By August, the situation in the Central Plains countries was becoming more and more corrupt.
Drought and locust plagues come alternately.
Especially the locust plague!
The locusts were overwhelming, and wherever they passed, not a single blade of grass grew!
Thousands of hectares of fertile fields were reduced to nothing, and thousands of miles of fertile fields were reduced to wasteland.
And this is just the beginning!
"Since ancient times, after the locust plague, there must be a demonic tide coming!" Standing on the city wall of Jinyang, the already old Zhao Shuai looked worriedly at the dense swarm of locusts passing through Jinyang outside the city's protective formation.
The Earth Immortal's hands were trembling.
Locusts are not terrible individually.
The scary thing is the hordes!
Set off a wave of locusts!
The locust plague appeared for the first time since the Xiahou clan. Until now, the raging locust plague has become one of the most feared things for human beings.
And what scares and scares the most is the wave of monster locusts that started in the second year after the locust plague!
Thousands, even tens of thousands, of foundation-building locusts came in dense swarms, overwhelming the sky.
Wherever they pass, no humans or animals will exist, and even the fairy mountains and spiritual veins will be eaten clean by these abominable evil spirits.
Many rivers and lakes were swallowed up by the tide of demonic locusts.
What’s even more terrifying is that if the demonic locust tide is large enough and forms a sufficient number, they will eventually devour each other and merge with each other, becoming a sinister evil that even the Human Emperor will have a headache for when he returns to his original form: fat legacy!
The fat man has four wings and six legs, a single head and a double body, and is as long as a hundred feet!
It is the enemy of orthodoxy, the evil bred from the dark side of human nature.
The greatest magical power of this monster is that wherever it passes, there will be a severe drought!
Their existence will cause the yin and yang and the five elements to be out of order, causing water vapor to be unable to rise, rain not to fall, the sun to be scorching, and the ground to be red for thousands of miles!
And their sinister characteristics make them immune to most Taoist and magical attacks.
Only Master Wang can destroy it!
During the reign of the Human Emperor, the fat relics caused a catastrophe that shook the order of the Xia Hou clan!
In the end, it was the Human Emperor ‘Zhu’ who personally led the army and commanded the king’s division, and finally wiped out all the fat relics who were causing trouble in the Nine Provinces!
During the Yuan Dynasty of the Yin Shang Hui Dynasty, there is also a record of the Holy King Pangeng personally commanding the king's army to conquer the fat relics.
In short, for everyone who has read history books.
Locust plagues mean troubled times.
The troubled world cannot be saved without the coming of the Holy King!
To put it bluntly, without Master Wang, it would be a disaster.
As for the monks and troops in Jinyang City now?
Zhao Shui knew that even those ordinary locusts might not be able to do anything about it!
Even if it can be eliminated and driven away.
But in fact, he is also looking for death.
Because things like locusts have characteristics that are difficult for outsiders to understand.
After they die, they will release some kind of gas that is poisonous to humans.
This gas doesn't just harm the land.
It will also leave a smell that only locusts can smell on the land, and the surrounding locust swarms will be attracted by this smell.
In other words, the consequences of doing that will have no other effect except that the next year's wave of demonic locusts will start from Jinyang!
"Shield!" Zhao Shuai called out the name of his legitimate son who was always beside him: "You immediately go to Liucheng and report the matter of Jinyang to Meng Gong, the general manager of Hua Kingdom!"
"Please Meng Gong to report to the master!"
"Please ask the Master to decide whether to keep or abandon Jinyang!"
After the Duke of Jin collectively buried his late father Chong'er, and after his death, the Dukes of Jin divided the huge Jin State.
As a minister, Zhao Shui was not only allocated the ancestral land of Jinyang, but also was allocated as much as five thousand miles of land.
Zhao Shuai exchanged those lands for two thousand miles around Jinyang.
Zhao Shuai's idea is very simple.
The descendants of the Zhao family must make contributions to Jiejiao!
But there is nothing greater than keeping the soil!
Therefore, Zhao Shuai planned that once the Hua Kingdom's army was formed in the future and vowed to fight for the Northern Expedition, the Zhao family would be the Shang Rong and Su Hu of the Hua Kingdom.
In this way, his descendants will be blessed, and he will be rewarded for his merits afterwards.
Immortality is not guaranteed, but it is expected that he will be granted the title of the God of Mountains and Rivers by the State of China, and that he will rest with his country.
Zhao Dun immediately bowed: "No!"
…
Twenty thousand miles away, Qin State, Yongdu.
Qin Gong Renhao looked at the envoys coming from Jiangcheng, the capital of Jin.
In front of him lay a letter asking for help signed by many officials from the Jin Kingdom.
Ask Qin to borrow grain to help the victims.
"Trillions of locusts appeared outside Jiangcheng..."
"Sure enough, the Taoist tradition is about to perish, and there must be monsters!"
"And the Taoist lineage is dead, and evil is rampant!"
"No matter what..." Ren Hao sighed: "I, Da Qin, are helpless!"
The envoy stood tall and bowed, crying: "Please Qin Gong, please have mercy on me, the people of Jiangdu!"
