Chapter 157: The capital

In the middle of the night, there was silence up and down the county town of Xiaxi County, like a dead city.

In the past, every night, zombies would come out to harm people, but now no one dares to light the lights at night, for fear of making a little movement and attracting the zombie to come, and if it is not good, it may be all over the house.

The moon was in the sky, in a dry well in the north of the county town, a heavy wheezing sound came from the bottom of the well, and a faint black smoke rose, and with a strange roar, a black shadow rushed up from the bottom of the well and stood on the roof next to the dry well.

This is a zombie dressed in rags, I don't know how long it has been dead, and its black skin is like a tanned cowhide.

Not only here, but at the same time, a coffin on the beam of the empty house in the south of the city suddenly opened and a corpse popped out, and a black shadow came out of the barren grass stack, and signs and movements of zombies appeared everywhere in the city, making terrifying screams.

These zombies who hide during the day go out one by one at night to choose people to eat.

"Sword Qi!"

At this time, there was a sudden roar in the center of the city, and a sword box was suspended in the middle of the entire county city, and the sword qi spun out like a lotus flower, surpassing the nine heavens.

The zombies also sensed a great threat and something was wrong, and wanted to flee.

But as soon as it came out, it was already locked by the person in the city, and at this moment, the sword was unsheathed, where else could it escape.

One after another sword lights fell, instantly piercing those zombies one by one and nailing them to the earth.

With this move, the zombies in the city were wiped out, and more than 20 zombies up and down all turned into solid sword qi and nailed to the ground, and the sound of roaring and roaring could be heard throughout the city, and the ordinary people in the city didn't understand what was going on, they only knew that they were afraid, but the officials up and down in Xiaxi County knew what was going on.

Chen Fuchen, the county guard of Xiaxi County, looked at Yan Chixia who was sitting on the steps, and was overjoyed: "Yan Daxia really moved like a thunderbolt in the nine heavens, and in one fell swoop, he subdued all the zombies in the city and solved the big trouble up and down my Xiaxi County!"

Yan Chixia stood up, picked up a stack of talismans and handed them to the county lieutenant beside her: "Paste this town corpse talisman on the heads of these zombies, and then capture them back, these are not ordinary zombies, they are all transformed by the demonic energy of the drought fish, and they must be brought back for purification." ”

The county lieutenant nodded: "I'll do it right away!"

It didn't take long for these fixed zombies to be brought back, and they were cremated in front of all the people in the county the next morning, which was considered to have calmed down some of the people in the city.

And the disaster relief grain distributed by the imperial court has also arrived, although the top and bottom are very peeled, and the last ones sent down are some converted Chen Gu rotten rice, Chen Fuchen picked up this disaster relief grain and saw that it was already moldy and black, but now Xiaxi County has not even eaten the bark, and these grains can at least alleviate the current urgent need.

Yan Chixia stood next to the county guard, although the county guard Chen Fuchen's brows were slightly relaxed, "The drought has not been eliminated, this move is only a symptom but not a root cause, only by grasping the drought can the disaster be alleviated." ”

Yan Chixia nodded: "After you have been looking around for the past few days, and the situation I have checked, I already have some eyebrows about the place where the drought is located, and it should be in Qinhe County." ”

"Qinhe County?"

Chen Fuchen knows this place very well: "Qinhe County was originally an upper county, with a rich population and a place with high grain yield every year, but this year, all of a sudden, the water of Qinhe River dried up all of a sudden, and there was not a drop of water from upstream to downstream, and it was from here that the drought began to spread to all places." ”

"All the seedlings died, and not a drop of rain fell throughout the summer, which caused the drought completely. ”

Yan Chixia looked at Chen Fuchen: "Xiaxi County was originally also a country of abundance, with a bumper harvest every year in the past, and a bumper harvest of grains, but there was no surplus grain in every household, and every year there was a bumper harvest, but every year there were people selling their sons and daughters and selling land, and the imperial court increased taxes several times a year, and corrupt officials and cool officials were exploited layer by layer. ”

"If it weren't for this, it wouldn't have been a natural disaster, with homeless people and bandits rampant, and ten rooms and nine empty rooms were starving everywhere. ”

Chen Fuchen's voice suddenly became much quieter: "This official has not taken a grain of grain from the people, but the rest...... Alas......"

Of course, Yan Chixia knew that this was rotten from the roots, from the royal nobles of the imperial court to the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, it was not something that anyone could change.

Yan Chixia didn't say much: "I'm a swordsman, just kill demons and demons, and only do what a sword can do." ”

"I can't change the chaos in this world, I can't do anything, but I will never allow these demons to take advantage of this opportunity to destroy lives. ”

Yan Chixia carried the sword box on her back and left with her hands in her sleeves.

The next day, the county lieutenant personally led the troops and rushed to Qinshui County with Yan Chixia.

Qinshui County, the former upper county, has long been empty, but a gang of rogues occupied here, and the county lieutenant of Xiaxi County came with hundreds of elite soldiers to exterminate this gang of rogues on the spot.

Then Yan Chixia personally set foot in Qinshui, thousands of miles of rivers have long been dried up, Yan Chixia found the former river eye on the dry riverbed, billowing black smoke came out of the ground, and the surrounding thousands of kilometers of riverbed turned into a black and poisonous place.

"This is it!" Yan Chixia finally determined that this was the hiding place of the Drought Fish.

The lieutenant of Xiaxi County was wearing armor and holding a sword, and as soon as he came here and saw the situation on the riverbed, he knew that this was definitely not something that ordinary people or things could cause, and he was extremely nervous at the moment.

