Traveling through time 1 years late, I was forced to become a powerful person
Chapter 378: Cave Spirit Heaven
Chapter 378: Cave Spirit Heaven
Shuzhou, Chaofeng County.
After handing the last pancake on the snack cart to the customer, Chen Liang breathed a sigh of relief, with a look of relief in his eyes.
“Finally sold out!”
He reached out and opened the wooden box containing the money. What was inside was not the paper money issued by Daxia, but spiritual coins of various sizes.
These spirit coins are made by grinding spirit stones absorbed by practitioners into powder and then melting them with some minerals. They are used by Dong Ling Zhentian as currency for daily transactions among ordinary people.
As early as five years ago, after Dong Ling Zhentian took over Chaofeng County, he immediately abolished Da Xia's original monetary system and began to issue spiritual coins.
Naturally, many people in Chaofeng County opposed it at the beginning. After all, the people of Daxia have had the habit of saving since ancient times. Once the original Xia currency is abolished, it means that they will lose the wealth accumulated in their families.
For several months in a row, the streets in Chaofeng County were occupied by a large number of demonstrators, and the voices against Dongling Zhentian became louder and louder.
Some people even claimed that they would kick Dong Ling Zhentian out of Chaofeng County and welcome him back to the Daxia court.
But after several large demons attacked several densely populated neighborhoods, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of people, the original wave of opposition gradually subsided under the threat of the demons.
After all, what’s the point of having money if you lose your life?
After closing the wooden box containing the money, Chen Liang sorted out the various items on the snack cart while secretly calculating today's gains in his mind.
"I earned eighty spirit coins today. After deducting the principal and the taxes that need to be paid to Dongling Zhentian, I still have thirty-one left.
The rice and flour at home are almost gone, so I have to spend ten coins to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil, and I can save up twenty-one spirit coins."
"The owner of the Lingzhen Dojo in the city is said to be an outer disciple of Dongling Zhentian. If you want to become his disciple, you need to pay a tuition fee of 10,000 Ling coins. If you are talented, you will have the opportunity to enter Dongling Zhentian through the dojo.
Once you enter Dongling Zhentian, you will not only be exempted from the demon-killing tax, but you will also have the hope of moving into the inner city.
I have no hope in this life, but Cong'er might have a chance to join the immortal sect."
Thinking of this, a glimmer of hope rose in Chen Liang's eyes.
During the ten years when the spiritual energy tide was reviving, he had also fantasized that he could ascend to heaven and enter the immortal gate in one step, but the fact was that he was just one of the ordinary people.
Ten years ago, after graduating from college, he became a programmer and joined a large company that was at its peak at the time.
Despite the spiritual energy tidal crisis, Chen Liang was still able to work normally, get married and have children thanks to the order maintained by the Great Xia court.
However, as the world further recovered, the order of Daxia collapsed. The power grid and infrastructure that had taken decades to build were destroyed almost overnight. Even the basic electricity supply could not be guaranteed. As a programmer, he became unemployed.
Forced into a corner, Chen Liang had no choice but to pick up his family craft and start selling pancakes to make a living.
Chen Liang, who barely has a skill, is considered lucky. The truly sad ones are those who lost their original jobs due to the collapse of order.
After Dongling Zhentian took over Chaofeng County and abolished the original currency, those people were forced to join Dongling Zhentian in order to support their families and became spiritual plant masters and pioneers under Dongling Zhentian.
These are not good careers.
The spiritual plant master needs to take care of the spiritual rice and spiritual plants planted by Dong Ling Zhentian. Although there will be basic cultivation methods passed down by the sect, the little spiritual power cultivated will be used to nourish the spiritual rice and spiritual plants, and there is no extra spiritual power to improve the cultivation.
Although he has entered the realm of refining essence, the long-term loss of spiritual power has made the spiritual plant master's physical condition even worse than that of ordinary people.
As for the pioneers, it is even more dangerous. The vast tracts of territory that have been revived by the heaven and earth have not yet been developed, and a large number of people are needed to open up the wilderness.
In places far away from cities, poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, demons and evil creatures appear in endlessly. Even if there are Dongling Zhentian monks in charge, it is very likely to encounter danger, and if you are not careful, you may die in the wilderness.
Most of them can only support their families at the risk of losing their lives, and only a very small number of pioneers can stand out from the masses and be qualified to enter the inner city of Chaofeng County.
Chen Liang couldn't help but look towards the center of the county town, the area that was blocked by an invisible formation barrier.
It is said that in the inner city, there is still a normal electricity supply, and the games and entertainment are no different from before the revival of heaven and earth. I don’t know how many people have died in the wilderness just to compete for a place in the inner city.
"Perhaps if the Great Xia court was still around, this situation wouldn't have happened!"
Chen Liang couldn't help but think so.
Just as he finished packing his things and was about to push the snack cart home, he suddenly heard a loud, earth-shattering noise in the distance.
