In the Plantagenet Dynasty, the area of a continent was roughly equivalent to the area of a province in the previous life, and the Zhou Mu was the highest administrator of a continent, and also controlled about 20% of the military forces in the continent for him to flexibly control and use
Dealing with a small number of aliens, suppressing rebellions, maintaining public order and other miscellaneous tasks.
The other 80% of the troops are in the hands of the captains. They generally take orders directly from the imperial court, and also have the intention of supervising the state pastors. If the state pastors or other generals want to drive them, they need the tiger charm given by the court.
However, if the continent is located on the border, or the situation in the continent is complicated and difficult, the imperial court will give the state pastor more military power in advance, so that he can control about 40% of the troops and horses in the continent at ordinary times to deal with complex and difficult situations.
The situation. This is the situation in Xiyouzhou where Lorraine Hill is now.
In the inn, Lorraine Hill was sitting in the corner, with his back to the center of the hall, eating dinner quietly. Although he did not observe it specifically, the scene in the inn was easily passed into his mind with his keen perception.
The dozen or so 'Black Leopard Riders' were strong and tough, and there were still traces of dried blood stains on their swords and halberds. It was obvious that they often killed people. No wonder the people here were so afraid.
Just when the group of people sat down to wait for the food, a vegetable dish was placed on the two tables where the man in white robe was sitting. Seeing this, the leading cavalryman slammed the table.
"Damn it! I've been sitting here waiting for so long, why did I serve them first?" The sergeant had a thorny beard and his face was ferocious when he was angry, which frightened many people around him.
"This, this... Master Jun, you didn't order green vegetables. They ordered this first and have already prepared it." The waiter was sweating profusely.
"Is it your turn to speak?"
Snap——
A slap hit him directly, sending him flying, and even one or two teeth flew out.
Seeing this scene, many guests finished their meals and quickly left to avoid getting into trouble. The shopkeeper also rushed from the kitchen to appease these unruly soldiers.
But the sergeant who beat him didn't care about the shopkeeper's long and humble apology. Instead, he looked sideways at the men in white clothes.
At this time, anyone with a little bit of discernment noticed the bad intentions and conflicts, and began to clean up, either going upstairs to rest or bowing their heads and leaving the inn quickly.
When Lorraine Hill saw such a scene, he didn't want to get involved rashly and quietly returned upstairs.
After that, there was a burst of ridicule and quarrels downstairs. The group of people in white seemed to have suppressed their anger and left the inn. Later, the downstairs gradually returned to quiet.
Early the next morning, Lorraine Hill got dressed and walked down the stairs. There were few people in the hall, only a few people eating breakfast.
After ordering breakfast, Lorraine Hill saw that the waiter was not too busy and curiously inquired about the surrounding situation.
"Do you know the situation in the Ximu Mountains?"
"Is it the Ximu Mountains? I only know a few things that the locals often know." The waiter began to talk.
"Our Xiyouzhou and Mushanzhou are separated by a barren and extremely high mountain peak. In ancient times, it was called Yamaluo Mountain, but now it is called Ximuqun Mountain. This is the official statement, and many locals still call it Yamaluo Mountain."
"A long time ago, there was a large sect on Yama Mountain called Songli Yama Palace. There were many envoys from the Nine Netherworlds in the sect, and they were good at driving away the corpses of the dead."
"After the great catastrophe of chaos, heroes all over the world rose up. Naturally, the Yama Palace also supported a local force and established the country of Youxi."
"Later, when our dynasty rose, these countries were destroyed. Even the Yama Palace disappeared, and the Youshi Kingdom was divided into Mushan Continent and Xiyou Continent. And the remnants of the Youshi Kingdom still live in the Yama Mountains. The situation is roughly like this." The waiter in the shop said.
Wiping the table, he talked about common sense that the locals basically knew.
And when Lorraine Hill asked about other things, the waiter didn't know much.
It seems that she has to go to the Ximu Mountains (Yam Luo Mountain), because the mission given to her by her master is to support a shrine in this desolate mountain.
After packing up his things, Lorraine Hill did not stay any longer. He left the town called Youcen and continued to move northwest, entering the dangerous mountains where civilians stopped.
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There was a special chill in the air. When the girl looked down at the land from the air, she found that the color of the land gradually changed from green to barren gray and black.
The rocks and black soil on the mountain are directly exposed to the air, with little vegetation coverage and few other animals. Only a few rabbits occasionally run out of their caves and carefully look for food.
As Loland Hill flew over the wilderness, the tall mountains in front of him gradually became clearer in his sight.
