one's door

Although it is not a real position and has no real power, Shen Wujiu's current prestige is not comparable to that of being in charge of a special case department in a county before.The profit and water passed by is many times higher than before, and the status has also been greatly improved.It's no longer just the business of the Special Cases Department that greets them, and the people involved even spread all over the entire human country.

Shen Wujiu and his subordinates assisted in receiving and forwarding both the bone-strengthening pill and the ghost-killing bell.He even has a great right to advise on the distribution of some shares.Because he has frequent contact with Zhang Yan, he has the duty to observe Zhang Yan's likes and dislikes.Casually mentioning "Mr. Zhang doesn't seem to like them", then the distribution of that country will have to be cut.

Of course, although Shen Wujiu can use the above method to manipulate others and is not easy to be discovered, he can benefit from it.But he has never done that once.His steady personality made him dare not overstep.And compared to the benefits of being with Mr. Zhang for a long time, how can other benefits compare to it?

Shen Wujiu is not that calculating, but he is not stupid either.While enjoying the benefits brought by status, he is also cautious about his steps so as not to make mistakes.

In the past, Shen Wujiu only needed to stay in Langyuan City.But now he needs to take care of both Langyuan City and Changhu County.Of course, he has only been to Changhu County once, and there is no way to get to the location of Mr. Zhang's newly opened cliff mountain, not even a mountain road.After going there once, he left a few people in the nearest big city to contact the local government office to sort out the strategy of improving the official road.However, if you want to land, it is impossible not to wait a year, and you need to wait at least three to five years until it is repaired.

Shen Wujiu was shocked when he went to the cliff mountain.He couldn't imagine that in such a deep mountain, it took only two years for Mr. Zhang to build such a magnificent building complex close to the mountain.There are nine large buildings of the palace type alone.Including buildings such as gazebos and huts, there are probably no less than thirty buildings.

How is this possible? !

After returning, Shen Wujiu reported what he had seen and heard, and once again heightened the wonder of Zhang Yan's family.At the same time, it is also confirmed that Zhang Yan is now deliberately distanced from the miscellaneous studies.It's not about cutting, at least it's about consciously making people understand that his skills are not just of miscellaneous learning.

Fortunately, the Zhang family is still in Langyuan City, and Mr. Zhang will come back regularly for a few days to deal with chores and accompany the old lady of the Zhang family.

This saved Shen Wujiu from the hardship of long-distance round trips.You can visit Zhang Yan when he is in the corridor of Yuancheng.

A few months ago, Shen Wujiu could see Zhang Yan every time.In recent months, it wasn't always Zhang Yan who came to receive him, more often it was Zhang Yan's big apprentice, Wang Nian.

Shen Wujiu also had to feel that time passed too fast, and was also surprised by Mr. Zhang's magical methods and the speed at which Wang Nian grew up.Although he is still immature now, he can vaguely feel the composure and stability in Wang Nian.

"Maybe this Wang Nian will be the one who will be outside the Longhu Mountain Gate in the future?" Shen Wujiu thought.

Every month when Zhang Yan returned to Langyuan City, Shen Wujiu deliberately took a day later to bring the manpower, loaded all the things that had been sorted out into the car, and paid respects to the Zhang family according to the rules.

"Brother Laohe is here. I wonder if Mr. Zhang is here today? Or Mr. Wang Nianxiao?" Shen Wujiu asked He Xianghong who opened the door with a smile while walking.He has been here many times, and he has already become very familiar with this slave of the Zhang family.

"Master Shen, today is young master Wang Nian, and young master Liu Rui is also here."

"Well, thank you Brother He. By the way, last time I passed by Brother He's hometown on a business trip, I went to see it. Everything at home is fine, and the old lady is fine..."

Just chatted a few words.Shen Wujiu came to the main room, laughed and walked in, and saw Wang Nian and Liu Rui standing inside waiting for him.Seeing him come in, he bowed his hands.

"Hahaha, don't dare to act, dare not act, Shen is going to trouble the two little gentlemen again."

"Master Shen is too polite. This is the task ordered by the master. It is not a trouble for us." Wang Nian looked like a little adult, imitating Zhang Yan's tone, and beckoned Shen Wujiu to sit down A few polite words on one side.

This is not the first time the two sides have come into contact.So without too many pleasantries, we quickly got to the point.

