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I don’t know if I should say it was expected or should I say it was unexpected?
There are a total of twelve cities in the Mingque Dynasty. In addition to Mingque City, including Xuanqing, among the eleven cities inspected by Changsheng, there are eleven garrison camps with a total of more than 10,000 soldiers wearing sacred stones.
Among them, the garrison generals of seven cities and an official in the city lord's palace of four cities can confirm that they have surrendered to the Nine Saints Church.
Changsheng did not alert the snake, but just pretended to be official.
Xiaoyu, Xia Siyao and Xiao Zi, on the other hand, had a great time eating, playing, and finding treasures every time they went to a city.
"Sister Siyao, I feel like there are so many mortals in this city!"
"You don't need to guess. Most of the monks above the foundation level in the city have gone out to work. The population has become smaller. Gradually, the mortals from counties and towns have come to the city to make a living." Xia Siyao chewed something in her mouth and muttered. He muttered.
"Indeed, it is agreed that it is the smallest city among the twelve cities of the Mingque Dynasty and the city with the least population. There are not even a million." Changsheng said with a smile.
Xiao Zi was sitting on Chang Sheng's shoulder, eating the hot oil cake she had just bought with relish, breaking off a piece from time to time and stuffing it into Chang Sheng's mouth. Changsheng's mouth was filled with oil.
Zaizai followed Changsheng's feet, looking a little reluctant. In her eyes, all cities are the same and there is nothing to visit.
This is the last city on Changsheng's inspection, Shangding City.
As soon as they entered the city, they had a lively meal, drinks, and greetings with the city officials as usual, and then everyone from Changsheng came to the city for a walk.
In Mingque City, not a single mortal appeared for three to five days. And in big cities like Tianyue, Tianyuan, and Xuanqing, mortals are rarely seen.
In other small cities, mortals are commonplace, but in this agreed city, almost half of the streets are filled with them.
While wandering around, Changsheng smelled a faint scent of locust flowers in his nose. It felt a little familiar, so he looked around.
People on the street were busy doing their own thing, and it didn't come from them, and there were no locust trees planted in the city.
No, Changsheng suddenly remembered that this fragrance was from the person who finally appeared to take away the Sky Curtain Stone when the attack on West Street and Alley, and then disappeared in the shadows.
Chang Sheng suspected that this man, like the old man who appeared later, was a monk from the Yuan Zhan Sect.
Changsheng was alert and said: "Xiaoyu, give me the Qiankun bag. If there is danger soon, I will put you into the Qiankun bag first."
Everyone became nervous, and Changsheng quickly led everyone back to the city lord's mansion. Then he thought, the incident of beheading Yuan Zong had troubled him for several days, and this man with the fragrance of locust trees must have the answer.
Changsheng is back there again, and the scent of locust flowers is much weaker than before, but it is still there.
Feeling it carefully, Changsheng followed the scent for a while and came to a somewhat dilapidated house.
The courtyard door was ajar, and a woman in a floral skirt was taking out some fruits and placing them on a plate on a stone table in the courtyard. Apparently he had just returned from shopping on the street.
And the scent of locust flowers came from her body.
Seeing Changsheng entering the door quietly, she was stunned for a moment, and then disappeared into the shadows in the corner.
"Girl, don't worry, I don't mean any harm."
The piece of animal skin about half the size of a palm appeared in Changsheng's hand, with the word 'Zhan' written on it.
"Have you met Uncle Zhong." A woman's figure appeared in the shadow, and a flash of surprise flashed in her eyes after seeing the animal skin.
"He was the one who found me, but he was taken away by someone. The person who took him away was highly cultivated."
"It's the Suppressing Division. My two uncles and six brothers were all captured by the Suppressing Division because they were looking for you." A trace of anger flashed in the woman's eyes.
Two senior uncles and six senior brothers? Changsheng was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the man in black robe had said that Zhan Yuanzong would come to him again and again.
It seems that except for the two young men and the old man named Zhong who appeared in the West Street alley, the others were secretly dealt with by the men in black robes before they appeared in front of Changsheng.
"Why are you looking for me?"
"Uncle Zhong didn't tell you?"
Just as he was talking, Changsheng suddenly felt a powerful aura.
"Someone is coming, don't resist." Changsheng put his hand on the woman's shoulder without saying a word, and then the woman disappeared.
