It's not the first time Gu Meng has returned to the territory of Nanchu, every time he returns to Nanchu, he has some different ideas, but this time, it's even different.

He made up his mind to take a good journey in the territory of this Southern Chu, and he would rather be slower and look at this Southern Chu more carefully.

As for why?

I am the last emperor of Southern Chu, is this reason enough?

Therefore, after Edgeworth entered the territory of Southern Chu, he and Luo Xue fell behind and chose to walk.

Coming out of Zheshan, the first stop is still so simple and direct to choose Yingdu, and then you have to cross Yingdu, go to the seaside, walk along the seaside, and finally leave Nanchu to go to Xian Mall.

After walking through Xian Mall, the itinerary will be faster, and when the time comes to go to Beihai, there will be no pause.

But before that, Gu Meng has to take a good look.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, they walked into a small city called Xishui City, which was a small border city in the territory of the old Southern Chu, not big, and not a strategic location, so in that national war, this small city was still well preserved, and there was no trace of war.

In fact, the battle of the Southern Expedition launched by Daqi back then, really attacked the city all the way, and did not fight much, especially in several other countries except for Southern Chu, except for some important military towns, the rest almost all surrendered without a fight, as for the side of Southern Chu, it was indeed a few big battles, but the gap was huge, and no effective resistance was formed.

When the building is about to collapse, it is not one person who can change something.

In the afterglow of dusk, walking into this river city, Gu Meng quickly felt that something was different, entered the city from the city gate, walked almost a long street, and didn't see a single pedestrian.

Judging by the feeling of the moment, the city is more like a dead city.

Luo Xue couldn't stand this gloomy feeling, pulled the sleeve of her little junior brother, and got closer to Gu Ming.

Only in this way can she feel at ease.

Gu Meng walked forward slowly, walked through this long street, turned around and walked into an alley, Luo Xue grabbed him, looking scared, "Little junior brother, don't go in, right?"

Gu Meng turned his head and said, "Little Senior Sister, there are people inside, you have to go and take a look, otherwise, you just wait for me here." ”

Hearing this, Luo Xue shook her head frantically, Wait here? She is not stupid, where is the safety of the little junior brother here.

She said categorically: "I'm not afraid, I still have to protect the little junior brother!"

Gu Meng nodded, and said with some ill will: "Then the little senior sister went ahead?"

"No!" is also a categorical refusal.

Gu Meng knew that this was such an answer, and he was not surprised, so he smiled and walked in front.

Walking into the alley, it didn't take much time, Gu Meng came to a dilapidated courtyard, took a look inside, Gu Meng looked at the yard with weeds, raised his eyebrows, turned his head to look at the other courtyards around him, and found that it was similar to here, Gu Meng was even more surprised.

He stepped into the small courtyard, and Luo Xue did not leave an inch.

That's what she said to protect her little brother.

Walking into the courtyard, you can see the scene inside more intuitively, in the dilapidated courtyard, the roof of the main hall, there is already a big opening, the door is open, there are some broken tables and chairs in the main hall, and broken green tiles.

The room on the side, although closed, does not look any different.

Gu Meng took his eyes off the dilapidated houses and turned his head to look at the hut to the east that looked quite intact.

He clearly sensed that there were still people in this hut.

Standing in the small courtyard, Gu Meng didn't rush to knock on the door, just tiptoed, fell on the roof, looked around, and found that most of the buildings around him were dilapidated.

Even in the slightly better courtyards, the doors were closed and no one was seen.

Luo Xue raised her head on the ground and shouted, "Little junior brother, hurry down, I can't protect you!"

Gu Meng didn't speak, but he was still very obedient and fell from the roof.

Luo Xue pulled Gu Ming's sleeve and said pitifully: "Little junior brother, let's go quickly, I always feel that this place is eerie and weird." ”

If it was elsewhere, Gu Meng would have agreed, but here, Gu Meng shook his head and said, "No." ”

Luo Xue's eyes widened, and she was about to speak, when Gu Meng suddenly turned her head, made a boo gesture, and then pulled Luo Xue away, and the two of them took advantage of the situation and hid at the base of the wall.

Just as the two of them were hiding, two people fell from the sky.

Both of them were dressed in moon-white robes, with a blood-colored Tai Chi embroidered on their chests and backs, looking extremely evil, and they didn't look like decent people.

The man who was born taller and gave birth to a meaty face, and there was even a black mole on his face, which was at the corner of his mouth, which made people annoying to look at.

