The Spirit World

Chapter 467 Closing the City
【Longzhong City】

Today, the snow in Longzhong City seemed to have drifted to every corner of the empire. The news that the Great Demon King was going to awaken in Longzhong City became more and more real, so much so that the practitioners who simply wanted to join in the fun rushed to Longzhong City overnight.

Perhaps, as the rumors said, Xu Jiaqing had first-hand information about the Great Demon King's awakening. Although the rumor outside was that Xu Jiaqing had obtained the [Heart Stone] of the Great Demon King of the First Day, and then threatened the Great Demon King of the First Day to open the Tower of Babel in Longzhong City in order to become a saint in one step, the second most reliable news was that the Great Demon King of the First Day had chosen the area closest to the center of the empire, preparing to cast the Tongtian magic array and open the Tower of Babel. This area was Longzhong City. As the mastermind behind Longzhong City, Xu Jiaqing certainly refused, so he had to convene a banquet of heroes to discuss countermeasures with everyone, and had no intersection with the Great Demon King of the First Day himself.

According to the information released by Xu Jiaqing, he did know that the Great Demon King of the First Day would come to Longzhong City and open the Tower of Babel. He negotiated with the Great Demon King of the First Day for a few days. The Great Demon King of the First Day still had some conscience and agreed to take action after a month. In Xu Jiaqing's story, his helplessness, his incompetence, and his heart for the world were all used to argue with the Great Demon King of the First Day, as if that was indeed the case.

No one really knows the truth, but no one thinks that Xu Jiaqing's story is right. Such a cunning person can tell a story full of loopholes without blushing or feeling guilty.

Everyone said that this was a trap, one for the huge business in Longzhong City, and the other for the glory of the Xu family. If he was a little thick-skinned, then no one would say anything, and they would just laugh and talk behind his back, which would not affect Xu Jiaqing's prestige. After all, his financial resources were there, and few people dared to say anything.

Even if I heard that there would be free good wine and food at this banquet for the heroes, I would still give Xu Jiaqing a thumbs up with a smile and say that he is better.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, Xu Jiaqing might not be very comfortable with these titles, because with the arrival of the White Deer King of the Fuzhen Division, the business in Longzhong City could no longer be done. Furthermore, Xu Jiaqing was investigated by the White Deer King overnight and spent several days in prison. It was really uncomfortable. Not only did he lose the profit, but he also lost most of his reputation.

No, you want to know how the White Deer King dared to investigate the local bully Xu Jiaqing?
Because the White Deer King is not an ordinary person...

"Why do you have to announce the arrival of the first day's big devil at this time? I think you are attacked by evil spirits! It has invaded your mind!" Li Lusheng looked at the tied Xu Jiaqing, and his heart was full of anger. He slapped the table, but it was not very loud. He said calmly: "How many frontline soldiers are stationed in the front to prepare for the war? Do you know that once your news comes out, we must be on guard against a fire in the backyard? Delaying the army's time, the arrow is on the string, but if it is not shot, it will be like drawing the string and startling the bow! Before hurting the enemy, you will hurt yourself first! Do you know how angry the emperor is! How big is it? If he wants me to see you, I will kill you without mercy!"

The weight of this sentence was so terrifying, it seemed as if he was gritting his teeth and enunciating each word as he spoke it.

Xu Jiaqing didn't say anything, just lowered his head and looked at him.

His thin body was already hunched enough that he didn't look like a middle-aged man at all.

The air all around is cold, and the winter snow is like burning blood, which can wake people up.

"Before things become clear, our brothers have no choice but to withdraw. We are stuck in the middle and things suddenly become extremely difficult. The military supplies and food have been delayed for a month! They were all wasted in vain! Do you know how serious your crime is? Three generations of your family cannot pay it back!" Li Lusheng's anger directly burned the two small water deer antlers on his head red. He then became angry and stared at Xu Jiaqing viciously.

Xu Jiaqing, who looked like an old man, remained silent. There was no light in his eyes, as if any answer had lost its meaning.

"Let me ask you a question now! Is what you said true?" Li Lusheng became impatient and slammed the table hard.

Li Lusheng looked at the annoying guy in front of him. His silence made the wind from Li Lusheng's fist come down heavily, creating a big hole in the ground.

Xu Jiaqing's aging seems to be more visible day by day. Now, one can only see his "curled up" wrinkled eyes under his completely white hair.

"Yes...it's true..."

He started coughing violently, and a terrible snoring sound suddenly came out of his trachea. Then he calmed down. He looked at Li Lusheng, and the light in his eyes disappeared in an instant.

Li Lusheng looked at him. He was not stunned, but just couldn't believe it, because when he saw Xu Jiaqing just a few days ago, Xu Jiaqing didn't look like this at all.

