Chapter 180
Then he said: So, we must rush to the city of Lintian as soon as possible and meet the head of the regiment as soon as possible, it seems that this news has not been officially released yet, not many people know about it, and the head of the regiment also got the news through other paths, so let's rush there to meet him first and prepare early. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info only heard another mercenary say: Okay, then let's spend the night here tonight, rest early, set off early tomorrow morning, and arrive at Lintian City early! After finishing speaking, the mercenaries quickly swept away the rest of the food, and went back to their rooms to rest, and Li Qing and the others couldn't help but be interested when they heard the news, they had promised Ningdas to find the Scepter of Light There has been no news, but now there is finally news, it seems that they have not come to the wrong place, and the city of Lintian may reveal another dragon fight.
When Madara heard the news, she couldn't help frowning and said: No wonder, I have encountered so many mercenary groups on the road recently, and it turns out that this is the reason, they are all looking for the Scepter of Light. When Mary heard this, there was another excitement to see, and she suddenly opened her eyes excitedly, and said: It's really great, when the time comes, you can see the three S-level mercenary groups in the city of Lintian, Tianhuo, Black Crow, and War Blade, that is the legendary mercenary group! Madara looked at Mary, shook her head, and thought in her heart, Mary is not mature after all, she only knows how much fun she has, but she doesn't know how many dangers it contains, if she is not careful, those so-called big mercenary groups may be wiped out again, Madara looked at Li Qing and said: If the words of those mercenaries just now are true, I am afraid that the city of Lintian will fall into madness again. Li Qing said indifferently: Although it is a bit chaotic, but if we don't participate in it and watch coldly, it shouldn't be a big deal, and I also want to see what the mercenary competition is like! Madara saw that Li Qing and the others were very interested in the upcoming mercenary competition in the Heavenly City, so she made up her mind and said: Since Li Qing is so interested, then our Flying Eagle Mercenary Group will sacrifice our lives to accompany the gentleman! Seeing that Mardala was so resistant to the mercenary competition, and a little afraid of the mercenary competition, Li Qing couldn't help asking: Mara seems to be a little resistant to this mercenary competition, I don't know, can you sue one or two! Madara looked at Li Qing, his eyes showed a look of fear, as if he fell into a terrifying memory, I saw him take a deep breath and said: Actually, this mercenary competition was held once fifty years ago! After hearing Madara's words, Mary and the Flying Eagle mercenaries couldn't help but ask in unison: It was held fifty years ago, why haven't we heard of it? Madala seemed to fall into a deep memory, and said to herself: Yes, fifty years ago! I remember that I was only a teenager at the time, and I followed my father to participate in the mercenary competition held by the former King Apelo, and the prizes at that time were also artifacts, and the momentum at that time was also the same as now, countless mercenary groups frantically flocked to the city in the sky, and the grand occasion was unprecedented! Hearing this, Mary couldn't help asking: Isn't that very good, what's wrong? Mardala glanced at everyone and said: Things are starting to turn sour at this time, in order to squeeze other mercenary groups out of the competition, countless mercenary groups are robbing and killing other mercenary groups halfway, and suddenly, the situation began to become chaotic, and those who have hatred and those who don't have revenge have been torn apart one after another. I remember that back then, the A-level mercenary group that was in full swing, as long as one more task was completed, the Black Cloud Mercenary Group that could be promoted to the S-level mercenary group was also destroyed at that time, and their Black Cloud Commander led his subordinates to rush to the city of the sky, never sleeping, in order to prevent other people's plots, they finally broke down nervously, killed people when they saw them, and all the mercenaries were torn apart, and finally the entire Black Cloud Mercenary Group was destroyed. At that time, everyone didn't believe in each other, even their own brothers, everyone was guarding against others, for fear of other people's plots, everyone's nerves were already tense, and there were corpses everywhere on the way to the city of Lintian, a miserable situation! Even ordinary people suffered, those mercenaries saw anyone suspicious, indiscriminately, killed people when they saw them, and the people of some villages were also slaughtered, at that time, even the smell of blood was diffused in the air, and if you had not seen the situation at that time, you could not imagine the situation at that time. A little bit of not even cleaning up the corpses of his friends, and letting the corpses of his relatives and friends go wild, just to rush to the city of Lintian as soon as possible, one less competitor! Hearing this, the mercenaries of the Flying Eagle Mercenary Group couldn't help but shudder, and there seemed to be a scene of grief in front of them, with corpses with stumps and broken arms everywhere, thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder deeply, and Mary's face turned pale when she heard it.
