Mo Zong nodded sincerely. At this time, he was never stubborn, and he was indeed in a good mood at this time.
Although he still warned himself in his heart that he could not completely trust the conversation between these two people, even if he did not detect any deliberate elements in the expressions of these two people, he was used to slowly figuring out the truth of the matter by himself, instead of relying on
other people’s accounts.
He had no admiration for this shepherdess, but as a true singleton, in his most difficult moment, this shepherdess, who had no conflict of interest with him, helped him get rid of his loneliness, so he was naturally
One does not want such a person to deceive his enemies.
So compared to the disappointment he felt when he sensed the shepherdess' dry sea of energy before, he was in a good mood now, even though he hadn't gotten anything that could replenish his true energy.
"You have to be careful."
The shepherdess hesitated for a moment, but she did not insist on following Mo Zong and this woman into the "village".
Mo Zong thought for a while and asked: "You once knew how to practice. What level of cultivation did you reach before? If according to what you said, someone really comes here in the past two days, how high will their cultivation be?"
"As far as I know... none of our Xingzhou practitioners have been to the Middle-earth dynasty you mentioned." The shepherdess's face became more normal. She reached out and gestured as she did when talking to the Demon Sect, "I
I don’t know how the cultivation levels of your Middle-earth dynasty are classified, but according to the realm of our star continent, reaching the realm of being able to control objects is considered a top powerhouse. I still have a long way to go before being able to control objects.
, there should be no more than three people in the entire Xingzhou who can reach the realm of animal control."
"Gomono?"
Mo Zong looked at her and said: "Just like us practitioners in the Southern Dynasty and Northern Wei Dynasty, we can use flying swords through communication with runes?"
The shepherdess listened carefully, and she roughly understood it. She nodded and said: "It's almost the same, but we don't have the means to make the flying swords you call... We can only use some special ones that are consistent with our own true energy.
utensils.”
"The ability to control objects is equivalent to the Heaven-bearing realm in our place." Mo Zong said calmly: "In our place, many dynasties ago also used this method to control the objects that can carry their own true energy."
The woman couldn't understand the words about cultivation in the conversation between the shepherdess and the Demon Sect, but even she felt that the Demon Sect didn't seem to care about those people at all from the Demon Sect's calmness.
"The Middle-earth Dynasty has always been fascinating. In the story of our star continent, many of the powerful people in your Middle-earth Dynasty are like gods." The Shepherdess looked at the Demon Sect and became a little shy, "You were swept up by the storm.
You are not dead, you were injured so badly and you healed so quickly, you are like a god, but..."
At this point, she was afraid of being rude, so she hesitated and did not continue.
Demon Sect understood what she meant, smiled faintly, and said: "You said before that there are no more than three people in the entire Xingzhou who can reach the realm of animal control, so among the people who have come in the past two days, there should be no one who can achieve it.
A person of this level?"
The shepherdess looked at him, a little confused, but nodded.
"How long has it been since you've been here?" Mo Zong smiled, nodded at the simple tents, and asked.
The shepherdess didn't understand what he meant, but she still said truthfully: "It's been half a year."
Mo Zong said: "You usually rely on goat's milk, picked wild millet, wild fruits, and some things picked up from the beach. Will they bring you what you need?"
The shepherdess shook her head and said: "When they come, they will bring some things and send some to me."
"Then you come with us."
The Demon Sect's eyes fell on those camps and said: "They are fishing here anyway. If you eat too much of those things, you can also change the taste."
When the woman heard these words from Mo Zong, her brows furrowed deeply.
But Mo Zong didn't like nonsense. Before she spoke, he spoke slowly but clearly to ensure that the woman could understand: "No one will joke with their own life, and I certainly won't, and you should too.
Understand that ordinary people from the Middle-earth Dynasty will not appear here across such a sea area. I can appear here, even in our place, and I will not be an ordinary person. Since the stars you mentioned come from
People are not as powerful as I thought, so there is no need to be so careful."
This woman understood what Mo Zong said, and she also saw the confidence and majesty that Mo Zong naturally showed when he said these words. However, her long-term fear of those people in Xingzhou still made her unable to believe this.
outsiders.
"Even if those three people who are able to reach the realm of beast control are here, there will be no problem."