He didn't say anything, but just sat down heavily. The lights here were incredibly dim even in winter.

"I... I'm a father..."

Xu Jiaqing spoke...

It's like the sound of a deep bell.

"After I die... please... tell my child... that he must... live well..."

His words became very soft again, that loud bell-like voice suddenly choked and became hoarse, like a winter bird lightly touching the snow on a winter night, and then disappearing without a trace...

"What?" Li Lusheng sat up suddenly. This inexplicable answer... or rather this inexplicable mumbling to himself, this inexplicable entrustment, made this person look so, so terrible.

He sat down again, looking at the snow outside the house in a lost mood. Suddenly, a thin blue light rushed into the corner of his eyes, causing him to stare straight at it.
That is……

Or maybe I'm dazzled.

It was an ice-blue flower, swaying and falling from the sky. The cold light on it... was like falling stars.

He immediately stood up, put on his clothes from the rack and walked over. The antlers were crystal clear and also glowed with blue light, but the blue light of this flower was different. It chilled him and went straight through his heart.

He looked back at Xu Jiaqing who was in the room. He was standing hunched over in the dim light, like a dead branch. His body was so thin, completely different from his figure a few days ago.

Look again, that flower...

It seemed as if it had fallen deeply into the ground and sunk into the snow. There were flowers made of ice crystals, with petals cracking in patches. He didn't dare get close and could only watch from afar. The tiny sound of Bilibili was like the cracking of ice crystals.

He suddenly thought of something, and touched his face with some doubt and fear. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead and slowly slid down his face as he spoke.

"Asshole!" He suddenly turned around and looked at the figure in the house. What on earth did that person standing there know?
"Everyone! Alert! Seal off the city immediately! Let them retreat!"

He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly again.

Li Lusheng started running. He jumped onto the gate of the Zhengfasi and ran quickly on the high wall.

A team from the Justice Department quickly ran out of the hall of the Justice Department. They anxiously rang the fire bell. The sound of "Ding! Ding! Ding!" was loud enough to reach the ears of all the people who had their doors and windows tightly closed. At this time, thousands of lights in Longzhong City lit up one after another, as if it was not yet curfew.

However, the fire alarm was a bad omen, and they all leaned out anxiously to see which house was so unlucky to have a fire in the snow.

"Hey... let's go take a look too..."

Junyi Tachibana pushed Chang Yufeng who was practicing. Chang Yufeng opened his eyes and shook his head.

"Why?" Junyi Tachibana rubbed her waist listlessly. She was also woken up by the bell: "These few days are not as fun as the previous few days. There are curfews every day these days. It's so boring... There's a fire... Don't you want to go and take a look? It's also a fun thing... Although... uh... it's very unethical..."

"I'm not going..." Chang Yufeng still shook his head. Ju Junyi didn't know why he didn't go to watch the fun, and returned to bed feeling a little disappointed.

She lay on the bed with her arms spread wide, staring at the ceiling bored.

"It's so strange...don't you think so?" Ju Junyi glanced at Chang Yufeng who was meditating. He concentrated his mind and gathered his energy, allowing the spiritual power to pass through his dantian and then settle down.

"Hiss... I feel... so strange... Why is the Banquet of Heroes cancelled after the White Deer King arrives... There seems to be no news about Xu Jiaqing either. Logically, shouldn't Xu Jiaqing come out and announce that the Banquet of Heroes will be held in two days? Also... the much-rumored Banquet of Heroes had a lot of rules and so on... We didn't receive an invitation, so it seems we can only sit down and watch."

Tachibana Jun paused and looked at the ceiling again.

"The Banquet of Heroes is obviously a scam... right?"

"I don't know..." Chang Yufeng shook his head silently.

In the past few days, people in the inn have been spreading this matter, but there is no accurate information. It is all nonsense and hearsay from people who don't know the truth. They just make up whatever gimmicks they can find. They even made up such nonsense that Xu Jiaqing is the descendant of the first great devil.

It was just a fire.

"Oh, I don't know what your attitude is towards the prophecy on the handkerchief. That woman wants you to kill Lan Luo. Maybe you are the son of destiny, right? Some god will come to help you show the way. It's magical. Others don't believe it, but I do, right? I saw with my own eyes the woman who made the prophecy appear in front of me." Ju Jun looked at his fingers boredly and flicked his nails.

"It's actually very difficult for me to make a decision..." Chang Yufeng sighed and put his hands on his knees: "Let's not talk about how powerful the Great Demon King of the First Day is. Even if she appears, all the practitioners want to get some benefits from her. In the past few days, we have also seen so many practitioners who regard the Great Demon King of the First Day as a plaything. They know nothing about the Great Demon King of the First Day."