Li Qing couldn't help but sigh at the ugliness of human nature, for the sake of an artifact, it can actually blind the hearts of the world, let them fall into madness, family affection, friendship and everything can be put aside, just for the ethereal artifact.
Mary asked in a trembling voice, "What happened later?" Madara continued: When we came to the Heavenly City, there were no more mercenary groups, and the strength of these mercenary groups was greatly damaged, but at that time, King Apelo announced that the competition had been canceled due to the small number of mercenary groups, and at this time, those mercenary groups who were still alive realized that everything was caused by their own greed! Since then, the strength of the mercenary world has been greatly damaged, and it took more than 30 years to slowly recover, and at that time, there were almost no mercenaries on the mainland! You can think about how the situation had changed at that time! At this time, Li Qing asked lightly: At that time, Ma Lao, why were you okay? Madara said in a deep voice: Fortunately, at that time, our mercenary group was a step slower because of other things, so we escaped this disaster, and when I rushed over, all I saw was the corpses along the way, and some of those corpses were buried by our mercenary group. Hearing this, Li Qing and the others and Mary and other flying eagle mercenaries understood this past more than fifty years ago, no wonder Mardala had such an expression when she heard this.
Li Qing said lightly: Let's pay attention, however, I don't think this situation should happen now! Mary immediately asked: Why? Li Qing looked at everyone's puzzled eyes and explained: In fact, there are two reasons for this, first, most of the mercenary groups have already arrived in the city of Lintian, so there should be no situation of tearing each other apart, and second, because of what happened more than fifty years ago, it should arouse the vigilance of those mercenary groups, and they will not blindly tear each other apart! Hearing Li Qing's explanation, everyone couldn't help but suddenly realize, they all felt that Li Qing's words were reasonable, and at the same time, they couldn't rest assured, they originally heard Madara tell about the past, and they were also very frightened in their hearts, but now when they heard Li Qing's words, their mood was also a little relaxed.
Even Madara felt that she seemed to be making a little big of a fuss, and now there should be no problems in this mercenary competition, so she said: What Li Qing said is reasonable, after all, more than 50 years have passed since that incident, and the possibility of it happening again is very small, everyone can rest assured! Mary then said: "That's good, I was scared by my grandfather just now? Now I am relieved! Grandpa, then let's speed up the journey and arrive at the city of the sky as soon as possible." Li Qing said: "This is not in a hurry, anyway, we are not going to participate in the mercenary competition, just to see the excitement! Madala also said: Okay, Mary, it has been decided, and we will act according to the original plan! Hearing this, everyone responded in unison: Yes, regimental commander! And Mary's face showed a look of yearning, it seems that although the person is still here, his heart has flown to the city of Lintian thousands of miles away.
Li Qing said: Okay, let's finish the meal early, rest early, and have to hurry tomorrow! After everyone finished eating, they went back to their rooms one after another to rest, and after more than ten days of hurrying, their mental and physical strength were very huge, so they took advantage of the inn tonight to take a good rest and recover their spirits.
The night began to cover the land, and the whole town fell into deep darkness, because it was a cold winter, and there were not many streets in the town, so when it was a little darker, they all went home and hid under the covers.
As soon as the flying eagle mercenaries arrived in the room of the inn, they fell asleep, after all, it was very physically and mentally exhausting to travel in the winter of wind and snow, while Li Qing and the other three were completely unaffected, and they were still meditating and cultivating in the inn room.
Li Qing meditated and cultivated alone in the room, but he couldn't settle down for a long time, recently, his spirit seemed to be not very stable, and there was a trace of violence in his heart, and with the growth of his cultivation, that trace of violence seemed to be affecting Li Qing.
If it weren't for the pure inaction that Li Qing had cultivated for thousands of years, and the indifferent soul of the world, he would be able to offset that violent aura, and with the trace of chaotic divine power that invaded Li Qing completely fused with Li Qing, the influence of that chaotic divine power on Li Qing became more and more obvious.
Now Li Qing can only absorb the power of the chaotic divine power, but he can't control his essence, the chaotic divine power is in turn affecting his state of mind, in fact, cultivating gods, cultivating immortals is the essence of the cultivation of the soul, only by understanding the supreme truth of the universe can he become a god and a Buddha.
