Chapter 38 People of today, roads of ancient times
Jingle bell bell, jingle bell bell~
The sound of camel bells brought a little ripple of "life" to the gray sky, but it was quickly annihilated in the endless haze. Nothing has changed, but change has indeed occurred.
Have you ever seen a camel in the wilderness?
Or……
Uduna?
In the prairie language, it means "tenacity". Of course, in the prairie language family that combines divine language and primitive tribal languages, it can only mean "tenacity" when it is attached to a definite noun.
When it is expressed alone, it is a unique ranking, referring to this kind of camel.
They are silent and have stoic brown eyes.
No hair.
The outer skin is black, wrinkled, and not stretchy at all, like tanned leather. Soldiers who often patrol the borderlands will sharpen their knives directly on it.
Its towering hump stores a large amount of food and water, which can sometimes be cut open by desperate warriors to eat. Food and water are secondary, but the most important thing is the soul-vitalizing power contained in it.
Human monks use soul-generating stones to fight against the ubiquitous resistance and erosion in the desert. Wuduna does not need it. Wuduna can generate the soul-generating power to fight against the desert. This is also what Wuduna belongs to the human race and not the demon race.
prove.
The lives belonging to the demon clan are not afraid of that kind of "drying out". They are part of the "drying out". The life activities of all monsters, together with the environment, form the "drying out".
An ordinary war horse has no qualifications to cross the line of life and death and enter the wilderness. And when a powerful demon horse steps here, it also needs the power of the soul stone to resist the environment.
"Uduna" is the most common beast of burden here.
For thousands of years, they have carried humans and marched into the depths of the frontier and wilderness again and again. They are not only chariots, but also food, not only armor, but also comrades-in-arms.
Older scalpers than old scalpers.
No one would be willing to take the knife to Udu Na unless it was absolutely necessary.
Cutting open the hump means the final moment of death for many soldiers. This behavior is called "Yi Che" on the grassland, which describes the act of cutting the hump with a knife, but the meaning is "suicide". And
It is honorable, and dishonorable suicide cannot be expressed as "Yi Che".
On the day Jiang Wang came to Bianhuang, it was said that it had just rained, and there was a rusty smell in the air. Jiang Wang suspected that the rain here was caused by knives.
Yu Wenduo told him, "Absolutely."
Jiang Wang asked again what the rain here looked like.
Yuwen Duo only said that he would know when it rains.
Since then Jiang Wang has been waiting for rain.
A team of dozens of Uduna, together with nearly a thousand warriors from the Mu Kingdom, walked out of the gray haze. The long winding dragon was a vague line spreading through history.
Bianhuang is a place Jiang Wang has always wanted to come to, not just because this is the place where Zhao Rucheng once fought for his life.
Including Border Wasteland, Yu Yuan, Meteor Immortal Forest, Gate of Ten Thousand Demons... He wanted to see, experience, and feel all the places where human beings faced danger.
This is his simple understanding of practitioners deep in his heart.
That's why he has always been more tolerant to ordinary people than to monks. Not only because monks are more destructive, but also because "those with power bear their responsibility."
This understanding was first established by Zuo Guanglie.
Bianhuang is the frontline between humans and demons. Zhao Rucheng fought here, and Zuo Guanglie also fought here.
The two countries of Jing and Mu fought heavily on the line of life and death, and over the long years, they charged against the demonic tide again and again.
In this land, there are so many heroic sons and daughters, so many heroic epics, and so many tragic songs of happiness.
Now that we have come to the grassland, how can we not come to the borderlands?
Don't forget history and don't lose sight of the future.
At this moment, Jiang Wang stood on the other side of the line of life and death and saw the return of such a team of "demon hunters".
On one side is green grass like the sea, on the other side is the sky full of gray sand.
Life and death, passion and silence, separate such a clear line between heaven and earth.
This feeling is so desolate, and at the end of the desolation, there is a wisp of ancient heat.
This line of life and death is the dividing line that the human race has drawn for this world. It is the mark that generations of human warriors have carved in this cruel world with their iron blood and steel swords.
Here, on the line between life and death, is a never-ending fight and blood that never dries up.
Behind the line of life and death is an endless fertile land with billions of human beings.
And what about the front line of life and death?
Where are the places where the bones of countless brave men are buried, the depths of the endless quicksand, and the passage connecting the tombs of all realms? What does it look like?
Jiang Wang stood with his sword in hand, and Chitong Qianyang could not see the end.
Yuwen Duo and the returning demon hunter chatted loudly about the harvest. Jiang Wang kept a suitable distance, listened quietly, and showed respect with a sideways gesture.
The two countries, Jing and Mu, have never stopped attacking the depths of the desert. On the one hand, they need to kill a large number of evil demons, hoard soul-creating stones, and reserve war resources for future fights against the demonic tide. On the other hand, this uninterrupted hunting of demons requires
Action can also effectively reduce the intensity of the demonic tide.
