Liang Xingyang really saw what "the red land is thousands of miles away".
From Tianshui to the west to the foot of Tianyao Mountain, all the animals and all the flowers and plants have been eaten up in a total of more than 13,000 miles of land, leaving only trees, tree leaves, and trees. The bark and twigs were also eaten away, leaving only bare branches.
The land is dry. After digging for ten feet, there is no trace of moisture. After digging for thirty feet, there is no underground water!
In the Qianzhou area, all those who could escape have fled, and those who cannot escape are suffering here.
The only place with water is the Tianshui River, but there is not much water left in the river. The originally fast river water has become a trickle, and the bed is exposed and dried in the sun. The fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs in it have long been eaten. ap.
Yan Wodan summoned talented people, used the bones of gods and demons to sense the location, and dug five deep wells. In the entire Qianyuan area, these were the only places where people still lived.
Government officials and gentry and landowners will either run away or be eaten...
Yan Wodan and Liang Xingyang stood on the high ridge, pointing to the people who were lining up to carry people like ants below: "I divided the victims into two parts, and one part led the old and the weak, and went south to enter Duiyuan land to get food. There are The officials refused to let us go and sent heavy troops to block the Yin-Yang Pass, so I sent people to take Ziwu Road again.
When my father was captured by Yue Longpan on Ziwu Road, they never imagined that I would dare to let people go there. They took the government's retreat and went straight in to grab food. Although the harvest in Duiyuandi has been poor in recent years, there are still trees and grass on the mountains. After this, there is always some way to survive. I will lead these strong elites out of Haierguan in the east and go to the hinterland of the Central Plains to find food in the colorful world! "
Liang Xingyang looked at the "strong elites" below. Nine out of ten were skinny and bones, with sunken eye sockets, high cheekbones, and concave cheeks. Their skin was as black as iron, black and tough, as if they were all skeletons. The walking skeleton was in good spirits, and his eyes seemed to be burning with fire.
Liang Xingyang said: "Is it possible to transport food or water from other places?"
Yan Wodan looked at him and smiled: "Where is the food? Is there food in the imperial court? Not a grain of food has been transported through Haierguan in the past few years! As for water? There are no suitable rivers and no sufficient water sources to draw water. It has to be distributed throughout the whole country. A drenching rain in the Yuan Dynasty can drain a lake dry, and it will take at least a dozen consecutive rains before crops can grow again. But we have no seeds anymore. All plant seeds and animal cubs will not be eaten when they grow up. If we want to survive, we can only fight out and snatch it from the houses of wealthy families who have built cellars to store grain!"
"Actually, the emperor allocated a lot of money and shipped food, but something went wrong along the way." Liang Xingyang was sure of this, because he had gotten truckloads of money for the emperor.
Yan Wodan nodded: "Yes, I believe it."
Liang Xingyang felt a deep sense of powerlessness. He sighed and said to Yan Wodan: "I will go back to the emperor and ask him to prepare another batch of food for you. It is better not to fight this battle. Once the battle starts, Life will be destroyed. You are trying to survive, but you will cause more people to die. Wouldn't it be good if you can survive without fighting?"
"Of course that's good." Yan Wodan looked at him, "But can you really get food from the emperor for us?"
"It's really possible." Liang Xingyang thought. He got twenty or thirty carts of gold bars and silver bricks for the emperor. It shouldn't be a problem to ask for hundreds of carts of food. He would first alleviate the famine here, and then find a way to make the two troops strike. End peacefully, and don't go to war if we can resolve it through negotiation.
"I'm going to find the emperor. Please don't send troops to attack Ha'erguan yet. Wait until I come back with food."
Yan Wodan said: "It's okay if I don't attack the Boyer Pass, but the officers and soldiers may not only guard the pass. They may come out from the west to attack us."
"My sword-wielding speed is still good. From here to the capital, I can return tomorrow at the latest. I will convince the emperor to let you two negotiate peace. But the premise is that you really just can't survive, and you really just want to have enough to eat and live in peace and contentment. ...You know what I'm talking about."
Yan Wodan chuckled: "I know, if the emperor really gives money and food so that people can live as you said, who would rebel? You also have a message for the emperor, just say, We, the White Bone Cult, specialize in cultivating the bones and are naturally fat.
Flesh repels each other. When people are full of fat, they will not believe in us. Only when they are all skin and bones will they believe in me. "
"Okay, I will tell the emperor."
"Then I wish you can get what you want." Yan Wodan said easily and happily, always with a smile on his face.
