Chapter 52 The Road Ahead
The days on the mechanical Peng are actually quite boring, and you can’t meditate. When flying, you can easily encounter flying monsters.
It was already the third day of travel. In the slightly empty cabin, the most I heard was Zhao Qianjun's tireless grunt.
"The number of these bandits is unknown. They can't find a den on weekdays. Every raid seems to be out of thin air. It is difficult to find it afterwards. Within a thousand miles of Wangjiang City, all the decent thieves' dens have been seized, but the thieves are still there. Moreover, their purpose seems to be not to seize grain. Most of the time, they set fire and leave directly, and never fight with the army that suppresses grain. Therefore, there is not much record in the information collected by the Wang Ting." In Jiang Cheng's single room, Huo Wei was mindful of a piece of data.
"So, what's the result?" Jiang Cheng looked at Huo Wei.
"It is not reasonable to find it. Unless these thieves are all Golden Pill monks, how could they have no whereabouts? So these thieves have their own people as cover. Those gangs of the martial arts are just a cover, and they don't have that much ability." Huo Wei expressed his opinion.
"You are right. If these people in the martial arts world were as powerful as those of folk rumor, the world would have changed a lot." Jiang Cheng nodded in praise.
"So, there are no water thieves at all. They will only become water thieves when they need it?" Bai Zhirou frowned.
"It's not easy to do this." Jiang Cheng waved his hand, and a three-dimensional three-dimensional image map suddenly appeared in the room, roughly outlining the waters in Wangjiang City.
"Wangjiang City is located at the junction of the three rivers. Kunjiang passes from here. Only a thousand miles away is the East China Sea. The downstream is Dakang facing Donghai County. Jiaojiang River flows into the waters. The water area is not complicated. Kunjiang is divided into two parts by Jiaojiang. The entrance of Jiaojiang River has accumulated over the years, forming several islands of different sizes. However, the largest area is only a hundred feet, in strips and is only a meter wide. The water surface is wide. The Jiaojiang River is about one kilometer, and the Kunjiang River is less than two kilometers. The food and grass of millions of troops do not have so much storage equipment, so the most convenient thing is to go down from the Kunjiang River and go upstream from the Jiaojiang River."
"Every time I am robbed, I just entered Jiaojiang River. At most, I have passed Wangjiang City. How many people can I take action and eat it?" Jiang Cheng asked with a smile.
Yue Shan said in a deep voice: "Although the east of Jiaojiang River is the place of the Daxia Dynasty, the Daxia Dynasty has now contracted its defense. There is no big city in this area because of the existence of Wangjiang City. If the Daxia Dynasty sends elite troops here to intercept the traffic, we only need to set up more beacon towers on the other side of the shore. Our army will not be unprepared. In addition, if Donghai County wants to intercept the traffic across the river, the best place is at the intersection of Kunjiang and Jiaojiang River. If you intercept the traffic upstream, Wangjiang City will not be able to discover it. Therefore, the biggest possibility is still from Wangjiang City. However, according to the information of the royal capital, there are mixed dragons and snakes in Wangjiang City and many gangs. Therefore, the Wang Court judged that perhaps these forces in the rivers and lakes colluded with people; but even so, the food and grass were robbed continuously, and Wangjiang City could not be found, and it was difficult to escape the suspicion of dereliction of duty."
"What most people in the court say now is that Dakang Chao is making trouble behind the scenes." Bai Zhirou frowned.
"Because this is the most in line with the interests of Dakang, it doesn't matter who cuts off the food and grass. What's important is that the Lord wants to be blamed for this." Jiang Cheng said with a smile.
"The destruction of Daxia is imminent. Last year, he was attacked by the Dakang Dynasty in the East China Sea and destroyed 700,000 troops in one battle. In the past year, he was suppressed by Dakun and Dakang. Now, although he has gathered 500,000 troops to compete with the main force of the court, he is unable to fight again. You think, if the Dakang Dynasty is destroyed, what will you do next?" Jiang Cheng leaned on the back of the chair and asked with a smile.
"This war also puts a lot of pressure on the court." Bai Zhirou pondered: "It is necessary to rest after the war."
"It's normal, that's the case." Jiang Cheng nodded.
"Normally, you mean..." Bai Zhirou was startled and looked at Jiang Chengdao.
"For some reasons, the emperor must dominate the world in the shortest time." Jiang Cheng knocked on the table and said, "So, no matter what the result is, whether the Wangjiang City custodian steals himself or colludes with foreign enemies, it is likely that he will even be the abandoned son of some people in the royal court, but the result cannot be changed. Da Kang Dynasty must be the mastermind behind the scenes."
"But...this..." Bai Zhirou couldn't accept it.
"This is politics." Jiang Cheng looked at Bai Zhirou and sighed: "Politics is always dirty. You don't really think that all the civil and military officials in the court are all bullshit, only we can see it, right?"
"Then what are you going to do?" Bai Zhirou looked at Jiang Chengdao.
"Do as he wants, I will help him." Jiang Cheng was silent for a moment and looked at everyone and said, "In a year, I will train a soldier here, called the main force of support. As a surprise soldier, but in fact, I am ready to go south at any time to attack Donghai County and break the Dakang Gate. Some words are inconvenient to the king. Daxia's merits can be given up, but the one who destroys Dakang must be me. Everyone can also act as a public revenge on the East China Sea."
Everyone was silent when they heard this.
