"Lockdown?"

When Song Zhishu heard this, he was suddenly a little surprised.

Although he had long guessed in his heart that something big would happen, it came too suddenly.

Moreover, Qingzhou City was directly sealed, obviously the matter is much more serious than imagined, so it will choose this method.

However, Song Zhishu didn't understand the specific reason, so he paused, and didn't ask directly, but just said: "A few Taoist friends came in and said slowly, no need to worry." ”

The city has been sealed and cannot be changed, no matter how shocked and panicked it is, it is useless, the most important thing is to understand the cause and effect.

Song Zhishu's reaction made Lin Cheng and the others look at each other, in their eyes, the other party will always look like they can't change everywhere, but if you think about it carefully, it seems normal that the person who can make an angry rebuke of reform in the Taihao Sword Sect has not seen any storms?

Immediately, several people saluted slightly, and at the same time, their minds were no longer as flustered as before, and they were much calmer.

Soon everyone returned to the house, and Song Zhishu poured a cup of spiritual tea for each of them.

Be calm in everything, do everything and don't be alarmed everywhere.

In this way, we can look at everything with a normal mind, which is a manifestation of self-cultivation to a certain extent, and will not be swayed by emotions.

"Three fellow Daoists, don't be in a hurry, slowly tell what is going on." After pouring a cup of spiritual tea for each of the three of them, Song Zhishu sat down, and at the same time spoke softly, not in a hurry.

"Song Daoyou is like this."

Lin Cheng also completely calmed down, and explained: "Just this morning, the City Lord's Mansion suddenly issued an order, and found traces of demons around Qingzhou City, and there are even more formations left by demons, the situation is serious, and the demons are sinister and scheming, in order to prevent the situation from expanding, so from today onwards, Qingzhou City can only enter and exit, and all monks are not allowed to leave the city." ”

"At the same time, the Wanshi Pavilion will issue a unified task to deal with the demon incident, but the monks in the city can take it according to their own situation, and they are not forced."

Speaking of this, Lin Cheng couldn't help but look at Song Zhishu: "In Song Daoyou's words, maybe in the future, we may really have to face the demons." ”

Li Xiansong and Wang Chong's faces also turned slightly pale, as they could see from the City Lord's Mansion closing the city.

Demons are terrifying, not comparable to ordinary monsters.

That's why.

After hearing the news, the three of them hurriedly came to Song Zhishu to hear their opinions.

Song Zhishu knew what several people were thinking, and after a moment of silence, he opened his mouth to comfort: "The closure of the city seems to be serious, but it can also show that the City Lord's Mansion already has the means to deal with demons, otherwise it will not be a closure of the city, but a way to disperse the monks, and the Wanshi Pavilion has also issued a task, so the three Daoists don't need to worry too much." ”

This is Song Zhishu's idea, he knows very well that the sudden closure of the city and the announcement of the decision of demons above will indeed cause a certain degree of panic in the city, but from another point of view, if the City Lord's Mansion does not have the means to deal with it, it will definitely not do this.

The reason is also very simple, the demons are coming, the matter is important, can the lockdown be solved?

So this kind of thing can't just look at the surface, but think about a deeper level, and how long has it been since the discovery of the Heaven Sealing Demon Array? Why is there a reaction now? Obviously, the upper echelons have made a decision, and maybe they have to fight back against the demons with this, otherwise why would Wanshi Pavilion issue a mission?

When the three of them heard Song Zhishu's comfort, they immediately nodded, thinking that what they said was reasonable, there were monks and mortals in the city.

If there is no means to deal with demons and directly close the city, is it possible to stay and wait for death?

"What Song Daoyou said is good, now there are many more monks in the city, there are major families and sects, and even the brocade clothes and Tianwei of the Great Zhou Dynasty have appeared, I am afraid that it is just to control the situation." Lin Cheng said what he knew, and turned his head to look at Song Zhishu: "And I also heard that the Taihao Sword Sect also sent people, although they did not enter the city, but they went to the depths of the Qingyun Mountain Range. ”

The major family sects, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Taihao Sword Sect are already an extremely powerful force.

Lin Cheng also understood that the reason why the City Lord's Mansion only issued an announcement now must have been because it had made sufficient preparations some time ago.

Especially the Taihao Sword Sect, one of the three major sword sects in the world, there are countless strong people in it, and now they are also involved, even if there are demons, they have enough ability to deal with it, and there are indeed some things that they can't worry about in casual cultivation.

Taihao Sword Sect also dispatched?

After Song Zhishu heard it, he didn't feel much of it.

Because this was all in his expectation, after all, Qingzhou was a little close to the Taihao Sword Sect, and the demons would definitely not let it go.

