Chapter 277: Escalation
After the collapse of the Qionghua faction, Kunlun Mountain gradually returned to its previous loose state.
The looseness mentioned here is not only the looseness of people's hearts in the symbolic sense, but also the leaderlessness of the dragons in the actual sense.
The heyday of the Qionghua faction described by the goddess has already fallen apart with the loneliness of the Qionghua faction, but it has not brought any subversive impact to this place, after all, the cultivation of immortals is ultimately the cultivation itself, and the existence of the so-called sect is also to make the path of cultivation smoother.
The reason why Qi Zhen and the others discovered this seemingly ordinary, but unusual thing, was because Qi Zhen's spiritual exploration was strong enough.
Today's Qi Zhen is completely different from him when he first entered Plants vs. Zombies, and the most subversive change is his powerful spiritual power.
It's not so much that the two of them are looking for a subsidiary sect that doesn't know where it exists, but that they are looking for someone.
And Qi Zhen and Li Qiang's approach this time is also simple and rude, see the building, find out if there is anyone inside, if there is, then fly over, and then rely on Qi Zhen's huge spiritual power to directly crush the past, you can basically know everything in the other party's mind.
It seems to be a very simple thing, it can only be said that Qi Zhen and Li Qiang's luck is good, they happen to meet people who do not have the slightest resistance to Qi Zhen's spiritual exploration, and only this method can allow the two to get the information they want to obtain as quickly as possible.
Yes, the fastest.
The reason why Qi Zhen and Li Qiang did not hesitate to risk being chased and killed by the entire Kunlun Mountain, but also found this place as soon as possible, was to save people.
Regarding the incident that happened three days later, Qi Zhen and Li Qiang had always judged that the Kunlun faction was preparing to take advantage of the leakage of the demonic qi of the Well of Gods and Demons to hinder the cultivators of the Central Plains, or to hinder the actions of Shushan to save the world, and even did not hesitate to take this opportunity to stir up the wind and rain, to be the forerunner of the demon world, whether it was out of wanting to get the feng shui treasure of the Central Plains, or for some other purpose, it meant that just for this matter, the Kunlun faction and the team must stand in a hostile position.
That may be true, but it doesn't stop there.
From that disciple's mind, Qi Zhen found out what he was going to tell the Quartet, it was actually the Kunlun faction that was preparing to unite all the local forces in the Western Regions, and start to complete a "clear realm" of the Western Regions.
Qing is the Qing of purging, and the realm is the territory within the territory.
The so-called Qingjing is to clean up all the Central Plains people in the vast Western Regions, and truly return this piece of heaven and earth to the people of the Western Regions.
And this sect, which can be understood as the vanguard of the whole action, has to do what it symbolically means is like the first shot of all revolutions or uprisings.
Slaughter caravans coming and going from the Western Regions.
It is an indisputable fact that no matter how weak a cultivator is, he is much stronger than ordinary people.
The next step was to embezzle the goods and property of these caravans, and then spread the news of their deaths all over the world.
It is almost equivalent to the Western Regions declaring war on the Central Plains.
On the Central Plains side, there are only a lot more cultivators in the vast land than in the Central Plains, but there are many people and more things, in addition to preventing the leakage of demonic energy, they also have to constantly quell the demons that are spreading all over the place.
The most ironic thing is that if you want to talk about such a thing as disunity, I am afraid that there is no one who can fight in the nest more than the Central Plains.
Shushan, the righteous ruler of the bull's ear, will inevitably spend more energy to unite people's hearts to share the same hatred.
It was precisely at this time of crisis that the elders of Shushan collectively took a break from cooking, and they had no time to take care of anything else.
Compared with resisting the resistance or invasion of the Western Regions, it is obvious that Shushan will treat the matter of demonic energy leakage as a more priority event.
Three days later, the Western Regions will destroy the seal of the Well of Gods and Demons in a more secretive way, and even affect the seal of the Lock Demon Tower.
At that time, whether it is a human matter or a mountain matter, Shushan will face an embarrassing situation.
And this series of behaviors and actions is probably the final plan of the Kunlun faction.
It didn't take long for Qi Zhen to understand the danger of this strategy, and there was hardly any way to crack it.
This is a conspiracy, an unsolvable conspiracy.
The big square face that looks like a positive character is obviously a Central Plains person, why he used such a ruthless strategy to cause chaos in the world, Qi Zhen still has no way of knowing.
But it was a kind of mountain rain that could be felt, but it made Qi Zhen and the others have to be anxious.
This kind of plot mission designed with the general trend of the world is far from the difficulty that a huge lobster in Taihu Lake can match.
This proves at least two things, the first is that the difficulty of the game has reached a more difficult level, and the second is that the party is getting closer and closer to the end of the game.
In terms of strength, it is not possible to kill the Quartet, but it is certain that even if the other party is successfully killed, it will not have any form of impact on the course of this matter.
