In the past few days seven days ago, two major events have occurred in Dongzhou that shocked the clouds!

First, in the depths of Kongsang Mountain, one of the top ten ancient mountain ranges in Dongzhou, the treasure of the ancestors 'Seven Tribulations Xuanlei Tower' came out, and the Cangli Sword Sect was bound to get the second of the Seven Saints, but they didn't expect to return with a feather.

In the end, the treasure fell into the hands of the owner of the "Hotarukawa Castle" in the Wanchuan Riverland.

Second, it is rumored that the "land disaster" of men and demons who should have been killed 100 years ago has reappeared, slaughtering 300,000 living beings in Beiliangzhou County overnight!

The details of the matter have to start from the night seven days ago...

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Seven days ago

The twilight was gray, the cold wind rolled the sky, the dark clouds hung low, as if pressing down the ground, and the light snowflakes that quietly fell from the sky fluttered and danced in the cold and whistling lonely wind, scattered on the vast land!

The night is cold, and the world is solemn!

The faint snowflakes scattered among the rolling mountains, hazy and ethereal, seemed to be very real. The world is gloomy and gloomy, only the vast snow white, without a trace of flaws.

In the valleys between the mountains, there may be a dilapidated ancient road buried in snow that stretches from the endless distance, winding and twisting, stretching along the depths of the steep cliffs and valleys to the end of the vast.

In the wilderness where there is no shop in front of the village, there is a lonely lamp under the old locust tree in front of the ancient road, revealing a little light.

This is a wilderness wooden house, and the owner of a tea house is surnamed Lu, a middle-aged man who looks very honest. It is said that this Boss Lu was originally a native of Wucheng, an ancient city in the East, and was sold into the Suji Teahouse in the city since he was a child. But later, I don't know how Boss Lu unintentionally offended an arrogant son-in-law, and was blinded by the accompanying bahu boy, not to mention breaking his leg, and then he was driven out of the teahouse by the owner and thrown out of the city, and his whereabouts are unknown since then.

And later...

Later, when someone unintentionally recognized Boss Lu, he had already built this simple house in the wilderness more than 80 miles west of Wucheng, providing a place for business travelers to rest and drink tea outside the door on weekdays, so as to earn a few hard-earned money and barely make ends meet. This is more than 20 years past...

And at this moment, his sideburns are gray and his face is withered, and he is obviously close to middle age, but he looks old and tired in his twilight years, which is really pitiful.

The wind was blowing and the night was getting darker, and the wind and snow outside the house were getting a little heavier, and Boss Lu was listless and shrugged his head on the counter in front of him, sleepy-eyed. He sighed to himself, seeing such bad weather, he thought that he would not come back tonight.

The location of Boss Lu's wooden house is particularly good, the ancient road outside the door connects the ancient city of Fuwu in the east, and the border Hechang in the west, which has been the main road for business travel between the east and the west in ancient times. The ancient road is built by the mountain and the bridge is built near the water, and the shortest distance to the west of Middle-earth is the shortest, if you want to travel around the mountain from elsewhere, it will take five or six days to walk away, and the merchants are in a hurry, so even if it is such a snowy weather, there are still people who want to ask for some life and hurry up.

At this moment, there were still seven or eight customers sitting in this small wilderness shop, and they were sitting in twos and threes, or they didn't know each other and didn't want to intersect, so the room was quiet for a while.

"Crackle!"

Suddenly, there was a loud roar, and the firelight jumped, and it was the reverberation of the wind and dust blowing into the wick of the kerosene lamp, which woke up the honest man who was taking a nap.

Boss Lu stretched his waist, rubbed his sallow eyelids, shook his spirits, and sat up like this. He raised his head and looked idly at the customers of his shop, where there were only five tables and four of them were seated. At the table in the middle sat an old man and a young man, the old one was seventy or eighty years old, with gray hair and gray clothes, some thin, almost uncommon Taoist dress, and there was a yellow cloth banner staff next to the table, on which the four big characters of "Divine Calculation" were written in black letters, which seemed to be a charlatan figure. The little eight or nine-year-old girl sat on the bench not as high as the table, and she lowered her little head and was silent.

