Fortunately, there is still plenty of time in the future, and there are opportunities. Since Zhou Hao had made a decision, the four of them were no longer nostalgic, and they left the inn room early in the morning and drifted away.

Zhou Hao and the others left, Yang Sen soon got the news, stood in front of the window and looked into the distance, that was the direction of Tianyan Sect, although he was resentful in his heart, but finally passed on a jade talisman and took it to the deputy palace master of Tianyan Sect Tianqi Palace Yuwen, such a thing, presumably once the other party got it, it was indispensable to take care of his own children.

Zhou Hao and the four of them had a smooth journey, moving forward quickly for more than a month, which was regarded as catching up with a lot of delayed time, passing through no less than five kingdoms and families in a row, traveling more than 40,000 miles, before they really saw what is the prosperity of the human race, although it is the hinterland of the human race, but it is more and more not destroyed, even if it is cultivated land, the land occupied by mortal life is not large, in the face of the vast mountains, it is more to collect elixir, plant elixir and spiritual fruit to obtain survival resources.

And often some small families rule over large areas of mountains and forests, maintaining the environment for the growth of elixirs, and those who are responsible for mining ore spirit stones are different ways of operating, which opened Zhou Hao's eyes.

Compared with the small place in the Xiling Continent, Shenzhou is a giant, with more people to breed and support, and more qualifications, often even ordinary people without spiritual roots have a set of methods for exercising, which provides cheap but high-quality labor for various mines, and on the other hand, it accelerates population consumption, thus forming a balance.

Of course, this balance is inevitably bloody, and occasionally there will be rebellion and turmoil, but for hundreds of millions of people, under the rule of monks, as long as it is not a catastrophe that destroys cities and lands, it is at most the rise and fall of small families.

Zhou Hao and they can't participate, unless they encounter bullying or slaughtering women and children, they will teach a lesson and rescue a few refugees.

In front of him is a huge plain land, behind him is a rolling mountain, the reason why he stopped, because just now, Zhou Hao and the four of them encountered a group of robbing bandits, and the leader was actually a few foundation building qi realm monks, there were a lot of people, it seemed that Desheng had just returned to the mountain, and the shoulders were full of trophies, and some prisoners were tied, men and women, old and young, women and children, Zhou Hao hid as early as the beginning of the discovery, and went out of the mountain pass along the direction where the bandits came。

Even in the sun, the village that should have been peaceful and peaceful was dilapidated, with toppled fences, houses, firewood and haystacks, collapsed courtyard walls and houses, almost dead silence, and the original lush farmland and forest fruits were also destroyed.

Zhou Hao and the four of them were stunned, originally thought that it was just some bandits and strongmen doing some cutting and looting, but this scene was a little weird, and most of those who were tied up were men, women and children followed into the mountains, and they didn't see how nervous the bandits and the captives were.

Continue to move forward, a small city appeared, and dozens of miles outside the city is a camp with banners waving, countless soldiers patrolled on horseback, the watchtowers of the guards were erected high, and then looked at the city, it was also shining with the cold light of the sword, and then I understood that there was a war here.

The appearance of Zhou Hao's four people was naturally discovered by the ubiquitous sentinels, and in a moment several teams of cavalry quickly outflanked them from a distance, it seemed that the side outside the city should occupy the offensive, and the murderous aura of the Ling Qi was even sent by a mortal sergeant, which made several people feel uncomfortable in their hearts.

Zhou Hao didn't plan to entangle with some sergeants, pulled Lingzhi over, and ordered, "Go, go into the city." ”

It's not that Zhou Hao is afraid of these soldiers, but he doesn't like it, in the war since ancient times, the most hurt is the common people, the dilapidated villages before, the displaced mortals, and even the people who are willing to go into the barren mountains and mountains to become bandits, which makes Zhou Hao very unhappy.

The three foundation building monks, naturally not a group of sergeants can do anything, as soon as they saw a few people soaring into the air, more than a foot high from the ground, a vertical dozens of nearly a hundred zhang, as fast as lightning, the military horses neighed, one by one hurriedly tightened the reins, and stopped the pace.

Under the gaze of countless mortal soldiers on both sides, Zhou Hao and the others easily crossed the city wall, entered the city, and disappeared into the crowd, there were many streets and alleys in the city, and it didn't take long for the people who intended to follow them to lose their goals.

Not to mention Zhou Hao's entry into the city, they were just passing by, looking for a place to recuperate, and as for breaking through the battlefield, for them, they didn't care about it at all.

But in this vast land, every town, as long as it is a little bit larger, has a background and foundation, and at present, this big city with a population of no less than two or three million, how can there be no monks behind it?

And being able to attack a huge city strongly, and sweep through the nearby area for hundreds of miles, wantonly kill mortals, destroy granges, etc., and have a complete army, is obviously not a rebellion.

