The fragments of the Mountain and Sea Map hung in the sky above the city. It continuously dropped its yellow aura and protected the entire city tightly.
Xu Dao thought to himself: "The fragment is so conspicuous. I was discovered by this person as soon as I entered the city. Could it be that the fragment has been refined by the people in the city?"
His mood sank slightly, but he soon regained his spirits.
The Taoist priest holding the bow is not a Taoist priest from the Taoist palace. Although he has the remaining energy of the Yellow Sky, he does not have the talisman of the Yellow Sky. He should not be able to actively use the remaining energy of the Yellow Sky. Even if he refines the fragments of the Mountain and Sea Map, he may not be able to fully control it.
Otherwise, even if it is just a fragment of the Immortal Treasure-level Mountain and Sea Map, the opponent will not be besieged by a group of foundation-building Taoist priests.
Xu Dao had other thoughts, the look on his face softened, and he began to talk carefully with the other party.
The Taoist priest holding the bow breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xu Dao's hostility was reduced. The man quickly descended from the air, ran to Xu Dao, and bowed to Xu Dao again.
Xu Dao also distracted his attention at this time and began to observe other scenes in the city.
The city in front of us, although crowded and chaotic, is not dilapidated. Close to the city wall, there are temporary shantytowns one after another, with heads hidden inside, and almost everyone has a look of hunger and cold on their faces.
Others were lying on the ground in a mess, with only their eyes still moving to prove that they were not dead.
The situation of the mortals in this city is not very good, but compared to the precarious situation outside, it is already very rare.
Xu Dao sighed lightly and asked the archer Taoist priest: "It seems that many nearby mortals have been taken into the city. Approximately how many people are there in the city now?"
After seeing Xu Dao greeting him, the bow-wielding Taoist priest asked the first question about mortals. On this man's square face, his eyes stared at Xu Dao for a few times, and then his throat squirmed a few times and said:
"Fellow Taoist, you have extraordinary eyesight. After the great change in the world, within a few days, there were monsters everywhere attacking and killing mortals with cruel and terrifying methods. My three brothers first dealt with them, but later, with limited ability, they could only gather the people and retreat to the city.
To protect yourself! There are currently more than 300,000 people in this city, and most of them are young and strong..."
Xu Dao raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard what the other party said. He suddenly thought of the Taoist priest who was killed by Yin Jianjian. He paused and then said:
"So, I wonder where your two brothers are now?"
The expression of the Taoist priest holding the bow straightened immediately, he raised his hands and said:
"I was about to talk to my Taoist friend about this."
He turned aside, rushed to Xu Dao to invite him to the city, and then gritted his teeth and said:
"To be honest, fellow Taoist, there are two cities, and the three brothers of a certain one are guarding them separately. The eldest brother is more powerful, so he goes to the other city alone to protect the people there and defend the town. At the same time, he and the second brother can,
Watch out for each other.”
"But unexpectedly, the demons who landed on the island became more and more powerful. One of them has been closing the city for half a month. First, he lost contact with his eldest brother. A few days ago, he even realized that his life card had been destroyed and he should be dead."
The Taoist priest holding the bow stared at Xu Dao with bright eyes:
"After the death of my elder brother, that group of half-human and half-fish monsters led an army to attack the city. Now that fellow Taoists can come, we can solve our shortage of manpower."
But immediately, his eyes dimmed and he said:
"Even if we can't save the mortals in the entire city, the three of you and I should be able to barely protect tens of thousands of people together."
Xu Dao listened carefully and understood in his heart: "It turns out that the Taoist priest who was sacrificed by Yin Jianjian that day was their eldest brother. He must have the highest cultivation level among the three brothers. He was also an immortal monk, but for some reason he was raped by Yin Jianjian.
Catch alive.”
He made a random guess: "The Luo family boss's physical body was also present when the flag was sacrificed that day. Could it be that the place where his physical body was exposed was why he was captured alive by Yin Jianjian?"
The temperament displayed by the Taoist priest holding the bow was as cheerful as his appearance, and he continued to say:
"Second brother is still studying the treasure in the middle of the city. Fellow Taoist, please follow me there, and we will discuss countermeasures together!"
Hearing this, Xu Dao couldn't help but look at the other person in surprise. This person actually said the word "treasure" directly in his mouth, and he was not afraid of making him covet him.
If Xu Dao guessed correctly, the treasure the other party mentioned was probably the fragment of the mountain and sea map on the top of the city. Xu Dao couldn't hold back and continued to ask insinuatingly what kind of treasure it was.
The Taoist priest holding the bow still had no intention of hiding anything. He immediately stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of the city and said, "That's it! Fellow Taoist, even though it's broken and can't reach the size of a palm, the reason why the whole city can
The reason why I have persisted for so long is entirely because of this."
After receiving such a straightforward answer from the other party, Xu Dao's vigilance was still there, but the anger in his heart at being attacked by the other party had disappeared a lot.