At the table on the left are two middle-aged men in tattered jackets, unkempt and unkempt, with rough faces.

There were the most people on the table on the right, and there were several loads of goods piled up next to them, and they were three business travelers who were hurrying in the snow. The leader is over sixty years old, and his face is also the most familiar is a businessman surnamed Li in Wucheng, who often stops and makes a generous move on the ancient road outside the door on weekdays, and is an old acquaintance. The other two young face-to-face students, I don't know when they followed the newcomer porter.

As for the dimly lit corner of the table behind them, there sat a single man at the table, his gloomy figure lonely and blurred in the darkness.

The wind was howling, the wind outside the house was bitter, the dark clouds rolled in the dark sky, the ink waves were churning in the dark clouds, and the snow between the sky and the earth suddenly became bigger.

The sky and the earth suddenly turned white, and then there was a "thunderclap" explosion, and the four fields thundered like the day...

The snow and thunder are strange things! Everyone is full of excitement and looks at each other, but at the moment no one knows what is happening, and no one is talking nonsense.

The elder surnamed Li from the group of business travelers was the first to wake up, and looked at Boss Lu, who was sitting on the counter, and everyone looked over one after another.

Boss Lu had never seen such a battle, he was stunned for a moment, shrunk his neck and squeezed a wrinkled smile and said, "I, I don't know much... In this northern mountain, I heard that a long time ago, there was an immortal who sat and hid the immortal mansion. Maybe it was another beast who got the opportunity to cultivate into a spirit and offended God, and sent down heavenly punishments. ”

Hearing him say this, everyone has also heard about it. According to the "Chronicles of the Eastern Wilderness Prefecture," the ten mountains in Dongzhou are wonderful, Mangshan is said to be barren, Gaoshan is said to be dangerous, Aoshan is said to be beautiful, Wushan is said to be strange, Mount Tai is said to be male, and Kongsang is said to be treacherous...... The Kongsang Mountains stretch for 700 miles, and since ancient times, they have been famous for their weirdness, and there are no less than 100,000,000 volumes of strange legends, among which they are famous for the first scattered immortal in Dongzhou 3,000 years ago, and the Venerable Master sat in the depths of Kongsang Mountain! Later, for thousands of years, there were many monks of the two realms of good and evil, or nameless loose cultivators, turned the Kongsang Mountain inside and out, turned it upside down, and did not see the Shaking Light Immortal Hide, in vain, every time he returned empty-handed, gradually no one cared, and over time faded out of people's field of vision.

It is true that it does not matter whether the rumors are true or not, ordinary mortals only need to live through ordinary life, and now that such a situation is refuting common sense, it is naturally best to turn a deaf ear and stay away, and not have anything to do with those fairies, demons and monsters.

The elder surnamed Li was well-informed and paid attention to it at the moment, he smiled apologetically to the landing boss and then lowered his head to eat tea, but someone next to him exclaimed in a low voice:

"It's not good, it's not good! I'm afraid that calamity is coming, and calamity is riddled with evil..."

The elder surnamed Li looked up when he heard the sound, and saw that it was the old man dressed as the Taoist who shook his head and said.

Either the bad weather was really bad, or the long journey and the tiring boat and car for days and endured all the hardships, the youngest young man in the three-person business trip finally couldn't hold back his temper, and shouted coldly: "What are you old liar talking about, don't talk nonsense and gossip here to confuse the public!"

Someone accosted him, and the old man looked back at him without being in a hurry, and asked with a smile: "Don't be angry with this little brother, what is wrong with Poor Dao?"

The young man didn't look at him either, poured tea one after another, and said disdainfully: "Offended? Who doesn't know that you liars like to talk nonsense, talk about some things that you don't have and bully honest people, and wait until you are suspicious and then provoke some intimidating words, so as to cheat money!"

The old man was stunned when he heard this, he was not angry, pointed to the banner stick beside him, and said with a sneer: "Little brother, this is a bad word! I don't know how others tell fortunes, but you can't count all the foolish accounts of those charlatans who deceive people on the poor road." The poor Taoist master is famous, inheriting the next vein of the 'Xuantian Taixu' in Middle Earth, fortune-telling, looking at appearances, opening the eyes of heaven, asking about marriage, measuring good fortune and evil, and avoiding disasters. This gold-lettered signboard is also famous in the land of Middle-earth......"

