Chapter 252: Strange Phenomena of Heaven and Earth
Evil species are a trivial matter in the Qingyun world. Two years ago, before the incident in Qiling, the dead but incorruptible bodies of these surviving clans appeared in the mountains and forests everywhere.
Some woodcutters and passing scholars would often end up dead if they accidentally walked into the forest.
But for cultivators, if there are only a few of these bloodthirsty bodies, they will not be a big deal at all and can be ignored.
But what the Sixianjian was worried about was that just like what happened before the Qiling incident, evil species would emerge in large numbers, causing chaos in the world.
When the Supervisory Office arrived in Sanli County, the county magistrate was already waiting with officials.
"Sir, an evil species has indeed been found in the county."
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According to the county magistrate, the livestock in Shitang Village had been in unrest for some time. The government originally thought that there were wild beasts in the mountains and did not take it seriously.
But when they heard that the son of the Shangshu family in the capital had met with an accident here, they immediately ordered a search of the mountains and forests.
As expected, a group of evil species were discovered in the mountain stream between the Hengshan Mountains.
As they were a group of mortals, they naturally didn't know how to deal with it, so they could only send people to guard it until the Supervisory Office sent someone.
When the people from the Supervisory Office followed the government messengers to the place where the evil species was discovered, they saw the evil species wandering among the mountains and forests, wandering back and forth in the dense jungle.
The Supervisory Office's Chief is named Mu Jing, also a newly promoted official in recent years. Together with Kuang Cheng, he once dealt with the issue of refugees fleeing to Shengjing after Qiling.
After discovering such a large number of evil species, Mu Jing did not dare to act rashly. Instead, he designed a plan to capture one and sent it to Shengjing, and then sent people to seal off the place.
"How many evil species are there in Sanli County?"
"Just the ones I've seen with my naked eyes in the past few days, there are at least a hundred of them."
Supervisor He Jingyuan frowned after hearing this and asked, "Are there any missing persons in Sanli County?"
Mu Jing shook her head: "No one was found missing."
"So, these evil creatures didn't hurt anyone? The only unlucky one was Minister Dou's son, Dou Yuankong?"
"If these ghosts don't smell human scent, they are basically in a state of loss of soul and won't reveal too much of their bloodthirsty nature. Sanli County is sparsely populated with mountains. The mountains and forests where the evil species are found are basically deserted. Perhaps this is why they are safe. It's just that Dou Yuankong is really unlucky, so he was tossed into this state."
Deputy Supervisor Peng Dongyang raised his eyes and said, "Another evil species is causing chaos. Could it be that they are the relics that emerged after the Qiling incident, but were missed?"
Mu Jing thought for a moment and shook her head: "I can't be sure."
"Then have you checked all the official documents filed in Sanli County after the Qiling incident?"
"I checked. When our Immortal Supervisor investigated the places where the evil species appeared, Sanli County did not report it."
He Jingyuan put the teacup on the table and said, "These officials usually have connections with the local immortal village, so they try to keep things simple and don't report such disasters."
Mu Jing pursed her lips: "But there is a problem."
"What's the problem?"
"We have not discovered any new ruins near Sanli County."
He Jingyuan glanced at Peng Dongyang and said, "The most urgent thing is to notify the Zhenbei Army first and send people to wipe out these evil species to prevent them from harming the people. Then we can slowly investigate."
Mu Jing nodded: "Yes!"
After the barbarians gave up their large-scale attack, half of the Zhenbei Army was transferred back to be stationed outside Shengjing, and the other half was stationed in Fengzhou.
After receiving the message from the Sixianjian, the nearest camp sent hundreds of elite fighters deep into Sanli County and began to strangle the evil species, beheading all of them and dumping their bodies in the wilderness.
Kuang Cheng was the director of the Reception Office, which did not belong to the same system as the Supervisory Office, but he paid special attention to this matter.
Because when the evil species was rampant, too many people were eaten alive, and he didn't want to see such a thing again.
Mu Jing and Kuang Cheng were close friends, and the two had discussed for a long time during this period, with the focus of the discussion being the source of these evil species.
The appearance of such a large number of evil species is rare in the world of Qingyun, unless a large ruins is opened by someone. But after the incident in Qiling, the large ruins that can accommodate so many are basically guarded.
After the Dou Yuankong incident, Kuang Cheng reviewed all the case files on evil species in the past year and found that there were no unusual movements in all the large relics.
