Tianbei County, mid-April.
The heavy snow covering the entire county melted away in just half a month, forming hundreds of large and small yellow rivers, flowing through the vast desert to the east of the Beize Kingdom, bringing life to the hundreds of thousands of people living in the tribes of Tianbei County. bring some life,
Under the cliff where Hanshan City is located, there is a wide river. Beside the rapid water, a large group of ragged survivors of the Nine Villages gathered together and were making a fire to cook.
This large group of people numbered quite a lot, nearly a thousand. Not far from this group of people, two figures, one tall and one short, were talking.
"God damn Gu Motou, he has tricked so many people in our Jiuda Village. One day I will definitely twist off his head and make it into a urinal!" The tall young man gritted his teeth with hatred on his face.
After this harsh winter, only about 7,000 people in Jiudazhai survived.
The Yan family has the largest number of survivors, with 998 people. This is the result of their efforts to protect their clan members.
"Naughty boy, don't dare to talk nonsense." The short figure on the side was startled and said in a sharp old voice, "The steward named Gu from the Xianhe Sect is a ruthless person. Our Yan family But I can’t afford to offend.”
"Then why, he killed so many of us, so we just let him go?" Yan Wan looked unconvinced.
Yan Wan is a mature young man, with a square jaw and ringed eyes, a face full of sinew, and a fierce look in his eyes. If a timid person were shouted at by him, he would probably be frightened to death on the spot.
"You're such a tough guy!"
The short old man next to Yan Wan took out a cigarette stick from nowhere, started smoking, and reprimanded: "If they don't come to cut the grass and roots, they will burn high incense. Why should I join in and seek death? Then Xian Is the Crane Sect so easy to mess with? What are you, a monk in the Core Formation Realm, you know? The ancestor of the Core Formation Realm could wipe out Hanshan City with just one finger!"
The tall Yan Wan wrinkled his nose indifferently and sneered when he heard the words of the short old man next to him.
"Are you from the Yan family?"
At this time, a young voice suddenly sounded from the side.
Yan Wan and the short old man turned their heads to look together, and saw a young man in black clothes appearing on their left side.
This young man is handsome and energetic, with a faint smile on his face.
"Your Excellency is a monk?"
The short old man frowned slightly and asked.
"I am Gu Qing from the Xianhe sect, the manager of the first-order spiritual vein here. I came here specifically to pay a visit. Thank you for meeting me."
Gu Qing gently cupped his fists.
Yan Wan and the short old man stood stunned on the spot.
"Haha... for a weak guy like you, you could be that Gu Demon?" Suddenly Yan Wan looked Gu Qing up and down, then raised his eyebrows and mocked with disdain on his face.
"I advise you not to talk nonsense about this kind of thing, otherwise it will be too late by the time you get angry." The short old man also reacted when he heard this and said with a displeased look on his face.
"What do you two think this is?"
Seeing the two people reacting like this, Gu Qing casually took out the big yue weapon and threw it on the ground. A big hole was made in the earth and rocks below.
"You are really..." the short old man exclaimed.
"Gu Demon! Take your life!" Yan Wan's eyes suddenly turned red when he saw this thing, and he rushed towards Gu Qing like a tiger.
Bang!
A black slap came down, and the huge force directly drove Yan Wan's entire upper body into the ground. A figure filled with black energy stood in front of Gu Qing.
This is exactly what Gu Qing has mastered after mastering the Corpse Control Technique, an iron corpse comparable to that of a monk in the late stage of Qi Refining.
In the Feilei Peak Small Five Elements Formation in Huaining County, under Gu Qing, who had used the power of the formation to reach the spiritual level of Qi Refining Dzogchen Realm, this iron corpse was indeed unable to help Qiu Wanli, but This does not mean that this iron corpse is weak.
At the very least, monks and barbarians whose combat power is below the eighth level of Qi Refining will only be beaten to death when faced with this iron corpse.
"The barbarian's training methods are a bit strange."
With a thought, Gu Qing manipulated the iron corpse to pull Yan Wan out of the ground. Yan Wan had a bloody head but was not seriously injured.
Looking at the expression of hatred, it was obvious that Yan Wan still wanted to scold him. Gu Qing simply controlled the iron corpse again and smashed the stupid man into the earth and rocks again, and then looked away.
