Chapter 6: The Price of Persistence
Sin Prison Mountain, said to be a mountain, in fact is an abyss, it is located in Liangdu north of twenty miles of a huge pit, leading to the pit has long been set up everywhere passes, prohibiting any unrelated people from passing, of course, the pass is not the Great Wall, can only rely on the danger to set up a pass, must not be able to prevent the possible intrusion, so Liang also issued a decree, trespass into the northern Sin Prison Mountain forbidden place, civilian staff eighty, family finances confiscation, sentenced to exile. Practitioners, on the other hand, are regarded as having evil intentions and have no forgiveness for killing.
This mine, which claims to be the service of sinners, is actually the largest spiritual vein in Liangdu, and all serving sinners will be transported here to dig up the veins and refine Lingqi ore for the consumption of Liangdu. This mine has been excavated for 500 years since the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, and it is still in constant supply, but it has formed an unfathomable huge crater in the ground, looking down from the sky, you can see layers of cliffs, in the shape of steps, all the way down, the deeper and deeper, as if leading to the abyss of the underworld.
The convicts were sent to this pit, and every "staircase" at the edge of the deep hole of this pit It is said that the more evil the crime, the more you are at the bottom, when you look at the sky from the ground, you will only be like a peep in the hole, it will be dark all the year round, and even the air is thin and extremely cold, ordinary people will not be able to carry it for a few days, and they will become a corpse there, and they don't even need to pick it up, find a crack in the ground and push it in, you may really fall into infernal purgatory.
And in the center of the pit, there is a stone pillar that was deliberately left out at the time of excavation, and the height of the pit, the hollow of the excavation, the coiling dragon ladder is staggered, and the cold iron giant chain is matched with the suspension bridge to each floor, and this stone tower is stationed with the officers who are guarding.
The core of the Sin Hell Mountain is equipped with a ban and the same qi of the Liangdu Guguo Sword Array, which will be triggered when cultivators above the Five Realms appear, and encounter an attack equivalent to the Guguo Sword Array. Only those who master the pivot of the formation can enter and exit without hindrance. Cultivators below the Five Realms don't have to worry too much, beyond the pit is the military camp, and the ninth major part of the Fulong Camp is stationed here.
The central stone tower of the pit has a hinged crossbow and a lookout, which is specially used by the officers stationed on each floor to watch over the prisoners of their respective levels, and the prisoners work on the cliff wall, and the guards of the central tower are clear at a glance. If there is any abnormality, the crossbow platform set up and the Demon Breaker Crossbow that guards the person with you can easily shoot everyone who serves in the Prison Mountain.
This is the place where everyone talks about the color change.
Of course, there are also some people who have been released after the service on the upper floors, and the nightmare scenes and wonders in them are brought out, and these more or less collected information makes the people of Daliang have awe and fear there, but they can't help but peek into the atmosphere of talking.
Zhao Ziheng wore shackles and dragged him into the prison mountain with the flow of prisoners moving forward.
Seeing that this dark forbidden place for sinners who used to only appear in the tone of their mother's own voice when they scared children has now become a prisoner here, and it is directly to the lowest level of the felony area, which is almost the end of lifelong criminal service, the corners of Zhao Ziheng's mouth, who was already dumb at this time, moved, and his mouth full of blood scabs outlined a barely recognizable wry smile.
Along the way, many inmates serving minor crimes on the edge of the cliff on the first floor of the cliff were constantly talking.
"...... that traitor from the Seven Mile Sect?"
"It is said that Jiang Yin, the first disciple of the Qili Sect, the dignified senior brother Jiang, and the outstanding son of the Great Liang Kingdom, was beheaded by the Shushan Sect who was doing things, and the name Yang Sheng is estimated to not die well in the future...... Qili Sect, Emperor Liang, Taihao League, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for them to fool around!"
"Is this not going to be out after a year, I am still a Liang person, this kind of outside people come to bully my Liang country, I am the first to deal with it! After I go out, I will also go with people to scold them Shushan Sect, when, Taihao League and Liang Huang will take this group of demons!"
