The morning sun rises from the top of the mountains, and it's a new day.

But after the catastrophe, Linshan City has lost its former prosperity.

The city was in ruins, and even the walls of the northern city were affected by the aftermath of the battle and collapsed.

A large number of black-scaled troops who hurriedly came to the aid from Xiling County had already settled in Linshan City yesterday and began to clean up the battlefield and deal with a series of problems such as repairs in the city after the war.

The corpse of the brown and yellow giant snake in the city was also collected from the hands of the people one by one by these black-scaled troops and managed centrally.

At the same time, the Xiling County Government sent an urgent order to the Linshan County Ya overnight, which was actually a gag order, ordering the people in Linshan City not to discuss the "Sword Immortal and Snake Demon War", not to spread the word, and to keep their mouths shut, and those who violated the order were all imprisoned!

Of course, this gag order can only work for a while!

After all, the sages have said that the mouth of the people is better than the river, and how can the river be so easy to block?

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Linshan County Government.

Backyard.

The county commander Xu had a sad face, and stood at the lotus pond in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, looking at the carp swimming in the pond.

"Your Excellency. ”

A soft call came from behind him.

Lord Xu turned around, saw the person coming, his face was slightly pale, and said, "It's Master Jia, how is the investigation?"

"Lord Hui, after the investigation of his subordinates and Wang Zhutou in the past few days, there have been results. Jia Zhubo paused for a moment before he said, "There are still eight hundred and thirty-four households left in the city, with a total of four thousand one hundred and seventy-two people. ”

"Compared with before the disaster, the population of the city is nearly half smaller! The walls in the west, north, and south of the city were damaged, and the rest of the collapsed and damaged houses were not counted. ”

Lord Xu listened and was silent for a long time.

"Hey, it took me nearly ten years of hard work, conscientiousness, and self-denial to make this remote mountain city have such a climate, but it is a pity that overnight, it was put into flowing water!"

"The former Linshan City, I'm afraid it's hard to see anymore!"

Jia Zhubo, who looked at this sad expression, was also a little unbearable, and comforted: "Why do you want to say such frustrating words, as long as people are okay, one day, what you have lost will come back!"

Lord Xu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You don't understand, after this difficulty, I'm afraid Linshan City won't be able to recover for a long time." We can wait, but those big families in the city want to eat! Like the Zhao family and the Jiang family, which one doesn't have dozens of mouths?"

"In the past, when the economy of Linshan City was prosperous and the population was large, these families could still stay here to make a profit. But now in this desolate and depressed scene, how can they make money?"

"If you can't make money, I'm afraid these big families won't stay in Linshan City for a long time. And once these big families leave, they will inevitably take away a large number of resources and population, and in this way, Linshan City will be even worse!"

As he was talking, a gray-clothed guy from the outer mansion had already walked in and reported: "Master, the government ordered Lord Zhao and the county lieutenant Lord Jiang, the two of them came together, and they are now asking to see them in the Immortal Crane Hall!"

"Look, isn't this coming?" Lord Xu laughed at himself and strode out.

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Xicheng, Liuzhuang.

Because the Zhao Mansion in Linshan City was almost destroyed in the previous man-snake war, there was no way to live in it, so the people of the Zhao Mansion temporarily moved to Liuzhuang.

Fortunately, most of the original subordinates of the Zhao Mansion have been dismissed, and there are not many people left, so this small manor can still be lived.

South Courtyard.

"Brother, be careful!"

Zhao Tai roared, holding a three-foot-long ebony branch, the branch was covered with a layer of flame-like milky white spiritual power, and it was windless and automatic, and he slashed towards Zhao Ting in front of him.

Zhao Ting's expression was slightly abrupt, and a layer of rich black and purple light instantly diffused, enveloping the entire small courtyard, and his left arm suddenly doubled in size, and his fist, which became bigger than an ordinary person's head, was covered with cold black gas, and smashed into the ebony branch in Zhao Tai's hand.

