Chapter 376: The First City on Earth
Chapter 376 The First City on Earth
Pretending to stare at the fake krypton gold eye between his eyebrows, Wen Rui led the team to fly along the traces of the golden mist projection.
After the seven fairies left the heaven, they flew to the lower world towards Mount Li. The team followed their path and soon saw the mountain that Wen Rui was very familiar with.
From the air, you can see the pavilions and towers scattered on the top of Lishan Mountain.
Along the way, the images captured by the time-travel camera did not show the fairies being attacked. If they had entered the Lishan territory, it would be impossible for any accidents to occur.
With the Mother of Mount Lishan in charge, even if the three Bodhisattvas, Guanyin, Manjusri and Samantabhadra, wanted to abduct people from Mount Lishan, it would not be easy. Even if they forcibly captured people, at least the Mother of Mount Lishan would notice it first.
However, just before entering the Lishan territory, the seven fairies stopped and started discussing in the clouds.
It was called a discussion, but the heated words spoken by several people made it look more like an argument.
The recording function of the time-travel camera was relatively weak, and the sound of the quarrel was recorded intermittently, and was interfered with by background noise, making it difficult to hear clearly.
Wen Rui used sound editing software to repair the sound and was able to sort out the general content.
The seventh of the seven fairies, that is, the seventh little sister who eloped with a mortal and gave birth to a child in the original plot, suggested that they had been to Lishan Paradise too many times and had tried all the entertainment activities available. The mortal world is so big and they wanted to go for a walk and take a look.
The eldest of the seven fairies strongly opposed it, and the remaining fairies were in a dilemma. Some supported the seventh sister, while others supported the eldest sister.
Deducing from the result, Wen Rui already knew that the seventh sister must have won the final victory in this argument, so he clicked fast forward and skipped this part of the argument.
Sure enough, after the debate, the Seven Fairies did not cross the border of the Lishan Mountains, but turned in another direction.
This also agrees with what Taibai Jinxing said about the Mother of Mount Li. When the Seven Fairies left Heaven, they registered as going to the Lishan Heaven and Earth, but they did not actually arrive there.
He turned a corner halfway and actually violated the ban, committed the crime of coming to the mortal world without permission, and ran away to the human world to play.
Tianshang Renjian has been in use for decades and has never lost a visitor from heaven. This is because there is also a strict management system for ordinary fairies who come down to earth.
Take the weavers of Tianyifang managed by Wen Rui for example. They have to travel in a team when they come down to earth. The female fairy captain who arranges and manages them often counts the number of people and strictly prohibits leaving the team without permission.
Under mutual supervision, the fairies arrived at Lishan together, and returned together after resting.
Once it is discovered that someone is missing, the leading female fairy will immediately notify the Mother of Lishan. The Hunyuan Golden Immortal will open the field of spiritual exploration, which will immediately cover an area of thousands of miles and will be able to find the person immediately.
The Seven Fairies were a special case. These Yao Chi fairies were of noble status, and the seven of them acted as a group on their own and were used to being free and undisciplined. The immortal officials of the South Heaven Gate and the patrolling taisui who were usually in charge of supervising them in the Heavenly Court did not dare to interfere.
In the parallel universe that does not exist between heaven and earth, these seven fairies are the most daring when it comes to taking a wild bath. They violated the heavenly rules and went down to earth many times without permission, but eventually they got lost after taking a bath.
The occurrence of this kind of thing was both accidental and inevitable. In the final analysis, it was still the old problem of the Heavenly Court of "asking what is happening in this country".
The Heavenly Rules are strict, but they are only aimed at the insignificant fairies with no background. Anyone with some background, even if it is a dog raised by a great god or immortal, will only be fined three cups of wine for seriously violating the Heavenly Rules.
As a result, even the Seven Fairies and other noble ladies did not take the Heavenly Rules seriously. Little did they know that for the weak, the Heavenly Rules were actually a protection for them rather than a simple restriction.
Wen Rui didn't care how rotten the heavenly system was. He put aside his distracting thoughts and continued to follow the traces captured by the time-travel camera, catching up with the seven fairies. Although the seven fairies did not climb Mount Li, they did not go far and flew to the large plain at the foot of Mount Li.
This is Wen Rui's territory, a special zone where humans and demons live together.
Not long after flying, a prosperous city appeared in front of us.
This city is the headquarters of Wenrui's Chamber of Commerce and the capital of the special zone where humans and demons live together.
The first primary school that taught the nine-year compulsory textbooks of Jiejiao was built in this city. Wen Rui also brought Cheng Ziwei to visit here in those days.
What Wen Rui didn't know was that Master Tongtian had also come here to inspect.
It has been nearly twenty years since the city was first founded. After decades of development, the town, which was already prosperous due to frequent trade, has now become a rare metropolis in the mortal world.
There are tall buildings everywhere in the city, houses are neatly arranged in an orderly manner, people flow around, and carriages and horses are everywhere.
The development of this city is far ahead of its contemporaries, especially the construction of urban infrastructure. It has fully realized the "three connections and one leveling" (water, electricity, roads, and level ground), paved asphalt roads, constructed reinforced concrete buildings, planned urban greening and beautification on both sides of the roads, and erected electrified street lamp poles.
From a distance, it looks somewhat similar to modern county towns.
Even though it is only a county-level construction, a modern small county with a population of hundreds of thousands would be a miracle city comparable to heaven in the eyes of ancient people.
You have to know that it is still the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The normal urban scene of this era, even in Xianyang, the capital of Qin State, except for a small area outside the imperial palace area and the aristocratic area, is full of shacks and earthen houses like a slum.
The roads were paved with loess, and when the wind blew, dust flew everywhere. In places slightly out of the city, the roads were covered with animal excrement.
The population of a big city in this era is no more than 10 people at most, and a small county town with a few hundred thousand people was considered a super city in ancient times.
A city like the Chamber of Commerce’s capital, with such complete infrastructure and orderly urban management, can be regarded as the number one city in the world.
Ten years later, when Wen Rui saw the city again, he couldn't help but sigh that with the help of Jiejiao's knowledge, the city was developing at a rapid pace. The changes were so great that even he, the founder, felt a little unfamiliar.
He could understand why the Seven Fairies would take the risk of not going to Mount Li and instead sneaking here.
It is daytime now, and the city scene has already had a great impact on ancient people. If you look here from Lishan Mountain at night, you can see the city night scene with neon lights. Such a beautiful scene is probably rarely seen even in heaven.
Presumably, the Seven Fairies saw the night view of the city from afar and couldn't help their curiosity and wanted to come here to explore.
"Wow! What place is this? Is it still within the Three Realms?"
Nezha, a child who had never seen much of the world, exclaimed: "How come I didn't know that after being in heaven for five hundred years, the human world has become like this?"
Although Princess Longji remained reserved and did not utter a word, her beautiful eyes revealed her inner unrest. Even though she was one of the most noble fairies in heaven, she had never seen such prosperity in the human world in her long immortal life.
(End of this chapter)