The ragged and densely packed figures in front of me are all hungry people who have been displaced and groaned and cried out in natural and man-made disasters.

Lu Jing raised his eyes and looked at it, and his eyes were full of devastation and sorrow.

Many children who survived were crying.

Many of the women had chapped lips and no hope of life in their eyes, but they were numb and stiff as they continued to bow to the altar with the crowd.

The boys, who were in the prime of life, also shed tears, and the natural disasters and sins tortured their bodies and their spirits.

If they have a bite to eat, they are not afraid of hard work, they are all tough guys, but the sudden disaster in the middle of the river road makes them almost unable to support it.

And among so many people, it is rare to see the old man, and occasionally one or two officials can be seen, with a knife at their waists, and the same sleazed complexion, worshipping the altar with devotion.

The Dafu Imperial Court did not completely ignore the River Middle Road, as early as six years ago, when the River Middle Road was plagued by disasters, there were many disaster relief measures, and it was also used for food from other rich places to feed the hungry.

It's just that...... This stricken place is the middle of the river.

The river road is vast, the people are tens of thousands, and before the disaster comes, the food produced here supplies the whole Dafu.

In the six years since the disaster in the middle of the river, not to mention Dafu, the rest of the small countries around Dafu have also begun to run out of food.

Two years ago, the Huangtao River burst its banks, flooding the middle of the river.

The Kawanaka Road disaster, which was originally only partially affected, has spread to the entire Kawanaka Province in just two years.

Perhaps it was because the Dafu Imperial Court couldn't control it for a while, and a large number of dead people began to die in Hezhong Dao again, and countless victims also flocked to the surrounding provinces.

And these officials are supposed to be people sent by the Dafu Imperial Court to guide the way for these victims.

But even these officials bowed to the altar at this time, and followed the old Taoist to beg the heavenly immortals to rain clouds and give them a way to live.

If there were only two or three people in such a scene, it might seem a little strange.

But when thousands of people prostrate on the ground, endure the scorching sun in the sky, and bow down in unison amid the extremely noisy noises and cries, the sight becomes palpitating and shocking.

Lu Jing didn't continue to move forward, he rode and waited under the hills at night, but a wisp of divine thought looked around at the thousands of victims, and his eyes were a little moved.

It's a terrible sight.

Some mothers held their children dead and their bodies almost decomposed, but they held them tightly in their arms, wrapped in ragged clothes, and did not want to let them be buried in the ground.

Some men in the prime of life could not bear to abandon their dying wives at home, tied them to their backs, and when they prayed to the heavenly immortals on the altar, they untied the tie and made their wives kowtow as well.

……

Lu Jing looked at these scenes, and for a while, he even understood more and more why Mr. Guanqi and Mr. Four wanted to bring the water of Parrot Island to irrigate the middle road of the river, and why they wanted to come to the wind and clouds and rain to shine the floating sun to cover the scorching sun in the sky.

"Disaster victims...... He doesn't live like a human anymore. ”

Lu Jing looked calmly, and there was no emotion in his eyes.

"Tens of thousands of people have been affected, and the surrounding provincial governments have not been able to resettle all of them.

There is no good way to do it except to supply a large amount of food, unless the river road is restored to its original state, and the dry and abandoned fields are not scorched by the scorching sun and reclaimed again. ”

Thinking of this, Lu Jing looked up at the sky again.

If there were no rules in the heavens and the earth, if the supernatural powers of heaven and earth could be used to change the time and change nature, many things might become easier.

It's just that those cultivators who have good intentions and use their supernatural powers to make great use of clouds and rain, or to induce the production of food, have already paid the price.

"Even if there are supernatural powers, even if Dafu has the name of abundance, these people still can't find a way to live, and they can only pin their hopes on this altar to worship immortals."

There is no habit of sacrificing immortals in many mansions and roads in Dafu, and most of the gods and Buddhas enshrined in Taoist temples are ethereal gods and Buddhas, not heavenly immortals.

For example, Haotian enshrined in Haotianque, Emperor Donghua enshrined in Dongwangguan, and Zhenwu Emperor enshrined on Zhenwu Mountain are all ethereal gods.

But now in this scene, these are clearly and respectfully kowtowing to the immortal altar.

What surprised Lu Jing even more was that there was no hope in their eyes, as if they were ...... Luck in general.

"There is no hope in the world, and these people may have worshiped the gods they worshipped in the past, but the ethereal gods have not responded."

"So they knelt down and prayed to the immortals for the clouds and rain, thinking that they were already numb, and they didn't know how to get out of a way out."

Lu Jing rode the night, standing silently under the scorching sun.

The scorching sun is nothing to him, but for ordinary people who have never practiced martial arts, it can urge death.

How many of these people can be resettled by other provincial governments, how many of them can survive in this increasingly chaotic world, and how many children can eat a full meal?

