Chen Zheng's actions undoubtedly gave everyone the impression that they were once again elevated and more mysterious.

"Good!"

Ji Xunyi couldn't help but applaud:

"Don't be confused by the magic skills of the outer way, such a heart is beyond the reach of ordinary people, there are not many peers who can make me admire, Brother Chen, you are definitely one!"

"Passing the prize."

At this moment, he also figured out the personality and style of Ji Xunyi, and after Chen Zheng threw the whole cheatbook into the fire, he said righteously:

"It is a scourge to keep such evil exercises, and it is only natural that they should be destroyed."

Xu Da and other martial artists also showed admiration in their eyes and applauded again and again.

Chen Zheng's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he accepted it calmly.

Originally, if there was no one around, he might have to open and study this blood-sucking demon skill.

But now that there are many people, his background is not clean, and it is impossible for him to ask for trouble.

Subsequently.

Chen Zheng and Ji Xunyi sat opposite each other, guarding the surroundings, while the other martial artists continued to deal with their injuries.

After fighting side by side in the middle of the night, as well as Chen Zheng's help, everyone has completely let down their guard.

In particular, Xu Da and several other martial artists were grateful and revered for him.

After the bandaging was finished, it was late at night.

None of the people present fell asleep, but sat against the wall, vigilantly listening to the movements around them.

After all, the blood demon will be revenged, although the male demon escaped from the town, but the revenge of killing his wife is not shared, and no one dares to say whether the other party will go and return, and secretly attack and kill.

"Now the world here is getting more and more chaotic."

In the silence, everyone chatted, and the pale-faced Xu Da sighed heavily:

"Some time ago, the Evil Sect exterminated a group of cultists of the Tianmu Divine Sect, but as a result, the remnants of the Blood Spirit Dao here have come out again, and I don't know when these miscellaneous people will be killed."

Chen Zheng's heart suddenly moved, and he immediately said:

"Tianmu Divine Sect, I seem to have heard my father mention it...... Where was the Evil Division exterminated? ”

Ji Xunyi's gaze turned:

"It is said to be on the north side of the Lianshan Mountain Range, and it doesn't seem too far from the mountain forest where you live in seclusion."

Chen Zheng remained silent:

"Oh? I've never seen these people in the mountains and forests, have they all been exterminated? ”

Ji Xunyi shook his head and said:

"I don't know the specifics, it is said that it is a branch of the Tianmu God Sect, and the leader is an incense master. At that time, it was also the time for this group of cultists to hold a religious celebration. In order to catch them all, the Evil Punishment Division dispatched a figure at the level of a captain, led more than 100 evil warriors, and 300 elite armor soldiers of the Red Training Battalion to launch an encirclement and suppression.

I heard that most of the cultists were killed on the spot, but the leader of the cult, Mrs. Wumu, who was also a martial arts master who stepped into the secret realm of qi refining, seemed to have escaped in the encirclement and suppression, and now the killing order for this person can be seen everywhere. ”

Mrs. Gome escaped?

Chen Zheng's heart was full of waves, but it was not unexpected.

When you arrive at the secret realm of qi refining, you can be called a strong person, which one does not have some life-saving hole card means.

He would be surprised if Lady Gomu hadn't escaped.

However, since the rudder has been completely wiped out, no matter whether Mrs. Wumu is dead or alive, it will not affect him.

It's Wu San and the three of them, I'm afraid it's really more auspicious......

At this time, Xu Da sighed: "It's a pity that the world is now collapsing and cults are everywhere. Just destroying the rudder of a Tianmu Divine Sect is useless, when can the imperial court uproot all the Seven Evil Alliances, it can be regarded as truly sweeping away the root cause of the chaos. ”

Another martial artist said hatefully:

"There are also remnants of the Demon Dao like the Blood Spirit Dao, the magic skills and magic that these miscellaneous practices are extremely cruel one by two, and those bandits and giants who are wandering around, how many of them are disguised by these Demon Dao villains. The court will not dominate them, and there will be no hope of living in peace in this world. ”

"The Imperial Court?"

Ji Xunyi sneered:

"The land of these thirty-three states is all controlled by the noble children of those families, and the roots have long been rotten. The son of the county guard is still the county guard, the son of the general is still the general, but the sons and daughters of the mud legs will always be mud legs.

The wealth accumulated by the family from generation to generation is all gold and silver, even if the magnates raise eagles, dogs and beasts, they are thousands of times better than thousands of grass people, how can such a world live in peace? ”

The Seven Evil Alliances?

A sentence fell into his ears, and Chen Zheng listened suddenly.

He knew that it was a total of seven evil sects, including the Tianmu Divine Sect, that used their human bodies to accept the power of evil demons.