In order to confirm whether the news was true, Kuang Cheng sent letters to the government offices in various places, and the answers he received were that everything was safe.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the evil species from some small ruins gathered here by coincidence.
But the problem is, if it comes from all directions, it would not be possible to be so silent.
But Mu Jing quickly dispelled Kuang Cheng's speculation, because after the evil species was wiped out, the Supervisory Office went there again and searched the area within dozens of miles, but did not find any relics that were not recorded.
In Kuang Cheng's opinion, the only clue might lie in the mouth of the unconscious Dou Yuankong.
It was not until early spring in March that Dou Yuankong, who had been rescued, finally woke up.
He is a cultivator. Although his realm is not high, he is different from ordinary people because he has spiritual energy protecting his body. Simple injuries or hunger are not fatal.
Dou Yuankong's efforts to make friends with immortal cultivators over the years were not in vain. From time to time, someone would come to Dou's mansion and circulate spiritual energy to protect his life, which allowed him to finally open his eyes one evening in March.
After learning the news, Kuang Cheng came with the imperial carriage, and Wei Rui and Princess Changle also arrived at the same time.
It has rained continuously in Kyushu in recent days, so much so that the city is flooded with water that is deep enough to reach the ankles.
The three of them got off the car holding oil-paper umbrellas. Wei Rui didn't have much strength and the umbrella was immediately tilted by the raindrops, so Kuang Cheng held it up.
Princess Changle took a look and said nothing. Instead, she took the lead and stepped into the Dou Mansion. The two followed in and came to the east courtyard after passing through the corridor. Before they could even enter the courtyard, they heard a scream suddenly.
They walked into the room in the east courtyard with umbrellas in their hands and saw Dou Yuankong curled up in a corner, shivering, screaming, and waving his left hand back and forth in front of him.
Shangshu Dou and his family were all in front of him, but because of his fierce resistance, no one dared to move forward and could only look at Dou Yuankong in astonishment.
Seeing this scene, Princess Changle was silent for a long time, and Wei Rui's eyes instantly began to turn red.
Although Wei Rui didn't like Dou Yuankong, they grew up together after all and she was not heartless. Seeing him look like a ghost, with one of his sleeves empty and constantly flapping as he moved, it was inevitable that she felt sad.
Seeing this, Kuang Cheng took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, hesitated for a while, rolled it up into a corner, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
However, he was not sad.
At the beginning, Dou Yuankong planned to assassinate Brother Ji and wanted to send Brother Ji to die abroad. Although he did not get his wish in the end, Brother Ji's two arms were almost crippled. You can imagine how dangerous it was.
Kuang Cheng always believed that good would be rewarded with good and evil would be punished with evil, it was not that there was no retribution but the time had not come.
Now seeing Dou Yuankong become like this, I can only feel that he deserves it.
Just thinking of this, Kuang Cheng couldn't help but frown.
Dou Yuankong has gone crazy, so there are some things that cannot be asked.
A mentally ill person would not be able to speak normally, and even if he could, he would probably not provide many valuable clues.
However, seeing Dou Yuankong again gave Kuang Cheng a reminder.
He had been wondering where the evil came from, but forgot to think about why Dou Yuankong appeared in Sanli County.
Dou Yuankong was a young man from an aristocracy, accustomed to a life of luxury. Even if he had to leave the capital because he was frightened by Brother Ji, he should have gone to some prosperous place to drink and have fun.
Sanli County is extremely poor, and there are no prosperous cities nearby. Dou Yuankong has no hunting habits, so why did he run to this dense forest?
Unless they were taken away by someone or were captured.
But what was the purpose of throwing him to that place? If Dou Yuankong really didn't go there voluntarily, would he be related to the appearance of these evil species? Kuang Cheng thought about it for a long time, but still felt that something seemed to be missing, so that these things seemed to be unable to be connected.
The only thing Kuang Cheng hoped for now was that the evil species in the mountains were indeed just missed during the initial investigation, and did not reappear.
Because if they were just missed, they would have been killed by the Zhenbei Army and nothing major would happen afterwards.
Kuang Cheng then left the Dou Mansion and returned along the way with Wei Rui.
Because he had something on his mind, Kuang Cheng had no mood to cook. Wei Rui happened to be with him, so the two of them went into a restaurant.
Because it was a rainy day, there were not many customers in the restaurant. All the waiters gathered at the door of the kitchen, dancing and looking extremely busy.
"Where do all these cockroaches come from?!"
