PS: Regarding the true identity of this Yun Jushi, it will be slowly revealed in the future. After all, this Yun Jushi is definitely not an ordinary person, and even she is a crucial existence for Feng Yuchong and their gradual promotion in the Qi Kingdom recently, as for the true identity, this still needs a step-by-step narration process, but please rest assured, this Yun Jushi will definitely not be an ordinary person. Hehe, wait and see

Facing the most gorgeous sunset on the Demon Spirit Continent, Xia Liuli, who had a trace of concern in her heart, packed up her simple packing and embarked on the nearest road with Lu Deng to the northernmost Qingming Mountain Range on the Demon Spirit Continent. In fact, whether it is Lu Deng or Xia Liuli, the two of them have a deep understanding of the Qingming Mountains. After all, Lu Deng is the eldest son of the Lu family, the first family of Qi State, although he is the eldest son of the concubine, he has not been liked by the elders in the family or even his father since he was a child. But after all, he is also a member of this family, and there are many things that he can learn that ordinary people can't understand. Among them, such as the most mysterious place on the Demon Spirit Continent - Qingming Mountain Range.

And Xia Liuli originally had some knowledge about the Qingming Mountains when she was Gao Hanyue, and when she was in the Qi Royal Academy, she and her roommate Luo Yinying went to the library in the academy most diligently. But now that she has lost her memory, she has obviously forgotten the records she had seen about the Qingming Mountains. So, along the way, Xia Liuli took the trouble to chase Lu Deng beside him and ask all the way, but he almost fainted Lu Dengwen.

Lu Deng also had some thoughts in his heart, although he had been answering Xia Liuli's question, but in fact, Lu Deng's thoughts had already flown to the northernmost part of this continent, and he was fighting and adventuring with Feng Yuchong and Feng Shanshan on the Qingming Mountain Range. Along the way, he was silent and didn't talk much. Xia Liuli, on the other hand, didn't say a word after asking the questions she wanted to know. The two of them used their light skills, plus the assistance of using the soul of the instrument. The speed of the two men was extremely fast, and in less than half a day, they had already left the territory of Zhongcheng and came to the border of Shengcheng, which was relatively sparsely populated.

As two Instrument Soul cultivators, running so fast all the way had consumed some of their physical strength, and now the time had just passed the afternoon Shen hour. The already sparsely populated road is now quieter. Of course, Lu Deng and Xia Liuli still saw a scene that made them pay great attention.

The road to Shengcheng was already very sparsely populated, and there were no villages even along the way. One of the reasons for this is that the Holy Emperor has been committed to relocating some of the people around Shengcheng to settle near Zhongcheng in the past two or three years since he ascended the throne, and at the same time giving them better benefits and lighter taxes. Under such naked temptation, the people around Shengcheng who had a relatively difficult life have begun to go south to live in the realm of Zhongcheng, and after about a year of initial experience, these people have tasted the sweetness. The Holy Emperor not only sent some officials and soldiers around Zhongcheng to help these migrated people build new homes, but also took the initiative to set aside a part of the land recovered from the noble class to these people, so that they could settle down in the fastest time.

As a result, these people who had tasted the sweetness also sent the message home directly, so that the other people who were still in a wait-and-see state also dragged their families south and entered the realm of Zhongcheng to accept these benefits and land given to them by the Holy Emperor. In this way, there are even fewer people who still live in Shengcheng, and there are often uninhabited places for ten or even twenty miles near Shengcheng. This is also quite normal, after all, the environment around Shengcheng is very harsh, and the city is surrounded by mountains. Now in Shengcheng, except for some local scholars, there is only an army left by the feudal royal family to guard Maoling. This army is loyal to the existence of the feudal royal family, and the combat effectiveness and concealment ability of this army are very strong, the Holy Emperor is not in a hurry to take back the military power of this army, but still orders the general to continue to lead the army and garrison to assist in the defense of Maoling.

Of course, the Holy Emperor did not want to directly take back the command of this army, as long as this army still existed, he could justifiably reclaim the land and financial power controlled by those official families in Shengcheng. In this way, a series of policies he pursued may also be successfully implemented at this time.

