Su Xiandao: "The Lord of the Corpse Forest on Calvary Mountain is a famous god in the Tubo country. The Tubo people practice sky burial and call the place of sky burial the Bafang Hanlin, which is actually a cemetery."
"The spirit in charge of the cold forests in all directions is the Lord of the Corpse Forest, which means the Lord of the Tombs."
Luo Ning suddenly remembered that there was a corpse forest in the esoteric sect, which should be the same thing.
Su Xian continued to explain: "But in fact, the Lord of the Corpse Forest is an ancient god who has disappeared long ago. The so-called Lord of the Corpse Forest today is not real, he is just a demon king who inherited the true meaning of the ancient god of the Corpse Forest."
"There is a bone city in Calvary Mountain, which is the dojo of the Lord of the Corpse Grove. Many monks of the Esoteric Cult practice grave yoga in the cemetery, and they are disciples of the Lord of the Corpse Grove."
"Qian Chaofeng said that those women were sacrifices. In fact, it was the so-called charity of flesh and blood. In the end, they would become skeletons. It was not as simple as a sacrifice."
"Oh, Calvary Mountain is not too far away. It is in the Kuangxiao Hanlin in the northeast of Tubo. It is considered to be the border area of Tubo."
Li Dingguo's eyes turned cold, "The Xue family captured hundreds of Daxia women and gave them to the master of the Corpse Forest to be killed. It's really heinous!"
Qian Sibao said: "The Master of the Corpse Forest needs a large amount of blood and flesh for alms every year, and countless Tubo people have been killed. However, the Master of the Corpse Forest does not only eat women."
"So, these women should also be sent to Yanshi Temple to select the concubine."
Luo Ning snorted coldly, looked ugly, and couldn't help but slap the horse on the back.
Seeing this, Qian Sibaanpan said: "Brother Luo Dao has a kind heart and a noble character, so naturally he will not see this. But who told the world to be ruined? The Xue family is far more than the only family that has given people to alien races to cause harm."
"I heard that in places such as Guangdong and Minzhou in the south, there are still people who capture refugees and take them to sea and sell them to overseas Western barbarians as slaves."
"There are still people in Bingzhou who sell Xia people out of the customs and sell them as slaves to the Jin people. It's actually quite common."
Luo Ning looked at the Xue family caravan going away with cold eyes.
If you have the ability, you must eliminate the scourge of the Xue family in Tuo County.
He hasn't acted on stage for a while, and he hasn't treated patients. In the past month, Luo Ning's willpower has been consuming.
When I arrived in Xifan County, I had to act hard to earn my will power.
We also need to go to Xifanling City, which is said to be very famous, to trade some things.
At noon, we finally arrived at Chilong Pass where the Daxia border army was stationed.
Today's Chilong Pass is the westernmost city pass of the Xia army in Yizhou. Beyond Chilong Pass, it is the territory of Tubo.
But a few decades ago, the entire Xifan County west of Chilong Pass actually belonged to Daxia.
After Xifan County was occupied by Tubo, the border expanded thousands of miles eastward, and Chilong Pass became the border between the two sides. All the five million Xia people in Xifan County became serfs of the Tubo nobles.
Chilong Pass is a majestic pass, easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are 30,000 Yizhou armored soldiers stationed there. It is one of the most important passes to resist the Tibetan army.
When Luo Ning arrived at the majestic Guan City, he couldn't help but said: "The road to the majestic Guan City is really like iron, but now I'm crossing it from the beginning."
The city wall, which is hundreds of feet high, is so majestic and majestic that it makes people feel insignificant.
Even monks will be amazed when they see this majestic pass.
In the square at the entrance of the city wall, there are teams of ten-man soldiers patrolling back and forth.
Their fighting spirit and vigilance are not high.
Instead, he looked lazy.
Although Sergeant Xia's soldiers are not monks, they are all selected strong and tough people. After several years of hard training, they have become proficient in battle formations. They are also equipped with strong yet lightweight standard armor and thousands of miles of horses, so they have extremely strong combat power and mobility.
But the morale and condition of these soldiers are... very average.
"This armor... is wrong!" Li Dingguo looked at the armor with only his eyes exposed and couldn't help but say.
A is wrong!
The Xia army's standard armor is called Xuanqing armor. It weighs only three kilograms, is as thin as a copper coin, and is not much heavier than a robe. However, its protective power is equivalent to half an inch of iron plate. It is actually a real weapon.
The war horses that each of Xia's soldiers are equipped with are thousand-mile horses with the blood of monsters.
The Great Xia Dynasty had very strict control over armor and horses. The weapon masters who refined the armor had to work for the imperial court, otherwise they would be treason. The materials for refining the armor were strictly prohibited from private storage or trading.
Except for members of the imperial court, no monks are allowed to wear armor. Otherwise, they will be punished as treason.