"It must be Chef Zhang. Every time he finishes cooking, he never puts the oil spoon away properly. Luckily there are only a few of them. Stompush them to death!"
"Boss, please buy some powder. It's useless to just step on it."
"It costs money to buy powder!"
"Boss, don't blame me for speaking bluntly..."
"Then will you blame me for being too harsh?"
"I really have to buy the powder. There's a saying in my hometown that when you see a cockroach, there's already a nest of them in your home."
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Wei Rui looked at Kuang Cheng at this moment and couldn't help but whispered: "How about we change to another one?"
Kuang Cheng looked up when he heard the voice and found that Wei Rui's gaze was directed at a cockroach: "A restaurant that attracts cockroaches, this is a restaurant that Brother Ji likes to eat at very much."
"The kitchen is probably not clean."
"Then change one."
The news of the discovery of the evil species in Sanli County spread quickly. Because of the incident in Qiling, all the major immortal sects and aristocratic families also paid attention to it.
But as the Sixianjian submitted the investigation files and no more evil species incidents occurred thereafter, it did not cause any big waves.
Kuang Cheng felt a little more at ease and temporarily put aside his doubts. He returned to Fengzhou under the escort of Cao Jinsong.
The spring ploughing in Fengzhou has started for a long time. Because a large number of migrant workers were hired in the winter, the people of Fengzhou also have to reclaim a large amount of arable land to expand the scale of planting.
In addition, when Ji You left, he told Kuang Cheng that as grain production increased, he wanted to engage in animal husbandry.
So the farm matters also had to be taken care of. In the midst of such busyness, Kuang Cheng was escorted back to Fengzhou by Cao Jinsong and his party.
In addition to monitoring the reclamation of farmland and checking farm construction, Kuang Cheng and others also took the opportunity to attend a marriage ceremony.
The groom is a cultivator from Tianyuan Villa named Zhang Pingyang. He is a member of the Zhang family in Yunzhou, a cultivator in the Ninghua realm, and one of the first to join the joint harvesting team.
But the woman she married was not a descendant of an immortal family, but a peasant girl named Lanlan.
Zhang Pingyang is now the team leader of the fifth brigade of the combined harvesting team. He is responsible for the farm affairs in Lanlan's village. Lanlan often goes to the fields to deliver tea, and the two have known each other for a long time.
It is rare for a son of an aristocratic family, even one from a less famous side branch, to marry an ordinary woman.
Many people didn’t know what he was thinking, but they saw that he was very happy on his wedding day.
Kuang Cheng felt that this might be what Brother Ji wanted to see.
Brother Ji once said that whether they are immortal cultivators or mortals, they are actually all human beings. But I don’t know why immortal cultivators later increasingly regard themselves as less and less human beings.
With Fengzhou in its current state, it will surely get better and better just as Brother Ji imagined.
What Kuang Cheng didn't expect was that heavy rains poured down in Kyushu for several months in a row.
This kind of weather rarely appears in the history of Qingyuntianxia. The dark sky is so low that it seems like it is about to collapse, making the people of Kyushu feel uneasy.
Afterwards, floods occurred frequently in many places, and the official duties of the Sixianjian became more and more complicated.
Lingzhou is the estuary where hundreds of rivers flow into the sea, and breaches of dikes occur frequently, especially on the Nujiang River, where the waves are turbulent and flood all directions.
After the spring plowing, large tracts of farmland have not yet sprouted green crops, and once a flood passes, there will be no harvest for the entire year.
But fortunately, Lingjian Mountain sent an elder over.
Mountains were opened up with sword energy, earth and rocks were moved to build dams, river water was restrained during the continuous rainstorms, and strong men in the upper five realms used their great magical powers to divert the water into the sea.
"For some reason, the weather has suddenly become unpredictable."
"The wind and clouds change suddenly. I'm afraid that the laws of nature are unpredictable."
"Where did you get that?"
"That's what people say. They say God is angry."
"What do mortals know? I think there must be a great man who has achieved great success in practicing the Four Symbols Method."
Lingzhou is the location of the Lingjian Mountain's Taoist temple, so the flood naturally also affected Lingjian Mountain.
It was Yan Shuyi's order that the disciples in the mountain went down the mountain to assist the Sixianjian in controlling the flood. While building dams and dikes, they also saved many people.
However, the duration of this rainstorm was beyond imagination. No one could be sure when it would stop. If it continued like this, one third of Lingzhou's area would be submerged.
Especially the area close to Xuanhai, which is a low-lying area.