Liu Rui would go out and count the ghost-sucking bells full of ghosts brought in by truck, and then Wang Nian would nod and give the same number of vacant ghost-sucking bells replaced with new spirit stones.In terms of quantity, they will also give some more to be used by Nanyuan Kingdom for other distribution.

"My lord, this is this month's Bone Strengthening Pill, a total of twenty."

"Ah?! This...how come there are so many?!" Shen Wujiu's originally calm expression couldn't hold back.Looking excitedly at the two black bottles in front of him, he didn't even dare to take them with his hands.He raised his head and looked at Wang Nian, who was sitting in the upper seat, with a look of great surprise and asked.

In the past, if you took bone strengthening pills, you would only take five or six pills at most.Now it's so much more in one breath?This had to make Shen Wujiu surprised and worried at the same time, worried that Mr. Zhang would cut off the supply of this elixir and take out all the stocks directly, right?

Wang Nian explained: "Master Shen, this time I made more bone-strengthening pills together with my junior brother. Because I need to practice my hands, I made more. I wonder if Master Shen can eat it?"

"I can eat it! I can definitely eat it! I didn't expect it to be refined by Mr. Xiao and the thirteenth prince. This is great! I will ask Mr. Xiao to take care of it in the future. No matter how many Nanyuan Kingdoms, this bone-strengthening pill can be eaten." Yes!" Shen Wujiu was so excited that his voice trembled a little.Never expected that Wang Nian and the thirteenth prince could already refine bone strengthening pills!This news itself is much more important than the twenty bone strengthening pills in front of me!

Even Shen Wujiu was sure that the reason why so many bone-strengthening pills were produced must be the reason for the thirteen princes to deal with them.Nanyuan Kingdom's near-water towers have finally gained again!

Wang Nian also heaved a sigh of relief.He and Yang Rui didn't know how many bone-strengthening pills Nanyuan Kingdom could eat. They felt that the more the better, but they stopped after being reminded by Liu Rui and took out twenty pills.For these pills, he and Yang Rui have spent a lot of effort.Especially Yang Rui, he was very slow to learn alchemy, and was almost burned by the fire of the furnace several times, and now half of his hair hasn't grown back yet.

To the satisfaction of all, the routine work of both sides is over.But Shen Wujiu didn't get up to leave as usual.Instead, he leaned closer to Chao Wangnian and asked, "Mr. Zhang, is Mr. Zhang at home? I still have some important matters to meet with Mr. Zhang."

Chapter 387

It was almost noon when Shen Wujiu left Zhang's house.He stayed at Zhang's house for a full two hours this time.Most of the next hour was spent talking with Zhang Yan in the study in the backyard of the Zhang family.

The matter is not complicated, Shen Wujiu was ordered by the Nanyuan State Special Case Department and the Ministry of Military Affairs to inform Zhang Yan of the strange "black spot death" incident that recently occurred on the border of Xiyuan County.Things were weird at first, and I wanted to hear Zhang Yan's thoughts.The second is to make a foreshadowing, in case Zhang Yan needs to help later, it is easier to speak up.

Of course, for the time being, the situation in Xiyuan County did not affect the soldiers of the West Route Army, and all the dead were monsters.It's just that this method of death is too weird and very similar to the plague that devours countless lives.And the Yaozu are scared now, they haven't dug holes in the boundary of Xiyuan County recently.But the number sent has not decreased at all.It is obvious that they are stationed at the places where the accident happened.The West Route Army continued to follow these monster races in a more cautious way than before.

There was not much news, but Zhang Yan asked for many details, which made Shen Wujiu stay in Zhang's mansion for so long.

The reason why Zhang Yan asked so many questions was that he didn't think that the death of those monster races was due to the so-called plague.Because in his opinion, such a coincidence does not exist.Xiyuan County is not an ice field, and what kind of ancient source of plague can be hidden underground.And even if it happened once, what about the second time?Coincidence to be met twice in a row by the unlucky Yaozu?

Besides, it is not a day or two for the Yaozu to dig holes everywhere in Xiyuan County, Zhang Yan knows that.How can there be no farts in the past, but now they appear together when accidents happen?

The most outrageous thing is the "black ice" that can be clearly seen by the naked eye.This has nothing to do with the so-called plague.

