Chapter 378: Dongling Zhentian

Shuzhou, Chaofeng County.

After handing the last pancake on the snack cart to the customer, Chen Liang breathed a sigh of relief, with a look of relief in his eyes.

"Finally sold out!"

Reaching out to open the wooden box containing money, it was not filled with banknotes issued by Daxia, but spiritual coins of various sizes.

These spiritual coins are made by grinding the spiritual stones absorbed by the practitioners into powder, and then melting some minerals. They are used by Dongling Zhentian as currency for ordinary people's daily transactions.

As early as five years ago, after Dongling Zhentian took over Chaofeng County, he immediately abolished Daxia's original monetary system and began to issue spiritual coins.

At the beginning, many people in Chaofeng County naturally opposed it. After all, Daxia people have had the habit of saving since ancient times. Once the original Xia currency is abolished, it means that they have lost the wealth accumulated in their families.

For several months in a row, the streets in Chaofeng County were occupied by a large number of marchers, and the voices against Dongling Zhentian became louder and louder.

Some people even claimed to kick Dongling Zhentian out of Chaofeng County and welcome him back to the Daxia court.

But after several big monsters attacked several densely populated communities, killing tens of thousands of people, the original wave of opposition gradually subsided under the threat of monsters.

After all, if you lose your life, what's the point of holding money?

Closing the wooden box containing money, Chen Liang sorted out the various items on the snack cart while secretly calculating today's gains in his heart.

"I earned 80 spirit coins today. After deducting the principal and the tax to be paid to Dongling Zhentian, there are still 31 spirit coins left.

The rice and flour at home are almost gone. I have to spend 10 spirit coins to buy some rice, flour, grain and oil to save 21 spirit coins."

"The owner of the Lingzhen Taoist Hall in the city is said to be an outer disciple of Dongling Zhentian. If you want to become his disciple, you need to pay a tuition fee of 10,000 spirit coins. If you are talented, you have the opportunity to enter Dongling Zhentian through the Taoist Hall.

Once you enter Dongling Zhentian, you can not only be exempted from the demon extermination tax, but also have the hope of moving into the inner city.

I have no hope in this life, but Cong'er may have the opportunity to become a fairy."

Thinking of this, Chen Liang's eyes rose with some hope.

In the ten years when the spiritual energy tide revived, he had also imagined that he could step into the fairy gate in one step, but the fact was that he was just one of the masses.

Ten years ago, after graduating from college, he became a programmer and joined a large company that was in the limelight at the time.

Despite the crisis of spiritual energy tide, Chen Liang can still work normally, marry and have children by relying on the order maintained by the Great Xia court.

However, as the world further recovers, the order of Great Xia collapses. The power grid and infrastructure that took decades to build were destroyed almost overnight. Even the basic power supply is difficult to guarantee. As a programmer, he lost his job.

Forced to do so, Chen Liang could only pick up his family's craft and start selling pancakes to make a living.

Chen Liang, who barely has a skill, is lucky. The really sad ones are those who lost their original jobs because of the collapse of order.

After Dongling Zhentian took over Chaofeng County and abolished the original currency, those people were forced to join Dongling Zhentian in order to support their families and became spiritual planters and pioneers under Dongling Zhentian.

These are not good jobs.

Spiritual planters need to take care of the spiritual rice and spiritual plants planted by Dongling Zhentian. Although there will be basic cultivation methods passed down by the sect, the spiritual power they cultivate will be used to feed the spiritual rice and spiritual plants, and there is no extra spiritual power to improve their cultivation.

Although he has entered the realm of refining essence, the long-term spiritual power deficit makes the spiritual plant master's physical condition even worse than that of ordinary people.

As for the pioneers, it is even more dangerous. The large tracts of territory that have been revived by the world have not yet been developed, and a large number of people are needed to open up the wilderness.

In places far away from the city, poisonous insects, beasts, demons and evil things emerge in an endless stream. Even if there are cave spirits and true heaven cultivators sitting in charge, they are likely to encounter crises and die in the wilderness if they are not careful.

Most of them can only support their families at the risk of losing their lives. Only a very small number of pioneers can stand out from the masses and be qualified to enter the inner city of Chaofeng County.

Chen Liang couldn't help but look at the center of the county city, the area blocked by the invisible formation barrier.

It is said that in the inner city, there is still a normal power supply, and games and entertainment are no different from before the revival of the world. I don't know how many people died in the wilderness in order to compete for a place in the inner city.

"Maybe if the Great Xia court is still there, this situation will not happen!"

Chen Liang couldn't help thinking so.

Just as he had packed up his things and was about to push the snack cart home, he suddenly heard a loud noise from afar.

The invisible barrier that separated the inner and outer cities of Chaofeng County was shattered by a sword light, revealing the brightly lit prosperity of the inner city.

