Ying Tianchang didn't have any concept of the so-called demon king before, but just from the title of "demon king", he was able to climb to the position of "king" among the demons and command the demons to know that he was by no means an idle person. The demon clan is not like the Tang Dynasty, which pays attention to hereditary. But even if it is the hereditary Tang Dynasty, who are the real mediocre people among the emperors who finally sat on the dragon chair?

Otherwise, Datang can step by step from a small affiliated country to a heavenly kingdom that is now worshiped by all nations?

It's just that Ying Tianchang has fled for many years, and he doesn't see the prosperous situation of the Tang Dynasty clearly. It is particularly difficult to go up and down in the world, even if Datang is now in full swing, perhaps it is precisely because Datang is now in full swing that some moths will be born in the details, and all kinds of sufferings will appear in the invisible inch of land in the eyes of the emperor and high-ranking officials.

They only see the great mountains and rivers, but they can't see an inch of soil and a drop of water in the mountains and rivers.

The Northwest incident in front of us is an example. When the people of the northwest continued to guard their homeland and die, or rushed south to Weiming City, in the eyes of those powerful people, it was the general trend of the world and the gains and losses behind it.

These are big things, isn't life and death a big thing?

Ying Tianchang suddenly remembered Luo Qingfeng, and there was barely a smile on his face. This Wei Ming City is too guarded in front of the academy junior disciples, and there is no shelf or consciousness as a city guard, and he is so friendly that he seems to have not left the academy and has not been added to the official uniform. And most importantly, he dared and really did the matter of letting refugees into the city.

And the so-called demon king, in other words, is the half-immortal of the cultivators in the world.

After the guidance of Moshuting, Ying Tianchang knew that there are actually many differences between the so-called half-immortals of the Jianghu people, the Confucian monks cultivated Haoran Qi, the Buddhist monks refined the relics, and the Taoist real people cultivated a golden pill, which is only the beginning of stepping into the half-immortals. It's very simple, a half-immortal who has just cultivated a golden pill dares to shout in front of Li Qinglian, who is also a half-immortal?

But the cultivation of the demon clan is not the same as that of people, and the vast majority of people practice, whether it is the immortal sect or the mountain forest and wild cultivation, almost all of them follow the path of Taoist cultivation, and see the avenue with the way of heaven. And the beasts of the mountains and forests have a natal demon pill the moment they become demons, which is just a path of cultivation for them.

The seven demon kings in the northwest have their own nicknames, namely the "Black King" Qin Guan, Mrs. Mingyue, the "Little Lei Gong" Light Lei Zi, the Red Sun King, the Yellow Sand King, the Hundred Beast Demon King, and the "Bitter Yuanjun" Liu Yu.

Ying Tianchang stared at Qinghuang, waiting for his answer.

However, Qinghuang never spoke, and it was Qingshan who hesitated for a while before saying, "It's not the 'Black King' Qin Guan who is alone and non-aligned. ”

Ying Tianchang was waiting for the next sentence, but Qinghuang waved his hand and interrupted Qingshan's statement.

Qinghuang himself spoke: "In the early years, it was the Hundred Beast Demon King who helped our two brothers to cultivate and sent us from this Northwest Desert to Jiangnan Academy, although he is not the father of me and Qingshan, but for the two of us, it is almost the same. So far, we are all the monsters on the top of the Hundred Beast Mountain of the Hundred Beast Demon King. ”

After hearing this, Ying Tianchang, who had the original plan in his heart, suddenly didn't know what to say, and the matter of his background was not so simple to think about.

"Then what do you brothers want to do when you come to the northwest?" Ying Tianchang's tone was not reproachful, let alone questioning, just asking. Qinghuang and Qingshan's answers were good or bad, Ying Tianchang felt that it was reasonable and reasonable.

So Ying Tianchang thinks it's right.