Although the Saint Emperor himself was a bit arbitrary, he was actually able to understand what he needed to do now. In the past two months, in addition to thinking about the reasons for the defeat of the last Battle of the Evil Stars, the Holy Emperor has also devoted himself to recovering the power and land of the children of the family in the country. In the past three hundred years on the Demon Spirit Continent, although the Qi Kingdom and the Feng Kingdom have been in constant turmoil, the children of the Shi clan have not been greatly impacted, because these noble families of the Shi clan have already moved their strength to the area far away from the front of the battle.

It is precisely because of this reason that in the nearly 300 years of war between the two sides of the feudal state and the Qi state, most of the people who suffered were the people in the front, not the aristocratic families who hid in the rear and lived quietly. It is precisely because of this reason that the previous emperor of the feudal state, Guangwujun, and the emperor of Qi, Xuan Lejun, have already proposed such a policy, but it is a pity that they have already left the throne before they can implement this policy. Therefore, this plan and policy must be completed by the Holy Emperor of the State of Feng and Li Dan, the Prime Minister of the State of Qi, behind them. Of course, the methods adopted by the Holy Emperor and Li Dan were not the same. Li Dan adopted a gentle attitude, while the Holy Emperor adopted tough measures, directly attacking the actual interests of these nobles without mercy, and then using the army to suppress them. In this way, the actions and processes taken by the Holy Emperor were very simple and rude, and there was no mercy at all.

On the contrary, Li Dan was very calm, relying on the most calm and indifferent means to fight against the children of these aristocratic families, Li Dan did not mobilize the army to control the situation. Instead, he controls the situation through his own gentle means. Although the results are not very eye-catching now, according to the long-term plan, Li Dan's gentle method is obviously very stable in the long-term calculation. However, at least in some respects now, the Saint Emperor has done enough to do so.

However, whether it was the Holy Emperor or Li Dan, their ultimate goal was to severely attack the strength of these aristocratic families and knock them out of the abyss from which they could never recover. If we don't continue to do this, but let these aristocratic families continue to do such nonsense, in the end, the people in the country will not be attached. Now there is no confrontation between the army on the surface, but in fact, the two countries are now competing to see who can take the lead and really capture the hearts and minds of the people. This was a crucial step in their victory.

Xia Liuli and Lu Deng walked all the way, looking at the depressed and uninhabited environment around Shengcheng, and the emotions in their hearts became very complicated. Lu Deng himself felt that if the Holy Emperor continued to use such a policy and strategy of his own, it was very likely that there would be some problems in the country. On the other hand, if Qi State implements their plans and strategies step by step, Qi State may be able to defeat the Feng State in some aspects.

Xia Liuli didn't care much about this matter. Xia Liuli is still concerned about a relatively simple-looking tea shop that appeared on this road to Shengcheng. In the center of the pavilion sat a young woman who looked young. The woman looked to be in her early twenties. Xia Liuli felt that this young woman looked like she was not much older than herself, but the expressions and movements on her face that were invisibly revealed were tantamount to a woman in her thirties, and the expressions and movements revealed on this woman's face did not look like a young woman in her early twenties at all, the expression on this girl's face was very serious, and even revealed a kind of indifference and old age in some aspects, so that Xia Liuli's interest in this girl suddenly increased.

"Shall we go rest for a while?" Lu Deng saw Xia Liuli's thoughtful appearance, and he hurriedly proposed. Along the way, he has been mentally broken by Xia Liuli. Xia Liuli asked him no less than thirty questions along the way, and all of them seemed very tricky. Now that he had found such an opportunity, he quickly turned around this issue and avoided Xia Liuli first. Xia Liuli thought about it, and it was a good thing to go in and ask. So, Xia Liuli walked into the tea shop first, and the girl in front of her stood up lightly, and said with a soft smile: "Why are the two guest officers still coming to Shengcheng now?"

Xia Liuli and Lu Deng couldn't help but be deeply shocked in their hearts, the purpose in their hearts was actually seen by this woman at the first time. After thinking about it, Xia Liuli hurriedly responded with a smile: "This shopkeeper said that he was joking, we are just people from other towns who don't know much about Shengcheng and want to come over to visit."

The woman's gaze in front of her suddenly flashed with an elite light, and she stared at the expression in front of her without abnormality, not even any wavering expression. The woman suddenly smiled, "If I'm not mistaken, you should be the soul cultivators who took the path to the Qingming Mountain Range again."