I Am Immortal

  Chapter 116 Things of the day, life of the young

Such a heroic appearance stunned the people in the Mingzhen Dao League for a while, but when the old man saw the jasper finger, he seemed to react, took it with both hands, inspected its dark patterns, and said: "So that's it, I understand." He returned the jasper finger to the girl in the green dress and the white fox mask, with a rather polite expression.

  The latter had a smile in his eyes, bowed his hands to the young Taoist, and then left freely.

   It is gone.

  The old man still kept saying with emotion: "Arrogance, what an arrogance."

   "However, for a problem on the road, there are not a few practitioners who are willing to spend a lot of money in return for advice."

   "Come on, Master Xiaodao, come with me."

   "Since this distinguished guest has bid for you, the old man will simply show you the original text of this volume for you to read. However, there are quite a lot of things here, and you may have to read them slowly."

   Sure enough, there are a lot.

  Because it is a jade book directly engraved with gold and jade materials, it directly filled the entire bookshelf.

While opening the magic spells on these bookshelves, the old man explained: "The aura is stored in the jade slips. Although it can save space, once the aura is turbulent, the things inside will be damaged. , I can’t read a single word, so it’s a safer way to use this book of gold and jade to cover it with aura.

   "Old man Rong will find the letter for you."

   "Speaking of which, what happened in Jinzhou back then is not easy to figure out with a single piece of jade. Apart from our records, we have also collected many letters to support many speculations and ensure the accuracy of the information."

   "Come on, this is the first copy."

   "The beginning of the Jinzhou incident."

The old man gave him a waist-thick jade book and put it on the table, and cast a magic spell. The jade book slowly unfolded, and the landscape of Jinzhou was outlined on it with extremely delicate strokes. The young Taoist saw himself Where is his hometown, but in his impression, the town where his hometown is located is not small, and there are more than ten thousand families in it.

  When I was young, I walked on flowers in spring and fluttered butterflies in summer.

  In autumn, I lie in the wheat field and sleep.

   Always lively.

  But in the huge jade book covering the entire table, there are only a few shallow traces.

   It can be seen that Jinzhou is so big, with so many people, the prosperity of this place is like brocade.

  The old man said with emotion: "Because the mountains and rivers are picturesque, it was called [Jin] just now. What has become of this?"

  His finger pointed to a place, then swept across, and said: "It was about summer, and there was a sudden change."

"About here, a blazing energy suddenly appeared, and then swept across the entire Jinzhou with an unrivaled force, causing the entire Jinzhou vegetation to wither and the rivers to dry up. The country haunted and tore this state of the human world directly into the gap between the demon country."

   "There are countless monsters that cannibalize human flesh and soul."

   "Everyone says that it is the country of the demon clan, but it is wrong."

  The old man himself was a little surprised, pointing to the records in the dossier:

   "The demons are the same as the human world, and there are many countries. At that time, there were at least three demon clans raging in the land of Jinzhou."

   "The three great monster kingdoms appear in one state, slaughtering the lives of the common people, isn't it **** and bloody?"

"However, the situation at that time was really too complicated. Even our Daoist League didn't know which demon kingdoms appeared in Jinzhou that day. It's just such a natural disaster. Jinzhou is so big that it only happened in a few days at this time. Time, what you see, is already a human tragedy."

  The old man sighed, and handed a thick stack of letter paper to Qi Wuhuo. The letter paper had turned yellow and was stained with blood, and said:

   "This is what happened in the place where the disaster happened at that time."

"The most central place is Fucheng, the most prosperous place in Jinzhou, and also the most prosperous place in the whole world. After the accident that year, the aura of heaven and earth was very chaotic. All the means of long-distance transmission of information have been cut off, and the sacrifice is extremely great. Only at the price of this letter was sent."

   "It was stained with the blood of the most determined people in Jinzhou that year."

   "Among them may not be practitioners."

