late at night

The mountain breeze outside the house is cold, and the lights inside the house are like beans.

Jiang Mu sat on the futon with a pale face, looking at everything around him in disbelief, and finally landed on a pool of blood not far away, which was when he was awakened by a nightmare when he had just entered the meditation practice, causing his mana to go retrograde, and his meridians were damaged, almost damaging his foundation.

But this nightmare, is it really just a nightmare?

Jiang Mu stretched out his hand tremblingly, stroking his complete arms and cheeks, feeling his cultivation in the Jindan Realm.

But the body stiffened by the torture of the disease, the severe pain and suffering caused by the deep illness in the heart, and the despair caused by being torn by wild dogs, are so real, vivid, and painful to the bone marrow.

It's definitely not a nightmare.

Pinching his fingers, Jiang Mu's face changed greatly, he knew what year it was.

If he remembered correctly, ten years later, the heavens and the earth changed dramatically, the aura tide exploded, and overnight, the aura dissipated, and all the immortal cultivators were like fish that had lost their current, and they could only struggle in vain.

Those who have a reserve of spirit stones will immediately retreat, and those who have a spirit stone mine will immediately close the door.

Between heaven and earth, it seems that it has become auspicious overnight, no one can do it arbitrarily, no one dares to waste the mana stored in their bodies, let alone consume the spirit stones in their hands.

But this state only lasted for a short time, and the fight resumed, all for the spirit stone.

At first, it was just to compete for the spirit stones in the market, and then it evolved into a killing between scattered cultivators, and then it became an ambush between small sects and small factions, and then it evolved into a certain party instigated and drove mortal warriors, and the mortal army launched a suicidal attack on a certain immortal cultivator and a certain immortal cultivation sect, just to consume the other party's mana.

Even the middle-level immortal cultivators and high-level immortal cultivators who maintained restraint at the beginning were eventually forced to get involved.

This tragic war has lasted for more than ten years, not only have the immortal cultivators in the immortal cultivation world fallen at least fifty or sixty percent because of this, but also nearly eighty percent of the immortal cultivators have disappeared, either being wiped out, or fleeing and hiding as mortals.

Although immortal cultivators are bleeding a river, the mortals who are used and coerced have suffered countless casualties.

At first, mortals dared not speak out in anger, but when mortals gradually discovered the essence of the immortal cultivators, and discovered the truth of the disappearance of the aura, they rebelled, and in the name of revenge, they rebelled against the immortal cultivators, and many once unattainable immortal sects were slaughtered, and more small and medium-sized sects were hunted down and wanted.

Thirty years later, when the first dynasty dominated entirely by mortals was established, the immortal cultivators were already street rats, and everyone shouted and beat them.

Fifty years later, when it was determined that the aura could no longer be recovered, several super sects with mines at home and closed the mountain and closed the door for the first time had to open the mountain gate and carefully contact the mortal dynasty, and did not hesitate to marry the Tianjiao noble daughter in the sect, the former peerless fairy to the palace.

In the face of the cruel reality, they coaxed.

Because even if they were still capable of destroying one mortal dynasty, how could they destroy two, three? Or to kill all mortals?

The spirit stone mine has an upper limit on output, and without the support of heaven and earth aura, just to maintain the opening of the mountain protection array, a huge amount of spirit stones will be consumed every year.

And if the mountain protection array is closed, it will be found by the mortal army that hates the immortal cultivators extremely much, and the army of hundreds of thousands of people will attack day and night, even if these soldiers can be killed, but this hatred can no longer be reconciled.

There will be a day when the spirit stones will be consumed, what should I do then? Just wait for all the angry mortals to be shattered into pieces.

In this way, fiftieth year after the outbreak of the aura tide, the original framework of the entire immortal cultivation world basically collapsed, and it completely entered the era of the end of the law.

Those super sects married into the royal family, and thus became a family, relying on the last remaining spirit stone resources to reach a balance with the mortal royal family.

Several top-level sects that surrendered were recruited by the imperial court and became minions and eagle dogs.

The rest, the dead, the scattered, the hidden, the people who went home to farm, the coolies who worked on the docks, the eunuchs who purified, or those who went to the Qinglou to sell their arts, those who opened martial arts halls, those who opened dart shops, those who opened medical halls, those who became bandits, and so on.

Jiang Mu's thoughts turned slowly, a hundred kinds of bitterness, a thousand kinds of sorrows, and the scenes of the past were all divergent in his heart, recalling the sorrows he had experienced in those years, and he couldn't help but cry at this moment.

The Floating Cloud Sect is not the top in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, nor is it the first-class, it can only be regarded as one of the head snakes in Qin Ge County.

Before the tide of aura, don't cause trouble, don't make trouble, quiet practice, quiet entry into the world, every ten years to receive a generation of disciples, disciples can go out of the mountain after building a foundation.

As the head of the sect, Jiang Mu is now only the cultivation of the early stage of the Jindan Realm, in fact, the elders of the past generations, the highest cultivation is only a Transformation God Realm, that is, the founding ancestor of this Transformation God Realm, who has taken root in this Fuyun Mountain, built a mountain protection array, and left the Taoist system, which has been going on for thousands of years, neither good nor bad.

