Chapter 320: The Flood is Overwhelming
This trip to the Dead Sea allowed Qin Di to pick up more than fifty relatively intact caves, as well as twenty somewhat damaged caves, plus hundreds of undead grasses. For these caves, he was already a little numb, and he threw them all into Fangcun Mountain, and then he would find a way to deal with them in the future.
After he returned, he handed over twenty broken caves and dozens of immortal grasses to the sect.
As for the more than fifty complete cave heavens, he called Miao Yunjuan and the others, as well as Shen Yunyi, Fan Yao, and Long Jin'er, together with their apprentices, to go in and search for them, pick out the most valuable treasures, and hand them over to him for safekeeping, and let each of the four disciples choose a cave heaven to refine.
Subsequently, Qin Di selected fifty of the most resourceful from the one hundred and fifty cave heavens obtained before and after to keep them, and each of the remaining hundred cave heavens let the little peach tree extract a spiritual vein to enhance itself, and then he placed these cave heavens in the immortal cultivation hall on both sides of the Tongtian River.
He told every disciple of the town guard that if a great flood came, as long as someone climbed the mountain, they could enter the cave to take refuge.
Because there are many people in every main city, and although the mountain where the Xiuxian Temple is located has been raised, there are not many places where the people can stand on it.
These guards were all disciples of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining and had experienced in the cave heaven on Red Fire Island, so they were very excited to see the cave heaven again, especially the rich resources in it.
Someone couldn't help but ask: "Uncle Shi, what should I do if the spiritual materials in this are taken away by the people?"
Qin Di shrugged his shoulders and said, "You go in first and pick a circle, and put away the useful ones first." As for the people taking it, they don't have to care too much. If you are not reconciled, you may wish to check it carefully when they go out. ”
For the astonishing feat of taking out nearly a hundred cave heavens at once, Qin Di was also forced to do so.
To be honest, he didn't have much use for the time being. He could neither eat nor drink, let alone take them out to exchange for spirit stones, because he was not short of spirit stones.
Since he took it out, he didn't want to take it back anytime soon. Because of the nine peaks of Lingshan Mountain, one after another, the great flood may occur nine times. If you take back the cave every time, it will be too troublesome. So he was going to wait until all the nine great floods had happened, and then he would take them back. As for whether someone will stop him at that time, he doesn't care very much, with the improvement of his skills, even Xu Zhenjun in the late Yuan Infant period is not an opponent, what else is there to fear?
If you want to say that you are worried, it is just that you are coveted by others, and everyone is pouring gold and destroying bones, and there are so many caves that are not dedicated to the sect, and his reputation is not very good.
However, Qin Di didn't care, because his contribution to the Jin Dan Sect was already big enough, and he could pat his chest and say wherever he went: "I've done my best!"
At the entrance of each cave, he left a line of big characters: "Jindan Sect Qin Zhenren opened the cave to save the people." The rescued should read Qin Zhenren, burn incense to thank him, and be enlightened. ”
Qin Di didn't know if there was a system of public morality cultivation in this world, so the original intention of writing these words was not to make the people thank him, but just to stop the mouths of the monks of the Jindan Sect, which meant to say: This is all my Qin someone's cave heaven, you boys don't worry about it anymore! One day in the future, I, Qin Zhenren, will take back these cave heavens!
He walked around the mundane world and found that despite the mobilization of the government, many ordinary people did not take the flood seriously.
Some people can't afford to buy a boat because their families are poor, and some people think it doesn't matter.
Others prepared the rafts, but when the flood did not come, they threw them to the side, and even dismantled the rafts and set them on fire.
For this reason, Qin Di had to tell the guards and disciples of the Immortal Cultivation Palace, asking them to release the news and issue notices everywhere, reminding the people not to forget to flee to the Immortal Cultivation Hall when the flood came.
In the blink of an eye, two years have passed, and Qin Di has built two time altars, one is placed on Tianxing Island, which can speed up the cultivation effect by three times, and the other is placed in the cave sky, which can speed up time by five times.
Both altars were relatively large and could hold at least thirty people.
Therefore, he called Miao Yunjuan and the others back, and together with his four disciples, they could go to the time altar on the island to practice. As for the few disciples, not everyone can climb the altar, and they need to be inspected once a year to have cultivation value before they can go up.
In the blink of an eye, more than four years have passed since the warning of the mobilization for the flood was issued, and many people have forgotten about it, and the banks of the Tongtian River are singing and dancing.
But what should come will come! The damned will die!
On this day, Zheng Tianping, the head of the Jindan Sect, suddenly received news from the Tianbao Pavilion: "The first peak of Lingshan has collapsed! The great flood will arrive within three days, and according to the amount of water brought about by the collapse of the Lingshan Snow Peak, plus the collapse of the water system along the way, it is estimated that the water level on both sides of the Tongtian River can be raised by fifty zhang!"
