In Xiangzhu County, a small town in Qingzhou, a carriage was driving slowly on the road. Pedestrians passing by would look at it curiously, wondering why outsiders would come to this little-known town today.
The moment she first entered the city, her curvy eyebrows frowned slightly, and large beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, as if she was enduring great pain.
"What's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Jing Yu noticed something was wrong with Ningqu and asked hurriedly.
Ningqu didn't hide anything: "The spiritual power here is unstable, and my ability is about to go crazy."
Jing Yu walked out of the carriage, sat on the saddle in front, and said to Qiao Xu, "The spiritual power of this city is unstable. Ningqu will go berserk here. Turn around and leave the city quickly."
Qiao Xu looked back at Ningqu in the carriage with concerned eyes, and said calmly: "Okay, it seems that we will still have to sleep in the open air tonight."
"Let Chen Xueyun control the carriage, and the two of us will go find out the situation. I'm a little curious about why this city's spiritual power is unstable." Jing Yu said with anticipation.
"You don't want to solve the case again, do you?" Qiao Xusheng sighed helplessly.
Jing Yu said excitedly: "My intuition tells me that there must be something big going on here." After saying that, he jumped out of the car, and Chen Xueyun in the car came out and sat down.
Qiao Xu also did the same.
The two came to a teahouse. It was very comfortable to sit down and drink a pot of hot tea in winter. People who love drinking on weekdays would also choose to drink sweet tea in the cold season. Jing Yu didn't have much money on his body. But he still ordered two pots, one pot each for him and Qiao Xu, and listened to the chat among the tea guests.
"Well, I don't know what happened recently. The livestock raised in the city have become irritable. Yesterday, it took three people to kill a chicken." The tea guest at the next table complained.
Sitting next to the tea guest was a big man with big muscles and a round waist. He smelled of meat. He felt empathy when he heard these words: "Don't mention it, it doesn't matter how big a chicken is. The hens I raise in the pen Pigs, two pigs run around every three days, and they all go out."
"What's going on recently? Winter isn't a time for heat, either?" the tea guest said while sipping his tea.
Jing Yu was immersed in his analysis. The spiritual power in Xiangzhu County was not an ordinary abnormality. It could even affect the temperament of livestock. It seemed that this matter could not be classified as a natural situation. There might be human factors involved.
Assuming that someone is tampering with the spiritual power hub of the entire city, then the influence of the spiritual power must be diffuse. Currently, the results can be obtained by simply comparing the reactions of livestock in various areas of the city.
"Tell me, could it be that the demon tribe did something bad again?" Qiao Xu nudged Jing Yu with her elbow.
"It's hard not to agree." Jing Yu covered his face.
After the two people visited and investigated, they indeed selected a piece of land where the impact was the most serious. According to nearby residents, animals are not willing to stay on this land at all. As long as they stand on it, even humans will feel a sense of losing control and running wild.
This is the west market of the county, but there are no wells or other access nearby, so it is real land. Of course, Jing Yu wouldn't be stupid enough to dig deep into the ground to find it. Since it was underground, there must be a secret passage hidden in a building somewhere.
But which house will become the first choice of the demon clan? Jing Yu was thinking, his eyes swept along the road, and finally locked on a large courtyard. That large house was probably the home of a powerful person. If the demon clan wants to infiltrate the interior of Dalin, they must start with this kind of powerful people.
After a short discussion, Jing Yu decided to hide the truth. He and Qiao Xu put on the clothes commonly used by demon spies - black robes. This is what the demon spies wore during the well incident in the capital.
The two of them knocked on the side door of the mansion, and within a moment, someone came to open the door. It was a concierge. He was sleepy and didn't want to talk to these guests who disturbed his sleep, until he opened his eyes and saw clearly the clothes of the two people in front of him, and he woke up instantly with a look on his face. He forced out a smile and said: "It turns out that this is a distinguished guest who has been here before. Please come in, please come in."
Jing Yu and Qiao Xu looked at each other tacitly, confirming that the demon clan had done this, and they followed the concierge to the door of a bedroom. The porter knelt on the floor tiles and kowtowed: "Master! The guest you met last time is back!"
"I know, I know, I'll come out right away." A middle-aged man wearing a cotton coat crossed the threshold and seemed to have been sleeping just now.
The two naturally became the middle-aged man's guests. Jing Yu held up a corner of his cloak with one hand and quietly observed the middle-aged man's appearance. This middle-aged man has a shaved face, a goatee, and a listless appearance.
The middle-aged man rubbed his hands uneasily and asked, "Two adults, is there anything unreasonable in what I did?"
