Yanling City, the capital of Yanling County, Dayue Kingdom, is a great city built along the bank of the Dachijiang River. There were no towering walls in this city, and the whole city was centered on the military camp, and all kinds of houses were scattered in circles, one by one, which was a typical pioneer camp, silently telling every visitor the difficulty of the pioneers to establish the city here.

However, Yanling County is now very peaceful, because the border has been extended to the vicinity of Qingyang Mountain, so when the disciples of Qingyang Guan travel out of the mountain, the first stop is often in Yanling County. With this group of immortal cultivators with vast magical powers secretly helping, those fierce demon beasts that invaded human society gradually disappeared unconsciously, and the former pioneer camp slowly prospered.

However, the disciples of Qingyangguan are not ferocious and easy to kill, as long as they are not the kind of particularly violent demon beasts, ordinary monsters they don't care about killing demons one by one, demons eat people, this is the right principle of the cycle of heaven and earth, and what they eliminate is just to prevent those monsters who kill people for fun or eat a lot of food.

Therefore, in Yanling County, monsters are still often seen, and people are attacked by monsters and die from time to time. But the people of Yanling County don't care that they are nothing compared to all kinds of natural and man-made disasters, all kinds of diseases and bandits, and the ten or eight people who are eaten by demon beasts every year.

On the contrary, these monsters that appear from time to time are not very harmful, but they have become a unique scenery in Yanling County, attracting many curious people to watch the excitement every year.

After a long time, people have gradually figured out the rules of the actions of some monsters, and several special sightseeing projects have been derived.

For example, the famous "Great Chijiang Demon Beast Battle".

At this moment, in the Great Chijiang River, a huge red fish is fighting with another inky black anaconda, splashing and turbulent. And thousands of people gathered in the place near the river bank in Fucheng, watching the fierce battle between the two demon beasts intently.

Red fish and anaconda are both famous monsters in the Great Chijiang River. They fight every summer for an aura-rich eye in the river, hoping to use it as a breeding ground.

There are not many red fish and anacondas, but demon beasts are also intelligent, and they will not fight indiscriminately, and it is impossible to sacrifice the strength of the whole clan in order to compete for the water eye. They take on this kind of ring-like battle every summer, with each side sending their strongest men to fight one-on-one...... Such battles often last for several days, and because the time is roughly fixed, it has become a famous tourist attraction in the area.

The figures of the two demon beasts are very large, the red fish is slightly thicker and shorter, about five or six zhang long, the scales on the body are like flames burning on one side, the fins and tail are as sharp as knives, and the sharp teeth in the mouth are even more cold and flashing; The anaconda is about thirteen or fourteen zhang long, and although it is not poisonous, the force brought by its huge body is enough to produce a deadly threat.

They fight hard in the river, and people watch happily on the riverbank. A lot of people are cheering on their favorite side, or even someone has opened a bet, and the odds of the redfish and the anaconda are roughly equal.

After about half an hour, the two demon beasts were a little tired, so they stopped for a while and retreated.

The battle for the water eye is an endurance battle, a short break, for a longer fight.

Just as the two sides were resting, several large ships departed from the harbor and headed for the redfish and anacondas. On the big boat were the supporters of the two monsters, and they drove the boat to the vicinity of the monsters, and threw the food that had been prepared into the water.

This is also the old rule, the people of the county government provide food to the demon beasts, so as to ensure that the demon beasts compete here every year.

Red fish and anacondas never attack people on the Dachi River, on the contrary, they often rescue people who have fallen into the water and send them to the shore; In return, young redfish and anacondas are never hunted, and they are often even given food.

Man and nature are not always hostile. Although in many places on the Kyushu border, the relationship between humans and demon beasts is very bad, but at least in the eyes of the people of Yanling County, who are regarded as barbarians, humans and demon beasts can coexist for mutual benefit, and they have always done so.

After a while, the two demon beasts, who had eaten enough, rose up again to fight, and the shouts on the river bank also followed the fierceness, wave after wave.

This is one of the happiest times of the year in Yanling County, but the dignified county keeper of Yanling County has no room for happiness at all now.

Cold sweat continued to run down his forehead and body, drenching his official uniform almost completely. The thin face was covered with sweat, running down the eyebrows, nose and cheeks, and finally drooping at the chin.

But he didn't even dare to wipe it, just looked at the young man in white clothes and sitting in front of him amicably.

It was Yi Yi, the transfer director of Yanling County, who should have been killed twenty-five years ago and sank into the Great Chijiang River!

"Easy ...... Change of Hands, You...... You're not dead, are you?"

