The Tao County government posted a notice before, prohibiting people from disseminating evil statues, and no one paid any attention to them—Tao County government has nothing to do all day long, so it collects exorbitant taxes. They all acted as if they were dead, not daring to approach Shiqili Town.
No one expected that the garrison would enter the city late at night and cut down trees as soon as they entered.
The roaring steam monster turned its flywheel and chopped off the huge tree that had grown for hundreds of years by the side of the road, followed by a small cart with a shovel, opened its toothy "big mouth", and smashed the tree in one gulp. The roots were dug out.
The big trees that had just struggled to emerge a little green from the shadow of the moon crashed down on the street, their branches trembling, and the flocks of birds startled, like a metaphor in the light of the still-dawn sky.
The fishy smell of tree sap was splashed, and the roaring machinery disturbed the neighbors. Like wild birds awakened by an earthquake, people peeked out from the cracks in doors and walls, and there were many voices in Xi Ping's ears—the panicked people began to take out the Tai Sui amulet to pray.
Xi Ping ignored it, there were no ghosts, gods and immortals in Tao County, and Yu Chang, who was suspected of being "Tai Sui", had already run away with the broken method and would not appear again. He's just a bastard who plays the piano and sings ditties no one wants to listen to. It's not up to him to guard the house and ward off evil spirits. He also didn't care about the garrison cutting down trees. Although reincarnated wood is a part of him, it is similar to hair and nails, and it doesn't hurt if it is bald, but the vision will be slightly limited in the future. But it's not that he doesn't have long legs for such a big man, so it's not a big problem—not to mention that Lu Wu is now scattered all over Tao County. It is his "eyes".
Xi Ping was just a little bit dumbfounded.
When he was trapped in the statue, he used the "heart demon oath" to fool Xu Rucheng into a big fool, and asked Da Chengzi to cut down trees for him. Unexpectedly, it was finally destroyed by the Western Chu garrison.
In the loud bang of "rumbling", Xi Ping slowly retracted his consciousness and withdrew his real body.
Tao County has been broken away from Lingshan under the pressure of breaking the law. Qilin Guards dare not come in easily, and the mortal garrison has become the biggest threat. The next thing is to see Lu Wu and the Xiabei Navy fighting for control of Tao County. It is true that Lu Wu does not have 100,000 people, but their communication is smooth, and the Land of Forbidden Spirits is blind to Sanyue Xianshan. They don't know what happened inside, and the Xiabei Garrison may not be of one mind with them—Third Brother guessed in his heart There is a charter.
Right now, Xi Ping has a more pressing matter on his mind: his master.
Zhixiu restores all kinds of dazzling ancient battlefields in breaking the law every day, which makes the young apprentices run wild. In fact, it is only Xi Ping who cooperates with the teaching. Xi Ping has complete control over Fa-breaking, and he knows how many leaves will grow from which grass... How could he fail to notice that Master's spiritual consciousness in breaking Fa is getting weaker and weaker
With the reincarnation wooden sign on Lin Chi's body, he secretly turned back to Xuanyin Mountain to take a look, and saw an ominous layer of fog rising on the Feiqiong Peak that closed the mountain. Master Lin Feng said that the sky over Feiqiong Peak has never cleared up since General Zhi’s sword qi struck the catastrophe bell...Even the elder Siming has recently kept silent about Lu Wu’s increasingly rampant overseas activities—"enlightened" and "Lu Wu" "I" was approved by Zhao Yin, the elder of Si Li, and Zhang Jue always disapproved of it. There is no way to set up a enlightenment department, but "Lu Wu" was suppressed by Zhang Jue for several years. Si Xing shifted from being neutral to Zhao Yin, and Zhou Ying really couldn't plant the evil seed of Lu Wu. In the past, Lu Wu asked for money and fairy artifacts, but he would definitely be beaten back when he came to Si Ming. , and because of this, Lu Wu has never been able to become independent from the Kaiming Division. This year, Zhang Jue actually shut down and didn't say a word, which shows that the furnace is imminent.
Xi Ping sent a batch of newly arrived celestial artifacts to Xu Rucheng and others who were on the way north by breaking the law. After giving them some instructions, it was already dawn when he returned.
That day Second Grandma Tao got up before he took the huqin to mourn the funeral. Xi Ping opened the window and looked down and felt that the atmosphere was not right.
He bumped into cook Tao Dayu head-on, and the stuttering cook was snotting and tearing. Seeing Xi Ping, he couldn't help turning his face away and rubbing his eyes on his armpit.
Only then did Xi Ping ask, "What's the matter?"
Then I heard Grandma Tao's resonant voice resounding in the small courtyard: "Let them cut it off! Cut off all of them! If they have the ability to cut off the heads of the whole county! Things whose graves have been struck by lightning..."
As he said that, he began to talk about his mother and make trouble for Lao Tzu later. The tenants were all regular customers, seeing her yelling all over the ten miles and eight villages, they tried to persuade her.
