The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 416

After Xiao and the child disappeared, Chen Guang picked up the wooden spear discarded by his son, looked at the figure hesitating outside the manor, and could not help but sneer.

Suddenly, a crow with a blue beak and blue claws flew from a distance and flew straight into the village.

Chen Guang suddenly thrust the wooden spear in his hand, and the crow exploded into a ball of gray mist and disappeared.

Countless mocking and sarcastic voices rang out in the void:
"Where did this idiot come from? How dare he barge into the Phoenix Lord's territory! He is not a fool who has lost his mind, right?"

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Ever since Chen Guang's thoughts evolved into the form of a five-colored phoenix, he has basically become the most powerful demon-suppressor in the real world, almost without exception.

Even a super evil demon at the level of Demon Lord (Great Demon) would have to take a detour when seeing him.

Normally, once such a hero appears in the real world, it will basically become a nightmare for the evil demons that invade reality.

There are even some overly radical human heroes who, because they went too far in suppressing the evil spirits, were ambushed and killed by a group of demon lords.

Perhaps many people would think that it is very common for the elites among humans to be surrounded and killed by evil spirits?
Of course it is not normal, especially among the evil demons at the level of Demon Lord (Great Demon), where infighting is the norm and their own kind are their biggest enemies.

It is said that for every demon lord, more than 99% of his power is used on the battlefield to fight against or plot against other evil demons, and the power actually used to conquer and corrupt the real world is less than one ten-thousandth.

If a demon lord uses all his strength to attack the real world, no real world (planet) can even survive for a breath under this dimensionality reduction attack.

But no Demon Lord dares to do so. Even if the Supreme Evil God personally gives the order, the Demon Lords will still disobey it in secret.

There is a reason why the demon lords are so "selfish and disregard the overall situation".

Let’s use an analogy.

Evil demons are corroding the world, just like a group of gamers go to an online game to create an account and form a group to earn gold. The Demon Lord is the captain of this group of players and has the power to pick up and distribute the spoils of the entire gold-earning group.

The spoils obtained by the gold farming group (worldly knowledge, souls, and emotional energy) are the real hard currency among the demons. The big ones must be handed over to the Chaos Evil God, the boss behind the gold farming group, and the small ones belong to the gold farming team leader (big demon). As for most members of the gold farming group, they are not eligible to enjoy the distribution of spoils. Their only chance is to earn some gray money when performing gold farming tasks in the real world.

Even with such harsh conditions, all the Chaos Demons are still eager to participate in gold making in the real world.

Because it is safe!

Even if you die during the gold-making process, it is only the real-world game account that dies, and the damage to the original body is almost zero (but it will affect the next gold-making qualification).

Moreover, if those evil minions can make some extra money in the real world, although these "extra money" are not even garbage in the eyes of the big guys, they are still fatter than waiting in the chaotic realm for tens of thousands of years.

Compared with going to the real world to brush maps and make gold, the fight between evil spirits in the chaos realm is like offline real-life PK among game players, which is really deadly and cruel beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

However, if a demon fails in an internal fight, at the very least, he will lose all the gold he has accumulated over thousands of years, or at worst, his position will be destroyed and he will be reduced to a slave of other demon lords, never to be able to turn over a new leaf.

However, the Chaos Evil God, who is the boss behind the scenes, deliberately indulges and even encourages the demon lords under his command to attack and fight each other.

This leads to only fighting and no cooperation among all Chaos Demon Lords. Even if there is cooperation, there are still wings of conspiracy and backstabbing behind it.

Almost all the heroes who have awakened the Phoenix Mind have made it their mission to expel evil spirits and protect the real world. When they fight against evil spirits, there is never the most radical, only more radical.

They are equivalent to the plot characters in online games, but they can find the real Demon Lord through the Internet for real-life PK.

This is also the reason why some overly radical Phoenix heroes are fortunate enough to be jointly attacked by the Chaos Demon Lord.

It is hard to imagine how outrageous the existence would be to force the Chaos Demon Lords to join forces to deal with it.

It is rare in the world to find someone like Chen Guang who has awakened the Phoenix consciousness but hides in a small corner of the mortal world, seemingly just waiting to die.

However, such a Phoenix Lord (a nickname given by the evil demons to those who have awakened the Phoenix Mind) is the best outcome for the evil demons. After all, no one wants to be led by the Phoenix Lord through the Internet to the chaotic realm to cause trouble.

Of course, in order to prevent Chen Guang from playing tricks like Mi Lu did back then, they kept spies around Chen Guang at all times to prevent the same thing from happening again.

Speaking of this "repetition of the past", it is quite interesting.

