The sky was gloomy, rolling dark clouds shrouded the mountains and mountains, faintly looking, and this thunder slightly exploded, faintly into the ears, but it was rolling endlessly in the thick black clouds.

Above the official road, a tragic aura permeated, making people feel uneasy. Under the commensurate darkness of the sky, this aura was dispersed to the extreme, creating an extremely strange atmosphere, making passers-by or warriors uneasy, and turned away one after another, or found another way.

"Gollum"

The sound of the wheels rolling sounded, and in the eyes of the homeless people on both sides of the official road, it was like a natural sound, and they hurriedly stretched out their withered hands, trying to attract the attention of the horseman.

The lips that had not eaten or drunk for many days were completely dry and cracked, the lips were slightly open, and the syllables that were difficult to distinguish came out of the throat, but they could only hear the sound that seemed to be choked, and it was difficult to hear what the homeless was about to say, because the homeless person's throat had long been dry and hoarse.

The groom looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little frightened, and he wanted to get out of the car to ask what was going on, but he trembled with fear in his heart, as if there was purgatory on earth. The rough hands that have been covered with calluses because of the horsewhip for many years have been soaked in sweat, and the palms are even more stubbornly grasping the rope in their hands, refusing to let go, or rather, they dare not let go.

The horse, which had stopped in front of it, seemed to be pulled by the groom's exertion, and could not help but neigh loudly to the sky.

"Ahh

As if awakened by the horse on which he was surviving, the groom couldn't help but scream, and broke away from the fear he had just had. But when he saw that there were more corpses of homeless people on both sides of the official road, he couldn't help but feel frightened again, and the corner of his eyes inadvertently skimmed that the homeless person who had asked for help before, the hand with all his strength had hung down, and he fell back like a rib, and a pair of eyes stared at the groom, as if he was unwilling. The thick resentment in his eyes made the groom even more frightened, although he knew that the homeless man might have died, but he couldn't help the tragic atmosphere, and immediately made the groom give up the money he wanted to get.

Ling Xiao was originally breathing in the carriage, conditioning his body, and cultivating the true yuan, and he didn't want to let go of any time to comprehend the martial arts, after all, his strength was too weak in this Qiankun Prefecture!

However, the exclamation of the groom woke Ling Xiao from his cultivation state.

Originally, even when Ling Xiao was practicing, he could keenly perceive the killing opportunities of the outside world and react in time, which was also the reason why Ling Xiao dared to cultivate on the carriage, although the carriage was bumpy, but it had no effect on Ling Xiao at all.

However, the groom's exclamation was too loud, not to mention that the distance between Ling Xiao and the groom was so close that Ling Xiao woke up in one fell swoop.

"What's wrong?"

Ling Xiao, who was disturbed, raised his sword eyebrows upside down, introduced the true yuan in his body into the dantian and returned to his position, and asked out loud, his slender and white right hand opened the curtain that was blocking in front of him.

"Father, son, I don't dare to leave....... ”

Before the curtain was fully opened, only a corner of the official road was revealed, and the voice of the groom was heard, and the voice was full of fear, as if he had seen something terrible.

It stands to reason that such an old coachman has been driving for many years, and there is naturally no lack of time to catch up with the car at night, when the moon is clear and the stars are shining, and it is often necessary to go to the mountain road, which is enough to train these coachmen who have been driving for many years, and few things can be frightened, but the fear of this coachman must have happened.

There were thousands of thoughts in his mind, Ling Xiao's breath sank, his handsome and extraordinary face returned to calm, and the true yuan in his body hibernated the meridians, ready to be mobilized at any time, Ling Xiao's feet were full of energy, and he kicked slightly and jumped out!

However, there were no enemies in front of him, and there were no demon beasts blocking the way, but the corpses on both sides of the official road made Ling Xiao stunned in an instant!

"This ...... This is?"

Whether there was a war in front, or a famine, or other reasons, causing such a tragic situation, Ling Xiao did not know, so he had to turn around and look at the horseman, only to see that the horseman was trembling, the cold sweat on his forehead was constantly dripping, and he was holding the horsewhip tightly in his hand, and the black horse in front of him was caught by the horse rope, which seemed to be extremely uneasy, constantly kicking the horse's hooves.

Ling Xiao looked along the horseman's eyes, only to see the left side of the official road, under the gaze of the horseman's uneasy gaze, there was a miserable homeless person, whose clothes had already been torn apart, and he only relied on a few strips of cloth on his body to cover his body.

The flesh and skin of his life are tightly attached to the bones, like a humanoid skeleton, obviously he has experienced some catastrophe, although his eyes are fierce, but it is not difficult for Ling Xiao to see that he is no longer alive, because although the violent eyes are terrifying, but the spirit is broken, and his eyes are not focused.

"I was scared like this!"

Seeing this person, how could Ling Xiao not understand why the horseman's screaming voice was, he was immediately angry and funny, but in the end he just sighed helplessly, and muttered to himself: "I don't know what happened in front of me, which will cause so many people to suffer." ”

Looking at the homeless people on both sides of the official road, Ling Xiao knew that this trip might not be so smooth.

Because of the horror in his heart, even the horseman's reaction was a few beats slower, and when Ling Xiao came out for a while, he reacted, and hurriedly wailed: "This son, something big must have happened in front of me, but I don't dare to go any further." ”

Looking at the stout middle-aged man in front of him, Ling Xiao couldn't open his mouth to stop him, after all, Ma Fu was just an ordinary person, not a martial artist with advanced cultivation, and it was inevitable to be afraid.