"Who is it!"

"How dare you attack my Dongling Zhentian!"

"You have already chosen your own death!"

Rays of light rose from the inner city to the sky, revealing monks in robes and extraordinary demeanor.

Chen Liang recognized one of the purple monks at a glance. It was the owner of the Lingzhen Dao Pavilion, a great Qi training monk with profound cultivation, whom he had wanted his son to worship.

However, even a figure like the owner of the Lingzhen Pavilion could only rank last among the many monks who rose into the sky. The aura of the three monks at the top was like the scorching sun, making people dare not look directly at them.

"Could it be the legendary Dongtian Zhenren?"

Just as this thought flashed through his mind, a sword light flashed like thunder in the next moment, and those Dongling Zhentian cultivators who were originally standing proudly in the air fell like rain, including the three Dongtian Zhenren.

The heads of people were torn apart and the bodies were scattered all over the sky. Chen Liang could even see a real head with a look of fear on it.

"So, immortals can die too!"

In the sky, the Huiming Sword that had killed hundreds of cultivators returned to its sheath. Shen Yuan looked gloomily at the vast field outside Chaofeng County.

The wilderness outside the county was reclaimed into acres of spiritual fields, and there were spiritual planters cultivating spiritual materials in the mountains and forests. At a glance, everything was so harmonious.

But as the master of Tongyou Divine Power and the Emperor of Fengdu in Xuanhuang Realm, Shen Yuan could see at a glance how heavy the death energy was hidden under the spiritual fields that stretched for dozens of miles outside the county.

These seemingly orderly spiritual fields were all opened up from the wilderness after the recovery of heaven and earth, and countless corpses were buried in them.

And the spiritual planters between these spiritual fields had been drained of spiritual energy for a long time, resulting in the exhaustion of life breath and a great loss of lifespan.

Looking at everything in front of him, Shen Yuan suddenly said:

"Before the world revived, how many people were there in Chaofeng County?"

Before Xia Yunqiu spoke, the director of the Imperial Astronomical Observatory took the initiative to step forward and responded softly:

"Before the world revived, there were still 17 million people in Chaofeng County recorded by the court. More than 9 million were in Chaofeng County City, and the remaining 8 million were distributed in the five counties under the jurisdiction of Chaofeng County."

Shen Yuan was silent. Just now, his spiritual sense swept through Chaofeng County City. The remaining population in the county city was less than 5 million. This was the population after the people from various counties took the initiative to gather in the county city after the catastrophe.

Although Chaofeng County experienced the invasion of demons, it was absolutely impossible to slaughter millions of people. It was obvious where the missing population went.

His eyes swept across the open wilderness outside the county city, which was full of thick death, and a voice with hidden anger slowly sounded:

"Dongling Zhentian, damn it!"

Originally, Shen Yuan only came to question Dongling Zhentian under the pretext of Zhu Heng Zhenjun, so as to give this blessed land a warning. Who would have thought that he would encounter such a scene in Chaofeng County.

In ancient times, there were demons who ate humans, but were later slaughtered by the powerful humans. Even now that the demons have risen, there are few cases of cannibalism among the demons, and more of them try to invade the human race and occupy the spiritual land.

However, in Chaofeng County, Dongling Zhentian's behavior is tantamount to eating the people.

First, he lured the demons to attack the city and seize the power of Chaofeng County, then abolished the currency to empty the people's savings, and when the people were penniless, he lured them with benefits, driving the people to open up the wilderness and squeeze their vitality to cultivate spiritual plants.

In every acre of spiritual field opened outside the city, there are a lot of corpses of Chaofeng County people buried. The whole Dongling Zhentian is built on this sea of ​​blood and corpses.

Behind Shen Yuan, Xia Yunqiu was also angry when she saw such a scene. She heard that the Imperial Astronomical Observatory was reporting the affairs of Chaofeng County, but she never thought it would develop to this point.

At this moment, the expressions of the other twenty or so Lianxu Zhenjun from various forces were even more exciting.

Some were shocked by Dongling Zhentian's means of sucking marrow from bones, some were furious at the death of a large number of human beings, some were guilty and avoided their eyes and said nothing, and some were indifferent and disdainful.

The major Dongtian blessed lands naturally have a set of operating methods for the states and counties they control.

Some still operate according to the rule of the Great Xia court, and some are even more oppressive than Dongling Zhentian.

After all, Great Xia still needs the willpower and human destiny of the people, and dare not easily shake the foundation of the people, but the major forces may not consider so much.

Just as everyone was thinking about it, they saw a full moon rising from the mountains and quickly descending over Chaofeng County. It was Dongling Zhentian, one of the thirty-six caves.

Then an angry voice came from Dongling Zhentian.

"Who are you? Why are you killing my Dongling Zhentian disciples?"