If Ying Tianchang hadn't been adopted by the three old bookworms in his early years, he would not have met Chen Lin'an, and he would not have entered Xinzhai, and now it is impossible to ask these questions in front of Qinghuang and Qingshan in this northwest land.

If Qinghuang Qingshan planned to return to the Hundred Beasts Mountain, Ying Tianchang knew that he would not stop them, and he would not even persuade them. Because this can't be miscalculated for the corresponding Tianchang, let alone the two brothers Qinghuang Qingshan.

Qinghuang took off his hat, squatted down, drew circles on the loess with his fingers, and said: "When I was in the academy, I knew some news that our boss might be one of the culprits of the demon disaster in the northwest, which was something I couldn't have imagined, so I wanted to go back to the northwest to take a look, and see with my own eyes how the boss who was willing to send us into the heart to get some truth and education left his own mountain and came to the northwest. ”

"As a result, I was in Weiming City and confirmed that this matter was true. A white breath erupted from Aoyama's nose.

Ying Tianchang looked up at the sky, then dismounted, found a piece of dead wood nearby, and tied the horse here: "It's late, we will sleep here." ”

The group began to set up camp. During this time, Ying Tianchang didn't say a word, he felt that he was not qualified to judge the Hundred Beast Demon King or his two friends.

A flame rises in the night, and the temperature of the flame fights against the howling wind of the night.

Ying Tianchang shuddered, his hands getting closer and closer to the fire, the night in the northwest was colder than anywhere he had been before.

There is no difference between Qinghuang and Qingshan, Ying Tianchang guessed that they may be accustomed to the temperature in their hometown, or it may be because their monsters have a better physique.

Ying Tianchang, who was dressed in a Confucian shirt, sighed, and at this moment he felt that he was also starting to look like Chen Lin'an.

Thinking of Chen Lin'an, Ying Tianchang didn't know what his Senior Brother Chen would do when he encountered this kind of thing. I remember that when I met Chen Linan for the first time, Ying Tianchang asked Chen Linan this similar question.

Chen Lin'an's statement at that time was not the same as what Xu Lu said a few days ago, but the meaning was almost the same.

Ying Tianchang said: "Originally, the route we set was to go to Lady Mingyue of Baiyun Mountain first, but now we can change the route to Hundred Beast Mountain, or the cities they have taken. ”

Qinghuang and Qingshan looked at Ying Tianchang.

This trip to the northwest is headed by Ying Tianchang, the four disciples of the sage Zhang Yuanchun, Qinghuang and Qingshan can only be regarded as an addition, where Ying Tianchang goes, they can only follow where to go, unless there are some necessary things, Qinghuang and Qingshan do not have much right to decide. This is Xu Lu's secret method of pressing the two bull heads.

This is still the rule of the college, supervised by heaven and earth.

Ying Tianchang continued: "I went to Mrs. Mingyue to get close to the place of the incident, to see the situation in the northwest with my own eyes, and to find out some secret news that the little demons don't know much about. And among the seven demon kings, Lady Mingyue is the least good at fighting, even if we are not good at acting badly and are exposed, the danger is much smaller than that of other demon kings. But since you are acquainted with the Beast Demon King, and you are still the monster to which their mountain belongs, we may be able to understand more and more clearly when we go there, and the danger may be less. ”

"Of course, there is a more important reason. ”

Ying Tianchang picked up the water bag and took a sip, wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "If you want to see him, then let's go and have a look." ”

Qinghuang and Qingshan didn't know how to answer for a while, and Ying Tianchang, who was not used to this appearance, smashed the water bag on the faces of the two of them.

Aoyama smiled, picked it up and took a sip.

Qinghuang finally showed a long-lost smile.

Ying Tianchang touched his forehead, thinking about whether all bull demons were so stupid.

Suddenly, Qinghuang raised his hand and pressed in the air, and Qingshan and Ying Tianchang were quiet at the same time.

"Someone is coming. Qinghuang put on his hat.