Unlike Shen Wujiu's feeling of gloating over the Yaozu's encounter this time, what Zhang Yan felt was the opposite.He felt that although the Yaozu had died, maybe it wasn't a bad thing for them, and they were even happy about it.Because it is very likely that the "black ice" is what they have been looking for in Xiyuan County for more than two years!

Or is it a sign of some kind of approaching goal?

Zhang Yan was very curious about the actions of the Yaozu before.Words such as "vision" and "catastrophe" are already full of suspense, plus the actions of the monster race.Now seems to be the time to reveal the answer.

"There is no death for no reason in the world." Zhang Yan remembered that there was such a description of life and death in Taoism books.

Whether it is birth, old age, sickness or death, it is all in fate.Although fate has changed, it still generally follows the "one drink and one peck". The outcome of what you do is said to be determined by God, but in fact it should be "you decide your own destiny".Unless you want to go against the sky, then it's God's turn to take action.

Just like those dead monsters, if they don't dig holes, they won't touch the "black ice" and naturally they won't die.

But how?

Is it poisonous?

A few days later, Zhang Yan sent the three apprentices to the gate of Longhu Mountain to continue to clean up, while he himself continued to drive the Skylark Shuttle to the southwest.

After flying for another two hours, Zhang Yan entered the boundary of Xiyuan County.Looking down, it is indeed much flatter than Beijiang County and other places, and there are almost no undulating terrain that can be called "mountain".

Zhang Yan didn't disturb anyone, so he didn't plan to meet the military commander in Baishi City, or his friend Zhou Cang whom he hadn't seen for several years.It's not difficult for him to come here once, it's better to explore the things that are curious in his heart first.

Zhang Yan's goal is the place where he first discovered that "black ice", that is, the rocky beach near the north of Zhou Cang's residence.

First find the White Horse Stone on the border as a landmark, and then search in the northeast direction. Not long after, Zhang Yan saw a large area of ​​gravel in the sky, which was inlaid on the surrounding flat terrain like a tidal flat, and there was little vegetation. All stones of different sizes.

However, scattered on this rocky beach, there are also dark and eye-catching cave entrances, as well as round tents distributed not far from these cave entrances.

Zhang Yan has not been in the army for a short time, and the human race likes to set up tents with hexagonal tents, with clear edges and corners.The round tent in front of me is obviously not the habit of the human race.Combined with the news from Shen Wujiu, Zhang Yan was certain that these tents must have been built by the monster clan stationed here.

Not in a hurry to fall, Zhang Yan hovered high in the sky, his perception went down, and he frowned after a while.Zhang Yan didn't notice it just now, after he was concentrating, he found that this place seemed to be really different from other places.

It's not because of the difference brought about by the aura of the monster clan stationed here, but because the earth aura rising from the ground here is different from other places.It's like a glass of white water suddenly has a little bit of bitter taste, you don't know it at first, you can taste it after careful tasting.

Is there something wrong with Yin Qi?no!

Zhang Yan's careful feelings are always specious but cannot be detailed.In the end, I let go of my perception again, thinking that I still have to try down-to-earth to know.

He found a deserted place on the rocky beach, and then Zhang Yan escaped directly into the ground, but he didn't dare to go deep, and shallowly let himself stay almost three feet underground.Then focus on the perception again, and continue to explore.

"Yes! It's this kind of weird feeling! I've never encountered it anywhere else... It's not right, although I haven't encountered it elsewhere, why do I feel familiar?!"

Zhang Yan's heart was inexplicably touched.Calmly, he began to recall in his mind when and where he had felt the weird feeling about this area at this moment.

After a while, Zhang Yan couldn't help but stare sharply even in the state of earth escape.He remembered that his strange feeling at this moment had happened before.I also understood why this place gave him a strange feeling.

"It's space! The space here is extremely unstable!"

Zhang Yan found a similar feeling in his memories. It was the instability he felt in the space of Huangtianyu when he fixed the storage space when he first started refining the storage magic weapon.Although the feeling at that time was not very abrupt, it was obvious.It is much more direct than what his perception feels from this underground at this moment.That's why he wasn't sure where he had gotten this feeling from.

In other words, the reason why this rocky beach is "different" from other places is that the underground space here has changed, or has it been in this unstable state since before?