"Yes, but you did a good job. We just came back to check, and we hope you can lead the way." Jing Yu deliberately held a mouthful of phlegm in his mouth, his voice hoarse.
The middle-aged man didn't think much, just smiled, got up and walked to a small room in the corner. It was very clean and there was a wooden board covering the ground.
"Do you two adults want to go in first, or should I lead the way?" The middle-aged man moved the wooden board.
Qiao Xu also disguised her voice and said at the top of her voice, "Just wait outside and we can go in."
Jing Yu threw a stone into the secret passage and waited for a few breaths to confirm that there was no trap before moving forward with confidence.
The middle-aged man exhaled after seeing the two people entering the secret passage directly, and asked his servant to get a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead.
Jing Yu turned his head to look at the entrance from time to time, which made Qiao Xu, who was following him, unhappy: "You lead the way, why are you always turning your head to look at it?"
"I always wonder if this person is a little stupid for letting us in like this. Didn't the demon clan give him a password or something?" Jing Yu turned around and said uneasily.
"Pull them down, the demon clan's strategies are always less advanced than humans." Qiao Xu complained.
At the end of the secret passage is a stone room surrounded by stone walls. In the middle is a metal disk with runes that Jing Yu cannot understand.
"This is a magic weapon for controlling spiritual power. I can feel strong air fluctuations around me." Qiao Xu pointed at the disc and said.
Jing Yu did not answer, but tried to pick up the disc. Unfortunately, the object was locked on the stone table by magic and did not move at all. Then he asked Qiao Xu to hit it with his fist, and it worked. Small cracks appeared on one side of the disc. As Qiao Xu continued to punch, the cracks became denser and denser until it finally collapsed.
The sound of the disk shattering alarmed the middle-aged man outside the secret passage. He shouted into the secret passage: "Two adults, what happened? Do you need me to go down and help?"
"Oops, I didn't expect this thing to be so fragile. It's like a cannon. Run away." Jing Yu took Qiao Xu's hand and left the stone room with the few talismans left.
The middle-aged man outside saw that the two people were still not coming out, so he went in personally. As a result, he was stunned on the spot. The disk in the stone room was destroyed. Only these two people were inside just now. Only then did the middle-aged man realize the loopholes in the two men's behavior, and angrily ordered his men to arrest the two men. They must still be in the city.
Jing Yu and Qiao Xu seemed to be back in Shushan, running as fast as they could to the city gate, and Jing Yu felt as excited as when he was a kid and used firecrackers to blow up the cesspit of a relative's house as a prank.
Qiao Xu stared at the gradually crazier smile on Jing Yu's face in confusion, healthy and sunny.
Chen Xueyun, the immortal teammate of the entire Dingming Division, happened to be waiting at the city gate to meet them. He looked at the two people running wildly in the distance and waved to them.
Jing Yu didn't expect that Chen Xueyun had a talent for racing. With a casual and smooth operation, he made the carriage drift to pick up the two of them, and then left gracefully. Jing Yu gave a thumbs up to Chen Xueyun beside him: "Do you know Qiu Ming Mountain?"
"What mountain? A cultivator?" Chen Xueyun turned her head towards Jing Yu.
Jing Yu didn't explain, but got into the car.
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The middle-aged man in the mansion sent a message to the mysterious man from the demon clan, hoping that the other party would take action to arrest the saboteur of the plan.
After reading the letter, the leader of the mysterious man slapped the table angrily: "Chase me! If you dare to mess with our things, kill them all! Gu Danqing! I will make you pay the price one day." He said the last few words seriously. out.
In the tower, Gu Danqing was drinking hot tea and warming himself by the stove. He was holding the whereabouts of everyone in Dingming Division in recent days in his hands. Suddenly his nose itched and he sneezed.
He wiped his nose with a handkerchief, sat closer to the stove, wrapped himself in a cotton coat, and muttered resentfully: "The weather in Beijing is getting colder day by day. Why didn't you choose the south in the first place?"
The whip in Chen Xueyun's hand never stopped, and of course the horse in front of her didn't stop either. This horse had not had a full meal for a day since it came out of Baoqi County. Finally, at this moment, it was exhausted and fell to its knees on the road, foaming at the mouth. Due to inertia, Jing Yu happened to be facing the curtain of the carriage, flew out from inside, landed on his head, fell to the roadside, curled up into a ball, and rolled with his head in his arms.
Chen Xueyun didn't fare well either. She was hung directly on a tree in the distance, her outer robe was torn by the branches, and she hung awkwardly on the tree, motionless.
