The road is vague

Chapter 421 Crossing the State of Lu
Within the territory of the State of Lu, the natural environment is pristine, the people are simple and honest, and there are many academies and lecture halls.

Along the way, the sounds of "Feng," "Ya," and "Song" are easy to remember and their lingering notes are delightful.

The criticisms of current events in the folk lectures mostly focused on the apathy, apathy, and decline of the traditional customs of the people of Qian Kingdom, as well as the exploitation of the people by the Qian Kingdom court, the dictatorship of the emperor, and the deterioration of social morality. The aim was to defeat the Qian Kingdom court and liberate the enslaved people of Qian Kingdom.

this day.

Li Mo, the Thousand-Faced King, and Princess Dai, disguised as merchants, passed through Majia Village and were surprised to find a large group of villagers gathered together, wailing and crying.

The two disciples of the Xiantian Sect slaughtered all the pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep in the village and burned them in a large pit.

"Two immortal masters, what happened here?"

Li Mo looked on in astonishment as he watched so many livestock being slaughtered and burned.

"It's such a waste to just throw away so many livestock."

Disciples of the Innate School are required to maintain their virginity and possess extremely strong willpower.

One of them had a cinnabar dot on his forehead and was wearing a red bellyband, as if he had just been through a fierce battle. When Li Mo asked him, he gave a brief explanation.

“These livestock in the village have been corrupted by evil spirits and have begun to kill people intentionally. We must stop the spread of resentment.”

Li Mo frowned.

"Evil spirits exist in Lu State too? I heard that these only exist in Qian State in the north. Besides, since you two killed these livestock to prevent the spread of resentment and caused the villagers to lose their harvest, wouldn't that just breed more resentment and allow the evil spirit to grow stronger?"

"You seem to know quite a lot!"

After the two disciples of the Xiantian Sect came to their senses, they looked back at the weeping villagers around them and realized that this approach was indeed not a solution.

Both of them were at the tenth level of Qi Refining, and were clearly not as professional as the Heavenly Mandate Inspector of the Qian Kingdom in dealing with evil spirits.

"Hehe, I have traveled all over the country and have seen many local customs and traditions. In my opinion, we must use our wits to eliminate these evil spirits."

With Li Mo's current cultivation level, if he didn't consider the consequences, the simplest and most violent way would be to relocate the entire village, burn everything with the Flowing Gold Fire Sword, and then compensate the people of Ma Family Village.

It was just a small evil spirit after all.

However, he was currently playing the role of a merchant from the State of Lu, and he also wanted to let the Thousand-Faced King and Princess Dai get used to the customs and culture of the human race, so he naturally had to experience it firsthand.

So he began to investigate the strange customs of Majia Village recently and discovered something very interesting. According to the etiquette and morality of the State of Lu, it was not allowed to kill oxen. Only when an ox died of old age, disease, or accident, and the local sage was notified, could the beef be shared.

However, almost all the oxen in Majia Village died from accidental falls, not from old age.

Under Li Mo's interrogation, the villagers of Majia Village finally couldn't hold back and revealed the truth: the beef from cattle that had died of old age was very tough and unpalatable. So, when the cattle reached a certain age, the villagers deliberately made them walk repeatedly on the cliff at the west end of the village until they accidentally fell to their deaths.

Upon hearing this, the two disciples of the Innate Sect were furious at the villagers' greed and ignorance, but as cultivators, they had no right to punish these morally corrupt mortals. Only the local sages could conduct a public trial.

So the two of them and Li Mo arrived at the cliff at the west end of the village.

After a search, the group found a blood-red flower in the area where the most cattle had been killed. This flower was able to attract flies from the city. These flies had obviously mutated, causing the livestock in Majia Village to go berserk and attack the villagers.

"It seems that's where the problem lies."

After a fierce battle, the two disciples of the Innate Sect finally managed to eliminate the evil spirit.

Afterwards, the two expressed their sincere gratitude to Li Mo. Upon learning where Li Mo was going, they even gave him a travel permit, allowing him to avoid being questioned.

"Thank you so much!"

The Thousand-Faced King and Princess Dai witnessed all of this.

As birds with a thousand faces, the power of order they wield requires a similar understanding of the diverse customs and traditions of the people. After witnessing firsthand the lives of the common people in the State of Lu and their methods of dealing with evil spirits, they couldn't help but ponder, as if they had gained some insights.

that's it.

The three of them traveled all the way to Wangye City, the southernmost city in the State of Lu.

People came and went in a constant stream within the city.

"Next up is the southern barbarian lands."

The southern barbarian lands were divided in two by the states of Qian and Lu.

Although the State of Lu occupies a smaller area, it is significantly wealthier, especially after a gold mine was discovered within its borders a few years ago, which immediately attracted a large number of merchants.

Because Li Mo had the pass from the Innate Sect, his journey was quite smooth.

Next, Li Mo only needs to continue posing as a merchant, travel to the Southern Barbarian Lands, and seize an opportunity to break through the front lines of the two armies before returning to the Great Qian Dynasty.

But at this moment!
From afar came the shouts of a captured cultivator from the Qian Kingdom.

"You bunch of hypocritical lunatics, just like the old madmen of your immortality cult, have all gone astray. You will all die a horrible death!"

Li Mo and the others stepped forward, walked through the crowd of onlookers, and looked at the bound Qian Kingdom prisoners of war.

He roared in despair, cursing everyone present.

A disciple from the Undying Mountain of Lu was openly selling the prisoner's organs and arranging on-site surgery. "Seventy taels of silver for the left hand. Anyone willing to raise the price?"

