However, as soon as those few people walked out of the desert, they all fell to the ground as if they had no strength, and when many elders were stunned, they found that they had all died of anger.

When several elders carefully searched the bodies of several people, they found that on the faces and even bodies of several people, there were large scars burned by the flames.

These heats were caused by the immense pain of being burned by the fire, and they died one after another.

Several elders waited by the desert for two days in a row, and no one else was seen coming out of the desert, and it seemed that the rest of the people had already encountered misfortune and must have been killed by the dragon.

However, in the following period, several elders who were reluctant to leave and wanted to find out what kind of mystery was in the desert also approached the desert.

However, they were just standing on the edge of the desert, and they didn't dare to enter it, with their strength, the fate after entering would definitely be worse than the fate of the hundreds of people.

The elders standing at the edge of the desert left in panic for three days, except for hearing a low, angry roar coming from the desert.

For the dragon was already angry, warning them that those who were too close to the desert would probably lose their lives if they did not leave.

If the elders had believed that there was a dragon sleeping under the desert, they were only nine percent convinced, one percent skeptical.

After all, no one has ever seen a dragon in the desert, and no one has ever seen anything that no one has ever seen, no matter how widely it spreads, it will make people wonder.

However, since then, they have been very convinced that there is indeed a divine dragon under the desert.

At that time, several elders were standing at the edge of the desert, and they heard a low and angry roar that they believed to be the roar of the dragon.

Therefore, several elders were even more in awe and fear of the desert, and they strictly ordered the people in the town not to come within a mile of the desert, let alone enter the desert.

Anyone who recklessly approaches or enters the desert is severely punished.

Those elders, in their respective towns, are all highly respected, and they control the power of life and death, and the townspeople in the town naturally dare not disobey and dare not approach there.

As a result, this desert was regarded as an absolute forbidden area by the surrounding townspeople, and no one dared to enter or approach.

Even some people with great curiosity only dare to stand on the high mountain a mile away from the desert, looking at the desert from a distance, like a prostrate dragon.

There are many puzzling mysteries in the desert, where a thriving race once perished, and a mysterious and divine shadow shrouded it

Chapter 2: The Shadow

Chapter 2: The Shadow

Under the dark night, only a cold moon hung high above the sky, looking cold and lonely, but the starlight around the cold moon was dim, and the entrusted starlight and moonlight emitted were intertwined, sprinkled on the dark earth.

At this moment, in the Dragon Soul Desert, under the cover of the moonlight, you can vaguely see many disembodied ghosts floating in the desert, these ghosts are all over the desert, boundless.

The number of these ghosts wandering around the desert is very large, and there are high and low, the high ones are four or five zhang, like giants, and the short ones are more than one zhang high.

These Yin Spirits, even if they were alive, were not human beings, and after human beings died, even if they were angry, they would not be as tall as these Yin Spirits.

The ghosts that wander around the desert are only confined to the desert, and when they reach the edge of the desert, they no longer wander outside the desert, as if there is something in the desert that binds them, so that these ghosts cannot get out.

If these ghosts do get out of the desert, it will definitely bring disaster to the people living there for the surrounding towns.

After all, the Yin Soul no longer belongs to the human world, and most Yin Spirits like to suck the yang energy and blood of the living to replenish their own strength.

The strongest among human beings, once they encounter a ghost, they will not let it go, and they will destroy it without saying a word.

After all, this kind of yin soul that should belong to the underworld, staying in the human world will only cause endless harm, and once a strong human encounters it, it will inevitably kill it.

Once the Yin Soul encounters a human being, it will naturally not let it go, and the yang energy and essence blood of the living people are all great supplements for the Yin Soul.

Simply, it seems that these ghosts can only exist in this endless desert, and they cannot leave here, otherwise they will definitely bring a catastrophe to the surrounding towns.

When the ghosts were wandering around in the desert, and at this time, from the bottom of the desert, there was a low roar, which was very dull, but it contained anger.

This roar from the bottom of the desert seemed to warn these wandering ghosts who were not good at night, and after this low roar sounded, the ghosts floating in the middle of the desert were all stunned, as if they had been struck by lightning, and then all stopped.

All the ghosts of different heights floating in the air stopped, and they all showed expressions of fear, and the two glowing green eyes of the ghosts all looked in fear at a huge sand dune standing in the center of the desert.

