Different from the mountain forest trail between Jinxi and Qingfeng, the road leading to the imperial city is an official road, wide enough for three carriages to drive side by side, the terrain is flat all the way, and caravans of passers-by have always been endless.

Although the imperial city occupies an imperial character, it is not the place where the Son of Heaven is located, but a hundred years ago, it also briefly existed as the capital, and after the capital was moved to the holy capital, there were many powerful people left in the city, and due to the geographical environment, it was a prosperous and wealthy capital.

Qingfeng Town is not far from the Imperial City, three days away, as it gets closer and closer to the Imperial City, the caravans on the official road have begun to detour on the path, intending to bypass the Imperial City, the merchants pay the most attention to the safety of the road, and now the Imperial City is different from the past, and it is normal to avoid it.

But the most abnormal thing is that the passers-by who came out from the direction of the imperial city are also all with their families with sporadic baggage, and they are fleeing in a panic at a glance, these are still a bit of a family background, and there are other courtyards in the countryside that can run to take refuge, and the situation of the ordinary people in the city can be imagined, and the situation in the imperial city is worse than imagined.

Shen Xishen knew that he could not delay any longer, so he immediately untied the cart and pushed it to the side of the official road, jumped on the horse, and galloped towards the imperial city with a whip.

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the east city of the imperial city, I saw that the guards in the city were all full of sadness, but they did not dare to leave their posts without permission because of their identity, and saw Shen Xi Shen dressed up, and kindly stopped him and admonished: "Dao Chief, don't go in, the situation in the city is complicated now, everyone who should run has run away, dozens of groups of cultivators have broken inside, and the imperial city is going to die..." Seeing that the guards were about to sit down on the ground after speaking, a spiritual force supported him, he looked up at the white-clothed young man on the horse helplessly, and muttered in his mouth, "Immortal, it's an immortal, it's saved, The people of the Imperial City are saved! The guards who stood in pairs saw this scene and knelt down and bowed, as if they saw hope.

Shen Xishen didn't make a sound, nor did he stop their actions, but turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the city with the reins.

People are the most helpless in times of despair, but a little hope is enough to give them.

After entering the city, the situation was really bad, such a large town, once such a prosperous scene, in just a few days, a depression, every house door closed, so quiet that only the sound of the wind remained.

"Can make such a big town what it is now......" Ayu didn't dare to say, all the things he saw on the road, the desperation of the guards, and the desolation of the town all tell how powerful this evil is, unlike the tiger demon he met last time, Ayu felt scared this time.

"This evil cult should not have been so powerful in the first place, it was those dozen or so groups of cultivators, maybe their own strength was insufficient, and they became the rations of that demon in vain, and with so many people's spiritual power, it has developed to this point." As if seeing Ayu's nervousness, Shen Xishen gently shook the jade body, hoping to give her a little comfort.

"Now the evil aura is in the west of the city, and the scope is too large, even if it is too time-consuming to use spiritual sense to find it from house to house, you have to understand what happened first."

After saying that, Shen Xishen walked to a shop with a closed door on the corner of the street, and wanted to find someone to ask, just knocked on the door, and the people inside looked frightened, and scolded the people outside the door in a thick voice to go quickly, don't attract evil spirits, no matter how you explain it, don't open the door, even several families are like this, the people in the whole city are like frightened birds, Shen Xishen can only give up his plan to go to the west of the city to try his luck.

"Little brother, meet again"

There was only Shen Xishen on the street, and this sentence was obviously coming at him, so he turned around and looked.

Dressed in black, with a halberd behind him, Ayu recognized him, he was the one who was rescued by Shen Xishen in the battle of the tiger demon, he was injured at that time and was almost out of breath, and now it seems that he should have recovered.

The man looked at Shen Xishen and turned around and continued: "You are the Xishen Daoist of Qingfeng Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain's gown and such profound spiritual power, I asked someone to understand the prestige of the Taoist in the cultivation world, I am really ashamed, I have been hiding from the world for a long time, I don't know the Daoist, please forgive me." ”

Shen Xishen didn't answer, looking at his eyes revealing vigilance, did he go to inquire on purpose? The hanging arm secretly blocked the jade pendant, and he recognized it at a glance, although he had helped him solve the trouble, but Shen Xishen never believed him, he hadn't gone down the mountain for half a year, and he met him as soon as he came out, if he was also here for the change in the imperial city, it would be a coincidence.

The man in black didn't care whether Shen Xishen's gaze was good or not, and said with a smile: "Dao Chief, I'm so honest, you are still so wary of me, then I won't pretend, hey, the girl of Jade Perry, I know your existence, don't worry, I'm not equally interested in your affairs, everyone should come to the Imperial City for the same thing, and the most important thing now is the evil, I hope you are clear." Whether you like it or not, we are all fellow travelers on the same bridge, and the county magistrate of the imperial city has not left the city yet, he must know the situation, but I dare not guarantee it later, in the twilight, I hope I don't forget my name again this time. After speaking, he returned to his previous kind smile, turned around and walked in the direction of the county office.