He looked at the closed house and said with a smile: "The ancestor practiced, just missing a boy's heart, I didn't expect to find it this time, this errand is also simple." ”

In addition, the Taoist priest was not born short, but in comparison, he was not as tall as the person before, nor was he ugly as the person who was born, he could be said to have the face of an ordinary person, listening to the man speak, he also laughed, "I originally thought that the boys in this city were almost killed, and it took a little effort to find a boy's heart, who knows, there is actually a fish that has slipped through the net." ”

If you look closely, you can actually find that he is holding a blood-colored compass in his hand, and it is estimated that it is because of this thing that they can find the boy they are looking for.

The horizontal meat Taoist priest said impatiently: "Han Shan, don't chatter, hurry up and take that kid back, if you mistake the ancestor to practice, it will be a capital crime!"

The Taoist priest named Han Shan flashed a fierce look in his eyes, but it was fleeting, no one saw it, and he smiled: "It's up to Senior Brother." ”

Before the words fell, he beckoned, and the door of the house broke open, Han Shan looked inside, and said calmly: "It's okay to come out earlier, if you have to hide, not only will you take away your son later, but even you won't survive." ”

The Taoist priest realized it and said with a look of surprise: "What's the matter? There is also a woman, how does she look?"

A touch of disdain flashed in Han Shan's eyes again, although they are all brothers in the same sect, and they are also doing these hurtful deeds, but he, Han Shan, killing people is killing people, and eating people's hearts and livers is eating people's hearts and livers, but he never insults women, nor tortures these ordinary people.

chose this path of cultivation, if you want to eat people, there is no way, it can only be regarded as unlucky for these people, but the other party is so unlucky, Han Shan will definitely not do anything that he is not willing to do on this basis.

On the contrary, it is this Taoist priest with a cross-faced face, but he burns, kills, plunders, and does all kinds of evil, and the women in this city are afraid that nine times out of ten, they have suffered from his claws before they die.

"For my brother's yin and yang acacia, there are only so many women. ”

Hengrou Taoist priest looked at the room with some expectation.

Han Shan didn't speak, but he knew that the so-called Yin and Yang Acacia Gong practiced by this guy had fallen into a bottleneck many years ago, and over the years, he had not been able to advance an inch, according to his own words, it was because there were too few women who had sex with him Yin and Yang, so he was not allowed to enter an inch, in fact, it was clear from top to bottom in the sect that there were too few women, but his qualifications were originally poor, and it was already the limit to be able to practice to this point.

In the past two years, I have just done something under this banner.

Han Shan said calmly: "I'm afraid it's not a woman with outstanding appearance, where are there any good women here?"

Hengrou Taoist smacked his lips and nodded, "It's the same." ”

Han Shan originally didn't want to go into the house, but wanted the people in the house to come out by themselves, and now he was thinking about the Hengrou Taoist priest, and he also understood that if that woman came out, it would probably be another miserable end, I don't know why, he suddenly felt a little more compassionate, and walked straight into the house.

After a while, he came out of the house with a child, who was no more than eleven or twelve years old.

The child was born delicately, with a pair of big eyes that looked like aura, full of tears, but he bit his lip and didn't dare to cry.

Hengrou Taoist priest sighed and praised: "This little guy is still very good-looking, maybe his heart and liver are also superior, this time the ancestor has nothing to say." ”

Han Shan nodded and said, "Senior Brother Yang, let's go, if the ancestor is in a hurry, maybe he will have to lower the punishment again." ”

Hengrou The Taoist priest was about to nod, but soon shook his head and said: "Wait, this child is good-looking, and his mother is not much worse if he wants to, junior brother, you can wait......"

Before he could finish speaking, a woman rushed out of the house with a stick.

The woman was unkempt, but faintly visible, and in good shape, and she took the stick, and cried out in a terrible voice, "Give me back my son!"

Han Shan stood in place, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he watched as the woman hit him on the shoulder with a stick, and he didn't hide.

Just opened his mouth and said three words silently.

"Why bother?"

When he had entered the house, he had told the woman and the child in a very low voice what was going on, and when the child came out, he gritted his teeth so that he would not let himself cry, lest his mother hear it and make her have any bad thoughts.

But at this time, all the previous efforts have been wasted.

But in other words, which mother in this world can watch her son die without being indifferent?

Can't find a few.

So the current situation is normal.

It's just that then, it's not so good.

Hengrou Taoist priest said with a cruel smile: "Who would have thought that such a broken city that has been searched for so many times would have such a good girl!"

As he spoke, he was about to untie his belt.

Han Shan didn't speak, in fact, the only thing he could do was to give the woman a good time at this time, but this would be a bad deal with this meat Taoist priest, for the sake of an ordinary person, it is not worth it.

Besides, there are people dying every day in this world, but there is a person who dies even more miserably, and he dies in front of his eyes, what?

Han Shan has done everything he can.

All he could do at the moment was to take the child back and turn away, so that the child would not see what was going to happen next.

That's the only thing he can do now.

