At the main entrance of the house, the yamen of Jing Zhaoyin are pretending to ask about the situation of the bitter master, Ji Su's wife and children are crying and grabbing the ground, and the old soldiers of Jingying finally have a long-awaited one... Suddenly the backyard is full of light. Soaring to the sky, there was a loud bang, and everyone was stunned!

The yamen from Jing Zhaoyin were more experienced, and immediately pulled out iron rulers, chains, etc., and shouted angrily: "Good thief, you are so bold!" Then they quickly rushed into the house and rushed towards the backyard.

Then pretend to get lost. After all, Lord Jianzheng's mansion is huge and has too many yards. On the way, he walked along a few expensive ornaments. When they came to the backyard, where was there any trace of the thief?

The cellar formation in the backyard was split open by a sword, and the fourth-largest general of the family guarding the cellar entrance was shaken and flew several dozen feet away, spitting out blood from the smashed rockery and crawling out with a look of fear on his face...

The yamen looked at the formation cellar and secretly rejoiced that they were wise. This thief was so cruel. If they came over and met the thief at the first time, they might have lost their lives.

Ji Su's family came over at this time, and seeing the empty cellar, the wives and concubines couldn't bear the blow, and they fainted when they rolled their eyes.

The gods made the heavenly soldiers have quietly withdrawn, found a hidden place in the city to hide themselves, and did not go back immediately.

The group of mysterious people who robbed the exam questions were all divided into pieces. Then suddenly saw a sword light lit up in Jisu's mansion, and Li Wuming, who was the leader, understood in an instant: who did it.

He secretly praised: That person is amazing, careful and bold, Ji Su was busy with such a job, but instead married someone, this time, the Lingyu who sold the exam questions, I am afraid that all of them have already fallen into the hands of that person.

The purpose of Li Wuming's trip is to ask for food and salaries - I'm here to ask for money, and you want me to spend money when you punish an unconscionable dog official?

Those spirit jades are all the soldiers up and down my Flying Bear Army, buckled out of their mouths, and used on the blade! Buy a question for you? you are dreaming!

So even if the veteran has suggested that we can bend and stretch, and give him money to buy questions, Li Wuming, who has a tough personality, thought of the same idea as Sun Changming in an instant... At least the first half is the same, and Master Sun is even more bold.

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Sun Changming was not in a hurry to recall the gods to the heavenly soldiers. After all, this is the capital. If there is any great power secretly eyeing the gods, the heavenly soldiers, maybe they will find him.

Anyway, as long as the gods and heavenly soldiers see the test questions, it means that they see it by themselves.

This time, the exam questions for the first level of the Dragon and Snake Rankings are one of the Beijing camps outside the city, the short-lived valley of Xizheng Mountain.

Legend has it that before the extremely long time ago, when the demon clan ruled the earth, it was the place where the demon clan discarded the bones of human slaves - most of them were bones, and the flesh and blood had been eaten by the demon clan.

I don’t know how many human race souls have settled in the valley. With the passage of time, changes have occurred in the valley. There is some kind of ferocious power that cannot be accurately defined. As long as you enter the valley, your vitality will be rapidly weakened, so it is named “Short-Life Valley”. ".

Before the Dingding of the Great Wu Dynasty, in the era of melee, this place was a bad place on earth, and almost no one could get out of the human beings who strayed into it.

After the establishment of the Great Wu Dynasty, a major repair was sent to seal the entire valley. Later, the great power of the Ministry of War transformed it into a military training academy. The soldiers of the Beijing camp can enter into it as an organization to practice and fight against the valley with the evil spirit of the army. That kind of ferocious power is of great help in honing the will and strength of a warrior.

At that time, Jingying was the most powerful army in the entire Great Wu Chao.

However, the Beijing camp gradually became corrupt and degenerate. The camp was filled with old soldiers and young soldiers. In fact, this school ground was empty, and no one was willing to enter it for training.

But after all, the court still has laws, the rules handed down by the ancestors, the Beijing camp is to be practiced regularly, so they invited the powerful, in the short-lived valley, found a "safe route", on this route, the fierceness in the valley The strength is the weakest, and it can be resisted by wearing some magic talismans.

The soldiers of the Beijing Camp walked along this route, even if they completed their routine drills.

Later, the old soldiers of the Beijing camp didn't want to leave in person even for this cut-off, so they paid for someone, put on their military uniforms, and held their own number plates to perform short-lived valley drills on their behalf.

There are many ordinary people in the capital who can't survive, and they rely on this to make money. Although a short-lived valley is very harmful to their own health, it is better than not living.

