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Chapter 154 Iron Pillar Nails the River

Wang Shen shook the yellow paper in his hand.

"You!" The woman gritted her teeth angrily.

"It's a big deal, isn't it? The emperor has married another concubine. It is said that she is a saint from the Evergreen Sect."

"What does the emperor's business have to do with me? Talk to other sects."

Wang Shen didn't leave Wuyang because he wanted to get some outside news from this woman's mouth, maybe he could hear something useful to him.

"Recently, a mysterious organization appeared outside, and the three sects of Tianhe Sect, Dichen Valley, and Jinguang Sect were wiped out one after another."

Wang Shen unconsciously sat up straight after hearing this. This was exactly the news he wanted.

"These sects are all small sects, why have I never heard of them?"

"Then have you heard of those sects?" the woman asked.

"Wuwei Temple, Jinding Temple, Jixia Academy, Shushan, oh yes, and the Qinghe Gang in Wuyang County!"

After hearing these words, the woman looked at Wang Shen like an idiot.

"The sect I just mentioned is a famous sect that has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years. Although it is not as good as the holy places of practice you mentioned, it is still famous in the world. What is the Qinghe Gang you are talking about?"

"Such a famous family was wiped out. Wouldn't that mysterious organization be even more powerful? Where did they come from?"

The woman shook her head.

However, Wang Shen learned from her that these sects seemed to have several common characteristics. They had sufficient historical heritage, and the person with the highest cultivation level among the sects was only in the third-grade Shenxuan realm, not in the Cave Observation realm. Great monk.

Is this about picking soft persimmons or picking big soft persimmons?

It is obvious that sects with inheritance have more heritage and usually accumulate more wealth.

"When this happens, no one cares?" Wang Shen asked.

"Who cares?" the woman asked.

"Court?"

"The imperial court hopes that all these sects will die, especially those a few squares away. If they are wiped out, some people in the imperial court will probably be the happiest."

"Where are those leaders of the righteous path?"

"They may not care about it. After all, those sects have nothing to do with them."

Wang Shen was silent after hearing this. He knew that the head of Tianhe Sect went to Wuwei Temple for help.

"Okay, you can leave. Don't come back within a year. If you come, I won't necessarily be here."

"You want to run?"

"With your level of cultivation, can I still run?"

After hearing this, the woman took a deep breath, her chest bulging.

"I hope you keep your word!"

Perhaps seeing Wang Shen's cultivation, this woman did not stay too long. It came suddenly and left quickly.

No one disturbed him, and Wang Shen continued to practice. Before he knew it, summer had arrived.

This summer was very strange. After the beginning of summer, there was not a drop of rain for more than a month. The weather was hot, and the water level in Qinghe River dropped a lot.

Wang Shen looked at the sun that was like a big fireball in the sky.

"Is there going to be a severe drought this year?"

Another month passed and it still didn't rain at all. The crops in the fields and the grass and trees in the mountains were scorched by the sun, and cracks appeared on the ground.

The flow of water in the Qinghe River is less than half of what it used to be, and the river bed has been exposed in some places. One by one, withered bones were revealed.

This is the first time Wang Shen has encountered such extreme weather in several years.

As soon as it dawned, the sun came out quickly, and there wasn't even a single cloud in the sky.

Wuyang and Lanhe are not the only places affected by severe drought. Most of Jingzhou has not had any rain for more than two months since the beginning of summer.

In addition to practicing every day, Wang Shen also looks at the sky and walks along the Qinghe River.

"Another one?"

You don't know this by looking at it, but you are shocked when you see it. It turns out that there are so many corpses in the Qinghe River, and you don't know when they died.

"If this continues, the Qinghe River may stop flowing. Will the Hebo Water Palace be exposed at that time?" Wang Shen thought of the Hebo Water Palace hidden deep under the Qinghe River.

He walked along the Qinghe River and saw Wuyang County in the distance.

"Let's go to the city to have a look and buy some things."

When he entered Wuyang County, he saw a group of people watching something at the city gate.

Wang Shen stood outside the crowd and looked inside, only to see a notice posted on the wall. It turns out that in order to solve the drought, Wuyang County posted a notice offering rewards to strangers to pray for rain to alleviate the drought.

Asking for rain?

Wang Shen looked up at the sky where the sun was shining brightly.