There were also people shouting at him in the air, "It's just a Shushan person, you, Zhao Ziheng, help outsiders, do you still have the face to call yourself a Daliang person?"
There are stones thrown, and in the past, the escort officers would more or less stop this kind of behavior, but now they are just using their bodies to set up boundaries, as long as they don't go out of bounds, they let a few stones and gravel in their hands occasionally help throw them away, and they smashed on Zhao Ziheng's head and body.
It's a pastime.
Some soldiers watched coldly, and some officers came over, and the general named Ulan was quite prestigious, and he waved his fist to maintain order.
Zhao Ziheng came all the way, the stones that fell on his body, even if he no longer had the support of his cultivation physique, those sharp stone horns cut his skin, he was silent, the only thing that made him feel a stab in the heart was that some of them shouted that you are also the son of the Zhao family of Meijun, your Zhao family is a family, your father is called "Zhao Laoquan", the article is famous all over the world, and there is such a son as you! Shame of the Zhao family, shame of Meijun!
Yes, as the son of the Zhao family, Zhao Ziheng is no better than the elder brother who inherited his father's literary system, he has been stubborn since he was a child, and his qualifications in the Zhao family are ordinary, and his reading is dull, but although his father is sad, he never shows it in front of him, until that day a white-eyed old man arrives and informs the Zhao family that the youngest son has been favored by Qilizong, he has a talent for cultivation, and the moment his father pulled him to worship his ancestors, he found out how excited his father was. Since then, their Meijun Zhao family has been promoted to the most prominent family in Daliang, and even if their father's article offended the authority of the court three years ago, they have put it down lightly, and no one dares to pursue it anymore.
When he learned that he could practice, his father let him kneel in front of the ancestral tablet, and was so excited that he declared that the lintel was glorious, saying that in this world, the Zhao family also had a waiting.
That is the pride of his father and the Zhao family, he guards this world. Whether it is his father and elder brother's words, or their legacy, in their opinion, they are not as good as him, Zhao Ziheng, as a cultivator, guarding this world.
But now that I have become a traitor and a sinner who disturbs the peace of Daliang, father, brother, when you hear the news, when you are also accused by thousands of people, will you be sad, annoyed, and even disappointed for me?
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Sure enough, it wouldn't make him feel better, Zhao Ziheng entered the eighth layer that was almost close to the bottom. The same does not see the light of day, and it is faced with a cold wind like a scraper.
Most of the first two floors when entering the mountain road were some princes and nobles, families or criminals who had official status, and their crimes did not lead to death, and the punishment was relatively light, and they were only responsible for the lightest labor, and they could not be separated from the mountain of sin prison in a few years, and they became a great qualification for outsiders to come to this human purgatory, so some of these people are still well-informed and do not close themselves to what is happening in the outside world.
However, the further down you go, the more you can feel the difference between the upper and lower levels.
Not only are the guards tighter, but even the labor of mining and excavating the veins is heavier, and most of these criminals who go down are cultivators in their previous lives, and they have been abolished and cultivated, and they have been squeezed out of their last value here.
Zhao Ziheng was given a shovel, he understood why there were many cultivators at the bottom of the bottom who had broken the double level like him, because the weight of the shovel was almost as high as 100 catties, ordinary people may be able to lift it, but if they want to use it to wield and dig, it is too much, and the stones in the ground are all tough rock formations, coupled with the influence of the Lingqi veins, the ground is cold and upsurged, tough as iron, and this special shovel is necessary to dig up the stone layer, and the cold underground, ordinary people will not stay long before the cold poison will invade the body, only cultivators like them can barely resist itγ
The triple level in his body is broken twice, and only the tail lull is the one that sustains his life function, and most of the cultivators here are like this, ensuring that their physique can withstand such an environment and then dig for ore.
The injuries of the body are actually very serious, digging rock layers on this underground cold wall, even if it is daylight, this underground still needs torch lighting, and the torches burned by the special fire oil around can only shine the shadow of the mountain wall with a radius of firelight, and the underground cold makes the world in front of you full of a layer of mist, and the ice chips in the fog hit the body with the wind like a knife, and the skin will be cut with some fine wounds, such an environment, the injuries in the body recover more slowly.