"Bang"!

The fist collided with the branch, setting off a surging wave of qi in the courtyard, and both of them couldn't help but take a half step back.

Zhao Tai's eyes were fixed, and he was a little interested, he stepped heavily under his feet, his body jumped into the air, and the spiritual power in his body turned out sharply, flying around the branches in his hands like a white dragon snake.

"Take me one more shot!"

Seeing that he had moved, Zhao Ting didn't dare to be ambiguous at all, the purple light in his body surged to his limbs like a tide, and in the blink of an eye, his body rose more than three feet tall and greeted Zhao Tai.

The bodies of the two have been continuously strengthened by spiritual power/killing power, and they have long been better than mortals, whether it is speed or strength, they are far beyond ordinary people.

Zhao Si, who was guarding the gate of the courtyard to watch the battle, could only see bursts of streamers reflecting each other in front of him, and the movements of both sides of the battle were extremely fast, and his gestures were full of great power, and Zhao Si was shocked and envious when he saw it.

Gradually, the movements of the two people on the field slowed down significantly, and even Zhao Si could see that Zhao Ting, as the defensive side, was already in danger and was about to be unable to parry.

"Brother, you lost!"

The ebony branch in Zhao Tai's hand had already touched Zhao Ting's heart, and he said lightly.

"Well," Zhao Ting nodded, his mind moved, and he put away the "Demon Domain" divine power that shrouded this small courtyard, and his body instantly returned to the size of a normal person, "It's me who lost, don't use 'Void', I'm really not your opponent." ”

When Zhao Tai heard this, he secretly slandered in his heart: "You are embarrassed to say that this "Void" magic power is clearly a trick, and if you can't beat it, you can dodge the fatal blow by turning into a shadow and dodging on the ground, which is simply ...... It's over!"

After arranging a few words from Zhao Ting, Zhao Tai looked at him and said with a serious face: "Brother, don't you think that you rely too much on your supernatural powers?"

"I guess you don't have much killing power in your body at this time, right?"

Zhao Ting listened to his words, thoughtfully, and replied: "Yes, there is no one in ten!"

"That's the problem!" Zhao Tai's face became serious, "Skills, and techniques are equally important for people like us!"

"Skill, is skill! The power of punching, the angle of the sword, and the dodge of the body, these are all skills!

"You have a supernatural power, but you don't have half a skill, when punching and dodging, you just blindly rely on brute force, rely on speed, and fight indiscriminately, that's why you failed!"

"You must know that the spiritual power/killing power that can be stored in the human body is limited after all, but the exertion of supernatural powers is inseparable from killing power, without killing power, supernatural powers are not only useless, but will become your fatal weakness!"

Speaking of this, Zhao Tai paused for a moment, glanced at Zhao Ting secretly, and wondered if he was talking too seriously.

When he found that Zhao Ting's face was as usual and he was listening carefully, he continued to speak: "Actually, in terms of cultivation realm, brother, you have surpassed me, and in terms of the purity of the foreign power in the body, I am not as good as you!"

"But in terms of skill, you are far inferior to me! If you learn from each other's strengths, you will be defeated by me!"

Zhao Ting bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and asked softly, "What you just used is a set of swordsmanship, right?"

"No," Zhao Tai denied, "It's not a sword technique, it's a second-order spiritual skill that I occasionally obtained, the 'Xingyun Sword Technique'! This set of sword techniques opens and closes, the offensive is together, continuous, and there is the sword intent of "Xingyun Flowing Water", so it is named "Xingyun Knife Technique"!"

"I'm intending to give this set of 'Xingyun Sword Technique' to my brother, but I don't know if my brother can use his killing power to cultivate, after all, this sword technique is created on the basis of the spirit clan and spiritual power......"

"Oh," Zhao Ting suddenly realized, stared at Zhao Tai's eyes, and asked softly, "Are you leaving?"