Xiuxian, I have a high martial arts world

Chapter 138 Three Years of Situation, the Righteous Alliance!
Qingzhou, somewhere deep in the mountains and old forests.

Lin Chen crawled out of a cave, with a lot of dirt on his clothes.

"Is this the teleportation array you mentioned? Will there be any accidents?"

After climbing out of the cave, Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

God knows, this teleportation array actually collapsed and was buried hundreds of meters underground.

If Lin Chen hadn't mastered the earth escape technique, he would have been buried alive...

Tian Yanzhu sounded a little guilty and said:
"Well, after all, hundreds of years have passed... some changes are still normal."

Lin Chen was speechless, but he didn't care.

He had been trapped in the ruins for several years, and now that he had come out he just wanted to get in touch with the outside world as soon as possible.

Lin Chen greedily took a few breaths of air, then took out the blue jade gourd.

The blue jade gourd instantly became several feet in size, and Lin Chen stepped on the gourd and flew high into the sky.

Lin Chen released his spiritual sense, extending it over a thousand feet. He first observed the surrounding terrain.

After a moment, he frowned slightly.

"Hmm? This place is really desolate... There is no one living there at all. Let's take a look at where this place is first?"

Lin Chen chose a direction and drove in that direction on the purple jade gourd.

After crossing deep mountains and rivers, Lin Chen finally saw a village after half an hour.

As soon as they entered the village, the women and children in the village were frightened and fled in all directions.

"Run, everyone, run!"

Several elderly people at the village entrance who could no longer run simply stopped running and just sat there shouting loudly, holding their crutches.

In just a moment, every household closed their doors and windows, leaving only a few old men at the entrance of the village.

Seeing this, Lin Chen frowned into a "川" shape.

He walked up to an old man and asked:

"Old man, I am a monk passing by... I want to ask..."

Before Lin Chen finished speaking, the old man was so scared that his face turned pale and he gasped heavily, almost fainting.

"Run, everyone, run..."

Lin Chen frowned even more tightly.

He snapped his fingers and a breeze blew on the old man's face.

Soon, his expression gradually returned to calm.

This is a small spell of meditation, which is particularly effective for mortals and can help people regain their calm.

Seeing that the old man was no longer breathing, Lin Chen asked patiently:

"Old man, what happened? Why are you so afraid of the monks..."

The old man looked at Lin Chen carefully for a few times, and only breathed a sigh of relief after he was sure that Lin Chen would not hurt him.

He shouted again:
"Everyone, come out quickly! This isn't the group of demons... it looks like the Immortal Leader of the Righteous Alliance!"

After hearing this, cracks appeared in the doors and windows of the surrounding houses.

After secretly watching Lin Chen for a long time, a few brave men slowly approached.

“Forgive me, Immortal! The villagers thought it was those demons…”

The sturdy man in the lead said tremblingly, afraid of making Lin Chen unhappy.

Lin Chen waved his hand and said:
"Tell me, where is this place?"

"What about the Righteous Alliance and the Demon Sect you just mentioned?"

The strong man swallowed his saliva and said:
"Our Daniu Village belongs to the Ziyan Country...those immortals..."

The strong man spoke haltingly.

But after listening for a long time, Lin Chen roughly understood what this person meant.

The place where Lin Chen is no longer within the territory of Yanlai Country.

But it is in Zi Yan Country, thousands of miles away from Changchun Gate.

That is to say, before, the territory of the Spirit Beast Sect...

But a year ago, the Spirit Beast Sect was conquered by the three Demon Sects...

The sect leader who was at the peak of the Golden Core stage died in battle, and almost all of the thousands of disciples within the sect were wiped out.

The people in Zi Yan country are living in misery.

In just one year, there were no less than several incidents of city massacres and bloody sacrifices by the demonic sect.

This also made the mortals in Zi Yan Country extremely terrified and fearful of the cultivators.

As for the Righteous Alliance, this mortal has no idea about it.

He only said that it was formed by several immortal sects to fight against the demons...

"Immortal, Immortal..." The strong man was still a little frightened.

Lin Chen took out several hundred taels of silver and handed it over.

"I wonder if there is a mortal city near your Daniu Village?"

After hearing this, the man shook his head and said:

"Originally there was a city three hundred miles to the north, but it was massacred by the Demon Sect, and hundreds of thousands of mortals died..."

"If you want to find a place with many people, you have to go to Xinliang City, which is 600 miles away. It has not been conquered yet..."

After asking for the direction, Lin Chen turned into a beam of light and left.

Most of the people in the village are uninformed and don’t understand a lot of situations; they just hear things from others.

But it is not difficult to see from the reaction of Daniu Village that in just over two years, the external situation has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes.