Zhao Ziheng raised the shovel and excavated on the rock formation, beside him was a row of baskets, they had to fill these, carry them on top of the cart, and then pull the cart, all the way along the mountain road to the hanging basket on the side of the central stone tower, transport it out through the hanging basket, and send it to the workshop for refining, before finally refining the refined Lingqi used by Liangdu.
As for the overseers, except for a very few who must be on duty, most of the guards of the Fulong battalion who are in charge of guarding do not have to be present, they are lazy, they have nothing to steal, they don't move, and people will soon freeze, and ordinary soldiers are not subject to this crime, they only need to raise a bonfire in the stone tower, and they can play an observation role through the lookout window.
The hole in the sky above his head turned into darkness, the temperature was lower, and at night, the day's labor came to an end temporarily, and everyone tacitly went to the chain bridge of the stone tower, there would be soldiers to distribute grass cakes, Zhao Ziheng fell at the end, received half a piece, and took a bite, he tasted the taste of the heavenly stump root grass inside, this grass is the most commonly growing grass and tree on the spiritual vein, there is a scarce stock of Lingqi, but it also comes with toxins, ordinary people can't eat it, but it is ground and used on them sinners, and they can hang a mouthful of life.
Zhao Ziheng endured the sour, pungent and paralyzing taste in his mouth, he still swallowed the mouthful, he still had to live. With the remaining grass cakes, Zhao Ziheng walked towards the fire cave on the stone wall, the fire cave is next to the wall, lit at night, everyone can sleep around the fire cave, hug their legs, and get some temperature, so as not to become weaker and weaker in the cold, and finally freeze to death into a stiff corpse. This is actually convenient for the guards to wait and see at a glance for the servicemen.
It's just that close to the position in the grotto, someone is lying, it must be the highest status among the people, occupying a loose and comfortable position, and the rest are curled up, counting on grabbing a touch of temperature to the edge of the grotto, warmth can allow the body to take heat and resist cold poison, and on the way to Zhao Ziheng, someone blocked the road, and the next moment he was knocked to the ground.
"What you've done, of course, can't make you so comfortable here!"
The person in front of him cracked, and on the lying seat near the grotto fire cage, a fat figure stood up like a hill.
At the same time, the only straw cake in Zhao Ziheng's hand was snatched away, and the person was held back by several people, and his head was knocked on the gravel on the ground, and he could no longer speak, he could only babble.
Zhao Ziheng struggled, but he couldn't get rid of the power of three or four people, he couldn't help but think angrily, if his cultivation was still there, if one of you counted one, it would be miserable.
He was pulled by the hair and forced to look up. The mountain-like body came to him, and in the firelight, a gloomy smile with a face full of flesh appeared.
"I've been told to pay special attention to you...... In my Tang Yuan territory, I still have a lot of sweetness for you to eat. β
Someone handed over the grass cake snatched from Zhao Ziheng's hand, Tang Yuan opened his mouth, stuffed the half of the cake into his mouth and chewed it twice, then looked at him and said, "Oh no, after eating your ration, you won't have anything to eat...... Don't worry, I'm in for a treat......"
He folded his hands and gathered a pile of sharp stones on Zhao Ziheng's nose and lips that were close to the ground. Then he got up, and in the firelight, the black shadows of the people who were pressing Zhao Ziheng under the firelight moved, and then Tang Yuan's voice said, "This pile of stones...... Ate them. β
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After the Jiang Yin incident, Daliang immediately made a move, outside the mountain gate of the people of Shu Mountain, the mountain where Qilizong is located can be seen from afar in the cliff tower of Yinxiu Peak, there are more deacons of the Taihao League, and even on the west peak of Qilizong, the arrangement of a Fulong camp has arrived in place.
These are all carried out quietly, and Liang has also explained some movements, after all, the investigation of Jiang Yin's matter is still ongoing, and it is natural for Liang to make a series of adjustments in strength.