Because Qiao Xu and Ning Qu were sitting on both sides of the carriage, they just bumped into the inner wall. It would take a few days for the swelling to subside. The two men might not be able to get out of bed for a few days.
Hundreds of miles away from Shushan Mountain, Song Qian was wandering on the road like a zombie. His green clothes were already filthy, and he exuded a stench. The beard on his chin began to grow back, and it was black and thick. His hair was greasy and stiff, like a String hemp rope.
It has been six or seven days since he was detained by his master. He didn't remember the time. Song Qian's only hope was to take a hot bath, sleep in a good guest room, drink the most beautiful fruit wine, and eat delicious braised pork. Thinking of this, his Adam's apple squirmed and his eyes blurred.
Because his cultivation was locked, he was often robbed by bandits on the road. In the end, he was disliked by the bandits and then beaten violently. For some reason, the bandits always liked to hit his right leg, which has been interrupted now. , Song Qian had no choice but to limp on his way with a wooden stick.
Finally, Song Qian was exhausted and fell on the roadside. Before he passed out, he saw his childhood sister again, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.
Four people suffered from nutritional injuries. Jing Yu's head was simply bandaged with someone's scratched clothes, while Chen Xueyun's nose was crooked because she ended up facing the ground and needed professional treatment by a doctor.
Jing Yu, who had just recovered from a serious injury, had his molars broken. His body was in a lot of troubles. He thought that the disaster was over, but it was a blessing in disguise, but he ended up with a head injury. Ningqu hugged Jing Yu's head with a distressed expression, while Qiao Xu looked gloating.
At this time, the surrounding trees began to shake, and three anticlimactic creatures jumped out, holding scimitars and surrounding the four people.
"You, woman." Jing Yu waved his hand.
The three monsters obviously did not expect that there were four people present. They also took advantage of their third-level physical training and arrogantly mocked the four people: "Hmph, you dare to ruin my master's plan! You can't live without it!"
Ningqu first checked the status of his spiritual power, then casually condensed three water balls, and with a flick of his fingers, pierced the heads of the three monsters. Within five minutes of their appearance, the three monsters died.
"Hey, I feel that the purity of your spiritual power has become higher again. Are you about to break through to the seventh level of heaven consciousness?" Jing Yu asked after watching the "hearty" battle just now.
Ningqu nodded.
After three days of rest, Jing Yu was able to go on his way normally, but Chen Xueyun started to feel depressed again, touching the bridge of her nose every day while shaking her head and sighing.
Taking the official road was easier to track, so the four of them now took the mountain road. There were few snakes and insects in winter, so the mountain road was better than the official road except for being a little more rugged. But is it really so?
One day at noon, the four of them were so hungry that they rested on the spot. Jing Yu went hunting with a gun. He had long forgotten about the letter in the secret room. To uphold justice, the gun was used to shoot birds. His marksmanship has become so perfect that whenever a flying bird appears in his sight, he will shoot it, drag it back and roast it.
Today's bird meat has not yet been roasted, and the four of them are surrounded by a large group of people. The leader is a handsome man with a feather fan, fair complexion, soft and delicate features, and an eyepatch on one eye.
"Second Master, these are the people who shot down the falcon we were patrolling, and now they are setting it on fire." A strong man from the team stepped out and said with his fists clasped.
The handsome man known as the second master covered half of his face with a feather fan so that Jing Yu could not see his expression. However, the other man was not angry and must have wanted to reconcile, so Jing Yu picked up the roasted bird meat and ate it. The second master laughed out loud, but was still not angry. He asked everyone to dismount, and sat cross-legged beside Jing Yu, watching Jing Yu eat the meat.
"I'm embarrassed to eat when you look at me like that." Jing Yu wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth.
Behind him, Qiao Xu and Chen Xueyun were fighting for meat. The two of them dragged a roasted eagle together, and finally the game ended with Chen Xueyun tearing off a calf.
"Don't push yourself too far!" The strong man rushed up, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to teach the fish-eyed guy in front of him a lesson.
The second master raised his feather fan and deflected the strong man's sprint. The latter stumbled and fell to the ground: "Second master, they are all like this. You are still holding back. My brothers can't bear it!"
"It's okay, let's wait until they finish eating." The handsome man yawned, crossed his legs, and lay on the ground.
Jing Yu was not embarrassed to keep so many people waiting. He took a few bites and wiped his hands with the hem of his clothes: "I'm full, just tell me."
The second master opened his eyes a little and joked: "How many bites of such a good falcon are you throwing away? Wouldn't it be too wasteful?"
