The county seat of Yujun is also called Yucheng. It is located in the center of Yujun and the center of the entire Yuzhou. It is a giant city built because of the Shaking Sky Sect. It is at the foot of the Shaking Sky Peak. , this city has accompanied the Shaking Sky Sect through countless years since its birth.
At this time, Yang Junshan followed a caravan he met on the way to this city with thousands of years of history. He couldn't help but recall what he had experienced on the road in the past two months.
When Yang Junshan set out from Xishan Village two months ago, he regarded this trip to the county as a trip, a trip to increase his knowledge. However, the process of this journey gave Yang Junshan a rather creepy feeling.
After leaving Mengyu County, Yang Junshan joined a caravan heading north, and the destination of this caravan was the same as Yang Junshan's, which was Yucheng, the county seat of Yu County.
As for Yang Junshan's joining, especially after learning that Yang Junshan was a warrior monk, the caravan manager welcomed him. The addition of a warrior monk would significantly improve the strength of the caravan. Help, although in Yang Junshan's opinion, this caravan with three warrior realm monks is already strong enough.
However, after walking on the commercial road opened between the mountains and forests for less than two days, Yang Junshan encountered a monk with a shaved head and linen clothes walking barefoot on the road. He passed by him in the caravan's convoy. When speaking, this person even put his hands together and saluted slightly.
Buddhist monks!
Yang Junshan even had the violent thought of killing someone for a moment, but in the end he held it back, and then he heard a sudden burst of laughter from beside him.
"Haha, brother Yang, don't panic, these people won't cause trouble. You haven't seen such people, have you?"
Shopkeeper Liu of the caravan and the other two warrior realm monks looked at Yang Junshan with amused expressions, the wariness that had not yet dissipated on Yang Junshan's face.
"So Shopkeeper Liu and the two fellow Taoists have seen people dressed like this before?"
Seeing the doubtful look on Yang Junshan's face, Shopkeeper Liu explained: "To be honest, the old merchant was very wary when he saw these people for the first time, and even almost took action, on the road in this barren mountain and forest. "When a person walks on the road like this, it's hard not to associate them with the robbers who cut the path."
The other two warrior realm monks also nodded in agreement. Caravans like them, who walk in the wild all year round, are often wary and hostile to the people they encounter on the road, and can even take action based on mere suspicion. Killing people, these are nothing.
In his previous life, Yang Junshan had followed the caravan when he was down and he knew the doorways inside very clearly. However, Yang Junshan noticed the "these" in shopkeeper Liu's words, so he asked: "Are these people? There are a lot of them. From the tone of the shopkeeper, it seems that I often meet these people!”
Shopkeeper Liu pondered for a moment and said: "Almost every time when doing business, you can meet one or two on the business road. These people are very strange. They always walk alone. It is rare to see more than two people. They walk in groups, and many of them are barefoot, and their faces are full of dust every time they see them.”
Shopkeeper Liu opened his chat box and never closed it before he finished speaking, and then continued: "But it turned out that these people are indeed no threat to the caravan, but don't think that they can be provoked without hesitation because they are not a threat. Hehe, this
None of these people are easy to deal with! "
When he said that it was difficult to deal with, a strange color flashed across Shopkeeper Liu's face, as if he had recalled something. It seemed that Shopkeeper Liu had suffered hidden losses at the hands of these Buddhist monks, otherwise he would not have been able to deal with these Buddhist monks. The monk is so familiar.
However, Shopkeeper Liu's words that were difficult to deal with suddenly reminded Yang Junshan of a different kind of anomaly among the Buddhist monks in his previous life, that is, the ascetic monk!
Unlike other Buddhist monks who widely spread their teachings and develop followers, and use the free offerings of believers to hoard cultivation resources, the ascetic monks regard suffering as a kind of practice and a tempering of will. Compared with other Buddhist monks, they use exquisite methods to The illusion of lotuses spitting out of the mouth and golden lotuses emerging from the ground was created through illusions to defraud believers of their material and money. The ascetic monk obviously made Yang Junshan more sympathetic.
But at this time, Yang Junshan thought of something again and asked shopkeeper Liu: "These ascetic monks are so weird, haven't they attracted the attention of the forces in the counties and towns along the way? Didn't the Shaking Sky Sect come to check the details of these people?" ?”
Shopkeeper Liu said in astonishment: "What's there to check? Everyone has their own way of practicing. Just like this way of practicing long distances on foot, it is not uncommon in the world of cultivation, especially for those who practice special body-building secrets. , not to mention that this kind of physical walking is a kind of training for the monks’ will.”
Yang Junshan blinked, not knowing what to say. When he turned around to look, the monk walked again after the caravan completely passed by, but the distance from the caravan fell further and further until he disappeared at the end of the back road. .
Then, as Shopkeeper Liu said, they met two more ascetic monks walking on the road. The last time they met, the ascetic monk with a sad face but couldn't tell his approximate age was collecting several bodies on the roadside. A corpse that has been bitten and has no human shape.
When the caravan passed by, shopkeeper Liu stopped and asked a few men to dig a hole with the ascetic monk to bury the deceased.
"Hey, he was attacked and killed by ferocious beasts," Shopkeeper Liu sighed and said, "In recent years, there have been more and more ferocious beasts, and they have become smarter and smarter. Many ferocious beasts that used to walk alone have now learned how to After joining forces, many caravans have been attacked in recent years, and news of monks being killed has spread."
The look on Yang Junshan's face was uncertain, and the evil spirit lingering in the woods on the roadside that had not yet dissipated told him who the real ferocious beast was.
"Isn't it strange that the number of ferocious beasts has increased and they attack pedestrians on the road so frequently?" Yang Junshan suppressed his emotions and asked pretending to be puzzled.
"Brother Yang, you look like a person who has never traveled far. Is it any wonder that so many people died in this barren mountain and forest? It was only those of us who have been doing business all year round and the caravans running back and forth who noticed it. Besides, those ferocious beasts It only appears in old roads in the barren mountains where there are few people living there. However, no ferocious beast dares to approach any inhabited villages or towns. Are we supposed to go deep into the mountains and forests to hunt ferocious beasts?"
"Then you can report to Shaking Sky Sect and find out why these ferocious beasts have become so smart and why they frequently attack passers-by. Is that okay?"
"Why should they help us?" Shopkeeper Liu's sarcasm was no longer concealed: "The lives of us businessmen are not worth so many jade coins. Besides, ferocious beasts are still ferocious beasts after all. No matter how smart you are, you can't become a human being. If you A tide of beasts has formed, but we don’t have to run into the wilderness to search for it!”