"Have you ever heard of the decennial 'poll tax'?" Jiang asked after pondering for a while.

"'Poll tax?' I haven't heard of it!" Lin Huanyu shook his head and said!

"In our cultivation world, there will be a calamity every ten years, and this calamity is the 'poll tax' that originates from the once every ten years! All cultivators who have reached the condensation stage will be taxed!"

"The tax is only levied once in ten years, isn't it enough to give it to him!" Lin Huanyu said casually.

Jiang Xuanliu stared solemnly and blankly at the cave wall in front of him.

"This 'poll tax' is not about money and magic weapons, but about life!

Although Jiang Jieliu's words were not loud, the words "I want my life and don't want money" struck Lin Huanyu's heart like a morning bell and a dusk drum! Jiang Jieliu's profound gaze seemed to return to the bloody storm of ten years ago.

"What?

"That's right! So when it's time to collect taxes, all the cultivators in the condensation stage are in danger! No one can escape being taxed!"

"Who is so powerful? Can tax all cultivators?" There are so many cultivators in the Yellow Shang Continent, and there are naturally many who have reached the condensation stage, and there is no shortage of masters in the condensed period! The people who can collect taxes on all cultivators once every ten years are naturally very powerful, and the master actually said that what is collected is not money but 'life'. So how terrible are the tax collectors?

Jiang Duanliu wised his beard again, "Exactly, who is the person who collects taxes, we don't know!"

"It's just that when the ten years come, there will be two black-clothed bodies, and the people who don't meet each other will hold the blood-colored ice order and collect taxes one by one! Because their clothes are embroidered with a snake and a scorpion, they are called 'snake and scorpion impermanence'!"

"Then why don't you run away?" Lin Huanyu asked suspiciously.

"Run, where are you going? They have a treasure in their hands, and the cultivators of all realms within a radius of thousands of miles can clearly see it, and there is nowhere to escape!"

"So is there really no one who can beat them?"

"I once heard an old man say that in the past, taxes were collected once every three years, but as a result, a great power appeared in the human race and suppressed the impermanence of snakes and scorpions! But immediately an equally powerful character appeared and fought with this great power for three days without a winner! Since then, an agreement has been reached that the tax has been changed to once every ten years! From now on, no great power can interfere in this matter again!"

"However, master, I have a question. Now there are some masters in the middle and late stages of the core gathering on our continent, and ten years doesn't seem to be enough time to grow to this level!" Lin Huanyu said the doubts in his heart!

"You're right, this involves the 'Ice Order'"

"Ice Order?"

"Every ten years before the tax collection, the snake and scorpion impermanence will issue nine death-free 'ice orders' on the mainland; anyone who holds the ice order can be spared death! ”

"It seems that issuing this 'Ice Order' is not a good thing!" Lin Huanyu sighed.

"Who says it isn't! What's even more odious is that there is another way to avoid death, and that is to 'exchange life for life.'" You can exchange a young man under the age of twenty who is one level below himself for his own life!"

"That is to say, a cultivator in the middle stage of condensation can also avoid death as long as he hands over a young man under the age of twenty who is in the middle stage of imperial qi, and that young man will be taken away from all his essence and blood on the spot!"

"In recent years, it has been rumored that the use of the Escape Bead is hidden deep underground, and some people have escaped it! But I don't know if it's true or not?" At this moment, a trace of crystal appeared in Jiang Xuanliu's eyes.

"When you first started, I once told you that you have two other senior brothers, and your second senior brother Rui Liang went to participate in that mission just to get a Retreat Pearl......" Speaking of this, Jiang Xuanliu seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden.

After a long silence, Jiang Jieliu took out a small jade box from his arms, and he gently opened the lid with trembling hands, and inside was a brown bead the size of a thumb.

"This is the Hidden Earth Bead left by your second senior brother! You take it with you, and if you encounter any danger, you can inspire it to hide underground three times!"

"Master, I can't ask for this!" Lin Huanyu knew that this was the second senior brother who exchanged his life for the master to avoid the catastrophe, and now that the catastrophe is coming, how can he accept it!

"Do you still recognize me as a master?" Jiang Duanliu scolded with an ugly face.

"But master, this is your life-saving use, how can the apprentice ask for it?"

"Last time, our Black Tower Gate finally used the Eight Gates Heavenly Lock Array left by our ancestor, so there were twelve people who escaped this catastrophe! So the master doesn't need this at all!

