In the year 1200 of the New Immortal Calendar, the barrenness within the territory of civilization was almost extinct. The occasional fish that slips through the net can be called not big news, which will attract the attention of hundreds of millions of people in the realm of too illusory.

However, in the 53rd year of the New Immortal Calendar, barrenness was almost integrated into people's daily lives. Even within the Boundary, desolation is still ubiquitous.

On the one hand, the Bafang Desolation Barrier was not perfect when it was first built, it was like a fishing net with a thick grid, which could effectively block those ancient desolate demons who had been transformed by the true immortals of the Heavenly Court and had the ability to destroy the heavens and the earth. In contrast, those with lower strength have the opportunity to drill through the cracks in the grid and be the culprit. In fact, in the 100th year of the New Immortal Calendar, before the Immortal League comprehensively strengthened the Wasteland Barrier and greatly refined the grid of fishing nets, the countries of the Immortal League could only defend some key cities that were located at key points, and then gradually expanded. As for the vast wilderness areas, they are often full of murderous opportunities, and they are not much better than the wastelands.

On the other hand, when the Heavenly Court fell and the Heavenly Dao turned into a barren land, the barren area covered almost the entire territory of Kyushu when it was at its broadest. Later, after decades of desperate fighting, people reluctantly took the eight desolate cities as the core and cleared out the pure land on which they relied to rebuild their homes. But this kind of hasty clean-up naturally can't do everything, and the so-called pure land is only relative. In the decades after the establishment of the Immortal League, people could often find the remnants of the desolation that had not been cleaned up in the corners of the Pure Land. And every such discovery may be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice.

If it is said that in the 1200th year of the new immortal calendar, people's deep hatred of desolation is the result of ideological indoctrination, and the result of the joint influence of family education, school education, and social education. Then the people of the Immortal League in the 53rd year of the New Immortal Calendar, their hatred for desolation is often unforgettable and painful.

At the same time, the early Immortal League was limited to insufficient conditions in all aspects, and seriously lacked sufficiently accurate and widespread methods of identifying desolation. Whether a person is desolate or not, and whether a magic weapon is contaminated with desolate poison, in most cases, can only be judged by relying on very simple identification techniques.

Therefore, extreme emotions and vague ways of identification provide an excellent soil for the folk witch hunt.

Look at you, this person is sneaky, and your whereabouts are suspicious, are you a desolate demon?

This magic weapon in your hand is so evil, once it is activated, it makes the hearts of the people around you palpitate and chill, has it been polluted?

Why are all the exercises you practice ancient methods? Do you want to take the initiative to break through the bottleneck?

……

Questions like these have been permeated in people's daily lives for a long time.

Considering the actual situation in the 53 years of the New Immortal Calendar, of course, it cannot be said that such vigilance is wrong. But it is clear that some people's vigilance was wrong from the start.

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"Xiao Wu, tell me the truth, do you really think that woman is a desolate girl?"

Facing the questioning of his brother who had Jindan cultivation, the young Zhuji monk smiled helplessly.

"Big brother, you've seen the photo in the water mirror. Not to mention whether it is deserted or not, I am not very sure whether that person is a man or a woman! ”

"And what do you say that it smells of desolation? Even the death of my parents is involved! ”

"Big brother, if I don't say something more serious, how can I win the trust of others?"

"You...... What a rake you're doing!? ”

"Yes, it's a rake, but I can't help it! This time the village was raided by wild beasts, and the pillar was almost destroyed, and the whole army was wiped out, which seemed to be a helpless accident, but in fact, the Dinghuang Pillar had already given feedback on this, I remembered the scale incorrectly at the time, thinking that it was just the regular noise of the Dinghuang Pillar, so I didn't take it seriously......"

"What?!"

"Big brother, our own brothers, I won't hide anything from you. If I had really been attacked by the beasts before, then I would have died here, and I would have died a well-deserved death. But now that they survived...... After the fact, when the sect investigates, it will definitely find out my dereliction of duty! And big brother, you, as my guarantor, will also be implicated! ”

“……”

"Our martial arts family has been serving the Quanshan faction before, but after the catastrophe came, the sect was almost collectiveized from top to bottom, and the ancestors of our martial arts family were also implicated, and they created a monstrous slaughter during the battle of the famine. It took decades for our descendants to finally clear their suspicions, become innocent people, and gain the respect of their superiors...... If you suffer another blow, you will really never be able to live forever! ”

"Then you can't take revenge on the life-saving benefactor!"

"Big brother! I'm not going to take revenge! That person's supernatural skills are indeed very evil. Think about it, so many strange beasts comparable to Jin Dan, you can't get this kind of magical power when she brushes it, have you ever seen it? And after she saved people, she walked in a hurry, is it really not suspicious? ”

“…… Suspicious is suspicious, but what if it is found out afterwards, people are really chivalrous? ”

"Check it out? Alas, if you let the eldest brother preside over the investigation, you may be able to find out the matter clearly in the end. But what if you let that adult do it? ”

"The ...... My lord? ”

"It's the one who relied on a pair of fiery eyes to see through the disguises of countless desolate demons, so he rose all the way. In fact, our martial arts family also has a lot of care from Lord Pi to have today. It's time to reciprocate...... Big brother, you are a master of Jindan, but you can only do some chores all the time, don't you want to go further? ”

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With the young foundation in the village, he moved the eldest brother Jindan who came to help, and reported the relevant situation to Wangcheng. The sect in the city quickly sent the Pi Master who had reached the peak of the Yuan Infant cultivation.

Led by Lord Pi and accompanied by ten Jiuzhan Jindan, they soon came to the village, did a serious investigation, and then gave an authoritative conclusion.

"I don't think that female friend is a desolate demon in disguise. On the contrary, I am grateful to her for helping in time and saving the lives of the whole village. But unfortunately, after I received the news, I carefully investigated all the directories in the Hundred Eyes Hall of the sect, and looked through all the registered Taoist information in the vicinity, but none of them could match the ......."

"So, either she is a distinguished guest from afar, and she hasn't had time to go to Wangcheng to register. Either that, or there are omissions in the registration work that we carried out locally some time ago. In short, it is my duty to take the initiative to find her, on the one hand, to express my gratitude, and on the other hand, to carefully go through the formalities for her, and issue a Qiongyue Yujian that can prove her identity. ”

However, when Lord Pi, a senior official who seems to have a loyal temperament and treats people with sincerity, led the team to travel, he was fully armed, and all kinds of fierce and vicious magic weapons and poisons were piled up in his treasure bag. The ten Jin Dan retinues under his command were also murderous, and as soon as they left the city, they formed a sword formation for hunting. With such a lineup, even if you encounter a master in the middle stage of the transformation god, you are expected to have an advantage.

As for the water mirror, it seems that there are no more than the "female knights" in the late Yuan Infant period, and they are even more handy.

(End of chapter)