"What do you say?" Yi Yi smiled faintly and asked lightly, "I was tied hand and foot and stuffed into a sack filled with stones, and then I was beaten to death with an iron rod until I couldn't move, and then sank into the Da Chi River, do you say I'm dead?"

The age of the county guard is not young, and he is also an old qualification in the officialdom of Dayue State. In the past 20 years, the officialdom of Dayue has experienced many ups and downs, but he has always occupied the position of the county guard of Yanling County, and he can be described as a tumbler.

But at this moment, the tumbler of the officialdom of the Great Yue Kingdom was about to fall, and his face became whiter and paler, and his body trembled more and more. Especially when he noticed the faint black aura on Yi Yi's body, and noticed that there was no shadow under Yi Yi's feet, he trembled even more.

Obviously, this Yi Yi died twenty-five years ago. At the moment, he is haunted...... Or maybe it's a ghost, and I'm coming to ask for my life!

"When...... I really don't know what happened at the beginning!" He trembled and hesitated for a long time, and finally came up with some words of explanation, "It was my butler's idea to teach you a lesson. I just nodded and left it to him!"

Yi Yi had already used the method of occupation to find out the general situation at the beginning, and at this moment he was just here to get evidence. Hearing him say this, he took out a blank piece of paper.

This piece of paper was originally pure white, but with the county guard's explanation, the handwriting began to appear on the paper, and what words appeared on the paper, like an invisible quick pen, recorded every word he said.

After the county guard explained a series of crimes such as corruption and murder of Yi Yi under his coercion, Yi Yi nodded, and with a flick of his finger, the blank paper flew leisurely in front of the county guard

"Let's draw a charge."

The county guard looked at the blank paper full of his various crimes, thinking about the consequences, and his fear of the ghosts weakened a little bit, and he was killed by the ghosts one by one, and he was dead; But if all his crimes are exposed, isn't he death? Yanling City, the capital of Yanling County, Dayue Kingdom, is a great city built along the bank of the Dachijiang River.

There were no towering walls in this city, and the whole city was centered on the military camp, and all kinds of houses were scattered in circles, one by one, which was a typical pioneer camp, silently telling every visitor the difficulty of the pioneers to establish the city here.

However, Yanling County is now very peaceful, because the border has been extended to the vicinity of Qingyang Mountain, so when the disciples of Qingyang Guan travel out of the mountain, the first stop is often in Yanling County.

With this group of immortal cultivators with vast magical powers secretly helping, those fierce demon beasts that invaded human society gradually disappeared unconsciously, and the former pioneer camp slowly prospered.

However, the disciples of Qingyangguan are not ferocious and easy to kill, as long as they are not the kind of particularly violent demon beasts, ordinary monsters they don't care about killing demons one by one, demons eat people, this is the right principle of the cycle of heaven and earth, and what they eliminate is just to prevent those monsters who kill people for fun or eat a lot of food.

Therefore, in Yanling County, monsters are still often seen, and people are attacked by monsters and die from time to time.

But the people of Yanling County don't care that they are nothing compared to all kinds of natural and man-made disasters, all kinds of diseases and bandits, and the ten or eight people who are eaten by demon beasts every year.

On the contrary, these monsters that appear from time to time are not very harmful, but they have become a unique scenery in Yanling County, attracting many curious people to watch the excitement every year.

After a long time, people have gradually figured out the rules of the actions of some monsters, and several special sightseeing projects have been derived.

For example, the famous "Great Chijiang Demon Beast Battle".

At this moment, in the Great Chijiang River, a huge red fish is fighting with another inky black anaconda, splashing and turbulent.

And thousands of people gathered in the place near the river bank in Fucheng, watching the fierce battle between the two demon beasts intently.

Red fish and anaconda are both famous monsters in the Great Chijiang River.

They fight every summer for an aura-rich eye in the river, hoping to use it as a breeding ground.

There are not many red fish and anacondas, but demon beasts are also intelligent, and they will not fight indiscriminately, and it is impossible to sacrifice the strength of the whole clan in order to compete for the water eye.

They take on this kind of ring-like battle every summer, with each side sending their strongest men to fight one-on-one...... Such battles often last for several days, and because the time is roughly fixed, it has become a famous tourist attraction in the area.

The figures of the two demon beasts are very large, the red fish is slightly thicker and shorter, about five or six zhang long, the scales on the body are like flames burning on one side, the fins and tail are as sharp as knives, and the sharp teeth in the mouth are even more cold and flashing; The anaconda is about thirteen or fourteen zhang long, and although it is not poisonous, the force brought by its huge body is enough to produce a deadly threat.

