Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 169 0168: Someone comes again; sneaking into Chencang!

March 20th, afternoon.

Li Lu led his men out of the county again, preparing to head south, and he was still leading the same group of people as last time.

The mission this time is still to collect medicinal materials.

After talking with Li Lu at home two days ago, Cheng Zongyang pretended to send a message asking for the prescription.

So, the "letter" was received this morning, which led to the fact that Li Lu left early to collect medicinal materials.

Cheng Zongyang needs to use ready-made medicinal materials and grains to make internal tonic pills first.

The materials used to make Neibu Pills are not that scarce or precious.

With the remaining reserves from the original county town and the medicinal materials that Li Lu brought back later, a lot can be produced.

But to get through to the summer harvest, more medicinal herbs will be needed.

It is almost the end of March now, and the harvest is about two to three months away.

To Cheng Zongyang's surprise, someone came from the north again in the afternoon of the day Li Lu left.

This time, there were twelve people! They each rode a tall and fast horse, and quickly entered through the north gate, and stopped on the main street in the north of the city.

The middle-aged man in the lead took a look at the surrounding environment and continued riding his horse towards the county government office.

The twelve people came with such force that some of the people around them were a little frightened.

Some gang members in the crowd immediately dispersed and reported the situation quickly upon seeing this.

Cheng Zongyang, who was arranging doctors to grind medicine powder in the warehouse, learned about the situation. At that time, Zhao Laoqi, Li Xian, Xiao Bing and Chen Eryun had already been called to the county government office.

Cheng Zongyang looked serious and did not act rashly. Instead, he asked the gang members to report the situation at any time.

In order to facilitate the transmission of information, he went directly to a private house near the county government office and waited.

As for the people who made the medicine, Cheng Zongyang told them to continue working and there was no need for them to worry.

The facts were similar to what Cheng Zongyang and others had expected.

When Zhao Laoqi and others were called to the backyard of the county government office for questioning, they answered naturally because they had prepared in advance. The four of them pointed to the three people who left in the east direction of the city in the morning, which was also seen by the people in the city at that time.

Later, these people's actions were as expected. They split into four groups and went to four directions in the city to inquire about the situation.

After hearing the latest news from his younger brother, Cheng Zongyang began to think about it.

The actions of these twelve people were basically within his expectations, so the next thing was food.

It was around 7 or 8 in the evening when Zhao Laoqi and his men were released, but they also left with orders.

At the gate of the county government, a younger brother saw the four bosses coming out, and quickly came to their side and whispered:
"Master Cheng said to let Gang Leader Zhao go, and the other three gang leaders should go back first, so as not to arouse their suspicion."

Upon hearing this, the four of them bowed silently and dispersed back to their own areas.

Zhao Laoqi followed his younger brother to a private house in the east of the city near the county government office.

In the main hall of the house, Cheng Zongyang saw that Zhao Laoqi's face was a little pale, and said with a smile: "Are those people scary? Did they scare you like this?"

Zhao Laoqi said with a sad face: "Their aura is too strong. It's like they want to skin us alive. We dare not move, for fear that we will be beheaded the next moment.

Fortunately, there were no accidents. After they sent people out to inquire, they all came back to report the truth. Sir, thank goodness you made arrangements in advance, otherwise we would have lost our lives tonight!"

Cheng Zongyang shook his head and didn't pay attention to what Zhao Laoqi said later. He just asked, "Tell me in detail about their situation and what they are going to do?"

Zhao Laoqi said with lingering fear: "The oldest one is probably in his forties, and the youngest is probably in his thirties.

They are all tall and fierce, more vicious than some murderers."

Cheng Zongyang was speechless when he heard this description, but he didn't interrupt and continued listening.

"...Later they asked me to collect at least 10,000 kilograms of grain. But I said that if all the grain was taken away, everyone in the county would die, so I begged them to keep half and only pay half. In the end, they agreed."

Cheng Zongyang was quite surprised: "Are they so easy to talk to?"

Zhao Laoqi shook his head: "No, they sent people to the warehouse to check, and also learned about the grain situation in the county from the people in various places.

Fortunately, they did not ask about what was happening outside the county. My Lord, I was worried that they would ask about the people's situation outside, and I was also worried that they would let the cat out of the bag. "

Cheng Zongyang said: "This cannot be prevented. With so many people, it is impossible to shut up everyone. Not everyone is kind-hearted. There are always some with malicious intentions.

But their random checks only cover a portion of the people, not all of them, so the probability is not high."

