I saw a familiar figure floating on the muddy sea surface.
Even though the other person was bloody and bloody at the moment, he could still recognize it at a glance. This was the Immortal Sect monk Zhao Lin whom he had met once before when he was in East China Sea.
What puzzles Lu Zhong is that she has no breath now.
"Strange, it's just a big explosion..."
Although the power of the explosion is not small, comparable to the self-destruction of the golden elixir, for Nascent Soul monks, as long as they are not in a defenseless state, the result will be serious injuries at most.
After putting away the corpse's storage ring, Lu Zhong released his spiritual consciousness without reservation.
Covering the nearby sea area of more than 20 miles.
Soon, he found two more Nascent Soul corpses, both of which were in the middle stage of Nascent Soul cultivation. There were more than a hundred Dan-forming monks and hundreds of Foundation-building monks accompanying him on the ship.
This discovery confirmed Lu Zhong's previous judgment.
According to the information he knew, due to the limitation of resource supply, the cultivation level of the monks of the Middle-earth sects was usually a carrot or a pit.
If the monks below want to make further progress, they must wait for someone above them to break through or die, or to exceed the promotion years and make the pit space free.
The huge Guimiao Immortal Sect, even if it sits on the huge land of the Southern Zhongtu Sect, can only train twelve mid-stage Nascent Soul monks.
Further up, there are three great monk positions.
As for the Taizun who transforms into gods.
Even if you spend all your money in the Immortal Sect, you can only support one person.
Returning to the Miao Immortal Sect, they sent three mid-stage Nascent Soul monks and a mountain-shaking boat. Thinking about it, they knew they must have bad intentions.
"What happened?"
In order to find the answer, Lu Zhong started retracing the scene.
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In the flashback scene, Lu Zhong discovered that Zhao Lin and the other three people, as well as the Immortal Sect monks under him, were more or less injured. At the same time, many parts of the mountain-shaking boat they were riding on were also damaged.
Apparently there was a big battle between the Immortal Sect monks on their way here.
"What kind of threat did the Immortal Sect monks encounter on the road? It actually injured three mid-stage Nascent Soul monks, and the Shanshan boat was also seriously damaged. Lu Zhong really couldn't figure out what could have caused all this, so he came to Shanshan
The navigation room on the mountain boat contains the flying boat's navigation log.
Checking the diary, when he turned to one of the pages, his expression suddenly became solemn.
There are only a few lines in it, but it indirectly reveals the purpose of Zhao Lin and the others' trip. It says "Support Qingyaozi and rebuild Changchun Valley to stabilize the situation." Although the diary does not mention the words "Bihai Zong", if Changchun Valley is really
After the reconstruction, the fate of Bihaizong is self-evident.
"Qingyaozi..." Lu Zhong remembered this name in his heart.
In order to heal Yu Feng'er's injuries before, he had been unable to get out.
Unexpectedly, not only could Qingyaozi secretly conceive a baby, but he also had the support of the Guimiao Immortal Sect, and even attempted to rebuild the Changchun Valley.
This person must not be left here!
Lu Zhong decided to come to the door and kill him when he had time.
But now, formality still matters.
Continuing to browse through the voyage log, I quickly found what I wanted. The incident happened three days ago. According to the calculation based on the navigation chart, it was 550,000 miles away from Bihai Fairy City.
It has long been far away from the East China Sea and belongs to a sea area called Lihai, located in the middle of the East China Sea route.
The offshore area has always been the area where attacks by sea beasts occur most frequently. Seven out of ten ships that sank in the East China Sea route were located here.
When the accident happened, Xianzong and his party had already gone deep into the center of Lihai.
Then looking down, the encounter continued above.
"I actually encountered a demon cultivator!"
Lu Zhong was quite surprised.
What they encountered was a demon cultivator dressed in gold, whose strength was marked by Zhao Lin as "suspected of being a half-step god". He called himself the "Great Sage Li Hai" and launched an attack on the Xianzong Feizhou as soon as he appeared.
Therefore, Zhao Lin and the others had to join forces to resist, and were severely injured one by one after fighting for dozens of rounds. After consuming a fifth-level spiritual talisman bestowed by Luoying Taizun, and paying the price of a mountain-shaking ship, they were in danger again and again.
Escape from the demon cultivator with amazing strength.
"Half-step transformation into a god, this is a being stronger than a great monk." Lu Zhong murmured.
During the review of the scene just now, he discovered that the cause of the big explosion was the detonation of the spiritual pool of the Shanshan Zhou. After further review, he discovered that there was an additional golden demonic power inside.
It was this demonic power that caused the big explosion.
