Strange mountains and rivers

"It seems that this ice-scale blood python has recognized your Shitang Village? Has it been to your place many times?" Chen Huaisheng couldn't help but asked: "In addition to this ice-scale blood python, there are other regular A visiting monster?"

"This ice-scaled blood python probably appeared more than a year ago. The first time it appeared just next to Zhuangzi, it ate two people and a cow. At that time, no one paid much attention to it. After all, we encountered monsters here. It’s not a long time,…”

The person who answered and introduced the situation was Tang Yuanlong, the son of Tang Juexing.

Tang Juexing is the old man named Tang, the patriarch of the Tang family in Shitangzhuang.

"It first appeared at the beginning of last year, but in the first half of the year, and even until October last year, it did not appear frequently. It happened again in August. At that time, my cousin Tang Yuntai and Shi Jia Shi Jiezhen happened to meet each other head on. When they met, Tang Yuntai was at the third level of Qi refining, and Shi Jiezhong was at the second level of Qi refining. At that time, this evil beast was not so powerful. Tang Yuntai struggled for several rounds, but neither of them could escape the disaster. They were killed by this evil beast. The beasts devoured it..."

"After that trip, probably starting in October, this evil beast began to come out of the mountain frequently. First, it came in at night from the far west. Shijia's Twenty-Three Lang, who was also a Taoist, was eaten by it. , and then a man named Li Jiawulang was also eaten by him. He was also a Taoist. In November, he came in the morning. He was just catching up with a few people in Wangtaiji in the east who had finished their morning practice. This evil beast came in and three of them died, all eaten by this evil beast..."

Chen Huaisheng's scalp went numb when he heard this.

In total, this ice-scale blood python has already lost seven or eight Taoist species or monks. It has only been more than a year. Has it happened that there are so many villages in this big land, and they have not thought about how to deal with them?

As if seeing Chen Huaisheng's confusion, Tang Yuanlong smiled bitterly and said: "Although this ice-scale blood python is ferocious, compared with the Moyun White Eagle eight years ago, it is still good. The Moyun White Eagle has been wreaking havoc around us for three years. A total of nearly a hundred people in Tuwei were pecked to death by that evil beast, including nearly twenty Taoists and monks. This ice-scaled blood python can be said to be for Come and devour it, the Moyun White Eagle specializes in pecking people's brains, and often kills them without eating..."

Chen Huaisheng couldn't help it anymore, "Then according to what you say, how many people in your hometown lose their lives due to the evil beasts every year?"

"When the year is good, there will be thirty or fifty people. When the year is bad, there will be hundreds. Not necessarily. I remember Jing more than 20 years ago, Qingniao nine years ago, and more than 170 people died. People, and then the year before last, in the thirty-third year of Qingniao, one hundred and thirty-seven people died, and last year, one hundred and forty-five people died..."

Tang Juexing's energy and energy had improved a lot at this time, but he was still a little weak. He added: "Actually, the second-level monsters such as the Ice Scale Blood Python and the Moyun White Eagle are not the biggest threats to our big land. The biggest ones are really the first-order monsters such as the wolf, the mountain beast, and the night leopard. But this time, this ice-scale blood python is a little different. It seems to have swallowed too many Taoist monks, and it seems to be in progress. The environment is ordinary,..."

Another man also joined the conversation: "This ice-scale blood python has devoured no less than ten Tao species in more than a year, and it doesn't eat many other people, cattle and sheep anymore."

Chen Huaisheng thought for a while and then asked: "Let's first consider how to solve the urgent problem, which is this ice-scale blood python. According to the usual practice, this ice-scale blood python is successful again, so next time it will be when will you arrive?"

A group of people looked at each other, and finally Tang Yuanlong said: "Now the frequency of this evil beast is getting faster and faster. The last time it was forty days ago, and the last time it was two months ago, at this rate, it may be one month." Around here, maybe this evil beast is coming again."

"How many people are there in the entire Daduwei? How many Taoists are there? How many people have succeeded in refining qi, and are there any foundation-building monks?" Chen Huaisheng was about to start asking the most critical question. This was considered a baseline.

"There are a total of twelve villages of different sizes around Daduweizi. Our Shitang Village is considered a medium-sized village. The ones bigger than us, such as Xinhuoji, Xiantao Village, and Nanmudi, are basically worth seven to eight thousand. There are even tens of thousands of people, and there are three or four others about the same size as us. The rest are villages with about two to three thousand people, basically within thirty miles of this big earthen fence..."

Tang Yuanlong introduced: "We have more than 5,000 people in Shitang Village. There are about 80 adult Taoists now, most of whom are ordinary Taoists. There are 14 monks, including six in the first stage of Qi Refining. There are five people in the middle section and three in the high level of Qi Refining, but now there are only two.”

Chen Huaisheng was a little disappointed.

It sounds like there are a lot of Taoist species. Compared with his hometown Yuanbaozhai, it is much more, even five to six times more. Of course, the situation here is different.

The reason for this situation has a lot to do with the fact that most of the Taoists in Yuanbaozhai have gone out to seek the road, and not many have stayed in the village.

