After all, the seven days were a bit tight, and Lin Yi was able to figure out what the big shots in the Ministry of War and the Chinese Army were thinking.
The less an official does not fight in the frontier army, the more his promotion or dismissal is related to the emperor's happiness and anger.
What these officials were most concerned about was naturally the emperor's happiness and anger.
In the eyes of those officials, even the life and death of all the Tiece troops in Luoshui City were probably not as important as the emperor's face.
Therefore, even if we have to delay time, we can only delay it after completing the military order and capturing or killing the practitioner from Tongtai Temple alive, but not before completion.
The biggest difficulty now is to determine the specific whereabouts of Zhou Xuanming. Although the walking monk from Tongtai Temple and several practitioners from the Ministry of War have managed to chase him down, it is naturally impossible for Lin Yi to bet his money on these people.
Without too much preparation, several carriages left the Tiece Army barracks in Luoshui City and headed towards Mumen County in Bazhou at full speed.
In the front carriage, Lin Yi kept eating while thinking that if he were Zhou Xuanming, after killing so many people, he knew that he must have been killed by the Southern Dynasty army.
Where should you escape when someone is watching you?
There must be a reason for killing, even if it is indiscriminate killing.
And wherever you want to escape, you will always have a reason.
Why go to Momon County?
If you can guess some of this person's intentions, you can find this person faster.
...
Whether we can have enough to eat and whether we can live peacefully are always the most important issues for ordinary people.
The people, who are as stupid as ants in the eyes of the powerful, can often produce a violent backlash that exceeds expectations when these two things are threatened.
Stories about the coming of evil spirits spread faster than a few far-sighted officials in the Ministry of War and the Chinese Army could have imagined.
The story of these indiscriminate murderers quickly gave rise to several detailed theories. The most unsettling legend among officials was that the ghost of the previous emperor was still there, and he came back with his corpse soldiers and generals to fight for the throne.
Those murderers are the demon generals of the previous emperor. As long as they capture a living soul, one more corpse soldier and corpse general will return to soul.
This certainly sounds ridiculous, but there is a widely circulated way to deal with it among the people.
Yin soldiers cannot eat food from the Yang world, so they must be full at all times and have enough Yang energy to avoid being killed by Yin soldiers and seizing their souls.
Such absurd statements are even confirmed by the different fates of the two villages.
There are many villages located on both sides of the official road from Fuyu County to Taigu County. One of the two villages is called Guzhang and the other is called Nianyin. There is only an old bridge between the two villages.
The stream under the old stone bridge is also very small. It cannot be crossed barefoot in spring and summer, but in autumn and winter, there is not much water on the river bed, so you can just walk across it directly.
However, overnight, more than ten households in Guzhang Village were killed, and no one survived.
Nianyin Village, just across the river, was safe and sound.
It is said that the only difference is that people in Guzhang Village generally eat a very light dinner, just drink some millet soup, while most villagers in Nianyin Village raise silkworms and have to get up several times in the middle of the night to feed silkworms. They are prone to hunger at night, so they usually have dinner.
Be rich and full.
Just one night passed, and all the familiar neighbors opposite were turned into horrific corpses. The villagers in Nianyin Village were also frightened. In the next few days, except for one or two households, no one was really alive.
In addition to those who had nowhere to go, the rest of the villagers also temporarily took refuge with their relatives, lest the demon suddenly cross the border with its corpse soldiers.
The two small villages that were originally quiet and peaceful suddenly became desolate and desolate.
At night, when the stream under the old stone bridge gradually filled with mist, a young man and an old woman from a foreign country appeared in a cemetery by the river.
The face of the foreign young man was covered with horrific scars. If someone saw him in the dark, they would really think that he was a demon who had walked out of hell.
What he did was also terrifying.
He dug up several graves where the villagers who died that night were buried.
These villagers were buried in a unified manner by county officials. They used thin-board coffins, which were still brand new at this time. However, the remains in the coffins were so rotten that the corpse water not only soaked the lower part of the coffins into a strange black color.
, and even seeped out of the wood.