After the two of them walked through the air and reached the center of the county town, he looked at the bow-wielding Taoist priest with a much friendly look.
Because the Taoist priest holding a bow did not lie to him, a mound was temporarily built in the center of the county. The surrounding soil was still fresh. The mound was three acres in size. There was a Taoist priest with a yellow beard sitting cross-legged on it.
One large and one small, with two sharp wrist-handling knives, they look mysterious and mysterious.
The spiritual light rising from the top of this Taoist priest is ten feet high. It can be seen that his cultivation is the same as that of the Taoist priest holding a bow. He has completed the early stage of foundation building and is on the verge of condensation evil.
The opponent's true energy was coming out of his body, and with the support of the simple formation on the mound, it slowly rose to the top of the city, swirling around the fragments of the mountain and sea map.
Outside the mound, there were mortals kneeling on the ground, their heads covered in black. They were kowtowing to the Taoist priests on the mound and praying, muttering and praying non-stop.
Xu Dao followed the bow-wielding Taoist priest to the mound. He did not step into it immediately, but wandered around. He first let out his spiritual consciousness and scanned it carefully.
After confirming that the formation on the mound was crude and simple, and that there were no traps, he handed it over and stepped in.
As soon as Xu Dao stepped onto the mound, the Taoist priest with a yellow beard sitting cross-legged in the center opened his mouth and said: "I am a poor Taoist, Luo Huang, this fellow Taoist has come to greet you at a distance."
The Huang-bearded Taoist priest was not impatient, and slowly gathered his true energy back into his body. Then he flicked his sleeves and put the two wrist-breaking knives suspended beside him into his sleeves. The flying knives flew flexibly.
It's like a snake with two tails.
Xu Dao saw this and thought to himself: "This man is actually a sword cultivator. He is a swordsman. His natal swords are actually flying knives. There are two of them. In this way, the paths taken by the three brothers of the Luo family are all different.
It’s different. It’s rare that both immortal swords and martial arts are alive.”
He slightly cupped his hands and saluted:
"I am a poor Taoist, but I have met fellow Taoist Luo Huang."
The real name of the Taoist priest holding the bow next to him is Luo Qing, and he lives up to his name. Although his beard and hair are not blue, his arms are tattooed with dark blue runes, from his wrists all the way down to his elbows, possibly on both arms and chest.
There are also above.
Taoist priest Luo Qing was not idle either. His spiritual consciousness came out immediately, and in the blink of an eye he told his second brother Luo Huang about Xu Dao's identity and the conversation between the two.
After Taoist Luo Huang heard this, a sharp energy surged from his body, which seemed to be sword energy. The man did not stand up, and the sword energy directly lifted his body and flew to Xu Dao.
The man said with an moved expression:
"They are actually from the Taoist Palace. My two brothers have neglected fellow Taoists!" There was joy on his face, and they secretly looked at Xu Dao.
And Xu Dao looked at the other party, and suddenly found that the place where the Taoist robe hung down under the other party was actually empty, and there were no legs. Taoist Luo Huang was obviously a disabled person who lost both legs. No wonder the other party did not stand up, and always sat cross-legged. With.
Taoist Luo Huang stroked his yellow beard and continued to say happily:
"With the joining of fellow Taoists, even though there are many demons outside, the three of us can still protect ourselves!"
After Xu Dao chatted with the other party for a while, he looked up at the fragments of the mountain and sea map hanging on the top of the city and asked:
"I would like to ask these two fellow Taoists, what exactly is this thing and what is its use? Have you realized anything about it?"
The yellow-bearded Taoist priest Luo Huang felt ashamed when he heard this, and said:
"Ashamed, ashamed, Pindao has tried to polish it day and night with the true energy, for seven days and seven nights, but the true energy has not been able to melt into it."
He pointed at the yellow air above Xu Dao's head:
"On the contrary, the three of you and me, as well as this weird yellow aura on the heads of the people in the city, can easily blend in, which is quite magical. With this aura, Pindao has actually delved into something."
Taoist Luo Huang didn't seem to be hiding anything, he directly told the connection and role between the fragments of the Mountain and Sea Map and the yellow air on everyone's heads.
According to what the other party said, after the great changes in the world of Wu State, yellow air rose into the sky for hundreds of miles, blocking people's vision.
The three brothers of the Luo family were in the air for a long time. It was not until they were about to land in the West Sea that they discovered that the land where they were was transformed into an island and fell into the vast sea, drifting with the current.
Then the Taoist priests from the sea and the forces from the Shark Island landed on the island. They arrested and interrogated some people, and then they learned that they were no longer in the Wu Kingdom. The name of the sea in front of them was the "West Sea". During the Shengtang Period, West Sea!
The fragments of the mountain and sea map on the city are also a mass of yellow matter formed by the yellow gas condensing on its own and interweaving when the island was formed.
Originally, the three brothers could not touch this thing at all, but when the Taoists from the West were invaded, mortals on the island were killed and injured everywhere. The yellow air surrounding the fragments became increasingly thinner, and its shape was finally revealed, and the two of them reluctantly figured out some clues.
