It has been four years since Xia Chengying died.

Xia Chengying's tomb is on the border of Qi, Chu and Wu, at the southernmost point of Wenyang Province. In that year, Xia Chengying performed the technique of blood escape many times, and finally died of exhaustion when he escaped from the Chu Domain.

The blood escape technique of the Zhao family in the Chu domain is unparalleled in the world, and even the Bai family, who is famous in the Chu domain, can't catch up.

The good swimmer drowned, the good rider fell, and the Zhao family prospered because of theft, and also died because of theft.

Four years ago, Zhao Cheng was only eleven years old, not only did he not enter the cultivation, but his physique was too weak, so he could only bury Xia Chengying's body on the spot, and the secrets of the Zhao family were buried in Xia Chengying's slate jade box.

Without a coffin and a coffin, Xia Chengying, who was loyal to the Zhao family, reached the end of his life at the junction of three continents.

Eleven-year-old Zhao Cheng spent a whole year and traveled more than 2,000 miles to reach Xiangshan.

Looking at the scenery along the way, it feels like a world away.

Zhao Jian clearly remembered that he hadn't eaten for four days, and when he was about to starve to death, he finally passed by a farmland and wasted half an acre of land, and he didn't know what happened to the farmer now......

Along the way, the fields in the countryside are exceptionally quiet, and the sunset is about to set, and the slanting warm sun gives the earth, trees, and crops a golden coat and shines.

The whole rice field is like a green carpet that has been pounced, and soon, a gust of wind blows through, and the rice ears are blown from side to side, like turquoise waves, washing the black and brown fields, making a loud noise.

Zhao Zhi brushed the young leaves with his hand, thinking a lot, the crops in the field were cut one stubble after another, and Zhao Yuan's height grew from a crop to a seven-foot man.

"I'm coming back to see you......"

Zhao's eyes were slightly red, and the warm wind swept through the ends of his hair, like Uncle Xia's warm big hand caressing his forehead.

In his previous life, Zhao Zhi was exiled to Cambodia since he was a teenager, and no matter in his past life or present life, Zhao Zhi cherished his family affection. Not for the parents who have never met, nor for the Zhao family, which has been inherited for 800 years, everything Zhao Cheng did was just to live up to Xia Chengying's kindness.

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Wenyang Lingxi originates from the Jishui of Zhongzhou, the Jishui runs through the entire Qizhou, when passing through Wenyang, it is intercepted by Xiangshan, and the tributaries become streams, and it becomes the three hundred miles of Lingxi faction.

The entire Wenyang Mansion is divided into two by Jishui, and the Lingshi veins in the north of Jishui are abundant, so there are many big families, and the four major families of Wenyang Mansion are all in Jibei, and the power of the Lingxi faction is also mostly in Jibei.

The situation in the south of Jishui is much more complicated, because Wenyang Mansion is in the southwest corner of Qizhou, and the south of Jishui is close to Chu and Wu, and the forces are intertwined. Even the tentacles of the Lingxi faction are difficult to penetrate, so Jinan is not as orderly as Jibei.

The special boundary between the three continents has made the south of Jishui a veritable "three regardless", the Lingxi faction is the nominal ruler of Jinan, but in fact, this vast area of two thousand miles is mostly controlled by the small faction families, and the Lingxi faction takes a few percent of the income from the small sect every year, and turns a blind eye to other things, and does not care.

Therefore, under such an order, the south of Jishui is very chaotic, and there are more than 30 small secular countries, such as Tanguo and Zhuguo, which are small countries like the land and ruled by the soil.

Jibei has the control of the Lingxi faction and the four major families, and those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who violate the order will be beheaded, so many monks have lived for hundreds of years and have never fought with anyone in their lives. For example, the shopkeeper Liu of the Lingxi faction has shrunk to do business in Shuiyunfang City all his life, although he is a monk in the late stage of foundation building, he is no different from a mortal.

The situation in the south is just the opposite, there is no order in the first place, and the Lingxi faction deliberately supports the small factions to fight secretly, so the south of Jishui has never developed a big family or a big cultivation faction, and they continue to attack each other, and there are endless incidents of killing people and seizing treasures.

Here, and only in this kind of country farmland, can you feel a moment of tranquility - it is too poor for the monks to be interested in the crops that are all over the place.

In three days, Zhao Cheng has galloped for more than 1,000 miles, Zhao Cheng is very impressed, after this mountain, it is a long wilderness, and the whole road is not populated at all - Zhao Cheng was hungry here for four days.

The little wolf dog followed Zhao Yuan's ass and walked with his tongue sticking out his tongue and twisting it, and after running for so long, it was also tired.

Zhao Zhi originally rode a locomotive for thousands of miles, thinking that he would definitely be able to reach the border in less than two days, and first pay tribute in front of Uncle Xia's grave and then come back to complete the sect task, but unfortunately people are not as good as the sky, and this broken car actually stopped and fell apart in less than a thousand miles......

After scolding Liu De's tofu scum project for a while, Zhao Zhi had no choice but to abandon the locomotive in the wilderness, take the little wolf dog, and walk more than 300 miles on foot with one person and one dog.

It seems that it is impractical to go to pay tribute to Uncle Xia first, since the secret hall task has been accepted, it can't be delayed for too long, and when he arrives at the border of the three continents, it may already be seven or eight days later. So Zhao Zhi turned a corner and headed southeast, going to the mountain village first.