Those who got the exam questions early, who were well-informed, immediately went to Jingying to find a way to buy a map of the safe route. If you can't get a safe line, you can also make some preparations in advance.

Mr. Sun sent a message to Ruan Sansheng in the middle of the night, and soon the map of this route was delivered to him - these things have been filed all year round in the Chaotian Division, after all, it is the department responsible for monitoring the world.

It's just that the captain who sent the map was interrogated many times on the way.

Jingzhaoyin and Jingying have a good grasp of the time scale of this "strict inspection": when the case first happened, they asked to go to the street for inspection immediately, and set up cards at major intersections.

However, the people who work below are dawdling, and there are always various excuses to delay. When the time is counted, the real "gangsters" should run away and hide, and they will take to the streets to investigate aggressively.

Those who dare to attack the mansion of the imperial guard are all desperados! It was very dangerous.

Throughout the second half of the night, the ordinary people in the capital and those poor family cultivators must not have slept well. There was no result of setting up cards along the street, so they began to conduct door-to-door inspections. Naturally, no one dared to disturb the places where the dignitaries lived, such as Master Sun's yard.

But some wealthy businessmen who have no foundation will inevitably be ripped off.

This kind of investigation further affected the Dragon and Snake List the next day. Many people should wait under each city gate before dawn, and set off immediately once the door is opened. Then they were searched again under the city gate.

The short-lived valley of Xizheng Mountain is about sixty miles away from the capital's west gate. Along the way, you can see young monks flying with swords or riding pet beasts. They are high-spirited and give up.

There are also a lot of hard-working poor folks, either flying on their own, or running wildly on the ground, bringing up one after another of pale yellow gray dragons.

Sun Changming took it easy, and after eating Hanmei's breakfast, accompanied by Wu Yuanji and Zhao Xiaoyao, he took the speeding car out of the city, and then took off into the air and headed for Xizheng Mountain.

This morning, Hanmei thoughtfully added four extra fern leaves to her breakfast, and the food caregiver did not allow anyone to eat them, so she left them all to her eldest brother.

For this time on the Dragon and Snake List, Jingying dispatched a large number of people to repair some facilities in Taniguchi. The seal formation in the valley originally wanted to reinforce one or two, but when I came to see it, the predecessors who formed the formation were powerful, and they could only perform basic maintenance on the formation according to the methods left by the predecessors. It's remodeling... nothing like that.

When Sun Changming arrived, at the entrance of the valley, according to the number plate issued, there were two young cultivators standing in square formations, each square formation of ten thousand people, and the third square formation was taking shape.

And around the valley, the sky and the ground are crowded with monks, all of whom are the followers and guardians of these young talents.

Sun Changming paid the registration fee for ten Lingyu according to the rules, received a number plate, and then followed everyone into the third square. Wu Yuanji and Zhao Xiaoyao marched for him in the back: "I wish you a great victory and the first place!"

Then Wu Yuanji raised the speeding car, and a group of overhaulers was ready to condescend, eat and drink, watching the first round of the short-lived valley below.

As soon as Sun Changming entered the team, a round-faced young man with short eyebrows and small eyes came up and asked mysteriously: "Brother, do you want a picture? It's cheap. It's the last chance before entering the valley of short-lived life. This store is gone..."

Of course Sun Changming didn't want it. He shook his head slightly and didn't speak. He immediately went to other people's place. Sun Changming watched from behind. His business was really good, and he sold more than ten copies in no time!

This made Master Sun unable to sigh with emotion: The capital is indeed a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and they are all talents.

It was originally scheduled to start today, but it was inexplicably delayed. Sun Changming guessed that Ji Su didn't know that his home had been robbed until now, and he was in a bad mood, so he delayed the time.

After Ji Su was identified as the main examiner, he was taken away directly and isolated from the outside world according to the procedures. It was not easy for him to pass the test questions out. What happened at home last night would not be passed on to his ears so quickly.

It was dragged on until almost noon, and this year's Dragon and Snake List finally began. The chief examiner Ji Su didn't even show up, and the assistants came forward to announce the start, and then the overhaul of the Beijing camp started the formation, and moved the three phalanx cultivators into the valley of short-lived at the same time.

The monks used their skills in it, and the first one to come out was the first, and so on. The top three thousand will enter the second level of the Dragon and Snake List.

The ranking order of each level is related to the final ranking on the Dragon and Snake List.

Sun Changming felt a flash in front of his eyes. For a moment, he was in a state of weightlessness and distortion. Then everything around him condensed again, and it had appeared in a gray and lifeless valley.

