Rebirth of Heavenly Reward

After Liangjin left the ruined Jade Sea Dragon Palace, she crossed the strait between the island where the Dragon Palace is located and Longzhou. After spending several days, she finally arrived at the northernmost sea coast of Longzhou.

She ran all the way, never stopped at the seaside, went straight through the fishermen's villages along the coast, and went deep into the interior of Longzhou.

Liangjin finds a place to meditate when the aura of heaven and earth is active during the day, and rushes on the road at night, day after day.

Longzhou is not as big as Zhongzhou, but it is not much smaller. To go from the coastal area to the Shenlong Empire where Wanglongfu Palace is located, with her current cultivation level of the seventh level of body refining, even if she walks with a sword every night, it will take a lot of time. It takes half a year.

Unlike Zhongzhou, Longzhou has a long history and different civilizations. The ancient city of Zhongzhou is called a country in Longzhou.

The Shenlong Empire is located in the middle of Longzhou, with a vast land and strong national strength. There is a national sect called Denglong Pavilion.Liangjin had also heard the name of Denglong Pavilion in her previous life. The status of this pavilion in Longzhou is similar to that of Zixiao Palace in Zhongzhou.

But Denglong Pavilion is deeply involved in the world, and it is far from the aloofness of Zixiao Palace, and there is no cultivation of the gods in it that can compare with Yan Buhui.

Above the Dragon State, apart from the Shenlong Empire, there are more than a dozen large and small kingdoms surrounding the Shenlong Empire. Among them, the only empires that can compete with the Shenlong Empire are the Sword God Empire and the Chengfeng Empire. Therefore, the main reason for being able to divide the world with the Shenlong Empire is that there are two sects of Taoism, the Sword God Sect and the Yunfenglou respectively.

Both the Sword God Sect and Yunfeng Tower have cultivators of the late Yuanying period in their sects. Although the number of high-level monks in a single sect is not as large as Denglong Pavilion, the combined forces of the two sects can also be evenly matched with Denglong Pavilion.

Apart from these three sects, there are naturally countless second- and third-rate sects in Longzhou, so I won't go into details one by one.The rest of the small countries are attached to the three empires, donating materials and talents from their own countries, and seeking a way of survival.

Liangjin passed through the sea country on the northernmost side of Longzhou, and it took half a year to reach the small country on the north side of the Dragon Empire, called Zhiyang.

Zhiyang is adjacent to the Shenlong Empire and the Sword God Empire at the same time, and is in a difficult situation in the confrontation between the two empires.The monarch of Zhiyang has been hesitating about whether to belong to the Shenlong Empire or the Sword God Empire, and there have been constant wars in Zhiyang.However, because the two empires never broke each other's faces, although Zhiyang was dangerous, it was never completely overthrown.

To go to the Dragon Empire, Liang Jin had to go through Zhiyang, and passed through Yanji, a small town on the south side of Zhiyang. Shrouded in the chaos of war, there is desolation in the eyes, wounded soldiers and dead bodies are everywhere outside the city, and a small team of logistics soldiers are picking up the corpses and cleaning the battlefield.

Outside the city was filled with mourning, Liang Jin looked indifferently across the smoldering battlefield, bypassed the troops stationed in the outer city, and came to the inner city of Yanji, wanting to inquire about the news of the Dragon Empire.

Although the atmosphere in the inner city is not as tense as the outer city, the lives of the people of Yanji who have been shrouded in the cloud of war all year round are not going to be much better. Most of the ordinary people who remain in the city are the old and the weak, the young and the strong. They were all forcibly arrested and enlisted in the army, and most of them never returned, while the women took their children and left for other places, and countless people were robbed by mountain bandits on the way.

They can't even feel the pain and despair. Seeing the broken mountains and rivers, external troubles and internal troubles, soldiers running rampant, and robbing good women and children in the street, everyone's eyes are indifferent and numb. The fear in their hearts has long been overwhelmed by countless deaths and Worn out by war, they live like walking corpses, just waiting for death to come.

Even though Liang Jin felt that it was absurd, she was powerless to do anything. A Taoist cultivator should not interfere with the fate of ordinary people, otherwise he would bear the corresponding karma and become a heavy karma on the way of cultivation.

She walked into a dilapidated tea shop. There was no one in the tea shop. It was in broad daylight, but it seemed to be closed. The shopkeeper was sleeping on the counter. Liang Jin walked over and knocked on the counter. The shopkeeper was alarmed by the knocking sound. , he waved his hands sleepily, without raising his head, and muttered:

"Go to another place to beg for food, I don't have anything to eat here!"

After saying that, he turned his head again, ready to continue sleeping.

It seems that there are often beggars or scavengers who come here to disturb their sleep.

Liang Jin didn't get angry, and knocked on the cabinet board again without changing his expression, but this time, the knocking sound was louder.

He was very annoyed at being prevented from sleeping well. When he raised his head with angry eyes, he saw a woman in front of her, with a handsome face, who was described as about twenty years old. Although she was dressed in a blue-gray robe that looked old, it was extremely clean and tidy. Zhuoran, a decidedly extraordinary person.

The shopkeeper suddenly woke up and put away his annoyed expression. Although he is just a mortal, he has also heard that the Taoist monks of the Cultivation of Immortals sect have great supernatural powers and boundless mana. Suddenly, thousands of troops and horses fell under his hands, how terrible it was.