This is different from the outcast bandits he dealt with before, he is a real demon.

The zombies in the city before, each of which needed to be surrounded and suppressed by dozens of people to be killed, which caused a great drought in several counties, in his opinion, was no different from the gods and demons in mythology.

What kind of demon could be born to cause such a great drought.

"I will set up a sword formation, and you will lead the troops to surround the sides and surroundings of the river, form a military formation, and insert the sword soldiers into the ground, so that they can help me. ”

Compared with back then, Yan Chixia's cultivation is even higher, I don't know how much.

Back then, Yan Chixia still needed to set up a formation with a sword banner to be able to urge the sword formation, but now Yan Chixia waved her hand and the sword box was thousands of sword qi rushing out, like thousands of real swords across the heavens and the earth.

Gathering and scattering from the heart, plus hundreds of soldiers scattered around, according to the large array laid by Yan Chixia, the sword soldiers were inserted on the ground, and the power of Yan Chixia's sword qi increased a little.

Yan Chixia waved her sword and unfolded the earth, directly splitting a crack hundreds of meters in the center of the riverbed, and a copper coffin with yin and yang painted and blood-red chains tied to it was directly exposed in the depths of the ground.

"Roar!"

Before the sword qi could split the copper coffin, the copper coffin exploded directly, and a monster covered with long hair and like a giant beast broke free from the copper coffin.

In an instant, the heavens and the earth changed color, billowing black smoke rose from the riverbed, and the stench filled the radius for several miles.

"Dao Chief! The county lieutenant and the county soldiers of Xiaxi County were directly frightened, and they didn't run away immediately because Yan Chixia Sword Immortal was famous enough.

Yan Chixia jumped up and sat directly on top of the sword box, and dense sword qi rushed out from the sky, covering the sky and the sun, suppressing the black smoke of the drought below.

Although the drought was full of demonic qi and shattered the earth with his hands, he was finally trapped by Yan Chixia with a sword formation.

From a distance, a monster like a demon god was fighting between heaven and earth, and the dense sword qi revolved around it like a hurricane, and no one could even look at the monster's face through the sword qi.

Thousands of swords swirled around it, strangulating it like a storm.

Yan Chixia dissected the body of the Drought Fish, took out the Drought Corpse Pill, and then sealed its remains in the bronze coffin to be taken away.

The county lieutenant of Xiaxi County was frightened by the movement of this battle, although it seemed that Yan Chixia was as serious as Yan Chixia in the battle just now, everything was under control.

But for these mortals, this is like a war between gods and demons, if there is no Yan Chixia, his hundreds of county soldiers may not be enough to step on the drought.

"What is this demon shouting?"

The county lieutenant was very curious about what the drought demon seemed to have turned on in the end, and said something to Yan Chixia, but he couldn't understand this ancient language at all.

Yan Chixia didn't hide it either: "It's calling the Nine Heavens Xuannu, the name of the ancient god." ”

The county lieutenant was particularly curious: "Could it be that this drought has anything to do with this god?"

"It is said that the Nine Heavens Xuannu is the first drought fish in the world, but I heard that it died in ancient times, and at this time this drought fish shouted his name, I am afraid it is not so simple. ”

"Heaven kills! The dragon and snake rise to land!" Yan Chixia said this, and then said no more.

The group rode back to the county seat of Xiaxi County with the soldiers, and before they could see the county seat, a thunderclap suddenly sounded in the sky.

When everyone looked up, they saw that the sky was full of dark clouds and thunder.

In the blink of an eye, it began to rain.

At this moment, all the soldiers present shouted wildly, and even the county lieutenant couldn't hold back.

"It's raining!"

"It's really raining!"

"God forbid!"

At this time, the county lieutenant immediately shouted: "What God kept, it was Yan Xianchang who removed the drought for us, otherwise where would the rain come from!"

The other county soldiers saluted Yan Chixia one by one: "Thank you Yan Immortal!"

"Yan Immortal saved us from Xiaxi County!"

Yan Chixia had just killed this drought, and it was raining in the sky, and everyone was inexplicably grateful to Yan Chixia, and her immortal life was even more noisy.

After returning to the county town, he was regarded as a Buddha of ten thousand families, and many people even put Yan Chixia on the altar as a god.

The matter of the drought has been closed, the drought has been resolved, and Chen Fuchen, the county guard of Xiaxi County, is also preparing how to restore the livelihood of the whole county, but at this time, someone suddenly came from the capital.

Yan Chixia packed up her things and was about to leave, but at this time, the county guard Chen Fuchen suddenly came in from outside, saying that someone from Kyoto of the Great Zhou Dynasty wanted to see him.

The person who came was a scholar in his forties, who said that he was a subordinate of Liu Yuanchao, who was the head of the court, and said that Lord Liu heard that the legendary sword fairy Yan Chixia had come out of the mountain, so he hurriedly ordered him to come and invite Yan Chixia, and hoped to meet him on important matters.

"My family originally wanted to come to invite me in person, but unfortunately the imperial court is busy, and now it is an eventful time, so I was sent to welcome the immortal chief. ”

Although Yan Chixia didn't understand what this Liu Yuanchao meant, after all, although he was the master of the dream realm, it was impossible for him to control the thinking of every dream character.

It's just that he originally decided to go to two places in the future, one is the capital and the other is Jinhua Mansion.

Now that someone has invited him to Beijing, he just has to take a trip.

Yan Chixia nodded: "Since it is Lord Zaifu Liu who wants to see me, I will go to the capital in person." ”