Liang Xingyang didn't want to delay, so he took off with his sword and rushed to the capital.
When he arrived in the capital, he handed the sign to the emperor again. This time the emperor quickly asked the eunuch to come out and take him in.
It had been a long time since we had seen him, and the emperor was even thinner than before. He was in his thirties, and his face looked a bit old.
"You went to the northwest and met the Bone Demon Lord and his daughter?"
"I only saw Yan Wodan, but not his father." Liang Xingyang recounted what he saw and heard in detail.
The emperor held the tea cup and listened quietly, without saying a word or showing any expression on his face.
Until Liang Xingyang finished speaking, the emperor's words were somewhat heavy: "You have an old relationship with that Bone Evil Queen?"
Liang Xingyang was stunned for a moment: "I was entrusted by Governor Bai Langqi of Kunyuan to participate in the escort. On the way, Mingzhou was hit by floods and plagues, and victims were everywhere..." He also told how he and Yan Yan were on the road. Wodan learned the martial arts skills and how to collect the bodies of the victims, and told the story of the interaction between the two.
The emperor kept looking at him, his eyes getting colder and colder: "Is that just that?"
"Then what else?" Liang Xingyang was very unhappy with his attitude and asked directly, "If she is really a cult leader who does all kinds of evil, like the leader of the Golden Lantern Cult, I can kill her until she dies! But she is very Obviously not!"
The emperor snorted coldly and put the tea cup on the table: "So you will come back to negotiate with the court as her special envoy?"
"Isn't it possible?" Liang Xingyang said, "The world is already in chaos! Enough people have died! Talking is better than fighting."
The emperor seemed to have heard it, or he didn't seem to hear it at all. After being silent for a while, he suddenly raised his head and asked Liang Xingyang: "Do you know that the Bone Thief killed Yue Longpan, entered the hinterland of the Central Plains, and dug the tomb of Taizu in Huangzhou?"
"What?!" It was Liang Xingyang's turn to be shocked and stunned. If it was something else, Liang Xingyang felt that there was still some hope of reconciling it, but the Bone Army dug up all the royal family's ancestral graves! That is simply a fight to the death. Even if the emperor wants to negotiate peace, he can't because he will be laughed at and despised by the people of the world.
The emperor looked at him: "I just think you really don't know. Don't mention the peace talks anymore! The Bone Thieves dug up the tomb of Taizu and massacred the Xia clan. They wiped out all the eight vassal kings. Tianshui The king was still cooked and eaten alive by them! How can such evil thieves negotiate peace with them? If anyone in the civil and military dynasty dares to say even a word, I will destroy his whole family. This will never happen again!"
Liang Xingyang had prepared a lot of words and swallowed them all back. He had no way to say it. He could not persuade the emperor that it was not a big deal if your ancestral graves were dug up, and it was not a big deal if your clan members were killed and eaten. It was still a matter of national importance. Heavy - he couldn't say such words.
After coming out of the palace, Liang Xingyang breathed in the night air and looked up at the stars. His body was filled with a deep sense of powerlessness.
He didn't know what he should do to save the world and the people in it.
He sat on the steps in front of the palace and quietly thought about all the ways he could do it. For example, he stayed at the Boyer Pass and the two sides were not allowed to fight. Whoever took action would help the other side? Not to mention that he is not that strong and cannot withstand the attacks from the masters on both sides. Even if he really has that strength, this will not solve the fundamental problem.
There is a water shortage in the northwest. What if I rely on the Mercury Divine Pearl to get some water to solve the drought in the northwest? As Yan Wodan said, if the people in the northwest can have enough to eat, they will not rebel. However, the northwest requires too much water, and his magic power may not be able to cover even a thousand miles, and the water source is not good. Look, who can allow the lakes and rivers in other places to be drained by him?
As for getting it from the sea, seawater is salt water... If Liang Xingyang was an Earth Immortal now and the nine stars on Jiutian Shenjin returned to their respective positions, there might be a way to directly extract water vapor from the sea to condense pure water, but that's not possible now.
The key is that the royal family and Bai
The Bone Cult is already in a never-ending situation, and there is no room for relaxation. They still have to fight, and they must fight to the death, and one party will destroy the other.
"Forget it! If you want to fight, you can fight. I can't control it. You can't have a small horse pulling a big cart. In the end, the horse dies and the cart overturns! I don't have the ability to save the world, and I should be self-aware. Maybe, this is The legendary 'the general trend of the world, practitioners cannot go against the will of heaven..."
He was disheartened and walked alone on the street.
