Tianqing County is about two hundred miles away from Tianyue City. It is a small county under the jurisdiction of Tianyue City with a population of only a few hundred thousand. Except for the hundreds of people who work in the county guard's office, almost all the monks above the foundation level in the entire county have gone out to work.
Most of the rest are warriors, as well as some Qi-refining monks and mortals.
After the two parked the Big Bird at the inn, they walked towards Changsheng's house.
A small courtyard and four tile-roofed houses. This was left to him by Changsheng's parents. Changsheng only remembered that when he was four years old, his parents went fishing in Tianqing River, and there was no news after that.
Neighbors told Changsheng that his parents were dead. Because sea beasts suddenly appeared in Tianqing River, about twenty people who went fishing, including their parents, were eaten by sea beasts.
At that time, Changsheng didn't know what "death" meant. He thought that his parents had gone fishing and would be back after dark. If the harvest is rich, he will also buy delicious cakes for him.
Four-year-old Changsheng was sitting at the gate waiting for his parents to come home as usual.
However, he kept waiting and waiting, but to no avail. Until the next morning, before Changsheng could wait for his parents, he finally knew that 'death' meant never going home again, meaning never seeing his parents again.
After Changsheng knew what 'death' was, he sat at the gate and cried, and kept crying.
He doesn't want his parents to die, he wants his parents to come back. So after crying all morning, he dragged a pole from home and went to Tianqing River.
He wanted to find that sea beast and beat it with a pole until it returned his parents. He remembered that he once broke the water tank of Uncle Chen's house next door with a stone, and then his father beat him with a pole.
The shoulder pole hurt very, very much when hit.
If he can also use the pole to beat the sea beast very painfully, then the sea beast will not let his father and mother die, but will return his father and mother to him.
Changsheng was dragging a pole and standing by the river, crying loudly for the sea beast to be returned to his parents, when Uncle Chen saw him.
Uncle Chen took him back to his carpentry shop and told his parents that they would never come back. He should not cry all day long, but should act like a man and hunt sea beasts to avenge his parents when he grows up. .
From then on, Changsheng stayed in the carpenter's shop. Do what you can every day, and learn to use various carpentry tools from Uncle Chen.
In addition to keeping Changsheng fed and clothed, Uncle Chen would also give him a few silver coins as pocket money from time to time.
Later, Changsheng brought back Xiaoyu who had escaped from the crisis, and the two of them did not suffer any injustice under Uncle Chen's care. For Changsheng and Xiaoyu, Uncle Chen is their relative.
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Changsheng stood at the entrance of the courtyard, looking at the clean courtyard and the full water tank, he knew that this was done by Uncle Chen.
Before he and Xiaoyu were going to Mingque Martial Arts Academy, Uncle Chen said that practicing cultivation was very hard and difficult, and they would encounter many dangers. If one day Xiaoyu no longer wants to practice, Changsheng will have to bring her back.
Then Uncle Chen made arrangements for them to get married, and then they would have a few more children. Uncle Chen would also be their grandfather and help them coax their grandchildren and look after their babies.
"Changsheng? You are Changsheng. I haven't seen you in almost two years. You have really grown up." Changsheng was deep in thought when a woman's voice rang in his ears.
"Aunt Zhong. Are you okay?"
A simple middle-aged warrior woman came to Chang Sheng and took Chang Sheng's hand.
"Where's Xiaoyu? Why didn't Xiaoyu come back?" Aunt Zhong glanced at Hun Li next to Changsheng in confusion and asked.
"Xiaoyu is practicing in seclusion and won't be able to come back for the time being."
While I was chatting with Aunt Zhong, the other female relatives of the neighbors also went out one after another. Seeing Changsheng, several enthusiastic aunties and aunts gathered around and asked about his welfare.
"Changsheng, if that doesn't work, please ask Xiaoyu to stay in seclusion for a while. Ask her to come back as soon as possible, and we will arrange the marriage for you."
"Even if you are Changsheng, you are no longer young. You should be 18, and Xiaoyu is 14, so we can't delay any longer."
"Changsheng, listen to what Aunt Li said. Uncle Chen has been talking about marrying you since you went to Mingque Capital. Now that Uncle Chen is gone, we are the only ones left in the old neighborhood. If you don't get married as soon as possible, Who will worry about you after we leave too?"
Speaking of Uncle Chen, several neighbors burst into tears, and Aunt Zhong even burst into tears.
"Aunt Zhong, Aunt Tang, Xiaoyu and I understand what you all think. In this way, Xiaoyu and I will definitely come back when the time comes, okay? I'll go see Uncle Chen first."
Chang Sheng said and walked towards Uncle Chen's house.
Uncle Chen has been buried, but the mourning hall is still there. Because everyone is waiting for Changsheng and Xiaoyu to come back to worship.
In front of the mourning hall, Changsheng lit three sticks of incense for Uncle Chen and then knelt down.
"General Changsheng made us wait so hard? I didn't expect that the general came for a dead person." A middle-aged man's voice suddenly sounded outside the hospital.