"It's okay, they will eat it." Jing Yu pointed to the three people behind him.
The one-eyed handsome man flicked his cheek with a feather fan, and asked thoughtfully: "I think it's not easy for you to live in the open, so you might as well come and sit in my village. We are all brothers who are loyal and will not seek wealth or harm. Besides, you don’t have any money, right?”
Jing Yu felt insulted, but he couldn't find the reason. After traveling through time, he worried about money every day.
A village that can raise so many people and horses must be large in scale, with a dedicated open space for horse racing, and the houses in the village are well-built, so a lot of money should be spent. Jing Yu began to wonder who they were robbing. Ordinary caravans couldn't afford this kind of money.
The second master seemed to be able to see through Jing Yu's thoughts and said with a smile: "We won't rob the escort team, nor will we rob the small businessman. The first master set a goal the day he became the king. If he wants to rob, he will rob." The big one, although he is no longer in the mountains now, his spirit will always remain."
"You're not robbing a noble, are you? Aren't they going to be beheaded?" Jing Yu's face turned pale.
"No! What we are robbing is the warehouse in a nearby county!"
Jing Yu blurted out the quintessence of Chinese culture: "Damn it, ten lives are not enough!"
The second master covered his mouth and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? The officers and soldiers have not come forward until now, which shows that the imperial court doesn't care about a small place like us."
Jing Yu smiled bitterly, Da Lin's current government was quite corrupt, either colluding with the demon clan or neglecting duties in various ways. Fortunately, when he met with the Holy Emperor before, he thought that the Nine-Fifth Emperor was quite upright. Now that he thought about it, he probably spent more time playing games than dealing with government affairs in private.
"So don't worry, stay with us for a few nights, just think of it as doing each other a favor and leaving a favor." The second master looked at the entire village with satisfaction.
The four of them met in a room at night. During the day, the current person in charge, the Second Master, showed great friendliness. However, this person was relatively deep in the city and it was impossible to guess his thoughts. Jing Yu, on the other hand, believed that there were many things in the cottage that made his intuition uneasy, and he couldn't tell what the problem was. In short, he couldn't stay for a long time, so it was best to leave early by ordering some travel arrangements.
"I have discovered that there are not only humans but also demons in their copycat staff, but the second master may know about it. Logically speaking, most humans find it difficult to accept demons as companions, which shows that the second master has a very broad mind. " Ningqu said.
Jing Yu shrugged: "You have to know that they are robbing the government. Humans alone are not enough. Isn't it normal to recruit some monsters? They are very strong and can use magic."
"I think this second master may have read books and is very strategic in planning every action. If he takes the imperial examination, he might be able to become a military advisor." Chen Xueyun particularly admired that man's temperament.
The next day, Jing Yu took the initiative to find the one-eyed second master, wanting to know why there were still demons in the village.
"Have you heard of the Sikong family? This is a declining aristocracy that turned from prosperity to decline five hundred years ago. When the family was still prosperous, the Central Plains was not Dalin, but the previous dynasty Daping. In the past, the human race and the demon race It is not that there has never been peace. Daping also advocates intermarriage between humans and demons to consolidate the friendship between the two countries. The Sikong family is a role in this link, responsible for trade with the demon country and setting up inns. Unfortunately, when I come to From this era, there was only one family tree left, and none of the other objects were left. The two countries were obviously friendly, but a war broke out, the Great Ping was destroyed, and they were killed by the demon clan. When I was a child, I once had resentment against the demon clan. Without their invasion, there would be no more How could the originally powerful family decline? But I was wrong. My mistake was that I had a narrow vision when I was a child." As he spoke, Master Sikong Er shed tears.
Jing Yu did not interrupt him and let the other person vent his emotions.
The second master wiped away his tears and began to recall:
If the higher ups could give me another chance, I would never let that happen. This started when I was five years old. At that time, I was still resentful of the demon clan. My ambition at that time was to become a high official in the capital and then send troops to attack the demon kingdom, so I went to school early. One afternoon, I went to play in the mountains with friends I met in school. There were many trees in the mountains. Someone suggested playing ghost and catching people. One person would be the ghost and count on the spot, while the others would hide to prevent the ghosts from finding out. I was smarter and chose to stay near a mountain stream. I didn't know at the time that there were actually bandits on that mountain, and they were thugs who specialized in killing civilians.
Because I was hiding too far away, I was afraid that my partner would not be found, so I planned to run back. But by chance, I met a group of bandits who had just robbed a certain village, and there were a few disheveled people on the horseback. women.
