Guan Liyuan and his party traveled through mountains and rivers. In a month, Xu Changqing's mood became heavier and heavier...

The disaster of the Locking Demon Tower has gradually fermented. The number of monsters in the mountains and forests has increased day by day. Moreover, most of these monsters "smoked" by the demonic energy like to eat blood, which is a great threat to ordinary people!

The real ancient beast tribe's cultivation method is close to the rules of the self, that is, the so-called true self. It is only because the power of the true self suppresses the rules of external objects that it seems more overbearing. For example, the Zhaodan Spring, which is "gentlemen look at it magnanimously, and villains look at it with fear", has no specific purpose for the beast tribe.

However, after the elite of the ancient beast tribe retreated into the demon world, it became difficult for ordinary beasts to practice. I don't know when they developed the bad habit of practicing the way of eating blood!

The differences in qualifications within the beast tribe are the greatest. The beasts that remain in the mortal world have ordinary bloodlines. Occasionally, some of them absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and open some superficial intelligence. It is difficult for them to develop their own strength with weak bloodlines, and it is even more difficult for them to practice the mysterious Taoism with wisdom far inferior to that of the human race...

There are very few beast tribes like the Five Poison Beasts that have extremely strong talents and are still multiplying in the human world.

Therefore, after the Tianwei Gate was closed, the beast tribe began to use the blood-eating method to assist in cultivation, that is, to strengthen themselves by devouring humans or other beast tribes!

Not only did they lose the exquisiteness of the "True Self Way", but because they relied too much on external forces, the blood evil spirit further affected their mind and emotions. From then on, the reputation of the demon tribe became bad, and the evil-repelling divine objects such as the "Zhaodan Divine Sword" also took effect on this type of demon tribe.

Now, a large number of wild beasts in the mountains and forests that have gradually begun to become intelligent and become spirits have inevitably embarked on the path of blood-eating cultivation...

It is said that Shushan has also responded in time, and all disciples who have survived the initial calamity and reached the Gangfeng realm, regardless of their level, have obtained the qualification to go down the mountain to eliminate monsters.

Xu Changqing, the "former" Shushan direct descendant, did not forget to "do what is right and brave" along the way. Wherever there are rumors of monsters, they must be eliminated!

Fortunately, most of the big monsters that really escaped from the Locking Monster Tower have found a place to recuperate. Most of the newly born monsters are not very intelligent, and some martial arts masters can deal with them, and they are also unable to attack the organized imperial army.

However, in just one month, the situation in the human world has deteriorated to the point that in some places without official roads, ordinary people cannot travel alone at all. Therefore, the business of post stations and escort agencies is now very good.

If Xu Changqing had come, he might not be able to see the seaside in another month. Fortunately, Guan Liyuan stopped him in time. The reason he used was very simple...

"Brother Xu, I think we should hurry up... Xiaotian and I are not in a hurry to climb the ladder to heaven, and there is no rush for you to return to the sect, but since the head of Penglai is kind-hearted, I think the sooner we inform them of the disaster of the Demon Locking Tower, the sooner they can send their disciples out of the mountain."

After hearing what Guan Liyuan said, Xu Changqing made up his mind to speed up to Penglai instead of taking detours everywhere...

Along the way, Guan Liyuan met some disciples from other Taoist sects. If you use one word to describe them, that is - stay at home!

In comparison, the Shushan disciples who are all over the world to eliminate monsters and brush their presence are really too hardworking.

Most of the Taoist disciples are the type who can stay at home until the end of the world if they can't afford the catastrophe. Even if the number of monsters in Shenzhou has increased significantly, the major Taoist sects are only sending disciples tentatively.

They were not worried about the loss, but they did not understand the scale of the disaster in Shenzhou. They thought that it was just some small monsters and a few big monsters that escaped, which was not a big deal.

Except for Shushan, the purpose of the existence of other Taoist sects is to achieve Taoism and become immortals, not to specifically make trouble with the monsters.

They will only stand up when the inheritance of the human race is threatened, otherwise... "staying at home" makes me happy!