However, demons are not pigs and dogs that can be slaughtered at will. Demon hunters often have to pay a higher price than demons.
There is a famous problem on the grassland
Why is the grass so green at this end of the line between life and death?
And everyone knows the answer.
Because so many people have shed their blood for it.
Even in an era when divine power was at its peak, this was a problem that had never been covered by divine light on the boundless grassland.
"Do you really not need me to follow you?" After exchanging information about the nearby area with the demon hunting team, Yuwen Duo came back and asked.
Jiang Wang just smiled.
"Okay." Yuwen Duo shrugged, "I'm a burden."
"Stop talking about yourself like that." Jiang Wang comforted, "You're just a little weak."
Yu Wenduo:?
Jiang Wang looked at the haze and seemed to see the shadow of the gray vulture in Mo Lake. He said casually: "Don't make the atmosphere so deep. So many people can enter the border wilderness. What's my problem?"
Yuwen Duo said: "Hunting demons is a very dangerous thing, especially when traveling alone... I know it is useless to say this, but I still have to say it, lest Rucheng Yizu comes out of seclusion and finds me in trouble."
Jiang Wang turned to look at him and said with a smile: "Should I also write you a letter of liability to express that my entry into the wilderness was entirely voluntary and had nothing to do with you, and that you have tried your best to dissuade me?"
Yu Wenduo took out a pen and paper: "That's the best."
Jiang Wangzhen wrote him a letter of liability, saying that he voluntarily went deep into the wilderness and had nothing to do with anyone.
It's not all a joke.
If something really happened to him, having such a letter of liability would not affect the relationship between Qi and Mu.
Being able to write such a disclaimer is enough to show that his trip was not a sudden hothead, but that he did have a clear understanding of the dangers of the border wilderness.
Yu Wenduo said: "Actually, if you don't come, no one will criticize you. Originally, you were an envoy with integrity, and the responsibility is not here. I know that you have a great reputation overseas, and you have killed many sea tribes in the Mystery Realm.
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"Just think that I am also practicing." Jiang Wang simply said.
Yu Wenduo thought for a while and then said: "The troops here on the line of life and death have their own defenses and cannot be easily mobilized. But I will stay here and coordinate a reserve army to come over. If something unexpected happens, remember to flee back, I will
I will support you as soon as possible."
"Thank you very much."
"Do you need any more help? His Highness Yun has given me great authority."
"Give me a map, give me a bag of soul stones, and give me a black camel." Jiang Wang simply said, "I will be back before the succession ceremony begins."
Compared with "Wuduna", Jiang Wang is more accustomed to calling it black camel.
After all, Prairie Language is not straightforward enough for people like him who are from the Western Region and are resident in the Eastern Region.
On the line of life and death, Yu Wenduo bid farewell to Jiang Wang.
Watching one person and one camel, walking further and further away, slowly disappearing into the haze, like a bright color in the world, swallowed up by the darkness, just like when he was stationed at the line of life and death, every time he said goodbye to Zhao Rucheng.
He thought that Marquis Wu'an of Daqi would say something like the great justice of the human race, and he was willing to believe that those words, at least from the mouths of people like Jiang Wang, would not be so false.
But Jiang Wang said nothing and only called this "cultivation".
On the contrary, Yu Wenduo felt that cultivation is a more meaningful thing. Whether it is killing thieves, serving the country, or defending the human race, it cannot be achieved by just talking. Those who talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, often make others reflect on the world.
People...have they really done anything for this world?
If you move forward down-to-earth and have enough strength, you will naturally be qualified to realize your ideals.
He also has to practice hard.
I will never go to Shen’en Temple again.
Yuwenduo thought about it again and changed his determination.
Not going for at least five days.
As for five days later?
I will definitely return to the royal court in five days, let’s talk about it then!
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Jingle bell bell, jingle bell bell~
Jiang Wang rode on the back of a camel and wandered into the depths of the desert.
One person, one sword and one camel, traveling far away in green clothes, would be quite a bit cool, if not for the constant flying sand and stones in front of them.
When we were not far from the line between life and death, we didn't feel it yet. By this time, the feeling of being rejected and rejected by the whole world was already very obvious.
The present world is the present world of the human race. This has long been an undoubted fact. But here, it seems not so accurate.
It is not wrong to say that the wilderness is a demonic realm.
Or is it part of the tomb of the world that invades the present world?
Jiang Wang still lacks some knowledge in this area. After all, it has touched upon the fundamentals of the world, and he was not qualified to touch it before.
Now he can feel that there is a "dry" power that cannot be captured in reality, which is constantly eroding his body and soul.
Even if you have a golden body and chalcedony, even if the power of your soul has been condensed into spiritual consciousness, you will still be shaken by this "drying out".