The invisible barrier that separated the inner and outer cities of Chaofeng County was shattered by a ray of sword light, revealing the prosperous inner city with bright lights.
"who is it!"
"How dare you attack me, Dong Ling Zhen Tian!"
"You have a way to die!"
I saw rays of light rising from the inner city into the sky, revealing monks wearing robes and with extraordinary demeanor.
Chen Liang recognized one of the purple-robed monks at a glance. He was the owner of Lingzhen Taoist Hall, whom he had wanted his son to become a disciple of, a great Qigong monk with profound cultivation.
However, even a figure like the Master of Lingzhen Pavilion could only rank last among the many cultivators who ascended into the sky. The aura of the three cultivators at the top was like the scorching sun, making people dare not look directly at them.
"Could it be the legendary Dongtian Zhenren?"
As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, a sword light flashed like thunder, and those Dongling Zhentian cultivators who were originally standing proudly in the air fell down like rain, even including the three Dongtian Zhenren.
Human heads were separated and scattered all over the corpses. Chen Liang could even see a real person's head with a look of fear on it.
"It turns out that immortals can also die!"
High in the sky, the Huiming sword that had killed hundreds of cultivators was sheathed. Shen Yuan looked gloomily at the vast fields outside Chaofeng County.
The wilderness outside the county town has been reclaimed into acres of spiritual fields, and in the mountains and forests there are spiritual plant masters cultivating spiritual materials. At a glance, everything seems so harmonious.
However, as the master of the mystical power of the netherworld and the Emperor of Fengdu in the Xuanhuang Realm, Shen Yuan could see at a glance how thick the death energy was hidden under the spiritual fields that stretched for dozens of miles outside the county city.
These seemingly orderly spiritual fields were all opened up from the wilderness after the revival of heaven and earth, and countless corpses are buried in them.
The spiritual planters among these spiritual fields have been drained of their spiritual energy for a long time, causing their life breath to dry up and their lifespan to be greatly shortened.
Looking at everything in front of him, Shen Yuan suddenly said:
"Before the revival of heaven and earth, how many people were there in Chaofeng County?"
Before Xia Yunqiu could speak, the director of the Imperial Observatory took the initiative to step forward and responded softly:
"Before the recovery of heaven and earth, the population of Chaofeng County recorded by the imperial court was 17 million. More than 9 million of them were in Chaofeng County City, and the remaining 8 million were distributed in the five counties under the jurisdiction of Chaofeng County."
Shen Yuan was silent. Just now, his spiritual sense swept across Chaofeng County City. The remaining population in the county city was less than five million. This was the population after people from various counties voluntarily gathered in the county city after the catastrophe.
Although Chaofeng County experienced an invasion by demons, they were definitely unable to massacre millions of people. It is obvious where the missing population went.
His eyes swept across the open wilderness filled with a thick aura of death outside the county town, and a voice filled with anger slowly sounded:
"Dongling Zhentian, you deserve to die!" Originally, Shen Yuan only came to question Dongling Zhentian under the pretext of Zhu Heng Zhenjun, in order to warn this blessed land. Who would have thought that he would encounter such a situation in Chaofeng County.
In ancient times, there were demon tribes that ate humans, but they were later slaughtered by powerful humans. Even though the demon tribe has risen now, cannibalism is rare among the big demons. Instead, they try to invade humans and occupy spiritual lands.
However, right now in Chaofeng County, Dong Ling Zhen Tian's actions are tantamount to feeding on the people.
First, he lured the demon tribe to attack the city and seize the power of Chaofeng County. Then he abolished the currency and emptied the people's savings. When the people were penniless, he tempted them with benefits, driving them to open up the wilderness and squeeze their own vitality to cultivate spiritual plants.
Every acre of spiritual farmland developed outside the city is buried with the corpses of a large number of people from Chaofeng County. The entire Dongling Zhentian is built on this mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
Behind Shen Yuan, Xia Yunqiu was also filled with anger when she saw this scene. She had heard that the Imperial Observatory was reporting on the events in Chaofeng County, but she had never thought that it would develop to this point.
At this moment, the expressions of the other twenty or so Lianxu Zhenjun from various forces were even more exciting.
Some people were shocked by Dong Ling Zhentian's method of sucking the marrow out of people's bones, some were outraged by the death of a large number of humans, some felt guilty and avoided their gazes without saying a word, and some even looked indifferent and disdainful.
Each major blessed land naturally has its own set of operating methods for the states and counties under its control.
Some still operate according to the rule of the Great Xia court, while others are even more oppressive than Dong Ling Zhen Tian.
After all, Daxia still needs the willpower and destiny of the people, and dare not easily shake the foundation of the people, but the major forces may not consider so much.
Just as everyone was wondering, they saw a full moon rising from the mountains and quickly descending over Chaofeng County. It was Dongling Zhentian, one of the thirty-six cave heavens.
Then an angry voice came from Dongling Zhentian.
"Who are you and why are you killing my Dongling Zhentianmen?"