After all the ghosts in the desert had stopped, a low roar sounded again under the huge sand dunes in the center of the desert, which was particularly loud in the silent night sky, echoing in the desert for a long time.

Two roars sounded one after another, as if they were the nemesis of these yin spirits, and at this moment, all the yin spirits, as if facing a great enemy, looked at the very tall sand dune in the center with a vigilant expression.

Although all of them were very vigilant, none of them showed a look of fear, as if there was a terrifying presence that made them all tremble under the very tall sand dunes, which were seven or eight feet high.

There are so many Yin Souls, naturally there are existences that can command all Yin Souls, and among so many Yin Souls, there are three Yin Souls whose body shape is much more substantial than the other Yin Souls, and the other Yin Soul bodies are like mist, condensed together.

And those three yin spirits, but the body is much more condensed, and the strength is also the three most powerful of all the yin souls, at this moment all the yin spirits in the desert have panicked, these three yin spirits in order to be able to appease the frightened yin spirits, all of them raised their heads to the sky and let out a cry like a terrible ghost.

The cries of the three ghosts were extremely sharp and piercing, and in the silent night sky, people couldn't feel creepy after hearing them, and there was a cool air behind them.

Simply, within two miles of the desert, because of the existence of the forbidden desert, no one is inhabited, and no one can hear this terrifying sound.

However, on the far side of the desert, there is a deep mountain with many towering trees growing there, covering the whole mountain.

In such a large and lush mountain, there are naturally many wild beasts, and at this moment there are several evil wolves, walking in the woods in the mountains, the two eyes of the evil wolf glowing with green light, like a ghostly fire, in the dark night, it is terrifying.

These wolves who came out to forage for food, after hearing the screams of the ghosts coming from the desert not far away, all turned around and fled in embarrassment towards the woods deep in the mountains, as if they had heard the sound of a life-threatening voice from hell.

"Woo, woo, woo. These three strange howls, like the howls of a terrible ghost, looked extremely terrifying in the dark and silent night.

In the mountains closest to the desert, the beasts that had fallen asleep were awakened by the strange cries of the three ghosts, and they were all full of fear, trembling and prostrate in their caves, and they could not live in fear.

In the desert, among the many yin spirits, the three most powerful, majestic and appealing yin spirits, after making a strange scream, those yin spirits who were originally panicked, as if they had taken a reassuring pill, calmed down one after another, no longer irritable and panicked.

In fact, the strange screams emitted by the three ghosts, in addition to deterring the terrifying existence under the sand dunes in the center, were mainly to appease those frightened kind.

Why are there so many ghosts in the barren desert, and why are there roars coming from under the sand dunes in the center?

In fact, everything in this desert has a great relationship with the great battle between the gods and the gods thousands of years ago.

Thousands of years ago, this barren desert was a peaceful and peaceful paradise, where lived the main members of the Giant Race, the Giant Race thousands of years ago was the most powerful race on the continent, and the predecessor of the desert, the Plains, was the holy land of the Giant Clan.

They have guarded this holy place for generations, and although there are many places outside that are thousands of times better than here, the core members of the Giant Clan still live here.

Later, the gods and dragons came here together, and the peaceful life of the giant clan was suddenly broken, and in the face of the gods and dragons, the giant clan, even if they were the most powerful races on the continent, could not compete with the gods and dragons.

You must know that both the Celestial Gods and the Divine Dragon have the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, and they belong to the Heavenly Realm, and they are not at all something that the Giant Clan can compete with.

The battle between the gods and the dragon caused all the clansmen of the Giant Clan to die, and the holy land they desperately guarded was also destroyed by the aftermath of the war.

In that battle, the patriarch of the Giant Clan, the three elders, and tens of thousands of clansmen, all died under the joint efforts of the gods and the dragons, and after the dragons and gods joined forces to destroy the Giant Clan, the two sides fought again.

The two gods teamed up to deal with a dragon, and there was no suspense at all about the ending, and in the end, the dragon was seriously injured and dying by the two gods, and at the moment of chasing, the seriously injured dragon exerted great magical powers, turned into a small dragon a few inches long, and flew into the ground that had been torn apart.

Since then, no one has seen the dragon that was seriously injured in the battle with the Celestial Gods again.

There is a dragon sleeping under the desert, and there is a legend that it is actually true, there is indeed a dragon in the desert, and it is under the sand dunes in the center that are seven or eight feet high.

