Chapter 229 The Disappearing Mortal
Since Qingyun Sect contracted its defense line and Xuanwu City, which was located at the forefront, was broken, nearly half of Qingyun Sect's territory fell into the hands of the demon cultivators.
The geographical location of the Daqian Dynasty is behind the high mountains and snowfields at the junction of the two sects, so when Lin Chen returned to Qingyun Sect, he would inevitably pass through the area controlled by the Xuanyin Sect's demon cultivators.
That is, the so-called enemy-occupied area.
Of course, even if he entered the enemy-occupied area, Lin Chen was not very panicked.
After all, with his current strength and means, even if the high-level demon cultivators and several Jindan Zhenren came together, he could use the Instant Thousand Miles Talisman to get away safely without any danger to his life.
Not to mention that the enemy-occupied area is vast, most of the places are lush forests, and there are many cities. With the current manpower of the demon cultivators, it is impossible to patrol and monitor the entire area.
He sneaked in it, and as long as he did not expose himself, it would be almost like looking for a needle in a haystack for the demon cultivators to find his location.
In general, Lin Chen's safety is guaranteed.
With his safety guaranteed, Lin Chen naturally wanted to obtain more information in order to gain an advantage in the next action.
So, he chose to come to a fairy city under the Qingyun Sect, which was closest to him, but to his surprise...
"Have all the mortals in the city been relocated?"
In the forest outside a huge city, Lin Chen leaned against a tree with his hand, exploring the situation in it through means, and his eyes moved.
If he remembered correctly, this should be a large city under the Qingyun Sect with a population of one million, but he used means to explore the situation in it and found that there was no breath of living people in the entire city!
It was barely acceptable that there were no cultivators, but it was beyond Lin Chen's expectation that there was no mortal.
"What's the situation?" Lin Chen hesitated, and then jumped directly into the city, "Well, let's go in and take a look."
Anyway, he was just a flesh and blood clone on the surface, and his main body was still underground, so it didn't matter if it was broken.
Of course, this was just a flesh and blood clone in the Qi Refining Stage.
After all, even if Lin Chen mastered the flesh and blood cloning technology, the resources consumed by the clones of the same realm were not few, so there was no need to waste time on exploration.
As for the clones of the Jindan stage, Lin Chen still had no idea.
After all, the Jindan cultivators were no longer flesh and blood, but spiritual bodies. The essence of the two had changed, and he didn't know how to create them for a while.
Lin Chen directly used the Qingfeng technique, and the breeze surrounded his feet. He stepped a few meters with one foot, and soon entered the city.
But as soon as he entered the city, Lin Chen looked at the scene in front of him and frowned deeply.
If the city in front of him could be described in two words, it would be-ruins.
Collapsed houses, wild grass, broken walls, and dense and messy footprints on the ground...
"Here... should have experienced a war." Lin Chen walked into the city, constantly observing the scene, and came to this conclusion.
Because he not only found traces left by the monks after the battle, but also found dark red bloodstains that had dried up for a long time.
A scene of ruins, with residual bloodstains everywhere, and a deserted city without any animals.
Lin Chen stood on the ruins, looking at the bloody sunset in the sky, and his expression began to slowly become solemn.
"I can judge that there has been a war here, but the question is... where are the people?" After coming to this conclusion, Lin Chen couldn't help but have this confusion in his mind.
It is indeed normal for people to die after a war.
If a village or a town, after experiencing a war, all died and was deserted, Lin Chen could understand it.
But he is now in a big city with a population of nearly one million in the past.
Judging from the traces at the scene, there should be no Jindan monks participating in the war, but the battle of the strongest monks in the foundation-building period alone can kill nearly one million people?
Although it is not impossible to massacre afterwards, why do they do this?
Although most demon cultivators use mortals as materials for cultivation, there is a limit to this. If they kill all the mortals, who will provide them with fresh blood in the future?
And even if they kill them all, the question is, what about the bodies?
The death, resentment, and yin energy generated by the death of nearly a million people, plus the underground spiritual veins, are enough to give birth to ghost generals comparable to the late stage of foundation building.
But just before entering the city, he wandered around outside the city and did not sense such a breath.