"Shh

The young man snorted coldly, slapped the teacup in his hand on the table, and cursed: "There is no end to chirping crookedly? Dongzhou here is not Middle Earth, don't come out and run around when you're old, let alone learn the tricks of others to cheat and deceive, be careful in this barren mountain and wilderness, offend people, be broken legs, and lose your life, and there will be nowhere to bury it then!"

"You, you, you... You insult Sven!" The old man's face turned red and he couldn't hold it anymore, blowing his beard and glaring, he didn't know that this young man didn't know how to ignore and ridiculed even more choking words, it was simply insulting Sven, and he couldn't be reasonable.

In fact, when the old Xiangshi first came to Dongzhou, he naturally didn't know that there was such a sentence widely spread in the land of Dongzhou: Nine out of ten Xiangshi lied, and one was stupid and crazy!

It's about charlatans like them, who look at fortune tellers and show tricks. Those who really have some ability, I am afraid that they have already found a spiritual mountain and immortal land, opened a mountain and established a sect, and recruited disciples to become a real person who is in charge of teaching from above, how can they suffer in vain from this kind of ascetic life of sleeping in the open and looking at people's eyes.

In addition, the clouds and barren mountains and seas are vast, there are five wildernesses, three states, four seas and thousands of islands, and the customs and beliefs of various places are different. Dongzhou is not Middle-earth, the land of Middle-earth is ruled by the Yuntui Empire, Taoism is also the most prevalent style of respecting the Tao, countless Taoist temples and immortal shrines are standing in various cities, and they are worshiped and worshiped by the people of the world with incense. Over time, the various sects of Daoism infiltrated everywhere, and Middle-earth became the sphere of influence of the Cloud Desolate Dao Sect. Therefore, those who do Taoist deeds are superior to others, and no one dares to offend them easily.

Dongzhou is different, the land of Dongzhou has been the dojo of the Eastern Emperor and the White Emperor Sword God since the era of the Five Emperors. The White Emperor is merciful, and he fights the sword to eliminate demons and protect the world... Nearly 10,000 years have passed since the end of the world, and hundreds of millions of living beings in Dongzhou are still grateful to the White Emperor for his immeasurable blessings and respect for the style of swordsmanship. The sword and the Tao are different, the principles and laws are refuted, and the beliefs are different, so those Taoist priests and priests are not treated at all, and no one is feared.

In the hut in the wilderness, everyone looked over there from time to time, and it was nothing for the two to quarrel like this, but who told them to like to watch the excitement when they were idle.

The old man puffed out his cheeks and glared at the young man, pretending to be hideous, and his small eyes widened.

The young man was already in an unhappy mood and had a fierce face, he was not to be outdone, and glared at the old man viciously, and the nameless annoyance that was originally hidden in his heart broke out completely, and his ass got up with a move, and he was about to make a move, seeing that a disaster was about to start!

"Little Liu'er, that's enough!" he snorted softly, his voice was low and not angry, and the elder surnamed Li, who was sitting opposite the young man, suddenly spoke.

When the young man heard the scolding, he stiffened his movements, his face immediately changed color, and his anger immediately reined. He stood still, took a deep breath, and sat back with his head bowed.

Even if he is young and reckless and arrogant, he still knows the proportions. The young man in front of him was highly respected, and he respected him from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't dare to offend at all.

The old man surnamed Li glanced at the other side and saw that he was no longer silent, and then turned his gaze to the direction of the counter, and called with a smile: "Boss Lu, bring this old gentleman a pot of hot tea, and the account will be settled with me." ”

Boss Lu let out an "ah" and came back to his senses in shock. He got up, threw away the dead branch in his hand, and wiped it vigorously on the tattered jacket on his body. Then he picked up the pot and twisted the tea, moved his trembling body, and limped carefully over.

Changed to a new tea, and the teapot was full. The thin mist was swirling with a faint fragrance steaming from the spout, and the old Xiangshi was shocked, bowed his head and beckoned into his nose to breathe in front of his body, and quickly took a cup of tea and tasted it, with a relieved face.