Therefore, Song Zhishu did not ask about the specific situation, but continued to speak: "Is there any other news besides the closure of the city?" ”

Only when you know enough information can you determine what the situation is and how to deal with it.

And I have been in retreat for a while, and I don't know much, I can only learn from the mouths of the three.

"There is not much other news, but the newly released task of Wanshi Pavilion has caused many monks in the city to discuss, because it is all about investigating demon incidents, so the reward is extremely rich, saying that it is at least 100,000 spirit stones to start, but there is a hard requirement, that is, to take over the task at least ten people in a team, and there must be a Confucian scholar in it."

Lin Cheng thought for a while, and then said that the most eye-catching news after the lockdown was the mission issued by Wanshi Pavilion.

One hundred thousand spirit stones, which is definitely a huge amount of money for ordinary casual cultivation.

Once it can be completed, then there will be no need to worry about the spirit stone for at least one or two years in the future.

Therefore, many monks in the city were very tempted.

But it is that hard condition that keeps some people out, and there is no way to do it.

"When a Confucian scholar enters the Three Realms, he can cultivate Confucian righteousness in his body, which is the most advantageous means to restrain demons, and it is reasonable for Wanshi Pavilion to set such conditions."

Song Zhishu spoke up, knowing very well in his heart the reason why Wan Shige asked for this, ensuring that the task could be completed at the same time.

It is also possible not to let the monk give his life in vain in front of the demon, although the demon is strong, but it is not invincible, the power of Confucianism can restrain it, once it is encountered, then at least it will not be helpless.

"Who's to say it isn't."

Wang Chong couldn't help but speak, "Song Daoyou, you don't know, now those scholars in Qingzhou Academy have all become treasures, and their status has risen sharply, but it's a pity that a few of us don't have the talent to read, otherwise we can also read and cultivate the so-called Confucian righteousness." ”

"Yes, I heard someone in the inn say that now many casual cultivators want to enter Qingzhou Academy, all kinds of relationships, find a way, and be ready to start reading and studying, saying that in the future, when you encounter demons, you can also have some means of self-protection." Li Xiansong also spoke, with envy in his words.

He doesn't want to really practice Confucianism and Taoism, or rely on these to complete the tasks of Wanshi Pavilion, the important thing is that now that demons appear, maybe when they will encounter them, and although he has some cultivation, but the real nemesis of demons still needs the power of Confucianism.

I just want to protect myself.

"What about talent? Qingzhou Academy is so big, there are so many people who can teach, don't look at the many people who want to enter Qingzhou Academy now, but how many can be left in the end? And even if they can stay, how much of it includes casual practice? There are so many forces in Qingzhou City, and even if there are places, it will not be the turn of our group of scattered cultivators. ”

Lin Cheng shook his head directly, he saw it more thoroughly, thinking that it was difficult to enter the current Qingzhou Academy, especially for casual cultivation.

And a few people didn't have that qualification before, let alone now, just think about it in your own heart.

And Song Zhishu sat aside and didn't speak, bowing his head in contemplation.

This is somewhat similar to the situation after Mr. Gu Yun and others preached in the Taihao Sword Sect, and everyone was vying to enter the academy.

But the difference is that those monks in Qingzhou entered the academy in order to have more means of self-preservation.

Because now that the demon has appeared, everyone has a sense of crisis in their hearts.

Regardless of whether it can succeed in the end.

But you have to give it a try.

This is human nature, just like a mortal who has encountered a disaster and now tells him that there is a way to deal with or alleviate it, that mortal is equivalent to grasping a life-saving straw, and replacing a mortal with a monk and comparing a disaster to a demon, the principle between the two is actually the same.

It's just that the current Qingzhou Academy doesn't have that ability, and there are not many gentlemen in the academy, so it can't meet the requirements at all.

The monks in the city want to squeeze in desperately, but the question is whether there is such a chance?

Even if there is, it is only available to a small number of people.

The bottom casual cultivation can only be seen.

Song Zhishu was very clear about these, and after a little contemplation, he looked at the three of them again: "All in all, after the closure of Qingzhou, the city is still very safe, there will be no danger, as long as we don't leave rashly, there should be no problem." ”

The benefits of the lockdown in Qingzhou are twofold, one is to be able to concentrate the scattered forces, and the other is to protect more people.

Although I don't know what the final effect will be, it is the only choice now.

After all, no one knows how far this demon incident will go. 33

"We all understand what Song Daoyou said."

Lin Cheng nodded, and then spoke: "Before we came to you, we also had this idea in our hearts, but unfortunately, we didn't have a chance to do those tasks in Wanshi Pavilion." ”

He felt a pity in his heart, the demons were indeed terrifying, but the reward for that task was indeed extremely generous, and anyone would be tempted, even more so for a person like Lin Cheng who relied on himself all the year round, because he was too short of spirit stones.

