Chapter Twenty-Four: In Troubled Times, I Can't Help Myself
"Yes, Immortal." The ghost soldier Chen Jing prostrate on the ground, lowered his head and said in an extremely respectful tone, "Things have to start from twelve years ago......
Twelve years ago, Chen Jing was basically the same as Pei Zhiqing described, full of enthusiasm, planning to go all over the world, help the needy, punish the evil and eliminate the evil, and wanted to bring peace to the poor family in this troubled world.
This is his lifelong pursuit, and it is also the greatest ideal in this life.
He gave up many, many things for this.
But all of this was shattered at the Shangzhou martial arts gathering twelve years ago.
His pursuits, his ideals, and even his dignity were all trampled under the feet of a person and trampled on unscrupulously.
This person is Wang Yan, who was born in the Jinzhou Wang family, a thousand-year-old family, that is, the Shangzhou assassin who recommended Chen Jing to the imperial court back then.
Originally, Chen Jing and Wang Yan could be called New Year's friends, and their relationship was very good.
But after Chen Jing rejected Wang Yan's recommendation, it was different, under Wang Yan's deliberate avoidance and estrangement, the relationship between the two took a sharp turn for the worse, and they were strangers in just two or three years.
It had been two and a half years since the last time the two of them met at that Shangzhou martial arts gathering.
After the party, Wang Yan took the initiative to invite Chen Jing to the banquet and drink.
This made Chen Jing think that an old friend had come to ease the relationship with him, so he happily went, but it was a Hongmen banquet.
What was on the banquet was not wine and delicacies, but more than 30 bloody human heads!
All of them are people that Chen Jing helped when he walked the rivers and lakes.
Some of them were forcibly seized by landlords, some were cheated of their family property by merchants, and some were molested by their wives and daughters......
They are all hard-working people, and it is only with the help of Chen Jing that they can take revenge and regain the hope of living.
But now, they all had their heads cut off and placed in front of Chen Jing.
The reason is simple.
Because the landlord who forcibly seized their land was a side branch of the Jinju Wang's family, the merchant who deceived them was a domestic slave of the Jinju Wang's long house, and it was Wang Yan's distant nephew who molested their wife and daughter......
One pile, one by one, all of them are related to the Jinju Wang family.
So, Wang Yan ordered to kill all those involved in this!
And at this banquet, he used the heads of these people to warn Chen Jing that he was not allowed to do anything so-called to help the poor and punish the evil and eliminate evil.
Even if it has nothing to do with the Jinju royal family, it can't be.
In the end, Wang Yan also lamented the past when the two of them were old friends, and at the same time said that he would not kill him if he missed the old relationship.
I hope he will be able to understand current affairs in the future and stop acting recklessly.
Chen Jing was deeply ashamed of this, and since then he has disappeared into the rivers and lakes, secretly vowing that he will be ashamed in the future.
He originally planned to accumulate strength incognito and low-key, and wait for a day to become a blockbuster.
But then, his relatives and friends were killed one after another, and after the investigation, it was found that they were all related to the Jinju Wang family.
This made Chen Jing almost collapse, and vowed to eradicate the Jinju Wang clan.
However, as time went on, he became more and more desperate.
He found that it was impossible to take revenge on his own strength alone.
Wang Yan is too strong, and the Jinju Wang clan is too strong.
As a family that has been inherited for more than 2,000 years, his heritage, his connections, and his power are no longer something that anyone can compete with on their own.
Even if Chen Jing had an adventure later, he found a witch sect stone chamber in the underground of Heyang County, and obtained part of the witch sect secrets from it, and successfully broke through to the eighth level of ascending to the sky, but compared to Wang Yan and even the entire Jinzhou Wang clan, he was still as small as an ant.
You have to become stronger, and you have to have your own power team!
Dominated by his long-suppressed heart and anger, Chen Jing began to covet the relics of the great master of the witch sect under Heyang County.
As long as he can get those relics, he will have the opportunity to step on the tenth level of ascending to heaven and become a great master who has refined his "true meaning".
There is also a chance to secretly cultivate his own power team.
However, the opening method of sacrificing 10,000 people made it difficult for him to choose for a while.
In the end, he chose a compromise.
First, grab a group of people to sacrifice outside the left stone room, and test whether the way to open the witch relics is correct.
After confirming that this method is indeed feasible, find someone with similar desires and tell them the true existence of the Great Grandmaster's Relic of the Witch Cult and how to open it.
Let someone else do it.
Chen Jing chose two people.
One is the seventh level master of the Ten Thousand Poison Gate Centipede Character Department who wants to become stronger, Feng Xiang!
There is also a Heyang County Commander who is from a local clan and is eager to progress, Fang Qian!
Although neither of them knew that the other wanted to open the witchcraft treasure, they acted on each other in order to use each other, so they complemented each other.
The former gradually increased the population of Heyang County, making it easier to sacrifice later.
