Ke Wang struggled on a rugged mountain road.

His face was pale, as if he had just been seriously ill, and he walked as if he were going to collapse in the next moment.

"It's a big loss this time!" Ke Wang rubbed his head, which had been dizzy, and muttered to himself.

Last night, in order to help the inhabitants of Chanda tide over the difficult time, Ke Wang drew a stack of charms with his own blood overnight. Excessive blood loss was nothing big for Ke Wang, but the Origin Spiritual Power consumed when drawing the spell made Ke Wang very uncomfortable.

The cultivator's origin spiritual power is his life force, and once the origin spiritual power is exhausted, the cultivator will come to the end of his life.

Originally, it was not so troublesome to draw talismans, and it was not necessary to spend so much money on the original spiritual power. But when Ke Wang entered the Caiyun Realm, all his belongings were destroyed by that piece of Zhenguo Soul Jade!

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and without the right materials, no matter how good the drawing charm is, it will not work. The yellow paper on which the talismans were drawn was given by Ke Wang from the house of the mayor of Chanda. But cinnabar, which is not commonly used, is not prepared at the mayor's house. In order to ensure that the success rate of the drawn talisman is higher and the power is strong enough, Ke Wang can only draw talismans with blood mixed with his own origin spiritual power. Although the consumption is a little larger, the effect is really good. Even compared to the talisman that Ke Wang drew when the materials were complete before, it could be regarded as superior.

Those charms include thunder charms, fire charms, and ice charms...... In short, what is powerful can be drawn, and it is not a problem to deal with the bandits, and it should be able to protect the safety of those residents of Zenda Town.

After doing all this, Ke Wang flashed without saying a word.

After the incident, the clothes are gone, and the merit and fame are hidden. Ke Wang was very satisfied with the force he pretended.

But at that time, I pretended to be cool for a while, but now I am suffering myself.

Ke Wangqiang supported his tired body and kept hurrying south. Those pursuers of the Central Court somehow stopped when he entered the territory of the South of the Colorful Clouds. Ke Wang was not at ease, and kept hurrying non-stop, until he couldn't sense the breath of the chasing soldiers behind him before slowing down.

He didn't know where the end of this journey was, but he just subconsciously acted according to the old tree demon Linghuai's dying instructions.

Ke Wang is like a wandering spirit, wandering aimlessly in the south of the clouds.

When passing by Chanda, Ke Wang felt the despair and sadness of the people living in this land. At first, he thought it was just a place like this. But when Ke Wang went deep into the territory of the south of Caiyun, he found that this situation happened everywhere, and some places were even worse than Chanda!

After the collapse of the Kingdom of Caiyun South, the vassals of the South King who had originally sworn allegiance were divided and established themselves, and all of them claimed to be the legitimate heirs of Caiyun South. Those vassal states were different in size, rich and poor, but they all had one thing in common, that is, they were all actively recruiting troops, developing military power, and constantly fighting each other.

It is difficult for those who have not experienced war to understand the harm that war has on civilians.

The south of the clouds is full of mourning, and just what Ke Wang saw and heard along the way, dozens of villages have completely become no man's land.

Everywhere there are traces of the aftermath of the war. The houses were vacant until they were dilapidated, the originally fertile fields were overgrown with weeds, the air was filled with a disgusting smell of blood, and the earth was dyed red with blood, and even heavy rain could not wash them away! It was really as Cao Cao sighed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, "the white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"!

Along the way, Ke Wang also met ordinary people who were still surviving, and their lives were not easy. The war has been going on for a long time, and in order to escape the war, they have escaped into the mountains, some hide at the bottom of the valley, and some simply run into the primeval forest...... These places are basically raw land that no one has ever set foot in, and they don't grow much when they grow anything. They did not dare to return to their original homeland, large areas of fertile land were deserted, and the wild beasts in the mountains and forests were almost eaten by them, so they could only suffer from hunger and hunger.

For them, "to live" has turned into an extremely difficult desire. Maybe death is a relief!

There were many people, after knowing the identity of Ke Wang's cultivators, who hoped that he would take them away, but they were all rejected by Ke Wang.

He couldn't help them.

At first, Ke Wang left their gathering place with a few refugees. But when he watched them starve to death, he never accepted such a request again.

Between heaven and earth, there is its own law. Even a cultivator can't conjure up a lot of food out of thin air.

Ke Wang's spiritual power could only keep him immortal, not his hunger. He can't protect himself, so how can he save people?

For the first time, he had doubts about his abilities. He can't even save the people who are about to starve to death, so what's the use of cultivating to become an immortal? In the final analysis, after losing the glossy coat of "cultivator," he is just a powerless wasteman!

The encounters in the past few days have made Ke Wang's heart begin to become radical, and he feels deeply disgusted with his own existence.

The original purpose slowly became blurred, and Ke Wang himself didn't know what the meaning of coming to the South of the Colorful Clouds was now. He just relied on instinct and made his way south. If there is an answer to all this, then the answer can only be in the south.

......

Zhivadin, the second largest city in the south of Caiyun, is second only to the original capital of Caiyun in the south. The current lord of Zhivadine is Harmon Cook, the former general of the South of the Clouds.

Before this, Zhivadin had already changed several lords, and each change meant a bloody massacre.

In troubled times, even the strong cannot rest easy. They must always be on guard, even those who are weaker than them at this stage, they must be afraid that one day their strength will surpass them and become even stronger than him. Because in troubled times, once the original strong becomes weak, it means that the right to live is lost!

Harmony Cook, of course, is no different. After capturing Zhivadine and slaughtering everyone in Zhivadine's previous lord's family, Hamon Cook set up a vast intelligence organization. Every day, the knights sent from Zhivadin to reconnoiter in all directions would bring him news from all over the world. Harmon Cook did this to ensure that every inch of his land was under his control.

This can be said to be very paranoid, but it is precisely this paranoia that makes him the master of Zhivadin, the strongest person in the south of Caiyun at this stage.

Every night, Harmon Cook would spend the night checking the information that his knights had brought from all over the country. As the former general of the South of the Clouds, Harmon Cook is well aware of the importance of intelligence in the victory or defeat of a war, and it is the same when it comes to governance.

The lights in Harmon Cook's study have been on since nightfall, and even in the middle of the night, the lights still have no intention of going out.

Originally, he didn't have to work so hard, and his subordinates had advised him to rest early, but he scolded him.

It's his own choice. Diligent government will not necessarily bring security to his territory, but at least it can avoid some unnecessary mistakes.

It's like this very interesting piece of information in his hand.