A burst of anger instantly rushed to Changsheng's forehead. Changsheng frowned and stood up, then came outside the hospital with Hun Li. Several aunts and ladies didn't know what was going on, so they followed closely.
"The fact that the general came here means that the people who came from Xuanwu Sea have missed. I admire him very much." A middle-aged man in white robe said.
Not far from the entrance of the courtyard, six small Yuan Yuan strongmen and a dozen or so Ningzhen masters were surrounded in a fan shape.
"Ya-ya, are you done? I can't kill you, so I'm giving away my head for free. Are you interested?" Chang Sheng said without fear.
"Hmph, we still don't know who gave away his life for free?"
As one of the middle-aged men in black robes spoke, he waved, and another young man pulled out a dozen men, old and young, from behind them.
These are all immortal neighborhood leaders, and they are all warriors and even mortals. Their appearance immediately caused the aunts and ladies behind Chang Sheng to explode.
"Lao Yang? Ah~~I will fight with you."
"Brother Tiger, please let go of my brother Tiger."
"Why are you arresting them? Let go of my man."
Several women shouted and were about to rush forward. The young man in the white robe waved his hand, and they all fell to the ground and fainted.
"I have no interest in killing these warriors and mortals unless necessary. It's just that we need to know some things. With these people in hand, the general will naturally not be too impulsive." The middle-aged man in white robe said while looking at the frowning Chang Sheng.
"Mom, mother. Brother Changsheng, they are all bad guys, please beat them up." One of the boys, who was only six or seven years old, cried loudly when he saw the women falling to the ground.
"You little bastard, shut up."
The middle-aged man in black robe said and slapped the little boy directly. The little boy fell to the ground with blood spurting from his mouth and nose, and his life or death was unknown.
But before the middle-aged man in black robe could take back his slapping hand, a white light flashed from his body. The middle-aged man in black robe was stunned for a moment, then looked down at his waist.
"I hate it when people threaten me with friends." As soon as Changsheng finished speaking, the upper body of the man in black robe slowly slid down from the base of his legs.
"No, no, elder, help me, elder, help me."
The upper body that fell to the ground shouted feebly, and his whole body was as old as skin and bones.
"Haha, the devil is a devil. He is indeed ruthless as expected. If you are so eager to take action, you are not afraid that I will kill all your neighbors."
The leader, the white-robed middle-aged man, didn't even look at the fallen man and said to Changsheng with a smile.
"You are here to find me, not to kill them. Besides, let alone you have six Xiao Juyuan, even if all of you are more than a dozen Xiao Juyuan, the two of us have to risk our lives to leave. , you simply can’t keep it.”
Changsheng looked at the dozen or so people one by one coldly and then said: "When I leave, I will have plenty of time to find you one by one, and then I will make it impossible for each of you to live or die."
The middle-aged man in white robe gradually turned cold as he listened to Chang Sheng's words: "Let's wait until you can leave."
As soon as he finished speaking, the six young Juyuan strongmen rushed towards Chang Sheng and the two, and Chang Sheng instantly released seven crab men. Hun Li bore the brunt and faced the white-robed middle-aged man.
"Child Devil, look what this is?" When the two parties were about to fight, the middle-aged man in white robe shouted loudly.
He was holding a transparent jade bottle in his hand, and a dark gray soul in the jade bottle was twisting and running rampant.
The soul looked extremely panicked and in great pain. When it saw Changsheng, its mouth opened and opened in pain as if it was saying something.
"Uncle Chen?"
Changsheng recognized that the jade bottle was Uncle Chen's soul, and also recognized that the jade bottle was a soul-capturing bottle specially used to torture souls. With a wave of his hand, the seven crab men stopped and retreated behind them, with Hun Li also standing beside them.
Mortal souls are extremely fragile because they have not been cultivated.
Under normal circumstances, let alone soul extraction, even searching for souls requires going through purgatory-like torture. Moreover, during the soul extraction process, once the soul is damaged in the slightest, it will immediately fly away.
It would take at least two or three hours to extract a mortal's soul completely without any damage.
In other words, Uncle Chen experienced at least two or three hours of purgatory-like torture during the process of having his soul extracted. After the soul was extracted, it was placed in a soul-capturing bottle and suffered endless burning pain.
"A little Juyuan strongman actually tortured a mortal like this? Are you worthy of being called a strongman?" Chang Sheng said coldly.
"Hahahaha, let's not talk about whether you are strong or not. General, think about it carefully. If these people are killed because of you, their souls will also be destroyed because of you. Even if you leave, will you feel at ease?"
Seeing that all the crabs stopped, the middle-aged man in white robe laughed and said.
"Sir, Uncle Chen is dead. Even if he is saved, his soul will still dissipate. It's better to let him suffer less." Hun Li couldn't help but send a message after watching.
The middle-aged man in white robe also saw the anger and sadness in Changsheng's eyes and smiled softly. Then a man wearing a hooded blue robe walked out from behind him.
"General Changsheng, do we meet again?"