In the great battle with the gods a thousand years ago, the dragon was seriously injured and dying, and fled into the underground, and until now, it has been recuperating from its wounds.

Although the divine dragon also has the terrifying power to destroy the heavens and the earth, and the divine power is terrifying, but the serious injury caused by the two heavenly gods is not an ordinary injury, and that kind of serious injury has already made the divine dragon sleeping under the ground hurt his muscles and bones, and his vitality was greatly damaged.

Until now, Shenlong's injuries have not recovered, and it is still in the ground, recuperating from its injuries.

Originally, with the kind of injury of the divine dragon, even if it cultivated for a thousand years, it would be difficult to heal the injury, after all, it had been seriously injured, and it had lost a lot of divine power, and it could not recover in a short period of time.

However, thousands of years ago, after the seriously injured divine dragon turned into a small dragon and fled into the underground, he actually found a place underground that was pregnant with an amethyst with extremely pure chaotic energy.

That amethyst was more than two feet in size, and it exuded a brilliant purple light from top to bottom, and it was full of very pure chaotic qi.

The chaotic qi is the purest energy between heaven and earth, and this energy, whether it is a god or a human being, once absorbed, can increase its own strength and strength.

It's just that the chaotic qi, although it also has the effect of increasing the strength of the gods, but the stronger the heavens, if they want to absorb and enhance their strength through the chaotic qi, they must have a very large chaotic qi for them to absorb.

The gods of the Heavenly Realm have long since stopped relying on absorbing the chaotic qi to enhance their strength, but absorbed a kind of energy that is equivalent to the chaotic qi, which is purer and can rapidly increase their strength, "Hongmeng Purple Qi".

"Hongmeng Purple Qi" is an extremely pure energy that was conceived when the heavens and the earth first opened, and only the gods of heaven can absorb Hongmeng Purple Qi to enhance their own strength.

The mortal body is too weak to withstand the impact of the huge energy of Hongmeng Purple Qi, so mortals generally cultivate by absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Of course, if you can find a place with chaotic qi and cultivate, then you will get twice the result with half the effort.

Compared with the aura of chaos, as well as the purple qi of Hongmeng, it is just a very low-level energy, and the progress of human beings by absorbing the aura to cultivate is much slower than absorbing the aura of chaos.

Chaotic Qi has such an effect, so it is naturally enthusiastic and sought after by all cultivators on the continent, but Chaotic Qi is also very rare in the human world, and it is not everywhere.

After the place where the chaotic qi was nurtured, most of them were occupied by some powerful sects and forces on the mainland, and the rest of them didn't even think about it.

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Chapter 3: The Realm of Cultivation

Chapter 3: The Realm of Cultivation

Although the energy contained in Hongmeng Purple Qi is huge, and the gods can quickly increase their cultivation when they absorb it, it is not suitable for mortals to absorb and cultivate.

Forcibly absorbing Hongmeng Purple Qi to cultivate, he will definitely be unable to withstand the huge energy impact, resulting in his physical body not being able to withstand the explosion and dying.

With the physical body of a mortal, at most, he can absorb the aura and chaotic qi to cultivate, but the progress of absorbing the aura to cultivate is really too slow, and most cultivators have the idea of wanting to ascend to the sky in one step, so they have chosen to absorb the chaotic qi to cultivate.

But the chaotic qi is not a cabbage on the side of the road, it can be seen everywhere, it is not like an aura, floating in the air, everywhere.

Wherever there is a gathering of chaotic qi, there must be a spiritual vein, too much spiritual qi gathered together, and even chaotic qi can be formed, of course, such is almost usually very small.

Unless you encounter a place where the aura is very dense and the aura is extremely pure, such a thick and pure aura gathers together, and over time, it forms a chaotic qi.

The places on the continent that have been found to have chaotic qi have been occupied by those powerful sects and forces.

As for the other cultivators, they are free to stare at each other, absorbing the thin and chaotic aura between heaven and earth to cultivate, this is also no way, who doesn't want to be able to absorb the chaotic qi to cultivate, so that the strength will grow, much faster than other people who absorb the aura to cultivate.

However, the strength of the vast majority of cultivators was very low, and they simply could not compete with those powerful forces to compete for those chaotic qi.

No matter where you are, the strong are respected and the weak are fed.

