Chapter 168: Mountains and Rivers
No one in this world is stupid, and no one is willing to be a bird.
I don't know if Zhang Yanting will vomit blood in anger when he learns about the careful thinking of all parties. Anyway, Chen An didn't know the detours and detours, and was still preparing an escape route as if he were facing a great enemy.
The female view had already woken up, and under Chen An's coercion, she really gave the route expected by the round-faced Taoist priest.
The entire Shanhe Shejitu is not the only one in the Xianmen, the demon clan is the real master of the Shanhe Shejitu, although now the Xianmen has the advantage of most of the world, but there are too many places where the Xianmen is beyond the reach of the whip, such as the battlefield of Wansheng Mountain.
Through the joint description of Nuguan and Yuanjie, and in the deliberate exchange and combination with the natives on the way, Chen An barely understood the pattern in the map of the mountains and rivers.
This is a completely independent world, and there are countless kingdoms in it, more numerous than the hundred countries of the Western Regions. They have been living in this land for more than 100,000 years, even dating back to the period of the human emperor in the outside world. Due to the relationship between communication and the vast area, no country has been able to complete the unification, and even because of the fairy and demon wars and natural reasons, it has experienced several civilization destructions and inheritance breaks. Compared with the degree of civilization of Daqian, it is more than one grade worse.
Whether it is the Xianmen or the demon clan, they are all in line with the principle of foolish soldiers and easy to drive, and they do not lead civilization and educate the minds of the people, they are like high gods, they do not interfere in the affairs of the mortal world at all, and they are left to fend for themselves.
At most, when you need to absorb resources from it, you will leave all kinds of legends like a flash in the sky.
More than 100 years ago, to be precise, it should be eighty years ago, when the Xianmen reached the peak of the era of the human emperor to the great power of the hidden world, there were eight primordial gods and real people, and the demon clan had obviously not recovered their vitality, only four demon kings. This was an overwhelming advantage, and they could have completely defeated the demon clan or banished it to other realms. But at this time, there were some careful thoughts within the Xianmen, they were not sure what they would face after completely expelling the demon clan and returning to the central realm, whether it was the triumphant treatment of heroes, or the death of a cunning rabbit and the elimination of lackeys.
They had been away from the Central Realm for so long that they had completely lost their roots there. At that time, everyone in the central realm practiced martial arts, and everyone in the world knew the spirit of martial arts, but they didn't know what cultivating immortals was.
Everyone in the world said that the chaos in Xianmen eighty years ago was caused by the ambitions of the high-level leaders of Xianmen, but they didn't know that this was actually a helpless temptation for them, wanting to see if there was a position for themselves and others in the central realm, but they were naturally disappointed, and they were ruthlessly driven back.
Due to the long lifespan of immortal cultivators, many of the high-level members of the Immortal Sect were remnants of the Human Emperor Era, and their feelings for the Central Realm were extremely real, how could they be treated calmly like this. What's even more terrifying is that there are also internal problems among them, many of the monks who later joined the Xianmen are natives of the mountains and rivers in the community, and they are really unfamiliar with the central realm, and they are not willing to return at all, and this internal contradiction makes their own opinions unified.
With so many situations, they are faced with two choices: whether to continue to "raise bandits for self-respect" and coexist peacefully with the Central Realm, or to completely solve the problem of the Demon Clan, turn around and scare the emerging forces in the Central Realm, and regain their former homeland.
In this situation, the Zhenguo Gong punished the immortals in a battle, the eight primordial gods, two dead and three seriously injured, and even in the next few years, the two seriously injured primordial gods also sat down one after another, and the number of Xianmen primordial gods was directly reduced by half, completely erasing the unrealistic delusions of all the people in Xianmen, and laying the pattern in the Kunlun Haotian realm today.
Even the boundary gate mastered by the Xianmen was seized by the Zhenguo Gong and placed on the battlefield of the fairy demon in Wansheng Mountain, and the Daqian soldiers were sent to guard it as an overseer, so as to prevent the Xianmen from not doing their best against the demon clan, or in the case of resentment, to do anything irrational, this is the origin of the boundary gate of Wansheng Mountain.
"The place where we are now should be in the Dongliu Plain of Kunlun Hao Heavenly Realm, this is the territory of Xianmen, there are several large countries such as Jiuzhang, Linghai, Mountain Ghost, Baike, Chewei and other large countries and scattered city-state tribes, if you go directly to the battlefield of Wansheng Mountain from Chapter Jiu, you are likely to meet the Xianmen monks stationed here to resist the demon clan. Therefore, it is only possible to ensure safety by borrowing the road from Shanyang Country and inserting the Infernal Ghost Snake into the Wansheng Mountain Range. In other words, we seem to have a lot of choices, but in fact we can only take this one path. ”
Chen An left Nuguan in the car, and just pulled Yuan Jie aside to sum it up.
"This may be the case", Yuan Jie smiled bitterly: "And even if there is no immortal cultivator blocking the road on this road, it will not be too peaceful, we can only find the natives to lead the way, and the indigenous mortals know nothing about anything other than the environment in which they live, so we can only rely on this Yao Qin, that is to say, we must keep her life and take her with us." ”
Chen An recalled the female view who seemed to be frightened, submissive, and said whatever she asked, shook his head and said, "That woman is not as simple as it seems on the surface. We have to take this road, which means that the Xianmen side must know that we will take this road, and things are more troublesome than imagined. ”
"What then?"