After the foreign young man with the terrible scars on his face dug up these graves, he never went near these coffins again.
Because he is Wang Pingyang.
When he smelled the smell of corruption, the figure of the girl who died because of him that day appeared in his mind.
He already knew what was going on.
He just felt lucky.
That terrifying Lord Demon Sect is indeed a devil who can play with people's souls. If he had been trapped in darkness that day and couldn't extricate himself, and there was no Lin Yi on the battlefield to make him feel bright, he should have fought with him today.
There is no difference between killing the practitioners in these villages.
"This has something to do with the Demon Sect."
However, when the middle-aged woman who had been busy opening the coffins for a while stood up and whispered these words, he was still extremely shocked.
This woman is naturally Huang Qiutang, the master of Medicine Valley who even Yuan Yan thought was dead.
Of course Wang Pingyang knew that the corruption of these corpses beyond normal limits was caused by some vitality being extracted by the techniques taught by the Demon Sect... However, how could she possibly make such an inference?
He was silent for a moment, then decided what he wanted to do.
"I know."
He looked at Huang Qiutang and continued: "But you don't know."
Of course, someone who can become the most outstanding talent in the world in a certain field cannot be stupid, let alone escape from the clutches of the Demon Sect. This Medicine Valley Sage who looks like an ordinary peasant woman is actually much smarter than the average person.
Her body shook slightly.
She looked at Wang Pingyang with some shock in the darkness. Looking at the hideous scars on his face, she finally understood what this young Southern Dynasty practitioner had gone through.
She immediately felt infinite respect in her heart.
"You...were you once one of them?"
She said this with a slightly trembling voice, but she felt it was wrong and immediately shook her head and said: "The Demon Sect also wants to turn you into one of them?"
Wang Pingyang nodded slowly.
"True essence is also composed of vitality, and medicinal qi is naturally also various kinds of vitality." Huang Qiutang looked at the young man with respect and answered his previous question, "The Demon Sect's skills are the same as those he asked me to cultivate for him.
There is some connection with drugs.”
Wang Pingyang looked at her and knew that she didn't know much about the Demon Sect, and both he and Huang Qiutang needed to know more.
So he nodded and said softly: "The Demon Sect's technique, after killing someone, can transform the opponent's vitality into some directly absorbed spiritual energy, and then turn it into one's own true energy."
"So it's very simple. Killing people can improve your cultivation. Killing people, swallowing the vitality, and smelting it into your own true essence." Huang Qiutang looked at him and did not spend more time thinking, "The true essence of his technique,
It is like a primer for transforming vitality, and those medicines are also medicinal primers. They are either useful when he first practices this technique and forms such true essence, or they can solve some problems during his practice."
"Do you think there is something wrong with his practice?" Wang Pingyang heard the hidden meaning in Huang Qiutang's words.
"There are problems or imperfections. But this is just my guess." Huang Qiutang looked at the young man and knew that there was no need to hide it, and then said: "Any powerful medication method and cultivation method should be followed.
The basic principle is that throughout the ages, taking too much of any elixir will either cause direct harm, or lead to drug resistance, and eating more is of no use. The medicine is three parts poison, even if this technique can directly take away other people's health.
True Yuan, but if you eat too much, I think it will be the same."
Wang Pingyang listened to these words and thought about what this woman had done these days. He also thought about some things clearly, "In fact, after you arrived in the Southern Dynasties, you have been wanting to find out what is wrong with his technique.
"
Huang Qiutang nodded, "If something is poisonous, there will be an antidote, but if there is an antidote, there will also be something more poisonous."
"So you also want to find a way to deal with the Demon Sect, and you also want to avenge those people who were killed by the Demon Sect." Wang Pingyang looked at this woman, and respect sprang up in his heart.
"This route does not seem to be a good route to escape the pursuit of practitioners from the Southern Dynasties." Huang Qiutang said: "Where does he want to go and what does he want to do from here?"
"I think I guessed it." Wang Pingyang suddenly had the answer in his heart, and he whispered almost subconsciously: "He is going to Mumen County Jiange."