The strength is not as strong as others, so they can only absorb the worst quality aura to cultivate, even if most people are unwilling in their hearts, but they are helpless.

Under the sand dunes in the center of the desert, the existence that all the yin souls are afraid of, that is, the divine dragon who destroyed the giant clan with the gods thousands of years ago, after obtaining a piece of amethyst in the ground that was pregnant with chaotic qi, it relied on absorbing the chaotic qi in the amethyst to cultivate, and a thousand years later, the serious injuries suffered by the divine dragon in the battle with the gods are gradually about to recover, and the lost divine power, relying on absorbing the chaotic qi in the amethyst, has gradually recovered.

As long as the dragon recupers for a while, he can recover from all his injuries, and then leave the ground and soar into the sky again.

However, recently, every time night falls, there will be many yin spirits in the desert, although these yin spirits cannot pose a threat to the lower dragons, but the dragon can feel that these yin spirits that wander out at night must be looking for something.

The dragon concluded that what the Yin Spirits were looking for must be the amethyst that it had found, which had been pregnant with pure chaotic energy.

Because after having such an amethyst, it would have taken a long time to recover from the injuries and the loss of divine power, but after a thousand years, the divine power could be restored, and the injury was almost healed.

Such a treasure, how can the divine dragon let these yin spirits find it, although the divine dragon under the ground cannot move its body for the time being, and come out of the ground, but it can go out of the body and come to the desert to observe the yin spirits.

After the dragon spirit came out of his body, he found that these ghosts were actually the ghosts of the people of the Giant Clan who were destroyed by it and the two gods thousands of years ago.

These members of the Giant Clan, after their deaths, did not even leave this world and enter the underworld.

This kind of discovery made the Shenlong very surprised, although it didn't know what kind of means these giant clan's ghosts used after their death to blind the laws of heaven and continue to stay in the world for a thousand years, but it was very unfavorable for it to let these yin spirits continue to stay here.

After all, what that amethyst contained was chaotic qi, although it was now covered up by its divine power, even if the yin spirits outside were close and powerful, they would not be able to find the location of amethyst.

However, the divine dragon under the ground still felt inappropriate, after all, the yin souls of these giant clans still stayed here after a thousand years of death, and did not enter the underworld, which violated the laws of heaven, these silver souls must have used some anti-heaven means to deceive the laws of heaven, so they were not sucked in by the power of the laws of the underworld.

The Three Realms and Six Realms all have the power of the law, and once a mortal person dies, his soul will be pulled by the power of the law of the underworld and enter the underworld.

And once a mortal's cultivation reaches the level of a celestial immortal, the realm of the celestial gods will also be drawn by the power of the laws from the heavenly realm, so as to enter the heavenly realm and become a member of the heavenly realm.

However, although the power of the law is above all forces, there are many ways to interfere with the law, so as to blind the power of the law and continue to stay in this mortal world.

All the means or treasures that can blind the power of the law are very unusual, and even very rebellious.

Now, the ghosts of these giant clans that should have disappeared and entered the underworld to be reincarnated still exist, and a thousand years have passed like this, what a rebellious means are needed.

This is where the dragon under the earth is very suspicious, and it suspects that the yin spirit in the desert must be carrying some kind of treasure that is very against the sky.

And this kind of treasure happens to be able to blind the power of the law from the underworld, and the power of the law from the underworld can naturally also deceive the power of the law from the heavenly world.

No matter which realm of the Three Realms and Six Realms, in fact, the power of the law comes from the law of the Heavenly Dao, and the power of the law between several is the same, but the power of the law of the underworld will automatically pull after feeling the dead qi of the yin soul in the human world.

And the power of the laws of the Heavenly Realm, after feeling the aura of a strong man in the world that surpasses the realm of Tianluo, will automatically be pulled, and it will be irresistible by the traction, and can only soar into the Heavenly Realm.

The goal pursued by most cultivators in the human world is their own cultivation, and one day they will reach the realm of Tianluo and thus ascend to the heavenly realm.

The Tianluo realm is the highest realm among cultivators, once the cultivator reaches the Tianluo realm, and then breaks through the Tianluo realm in one fell swoop, and breaks through to the realm of the gods, and then he can be pulled by the power of the laws of the heavenly realm, soar into the heavenly realm, and become the god of the heavenly realm from then on.