As for the reason why Shushan is so active in exorcising monsters, it is mainly because they have "God's Conferment" and belong to official institutions. It is also rumored that the God's Realm transformed the Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda of Emperor Liang Wu into the Locking Monster Pagoda, and used the Demon Subduing Book to include the monsters in it, which can increase merit and reduce the difficulty of climbing the ladder... Whether it is a psychological effect, it is unknown.

Qionghua Sect, once one of the eight sects of Kunlun, was also enthusiastic about exorcising monsters. In the end, it was confirmed that... these bastards wanted to pull a passing monster world into the human world to absorb spiritual energy, in order to push the entire sect into the God's Realm. The huge casualties of the human and monster races are simply victims of their conspiracy!

In the end, he was punished by heaven, the entire mountain was gone, and the eight Kunlun sects became the seven Kunlun sects.

Guan Liyuan urged Xu Changqing not to waste time, not because he was anxious to climb the ladder, but because in the original work, Xie Jianxian turned into the head of Shushan Qingwei not long after escaping from the Locking Demon Tower, and slaughtered the Penglai sect.

But the head of Penglai was a "natural fool". Even if the fake Qingwei killed the Penglai disciples in front of him, he still thought it was his Qingwei Taoist brother, who was testing his character with illusions, and even didn't fight back or scold him...

Xie Jianxian was probably broken at the time!

Xie Jianxian was originally one of the five elders of Shushan. After practicing forbidden techniques to expel his own evil thoughts, the product of the fusion of five evil thoughts was neither human nor god nor demon, and did not belong to the six realms of creatures.

And when he changed into any of the five elders of Shushan, from the perspective of perception, there would be no flaws-because that was his true appearance!

After the Shushan Five Elders "created" this monster, they simply threw it into the Locking Demon Tower. Therefore, the Evil Sword Immortal grew up with various monsters "since childhood" and had a thorough study of the demon race.

At the same time, this kind of split existence is probably obsessed with the philosophical question of "where do I come from".

The Evil Sword Immortal only has some scattered memory fragments before the Shushan Five Elders split their evil thoughts, so he is very entangled about his own origins. He studied in the Locking Demon Tower for a long time and knew that he was not a demon. After coming out, he found that he was not a human...

The reason why he went to Penglai was because he vaguely remembered that Shang Fengzi and Qingwei had a good relationship, so he wanted to learn from Shang Fengzi about the five elders practicing forbidden techniques.

As a result... It's a pity that Penglai, which is ranked as the top Taoist sect with Shushan, was seriously injured at the beginning of the catastrophe, and there was no achievement afterwards!

In the original game, Jingtian and his party just caught up with the Evil Sword Immortal when he was committing a crime. Because the Evil Sword Immortal did not recognize Zixuan, his identity was exposed.

Guan Liyuan felt that if he hurried on his way now, the Penglai Sect could still be rescued!

At the same time, Guan Liyuan knew that the world's Taoist sects had underestimated this catastrophe.

If only a few big monsters escaped and some small monsters were bred, it would not be a threat to the survival of the human race, but... if the "Evil Sword Immortal" was allowed to grow, there would be trouble! Just a few more monsters

, as long as there were no powerful monsters, would only be an "increase in the number of links in the food chain", which could be gradually mediated. However, evil creatures like the "Evil Sword Immortal" are invasive species and have the potential to destroy the ecological environment...

However, things did not go as planned. Guan Liyuan wanted to hurry up, but when he was in the Jingxiang area a month after his departure, he met someone who took the initiative to cause trouble!

"Friends, you must be tired after following us all the way. Why don't you show up?" Guan Liyuan took the initiative to speak in the bamboo forest.

Not long after leaving the city, Guan Liyuan and others found that someone was following them, but because the other party was just a human, they didn't take it seriously. After following for most of the day, the other party still had no intention of giving up, and... there were more and more people following from all directions!

As soon as Guan Liyuan finished speaking, several martial artists dressed in red appeared...

"Pili bucket? They are from the Pili Hall!" Xue Jian recognized their identities when she saw the iron bucket that looked like an old-fashioned umbrella on the back of the other party.

"Haha, I didn't expect the eldest lady of the Tang Clan to be so careless. She dared to leave Sichuan with only a few people? And she didn't even hide her identity... The martial arts world of Jingxiang is not so easy to get into!" Pili Hall disciple A sneered and then fired a flare into the sky.

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