Of course, Lin Cheng was just thinking about it, and he didn't really choose to take risks, his life was more important than the spirit stone.

"Lin Daoyou doesn't need to be like this, when the situation is controlled in the future, it is actually not without opportunities."

Song Zhishu spoke, and at the same time, a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

My own understanding of demons is in the mouths of others, and I have never really been in contact with it, and now that it is so close, I naturally have some ideas in my heart, but all this has to wait for the upper echelons to control the situation, at least don't mess around now.

However, Song Zhishu's words made the hearts of several people present move, and their eyes couldn't help but show a little surprise.

Lin Cheng and the three of them all knew that Song Zhishu was a Taoist and Confucian double cultivator, and the Confucian realm was much stronger than Chen Jingyun of Qingzhou Academy, and they had also heard that the vision in the Taihao Sword Sect was caused by the other party's Confucian talent.

With such a talent and such a Confucian cultivation, there will definitely not be much of a problem in dealing with demons.

Especially the sentence 'When the situation is under control, it is not without chance'.

also let them see that maybe they can follow Song Daoyou to take over the task of Wanshi Pavilion in the future, and then see the so-called demons, and with Song Daoyou here, several people are naturally relieved.

Of course, Lin Cheng and the others also knew that this kind of thing needed to be arranged, and they would stay in the city honestly for the time being.

Immediately, the four of them chatted for a while, and Song Zhishu also learned more news from their mouths.

All in all, everyone in Qingzhou City is now in danger, especially those who are not strong.

Everyone hopes that nothing will happen and that they will be able to get through it safely.

An hour later, Lin Cheng and the others said goodbye and left the room, intending to improve their strength as much as possible in a limited time.

Of course, before that, Song Zhishu once again told them to be cautious, although the relationship is not how close, but it needs to be reminded, not for anything, but to follow the goodness of the heart, which is also the way of a gentleman.

After the three of them left, Song Zhishu cleaned up the room a little and left the inn.

It happened that during this time, he also engraved a few precious jades and planned to sell them to Wanshi Pavilion.

Then exchange it for spirit stones to buy some other resources that can improve your cultivation.

When demons appear, no one can take them lightly.

On the streets of Qingzhou City, it is no longer as lively as in the past, there are very few monks on the street, and there are not a few stalls to do business, it looks empty, it is not that the people in the city have left, but on the contrary, after the city lord's mansion sent a message, it caused panic, and did not dare to go out at will.

This is normal, the news of the demon is so sudden, many people are unprepared in their hearts, and they must think that it is safer to stay at home.

"Mr. Gu Yun once said, the demons are transformed by the five poisons of yin and evil, killing nature, plundering and creation, very terrifying, monks are almost invincible against demons, only the power of Confucianism can fight against them, and the strength of each demon is different, the most representative of which is the seventy-two earth demons and the thirty-six heavenly demons, which is even more terrifying, I don't know which kind of existence came to Qingzhou this time."

Song Zhishu walked on the road, bowed his head and pondered, he knew too little about demons, so he wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to hear about it all the time, because in the end you always have to face it.

Since you can't escape, it's better to understand it earlier.

"Everyone, the students of Qingzhou Academy are full, and they are no longer recruiting from outside, please go back."

"It's only been a long time, why aren't there any places? No, no, we have to recruit more. ”

"yes, I just saw someone entering at the back door, why don't you say it's going to be recruited?"

"Does Qingzhou Academy look down on us casual cultivators?"

At this time, a noisy sound suddenly came from in the distance, and Song Zhishu looked up, which was the direction where Qingzhou Academy was located.

I saw that on the street at this moment, the crowd was surging, most of them were monks who practiced qi and built foundations, and if you look at the outfits of these people, they are all casual cultivators, and they all seem to want to enter Qingzhou Academy at this moment, and there are extremely large numbers, looking up, there are at least thousands of people.

However, according to the words of the Qingzhou Academy, now that the recruitment is full, you can't enter if you want to.

But there are also monks who say that someone entered the academy through the back door...

What is the reason, in fact, everyone understands it in their hearts.

"No matter where there is a class, there is a bottom, there is naturally an upper class, Qingzhou Academy recruits students, especially at this juncture, there is no power and background, how can you enter?"

Song Zhishu remembered Lin Cheng's words today, shook his head slightly, just stopped for a while and left.

This is Qingzhou Academy, not Taihao Sword Sect, even if there is unfairness, you can't do anything.

Not long after, Song Zhishu came to Wanshi Pavilion, and he was still received by the girl in blue.

There are a lot of monks here, and they buy some pure yang talismans and magic weapons, because this thing also has a certain restraint effect on demons, but it is not much, but it is better to have it than nothing.