Turning things around in the face of the general trend of the world is far from being as simple as killing one or two people.
What the two of them have to do now is to prevent the other party from firing this first shot in the Western Regions, and do their best so that the Western Regions will not make matters worse for Shushan's plan to seal the demonic qi at this moment.
If it doesn't affect Shushan, it doesn't affect itself.
Different means to the same end.
It's just that the two of them weren't sure how long it would take them to find each other, so they almost explored all parts of the Kunlun Mountains by sweeping along the way.
The most important thing is to avoid making a fuss here, because it will not be easy for the two of them to do anything they want to do at that time.
I'm anxious to find clues, I'm afraid of being surrounded and suppressed by others, I'm afraid of being discovered by others, but I can't be too anxious.
It wasn't until it was dark that the two finally found the right place.
Where is this a sect, it is clearly a copycat.
Qi Zhen remembered Yang Zirong in "Lin Hai Snow Plain", and felt that he had come to the bandits' den, and those who stood guard sent someone to hold a 38 cover.
The guards at the gate of the "cottage" are all ordinary people who have no spiritual power fluctuations, and they are still holding messy weapons in their hands, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and everything, which is obviously a bunch of small minions.
If Qi Zhen knew the content of Meng Ran and Hu Jinqiu's conversation, she would understand that these people were the so-called "annexes".
It's easy to deal with ordinary cultivators, and it's even easier to deal with these ordinary people.
After releasing the spirit probe on a few ordinary people, Qi Zhen knew a few things, all the immortal masters in the sect were dispatched, I don't know where they went, and they have been gone for a while; There will be a big move in the sect today, everyone will stay vigilant and rest in three shifts; Early tomorrow morning, divide the troops and follow the immortals to the east and west respectively, and I didn't say what the specific things were.
Qi Zhen didn't have the heart to go to the sect hall to see if it was a decoration style like the Weihu Mountain Juyi Hall, so after a little thought, he and Li Qiang glanced at each other, and saw the horror in each other's eyes.
It's broken, Meng Ran!
As soon as the moon was in the air, Qi Zhen and Li Qiang immediately stepped on their swords and went straight to the respective locations of the two sides.
To avoid a fork in the road, they start from scratch.
With the two of them desperately urging the flying swords, the two of them returned to the three corpses with the help of tea.
The two of them didn't even look at it, and they sped forward.
And soon came to the fork in the road between Buzhou Mountain and the Western Regions again.
Without hesitation, he walked to the left, and after flying about the time of tea, within the range of Qi Zhen's writing wheel, there was finally a trace of the caravan.
After a short break at the fork in the road, the caravan continued in the direction of the Western Regions.
The task that Qi Zhen gave to Meng Ran was to get more clues or information from Hu Jinqiu.
Meng Ran was a little anxious, but she didn't dare to leave immediately to find Qi Zhen and them, on the one hand, she didn't know where Qi Zhen and the others went, and on the other hand, since the time had been delayed for a year, it would not be bad for her to come.
However, Meng Ran still found it difficult to understand, where did the three of them spend a year in Buzhou Mountain?
Is it the time to pass out? Not really, if so, even if the team's body has been greatly strengthened, the body will wake up with a noticeable hunger pang, at least not as if nothing had happened.
Then there is only one possibility to explain it, and that is that the speed of time on Buzhou Mountain is fundamentally different from that of the outside world.
One day in the sky, one year on earth, this classic setting in "Journey to the West" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it is not incomprehensible that this kind of thing happened.
What happened in the outside world this year was almost completely unknown to the three of them, and they took this opportunity to inquire about Hu Jinqiu.
Meng Ran lied, saying that the team had spent the whole year wandering around the vast Western Regions, looking for a way to treat Yu Liang's illness, and he didn't know that anything major had happened in the Intermediate Court, and he asked Brother Hu to give advice.
Hu Jinqiu, as a businessman who travels back and forth between the two places, has a wide range of contacts, and it is a little easy to talk about this, whether it is hearsay or what he has seen with his own eyes, he is naturally pouring beans from a bamboo tube to Meng Ran, and he has no selfishness, which can be regarded as passing the boring time along the way.
Not only Hu Jinqiu, but the other merchants in the caravan were also very curious about Meng Ran, a lovely-looking girl.
Even if a businessman becomes the richest man, he is still an ordinary person, so the information he obtains is still extremely limited, but it is enough for Meng Ran to speculate on enough things.
First of all, there are miscellaneous things to talk about, the tax of the imperial court has increased, and all places have begun to deliberately recruit soldiers, there is a legend that the emperor is going to prepare for war, and all places are ready to fight, and the impact on this kind of border town is even greater, for example, in Hu Jinqiu's hometown, it has entered a state of semi-martial law, and the daily soldiers come and go in an endless stream.