"If you can ask for rain on a day like this, you're really not an ordinary person." He just took a look and bought some things before leaving.

On the way back, he heard someone talking.

"When will it rain today? It has never been so dry in the past many years!"

"Who says it isn't?"

"It's not that we've never had such a drought before. When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that there was no rain in our area more than a hundred years ago."

"More than a hundred years ago, your grandfather was teasing you, right?"

He does not mean that. Their words were heard by Wang Shen.

"More than a hundred years ago?" He thought of He Bo's murder more than a hundred years ago.

Hundreds of miles away in Jiangcheng, in the palace of King Chu.

A middle-aged man in his early thirties wearing this brocade robe with a majestic face was talking to an old man in his sixties.

"Jingzhou has not experienced a severe drought like this for many years. Has Mr. ever found out anything?"

"It should be an abnormality in the sky, not man-made." The old man said.

"But recently there are some rumors in various places in Jingzhou, saying that I have bad moral character and have done some things that are outrageous and have attracted divine punishment, which has led to a severe drought in Jingzhou!"

"This is nonsense." The old man said after hearing this.

"Sir, he is proficient in divination and astronomical phenomena. Can you tell how long this drought will last?"

"It will rain in as many as a month." The old man said after pondering for a moment.

"Okay." A smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face.

"Sir, please come here this time. There is one more thing. My third brother recently took in a new concubine."

"This woman's identity is not ordinary, otherwise the prince would not need to pay so much attention to her."

"A disciple of Liuli Pagoda in the Western Region."

"Liu Li Pagoda?" The old man frowned slightly after hearing this.

"The prince already knows about this, and it's impossible for Prince Ning not to know about it. Could it be that the Western Region has been spying on Liangzhou for a long time? Prince Ning is seeking skin from a tiger!" "My third brother has been bold and bold since he was a child." King Chu said with a smile. .

"Well, I'm afraid this matter can't be hidden from His Majesty. Does Your Majesty know that Huaiwu of Wuliangguan has come down from the mountain?"

"Huai Wu, the one who claims to be the most talented person in the world of Wuwei in the past century?"

"Exactly!" The old man nodded.

"But did something big happen?"

"Recently, there has been an organization in the world. They destroyed Tianhe Sect a year ago, they destroyed Dichen Valley after the New Year, and they recently destroyed Jinguang Sect. Among them, only Liu Beiqing, the leader of Tianhe Sect, is still alive. He Went to Wuwei Kuan.

None of the remaining two sects survived. "

"I have also heard of these three sects that the gentleman mentioned. They are different from those third-rate sects and have been passed down for many years. I remember that the Golden Light Sect is in Jingzhou."

"Your Majesty has a good memory. I have seen the head of the Golden Light Sect with a cultivation level of the third-grade Shenxuan Realm.

Among these three sects, Tianhe Sect has been inherited for thousands of years, and Jinguang Sect has been inherited for a shorter time, but it also has a history of more than 700 years. However, these three sects have not had any outstanding successors in the past few decades, so they are considered in decline.

However, even if it has declined, it still has some foundation. It was able to destroy these three sects in such a short period of time. The strength of this mysterious organization is extraordinary. The key is that their purpose of doing so is unknown. "

"Since they appeared in Jingzhou, we have to investigate carefully. Mr. Lao will be involved in this matter." King Chu said.

The days are passing by like this. According to time, summer should be over, but there is no sign of cooler weather.

The Qinghe River is already showing signs of drying up.

On this day, Wang Shen, who was walking along the edge of the Qinghe River, suddenly stopped and stared at the bed of the Qinghe River.

There seemed to be something reflecting light in the riverbed.

He reached the river bed in one step and saw an iron pillar as thick as the mouth of a bowl underneath the two white bones, with a small section protruding from the sand.

"Iron pillar, is there something holding under this iron pillar?" Wang Shen stared at the iron pillar nailed into the river bed.

Suddenly he felt that he should pull out the iron pillar, so he leaned over and hugged the iron pillar with both hands. He exerted a little force and found that the iron pillar did not move at all.

"The nails are quite strong!"

Wang Shen exerted all his strength and pushed the iron pillar outward. The iron pillar swayed slightly but still did not move.

He glanced at the mud at his feet and waved his hand. Then the mud continued to surge, and soon a large piece of bluestone was revealed underneath. This iron pillar was inserted into the bluestone.

