Baishixian Road

Chapter 141 Don't Exhaust the River to Fish
Five days have passed since the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty passed away.

The land of Kyoto is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. It’s okay during the day. As soon as the sun goes down, there are only guards patrolling the streets. People, even officials, are not allowed to go out.
At this moment, Xu Mo and Xiang Ying were walking in the streets.

There is no one else around.

In the shadow behind her, Wei Sanniang used her means to cover the guards along the road. Even if they passed by and shouted at them, they couldn't find Xu Mo and others.

Seeing the scene in Kyoto at this moment, Xu Mo couldn't help but say something.

"Illness comes like a mountain!"

Xiangying next to him leaned over and sniffed at Xu Mo, and said, "You are not sick, why are you sighing?"

Xu Mo said: "I'm talking about the Great Xia Dynasty!"

"Of course I know, it's just to tease you because you've been in a bad mood these days." Xiangying said again: "It's not because of you, so why worry about it. It’s not the world of Great Xia yet, I’ve seen prosperous times and experienced tragedies in troubled times, this is the law of nature. If you can’t see this, come back to Falling Dragon Mountain with me, we’re out of sight and out of mind.”

What Xiangying said makes sense.

At this moment, Xu Mo stopped and looked into the depths of the alley.

At this moment, the night is dark and the wind is high, and the alley is quiet and silent, but if you look carefully, you can see a faint light, flickering.

Xu Mo asked Xiangying if there was any evil in it.

Xiangying took a sniff, nodded and said there should be.

"Recently, in the land of Kyoto, there is much more evil spirit than in the past."

"Go in and have a look."

Xu Mo walked into this alley.

From the entrance to the inside, walk a hundred steps.

At the end is the courtyard door of a family, which is ajar, leaving a gap, and the light comes out from this gap.

Here, you can smell a strange fragrance.

Like someone is cooking meat.

"It's midnight, whose stew? Is life so good?"

The smell of meat is very attractive, and there is a feeling that makes people open their index fingers.

Xu Mo pushed the door open and entered, and saw an old man squatting in the small courtyard and lighting a fire in the stove over there.

The fire was big, but there was no smoke.

There is a strange big pot on the stove, something is cooking in the pot, and the strong smell of meat is coming from there.

The movement at the door naturally alarmed the old man, and the old man glanced back.

Good guy!
I've seen ugly ones, but never this ugly.

No.

This can no longer be called ugly, but terrifying and weird.

There are several mouths on the old man's face, the biggest one is on the chin, which can be opened left and right, and the neck and chest are like a long wound, which is full of sharp and small teeth.

"What kind of evil method are you cultivating, how did you make yourself into such a ghost?"

Xu Mo couldn't help asking.

The old man actually smiled.

A sound came out of that horrible mouth.

"Fellow daoists are so rare, it's just a small method of "Introducing Evil into the Body". There are many practitioners, and there are some who are uglier than me."

Listening to the meaning, I don't accept it.

Xu Mo likes this kind of unconvinced, and when he is convinced like this, he will have a sense of accomplishment.

But Xu Mo didn't do anything immediately, but leaned over and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Blind, didn't you see the stew?"

This old man is a tiger.

I hope to keep this kind of rebelliousness in the future.

"What kind of meat is so delicious?"

"Of course it's human flesh. Could it be cattle, sheep and livestock?" The old man sneered at this moment: "Fellow Daoist, don't ask, I know what you're going to do. If you have something to say, why beat around the bush."

"Oh, what do you think I'm going to do?"

"You just want to ask for some meat, or if you can't get it, just grab it. But don't blame me for not reminding you, if you dare to do it, believe it or not, the next pot will put you in the stew... Yo, there are more A little girl, not bad, you are so cute, I can stew it next time..."

Xiangying went up and tore off the opponent's arm.

It's as easy as breaking off a branch.

The old man wanted to call out, but he didn't make a sound.

Because a female ghost in red clothes suddenly appeared from behind him and covered the old man's mouth.

And whispered in the ear of the other party: "Shh, don't bark!"

The old man was terrified.

Not to mention the woman who tore off his arm, even the aura emanating from the female ghost behind him was enough to crush him.

The female ghost let go of her hand, and the old man is no longer a tiger now, and he is very honest, answering whatever he asks.

"Where are they from?"

"Graveyard."

Hearing the word Grave City, Xiang Ying leaned over and whispered a few words to Xu Mo.

