Zhang Poxiao and Yu Chi Lingfei rode horses together on the way to Luoshan Peak, and the two of them galloped day and night to the dangerous Kunlun Danger in Western Regions County, and went to Luolonely Peak to find Lieshan Tong.

They need to find this person as soon as possible and recruit him, otherwise when the battle between the Night Dynasty and the Tianluo Palace is over, after the two tigers fight, no matter where they win, they will sweep away the forces of Nanzhao County, and the Heaven Breaking Alliance and the Dawn Army are all thorns in their eyes, thorns in the flesh, and they must be eliminated.

His original intention was to unite the Treading Heaven Alliance and unite together, so that the tripartite forces would have a chance to compete. Now there is a rift with the Treading Heaven Alliance, and fighting each other is to die, and his 20,000 soldiers and horses are just slightly larger ants. Thinking of this, he was secretly anxious, he was a poor and frightened man, now this bit of possessions was more important than his own life, he could not and did not want to lose it easily, he raised his horsewhip and waved it vigorously a few times, and the horse under his crotch accelerated and galloped out again.

Yu Chi Lingfei, who was following behind, didn't see anxiety, took out the liquor he was carrying, and poured a big sip on the howling north wind, and the hot wine flowed down his throat into his stomach, making the whole stomach warm, he smashed his mouth, wiped the wine on his mouth, shouted "drive", and followed Zhang Poxiao, this time his task was to protect him.

The two of them drove for five days and finally entered the Western Regions.

The Western Regions County is connected to the Demon Capital, and since the Xuan Demon entered the Heavenly Capital, this side has developed rapidly.

The Xuan Demon Clan used their supplies to exchange trade with the Heavenly Capital. The Xuan Demon clan has a very strong fighting ability, but the place where they live is relatively poor, they can't grow crops, and they don't know how to weave, smelt and other technologies, so for thousands of years, they have either attached themselves to the Tiandu, paid tribute to the rulers of the Tiandu, and exchanged beasts, furs, ores, etc. for food, clothing, and daily necessities; Either go to the border of Tiandu to snatch it.

The lowest cost must be snatching, so the combat effectiveness of the Xuan Demon clan is getting stronger and stronger, and with the leadership of a genius like Yuan Liezong, the entire Demon Capital has been unified.

You must know that for thousands of years, the demon capital has had countless tribes, and the various tribes to which they belong have been fighting endlessly for many years, and the true unification has only been achieved by the Great Mighty Heavenly God Yuan Liezong, who is worthy of being the most outstanding sorcerer of that era.

However, no matter how powerful a person is, he must face birth, old age, sickness and death, this is a law of nature, he has achieved daunting achievements, but he still cannot resist the call of death.

Maybe God gave him all the luck of the demon race, so that he trained the most modern magicians with limited resources in the barren and desolate demon capital, and as he conquered the Quartet, unified the tribes, established the demon capital, and then conquered the Ceylon country, Langdu country and Nibora around the demon capital, and finally led the Xuan Demon Iron Horse to obtain the heavenly capital. When he died, three other sorcerers went with him.

Maybe he has consumed all the luck of the demon clan, if it weren't for Yu Tieha's temporary breakthrough to become a sorcerer, then the entire Night Dynasty would face the embarrassing situation of not having a sorcerer, and the Xuan Demon Clan would be weakening day by day. In any case, as a necessary place to the Demon Capital, the Western Regions County has complex personnel and developed businesses, and the Demon Clan and the Yanhuang Clan live together in this county, blending and living together.

Kunlun Danger is a place close to Nanzhao County, which is still very far from the real border, and most of the people living here are Yanhuang people, and only occasionally do you see the demon people who come to do business.

Speaking of the contradictions between Zhang Poxiao and the Night Dynasty and Tianluo Palace, we have to start from his life experience.

In the fifty-third year of the Night Dynasty, in a small mountain village in Long County, Zhangyun Prefecture, Nanzhao County, Zhang Poxiao was born here, and there is a rustic name named Zhang Chongba.

His family is not wealthy, to be precise, very poor. The house is a thatched house that is cold in the east and hot in summer, transparent on all sides, and he has five older sisters.

For as long as he can remember, his impression is that his parents and older brothers and sisters go out early and return late every day to work in the fields. Although they grew a lot of grain, they still did not have enough to eat, because they were all tenant farmers-landlords, and most of the grain had to be given to the owner, and only a small part of their own family was left.

On such days, his parents and brothers feel very good, after all, they can eat enough, the whole family lives together, calm and happy, in fact, they are very content.

Zhang Chongba started walking, and went to herd cattle with Wang Xiaosan, another child of the landlord's tenant family, and spent his childhood mischievously.

This kind of life has changed in the sixty-ninth year of the Night Dynasty, and it has also broken the peaceful life of Zhang Chongba's family.

This year, Tiandu suffered a rare heavy rainy season in a century, the river in the territory soared, the largest Chaohe River flooded in Tiandu, the cities, villages and farmland along the river were seriously damaged, tens of thousands of people died directly from the flood, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.