Lu Jing thought of the Shantang in Taixuanjing, even though the Shantang was not small, it only contained thousands of children.

Thousands of mouths that can't feed themselves, the cost of a day is already terrifying, if there are millions, tens of millions of people......

Lu Jing's thoughts were disturbed, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Pingchuan behind him.

The originally rich and endless Pingchuan is now only a mess.

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles!

Lu Jing was fascinated, but the purple-robed Taoist on the altar suddenly pointed to the peachwood sword in his hand, and the peachwood sword actually burned with flames in an instant.

The flames jumped, and the purple-robed Daoist gently threw the two yellow runes in his other hand.

Two runes hung in the air, and the purple-robed Taoist raised the peachwood sword, and the flames on the peachwood sword instantly ignited the runes.

Lu Jing was a little surprised.

Originally, when he saw the purple-robed Taoist, he originally thought it was an ordinary Taoist, and there was no trace of the purple-robed Taoist's body.

But when the rune burned, wisps of mist suddenly rose from the sky, which was originally only shrouded in blood mist.

The mist floated in the air, and the purple-robed Daoist turned around, and there was more hope on his ordinary face, and he respectfully saluted the mist......

Thousands of people bowed their heads again.

Lu Jing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly when he saw the man saluting respectfully.

Then there were seven more stars in the sky, which were the seven stars.

The Fighting Star Officer's life grid was triggered, and the Fighting Star light flickered and fell on Lu Jing's body, which also merged into Lu Jing's eyes.

Douxing Tianmu ......

A strange light flashed from Lu Jing's eyes, and the next moment, Lu Jing's floating divine thoughts saw two figures reflected in the mist suspended above the altar.

"It turned out to be two immortals wearing stars and moons? That seemingly ordinary rune can really see immortals? ”

Lu Jing thought about this, and looked at the purple-robed Taoist again.

The purple-robed Daoist's beard and hair were very messy, his face was also full of tiredness, and there was no brilliance in his eyes, but when he looked up at the two immortals wearing stars and moons, there was some hope in his eyes.

"Hope?"

Lu Jingyuan looked at the mist above the altar and looked at the two immortals who wore stars and moons.

He still remembered that the Phi Xing Immortal had once said to him that the people of the mortal world were nothing more than ants and mustards, and the vast mortal world was just a pastime for the immortals of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

These immortals live in high places, and they have no pity for other living beings in their hearts.

"If this purple-robed Taoist pins his hopes on the two immortals who wear stars and moons, I'm afraid he will be disappointed."

Lu Jing's thoughts fell.

The two figures reflected in the mist also seemed to sense something.

Dai Yue Immortal just turned his head to look at it casually with the jade bottle in his hand, then turned his head and continued to concentrate on gathering the blood-colored mist in the sky, ignoring it.

The Immortal had obviously seen the scene on the altar as well, but she frowned, unconcealing the boredom in her heart.

Even though thousands of victims bowed to her and prayed to her, the star-clad immortals did not give her a second look.

"It's really noisy."

The star-clad immortal muttered to himself, flicking his long sleeves.

The fog on the altar dissipated in an instant, and the purple-robed Taoist who originally had hope in his eyes seemed to have become accustomed to it, but he was slightly stunned, lowered his head again, turned around and continued to recite the scriptures.

After a full quarter of an hour, when the sound of the purple-robed Taoist chanting scriptures stopped, there was no change between heaven and earth, the sun was still shining, and even the wind was hot.

Thereupon...... The victims got up one after another, most of them did not curse angrily, and even their eyes did not change, they were still numb.

Stood up, ignoring even the dirt on his body, and continued on his way.

Perhaps they have been disappointed many times in the past, so let them learn not to have hope until they learn to act.

If there is no hope, there will be no disappointment.

The disaster victim walked by, and the purple-robed Taoist sat on the altar like a defeated dog, and the strength on his body had almost been drained.

As night approached, the area around the altar, which had been crowded with people, was empty.

Lu Jing led Zhao Ye to the altar.

Let the old Taoist hear the sound of horses' hooves, he didn't seem surprised by Lu Jing's arrival, but smiled reluctantly: "It made this son see the old joke." ”

Lu Jing shook his head and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Dao Chief, why can your rune make you see immortals?" ”

The purple-robed Daoist glanced Lu Jing up and down, and said, "You also saw the traces of the immortals?" ”

Seeing Lu Jing's head, the purple-robed Taoist originally wanted to ask a few more words, but after taking another look at the barren Pingchuan, the curiosity in his heart dissipated.

"Don't hide this son, I entered the fairyland from a dream, saw the glorious palace in the fairyland, and also saw the immortals practicing the immortal method, among which there are immortals who write and depict this immortal talisman."

"Old decay is not stupid, this rune was memorized in my mind at a glance, and after waking up from a dream, I drew an immortal talisman, and sometimes I could see the immortals in the sky, but I couldn't talk to them.