Jiang Xuanliu gently put the small box in Lin Huanyu's hand with his powerful big hand, and then closed Lin Huanyu's fingers! Then he said with a smile. "You're my closed disciple, I don't want anything to happen to you!"

At this time, Lin Huanyu's eyes were moist! He had never seen his biological parents since he was a child, and it was this master who snatched him back from the hands of death! Although he didn't know whether it was true or false that the master had escaped the catastrophe with the help of the sect array, he had deeply realized the master's feelings for himself......

"As for the 'Red Shield', if you want to go, you can go!" Jiang Xuanliu said helplessly.

"I really can't protect you for the rest of my life, and you still have to go by yourself in the future!" Jiang Duanliu was a little lonely when he said this! "There is a sentence you must remember, try not to upgrade your skills for three years, because the higher your level, the more dangerous it is!"

"The higher the level, the more dangerous it is?"

"Okay, come back early if you encounter any difficulties in the future!"

Early the next morning, Lin Huanyu went down the mountain with the only remaining double-sword Ruyi sword, and when he walked to the mountain gate, a familiar figure was leaning on the big stone on the side of the road!

"Da Lei, why are you here?"

"You forgot, how can you forget me about such a fight!" Chen Dalei tightened the double hammer tightly tied behind him with his hand, and sorted out the new leather armor by the way!

"Da Lei, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't need to take this risk!"

"Anyway, it's boring to stay at the mountain gate! Besides, now that your nine-headed bird is not here, are you going to walk to the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain?" Chen Dalei smiled mysteriously, put two fingers into his mouth, and whistled;

Whoa—whoa

After two eagle roars, one of the eagles hovered overhead and fell, stirring up a cloud of dust on the ground!

"Senior Brother Changle's Sky Eagle?"

Chen Dalei grinned and boarded the Sky Eagle, "Changle has been a little busy these days, so I'll lend his treasure!

Lin Huanyu jumped onto the Sky Eagle...

Goo –

Above the sky, a sky eagle is flying at high speed. Two teenagers sit side by side on the back of the carving...

"You're not going to participate in the selection of the Red Shield?" Lin Huanyu asked as he released the fish from the water bag behind him.

"It's still early! It's going to be a month later! I'm going to go to Ten Thousand Beast Mountain this time and take a mount myself! But the flying beast demon is too difficult to catch!"

Lin Huanyu touched it from his arms, found a box and opened it, which contained six Hundred Beast Fruits, took out two and threw them to Yu Yu and Yukong Eagle respectively, and then threw the box into Chen Dalei's arms.

"That's enough!"

"Hey, hey, this is good!" Chen Dalei put things away like a baby!

......

Five days later, under the guidance of Yu Yan, the two of them got off their mounts and entered a dense forest! After walking for more than 100 miles, they gradually entered a smoky area! After walking more than 20 miles, their eyes suddenly opened up!

In the middle of a dense forest, a huge mountain rises from the ground, and this mountain peak is completely a stone mountain, full of holes and holes! From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there are dense clouds, and puffs of white smoke waft out of the hole! This is the place where Yu Yan said that he was silently trapped in the Thousand Eyes Cave. Now it seems that there are more than a thousand eyes here, and there are more than 10,000 large and small holes!

"My master just entered here and hasn't come out yet!Yu Ye, save him!" Yu Yu said anxiously.

Lin Huanyu left Chen Dalei and Yu Yan outside, and told Chen Dalei that if he didn't come out within a month, he would let him go back to the mountain to find his master. Then he entered the Thousand Eyes Cave alone...

This thousand-eyed cave is connected to a hole, a cave is connected to a cave, a big hole is set to a small hole, and the hole is figured out, there is no road at all, and from time to time he will not know which hole suddenly spews out a puff of white smoke, and he can only grope to go deeper!

Walking through the caves that extend in all directions, he suddenly heard the sound of Xi Xi Suosuo, Lin Huanyu immediately pasted an invisibility blessing on himself, this kind of talisman is still good for low-level demons.

Two half-rat half-human goblins were walking through a nearby cave, nagging as they went.

"You say, how long will it take for our cave master to heal from this injury?"

"I guess, I don't know if I can recover or not! After all, if you lose the demon pill, you lose half your life! It seems that Huang Laoxian on the opposite hill heard that the cave master was injured and was about to come to rob our mountain!"

"I've heard about it too, and that Huang Laoxian has already been beating our minds..."