They fight hard in the river, and people watch happily on the riverbank.

A lot of people are cheering on their favorite side, or even someone has opened a bet, and the odds of the redfish and the anaconda are roughly equal.

After about half an hour, the two demon beasts were a little tired, so they stopped for a while and retreated.

The battle for the water eye is an endurance battle, a short break, for a longer fight.

Just as the two sides were resting, several large ships departed from the harbor and headed for the redfish and anacondas.

On the big boat were the supporters of the two monsters, and they drove the boat to the vicinity of the monsters, and threw the food that had been prepared into the water.

This is also the old rule, the people of the county government provide food to the demon beasts, so as to ensure that the demon beasts compete here every year.

Red fish and anacondas never attack people on the Dachi River, on the contrary, they often rescue people who have fallen into the water and send them to the shore; In return, young redfish and anacondas are never hunted, and they are often even given food.

Man and nature are not always hostile.

Although in many places on the Kyushu border, the relationship between humans and demon beasts is very bad, but at least in the eyes of the people of Yanling County, who are regarded as barbarians, humans and demon beasts can coexist for mutual benefit, and they have always done so.

After a while, the two demon beasts, who had eaten enough, rose up again to fight, and the shouts on the river bank also followed the fierceness, wave after wave.

This is one of the happiest times of the year in Yanling County, but the dignified county keeper of Yanling County has no room for happiness at all now.

Cold sweat continued to run down his forehead and body, drenching his official uniform almost completely.

The thin face was covered with sweat, running down the eyebrows, nose and cheeks, and finally drooping at the chin.

But he didn't even dare to wipe it, just looked at the young man in white clothes and sitting in front of him amicably.

It was Yi Yi, the transfer director of Yanling County, who should have been killed twenty-five years ago and sank into the Great Chijiang River!

"Easy ...... Change of Hands, You...... You're not dead, are you?"

"What do you say?" Yi Yi smiled faintly and asked lightly, "I was tied hand and foot and stuffed into a sack filled with stones, and then I was beaten to death with an iron rod until I couldn't move, and then sank into the Da Chi River, do you say I'm dead?"

The age of the county guard is not young, and he is also an old qualification in the officialdom of Dayue State.

In the past 20 years, the officialdom of Dayue has experienced many ups and downs, but he has always occupied the position of the county guard of Yanling County, and he can be described as a tumbler.

But at this moment, the tumbler of the officialdom of the Great Yue Kingdom was about to fall, and his face became whiter and paler, and his body trembled more and more.

Especially when he noticed the faint black aura on Yi Yi's body, and noticed that there was no shadow under Yi Yi's feet, he trembled even more.

Obviously, this Yi Yi died twenty-five years ago.

At the moment, he is haunted...... Or maybe it's a ghost, and I'm coming to ask for my life!

"When...... I really don't know what happened at the beginning!" He trembled and hesitated for a long time, and finally came up with some words of explanation, "It was my butler's idea to teach you a lesson.

I just nodded and left it to him!"

Yi Yi had already used the method of occupation to find out the general situation at the beginning, and at this moment he was just here to get evidence.

Hearing him say this, he took out a blank piece of paper.

This piece of paper was originally pure white, but with the county guard's explanation, the handwriting began to appear on the paper, and what words appeared on the paper, like an invisible quick pen, recorded every word he said.

After the county guard explained a series of crimes such as corruption and murder of Yi Yi under his coercion, Yi Yi nodded, flicked his fingers, and the blank paper flew leisurely in front of the county guard, "Let's draw a charge." ”

The county guard looked at the blank paper full of his various crimes, thinking about the consequences, and his fear of the ghosts weakened a little bit, and he was killed by the ghosts one by one, and he was dead; But if all his crimes are exposed, isn't he death? And even if he confesses honestly, will this terrible ghost let himself go?

Comparing his heart to his heart, he felt that he would definitely not let go of his enemy!

So after thinking about it, the thoughts in his heart gradually changed, and he gritted his teeth and grabbed the white paper and tore it apart.

But despite his best efforts, the thin white paper remained unmoved, and was stronger than the toughest cooked cowhide!

The county guard used several times in a row, and finally the whole person softened, and he could no longer raise the slightest sense of resistance.

This time he honestly raised his hand, pressed his fingerprint on the white paper, and then picked up the pen that appeared at some point, and signed it.

When this was done, he collapsed.

Whether the ghost kills him or not, he's done anyway!

After a while, the summer sun gradually restored the heat in the palace, and the county guard slowly came to his senses.