Fortunately, they were all resolved by the soul stone he carried.
Jiang Wang believes that there is an exchange at the level of rules, but for him at present, there is still a long way to go before he can understand the rules, so he cannot see it clearly.
The number of soul stones was sufficient. In order not to miss the ceremony, he only planned to stay in the desert for five days, and Yuwen Duo prepared enough for him to consume for a month.
Uduna, who was walking slowly on the sand, felt no pressure and felt free.
Over the long years, it has evolved its body and soul to adapt to this land.
In fact, all life in the world has its tenacious part.
Delicate grass can grow in the crevices of rocks. In this desert filled with lifelessness, there are also sand scorpions hiding in the ground. They rush out recklessly and want to attack Wudu Na, but Jiang Wang kills them with a snap of his fingers.
Thinking of this, Jiang Wang couldn't help but think that if there were no soul stones, no extraordinary monks, and just ordinary people living here, after a large number of deaths, would some kind of evolution naturally occur in the end?
Just like the water tribe, they gradually changed when they arrived in the sea. The current sea tribe has completely transformed into another race.
Of course, no one dares to conduct such an experiment.
Winter winter, winter winter.
A monster with thick ox hooves on its lower body, a pair of skinny chicken claws on its upper body, an illusory human man's head on its head, and a bulging abdomen, rushed from a distance.
The cow's hooves stepped on the sand, as if they were stepping on an exciting drum beat.
A harsh, strange scream came from his mouth, which was torn intermittently by the wind and sand.
Jiang Wang watched silently.
The Uduna he was riding was also very calm and was still moving forward slowly. The black camel that Yuwen Duo transferred from the army had seen the world.
Jiang Wang was no stranger to the monster in front of him. He had already seen it under the Qingjiang River.
Yin demons have no fixed shape at all, and have thousands of strange shapes. It was a kind of fate that he saw two identical ones.
It was just that when he saw the monster, he felt an instinctive fear. Now that he saw it again, the only emotion he felt instinctively was disgust.
It has nothing to do with courage, this is the leap in the essence of life.
In other words... before the arrival of God, the life essence of human race was weaker than that of demons?
This kind of judgment and knowledge made Jiang Wang confused.
Of course it won't affect his fighting.
The body of the evil spirit is real and tangible, but its head is illusory.
Sometimes the head looks like a human being, sometimes it looks like an animal, and there are all kinds of strange things.
At this time, it seemed that he had been hungry for many days, and he was running here crazily, causing dust to fly under his feet.
When he got closer, he suddenly froze.
It screamed in pain, but made no sound at all.
Then starting from the cow's hooves, the flames were ignited bit by bit. The flames did not spread quickly, but as time went by, they gradually spread to the entire body. In a slow process, it was finally burned away.
Snapped!
Only a crumpled human-shaped head was left, falling on the sand.
The flames rolled out again, and the head disappeared.
The reason why Samadhi True Fire is used instead of other means is naturally to supplement knowledge. Demon hunting is a long-term matter. If you want to kill quickly and well, you must first understand the "demon". Its composition,
Its life form, every part of its body...
Jiang Wang felt the flames silently without saying a word.
stop!
A demon with antlers on its head suddenly emerged from the ground, clawing at the black camel's hooves
Snap.
Both pairs of claws were cut off.
Then the entire body was shattered into pieces, leaving behind a stag-horned beast skull.
The light of the sword suddenly appeared and faded.
With a casual move, Jiang Wang brought the Yin Demon's head in front of him, looked at it carefully for a while, and then threw it into the bag hanging on the side of the black camel.
As the footprints deepen, the evil spirits appear more and more frequently.
At first they attacked alone, then in groups of three or five, then more than a dozen, then dozens... At the most, nearly two hundred Yin Demons came together to attack them.
In the desert environment, the perception of the human monks was severely suppressed. Jiang Wang also found out about his situation when he was trapped in the encirclement.
Of course, hundreds of ants still can't surround a human to death.
Jiang Wang kept trying his swordsmanship, Taoism, or magical powers, and many of them were destroyed by mistake, but there were still more and more evil demon heads in the bag.
He also knows more and more about "demons".
The more we understand, the more confusion arises.
No matter where he goes or how he hunts, the screams of the evil spirits will never be heard. He also tries to control the power of sound under the special rules of the border wilderness.
The battle never stops, and the practice is all the time.
The black camel continued to move forward slowly, leaving a long line of hoof prints.
The people of today are the same as those of ancient times.
It was windy and sandy last year, and it will be windy and sandy next year.
People are not old friends, and people are still the same.
For a long time, on this route, there was only jingle bell, jingle bell~
Its voice is melodious and not lonely.
Because at the end of the wind and sand, there are countless... responses across time and space.