In the cliff tower of the Qili Sect, two deacons from the Luotuo Sect were sitting opposite each other drinking tea, and they looked at the two mountain guarding disciples at the entrance of the Shushan Mountain Gate, one of them turned around and said, "You said that the people of Shushan are really lacking in soul wood, and they don't know that disaster is coming, or is it because they are suspicious, deliberately loose on the outside and tight on the inside? β
Anyone can see that the undercurrent inside the beam is turbulent now, and the core of a storm is rolling Shushan in the middle, but so far, the Shushan Sect is still only two disciples guarding the door, which is no different from the past, and they are really not worried that someone will attack the door the next day, and they will drive straight in, so of course it seems to outsiders to be very bold.
Another deacon of the Luo Tuo Sect said, "You don't care what he does, now the five Jin Yi elders are in charge, Grand Master Jingwen is also in Liangdu, and Di Duanyun, one of the leaders of the alliance, they are also offended, I believe that even if the Shushan Sect is established in Zhongzhou again, it does have some means, but after all, this is only a remnant, in the realm of Daliang, the elites of all parties are enough, enough to crush them to death." At first glance, the drunken sword immortal Taoist of the Shushan Sect seemed to take it with all his might, but in fact, where did he receive the first post of the alliance? By the way, at their mountain gate, you and I are just deacons, but if you are in the realm of your own mountain gate, with the help of some formation means, forcibly improve your and my skills, you can still do such a glamorous thing. β
When the deacon heard this, he nodded slightly, and couldn't help but be fascinated, any sect will have some hidden means, with a resource to support the formation, for a cultivator to bless, this kind of means is also available in the Taihao League, they are only the deacon of the sect, not the main thing that can sit on one side, of course this kind of thing is not their turn, but it does not prevent them from imagining that kind of scene, if the fat Taoist drunk sword immortal happened to them that day, then they would immediately be enough to become famous and famous.
The deacon who spoke later, continued, "Of course, this also has a price, don't look at Chi Song coming forward to block the head post of the alliance with his junior brother, this is creating a kind of psychological deterrence, making people think that his junior brother is powerful enough, let alone his red song, but in fact, Shushan uses the sect formation to support the fat man to receive the post, the operation of the formation requires a lot of resources, and the five league head posts are enough to weaken the power of their mountain, which is a disguised attack on the bottom force of the tile house vein of Shushan at this time...... This move is a beautiful scenery, but it is difficult to say how heavy the loss of their tile veins is. From a conservative point of view, it is very likely that they will directly cut off one-third of their storage resources, and maybe this tile house vein is already preparing to run away!"
"Running away?" the previous deacon stroked his sideburns, "If there is such a sign, then we should respond to the third of the three response plans of Your Excellency the Principal, and we can immediately cooperate with the Seven Mile Sect to take people!"
He leaned over and looked at the two Shushan Mountain Guarding disciples at the gate again, and the picture of him making a move and slapping them to death had already appeared in his mind.
What happened that night in the Xujing Temple of Liangdu, they were also present, and they witnessed the arrogance of the Shushan Sect under the watchful eye of all parties, as the deacon of the Luotuo Sect, who was also humiliated at that time, they had long wanted to let this Shushan see their prestige as the second largest sect after Tianji Sect in the Taihao Alliance. After all, in their eyes, the Wawu vein was no different from a small sect, as a representative of the powerful Ratuo Sect, when had they ever suffered such a dumb loss?
This is not their personal honor or disgrace, it is related to the face of the Radha Sect in the cultivation world, there are so many sects in the Tahoe League, why can there be only 13 candidates to become the head of the alliance? In the first place, was the establishment of the alliance leader meeting more than whose mouth was sharp? And the amount of power to speak at the alliance leader meeting, of course, is not who is more reasonable. A weak sect is not worthy of reasoning. The Luo Tuo Sect deeply thought of this, otherwise it would not have looked up to the Heavenly Pole Sect, the most powerful of the alliances.