In fact, he had already anticipated this situation. With so many people farming and building new villages outside the west of the city, the so-called confidentiality was a joke.

But after the last exchange with Li Lu, he made a new decision. It didn't matter if these outsiders knew about it.

Zhao Laoqi was a little anxious: "Sir, taking out 5,000 kilograms of grain is a huge loss for us. The grain that Sir Li brought back last time was equivalent to giving it away."

Cheng Zongyang waved his hand and said, "Give it to me. We have internal tonic pills as a substitute, so we don't have to worry about food. We are sending them away now, and they probably won't come back again."

Zhao Laoqi looked at Cheng Zongyang's smiling face, which seemed a little indifferent, and felt confused.

Although he had doubts about Cheng Zongyang's awe, he did not ask.

Don’t ask questions that you shouldn’t ask. Just follow orders.

Cheng Zongyang then began to instruct Zhao Laoqi on some arrangements.

So, at the instruction of Cheng Zongyang, Zhao Laoqi went to find Li Xian and three others.

After discussing it, they began to arrange people to organize the food and load it on wooden carts the next morning.

A cart of old rice weighs 500 kilograms, a total of ten carts.

At the north gate of the city, in front of thousands of people, the foreign leader, with a strong attitude, found thirty strong laborers and pulled a cart to leave the county.

Thousands of people, from children to the elderly, watched the grain carts heading north with anger on their faces, but they could do nothing.

The county town, which was already short of food, is now even worse off.

The family members who were conscripted as coolies were also in grief at this time, which made people's eyes red and speechless. Perhaps, these thirty people would never come back.

In the crowd, Cheng Zongyang watched the whole thing from beginning to end, and also knew the martial arts skills of these twelve people. He kept a smile on his face, and finally turned and left.

Zhao Laoqi felt relieved when he saw the thousands of people blocking the city gate.

Although he didn't know what Cheng Zongyang was going to do, he did everything that was arranged.

But when he looked around, he didn't see Cheng Zongyang.

"Wasn't he there just now?" Zhao Laoqi looked around, thinking that Cheng Zongyang had gone back, and didn't think much about it.

Then the four gang members dispersed the crowd and continued to build the new village, while also closing the north gate.

More than 300 meters to the right of the official road in the north of the city, a figure flew towards the north at an extremely fast speed.

On the official road, the twelve foreigners carrying the grain carts could only move slowly.

"Captain, did Lu Zhi and his gang really go east? They are gone, and the grain is not collected."

On the way, a young man asked curiously.

The middle-aged man in the lead said calmly:
"It should be true. From the descriptions of the children, adults, and elderly people we randomly searched for, they were basically the same. This means that the six of them did leave. They must have run into something urgent."

Hearing this, the young man’s doubts were gone.

"Captain, is this enough food?" Another person followed up and said, "We checked the grain depot last night and can collect a few thousand kilograms more."

The captain shook his head: "We won't exhaust all the fish. If we leave some for them, they will have less resistance. If we take all of it, it will be like asking for their lives. When the food in the rear arrives, there will be no need to continue collecting food."

The others all nodded. "We don't know how long this battle will last. Daliang is really holding on." Someone complained.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, we will all benefit from conquering a place. Even if we withdraw our troops later, it will be enough to make our family stronger."

"Hahaha, that's right. If we can make a breakthrough with some resources and advance our family to a middle-third-grade family, that would be even better."

Everyone was chatting leisurely, and from time to time they urged the people pulling the carts behind.

About three kilometers ahead of the official road is a bamboo forest. The official road passes through this bamboo forest, which is about 300 meters long. This is also a low mountain area.

A black figure twisted and turned through the bamboo forest and finally landed beside the drainage ditch on the side of the official road.

"This place is nice." The black figure looked around and was very satisfied.

The person who came was Cheng Zongyang.

Although he acted so indifferent to Li Lu and Zhao Laoqi, he solved the problem by compromising.

But that's just what is said to the outside world.

There are many people and many opinions, and those who know only know what is said on the surface, so the probability of leakage is reduced to the lowest!
In full view of the public, the first group of people left. This has nothing to do with the county.

In full view of the public, the second group of people left with food. This again had nothing to do with the county.

Even if the third group of people came, no one would have thought that a group of ordinary people in the county could kill eighteen warriors from the ninth to seventh ranks!
With thousands of people witnessing, no matter how the third group of people interrogated, the only result was that they came and left with the food.

