Lingpingan looked at the data refreshed in the author's background.
42…
Five more collections have been added.
It’s really average!
As for the original manuscript, most of it has been published.
The young online article writer held his cheek and thought: "It seems that I have to speed up my coding..."
"Starting tomorrow, we must code 7,000 words every day!"
“Only in this way can we have enough manuscripts!”
And this undoubtedly placed high demands on him.
That means that he must continue to give up his hobby of gaming.
For the sake of interest, give up hobbies...
It's really a bit uncomfortable.
He scratched his head: "There is no way..."
"What I promised myself, I have to complete even on my knees!"
There is only more than a month left before my aunt comes back from vacation.
He must earn the money for the big meal he promised his aunt as soon as possible!
"Alas!" The young bookstore owner couldn't help but sigh: "It would be great if a rich man came..."
But the problem is, the last time this bookstore's turnover exceeded 1,000 yuan was before he took over.
Thinking of this, Lingpingan lowered his head.
A good bookstore was managed by him into what it is now.
He was a little ashamed.
Fortunately, he always had a big heart, so he thought about it quickly.
"It's not that I'm incompetent..." he said: "But the situation is like this, and the general trend is like this!"
The mobile Internet, with its rapid development, has swallowed up everything.
He is not the first to be affected, and he will not be the last.
so……
"A crime other than war!"
Then, the young bookstore owner laughed heartlessly.
……………………
Xiaoman jumped up from the ground, holding the dagger in his hand tightly.
"Death!" A look of determination bloomed in her eyes.
Clang!
The dagger in his hand made a clear dragon roar.
Streams of sword light bloomed from the sword blade.
In the sword light, Xiaoman's figure was like a swimming fish, stabbing upwards.
In the sky, the target of Xiaoman's attack did not panic at all, although it was attacked by a surprise attack.
It just turned its gray-white eyes like dead fish.
A big hand that was already severely deformed stretched out directly.
"The remnants of the sword..." It opened its mouth, full of sharp teeth, and taunted: "I am worried about where to find you!"
"But you delivered it to your door yourself..."
"very good!"
On the outstretched deformed arm, lumps of sarcoma-like things bulged out, and then they grabbed Xiaoman straight away.
With just a slight grasp, the sword light blooming on the blade of Xiaoman's sword was all captured by the disgustingly deformed hand.
The sharp sword light was like strands of dogtail grass, being crushed into a ball in the deformed hand covered with sarcoma.
Then, those gray eyes like dead fish just glanced at Xiaoman who was still charging towards it with determination and no idea of life or death.
It understood the swordsman's will.
She just came to die.
How ridiculous!
It thought that these ridiculous human beings always have all kinds of ridiculous reasons.
These ants think their sacrifice is useful.
but……
The fact is...
Whether they resist or surrender...
Or will I die like I am now...
Nothing can change their fate of being exterminated.
This is a given.
but……
It looked at the human swordsman...
Her flesh, blood and soul must be delicious.
Thinking of this, the sharp teeth in its mouth couldn't help but rub together.
"Human, come into my mouth obediently..."
"Be my food!"
Xiaoman listened to the terrifying monster's voice, even though her flesh and soul were already trembling.
But she still mustered up the courage and used all her strength and will to control her body.
She must buy time!
Buy time for the children in the village to escape!
Even if it means death!
So, she gritted her teeth, activated her little remaining mana, and fired a few more sword rays.
She knew that she was fragile and vulnerable in front of such a monster.
But, as long as you can hold it off even for a breath, that's good.
Each additional breath of delay increases the chances of escape for the children in the village.
She even shattered a special sachet in her arms to make her flesh, flesh and soul more delicious to the monster, so that the monster could chew more.
This is the sadness of this world.
Immortals are already a term of the past.
Even monsters have become historical vocabulary.
After the sky fell, demons from outside the territory swarmed in.
Between heaven and earth, countless great monks were caught off guard and were taken advantage of by these invisible and insubstantial demons.
Their souls became a delicious meal for the devil.
The physical body was taken over by the demon and turned into a tool for evil.
Only sword cultivators, and only sword cultivators, managed to survive this unprecedented catastrophe.