"Continue to monitor, there will always be a day when you will do something to the Yinxiu Peak in front of you, I look at the Shushan Mountain that has migrated over, Zhongzhou is indeed a good place for outstanding individuals, and women are pleasing to the eye...... When the time comes, you can pardon a few and go back to fan the bed for your deacon, thinking that the other party will be grateful to you and be willing to be a furnace. β
The deacon smiled dumbly, "The spring is warm and the brocade is piled up with embroidered couches, and the fragrant and warm treasures are under the heavy curtains?"
The two looked at each other and clapped their hands, and the benefits of the profit to be shared in front of them were all in plain sight.
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The courtyard between the four bays of the Yizi Courtyard has become a fixed meeting place for the Wawu Vein Axe Gang, Senior Sister Wang came over to help sort out the recent accounts, and after handing them over to Qinghe, she turned to Yang Sheng's side, looked at Yang Sheng in front of the desk, and faced this person who is now in the peak, because of Jiang Yin, who has become the most prominent among the disciples, and said softly, "The latest news, Zhao Ziheng was abolished by Di Duanyun and imprisoned in the Sin Prison Mountain to serve his sentence. β
With her senior sister's identity, now she seems to have become a housekeeper figure who transmits news to Yang Sheng and communicates with all parties, she doesn't seem to be able to stand up to the previous shelf, after everyone has experienced an incident like the Void Quiet Temple, she feels that she can help them from the side, and help Yang Sheng in front of her to do something, which is also good.
Yang Sheng in front of the desk raised his head and squinted.
Yinxiu Peak is a good place, there is bright sunshine and birdsong in the early morning, some birds step on the branches of the courtyard, and after a while, they fly away to the distant mountains. There is an inch of time to enter the house at noon, revealing the taste of tranquility and tranquility.
In such a place, when you wake up every day, you will feel that life is like this, comfortable and leisurely, and you will feel as if the hustle and bustle of the outside world is like a dream.
However, in fact, this is not the case, Shi Yun was bewitched by Jiang Yin, and while avenging his father, he also pushed the situation of Daliang to an even more unpredictable abyss, and within Daliang, Jiang Yin's mutation and death had a much less alert effect on Daliang than their vigilance of the Shushan Wawu vein, and even caused a lot of chain effects.
Under the deliberate "guidance", the Liang up and down, the Shushan as one of the sources of the conspiracy behind the Liang and the disturbance of the Liang, the outside world, all parties are eyeing their tile veins, if it were not for the presence of the master uncle fat Taoist to suppress, maybe a vicious war has come.
Zhao Ziheng was unwilling to betray his master, and did not return with them to the Shushan Sect, but returned to the Qili Sect, willing to bear the burden, in Yang Sheng's opinion, this is a bit embarrassing, and it is also a little obviously unwise, he was abolished and cultivated, and was sent to the Prison Mountain, this is the price of this unwisdom.
With Zhao Ziheng's intelligence, this kind of unwise thing should not have happened to him, but he still chose so. That's probably because of his personality. Obviously he is a smart person, but he just fell into his own death, this is the so-called persistence? Insist that what you are doing is right? This kid is unpleasant at the same time, but it also makes people feel a little admired. There are such characters in the Seven Mile Sect.
Senior Sister Wang said softly, "There is also a saying that the reason why Qili Sect didn't kill him immediately was that some of them wanted to make him suffer all kinds of hardships, thinking that Jiang Yin would take revenge, so they wanted to torture him in a different way in the Sin Prison Mountain......"
Yang Sheng nodded, the current thing is a headache, not to mention the threat of the ancient demon in the shadows to this place, there is Zhu Qingshan who is close to him who has not yet calmed down, locked himself in the house, has not yet recovered from his emotional injury, and closed himself. Zhao Ziheng, who provided them with great support, is now also in prison and may be tortured in the dark.
It's just that I don't know about the matter on Zhao Ziheng's side, can I let the division commander of the Wawu vein help solve it? Yang Sheng's mind became active.
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I couldn't get through my brain, so I went to the Great Northwest Ring Road, 5,000 kilometers round trip. Try not to get stuck in the follow-up and change more every day.
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