"I'm sorry, I was too reckless last time, if I don't say anything, he may not be able to find me, I was wrong." Ayu knew that she seemed to have caused a little trouble, and her voice was low.

"You think too much, with your current strength, people may not look down on you, but he is right, now the purpose is the same, first solve the matter of the imperial city, now that he knows your existence, there is no need to hide where there is no one else, don't worry, I'm here." After saying that, he placed the horse in a nearby stable, and hurried to the distant twilight.

Although Shen Xishen said this to comfort her, this attitude is really his style, arrogant and arrogant, but this time, Ayu has no dissatisfaction.

In the Huangcheng County Office, the vermilion gate was closed, and the stone lions on both sides were a little terrifying under such a scene.

With a wave of his hand, the spiritual power split the door, he indifferently walked through the breach, and walked straight to the backyard, Shen Xishen followed, the backyard of the yamen at the moment was in chaos, everyone trotted out to move things, and the county commander wearing an official hat ran out with a box of red clay official seals covering his head, and at this time, he was still wearing an official uniform and hat to move here and there, and he couldn't tell whether he was moving or fleeing.

Shen Xi Shen grabbed the official uniform of the county order and pulled it back, pressing it on a chair, the county order just wanted to get angry, raised his face and saw the two figures of black and white, the momentum was compelling, he didn't dare to move for a while, and he begged with a sigh: "Two Taoist chiefs, let me go, this city can't stay, many people have died before and after, and if you don't leave, you have to be buried with the Tong family." ”

The black-clothed near twilight smiled and bent down, and asked, "What is the matter with the Tong family that the adults said, what has happened in the imperial city for so many days, please explain it clearly to the two of us, since we are here, we will definitely be able to remove the demons and evil spirits, and restore peace to the imperial city." ”

"All the Taoist priests said so, but as a result, they all died, don't talk about you in the imperial city now, the immortals can't be saved when they come!!" The county order's chubby body shrunk in a chair and trembled in despair.

Shen Xi was impatient and was about to speak, but he saw that the long halberd behind his back was approached by the county commander's throat, and the smile on his face looked so friendly.

Then the county order told the story of what happened, because of fear, stumbling, and the logic was not very smooth, but after listening to it, Shen Xishen still sorted out the general situation of the matter, and immediately rushed to Tong's house with Jindui, but Ayu was dizzy when he heard it, and asked in Shen Xishen's ear, he simply told her directly.

Ten days ago, the imperial city was not like this, the accident was located in the west of the city of the Tong family, the Tong family in the imperial city is also a family with a head and a face, the ancestors and Zeng Tianzi in front of the errand, although there is no one in this generation, but in the imperial city Tong family is a little arrogant, the Tong family has five children, except for the eldest son and the youngest son, the rest are daughters, the eldest son has already married, and now there is a son and a daughter.

The accident was the youngest son of the Tong family, ranked fourth in the family, at the age of seventeen, that day was the day when the fourth son of Tong married the Li family who was also a nobleman, not to mention how luxurious the scene was, the three-mile long street was full of festive red lanterns, and there was a small girl on the way to pick up the relatives and sprinkled copper coins all the way, so lively and lively to marry Miss Li back home, who knows, the night of the candle in the cave room, the bride screamed, and fainted unconscious, when everyone arrived, they saw that the fifth son of Tong was lying on the ground and his body was stiff, his face was blue, and his whole cheeks collapsed, It was as if the flesh on his body had shrunk in an instant, shriveled like a dried corpse, but he was stunned like this. The Li family heard that they took their daughter home overnight, and the Tong family also dismissed the guests overnight, the door was closed, and the next day the famous doctors in the city entered the Tong family's door, and shook their heads when they saw the sick body.

The eldest prince of the Tong family was in full view of everyone, his entire face and body were rapidly shrinking and collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, pointing forward, his eyes were full of fear, and everyone else present was so frightened by this terrifying scene that he collapsed to the ground. From that day on, every day there will be a Tong family falling, all of them have the same symptoms, just three days, the red lantern at the door has not had time to be removed, the men in the family are already half dead, there is a Tong family escaped from the little guy said, crazy, the Tong family has gone crazy. From that time on, no matter in the middle of the day and night, you can hear the wailing of the Tong family's daughters from afar, very terrible, the people sent by the government to see the situation are still alive, but after coming back, their faces are like earth, and they all kneel and vomit when they ask about the situation, the Tong family is now, like hell, slowly, the Tong family fell into a dead silence, the entire imperial city is shrouded in a layer of haze, and the magnates in the city also began to flee one after another, the government can't, can only report to the Son of Heaven, and recruit people who are different from each other, the result can be imagined, and those who go in never come out.

Up to now, except for Tong San and Tong Si, who married outside the imperial city, I don't know what the situation is, the rest of them don't know life and death.

After hearing this, Ayu only felt terrible, and then thought that only the Tong family and the cultivators had this accident, and the evil cult didn't seem to take the initiative to harm other people in the city, everyone was just scared, what did this Tong family do, and they would suffer this catastrophe.