It's just that the Demon Sect doesn't want to talk nonsense to her anymore.
He was still patient when talking to the shepherdess, but he didn't have much patience for this woman.
After he said this, he walked forward.
He walked out of the shadows at the junction of the forest and the beach, and walked into the sunshine.
The woman roared angrily behind him.
But that could only mean that she was very angry, because she had no way to stop it. Someone in those camps soon saw the Demon Sect walking towards them openly, and many exclamations soon sounded out.
Mo Zong looked at the panicked women, smiled, and said nothing.
Behind him, stern scoldings sounded one after another, and the voices came from the woman holding the bow.
The Demon Sect understood that this woman was threatening everyone in the village, meaning that he was a member of the Middle-earth Dynasty who was rescued by this shepherdess and needed to find some medicine to treat his injuries.
He will leave soon, but if they cause trouble on their own, if those people from Xingzhou come, if they know about it, all of them may be severely punished.
This woman obviously has some prestige in this village, but she is not an absolute ruler. Most of the voices quickly subsided, but there were also many dissatisfied scoldings. Those scoldings were not directed at this woman, but at
It was aimed at the shepherdess.
The Demon Sect also roughly understood what they meant, which was that the shepherdess was a nuisance and it was not good for them to live in the mountains and yet they provoked a foreign man.
The Demon Sect ignored these women.
He ignored the looks of these people and walked into this village of simple tents.
He soon stopped in front of a tent.
No one can live in this tent.
In this village, all the tents inhabited by people are very dilapidated and dirty. Like many places he has traveled to, the more barren and difficult the place, the people are not so harsh on the living environment.
.
But the tent, which could not withstand human beings, was clean and well covered with animal skins.
Each piece of animal skin comes from that kind of small rat-like animal. It is a small tent, but I don’t know how many skins of these small animals were used to sew it.
He felt the breath he needed from this unbearable tent, which was the long-lost smell of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
"You can't touch anything in this tent."
A familiar sharp voice sounded from behind him.
The expression on Mo Zong's face did not change. He turned around calmly and looked at the woman walking behind him.
"This is the goods we have to pay for."
The woman looked at him and said in an unquestionable tone: "I know now that you are not afraid of the noble people in Xingzhou, but everyone here is afraid. You will leave here if you can, but we will still stay here.
Even if those noble people in Xingzhou can't do anything to you, they have plenty of ways to deal with us. You can touch everything in the other tents in this place, but you can't touch the things in this tent."
Mo Zong glanced at the woman, smiled slightly, and said: "Okay."
The woman was stunned. She didn't expect the Demon Sect to answer so simply.
Of course she didn't know what Mo Zong was really thinking at this time, and she was not a practitioner, so she didn't know what the things in this tent meant to practitioners. She just felt that this man from a foreign land seemed to understand
Etiquette is not difficult to talk about.
The Demon Sect did not talk to her anymore, but walked to the side of the shepherdess and said softly: "You told me that everyone here is just like you, just animal husbandry... But there are some elixirs in this tent.
She also said it was the goods they needed to deliver, what's going on?"
"They are raising a kind of sea otters. They feed them with some seaweed from the sea according to the method. There is a chance that a kind of yellow wax will be produced in the stomachs of those sea otters. That kind of yellow wax is called yellow treasure in Xingzhou." The shepherdess lowered his head.
Head, she said softly, not daring to look into Mo Zong's eyes.
"You are a practitioner, so you knew from the beginning that the things they have here should be useful to me, but you didn't tell me." Mo Zong looked at her calmly and said, "It's because you were afraid of telling me.
We must get these things, and when the time comes that they can’t do business, their end will be miserable.”
"Yes."
The shepherdess became sad and said as much as she could in the Southern Dynasty dialect: "You are very special. I know that even without these elixirs, you would be trapped on this island at most, but you would not die. But they can't pay these things.
He might die."
"They don't have any kindness towards you, but you still care about them so much." Mo Zong looked at her with strange eyes, "Have you never thought that if I can leave this island, maybe I can take you away from here?"
"I have thought about this possibility." The shepherdess nodded, "But I don't want them to be angry because of it."
Mo Zong shook his head.
He didn't look at the tent again.
