The second year of Yuanping was neither peaceful nor uneasy.
Several major events happened one after another on the land of Nanliang. Half of the country across the river was about to be unstable. Wild bandits from all directions were rising like fire, starting a prairie fire across the river.
Since March, the situation has changed again, and the chaos in Xizhou has not yet appeared. Taoyang and Zhuquan rebelled one after another. After being suppressed by Song Yiyun, the Tuo people in Tuofang and Liqu states rebelled and refused to obey the king. The imperial court granted
The general gathered his troops and quickly destroyed them.
The war in the south is fierce, refugees are fleeing in all directions, and Yunzhou is inevitably uneasy. Strong men also take the opportunity to raise a group of thieves and cause cholera in the countryside.
In August, Song Butcher was ordered to go out to the southwest. Before leaving, he attacked all the mountains and hills in the seven states, suppressed his arrogance, and integrated his troops to search for money and food. The bandits suffered countless losses and peace was restored for a while.
However, this situation did not last long. After the New Year, in the first year of Zhanghe, changes continued from January to April. Fengqing fell, Liang Huang fled south, and Jianye fell. In the past, people wandered back and forth, and the prosperous Jiangnan, known as the fairyland on earth, was destroyed.
It was a mess.
Counting the equally rotten Hejian Land, among the most important places in Daliang, only the Jiangbei area can still maintain some stability.
The big events in the east turned into hurricanes and flew to the southwest, where they saw the Salvation Army and the Taiping Army. The local thieves seemed to be inspired by the strength of the Taiping Army.
There are mountains and natural chasms between them, and there is still a troop of Song Butcher's troops stationed in Xizhou. Therefore, the rebels who caused chaos in Yunzhou did not spread to the west for a while, but turned around and joined the thieves in other state capitals to carry out a
Commit countless sins.
"Yunzhou is connected to Chongzhou, Xiazhou, Dongjie Jinjiang, Yining, and Lizhou. Except for Chongzhou, which has a Jiedu in command, only local militiamen are stationed in the other places. The weapons are lax and they often retreat into the city.
Everything outside was secretly abandoned and given to the rebels."
When Chen Yu walked out of the southwest, he realized how turbulent the world situation was. The Yuanyang Gate where Qian Xuanzhong was born was not an exception. Facing the important towns and cities guarded by soldiers and horses, the crazy gangsters had nothing to do, so the crazy gangsters turned their attention to other places.
, such as a village with a large number of young and old, or a small town or county with a small population.
"The rebels started a rebellion, and the most powerful among them even tried their best to steal the horses from the Western Regions from nowhere, and they were armed with armor and guns..."
When he heard about this, he simply felt sad for this so-called beam. You must know that horses are a precious item today. An ordinary general cannot afford to lead a cavalry team of a hundred people, but now it is raging across thousands of miles and several states.
A few gangs of bandits can raise hundreds of cavalry!
No matter how inferior the armor and weapons are, the cavalry can still exert a great advantage in a flat area.
"No wonder, at first glance, the human population is almost extinct. It turns out that they have either fled to the city to hide, or they have been robbed or hacked to death."
Putting Ukita behind him, he placed it properly and protected it with a bronze mirror - he turned into a rainbow and escaped, quickly heading towards Qiyang.
Compared to setting off alone, Ukita was too slow. Chen Yu used his spirit to guide him and let him move forward slowly, while he himself was one step ahead and no longer delayed.
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Qiyang County, compared to the scene more than half a year ago, the city is much deserted at this time.
"I don't know who killed him at the beginning. He brought the mountain bandits in, and the city guards fled in all directions. The county master was picked up from the bed, and all 11 or 2 of his children and grandchildren had their heads cut off at the entrance of the vegetable market.
The remaining women were kidnapped and taken up the mountain, and I don’t know how many are still alive.”
In front of a tea shop, Chen Yu chatted with an old farmer wearing a bamboo hat. The atmosphere in the city was stagnant, and the events of a few months ago were still not cleared up.
"May I ask my father-in-law, was the Yuanyang Gate at the hands of the bandits who crossed the mountains as I said?"
He asked, but the old man shook his head and took a drink of light tea: "Little Taoist Priest, those bandits who crossed the mountain came around August last year, and the Yuanyang Gate... disappeared in May!"
Speaking of this, the other party sighed again, "Master Qian of the Yuanyang Sect is a good man and upright. On weekdays, the young people in the sect also help various families in the city with what they can. The old man used to work with them
We have planted together in Lu Gu, and they are both honest and good-natured young men."
pity.