After a breath or two, a man in black robe appeared in the courtyard.
Damn it! Another strong man from the Great Juyuan.
"Where are the people?" The man in black robe frowned and asked Xiang Changsheng.
"Suddenly he entered the shadow and disappeared." Changsheng pointed to the corner of the wall.
The man in black robe quickly scanned all the shadows in the courtyard, then frowned and shook his head: "Already gone?"
"Senior, why are these people looking for me? Why do you want to save me?"
"You pretended to be someone from the Zhan Yuan Sect, and they are definitely looking for you. We happened to be looking for them, so we just saved you by the way."
"Are you using me to lure them out? Who is the senior?"
Before he finished speaking, the man in black robe had disappeared, but the aura was still there. Changsheng knew that the man in black robe had not left.
Returning to the courtyard where the arrangements for the city lord's mansion were agreed upon, Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he had returned safely: "Brother Changsheng, what happened? Is someone trying to attack you again?"
"You don't have to worry about the smelly meat chopper. If Ningzhen wants to kill him, Xiao Juyuan will appear. If Xiao Juyuan wants to kill him, Da Juyuan will appear. I believe that even if Da Juyuan wants to kill him, the Tongmai Realm mighty will appear to save him.”
Xia Siyao playfully patted Chang Sheng on the shoulder and said.
Changsheng chatted and played with everyone in the courtyard, and it wasn't until nearly half an hour later that the trailing aura disappeared.
In the room, Changsheng took off the Qiankun bag from his waist and placed it casually in a corner. Then he closed his eyes and concentrated, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
This is the second time Changsheng has entered the Qiankun Bag. It is not a big space with a radius of fifty feet and a height of forty or fifty feet.
Its edges and top looked like a still, hazy layer of water, with no view of the outside and no reflection of what was inside.
On the ground, there are various lush and exotic flowers and plants planted by Xiaoyu, and the strange and faint fragrance of the flowers and plants fills the nostrils.
"You~~~~is this the Qiankun Bag?" the woman in the floral skirt said in surprise when she saw Changsheng appear.
"It's just good luck. I got it by accident." Chang Sheng paused and said, "You have a strong cultivation level. Just now, a strong Yuan Ju Yuan appeared. Didn't you feel the aura?"
The woman shook her head: "Those who are more advanced than me have to hide their aura, and there is no way they can feel it. But I know you can."
Chang Sheng nodded. His soul was powerful. Not to mention Qi refining and foundation building, even masters of condensation and Yuan gathering had to be defeated.
"You don't know who you are?" the woman said, staring at Changsheng.
"Your uncle said that I am your ancestor, do you believe it?"
"Believe it, the portrait of the ancestor is exactly the same as yours. You don't believe it because no one can open the eyes of reincarnation and can't see the past life."
"Are you saying that I was your ancestor in my previous life? I have never heard of someone who looked exactly the same in his previous life and his next life. And this."
Changsheng said as he took off the Mosasaurus knife from his waist: "Xiaoyu sewed this knife sheath for me. Did someone else sew one for me in the previous life? Even the stitches and threads are the same?"
The woman looked at it carefully and frowned slightly: "I know there are some things that cannot be explained, but only after the ancestor's own spiritual consciousness detects the ancestral statue, the ancestral statue will spontaneously combust. Then the ancestral seal will appear, which is the one in your hand. .”
The woman paused: "And the ancestral chapter can open the ancestral palace. These are clearly written in the ancestral precepts."
"I remember that the Zhan Yuan Sect came from the Northern Desert Continent. Your ancestral palace is in the Northern Desert?" Changsheng turned over and looked at the animal skin in his hand.
"No one knows where the ancestral palace is because the ancestral seal and ancestral tablet need to be merged. When the Zhenjie Division raided our Beheading Yuan Sect more than a thousand years ago, the ancestral tablet disappeared."
"Your Uncle Zhong wants me to save your Zhan Yuan Sect. He probably wants me to take you into the ancestral palace, right?"
The woman nodded.
"Leave a message and tell me after you find the ancestral tablet. By the way, what are your plans?"
"Just send me back. Now that you have been found and confirmed, all that's left is to find the ancestral tablet."
After staying in Shangding City for another two days, everyone returned to Mingque.