   "There are also grooms, dancers, noble sons from aristocratic families, and even prisoners."

   "What a pity, even the prisoners on death row spent their last drop of blood for this city before sending this letter."

Qi Wuhuo looked at the pile of letter paper in his hand, and after untiing it, the content was extremely tragic, except for the short and direct six words of disaster and calamity in the city, asking for help, and the contents of every other letter were exactly the same, just this Six words, the old man stretched out his finger and pointed to the thick stack, concise and concise:

   "The news is very serious, so more than 300 teams set out, about thousands of people."

   "They are all extremely brave and intelligent people."

   "In the end, there were only three branches, and they reached the rest of the cities."

   "The rest will die."

  The old man shook his head, took out the jade slip again, and said: "This is the information collected by the leader later."

   "It can be confirmed that the general's mansion at the border has received the letterhead, which can be found from the records of his mansion."

   "But the border guards never received the news."

   "This matter has never been reported to the outside world."

   Qi Wuhuo flipped through these classics, as if he could already see the disaster that happened that year.

At that time, he was just a nine-year-old child, mixed into the crowd, like fallen leaves on the turbulent current, swept back and forth, he didn't know where he was running, he didn't know where he was going, now these things , Different people's perspectives, or letterheads, or jade slips, to describe the events of the year, he has been able to see more completely, and feels more suffocated.

  Natural disasters, man-made disasters.

   The chaos in the demon country.

   "How did the people escape from Jinzhou back then..."

The old man seemed to have received a voice transmission, and retreated, and then came to the young Taoist, that middle-aged man, who was also in charge of all affairs of the Zhongzhou Daoist League. Put the jade box on the table, lifted the seal on it, stroked it and said:

   "This is the most important news in Jinzhou. Anyone who has read this news will be shaken by it."

   "As early as thousands of years ago, the Human Emperor at that time briefly unified the human world and made an agreement with the Heavenly Court."

   "The affairs of the world are decided by the emperor of the world."

   "Many immortal gods are only responsible for maintaining order."

   “A covenant has its own constraints.”

"Later, although there were various reasons, the emperor fell, his sword and seal were scattered around, and this human world was divided into different countries, but this piece of land where we are is the largest The most powerful one can still be called the emperor, and what he cultivates is not to practice Qi and breath, nor is it to use flesh and bones, but the power of luck."

   "Layers of luck, gathered on one person, is the emperor, possessing great power."

   "The army of the human empire cultivates the power of qi and blood, which can carry luck, and when fighting in formation, it can fight to the death with the monster race."

   "This is also the reason why people can stand in the human world."

  Qi Wuhuo nodded, he already had guesses about such things.

  Since there are practitioners in the world, but the dynasty still stands, it will not be as simple as in my dream.

  At least the elements of practice should be added.

  The man stroked the jade box with an extremely complicated expression. He handed these files and the letterhead to Qi Wuhuo, saying:

"Many things happened back then, and no one could clearly see the changes in the situation. It wasn't until later, when the dust settled, that we realized that the catastrophe in Jinzhou was actually avoidable. This is the largest dynasty in the world, and it is different from many other small countries. Back then, 600,000 Iron Armored Profound Army arrived in Jinzhou."

   "The leader is a famous general in the world, who has fought against the monster race for half his life."

"Then the current emperor, that is, the second prince back then, took advantage of the opportunity that his elder brother sent his confidant's Iron Armored Xuan Army to Jinzhou to form an array to fight the monster clan, contacted the court, took the opportunity to overthrow the original prince, and entered the court. Lord East Palace."

  "After I became the prince, I was worried about the aftermath, worried that the situation would be unstable at the moment, and that I might be suppressed by my elder brother."

   "It is an order that the Iron Armored Xuan Army stop and are not allowed to step into Jinzhou."