Taoist Luo Huang said:
"We can melt the yellow energy on top of our heads, and then we can barely touch the treasure. The demons in the West Sea don't have the yellow energy on their heads, so it's difficult for them to even get close."
"After we communicate with that treasure, we can enter and exit the barrier formed by other yellow qi at will, and we can also vaguely detect the surge of yellow qi in the entire city..."
Listening silently, Xu Dao breathed a sigh of relief and was secretly happy.
As he expected, because the three Taoist priests in Luojiaguan did not have the Yellow Sky Talisman, even if they could occupy the fragment of the Mountain and Sea Map, they would not be able to refine it.
Xu Dao's heart was beating fast, and he almost wanted to say to the two of them on the spot, "This thing is destined for me."
But he held it back at least, pretending not to know and sighed with pity:
"These treasures must be the most important treasures of our Kingdom of Wu. Although they are just fragments, they cannot fall into the hands of outsiders. Now that the army of thieves at sea has arrived, surrounded by tigers and leopards, what do you two fellow Taoists plan to do with them?"
The two Taoist priests Luo Huang and Luo Qing looked at each other and did not agree immediately. Instead, they said that they had been trapped in the city for half a month and asked Xu Dao to introduce the situation outside the city.
Xu Dao pondered for a while, but he was too embarrassed to fool the other party, so as not to destroy the current peaceful relationship between the two parties, so he explained the situation outside the city in detail, and pointed out the conflict between the Xihai Sanxiu and the Sharman Island side, and spoke frankly about the situation outside.
Taoist priests are not all in the same group.
After listening to it, Luo Huang and Luo Qing either closed their eyes and meditated, or opened their eyes wide with excitement.
Luo Qing danced his tattooed arms and shouted:
"Okay! This news, fellow Taoist, is very important. I asked you why the two groups outside the city started fighting. It's true!"
But Luo Huang stroked his beard, frowned and said:
"There are about twenty Taoist priests on one side and sixteen or seventeen on the other side, but there are things like Taoist soldiers... No matter which side wins, it will be difficult for the three of us to compete."
With a look of compassion on his face, he said: "The people in this city are in trouble."
When Luo Qing heard this, the excitement in his eyes suddenly dimmed. He took off the strong bow from his back, pointed it at the whistling sound outside the city, pulled the bowstring to the maximum, and then slowly released it, repeatedly consuming his own strength.
The muscles on his body were twisted like a snake, and he was gnashing his teeth, and his neck was red, almost like he was furious.
When Xu Dao saw the appearance of the two of them, he calmly pointed to the fragments of the mountain and sea map and suggested:
"There is still some time now, why don't we and the three of us join forces and try to refine it again? Maybe the three of us can refine this treasure together."
As soon as Xu Dao finished speaking, a voice sounded from the scene: "No need!"
Taoist Luo Huang grabbed his yellow beard, his eyelids twitched, he raised his head, looked at Xu Dao with a wry smile, and said: "Don't trouble fellow Taoist, my three brothers and I have already tried it, and it's useless.
"
The other party shook his head, and took the initiative to talk about his eldest brother, explaining that his eldest brother's cultivation was also in the realm of Ningsha, and implicitly said that his eldest brother's Taoism was higher than that of Xu Dao, and he was very caring about Xu Dao's face in his words.
But Xu Dao still figured it out: "The second son of Luojiaguan doesn't want me to interfere too much! Could it be that he knows something else and is afraid that the treasure will be taken away by me?"
Rejected by the other party, Xu Dao continued to propose a few more times, but the other party changed the topic again. Seeing that the other party was unwilling, he suppressed his temper and said:
"Forget it. So, how are you two fellow Taoists going to deal with it?"
Luo Huang and Luo Qing fell silent. After a few breaths, a voice came from the scene:
"drop."
The strong Taoist priest Luo Qing uttered one word, and then he clenched his white teeth, with a look of shame and anger on his face, and stopped talking. His second brother, Taoist priest Luo Huang, had a gloomy look on his face and slowly gave the reason:
"Instead of stubbornly resisting, it is better to wait until the fighting situation outside begins to break down and choose one of them to surrender. Although the situation of mortals in the Western Sea is worrying, with me waiting, I can save some after all, which is better than completely losing territory and people.
Besides... our safety can also be guaranteed to a certain extent."
What he said was reasonable, and Xu Dao couldn't help but nod. Even he himself had this in mind.
It is basically impossible to occupy the entire island and save all the mortals on the island. We can only settle for the next best thing, weaken the Merman Island as much as possible, and improve our own confidence, so that we can protect more.
Now that the three of them have gathered together and joined forces, not only are their respective confidences stronger, but also with Xu Dao's status as a guest minister, the other two and Sharman Island can also turn around better. It is really a good choice.
It's just that... Xu Dao looked at the compassionate Taoist Luo Huang, but he didn't believe him.