The spiritual power in Nanlu Prefecture from Baichi to the south is extremely unevenly distributed.

At the beginning, the three sects of the White Pond Sword Sect, the Red Cloud Temple, and the Qinglian Sect were separated, and the territory occupied by the White Pond Sword Sect was not only the smallest, but also only one spiritual land. However, it is a fourth-order top-grade spiritual land, which is extremely rare in this world where the spiritual energy is gradually depleted.

Although the area of the spiritual land is not very large, the spiritual energy is pure. Therefore, the Baishan Sword Sect has extremely strict requirements for the spiritual root and natal nature of the introductory disciples, although there are not many monks under the sect, but the number of high-level monks, especially the sword cultivators who are the best at fighting, far exceeds the other two factions, so it is named after it.

Baichi Sword sent to the south of the Hongyun Temple, it is rumored that its ancestor Xuantan Master, Buddhism boundless, in the general mountain to open the altar to explain the "Nirvana Sutra", caused the sky to fall, the ground surging golden lotus, on the spot epiphany advanced disciples are not less than ten.

The true meaning of the avenue endured for a long time, and the glow of Wandao turned into a fiery red auspicious cloud, floating above the mountain gate, so it was renamed Hongyun Temple since then, as for the previous name, it was slowly forgotten.

Although there are more spiritual lands in the territory of Hongyun Temple than the Baichi Sword Sect, there are seven spiritual mountains, but the highest spiritual land is only the fourth-order lower grade. Moreover, apart from these seven spiritual mountains, there are no low-level spiritual lands for scattered cultivation, only some scattered places where spiritual energy is thin.

Each Lingshan has a temple, and they all belong to the Hongyun Temple. However, it is rumored that Master Xuantan is nearly 2,000 years old, and he is almost at the age of Yuanying Monk, and he has been in retreat all year round, and he has not come out to see things for nearly 300 years.

Master Xuantan originally accepted the presiding officer of Zongshan, who was a Jindan genius monk, but three hundred years have passed, the avenue is hopeless, and he has passed away. Now the prestige of the new host of Hongyun Temple is not enough, and the hosts of the six temples under the sect are encroaching on each other and competing for the position of abbot of the sect in the future.

As for the Qinglian Sect further south, the level of the spiritual land is even lower, and the highest is only a third-order superlative, and it needs to be guided by the Spirit Gathering Array to gather a small fourth-order place. However, in addition to the Qinglian Sect's General Mountain Gate, there are more than a dozen spiritual mountains occupied by it alone, which can be regarded as being squeezed out from the original Pope, and at that time, he carried the treasure of the original sect, the Great Dao Qinglian, and left the south.

Its vassals are like the Fengliang Sect, and there are nine sects with some strength. There is not even a third-order spiritual land, and the strength of the smaller sects is even weaker, and there are even more of them with other cultivation families. There are nearly 100 low-level spiritual lands like Qingliu Mountain, as well as some medicinal herb mountains, spiritual fields, and spiritual mines. Such a low-level spiritual land is not looked down upon by the cultivators who pursue the Great Dao, and the Blue Lotus Sect itself cannot manage so much.

Eight hundred years ago, this place was originally a place of war, and due to the competition for spiritual land, dozens of large-scale monk wars took place here in a row, and there were even more small-scale vendettas. The whole place was killed for thousands of miles, and the white bones were paved with the road.

The Fengliang Sect of that year also happened to occupy Fengliang Mountain from afar at this time. The original remnants of the Yuanying Sect are not weak in this place, but the dragon crossing the river is an outsider after all, and the head snake who came here grabbed food in his mouth, and was besieged by several nearby sects, and the battle was even more tragic than on the migration road.

In the end, the Qinglian Sect that came over from each other pulled one and fought another, and mediated in front of absolute strength, and all the sects were greatly reduced because of their strength, and finally they all came under the command of the Qinglian Sect.

However, although the strength of the Qinglian Sect is superior to each other, it is not overbearing, except that it is forbidden for vassals to attack each other. The vassals of each family have a quota, and they can send people to the Qinglian Sect to study and study, and the Qinglian Sect gives great freedom and autonomy to the vassal sects, and they don't even need to worship.

But if there is a war and the Qinglian Sect participates in the war, the vassal mountain gates under the gate need to dispatch monks to participate in the war, and when it was originally agreed, this point was particularly strict, and a soul contract was signed.

It's just that to this day, the Qinglian Sect has never started a war, and the spiritual energy is too exhausted, and there are still more spiritual lands here, and the monks of each mountain gate are much less than in their heyday.

However, high-level spiritual land is a scarce resource at any time. In the southern part of the Qinglian Sect, which is separated by a large sect, many spiritual lands have been weakened due to spiritual energy, and some of the already thin spiritual veins have suddenly been cut off.

Since more than 100 years ago, several sects over there, for the sake of a high-level spiritual land, from the small friction at the beginning to the back of the soldiers, now it is becoming more and more intense, and the repeated battles have gradually become uncontrollable.

It's still a long way off, but it's noticeably more turbulent.

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Not far from the suburbs of the city gate in the north of Beiyang City, there is a beautiful hill, there is a big stone three zhang high at the top of the peak, as if flying from the sky, under the light of the sunset, put on the afterglow of the setting sun, a fiery red.

Next to the flying stone, there is a temple surrounded by yellow brick walls, which is the Red Stone Temple.

Although the Red Stone Temple is not as good as those real Lingshan Temples, the scope of the temple courtyard is still very large, and the buildings with three entrances before and after, and the two- or three-story buildings are still quite large.