In vain, Zhao Lin and others were still rejoicing that they could escape from the hands of the half-step god, but they didn't know that they had been plotted to death. A sudden big explosion happened to kill the three people who were seriously injured.
There were more than a thousand monks of high and low rank on board, and they were all buried together.
At this point, the matter can be said to have come to light.
But what puzzled Lu Zhong was why a demon cultivator suddenly attacked the Immortal Sect Feizhou. And it was such a demon cultivator who was half-stepped into becoming a god.
Furthermore, why did he appear in Lihai?
He also calls himself the "Great Sage of Lihai".
"Anyway, this demon cultivator's inexplicable attack can be regarded as blocking a disaster for me." Lu Zhong thought in his heart. Otherwise, when the Immortal Sect monks arrive in Nanman, he will not be alive when he is in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
There is no worry, but the Bihai Sect founded by one hand will become someone else's wedding dress.
Even if you manage to recapture it afterwards, you will probably be ransacked several times.
While thinking, the Blue Sea Ship has arrived.
The hatches on both sides opened, and a large number of Bihai Sect disciples filed out, led by Su Caocao, the leader of the Bihai Sect. Her eyes fell on the sea surface filled with floating corpses.
When she saw the corpses of Zhao Lin and her three people placed neatly on the board of the ship, she, who had always been calm and composed, couldn't help showing a look of shock.
Su Caocao could not identify the origins of the three people, but by feeling the pressure remaining on the corpse, she could also know that the extraordinary person in front of the owner of the corpse was also very different from the master Lu Zhong in front of her.
"Master, do you want to start search and rescue immediately?"
"Search and rescue? None of them can be saved. Just fish them out and cremate them." Lu Zhong stopped thinking and ordered: "Try your best to collect valuable items. After registering them, they will be added to the sect's treasury."
After getting three storage rings, he didn't bother to check out the remaining storage bags for core formation and foundation building. After all, there weren't many things that caught his eye. Anyway, after the list came out, he was the first one to redeem it, so he simply
This is the order given.
"Yes!" Su responded hastily.
With an order, the Bihai Sect disciples began to take action.
They all started to get busy.
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Return to the mountain gate.
Lu Zhong told Yu Feng'er what happened. She was also surprised to hear that the Bihai Sect almost suffered a disaster just today.
When he heard about the Great Sage Lihai's action, Yu Feng'er, who had been in charge of the Chengde Chamber of Commerce, suddenly realized a problem.
"Husband, if the Great Sage Lihai has always been entrenched there, wouldn't the East China Sea route be the same!"
"I'm worried about this too." Lu Zhong felt heavy.
The goods produced in the Middle Earth are of great significance to the world of Nanman cultivators.
Most of them are indispensable.
The only way for them to reach Nanman is through the East China Sea route.
The motive behind the attack on the Immortal Sect Feizhou by the Great Sage Lihai was whether it was to kill chickens to scare monkeys, or for other purposes.
As long as this demon cultivator is still entrenched in Lihai, the East China Sea route will continue to be interrupted. And once the East China Sea trade is interrupted, it will definitely be a disaster for the Nanman cultivator world.
It is a "road in China since ancient times". If you want to bypass the sea where the half-step transformed god is entrenched, the fleet will have to go deep into the dangerous depths of the boundless sea. And with the current strength of Nanman, it is obviously impossible to compare with Tianyuan Immortal.
Like the palace, sufficient escort force was organized.
As for crossing the Khantian Plateau?
As far as Lu Zhong knew, this was more difficult than going around Lihai.
The only way he could think of was to rely on manpower to carve out a passage on the "high wall of regret" near the sea on the plateau, or to set up hundreds of teleportation arrays to open up the connection between the Southern Barbarians and the Middle Earth.
, to resume the interrupted trade.
"But the most urgent thing now is to return to Miao Xian Sect." Lu Zhong suddenly smiled.
The East China Sea trade, which brings huge profits every year, must be an indispensable resource channel even for a big force like Guimiao Immortal Sect.
Changing places.
Lu Zhong thought to himself that if something like this happened to him, he would most likely immediately ask the Supreme Master of Transformation to kill the Great Sage Li Hai who was blocking the way.
After all, every day the trade in the East China Sea is cut off, millions of spiritual stones are lost, which is related to the interests of the entire Central-Earth Southern Sect.
"Once Taizun Luoying takes action, will he stop by and crush this 'little bug' like me?"
He quickly thought of this possibility.
Although unlikely.
To be cautious, Lu Zhong decided to hide for a while.
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Three years passed in the blink of an eye.
In the name of avoiding trouble, Lu Zhong took Yu Feng'er and Shui Ni together, but they lived happily for a while.
Just as I guessed before.