If you don't have that trace of understanding, no matter how much aura you absorb, how strong your body is cultivated, you can only be a person with great power forever.
At this time, Li Qing's mind couldn't help but appear with the figures of two women at the same time, Li Qing couldn't help but fall into deep thoughts, one was the love of his life, and the other was a confidante, both of which were so moving and bright.
Li Qing only felt that the shadow of Mengyue in front of him slowly became clear, as if smiling at himself in front of his eyes, Li Qing looked at Mengyue in front of him and couldn't help but be intoxicated, slowly stretched out his hands, and said to himself affectionately: Mengyue, you are finally here, why have you not come to see me until now! That Mengyue smiled affectionately at Li Qing, blooming like a flower, it was so provocative Li Qing's heart, the graceful body slowly turned, and the skirt was flying, it was so charming and amazing, so that Li Qing couldn't help but look fascinated.
Suddenly, Mengyue's figure began to blur, her face changed, and she became Angel, Angel looked at Li Qing with a smile, and said gently: Li Qing, I miss you so much, do you think about me in your heart! Hearing Angel's words, Li Qing couldn't help but fall into the entanglement of thoughts, and he didn't even know his feelings for Angel, whether he appreciated her, liked her, or just regarded her as a confidant, but one thing was for sure, he had left Angel's figure in his heart, which could not be erased.
At this time, Li Qing had already fallen into the situation of the war between heaven and man, and when Li Qing was struggling, the spiritual cultivation of the thousand years saved him and pulled him back from his inner demons.
In fact, just now it is the demonic obstacle that you have to encounter in the cultivation process, and what Li Qing encountered is the emotional obstacle, the word love, but it is the most wonderful thing, it will slowly grow in your heart, and when you realize it, it has taken deep root in your heart, and it cannot be removed at all.
Li Qing slowly stabilized his mind at this time, pulled himself back from the magic barrier, the spiritual platform gradually became ethereal, Li Qing couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat at this time, it was simple to say just now, but in fact, it was dangerous and abnormal, how difficult it was to wake up from the illusion of the magic barrier, one was not careful, and he would fall into a situation from which he could never recover, like a mad demon.
Li Qing let out a long sigh and relaxed his mind, only then did he calm down, and at this time, he realized that love was so tormenting, even he couldn't avoid it.
With this hand, Li Qing couldn't help but think of a few words in the Buddha's words, from love to worry, from love to fear, if separated from love, carefree. But Li Qing has no regrets at all, he has never regretted meeting Mengyue, if he can choose a new choice for a while, he will not hesitate to choose Mengyue again.
After he came to this different world, he hadn't found Mengyue yet, but he met Angel, a talented and stunning woman, when he was with Angel, he found the feeling of being with Mengyue again, which made him confused.
Li Qing shook his head, put these disturbing minds behind, and ignored these things for the time being, and then talked about it, thinking about it alone here will not solve the problem.
In this way, Li Qing didn't have any intention of cultivating, so he fell asleep on the bed, but this kind of spiritual torture hurt the energy of cultivators the most, this kind of thing is more exhausting than the fighting methods of cultivators, and if you are not careful, your strength will be greatly damaged.
When Li Qing woke up, the sky had already brightened, and the inn began to get busy, and when he woke up, Li Qing himself felt that his spirit was not good, it seemed that yesterday's demon barrier did a lot of damage to him, and I am afraid it would take several days to recover his spirit.
After Li Qing walked out of the room, he saw that all the Flying Eagle mercenaries had already arranged everything and were ready to leave, and Amdo and Yasen had also gotten up and were waiting outside.
As soon as the two saw Li Qing come out, and saw that Li Qing's face didn't seem to be very good, and his spirit seemed to be a little sluggish, they immediately greeted him and asked with concern: Boss, what's wrong with you? And now that nothing has passed, his face is ugly, how can such a situation surprise Amdo and Yasen.
Li Qing said lightly: It's nothing, I'm fine, you can rest assured! After hearing Li Qing's words, Amdo and Yasen were a little relieved, and everyone turned over and got on their horses, preparing to leave the town.
Everyone couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all rode out of the inn on horseback, heading towards their target Lintian City, at this time, because the weather was slowly getting warmer, the cold winter wind was also a lot weaker, making everyone's trip a lot easier.
Li Qing and the others were not in a hurry, but they were also a lot easier along the way, and the mercenaries who galloped away had long since disappeared and disappeared on the avenue.