But fortunately, the upper echelons have been prepared for this lockdown, so there is no chaos in the city or Wanshi Pavilion.

I believe that in a few days, when the situation stabilizes and more news comes, it will be much better.

After Song Zhishu entered the Wanshi Pavilion, he sold four medium-grade spirit level gems, and the normal price was 20,000 spirit stones, but now is a special period, so he counted 30,000 spirit stones.

However, he did not use these 30,000 spirit stones to buy Lingyuan Dan, but exchanged them all for the raw material Baoyu.

There are five high-grade spirit-grade treasures and twenty medium-grade spirit-level treasures, a total of twenty-five.

The reason for this.

It was Song Zhishu who thought that even if all the spirit stones were used to buy Lingyuan Dan, there would be no way to continue to improve their strength, and it would not have much effect, but Baoyu was different, after the inscription was completed, it could be used to sell it, and it could also be used to enhance its strength, which was to prepare in advance for facing demons in the future.

After doing this, Song Zhishu said goodbye to the girl in blue, left Wanshi Pavilion, and went straight to the inn.

The medium-grade spirit level treasure jade is nothing, and with his current Yuan Shen, it doesn't take too much effort to engrave it.

It's just that the top-grade spirit-level treasure jade is a little troublesome, and if I want to directly engrave it successfully, I still can't get it in my heart.

"Let's start with a middle-grade spirit-grade jade."

Song Zhishu thought for a moment, and then took out a treasure jade, but he didn't immediately engrave it, but sat up cross-legged and calmed down.

The next moment, an ancient book emerged from Song Zhishu's mind, and then slowly opened.

It was the Three Thousand Divine Texts.

"If you deal with demons, it is definitely useless to use ordinary immortal scripts, you must need divine texts, and you must be able to target demons." Song Zhishu was thinking about it while looking for the words he needed among the three thousand divine texts, and he planned to engrave two of them, so that it would be more powerful.

It didn't take long for two words to catch his eye.

'To' and 'Yang'.

They are two separate sacred scripts, but they are different from the previous 'mountain' and 'go' because they can form one word.

It must be known that Song Zhishu has not tried it until now, and what kind of power it will show when the divine text is formed into words.

So he didn't think about it, and directly chose these two words.

Open your eyes.

Song Zhishu looked at the medium-grade spirit-grade treasure jade in his hand, adjusted his mood, took out the spirit pen, and was ready to start carving.

"Chen Jingyun is here, and he came with his family teacher to ask to see Mr. Song."

It was Chen Jingyun's voice, the words were polite, and the etiquette was also very thorough, without any abruptness.

Song Zhishu knew that the other party might come back to visit, but he didn't expect that it was this time, especially Chen Jingyun also brought a teacher, wasn't that the dean of Qingzhou Academy?

At this point, Song Zhishu put away Baoyu and the spirit pen, tidied up his clothes again, and opened the door.

Outside is Chen Jingyun, and behind this person, there is an old man in Confucian clothes, with gray temples and a smile, looking approachable.

After seeing Song Zhishu, the smile in the old man's eyes became even richer than before, and he arched his hand slightly: "Hello Mr. Song, old man Cheng Hong, the current president of Qingzhou Academy, is chattering today, and I hope to forgive my sins." ”

"Mr. Cheng is polite, just call me by my name."

Song Zhishu saw the other party saluting, and immediately chose to return the salute.

He had heard Chen Jingyun say before that the dean of Qingzhou Academy was a Confucian student in the Junzi Realm, and he was called Mr. by the other party, and he really couldn't stand it.

"How dare you, Mr. Song recites the way of the university, everyone in the world knows, there is a gentleman's avenue, although the old man is a few years older, he has read for a few more years, but he can't understand the truth, and the so-called master is a teacher, and there is nothing wrong with calling Mr."

Cheng Hong was very polite, and did not use his identity and realm to oppress people, on the contrary, he was very modest and said the reason why he wanted to be called Mr.

And this finally made Song Zhishu understand why Chen Jingyun sat upright, in addition to his own reasons, he also had a good teacher.

"Mr. Cheng praised it falsely." Song Zhishu bowed down and spoke again: "Please sit inside, two gentlemen, and stand outside all the time, it will inevitably make me lose my manners." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Song."

Cheng Hong nodded, and then led his student Chen Jingyun into the room together.

Song Zhishu poured a cup of tea for each of them, after all, they are scholars, and the way of hospitality must be different.

"Mr. Song is not busy."

Cheng Hong saw that the tea was full, and immediately bowed his hand slightly, and there was no nonsense, and directly explained his intentions: "This time, the old man did not invite nature and rashly disturbed Mr. Song, because he wanted Mr. Song to do me a favor from Qingzhou Academy." ”

Some people died, but not completely......