But this doesn't mean that he really won't touch the things in the tent.
With his level of cultivation, if he wanted to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was so close at hand, there was no need to get into the tent and take the contents into his hands.
Even the shepherdess who was right in front of him couldn't feel that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the tent was being continuously drawn out with the flow of energy in his body, not just some of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that had been lost by the elixirs.
, that thing they call Huang Bao, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth contained deep inside is being quietly extracted by the Demon Sect, and is constantly being condensed into threads, and is being continuously drawn into his body by him.
"How did you get exiled here? I want to hear the story of you and that man." Mo Zong said slowly.
The shepherdess was silent for a moment.
"I feel like I didn't do anything wrong."
When she raised her head, her voice was louder than ever before.
She still spoke slowly, but all she spoke was the local dialect.
Because she wanted to tell everyone present these words.
"Yes, he is a thief, but he steals things to give to the poorer people, so that the people he takes care of will not die of illness or starvation."
"Of course they can say that I have an unclear relationship with him. Yes, I let the thief go, and often gave him some things in the temple to sell, because I also wanted to save the things he took care of.
people."
When she raised her head at first, she didn't look at anyone, but after she said these words, she looked at everyone around her, and there was obvious anger in her voice, "Because I know the temple very well.
They don’t care about the life and death of those people, and those royal families don’t care about the life and death of those people either.”
"He is indeed a thief, but if he had not saved those people, he could have lived a good life. I do love him, but because I respect what he did first. Yes, I was selected by them.
I shouldn’t be unclear about the saint, but the so-called saint should live in the temple, do nothing, and then wait for the time to pray for good weather, and then come out to accept the cheers and worship of the people.
?”
In her voice, in addition to anger, there was also unspeakable pain, "As a saint, shouldn't I take care of those who can no longer take care of themselves? Those royal families in Xingzhou, they can cure me.
Sin, but you also look down on that thief, do you think the same as them?"
No one responded to her.
It seemed that no one in this village dared to answer her question.
Mo Zong laughed.
"Actually, you were a little stupid back then."
He looked at the shepherdess and said slowly: "Actually, if you had arrested him on false pretenses, you would not have let him go. With your identity, you would have made him suffer a little bit at most. Then, as a saint, you would have exposed him to the public."
Even if the temple doesn't want to care about the fate of the people they rescue, for the sake of the reputation they want, they may take good care of those people. And even if the temple doesn't care, as a saint, you can tell these things.
Maybe his sins can be forgiven, and some noble people who want a good reputation may rush to take care of those people."
The shepherdess lowered his head and said, "I am too stupid."
"It's too stupid."
Mo Zong said: "It's just that many people will be like you and will stick to their own attitude because of what they think is right. Many people will be like you and will not resort to any means."
Mo Zong's words actually represent his attitude.
Just like he always felt that good people don't live long.
He doesn't feel that there is any so-called justice that must be upheld. In order to accomplish what he wants to accomplish, he will do whatever it takes.
The elixirs in this tent were transformed from the bodies of sea beasts that he had never seen before. The amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy contained in them was extremely rare for the Demon Sect. When traces of true energy appeared in his dry meridians, for these
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the elixir is drawn faster.
As long as he is willing, he can directly drain all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from these elixirs before the end of this conversation.
However, he knew that if he went any faster, he would be noticed by the shepherdess, so he just continued to suck in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in those elixirs at this very slow speed, and then asked: "They have abolished your cultivation.
, banished you here, how did you deal with the thief?"
This is a cruel question.
He knew that this question was cruel to the shepherdess.
After he asked this question, the shepherdess was silent for a long time.
But he is also certain that getting rid of pain and becoming stronger does not rely on forgetting, but must face it. The Shepherdess saved him, and he should do something in return.
"They hanged him."
The shepherdess said: "Seducing a saint is a more serious crime than stealing from the temple."
"Last question."
Mo Zong looked at her and asked softly: "Is there anything in this village that you think is more delicious?"
…
…
The woman holding the bow and everyone in the village looked at the backs of the demon sect and the shepherdess leaving in great surprise.