The short old man didn't make any move, he just looked at what Gu Qing was doing with extremely complex eyes.
"You are a smart man." Gu Qing stared at the short old man and spoke slowly, "Take the rest of the Yan family to the outside of the Red Feather Formation. Don't ask why. If one person does not arrive, the entire Yan family will be affected." The tribe was exiled to the desert."
The short old man's breathing suddenly became rapid. He looked at Gu Qing, lowered his head and clasped his fists for a long time and said, "Yes, sir."
…
It was approaching evening, and the setting sun was like blood, glowing red under the steaming heat of the desert in the distance.
Outside the Red Feather Formation, the remaining 7,000 people from the Nine Dazhai were huddled together, with fear and hatred on their faces. Suppressed cries filled the surroundings, and unbearable roars could be heard from time to time.
Zhen Jiulong stood on his makeshift platform, wearing the same black clothes as Gu Qing, looking at the thick crowd below.
Why did Senior Brother Gu gather them here?
Zhen Jiulong had some doubts in his heart.
If Senior Brother Gu wants to kill them all, then why let these people come to the Red Feather Formation? But if it wasn't to kill them all, what on earth did Senior Brother Gu want to do? Zhen Jiulong tried hard to recall in his mind what Senior Brother Gu had done in the past two months.
Well……
For more than two months, Senior Brother Gu has been in seclusion deep in the spiritual veins. He has no idea what he did specifically.
"Quiet." The figure on the stage flashed, and Gu Qing, dressed in black, appeared, and all the sounds below disappeared instantly.
Seeing Gu Qing's appearance, the remaining 7,000 people in the Nine Great Villages even stopped breathing for a moment. At this moment, the sound of Chi Yu's whistling and wind outside the formation seemed to have stopped, leaving only a dead silence.
"Remember Gu's face."
Gu Qing spoke slowly.
His voice, which contained spiritual power, was so loud that it penetrated the mountains in the distance. Several monks who were observing secretly looked stern, knowing that Gu Qing's words were not just for the people of the Nine Villages.
"Gu is the steward of the Xianhe Sect's station here. The area of a hundred miles around Hanshan City can be regarded as our Xianhe Sect's station. You and other people from the Nine Villages used to take refuge in our Xianhe Sect's station. Not wanting to be grateful, I took the opportunity to attack the core formation of my Xianhe Sect's station and massacred two of my Xianhe Sect's disciples. I should have killed the entire clan as a warning to others.
Gu thought that all the culprits had already been executed, and after reporting the matter to the sect in detail, he fought hard for the lives of Paul and others. Finally, after several discussions with the 24 deacons in the sect and three elders in the foundation-building period, he decided not to do so. pursue.
Starting from this year, 70% of the spiritual stone supply of Jiuda Village will be deprived, and the nine families will be merged into one family with the surname "Yan".
Wait, do you have any objections? "
After Gu Qing finished speaking, no one in the audience spoke for a long time.
The people in Jiudazhai looked at each other, and after a few dozen breaths of silence, they started talking like crazy. Gu Qing ignored them and took out the futon early, holding the spiritual stone in his hand, and sat down to practice.
Zhen Jiulong was dumbfounded.
Why hadn't he heard about this decision within the family? Could it be that the family didn't inform him? Or is it that Senior Brother Gu made his own decision?
As expected of a evil star, this is too courageous.
Zhen Jiulong swallowed hard.
The discussion in the audience lasted for nearly two hours. As night fell, Tianbei County had a huge difference in summer day and night weather. From unbearable heat to cold enough to freeze people to death in just a few hours, more than 7,000 People finally discussed and came up with the result.
"I have no objection."
In the end, nine people who looked like old men stood up, with different expressions, ranging from hatred to happiness, and bowed towards Gu Qing on the stage.
The nine of them are the highest-ranking people in each of the nine villages, and they are all monks. One of them is a monk who has reached the seventh level of Qi refining. Even if he is too old, he is a genuine seventh level of Qi refining.
"Very well, follow me into the battle."
Gu Qing stood up, put the futon under his seat and the spiritual stone in his hand into the storage bag, and looked at Zhen Jiulong: "Junior brother Zhen, please record everyone's names and their relationships."
"yes."
Zhen Jiulong responded quickly.