The person who was speaking was also a Lianxu Zhenjun. As he spoke, the Dongling Zhentian, which looked like a full moon, showed a hint of blood, pregnant with an ominous aura.
The vast majority of these blessed places have taken tens of thousands of years to build, and are filled with countless altars and spirit formations. Combined with the caves' super high maneuverability, they are weapons of war that surpass the Taixu ships.
The True Lord Lianxu in the Dongling Zhentian obviously realized that Shen Yuan had ill intentions, so he did not show up, but instead drove the Dongling Zhentian to question him.
Many True Lords couldn't help but retreat when seeing this. The True Lord who controls the War Cave is completely different from the ordinary True Lord.
Only Shen Yuan stood proudly, his eyes as sharp as torches as if he could see through the cave and saw the two Lianxu Zhenjun who were mobilizing their disciples and presiding over the formation in the cave.
Shen Yuan said in a cold voice.
"Whose idea was it to force ordinary people in Chaofeng County to open up the wilderness, causing heavy casualties among the people?"
"Ordinary people? You came here in such a threatening manner just for such a trivial matter?"
The alert Dongling Zhentian Zhenjun was stunned for a moment, and his expression visibly relaxed.
"Little things?"
"They are just some mortals. Since you have cultivated to this level, you must have seen through life and death. How could you not understand that the cycle of life and death is the great way of heaven and earth?
If among these dead mortals there are your blood relatives, I, Dong Ling Zhen Tian, am willing to make compensation.
But if you want to use these mortals as an excuse to put pressure on me, Dong Ling Zhen Tian, then I'm afraid you've found the wrong person. I, Dong Ling Zhen Tian, will not fall for it!"
As he spoke, the blood color on the full moon became increasingly intense.
"Is this Dong Ling Zhen Tian's answer?"
Shen Yuan's eyes were cold, and he was not prepared to continue arguing with the people from Dongling Zhentian.
He knew very well that it was definitely not just Dong Ling Zhen Tian who did this in the entire Xuan Huang Realm. If he wanted to avoid this from happening, there was only one word - kill!
Kill until all forces are terrified, and kill until all cultivators dare not act recklessly.
With this thought in mind, Shen Yuan took a step towards the full moon in front of him.
"Boom!"
A sound like a beating heart came from Dongling Zhentian. Before the two Lianxu Zhenjun could understand what was happening, they suddenly saw the originally stable space in Dongling Zhentian suddenly twisted, swallowing the two Lianxu Zhenjuns into it.
The next moment, the space changed, and the two Lianxu Zhenjun who presided over the war cave heaven actually appeared directly in the world.
"How can it be!"
Voices of astonishment rang out above Chaofeng County City, and then everyone saw an extremely dazzling sword.
The sword seemed to carry a realm, and with the weight of the world it easily crushed the Taoist weapons, Dharma images, and souls of the two True Lords of Lianxu.
Blood splattered like red crystal jade, and two astonished heads fell from the sky to the earth.
In an instant, the two Lianxu Zhenjun surrendered.
"You deserve to die!"
An angry roar sounded from the scarlet full moon, and an incomparably powerful aura emanated from the Cave Spirit Heaven. Then, the scarlet war cave heaven was completely unfolded at this moment.
The formation that covered the sky and the sun concealed everything within a thousand miles. The nested formation patterns seemed to have merged into this world. The huge cave was like a deep giant mouth that wanted to swallow the world.
Many True Lords showed surprise on their faces when they saw this. Dongling Zhentian's development of the War Cave Heaven was somewhat beyond their expectations, which suddenly aroused some expectations in their hearts that they had never had before.
"Does this Taoist master of the Cave Spirit True Heaven have a chance to control the War Cave Heaven?"
But just the next moment, Shen Yuan told them the answer.
Outside the world where the war cave unfolded, in a higher dimensional space, a gigantic hand slowly reached down and grasped the crimson full moon in its hand as easily as picking up a marble.
More than twenty Lianxu Zhenjun opened their eyes wide, trying to see the mystery clearly. However, without crossing the dimensional boundary, low-dimensional creatures would never be able to understand high-dimensional existence. All they could see was only a partial projection of the Dao Dharma.
The Hutian magical power that was evolving towards the fifth realm was displayed in Shen Yuan's hands, and the huge Dongling Zhentian was forcibly knocked down to the dimension.
Descending from three dimensions to two dimensions, Dongling Zhentian turned into a painting, in which most of the vitality was wiped out. Only the Dao Lord, who was in harmony with the Dao, tried to break through the boundary with the help of the true meaning of the Dao.
The dimension dropped again, and everything was broken down into lines of order. The disturbance lines of the formation engraved in the cave like laws were entangled in Shen Yuan's palm.
With five fingers clenched tightly, the one-dimensional line falls to zero dimension and turns into an infinitesimally small point.
Then he waved his hand lightly, and the zero-dimensional point quietly dissipated, and the cave was completely wiped out!
(End of this chapter)
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