"The Spirit Beast Sect is destroyed, the Demonic Path is united, and the Righteous Path is united..."

"I still have to go to the city and ask the monks..."

Lin Chen stopped on a mountain, first changed into Xu Shi's appearance, then took out the red jade gourd and continued to fly south.

A cultivator who has reached the Jindan stage can travel by light without the help of any magical tools.

But the speed is still much slower than flying in a flying vehicle.

It is a distance of six hundred miles, and Lin Chen can arrive there in less than half an hour if he flies with his flying tool.

Along the way, we crossed barren mountains and rivers, and occasionally passed by a few deserted and dilapidated villages.

Half an hour later, Lin Chen stopped in front of a huge city.

We’ve arrived at Xinliang City.

When Lin Chen was still some distance away from Xinliang City, he descended from the air and walked towards the city gate.

His spiritual sense swept over the several city gate guards at the city gate.

"Qi-refining monk..."

Lin Chen raised his eyebrows. It turned out that the defenders of this mortal city were all cultivators.

It seems that something big has indeed happened in the past two years.

Lin Chen walked towards the city gate, but was stopped by several gate guards before he entered the city.

"Fellow Daoist, please show us the token of the Righteous Alliance." This Qi Refining Stage guard was quite polite.

Lin Chen frowned slightly and said:

"I'm sorry, I was in seclusion for two years before, and I don't know much about the outside world... so I don't have the Righteous Alliance token."

The monk's face changed slightly after hearing this. After looking Lin Chen up and down, he said in a deep voice:

"I'm sorry, fellow Daoist. Now is war time. All cultivators within a radius of ten thousand miles, whether they are disciples of a sect or independent cultivators, must join the Righteous Alliance to fight against the Demonic Path."

"Otherwise, we will all be dealt with according to the rules of the Demon Sect!"

Lin Chen frowned after hearing this.

Even independent cultivators must join the Righteous Alliance? And this tough attitude... seems a bit too much.

After all, many independent cultivators are unwilling to join a sect and be restricted.

If joining the Righteous Alliance is forced, it will probably cause resistance from many independent cultivators.

The monk saw Lin Chen's doubts, so he said:

"It seems that you are a casual cultivator?"

"Don't worry, fellow Daoist. The Righteous Alliance will not impose any restrictions on the cultivators in the alliance. We only have one common enemy, and that is the Evil Path!"

"On the contrary, all those who join the Righteous Alliance will receive generous rewards after defeating the Demon Sect. This is a good thing!"

Seeing Lin Chen's extraordinary bearing, the monk whispered:

"To be honest, I was also a casual cultivator a year ago, but I was only at the second level of Qi Refining... but now I'm almost at the middle level of Qi Refining!"

After hearing this, Lin Chen suddenly realized.

If it were just a loose alliance without any mandatory constraints, it would probably be much better.

But judging from the Righteous Alliance alone, the current situation must be extremely bad, otherwise it would not be treated so cautiously.

"Fellow Daoist, please register your cultivation name first... After registering, you can join the Righteous Dao League."

The Qi-refining cultivator seemed very enthusiastic. He took out a booklet and a token and was about to register Lin Chen.

"Where are you from, fellow Taoist, and what is your level of cultivation?" the man asked.

After a moment of silence, Lin Chen said:

"My name is Xu Shi..."

"As for the cultivation level... the early stage of Jindan..."

The man nodded after hearing this and took out a pen and paper to register. "Fellow Daoist Xu Shi, Jindan... Wait! Jindan cultivator!?"

The man widened his eyes and looked at Lin Chen in front of him.

He swallowed his saliva and said, "Fellow Daoist... are you a Jindan cultivator?"

Lin Chen nodded, revealing a little bit of his aura.

When this person felt the pressure from Lin Chen, his face changed drastically, and his tone was filled with seven parts of respect and three parts of joy.

"Please wait a moment, Senior. I will go find someone right away!"

After saying that, the man hurriedly ran towards the city gate.

Not far away, several other monks guarding the city gate also had expressions of shock on their faces.

There seems to be some envy in the depths of his eyes...

In the Righteous Path Alliance, anyone who invites monks from outside the Alliance to join will receive rewards.

The higher the level of the invited monk, the greater the reward!

Invite a Jindan cultivator to join the Righteous Alliance, and the reward you get will be worth no less than 10,000 spirit stones!
Lin Chen noticed the expressions of the cultivators around him and became even more curious about the Righteous Alliance.

……

Lin Chen didn't wait too long.

Soon, a group of monks hurried over.

Lin Chen took a look from afar and saw that the leading cultivator had completed the foundation building stage.

