Humans practice by refining the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and gain the ability to control the wind and rain. The demon clan relies on refining the essence of trees, flowers, grass, and the sun and moon to obtain powerful magical powers. The growth of flowers, plants, and trees requires the nourishment of spiritual energy. In other words, In short, both the human race and the demon race are inseparable from spiritual energy.
The ghost tribe is just the opposite. They are born out of filth, absorbing the filthy air between heaven and earth to grow. They do not need spiritual energy at all, and even hate spiritual energy. Therefore, wherever the ghost tribe goes, their spiritual veins will be destroyed and become A land of lifeless filth. Without spiritual energy, all things will not grow; without spiritual energy, birds and beasts will become extinct; without spiritual energy, human cultivators will be unable to practice, and will not be able to absorb spiritual energy for a long time, which may even lead to the collapse of their realm. Because of this, the ghost clan was able to conquer nearly half of Xingchen Continent with overwhelming force. Wherever it passed, human cultivators fled and talked about ghosts changing their expressions.
Of course, the fundamental incompatibility between the ghost race and the human race makes it impossible for the human race and the ghost race to coexist. Therefore, once the ghost race encounters the human race, they will suck the soul. The only choice for cultivators when encountering the ghost race is to resist. , fight to the death. The demon tribe is different. They can coexist with humans, and they do not absorb souls. Therefore, they will not encounter the life-and-death resistance of human cultivators like the ghost tribe. They can even instigate cultivators for their own use.
Tianlang City was invaded by the ghost clan. Except for those who escaped by chance, all the human cultivators in the city became delicacies for the ghost clan. The spiritual veins in the city were destroyed, and the entire city turned into a death place filled with ghostly aura.
Every time the ghost army breaks through a city, it first kills all the cultivators in the city, then destroys the spiritual veins, and then launches a campaign to clear out the fleeing cultivators. With the city as the center, the ghost army wants to clear out thousands of miles around. scope.
Jing Shouren escaped from Tianlang City and hid in Tibet among the mountains. After experiencing many dangers, he finally successfully escaped the suppression of the ghost clan.
The mountain wind blows, and the yellow leaves all over the sky are falling rustlingly, showing an indescribable depression and loneliness. Jing Shouren bent down and picked up a yellowing Tong Maple leaf, his tired face looked quite sad, and the thirty-two brothers behind him were silent.
It is still late spring, but the leaves of Tongfeng have turned yellow. This is all due to the ghosts destroying the spiritual veins. The spiritual energy in the air is obviously getting thinner and thinner, so thin that it can't be felt.
Jing Shouren raised his head and saw that the mountains were silent, his eyes were desolate, and even the roars of spiritual beasts became extremely desolate. Jing Shouren suddenly felt a chill running through his body, and slowly turned around to look at the thirty-two brothers behind him who were in a state of embarrassment and exhaustion.
When he escaped from Tianlang City, there were nearly 300 people with Jing Shouren, but now there are only 32 people left, and all of them are injured, the magic weapons are seriously damaged, the elixirs and talismans on his body are all exhausted, and the souls are all gone. There are not many crystals left. If they continue to stay here, they will die here without the ghost clan searching for them.
"General, what should we do now?" a brother asked.
Jing Shouren was a black iron warrior who commanded a team of 5,000 men. During the battle in the middle of the Star Dou Mountains, the human army was severely defeated. Silver War General Fang Yunshan led the defeated troops to retreat five thousand miles to the west. However, Jing Shouren got separated from the main force and retreated to Tianlang City with his five thousand men. As a result, Tianlang City... It didn't take long for Wolf City to be attacked by the Ghost Clan. His 5,000 men and horses were destroyed along with Tianlang City, and only a few hundred people escaped.
Tianlang City was occupied by the ghost tribe, and the ghost tribe dominated almost all of the north. Now they could only escape to the southwest, and then take a detour back to join Fang Yunshan's main force.
"Go south, to Tiankui City!" Jing Shouren said in a heavy voice.
"General Jing, everyone says that Xingchen Continent cannot be defended. Why don't we just do what others do and directly cross the boundary river to Chongming Continent!"
Jing Shouren's face darkened, and he was about to scold him, but when he saw the hopeful expressions on the faces of his brothers, he sighed inwardly. Indeed, according to the current situation, it would only be a matter of time before Xingchen Continent fell. Even the lord of the continent, Luo Yang, fled westward. How can we still expect everyone to fight to the death
"Let's go to Tiankui City first and then make plans. With the few people we have now, let alone passing through the extremely dangerous and desolate land of the continent, it is unknown whether we can reach Tiankui City safely!" Jing Shouren said.
Everyone couldn't help feeling sad after hearing this. General Jing was indeed right. There were more than 300 people when they escaped. After nearly half a month of hiding in the mountains, more than 300 people died, and only 32 people were left, half of whom were Because of the encirclement and suppression by the ghost clan, the other half was because of the spiritual beasts. The spiritual veins are destroyed and the spiritual energy becomes thinner and thinner. To maintain the intake of spiritual energy, people can only rely on spiritual crystals or animal crystals. In this world lacking spiritual energy, not only the cultivators have become crazy, but also the spiritual beasts have become crazy. Nearly one-third of the more than 300 people died at the hands of the claws and teeth of the spiritual beasts, and some of them were killed. Killed by other cultivators.
