come from the same treasure, a dragon corpse, right?"

Tang Qilang smiled and said, "Yes, this one from our Tiangong School is actually refined from a dragon spine - a section of a dragon spine."

While the two were talking, there were other people passing by on the road, most of them were heading from Pingshan City to Dajie Mountain. They were dressed in fine clothes and riding horses, accompanied by servants, and some were driving carriages. Although they were not as exquisite as the Tiangong Sect's chariots, they were also decorated ornately, and had a sense of wealth and luxury.

After leaving Pingshan City, there are still trees planted on both sides of the road. The trees must have been there for many years, with lush branches and leaves, almost covering the sky above the road. The sun is high in the cloudless sky, and the sunlight is blocked by the branches and leaves, turning into spots of light that fall on the pedestrians, making the pedestrians look vivid and lively, as if they are going to Dajie Mountain not for anything else, but to attend the temple fair and visit the market.

Li Wuxiang looked at these people and slowly felt that he had indeed come to a normal world - the vast wilderness was no longer visible, and the people in the town were no longer struggling for survival. The place he stayed in before was for enjoyment rather than just to meet basic living needs, and the car he was riding now also contained rare skills and ingenuity in this world.

Compared to the vicinity of the diocese, this place is indeed much more prosperous, and it is the appearance of a normal world, with vitality and popularity. But Li Wuxiang also knows that this is almost entirely because of the swordsman - because there was a group of people who "encircled" the Xuan Sect within the diocese before, so that they could not care about places like this, so the thirty-six sects can live happily and leisurely in the heart of the Central Continent until now.

But now, the Sword Sect is declining again and again. Once this barrier is lost, there is no telling how long this situation can last.

(End of this chapter)

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