The old man angrily said: "It's a pity that everyone is gone. After the Changjing Gang took action, there were still some people in Yuanyang Gate who escaped. But when the Changjing Gang left, they wanted to reunite with Shanmen, but they came again.
A group of thieves poisoned them all in one night."
He slapped the wooden table hard, seeming to sympathize with his misfortune, "Those heartless people didn't even spare a two-year-old baby. They didn't count the poison. They stabbed holes in every one of them, leaving all the corpses intact."
Not one!"
Chen Yu listened quietly, asking questions from time to time, and the old man told everything he knew. Finally, when he got the information he wanted, he gave him another bowl of tea and left.
On the road, there were only a few pedestrians, and it seemed like a big city. As a result, from the moment we entered until now, most of the houses we saw were closed, and the pedestrians walking around were all in a hurry and dressed simply.
According to the old man, the Long Whale Gang is a gang from the north. I don’t know what the other party’s purpose was. In short, they had a confrontation with the Yuanyang Gate for half a year. In the end, the conflict broke out and resulted in bloodshed.
The old man didn't know the specific reason. He only heard from other people that it was related to the baby. There were also rumors that the leader of the Long Whale Gang was interested in the Yuanyang Clan's position in Qiyang County and wanted to replace it. There were even rumors that the fight between the two factions started.
Suo is the youngest daughter of Qian Yunjiao, the master of Yuanyang Clan.
All in all, there are all kinds of strange opinions and there is no consensus.
However, compared with the information he learned thousands of miles away in Xizhou, what he gained in the city was certainly not small.
Qian Xuanzhong did return to the city, but by the time he rushed back to Qiyang, several months had passed and the bandits from across the mountain had already looted and left.
"Brother Qian was still near Guangyong at that time. The distance of thousands of miles probably made it extremely difficult to communicate with Yuanyang Gate."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Qingyi Jian, who failed to catch up, was heartbroken. A vendor in the city told Chen Yu that he had seen the young man kneeling in the courtyard and crying.
Tap tap tap!
A broken and toppled portal appeared. On the other side of the corner, Chen Yu came to the old site of Yuanyang Gate. This was a place that was even more broken than other portals around it.
Stepping in, you can see blood stains everywhere, which have turned into black and red, making it look even darker.
The body was carried out by neighbors in the city. Yuanyang Gate is quite famous in the city. When it was attacked by the Long Whale Gang for the first time, there were people who helped and cheered. However, the second time was too unexpected. A group of people broke into the city and lurked.
In the dark night, without anyone noticing, he poisoned and killed the remaining Yuanyang disciples.
"What kind of hatred or resentment..."
I didn't go searching, everything was messy, and even if there were any clues, they would have been blown away by the wind and sun.
Silver light flashed and ripples rippled in the air.
A primordial spirit raised its right palm high, and its body was filled with golden and silver light, and it stepped out from the center of the brow.
"No, not here either—could it be possible that there really isn't any residue at all?"
Shining one by one, Chen Yu cooperates with Yuanshen, and the view of all things is mixed with majestic spiritual power, rendering the entire courtyard like an ocean.
Huh!
When he discovered something, he stepped forward and removed a strand of thought stuck to the ruins of the wall.
At this moment, a passerby passed by the door and saw the Taoist groping in the dilapidated courtyard. He frowned for a while and was about to speak, but Chen Yu turned around and asked: "This good man, please excuse me.
May I ask if there have been any strangers here this month?"
Thoughts invisible to others were floating in the palm of his hand. The dark look filled with malice was all too familiar to him who had been immersed in human thoughts recently.
Someone has come here with extremely strong evil thoughts. It is guaranteed that they are habitual criminals who commit murder and arson. Judging from the purity of such evil thoughts, there is no doubt that the crime is extremely evil, and the time they came here is no more than ten days at the latest!
However, the other party's answer surprised him.
"No, there were more in the past few months. Recently, no one has come, especially after the Long Whale Gang and the Dushan Bandits were wiped out one after another."
"..."
He was surprised. When the two of them heard the power in their ears, they turned their heads and someone said that they had been thrown away together with the ashes.
"Do you know who did it?"
Faintly, Chen Yu made a guess, and sure enough, the passerby didn't hide it and said straight away that it was the Tsing Yi Swordsman who had been practicing outside for a long time and gained the reputation of Nuo Da.
"That poor man was alone. He came back about once every nine days. He seemed to be carrying something, a bloody mess. I happened to be opening a shop at that time, and I saw him just as I was about to go."
At this point, passers-by couldn't help but sigh and said that Qian Xuanzhong looked like he was giving up.
"Then he left. Later, news came that the Long Whale Gang and the Dushan Bandits had been destroyed."