Cult of the Corpse Yin God, Cult of the Exquisite Dragon, and Cult of the Heavenly God...... They have repeatedly resurrected under the strangulation of the imperial court for many years, hiding in XZ, wandering in private, and leaving endless poison, which is the biggest hidden danger in the world.

As for the Tianmu Divine Sect that Chen Zheng had mixed in, it was among the best in the Seven Evil Alliances and was one of the targets that the imperial court focused on.

Of course, in addition to these cults, all kinds of demonic sects and demonic ways that cultivate demonic skills and magic, and bandits and giants with whom they are inextricably linked, are also becoming more and more rampant.

After listening to it, in the mouths of Ji Xunyi and others, it is precisely because of these evil demons and foreign ways, plus the powerful people completely control the court, that a huge court seems to have collapsed, is terminally ill, and is in a state of turmoil.

Chen Zheng also listened to these key political contents with relish.

After all, the original owner himself was just an illiterate homeless person, and he had never even been out of a town since he was a child, and his knowledge of anything was extremely limited.

Some of the knowledge that is lacking in this world is made up for here a little.

Perhaps Jian Zheng is the hidden feeling in every man's heart, and the more Ji Xunyi and others talk, the more enthusiastic they become.

As a listener, Chen Zheng interjected two sentences from time to time, not only to the imperial court, but also to understand a lot about the situation in Lingqiu County.

Then, before you know it, it's already dawn.

When the sky was faintly lit up in the distance, everyone ended their chatter unsatisfied, and then dragged their wounded bodies out of the horse and continued on their way.

And the body of the female Yang Lan was also wrapped in a straw mat and brought back to Lingqiu County to receive the reward.

When they set off, except for Chen Zheng and Ji Xunyi, everyone else was not in good shape.

But such a threat was still there, and they did not dare to linger.

Fortunately, it was not far from Lingqiu County here, and under the leadership of Ji Xunyi, a group of wounded people gritted their teeth and hurried slowly, and at the same time, they were always on guard against whether there would be an attack, and finally approached their destination in the afternoon.

At this time, the autumn was crisp and the sun was shining, and Chen Zheng, who was in a hurry, caught a glimpse of a huge city silhouette creeping in front of him.

It is Lingqiu County.

Lingqiu County has a population of 8.9 million, and this nearly one million people definitely belong to one of the Xiongcheng in the border barren area.

Beyond the city walls, there are vast expanses of farmland, and between the breeze, the waves of wheat that have not yet been harvested are surging like the tide, which is also a scene of abundant harvest.

Between the farmlands, there are several wide avenues that lead in the direction of the city gates, and here and there are caravans on the roads that can be seen setting out or returning with a full load.

After going through danger, they finally returned safely, and the tired martial artists were also relieved, and immediately accelerated their spirits a hundred times and came to the city gate.

Up close, Chen Zheng looked up and saw that this was a magnificent ancient city, with a wall more than three feet high and full of vicissitudes.

In the middle of the city wall, the huge city gate towers, the traffic in front of the gate is busy, there is a team of powerful guards and soldiers set up cards, many convoys, horse teams gather here, pour in, show the prosperity here.

"How about Brother Chen."

Ji Xunyi turned around and said:

"You should be visiting the county for the first time, right?"

The Guangwu Heavenly Dynasty divided the state capitals and counties, strictly speaking, the county is equivalent to the prefecture-level city, Chen Zheng, who was in the back, glanced around, except for being amazed, there was not much reaction:

"It's true that the weather is not ordinary."

After all, he is a modern man, and he has long been accustomed to the sky-high buildings and prosperity of the metropolis.

Although the scale of Lingqiu County in front of me is not small, it is just a novelty.

Soon, the teams in front entered the city one after another, and Ji Xunyi, as a guide, also led everyone to prepare to pass the customs and pay customs duties into the city.

Lingqiu County is also regarded as the commercial center of this area, and merchants entering the city have to pay a tax per capitation, one silver baht per person.

One silver baht, say more or less, Ji Xunyi counted out nine silver bahts and immediately put them into the cash box.

The extra one was naturally handed over to Chen Zheng.

"Wait!"

However, just as a guard man in front was about to wave his hand to let him go, the man who was casually inspecting Ji Xunyi's team behind him suddenly took a step back and shouted, when he saw Chen Zheng dressed like a savage, and the horse next to him was carrying a thing that was wrapped in a straw mat and looked like a corpse:

"What is this?"

Chen Zheng poked the straw mat with a scabbard:

"The dead one, you want to see it?"

In this world, dead people are commonplace, and the guard suddenly shouted in annoyance:

"Don't you know the rules? Who knows whether it is dead or alive, and the dead are also human, and they have to pay the head ......"