Sun Changming looked up and saw a layer of formation with faint rays of light in the sky about a thousand feet above. Under the seal of the formation, some unconscious black shadows could be vaguely seen, floating like jellyfish in the sea. The black shadows collided together and dissipated together into nothingness, but after a short time, they re-condensed elsewhere.

A figure suddenly and quickly approached Sun Changming, Sun Changming turned his head and stared at him with a smile that was not a smile.

The figure stopped immediately, raised his hands and said, "Don't get me wrong, brother, I just want to be by your side." It turned out to be the guy who sold the map before.

"Follow me?"

"Hey!" The guy smiled and said, "I paid close attention. Among so many monks, you are the only one who was escorted by two Sixth Great Realm escorts. Your identity is amazing. Get out."

Sun Changming walked with his hands behind his back, seemingly aimless: "You have a map of the safe route, what are you doing with me? Hurry up and follow the map to compete for the top 3,000 spots."

"I always feel that the matter this time is not that simple. Although Ji Su is daring, but the reopening of the Dragon and Snake List is such a big thing, why did the imperial court hand him over to such a person?" He came up and introduced himself: "My name is Zhang Chunfa. , brother, what's your name?"

Sun Changming glanced at him lightly: "It's inconvenient to tell you."

Zhang Chunfa was not embarrassed, and raised his thumb: "Sure enough, he is a big man!" He really followed. Sun Changming looked at him and smiled: "Well, if you can keep up, come."

"Okay!"

Sun Changming agreed with Zhang Chunfa's doubt: Why should the court hand over such an important matter to Ji Su? Even if the Great Wu Dynasty has rotted to its roots from top to bottom, there is still Lord Lu Guangxiao.

Originally, just asking Lu Guangxiao could clear up the doubts... But Master Sun didn't dare to contact Lu Guangxiao.

In this first test, Sun Changming also wanted to feel the situation. If it was really important, he would immediately go to Lord Lu's house to cast a salutation post and ask him clearly.

The situation in the valley of short-lived is somewhat similar to the destruction of the domain. It looks like a valley from the outside, but when you really enter, you find that the space here is distorted in some way. The interior is extremely vast. Tens of thousands of monks are sent in, and everyone coaxes them to disperse, so it is difficult to meet each other again.

The monks soon discovered that there were some obviously malicious forces floating around, and they repeatedly washed away their vitality, causing them to experience various negative states of exhaustion, sleepiness, slack, and boredom.

So they began eagerly following the markings on the map and began to look for the safe route.

On the other hand, Sun Changming didn't seem to be affected at all, he was wandering around, not knowing what he was looking for.

Zhang Chunfa followed behind him, and gradually couldn't hold it any longer: "Brother, are you really not looking for a way out?" Sun Changming didn't answer at all. He raised his palm towards a flat boulder, and the boulder rose into the sky, revealing the dense forest below. Bones!

These human bones were completely decayed, and when exposed, they quickly turned into white sand. But with the appearance of these bones, the malicious power around him suddenly increased, Zhang Chun let out a grunt, and his face became more and more gray and ugly.

Sun Changming flicked lightly and dropped the boulder again. In his body, the peaches slowly rotate in response to things, replenishing his vitality, and everything in the valley has little effect on him.

He has no fear about the short-lived valley, of course, because the peach is the base of the material, and he is not afraid of the passing of vitality!

Sun Changming left here, and following the induction of those forces in the void, he found a closed cave again.

Zhang Chun swore that if Sun Changming hadn't pried open that mountain wall, he wouldn't have been able to see that there was a cave hidden behind it!

There are still many bones in the cave. The previous overhaul of the Ministry of War and the transformation of this place into a school ground did not find this place.

The ferocious power rolled out from the hole, like a breach of a dyke! Zhang Chunfa finally screamed and walked away: "Brother, I can't accompany you anymore, let's go first!"

Sun Changming didn't seem to hear it, he just stared at the cave without moving, with a look of pity in his eyes. Only by standing here can we truly understand how miserable the human race was in that era.

He didn't stop Zhang Chunfa, but there was an anger in his heart: Ji Su wants to use something as important as the Dragon and Snake List for profit! If the people who finally made it to the A and B lists gave money to Ji Su, but instead brushed down the real talents of the human race, causing the cultivation resources to be tilted towards these mediocre talents, it would be a big sin for the entire human race!

"I want to ruin his good deeds!" Sun Changming snorted. Originally, he was walking around in the short-lived valley, thinking of using the peach and the lottery to see if there was any chance and treasure to be missed, but now he has another concern.

What Sun Changming wanted to do was to change the so-called "safety line", so that the people who bought the test questions would be sloppy, and ultimately blamed Ji Su.