The other monks all had their souls devoured and their bodies stolen by the demons.
Turned into a monster that is neither human nor ghost.
It has become a disaster in the world!
Like this monster, this deformed monster.
Its physical body is a major cultivator in the elixir formation stage!
Recalling these, Xiaoman closed her eyes. She had the courage to die, but in the end she was not brave enough to watch her own death.
She felt that the stench emanating from the monster was getting stronger and stronger.
The twisted and evil spiritual energy on its body was also constantly squeezing towards her.
"Goodbye..." Xiaoman said in his heart: "The elders in the village..."
"Bye now……"
"Master...uncle...senior sister..."
One familiar figure after another flashed through Xiaoman's mind.
She is still full of nostalgia for this world.
But precisely because of this, she had to die generously.
For the sake of my loved ones and for everyone!
Someone always has to sacrifice!
only……
Xiaoman suddenly couldn't sense the aura of the pill-forming demon.
She didn't feel any physical or mental pain or torture.
It's quiet all around...
and……
Xiaoman found that the spiritual energy around him seemed to be exhausted.
Without the supply and bearing of spiritual energy, her body is inevitably falling rapidly - there is nothing that can be done about it. She is just a sword cultivator who has just established a foundation. A sword cultivator who does not even have a sword pill, she still needs to rely on the outside world.
spiritual energy to support itself.
She opened her eyes.
There was a gray fog in front of me.
There are only five fingers in your hand.
The demon in the elixir-forming stage has disappeared.
There is only fog all around.
The sky is foggy, the surroundings are foggy, and even the body below is foggy.
This fog is a world made up of fog...
Her body keeps falling in this world.
"Could it be..." Xiaoman became confused: "I encountered a mirage?"
Legend has it that in ancient times, there were mirages.
It swallows mirage and traps travelers in the illusory world it creates.
But the problem is...
Mirages are usually found on the seaside, and can even be encountered in the deep sea.
Moreover, they only appear in ancient legends.
After modern times, there is no record of witnessing it.
so……
This cannot be an illusory environment created by mirages.
And soon, Xiaoman knew that what he guessed was true.
Because she fell to the ground.
Falling from the fog to solid ground.
Snapped!
Her body made contact with the ground and made a crisp sound.
Fortunately, as a sword cultivator, even if she is just a sword cultivator who has just established her foundation, her physical body is still strong.
Therefore, she was not hurt at all, and she bounced up from the ground like a carp.
The fog in front of me was still so deep that I couldn't see anything at all.
but……
Xiaoman jumped on the ground. The ground was hard and flat.
"So..." Xiaoman thought: "There are people or intelligent creatures here!"
Moreover, it must be a living being that can communicate.
Because, like the demon, although it has wisdom, it only has the urge to kill and destroy, and it will not do anything to build anything.
Creatures who can build, even demons, are ten thousand times better than demons!
You can even become allies!
This is common sense among people after the Heaven Qi.
In the face of a greater crisis, demons and humans have long since abandoned their past grudges and stood together hand in hand.
Therefore, Xiaoman couldn't help but feel a little happy.
but……
This fog is really too thick.
She couldn't see her surroundings clearly, nor could she see the road clearly.
She could only stumble around in this fog like a headless fly.
Suddenly, her foot seemed to hit something.
soft……
Xiaoman tried a kick and felt a little physical.
She knelt down and touched it with her hands.
I encountered a cold, deformed corpse.
Just touching the corpse made Xiaoman feel creepy, as if he had encountered a tiger or a leopard.
She swallowed and continued touching.
She felt the raised scales and the hard, deformed skin underneath the scales.
Touching again, she came across a piece of cold metal.
Pick it up and put it in front of your eyes.
Xiaoman fell silent.
This is a command talisman of the leader, with words engraved on it: Qingshan Order!
This is the token of the head of Qingshan Sect!
Legend has it that the Qingshan Sect was a sect founded by people from Qingshan.
The Qingshan Sect is the largest sect in Qingshan County in front of Tian Qingqian, and its leader Xuan Qingzi has already reached the advanced level of cultivation in the late stage of pill formation.