At the front of the team, Ji Xunyi walked over with cold eyes, and at the same time, a man who looked like a captain on the side also rushed over in three steps and two steps, and came up with a fierce kick:

"You are a blind killer who kills a thousand knives, you have something without beads, don't you know that this is the team of the Thunder Martial Arts Dojo? Get out of the way! ”

The guards at the city gate, eating and taking cards are obviously normal, but it is obvious that the Thunder Martial Arts Dojo is not small, so this Wu Chang immediately came up to teach his subordinates who have no long eyes.

Ji Xunyi didn't have a seizure, and snorted coldly:

"Brother Chen, let's go!"

Chen Zheng didn't pay attention to such a small episode at all, and immediately followed the team and officially entered the city.

Passing through the heavy city gate, the view suddenly opens up.

As far as the eye can see, the bluestone street is very spacious, with earthen houses and wooden houses on both sides lined up one after another, messy, and sewage flowing in all directions.

Most of the people here are yellow-skinned and thin-skinned, with vegetables on their faces, and they are muddy.

Along the way, everywhere is as dilapidated as a slum, and in addition to the small stalls and vendors pushing wooden carts to and fro, you can also see many unkempt and ragged beggars nesting in the corners, rushing up to and begging as soon as they see a well-dressed person passing by.

But most of the time, they are greeted with a flurry of scolding and punches.

And when more than a dozen very young beggars and homeless people ran towards their team, Chen Zheng saw that Ji Xunyi had already taken out a handful of copper baht from his arms, and gave one or two pieces of each one regardless of the dirt.

This brother, if it's not acting, has a pretty good character......

But why are there so many beggars and homeless people......

In the flickering thoughts, Chen Zheng was silent, still looking around, his brows furrowed slightly.

Not only beggars and homeless people, but when he passed by, he could occasionally see a series of scrawny, unclothed stiff figures lying in corners and stinking ditches, obviously corpses that had been starved to death.

He didn't know if this belonged to the slums of Lingqiu County, but just looking at the scene of this beggar and homeless people, starving everywhere, it was not at all as good as the village sheltered by the Tianmu Divine Sect at that time.

What Ji Xunyi and others said last night was not false at all!

After dispersing the copper baht, Ji Xunyi returned to Chen Zheng's side and sighed:

"Brother Chen, to make you laugh, this is the outer city of Lingqiu County, where most of the ordinary peasant households and beggars and displaced people who have no houses and no land live here, struggling to survive.

I'm not afraid of your jokes, I used to grow up in the slums, so I can't ignore it whenever I pass by. ”

"No house, no land, ......"

Chen Zheng frowned slightly: "There are so many fields outside the city......."

"There are only a hundred thousand acres of land outside the city, and there are eight or nine hundred thousand people in Lingqiu County, how can it be cultivated by everyone?"

Ji Xunyi smiled helplessly:

"And these hundreds of thousands of acres, all of them are land annexed by landlords and magnates from the hands of ordinary people, and how many families have their own land?"

Land annexation is not an uncommon thing in the feudal era, Chen Zheng shook his head secretly, and had nothing to say.

The terrible scene of beggars and wanderers did not improve until he followed the procession for a while, and then crossed another wall.

Here, it seems, is where the inner city is located.

The lofts on both sides are wide and wide, row upon row, and the shadows of the tall buildings are endless, and most of the people walking on the street are also well-dressed and have sufficient complexion, compared with the outer city, one heaven and one underground.

Especially the warriors wearing short martial arts robes, carrying swords at their waists, and having a strong temperament have also increased significantly, and they can be seen almost everywhere, which shows the prosperity of martial arts.

There are people everywhere, the avenue in the city can be ridden, but it is not allowed to run, under the leadership of Ji Xunyi, everyone controls the speed of the horse and follows behind, you and I introduce Chen Zheng at a glance.

While listening, Chen Zheng scanned everything around him with interest and experienced the customs of this big city.

According to their introduction on the road, Lingqiu County is divided into an outer city and an inner city, of which the outer city occupies half of the territory, and the people living here are mainly ordinary people, and the environment is harsh.

The inner city, on the other hand, is generally a place where wealthy families, or dignitaries, merchants, and wealthy people live, and its environment and security are far better than those of the outer city.

Of course, regardless of the inner field and the outer city, there are all kinds of martial arts gyms, gang dart bureaus, large and small businesses, and all kinds of large and small forces are intertwined, and the fish and dragons are mixed.

The Thunder Martial Arts Dojo to which Ji Xunyi and the others belonged belonged to the famous and top-ranked family in the inner city.

"Senior Brother Xu, you guys should go back by yourself first."

At this time, when he came to a fork in the road, Ji Xunyi said:

"It's quite inconvenient to bring a corpse, Brother Chen, I'll accompany you to the official mansion to receive the reward first, and then go to our martial arts hall as a guest!"