Mingque City is still bustling with traffic and bustling.
Changsheng and others came to the Wuyuan Medicine Garden, and Ouyang Man was playing with her spiritual herbs.
"Good boy, Xiao Zi, this is Sister Man." Xia Siyao grabbed Xiao Zi's hand and shook it.
"Sister Man, here, this is delicious." Xiao Zi said softly and took out a piece of candy from her small storage bag and handed it to Ouyang Man.
"It's so cute, but my sister won't eat it, so you can eat it yourself."
Ouyang Man looked at Xiao Zi in surprise. It was okay to be able to float around, because some high-level talismans could do it, but a two or three-year-old child could actually use a storage bag?
Then, Ouyang Man turned his head and looked at Xia Siyao: "Damn girl, isn't Xuan Qing City fun? You guys should have found a lot of good things from the space cracks, right?"
"You know all this?" Xia Siyao was a little proud.
"I know what he is, and I think the entire Nanjiang Continent knows about it. It's all recorded in "Yue Tianxia". Changsheng took you in and out of the Explosive God Space, as well as the things about Jade Snake City and Spirit Snake Sect, it's almost like they saw it with their own eyes Same."
Ouyang Man said and took out two jade slips and handed them to Xia Siyao and Changsheng.
"Reading the World" - Tiansuan Tianji Pavilion, one of the four hegemons in Nanjiang Continent, is a kind of reading book published from time to time for the monks to entertain themselves after dinner.
'Yue Tianxia' records some major events or some interesting things that have happened in Nanjiang Continent in recent times. Moreover, this reading can only be explored with spiritual consciousness, so mortals cannot read it.
The Mingque Dynasty is just a small dynasty under the Xia Mo Dynasty. Even if something big happens, it will not cause a single ripple in the Xia Mo Dynasty, let alone the entire Nanjiang Continent.
This is the second time in tens of thousands of years that the Mingque Dynasty has been written into "Yue Tianxia", and the content is about the immortal people entering and exiting the space cracks in the Ghost Mist Abyss and the battle in Jade Snake City as if they were in no one's land.
The last time the Mingque Dynasty was written into "Yue Tianxia" was 200 years ago. The Jiuge Dynasty, known as the "Butcher" Zhang Massacre, sealed eleven cities in a row, and then retired to the Mingque Dynasty.
"Changsheng, Yue Tianxia said that your sword can't be a Yuan-Zhanbing sword at all, and Spirit Snake Sect An Yong's true energy has been lost. Yue Tianxia suspects that you swallowed his true energy. This is likely to become the target of public criticism. If you want Watch out for yourself?”
Changsheng nodded: "I know, I will be careful." The two of them walked towards the pavilion in the courtyard together.
"Elder Man, what are the plans of the dynasty?"
"Do you know the current situation of the dynasty?" Ouyang Man sighed.
"I probably know something. The reason why the dynasty is still safe and sound while the prince and the four worshipers have been sleeping for more than a hundred years is because there is still a Xia Mo dynasty behind them."
"That's right, and the Nine Saints Church is sneaky, engaging in conspiracies and assassinations. We estimate that we are probably testing them step by step to see how far they can go before the dynasty takes action."
Ouyang Man went on to say: "But we are the only ones who know that once something happens to Song Que, the imperial court will not be able to take action."
"The imperial court can't take action? Why? Xia Mo wants to give up Songque?" Changsheng was a little surprised.
"With ten fingers connected, how could a dynasty give up the dynasty under its jurisdiction?" Ouyang Man said with a bitter smile.
Changsheng was silent for a long time and then asked: "What are the dynasty's plans now?"
"We can only do our best and obey fate. We have already reported to Emperor Xia. We don't have the ability to clear it ourselves. Moreover, we analyzed the conversation between you and the Twelve Young Masters in Jade Snake City. The Nine Saints Church should not take action against you. So. You must use this to eliminate as many Nine Saints monks in the dynasty as possible."
"I should have inadvertently condensed a bottle of spiritual liquid for the twelfth son to cure his hidden illness, so it was him who saved me when the tree of the distant palace wanted to kill me and Xiaoyu."
"Is there a hidden disease? Is it serious?"
"Seriously, my spiritual liquid alone can only prevent the hidden disease from getting worse."