A ray of essence flashed in Chen An's eyes: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, this is more risky than going around most of the Kunlun Hao Heavenly Realm and going to the Realm of Chaos, although it is a little risky, but it is indeed the fastest way to get out of here, or do you still want to go to the Sanqingguan or the Heavenly Master's Mansion to steal the boundary gate?"
"It's not that we don't have an advantage, your strange treasure that hides the heavens, so that they can't count our specific location, this is our biggest advantage. ”
"We can blend into the martial arts of the Mountain Ghost Country, and through their neglect of mortals, we can find an opportunity to leave the Dongliu Plain and enter the Infernal Ghost Snake, once we enter the Infernal Ghost Dragon, with the help of the characteristics there, they may not be able to find us even if they are real immortals. ”
"That's true," Iris's eyes lit up, and he glanced at Chen An with a strange expression: "This guy is calm and organized, he doesn't look like an ordinary person at all, is he really a mountain field cultivator as he said?"
Knowing that now was not the time to think about this, Kite Jie restrained his thoughts and said, "Without further ado, let's hurry up and leave now." ”
Chen An nodded and returned to the car with Iris, and saw the woman who was shrinking in the corner of the carriage, and the woman saw Chen An and the two coming back, with a frightened expression, and shrank back into the corner. Chen An glanced at her, his eyes became more and more gloomy, he was not afraid of a hard mouth, that kind of person he had a way to cure, but it was very difficult to cooperate with this kind of performance, because the things she explained were all true, this kind of truth, so real that you couldn't help but be led by her nose, or even didn't know when she would be eaten by her.
"You look at her, I'm going to drive outside. Chen An instructed Kite Jie and left the carriage. He is suspicious by nature, even if he is a kite, he can't fully trust it, and he is even more defensive about women, so being alone is the best choice.
Without saying anything all the way, Chen An and his entourage left the Jiuzhang Country and went to Shanyang Road.
On Shanyang Road, there is an endless stream of business travelers, and it is quite popular, because this is the only road connecting the country of Jiuzhang to the country of mountain ghosts. Chen An was even more energetic about this, and was always vigilant against the attack of immortal cultivation. According to his thoughts, this section of the road is the most difficult, if the Xianmen reacts and comes to intercept them, they can only rush out all the way, there is no other way. Therefore, Chen An and the others were cautious, and even in order to cover themselves, although they knew that it was not very useful for the divination technique in the hundred arts of cultivation, they still deliberately joined a caravan that also went to the mountain ghost country.
But the strange thing was that until they walked into the territory of the Mountain Ghost Country, there was not a trace of immortal cultivation appearing, which made Chen An secretly wonder if it was the strange effect of the secret treasure that concealed the heavens of Iris, and no one could calculate their specific location. It's just that this secret treasure itself was obtained by Yuan Jie from Xianmen, so it shouldn't have such a strong effect.
Although I couldn't figure it out, I finally walked a third of the way safely, and then I just had to mix into the martial arts of the mountain ghost country and play the role of a ranger to explore the Infernal Ghost Domain.
This is also that Chen An doesn't understand the urine nature of Immortal Cultivation, otherwise if he knew that no one would intercept him along the way, he would have swaggered into the Infernal Ghost Domain, how could he be so sneaky. On the contrary, because the immortal cultivators did not come for a long time, they became more and more anxious in their hearts, after all, waiting for death is more uncomfortable than death, and the invisible enemy lurking around is the most dangerous.
"Uncle Wu, since we have arrived at the place, let's leave it at that. Chen An smiled cleanly, like a sunny boy next door, and was saying goodbye to the caravan leader at this time.
The leader of this caravan is a native of Jiuzhang, surnamed Wu, over fifty years old, described as old, and everyone else in the caravan calls him Daddy Wu, and he is also ready to go on this last trip to earn enough coffin books, so he washed his hands and went home to retire. With Chen An as his companion along the way, he had a good impression of this innocent young man, and at this time he couldn't help but ask a little more: "Little brother really wants to travel to the Infernal Ghost Domain? That's not a good place to go, if you want to become famous, there is no need to take this risk, you must know that even if you are a martial arts master who challenges the Jiuzhang Kingdom one by one, it is not much slower than this." ”
Chen An shook his head, and said with a young look that he was not afraid of the sky: "To be famous, you must go to the Infernal Ghost Domain to kill demons and ghosts, which is a model for my generation of men." ”
Looking at Chen An's youthful face, he finally couldn't bear it, so he took out a wooden plaque engraved with the word "red" from his arms, handed it to Chen An, and said: "Little brother has such ambitions, and it's hard to say anything about old decay." Thinking that the Infernal Ghost Domain is not everywhere dangerous, there are still many cities rooted in it, and Black Mountain City is one of them. This wooden plaque was left to me by Elder Yu Jinyu of the Red Feather Gang in Black Mountain City during a business trip, and he told me that if I had something to do with him in the future, I could use this token to find him, and he would not refuse. I went back to care for the elderly after this trip, and I didn't need it, so if I took it, I said that it was my nephew when I arrived in Black Mountain City, and I wanted to get some care. ”
Chen An's face was moved: "Uncle Wu treats me sincerely, I will recognize Uncle Wu, what about you, when I become famous all over the world, I will definitely not forget to visit your old man in Jiuzhang Country." ”
"Okay, okay, I'm waiting for you to come. ”
The two of them were emotionally surging and parting with each other.
Chen An returned to his carriage at this time, his smile retracted, he returned to his usual indifference, and drove the horse forward again with a whip.
Only the iris behind him had a strange face, and he sighed in his heart that the thousand-faced sword really lived up to its reputation.