Chapter 38: The Hunt
When Bai Ya descended from Qingcheng, he took over a total of three merit tasks, and he had to go to Qu's house. Originally, after these things were done, it was almost the end of the year, and with the time when he went to Huashan, he could just catch up with the Huashan sword at the turn of the spring and summer of the second year.
But Bai Ya's first two tasks were done too quickly, and it only took a week or two to capture the prostitute and the fan boy.
The task of escorting Zeng Xian to Chengdu simply only fought, some blood was released, and the rest was handed over to Chen Ming of the Panlong faction. Because of his relationship with Hu Sanniang, he did not follow Zeng Xian to escort Zeng Xian to Chengdu.
The third meritorious task is to explore the news of "Xu Xianling", in this regard, he has found out some from Hu Sanniang, and has sent the news to Qingdu Temple.
The last thing is to go to the Qu family to propose marriage, needless to say, the fiancée likes others, and Bai Ya has no face to continue to stay in the Qu family because of his self-stigmatizing reputation, so he has to say goodbye without saying goodbye.
As a result, after he finished everything, he found that the time had just entered September, and there was still a lot of time before the end of the year, not to mention the Huashan Sword at the turn of spring and summer next year.
Originally, from Fuling to Huashan, you should go directly north, pass through the three counties of Badong, Brazil, and Hanzhong, and then enter the Sili of Qin, that is, Sizhou. Most of this route is in Yizhou, which is the safest and most convenient.
But because there was nothing to do and there was a lot of time left, Baiya decided to travel all the way to Huashan.
He didn't go north, he planned to go east first, to Jiangling in the Chu realm of Jingzhou, the capital of the king of Chu in ancient times. Then turn north, visit Xiangyang City, which is known as the first commercial capital in the world, and finally enter the Qin State Division.
Although he planned to go to Jingzhou, Bai Ya didn't want Hu Sanniang to follow him anymore.
This woman's heart is smaller than the eye of a needle, don't look at her helping to come up with a few ideas, now that she thinks about it, it is all revenge for personal gain, obviously the breath of being pitted in Langzhong has not yet come out.
But he couldn't drive Hu Sanniang away, after all, he was going to Jingzhou, and he would go to Jingzhou on the same official road as the night fox to protect the city, and then teleport from there or take the flywheel treasure ship.
Seeing the smug look on the night fox, Bai Ya's heart was so ruthless that he got rid of this woman in the city. If the other party takes a boat, he will teleport, and if the other party teleports, he will take a boat, and he must cut off the fox's tail anyway.
"Hmm...... The smell of blood?" Just when Bai Ya was depressed, Bai Tong, the bronze corpse who was following him safely, suddenly felt a sensation.
Bai Ya hesitated and stopped, and the place Bai Tong sensed was two miles away from the official road. At such a distance, the smell of blood can still be heard, indicating that it is estimated that more than one or two people have died.
Fuling is located on the edge of Yizhou, and in ancient times, it belonged to the hilly terrain of the transition from plains to mountains. Coupled with the relationship between the great fission of heaven and earth, there are many mountains here, and there are many mountains and mountains, but there are no particularly steep and towering peaks.
This geographical environment makes Fuling not very convenient for transportation, and only the mining industry and agriculture are still developed. The mining industry is the mining and refining of dansha, and the ancestor of the Qu family, the widow Qing, made his fortune from this, and the agriculture is terraced fields and paddy fields.
The inconvenient transportation means that the people of Fuling are not rich enough, and because it is a hilly terrain, there are many bandits who occupy the mountain in this place.
As soon as Bai Ya heard the induction of the bronze corpse, he immediately thought that it might be a bandit robbing the road, or a vendetta in the green forest.
He is no longer the first brother of the rivers and lakes as before, but a real disciple of the sect. Master Liu Yu and senior brother Xuan Ji have both taught him the experience of the rivers and lakes and told many stories of experience, including the focus on the green forests and rivers and lakes.
When a seasoned sect martial artist encounters a green forest character, including a mountain bandit and a bandit, when committing a crime, unless it is related to his own meritorious task, he will usually choose to avoid it and not meddle in his affairs.
There are profound truths and lessons in this!
The Xianwu Sect, including the current Evil Sect and the Demon Sect, may have different views and concepts, but they all follow the way of heaven and inherit the world, and in some respects they can be said to be the maintainers of the order of the human race.
It is not their responsibility to punish evil, promote good, and promote justice, their only duty is only to maintain the secular ecological balance, and the greatest purpose of the immortal oath is also in this.
A mountain forest must not only have plants and herbivores, but also carnivores, otherwise the end result will be all doomed!
The Terrans of this world are the same, surrounded by hundreds of races, the Terrans also need meateaters and pests. They can cultivate and maintain the overall centripetal force and combat effectiveness, so as not to make the human race lose its sense of crisis and martial spirit.
Of course, if these carnivores and pests are too harmful and break through a certain boundary, then they will naturally be on the merit list of the Immortal Martial Sect.
Just like the Xianwu Sect in Langzhong chose to stock the Kong family village, if the Kong brothers did not break through the bottom line to kill Zeng Xian, the Panlong faction would only pretend to be deaf and dumb and let them exist.