"Keep down, calm down. People have knives and guns in their hands. My grandma, what do you have?"
"My old lady has an axe, and she split the coffin boards of his eight generations of ancestors!" Second Mistress Tao rolled her eyes, and said to Tao Dayu in a rough voice, "Why cry, the sky in Tao County can't go back, Er Grandma said it!"
Xi Ping stretched out his hand and hooked Tao Dayu's shoulder: "Did you hear that? Heaven has to obey Second Grandma's order—you are afraid that if they cut Yanyun Liu, those monks will come back?"
The old charcoal peddler who was smoking dry tobacco next to him interjected: "At the beginning, I was almost arrested to be the baby who died for me. It's because the child is not smart enough, and I can't sell it. Now I see the calves of those celestial beings twisting." ,pitiful."
Xi Ping was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask, "Then why are you still hanging around in Yehu Township?" Second Grandma Tao said "Wow, wow!", and the little cook was made to run around again and again. Xi Ping stood on the sidelines for a moment, suddenly swallowed back the question: it was because of the second grandma that the little cook was shivering and "twirling his muscles", while insisting on staying in this place where demons danced wildly. A drowned puppy will also hunch its back and follow its dependents inseparably.
However, things soon exceeded Xi Ping's expectations.
Not long after the garrison arrived, they chopped up the reincarnated wood on the roadside in Tao County, and people dared not speak out. Fear and anxiety spread under the seemingly peaceful Tao County. Only "Tai Sui" knew that when the autumn wind howled, those late-night whispers echoing in the broken law could no longer be ignored and interfered with his cultivation.
With a wave of Zhi Xiu's hand, he withdrew from the simulated ancient battlefield in the breaking method. The master and apprentice did nothing that day and listened all night.
Some people begged Tai Sui repeatedly, don't let Tao County go back to the past. Some people hope that Tai Sui can show his spirit again and strike these Qiu Ba to death with a few thunderstorms. Someone was so bold in the dead of night that he cursed Sanyue Mountain and cursed all the monks "rebelliously"... Fortunately, his voice could not be heard within the law-breaker.
Xi Ping was dumbfounded when he heard this. He had been in Yehu Township for more than five years, and had experienced ups and downs in the fate of various people. The people who could drag his consciousness away naturally had their own misfortunes, but they all had a face of numbness, nervousness and resignation. He had never heard so much anger.
It seems that Tao County has banned spirits, driving away the spiritual energy and charms of the immortals. People silently observed those monks, and after discovering that those people were also mortals, they seemed to finally realize that many natural disasters were man-made disasters.
"The civil strife in Dawan a few years ago also started with an assassination in Su Ling. It doesn't matter who killed or killed anyone. As long as the word 'no' in 'dare not be angry' is removed, the embankment will collapse for thousands of miles. Zhi Xiu sighed in a low voice, "The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is blowing over the building."
His last sentence fell silent, and suddenly, as if he had realized something, the ray of consciousness in breaking the law suddenly dissipated, and he returned to Xuanyin Mountain. There was a sudden thunderclap in the gloomy sky of Feiqiong Peak, and the disciple watching the alchemy furnace on Jinxia Peak trembled, and a furnace of elixir was destroyed.
Xi Ping had a bad intuition, thinking that something might happen.
In his distraught, the next day—the third day of September, the Zhao family arrived at Dongheng, the capital of the Western Chu Kingdom, carrying their mobile secret realm on their backs.
Xi Ping went to Dongheng with his grandfather's family when he was a child, and now he revisits the old place with Xu Rucheng, and he hardly knows him.
In Tao County, steam boilers are the most advanced thing common people can see every day, and most people still drink water from wells. Not to mention the bumpy dirt road, the cars are soaring, and the horses are all crippled.
However, Dongheng seemed to be an illusion.
Dongheng City is located on the side of the Dongheng Sanyue Mountain Range, and it is built on the mountain. At a glance, it is impossible to count how many floors this city has.
Cattle and horses can only walk on special paths, and the tracks are paved everywhere. Small steam cars like miniature Tengyun Jiao are running back and forth between the tracks, and on the other side, unscrupulous monks pass by with their swords in broad daylight. Looking from bottom to top, the field of vision can only see the mountainside, and the top is covered with steam and mist, only the colorful lights fall down, and it is impossible to distinguish between morning and evening, day and night.
The imperial city overlooks Dongyue City from a high position. It is brightly lit at night, like a huge mythical beast crouching among the mountains and rivers.
Concubine Qing, the grandson of the Yujiawan family, sent people to welcome the Zhao family outside the city. At this time, Xu Rucheng, who was pretending to be Zhao Xidan, put on a snow-white veil on his head, and two rows of beautiful maids waited with lowered eyebrows to help the young lady get off the carriage.