The officials of the night dynasty went to the local disaster relief, and instead of actively assisting the local government in controlling the floods and relocating the victims, they regarded it as a free tour, went to the local area to eat and drink, embezzled disaster relief funds to conceal the disaster, reported that only a few hundred dead in the imperial court, and properly resettled more than 10,000 victims, so it was over.

In the same year, Nanzhao County also encountered a very serious drought and plague, and the officials who went down to the local inspection at night did not pay attention to it at all, anyway, they were not from the Xuan Demon Clan, and they died when they died.

The consequence of this is that more than 100,000 people starved to death on the streets, and in places where the plague was severe, there was no one alive for dozens of kilometers.

The palace of Tiandu is still singing and dancing, delicacies from the mountains and seas, and Huaiyan County, Huaicheng County and Nanzhao County of Gou County, Li County, and Long County of Nanzhao County have become hell on earth, there are many dead bodies on the road, on the street and even in the mountains, and the tragedy of cannibalism occurs from time to time.

Zhang Chongba's small mountain village suffered from drought. Except for the landlord's family and a few families who have a little private land to keep grain in the whole mountain village, other families have left for a living after they cannot grow crops in the field.

Zhang Poxiao's father is more stubborn, thinking that it will always rain, and when it rains, the other tenants will leave, so it is right for him to stay.

The landlord saw that he had been working honestly for many years, and if he did not leave in a disaster year, he might be promoted to be a foreman, and several more bags of grain would come out every year.

Hope is good, reality is cruel. Zhang Ergou (Zhang Chongba's father) did not wait for a happy life, but waited for a desperate situation of starvation.

Zhang Ergou was wearing thin and tattered clothes, bent up, and worked hard to pour all the water he carried into the water tank. The water in the tank was very muddy, and it took dozens of miles to drain up for several hours, and there was no water in the near places.

Zhang Ergou put down the burden, his stomach twisted and ached again, he hadn't had a decent meal for seven or eight days, he licked his chapped mouth, looked at a few pairs of eyes staring at him in the house, and said bitterly and guiltily: "Baby, is there anything to eat at home?" ”

A woman in coarse cloth clothes walked to the rice jar and looked at it, there was not a single rice left, shook her head, touched the heads of the two children and wept.

"Alas, they all blame me. If we had gone out earlier, we might have survived. Zhang Ergou said and stared at the two children, constantly looking, full of love, "Fortunately, the eldest girl and the second girl were given to others early, and the fourth child also went to Nancun to be a door-to-door son-in-law, leaving the third, fifth and sixth children, three babies." ”

"His father, the third child went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, I don't know how many we can dig today, whether it is enough for us to eat." The middle-aged woman looked at Zhang Ergou, full of helplessness.

Zhang Ergou gritted his teeth and went out without speaking.

That night, the third child dug up a basket of wild vegetables and went home, but the third child had blood on his hands and feet.

"Third child, what did you do?" The middle-aged woman exclaimed in surprise and ran forward to carefully check if there were any other injuries.

"It's okay, Mom just accidentally fell while digging wild vegetables." The third child said indifferently, but everyone knows that it should be injured in a fight with others, and the wild vegetables are about to run out recently, and everyone often fights and robs in order to survive.

Not long after, Zhang Ergou also returned, carrying a small bag of grain. Zhang Chongba's mother didn't ask anything, put a few grains of grain, and when the water boiled, poured the wild vegetables into it, and everyone finally ate a makeshift meal.

After a few more days of suffering, it was no longer able to sustain itself.

On the eighth day of April, Zhang Ergou starved to death at home, and it is a great irony that this honest farmer has worked hard all his life and starved to death after farming all his life.

The family fell into grief after the father's death, and the mother fell ill from excessive grief, exhaustion and hunger, which put a heavy burden on the impoverished family.

The third brother went out to dig wild vegetables earlier and earlier, and came home later and later, until one day he collapsed in the mountains and couldn't get up again.

Chonghachi and Fifth Brother saw that he had not returned all night and went out to look for him. He was finally found at the bottom of a hillside, his whole body was scarred, I don't know whether he was beaten or rolled down the hillside, he was skinny, and he was still dragging the frame of digging wild vegetables when he was dying, and that day was April 11.

The death of the third brother made the mother lying in the hospital bed worse, and there was no money to see a doctor, and the only two children in the family went out every day to look for food, and finally on April 20, the sick mother starved to death in bed.

Fifteen-year-old Zhang Chongba never imagined that in a short period of time, he would watch his relatives leave one after another. He had no choice but to cry and vent.

In fact, his wish is very simple, he hopes that his family will be safe, everyone will be reunited, have food to eat, clothes to wear, and when he is older, he will marry an honest and diligent daughter-in-law, have his own children, and honor his parents well, so that they can also enjoy their old age in peace.

Now, even this small wish has been shattered.

These days, parents and the third brother are reluctant to eat in order to keep the fifth brother and themselves from starving, otherwise the fifth brother and him would not be left alive now.

He spent the night grieving, and then the next day he discussed with the fifth brother that he wanted to bury his parents and third brother, but there was another problem in front of him - no coffin, no shroud, no cemetery.