In the city, Li Qiang flew several miles with his sword and arrived above the city lord's mansion in the city.
This is the place where the blood evil aura is the strongest. He doesn't even need his heavenly eyes, but he can feel the terrifying aura here from a long distance away.
"What a huge evil spirit, this is..."
You want to observe the appearance of the city lord's palace below, and you see that in addition to the strong blood evil air hovering here, there is also a suffocating evil spirit remaining.
These demonic auras were mixed with the blood evil aura and were constantly floating in the city lord's palace, seeming to form some kind of formation.
"Just the remaining demon energy has such a huge power. The one who was here must be a big demon, and its strength is likely to be above the Nascent Soul stage!"
Li Qiang was shocked. He didn't expect that this group of rebels not only colluded with the demon clan, but also had such a powerful presence among them.
He carefully looked at the formation below in the air, secretly guessing that the people in the city died so miserably because they were used as sacrificial materials by this formation, and the essence and blood in their bodies were extracted alive. No wonder Death is so painful.
"Using such a vicious formation to sacrifice the living people of the city, such monsters must not be allowed to stay!"
Li Qiang's heart was filled with anger.
"Wait a minute, why is there a gap in this formation?"
While observing, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a missing piece in the center of the formation, which seemed a little out of place.
Yu Jian flew down, and Li Qiang planned to find out.
There was an open space in the center of the formation, and an altar was erected on the open space. The altar was made of black stone, with a small bulge in the center.
Li Qiang came to the protrusion and found that the thing was larger than he had imagined when he saw it in the sky.
It was a square platform that was as tall as one person, and it was as big as an entire room in an ordinary house.
There were traces of cracks on the top of the square platform. Li Qiang was curious and pointed with his finger. Unexpectedly, the entire square platform, which weighed tens of tons, turned into ashes in front of him in the next second.
"Is this... the breath after a lightning strike? Have you ever been struck by lightning...?"
He noticed the different traces here, but he felt a little incredible. If it was really lightning, what kind of lightning could cause such an effect?
"Is it... thunder tribulation?"
Li Qiang was shocked. It was probably only the thunder from the sky that could split the entire square platform into this shape.
Then he discovered something else interesting nearby.
"Are these blood stains and bone fragments?"
It's not unusual to see blood stains. After all, the blood essence of the entire city's residents was collected during this discount, but those ancient counties made him feel that they appeared out of time.
"Is it possible that the monster not only picked the best but also collected human bones? Impossible, the corpses are all lying in the city. These bone fragments must come from some other place."
Li Qiang thought about it for a while, but couldn't find the answer for the time being.
There was still too little information to analyze, and he felt he needed to go to the next city to check it out.
But with this monster's methods, I am afraid that the next city will be a miserable scene for the human world. He really can't imagine how he will feel when he sees that scene.
But no matter what, after this investigation, Li Qiang still had a clue.
According to common sense, this monster has set up such a large array and sacrificed so many humans. It must not be just for fun. It actually has its own purpose.
And this kind of purpose, after thinking about it, is nothing more than two.
This guy is either absorbing a large amount of human blood essence to improve his strength, or he is using this blood essence to refine magic weapons.
Li Qiang feels that the first option is more likely. After all, using this method to improve strength is a common method used by many demon clans. He has seen a lot of this in his travels in the past few years, and he doesn't think so. Strange.
Generally speaking, the strength of such demon clan will increase very quickly, even faster than that of cultivators like them.
But this also has a disadvantage, that is, when passing through the heavenly tribulation, you will suffer a more violent blow from the heavenly tribulation, so you must have stronger strength to resist it.
"Stronger strength...could it be said..."
Li Qiang couldn't help but move slightly when he thought about this.
"This monster has killed millions of people on the battlefield and absorbed so much blood essence. It should not need to continue to improve its strength in a short time... And the reason why it has refined the humans in this entire city must be There are needs in other aspects..."
"In other words, it is really using these evil spirits and blood to cultivate magic weapons!?"