Xu Mo nodded.

"what is it call?"

"King meal!"

"When did you come to Kyoto, and what did you come for?"

"I came here a few days ago, I, I came to eat people."

"Who asked you to come?"

"No one, it's me. I heard that the world will be chaotic, and human nature will be self-destructive. At this time, it is natural to seize the opportunity and come out to have a good meal. Fellow Daoist, you, aren't you the same?"

"Who is like you? Let me ask you, who did you come with?"

"It's just me, but I know that there are people in the grave city, but some of them went to other places."

I can't ask anything else.

"Eat it!"

After Xu Mo finished speaking, he got up and walked out. Xiang Ying took a look and followed.

A scream was heard behind him.

Wei Sanniang followed.

However, the blood on her dress seemed to be even brighter.

Xu Mo knew that in troubled times, many evil spirits would come out to eat people.

At times like this, I can't manage it at all. After all, in the chaotic world, many people lost their lives, and some evil spirits don't kill people, but only eat people. How can I manage it?
For example, when the world is in chaos, bandits kill people and steal goods.

Corpse thieves don't want it, but those weird monsters do.

Another example is that some people can't survive, and they sell their sons and daughters, and some evil spirits spend gold and silver to buy them, and then go back to stew soup, or fry them, and eat whatever they want.

And so on, everywhere, too much.

What's more, it is not uncommon to secretly kill and devour hundreds of people at a time.

Therefore, in troubled times, the population will inevitably decrease sharply.

Nothing will return to normal until the chaos is over.

But this must be a long-term process, maybe one or two months, maybe three to five years.

Even sometimes, it takes more than ten years or decades to recover.

"I've been to the grave city. It's not small. It's a bit like our Six Sacred Mountains and Rivers. In fact, although we only have six, there are many demon cultivators attached to us. Just in the Falling Dragon Mountain, the little demons under my command, at least There are hundreds of them."

One word from Xiangying revealed the details of the tomb city.

If Xu Mo were to make an analogy, it would be equivalent to martial arts sects and various forces.

Of course, this refers to the forces in the weird world of cultivating immortals.

"The rule of Zhengqi Division is to eliminate evil spirits and protect humanity. Since there are so many evil spirits in Kyoto, they must be eliminated naturally. Xiangying, Sanniang, we can't sleep anyway, come and kill with me, kill as many as you can."

Xu Mo was simmering with anger in his heart. He had figured out some truths before.Some people are full of evil in order to fight for power and profit, regardless of the safety of the common people. If this kind of person wins in the end and wins the position of emperor, doesn't it mean that the righteousness commander will also have to respect his orders in the future?
Isn't this helping the tyrants?

Then the righteousness department, will it still be the righteousness department?
He asked the director about this kind of thing before, but the director shook his head and said nothing; he also asked Han Xuan, and Han Xuan said that he couldn't explain it clearly and was a little confused.

Ask the saint.

The first sage asked if there were any new poems, and they wanted to hear them.

"They're all fucking lunatics!"

Especially the response from the Immortal Saint made Xu Mo feel terrified and his scalp tingled.

He suddenly remembered the eight-character plaque in Zhengqi Division.

"Imperial power is replaced, and humanity lasts forever!"

Watching it for the first time, it feels upright and awe-inspiring.

But thinking about it now, Xu Mo has a new understanding of these eight characters.

"The so-called long-term existence of human nature means that it is enough to exist, as long as it is not invaded by evil spirits from the external states and destroys humanity. But if a man-made disaster occurs, let it heal itself and never interfere. In this way, in the eyes of some mortals, Just like the fish in the pond, the sages and righteous officers are just guards by the pond, preventing outsiders from catching fish on a large scale. But the pond is limited after all, what to do if there are too many fish? Let the fish kill each other, they can eat and hurt the fish, but those on the shore From a human perspective, what does a fish pond mean?"

Xu Mo stood still at this moment, lost in thought, with a terrifying expression on his face.

Apparently, he figured it out.

But it was because he had figured it out that he had this reaction.

Because the result of this question really surprised him.

"Fish farming, other than to eat, why else? In the eyes of those existences, the nineteen prefectures of the Central Plains are just a larger fish pond. The so-called long-term humaneness is just that fishing is not allowed to exhaust the lake. There must be food, and, It must be there every year... so it turned out to be like this, it turned out to be like this!"

　Even more votes!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)