Because the words of the Shepherdess touched them a little, they stopped secretly discussing and reprimanding the Shepherdess. However, looking at the backs of the two people, countless doubts arose in their hearts. This foreign land
The man seemed a bit extraordinary. He didn't speak much, but it made people feel that he couldn't be offended. It's just that... he came to find medicine, but in the end he only took away two dried sea ducks and a few fresh fish?
Did he really come here to find something to heal his wounds?
A wisp of smoke emerged from the mountain forest.
The plump sea duck is roasted on the fire, and drops of golden oil seep out from under the fragrant duck skin, and then drip onto the charcoal fire below.
When leaving the village, Mo Zong also took a clay pot with him. At this time, the pot was filled with some water, and some branches were propped on the water, and the fresh fish were being steamed.
"We have this kind of sea duck on the seashore in Middle-earth, but it is bigger than this and the taste is not very good. However, the raw duck eggs taste very good after being pickled with salt. On the islands farther away from the land, there is no such sea duck.
Sea ducks, only seabirds.”
Mo Zong roasted the two sea ducks patiently. He smelled the aroma coming from the fire, smiled and said to the shepherdess, "If it weren't for you, I might rather take some more dried shrimps from them instead of
Pick this kind of sea duck.”
Seeing Mo Zong's satisfied expression, the shepherdess suddenly felt a little sad. She said to Mo Zong: "I'm sorry."
Mo Zong glanced at her and said, "Why did you suddenly apologize to me?"
The shepherdess looked at him and plucked up the courage to say, "You did not return to my place, but made these things to eat here directly. I did not let you take the elixir to be delivered in their camp. You found nothing in their village, so
You must want to wait for the Xingzhou ship to arrive and take risks next. I also know that if you must take the elixir in the camp, no one among them can stop you."
"You think it was you who put me in danger again. It was because of you that I had to wait for their ship to arrive and then take risks on their ship. That's why you apologized to me." Mo Zong smiled.
He said: "In the final analysis, you are still too kind. Your choice this time has put me in danger again. In fact, it is the same as when you were too kind and harmed the thief and yourself."
Having said this, he paused, looked at the village under the mountain forest, and continued calmly: "Actually, those people have nothing to do with you, so why do you care about their life and death."
The shepherdess was stunned.
She didn't expect that the Demon Sect would say this.
It wasn't until she took more than ten breaths that she spoke: "What you said may make sense, but I really have no way to care about their life or death."
Mo Zong waved his hand and said gently: "I don't want you to change, because there are thousands of kinds of people in this world. Many people are born with different types of people and live their whole lives. There are good people in this world, and there are also some.
Bad guy. I’m just saying this to let you understand that no matter what choice you make, you don’t need to feel sad about your choice anymore. What you think is right is right and cannot be wrong.”
The shepherdess was quiet again for a long time.
When Mo Zong felt that the two sea ducks were almost roasted, and handed one roasted sea duck to her first, she looked at Mo Zong seriously, smiled shyly, and said, "You are a good person."
Mo Zong shook his head. He thought it was a joke, but he did not laugh. He just replied seriously: "Few people tell me that I am a good person."
…
The sea duck is indeed very fragrant, and the meat quality is beyond Mo Zong's expectations, and because the women also applied sea salt before drying it, it is not bland or tasteless.
It's just that the steamed sea fish lacks some wine, and it smells fishy to Mo Zong, which he doesn't like very much.
The shepherdess had not eaten such greasy food for a long time. Although it tasted delicious in the mouth, she felt a little gastrointestinal discomfort afterwards. She went to find some herbs and picked some coconut fruits to boil.
No wine, just these potions.
Mo Zong drank some and thought it tasted pretty good. He suddenly wanted to laugh and couldn't help laughing.
The shepherdess looked at him blankly. She didn't know what he was laughing at.
When she thought about it, Mo Zong was a little disappointed because she didn't get what she wanted, and she wouldn't be so happy, but looking at his smile, she also became happy.
When it was almost nightfall, the shepherdess originally wanted to prepare some leaves to spread out, but at this moment, the Demon Sect asked her another serious question, "When did the spiritual wilderness start here?"
"What is spiritual wilderness?" The shepherdess did not understand the meaning of this word.