The old man put down the earthen cup, glanced at Boss Lu, and suddenly smiled: "The tea is fragrant, astringent and slightly sweet, I didn't expect your tea to be so good, I knew that I should ask for a few more cups to eat!"

Boss Lu grinned a mouthful of yellow teeth, touched his head, and said with a smile: "The old gentleman never asked for tea when he came in, I think he knew that my tea was not free in this small business." Hey, hey, hey, in fact, you need three copper plates to shoot overnight..."

"What, Sanwen? You can't eat human flesh on this broken bench, you have to find him..."

The old man naturally referred to the elder surnamed Li who had just spoken out next to him.

Boss Lu was dumbfounded, how did he know that the Xiangshi in front of him, who was quite a bit of fairy wind and bones, actually looked stingy. It's not easy for people to be too old, Boss Lu is not very easy to say, so he lifted the kettle and turned to the elder surnamed Li, and filled the teapot with hot water.

The elder surnamed Li raised his head and smiled lightly at Boss Lu, and said slightly apologetically: "Boss Lu, tonight is so windy and snowy, I have to bother you to stay up late with us." ”

Boss Lu smiled and shook his head, a widow like him lived the most difficult life, and in seven or eight years of cold weather like this, there was only such a ragged jacket left, and he could survive another year, and he couldn't stand a hundred deaths. But as long as he is alive, he has to live desperately and earn money to live! Boss Lu said politely at the moment: "Don't worry, it's not uncommon for me to stay up late, but it's not very common for Mr. Li to come out in such bad weather." ”

The elder surnamed Li was stunned when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "If it was a snowy day in previous years, it would naturally be closed, but how can there be a profitable business in the business field, and now it is really helpless!"

Boss Lu looked surprised, and asked in a strange voice, "What's wrong?"

The elder surnamed Li smiled bitterly, then glanced at the middle-aged man who was traveling with him, and said in a low voice: "Although those evil cults and demons were wiped out by the righteous immortals thirty years ago, and now it is rare to have peace in this world, but who knows that in the barren mountains and mountains will encounter wandering mountain bandits blocking the road and robbing them! Last month, I lost two truckloads of valuable goods in the northbound Qili Pass, not to mention, Liu Laosan and He Laodi, who have been with me for more than ten years, were also slashed by gangsters... Heavy losses, no return!"

Boss Lu was taken aback and dumbfounded.

The elder surnamed Li sighed, and continued: "In recent years, many bandits and bandits have suddenly sprung up in various parts of Dongzhou, and I heard that some places have been in chaos... Ordinary mortals like us are living in fear, and we are careful to meet a strong man when we go out, who knows that such a thing will happen. ”

Boss Lu sighed lightly when he heard this, and persuaded him with regret: "Mr. Li, don't care too much, money is something outside the body, don't be angry." ”

The elder surnamed Li nodded with a sad face, the sword and sword shadow stained the sky with blood that night, and it was a blessing accumulated in several lifetimes that he escaped death with an old bone. Thinking like this, he couldn't help but say stupidly: "Those bandits and bandits burning, killing, and plundering are all evil, what is the difference between them and the evil cults and demons that lost their conscience back then, don't the decent immortals care about it?"

As he was talking, a voice came from a far corner, and said lightly: "A cult is a cult, even if those bandits and bandits are all ordinary mortals, and the great monks kill demons and demons, but they can't easily meddle in mortal disputes..."

"Fart!" Before the elder surnamed Li could speak, someone suddenly interjected and drank softly, but it was the old man with extraordinary bearing on the table next to him. When everyone looked this way, they only heard him say: "Those monks who claim to be righteous have an awe-inspiring appearance in front of them, and who knows how many people are doing shady deeds behind their backs! If it weren't for the fact that they were from the sect, they would really make people think that they were evil sects and demons." ”

In the dark corner, a pair of eyes fell on the old man with a deep gaze. After a moment of silence, he said in a deep voice: "Dao Chief, is it really under the Taixu Mountain Gate of the Xuanmen of Middle Earth?"

