out of time

Chapter 283 The World Is Miserable
Regarding Qi Ye's reply, Xu Qing was a little puzzled in his heart, but he just felt something was wrong, and he was not very clear about the specifics.

However, Xu Qing felt that it was better for him to keep a respectful distance from Xuanyouzong's Zixuan Shangxian, and he decided not to go near the Xuanyouzong's mountain gate in the future.

With this in mind, Xu Qing closed his eyes and began to meditate.

But I don't know why, I feel a little uneasy.

So Xu Qing opened his eyes, took out the Book of Plants and Trees given by Master Bai, read it for more than half an hour, and completely calmed down in his heart.

In this way, time passed day by day, half a month passed by in a flash.

In the past half month, besides practicing, Xu Qing also obtained some water from Yunxian Eternal River to wash away the taboo fragments he obtained from Sima Ling.

It's just that the taboo fragments themselves can emit heterogeneity, so the washing effect of the river water is mediocre.

After Xu Qing thought about it, he was still not at ease with the shadow, so he didn't let it absorb it, but continued to wash it with river water. Even if the effect was ordinary, it was better than nothing.

At the same time, as everything in the entire main city proceeded in an orderly manner, the security special division of Seven Blood Eyes also ushered in their first outing mission.

Inspect the tributaries of the Yunxian Wangu River.

This recently re-drawn tributary river has an extremely long course, running through the small half of Yinghuang Prefecture from Shaosizong to the Eight Sects Alliance.

The inspection team had to go up the river all the way. While checking the quality of the river water, the focus was on deterring Xiaoxiao, especially the kind of diversion on the way, which must be strictly destroyed.

After all, the river is long and passes through countless sects and small countries. If the river is not inspected, after the river is intercepted layer by layer, the part reaching the alliance of eight sects will be greatly reduced.

So there was a river patrol.

This is a matter that the security special divisions of the eight sects of the eight sects are responsible for as a whole. They are assigned to each of the eight sects for mutual rotation, and now it is the turn of Qi Xuetong.

Xu Qing also planned to go out to see Yinghuangzhou, but he was cautious and did not act rashly, but asked Qi Ye about it.

Qi Ye gave an affirmative answer, and gave Xu Qing a jade slip to conceal his identity.

After getting the jade slips, Xu Qing felt relieved.

So he covered up his appearance, changed his clothes, and even blessed the magic weapon for changing the breath. In the early morning of this day, he and the captain took seven or eight hundred disciples of the sect and set off from the Eight Sects Alliance on twenty large ships. .

Along the way, twenty large ships sailed out of the cities of the Eight Sect Alliance and moved along the river.

The diversion width of this Yunxian Eternal River is extremely wide, and the higher it goes, the more it becomes like this. Gradually, a river reaching to the sky is displayed in front of Xu Qing.

The river was turbulent, the sound of the water was in an uproar, and the waves were rolling.

The spirit of the fairy is strong.

In the early morning, you can still see the fairy mist rising in the river, and smelling it is full of freshness, which makes people feel refreshed.

The river is more than ten thousand feet wide, and the feeling of being in it is like the sea. Ten large boats have to sail side by side, with a distance of thousands of feet from each other, so that they can explore all the sides.

The Vajra Sect Patriarch liked this place even more, and after expressing his desire to Xu Qing, Xu Qing took out the black iron stick so that the Vajra Sect Patriarch could practice better here.

The shadow was weird, even in this environment, it had no effect on it. While it was dark under the sun, part of it spread into the river.

Sometimes some spirit fish in the river are instantly swallowed when they get close to the shadow, and at every moment, the shadow will convey a wave of satisfied emotions.

"Can you also absorb the breath of fairy spirits?" Xu Qing noticed it.

"What an eternal river of Yunxian!" When Xu Qing thought about it, the captain on the side looked in all directions, and there was a touch of emotion in his voice.

"It's no wonder that the Eight Sects Alliance will destroy the Shaosi Sect's dam at all costs and risk offending the Taisi Sect, allowing this river to flow into the alliance."

"I don't know how vast and shocking it is at the source of this eternal river. My generation of monks must go there once in this life to see the scenery of mountains and rivers. If I become a sword holder again in the end, my life there will be joyful and my life will not be in vain. .” The captain folded his hands behind his back, his hair fluttered in the wind, and his voice was fascinated.

Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the captain in amazement. Half a day had passed since he set off early in the morning, and he hadn't seen the captain eat an apple. What he said at this moment made Xu Qing even more weird.

It's not like the captain can say this kind of talk.

So Xu Qing took out an apple, took a bite, and nodded.

He remembered, since the incident of Xuanyouzong last time, the captain seemed to have been a little stimulated, the latter two met several times, every time on the captain, Xu Qing seemed to see Wu Jian Witch feeling.

Today, it is especially clear.

Except not singing poetry.

"Eldest brother, do you eat apples?" Xu Qing asked.

"In your heart, do you only know how to eat as a brother?" In the wind of the river, the captain turned his head, gave Xu Qing a meaningful look, and said lightly.

Hearing this, Xu Qing took out an apple and threw it over.

The captain instinctively caught it.

Xu Qing was silent.

The captain was silent.