Fortunately, the rainstorm did not continue, but gradually turned into light rain on an afternoon in mid-June, and then subsided in the evening.
In the early morning after the rain, although the weather was still gloomy, it was at least much brighter than before.
However, there was still surging water on the mountains and even the waterfalls in the mountains became turbulent.
However, after experiencing a violent storm, many immortal cultivators who missed sunny days could not help but walk out of the temple. They wanted to wait for a sunny day with no clouds or fog, but as soon as they went out, they were attracted by the direction of the coastline, and they could not move their eyes away after they opened them wide.
After knowing that the rainstorm had stopped, Yan Shuyi felt a little relaxed, so he meditated until noon. After opening his eyes, he was silent for a long time and then began to flip through the secret book under his pillow.
As he was reading, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside the hall, so he hurriedly stuffed the book under his pillow and put on a cold and arrogant expression.
"Master, blood mist."
"What blood mist?"
Ding Yao stood in the hall and took a breath. "This morning, many fishermen saw a thick red fog appearing above Xuanhai, so they reported it to the government. The government then reported it to us. It is said that our disciples on the mountain also saw it, and it was overwhelming."
Yan Shuyi frowned, then floated up from the hall.
The Boundless Realm can ignore distance within a certain range. Ding Yao knew that Master Jian had gone to Xuanhai, so he turned around and was about to follow him.
But the next moment, with the fluctuation of spiritual energy in the air, Yan Shuyi returned to the hall.
Ding Yao: “?”
Yan Shuyi looked at his diligent maid and said, "Cui'er, you are not allowed to make my bed."
Cui'er, who was about to fold the quilt, froze with a look of confusion in her eyes, but she still let go of her hand obediently and said yes softly.
Amidst the flashing of mysterious light, the young master of Lingjian Mountain appeared on the shore of Xuanhai, her skirt fluttering as she fell to the ground, looking towards the sea.
Xuanhai is huge, so vast that it has no boundaries. After the wind and rain stopped suddenly, the tide gradually subsided, but there were still collapsed houses and fishing boats on both sides of the river, which looked in a mess.
Countless fishermen gathered on the coast, gazing into the boundless distance.
Yan Shuyi also turned his head to look at this time, and there was a faint golden fairy light in his eyes.
In the sight, the sky in the far south was red, which was the heavy fog that the fishermen had mentioned, but it had retreated at this time.
According to fishermen on the coast of Xuanhai, the red fog had actually spread to the coastline in the morning.
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu were also looking in the direction everyone was looking at, and then turned to look at Yan Shuyi: "Master Jian, what's going on?"
"First, there was continuous torrential rain, and then there was blood mist. If this is a natural anomaly, if it is not man-made, then it must be an abnormality of the way of heaven. I don't think it will be a good thing."
Yan Shuyi pondered for a moment before speaking: "Ding Yao, go check the ancient books of Lingjian Mountain to see if there is any record of the red fog on the sea."
Ding Yao nodded: "Yes, Master Jian."
Yan Shuyi turned to look at Zhuo Wanqiu again and said, "Ask the mountain walkers in various places to see if there are any strange things happening recently."
Zhuo Wanqiu immediately cupped her hands and said, "Yes, Master Jian."
Yan Shuyi stood at the seaside for a long time, then waved his sleeves and left, landing on Xuanjian Peak. He looked at the land of Jiuzhou from south to north, and his handsome eyebrows were slightly wrinkled.
Ding Yao came back in the evening, holding a book and came to Yan Shuyi: "Master Jian, I can't find any records about the red fog on the sea. I have searched everywhere and found mostly records about the red tide."
"In other words, this is the first time that blood mist has appeared above Xuanhai?"
"Reporting to the master, according to the books I read, this should be the case."
Yan Shuyi frowned slightly, and his eyes flickered with light and darkness.
Heavy rain, strong winds, sea tides and heavy fog all belong to the Law of the Four Symbols, which is the most intuitive law in the Way of Heaven.
The appearance of such a strange phenomenon now means that the four symbols are disordered and the way of heaven is uneasy. According to the customs of Qingyun World, this is a sign of disaster rather than a good omen.
The key point is that this phenomenon has not been recorded before, so no one knows what it represents, which makes people more concerned.
While he was thinking, Zhuo Wanqiu came hurriedly: "Master Jian, the government down the mountain reported that an evil species appeared in the western part of Lingzhou."
"The ruins in various places are under surveillance, so why are there still evil species appearing?"
(End of this chapter)
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