Longevity begins with loose cultivation

A huge team is advancing on the gray wilderness.

There are quite a number of teams, tens of thousands in number, scattered on nearly a thousand beast carts, large and small.The wild pack ox that pulls the cart has a lot of strength, and it can pull a ten-foot-long carriage with just two ends. Even if it is full of people and goods, it still looks effortless.

On the periphery of the team, there are riders riding wildebeest.

The riders are all young monks, both men and women are wearing uniforms, they are responsible for roaming around the periphery, or relying on magic tools or spirit beasts, in order to help the team to detect threats in advance.

On the animal cart at the front of the team, an old man wearing luxurious clothes and a jade crown stood leaning on the railing. He looked at the thick and persistent fog in front of him, his brows were tightly knit together, and his face was full of worry.

He is the head of the Wu family in Wunan Prefecture, named Wu Renxun.

The Wu family in Wunan was originally a foundation-building family.

But no one expected that the foundation established by generations of people for thousands of years would fall apart due to a disaster.After Zhu Ji died in successive battles in the clan, the Wu family Zhu Ji withered to him alone.

The current purpose of the Wu family convoy is to go to Qingbufang, Wunan Prefecture.This square is the camp of survivors in Wunan. Now that the soul-loss disease is raging in the north of the mountain, it is the nearest shelter to the Wu family. It is said that there is also Jindan Zhenren sitting in the town, which can provide the necessary security.

At this moment, a young man in Chinese clothes came up from behind and bowed his hands.

"Report to the patriarch, the exact location of the convoy has been calculated with the star finder, and it is still thousands of miles away from Qingbufang. At the current speed, it may take two days to arrive. Patriarch, look, tonight is to find a Ditch the traffic at a safe place, or continue on the road to Fangshi overnight?"

"Rushing overnight?" Wu Renxun shook his head.

Under the ravages of soul-destroyer disease, disasters were severe everywhere in the north of the mountain, countless cities and fairy houses were destroyed, and wandering soul-destroyers roamed the wilderness. It's just a lot of effort.

But if one is unlucky and encounters a lost soul who is transformed by a high-level monk, with their terrifying strength, the entire Wu family may be ruined.

Moreover, whenever night falls.

Those fierce ghost cultivators will also enter an active period.Those who love the dark and hate the light will end their dormancy during the day and come out to look for blood for the cultivation of exercises.

"Walk another half an hour, if there is no suitable place to camp, we will get out of the car formation in place."

"Yes!" The youth in Chinese clothes nodded.

The team continued to move forward and encountered an abandoned mortal dock. After cleaning up and killing the lost souls inside, the Wu family decided to camp here tonight.

Although Mortal Fort is only built of earth and stone, it is better protected by thin walls and shallow ditches.

In comparison, the wilderness is unobstructed.

Once you encounter a lost soul, there is not even the slightest buffer.

As the head of the Wu family, Wu Renxun naturally knew how to choose.

At sunset and dusk, the night slowly invades the earth.

Just like usual, after the silence and extinction ban covering Wubao was set up, the Wu family members who had been silent all the way got out of the car one after another, or started to light a fire to cook meals, or gathered in twos and threes. Let's talk together to relieve the depression in our hearts.

"Woo!" came the whistle.

Above the gate tower of Wubao, Wu Renxun, who was sitting quietly with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the sound, and immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, and found that the monk who blew the warning whistle was pointing at the stone road in front of Wubao. There was a figure in black walking slowly.

Wu Renxun's heart trembled.

As a foundation cultivator, he is naturally aware of the danger at night.

Now that the lost souls are raging and ghost cultivators are becoming more and more rampant, he still has a little self-protection ability during the day, but at night his identity becomes a prey.

But now.

He actually saw someone walking alone in the dark!
Such an unreasonable scene made Wu Renxun unbearably suspicious.

Is this a living person, or a ghost cultivator?
But no matter what the existence is, I'm afraid the Wu family can't mess with it.

"Hey, he didn't do anything!" Wu Renxun felt a little relieved, thinking that he might be a living person.

According to past observations, no matter whether it is a high-level lost soul or those ghost cultivators who hide by day and come out at night, when they see living people like them, they will shoot directly without saying a word.Unlike now, they will wait quietly under the gate, waiting to get in touch with the people inside.

Wu Renxun's eyes lit up, and something came to mind.

Immediately afterwards, he turned his head to look behind him, glanced across the monks of the Wu family, met each other's gazes, and then said in a deep voice, "Guiyun, go down and see if any seniors have arrived."

