Now, the demons in the mountains and forests have come out to cause trouble, attacking cities and territories, eating all the villages and towns they passed along the way, and everyone has entered their stomachs, and they are extremely cruel.
Nowadays, it is rumored that there is a big demon in the mountains and forests, who claims to be the Demon King of Huangshan Mountain. He leads all the demons in the mountains and forests and kills countless people in densely populated places along the way.
To the east of Guide Mansion, Xiayi County and Yucheng County to the north of Hecheng County have already been captured, and both counties have fallen.
Now the Demon King of Huangshan is leading 30,000 demon soldiers to attack Shangqiu, the Guide City. It seems that Shangqiu City cannot hold back for long and is about to fall.
And this Hecheng County was completely disconnected from the city. It was surrounded by this demon. It was unknown when it would be broken through. Everyone became the prey of the demon.
Nowadays, as more and more bad news comes, there are even small groups of demons coming and going around the county. They are raiding all directions and devouring humans, which makes the entire county panic.
The county magistrate ordered villagers from all over the country to gather and form village warriors to defend their homes. Recruiting talents everywhere, begging those with supernatural powers to come and help defend the city, as if a war was imminent.
But in the end, this is of no use at all. At most, it will delay their demise for a day or two!
Zhong Yu was walking on the streets of the city. Teams of soldiers with nervous faces and fearful faces were patrolling around, checking the people passing by to see if there were any spies of the demon among them.
The surrounding civilians all looked frightened and had their thoughts in a hurry. The traders and travelers who used to often come out to sell goods were also missing. The wide street looked very desolate.
Even the grain store that was supposed to be booming when the war came, not many people came to patronize it.
Because everyone in the city knows that if the demon really attacks, the battle will not last more than a few days and the city will be destroyed and people will be killed.
At that time, no matter how much food you buy, it will be of no use!
All in all, there is no trace of vitality in this city. Everything is filled with dead silence, exuding an aura of decadence and decay.
"It seems that if there is no external intervention, this small county will fall within this period of time."
With Zhong Yu's knowledge, he naturally knew why the entire Guide Mansion was ravaged by demons, and even the Mansion City Shangqiu City was caught in the flames of war, making it difficult to protect itself.
But why is it that such a county with low defenses, city walls in disrepair, and no combat power can survive on its own, and no demons have come to attack it after such a long time.
It wasn't because he was surrounded by demons and couldn't escape.
In addition, the King of Huangshan is mobilizing all the demons to prepare for a tough battle with the incoming reinforcements from Dongjiang Province in Guide City, in order to determine the ownership of the entire Guide City and even the power structure of Dongjiang Province.
This is the time to gather all the strength to face the fateful battle that will follow. How can there be any energy to dispatch troops to attack Hecheng County.
That's why Hecheng County can be preserved until now.
However, as time goes by, no matter who wins, he will inevitably fall.
If the demon wins, Hecheng County, which is left alone in the rear and surrounded by demons, will naturally find it difficult to survive, and death is inevitable.
On the other hand, if the monster is defeated, then as the monster army withdraws, they obviously will not mind killing such an ant on their way back, killing all the blood and food on it, and finally having a feast.
Therefore, there is only one fate for the entire Hecheng County, which is death. The only difference is when to die.
This is why everyone in the entire county, whether they are soldiers or civilians, looks desperate.
There was no hope for anything in the future, no motivation for anything, and he looked like he was waiting to die.
Even the county magistrate, who is now actively building an army and recruiting talents, has to make a desperate struggle because the surrounding roads are surrounded by demons and there is no direction to escape.
Otherwise, if the demon is willing to give him a way out and let the county magistrate leave, he will definitely take the money he has collected over the years and flee directly, without having any influence on the lives of the untouchables in the city.
After walking around the city, carefully observing the situation in the county, and understanding everyone's thoughts, Zhong Yu achieved his goal and returned to the inn where he currently lives, resting there without going out. thought.
The most prosperous business nowadays is probably these inns.
Rural towns across the county have become unsafe due to small groups of demons.
Therefore, wealthy families with some money and some armed forces all moved to the county with their servants as guards.
How could a small county town accommodate so many people, so many people stayed in inns, waiting for their final fate here.
Nowadays, the inn is full of people. Feeling sad, they all go to the wine table on the first floor to drink and soothe their sorrows, constantly telling their own depression and fears about the future.
Zhong Yu sat quietly among them, drinking fine wine alone, listening to the words of those in his ears, and collecting information he didn't know from them, so as to improve his understanding of the world.
From the conversations of these people, Zhong Yu slowly learned about the world.
After all, although he had used some means before, he had a rough look at all the books in the county, and he also had some understanding of the world's history, geography, and humanities and customs.
But after all, it is not perfect. How much book collection can a small county have? Nothing compares to the words and deeds of these people.
From the conversation just now, Zhong Yu roughly understood the current world of cultivation, that is, the form of those who possess extraordinary power.
Today's practitioners in the human world are roughly divided into three groups.
The first is the Taoist sect. Taoists practice breathing and breathing, and become immortals through cultivation. They have mastered various magical powers and are the most powerful.
The second is Buddhism, which appeared later than Taoism, but later gradually caught up, and its strength is not much worse than Taoism, ranking second in the world.
The third is the mainstream of the world, Confucianism, which holds power in various places. These Confucian scholars have cultivated the Qi of Haoran to such an advanced level that they can retreat all evil spirits with just one word, which is quite powerful. Under that huge base, his strength is quite extraordinary, ranking third in the world.
Although there are still some sects of thought and scattered people from various places, compared with these three sects that have a system, have the same beliefs, and are supported by dynasties in various places, they are far behind and cannot be on the stage. of.
Moreover, these cultivators did not disappear in the mountains and forests, but appeared frequently in the eyes of the world, competing with each other for the world's faith, and there were many conflicts between them.
However, the respective strengths of these schools and the corresponding hierarchy are not very clear.
After all, it is just a remote small county on the frontier. How can you know so much? Being able to understand the divisions of such a few cultivation schools is already very good. How can you expect anything else.
However, judging from the news obtained in this county, the King of Huangshan is raging throughout Guide Prefecture. When I heard that when he took action, there was black smoke for ten miles around, making it difficult to see the sky. A bloody mouth can swallow thousands of people, and his strength is terrifying. Extremely.
Judging from his actions, this Huangshan King should be at the demigod level, belonging to the sixth level.
This is very scary. A demigod is born in a mountain forest thousands of miles away. From this, the entire Liaozhai world is vast. There are countless thousands of miles of mountains and forests, thousands of miles of plains, and how many Huangshan kings can be born.
Even the seventh-level strength and even the eighth-level gods and demons can be seen everywhere.
"The water in this world is very deep!"
Thinking that in this world, there are so many powerful people and countless difficulties and obstacles, but he dare not say that he can survive alone, Zhong Yu couldn't help but feel a little solemn.
However, he immediately became more full of fighting spirit.
"Only in this kind of world can I have the opportunity to break through the boundaries between heaven and man and break the curse!"
(End of chapter)