When they got closer, the monk looked at Lin Chen a few times.

Seeing that he couldn't see through Lin Chen's cultivation level, he quickly bowed and said:
"Senior Xu, I am Shao Wenmin, the governor of Xinliang Town... I wonder if you would be able to come into the city to have a chat?"

Lin Chen nodded slightly and followed him into the city.

When they arrived at a house near the city gate, Shao Wenmin personally brewed a pot of tea for Lin Chen with a very respectful attitude.

Lin Chen didn't drink the tea, but said slowly:
"I have been in seclusion in the cave for several years. Now I have broken through the Jindan stage and come out, but I don't know the situation in Qingzhou. I wonder if Shao Zhenshou can explain it to me?"

Golden elixir period?
Shao Wenmin immediately stood in awe, and his expression became even more respectful.

A cultivator in the Jindan stage is one in a million and is a truly powerful one.

Most of them are fake elixir cultivators, and only three or four out of ten can condense the golden elixir.

"Senior Xu, why are you so polite? It is my honor to be able to explain it to you."

Shao Wenmin said with a hint of sadness in his eyes:

"Right now, the situation in Qingzhou is very bad..."

"All of this started with the opening of the Jinyuan Sect ruins more than two years ago... Senior has been in seclusion for several years, so he probably doesn't know about the ruins."

Lin Chen was shocked after hearing this, but he remained calm on the surface and said calmly, "I'd like to hear the details."

Shao Wenmin nodded and said:

"Two and a half years ago, a serious demonic massacre occurred in Yudai City within the borders of Yanlai Country."

"The Ghost Eye Patriarch of the Exorcist Sect has set up the Ten Thousand Ghosts Bewitching Formation, intending to sacrifice millions of mortals in the entire Jade Belt City, including the cultivators... just to give birth to a Yuanming Stage ghost."

"But they were stopped by the passing wandering cultivators. There are only about 100,000 mortal survivors in the city..."

"Not long after, the ruins of the ancient Jinyuan Sect were opened, and hundreds of forces of all sizes in Qingzhou sent out foundation-building monks to explore..."

"It's just for the third level of Golden Yuan Gong... However, only two or three out of ten cultivators can come out alive from the ruins."

“But even after they came out, those foundation-building monks were ambushed!”

Lin Chen frowned slightly when he heard this.

He knew the ruins of Jinyuan Sect very well, but he had no idea what happened to those monks after they left the ruins.

Seeing Lin Chen frowning and thinking, Shao Wenmin continued:
"It turns out that the four major sects, the Exorcist Sect, the Puppet Hall, the Sacred Heart Sect, and the Wild Wolf Sect, are lying in ambush outside the Jinyuan Sect ruins at the same time, just to annihilate the geniuses in Qingzhou."

"Several Jindan cultivators took action, and together with that ghost-eyed old monster, they almost slaughtered most of the hundreds of foundation-building cultivators that came out of the ruins!"

"Those who come from the orthodox sects will be killed without mercy...Those who come from independent sects must join the demon sects or they will be wiped out as well!"

"Fortunately, several leaders of Changchun Sect arrived at the critical moment...but they were able to rescue only a dozen people."

Hearing this, Lin Chen frowned even more tightly.

Li Zhenqian, Jiang Liqian, and even Wanxun were among those cultivators...

"I don't know if they are still alive..." Lin Chen thought silently.

"In that battle, the elder of Qifeng of Changchun Sect died, and the arrogance of the four major demon sects became more rampant..."

"Later, the old ghost-eyed monster condensed the Nine-transformation Golden Pill and returned to the Golden Pill stage. For a time, he was feared by Qingzhou. The Demon Sect plundered everywhere, and many small immortal cultivation sects and families were wiped out..."

"Until a year ago, the Demon Sect launched a general attack on the Spirit Beast Sect. The Spirit Beast Sect was defeated, the Grand Elder died in the battle, and only one out of a hundred disciples escaped. The four major demon sects occupied the Spirit Beast Sect's territory and launched a full-scale attack on the three major immortal cultivation sects..."

Hearing this, Lin Chen's heart skipped a beat.

Just as the villagers said, the Spirit Beast Sect that had existed for a thousand years was destroyed in one day!
You must know that within a radius of ten thousand miles, there are three leaders among the orthodox sects.

Changchun Sect, Lingshou Sect and Tiandan Sect.

For hundreds of years, the forces of good and evil have been evenly matched. Although they have been fighting openly and secretly, no disaster has ever occurred in which one family is wiped out.

But now that the Spirit Beast Sect has been destroyed, the power between the good and evil forces has become completely unbalanced.

Changchun Sect and Tiandan Sect alone are far from being able to compete with the four great demon sects...