…
More than 7,000 people followed Gu Qing and Zhen Jiulong into the Red Feather Formation, and were placed on a low mountain by Gu Qing.
The Red Feather Formation has a radius of two thousand feet and stretches for more than ten miles. Standing at the closest position to Hanshan City, you can see the dark red city under the night sky. Many people from the Nine Dazhai looked at it from a distance, and soon many people had their eyes filled with tears. Tears.
Hanshan City is located at the highest point of this mountain range. Further north is the cliff. It is a very special place. If it were not protected by the formation laid out by the Xianhe Sect, the winter would be extremely cold and the summer would be as hot as a furnace. It is said that ordinary people without spiritual power, even low-level monks in Qi refining, will have a hard time surviving there, and may even die of freezing or heat.
Gu Qing also didn't know why the ancestors of Jiuda Village and Xianhe Sect would build a city in that kind of place.
In the blink of an eye it was morning a few days later.
Gu Qing looked at the place covered by the red barrier in front of him with a strange look in his eyes. He was sitting cross-legged on a piece of grass. In front of him was the place where he was refining the Red Feather Formation. He controlled the formation through his spiritual consciousness. In the surrounding area covered by the Red Feather Formation, Within two thousand feet, the territory allocated to the people of the Nine Dazhai was 800 feet in radius. Allowing these people to live in the Red Feather Formation was naturally not out of kindness, but for other purposes.
He wants to use these people to refine people's desires and scatter them.
Let me ask, is there any emotion in this world that is stronger than hatred?
There is only hatred, but there is nothing you can do against your enemies.
Now the hatred of more than 7,000 people is concentrated on Gu Qing, which is perfect for refining human desire.
Gu Qing cannot stay away from the Red Feather Formation for long.
If the space of the stone tablet did not attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, this first-order spiritual vein would soon fall into the process of spiritual energy collapse again over time, eventually leading to the collapse of the spiritual vein crystal.
Therefore, if he wanted to refine Ren Yu San, he could only bring them to the Red Feather Formation, and there were only people from the Nine Dazhai nearby. Naturally, the more than 7,000 people from the Nine Dazhai became his first choice.
Gu Qing thought, and the spiritual power in his body moved in a very special way. An abnormal blush suddenly appeared on his face, and a bit of colorful smoke quickly emerged from the center of his eyebrows. This colorful smoke fell and was left empty by him. On the right palm.
Then he held his hands empty, and in the fire-colored barrier in front of him, streams of colorful smoke with more conspicuous colors converged towards his hands. This colorful smoke kept rotating, and soon condensed into a ball with a hint of blue. Turbid Qi, his expression moved slightly when he saw this.
Sure enough.
Now that the Akabane array has been completely refined by him, it is undoubtedly extremely easy to collect the desires of more than 7,000 people in the array.
For two months, Gu Qing did not leave this grassland.
During this period, Zhen Jiulong came to see him once and asked him if he would teach the people of the Nine Villages the secrets of entering and exiting the Red Feather Formation.
He asked Junior Brother Zhen to bring the few remaining monks and barbarians from Jiuda Village. Now there were only eleven monks and barbarians in Jiuda Village. He planted these eleven people separately. After breaking the restriction of spiritual consciousness and controlling their life and death, he taught them the secrets of entering and exiting the Red Feather Formation. After that, he clearly felt that the hatred of the people from Jiuda Village was much less.
Perhaps, everything has an expiration date.
In the blink of an eye, Gu Qing has been here for half a year.
On this day, he stood up on the grass and threw a few dust removal techniques to clean up the dirt on his body. He held the small blue flag in his hand with a slightly complicated look in his eyes.
"The middle-grade magic weapon has reached its limit."
His consciousness penetrated into the small banner, and he saw that in the churning light blue mist, the hundreds of remnant souls who originally had sex under the colorful mist had gotten rid of that strange state and fell into another extreme. The faces of these hundreds of remnant souls were all distorted at this moment, and their eyes showed overwhelming hatred. As soon as his consciousness came into contact with this hatred, his eyebrows felt a slight sting, and his eyes felt black.
Gu Qing withdrew his consciousness and rubbed the center of his eyebrows. This Desire Soul Banner could no longer rely on the Human Desire Dispersion to improve its level.
The Desire Flag was the name he gave to this little flag.