Xiaoman took a deep breath.
She naturally knew that this corpse was probably the monster that she had ambushed and attacked before and whose body had been stolen by the demon.
Sizzling...sizzling...
Xiaoman heard bursts of strong corroding sounds of flesh and blood coming from the place in front of her.
As she listened, she smelled a certain fragrant smell in her nose.
It is somewhat similar to the strange fragrance that descends when monks form elixirs in legend.
Xiaoman swallowed, squatted down, and touched the body on the ground.
Nothing was touched.
It was as if there was nothing on this ground before.
That corpse, that corpse of Da Xiu in the Dan-formation stage, the body of Da Xiu that had been stolen by the demon, was evaporated completely by something in front of her in the blink of an eye.
Even the clothing materials and utensils were all evaporated.
"Impossible!" Xiaoman was shocked.
Because this is beyond her knowledge and common sense.
As we all know - after Tianqing, the immortals and gods are no longer around, and the demons no longer have anyone who can suppress them.
These terrifying monsters have caused countless demonic disasters between heaven and earth.
As they kill and devour more and more humans and demons.
The bodies of these monsters began to become distorted and deformed.
From then on, ordinary weapons and spells can no longer harm them.
Moreover, these monsters also have all kinds of incredible abilities.
Immortality is one of them - even if they are killed and chopped into pieces.
After a while, these pieces of meat will be pieced together again, turning into a more dangerous and terrifying monster.
There is only one way to prevent their resurrection - to burn all the flesh and blood of the demons.
However, in fact, this is only treating the symptoms and not the root cause.
Because the demon without a body was just driven back into the void.
But the sky fell!
Therefore, it will still crawl into the real world along the hole between the void and the heaven and earth, as long as it finds a monk's body that can be stolen.
Then it will come back again.
This is the horror and horror of these things!
Therefore, after understanding these things, both the demon race and the human race have strictly prohibited the practice of any other method except swordsmanship.
but……
Here, in this mist, Xiaoman witnessed the body of a demon in the elixir formation stage being evaporated by some special power.
what does that mean?
Xiaoman was a little excited.
Because she knows that here, there is the power to destroy the devil!
Suddenly, Xiaoman's eyes saw a light source flickering on the ground not far in front of him.
The cyan halo is flowing.
She walked over, stretched out her hand, and picked up the glowing object.
It is a spherical crystal.
It is about the size of a pigeon egg and feels warm to the touch.
Xiaoman looked carefully and saw touches of cyan halo escaping from the crystal from time to time.
"This is..." Xiaoman said solemnly: "A golden elixir from a monk in the elixir formation stage!"
Golden elixir is the symbol of monks in the elixir formation stage.
It is the foundation of his lifelong cultivation!
Legend has it that if an overhaul of the elixir can lead to the birth of an infant of the soul from his golden elixir, then he will enter a new realm and become a being who is qualified to understand the way to eternal life.
But after Tianqing, there are not many people in the entire world who can step into this realm.
Because the soul of a great monk in this realm has a fatal attraction to the demons.
Even a sword cultivator who has no other aspirations besides giving up his sword and a firm heart in the Tao cannot escape the fate of being besieged by countless demons and falling.
What surprised Xiaoman even more was that there was a twisted afterimage inside this golden elixir, struggling and wailing in it.
If you look carefully, Xiaoman will recognize it.
That is the remnant soul of the demon!
"Hiss!" Xiaoman held the golden elixir in his hand and took a breath of cold air: "In this fog, even the devil can't break free..."
"It was destroyed by the power of this mist!"
"Only this remnant soul can avoid evaporation because of me!"
"What the hell is this place?"
Xiaoman asked himself, but there was no answer.
She knew that perhaps even the gods before Tianqing didn't have the answer.
Because, before heaven falls, the devil also exists.
However, at that time, the immortals guarded the world.
Any demon that sneaks into this world will be found and expelled by them.
Expelled!
The demons that even immortals and gods could only expel but could not completely eliminate were here, in this mist, with no way to escape and were evaporated and eliminated by some kind of power.
At this time, Xiaoman suddenly saw a light source deep in the fog, illuminating the surroundings.