The latter did something that could anger the Zhaoyang army, which might lead to the slaughter of the city.
Chen Jing, on the other hand, only needs to hide in the dark and pick peaches.
When he gets the witch cult relics, he can also guide the emotions of being slaughtered, and gather a group of people who are resentful of the way of the world today, and want to kill all the clans, kill all the princes of the court, change the heavens and the earth, and recreate the world.
This will be the foundation of his future squad.
Of course, for the time being, he can only hide in the shadows, silently develop and become stronger, at least until he breaks through to the eleventh layer of the heavens before he can really take some action.
After all, today's Wang Yan is no longer the ninth level of martial arts, the history of Shangzhou under the rank and fourth grade.
It is the Golden Purple Guanglu Doctor, the Military Department Shangshu, the Tongzhong Shumen Xia Pingzhangshi, the Shangzhu State, and the Founding Duke of Chengyuan County.
Commonly known as the Prime Minister.
Martial arts have also reached the eleventh level of ascending to the sky, which can be called the top of the world.
He is also the contemporary head of the Jinju royal family.
In the middle of the court alone, there were more than 20 high-ranking officials of the fifth rank and above, and there were also seven or eight who served as local governors.
Normally, a big man like Wang Yan, unless the Great Qi is destroyed, or the land immortals make a move, no one can move him.
Therefore, according to Chen Jing's plan, when his own strength grows, he will not go directly to Wang Yan.
At the beginning, he first defeated the Zhaoyang army, took Shangzhou and Yinzhou, gave the Wang family some eye medicine, and divided one side by the way.
Because, the current Zhaoyang Military Festival Envoy and Yinzhou Assassin Wang Tong is Wang Yan's nephew.
If nothing else, Chen Jing is confident that he can do this in five years.
Hide yourself at the same time.
However, the unexpected happened.
Lu Heng's appearance completely shattered all his plans, and even his life was lost.
The complicated life of Chen Jing, the former "Flying Eagle Hero", came to an end abruptly.
"......" After listening to Chen Jing's narration, Lu Heng's expression was a little complicated, a little embarrassed, and a little sighing.
In the early days, Chen Jing was a typical idealist, full of love for everything, trying to bring this troubled world back on track little by little with his own strength.
It can be said that he is not self-sufficient, or it can be said that he is hot-blooded.
Then he was beaten hard by reality, and finally embarked on the path of being called an evil demon.
Is it just because he is not strong-willed?
I'm afraid not.
"This is a troubled time, I can't help myself." Lu Heng sighed lightly, looking at the ghost soldier Chen Jing who had the light in his eyes gradually dimming and his consciousness began to fade, "It can be regarded as deserved." ”
In any case, this Chen Jingjing is the main culprit that led to the possible massacre in Heyang County.
Damn it!
At the same time, Chen Jing's experience also made Lu Heng more deeply realize the importance of strength in this troubled world.
If Chen Jing at that time was a land immortal who had crossed the twelve levels of ascending to the sky, I am afraid that the result would be different.
"It is still necessary to reach the second or even third layer of gas refining as soon as possible to enhance our strength."
Lu Heng secretly said in his heart, "Fortunately, after killing Chen Jing, I have already completed the requirements of the White Tiger Killing Secret to break through the second layer of qi refining, and my mana has also increased significantly.
"Now it's not far from being able to officially break through, but we still need to increase some mana."
At this moment, Pei Zhiqing hurriedly ran over, looking anxious, and holding a letter in his hand.
"Senior, something is wrong." She handed a letter to Lu Heng and said with some panic, "Fang Qian, I don't know what the purpose is, I actually sold all the reserve grain that Chang Ping sold to Connecticut, and I didn't even leave a grain of rice!" ”
The government's regular grain reserves play a role in balancing prices.
Previously, Fang Qian and Zheng Han sold grain to Kangzhou, but they only sold grain to Heyang County, and did not close the warehouse to reserve grain.
In order not to be discovered too early and disrupt the original plan, Fang Qian even took the initiative to leave some food, so that the people in the county could eat a little food every three or five days.
Now that the grain reserves have been emptied, the big clans and merchants in the city will soon react, and they will inevitably further raise the price of grain, resulting in the destruction of a large number of ordinary people's families.
Unless the stockpile can be replenished in just a few days, at least half, it will be possible to avoid future tragedies.
But this is almost impossible, who can conjure hundreds of thousands of stone grains out of thin air?
That's why Pei Zhiqing was so flustered.
She can already foresee that she doesn't know how many people will suffer next.
Lu Heng took the letter and looked at it, and immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, and said lightly: "Let's see who dares to raise the price of grain." ”
One word.
Kill!
I'm worried that I haven't accumulated enough mana to break through the second layer of qi refining.
"As for the reserve grain that is often closed, it is not difficult, whoever raises the price will kill and copy someone's house.
"If that's not enough, I'll have another way."