"I'll listen to my senior brother." Yue Shan said the first.
"Since you have become your disciples, you will naturally listen to you." Huo Wei sighed, but he didn't expect that there were so many tricks in a simple bandit suppression mission, but thinking about it, if you really just suppress the bandit suppression, there would be no need to give Jiang Cheng the official position of the third-rank chieftain Jiang Cheng.
"Do I have a choice?" Bai Zhirou said with annoyance to Jiang Cheng.
"Then let's just assign it. After arriving in Wangjiang City, the senior sister temporarily takes over the position of the city lord. Senior Brother Huo is temporarily appointed as the chief clerk, responsible for the coordination, and the junior sister forms the city guard." Jiang Cheng assigned the plan he had already thought of, and finally looked at Shen Qingshu: "Brother Qingshu, you can go and count the gangs around Wangjiang City, and you will choose all of them. No matter what business they used to do, they must listen to me during our time in charge of Wangjiang City."
"Okay!" Shen Qingshu nodded. He was obsessed with swordsmanship and did not want to be plagued by earthly affairs. He was not good at managing the city, and he was not capable of leading troops and training troops. However, fighting was the most powerful among this group of people. This task was also the most suitable for him.
"Wait, are you going to seize the position of the city lord?" Bai Zhirou looked at Jiang Cheng and said, "If this matter is not done well, it is equivalent to rebel if you seize the city privately and grant official titles."
"It's considered a temporary reign." Jiang Cheng took out an edict and said with a smile: "The secret edict given by the king is there, and no one can say anything, but this is only used to make sure that he is innocent. If he is guilty, he can be dismissed or even executed!"
"That's good." Huo Wei also breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "What should I do now? Go directly to Wangjiang City?"
"Go to Linjiang City first. Wen Lingzhao helped us a little. There will be a supply waiting for us. First, we will lead the snake out of the hole. Find the bandits and follow the clues, which can save a lot of trouble." Jiang Cheng said with a smile.
Linjiang City is on the bank of Kunjiang River, thousands of miles away from the intersection of the two rivers. If you take a waterway to Wangjiang City, you can arrive in one day. If you take a ride in the metropolitan beast, it only takes two hours. For Jiang Cheng and others, it takes about the same time to go to these two cities.
Jiang Cheng had already made a plan. After the mechanism beast left the capital, he came to Linjiang City from the beginning. In the next few days, nothing happened. There were not many monsters above the human dynasty. Moreover, Jiang Cheng, a powerful man in the Nascent Soul Realm, could be noticed, and would not take the initiative to cause trouble. Jiang Cheng spent the past few days organizing the books in the Sutra Hall.
The records left in the remains were mostly before a chaos in the Dark Age, but what was recorded in the Sutra Hall was what Jiang Cheng wanted to know the most, which was exactly what happened in the second half of the Dark Age.
The Abandoned Land Before the Dark Age, there was a place called Jiuzhou, which was the nine continents where humans lived. On the contrary, the abandoned land is the only remaining habitat for humans today and did not live in the early Dark Age.
Moreover, there were celestial dynasties in the nine provinces, and many capable people emerged. According to the records of the collection, immortals were not uncommon on this planet at that time. After passing the tribulation, there was a Mahayana period. The Mahayana period was different from other realms. It was a state that transformed from ordinary people to immortals. It had a total of twelve levels. From the tenth level, you could ascend to immortals. You were just the lowest level human immortals, with the weakest combat power among immortals, and even no match for some Mahayana cultivators at the twelve levels.
The eleventh level ascends to the earth immortal, and the twelve level ascends to the heavenly immortal. However, after ascending, there was no legendary fairy world. However, the celestial immortals could leave the planet at any time, travel to the vast space, that is, walk around the universe. At that time, the cultivation power of the planet was at the top level. At that time, almost every state in the Jiuzhou Continent had a celestial dynasty. The so-called Dark Era was a great war between these nine celestial dynasties to unify the world and create the heavenly court. It was also the fundamental reason why the Dark Era was called the Dark Era.
In that battle, there were thousands of people who fell, and countless earthly immortals and human immortals. The final result did not give birth to the heavenly court. Instead, the land of Jiuzhou could not withstand the melee of the nine heavenly dynasties and was obscured. Tens of billions of human races were destroyed, and boundless resentment was born between heaven and earth. There was no winner in that battle. The immortals fled directly from the planet, while the remaining monks participating in the battle were unable to escape from the planet and could only lead the remaining human race to this place called the abandoned land, leaving a trace of incense for the Jiuzhou people.
Jiang Cheng found the most important point in these records: from the end of the Dark Age to the Nirvana Age, the upper limit that this planet can accommodate is constantly declining.
At the beginning, there were still immortals living, but those remaining immortals continued to suffer the punishment of heaven and fell. At the beginning of the Nirvana Era, there were basically no immortals.
And after this, great success, overcome tribulation, emptiness, and cave emptiness!
In just four thousand years, it seemed that an invisible net was constantly suppressing the cultivation limit of the creatures on this planet. Some records were deliberately erased, but Jiang Cheng speculated that the leaders of the three major dynasties are almost all stuck at the peak of the Nascent Soul, and whether it is also related to this.
Jiang Cheng was thinking about this in his mind after silently quitting the spiritual time room. If this is true, then Zhao Yin's luck will be consumed continuously, but he will never be able to break through to the higher cave realm, which is not difficult to understand.
Chapter completed!