The person who spoke was also a Lianxu Zhenjun. During his words, the Dongling Zhentian, which looked like a full moon, showed a trace of blood, pregnant with an ominous breath.

Most of the caves and blessed lands have been built over tens of thousands of years. There are countless altars and spirit formations inside. Combined with the super high mobility of the cave, it is a war weapon that surpasses the Taixu warship.

The Lianxu Zhenjun in Dongling Zhentian obviously realized that Shen Yuan was coming with bad intentions, so he did not show up, but came to question him by driving the cave.

Many Zhenjuns could not help but give in when they saw this. The Zhenjun who controls the war cave is completely different from the ordinary Zhenjun.

Only Shen Yuan stood proudly, his eyes as sharp as a torch, as if he had penetrated the cave, and saw the two Lianxu Zhenjuns who were mobilizing their disciples to preside over the formation in the cave.

Shen Yuan said in a cold voice.

"Whose idea was it to drive ordinary people in Chaofeng County to open up the wilderness, causing heavy casualties among the people?"

"Ordinary people? You came here with such a fierce momentum, just for such a small matter?"

The alert Zhenjun Dongling Zhentian was stunned for a moment, and his expression obviously relaxed.

"A small matter?"

"They are just some mortals. You have cultivated to this point, so you must have seen through life and death long ago, and how could you not understand that the cycle of life and death is the great way of heaven and earth.

If there are your blood relatives among these dead mortals, I, Dongling Zhentian, am willing to make compensation.

But if you want to use these mortals as an excuse to put pressure on me, Dongling Zhentian, I am afraid you have found the wrong person, I, Dongling Zhentian, will not accept this!"

As he spoke, the blood color on the full moon became more and more intense.

"Is this Dong Ling Zhen Tian's answer?"

Shen Yuan's eyes were cold, and he was not prepared to continue arguing with Dong Ling Zhen Tian's people.

He knew very well that it was definitely not just Dongling Zhentian who did this in the entire Xuanhuang Realm. There was only one word to avoid this happening - kill!

Kill until all forces were terrified, and kill until all cultivators dared not act recklessly.

With this thought in mind, Shen Yuan took a step towards the full moon in front of him.

"Boom!"

A sound like a beating heart sounded from Dongling Zhentian. Before the two Lianxu Zhenjuns could understand what was going on, they suddenly saw that the originally stable space in Dongling Zhentian suddenly twisted and swallowed the two Lianxu Zhenjuns into it.

The next moment, the space changed, and the two Lianxu Zhenjuns who presided over the war in Dongtian appeared directly in the world.

"How is it possible!"

A surprised voice sounded above Chaofeng County City, and then everyone saw an extremely dazzling sword.

The sword seemed to carry a realm, and easily crushed the Taoist instruments, Dharma images, and souls of the two Lianxu Zhenjuns with the weight of the world.

Blood splashed like red crystal jade, and two shocked heads fell from the sky to the ground.

In an instant, the two Lianxu Zhenjun surrendered.

"You deserve to die!"

An angry roar sounded from the red full moon, and an unrivaled powerful aura came from the Dongling Zhentian, and then the red war cave was completely unfolded at this moment.

The sky-covering array covered everything within a thousand miles, and the array patterns were embedded as if they were integrated into this world. The huge cave was like a deep and huge mouth that wanted to swallow the world.

Many Zhenjuns looked strange when they saw this. The development of the war cave by Dongling Zhentian was beyond their expectations, which suddenly raised some expectations in their hearts that they had never had before.

"Does this Taoist master of Dongling Zhentian have a chance to control the war cave?"

But just the next moment, Shen Yuan told them the answer.

Outside the world where the war cave was unfolded, in the higher dimensional space level, a huge palm slowly reached down and easily grasped the red full moon in his hand as if picking up a marble.

More than 20 Lianxu Zhenjuns stared wide-eyed and tried to see the mystery clearly. However, without crossing the dimensional boundary, low-dimensional creatures can never understand high-dimensional existence. All they can see is the partial projection of the Dao Dharma.

The Hutian Divine Power that evolved towards the fifth realm was displayed in Shen Yuan's hands, and the huge Dongling Zhentian was forcibly knocked down the dimension.

From three dimensions to two dimensions, Dongling Zhentian turned into a picture scroll, and most of the vitality in it was wiped out. Only the Daojun who was in harmony with the Dao tried to break through the boundary with the help of the Dao True Meaning.

The dimension dropped again, and everything was knocked down into orderly lines. The array disturbance lines engraved in the cave heaven like laws were entangled in Shen Yuan's palm.

With five fingers clenched, the one-dimensional line fell to zero dimension and turned into infinitely small points.

Then the palm waved lightly, and the zero-dimensional point quietly dissipated, and the cave heaven was completely wiped out!