As soon as the young scribe finished speaking, Liu Xiaoshan jumped out of the window, and a strong wind blew up, causing the young scribe's scarf to fly around and cover his eyes.
Chen Yunsheng cupped his fists at him and said, "Thank you for your advice. I don't know your name."
"Duanliu City, Wu Sansi." The young scribe clasped his fists.
The next breath, Chen Yunsheng had jumped to the street, stood side by side with Liu Xiaoshan, and stopped the group of people.
The strong man on the strange beast pointed at Liu Xiaoshan's nose with the copper hammer in his hand and said: "Where did you come from, little bitch, dare to block my way. Believe it or not, I will snatch you away and offer you to the city lord."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Xiaoshan didn't see any action. The man's head suddenly exploded, as if a blood flower bloomed in the air. Liu Xiaoshan kicked the corpse down with a single stride, stood on the strange beast, and looked at the two escorted by the team.
A skinny monk.
All the young people in the team were stunned by this appearance. The teenagers stepped back one by one and were about to retreat to the corner of the street. The two skinny monks quickly shot a red projectile into the sky.
A red cloud quickly bloomed in the sky. A skinny escort sneered: "Foreigners, this is Duanliu City. If you kill the guards in the city, you will be punished by the city lord."
Liu Xiaoshan had a hot temper, so he could not continue to talk nonsense. With a flick of his wrist, the Autumn Water Sword buzzed and swept towards the two Foundation Establishment monks. Facing the angry blow of the Nascent Soul monk, these two people had no means of defense.
He resisted. He reluctantly used his sword to block in front of him, but Liu Xiaoshan cut him and his sword into two pieces.
From the time of killing the first person, the whole process only took five breaths, including the nonsense of an escorting monk.
The teenagers were all frightened, and they looked at Liu Xiaoshan warily. Some of the timid ones simply fainted. Liu Xiaoshan used his flying sword to cut off the ropes in their hands, and said loudly: "Where did you come from? Where are you going back? No need to
Be someone else’s slave.”
The teenagers opened their big eyes and looked at Liu Xiaoshan, with confused expressions in their eyes. At this moment, a young man in Tsing Yi appeared on the roof of the restaurant, squinting at Liu Xiaoshan and said: "A foreign land
Man, since you insist on meddling in the affairs of Duanliu City, don’t blame us for being rude."
The man in green casually dropped a green talisman. Seeing that something was not going well, Liu Xiaoshan hurriedly used the Yi Shui Aegis to protect herself and Chen Yunsheng. She was a little far away from the captives and the young man, and it was too late to save her.
The cyan talismans transformed into dozens of blue lightnings in the air, exploding in the street. The lightning easily pierced the chests of those young men. His bodies shook like chaff, and instantly turned into charred coals. The scorching hot
The air wave hit the houses on both sides of the street, and many wooden houses were torn apart by the shock wave in an instant.
Chen Yunsheng dodged and rushed to the roof, while the man in green disappeared into the sky. In the smoke and dust, Liu Xiaoshan rushed towards the teenagers desperately, but there was no life around except broken arms and stumps.
"A middle-grade thunder talisman." Chen Yunsheng's face turned pale because of anger.
"I want to kill the Duanliu City Lord." Liu Xiaoshan gritted his teeth and said.
People from the surrounding shops took to the streets one after another. A few bold middle-aged men who looked like country squires came to Liu Xiaoshan and said tremblingly: "Here, this fairy, I beg you to leave Duanliu City quickly. There are people here.
Rules, it is these rules that ensure our survival."
Liu Xiaoshan glared angrily, stared at the squire, and said coldly: "These teenagers were killed like this, and you turned a blind eye? Are you still talking about the rules?"
Liu Xiaoshan stretched out his slender hand, with a flash of blue light on his fingertips. He was about to cast a spell, but was caught by Chen Yunsheng. He whispered: "There is no need to do this to them."
The squire was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground. Several servants lifted him up and returned to his shop. However, there were whispers from all around.
"If it weren't for them, these teenagers would have lived a little longer."
"Isn't that right? After practicing Taoism for a few years, you become a hero. Who would be grateful to them?"
"The parents of these children don't care about their life or death. What do two outsiders care about?"
"I think these parents are doing the right thing. It is only natural to pay back debts. If it weren't for the generosity of the city lord in the past two years, those parents would have starved to death. I can't believe that the city lord is so kind and there are still people trying to
Disobey him."
The more Liu Xiaoshan listened, the more her eyebrows stood up. Finally, with a murderous look on her face, she sternly said: "Whoever is unhappy with this girl, get out of here."
There was silence all around, and those heroes who were whispering turned into cicadas in an instant, lowering their heads and walking back to their shops. At this time, a person walked out of the Ruchu wine shop, it was Wu Sansi who told the truth.
The young scribe cupped his hands and said: "The two powerful men are indeed righteous people. If you don't take action, they will also die, and their deaths will be worse. You are the real good people. These people are sick, so you don't need to pay attention to them."
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Wu Sansi continued: "If you two don't dislike me, why not go to my thatched cottage and talk about it? I haven't seen such bloody people as you two for a long time."