Therefore, when he saw Liang Jin, he immediately thought that Liang Jin might be a disciple of the Xianjia sect, so how dare he neglect it.

He hastily apologized, and said cautiously:

"Forgive me, my shop. The garrison ransacked my store just a few days ago. There is really nothing I can do to honor the god. I only have one life left, so I must obey the god's words."

Liang Jin raised her eyebrows:

"How did you find out who I am?"

The store owner thought that Liang Jin was displeased, so she hurriedly told all the things she had seen about immortals fighting martial arts, Liang Jin pursed her lips and smiled, but she didn't expect that the tea shop owner was quite winking.

But it can also be seen from this that the monks in Longzhou are too deeply involved in the world. When ordinary people see them, they are not envious or admired, but flattering and flattering.

She sighed in her heart, it was because these Taoist cultivators who were supposed to have immortal demeanor were rotten from the inside, which led to a series of battles. How is a Taoist cultivator different from a demon?

"I came from Boyang. I am a hermit's disciple. When I first entered the world, I saw the war in Yanji and the people's livelihood. I was very puzzled, so I came here to ask you to clarify your doubts."

Liang Jin's face remained calm, and she spoke slowly.

Boyang is the highest mountain peak in Zhiyang, and there is a monk sect on it. Hearing this, the tea shop owner secretly sighed in his heart that the person in front of him was indeed a disciple of the immortal family. He was no doubt there, so he hurriedly bowed and saluted:

"Ask the Immortal, and I will know everything."

Liang Jin nodded, and set up a sound-proof array when he didn't check, and then asked:

"The battle of Yanji, why did it start?"

Although the Zhiyang border has been shrouded in war all year round, it has not been completely destroyed for many years. Whether it is the Dragon Empire or the Sword God Empire, in order to compete for offerings, at most they will only slightly punish the vacillating King of Zhiyang , and it is not as before, the entire Yanji is in jeopardy, as if it may be overthrown at any time.

Besides Zhiyang Kingdom, there are also subordinate counties that are smaller than Zhiyang. The war involved Yanji, and those counties and cities subordinate to Zhiyang may have been completely destroyed.

When Liang Jin entered the city, he had a vague suspicion in his heart that the cause of this war might be something strange.

"Dragon Empire suddenly sent troops to the north half a year ago. Its iron hooves broke through the gates of border counties and counties, and its army went straight to Yanji. As for why the Dragon Empire suddenly sent troops, I, a commoner, don't know the intention of the emperor of the enemy country."

Hearing this, Liang Jin didn't find it strange, nodded, and said:

"Then do you know where the immortals who fought in Yanji City before went?"

Liang Jin can almost conclude that the reason why the Dragon Empire sent troops to attack Zhiyang is actually to collect living souls. If not, there should be no monks appearing on the battlefield, but there are monks who appear and fight each other. The reason is very intriguing up.

It's just that she had checked the situation in Yanji City when she entered the city. There were no monks in Yanji City, but what the tea shop owner said was not a lie. He could recognize Liangjin's identity at a glance, which also proved that he had seen monks fighting with his own eyes. In this case, Liangjin couldn't sense the existence of the monks, either because the monks were too high-level to be detected by Liangjin's spiritual sense, or because these monks were no longer in Yanji City.

The possibility of the first guess is almost non-existent. If his cultivation level has really reached a level that Liang Jin cannot detect, then his cultivation base is at least above the Nascent Soul Realm. There is no need for monks in the Nascent Soul Realm to take action. If they were real monks in the Nascent Soul Realm, Yanji City would have been destroyed long ago, so how could it be the present situation.

Then the possibility of the second situation is greatly increased, and Liang Jin's purpose is to obtain clues about monks from his population.

But after Liangjin asked this question, the face of the tea shop owner became extremely strange. He hesitated again and again, his expression was rather tangled, and he didn't answer for a long time.

Liang Jin frowned. Seeing the shopkeeper's appearance, she probably knew something secret, but for some reason he refused to speak, so she asked:

"Why don't you answer? But what's the secret?"

Seeing that Liang Jin frowned, his heart skipped a beat, fearing that Liang Jin would get angry, he gritted his teeth and said:

"They're all dead."

When Liang Jin heard this, her eyes widened in surprise.

The tea shop owner swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued:

"The army of the Dragon Empire wanted to take down Yanji quickly, so they asked the immortals to attack the city. Although Zhiyang is a small country, there are also immortal sects. A few days ago, several immortals came to fight with the immortals of the Dragon Empire outside Yanji City. Killed by his people, even the corpse was taken away, it turns out that immortals will die too."

Now that he had spoken, he no longer kept it, and told all he knew.

After saying that, he shuddered, his face turned pale, he seemed to recall the scene not long ago, even though he looked at it from a distance, his whole body felt cold.

Liang Jin stared at her eyes and pondered, pursed her lips and said nothing, and didn't ask any more questions.

After a while, the tea shop owner was trembling, thinking that what he said earlier had offended Liang Jin, but the latter suddenly tapped the counter three times with his finger bones, and when the third sound fell, the tea shop owner closed his eyes and lay down on the counter On, whirring and sleeping.

Looking across the store, Liang Jin confirmed that this person had fallen into a deep sleep, and that when he woke up, he would forget everything that happened before, Liang Jin then turned around, brushed his sleeves, and walked away slowly.