He was surprised to find that he was not paralyzed on the ground at all, but sitting in the study of the mansion, and on the table in front of him was still a gift list given to him by several large families in the county.

This is for this year's autumn tax, Yanling County is a large grain producer, and the annual autumn tax is a large amount.

And every year he plays a role in the collection of this autumn tax, while helping the big families to evade taxes, he also exchanges a lot of old rice for new rice for tax grain, and then sells it for money.

In just thirty years of county guarding, he has saved a huge fortune that can be called the number one person in the entire Dayue country, even if he resigns and goes home at this moment, he can ensure that his children and grandchildren will have food and clothing for several generations!

"That ...... Is it just a dream?" The county guard stood up suspiciously, walked to the door, and looked left and right.

He saw a messenger dozing against the wall not far away, so he called him over to inquire about it.

"There's no one.

Aren't you the only adults in this study?" The officer said suspiciously, "Don't you like to be disturbed?" So the little one has been watching here all the time, so that no one can disturb you. ”

The county guard frowned and walked back slowly.

Could it be ...... Is it really just a dream? What can you dream of being dead for twenty-five years? This dream is really weird!

He secretly made up his mind, and after a while, he would go out to the temple in the county government, find a great monk who has Taoism, and ask for a sign to see what was going on!

As for Yi Yi, at this time, he had already come to the cemetery outside the county government, standing in front of a fairly neat and wealthy tomb, silent.

Wu Xie walked over and saw that the tombstone was a name he didn't recognize.

"Who is this?"

"The same person who sent the thugs to hunt me down in the first place." Yi Yi smiled and said, "At the beginning, he was the housekeeper of the county guard, and after learning that I had brought an injury to Beijing and wanted to sue the emperor, he sent his wife and brother to catch up with me in the Dachijiang River with a group of thugs.

I was beaten to death by them, and then thrown into the Great Chijiang River to destroy the corpse. ”

"As a result, I was rescued by Uncle Zhou who was passing by, not only did I not die, but I became a member of the Xianmen.

And he died...... If you look at the record on his tombstone, in the second year after I entered the immortal gate, he died of fever, and he was not even forty years old when he died. ”

Wu Xie was startled, his eyes widened, looking at Yi Yi's calm appearance, and he was speechless for a while.

What surprised him was not that Yi Yi didn't die at the beginning, but that Yi Yi had a calm and breezy expression when he said this.

There was no resentment in this expression, only indifference.

It seems that Yi Yi really doesn't care anymore?!

This is a murderous revenge! How could he not care?

After a while, he couldn't help but ask his own question.

"I've waited twenty-five years." Yi Yi said lightly, "Twenty-five years is enough to gradually wash away the resentment in my heart...... Senior brother, do you know why I have to wait so long for Lu?"

Wu Xie naturally shook his head, he really didn't understand Yi Yi's thoughts.

If it were him, he wouldn't have been able to wait that long with such a deep hatred.

As long as you are sure that you have enough strength to retaliate, you will immediately set off to take revenge, and if you don't kill such enemies, how can you reach your thoughts!

"At the beginning, I also wanted to take revenge by cultivating immortals, and I even thought about destroying the full door of related people! However, before I apprenticed, Uncle Zhou arranged a lot of things to polish my temperament, grinding, grinding, grinding, and that resentment was much smaller......"

"Huh? What you experienced at the beginning, was actually specially arranged by Uncle Zhou to test you?"

"It can't be said to be a test, it's just a kind of training.

Chopping wood for a living is to allow me to exercise my body, and at the same time get used to the life of poverty and get rid of luxury; Fu soldiers come to beat me from time to time, in fact, they are dredging my bloodline, and they are also polishing my madness...... Uncle Zhou said, my qualifications are very high, but if a person wants to cultivate immortals, the most important thing is the heart rather than the qualifications.

During that time, it was improving my mind. ”

“…… I thought that the people who beat you were sent by your family to protect you......"

"The people of the Yi family have already died when I am dead, how can they still send people to protect me? You're thinking too much. Yi Yi smiled bitterly, "I wanted to report corrupt officials, but my family didn't approve of it."

I turned against my family for this...... Later, when the news of my death broke, they must have breathed a sigh of relief......"

Wu Xie was suddenly a little embarrassed, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Because you have sharpened your temperament at the beginning, you changed your mind?"

"Later, after I achieved success in cultivation, I gradually changed my mind...... Yi Yi said calmly, "If I go back to take revenge at that time, it will definitely be no problem to take revenge, but I am afraid that the resentment in my heart will accumulate, and I will kill many people, many, many people." ”

"There is revenge and revenge, there is revenge and revenge, whether there are many enemies or few, those who should be killed must be killed!"