If it hadn't been for that sudden tide of aura, everything would have continued.

But everything has changed.

After the aura between heaven and earth completely dissipated, the mountain protection array of the Floating Cloud Sect was directly stopped, because although the mountain protection array needed spirit stones to start maintenance, under normal circumstances, once it was activated, it would automatically absorb the aura between heaven and earth for operation.

With the mountain protection array, the mountain gate can be hidden, and the spiritual energy in the mountain gate can be ensured, and the growth of various spiritual herbs and herbs, spirit birds and beasts can be normal, which is the basis for maintaining the cultivation of a large number of immortal cultivators.

The main thing is that mortals can't see it, and the enemy can't take it.

It's not a good idea.

It's a pity that Jiang Mu himself at that time, because of his low cultivation and lack of knowledge, he was stupid in cultivating immortals, and when he saw that the spiritual energy dissipated and the mountain protection array stopped, he was in a hurry to take out all the spirit stones stored by the sect to maintain the mountain protection array.

As a result, the entire spirit stone reserve of the sect was maintained for three months.

Soon after the mountain protection array was suspended again three months later due to the lack of spirit stones, thousands of mortals were hired by the Tieshan faction next door to kill into the mountain gate with swords, bows and crossbows, using mortals as cover, and the immortal cultivators secretly killed them.

In the panic, Jiang Mu only had time to escape with five apprentices, but the remaining twenty-seven disciples were all slaughtered.

This has almost become one of Jiang Mu's biggest regrets in the second half of his life.

But he didn't even have a chance to take revenge, because the Iron Mountain Sect had only existed for one day longer than the Floating Cloud Sect before they were wiped out by their neighbors, the Mingshan Sect, in the same way.

"Whoa, whoa!"

The rooster sings that the world is white.

At dawn, Jiang Mu woke up in shock, and for a while, he couldn't tell whether he was in reality or in a dream.

After a long time, there was a sound of light footsteps outside the door.

"Senior brother in charge, I'm back!"

A delicate voice came in, making Jiang Mu in a trance again, and the owner of this voice was his little sister Ji Yao.

I think back then, when his master was still alive, he was very fond of Ji Yao, and the two senior brothers, including Jiang Mu himself, tried their best to spoil this little junior sister, not to mention responding to requests, but also caring for them wholeheartedly, although there is no shortage of feelings that all men understand, but-

Jiang Mu felt an inexplicable cramp in his heart, he sank his mind, according to what he saw and heard in his nightmare, his little junior sister has been going down the mountain for more than ten years, and this time he came back, he was a senior brother with good food, good drink and good hospitality.

It's just that this little junior sister came back not because she missed her master, but because she wanted to open a Fuyun Courtyard in Wugong County, three thousand miles away, which was used to cultivate low-level disciples.

In that nightmare, of course, he agreed without thinking about it, and paid 3,000 spirit stones, 1,000 spirit jade, and a lot of other resources to this Ji Yao, just to open a floating cloud courtyard.

This Ji Yao happily went down the mountain, but ten years later, the spiritual energy tide exploded, the mountain gate of the Fuyun Sect was destroyed, Jiang Mu took five disciples to the rivers and lakes, suffered all along the way, experienced several robberies, and three disciples died misfortune and one was seriously injured on the way.

Under such circumstances, Jiang Mu took them to Wugong County, hoping to find Ji Yao, not to mention revenge, at least to have a place to stay.

Who would have thought that Ji Yao had already formed a double cultivation partner with a disciple of another super sect, and the other party was also a big clan in the local area, and with the Fuyun Courtyard as the foundation, he did not suffer too many twists and turns for the time being.

When Jiang Mu came to the door, Ji Yao also accepted them, but on the evening of the same day, Jiang Mu, who had no precautions, was poisoned by the dark incense, and when he woke up again, not only did he lose all his mana, but Yuanyang's body was broken, and even the only remaining heavy treasures of the sect that he carried, as well as some cultivation resources, and a few spirit stones were gone.

Jiang Mu was furious and wanted to go to Ji Yao to ask for an explanation, but he was kicked out of the Fuyun Courtyard and wandered the streets with two disciples.

Within a few days, the seriously injured disciple was dying, and only the last disciple was left to rely on him for his life.

He was full of anger, but he was helpless because his mana was exhausted and he was reduced to a mortal.

Perhaps the only fortunate thing is that only half a month has passed, and the family where Ji Yao's slut and his double cultivation partner belong was also slaughtered in the chaotic killing, and the Fuyun Courtyard was reduced to ruins.

Hehe!

Thinking back to the hateful things that made him grit his teeth in all kinds of nightmares, Jiang Mu quickly calmed himself down, looked at the pool of blood on the ground, and didn't deal with it.

With a wave of his hand, the void opened the door of the quiet room, and there was a pretty woman standing outside, looking very young and with an excellent appearance, only the fox and frivolous color at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows were extremely dazzling.

"Senior brother in charge, I miss you so much!"

Ji Yao's laughter sounded, and it also pierced all of Jiang Mu's illusions like a twilight drum and morning bell.

Because of the same sentence, he had heard it once in his previous life.

So, he really went back to ten years ago when the aura tide exploded.