"In fact, no one can make the decision on this matter!" Ren Hao shook his head, faced the east, and bowed his hands: "Don't the envoys know?"
"I and my country have already prayed to heaven and earth to clearly cut off the cause and effect of Ji Zhou and change to respect the way of the saints of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Different road non-phase plan!"
"Please forgive me, I can't help you!"
The envoy kowtowed heavily: "I also ask Duke Qin, for the sake of our two countries' long-standing alliance, and for the sake of my late father-in-law's favor, please help us!"
Ren Hao stood up indifferently: "Messenger, please come back!"
"There is really nothing I can do!"
Then he walked behind the curtain, where Ren Hao Shi Ziying followed him.
"Father..." Yingying asked with some confusion: "Why are you so heartless?"
"There is no need to be affectionate to the housekeeper's dog, the dry bones in the grave!" Ren Hao said indifferently.
"But..." Yingying still didn't understand: "Our country is not short of food for the time being. It doesn't matter if we borrow some!"
"Besides, we can also use this to show our great Qin style to other countries in Hexi..."
"The countries in Hexi?" Ren laughed: "The Kingdom of Jin is dead, and all the ministers are divided into Jin! If the countries in Hexi are wise, switch sides and surrender, and serve Qin as their master, and respect the saint who is in charge, maybe there is still a chance of survival!"
"otherwise……"
"Next year, all the ministers, gods, and monks will die without a burial place!"
"The locust tide has risen in the Central Plains, and next year there will be monster locusts everywhere!"
"The blessed lands and spiritual veins of all countries will be eaten up by the demonic locusts!"
"And the monks and gods will become the targets of the demonic locusts!"
"So..." Ren Hao turned around and looked at Ying Ying: "My son, now you understand what the Jin officials are here to do, right?"
"They are not here to borrow food!"
"I'm here for spiritual food!"
"Although I have a lot of spiritual food in Da Qin, under the current situation, not a single grain is superfluous!"
Yingying listened and seemed to understand.
Spiritual food!
Under the locust plague, both gods and monks are probably in urgent need of this spiritual energy-rich grain to improve their cultivation.
Because, under the expectation that the monster locust tide will arrive next year.
All the incense, copper, and heavenly silver reserves of the various countries must be retained as reserves for the city defense formation.
Otherwise, once the city defense formation cannot support it.
Everyone in the city will die!
"I, Da Qin, have not discovered the locust swarm yet..." Ren Hao looked at his son: "But I still hope that you can leave for Liucheng as soon as possible!"
"The master in charge of the pilgrimage burned my Qin country's land register and household registration in front of the holy tree, and prayed for the holy tree's permission. I, Da Qin, will also be the remnants of the enlightenment of the Great Way!"
"Secondly, I also have a glimpse of the Taoism under the moralization of the saints, and prepare for the future order of our Great Qin!"
"The third thing is to work with Dao'er to make friends with talented people in China and make plans for the future!"
"Fourth, meet the old King of Chu, and also meet the grandson of the King of Chu!"
"No!" Yingying quickly understood what her father meant.
To make a pilgrimage to the sage in charge of teaching and present the land register and household registration of the Qin State, this is the final step to complete the integration of the Qin State and the Jiejiao Avenue.
Traveling around China, learning its order and system, and making friends with talented people are all preparations for the future.
When meeting the King of Chu, the King of Chu and his grandson asked the enemy to be lenient!
The State of Chu must be the great enemy of the State of Qin!
This was the consensus of the Qin State after it severed ties with the Chan Taoist lineage of cause and effect.
After the Catastrophe of the Gods, the biggest enemy faced by the Qi State founded by Jiang Taigong was not the remnants of the Yin Shang Dynasty, nor the Qi State Shui Tribe under the rule of the East China Sea Dragon Clan.
Rather, it was Bo Qin, the son of Duke Zhou who was granted the title of Lu!
Similarly, if in the future, the Taoist tradition of the master will be used to rule the world.
The biggest enemy faced by the Qin State in the west will definitely not be the former enemy Jin State, nor the Wu Clan and Monster Clan to the west.
Rather, the Chu State and the monks of the Chu State may compete with the Qin State for favor!
The Qin State will face fierce competition from the Chu State in terms of Taoist merits and priesthood.
We have to guard against it, and we have to prepare in advance.
Yingying naturally understood this tacitly. He bowed his head and then asked: "Father, will there also be a locust plague in our Qin Dynasty?"
"It's hard to say!" Ren Hao looked towards the direction of the ancestral temple.
The Qi of the ancestral temple soared upwards and interacted with Yu Yutian.
However, there is still alienation.
This means that although Lingbao Tianzun, who is under Yu Yutian's command, recognizes the 'branch' relationship of the Qin State.
However, Qin was not fully accepted.
The Jiejiao Dao and the Jiejiao Enlightenment did not bathe the Qin State.
Something is definitely missing!
This made Ren Hao worried.
In particular, he was worried that the old fox, the old king of Chu, would be close to the water and tower, and he would be the first to complete the missing procedures and formalities in Qin on the side of the sage.
