After Xu Beiyou made a short stop in the White Emperor City, he said goodbye to Sun Shaotang and did not go to Jincheng, but went directly to the Seven Mansions of Nanzhong.

This ancient land in southern Xinjiang, whether it is the indoctrination of Confucian saints, the preaching of Taoist saints, and even the Buddhists who came from the West in the future, were all rejected here, and they only left a few footprints in southern Xinjiang with great difficulty, and then left in a hurry. In the eyes of the vast majority of people in the Central Plains, this is a miasma, uneducated and barbaric land, since the previous dynasty of the Great Chu, this place has been regarded as a daunting way by officials, the emperor degraded officials, either Lingnan or southern Xinjiang.

Southern Xinjiang has a vast territory, known as the 100,000 Great Mountains, and has borders with several states in Dazheng, and the area bordering Shuzhou is called Nanzhong. There are many barbarian tribes living in Nanzhong, the largest tribe is called 100,000, and has always had many conflicts with the Central Plains people in Shuzhou, and even attacked the county seat many times, which has always annoyed the Shuzhou government.

When the northwest army went out of Shu and entered the lake, Tang Xiong of the Tang clan in Shuzhou opposed Lin Han's rampant conquest and rebellion, and secretly communicated with the rebellion of the leader of the barbarian clan in Nanzhong, Mrs. Phoenix, with the huge appeal of the Tang family operating in Shuzhou for a hundred years, people from all over the country responded, and the rebellion instantly spread to the entire Nanzhong Seven Prefectures, and even caused the fall of Jincheng, the capital of Shuzhou.

This led to Lin Han's bloody suppression later.

In the final analysis, the seven provinces of Nanzhong are not only the root of the contradiction between Shuzhou and southern Xinjiang, but also the place where the two sides have always been mixed, and the blood feud between the two sides has occurred in the land of these seven provinces, until the recent war in southern Xinjiang, all the barbarians had to give up the seven provinces of Nanzhong and retreat into the 100,000 mountains of southern Xinjiang.

Today's 100,000 mountains are not peaceful, after the chaos in the Central Plains, many barbarians who have been beaten by Wei Ban have begun to move again, especially the war in southern Xinjiang has just ended, a blood feud is still vivid, the crowd is excited, the undercurrent is surging, plus the remnants of the White Lotus Sect and the people in the Daomen have infiltrated it one after another, fanning the flames in all directions, making the chaos in southern Xinjiang more and more intense, and even the witch cult that has always been mysterious began to participate in it, and the forces of the imperial court had to fully withdraw from southern Xinjiang, only talking about the situation, it is not optimistic to talk about it.

After Xu Beiyou entered the territory of the Seven Prefectures of Nanzhong, the traces of the war can be seen everywhere, and the tug-of-war of nearly ten years has reduced the land of the Seven Prefectures to a scorched earth, ten rooms and nine emptiness, and the fields are barren.

After the seven mansions in the south, it is into the territory of southern Xinjiang, here is also called the land of 100,000 mountains, as the name suggests, a mountain is connected with a mountain, a mountain after a mountain, endlessly, among which the forest is towering to the sky, the road is sparsely populated, and it is a miasma, the army is difficult to enter, it has always been a natural barrier for the barbarians, every time the Central Plains Dynasty conquers the barbarians, as long as the barbarians retreat into it, the Chinese army is helpless, this move is quite the same as the various departments of the grassland to Atami.

The reason why Lin Han was able to drive the army into the 100,000 mountains back then, in addition to the elite soldiers of the Northwest Army, there was also a witch sect elder under Xiao Yu at that time, named Zi Shuiyang, who was familiar with the situation in southern Xinjiang and various witchcraft secrets. Lin Han asked his brother-in-law Xiao Yu for help because of the Shu chaos, although Xiao Yu was angry that Lin Han acted without authorization and forced the Shuzhou family to rebel, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to clean up Shuzhou up and down, so as not to cause trouble, so he sent Zishuiyang to Lin Han's side. Zi Shuiyang was born in the Southeast Witch Sect, and he is familiar with the 100,000 mountains, and the method of dealing with miasma is even more handy, he wrote down a prescription, and then asked Lin Han to set up a cauldron in the barracks to boil the medicine according to the prescription, and then distributed the medicine to the soldiers in the army to drink, once a day in the morning and evening, day after day, so that the miasma can be regarded as nothing.

