Chapter 32: The Inland and the Outland

The celestial phenomenon of the falling stars shocked the world, and the news of the dragon veins in Stone City was abnormal, and the news of the tragic deaths of countless strong people spread at an alarming speed in Yunlu.

"Xiao Qingshan is dead, Xiao Qingshan is dead!" the newspaper vendor on a busy street kept shouting.

"Here it is again, Xiao Qingshan dies every day, and he has been dead for five or six years......"

"Ergouzi, you won't change celebrities and continue to fool?"

People on the street who are familiar with the tricks of hawking newspapers have ridiculed that people like Xiao Qingshan are well-known by Yunlu people because they are well-known and well-known, so they are often used as sales tactics by newspaper sellers.

"I really didn't lie this time!" the newspaper vendor replied with a flushed face, "Didn't you see the stars in the middle of the night? Xiao Qingshan really died this time, and even the small city where he was located was razed to the ground!"

"What? Is that traitor really dead?"

"Give Uncle a look!"

People on the side of the street who didn't take it seriously began to flock to the vendors. In the blink of an eye, the newspaper was snatched up.

This kind of situation has appeared in different regions in the south and north of the world, relying on the transmission note, the transmission array and the mature newspaper system, the changes in Stone Town yesterday have been rumored all over the world in one day!

"I have known for a long time that Stone Town is a big pit, but fortunately Lao Tzu didn't go!" said a man in a strong suit looking at a newspaper in a restaurant.

A table of Jianghu guests drinking next to him interjected: "A few of us went there, but we found that there was too much murder, so we ran back again." β€œ

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Alas, you guys are quite wise!" a white-haired old man sighed, "Our young proprietor is a little greedy, and he has to buy land at a low price at that moment. Obviously, I saw signs of the government's blockade on the airship, and I wanted to make a fortune from those evacuated merchants, but I didn't hear from him yesterday. ”

The newspaper said that this stone city was first razed to the ground by artillery fire, and then there was a dragon vein mutation, and people and animals were extinct within a radius of 100 miles, and there was no armor left. The man reading the newspaper shook the newspaper in his hand and said.

Before the words fell, a sneer came from the lower floor of the restaurant.

"Hehe, Yu Er, your official newspaper is now outdated. A new person in the restaurant sneered, "The new business newspaper in my hand says that Stone Town not only has people survived, but also become a place full of treasures and magic weapons!"

"How is this possible?!"

"How is it impossible! According to me, the court is actually covering up the truth, think about how many monks and strong people have died there, the sky in the middle of the night shows that the peerless powerhouses such as Zhenjun, Earth Immortals, and Wenzong have all fallen, where will the property and magic weapons on their bodies be after they are wiped out by the dragon vein? You must know that the dragon vein has always only killed people and not destroyed things. ”

As soon as this person said this, many monks in the restaurant instantly became enthusiastic, and some rookie monks with poor concentration were ready to get up and rush to Stone Town immediately.

"It's late, it's late...... Not to mention that it has been blocked by the army for a long time, even if it is not blocked, it will take us five days to get to Stone Town at the earliest. ”

"That Stone Town is not a place like the Blessed Land Cave Heaven that requires a long time to explore, and in five days, the daylilies are cold. ”

"That's just as well. Except for the local monks in Leizhou, it doesn't take a few days for the monks from any state to go to Stone City. ”

As soon as a few experienced monks in the restaurant analyzed, they immediately dispelled the idea of many people panning for gold, and everyone was unhappy and could only secretly scold the Leizhou monks for taking shit luck.

Time flashed back a few hours ago.

On the Stone Cliff Mountain Road connecting Stone Town and Qiongya County, a tall trap beast is running rapidly.

This beast is about two feet long, with a straight and long head and long limbs, and lifelike like a giant horse. However, if you look closely, you will notice that there are many textures on the surface, and the shell is made of wood.

Just five miles in front of the Trap Beast, a faintly recognizable light yellow mist penetrated the sky, seeming to separate the inner and outer worlds.

"No! The dragon veins in front are cut off, and if you go any further, you will have to go out of the inland. A panicked sound suddenly came from the belly of the beast.

Another deep voice in the belly of the beast said: "What do you have to worry about when we get here! We will definitely be on the blacklist of the government when we go out of the city overnight, and if we don't gain anything, then we will be called wronged!"