"At the same time, the news was blocked. This is why those people tried their best to spread the news back then, but they could no longer spread the news when they reached the General's Mansion at the border. The Xuanjia Army received the news that the second prince imitated the prince's brushstrokes, and the prince Under the pressure, all the Xuanjia troops mistakenly thought that this was an order from the First Prince."

  The middle-aged man took out a letter and handed it to Qi Wuhuo: "This is the order they received back then."

  Qi Wuhuo remained silent.

  Open the letterhead and see the text above—

  【There are a group of monsters mixed in with the fugitive people, wanting to mess up our country】

  【Xuanjia array, someone crossing the border】

  【Kill without mercy! 】

  The young Taoist stared at the last three words, remained silent for a long time, and suddenly understood why he was surrounded by the crowd and wandered around for a long time before he had a chance to survive. The middle-aged man sighed and said:

"It's extremely ironic. Many people died under the crossbow arrows of the Xuanjia Army who once defended themselves. The most ironic thing is that until the moment the arrows were shot, these Xuanjia Army felt that they were protecting them." home country."

   "The matter finally came to light."

   "Because the military order comes from the first prince's seal, the second prince's position in the East Palace of the Crown Prince is more stable."

   "We don't know how the trick in the middle is done, but it finally worked out, and it's vicious."

   "The people of a state, in exchange for the opportunity to completely overthrow their brother, exchanged for the current title of emperor."

   "Hey... such a business, I would not even dare to do such a business."

Qi Wuhuo's eyes drooped. He had never seen the emperor of this country, but in Huang Liang's dream, he had contact with that emperor. It seemed extremely mysterious. Obviously, the dream should be his own experience. Cognition is about the constructed world, but for many royal families, the characters and behavior styles of high-ranking officials are also extremely real.

  The appearance of the emperor who was in Huang Liang's dream appeared before his eyes.

Qi Wuhuo still restrained himself, but the little peacock suddenly felt very uncomfortable sleeping, as if there was some kind of cold breath circulating, the young man said humanely: "There are Xuanjia in the border, and there are demons in Jinzhou, how did people come out?" ?”

   "Sit down, Taoist chief, this involves other things."

   "Let me look for..."

The middle-aged man went back again, took a lot of classics, and piled them all up in front of the young Taoist. After identifying them, he heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "There is indeed nothing missing, and I just sent them to you." Formation, I brought these things out from the library in the secret realm of my Dao League, um, these are lists, and some are incomplete methods."

   Qi Wuhuo flipped through it, and saw that there were monks and Taoists among them.

The man got up and pointed to the name of the scroll, and replied: "Ordinary people, of course, will not be the opponents of the monster clan, they can only be eaten as flesh and blood, but there are still practitioners in the human world, and there are thirteen veins in Buddhism. In Buddhism, in the Miaofa Tianci'en Temple, the Taoist sect also had the Tage and Sword Sect, and there were also heretical sects, and there were countless small sects."

   "After the incident in Jinzhou."

   "There are more than 3,600 monks in the Buddhist Ci'en Temple, the oldest is 331 years old, and the youngest is 6 years old."

   "All dead."

   "The last fleeing people are like the tide."

   "Thirteen stick monks rushed to the formation and broke the blockade of the monster clan, and died in the volley of Xuanjia troops at the border."

  "Being unwilling before death, I still want to subdue demons."

  The middle-aged man took out some documents for Qi Wuhuo to unfold, saying:

"When we went to check later, we found that all the relics in Ci'en Temple were exhausted. We found out later that they smashed open the Buddhist hall, took out the relics of their ancestors and ground them into powder, and then used their own His blood is mixed with the relics and written into Buddhist scriptures and distributed to people, so we know that they have made the final plan."

   "We saw the head of the monk turned into a Jingguan."

   "The inheritance of the Tiantai branch of Buddhism is cut off."

   "Their dharma is gone, and their relics are gone."

   "There are no more disciples."

   "So this vein is gone."