The old man glanced over there, and his face changed suddenly. He coughed a few times and turned his head away, and smiled at the elder surnamed Li: "I haven't thanked you for the tea yet." ”

The elder surnamed Li shook his head with a smile when he heard this: "You're welcome, you're welcome, it's all my accompanying nephew who is reckless and irritable, and the old gentleman who offends him shouldn't be blamed!"

The old man stroked his white beard, smiled, and said disapprovingly: "It's natural for young people to be domineering, and I was even more rebellious than him when I was young, so I regretted not being at the beginning." However, meeting is fate, and there is something in the poor road that I don't know whether to say or not. ”

The elder surnamed Li put down the teacup when he heard this, and asked softly, "Oh, old gentleman, please say something!"

The old man straightened his clothes, his face was solemn, and he said: "Boss Li is a good person, and he has done good deeds all the year round to accumulate virtue and blessings, but unfortunately his fate is not very good." I just glanced at Boss Li, the heavenly court is full of wealth, the forehead is wrinkled but the face is not broken, the main life is full of twists and turns, but fortunately, it is still safe. But there is a sunken dark black mole in the Yin Hall on the left, and the Lord will have a life and misfortune in the evening, or suffer a catastrophe! Boss Li is getting more and more angry, and he has escaped death many times by good fortune before, and now if he goes to the west, he is afraid that it will be difficult to escape again, so it is better to turn back and break the fortune and eliminate the difficulties, and maybe he can save his life and enjoy his old age in peace!"

The elder surnamed Li was startled when he heard this, and suddenly stood up, his eyes wide and staring at the old man who was holding a cup of tea.

"What are you old liar swearing and cursing for! Who are we going to give these goods to the west?" the young man suddenly got up, but was grabbed by the middle-aged male god beside him and pressed back.

The old man looked up at him, not angry, he smiled and pretended to be profound: "I'm not only talking about him, but also you... What's more, all of you..."

The voice, though soft, was harsh in the room. Everyone was shocked and looked over here, and even the gloomy eyes in the darkness fell on this slightly thin old man, and they couldn't help but take a few more looks.

The elder surnamed Li stared at the old man who looked like he was still older if he had a fairy wind and bones, and he was calm and calm, and he didn't say anything more. In the middle of the ring, the old man surnamed Li was uncertain, glanced around, and finally sat back, bowed to the old minister, and said, "Thank you for your advice." ”

He sat back like this, and everyone looked at each other, and the room fell silent for a while.

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Boss Lu filled the pot with water and added some dry firewood under the stove, the long night was really difficult, but it was not good to cut off the fire too early.

Boom!

In the middle of the night, another thunderclap suddenly sounded, shaking the heavens and the earth...

Crunch crunch ~

The wooden house swayed gently, the four-legged beams made a screeching sound, and I didn't know how long this weather-beaten cottage would last.

The wind was howling, the wind and snow were combined, and the cold wind penetrated through the cracks of the wooden door and a few wisps of dust and snow rolled in, and Boss Lu, who was closest to the door, shuddered and shivered.

This wooden house is the lifeblood of Boss Lu, and when he encounters such weather, he can only frown and resign himself to fate. He sat for a while, stunned for a moment, as if he suddenly remembered something, reached out and groped under the counter, and took out the fine incense that was half broken by the three columns. The incense was ignited, and Boss Lu turned around and inserted the three-pillar broken incense into the incense burner in front of the wooden wall behind him three feet above the ground, and the alcove was offered in front of the black wordless stone stele.

At the end, Boss Lu respectfully bowed three times...

Boom!

The thunder became more and more abrupt, and the roar exploded close to the eardrums, and the buzzing in my mind seemed as if the heavens and the earth were about to collapse!

"What's going on?' someone shouted. The color of the crowd changed in this unusual omen, and no one sat still.

The old man's face changed in shock, the teacup fell off and fell on the table, he picked up the little girl next to him with one hand, touched it into his arms, and muttered to himself: "There are many words to rob, I didn't expect retribution to come so fast, go, you have to go..."

Someone screamed: "No, it's shaking under your feet, this earth..."

Before he finished speaking, he lost his voice.

Boss Lu, who was standing at the counter, trembled and looked in the direction of the wooden door with only his last instinct, the corner of his eye jumped suddenly, and the next moment...