In the next few days, Li Qing was in the cultivation with his eyes closed, hoping to recover his spirit as soon as possible, and after a few days, Li Qing finally eliminated his inner demons completely and reached a new and satisfactory state.
But Li Qing didn't know that everything was just an illusion, and it was impossible to completely eliminate the demons in his heart, only when Li Qing understood the truth of the universe of heaven and earth, could he completely get rid of the entanglement of the demons in his heart, reach the realm of eternity, and become the god of eternity.
As the weather warmed, the thick snow began to melt slowly, the tender green sprouts broke through the soil, full of life, and the originally frozen river began to melt, and the heart-pounding cold wind gradually disappeared, replaced by a warmer and warmer spring breeze.
The journey began to be much easier than before, and when they reached the road, from time to time small wild beasts came out of the woods by the roadside, and sometimes, camped in the wilderness, and also hunted some game to fill their appetites.
After more than ten days of travel, Li Qing and the others and more than 20 people from the Flying Eagle Mercenary Group finally arrived at the city of Lintian, the capital of the Apelo Empire.
The whole city seems to be built on a huge waterfall river, built on the mountain, and the steep cliffs are rushing spectacular white waterfalls, like a silver snake, pouring down, the huge waterfalls converge into a river, flowing through the entire part of the city, the whole river is in the shape of a staircase, flowing through the whole city layer by layer.
From a distance, there seems to be a colorful rainbow hanging above the entire city of Lintian, the scenery is so dazzling, and I can't help but sigh at the magic of nature.
And the moat of the city is also a river, enclosing the whole city in it, it is really a natural fortification, and there are three gates to enter the city of the sky, and the drawbridge of each gate is also very huge.
Everyone galloped into the city of Lintian, turned over and dismounted, the crowd on the road was very busy, especially the mercenaries were very numerous, it seemed that those mercenary groups had received the news, and they all marched towards the city of Lintian.
Walking on the huge and wide suspension bridge, with the raging river rushing at your feet, you can look up and see the magic cannon standing on the city wall, and the Apelo soldiers standing on the city wall.
Seeing this, Li Qing and the others couldn't help but sigh, this city of the sky is really a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you want to capture this city, I am afraid that it is ten times, or even a hundred times the strength of the city of the sky.
Li Qing and the others led the horses, and slowly walked towards the gate of the city of heaven with the flow of people, and there were many people entering and leaving the city of heaven.
When everyone came to the city gate, Madara of the Eagle Mercenary Regiment showed her ID to the soldiers guarding the city gate, and then let everyone in.
It turns out that every citizen of the Apero Empire has an identity document issued by the state to prove that he is a member of the Apero Empire, so as to prevent the enemy country's spies from getting in, and in the case of the mercenary group, it is enough to show the mercenary group certificate, and Madara shows the mercenary group certificate to the soldier guarding the city gate.
After Li Qing and the others entered the city of Lintian, they saw that the entire city was made of huge stones, and even all the houses were made of stones, and there were no houses built of other materials at all, which was completely different from the Tianjing City of the Dajie Empire.
The city of Tianjing gives people a romantic and warm atmosphere, revealing an elegant and delicate atmosphere everywhere, while the buildings in this city of heaven give people a sense of oppression and solemnity, thick and heavy.
Walking through the streets, they were greeted by mercenaries armed with swords and swords, as well as Arpelo soldiers patrolling the streets to maintain order.
Li Qing asked Madara and said: Ma Lao, let's find a place to settle down first, and then we can talk about it! Ma Dala pondered for a while and said: I haven't come to this city of Lintian for a long time, and the last time I came was more than ten years ago, I remember that the largest inn in Lintian City should be Xiangyu Manlou opened by Xiangyu Building, and there are a few other inns that are smaller than its scale, all of which are good, let's go there and have a look! Li Qing said: Just according to Ma Lao's meaning, I'll settle down first! So everyone walked on the streets of the city under the leadership of Madara, turned left and right, and walked for a long time, before everyone found the Xiangyu Manlou, and only after asking did they know that the Xiangyu Manlou was already full, and there were no longer any more people.
Everyone asked several inns, and finally found a small inn, called Tongfu Inn, there are just a few rooms, just to accommodate everyone, the entire inn in the city of Lintian is almost full due to the stay of mercenaries, so it is difficult to find a free room in the inn of the city of Lintian now.