The same is true for the Chollima, which is completely monopolized by the imperial court and cannot be owned by private individuals. The special alfalfa grass used to feed the Chollima is also controlled by the imperial court.
And one soldier is enough to fight against a group of ordinary strong men, which is equivalent to the special police force in Luo Ning's eyes.
These are just ordinary soldiers of the Xia army.
The more powerful soldiers are the tiger warriors who can compete with ninth-grade martial arts cultivators by virtue of their superior armor. Such tiger warriors are usually commanders or small groups. They can be said to be the strongest among ordinary people and the king of soldiers.
By relying on these methods, the Celestial Empire firmly suppressed civilian monks. Even great monks found it difficult to break the ban with their cultivation.
But Li Dingguo, who was familiar with weapons, discovered that although the armor style of the Guancheng soldiers was still the Xuanqi armor, it was just a fake!
People who are not familiar with it cannot tell, but Li Dingguo can see that this armor is at least a few kilograms heavier than the qualified Xuanqi armor, but the protective power is not as good!
Luo Ning and others were not familiar with weapons, but they understood what Li Dingguo said.
It seems that the Xia army's ordnance and equipment have been eroded by corruption and corruption.
At such an important border crossing, the armor of the soldiers turned out to be shoddy and substandard Xuanqi armor!
So what about military pay? What about pensions? What about firearms and gunpowder? Needless to say, these are the places where a lot of money is spent?
Although the Xia army is large in number, its combat power is already unreliable, right?
After being inspected, everyone passed through Guancheng. When they looked back and saw the huge cannons and crossbows squatting on the towering city wall, they all had mixed emotions.
This seemingly impregnable pass, I'm afraid...
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After passing the pass, you will reach Xifan County.
I saw grassy meadows on the roadside, herds of cattle and horses, tents everywhere, and a beautiful grassland scenery.
It turns out that Xifan County was originally one of the ten largest ranches in Daxia.
The largest grassland in Yizhou is in Xifan Grassland.
At that time, the Qiang tribes in Xifan County were all herdsmen in Daxia.
There are also many Xia people who farm. They pay equal attention to agriculture and animal husbandry and complement each other. It is considered a frontier treasure land.
Because of this, the Tubo army often attacked Xifan County and finally took away this treasure land from the Xia army.
However, because this place is too far away from the royal city of Tubo, there are many Xia and Qiang people, and Tubo is a local feudal lord, the Tubo royal court has very loose control over Xifan County and adopts a restraint policy.
Apart from stationing an army of soldiers and horses, building a few temples, enfeoffing a group of noble lords, and collecting taxes, there was nothing else to worry about.
Rather than saying that Xifan County is the new land of Tubo, it is better to say that it is the private domain of a group of Tubo nobles.
Luo Ning's team passed a Xia tribe along the Tea Horse Road. Qian Sibaan pointed at the tribe and said to Luo Ning:
"We Xia people originally did not have tribes. But after they fell into Tubo, they were forcibly made into tribal serfs by their lords, and they became more and more like Tubo people."
"In thirty years at most, the millions of Xia people left in Xifan County will all become Tubo people."
Luo Ning looked around and saw a group of Xia people with Yizhou accents, wearing Tubo robes with left lapels, wearing pagodas, and wearing Tubo braided hair.
There is not much difference between them and real Tubo people.
They were all dirty, wearing quail clothes, and looking after the cattle and sheep with numb expressions.
If they weren't able to talk, they wouldn't seem to be fundamentally different from cattle and sheep.
The life of the people in Yizhou's countryside was not easy, but compared to these serfs, they were much better off.
"This place originally belonged to the Celestial Empire, but it already belongs to the Tubo people." Li Dingguo sighed.
Seeing Luoning and other Xia troupes and caravans, a rare gleam of light appeared in the eyes of those Xia herdsmen who were originally numb.
"Brother Luo Dao, there is the manor of leader Naqin nearby. Naqin is also an acquaintance of mine. We can stay at his manor for a few nights and raise horses."
Qian Si Abacus pointed to the front and said.
"Okay." Of course Luo Ning would not object.
Su Xian suddenly caught up a few steps on horseback and pointed to a big mountain in the south, "Brother, that big mountain should be Fengshan Mountain. The Yangshen Fruit we are looking for is easiest to find there."
"It's just that there are monsters and beasts in Fengzu Mountain, and they are also very mysterious. It's best for us monks to go together. With a few more pairs of eyes, it will be easier to find things."
"If we can't find it in the mountains, we'll try our luck in Xifanling City."
Fengzhi Mountain looks not far away, but it is actually more than a hundred miles away.
Soon after, everyone saw a huge manor near the Tea Horse Road, with a tiger-head flag fluttering in the wind.
At the gate of the manor, several serfs were performing the "dog imitation ceremony" on a richly dressed Tibetan man.