A piece of spiritual crystal often leads to death. In such a cruel environment, it is not easy to travel tens of thousands of miles to reach Chongmingzhou safely. At least Jing Shouren himself does not have the confidence to complete such a task with a group of wounded soldiers. feat.
"Let's go to Xingkui City first and see if we can get some supplies!" Jing Shouren said.
"Xingkui City is thousands of miles away from here!" Someone whispered in a low voice.
"Stop talking nonsense, cheer up if you want to survive!" Jing Shouren shouted loudly.
The brothers couldn't help but trembled. They stood up with support on their tired bodies, released their equally listless flying mounts, and flew slowly towards Xingkui City in the southwest.
At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the team. One of the cultivators' flying mount was exhausted and fell down. The unlucky man was thrown to the cliff and died on the spot.
Looking at the battered and bloody body, Jing Shouren's facial muscles twitched, and one of the soldiers whispered: "General, the flying mount has no spiritual energy, and its physical strength is seriously exhausted. If this continues, there will be more He fell to death, Xiao Huang was so unjust!”
Now every piece of spiritual crystal is extremely valuable, who would be willing to use it to feed their mounts? But without a flying mount, let alone trekking thousands of miles to Xingkui City, even climbing over a few mountains would be exhausting to death.
Jing Shouren gritted his teeth, took out a few pieces of the few spiritual crystals from his storage belt, cut them open with his sword, gave each person a small piece, and warned sternly: "Feed it for your own mount, don't do it privately." Tibetan!"
The brothers held a small piece of spirit crystal, swallowed with eyes wide open, and fed the spirit crystal to their mounts honestly. They had no choice but to remember the tragic scene of the guy who fell to death just now, and we didn't want to be the second one.
The flying mount ate the spiritual crystal, and its strength obviously recovered, so it cheered up and continued flying forward. But as soon as the team flew more than ten miles, two extremely hungry level 3 gryphons pounced ferociously from the forest.
"Be careful!" Jing Shouren gave a sharp warning and drew out his sword.
Most of the people under Jing Shouren were below the spirit condensation stage, and they were injured and exhausted. How could they be the opponents of two ferocious third-level griffins? After just a few sprints, nearly ten people were killed or injured immediately, and each of the two griffons He grabbed the two bodies and left contentedly.
There are only twenty people left out of thirty-two!
Jing Shouren looked at the twenty brothers who were pale and trembling, and felt a sense of sadness in his heart. For these people, let alone Tiankui City, they would all be fed to the spirit beasts within a hundred miles. Nowadays, spiritual beasts are becoming more and more ferocious. In the past, they generally would not attack humans easily, unless human cultivators took the initiative to provoke them first, or no one broke into their territory.
"General, this is not the way to go. It's better for us to find a safe place to hide!" One brother suggested, and the others nodded in agreement.
Jing Shouren said in a deep voice: "Do you think it's safe to hide here? It won't take long for the spiritual energy here to become thinner, all the plants to die, and the hungry spiritual beasts to go crazy looking for food. Sooner or later, they will find you, Liu I will tear you apart and eat you one by one with my saliva!"
Everyone couldn't help but feel cold in their hearts, their hands and feet were cold, and they looked at each other in confusion!
"No more nonsense. Those who want to survive should leave with me. This way there is still a chance of survival. Staying here will lead to death sooner or later!" Jing Shouren said coldly, and reluctantly took out all the spiritual crystals on his body, and each person He handed out two pieces and ordered: "Give one piece to the mount, and absorb the other piece to restore spiritual power. From now on, we will rush to Tiankui City without stopping, and we must arrive within two days!"
The brothers looked at each other, fed a piece of spiritual crystal to the mount, and took the remaining piece to absorb and refine!
After eating enough spiritual crystals, the twenty-one Sky Wind Eagles couldn't help but feel energetic. They spread their wings and entered the clouds, flying forward at full speed. Fortunately, there is no need to worry about being attacked by spiritual beasts when flying in the clouds.
The group of people flew for a day and a night, and finally were not far from Tiankui City. Everyone couldn't help but feel excited and started to drive their horses at once. However, the flying mounts were exhausted from the high-intensity continuous flight. As a Sky Wind Eagle fell away from its force, one after another the Sky Wind Eagle also descended from the clouds and flew down towards the mountains below.
Just as Jing Shouren was waiting for him to land on a mountain peak, dozens of cultivators flew in from afar at lightning speed. One look at the appearance and they knew that they were coming with bad intentions.
When Jing Shouren saw the other Jin Dan leaders, his expression suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice: "What do you want to do? I am the Black Iron Warrior of the Star Army!"
"Master Jian, this guy is a black iron warrior, do you want to rob him or not?" Yin Buyou asked Fan Jianxiao, who was chattering next to him.
Before Fan Jian could say anything, the fat bull stick beside him rolled his mung bean eyes and said: "Zhan... The war general is a hammer, so just rob him. If you want to rob the spiritual crystal, you will also rob people. This is what Li Xiangzhu told you!" "
Yin Buyou's face twitched, thinking that back then, he just wanted to rob Li Xiangzhu, but he didn't expect to be robbed back. In the end, he became someone's thug inexplicably.