At this time, it is nearly dusk, more than a dozen monks in the temple are eating, although wearing monk's clothes, shaved heads, but meat and vegetables are not taboo on the dining table, except for steamed buns, pancakes, fish and meat.

A monk carrying a bucket of dry rice, walked to the back of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there was also a tall and thin monk standing at the sentry, the two of them looked at each other, the high monk flashed out of a secret door behind him, and lightly buckled the door three times, "squeak", the door opened from the inside.

The monk walked inside with the rice, and when he went down the steps, the secret door was closed, and the light was dim inside. There was an oil lamp on the two walls, and after a short walk, there was a two-entry room inside, although spacious, but the gloomy atmosphere was pressing, and the sound of whimpering could be faintly heard, like a ghost crying.

The monk who carried the food couldn't help but shiver, shivered, saluted respectfully, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he quietly paced over the side of the wall, took the key to open a small door, and got in.

Suddenly, the sobs and moans of the women inside came one after another, and the originally spacious place was made into cells like cells with fences.

In the dim light, straw was laid inside, and a young woman was locked inside, some with chains on her hands, some with her hair scattered, some with her eyes open, her eyes glazed over, and she was sobbing with tears, all naked in this cold dungeon in the twilight of spring, and her body was in a mess.

In some rooms, there were two women locked up, and they couldn't stand the cold, so they hugged each other to keep warm. Walking further in, there was the man's laughter and scolding and the woman's painful voice, and the monk who carried the rice shouted, "The rice is coming!" ”

"Just come, come." After another crackling sound, a white fat man with a vicious face came out of the back room while wearing his clothes, "Li Er, I came very early today, it just so happened that there is a new one inside, and it won't be your turn when it's night!" ”

"You don't get tired of it all day long......"

"Heh," the fat man sneered, "just say you want it or not!" ”

"Yes! Absolutely! ”

The white fat man took the rice bucket, and there was a roast chicken on the top, wiped it with his hand, grabbed the roast chicken and gnawed it in his mouth, staining his clothes and hands with oil. Under the rice bucket are all yellow nest heads, the fat man has chicken in his mouth, carrying the bucket, and throwing the nest heads into the nest from room to room, and some of the women inside heard the delivery, and they stumbled up to pick up the nest head, and some of them did not move at all.

The monk who was carrying the food was about to go inside, and the fat man threw two nests, "Just you send it inside." The monk hurriedly took it, and it was dry and hard in his hand, and he didn't know how to eat it, no wonder, he usually made it for several days, and it was good to have a stutter.

Walking inside, the light inside is much better, with a bright lantern, two floors inside, covered with some tattered quilts, on one side lies a young woman, both hands are hung with hemp rope, one is rootless, the whole body is covered with snow-white jade skin is scratched blue and red, the body struggles to rise and fall, and the appearance is not clear.

The monk who was carrying the rice shook his head and looked at the nest head in his hand, "How can she eat this?" He simply threw it aside.

Looking at the other one, he was still dizzy by drugs, his hair was messy, and his clothes were folded, and he looked at it carefully, and he looked beautiful, "Heh, it's really cheap for me." ”

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Let's say that on Fengliang Mountain, the new disciples Chen Muzhi and Liang Wenxin went out for five days and didn't come back, and finally attracted the attention of the master.

In the main hall of the council hall, there were Liang Zhangmen and Elder Yan, as well as Mu Qingchen, who was called from the grass hall, and the boy who was the deacon at the gate before and the disciples who guarded the mountain gate were all called for questioning.

"What did the Fifth Elder say when he left?"

"When the five elders left, they said they were going to buy magic weapons? Go to the Wood Pole Castle. The boy replied.

"Are you sure it's Wood Pole City? Not somewhere else? ”

The disciple who watched the mountain gate that day also replied: "Yes, at that time, the fifth senior uncle took the new disciple and went north with a flying sword. ”

Master Liang muttered: "There is a teleportation circle over there in Pinghu, but it's been five or six days, so it's time to come back......

"Hehe, maybe it's greedy for the prosperity over there, and I've forgotten the time when I'm playing there." Elder Yan said, with cynicism in his words.

When Mu Qingchen heard this, he immediately glared: "Impossible!" You are talking nonsense! "Although I also feel that Master is sometimes unreliable, in front of outsiders, I can't lose face to Master.

"No big, no small......"

"Ahem."

Liang Zhangmen coughed lightly, neither of them dared to say that they were alive, their eyes were wide-eyed, Mu Qingchen snorted coldly, and the pretty jade face turned away angrily.

Liang Zhangmen Shen Si thought: "Is it because I destroyed my Yuqiong flower, I said that she was heavy?" Don't talk about her next time, the disciples who went out to inquire have already been sent out, and I don't know what happened. ”

was thinking wildly, at this time, there was suddenly a disciple who was out to investigate, after coming in from the mountain gate, he took off his sword and rushed to the square of the main hall despite the ban, and rushed into the council hall quickly, and said in a panicked tone: "Master...... Oh no......"

"Why are you so alarmed! Where are the usual rules? Elder Yan scolded.

Master Liang frowned, stood up and raised his hand to stop Elder Yan, and said to the disciple, "What's the matter?" ”

The disciple breathed a sigh of relief and said: "There is news that there is a big brawl in Muji City, and it will take two days after the closure of the city to be released, and a beast ship from the south was attacked halfway and crashed in the territory of Hongyun Temple!" ”

"What!!"