They knelt on the ground, put their hands on the ground, and made a "barking" sound in their mouths, making dog-like postures.
This is the Tubo dog ceremony.
When Qian Sibaan saw the man, he immediately shouted in Tubo: "Steward Wangxia, who is as honest and strong as a yak ox, you are not dead yet!"
The Tibetan man raised his eyes and saw Qian Sibaba, and he laughed loudly and said: "No wonder Qiangba broke the porcelain bowl today, and the crows in the distance didn't listen. It turns out it's you, old man, here!"
"If you don't die, how can I go to see the Buddha?"
After saying that, Wangxia knelt down, put his hands on the ground, and barked twice.
Qian Si Abacus also knelt down, placed his hands on the ground, and barked twice.
After the two of them saw the gift, Qian Sibaan asked directly: "Is Mr. Naqin here? I have a gift for him, and of course there is a gift for you."
Soon, Butler Wangxia arranged for the Luo family to enter the heavily guarded manor and move into a small village building.
It seems that Qian Sibaan's reputation is still of some use in Naqin Manor.
Luo Ning didn't want to perform any dog-imitation ceremony, so he didn't want to follow Qian Sibaan's plan to visit the Naqin leader.
He greeted Qian Sibaan and took four monks, Li Dingguo, Su Xian, Luo Li and Hongxiu, to Fengshan Mountain.
The ghost bait fruit is about to be eaten up, and he must find the sun god fruit as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Tongyan Shaman made a prediction, and it turned out to be a different prediction.
Change of fortune means that bad luck can be easily transformed into bad luck or good luck.
After Luo Ning and others left, Wangxia's housekeeper learned that they had gone to Fengzu Mountain, and said to Qian Sibaan:
"Today's Fengzu Mountain is even more mysterious. I heard that a mountain peak suddenly collapsed and some ominous phenomena appeared."
"They are monks. Even if they can go up the mountain, they may not be able to come back."
"Some monks go in alone and never come out again."
………
In fact, few people know about the Yang Shen Fruit in Fengshan Mountain. Su Xian knows this because he is very knowledgeable.
In fact, even monks, very few people come to Fengzu Mountain to look for Yang Shen Fruit.
One day later, everyone came to the foothills of Fengzhi Mountain. They saw ancient trees blocking out the sky and the sun, the forest was dark and gloomy, and the mountains were shrouded in clouds and mist, giving off an aura of barbarism. They didn't know how big or how deep they were.
The mountains here are so steep that if they hadn't been monks, they wouldn't have been able to get up there.
Luo Ning, an eighth-grade monk, was a little horrified when he saw this.
In fact, he wanted to go on an adventure in the Fengzu Mountains alone, but several others insisted on searching together. If he really came alone, there would be little hope of finding the Yangshen Fruit.
"I'll open the way!" Li Dingguo drew his knife and moved forward. With one strike, he cleared the way for more than ten feet.
Half a day later, everyone entered the mountain.
There were faint sounds of birds and animals, and there were indescribable sounds deep in the forest, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
It was still noon, but it was very dark in the forest.
"Brother, a mountain peak in front collapsed, revealing a huge mountain belly." Li Dingguo said suddenly.
Luo Ning stepped forward and took a look. The dense forest ahead suddenly opened up, and a huge mountain belly was exposed.
There are some stone statues and carvings in the belly of the mountain, which turns out to be a huge monument.
"Would you like to go take a look?" Luo Li said, "It seems there is no way around it."
Luo Ning took a look and found that the collapsed mountain was too big. To go around it, he would have to walk dozens of miles in the forest.
"Go and have a look and walk through the mountainside." Luo Ning decided.
Everyone walked towards the exposed belly of the mountain together, and soon they were standing in the middle of the mountain.
The surrounding stone carvings are extremely old and can be seen clearly now that they are exposed to the sun.
"What is this? Is it a Tai Chi diagram?"
Before Luo Ning could study the stone statues, he heard Luo Li say.
When he took a look, he saw Luo Li wiping the ground with his shoes, revealing a Tai Chi pattern.
Luo Li's foot happened to step on the Yang Eye of the Tai Chi Diagram.
"It's the Tai Chi diagram." Ghost disciple Hongxiu said. Under her feet was the Yin eye of the Tai Chi diagram.
"Huh? It's really a Tai Chi diagram!" Li Dingguo and Su Xian walked over together in surprise when they saw this.
"Wait!" Luo Ning felt something was wrong, but as soon as he spoke, he heard a "buzz" and the Tai Chi diagram suddenly moved.
Almost at the same time, four green lights shot up into the sky, split into two directions, and disappeared in an instant.
And Luo Li, Li Dingguo, Su Xian, Hong Xiu, three people and one ghost, all disappeared!
Luo Ning looked at the three people and one ghost who suddenly disappeared from the Tai Chi diagram, and was stunned for a moment.
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