Since the capital has a curfew at night, the airspace is also closed. Anyone who dares to fly in or out will be killed by the city god with a copper hammer.
Therefore, he decided to go back to his house first and wait until tomorrow morning before leaving the city.
"The phoenixes are like the phoenixes, how can virtue be reduced? Those who have gone by cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued. That's it! That's it! Those who are in politics today are in danger!"
He suddenly thought of these words in his mind, sighed secretly, and thought: "The beast will not care about the sound of death, and the breath is still, so he has a harsh heart. If the core is severe, there must be an unscrupulous heart to respond. But you don’t know what’s going on. If you don’t know what’s going on, who knows where it will end!”
I murmured a few words and was about to hurry home when I suddenly saw an inn on the roadside with pink lanterns hanging in beautiful colors. The door panel was already halfway up and half of the door was still open. There was a person in a very dazzling dress. The woman waved to him: "Sir, come in and sit down?"
Liang Xingyang thought he had met a special practitioner, so he shook his head gently, indicating that he was not interested, and continued to move forward.
The woman suddenly said, "Aunt Qing asked me to come find you."
Who is Aunt Qing? Liang Xingyang was startled for a moment, and then he quickly remembered someone: "Is it Qing Liu Niang?"
The woman nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I haven't seen the young master come to my door for a long time. It's weird. Please come in and have a cup of tea."
Liang Xingyang hesitated for a moment, then turned around and walked into the inn. The woman led him left and right, down the stairs for a long time.
Finally, Liang Xingyang met Qing Liu Niang. In addition to him, there was a white-haired young man and an old man in black. There were three people in total. Seeing him come in, Qing Liu Niang greeted him with a smile and sent the girl who was leading the way away.
"How did Aunt Qing know that I was in the capital?"
Qing Liu Niang pointed her finger at the white-haired young man: "This is Xue Qi, the head of the Blood Character Sect. He saw you."
Liang Xingyang felt a chill in his heart and glanced at the young man. The young man looked at him, his eyes like two steel awls piercing people's hearts.
This guy has never seen it himself, but he can recognize himself and his flying sword. On the one hand, his magic power and eyesight are high enough, and on the other hand, the information their Xingluo Sect has is powerful enough.
"Why did Aunt Qing come to me?" Liang Xingyang didn't intend to talk nonsense and went straight to the point.
Qing Liu Niang smiled and poured him a cup of tea: "Aunt Qing wants to recruit you to join our Xingluo Sect."
Liang Xingyang shook his head: "I'm going back to the mountain to practice in seclusion."
"Did you suffer a setback at the imperial court?"
Liang Xingyang frowned: "How do you know?"
Qing Liu Niang said with a smile: "You participated in escorting the White Bone Evil Ji Yan Wodan to the capital. You had a very abnormal relationship with her on the way, and you also learned the White Bone Sect's Ten Thousand Bones Returning to the Heart Dharma from her. Two days ago, you came to the capital to meet the prince. , then went to the northwest, and met the White Bone Evil Queen in Yangcheng. Today, she hurried back and went to see the emperor, with the intention of mediating and bringing her together, right?"
Liang Xingyang nodded slightly.
Qing Liu Niang let out a series of wild laughter like silver bells, as if she had seen the biggest joke in the world: "The White Bone Army dug up Taizu's mausoleum and dug up the Xia family's ancestral graves, and you still want to mediate them..." Look at Liang Xingyang His expression was very ugly, so he stopped laughing and changed his words, "But your innocent heart of caring about the country and the people is really rare."
"No matter what my intentions are, I will never join the Xingluo Sect." Liang Xingyang stood up and walked out.
Qing Liu Niang stood up: "Don't you want to avenge your father? Revenge for killing your father is irreconcilable!"
Liang Xingyang suddenly turned around: "Gao Wentao once told me that the person who killed my father was Zhao Yixiang, the eunuch who killed the corpse. When the new emperor came to the throne, Zhang Tianxi and him
All the adopted sons who were still alive were sent to be buried with the late emperor. "
"But Zhao Yixiang saw the opportunity early and ran away early." Qing Liu Niang stretched out her hand to indicate that he should sit down again and want to chat again.
Liang Xingyang turned back and sat down: "I know you have some use for me. Let's not beat around the bush. Let's just say it directly. What do you want to use me for? So you can tell me where Zhao Yixiang is now, or hand him over. Give me?"
Qing Liu Niang asked with a smile: "You should know, I told you before, what exactly does our Xingluo Sect do?"