"But the environment in the outer land is completely different from the mainland. A female voice interjected, "Is it too unwise for us to go in so unprepared?" ”

"In my opinion, this is an opportunity......" a deep voice suddenly spoke.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but the people we met along the way were all ordinary monks with no background like us, and none of those unbeatable family monks had ever met. ”

As soon as the voice said this, several of the trapped beasts suddenly fell silent.

With their knowledge, they naturally know what those people or the families behind them have in mind, and they are nothing more than treating them as cannon fodder for clearing wasteland, waiting for rabbits.

Stone Town, which I am going to go to this time, is extremely inaccessible despite its location at the junction of the coast.

To the south and east is the sea, and it is difficult to move an inch without ships. In the west, it is a Baiyue mountain that is difficult for birds to cross, and even the two dynasties of Duanheng have not been able to open a road connecting Yuezhou.

In the end, there is only one official road to go from the north, and no matter what they get from it, they will eventually have to go back from this road.

"Hahaha! They shouldn't know that Stone Town has become an outland, otherwise they would have given us a head start. ”

"Stone Town's transformation into an Outlands is a godsend! Whatever we do here, we won't be detected by the dragon veins. ”

"The government and the family dare to manipulate us, and they don't rely on the three prohibitions and seven seals of the dragon vein! Now that these prohibitions are gone, we can also wait for the rabbit and ambush those geniuses of the family. ”

In a few words, several of the trapped beasts had already reacted. This outland is different from the inland, and the rules of the inland society are not governed here!

The order of the 36 inland states is built on a strong dragon vein system. Even if there are disputes between the underworld and the good and evil, they must be carried out according to certain rules, and they will not kill innocents unless they have to. And the outer realm don't have to worry about this, there is no human dragon vein restriction here, everything is respected by the strong!

Murder and treasure grabbing, obliteration of sanity, forced enslavement, soul control and self-explosion, resurrection of the undead, human body transformation...... All things that were taboo in the 36 inland states were commonplace in the outer lands.

Here, the strong can do things to destroy the family because they are unhappy for a while, but in the inland, they have to worry about being locked by the dragon vein and being wanted and hunted down by the government.

Here, even a beggar may become a strong man because of an adventure, and in the inland he can only hand over to the government and be privately swallowed by the family.

The Outlands are chaotic, but at the same time liberal.

Three thousand years ago, the era of the Immortal Dynasty ended, and there was no co-owner of the interior and the outer lands since then.

In the new era, the emperor of the people and the hundred schools of thought that control the ideological field of the dynasty raised the humane banner of "everyone is equal" in an attempt to unify the entire Yunlu civilization. However, the cultivation sect led by the Daomen did not sit still, they absorbed some of the ideas of the Heavenly Demons, played the two cards of "freedom" and "opposition to tyranny", and in just a few years, formed a united front of Panyun Land.

This united front includes almost all the cultivation systems and intelligent races of the Yunlu civilization, and the Humane Dynasty cannot be completely defeated, and in the end, the two sides can only sign a protocol in the divine capital to build the "Yunlu Three Agreements" system and restore the order of Yunlu. According to the system of agreements, all-out wars between dynasties and foreign lands became forbidden. Unless the era of 100 schools of thought comes to an end and the agreement automatically expires, the two sides cannot fight.

It's just that although the real war has stopped, the war in the ideological field has begun.

The dynasty is outside the Confucian and internal law, the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and before the law, there is no superiority. The jungle of the jungle in the outer lands, the survival of the fittest, self-will, above all else.

"Equality" and "freedom" became the core of the propaganda of the dynasty and the foreign lands, and the fierce competition between the two sides brought the Yunlu civilization into a golden age. At that time, the Yunlu civilization could be said to be the most powerful civilization in the floating sea, and even in the entire Central Plains, and its reputation was spread overseas.

It's a pity that the advent of the four demon tribulations interrupted the development process of Yunlu, and it was a mess after the demon tribulation. In order to maintain their rule, the royal family of the Ling Dynasty attacked the old school and supported the new school. The "equality" propagated by the first three dynasties has become that of kings and ministers, fathers and sons, and the people share the world with the people.

The dynasty lost its original banner of humanity, discarded the concept of inclusiveness, and retreated in the ideological competition of a hundred years, with the continuous outflow of local talents, the inability to introduce foreign talents, and the decline in strength, which indirectly led to the unilateral war between Daomen and the Duan Dynasty. The dynasty of the Hundred Schools of Thought died at the hands of the Outer Lands for the first time.