Li Qiang instantly felt that he had guessed the key point, and the probability of the second possibility rising sharply.
Coupled with the bone fragments found at the scene, he was now almost certain that this monster must be commemorating some kind of evil magic weapon, and the purpose was probably to enhance its own strength.
"No, we have to go to the next place quickly. If the strength of this monster has already broken through the current realm, then it's okay. If it is preparing to break through, then it will definitely use these magic weapons to fight against the catastrophe!"
Li Qiang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he thought of the demon clan's unscrupulous ways of overcoming the tribulation.
Because the catastrophe encountered by these monsters who have done too much evil will be very severe, they will also prepare a large number of magic weapons during the confrontation, and if they want to practice each of these magic weapons, they may have to sacrifice an entire magic weapon. city of humanity.
If the other party needs it, they will even use the blood and resentment of the people in the city to set up a large formation during the tribulation, so that more innocent people will lose their lives.
Li Qiang couldn't care less when he thought about it. The remaining evil spirit in the city was gone, and he immediately set off for the next city. The top priority now was to find and stop the monster. As for the evil power remaining in this dead place, he could only wait for it. Let’s talk about it later.
He flew all the way in the southwest direction. The closest place to Changliu City was a small city called Fengyang County. It was only forty miles away from Changliu. Although Li Qiang had never been there, he had seen the inside of the sect. Based on the Kan map, you can roughly know the direction. It is not difficult to find this county town.
However, just like before, when he rode the flying sword to the sky above Fengyang County, he was still shocked by the bloody scene in the city.
"Damn monster! Sure enough, it also attacked here!"
Li Qiang was shocked and angry. He had no time to investigate further and immediately headed to the next area without stopping.
Taiyuan City, the same!
Lingju City is the same!
Yiwang City, the same!
Sancai City, the same!
…
Seven or eight cities in a row, each one suffered a vicious attack, and no one survived!
The big demon used cities as an array to sacrifice living beings and help it refine magic weapons. More than ten cities have been destroyed in its hands.
Although these cities are not big, with a combined population of only one million, which is equivalent to a Hanyue city, the sight of these human lives is shocking to Li Qiang.
He really didn't expect that this world had just revived spiritual energy and monsters had appeared not long ago, but human cities had already been so destroyed.
Thinking of the secrets circulated within the sect, which were rumors about the "immortal disaster" in the past, and the reason why the emperor banned the appearance of monks, Li Qiang couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart.
Originally, he thought that the little emperor was too nervous, but after seeing the tragic situation in those cities today, he realized that the other party's behavior was indeed justified.
Although the big demon was not a human cultivator, through this incident he could see the overwhelming strength of the cultivators when facing mortals.
There are not bad people in the human race. Once these people embark on the path of immortality, who can guarantee that they will not do similar things.
Among so many monks, as long as one or two are such evil demon cultivators, the disaster they will bring to the mortal world will be immeasurable.
"No! I will never let them succeed! I must punish these monsters!"
Li Qiang's eyes were red and he continued to move towards the next city.
He had already figured out the strange behavior of this monster. From the looks of it, it should be heading all the way towards the capital where the emperor was. Judging from this guy's posture, he should be planning to fight all the way to the imperial city.
In the imperial city at this moment, Emperor Jingxuan of the Dafu Dynasty also received news that dozens of cities had been captured. Even if the speed of news dissemination in this era lagged behind, he should have gotten some news by this time.
Although Jingxuan didn't know yet about the fact that all the people in the city were being refined with monster blood, he did learn about the corpse puppets from the soldiers who survived to retrieve them.
Those corpse puppets are numerous in number, all of them are ferocious, move fast and powerful, and even the masters on the world ranking list are no match for them, they are extremely vicious.
And what shocked Jingxuan the most was that there were more than 100,000 of these monsters. With such a number of monsters rushing onto the battlefield, it was no wonder that his army of one million people would be slaughtered in two days.