"That's very good." Chen Yunsheng wanted to know more about Duanliu City's past, so Wu Sansi's suggestion was exactly what he wanted.
Liu Xiaoshan angrily stared at the people in the shops around him who were hunkering down, until he was dragged away by Chen Yunsheng.
Wu Sansi's home is by a small river on the outskirts of the city. It is surrounded by willow trees. Although the leaves are towering in the winter, the branches are still there. You can imagine the scene when the leaves are green and green in the summer.
Wu Sansi had no one at home but him. The house was simple and tidy. In the middle of the house was a pile of firewood, and an iron kettle fell on the pile. Wu Sansi filled the iron kettle with water, added tea cakes, and cooked it for the two of them.
Tea.
"The tea in the humble house is despicable, please forgive me, sir."
Chen Yunsheng waved his hand and said: "You don't need to call us Da Neng. My name is Chen Yunsheng, and this is my wife Liu Xiaoshan."
Wu Sansi smiled and said: "The two jewel-like figures are a perfect match."
The firewood burned quickly, and the smoke rose up to the roof along the flue, and the room immediately became warm. Although Chen Yunsheng is not very sensitive to temperature, the warmth always makes people feel comfortable.
When the water boiled, Wu Sansi poured the tea, picked up the cup, and said solemnly: "Thank you both for your generous help. Although I am a scholar who cannot lift it with my hands or carry it on my shoulders, I am not like those cartilage slaves."
Chen Yunsheng squinted at the thin scholar and said, "Today we just did what we should do."
Wu Sansi sighed and said: "The Lord of Duanliu City covers the sky with one hand here, and fear is deeply rooted in everyone's bones, so we can't blame all their cartilage."
"Tell me about the past of Duanliu City." Chen Yunsheng said.
"There used to be a big river here, but it changed its course at some point in time, so it was called the Cutoff City. This city-state did not disappear because of the cutoff of the river. People can still enjoy the harvest every year by relying on the northwest monsoon. So this place
The people are good at eating and eating well, and the more people gather together, the more people gather.”
"The real name of the Lord of Duanliu City is Baili Zisheng. His cultivation is unfathomable. He has been in Duanliu City for more than fifty years. Ever since I came down, there hasn't been a day without feeling the oppression and fear." Wu Sansi said calmly.
said.
"What did he do?" Chen Yunsheng asked.
Wu Sansi said solemnly: "The real fear is not to kill a person, but to kill his heart. Baili Zisheng will unite every ten households of the local people into a group. If there is any dissatisfaction, they will join together. There are people under his command
There are four monks with advanced cultivation. Today you meet one of them, called Qingfeng. At the same time, he has the powerful combat power of hundreds of monks. These people usually hang out in the community, listening to what others say, if
If someone is disrespectful, he will be captured on the spot and beheaded at the street entrance. Each of the same guards will be whipped a hundred times, but many people will not be able to withstand it and will be killed on the spot."
"In the ten years when he first came, there were always people who were dissatisfied with the excessive taxes and forced labor. Of course, they paid the price with blood. But there are fewer and fewer such people. In the thirty years after I was born, they basically disappeared. People
Get used to being a slave."
Wu Sansi's voice was filled with grief and anger, and Liu Xiaoshan gritted his teeth. The woman had been born in the palace for a long time, and she had never seen such dark and dirty things. Her innate sense of justice and kindness made her almost immediately want to kill Baili Zisheng.
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"There is a Chongfa Temple five hundred miles north of here. The monks there are very capable. Why don't you go to the temple and ask them to help you eliminate evil?" Chen Yunsheng said. After experiencing so many things, he was much calmer than Liu Xiaoshan.
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Wu Sansi sighed and said: "It is said that some people went to Chongfa Temple to ask for help, but they were all killed by Baili Zisheng on the way. Their heads were hung in the busy city. Everyone was shocked by the bloody scene.
No one dares to look for anyone anymore. Besides, Baili Zisheng goes to Chongfa Temple every year to worship and offers countless incense, so how can those monks care?"
"In recent decades, people have become accustomed to being enslaved, so no one has gone out to ask for help. There have been many monks coming and going over the years, but no one has come forward."
"What kind of cultivation is Baili Zisheng?"
Wu Sansi shook his head and said: "I don't know very well. I once heard someone say that he has the cultivation level of the thirty-second level of Earth Immortal. But it is unknown whether it has increased over the years."
Chen Yunsheng thought in his mind that most of the hundreds of monks should be below the golden elixir, and the cultivation levels of the four helpers were between the upper-level golden elixir and the lower-level Nascent Soul. Otherwise, how could Baili Zisheng be able to reach the middle-level Yuanying level?
Subdue those four people. Such a force is indeed not weak. In terms of the Tianqiong Mountains, it can be considered a presence that cannot be ignored.
"I see that you don't have any cultivation, aren't you afraid that Baili Zisheng will kill you?"
Wu Sansi laughed loudly and said: "A person lives for a lifetime, and the vegetation lasts for one autumn. It makes no difference whether it is a few more decades or a few decades less. Those who live longer also endure pain. Many young men in the city were dragged away by Baili.
When digging for spiritual stone veins and being burned by the spiritual stone, you will not be able to die, but your life will be extremely painful."