The further you go south, the more desolate the scenery is, the dwellings are scattered, except for a few ruins and broken walls, all of them are the realm of yellow grass and white bones, and the vision is very evil.

The grass is boundless, the people are returning, and there are still picturesque green mountains.

Zhao Qian really couldn't imagine that there could still be people living in this kind of place, maybe it wasn't like this in the past, maybe it was a war, or a fight between monks, forcing the residents who originally lived here into exile.

There is wine and meat in the storage bracelet, Zhao Zhi is no longer the embarrassed little bandit he used to be, the no-man's land that originally took four days to pass through, and one person and one dog walked out in just one day.

Zhao Xuan took out the task slip of the Lingxi Secret Hall, and according to the above records, after passing through this Wudao, he would go all the way to the south.

Zhou, Fu, Dao, Pavilion, Wenyang Mansion is not big or small, but it is also divided into forty-two roads, the population of Nanxiang Road behind Juwu Road is quite large, and there is even a spiritual vein, several Kaizhi demon beasts are entrenched here. Nanxiang Road, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, has bred more than a dozen small families of cultivation.

The task that Zhao took over was to investigate a strange incident that happened in Nanxiang Road in the past month.

Nanxiang Road is two hundred miles in radius, the population is about 500,000, more than a dozen pavilions are horns of each other, the largest sect in Nanxiang Road is the Four Seas Gang, the gang leader Hou Renjie only has the middle stage of building the foundation, the secret hall evaluates this person has no ambitions, guards Nanxiang on weekdays, collects some protection money to live, and has no vices.

But three months ago, a major incident occurred in Nanxiang Road, dozens of villages in several pavilion areas near the Sihai Gang suddenly lost a few families, as if the world had evaporated, and it was reported to the secular government without finding any clue, and it was over.

But recently, this situation has intensified, and the entire Nanxiang faction has suffered, and there are people in every village who have disappeared for no reason, and once they disappear, it is the whole family.

At this time, the entire Nanxiang Road became panicked, and many residents even fled to other provinces with their families. The Four Seas Gang was also overwhelmed by this incident, and dozens of disciples were sent out, but they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Seeing that the population of Nanxiang Road was withering day by day, the Four Seas Gang finally couldn't hold it anymore, and finally reported to the Lingxi faction to let the Lingxi faction intervene.

But the landlord's family has no surplus food.

The Lingxi faction has a big business and has a lot of things to deal with, and it is not a shocking case, so it was shelved in the secret hall and sent down as a student task.

Zhao Yuan's task this time is not to solve this strange matter, but to find out the reason and report it to the Lingxi faction, but to what extent it depends on Zhao Yuan's ability.

"Missing ......"

Zhao Qian snorted coldly, and his intuition told him that this matter was absolutely inseparable from the Four Seas Gang.

First, the Four Seas Gang is the head snake of the entire Nanxiang Road, and it is not clear what is happening? The population has disappeared for no reason, and it is not that they have planted their wings, and one or two disciples sent by each village to squat and guard can always find something, and it is impossible for a big living person to disappear quietly, let alone a whole few families.

Second, Zhao Cheng carefully found that the missing people in Nanxiang Road were all mortals, and there was no monk, which showed that if someone was making a mistake, the culprit must not be highly cultivated, otherwise it would be impossible for a monk not to dare to move, and only attack mortals.

After thinking about these joints clearly, Zhao Xuan asserted that this matter was related to the Four Seas Gang, and it might even be some evil ritual being carried out with the help of mortal essence blood......

This kind of behavior that has lost its conscience is intolerable to the Lingxi faction, which claims to be a great sect of righteousness.

However, the most important thing for the big faction is to hide dirt and dirt, and the things that can be seen by a discerning person at a glance, will the secret hall of the Lingxi faction not be able to see it?

The whip is beyond the reach of the whip, and it can only be asked to the students to investigate, make a show, knock and knock the Four Seas Gang, and let it not do too much.

Who cares if a few mortals live or die?

Practicing to seek immortals and defend the common people in the world is just an empty word.

Zhao Qian felt powerless for no reason, in the past and present lives, although they were completely different worlds, but the thoughts of the high-level were the same.

Stability is more important than anything else.

In his previous life, Zhao was a sophisticated killing machine.

After being exiled to Southeast Asia at the age of fifteen, Zhao spent twenty years in a bloody storm.

That kind of sunless environment has seriously destroyed and distorted human nature, making mercenary killers lose their minds, and in order to survive, they will not hesitate to kill any life, and they will not hesitate to challenge the bottom line of all morality in the world.

Every mercenary who survives the bloody battlefield is either insane or turned into a murderer, and the rest will regret it for life, and that guilt tortures people like suffocation, forcing people to envy those who died in battle.

Zhao Wei is an outcast who crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood.

He had seen his comrades' heads smashed to pieces, he had heard the news of his superiors selling his life, and he had slaughtered the evil warlords who had slaughtered hundreds of civilians with his own hands in order to escape from this endless purgatory......

The king of mercenaries across the three continents, "Plant", was discovered by his conscience in this way, but was finally hunted down to death.

Even so, in this life, Zhao Zhi is still like a dog trapped in a dry well barking in fear, using one pain to anesthetize another pain, and in the dead of night, the painful memory of killing innocents is like a turbulent sea water hitting into a dream.

"Okay, let's start with your little Nanxiang Road......"

Zhao Jian gently stroked the Xuanshi knife in his hand, his steps had never been so brisk, and the shadow of a man and a dog was obliquely illuminated by the setting sun, dragging it for a long time......