The extremely towering peaks are like two giant doors standing on the ground. The small towns and villages in the distance are as small as dust under these giant doors, and cannot even reach the door frame.
Continuous tall mountain peaks cut off the rear view. When the sun sets in the west, people cannot see the setting sun at all. Only a slight golden afterglow on the top of the mountain peak can be seen.
And in the hazy clouds and mist, those little rays of light seemed to shine from another distant world, triggering the imagination of countless people.
As the girl entered the high mountains, some small figures dressed in black also appeared below the field of vision. Most of their bodies were wrapped in black linen clothes and their faces could not be seen clearly. After trekking and working hard in the mountains,
Black barley is grown on the poor soil.
After finding a mountain village where a large number of people gathered, Lorraine Hill slowly dropped from the sky with a wooden box and walked forward.
As soon as the girl approached, a villager at the entrance of the village shouted eagerly, and his accent was quite local.
Under the yelling of this villager, a group of villagers ran out of the house. They looked at this strange girl, with fear, surprise, curiosity, disgust, etc. in their eyes.
Seeing this, Lorraine Hill stopped for a moment.
"Hello everyone, I'm from Huiluzhou. Do you know where Qianliu Shrine is?"
When no one answered, the girl repeated it several times. After a long time, an old man with a white beard came out and asked in a trembling voice.
"Excuse me, why are you looking for the shrine?" The old man looked haggard and his head was wrapped in black linen.
"I am a cultivator from Huiluzhou, from the Burning Sun Xiangyu Sect..." the girl briefly introduced.
"That's it..." After hearing the name Xiangyu Sect, the old man seemed to feel relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then can you show me the token?" He waved his hand slowly, and some young men holding weapons behind him retreated slightly.
"Is this it?" Lorraine Hill thought for a moment and took out a gardenia-yellow token from the box.
The old man didn't dare to get close. He looked at it carefully from a distance. After a long time, he nodded.
"Yes, it's the same as what I saw when I was young." His voice was hoarse.
"Please come with me." Then the old man walked slowly towards the village with a cane.
"I didn't expect Grandma Gro to be able to contact you..." He murmured middle-aged, as if talking to himself.
Then Lorraine Hill followed the old man into this mountain village.
Compared with the barren land outside, the location of this village is very special. It happens to be in the lee of a mountain surrounded by three mountains, so even though it is on the mountainside, there is still a large open space in the middle. The fields in the village are in this open space, and some
The house is built on the slope of the mountain next to it.
When the old man brought Lorraine Hill into the village, some of the young residents in the village were called aside by the old man and kept away from them, preventing them from contacting or disturbing the girl.
After getting closer, Lorraine Hill also gradually discovered that the residents here were different from the outside world.
First of all, their skin is very white, but the white color seems to lack sunlight. It is not rosy, but a bit bluish. In addition, although there are a few extraordinary people among the residents here, they are all in the Necromancer sequence and there are no other sequences.
of.
This is also relatively rare. Generally speaking, the war sequence is the most widely circulated, because it is easy to start at a low level and can play various roles even at low levels. Coupled with the promotion of the country and the spread of the army, this is also
The extraordinary sequence that is most accessible to ordinary people.
Following the small white stone steps and slowly ascending to a flat land halfway up the mountain, the old man finally brought Lorraine Hill to a half-cave-like house.
Most of this house is hidden in the mountain, and only the outer circle has windows.
After entering the house, you can feel that it is much cooler than the outside world. Then the old man asked the girl to sit down.
The tables and chairs are all very old wooden seats, and they already have many pits, some are scratched, some are peeling, and some are worn away.
But it looks very rounded, perhaps due to long-term use, the corners are almost no longer protruding.
"You are going to the shrine to find the shaman there, right?" the old man asked straight to the point.
"Yes." Lorraine Hill nodded and looked at the hunched and thin old man in front of him, who was sitting down slowly with difficulty.
"That should be correct."
"I'm sorry that I made you laugh just now, because there are very few outsiders here, so everyone will be very nervous and uneasy." The old man explained briefly.
"Because you are coming from a very far away place, I think I still have to introduce this place to you." He pursed his lips and spoke, because his teeth were almost gone, and his voice also changed a bit.
"We locals are somewhat different from those outside you, that is, other people in the dynasty. I believe you can also see that the skin color is very different."
After hearing this, Lorraine Hill nodded, then looked at him and continued.
"Outsiders call us a clan of ghosts. We often deal with evil spirits, so we have a bad reputation."
"But in fact, this is also a last resort, because to live in this land, you have to practice the art of Nine Netherworlds, otherwise it will be difficult to survive."
