"Shuanghe County may indeed be destroyed," Xiao Qianqiu said: "But this world? Do you know how vast this world is? How many places have you seen? How many things have you seen? Do you know , 900 years ago, the water demon in the Sea of Clouds and Mist once set off waves and submerged the entire Yunzhou for three years. Countless cattle, horses, humans and animals were all made into their food. There were only 107 mortals who survived? You? Do you know that five hundred years ago, the plague messengers from the five directions came out together and visited hundreds of states and counties in Baiyan, Yunwu, and Chilong? Wherever they passed, not even one mortal of the Xian family survived?"
"It's different this time," Hualin shook his head: "Mountain monsters and water monsters, outsiders and outsiders, are always from this world. The ones in Black Mountain... are not."
"It's always average," Xiao Qianqiu disagreed: "What's more, it only hurt some barbarians now."
"Even if it spreads beyond the mountains, there are still seven or eight countries that can resist it. Do you think so?" Hualin suddenly asked: "You have repeatedly urged me to go to Yuexi Mountain. In your opinion, these countries It can be sacrificed and discarded at any time, right?"
"I have personally experienced the chaos of the Yunwu Sea Monster," Xiao Qianqiu seemed to be talking about something that had nothing to do with him: "At that time, everything you could see was smoke and waves, and not a single peak or stone in the entire Yunzhou was exposed on the water. Everyone who saw it thought that the water was receding. It’s no longer the same view. More than a hundred years later, I passed by Yunzhou again. I saw prosperous markets, cattle and horses everywhere, fields connected with orchards, and orchards connected with mulberry fields. Even many places in the Yunwu Sea have been reclaimed and made into fertile farmland. A village was built, and the people lived there carefree. They didn’t know what a water monster was, they only knew that their grandfather’s grandfather farmed here and lived.”
Hualin knew that mortals were different from immortals. They entered into a marriage contract under the arrangement of their parents when they were twelve or thirteen years old. They often became grandparents at the age of thirty-four. They would be called lucky if they lived to be fifty. A hundred years would pass by. To a true immortal like Xiao Qianqiu, it seems like a snap of the fingers, to ordinary immortals, it seems to be a lifetime, and to mortals, it is just "the story of grandpa's grandpa."
Therefore, Xiao Qianqiu's eyes have seen so many joys and sorrows between mortals and immortals. Their happiness is death, sadness is also death. Xiao Xinglong thought that his love with the mortal jade pendant was earth-shaking. To Xiao Qianqiu, it was nothing more than death. Another fleeting past. If Xiao Xinglong is like this, the entire Xiao family may be like this in Xiao Qianqiu's heart.
If you don't become a true immortal, you will always be a dead end. If it is a dead end, one skeleton is still ten thousand skeletons, so why is it worth them to take a second look? Mortals do not care whether the alfalfa plowed into the ground when they turn over the soil is only one day away from blooming into bright purple flowers, nor do immortals care whether a country is swallowed up by flood waves. Mortals know that alfalfa will still grow in the next spring, but true immortals know that in a hundred years, the smoke will recede, and the mortal villages will still be filled with smoke and prosperous, with men and women getting married, and no one knows the past.
"No wonder the villagers' legends always say that the Xian family are outsiders," Hualin said, "but this time you are wrong, very wrong. You thought you left a plague-ridden city and fled to a safe island. Is it the best strategy to wait until the plague kills everyone here and then come back safely?"
"It is indeed the best strategy for you," Xiao Qianqiu said in a deep voice: "What can you do? I have seen the anti-plague measures you took in Shuanghe County, including removing filth and isolating the injured. Very good, maybe this gives you confidence, but you also have to consider that there was no plague in Shuanghe County at that time, and there were no evil demons spreading the plague behind your back, and there was Xiao Ruyun assisting you. Now you have nothing. No. The people of Shuanghe County at least know to obey the county magistrates and government officials. They don’t believe in cannibal monsters, don’t practice sorcery, and don’t go out on the streets in broad daylight.”
"They also rob slaves in broad daylight. I encountered them more than once," Hualin reminded him: "The people in Shuanghe County also believe in cannibalistic demons and practice sorcery. They don't use knives on the streets, but they don't mind. Capture and sell any girl without a male companion. They are not as obedient as you think. Even the government officials are full of people who despise immortals. The reason why they obey orders when you come is, It’s all because the county magistrate just recently used the Shuanghe Sword to kill a disobedient.”
"It's still different after all."
"You should have seen what I have done among the Yi people. As long as the laws are strict and the measures are effective, they can throw away their swords and honestly farm the land, boil salt, and do everything that is beneficial to me and themselves. "
"So you just want to stay in a plague-ridden city, risk catching the plague, and carry out the work of clearing it out?"
"No, I don't want to, it's just that I can't leave."
"Can't leave?"
"I will listen to you now and set off immediately. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the plague!" Hualin said: "There are no safe islands in this world..."
"No? Do you know that outside Yuexi Mountain..."
"'It's' appetite doesn't stop here at Yuexi Mountain."