Just as Lin Chen was thinking, Shao Wenmin sighed and said:

"Alas, with the destruction of the Spirit Beast Sect, the four major demon sects have gained the upper hand..."

"Let alone Changchun Sect and Tiandan Sect, the ones who suffered the greatest losses were those small immortal cultivation families..."

"Under desperation, the surviving disciples of Changchun Sect, Tiandan Sect, and some of the Spirit Beast Sect announced to the public that they had established the Righteous Alliance!"

"All Qingzhou cultivators, whether they are independent cultivators or have a family of immortal cultivators, can join the Righteous Alliance and fight against the Evil Path together..."

"After the Righteous Alliance was announced, all the major immortal cultivation families in Yanlai Country responded, including Purple Smoke Country and Mist Country... Immortal cultivation forces from several surrounding countries also participated."

"Later, the Righteous Alliance sent monks to guard various places, and started a tug-of-war with the Demon Sect in the northern part of Ziyan Country..."

"This battle lasted for a year... Fortunately, the Qingzhou Demon Subduing Temple also sent some monks to subdue the demons, and the other righteous forces in Qingzhou also sent some people to support them. That's why the demons didn't completely massacre the Ziyan Kingdom..."

Lin Chen and Shao Wenmin talked for a long time and finally came to an understanding of the current situation in Qingzhou.

We have a general understanding of the power of the Righteous Alliance and the Demon Sect...

In short, now that the forces of good and evil have gone to war, all the cultivators within a radius of ten thousand miles have joined the battlefield.

Whether it was the independent cultivators or the sect forces, they all entered a state of war...

But the Demon Sect had been planning for a long time, and although the Righteous Alliance had united with many forces, it was still at a disadvantage.

After listening, Lin Chen sighed and said:

“Alas, I never thought that such a big thing would happen after I was in seclusion for only three short years…”

Shao Wenmin saw that Lin Chen's words were quite righteous, so he gritted his teeth and said:
“Senior Xu, although Xinliang City is not on the front line, it is also an important city on the front line. Now it is only guarded by a small foundation-building cultivator like me…”

"I wonder if you can join the Righteous Alliance and guard Xinliang City..."

When Shao Wenmin mentioned Ah Biao, he saw that Lin Chen's face was calm, so he quickly said:

"Don't worry, senior. I'm just using your name to intimidate the villains. If you really encounter an enemy you can't defeat, you can just run away."

"Moreover, the contribution of guarding a city is extremely high, and one can obtain a lot of cultivation resources..."

After Shao Wenmin finished speaking, he looked at Lin Chen cautiously, fearing that he would make Lin Chen unhappy.

In his opinion, the most taboo thing for a casual cultivator like Lin Chen is being restricted.

Lin Chen frowned slightly, then relaxed his brows and sighed:

"Alas, I also want to join the Righteous Alliance and fight against the Evil Path together!"

"But such a big thing happened in just three years. I don't know how some of my relatives and friends are doing now..."

"Now I am very worried, I just want to know their situation... After I find out the situation, how about I come to guard this city?"

After hearing this, Shao Wenmin sighed and nodded:

"In that case, I will give you the Righteous Alliance token first... After you have finished your business, please come back!"

After hearing this, Lin Chen nodded and agreed, thinking to himself:
"The Righteous Alliance is so powerful that it is not advisable to reject it directly... Let's go back to Yanlai first and make some plans later."

"At worst, this Xu Shi's vest will be hidden for a while..."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen bowed and prepared to leave.

However, at this moment, the earth suddenly shook violently.

Then the sound of drums came like a flood...

"Boom! Boom!"

After the series of drum beats ended, Shao Wenmin's face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice:

“I’m afraid you can’t leave now, Senior… This demon sect has come to our door!”

As he spoke, Shao Wenmin took out the jade slip and quickly reported the situation in the city. He then issued an order to gather the Righteous Alliance monks in the city.

Finally, he came to Lin Chen and said sincerely:
"Senior, if Xinliang City is in danger, can you help?"

He gritted his teeth and said:
"Don't worry, Senior, your efforts will not be in vain. On behalf of the Righteous Alliance, I would like to offer 50,000 Spiritual Stones to you..."

After hearing this, Lin Chen raised his eyebrows and sighed in his heart.

"Alas, I just came out of the ruins and encountered such bad luck... I don't know if the unlucky one is me, or the demons who invaded this city?"

"However, 50,000 spirit stones are not too few. After forming a pill, the daily consumption of spiritual practice will double..."

"Let's see the situation first and then decide whether to take action."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen said calmly:

"Don't panic, you guys organize the people first, I'll take a look at the situation first..."

(End of this chapter)