Cultivating to reach the Tianluo realm is the dream of countless cultivators, and once you cultivate to the Tianluo realm, you can soar into the heavenly realm and become a heavenly god.

The strength of a cultivator ranges from the very beginning realm to the final Tianluo, and there are a total of five realms, namely: Great Xuan, Yuan Xu, Champion, Creation, and Tianluo.

The ascension of each of these five realms will greatly increase the cultivation level, and the cultivators will also get great benefits from it.

The ascension of each realm will be accompanied by the emergence of a kind of supernatural powers, and these supernatural powers determine the strength and weakness with the level of the realm.

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Chapter 4 Qingshan Town

Chapter 4 Qingshan Town

Everything that happens in the Dragon Soul Desert seems to hide a shocking secret, there is a divine dragon under the desert, and at night, there are so many ghosts appearing everywhere in the desert, looking for something, everything seems very weird!

Soon the night passed, and after the first rays of morning light gradually appeared in the sky, the ghosts wandering in the desert disappeared one after another, and I don't know where they have gone.

Two miles to the east of the Dragon Soul Desert, there is a very small town, this town is called "Qingshan Town", there are four or five hundred families living in the town, among the towns around the Dragon Soul Desert, it is the smallest.

Other towns, both in terms of area and population, are much larger than "Qingshan Town", such as "Wushan Town", which is not far from "Qingshan Town", has an area of thousands of miles, and there are more than 1,000 households in the town.

Some towns scattered around the Dragon Soul Desert, almost every townsman knows the legend of the dragon in the Dragon Soul Desert, and they are also household names for the great battle between the dragon and the gods thousands of years ago.

After each child is born and can understand things, the adults in the family will tell them stories about the existence of dragons in the Dragon Soul Desert.

The sky has gradually become abundant, and the morning in Qingshan Town is very lively, and people have already appeared busy on several main streets in the town.

The vendors on both sides of the street have put their goods on their stalls one after another, and many of them have rushed here early in order to make the first early risers buy their goods.

There is a rule in Qingshan Town, the stalls on both sides of the main street in Qingshan Town are not unique to anyone, but who gets up early and can set up stalls there to sell their goods.

Moreover, the other people must not have a dispute, otherwise the three elders in the town who are highly respected and have the power to kill the life and death of "Qingshan Town" will severely punish the troublemakers.

The rule that whoever gets up early will get a free stall is set by the three elders in the town, who are in awe of all the townspeople.

The townsfolk had no choice but to obey any word from the three elders, and no one dared to disobey, otherwise they would be met with the elders' wrath.

Among the three elders, except for the eldest elder, who has a milder temper and is easy to get close to, the rest of the second elder and the third elder are all hot-tempered, once anyone in the town breaks the rules, the two elders will be furious, and then they will be severely punished.

Among the three elders, the second elder and the third elder were too hot-tempered, and as long as anyone in the town made even a little mistake that was not very serious, they would be tortured by the two of them, so the townspeople hated and feared these two elders, and gradually all supported the great elder.

After all, the Great Elder has a gentle temper and treats people kindly, unlike the other two Elders, who torture and torture at every turn.

After the rising sun poured the warm sunlight onto the earth, everything in Qingshan Town seemed quiet and peaceful, and people were busy with their own affairs.

In a rather poor alleyway in Qingshan Town, there are dozens of dilapidated houses, the walls of which are almost all made of yellow mud, and there are many small cracks on them.

Dozens of houses, all of which are in such an unsightly dilapidated state, and none of them are intact.

But among the dozens of dilapidated houses that seem to be washed away by a torrential rain, there are many people living in them, and in each house, there is a murmuring sound at this moment.

"How is the money raised, the subordinates of the second elder are going to collect the money today. ”

"It's still a lot worse, we haven't made much money this year, where can we pay this expensive rent. ”

"Alas, this day is really impossible, how come there are two elders and three elders in Qingshan Town. ”

"If only the Great Elder could take charge of the work, then we wouldn't have to pay so much rent every month. ”

At this moment, among the dozens of dilapidated houses, there were bursts of muttering, which were filled with anxiety, helplessness, and indignation.

All the townspeople in Qingshan Town have to pay a lot of land rent money to the second elder and the third elder every month, which is what all the townspeople call "rent".

On the Xuanming Continent, there are three great dynasties, these three dynasties have always been constantly fighting, because of the war, the three dynasties have been grudging each other for a long time, and no one can look at anyone who is not pleasing to the eye.