"Yes, Patriarch!" The one who was called was a sickly middle-aged man with a third level of Qi Refining.

This was supposed to be the heyday of the monk's life, but now he looks like a tuberculosis ghost, his face is pale, his lips are abnormally purple, his body is hunched over, and he coughs from time to time.Gein was hit by a ghost cultivating spell not long ago, and most of his life energy was taken away.

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Guiyun jumped off the wall of the village.

It's not that he is not afraid of death, but that he knows he has no choice.

As a member of the branch of the Wu family, his status is not as good as that of the main line. With his life at the end of the day, if he wants his wife and children to live, he can only obey the orders honestly.

Walking to the edge of the restriction, when there were only ten feet left, Wu Guiyun subconsciously stopped, and after a moment of hesitation in his heart, he turned his head and glanced at the gate tower.

Thinking of his family, he gritted his teeth and moved on.

Wu Guiyun approached the edge of the restriction, his eyes passed through the heavy pale fog, and he finally saw the figure of the person who came, and found a young man in a black robe.Although this person has no expression on his face, his appearance can be called "the appearance of a phoenix and the appearance of a dragon". Compared with the heirs of the great family he saw in the old days, it can be said that it is not inferior.

The heart that mentioned the throat was finally able to let go at this time.

Wu Guiyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the opposite was obviously a living person, and he was suspected to be from a great family.The background in Middle Earth is almost equal to strength, the more noble the monk, the stronger the strength.

It is not surprising that such a noble person has the ability to travel through the night.

"Wu Nan Wu Guiyun, who is the senior?"

"Wu Nan Wu's House? I haven't heard of it. My surname is Chen Dan and my name is Dong. Can I stay there for one night? By the way, I also want to ask you something." Lu Zhong looked at the sick monk in front of him. , deliberately leaking an aura equivalent to the cultivation of the foundation, and replied in a low voice.

"It turned out to be Senior Chen, and the Wu family is just a Han family, so it's only natural that I haven't heard of it!" Wu Guiyun sensed that aura, and his attitude became more respectful, and he said: "As for your request, Senior, this junior I can’t be the master, but I still hope to forgive my sins, please wait here for a while, and let the younger generation report to the patriarch.”

"Go, go and come back quickly." Lu Zhong said calmly.

Looking at the figure who was approaching the amnesty and quickly turned around and ran towards the wall of the village, he remembered that today is a special day.It has been exactly half a year since I came to Middle Earth through the high wall and secret passage.

What I saw and heard on the road can only be described as hell on earth.

The bones were piled up into mountains, and thousands of people were silent and uninhabited.

In the vast land, only those lost souls and fly-like ghost cultivators are left.People can't help but wonder what happened here.

These two are not a threat to Lu Zhong. He tried to get the information he wanted to know through their mouths, but they all failed.

The former has no intelligence at all, and is full of aggressiveness towards living beings, and without a soul, even the soul search technique is useless.The latter also didn't know that the Yin Qi was too heavy, which eroded their own brains, and they were all in a daze, and basically couldn't ask much information.

It is rare to meet a living person nowadays, so there is no reason to miss it.

Soon, a group of people came out from the village.

At this moment, Wu Renxun was walking in the front of the crowd, and his eyes fell on the monk who called himself "Chen Dong". He felt a little relieved when he sensed the other party's cultivation in the early stage of foundation establishment.

"I'm in the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Even if this person is really from a wealthy family, my strength can stabilize him."

But he soon realized that the other party was only in the early stage of foundation establishment, but he dared to travel outside alone, probably because he was carrying a protective spiritual object such as a talisman, and the confidence that had just risen in his heart seemed to be poured with a basin of ice water Generally, it disappears in an instant.

Wu Renxun thought about it again and again, the Wu family has fallen to the current level, and the other party has nothing to do.The only ones of some value are some classics of exercises and the remaining ten thousand spirit stones.If "Chen Dong" wanted it, just give it to him.

On the left and right is a living person, who also looks like an orthodox monk.

It is unlikely to kill casually.

Therefore, by allowing the other party to stay overnight, it is the Wu family who are actually taking advantage of it. With such a foundation-building helper, tonight's safety can be guaranteed a little bit more.

Thinking of this, he said to "Chen Dong" with a smile on his face:
"Wu Renxun in Xiawunan, please invite Chen Daoyou!"