This happened during the Spring and Autumn Period. During this period, the number of outstanding people who awakened the Phoenix Mind and their abilities were the highest in all dynasties.

It happened that the previous Phoenix Lord Zi Zifu (surname Zi, given name Zi Fu) died in battle in Xiangyi, and the new Phoenix Lord was in a bad mood every day. Even though he inherited the position of the king, he has been quietly keeping a low profile.

It was not until the assistant Fan Ji (Emperor's Princess, named Fan), who was specially trained by the Phoenix Lord named Mi Lu, grew up to be a talented person, that he took advantage of the situation and became a great killer, leaving behind the allusion of "making a big splash" for later generations.

How powerful is this Phoenix Lord Mi Lu?
He once entered the Chaos Realm alone and took back the bloodline of his ancestors who had surrendered to the Chaos Evil God - a divine bull of unknown origin (allusion [The Cow Theft in the State of Chu]), and removed the Chaos shackles that the evil god had placed on the people of Chu, allowing the Chu people to return to the mortal world and become part of the human family.

Mi Lu's achievements are naturally not limited to this. Not to mention how he led the newly born State of Chu to dominate the world, he also brought back countless forbidden knowledge from the realm of chaos, making it the foundation of the State of Chu and laying a solid foundation for the later birth of Qu Yuan.

There is no doubt that Mi Lu is one of the Phoenix Lords who has caused the greatest damage to the evil spirits.

The Chaos Demon Lords even teamed up to fight him twice, but the first time the Demon Lords failed to fight back and were instead defeated. After all, the combination of Phoenix God Lord and Princess Di was too terrifying. At least three Demon Lords were completely bankrupt in that ambush, and they are still serving as slaves for other Demon Lords in the Chaos Realm.

It was not until the death of Mi Lu's closest comrade-in-arms and wife Fan Ji that the frightened evil demons launched a second secret encirclement and suppression campaign against Mi Lu. This time they invited a Joyful Demon Lord (Xia Ji) as the mastermind, who used beauty to divide and disintegrate the forces around Mi Lu for several years, and finally succeeded in one fell swoop.

Because the birth of Chen Guang's Phoenix thought was also related to Chen Shen, Chen Shen also specifically read the secret files about the Phoenix Lord's magic suppression.

Chen Shen admired those great men of the past who fought to the death for humanity, and he also agreed with Chen Guang's passive avoidance of the world.

Because this is not the time for Chen Guang to work hard. If he wants to really achieve something, he may have to wait until more than 20 years later.

But this did not prevent Chen Shen from finding something to do for his good senior brother in advance.

As for Chen Shen himself, he restored the palm of his right hand and then rushed back to the foggy space.

The foggy space has a magical feature. If you are a timid human being, when you hide in the fog and keep quiet, even if evil spirits pass by you, they will not be able to find your trace.

Only those brave fighters who have courage and faith (name and character) will truly face and fight against the evil.

There is no doubt that Douchong'er is not a courageous man. He has been hiding in the fog for a long time and has evaded several groups of demons and evildoers who came to search for him.

He was almost frightened to death. The closest demon hunter was less than three feet away from him. He could even hear the demon's heavy breathing like an old cow and its extremely disgusting body odor.

Beanworm wanted to jump up and run away, but he was so scared that his hands and feet were so limp that he couldn't move.

Just when he was about to collapse completely, Chen Shen appeared in time.

If two humans both want to get close to each other, when they appear in the foggy space separately, there is a high probability that they will be very close, which allows Chen Shen to quickly get to Douchong'er's side.

Chen Shen's right hand was still a little too delicate, which affected his shooting speed a little, but it did not prevent him from easily killing the dog-shaped evil demon that was sniffing around for bean worms.

The Fear Stalker is a Chaos Demon that is good at tracking fear. It is a bully and a coward. If you are a coward, the Fear Stalker is a deadly hungry tiger; but if you are a very courageous person, then the Fear Stalker is not even as threatening to you as a Pekingese.

Before Douchong'er hugged Chen Shen's thighs and cried bitterly, Chen Shen brought him back to the real world.

This made Douchonger feel quite regretful and aggrieved, but Chen Shen had already lost one of his original hands, and he didn't want to lose another original leg.

What? You asked Chen Shen why he kept Dou Chong'er around since he suspected him?

Let’s put it this way, people like Dou Chong’er and Qin Guan, who have had close contact with evil but have never truly surrendered, are like the cat in Schrödinger’s house, in a state of paradox.

This is a very special state of space-time distortion imposed by the ever-changing evil demon on all things.

Under normal circumstances, bean worms are real bean worms.

However, if a certain corresponding condition is triggered, the bean worm beside Chen Shen will be instantly replaced by the evil demon, and the backup body anchored in a special place will become a real bean worm.