Even... simply ruin this assessment and let everyone return to a fair starting line.

But although this place originated from Yin spirits, the essence of power has also changed today. Sun Changming followed the instructions of the sign and the objects, and he could only find these mass graves. If he wanted to change the safety line, he had to find the key power nodes of the entire short-lived valley, and then change the "general trend" of the entire short-lived valley.

Sun Changming looked at the phantoms under the seal of the formation above his head. The phantoms were not aggressive. It was difficult to define what these things were. They had no life, no consciousness, no obsessions, nothing, just a Bunch of energy, but why do they gather into such clumps of shadows?

Sun Changming tried to capture it, but when he touched it a little, these phantoms shattered, and then the dissipated power re-condensed not far away, but the appearance was different from the previous phantoms.

Sun Changming released the Immortal Binding Rope, but the Immortal Binding Rope showed a dazed look, there was no goal at all!

Sun Changming understood that these phantoms really did not belong to the category of "beings".

He quietly sacrificed his fortune-teller again, and the surrounding forces, including those phantoms, did not respond much to this treasure. It's just that a phantom flew over unconsciously and came into contact with Lingxing Yingwu. It seemed to be a little close to this kind of power, and it kept spinning around Lingxing Yingwu.

But that's about it.

Sun Changming couldn't find any clues, so he couldn't help but feel anxious. If the monks who bought maps were delayed any longer, they might have walked out of the valley of short-lived.

"I can only take a risk." Sun Changming took out the crystal tiger talisman from his storage bag!

He didn't want to release the entire ghost army, but randomly selected a low-level ghost soldier and pulled it out from the tiger talisman—the sources of malicious power in the short-lived valley were Yin spirits.

After a lapse of many years, when a Yin spirit was put into the valley again, no one knew what would happen.

But as soon as the ghost soldier appeared in the short-lived valley, Sun Changming understood based on the feeling between himself and the ghost soldier: the ghost soldier did not have much influence on the short-lived valley. But it's only limited to this type of ghost soldiers.

The ghost army that Sun Changming snatched from Chaos Mandrill also came from a very ancient era, and it turned into a ghost army only after the Copper Coffin Gorge became an extermination domain. The memories of his life have long since been wiped out, and there is no such huge resentment and obsession as the evil spirits.

It belongs to the more "pure" category of ghost soldiers. It is more "matched" with the power of the short-lived valley!

If an evil spirit full of resentment comes in, I am afraid that the power in the entire valley will immediately boil, rush towards the evil spirit, or drown it, or cause a series of power explosions.

When this ghost soldier arrived in the valley, he was a little dazed at first, because Sun Changming, who had mastered the crystal tiger talisman, gave it an order: act at will, do whatever you want.

After a while, there was a phantom that fluttered and flew around. After a circle around the ghost soldier, it fluttered and flew, and then other phantoms flew over. They seemed to recognize the ghost soldier. .

The ghost soldiers began to walk freely in the valley.

Through the restraint of the crystal tiger talisman, Sun Changming sensed that the ghost soldiers had really begun to join the power of the entire valley. Although not fully integrated into it, but not excluded.

The ghost soldiers also started to wander around blindly like those phantoms, but Sun Changming had already noticed that they obeyed certain constraints.

Sun Changming followed behind~lightnovelpub.net~ and slowly felt a little bit: For the short-lived valley, any foreign object, whether it is a cultivator like himself, or a bird that flew in unintentionally, is out of tune with the valley. !

It is a completely different feeling from the power of ghost soldiers being able to join the valley. Sun Changming comprehended carefully, racked his brains, and finally found a suitable metaphor: ghost soldiers are like food that they eat, which can be slowly digested and integrated into the whole body; outsiders are like pieces of steel pierced into the body. Needle makes the short-lived valley very painful and cannot be assimilated, so it is full of "maliciousness" to all outsiders. Once outsiders enter the short-lived valley, their vitality will drop rapidly.

With this knowledge, Sun Changming suddenly had an epiphany in his mind: those phantoms and ghost soldiers, the route that they are now traveling, seems to be irregular, but in fact it is the route of the entire short-lived valley's power operation!

Just like the spiritual veins in the body of a monk, the spiritual energy runs along these spiritual veins.

"The short-lived valley itself has certain characteristics of life?!" Sun Changming was also taken aback by his own conclusion, but he was quickly relieved: there are thousands of spirits in the world, all kinds of strange, and it is not enough for a valley to become a spirit by chance. Surprising.

Even if it weren't for the intervention of human monks, in the long run, this valley might become a primitive god!