Welcome Lu Zhong to the tidy-up lobby in Wubao. This place was supposed to be Wu Renxun's overnight residence tonight, but now it is just suitable for entertaining distinguished guests.

The guests and hosts are seated, and tea will be served soon.

The two just started talking.

"I don't know where you came from, and where you are going?" Wu Renxun said with a smile.

"The origin, it's not convenient to tell at the moment, sorry! This time I came to the door hastily, just want to find out how to go to Xianlingzong now." Lu Zhong threw out the prepared remarks.

"It doesn't matter, but the fairy sect that fellow Taoists talk about is located in the southern border of Guimiao, and the place we are in now is the land north of the mountain, that is, the western border of Guimiao, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away. Forget it, with the current cultivation of fellow Taoist, I'm afraid..." Wu Renxun twitched his long beard lightly and frowned.

He said here, and then said: "I don't think it's better than this. Friends, it's better to go on the same road with my Wu family and go to Qingbufang together. Even if you are unlucky in the future, if you really encounter a lost soul that cannot be solved, or encounter a Those vicious ghost cultivators can take care of each other."

Lu Zhong remained silent.

He was secretly thinking in his heart that Wu Renxun's words were in line with his wishes.

So without refusing, he agreed.

Afterwards, the two talked at night by candlelight, and Lu Zhong asked all the things he wanted to know one by one, and finally had a basic understanding of the place in the north of the mountain where he was currently.

Also got a map by the way.

……

The night was uneventful.

Early the next morning, the Wu family motorcade continued to set off.

Lu Zhong was placed on a beast cart, and there were two [-]-year-old maids in it, who could be called Peugeot in appearance, and also had the first and second levels of Qi Refining.

Through some conversations, they learned that they were actually a pair of sisters, who were kabukis raised by the Wu family.

In the words, the second daughter is full of hints.

If it weren't for Lu Zhong's identity, he would have taken the initiative to take off his clothes and broadband.

Lu Zhong knew what they were thinking.

It's nothing more than being in a troubled world and looking for a safe to rely on.

Ignoring the two women, Lu Zhong closed his eyes and sat up quietly, his mind began to churn, thinking about the purpose of his trip.

On the one hand, he naturally wanted to understand the severity of the "soul-lost disease" and its impact on the middle-earth cultivating world, especially Gui Miaozong, which related to how he would make decisions in the future;

On the other hand, I am also planning to take it as a tour, to see if I can get some opportunities so that I can go further on the road.

Due to constant encounters with lost souls, the convoy moved slowly, and from time to time had to take a long detour to avoid the danger ahead.

In this way until noon, I chose a place to rest temporarily.

This place was originally a manor, and it can be seen that it was once a rural land with mountains and rivers full of fine fields and fertile fields.

But with the advent of the disaster, the mortals who lived here were all killed and injured, and they had already been completely reduced to death. Only the dry seedlings in the deserted soil were left, and they were still telling people about the past prosperity of this place.

I don't know if it was just a coincidence, but the Wu family found a buried grain depot in the ruins of the manor. The prohibition circle was not damaged, so the rice and grain inside were well preserved.

After some counting, it was found that there were not only more than [-] catties of ordinary rice, but even thousands of catties of spiritual rice, which was a small surprise.

After such an episode, and getting closer to the destination, the atmosphere of the team finally became more active.

After marching for another half day, the team chose a place to spend the night.

It's just that this time, the Wu family was not as lucky as last night.

The convoy came to a hilly area, mostly small hills tens of feet high, and there were still terraced fields opened up by mortals in the past, but there was no safe place to choose from nearby except for the ruins of the village.

Seeing that the sunset was about to come and the dangerous night was approaching, Wu Renxun, the head of the clan, had no choice but to give an order to camp on the spot.

However, as soon as the convoy started camping, Lu Zhong sensed the presence of a large number of living auras in the northwest direction, and the highest aura fluctuations were only in the middle stage of foundation establishment.Because he couldn't sense the threat, he simply ignored it.

Not long after, magic fireworks lit up over there.

After some communication between the two parties, Lu Zhong finally learned that it was a family convoy with Qingbufang as the destination, just like the Wu family, but they did not come from Wunan Mansion, but from Guangyuan next door. The Lin family of the government.

According to the head of the Lin family, the Guangyuan Mansion was completely destroyed after the death of the real person who was sitting in it due to the attack of ghost cultivators not long ago.

They also narrowly escaped death and lost most of their clansmen before they survived.