"Ho! Fifty zhang! All the big cities on both sides of the Tongtian River are submerged under water, and you need to retreat three thousand miles before you can reach the position where the water level is submerged!"
Zheng Tianping hurriedly released the news to the two sides of the strait, the north and the south.
The monarch of the Yue Kingdom hurriedly sent people to warn all over the country, but in the mundane world, the territory is vast, there is no immortal means, there is no TV, computer, mobile phone and telephone, and when the news reaches the place, I am afraid it will be late!
So the Jindan Sect and the rest of the sects also called on their disciples to fly out through identity tokens and notify the people everywhere to transfer!
The Immortal Cultivation Halls near the major main cities also began to get busy, sending apprentice disciples to notify the government and issue notices.
Even at this time, more than half of the people still don't care.
"Hmph, where did the flood come from? Deceitful! Deceitful! I won't leave!"
"Don't pull me! Lao Tzu won't go anywhere, he will die, what's the big deal?"
But there were also people who dragged their families with their families, carried sacks of rations, and began to climb up the nearby mountains.
Someone hurriedly took out the boat that had been prepared four years ago, repaired it, found the oars, and prepared to flee.
Someone else thought about it, called the whole family, mounted their horses, and galloped away from the Tongtian River.
Of course, some people are still hesitating: "Oh, why do you toss again? I can't leave this time? Do I have to stay in the mountains for two years? That day is not comfortable!"
"Well, I'd better go, it's not a small movement this time, it seems to be real. ”
It is said that it is three days, but the Yue Kingdom is too big, even if all the disciples of the Jindan Sect go out, they will not be able to notify every city, let alone many villages.
Qin Di also went out in person, driving the Tongtian boat, scattering leaflets among the villages, beckoning everyone to leave the house and run to the heights.
Some villages received the leaflets and began to prepare to flee, while others did not believe that they were killing themselves and that no one else could save them.
Three days came quickly, and the flood was overwhelming, as if the mountains had toppled down, and the cities on both sides of the river were razed to the ground at once!
For a moment, I don't know how many people were killed by the flood.
Countless people regretted the moment they died: "Why am I so numb, why didn't I run earlier?"
Qin Di returned to Ningcheng at the last moment of the arrival of the flood, and protected the Qin Mansion compound with a self-made immortal array, although many houses all sank to the bottom, but they were all protected by the array membrane and were not washed away by the flood!
And the immortal apricot tree also raised its head from the flood and turned into a big tree standing up to the sky, and the outstretched branches supported the formation membrane of the immortal array, making the protection of the immortal array more stable.
As for the people in the Yue royal family, they have all been rescued by Lan Xingshang and other cultivators.
However, there are still countless people who have died, and although Qin Di tried his best to rescue them, it was also a drop in the bucket.
The flood lasted three years!
Three years later, even those who fled to the nearby mountains were starving to death!
Only the people who fled to the Immortal Cultivation Hall basically survived, because there was Linggu Spirit Grass in the cave and the food prepared in advance, so they barely starved to death.
Of course, there are many people who survived, all of them are some cities three thousand miles away from the Tongtian River, and there are still many people there.
Three years later, the flood waters receded, and the banks of the Tongtian River were in ruins!
Many people came out of the cave and looked at the ruins and wanted to cry without tears.
Some people want to rebuild their homes from the ruins, but they get further information that there could be eight more such floods!
Some people were scared, so they led their families and fled to settle in a place far away from the Tongtian River.
Someone calculated: "Eight times in 3,000 years, an average of once in 300 years! Hmph, it's early! Lao Tzu lives here! After all, this place is rich in spiritual energy, has a high grain yield, and is easy to make a living! If you go to the mountains in the south, where the land is barren, how can you live?"
So some people rebuilt the city and reclaimed the wasteland.
Sure enough, the great flood brought down from the Spirit Mountain, in addition to the disaster, there is a richer aura. A handful of grain can quickly grow to half a man's height in a reclaimed wasteland, which is too fertile!
The population is increasing day by day, I am afraid it will not take a hundred years, and the banks of the Tongtian River are a prosperous scene!
Some of the living people returned to the temple of cultivating immortals, and made a statue with the words "Save the suffering and save the Qin Zhenren!" from time to time.
When Qin Di saw it, he felt a little numb in his heart. I don't know if this move is a good or bad thing for me.
According to the traditional concept, only the dead deserve to be sacrificed, but this is the world of cultivating immortals, and many great immortals are also sacrificed in the ordinary world. For example, in the Patriarch Hall of the Jindan Sect, at least one-third of the people with tablets in it are not dead, and these people may have gone to the Spirit Mountain to practice, or they may have climbed the Spirit Mountain and entered the Spirit Realm.
Qin Di thought to himself: "Anyway, what is written on this is to save the suffering and save Qin Zhenren, there are many real people surnamed Qin, even if God blames it, it may not fall on my head!"