  The man took out another dossier: "As for Tage Sword Sect, he is the most proud. He always chooses disciples, not disciples."

   "There are very few disciples in the sect, and they escorted the people along the way. As a result, more than 600 sword immortals were defeated by soldiers."

   "The road is full of broken swords."

"Later, an army of iron cavalry disobeyed the military order. It seemed that they couldn't bear it. This opened a hole in the blockade. The patriarch who was sitting in Daozong went out and tore apart the formation with a sword, so that the people could enter Zhongzhou and let the people of Jinzhou to survive this disaster."

   "It is said that the patriarch of Taoism also broke his practice because of this, and the iron cavalry of the army was finally sent to Jinzhou to fight against the monsters under the order of disobeying the military order. They died in the end, leaving only 27 people alive."

   "When the leader led the members of the Daoist League into it, this is what he saw."

"We don't have the determination like a sword cultivator, nor the enlightenment like a Buddhist sect, so we can only watch those sword cultivators solve their soldiers, and watch the Buddhist disciples die. We can only do business with the monster clan. Years of profits, 150,000 lives were lost, and what happened that year was also recorded.”

   "Immortals value life, but there is no way to protect life without killing; Buddhism is merciful, but not angry, how to stop killing evil, how to prove compassion."

   "So it is."

   "One hundred and fifty years of income, in exchange for the lives of 150,000 people."

  The man crossed his hands and said: "The leader said, big profit."

   "After 150,000 people, there will be those who can embark on the practice, so that they can [make a good relationship]."

   "My generation is also a human race. Things hurt my kind, and I can't bear to see them die. This is [seeking peace of mind]."

   "There are many cunning people in the alliance, so it can [correct my bones]."

  "Everyone stands back and waits and sees, but I go west alone, so I can [bring my name]."

  Qi Wuhuo said: "The leader of your alliance..."

The man replied: "When I entered Jinzhou to find out the truth, I found out that there was [the man in black clothes and red dragon clothes attracting the demon country]. When he returned, he was ambushed and severely injured. He was disbanded after six months and passed away. Say big money, big money."

  "Businessmen also have their business, and practitioners have the morality of cultivators. Don't forget that we are seekers of Tao, not profit seekers."

   "It's the Taoist League, not the Business League."

   "That's how I am right!"

   "Let the world know me [Mingzhen Daomeng] four words, there is absolutely no falsehood."

   "That's what happened back then..."

  The young Taoist looked through all the records and scrolls, deduced in his heart for a long time, his voice became hoarse and suppressed unconsciously, and said:

   "Jinzhou, how many people died?"

  The man said: "...the Taoist League infers that there is more than 3.7 million, and 5.4 million is not enough."

  Qi Wuhuo swayed.

   After all, he was only a young man, and this number was like a heavy hammer, which made him feel a little dizzy.

   Look at the chronology later.

   "Three years later, the prince ascended the throne and awarded the "Deyin of Deng Ji""

   "The title of great sage, great kindness, benevolence, virtue and filial piety emperor."

   "Called the emperor."

   "Praise Shengming."

The boy pressed the palm of his hand on the table, his own soul, vitality, and essence unconsciously speeded up, gathering faintly, anger and killing intent. Many emotions were like a torrent under the blue waves, surging, but not revealed, the man said: "Only fellow daoists know about this matter, so please don't spread it to outsiders. After all, it's considered information. I don't know the honorary title of fellow daoists yet."

  The young Taoist read out his Taoist name, wrote it down, and said:

   "Pindao knows about this matter."

  It’s just a middle-aged Taoist, but he can’t understand that Taoist name.

   I wrote it down, and my eyes didn't recognize it.

  But after confirming that there was Qi Wuhuo's aura on it, he felt relieved, but when the young man got up, he suddenly asked:

   "One of the iron cavalry who participated in the Battle of Jinzhou is still in Zhongzhou."

   "Master Taoist, do you want to meet him?"

  (end of this chapter)