"Insert it into the bluestone. It's not far from Hebo Water Mansion over there." Wang Shen looked at Longlin Mountain in the distance.

He grasped the iron pillar with both hands and shook it violently, using the Shanhe Po technique.

There was a roar, and the iron pillar came loose. Then Wang Shen pulled out the iron pillar with force, and with a crash, it was more than three feet long. Then Wang Shen continued to use force, and directly pulled the iron pillar out of the bluestone at the bottom of the river. come out.

Only then could I see clearly what the entire iron pillar looked like.

This iron pillar is more than two feet long, with one end pointed and the other flat. There are also talismans carved on this iron pillar, which looks like an oversized iron nail.

Boom, Wang Shen felt the river bed beneath his feet shaking, and then heard the gurgling sound of water. Water gurgled out of the hole left after pulling out the iron nails. The water was very turbid.

"Who dug such an iron pillar into the ground of Qinghe?"

To nail such a large iron pillar into the bluestone at the bottom of the river here is not something ordinary people can do.

Wang Shen paid for himself. Even with his current level of cultivation, it would take a lot of effort to drive such an iron pillar into the bluestone under the Qinghe River under normal circumstances.

The key is what is the purpose of doing this?

Wang Shenyou then walked up and down the Qinghe River for a distance, and found another iron pillar about a mile away from the iron pillar. He pulled out the iron pillar again.

He took out a total of six iron pillars from the Qinghe River. Each iron pillar was more than a mile apart and was nailed into the bluestone at the bottom of the Qinghe River.

Whenever he pulled out a pillar, the river bed would shake, and then turbid water would gush out from the hole left by the iron pillar.

Standing by the river and looking at the six pillars, Wang Shen felt something unusual. This unusualness came from the Qi between heaven and earth.

This is a feeling that cannot be accurately described. In the past few months, the Qi between heaven and earth was in a relatively stagnant and trapped state, not active.

But now Wang Shen felt that the Qi around him seemed to be more active.

"Why is this? Is it because I pulled out these six iron pillars? Or is it some other reason?"

That night, the wind started blowing outside.

In the early morning of the next day, it began to rain. At first it was a light drizzle, which was considered the first rain since autumn.

Autumn rain is usually like this, not heavy, but at noon, the dark clouds in the sky rolled fiercely, dark and thick, and pressed on the top of the mountain.

The rain started to get heavier, the raindrops were as big as soybean particles, and it fell hard and fast.

"It's raining, it's raining!"

In villages, towns, counties, and prefectures, people cheered for the rain they were looking forward to finally fell.

The dry ground was moisturized, the streams in the mountains began to flow, and the water level of the Qinghe River slowly rose.

It's just that the rain hasn't stopped since it started raining. It's been raining for four days in a row, and there's still no sign of stopping.

"Is this a severe drought followed by a severe flood?" Wang Shen stared at the sky.

This rain actually lasted for ten days. Not to mention it was autumn, even in summer, this was an extremely rare heavy rain.

This heavy rain not only caused the water level of Qinghe River to rise to normal levels, but also allowed it to further widen the river channel.

During the heavy rain, two more people came to Wuyang County, and they stopped at a guesthouse.

"Brother, what are we doing here?"

"The celestial phenomena in Jingzhou this year are too strange!" The older brother looked at the gloomy sky outside.

He just asked the waiter at the inn outside. It has been raining for ten days.

This is autumn. How can it rain for such a long time in autumn?

First there was a severe drought in the summer, with no rain for more than four months, and then there was heavy rain, as if all the rain accumulated in the summer came down at once.

"Junior brother, we need to find out the reason?"

The junior brother on the side responded.

"Have a good rest, we will set off tomorrow."

The next day, the heavy rain still did not stop, and the two brothers went out wearing raincoats.

Many places throughout Wuyang County are already full of water, and some houses have been destroyed by heavy rains.

"Brother, where are we going?"

"Go to Qinghe."

The two brothers left Wuyang County and came to the edge of the Qinghe River. At this time, the Qinghe River was rolling with turbid waves and turbulent.

"Brother, this river has changed!"

Standing by the river, the junior brother said this:

"Of course, it didn't rain so heavily when we came here last time," the senior brother said.

No matter what kind of river it is, if it rains heavily for ten days in a row, it will look different.

(End of this chapter)