Is it because of this reason that the Yaozu chose to dig holes in this rocky beach?

Did that weird "black ice" appear here because of the unstable space?

Chapter 388 Cracks

Zhang Yan's thoughts changed sharply. Before he came, he would never have thought that the demon clan would be attracted to Xiyuan County because of the unstable space.

But in this way, new problems came one after another: How did the Yaozu know that the space in Xiyuan County was unstable?When did you know about it?

Could it be that Yaozu still has the ability to spy on changes in space?

I was puzzled, but then Zhang Yanyou shook his head and rejected his guess.Even if the Yaozu has the ability to spy on the stability of the space, it is absolutely impossible for the ordinary Yaozu outside to be able to do it.Otherwise, how could the Yaozu be so strong that they would not be able to take down Xiyuan County in the hands of Nanyuan Kingdom, and would have been given a heavy blow by the Yaoling clan, and finally had to adopt a "negotiation" method to enter Xiyuan County.

And before the offensive and defensive battle more than two years ago, Yaozu's attitude towards Xiyuan County has always been "the place where the autumn wind blows" rather than "the place that must be contested".The meaning of existence is almost the same as Yubei Mountain in Chonglan County.Just come here to get some benefits.There is no need to make great efforts to win.

In other words, two years ago, when the Yaozu suddenly changed their normal routine and aggressively attacked Xiyuan County, they only had news of the particularity of Xiyuan County.

As for how the Yaozu can find a specific place like this rocky beach on the border of Xiyuan County, there should be another way.For example, there are a large number of dwarfs among the monsters camping on the ground.

Zhang Yan had seen the Dwarf Dog Clan before, at the Yubei Mountain Fortress.At that time, the gossip formation was only taken out by him to set up, and the Yaozu was very troublesome when it first showed results, so the dwarf dog tribe was called in, hoping to use their most sensitive sense of smell to tear through the obstruction of the gossip formation.

That is to say, rely on the dwarves to determine the location of the hole, and then have the fellow rock rats start the work?

But who told them?

Why are the Yaozu so determined that they didn't choose to leave even when so many people died in an unexpected situation, but just stopped digging?

Going around, I still have to return to the original doubt.How could the Yaozu perceive the anomaly in space?It is even very likely that the pre-judgment was made more than two years ago.

According to the agreement signed between Yaozu and Nanyuan Nation, although the predicted time is not accurate enough, it is within its expectation.After all, Yaozu and Nanyuan Kingdom agreed on "within five years", and now it has been more than two years, and naturally it has not exceeded expectations.

In Zhang Yan's mind, the first thing that occurred to him was Xu Fengyang, the Martial Saint who could predict in advance that such spatial changes would occur in Xiyuan County.

But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it doesn't make sense.Because if it is Xu Fengyang, although he is indeed capable of doing it.But why do you want to help the Yaozu?After all, the School of Martial Arts was created by Xu Fengyang, even if there is any news that it is cheap, it is cheap to talk about the School of Martial Arts or the human race, no matter how bad it is, it is still cheap, right?No matter how you think about it, it shouldn't be Yaozu's turn.

"A powerhouse of the monster clan that can be compared with the martial saint Xu Fengyang?!"

Zhang Yan finally came to such a conclusion in his mind.

If you continue to think about it following this conclusion, Zhang Yan's initial judgment will be closed.The "black ice" and "black spot death" that appeared here are not bad news for those monster races, but mean that they have found the right place.

It may not be easy for the Yaozu to defend something that they would rather sacrifice the lives of their fellow clansmen.There is a kind of "risk and opportunity coexist".

The risk should be the so-called "black spot death", right?What is that opportunity?

With this thought in mind, Zhang Yan added several body protection and shielding magic circles to himself, and then simply went out of the ground to take a breath, and then went underground again, this time looking for the one that was surrounded by the demon clan camp The deep hole escaped.He wants to get up close and see what is there and with that comes danger and opportunity.

After a while, at the speed of Zhang Yan's escape, he had reached the deep pit nearly a hundred feet above the ground.The hole is not big, anyway, it cannot allow an adult to stand up straight, at most a child with the size of Wang Nian can get in.It is also in line with the characteristics of the rock rat clan of the monster clan. After all, the rock rat clan is as big as a child.

