After a brief tidying up, Ye Yun and his party set off with Mo Yu early the next morning.
With Mo Yu in charge, the journey was relatively smooth.
The royal city is thousands of miles away from Zhongzhou and is located in the northernmost part of Xia Kingdom.
Next to the royal city is Wolong Pass, which has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
Further north from Wolong Pass is the enemy of Xia State, Beiyan State.
The reason why the first kings of the Xia Kingdom established their capital here has to start with the history of the Xia Kingdom.
Five hundred years ago, the Xia royal family was not the current Dongfang family, but the Zhuge family that had long been destroyed.
The Zhuge family ruled the Xia Kingdom for hundreds of years. The emperor was arrogant and extravagant, and the princes and grandsons were dandy.
The people were displaced and the army was demoralized. Beiyan invaded the imperial city in one fell swoop and captured the fatuous emperor alive. The Xia Kingdom was almost destroyed.
At the time of life and death, fortunately there is the Dongfang family.
The Dongfang family was originally just a vassal king with a foreign surname in the Xia Kingdom, dominating the Huainan region.
When the Xia Kingdom was on the verge of death, the patriarch of the Dongfang Family united with several other big families and went all the way north to attack Huanglong and take back half of the country from Beiyan.
A country cannot live without a king for a day, and several other big families unanimously support the Dongfang family as emperor.
The first king of Xia was a man of great talent and strategy, and he vowed to take back the other half of the country from the king of Northern Yan.
In order to prevent future generations from following in the footsteps of the Zhuge family, the capital of the new kingdom was located in the far north, far away from Beiyan.
It is also for this reason that the Xia Kingdom became increasingly prosperous and finally gained a firm foothold despite internal and external troubles.
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The night is getting darker.
"It's getting late, let's find a place to stay here tonight."
There was a large town ahead. Mo Yu stood at the gate of the town, discussing with the few people behind him about staying overnight.
The horses had also been traveling for a day and were already showing signs of fatigue.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
Several other people also nodded and followed Mo Yu in.
As soon as they entered the town, everyone felt a chill.
They are all cultivators. Although they can feel the changes in the surrounding temperature, they do not react too much, but this hint of coolness makes them feel a little bit to their bones.
The town is not small, about half the size of the city, and can accommodate thousands of people.
Although it was getting late at this time, it had not yet reached nightfall. Logically speaking, it should be the busiest time. There should be many people on the street, but there was no one there.
But at this time, there was not even a light on the street, not to mention any human figures.
The whole street was dimly lit and pitch black.
The houses on both sides of the street all had their doors and windows closed, and the whole town was like an empty city, dead and eerie.
"This is such a useless place, there's not even a trace of a living person." Li Shuang glanced at the street and expressed his confusion.
"Who knows what kind of place we have arrived." Wang Dali smiled sadly.
Mo Yu looked at the sky. It was not time to go to bed yet, so he reminded:
"This town is not as simple as it seems. We'd better be more vigilant and don't act rashly."
Ye Yun remained silent from beginning to end, looking coldly at the surrounding houses.
On the surface it looked like an empty city, but he felt that all the surrounding houses were occupied.
It was obvious that they hid deliberately because they noticed Ye Yun and the others.
At the same time, Ye Yun also sensed that they were not resting, but were hiding in the dark and secretly monitoring Ye Yun and the others.
"Everyone in the town is hiding in their houses. It seems that something scares them. It seems that the town is not very peaceful."
Ye Yun told everyone the information he sensed, asking them to be more vigilant.
Mo Yu walked in front of everyone, leading the way with Ye Yun and others.
"Let's find an inn to stay in first and then ask the boss what happened here."
The town was relatively remote, and it took them a lot of effort to find an inn.
But this inn is also very strange. If it were an ordinary people's home, the doors and windows would be closed, but this inn was specifically designed to accommodate guests passing by, but the doors and windows were also closed, with no intention of soliciting business.
Mo Yu knocked on the door of the inn. There was even dust and spider silk falling on it. It looked like it hadn't had any guests for a long time.
Mo Yu knocked for a while, but still no one responded, so he said:
"My young master is a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam. He passed by here. It's getting late now and he has nowhere to stay, so he wanted to come in and stay overnight. My young master has plenty of money, so money is not a problem. I also hope that the store can make it convenient."
Initially there was no movement inside, but when it seemed that "there is plenty of money", there was movement inside immediately.
Crunch——
The door was suddenly pushed open a crack, and a withered old hand stretched out from inside.
"Two hundred gold for a room. You pay first and then stay in the hotel. The four of you will get a total of eight hundred gold."
What kind of store do you open? You might as well go and grab it.
The three of them, Li Shuang, were all gnashing their teeth. Although they were indeed not short of money, this old man was really evil. Even though the money was just a drop in the bucket to them, the feeling of being ripped off was really unpleasant.
"Okay, we need four rooms for our stay."
Mo Yu didn't care much about this and handed over the money to the old man generously.
"Come in, come in."
The old man hurriedly opened the door and invited Mo Yu and the others to come in with a diligent expression.
After Mo Yu and the others walked in, the old man looked outside the door for a long time to make sure he didn't see anything strange before closing the door.
Mo Yu seized the opportunity and asked the confusion in his heart:
"What are you doing, boss? Is there something outside?"
The boss looked outside the door for a long time, and after making sure it was safe, he said:
"A few of you must have seen it. There is no one in our town. Even my inn has not been open for a long time."
"Why is that?"
The old man said with a troubled expression:
"Please don't continue to inquire. If you continue to talk, I may cause trouble."
Although the old man spoke pitifully, there was still a look of greed on his face unconsciously.
Mo Yu took out another bag of gold coins and handed it to the old man's hand.
The old man hesitated again and again, lowered his voice, and told what happened in the town.
This town was originally very peaceful, but one day a group of bandits suddenly appeared, burning, killing, looting and committing evil in the town.
In just a few days, the entire town was in a state of chaos.
Those bandits shouted all day long that Cang Tian was dead and Huang Tian should stand.
They captured the residents of the town and used the people in the town to offer sacrifices to the heaven, saying that they wanted to establish a new heaven.
No one who was captured by them came back alive.
The city also sent troops over, but the bandits were so powerful that even the city guards couldn't do anything about them. In the end, they had to let them go and let them continue to do whatever they wanted.
