The road is vague

Chapter 89 Ancient Rumors
After leaving the territory of Qian Kingdom, Li Mo came to the main hall in the treasure ship.

"Uncle Li."

"Uncle Li."

Jiang Sheng and Shi Yongjie were both there. When they saw Li Mo coming, they stood up and saluted.

Li Mo nodded in response, then stepped forward to salute the Acting Sect Leader and Captain Shang.

"remember!"

Captain Shang's tone was stern.

"You have now been conscripted by the military and are ordinary soldiers of the Daqian Army. During this period, you are no longer allowed to greet each other based on your sect seniority. There is no seniority in cultivation here, only military rank and position. Your military rank and position are the only criteria for judging your status. If I see you disobeying my orders again, I will not let you off lightly!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them couldn't help but steal a glance at Sima Fu.

When Li Mo saw that the acting leader did not express any opinion, he quickly nodded in agreement.

After all, no matter how Captain Shang threatened them, the three of them knew clearly that they were only temporarily recruited.

After the exchange meeting, I will still have to return to Lingmumen to take up my post.

in this way.

The three of them have now become ordinary soldiers in the military, with equal ranks and positions, so naturally there is no so-called uncle-master.

Captain Shang waved his hand and continued talking with Sima Fu.

Li Mo, Jiang Sheng and Shi Yongjie came to a relatively secluded corner and had a long chat.

Li Mo looked at the endless Gobi Desert outside the window and couldn't help feeling emotional.

"It's such a shame that such a vast land is left so desolate."

"Brother Li, I'm afraid you don't know."

After hearing this, Jiang Sheng responded with a smile.

"Legend has it that in ancient times, this place was once incredibly rich. It could even be said that the entire Central Plains was just one country called the Great Zhou. However, due to continuous wars, this vast land declined and became the endless desolation it is today."

"A country?"

Shi Yongjie was a little bit incredulous when he heard this.

If this is true, then he can no longer imagine how powerful the Great Zhou Kingdom must be.

Moreover, this desolate area is so vast, and it is incredible that the war between ancient monks could have left such a vast land barren for thousands of years.

With the current strength of Lu and Qian, even if they launch a war in such a place, they will need to devote all their national strength to maintain it.

After being amazed, Shi Yongjie became thoughtful.

"From what I know, there seems to be a mysterious organization called Hidden Dragon. They are extremely skilled in refining weapons. They are entrenched in various countries and constantly aim to 'revive the Great Zhou'. Many weapon refiners have been secretly recruited by this organization."

"Hidden Dragon?"

Li Mo and Jiang Sheng looked at each other, neither of them had heard of this organization.

As far as Li Mo knows.

After joining the Special Service Hall, he served as an inspector in the Ministry of Destiny. In addition to catching wanted criminals and dealing with demons and monsters, he also had to deal with various mysterious organizations.

The mysterious organizations that Li Mo knows about so far are Black Market, Touqi, Banshan, and Yuling.

Now we have to add hidden dragons.

But these are all powerful secret organizations that are comparable to a sect or even a small or medium-sized country.

In contrast.

What ordinary people come into contact with on a daily basis are mostly small mysterious organizations that act in a secretive manner, are weak in strength, and have a short existence, but are numerous as the hairs on a cow.

These secret organizations are often composed of a group of warriors or several monks in the Qi training stage, who are instructed by some more powerful people to complete a certain task.

Once the mission is completed, the organization will be disbanded.

Even in the eyes of high-level monks, these so-called mysterious organizations were just tasks temporarily entrusted by him, and he did it unintentionally.

But for the common people at the bottom, the damage inadvertently caused by these monks in order to complete their mission is enough to be magnified to the point of separation and death, displacement, and thus trigger a series of order problems.

For example, the group of Black Mountain warriors that Wen Dao Ren commanded back then.

Theoretically speaking, this is also a weak secret organization. Wen Dao Ren only asked them to search for the Jade Fox, but in the process of carrying out the task, many incidents will be triggered, which will attract the attention of the government office and the Ministry of Destiny, and they will issue a wanted notice.

Therefore, the inspectors mostly have to deal with these small-scale secret organizations.

The main responsibilities of the inspectors of the Ministry of Destiny are to stop their illegal activities, maintain order in the jurisdiction, eradicate demons and monsters, and protect the people from the influence of monks as much as possible.

By comparison.

Those so-called bandits are not worth mentioning.

After all, they are mortals and live according to a specific order. They pose much less threat to social order. Unless they are extremely evil, in the eyes of the inspectors of the Ministry of Destiny, they can only be regarded as people in the gray area, belonging to the middle area of ​​order balance, and need to be dealt with by yamen runners and constables.

"Actually, people have been telling me about Hidden Dragon since the first day I entered the Weapon Refining Hall. So even though I haven't actually come into contact with them, I'm certain that this organization exists. From this, I can infer that the Great Zhou Kingdom you're talking about is indeed real."

Li Mo was thoughtful after hearing this.

"Speaking of hidden dragons, I can't help but think of the guardian beast of our sect's Qinglong Pond, the legendary Qing Jiao, also known as the Qinglong."

Li Mo recalled the interesting things that happened when he was on duty guarding Qinglongtan.

"How much do you know about this mountain-guarding spiritual beast?"

Shi Yongjie shook his head in confusion.

Jiang Sheng suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"I know this. I remember when I was a child, I followed my elders to the sect and played by the Azure Dragon Pond. I was scolded by the family's Wencai Patriarch. Afterwards, he told me the story of the Azure Dragon."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yongjie listened with curiosity on his face.