Zhang Yan did not choose to go directly to the bottom of the pothole, but escaped along the direction of the pothole.He found that the pothole did not go straight down in one direction, but had several turns and changes along the road.It can be seen that this pothole was indeed made by several groups of monster races as stated in the news brought by Shen Wujiu.It should be constantly adjusting the direction.Or try it out.

Reaching the bottom, if there is light here, it can be distinguished from the depths of those mines.There was even some water seepage, and water more than half a foot deep had accumulated in the pit.

But if it is in Zhang Yan's perception, it is not so simple here.

"The space is distorting?!" Zhang Yan's perception is very clear about the situation at the bottom of this deep pit.He even subconsciously moved his body away from the bottom of the pit.Because he had never encountered such a situation before him.

The space is actually like a piece of crumpled paper, from time to time there will be creases when rubbed, and sometimes it will stretch out, and even appear to be pulled and tightened by the limit.

It is hard to imagine that the ubiquitous but extremely difficult-to-perceive alternative dimensional concept of "space" appears so clearly and intuitively in perception.

Anyway, Zhang Yan couldn't figure out why such a strange situation occurred here.

"Where is that 'black ice'?" Although Zhang Yan didn't come close to observe, the perceivable distance still allowed him to know every place at the bottom of the deep pit.But he didn't see the weird "ice" that caused the massive deaths of the Yaozu.

After observing patiently like this, Zhang Yan discovered that the spatial distortion at the bottom of the pit actually had some laws.It will perform a fixed twist over and over again, and its intensity will also change with the change of the twist.

"If this place has been like this, will the rock rats who have dug here but can't detect the space distortion like me stop? No, they will continue to dig down, and then they will always be the strongest with the space distortion. When it matches the action of excavation, will there be mutual contact with overlapping dimensions?!" Zhang Yan suddenly thought of a possibility.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Yan flicked his fingers after confirming that the shields and defenses around him were sufficient, and a force went straight to the bottom along the direction of the pothole, and it was intentionally matched to the time when the space distortion intensity at the bottom reached the highest.

"Crack!"

Zhang Yan was startled, and saw that the original space display of different dimensions and the bottom of the pit actually overlapped. His strength directly hit the rock at the bottom of the pit and also hit the manifestation of space, and even tore apart the space. Made a tiny cut!

Immediately afterwards, a liquid-like thing overflowed from the opening, and finally dropped to the bottom of the pit, where it condensed like crystal in the blink of an eye.It is exactly the same as the "black ice" that Shen Wujiu said!

Chapter 389 Living Beings

Regarding space, Zhang Yan's first understanding was when he was preparing to forge storage magic tools.

Nowadays, Zhang Yan is quite familiar with the magic storage tools. As long as it is not the top-quality items such as rings and bracelets, he can easily grasp the magic storage tools like boxes and cabinets.

Familiarity with and refinement of the refining technique of storage-type instruments is bound to be accompanied by the mastery of space-related knowledge.

At least the basic concepts are already familiar to Zhang Yan.

For example, the "space" intercepted by the storage instrument is actually a "space gap", and the so-called "storage space" is formed by using the instrument to open and delineate a part of the space gap.

Also located in the gap between the spaces is the so-called "sanctuary", which is the extremely dark place where ghosts gather.Because it is special and huge, it can only go back and forth between the gap and the normal world through passages such as the dead silence road.

But in essence, the so-called sanctuary and storage space are the same.All belong to the "space gap".

Since it is a gap, what kind of gap is it?

The explanation in Daoist scriptures is that "space gap refers to the gap between normal space and void".

That is to say, there is an equivalent existence beyond the gap between the normal space and the space, that is, "emptiness".

There are many descriptions of emptiness in Taoist scriptures, but they all belong to the kind of very vain words, such as "hanging outside the Tao" or "a place where the five elements cannot enter" and so on.

To sum it up: the void is very dangerous, it belongs to the scope that even the "Tao" can't be included, and ordinary monks can't escape the end of their souls when they step into it.Not even "immortals" have the ability to step into the void.

In addition to the danger of the mystery of the void, another reason is that it is extremely difficult to break through the void.It is necessary to break down the barriers of the normal space, cut through the gaps in the space, and finally open the gate of the void.This must also be done in one go, and any slack or softness will be blocked by the space barrier.