Qingshan Town is under the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou Dynasty, one of the three major imperial dynasties, and all the territories in the Great Zhou Dynasty are governed by powerful people, and there is no unified management system.

As long as no one in the imperial court dared to cause rebellion, the people in the royal family generally did not ask about matters between the local authorities.

The towns around the Dragon Soul Desert are all controlled by powerful people, and it is difficult for people without strength to control the power of a town at all.

After all, in the Xuanxia Continent, the people of the three major dynasties are becoming more and more cultivated, and out of awe of the strong and the yearning for this status, all of them will not give up the path of cultivation.

After all, once the cultivation is successful, the strength has reached a point that makes everyone awe and even fear, so long it can soar to the sky because of this, and change its fate from then on.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, many generals with transcendent status were born poor, but because they had achieved cultivation and cultivation, they had reached the realm of admiration, so they could stand out from millions of people and rank among the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Daxuan, Yuanxu, Victory, Creation, Tianluo, these five realms, every time you cultivate to improve a realm, not only your own strength has been improved by leaps and bounds, but also your own status has become higher with the improvement of cultivation.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, once the cultivation reached the realm of the champion, then you could participate in the "Holy Martial Arts Conference" held once every five years in Shengjing, the capital of the dynasty, "All the masters who can enter the top ten can enter the "Lingyan Pavilion" of the dynasty and become the supervisor who guards the safety of the dynasty and leads the forbidden army.

All the governors in the "Lingyan Pavilion" have a much stronger identity and power than ordinary generals.

Although Qingshan Town is the smallest town around the Dragon Soul Desert, the three elders in power are not weak in their cultivation at all.

Even with a few elders in the "Wushan Town", once the two sides fought, they were all evenly matched.

No matter where you are, you are respected by the strong and your strength is supreme.

The three elders in power in Qingshan Town, if their strength was too weak and vulnerable, I am afraid that they would have been occupied by the elders of those towns around them who were eyeing Qingshan Town, relying on force.

Among the surrounding towns, although Qingshan Town is the smallest in scale and the smallest in population, it is not worse than other towns in terms of prosperity and financial resources, but is more prosperous than other towns.

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Chapter 5 Sorrow

Chapter 5 Sorrow

The dozens of families living in this alleyway are some of the poorest people in Qingshan Town, and almost all the people in the town who are living in poverty and living very hard have gathered here.

Almost all of the people who live here are accustomed to the cold eyes of other people in the town, and the other townspeople look down on the poor people here in their hearts.

It is as if to deal with these people is to tarnish their identity, and to look at these people more is to dirty their eyes.

Perhaps the rich people in the town who were very disgusted with these poor people had always thought in their hearts that it was a great mistake for heaven and earth to create these people.

As a result, some of the poor here are ostracized and ignored by the rest of the town.

Originally, these poor people lived in different parts of the town, but because the rich people felt that these poor people were dangling in front of them all day long, it was really an eyesore, so a dozen rich people in the town sent a large sum of silver to the second and third elders, and then proposed that all the poor people in the town be expelled to live in the current remote and messy alleyway.

In this way, this very remote and chaotic alleyway became the slum of Qingshan Town, and all the poor people in the town lived here.

Qingshan Town is within a radius of thousands of miles, although it is only a small town, but the living standards of all the people in the town are quite rich, except for some poor people, most of the rest are some people who have no worries about food and clothing and some rich and noble.

The poor people in the town were all expelled to this remote and dirty alley, and settled down, although everyone was very dissatisfied in their hearts, and they hated the rich people and the second and third elders, but everyone was helpless.

The power in the town is in the hands of the three elders, but the great elder who is gentle and friendly to people does not like to compete with the two, and for some mundane matters, the great elder does not like to ask, so Qingshan Town is nominally jointly managed by the three elders, but in fact, the second elder and the third elder cover the sky and act arbitrarily.

The rich people in the town, in order to continue their own interests, threw a lot of money at the second elder and the third elder, hoping to dredge up the relationship and consolidate their interests in the town.

Although the second elder and the third elder are both cultivators of the Yuan Void Realm, and they are also considered to be famous masters in the surrounding towns, but the two of them are embarrassed and wantonly collect money, so naturally they will not refuse the bribes of those rich people, so Qingshan Town was soon shrouded in a layer of black smoke and miasma.