When the horseman saw the handsome son in front of him, he didn't make a sound, but stood quietly, looking at himself, the horseman immediately thought that Ling Xiao disagreed, but he also knew that the son in front of him was only afraid of being a powerful warrior, and he didn't dare to offend, so he just begged: "Son, you can do it, the old man still has a family to support, and he really can't go any further!"

Hearing that this groom was in a panic in order to beg for himself, and even said that he was an "old man", Ling Xiao couldn't smile bitterly, and he was not a very vicious person, why was this?

"Childe, if you are willing to let me go back, I won't accept the money and silver for this trip, how about it?" This groom had no choice but to come up with his own "killer weapon", forced himself to endure the blood dripping in his heart, and said this sentence, and then looked at Ling Xiao pitifully, with a face full of anticipation.

Ling Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "I promised you, why bother?"

After speaking, Ling Xiao also took out a large piece of gold from the Qiankun ring and threw it directly to the coachman, in order not to listen to the coachman's wail, he hurriedly turned around and left.

As if he didn't expect to receive the money, the groom was sluggish for a while before he reacted, and hurriedly looked around, for fear of being remembered by some thief, completely forgetting that the place was full of displaced people, and he couldn't take care of his gold at all.

When people are very hungry, where can they care about any gold, at such times, a palm-sized steamed bun is more valuable than a horse's hoof-sized gold.

Putting away the gold in his hand, the groom hurriedly rode the horse and turned around, did not dare to stop any longer, and hurriedly left, at this time, Ling Xiao had already walked far away.

......

Along the way, Ling Xiao can be described as "frightened", not the kind of fear, but surprised by the disaster in this place, and he doesn't know what happened to make such a tragic situation.

Along the way, there were also people who begged Ling Xiao for help, and Ling Xiao also distributed the food in his Qiankun Ring to them, and when his own food was only a little left, Ling Xiao didn't pay attention to them, after all, there were too many homeless people! The food in Ling Xiao's Qiankun Ring alone could not meet the needs of so many people, so it was better to find the root cause and eradicate it in one fell swoop.

After completely distributing the food in the Qiankun Ring to a few children, Ling Xiao calmed down and rushed forward to find out.

......

When the sky was completely dark, Ling Xiao stopped and stopped the operation of the true element in his body.

"How could this be?"

In front of Ling Xiao, there is a city wall, on the city wall, the plaque engraved with the three big characters of "Xia Yue City", at this time it is already dilapidated, on the city wall, there is a backlog of corpses, among which there are civilians in coarse linen clothes, there are also men in splendid clothes, and even soldiers in iron armor have a lot.

On the city wall, some sergeants are directing the soldiers below to clean up the corpses, and below, some soldiers are burning the corpses.

Seeing that the faces of these soldiers were covered with white cloths, Ling Xiao knew why, but he was afraid that it would be a disaster similar to an epidemic.

"I see, I said how can there be so many homeless people!"

Thinking of the previous homeless people, Ling Xiao knew in his heart that he was afraid that he would escape from this city, but because he was infected with the plague, he was sick halfway, so it would cause a tragic situation on both sides of the official road.

At this time, a group of sergeants rushed towards Ling Xiao's side, interrupting Ling Xiao's thoughts.

"What are you doing here?"

The sergeant asked, apparently the leader of the pair.

After all, this is an extraordinary period, there was a plague in the city, and the people were struggling to make a living, and these soldiers were nervous, for fear that something would happen again, and Ling Xiao stopped again, so he hurriedly came to investigate.

Seeing a group of soldiers staring at his vigilant eyes, Ling Xiao smiled bitterly, but he didn't say much, but took out Emperor Qiankun's talisman.

The sergeant at the head was surprised, because he had already recognized that this was the order of Emperor Qiankun, although he had not seen Emperor Qiankun, but the engraving on the command was definitely not fake, after all, this was Qiankun Prefecture, just pretending to be Emperor Qiankun's order, it was simply looking for death, and they didn't think that Ling Xiao had just done this.

After figuring out that Ling Xiao's intention was to meet the city lord, the sergeant asked a small soldier to take Ling Xiao to the city lord's mansion, and he re-commanded the remaining soldiers to clean up the city.

Along the way, Ling Xiao knew what was called purgatory, the refugees in the city, for a few mouthfuls of food, killed each other, Ling Xiao was secretly speechless, and at the same time knew that there was indeed a plague in the city.

Soon, Ling Xiao was taken to the city mansion, and after explaining his intentions, he was taken to the hall of the city lord's mansion.

Because of this disaster, the council hall of the City Lord's Mansion was obviously unattended by no one, and it was chaotic, and it didn't take long for Ling Xiao to wait for the city lord with a haggard face.

Ling Xiao took out Emperor Qiankun's talisman and briefly explained his intentions.

Emperor Qiankun was silent for a while before he slowly spoke: "The Qiankun compass is here, and I can give it to you, but ......." ”

The Xia Yue City Lord stared at Ling Xiao's eyes, and said slowly: "You must take action to save my Xia Yue City, and I will hand over the Qiankun Compass to you, otherwise, even if the Qiankun Emperor comes in person, there is no need to talk about it!"