"You may not know it when you first come here, but in fact, in these mountains and land, every few days in the middle of the month, there will be many ghosts and ghosts coming out of the ground and hunting around."
"It will be difficult to survive without some means of self-protection, and to deal with ghosts and the like, only the Nine Nethers technique is the most suitable."
"I heard that there used to be a kingdom here, which was very prosperous, and there was also a big door-to-door sect here." Lorraine Hill repeated the description she heard from the waiter in the morning. As she told it, the old man also listened carefully.
Listen until the girl finishes speaking.
"Is this how the outside world describes us? I'm afraid you don't have the heart to say it, so it's been beautified a lot." After hearing this, the old man sighed.
"Actually, this statement is roughly correct. Seven or eight hundred years ago, there was indeed a country here, and it was also a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters." The old man slowly narrated with nostalgia for the legend in his words.
"At that time, due to the outbreak of the Chaos Catastrophe, all life in the world was in ruins, and the country was facing various threats, so the king at that time asked some experts to help resist..."
"But all the countries in the world are in crisis, and the major factions are unable to help, so the monarch has not been able to find any ninth-level immortal to come to help."
"At that time, a small sect nearby volunteered to stand up. They called themselves Yama Palace and specialized in the art of Nine Netherworlds."
"Although the art of Nine Netherworld has always been feared by others, it is indeed powerful in wars, and it is no wonder that it can dominate the world in the west. Therefore, the monarch agreed to them and gave them all kinds of support."
The old man looked at the slanting light coming in from the window and sat on a rotten and hard wooden chair to slowly recall.
"In this way, the disciples of Yama Palace summoned the dead corpses from all over the country and let them form a mysterious army to fight against those twisted phantoms."
"Compared to before, the casualties have indeed been reduced a lot, and we can even regain some lost ground."
"As a result, the monarch's behavior was no longer resisted and cursed by people. More and more people, both nobles and commoners, came to the Yama Palace to study and become one of them."
"In this way, the war continued year after year. Finally one day, this great disaster passed. All kinds of distorted phantoms were eliminated and cleared by the immortals, and the world returned to temporary peace."
"At this time, almost 90% of the cultivators in the country were worshiping under the Yama Palace. Of course, the Yama Palace has also grown from a little-known sect to a top sect across several continents. The people under its command
There are even hundreds of thousands of practitioners."
"If the story stopped here, it wouldn't be so bad. But it's a pity that it doesn't end here."
"After the great catastrophe and the brief period of peace, various princes and big countries began to conquer each other, and the country of Qi, as a world-famous powerful country, is no exception."
"A bigger war has been started."
"With the continuous expansion of the country of Youzhen, the country of Youzhen, which relied on the art of Jiuyou to support its wars, was finally feared by several major neighboring countries, and then jointly dealt with it."
"The two sides fought several battles, and the last and most intense one took place in these mountains and land..."
Maybe it's been a long time since he told these stories to outsiders, or maybe the old man is too lonely, and no one wants to hear these past events disappearing in the dust.
When Lorraine Hill sat at the table and listened quietly, the old man slowly became immersed in the narrative of the past, as if it was a past he had personally experienced.
"...After the war, nearly a million people died on this land. The dragon veins were contaminated, exploded, and even became disordered."
"What flows in the earth is no longer the pure energy of heaven and earth in the past, but has become the magic power of the Nine Netherworlds. Even if no one disturbs the dead creatures, they will be infected by such magic power and turn into corpses and ghosts.
The earth wanders.”
"So this is a cursed place, and our ancestors were punished for it and will never leave it..."
After a long time, the room became silent again, and then the old man slowly came back to his senses.
"Sorry, I, an old man, said some rotten things again. Alas... I still can't change this habit. Many young guys don't like to hear this. They also tried to persuade me, saying that if they listen too much, they will become kinder.
I’m as old as I am and I don’t have the energy to do anything anymore, haha..."
A dry and self-deprecating laugh resounded in the house, like an old bellows with holes in it, squeaking and pulling.
The girl wanted to say a few words of comfort, but she didn't know where to start. Finally, the old man slowly stood up again and opened the drawer on the side.
"Sir, you are going to find Grandma Grotto, right? Her shrine is on the other side of the mountain. I have a rough map here, please take a look."
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PS: Sorry, I was so confused yesterday, 0 0. I will adjust my status in a few days, and try to make up for the broken parts in a sudden burst. In addition, I will slowly make up for the missed updates... (All of a sudden
It will be difficult to make up for it completely, but it will still be made up gradually)