The appearance of the Great Sage Lihai really blocked the East China Sea route.
But what Lu Zhong didn't expect was that Gui Miao Xian Sect had not taken any action yet, as if they were indifferent to the matter, and actually sat back and watched the trade in the East China Sea be interrupted.
Until a ship arrived that took the risk of taking a detour to the boundless sea and survived the disaster.
Only then did we know the reason.
In the Bihai Palace, Lu Zhong took over the incarnation.
Due to the importance of the matter, the escort ship Jie Dan was invited.
He is a black-faced alchemy monk.
Looking at the man standing uneasily below, although Lu Zhong's expression seemed calm and composed, in fact, he felt that what this man said was quite ridiculous.
He couldn't help but ask again: "Are you sure that China-Earth is really in chaos because of the 'lost soul syndrome'?"
No wonder Lu Zhong found it ridiculous.
After all, in his opinion, aphansia is just a strange disease.
As a prosperous place of immortality, China-Earth has at least three god-transformation monks sitting in its place. How could it be plunged into chaos because of a strange disease?
"Junior, I am sure that if you make false statements, you will be punished by heavenly calamity!" Hei Mianjiedan vowed, and handed over a white jade slip, explaining: "This is a rumored jade slip, which is specially used to record interesting anecdotes of the Southern Sect.
, there is a record of soullessness in it, seniors can tell it at a glance."
Lu Zhong knew that the jade slips were a thing created by monks from China who were bored out of their minds. In his previous life, they were actually "newspapers".
When I took it and took a look, I saw that there was indeed a long paragraph describing "Aphania".
It's called amnesia.
It refers to the disease of the body losing its soul.
The onset of soullessness is sudden, and the specific cause is unknown. The symptoms are quite obvious, and the patients will become violent and aggressive. Then they will attack the soul-owning creatures with the purpose of robbing the soul, until the life is destroyed.
end.
If you absorb a large number of souls, you will not die.
Over time, your strength will actually improve and become stronger.
Some sick high-level monks will retain part of their previous cultivation and even part of their fighting experience. After absorbing a large number of souls, they will become extremely difficult to deal with.
As for the cause of this strange disease, the compiler monk attributed it to the manifestation of Naihe caused by the ascension of the god of Youxuan Dao Sect a while ago. It is believed that it was the manifestation of Naihe in the world, which caused the souls of a large number of mortal monks to disappear.
And Fei eventually triggered the chaos that swept through Middle-earth.
Looking at the contents of the jade slip, Lu Zhong had no choice but to believe that the sudden appearance of the soul-losing disease had indeed caused chaos in Middle-earth.
Gui Miao Xianzong probably had no time to distract him because of the fire in the backyard.
"Is this a disaster caused by the misuse of Naihe's power?" Lu Zhong had expected this, but never imagined that it would be realized in this way.
The disease of soullessness is so weird that it can not only infect mortals and low-level monks.
Even Lian Dan monks have cases of the disease.
But then again, Lu Zhong felt that the truth was definitely not as simple as he thought.
How could such a huge world of immortality lead to such a serious disaster because of the misuse of the Cina River? There should be deeper reasons behind the emergence of the soul-losing syndrome.
Bad news comes one after another.
But the good news is not without it. At least I heard that the Jade Slip clearly pointed out that the soul-losing syndrome cannot yet affect the Nascent Soul monks, and the reason lies in the Yuan Shen.
"What a troubled time it has been!" Lu Zhong sighed.
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About aphantasia and identification of symptoms.
Lu Zhong had no reservations about this and announced everything.
No matter what the views and attitudes of the various sects and families of the Southern Barbarians were after they learned that the Asoria disease had caused chaos in Middle-earth.
He doesn't care about it.
Anyway, if the sky falls, there will be someone tall to hold it up.
It's better to concentrate on improving your cultivation.
After it was determined that there was a fire in the backyard of Guimiao Xianzong, he would not be able to spare time for a while.
Lu Zhong was able to relax temporarily.
On the one hand, he sent an avatar to the high wall of Heaven.
Begin to set up teleportation arrays in the hope of reconnecting the Southern Barbarians in Central China.
The purpose is to use such a secret passage to know the news from the Middle Earth. Incidentally, it is also to establish a channel to obtain indispensable spiritual items from the Middle Earth.
On the other hand, Lu Zhong also began to take precautions.
The emergence of aphansia made him feel a strong crisis.
The frequent occurrence of various disasters makes this world feel like a leaky broken ship.
You never know when you will be overwhelmed by disaster.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong suddenly realized something, "The gods in this world who were originally content with the status quo are all beginning to rush to ascend, fearing that they may not have noticed something in advance!"