The firelight at night always attracts something, especially in the northwest.

"Are you sure it's a person?" Ying Tianchang frowned and looked in the direction that Qinghuang was pointing, and it was a barren pitch black.

When Ying Tianchang poured mana into his pupils, he saw people walking here in twos and threes.

They seemed to see the light of the fire and quickened their pace.

Aoyama closed his eyes, as if he was sensing, and when he opened his eyes, he said: "I don't know, it feels like a person, but these people are haunted by this kind of demonic energy, but after contact with the monster, there will be some demonic energy left, and they may also be refugees who have just escaped from the monster." During the day, at the gate of Weiming City, don't they also treat you as a goblin? ”

Ying Tianchang nodded, and had some calculations in his heart.

After the group of people walked into the firelight, Ying Tianchang and Qinghuang Qingshan immediately got up, and Ying Tianchang made a Confucian salute to them.

There were five men on the other side, an old man with a missing eye, who was holding a dead branch as a walking pole, a lame woman, whose trouser leg had been torn and the claw marks on her leg could still be seen, a man with a broken arm, cowering and hiding at the end, and two young girls who looked fine.

But looking at their trembling appearance, it should be extremely cold.

"Xiaosheng Chen Qinglu, travel far here, if you don't dislike it, you can come and sit down. Ying Tianchang took Qingshan Qinghuang and the two of them back a little and let go of most of the fire.

The old man was grateful, and led the group around the fire to keep warm.

Then Ying Tianchang talked to the old man, trying to learn from Chen Lin'an in his memory during the conversation, pretending to be a scholar, but inexplicably, Ying Tianchang actually found it interesting. Qingshan Qinghuang on the side almost didn't burst into laughter.

But when they learned what happened to the few people in front of them, their jokes disappeared.

According to the old man, they were the villagers of Wuxing Village, and they were afraid that the monsters would occupy the village and kill people and eat people, and they heard that Weiming City was hosting refugees, so the people in the village planned to go to Weiming City.

But on the way, he encountered a wandering monster, and the young man in the village used his life to protect them and let them escape. The monster should have eaten enough, so he didn't bother to chase them.

The parents of the boy and girl were buried in the mouth of the monster.

"It's best for Mr. Xiao to go back to Weiming City with us, there are too many monsters in the northwest. The one-eyed old man persuaded Ying Tianchang.

Ying Tianchang said: "Xiaosheng doesn't deserve the title of Mr., but I have heard of things in the northwest, but scholars travel far away, and they always have to see things that are not common." Half of this sentence was copied from Luo Qingfeng, Ying Tianchang pointed to Qingshan, and said: "But Xiao Sheng is not joking with his own life, this is Xiao Sheng invited a martial arts master from the rivers and lakes, and he should be able to protect my life." ”

"And this one is my friend. Ying Tianchang said

The old man wanted to speak and stopped, and the young man's eyes were on Ying Tianchang at this moment.

Ying Tianchang looked back at the young man and showed a smile, but he was not smiling in his heart.

And the woman sitting next to the young man seemed to have her facial features twisted together at the moment, she gritted her teeth, trying to hold on, and even the corners of her mouth had traces of blood.

"This lady's leg was caused by the monster?"

Ying Tianchang looked at the woman's painful expression and asked.

The old man nodded, with a touch of sadness on his face, and he said, "There are also Li Huan's arms, Tian'er Yu'er's parents, and many villagers from Wuxing Village. ”

Ying Tianchang felt a little hot in his chest, and there, there was a talisman he drew in the academy: "Old man, your eyes?"

"This is caused by illness in the early years, and I have been blind for most of my life. The old man said and touched his eyes. Compared to what happened to the villagers, he felt much luckier.

"That little student only has one thing to understand. Ying Tianchang stood up, walked to the man who had been cowering behind, and said, "That lady was only caught by that monster, so painful and difficult, you broke an arm, and there is no doctor, how did you survive this way?"