Huo Rongdong didn't know how long she had been in a coma, she was awakened by the warmth of the blue jade in her chest.

……

The light in front of him was dim, and there was a smell of rotting grass and bamboo, and it was not stable under him.

Huo Rongdong bit the tip of his tongue and used the pain to force back the residual potency of the drug in his body. When I opened my eyes again, my eyes were already a little clearer.

She was loaded into a large, shoddy straw basket, her legs curled up, a golden rope firmly tied to her wrist, and her whole body was loaded like cargo.

The grass basket should be tied to the back of the big green ox, and it tossed up and down with the running of the demon beast.

Huo Rendong's heart was cold.

- She was kidnapped by the unknown monks.

With the light shining through the cracks in the straw basket, she quickly searched around and found that the Sunset Sword and storage bag were gone. Because of that inexplicable golden rope, the spiritual power in the body was like muddy water and stagnant, and it was almost impossible to mobilize a single bit.

She wanted to perform the simplest dusting technique, but she couldn't do it.

What kind of rope is this, so fierce......

After a moment of panic, Huo Rongdong calmed down. She made no unnecessary noise, carefully probing the outside through the gap in the basket......

Prairie, woods, and houses swept quickly in both directions.

The four men were still on their way, and faster than they had come. The leading unicorn-shaped demon beast stepped on the flames, and the big green ox with two tails and three eyes let out a heavy panting sound.

Huo Honeysuckle didn't know where they were going, but from the direction of the sun, it seemed to be heading east.

The men did not rest, and walked like this for a few days, and by the next day, when it was almost dark, they had walked more than a thousand miles, and they had reached another place entirely.

After crossing a rope suspension bridge, the thin man in the lead stopped the group of monsters, and he couldn't wait to lift the lid of the straw basket and look inside.

Seeing that Huo Rongdong was in good spirits, he was glaring at him angrily, and the thin man was not annoyed but laughed.

"The little lady woke up? I'm tired and thirsty, hehehehe, don't worry, we're going home soon. ”

Huo Rendong looked at him coldly: "I am not alone, my companion's mana is unfathomable, if he finds out that you have kidnapped me, he will definitely come to the door and kill, and the blood will flow like a river." ”

The picture of Qi Ci holding Zhang Daxian's head still makes her heart have a shadow.

When the thin man heard this, he laughed: "What a big breath! ”

"Unfathomable? Is your companion refining the Great Perfection of Qi refining or building the foundation? The head of my Zhou family is the true monarch of Jin Dan's cultivation! ”

"If he can catch up, I'm afraid he will be killed to the point that there are no bones left, and he will fertilize my crops in Zhoucheng, hahahaha!"

After a while, the thin man came over again and said in an ambiguous tone: "Little lady, if you are willing to serve the master of the family well, he will probably leave you to continue to cultivate, so that the green mountains will not worry about running out of firewood......

Huo Rongdong didn't overdo it, and was silent with a cold face. Let them lead them to the city not far away.

The city is located at the mouth of a large river, with only a chain bridge leading to the outside world.

The scale is much larger than that of Qingcheng, and the Wanshui Town that I passed by before is simply small compared to here.

On both sides of the bridge, there were several men who looked like soldiers, and when they got off the bridge, there was a long and wide stone road.

Huo Rendong knew at a glance that this was an official road built only in a big city with a population of more than 100,000 people, and such a wide and strong road was the most suitable for transporting grain, grass, cloth, and goods.

But when you look at both sides, you just feel that everything is gray.

There were no cars and horses running on the official road, the land on both sides was uncultivated, and occasionally a piece of crops grew in a piece of land, and even winter wheat was not planted.

The chaotic and unorganized fields, the empty official roads, and a sense of lifeless frustration permeated everywhere.

When he got closer, Huo Rendong saw scrawny farmers standing in some fields.

In the cold weather, they wore only shabby linen clothes, and toiled with tools, and from the thin thickness, the clothes were stuffed with reeds and grass.

The farmer's face was yellow and thin, and he only had a handful of bones left, and his expression was numb.

Behind them stood the overseer with the whip, and whoever moved slower or stopped, the whip would strike mercilessly.

"What a lazy thing to do! Cheap bones! ”

"If you don't fight, you won't work, right, because you're going to be hungry tonight!"

A fat man in a sheepskin coat yelled and cursed, punching and kicking a ragged peasant.

The latter curled up on the ground, holding his head in his hands, not groaning or begging for mercy, but silently next to each other.

The people who were in a hurry were not surprised by such a picture, and their faces did not even change.

Huo Rongdong frowned, wanting to do something, but was stopped by the thin man's horsewhip.

The man who was still smiling just now had a gloomy face at the moment, and threatened: "Persuade you, if you want to suffer less, just be obedient." ”

"You are now in my Zhou City's territory, and the entire city is my family's power, what do you think?"

Huo Rongdong looked at him for a long time, and finally endured it.

Zhou Cheng must not have been called by this name originally.

The city wall is built in a very old way, and it can be seen that it is very old, and the huge gray-white stone blocks are built into a solid foundation, precipitating a full sense of history.

But just by getting closer, you can feel suffocated and oppressive here.

Because under the tall and sturdy city walls are hundreds of old and weak women and children who have built huts with various branches and mud walls.

The clay pot used for food, the thin quilt with black cotton leakage, the rags hanging on the branches, and the child who was so thin that he was the size of a head.

Narrow shacks mingle with filthy latrines, mosquitoes and flies fly all over the place, and occasionally you can see a few people lying dead or alive in the corner.