As for Zhou Hao's four people entering the city, the monks in the city did not stop them, one of them did not know the other party's friends and foes, and secondly, in a big war of this scale, the monks had their own rules, once the monks fought in the secular army array, the result might be to face sanctions from a ruler like Tianyanzong.

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Tong'an Mansion is the name of this big city.

In the city lord's mansion, even if the enemy army did not attack today, but the atmosphere of slaughter is everywhere, there are many sentries inside and outside the house, no matter whether you are respectful or humble in the house, you are in a hurry, whispering in the hidden place, in the majestic and solemn hall of the past, the golden dragon chair, but empty, on the more than ten carved chairs in the hall, each sitting is old and young.

The first five people are as stable as Mount Tai, four men and one woman, and the rest are inferior in momentum, although they also sit upright, but their expressions are slightly nervous, and sometimes there are people who communicate in private.

The five leaders are the heads of the four major families in the city, and the heads of the City Lord's Mansion, and the people sitting below are also representatives of the nearby families, as if they are waiting for something.

At this moment, a military academy from the City Lord's Mansion came to report, and three monks in the foundation building period and a female monk in the Qi Cultivation Realm crossed the formation into the city, and then the chief administrator Tao Yuan hurriedly entered the main hall and quietly reported to the city lord.

Tao Yunhe frowned when he heard this, and asked, "Can you send someone to contact you to find out the intention?"

Well, my lord, our people didn't keep up, and now they are missing.

Tao Yunhe's face was pale, "Go and check, but don't be hostile, just find out the other party's intentions, as long as it's not an enemy, don't offend, and try to win it over, understand?"

"Yes, sir. Tao Yuan nodded yes, naturally knew what to do, and then turned to leave, Tao Yunhe looked at everyone present, stared at him with eyes, and coughed helplessly.

"Ahem, everyone, you must have heard, three foundation building monks and a Qi Realm monk broke in from outside the city, as for the intention, it is not clear. ”

Although Tao Yunhe said that he didn't hide anything, others would not believe that at this juncture, although the mortal war would not affect itself, but no one was alone, everyone was full of children and grandchildren, and the industry was closely related to the defenders, and it was these high-ranking monks who finally decided the victory.

Immediately, regardless of Tao Yunhe's ugly face, they each ordered people to investigate, and Tao Yunhe couldn't stop it, after all, he also planned the same.

The company camp outside the city is not so complicated, in the big tent of the Chinese army, there is not a single secular general warrior seated, more than a dozen foundation building monks are divided into two seats, but the leader is three Jindan monks on the high seat.

After receiving the report from the military academy, the middle-aged man in the handsome seat frowned slightly, but he didn't care very much, and ordered as if no one was around: "Lu Jun, let's check, who is involved in the war, or is it a helper invited from the city?"

"Yes, sir. A man with a black cloak, a hat on his head, and a mask of a demon mask, with a gloomy body, replied, and then stepped out of the tent and left.

Zhou Hao and the four of them didn't know at all, they entered the city to attract the attention of the warring parties, easily got rid of the attention of the guard sergeant, and then changed their clothes, and the four of them walked on the street in a grand manner, fortunately, the order in the city was still very quiet, and the sergeants patrolling with halberds from time to time effectively deterred the order.

It was also because the war did not spread too much to the city, and only a small number of the people who fled from the outside entered the city, facing the big city with a population of two or three million, like a drop of water melted into the sea, without the slightest ripple.

Tong'an Mansion is located in the southeast of the Haokun Mountains, is a fertile land, many water systems, and resource-intensive areas, and after a long period of development, Lingtian medicine gardens are all over the place, is a rare place for human beings to reproduce, so there are many families, monks are based on the superior, every year there are many children who can cultivate, and between the state and the country, in order to strengthen their own strength, they often invade other family control areas, secretly explore children with good qualifications, or plunder, or deceive, in short, try their best to compete for the spirit child.

Over the years, the family power has risen and fallen, so there have been countless indescribable hatreds, the Tao family of Tong'an Mansion has been inherited for more than 3,000 years, and the other four families have also followed for more than 1,000 years, and there are also high-level monk ancestors or inheritance in Tianyan Sect, and their strength cannot be underestimated.

Outside the city, more than 3,000 miles away, the Qingcheng army, led by the three Jindan monks, is the city lord Gu Yuqiao and his younger brother Gu Zhongqiao, as well as the Qumo patriarch of another big family.

The reason why the secular war was launched was actually very simple, Tong'an Mansion actually took advantage of Qingcheng's resistance to the invasion of the northern barbarians, and wantonly searched for spirit children in its territory, and even did not hesitate to destroy two small families, but one of them was the backer behind Qingcheng, a great power of Tianyan Sect, who had some origins, and secretly asked Qingcheng to protect him before he reached the top.

When Qingcheng repelled the barbarians, the remaining children of the small family came to the door and told them the bad news, and the Gu family, the lord of Qingcheng, coerced the Mo family and launched a secular war, which was bound to make Tong'an Mansion give an explanation.