If it weren't for Lu Wu's mask to support him, Xu Rucheng would have been stunned by the scene, got out of the carriage in a daze, stepped on the land of Dongheng, and the invisible aura spread from his feet.
Xu Rucheng was shocked: Dongheng Street is actually covered with magic circles!
"Calm down," Xi Ping said, "you have a golden hand on your shoes."
Xu Rucheng swallowed his saliva: "Tai Sui, what kind of magic circle is this?"
"Surveillance records," Xi Ping and the imperial city looked at each other, "As long as you step on the land of Dongheng, you can be tracked by Sanyue Xianshan. If they want, they can know what you are doing and where you are at any time. Be careful, Dongheng Sanyue's talisman inscription is the most famous in the world, it is not possible to sit back and relax with the backing of Yueyue Peak."
Xu Rucheng trembled: "My grandma, the whole city? How many spirit stones do you need to burn? This..."
He hadn't finished his poor lectures when he heard a "swoosh", and the Palace of Prince Qing lit up fireworks to welcome the guests.
Those were not ordinary fireworks, they were lit by spirit stones, and the moment they spread out in mid-air, the spirit energy rushed straight into the hearts of the spectators. The moment the fireworks started, Wei Chengxiang and several Lu Wus in Tao County contacted Xi Ping at the same time with the reincarnated wood: "Tai Sui, something happened!"
Xi Ping allocated half of his consciousness and returned to Tao County from Dongheng City. Before the shadow of the fireworks dissipated in his eyes, he saw a corpse lying on the ground in the autumn rain and mud.
The root of this disaster was planted when the garrison first entered Tao County.
In the beginning, a relatively well-off family in the local area begged the garrison not to cut down the reincarnated wood on the hilltop of their ancestral grave, saying that the old tree was old and it was responsible for the feng shui of the yin house, and begged the military master for "lenient". This is also no way to avoid disasters, but unexpectedly pointed out a way for the wolves to make money.
After the reincarnated trees on the road in Tao County were almost cleared up by the garrison, they began to target the trees on the roofs of people's houses—and not limited to reincarnated trees.
Not long after, a semi-public price list began to spread among the people-how much money can prevent soldiers from breaking into the house, how much money can cut down trees without digging up roots, and without harming household items... The price is not constant, it only rises and does not fall .
Later, the garrison publicly demanded that all the residents turn in the belongings that Yanyunliu had beaten. If they didn't properly clear up the relationship, they would be waiting for their homes to be ransacked, and they would be charged with "private sacrifice to evil gods."
Just after noon that day, a group of hangover garrison soldiers broke into a private house that refused to "ask for accommodation". sacrificial objects". The "sacrificial objects" found included tables, chairs, cabinets... and even a spiritual tablet!
Seeing that the spiritual tablet was about to be thrown into the fire, the head of the household's son couldn't bear it any longer, he pulled out an adze, and caught off guard the soldier who was about to burn the spiritual tablet until his brains were splashed.
At that time, everyone was sober from the wine, and after a moment of stupefaction, they were frightened and angry, and immediately wanted to take down the "murderer", and the accumulated public grievances exploded at once.
First, the surrounding neighbors spoke aloud, from refraining from reasoning to unscrupulous scolding, to the whole street running out of men, women and children, it was less than a stick of incense.
People surrounded the group of soldiers and ruffians, and when Xi Ping came back, both sides had already started fighting.
In the chilling autumn wind, Donghengqing Palace used aura to force open the garden full of out-of-season flowers, and spread a fragrant carpet to welcome the distinguished guests.
Tao County is bleeding for a few pieces of bad wood.
This happened not far from where Wei Chengxiang and the others lived.
Zhao Xidan pulled out a sword from the silver pancai machine, weighed it in his hand, turned around and left.
Wei Cheng grabbed her tightly: "What are you doing?"
The eldest lady has always been cautious and arrogant, and she is a bit withdrawn. It's not that her upbringing is bad and rude to others, but she is specifically manifested in her unwillingness to owe favors. The neighbor took out some wild bird eggs and sent them, and she wished she could get something back that day. Wei Cheng could not listen to a few perfunctory words, and she could ask them eight times in one hour—as if those wild eggs were smashed. she is gone.
When registering the population, the neighbors who didn't have much contact with each other backed up once, and that incident pierced her flesh like a thorn, and now she seized the opportunity, and she was going to go out immediately to return the love.
"Don't rub the fire," Wei Cheng said in a deep voice, "Don't you think the matter is not serious enough? You stay here."
Zhao Xiedan: "It was those bastards who took the opportunity to cause trouble. If you ask me, they should have been killed long ago..."
"Then do you think the law doesn't blame the public?" Wei Chengxiang interrupted her, "Damn it."
Zhao Xidan was stunned for a moment, always feeling that for a moment, an indescribable haze crossed the man's face.
Before she could say anything, their house with dilapidated bricks and tiles vibrated faintly, followed by shouts and chaotic footsteps, followed by a bang of firecrackers—