According to the other party, these two news had just spread not long ago. In the past two days, because he ran a shop and was one of the few merchants in the city who had not fled, the things he heard during the reception were much more complicated than before.
There are more people around.
"Thank you."
Let's talk, withdrew a ray of energy, and the mysterious air-sensing spell that danced on the fingertips was extinguished. The other party scratched his head with a question mark, and felt that he was in a daze in front of the door for a moment.
Inducing him to reveal his vague impression, since he was in the city and the other person was just a passerby with few evil intentions, Chen Yu did not directly search the memory, but used some small tricks to disturb the passerby's head. It was probably at this moment.
The boredom is gone, the mind is clear, and you can leave without caring.
And he was digesting the other party's words.
The only wisp of evil thoughts in his hand dispersed, and Chen Yu looked solemn, because he thought that if only Qian Xuanzhong returned here, it would mean that this evil thought came from the other party.
"Evil thoughts, human thoughts...spiritual obsessions..."
Phew! After a moment, he took a deep breath and knew that his way of detecting and dealing with evil thoughts needed to be changed.
It is not difficult to guess that Brother Qian, who returned to Qiyang, must also have known who his real enemy was, so he was seeking revenge, and he was imbued with many evil thoughts in the process.
"People's thoughts are not divided into good and evil. Regardless of whether they are good or bad, as long as they touch people's hearts, a thought will arise and drift towards the goal."
I did think poorly before and ignored this situation.
He soon thought, if this is the case, then he also has it?
The soul is sitting cross-legged, hanging in the air and waving a lot of spiritual silver light.
Sure enough, as expected, there was a thin layer of thoughts wrapped around the outside of the body, dark and twisted, but it was resisted by the misty green light, and was offset and dispersed at a slow speed.
"That's right, mana keeps being consumed."
It turned out to be the reason.
Chen Yu exploded his magic power and transformed into two clouds of light, scrubbing the upper and lower parts. Finally, he polished off all the evil thoughts before stopping without feeling satisfied.
The magic power rubs against the evil thoughts, making the consciousness clearer and more transparent, as if the dust has been washed away.
There was a flash of thought in his eyes, which was a bit interesting.
…
In the end, Chen Yu returned to the floating field. It was obviously impossible to track the opponent with just a ray of thought, at least with his current methods, it was still far behind.
However, this trip was not fruitless. It was more or less confirmed that Qian Xuanzhong was still alive and not dead, but was looking for his enemies as a vengeful man. As for where he went after the great revenge was avenged, few people in Qiyang knew.
After leaving the deserted county town, he went to the so-called Dushan Bandit's location. The village was empty, a faint fishy smell floated in the air, and he could see a few decayed corpses.
On a September day, it is really hard to see anyone.
We then went to the small town where the Long Whale Gang was originally stationed, and found that the buildings were deserted. I heard that some of the gang members had left long ago, and the rest also died in the revenge of the Tsing Yi Sword.
"It's so cruel."
After finding out that these two factions had been wiped out, Chen Yu lamented that it was unimaginable that the man who was now going on such a killing spree and could be called an executioner could be that humble, polite and loyal knight.
Although it's hard to persuade him to let go, if we really encounter him in the future, it wouldn't be wrong to lend a helping hand.
As soon as the soul shines, the mind regains its composure, and all delusions are cleared away.
As for the forces involved in the Yuanyang Sect, if they have the opportunity to dig it out, they will naturally not let it go.
"Wantfully killing, poisoning, breaking into cities and looting..."
These families are not good people, but he doesn't understand why that family poisoned them. Yuanyangmen is just like Haiyun Temple, living in the same county. Is there really a treasure worth such a big fight?
He never thought it was a panacea, after all, the spirit plant did not appear at the foot of the mountain in May.
However, he had already searched Qiyang City inside and out, and couldn't get much information. After thinking about it, Chen Yu returned to Futian, planning to follow the direction of Brother Qian's last trace.
"Pingshan...direction to Yining? It's just right."
He had long heard that there was a canyon there where unique medicinal herbs grew, and that there were many Taoist sects and temples in Yining. Chen Yu had originally planned to go and have a look, but now he was on his way.
Yining is a wealthy city, far surpassing the seven southwest states at least a few years ago. It has a lot of influence and a lot of foundation.
Then take a walk around and see if you can find Taoist scriptures, interior locations, secret treasures, etc.
Nowadays, the fusion of wonders and blood orifices is in full swing, and he is also pondering the techniques. He just wants to find some new and strange things for himself to do.
"The open space in the floating field has been taken care of, and we are just waiting for new plants to be planted in the soil. There is only one Ganoderma lucidum alone, which is a bit intimidating."