Lin Han acted in accordance with the law, and then sent a small number of scouts to probe, and found that he was really not afraid of miasma, and then under the leadership of Zi Shuiyang, the army set off and drove into southern Xinjiang.

It's a pity that there is no witch sect elder like Zi Shuiyang in the court now, and this witch sect elder who is equivalent to a traitor has not left a successor, otherwise Wei Ban can follow Lin Han's example and attack southern Xinjiang by taking advantage of the situation, and there will be no dilemma today.

Of course, the miasma is only one of the natural barriers of the barbarians, and it is also its complex terrain that restricts the movement of the army, in such rugged mountains, not only the cavalry cannot act, but even the heavy infantry is also difficult to do, but the barbarians in southern Xinjiang have a kind of rattan armor soldiers dressed in rattan armor, climbing mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, agile as apes, like a fish in water in the 100,000 mountains.

Finally, after the southern Xinjiang barbarians retreated into the 100,000 mountains, they were completely divided into zero, and the villages were scattered all over the 100,000 mountains, so that the army could not form a decisive battle with them.

These barbarian villages can be roughly divided into three kinds according to different locations, the outermost barbarians who retreat to this place from the seven provinces of Nanzhong, because they have contacts with the outside world, and are contemptuously called familiar barbarians, and the middle position is the barbarians who have lived here for generations, and have never had any dealings with the people of the Central Plains, such as people who escape from the world, they are called barbarians, and the most innermost core area is the witch cult that can be ranked with the Sword Sect and Tianji Pavilion and other sects.

There are dynastic changes in the world, and the same is true of the major sects of the monks, which is nothing more than a trend of prosperity and decline, division and merger. The once prosperous Xuanmen evolved into today's Daomen and Sword Sect because of the disagreement of the Three Great Daoists, so that the Western Church came from behind, but then the latter was divided into three because of doctrinal disputes, namely the King Kong Temple that remained in the birthplace, the Molun Temple that spread to the grassland, and the Buddhism Zen Buddhism that flourished in the Central Plains. Then there is the Confucianism preached by the saints, the Xuanjiao that blends all families, etc., all of which have been in the world, and before the Daomen, the real overlord is the witch religion.

The word monk, from the ancient times of the practice of the Qi said, later the Taoist Sect, the Qi practitioner is also called the cultivator, after the combination of the two became a monk, but at that time the witch cult did not take the monk or the practitioner of the self-proclaimed witch, but called himself a witch, the cultivator can be called a great witch, equivalent to today's earth immortal monk, there are twelve elders in charge of the witch cult, called the twelve ancestors of the witch.

Ancestral witch is an honorific title, which roughly means the ancestor of the witch cult, and its cultivation realm is probably equivalent to the realm of immortals in the Daomen. It is said that the twelve ancestral witches can form a magnificent formation and shake the heavens and the earth. At that time, although the Taoist ancestor has achieved the immortals, but only three disciples, has not yet established a religion, can compete with the witch sect only the east emperor of the world's people, at that time the east emperor has many capable people, not inferior to the witch religion, and the situation of the two sides is somewhat similar to today's great qi and daomen, look at each other and hate each other, and finally fight, it is said that the east emperor with the power of the whole country gathered three hundred and sixty-five ancient qi practitioners into a large array of zhou tian to fight against the twelve ancestral witches, the final result is that both sides of the jade are burned, the east emperor died, the kingdom under his command was soon divided, and the witch sect lost twelve ancestors after the witch, also collapsed, no longer the peak prosperity of the year, and later, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism rose, and the Wujiao had to abandon the ancestral Qishan and move to the 100,000 mountains.

Today's Great Elder of the Witch Sect, Zhu Jiuyin, if he is placed in the heyday of the Witch Sect, is just a great witch identity, but today, the Dao Ancestor and the Three Great Dao Monarchs are no longer there, and only one great witch can be on the Heavenly Machine List.

Xu Beiyou had an inexplicable premonition that he might have to fight with this great witch.