After a while, the two squatted on the bow of the boat and started eating together.

While eating, the captain sighed.

"You said why Zixuan Shangxian is so right, I am not bad, I am not bad... I checked later, and Zixuan Shangxian was very famous in Yinghuang Prefecture when he was young, and he was beautiful. It’s not easy, and most of those bad reputations are spread maliciously after the failure of suitors.”

Xu Qing didn't speak, and looked at both sides of the bank, and the description in the file of the two sides of this Yunxian Eternal River appeared in his mind.

On one side is the Taisduer Mountain Range formed by the [-] mountains, which is densely packed, like the spine of a giant beast, with no end in sight.There are countless monsters, ghosts, ghosts, rogue cultivators, and sects, and dragons and snakes are mixed together in chaos, cruel as purgatory on earth.

On one side is the endless barren wasteland, rich in heterogeneity, with dead trees forming forests, and there are countless small countries of ethnic groups. Each small country often has to enshrine or depend on some monks and forces to survive, and it is suffering.

Xu Qing mused about the content of the dossier. After eating the apple, the captain took out another apple and took a bite. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

Xu Qing also looked up instantly.

At the same time, in their sound transmission jade slip, there was a message from the disciple who was inspecting the ship ahead.

"There are mortals in front, staying by the river."

Because of the distance, the disciples on the big ship behind couldn't see the distant scene, but in the eyes of Xu Qing and the captain, everything in the distance was clearly visible.

After seeing clearly, their expressions became complicated.

Xu Qing saw a large number of mortal refugees, old and young, men and women, most of them were black and blue, with extremely strong alienation, and they were not far from alienation.

Most of them are as thin as skeletons, with no eyesight, and some even have difficulty walking, so they can move forward slowly only with the support of their relatives.

There were hundreds of these people, and they gathered on the bank to form a long line, washing their bodies with river water.

With the help of the fairy breath of the river water, he can suppress his state of being exhausted.

There are even some rotting bodies, lying on the bank, being slowly fed with river water in stone bowls.

There were even a few children in the crowd, and the sound of crying spread, as if the washing of the river water made them excruciatingly painful.

This scene is miserable in the world, but it is just a small corner of all living beings and this world.

And after seeing the big ship of the alliance, these mortals were terrified and trembling.

Xu Qing looked at all this and spoke softly.

"Send some of the elixir."

"Here!" The disciples of the Security Special Division who accompanied him immediately led people to fly, and presented the low-level pills they had prepared before departure to these suffering people.

"We can't do much, this world is like this, and our human race is seriously infighting, and it's a mess." The captain sighed.

"I know." Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and looked into the distance.

"Help if you see something you can do, and do what you can."

The captain turned his head, took a deep look at Xu Qing, then waved his hand, and dozens of spirit fish flew out of the river and landed on the bank.

The spirit fish is the same as the elixir, and its effect on dissipating heterogeneity is faster than that of the river water.

"Little Ah Qing, maybe this is why the old man likes you, and why I am willing to contact you." The captain patted Xu Qing on the shoulder.

Xu Qing didn't speak.

Time passed slowly, and the voyage continued for half a month.

On the road for half a month, the shore was as miserable as before. Xu Qing saw mortals, casual cultivators, and other ethnic groups and small countries.

They are all cleaning their own heterogeneity on the river bank, each of them is very miserable, and most of them are disabled, and most of them are obviously physically alienated.

Although the river channel that was forcibly opened by the Eight Sects Alliance benefited the Eight Sects Alliance, it also helped the countless small country groups beside the river channel, giving them a glimmer of hope in this painful life.

The Eight Sects Alliance acquiesces to this, as long as they don't divert the river, they will not stop it, acquiescing to the suffering people along the way to come here to gain life.

At the same time, Xu Qing and his group will send out the prepared low-level pills on the way. This behavior is different from other sects. It was explained by Qi Ye before departure.

This kind of journey lasted for a long time, and Xu Qing also started to practice, but the captain couldn't sit still, sometimes went fishing and sometimes went ashore, and occasionally caught some small animals back.

Until this day, a message came from the investigation ship ahead, and they encountered something that they didn't know how to deal with.

Xu Qing got up from his practice, and when he walked out of the cabin, he saw the captain standing at the bow, looking into the distance.

"It's the first time I've encountered such a situation. If it's a monk, I'd kill it directly, but it just isn't."

"The entire population of a small country, almost 5 to [-] people, are moving the river water together...still digging the river..."

Xu Qing heard the captain's words, walked to the bow, and looked the same.

As far as the eye can see, tens of thousands of people are pushing wooden carts on the bank in the distance, transporting buckets of river water away. Those who do these things are all poor people with yellow and emaciated faces, and there are some ordinary soldiers around, whipping and scolding.

Some of them are digging up the ground to divert the river water.

In the distance, the convoy spread to a farther place, where a small country could be seen in the distance.

After Xu Qing glanced over, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he looked at those poor people with yellow and emaciated faces again.

Under the reflection of the setting sun at this moment, long shadows were pulled out from the feet of those poor people, and these shadows seemed normal, but under Xu Qing's attention, it seemed...they were missing an ear.

left ear.

Xu Qing's eyes froze.

(End of this chapter)