In the middle of nowhere, there are dozens of dilapidated houses, all of which are of the same style, none of them intact, each of them made of yellow mud, and the walls have slender cracks.

These people are so poor that they don't even have the money to build a decent house, and they can barely eat three meals a day, and now everyone is worried about the "rent" that is about to expire.

Qingshan Town is managed by three powerful elders, and they are also responsible for protecting the safety of the town, so every household in the town has to pay five taels of silver to the three elders every month.

This money must be handed over by every family, and no one can avoid it.

In fact, this is not only the case in Qingshan Town, but also some nearby towns are fulfilling this rule, and each town is guarded by powerful elders, who regularly collect some money from the townspeople, which they think is a matter of course.

Of course, the townspeople have nothing to say, after all, when the town is really in trouble, the elders who guard the safety of the town do play a role in turning the tide, and most of them can bear the money they hand over every month.

Five taels of silver is naturally not a problem for those families who have no worries about food and clothing, but for these dozens of families living in this slum, it is a lot of money.

If they could all afford to pay that money, they wouldn't have been driven to such a remote and dirty place.

In one of the dozens of dilapidated houses, a middle-aged man in his forties was standing in the middle of the room, looking at an old tree outside the house, with anxiety in his eyes.

Behind the middle-aged man stood an ordinary-looking woman of his age, whose face was also full of anxiety, not knowing what to do with the two elders' men who were about to collect the money.

Usually at the end of the month, it is the day when all the townspeople in the town should pay the money, and on this day, the townspeople should prepare five taels of silver and wait for the second elder and the third elder's men to come and collect the money.

If you have money to hand in, you will naturally be fine, but once you don't have money to pay, there will be no good fruit to eat.

The tempers of the second elder and the third elder were already hot, and their personalities were also vicious and vicious, and their subordinates were naturally not much better.

Once they could not pay the money, the two elders' subordinates would first come and beat them severely, and then take away the valuable things from the victim's house to pay for the money.

If they could not afford to pay the money, and there was nothing valuable at home to pay for it, then the two elders' men would arrest people and take them to a mine in the town to work as coolies, and only after earning enough five taels of silver would they release them.

Although many people are very angry about their actions, they can only swallow these bitterness one by one.

No one dared to offend the two elders' subordinates, and offending them was tantamount to offending the two elders, and no one in the town could afford such an outcome.

The middle-aged man standing in the house, named Zhou Xin, was the master of the house, and the woman standing behind him was his wife.

At this moment, the couple was feeling anxious about not being able to make up enough five taels of silver.

Thinking about it, he couldn't think of dealing with the two elders' subordinates who were coming, Zhou Xin, who was the pillar of the family, frowned, and felt irritable in his heart.

For the second elder and the third elder, Zhou Xin, like most others, hated the two of them very much, but he was only sulking secretly, and he didn't dare to say more than half a word.

"It would be nice if the Great Elder took care of these payment matters, with the friendly and gentle-tempered nature of his generation, even if he couldn't pay the money, at most he would delay it for a while, and then pay it later, and he wouldn't take things and arrest people to do coolies like the Second Elder and the Third Elder did. ”

Looking at the old tree outside the house that had been with him for several years, Zhou Xin sighed in his heart.

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Chapter 6 Emperor Tian

Chapter 6 Emperor Tian

Looking at the old tree outside the house, Zhou Xin's face was full of anxiety, and his eyes were full of deep helplessness.

The subordinates of the two elders are about to come here to collect the five taels of silver, but in their family, even the food and clothing for three meals a day has become a problem, so how can they have extra silver to hand in.

Zhou Xin's family originally lived in a more prosperous location in the center of the town, although the situation at home was not very satisfactory before, but at least it would not be as poor as now, and the family's three meals a day became a problem.

It has been more than three months since he was forced to move from the original place of residence to this remote and dirty alleyway, and in the past three months, the Zhou family of three has not lived a day of comfort.

In the first two months, because there was no money to hand in, the subordinates of the second elder and the third elder had already taken away all the valuable things in Zhou Xin's house, and now in this dilapidated house, except for the few tables and chairs that were cracked and looked very dilapidated, there was nothing of value left.

The valuable things in the family have been taken away, and now it is time to pay the "rent" of five taels of silver, which makes Zhou Xin's family, how can they come up with so much silver.