The horizontal meat Taoist priest walked towards the woman step by step, and the saliva in his mouth was dripping, and he looked extremely disgusting.

The woman had been knocked down by the huge force of the rebound before, and now she struggled to get up, and she still rushed over desperately.

Hengrou Taoist priest sneered: "Not everything in this world can be changed by desperate efforts. ”

He stretched out his hand to grab the woman.

Suddenly, his face froze.

The expression froze instantly.

And then he fell straight down.

The woman was stunned, at first she didn't understand what was happening, but soon she saw the snow-white sword stuck in the back of the head of the horizontal Taoist priest.

It was crucified.

What was even more stunned was Han Shan, he only saw a cold light flash before, and before he could react, he saw that the horizontal meat Taoist priest was killed.

You must know that although that horizontal meat Taoist priest has done all kinds of evil, he is indeed a cultivator of the fourth realm, and he is also the number one in the sect.

Otherwise, how could he be a man of power in front of him?

In the corner, a man and a woman walked out.

The young man, who was very good-looking, looked at Han Shan and said calmly, "Put the child down." ”

Han Shan hurriedly let go and looked at the young man in front of him with a vigilant expression, he didn't immediately kneel down and beg for mercy, nor did he think about running away, because he knew that the other party could kill the Hengrou Taoist so easily, at least it meant that his realm was much higher than theirs.

And there was no movement, the most important reason was that he felt the anger and murderous aura of the young man.

These two things made him dare not do anything casually.

The child, who was born quite well, rolled to the ground, and didn't care about the pain, so he hurriedly ran to his mother's side and hugged her tightly.

Han Shan's heart was like ashes, and he actually knew very well the temperament of those righteous path cultivators.

He knew he wouldn't live.

"Which sword sect's sword cultivator is the senior?"

Han Shan asked bitterly.

Gu Meng said coldly: "Do you think you are also worthy of asking me?"

Han Shan was silent for a moment, and then said: "Before I die, there must be a lot of questions to ask after my predecessors, in that case, why can't you answer one of my questions?"

Gu Meng sneered: "Do you think that I didn't kill you because I wanted to get out of your sect's affairs from your mouth?"

Han Shan was stunned and said, "Isn't it?"

Gu Meng didn't speak, but Luo Xue opened his mouth and said, "Little junior brother, why don't you kill him directly, these two bastards are so bastards!"

Han Shan didn't speak, and he didn't even look at Luo Xue, who was talking.

Gu Meng said indifferently: "I won't kill you for the time being, because what you did just now made me see a trace of humanity in you, otherwise, you also deserve to live?"

As he spoke, Gu Meng beckoned, and the candle swam back, hovering beside Gu Ming, with the tip of his sword pointing downward.

Han Shan looked at the flying sword that glowed with cold light, and his whole body was cold.

Like falling into an ice cave.

"Tell me what this city is all about, and what you are all about. When he spoke, Gu Meng held back his anger, and his words were extremely cold.

Han Shan didn't answer immediately, but raised his head and asked, "Do you want to think about eliminating evil?"

Gu Meng didn't speak, just looked at him.

Han Shan laughed at himself, "Actually, even people like me will think that it is a very disgusting thing to have villains like us in this world." ”

A man is dying, and his words are good.

What's more, Han Shan's heart may have always had a bit of kindness.

"The sect where the next one is located is called the concept of longevity, and the master of the view calls himself the ancestor of longevity, and the cultivation method passed down by the ancestor is to eat people's hearts and livers......

This concept of longevity has not been established for a long time, and the longevity ancestor is not a powerful person, he was originally just an ordinary cultivator, but unintentionally, in a remote mountain forest, he picked up a secret book, which was the practice method of a certain evil sect thousands of years ago.

The method of cultivation is to eat people's hearts and livers, and use them to improve their realm.

It was because of such an evil cultivation method that the evil sect was exterminated by the army sent by Emperor Daning thousands of years ago, and all of them sent more than 1,000 cultivators, not one of them remained, and all of them were killed.

But there will definitely be fish that slip through the net, and in the next thousand years, in the cultivation world, from time to time, there will be a cultivator who will practice according to this cultivation method, but most of them are just small fights, and they have not stirred up any storms.

After the long-lived ancestor got the cultivation method, he embarked on the evil path, and at the beginning, he was just quietly captive these ordinary people by himself.

But with the improvement of his realm, and his qualifications are really not enough, he needs more and more hearts and livers after that, so he thinks of starting a sect, and it is said that he has accepted many disciples and grandchildren, but he just wants them to find a good heart for him, so that he can continue to practice.