"It is said that this green dragon was originally a carp spirit raised in a pond by our sect's founder. Initially, it only had the ability to practice Qigong. After our sect's founder passed away, when our second-generation leader, Zhenren Insight, came to power, Lingmu Sect once entered a period of prosperity. They arranged for our sacred bird to enter Nirvana. However, during the period of Nirvana, the sacred bird secretly gave its elixir to this carp spirit. As a result, the carp spirit's ability to practice Qigong continued to improve, and it actually leaped over the dragon gate and was reborn..." Li Mo couldn't help laughing as he listened to Jiang Sheng's story.

Shi Yongjie was stunned.

After a while.

Shi Yongjie then hesitantly said, "In other words, the sect's guardian spirit beasts are, in theory, spirit beasts raised by the sect's sacred mountain bird?"

He looked dazed.

“This is truly incredible!”

When Li Mo heard this story, he also felt incredible.

He originally thought that this story was just a rumor among Qi-training disciples, but now he actually heard a similar version from Jiang Sheng's mouth. It seems that this story is probably not nonsense.

a few days later.

The treasure ship gradually slowed down.

Li Mo, Jiang Sheng and Shi Yongjie all looked into the distance. In this desolate and boundless land, they vaguely saw a small oasis, which seemed to be a Gobi town.

Captain Shang also came to the deck.

"This is Saiwai Camp, a transit camp established by the military during the war with the State of Lu. Starting today, we will stay here for about half a month, waiting for the arrival of disciples from other sects before heading to Zhongshan State together."

"Yes."

After a while.

The treasure ship slowly landed at the camp.

Captain Shang and Sima Fu brought Li Mo, Jiang Sheng and Shi Yongjie out. Under Captain Shang's arrangement, each of them was given a room. The conditions were a bit simple, and they settled there temporarily.

Li Mo took a quick walk around the military camp.

There are about three to four hundred people stationed here. It is not a large scale. It may be because of the truce that only so many people are left.

These soldiers were obviously monks from the military, constantly practicing battle formations with their movements in perfect unison.

Li Mo observed quietly for a while, his heart in turmoil.

From his perspective as a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, if he were to deal with dozens of Qi Condensation Stage disciples of the Lingmu Sect, he would most likely be able to kill them all.

Because as long as he took action as a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, the disciples of Lingmu Sect would surely flee in panic and eventually be killed one by one by him.

But if we deal with the military monks here, who also have dozens of people, the result may be completely different!
He might be able to kill some people with his foundation-building skills, but as these soldiers continued to fight back in an orderly, uniform, and continuous manner, he would most likely have to flee in the end.

This is the difference between the army and individual soldiers.

Moreover, most of these soldiers can form a military formation and barrier, so barging into them recklessly is no joke.

At the same time, Li Mo also noticed.

At this moment, the entire military camp was shrouded in a constantly moving formation.

A formation of this scale cannot be arranged by just formation flags. It is necessary to build sufficient formation bases and match them with special formation eyes. It requires the personal effort of a formation master to complete the arrangement.

Then Li Mo saw many chariots, treasure ships, and puppets in the military camp. This small town outside the Great Wall was like a giant beast armed to the teeth, lurking in the desolate Gobi Desert.

After walking for a while, Li Mo stopped.

After showing a look of surprise, he noticed that Jiang Sheng was also watching here, so he took the initiative to move closer.

"What kind of spirit beast is this? Why is it so huge?"

Inside the fence in the distance, there were two giant steel beasts shaped like camels, wearing external mechanical armor. Each of them was five or six feet tall. Standing at their feet was truly shocking.

When Jiang Sheng saw that it was Li Mo, he responded, "This should be the military's war beast, or a wild beast."

"Barbarian beast?"

Li Mo had never heard of it.

Jiang Sheng explained briefly.

"It is said that in ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was rich, and demonic beasts and wild beasts coexisted. However, as the environment changed, the wild beasts gradually became extinct, and demonic beasts gradually rose to prominence. Only the Daqian Kingdom's military valued the rough skin and strong vitality of these wild beasts. Combined with the mechanical armor of the Shenji Sect, they cultivated them into so-called war beasts. They cannot use magic and can only charge around. However, they are extremely difficult to kill. Even Jindan stage cultivators find it difficult to stop them."

Li Mo has gained some experience.

After walking around, Li Mo tried to buy the resources and materials he needed at the military headquarters.

However, he found out that he could only purchase corresponding resources according to his military rank.

However, with Li Mo's current rank as an ordinary soldier, he can only purchase various magical instruments and materials required for Qi training level below the seventh level. Although the price is much cheaper, there is a quantity limit.

After feeling helpless, Li Mo suddenly thought of his future plan to study weapon refining and puppetry.

So he inquired about the value of the relevant low-level materials, and immediately spent dozens of spirit stones to buy a small batch and stockpile them.

After doing all this.

Li Mo returned to his room and continued to comprehend the "Sword Heart Sutra".

According to the "Sword Heart Sutra", after thoroughly mastering this secret technique, not only will the flying sword's speed of breaking through the air be three times faster, it will also be more sharp when facing the enemy, and it can even make sharp turns and injure people with the sword light, almost increasing the power of your flying sword by three times out of thin air.

After a preliminary understanding, Li Mo found that there were not many obstacles in mastering it. In another half a month, he should be able to use it initially.

The Daqian Kingdom is extremely vast.

For those sects that are far away from here, even if they travel by treasure ship, it is probably impossible to arrive in a short time. Most of the time, they have to use other methods to arrive on time.

As for these so-called other methods.

The military will most likely open a teleportation altar for it, and based on the weather, it will arrive thousands of miles away in an instant.

But even with the national strength of Daqian Kingdom, these teleportation altars are not built everywhere, and it seems that they cannot be teleported at will. They can only be teleported within a short distance and then transferred to other teleportation arrays for further teleportation, which seems quite cumbersome.

(End of this chapter)