Unlike the few sects here, these Taoists can only stay in the local area regardless of whether they have succeeded in enlightenment or not.

This also brings about a situation, that is, the success rate of Taoist Qi refining is relatively low.

"As for the situation in other villages, the situation is actually similar to ours. There are many like Xinhuoji, and there are close to 200 Taoists. However, there are about fifty people who have succeeded in refining Qi, but basically they are in the first and middle stages of Qi refining. There are only seven people in the high-qi level,..."

"In the past hundred years, as far as I know, there are probably only two people in our entire Daduwei who have successfully built the foundation. One is a member of the Tianhe Sect, and the other has not come back for many years. It is said that he is a member of the Great Zhao Yunlong Sect. It is said that they are attacking the Zi Mansion, but I only heard that..."

Chen Huaisheng nodded silently. For a place with a population of 70,000 to 80,000 people, almost half the population of Liao County, it was indeed a bit shabby to have two foundations built in a century.

Like Liao County, Chen Huaisheng also knew that at least ten foundations had been built in a hundred years.

Moreover, according to Chen Huaisheng's observation, the Fuyang Road in Hebei Province has rich spiritual energy, even more so than Yi County.

A blessed land like Wolong Ridge is no less beautiful than Langshan Panshan.

Coupled with the huge threat posed by monsters, the Taoists in this area actually have better conditions for breaking through and enlightening than Yijun.

But the chance of successful enlightenment is far lower than that of a remote small county like Liao County.

This can only show that the dominance of casual cultivators and alien cultivators in these places has created huge flaws in the local preaching and teaching of the pursuit of immortality, causing good local human resources to be wasted.

However, these adult Taoists or monks are of little significance to the Chonghua Sect. Chen Huaisheng is concerned about those innate Taoists who have not yet reached the age of fourteen. These are the next target for the Chonghua Sect to recruit disciples.

Of course, monks under the age of thirty who show good talents will also be considered by the Chonghua Sect.

However, the group of people Chen Huaisheng saw were basically all over thirty years old, which made him very disappointed.

While Chen Huaisheng was more concerned about the Taoist talents in Dashuweizi, Chen Song was more concerned about the spiritual fields, spiritual land and mineral vein production in the Dashuweizi area.

There are hundreds of Taoist cultivators in Dashuweizi, and the spiritual food these Taoist cultivators need basically depends on the fragmented spiritual fields and spiritual lands along the mountainous area.

"In other words, there are actually many spiritual fields and spiritual lands within twenty miles outside Wolong Ridge, but no one is cultivating them?" Chen Song was puzzled: "Why?"

"This is a rule handed down from our ancestors..." Tang Juexing breathed a sigh of relief, "At least this rule has been in existence since I can remember. Very few people go to Wolong Ridge. Even if they set foot there occasionally, they only have a small taste. Everyone avoids that side. Even if they are hunting monsters, they would rather go to the mountainous areas in the west or south..."

"There has to be a reason, right?" Chen Song frowned, "Is it the shadow brought about by the collapse of Dongxuan Sect? But the collapse of Dongxuan Sect can be traced back to at least eight or nine hundred years ago. Could it be that this reason continues to this day? "

Tang Juexing seemed to be reminiscing, and then shook his head after a long time: "It's not because of the Dongxuan Sect. After the collapse of the Dongxuan Sect, it seems that there were still people stationed in Wolong Ridge, and it wasn't just one group, but it was a long time ago, probably two or three hundred years ago. Yes, some appalling things have happened, otherwise we all know that Wolong Ridge is rich in aura and has different meanings to the monks, but no one dares to go in..."

"A shocking thing?" Chen Huaisheng and Chen Song both became nervous, "What exactly happened?"

Tang Juexing shook his head, "I have the impression that an uncle of mine mentioned it when I was young. I also asked my father, but he was scolded and didn't dare to ask again. But if I wanted to inquire, I guess There should still be some records handed down in Datuweizi or Minjialou, and someone will know something about it."

Just when Chen Huaisheng and Chen Song were chatting happily with the people in Shitangzhuang, the ice-scaled blood python had slowly swam into the mountain.

Although it withstood multiple rounds of attacks and burnings from the fire mane thorns, it did not cause much substantial damage. On the contrary, it was the detonation of the devouring spiritual practice that caused some damage to it.

If you are impulsive, you should not devour the other person.

Even though he knew that the value of the spirit body would be low if the opponent self-destructed his alchemy, he still couldn't hold back.

The result was that he was injured by the spiritual fire, but the burning spiritual body did not leave much spiritual power, which was a loss outweighing the gain.

Entering the mountainous area, it feels much more comfortable under the infiltration of spiritual energy.

Quickly finding a dark spring, it tried its best to shrink its body, and then curled up and got in along the cracks in the rocks.

Drill all the way to the deepest point.

The eye of a Yin Spring overflowed, forming an underground Yin Spring Pool.

It then immersed its head in the Yin Spring, opened its mouth, let the Yin Spring soak the wound, and drank a few large sips to relieve the damage caused by the spiritual fire to its internal organs.

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