Wild dogs were gnawing on something.

No matter how poor the village is, it is not as shocking as the scene in front of it.

Huo Rongdong's eyes shook, his mouth was bitter, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

This was the first time she had seen the difference in strength between monks and mortals. It's more intuitive than Qiushui Town, and it's even more unsentimental.

It seemed that as long as they moved their fingers, these mortals would die without turning a blind eye.

Under the city, someone shouted angrily.

"The Left Protector is back——!"

Before the words fell, all the people who could still move in the shack rushed out, and the injured people who were unable to move also struggled to crawl out of the house.

They all knelt on the ground, touched the loess with their foreheads, and threw themselves into the ground in a five-body posture.

In this way, people are like animals, and they have no dignity at all.

When Huo Rongdong was in Xiaocao Village before, the people had never seen such a big gift when they saw the county commander.

Anyone who knelt a little slower would be kicked by the overseer or a soldier.

After a few breaths, all the people outside the city knelt down in unison, and the darkness was silent, and no one dared to raise their heads in trembling.

The thin man beside him snorted with his nostrils towards the sky, like an emperor. Come to think of it, he should have a high status in the Zhou family.

A young man in iron armor ran up to him at the gate of the city, rubbing his shoulders and pinching his back.

"Brother Bin, you can come back, the head of the family has been talking about you several times."

The thin man named Zhou Bin spoke: "Where is his old man?" ”

"The head of the family has gone out to inspect the mine, and he won't be back until tomorrow morning."

Zhou Bin nodded, and asked the accompanying men to get Huo Rongdong out of the straw basket.

"Take her to the side courtyard to find an empty room, let a few little girls wait, watch carefully, don't run."

Huo Nindong avoided the men's outstretched hands, jumped off the back of the green bull himself, and stood by alone.

Although she has a cold face and slightly messy sideburns, she has a noble and refined beauty, like a bright moon above the nine heavens, although it is cold, she just can't help but want to touch it.

The young man's saliva was about to fall: "Brother Bin, where did you get this beautiful girl?" ”

As he spoke, he quietly got a little closer.

Huo Rongdong looked at him coldly, his face expressionless.

The thin man whipped him on the head with a horse: "You kid is an idiot, this girl is a Qi refining cultivator, be careful that she stabs your Heavenly Spirit Gai with a sword!" ”

The young man shrunk his neck, after all, salivating more than fearing.

"The furnace made by the Qi Refining Cultivator? I haven't seen such a beautiful woman yet......"

A few people got together and didn't know what to whisper, Huo Rongdong heard a few words like 'sharing the furnace', 'it will be your turn', and 'waiting for the head of the family to get tired'.

I only felt the blood in my chest surging, and I wanted to draw my sword and stab them all.

Huo Rongdong didn't need them to escort her, she walked in front of her, the rope tied to her wrist was golden, but her attitude was neither humble nor arrogant.

Everywhere she walked, the people kneeling on both sides of the road looked up at her in a daze, their swarlet and swarthy faces mixed with mixed feelings, but their hollow and protruding eyes could not shed tears.

An old woman muttered, "Even such a fairy figure cannot escape the hands of thieves." ”

"When is it a head......

Huo Rendong and his party entered Zhou City.

The buildings in the castle are well preserved, but they are mostly empty. The streets are deserted, with only a handful of shops open.

The original city lord's mansion was occupied by the Zhou family, and the plaque had long been destroyed, and now it is written with the words "Jiatong Zhenjun Supreme Holy Mansion".

It's arrogant.

And this family owner obviously has a lot of ambitions, and he destroyed all the mansions near the city lord's mansion and repaired and expanded them.

A half-carved dragon totem stood in the clearing, fangs and claws, surrounded by laborers and laborers, and almost the prime men of the city were gathered.

Huo Rongdong stopped and looked.

This kind of stone carving requires more than 10,000 catties of stone, which cannot be reached by human or animal power. As a result, these laborers had to carry water in wooden barrels at intervals, splash the water on the ground to freeze, and drag the boulders on the ice.

This kind of work is extremely physically demanding, dozens of slender men drag the stones with hemp ropes, their hands and feet are bruised from the cold, and their backs are like a bent bow.

In the case of not having enough food and clothing, think about it and know how many people will die.

Zhou Bin leaned over and urged: "Look at what, don't go quickly." ”

Huo Rongdong didn't move, she looked at the small mansion next to her: "What kind of place is this?" ”

The others laughed.

Zhou Bin: "We call this place Yichun Xiaozhu." ”

"Don't worry, you'll soon know what this is......"

As they confronted each other at the door, two laborers came out carrying a wooden frame covered with straw mats. Judging by the expressions on the faces of the others, it should be a corpse.

Huo Rongdong glanced down, the straw mat was very large, and the appearance of the person below was not revealed.

But as she descended the steps, she saw a withered, gray hand, slender, petite, and bloodied fingertips.

It was a woman's hand.

*

On the grassy slope, the wind swept the thunder and lightning, blowing the bones of the flowers that were originally in full bloom to hang their heads.

The butterflies all disappeared, and there was silence all around.

One hand slowly picks up the bamboo basket and hoe that have fallen to the ground.

He saw that it contained most of the leylines, and the slender rhizomes were well preserved, and he could see that the diggers had put a lot of effort on their part.

But the herbs, which had been so carefully preserved, were discarded so casually.

Qi Ci's expression suddenly became terrifying at this moment.

dark clouds overhead,

The city is destroyed.