"Then... what should I do?" Tachibana Jun'ichi touched his hair and smoothed it out, saying, "I don't know where I lost my book. These are secrets that only guardians know... The records of the seven demon kings are all fictitious legends like Xu Jiaqing... The real information has been blocked for a long time..."

Jun'ichi Tachibana closed his eyes, twisted his shoulders on the bed and changed to a comfortable sleeping position.

"Hmm... So, in this matter, I can only and must make a careful decision, regardless of whether I will kill the great demon king like other practitioners."

He paused and looked out the window at the brightly lit night.

"So what... Now I... It seems that I am rarely on the side of the party... I am not on any side."

"Camp? What? Which camp were you in before?"

Junyi Ju opened his eyes and looked at Chang Yufeng again. Chang Yufeng didn't say anything.

Just looking at the head of the bed.

"Nothing... I just feel like it's a faction... It's so complicated... I can't tell the difference... Or rather, I'm confused as to who we are on the same boat with..."

The lights in the distance did not have billowing white smoke, but members of the Law Enforcement Division who were climbing walls and flying over rooftops.

Someone shouted and followed them away.

Some people were lining up, and those who followed closely were very reluctant, but had no choice.

"Hey... We finally made it to Longzhong City, why are you suddenly kicking us out?" Someone in the team yelled at the people from the Justice Department.

"You're not going to let us die, are you? It's snowing so hard! Hey!"

The people from the Justice Department didn't make any sound, but just tied the man up with a chain.

The man was about to explode, but was held back by the personnel from the Execution Department and his mouth was blocked with a white cloth.

"It seems that there is no fire..." Chang Yufeng looked at the scene and frowned at the long queue.

They didn't look like they were there to watch the fun, but rather like they were being detained.

"what?"

As soon as Ju Chun got up, she walked quickly to the window. She looked at everything downstairs in shock and looked at Chang Yufeng in disbelief.

Just as Chang Yufeng was about to speak, he heard a voice at the gate saying, "Sir, Longzhong City is under lockdown, and everyone must leave. You should hurry downstairs, and the room fee will be fully refunded."

Before he could get a response, the man went on to knock on other people's doors.

"The city is... sealed..." Tachibana Junichi couldn't believe it, but he seemed to wink with excitement: "Anyway, no matter what... the matter of the first day's big devil must have been figured out... It's going to be fun to watch..."

"I hope so... Let's pack up and go..."

"We didn't bring anything with us... There's no need for cultivators to change into clothes. Let's go... Let's go now..." Ju Junyi happily went to open the door, and Chang Yufeng had no choice but to follow him.

They had never had any property, and Xiao Lan had been sleeping, hiding in Chang Yufeng's sleeves as a fish. They could be said to be penniless, having brought nothing with them, and would not take anything with them.

When they went down, they found that so many people were already queuing up outside the inn. Those strange weapons, those strange clothes, those strange people were looking at Chang Yufeng.

perhaps……

Chang Yufeng forgot something...

When he came to his senses and remembered what he had forgotten, it seemed too late to regret.

"People from the Principality..." There were exclamations of all sizes directed at Chang Yufeng, and there were enough whispers that it seemed as if everything was becoming troublesome.

Chang Yufeng's beautiful short hair has now become the target of public criticism.

The two of them stood awkwardly at the stairs, looking at the strange looks that were lined up there.

No matter how strange or bizarre their hair is, it is always long, no matter if they are male or female...

Sometimes, it's just so strange, long hair means you are an imperial, short hair means you are a principality, even if you are not, you are one because of the label.

Chang Yufeng suddenly raised his head, went upstairs, entered the room, and put on the bamboo hat with gauze on his head.

Maybe it was because he had been idle in the inn for the past few days and had not gone out due to the ban, and now he suddenly had to go out, he forgot about the ID card.

But no matter what, those strange looks and such anxiety no longer made him nervous, but he did feel uncomfortable.

After being stunned on the spot, Junyi Ju came to his senses and followed him upstairs. He saw Chang Yufeng coming out of the room with a veil covering her face, and then she stood there waiting for him.

"Heh... I thought I could really watch a good show, but I ended up watching my own show... hahahaha." Tachibana Junichi scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I should have paid more attention."

"It's okay, it's my fault..." Chang Yufeng nodded, and Junyi Jue felt quite embarrassed under the veil.

"Well, I don't know why the relationship between the Principality and the Empire is so bad now... It's so troublesome..."

Junyi Tachibana walked down the stairs in distress. Chang Yufeng did not answer her, but followed her and looked at the stairs under her feet.

One level at a time…

Like sadness.

He wanted to say I don't know.

But he couldn't tell.

I just can’t say it.

This... I actually thought about how to write it, but this way may be more concise and say what needs to be said.

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(End of this chapter)