Just like Qin Guan, before entering the subspace, Qin Guan was still the real Qin Guan. When the two entered the Iron Ruins, Qin Guan became the fallen demon Cheng Han, and the backup body placed in Cheng Zhishao's Xihe Camp became the real Qin Guan.

It is not difficult to crack this evil secret technique. The first thing is to not give the evil a chance to activate the secret technique, and then find a backup body, so that the backup body and the original body can be observed by the same eyes at the same time, and then the secret technique will be broken.

The problem is that Chen Shen doesn’t know where Dou Chong’er’s backup body is hidden. Finding it requires time, wisdom, and luck.

As for why Chen Shen did not activate the time and space distortion in Dou Chong'er, the reason is very simple. Not all evil spirits are willing to tell Chen Shen the whereabouts of the backup body like the fallen Cheng Han.

When Chen Shen and Dou Chong'er returned to the real world, they were no longer in Huaguang Pavilion, but in Lipu, Guizhou, hundreds of kilometers away.

This is the uncertainty that most people face when entering the foggy space. Most of the time, no matter where you enter the foggy space, no matter how you struggle in the foggy land, the place where you finally return to the world will still be the same place where you left before.

But there is also a small probability that your return point is far away from your departure point, just like what happened to Chen Shen and Dou Chonger.

Chen Shen's only impression of Lipu was that the taro here was delicious and was a tribute to the later Qing Dynasty. Chen Shen knew this because he had watched a comedy with a pigtail character in the lead role when he was a teenager.

In order to calm Douchong's frightened heart, Chen Shen went to a restaurant in Lipu County and tasted the local specialty - Lipu taro.

In fact, the real record of artificial cultivation of Lipu taro was during the Ming Dynasty. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Lipu taro was regarded as a wild treasure like yam and polygonatum, which could be used to fill the stomach and as medicine.

Even so, the fragrant, glutinous and soft Lipu taro still left a lasting impression on the two.

After resting for half a day, Chen Shen contacted the local demon-suppressing master, a powerful herb digger.

Chen Shen informed the other party of the incident that occurred in Guanghua Pavilion in Tengzhou, and suggested that he contact more demon-suppressing people to pay attention to this matter, especially to send new demon-suppressing people to Tengzhou.

As for the original demon-suppressor in Tengzhou, there is no doubt that he is either dead or corrupted, otherwise the evil spirit would never have been so rampant.

In fact, at the end of every year, the demon-suppressing people in a certain area will basically gather together once. Those demon-suppressing people who cannot attend the gathering on time will be suspected of having problems. This can be regarded as a self-inspection mechanism that has been passed down and summarized by the demon-suppressing people for thousands of years, even when information is not smooth.

Although it seems a bit delayed in time, it is really useful.

After settling the aftermath of the Tengzhou incident, Chen Shen took Dou Chong'er on a journey to Xihe.

Chen Shen wanted to find the real Qin Guan, and the only difficulty was the slightly long journey.

How far is Guizhou from Xizhou? The straight-line distance is about three thousand miles, and there are many mountains and rivers along the way. Even if Chen Shen wanted to travel this distance quickly, it would take him more than ten days.

Not to mention that Chen Shen was accompanied by a burdensome Dou Chong'er. Without half a year, the two of them would have no chance of reaching Xihe.

Of course, Chen Shen didn't want to waste any more time on the road, so he took Dou Chong'er with him and took a boat from Lijiang in Lipu all the way north, arrived at Tanzhou along the Xiangjiang River, then passed Liuyang and entered Hongzhou, and finally entered Meiling.

The whole process took less than half a month, and Chen Shen brought Dou Chong'er to open the web portal in Meiling Mountain. In the blink of an eye, they appeared in Dunhuang thousands of miles away, which is the ancient Yumen Pass in Shazhou belonging to Western Xia.

At the westernmost end of the Hexi Corridor in the northwest, there are two major passes that cannot be ignored. One is the Yangguan Pass mentioned in the saying “There are no old friends west of Yangguan Pass”, and the other is the Yumen Pass mentioned in the saying “The spring breeze does not reach Yumen Pass”.

These two major passes not only control the entire Hexi Corridor in terms of terrain, but also have strategic significance in terms of time and space.

On the secret front of the Demon Suppressors, this is also the bridgehead for Eastern human civilization to fight against the chaotic barbarians from the dark areas of the West.

It’s a pity that the Song Dynasty, which claimed to be the legitimate dynasty of China, failed to control this place and could not get the demon-suppressing people to fully recognize the legal principles of its regime.

This is also the reason why the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty lived in peace, but fought desperately to attack the Western Xia.

(End of this chapter)