In order to impress him, Liu Yu, the master of Baiya, once said a story about his experience in the artistic conception period.
At that time, Liu Yu was still young, and he was in high spirits.
When he was training in the south of Yizhou, he walked very boldly at the junction of the Terran territory and the Wilderness Domain, and from time to time he would break into the Wilderness Domain, seeking a breakthrough in martial arts between life and death.
Once, he passed through a Baiyue land called Jiu Dong and saw a group of thieves raping ~ adultery and plundering.
Because this gang of bandits is very explicit and cruel. Therefore, Liu Yu was furious, not only killed the current criminals, but also caught up with their lair and killed them without leaving a chicken dog.
At that time, his actions won the praise of all the people in the surrounding villages, and almost every family regarded him as a reborn parent.
But a few years later, Liu Yu came here again, only to find that the villages that were originally distributed in the surrounding area were no longer three, and a group of bandits occupied this place again. And this gang of bandits actually expanded from a hundred miles away a few years ago.
Only then did Liu Yu discover that although the gang of bandits he originally killed were harming the local area, they also acted as a protective umbrella for the surrounding villages~ . And because the new bandits are not their sphere of influence here, they have adopted the method of fishing with all their might in the past few years, resulting in three out of ten villages in the surrounding villages.
Liu Yu was shocked, and this time he finally didn't dare to kill again, but sent a message to Jingluo Zhenren and asked him for advice on how to deal with it.
Jora Majin told him very clearly that he had done wrong before.
Because of its proximity to the wilderness and barbaric domain, Jiudong is different from the mainland of Yizhou. The role of the imperial court decree was limited, and the local people were poor, bandits, and disasters.
The people who live here are too far away from the civilized world, and even the most barbaric forms of slavery are good if there is order and law.
However, the court of Shu and the Xianwu Sect could not move the human race here inward, because this was the "front line" of the march to the barbarian domain.
The entire human race needs to be sacrificed by the people here, so that after more than a hundred years, the land is stable, and their descendants can enjoy all that the civilized world has to offer.
originally thought that he had done a good deed and got rid of more than 100 scourges, but he found out that he was the scourge and indirectly killed thousands of people, and the touch of this incident on Liu Yu can be imagined.
He had to clean up his mess by himself, Liu Yu did not return to Qingcheng immediately, but stayed in Jiudong for nearly five years.
He first killed the leadership of the second gang of bandits, became the leader of the bandits, and spent five years setting a set of "family rules" for this gang of bandits, cultivating several heirs, and then returned to Qingcheng.
Except for Jingluo Zhenren, Liu Yu had never told anyone else before. However, in order to remind Bai Ya, an apprentice with a "sense of chivalry", he had no choice but to blow up his ugliness, which can be regarded as well-intentioned.
Although the martial artists of the sect will not meddle in matters in principle, after all, people always have compassion, and they will always be unable to get over their hearts if they still see death and still do not save them even if they know that evil deeds are in charge.
Therefore, except for intelligence spies, other people in the sect martial artists generally close their eyes and do not understand the trivial matters of the green forests and rivers and lakes.
Anyway, the green forest guests and bandits who do a lot of evil will sooner or later be on the merit list, and when the time comes, the new and old accounts will be counted together.
As for the victims who died in vain, it is fair to say that they are the price they must pay for raising jungle tigers and wolves.
"Forget it!" Bai Ya heard the return of the bronze corpse, and hesitantly remembered Liu Yu's thousand instructions, and immediately sighed and left it behind.
Zen Master Yuanming's previous evaluation of him was very accurate, Baiya's chivalry was only limited to the eye and was not for the country and the people in essence, I am a righteous hero.
However, there seems to be a pair of big hands playing with fate in the dark, and it is not easy for him to escape.
As soon as Bai Ya walked out of the road, the bronze corpse returned again, and in the direction where the smell of blood came, a group of people were rushing towards here.
"Isn't it?" he asked, scratching his chin and amazed, "at our current speed and direction, will we run into them?"
After receiving the bronze corpse's affirmative reply, Bai Ya finally frowned.
"Is something wrong?" Seeing Bai Ya and the bronze corpse eyebrows coming and going, the night fox immediately became vigilant.
"Oh, it's nothing, just remembering some little things!" Bai Ya glanced at Hu Sanniang and suddenly grinned.
He remembered that he was still following a female fox who had been crisscrossing the green forests of Yizhou for 30 years! He didn't seem to need to spend more brain cells, just give Hu Sanniang a headache when the time came.
"Is it really okay?" Hu Sanniang looked at him suspiciously, a trace of uneasiness in her heart, and continued to hurry angrily.
Only half a quarter or so later, the night fox knew what medicine was in the gourd of the white cliff, because she had already heard the sound of the sword clashing, and a group of warriors who were chasing after me ran out of the grove on the right side of the official road.
The group of warriors was divided into two sides, one was a large number of pursuers in different costumes, and the other was a powerful old man and several of his black-clad men.
As soon as the fleeing side saw the corpses of the two people who were obviously dressed as warriors on the official road, their eyes immediately lit up, and they rushed towards them under the leadership of the old man.