"Your Majesty, the rebels are coming in force. They are obviously coming straight for you. I ask your Majesty to leave the capital first and find a safe place before commanding the battle!"
In the main hall, a gray-haired old general pleaded with his fists clasped.
Jing Xuan's face turned green and red.
Running again!
The last time he had a conflict with the Tianyuan Sect, he had already left the imperial city and ran away. This time he was fighting with Jing Heng, would he have to flee again?
Even though he was an emperor who knew how to distinguish between facts, he couldn't help but feel angry at this moment.
"Are these monks and monsters really insurmountable? If this is the case, then my country is not mine after all!"
He slapped the dragon chair hard and walked back and forth in the hall angrily.
Upon seeing this, all the ministers of His Highness bowed their heads and did not dare to say anything.
"Your Majesty, at this moment, the situation is urgent and you must not act on impulse!"
The old general quickly warned.
"As for the demon army brought by Jing Heng, I think that your majesty can ask the Tianyuan Sect for help. These days, the imperial court's Chief Tianjian and the Tianyuan Sect have been communicating with each other. Your Majesty might as well arrange for an envoy to contact the Tianyuan Sect's Immortal Chief, so that It seems more appropriate for them to deal with these monsters and monsters.”
The words of the old general were immediately supported by the ministers. After all, professional people do professional things. The fighting and killing in the world of immortality is naturally best left to the immortal cultivators.
"Si Tianjian..."
Jing Xuan looked slightly hesitant.
Si Tianjian was originally an institution used by the imperial court to observe astronomy and calculate the calendar. Although it originally had responsibilities such as offering sacrifices, worshiping gods, measuring feng shui, and determining dragon veins, after Jingxuan abolished the Taoism, Si Tianjian was left empty-handed. Apart from calculating the calendar, there is almost no other job.
But now, after the last incident in Hanyue City, Jing Xuan acquiesced to the revival of Taoism, and Si Tianjian's power was gradually returning. Later, they were even responsible for the contact with Tianyuan Sect. Mr. Pei The precious tea that Liu drank in Tianyuan Mountain before was given by Si Tianjian.
Although Jing Xuan was very reluctant to do this, it seemed that this was the only way left.
"Where is Si Tianjian's palm seal!"
A minister quickly stood up, bowed and said:
"The old minister is here!"
"I immediately order you to contact the Tianyuan Sect monks, inform them of the situation, and ask the Tianyuan Sect's... Immortal Chief to take action to relieve me from the danger of great ambush! There must be no mistake!"
"I accept your order!"
The Si Tianjian's palm bowed again, but then a trace of hesitation appeared on his face and he asked:
"But... Your Majesty... there is something I don't know whether to say or not..."
"What are you hesitating for? Tell me!"
Jing Xuan was furious.
The palm print lowered its head and bravely said:
"Your Majesty, the people of Tianyuan Sect have always wanted to expand the scope of their Immortal Fate Conference. I have told you about this matter twice... This time we ask for their help, I'm afraid..."
Jing Xuan immediately understood what he meant and couldn't help but feel a real headache.
He sat back on the dragon chair, as if he had aged ten years suddenly, his brows were knitted together, and after a long time he said:
"That's all, if you agree to them..."
Jing Xuan waved his hand helplessly and ended the court meeting.
He and the old general were the only two people left in the hall.
"His Majesty……"
The old general opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Jing Xuan raising his hand.
"Lu Cheng, I know what you are thinking. It was indeed my fault before. Now that the world has completely changed, I should not continue to abide by the previous prohibition... The imperial court also needs its own monk power. Otherwise, Jing Heng’s incident won’t just be the last time…”
"Since the people of Tianyuan Sect want to expand the scope of the Immortal Fate Conference, then we should agree to them. Anyway...if they force it, the court will not be able to stop it...it is better to take this opportunity to agree, and It can be regarded as a step for both parties..."
Jing Xuan looked outside the palace with a determined light in his eyes.
"Perhaps I should try again to see if I can practice the skills in the secret library..."