"Seventy-five taels..."

In the State of Lu, whether it was a severed limb, organ disease, or congenital deficiency, one could recover through surgical transplantation of a normal organ from another person.

Especially the Undying Mountain, which is most skilled in this art.

This prisoner of war from the Qian Kingdom has been photographed and taken away in more than a dozen places in a short period of time.

This means that he will be divided into more than a dozen pieces and transplanted into different patients in Lu. The people of Lu are already used to this. Li Mo's face is very stiff, while the Thousand-Faced King and Princess Dai are stunned and speechless.

This was a terrifying scene they would never see in their entire lives on the Lost Continent.

In comparison, even the terrifying and eerie Temple of the Year God seems to pale in comparison here.

"Let's go."

Perhaps, as the prisoner of war said, the State of Lu was already ill.

With the Immortal Ancestor turning into a madman and the emergence of the Immortal Dao lineage, the State of Lu has undergone earth-shattering changes. It is no longer the beacon of hope for saving humanity in the Central Plains during the dark and turbulent period.

A month later.

The three arrived near Nanjianmen Mountain in the southern barbarian lands.

The north and south Qianmen Mountains are separated by a hundred miles, with the narrow pass in the middle containing the Hell Pillar.

The states of Qian and Lu had been locked in a standoff here for many years.

However, as the Undying Mountain of Lu State went all out to participate in the war, it not only dispatched twelve Nascent Soul stage cultivators, but also the Undying Daoist Jia Wentian, who had not appeared for many years, showed up.

Legend has it that this person was a descendant of the Longevity Ancestor during a dark and turbulent period when monsters roamed the land. He later founded the Undying Mountain, but this can no longer be verified.

The appearance of the Nascent Soul cultivator plunged the Qian Kingdom cultivators guarding the North Sword Gate Mountain into despair. Sword Gate Pass was lost for a time, and many Nascent Soul cultivators died in battle, a truly tragic situation.

This also escalated the war between the two countries to a new level.

The Qian Kingdom's army not only launched simultaneous battles in the four Gobi kingdoms, but also dispatched two Nascent Soul stage cultivators in one go. They not only forcibly recaptured the Northern Sword Gate Mountain, but also completely destroyed the Sword Gate Mountain fortress. In the end, for some unknown reason, they chose to retreat and failed to unify the Southern Barbarian lands. The two sides once again ceased hostilities.

After all, if things continue like this, no one will doubt that the Holy Lord Qian Yuan and the Old Madman may be eliminated at any time.

With the cultivation levels of these two late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, even if they destroyed an entire city, it would be nothing more than a snap of their fingers. At that time, countless lives would be lost, and there would be no rules to speak of in war.

"Tian Ding Zhenren Ding Kui, the leader of the Seven Heroes, Feng Zhen!"

Li Mo was aware of the saying that the Eastern Sacred Cauldron and the Western Dao Pattern of the Qian Kingdom were related.

Each of these two super sects has a Nascent Soul stage ancestor presiding over it.

Therefore, Tian Ding Zhenren needs no further explanation, but Feng Zhen, the leader of the Seven Heroes, was unheard of by Li Mo during the Qian Kingdom.

In the State of Lu, information about Feng Zhen was readily available everywhere.

Legend has it that when the Holy Lord Qian Yuan established the Great Qian Kingdom, he initially had seven Nascent Soul cultivators who fought alongside him in the north and south, becoming founding heroes.

However, more than two thousand years have passed, and of the original seven, only one, with the unwavering assistance of the Holy Lord Qian Yuan, successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and has survived to this day. He has become the Grand Steward of the Six Doors and is also the Holy Lord Qian Yuan's most capable assistant.

In that case, the Qian Kingdom would have at least four Nascent Soul stage cultivators on the surface.

"It seems that in the Central Plains, the three most powerful cultivators dominate the current world order. Secondly, the remaining Nascent Soul cultivators, as well as those special beings who can survive under the Nascent Soul cultivators, are able to slightly change this so-called order. As for the old assassins of the First Seven Organization, they are a level below, and can only slightly threaten those special beings who can survive under the Nascent Soul cultivators. As for myself, I have only just barely managed to enter this game."

After gaining some understanding, Li Mo took a deep breath and looked at the Thousand-Faced King and Princess Dai beside him.

"Gentlemen, we must now force our way through the checkpoints. No matter how powerful the enemies we encounter, we must not linger in battle. Once we enter the territory of the Great Qian Kingdom, we will have succeeded."

Upon hearing this, King Qianmian and Princess Dai both nodded with solemn expressions.

Over the past year, the two have traveled with Li Mo through the human kingdoms and are no longer naive outsiders.

Immediately, three figures soared into the sky and rushed together towards the Qian Kingdom's camp area.

Almost simultaneously, several Nascent Soul stage spiritual lights soared into the sky in the distance, surrounding the three of them. Before they even arrived, their divine senses had already swept over them.

Upon realizing that the three were at the Nascent Soul stage, they were all immediately shocked!
“The three of you are unfamiliar faces. I wonder where you are in such a hurry to go? Why don’t you come down and have a drink with me before you leave?”

The melodious sound penetrates directly to the heart and soul.

Li Mo's body surface flashed with multicolored ink, and he continued flying forward as if nothing had happened.

Princess Dai frowned, her eyes slightly unfocused, and her flight speed decreased slightly.

"roll!!"

With his cultivation as a mid-level demon king, the Thousand-Faced King let out a deafening roar, instantly shattering the ethereal and enchanting sounds hidden below, and continued flying forward at full speed with his wife.

(End of this chapter)