"Senior brother, you are a resolute and resolute person, but I am not.

The thought of killing many, many people softened my heart, and I felt that it was not good for my cultivation either. Yi Yi sighed, "So I thought about it for a while and decided to wait until I was successful in refining Gang before taking revenge." ”

"It's too late!"

"Yes, I originally estimated that it would take thirty or forty years to complete the refining.

By that time, my enemies will probably be dead, and the grudge will be over.

The years have eliminated them for me, and I don't have to get my hands dirty. ”

"But I didn't expect that in just over 20 years, I would be able to refine Gang." Yi Yi couldn't help but sigh, "As a result, I was hesitating, considering whether I should wait any longer and wait until the Ning Yuan realm." ”

"From refining to condensing yuan, it will take decades.

Unless your enemies live a long life, it is not enough to be 100 years old, and they may live to be 130 or 40 years old, or they will never have a chance to see you again. Wu Xie shook his head, "This is equivalent to not taking revenge, it's boring!"

"Yes, I thought about it for a long time, and finally decided that I should take revenge!" Yi Yi's expression was still very flat, and there was no hideous hatred at all, "Since my refining success has been long earlier than I expected, it is probably the will of heaven."

God wants me to take revenge......"

"But you have not killed anyone along the way."

"Murder is only the lowest means of revenge, since I want to take revenge, I must do it cleanly, do it beautifully, what I never forgot back then was to rectify the matter of the rule of officials, and regarded it as more important than my life.

Now I have enough skills and a good reason to just do the two things together. ”

"Whether it's revenge or harm, just do it together."

Wu Xie nodded and supported his thoughts: "That's right! We cultivators are supposed to do good deeds for the world, and your revenge is just a personal matter; However, rectifying the rule of officials in Yanling County and bringing benefits to the people is the business of thousands of people! It was nice and very nice to be able to do both things together!"

"The news from Yanling County has been almost collected, and the people involved ...... And one more to deal with"

"Who?"

"The inspection of the imperial history of the year.

I had already reported to him the collusion, deception, and corruption of the officials of Yanling County, and it was said that he should investigate and then show the ...... of the imperial court to deal with corrupt officials. But he didn't, and even when he got the news that I was missing, he didn't react at all. Yi Yi sighed, "I'm going to find him and ask him what he's up for." ”

“…… The old man's original choice was not wrong. Facing the white-clothed ghost who came by the night wind, the retired imperial historian with white hair and an old dragon clock did not have the slightest fear at all, "Your death is indeed a loss to the country and a great misfortune for you."

But if you really succeed in exposing it in the first place, then more people will be hurt!"

"There are some things that have to be done." Yi Yi said coldly, "If a person is injured and the wound is suppurated, it must be cut open and drained."

If you just blindly cover the wound, most of the results will be festering and you will die. ”

"You're the one who suffered, so naturally you feel that way.

But I don't see it that way. "The old imperial history has no intention of giving in at all," Over the years, Yanling County has still been peaceful, and the lives of the common people are not very bad.

You only see the corruption of those people, but you don't see their ability to govern...... In my opinion, corrupt officials are not terrible, as long as he has the ability and can govern the place well, he will be greedy, what's the big deal!"

"As an imperial historian, is this how you treat the trust of the imperial court and the trust of Your Majesty?"

"Of course! I am the Imperial History, I want to see with my own eyes, listen with my own ears, and think with my own head! It is true that they are corrupt and pervert the law; It is also true that they killed you.

If the law of the court was followed, everyone involved would have to die. Old Yushi snorted coldly, looking indifferent, "But kill them, where can you find a group of capable people to continue to do things well?"

Yi Yi frowned.

"I don't regret my original choice, if you want to kill me, I have nothing to say." Speaking of the question of death, Old Yushi sighed deeply, and finally showed a little weakness, but then he regained his firmness, "But I don't think what I did was wrong."

For a country, for the people of Yanling County, it doesn't matter whether you live or die, and it doesn't matter whether those officials are corrupt or not, the important thing is that the country can be stable and the people can be happy. ”

"For the sake of this, I can have a clear conscience, I can turn a blind eye to the evidence you have collected with your life, and I can turn a deaf ear to your death." Old Yushi's face was still cold, just like when Yi Yi reported to him, "I believe that my choice is correct!"

"Yiyi, I admit that I'm not a good person.

But what I do is to be truly loyal to the country and truly benefit the people!"