The leader at the front of the team spotted me. They thought I would report the news, so they rushed up to me without thinking, picked me up, took out a knife and wanted to chop my head off. When the knife edge was only a few inches away from me, my desire to survive made me explode with all my strength. I broke away from his hand, but my left eye was stabbed. At that time, my eyes were bright red and I couldn't see the road clearly. It's crawling.
Fortunately, someone came to save me. The first time I saw him, he was just like an ordinary person. He was dressed like a knight-errant, with a horizontal sword hanging on his waist. He had a fierce battle with those people, during which he revealed half of his true body in order to use all his strength. I saw two fox tails and a pair of pointed ears. He wanted to hug me and retreat, but I calmed down at the time and ignored him at all, because the demon clan I hated the most appeared in front of me. I ran away on my own, but he ran down the mountain to ensure that I had enough time. After returning home, he fought fiercely with the bandits for two hours. One person behind him blocked thirty people and died of serious injuries.
The second master began to get excited, and his eyes turned red again: Later, the government came forward. I followed the government up the mountain and saw his body... there were more than ten feather arrows stuck in the head, and there was a broken knife embedded in the flesh on the thigh. The arm was cut off, and the other arm was bloody and bruised. The skin and flesh were cut to pieces, and no part of the clothes on his body was intact. When the officials saw that the deceased was a demon and many bandits were killed, they threw the bodies into the wilderness hastily.
From that day on, I changed my view on the demon clan. I hated the demon kingdom for invading the Central Plains, and I hated the same kind who liked to kill each other. I also understood that the meaning of any life should not be determined by identity, but to express itself through behavior. Spirit.
After recalling these, the second master burst into tears.
"Wonderful." Jing Yu applauded, "Your ideas are much more advanced than mine. Maybe you should meet that old man Gu Danqing."
"I have admired Mr. Gu for a long time. He is one of the few heroes in our time!" The second master's one-eyed man was full of admiration.
Headmaster Sikong Er looked at Jing Yu: "Tell me about your experience?"
"To be honest, I have lost my memory. I only remember that I am Sicheng of Dingming Division in the capital, and I have been friends with Gu Danqing for many years." Jing Yu said awkwardly.
"It doesn't matter. With these two qualifications of yours, you will become famous all over the world sooner or later." The second master waved his feather fan, blowing the black hair on his shoulders.
Qiao Xu ran to the room where the two of them were talking, wounded all over: "Jing Yu, the gang of demon tribesmen are chasing me. There is only one of them, but he is at the seventh level of heavenly consciousness. I can't... make it anymore." Qiao Xu fainted at the door.
"What! It's over, it's over, they can find it here, Second Master, who is the strongest in your village?" Jing Yu scratched his scalp and said desperately.
The second master narrowed his eyes and brought bad news: "The strongest ones have gone away with the first master."
Jing Yu's face was ashen now, and he slumped on the ground helplessly.
"I'm sorry, to be honest, I really want to go to the capital with you to meet Mr. Gu. But... there is always a need to leave some regrets in life. If you meet him next time, tell me something: His world He is not the only one who firmly believes in the concept of peace. We, the old families of the Daping Dynasty, all support Mr. Gu's idea." The second master reassured Jing Yu.
"What are you going to do!" Jing Yu always felt that something bad was going to happen. He grabbed the second master's clothes, and the latter held up his close-fitting feather fan and strode toward the door.
Head Sikong Er shouted to the entire village: "Brothers! We have been together for three or four years! We have never been afraid of anyone! Today, a foreign enemy dares to challenge our authority! Everyone, come together and take down this thief!" After shouting, With these words, he burst out with the aura of the fifth-level god refining realm, like a spring breeze, leading more than fifty people to fight against the seventh-level demon.
Jing Yu regained his composure, put away his feather fan, and carried the unconscious Qiao Xu to find Ning Qu and Chen Xueyun.
As soon as Ningqu was about to release his magic power, he was stopped by Jing Yu who came over. He said, "Run, they are stalling for time. We cannot deal with the seventh-level consciousness. What's more, your situation is unstable and will affect other people." People fight.”
Chen Xueyun used talismans to take away the unconscious Qiao Xu and the dazed Ningqu first.
Jing Yu turned around and saw that the seventh-level demon struck out with his palm, like a big wave crashing on the shore. The majestic energy directly shattered several second- and third-level bandits. In his eyes, these fifty People are all ants.
There was no time for him to think, so Jing Yu also used the talisman and fled to the foot of the mountain. (To be continued)