Stealing the title of being the first to ‘get closer to the orthodoxy’.
That would be big trouble!
Therefore, Ren Haocai still took the risk of sending his crown prince to China when Yingdao was already in China.
Qin needs to figure out what procedures are missing? What should Qin do to make Lingbao Tianzun truly recognize it.
With the protection of saints, the great road approves.
Only Qin has a chance and a future!
Otherwise, if Chu State takes away the opportunity that belongs to Qin State, Ren Hao believes that none of his ancestors will forgive him!
"You should leave immediately!" Ren Hao warned: "Before leaving, go to the ancestral temple to worship your ancestors..."
"May the ancestors bless you in heaven!"
"No!" Yingying bowed before bowing.
Since the Qin Dynasty cut off and explained the cause and effect of the Taoism, the statues of the ancestral God of Ice and Disintegration enshrined in ancestral temples have gradually become effective.
Although it is not yet possible to manifest the saint in the human world.
However, when descendants worship, they have the opportunity to let their ancestors fall into dreams.
…
Ancestral Temple of Chu State.
The old merchants of the King of Chu knelt before the robes of the ascended kings.
The clothes are fluttering and the incense is burning.
Vaguely, it seems that one after another the true form of the Nine Phoenixes is manifested in it.
Nine heads with human faces, bird body and feather crown.
In addition to the aura of the demon saint, there is also a vast divine majesty filling it.
This is the bloodline of the Holy Emperor's descendant, which resonates with the true form of Jiufeng.
The ancestor of Chu, the descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, the son of the Holy Emperor Zhuanxu!
As a descendant of the Holy Emperor, the higher the cultivation level, the stronger the bloodline of the Holy Emperor.
"My lords..." Shang Chen was moved as he looked at the scene in front of him.
It's a pity that the late king's clothes were just fierce and fierce, and no one responded.
But the merchant was still very excited.
Because this means that the ancestors who have ascended to Tai Sutian are actively trying their best to communicate and contact him.
This shows that what he did was recognized by the previous kings.
Not only that, I’m afraid even the Saint Empress also praised her a lot!
Otherwise, it would be impossible for the former kings to be willing to risk the risk of entangled cause and effect to contact him in this world where cause and effect is so dense.
After a long time, the will and shadows filled with the clothes of the former kings gradually dissipated.
Obviously, this attempt failed.
but……
Shang Chen knew that this was just the beginning.
The former kings would definitely keep trying until they conveyed Tai Sutian's decree to him.
Since Taisu has a purpose from heaven, it is not the wrath of heaven.
That means that Empress Tai Sutian has reached an agreement with the saint of the Human Religion.
The State of Chu can serve both the human religion and the demon religion at the same time.
He has the support of two saints behind him!
The old face of Shang Chen became rosy.
He even began to wonder in his mind, should he go to Taisutian to listen to the sermon in the future? Or should he go to Tusitatian to listen to the sermon?
Or, you can go to either Taisutian or Tushitatian!
The Golden Immortal may not be attained.
But the Immortal Dao Fruit is a sure thing!
Just thinking of this made Shang Chen Tao feel excited beyond words.
"Even if it is difficult to realize the great path in this life... With the protection of two saints, it is not impossible for me to be reincarnated and cultivate again, and to return to the sect!"
The Taoist Fruit of Immortality has never been so within reach as now!
"It seems that I should go to Liucheng again to pay a pilgrimage to the saint!"
Thinking like this, the merchant decided to prepare for the Hajj immediately.
During the last pilgrimage, the saint went into seclusion and was unable to see his face or listen to his teachings.
But no one in the Chu Kingdom was discouraged.
On the contrary, it feels natural!
How can a pilgrim perform a pilgrimage to a saint just once?
You have to work hard again and again, only then can you have the opportunity to be called by a saint and bathed in holiness.
…
It's six o'clock in the morning.
Master Tongtian once again swallowed all the dozens of boxes of takeout he ordered.
Feeling the warmth flowing through his limbs, he nodded, walked to the balcony, and looked at the red sun rising in the east.
As the morning sun rises, the leader of Tongtian Cult slowly circulates his magic power, wanders around the acupoints, and combs through the meridians.
Then slowly began to try bit by bit, swallowing the rising morning glow from the skin into the body.
The saint cultivated himself, and he was far from being comparable to Xu Ji!
The sunlight on the balcony was slowly and gradually swallowed up by him.
As a result, a strange scene appeared on the eighth floor of the Xinlu Mansion.
The balcony that should have been bright immediately dimmed.
It was as if a small black hole had appeared on this balcony.
This immediately attracted the attention of the 'careful people' around.
High-resolution cameras continuously take clear photos at different angles and directions.
In these photos, a black shadow like a black hole is exposed.
But this 'black shadow' is not just black.
Instead, it is filled with the color of the sun.
When these photos were circulated to all parties, almost everyone exclaimed.
“Is this ‘immortal’?”
"Incredible! Incredible!"
As a result, searches for Eastern "immortals" on the dark web increased rapidly.