"These mortals... are all gone? No, they should be taken to somewhere... huh?"
Lin Chen thought while running to the other side of the city, but then he seemed to sense something and his eyes moved.
The next moment, he took a step and disappeared directly in the shadows between the ruins.
After a long time, in the west, against the background of the bloody sunset, black dots floated in the distant sky at some point.
No! To be precise, they were not black dots, but pale human heads!
They floated in the air like balloons released by someone!
"Is this... a human head balloon?!" Lin Chen's expression froze.
Lin Chen had nothing to be afraid of, just a few dead heads, but the problem was, weren't there too many of them?
Although it appears very sparse in the air, its coverage is extremely wide.
At least as far as he could see, half of the sky was covered with human-head balloons. At a rough count, there were at least nearly a thousand of them!
"This dead head floated over from the east. If I remember correctly, the east should be the next city closer to Qingyun Sect..." Lin Chen looked at the strange scene in the sky thoughtfully.
Judging from this direction, it is the traffic artery leading to the Qingyun Sect, so these dead heads should be something similar to monitors, monitoring the traffic artery in the area occupied by the Xuanyin Sect Demonic Cultivator!
"Could it be that all these disappeared mortals were used to create dead heads to monitor this area?"
With Lin Chen's methods, he could naturally tell the principles behind the creation of these dead heads.
It is nothing more than confining the soul of a mortal in the skull, loading the corresponding spiritual stone, and connecting it with a curse, so that this vast area can be monitored.
But this is only a temporary method, because the human head will rot and the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone will be exhausted. Just like in front of you, human heads are constantly falling from the sky and smashed into a pool of minced flesh.
But the advantage is that it is simple and cheap to make, so the magic cultivator directly uses it as a common surveillance method.
"Fortunately, it's just a dead head that has been refined by a demon cultivator. Otherwise, if there were weird magical weapons like [Flying Head Drop] and [Soul-Destroying Head] that were specially refined by demon cultivators, there would be thousands of them added up. I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble to me." Even Lin Chen couldn't help but look a little cautious.
Although it is not the kind of weird human-headed magic weapon, these ordinary refined dead heads can also cause great trouble to the actions of ordinary monks.
After all, not everyone can master methods such as earth escape and invisibility, and even if they do, they won't be able to travel for a long time, and they will easily be exposed to the surveillance of people.
Therefore, these human head balloons are used to monitor the whereabouts of ordinary monks or armies of monks on a large scale.
"But it should be noted that the head cannot be damaged, otherwise it will be easy for the demon cultivator to detect something wrong."
Lin Chen's eyes moved, and he took a step forward. The light and shadow around him changed, and he disappeared directly in the air.
Soon, he rushed towards the direction where the dead head floated, that is, towards the Qingyun Sect.
But what Lin Chen didn't expect was that when he came to the next city, there was still no one, and there was still only a ruined city left.
Even in the next city, there was still no one.
Even in the five cities we passed through for seven days and seven nights, there was not a single person there, as if everyone had completely disappeared!
"What exactly is going on?! Are those demonic cultivators really so crazy?!"
Outside a city, Lin Chen looked at the man-made traces left on the ground for a few days, and his face became a little ugly.
Based on the phenomena in these cities, he could already tell that these cities, with a population of close to tens of millions, were all forcibly moved to the direction of Qingyun Sect by demon cultivators after experiencing the battle to defend the cities.
Bringing mortals to the battlefield was done by demonic cultivators. Lin Chen could tell what they wanted to do if he thought about it!
But what puzzled Lin Chen was that monks were not allowed to kill mortals. This was an unspoken rule in the world of immortality.
This has nothing to do with Dao or Dao Xin, but only enough mortals can continuously replenish a force.
But they dare to do this, are they crazy?
"Is it because he is not a mortal under his command, so he doesn't care about consumption?" Lin Chen seemed to have thought of something and frowned deeply.
"But if this is the case, can the Qingyun Sect really be able to stop the tens of millions of corpses?"
Bang!
Just when Lin Chen was thinking about the situation of the battle, there was a sudden explosion in the distant jungle, and then the birds in the forest were startled!
"Huh? Is there anyone over there?"
Lin Chen's eyes moved and he rushed over at the same time.