But coming and going, no matter what, there are more than 100 people, this number has increased, and there are a lot of hearts and livers needed, those cities under the rule of the Great Qi Dynasty, they don't dare to go, they can only kill people in these remote places, these two years because of the affairs of the Great Qi Emperor, the Great Qi Dynasty's control of the entire territory is not as good as back then, not to mention that this is still in the territory of the old Southern Chu, and no one cares.

They became presumptuous, and slaughtered a city.

Gu Meng frowned and said, "I know that kind of cultivation method, it originally said that you should use the heart and liver of a cultivator, why are you slaughtering ordinary people?"

The most fundamental reason why that evil sect was exterminated by the Daning Dynasty was that the evil sect was not trying to slaughter ordinary people, but to intercept cultivators and eat their hearts and livers.

This made the people in the cultivation world panic, so many cultivators wrote to the imperial court, and Emperor Ning Qi let the cultivators under his command destroy it.

If it were really ordinary people, I'm afraid there would be no such thing.

Han Shan was stunned for a moment, and then sneered: "How dare the Longevity Ancestor provoke a cultivator?"

It's not a thousand years ago, and the longevity ancestor is not such an evil sect, he really doesn't dare to go to those cultivators for trouble, once something goes wrong, it is easy to attract the strong behind the cultivators, and the gains outweigh the losses when the time comes, but I am afraid that before I start practicing, people will have turned into ashes.

However, it was precisely because he couldn't use the heart and liver of a cultivator and used the heart and liver of an ordinary person instead, that he needed more heart and liver, and it also made his speed of ascension to the realm really slow.

Gu Meng asked, "What is the realm of that old miscellaneous hair, and how many people are in your sect?"

Han Shan was taken aback, knowing that it was the sword cultivator senior in front of him who had already given birth to the idea of slaughtering the sect, but he didn't hide it, he just said bluntly: "The ancestor is in the Yunyou realm, as for the other cultivators, there are only a hundred, most of them are not as good as me, only a dozen people are in the same realm as the person killed by the seniors." ”

Gu Meng glanced at him, didn't realize that he was lying, and instead asked, "How did you start cultivating?"

Of course, it is normal for ordinary people to embark on the path of cultivation.

But like Han Shan, who is about to eat people's hearts and livers at every turn, I am afraid that except for those extremely vicious individuals, not many people will be able to accept it.

Han Shan smiled bitterly: "When the ancestor accepted apprentices in the village and looked for his heart and liver, my little hair ate my heart and liver in order to survive, I didn't want to live or die, so he forced me to feed me one, and then I vomited for three days and vomited everything I could vomit in this life." ”

Gu Meng said: "The heart and liver that I ate at the beginning were forced to be helpless, but what about the ones that I ate later?"

Han Shan said casually: "Things in the world, when they are not contaminated, they can convince themselves not to be contaminated, but once they are contaminated, who can keep them the same?"

Gu Ming's face improved a lot, but he still said: "People live between heaven and earth, do something and don't do anything, there is no bottom line, there is no difference between living and dying." ”

Han Shan was silent for a moment before muttering, "If it weren't for that heart and liver at the beginning, why would I be here?!"

Gu Meng looked at him and said calmly: "If you hadn't done such evil things, I could have pointed you a place to go, but unfortunately whether you want to or not, but after all, if you do evil things, then you have to pay the price, otherwise it's not fair." ”

Han Shan already knew his fate, so he just asked: "I'm not surprised that my predecessors want to kill me, but do my predecessors want to destroy the concept of longevity?"

Gu Meng also nodded casually and said, "Eliminate the evil." ”

Han Shan smiled: "This is also the good news I heard, if the seniors don't dislike it, I'll take the seniors there." ”

Gu Meng nodded, of course Han Shan is still going to be involved in this matter.

After saying this, Gu Meng looked at the mother and son, and said softly: "If there is no concern here, follow me later, I still have a stable place to go, and I will take you there when the time comes." ”

The mother and son are now emotionally complicated, with joy for the rest of their lives, but also very sad, and even a little grateful.

Luo Xue said sadly: "This child is so young, and his father was killed by these wicked people, it's really pitiful." ”

Originally, Luo Xue thought that this was the truth of the matter, but soon the woman who fell to the ground shook her head and sobbed: "No!"

Luo Xue looked at her with some confusion.

Gu Meng also looked at this side.

The woman sobbed: "My father-in-law was not killed by them, he died on the battlefield, he went to join the army more than ten years ago, and never came back, leaving me and the child in my belly, this child is pitiful, the pity is that he has never seen his father in his life, but he doesn't have to be pitiful, his father did not die in vain, his father is for Nanchu, for so many people, for this country, although the country is gone......"

Gu Meng looked straight at the woman and opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but when those words came to his mouth, he couldn't say it.

In the end, he just turned around and trembled uncontrollably.