The Heng Dynasty, established three hundred years ago, learned the lessons of the previous dynasty. Dynasty Taizu Hengyuanxiang not only suppressed the hundred schools, but also relied on the unique dragon vein excavation technology to support the Wuxun nobles, established the four border army shogunates in the outer regions, and carried out siege and land grabbing. The Heng Dynasty was finally able to surpass the unparalleled martial arts of the previous dynasties and suppress the foreign sects.

It's just that this is completely a palliative rather than a cure, and as the Heng Dynasty grows older, the drawbacks in the field of consciousness are becoming more and more prominent.

Among the various popular novels in Yunlu, the most popular one is always the Diaosi counterattack novel.

Almost all the low-level protagonists of this type have a bitter beginning, either they were destroyed by the wealthy family, or they were robbed of their fiancΓ©es by the disciples of the family...... And the beginning of the rise of the protagonists basically relied on various adventures and almost masochistic cultivation.

This kind of routine has precedents to follow in the era of the Zong Kingdom 6,000 years ago and in today's foreign lands, but it is not valid in today's Heng Dynasty.

First of all, any blessed land, cave sky, and treasure house in the thirty-six states will be perceived by the dragon vein, which leads to the fact that the protagonist of the adventure system will fall into the vast sea of government and family before he has achieved cultivation.

Secondly, the three prohibitions and seven seals of the dragon vein suppress the vast majority of magic weapons, and unless the protagonist of the treasure system gets the Huangquan Diagram, Brahma Bead, Taishang Chapter and other heavenly list artifacts, they will be in a dilemma like Xiao Qiang a few months ago.

In the end, even if you don't rely on external objects, the hard-working protagonist of masochistic cultivation will be unable to move an inch because of hitting the ceiling of cultivation.

Taking a large number of martial cultivators as an example, the first three levels of the ninth order have many cultivation paths. In addition to buying cheats, civilians can also enter the martial arts academies of various states to visit and study. As long as you work hard enough, even a mediocre person with reckless qualifications can become a third-order Xuanwu cultivator. It's a pity that from the fourth order, the cultivation channels of inland civilian cultivators are getting narrower and narrower, and the places that provide higher martial arts methods and cultivation resources are either famous martial arts schools or martial arts sects, in addition to the quota and qualification certification, there must also be a letter of recommendation from a well-known person!

This means that if you don't have connections and don't get the favor of high-level people, you have to rely on other means. This directly led to most of the third-order cultivators beginning to wander the rivers and lakes and accumulate cultivation resources through other channels.

Therefore, the adventure counterattack novel that the public likes to see in Yunlu is, to put it bluntly, just a dream that anesthetizes itself.

In the frenzy of the song in the cold, in the sky to see the abyss. See nothing in all eyes, and be saved in hopelessness.

It is precisely because they are well aware of the huge gap between themselves and the family and know that there is no hope of turning over, so they hope to see a counterattack protagonist who can cross the chasm, covering up despair with falsehood.

Several people in the Trojan Horse have been roaming the rivers and lakes for several years, and they have also been suppressed by the family monks for many years, and they also like to read counterattack novels, but this can't change their real situation, and now a real counterattack opportunity is just around the corner, how can they not be excited.

"I ...... I think it's better for everyone not to kill people. Another girl's weak voice came from the belly of the beast.

"Everyone's relatives and friends are still living in the interior, and if they are retaliated against, they will regret it. ”

There was silence again in the belly of the beast, their ideals were plump, but the reality was skinny. They are not unrelated and unprovoked travelers, and they have not made preparations to move inland before, and it is really refreshing to kill people and seize treasures, but the consequences are obviously not something they can bear.

"Miss Ziqiao has a point, we must think about our families. ”

"Well, let's make a fortune this time. ”

"Prioritize finding escape artifacts such as flying boats, sea ships, and teleportation charms. ”

"Evacuate as soon as you find other monks, and don't be greedy. ”

After a brief discussion, several of the Trap Beasts took out a rudimentary map and quickly decided on a plan.

The Stone Town area is 200 miles in radius and is a place of government. The city is in the heart of the city, no more than a hundred miles away from them. At the speed of the trap beast, it can be reached in the time of a stick of incense.