Sometimes, it can attract immortals who wander the world...... I have attracted immortals many times in the middle of the river, but it's a pity...... None of the immortals answered the begging of the altar. ”

The purple-robed Taoist sighed.

Lu Jing heard the purple-robed Taoist calmly speak, and his eyes suddenly became a little clearer.

The Taoist in front of him entered the fairyland in his dream, and he turned out to be a person of immortal wisdom.

"Dao Leader thinks that those heavenly immortals will come to their aid when they see the tragic situation in the middle of the river?"

Lu Jing also climbed onto the altar and took out a pot of wine from the Yunkong pattern and handed it to the Taoist in front of him.

The man glanced at Lu Jing's wine, shook his head, and took out another pot of wine from his wide sleeve.

When the wine seal was removed, a strong fragrance of medicinal wine came to the nostrils.

"This is the Tu Su wine that the Taoist people in the world will brew, it has the purpose of generating yang energy, driving away evil spirits and avoiding obstacles, this son's bamboo leaf green is too soft for me, it is not as good as the Tu Su wine I brewed myself."

Lu Jing smelled the Tusu wine, and only felt that the aroma was long and lush, so he simply took the Tusu wine politely.

"Dao Chief, you set down the altar and said to move the people, so as to attract immortals to meet the immortals...... Do you really believe that those immortals will show mercy to the lives of mortals and rain to help the middle of the river? ”

Lu Jing took a sip of wine, Tu Su's wine was strong and spicy, it was full of fragrant, long aftertaste, full of wine and mellow, it was indeed a rare good wine.

The purple-robed Taoist thought for a moment and smiled bitterly: "I entered the fairyland in my dream, and I only felt that the fairyland was beautiful, and all the immortals were exquisite, so I thought that they were all like perfect people, and they should also have a good heart." ”

"But then I entered the fairy realm again, but I saw some extremely evil things in the world, and I realized that the immortals in the sky are not sages."

When he said this, he glanced at Lu Jing, probably seeing the doubts in Lu Jing's eyes, and suddenly sneered, and explained: "The reason why I have used immortal introduction talismans many times to attract immortals, and let those immortals see the tragic situation in the middle of the river, is just to try their luck, if there are also good people among the immortals, maybe they will feel guilty, and once they owe the blood debt of ordinary people, let this river middle road die less people." ”

Lu Jing's eyes changed suddenly, and he became solemn, and he clenched his fists at the purple-robed Taoist in front of him who had a mysterious but extraordinary origin: "Lu Jing of the study floor asked the Taoist for advice, but he didn't know it...... What is a blood debt? ”

The purple-robed Taoist sat cross-legged, put down the Tu Su wine in his hand, and asked, "Childe, I have not only seen a few fairies in my dreams in my dreams, but also saw the only one in the sky and on the ground...... Tianque.

That day was separated from heaven and earth, and at the same time reflected part of the true world ...... It can be called the first treasure in the heavens and the earth throughout the ages! ”

"This day Que helped the five cities on the twelfth floor of the heavens and many fairies to become stronger and stronger, and helped the immortals to win the spiritual tide fruit several times.

For the Heavenly Immortal Court, the Heavenly Que is the most important thing. ”

"But such an immortal treasure can't give birth to great power out of nothing, and some ...... is needed Nutrient driven. ”

"Childe, do you know what the Heavenly Immortal Court uses to drive the Heavenly Que?"

Lu Jing subconsciously wanted to answer the word "immortal".

But then there was a sudden reaction...... He jerked his head up and looked at the blood-colored mist that was now escaping over the middle of the river.

In that thick blood-colored mist, there seemed to be some mysterious power hidden, this power came from the souls of living beings, from the will of living beings, from their countless complicated thoughts!

The rather mysterious purple-robed Taoist followed Lu Jing's gaze and also looked at the blood-colored mist.

"Countless mortals have died in the middle of the river, and their souls should have merged into their homeland, feeding back to the world, making the world more prosperous, allowing them to merge with all things and nature, and return to heaven and earth safely."

"But...... The dead people in the middle of the river just want to turn into this disgusting blood-colored mist, and then be gathered by those fallen immortals and brought to the fairyland. ”

The purple-robed Taoist said eloquently, and the fatigue on his face became deeper and deeper: "That time, I saw Tianque and saw countless wrestlers locking the blood mist. ”

He pointed to the sky: "These seem to you and me to be just a wisp of mist, but when they enter the fairyland, they will turn into countless souls, crying in pain, in eternal despair, and will be ...... by the heavens."

"Devour."

"Childe, if there are good people among the immortals in the sky, should they feel guilty about it? Should we save the surviving mortal people in the middle of the river? ”

Lu Jing was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "What the Taoist chief has seen, can there be good people in the heavens?" ”

The Taoist shook his head expressionlessly.

"I haven't seen it yet."

(End of chapter)