"That's when the spiritual energy begins to cut off." Demon Sect looked at her and explained patiently: "You are a practitioner. If there is spiritual energy from heaven and earth on this island, you can slowly absorb the spiritual energy from heaven and earth to practice, and you will eventually be able to practice again. Because there is no spiritual energy here.
Without the existence of the aura of heaven and earth, those people will be able to banish you here with confidence."
The shepherdess understood, and she said: "I have read some records. On our islands far away from the land, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was originally thinner than that of your Middle-earth continent. As early as four or five years ago, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth became even thinner, almost
I can’t sense it anymore. However, we Xingzhou practitioners don’t rely much on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to practice, and rely more on the products of the sea.”
"Four or five years ago?"
Demon Sect nodded and said: "That seems to be slightly earlier than the start of the spiritual wilderness in the Southern Dynasty."
The shepherdess did not know how to answer the question.
The Demon Sect looked at her and said, "No need to do anything else, they are here."
It took the shepherdess a breath to realize what he meant. She subconsciously stood up straight and looked towards the sea in the distance. A sail shadow appeared on the sea that was about to be shrouded in darkness.
….
A large ship ran aground on the beach with the tide.
At least for people in the Xingzhou area, this is already a very big ship.
Several women originally looked at the empty space on the shelf for drying meat and felt a little distressed, but when they heard the strange sound and saw the outline of the big ship on the beach in the distance, all their eyes were filled with tears.
A look of fear.
They were exiled here. The climate on this island was very good, but there was not enough food. If they wanted to have enough food and obtain other daily necessities, they needed to rely on this large ship that would come every once in a while.
If they offend the people on this ship, there is no need to punish them too much, as long as they leave less things behind, their lives will be very difficult for the next period of time.
More than a dozen people dressed in black jumped from the boat.
The material of their black clothes looks very hard, but it seems to be very breathable, and there is no trace of sweat in such a warm place.
These people are all members of the Xingzhou Royal Court. Because the population on all the islands in the Xingzhou area is not large, and many of them are scattered on various islands, the Xingzhou Royal Court does not have an army in the true sense of the Middle-earth Dynasty.
The royal court of Xingzhou relies on the temple to manage all the islands in the territory.
These people dressed in black are the priests of the temple.
They act in accordance with the laws of the Temple, but in most places in Star Continent, they can very competently decide whether the person in front of them has offended the Temple and violated the sacred rule of the Temple.
So in a sense, they are the laws of Xingzhou.
When these temple priests landed, all the women in the village of simple tents spontaneously gathered at the end of where they were walking.
The tent that had been well covered was also opened, and a box of things inside was carefully carried over by four women.
The skin color of these black priests is also very dark, except for the priest in the middle who wears a black hat.
The priest wearing a black hat had extremely white skin, almost sickly.
His right hand held a short black bone staff, while his left hand held a small skull.
This skull does not look like it is made of jade or other bones, but it looks like a real, very small baby skull.
I don’t know how long this skull has been around. It seems that thick oil has penetrated into the bones, making the skull yellow, but also very crystal clear, like topaz.
This priest was obviously the leader of these people. When he saw the box carried by four women, he did not say any words, but just placed the small skull in his left hand in his right hand.
, and then took off the hat he was wearing.
He is very thin.
He looked to be no more than thirty years old, but the hair on his head was very sparse, which made his scalp look extremely white.
The things in the box are also yellow like the skull in his hand.
When the four women carefully placed the box on a piece of clean animal skin spread not far in front of them, and opened the box, they looked at the number of fist-sized yellow things in the box.
There was an imperceptible look of satisfaction in the priest's eyes.
However, in the next moment, his eyes narrowed, and an indescribable chill quickly appeared on his face.
He saw that the surface of those yellow things was covered with tiny cracks.
"You...want to die?"
He took a deep breath, looked at the frightened women in front of him, and said in a cold voice.
An uncontrollable sound of breathing and teeth chattering sounded in front of the priests. All the women in the village, including the woman with a bamboo bow and good shooting skills, didn't know why he suddenly said
Such a sentence.
But he didn't give any explanation. As soon as his voice fell, four priests in black had silently walked out from his left and right sides and walked towards the four women in the front.
The beach was very soft, but there was a strange sound under their feet, like metal rubbing against each other. (To be continued)