This secret attack on Chencang would just kill them here, take away the food, and everything would be back to normal.

Then he slowly closed his eyes and raised his right hand to the sky, as if he was summoning something.

At the same time, Anhunpo is located in Yufeng County.

A plain stone tablet with no inscriptions and a height of a person suddenly trembled. The gray fog that originally filled the area within three meters was instantly sucked back and completely sank into the stone tablet.

The next moment, the body of the monument shook again, and instantly rose up from the ground into the sky, turning into a gray light and flashing to the north.

It takes about four or five breaths.

With a "bang", a stone tablet fell from the sky and suddenly stuck into the ground two meters in front of Cheng Zongyang, leaving only one-third of its height.

The soil was flying, the air was surging, and the dust was everywhere.

Cheng Zongyang waved his hand to disperse the dust, then looked at the Soul Gathering Monument and a smile appeared on his lips.

"This time, let's test your strength in the ghost wall!"

He murmured, and then looked at its new information.

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Soul Collection Monument

Grade: Fifth Grade

Yin domain: 1300 meters

Quantity: 201/12000
Effect: Ghost Wall Lv5; Psychedelic Lv2;

Other: Unlocked
Controller: Cheng Zongyang

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Looking at the new changes, Cheng Zongyang was secretly shocked.

It hasn't been long, and it's already level five! It also has a psychedelic effect.

After Cheng Zongyang sensed it, he understood the effect of hallucinations.

If the ghost wall is a visual illusion that makes people unable to distinguish directions, then the psychedelic is a spiritual one.

“This is much easier now.”

As soon as the thought came to his mind, gray mist spread out from the Soul Gathering Monument and quickly spread to the surrounding area within 1300 meters.

Only he can control the visibility of this gray fog, so there is no need to worry about outsiders seeing it without entering.

When they entered the range without noticing, they entered the range of the ghost wall. At that time, he could control the gray fog to be visible.

Get ready, Cheng Zongyang disappeared on the spot and entered the wilderness world.

"Luo Dingran, how is the purchase of soul crystals going?" Cheng Zongyang found Luo Dingran and asked.

"Sir, I have already purchased three of them this morning. It cost me 4186 points."

"Okay!" Cheng Zongyang smiled.

After making the decision last night, he asked Luo Dingran to purchase three mid-level soul crystals overnight.

Including the one left behind, the four crystals can be used by twelve warriors! The smallest one is ready to use.

There will be four more people in the wilderness world.

After confirming it, Cheng Zongyang left the wilderness world.

The Yin Realm has been formed. From his particular perspective, the surging gray fog is all around. The eerie appearance makes people feel a little chilling.

The specific observation perspective is retracted and the surrounding environment changes to normal.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something.

"If I had chosen the Qingming Breathing Method, could I have used the cold and gloomy energy of the Soul Gathering Monument to practice?"

But in the end he shook his head and realized that this was not yin energy, but ghost energy!

"There are strange beasts and demon beasts in this world, but I wonder if there are ghosts?" Cheng Zongyang murmured. But suddenly he looked around and frowned.

Because of the Yin Realm, this bamboo forest has become too quiet. Anyone with a little more experience will know that something is wrong.

The coverage area of ​​this dark area is 1300 meters, which alone covers the entire official road.

But at this moment, he turned his head and looked back.

Although the distance was quite far, his hearing had already detected some subtle chaotic sounds, which were somewhat different from the rustling of leaves in the bamboo forest.

coming!

Cheng Zongyang's eyes fixed.

At the same time, at the entrance of the bamboo forest, the middle-aged man and his group had arrived at the bamboo forest area.

Just as Cheng Zongyang thought, the middle-aged man in the lead had just entered the bamboo forest while laughing and chatting, when he already sensed something was wrong.

"Stop!" the man growled.

Everyone suddenly pulled the reins of their horses, drew their swords and became alert.

Now, as their laughter, conversation and the sound of wheels disappeared, it seemed as if the whole world was silent except for the rustling of leaves in the bamboo forest.

"Something's wrong!" A young man also became very alert. He slowly came to the captain's side and said solemnly, "It's too quiet. Is there an ambush?"

The man didn't say anything, his eyes scanning the surroundings like a falcon.

Although this is a bamboo forest, the density is not high and the view is relatively wide, so you can see clearly what is happening around you.

After about a cup of tea, the middle-aged man saw that there was no movement, so he waved his hand and asked everyone to move. But the speed was much slower.

(End of this chapter)