After the immortal disappeared

Mengmeng said sternly, "Six years ago, there was a snowstorm during the famine years, and the coalition forces asked us to send troops. There is a war on the front line, and we women and children in the rear are almost starving to death!"

"I heard adults say that even if the coalition forces could take Lutaishan back then, the Yao Kingdom would not be over all at once. If you want to defeat the Yao Kingdom, you will have to drag it out for at least several years. How can it be as easy as that ignorant and stupid woman said? Yao Kingdom will not be over in one go. The country is so strong, and there are still people behind it..." Mengmeng said, "If we continue to fight for several years, what will we eat and drink? The clan leader quit the coalition and immediately exchanged it for food and supplies from the Yao Kingdom. How many clan members have been saved?"

She looked at Axun and said firmly: "No matter what others say, I think the patriarch did nothing wrong!"

Axun held her hand: "Thank you."

"Next time they say something like this, just scold them back!" The girl blinked, "They know it."

Axun smiled, it would be nice if it was that simple.

Although the defection at that time did bring food and supplies, Yingren's situation has not improved in recent years. They had to do a lot of unattractive work for the Yao Kingdom, and they also fought seven or eight large and small battles. Many young people in the clan were killed and injured, and the pension alone was a heavy burden.

And as a result, the surrounding forces became more hostile to Yingren, making it increasingly difficult for Yingren to make deals with his neighbors.

Axun felt that this was very bad and very uneasy. The grassy fields are so broad, but the path a lover can take is getting narrower and narrower.

Why are the Luodian Kingdom, who are also traitors, doing well, but they are struggling?

At this time, his father came back from the market and waved to him, interrupting his thinking: "Axun, come here."

Axun nodded goodbye to Qingmei and followed his father into the tent.

Viewed from the back, my father has a few more white hairs, his shoulders are slightly tilted forward, and his back is not as straight as before.

The injuries on his body made the hero look old even in his twilight years.

The clan leader entered a small tent, and the Yingren inside immediately exited, leaving room for them to talk.

"sit."

"Do you know why I came to catch this episode?"

Axun shook his head.

They usually go to special horse markets for trading, and rarely come to such large markets.

The Ying clan also doesn't like other people's strange looks.

"I asked someone to fetch something for me so I can confirm an important piece of information." There were visitors from all over the market, and of course there was news from all over. Some shepherds and travelers will only follow the market from place to place. Father said slowly, "Luo Shengjia's information."

"Luo Shengjia?" Axun was slightly surprised, "That's just a legend!"

The legend about the Golden Empire and Luo Sheng Jia is probably one of the most widely circulated stories in the western part of the Golden Plains.

Stories are stories, not many people take them seriously, and when children grow up they no longer believe them.

"How can this be groundless?" Father said solemnly, "I have been secretly investigating for several years and finally got this information!"

Seeing his father's expression, Axun knew something was wrong: "Where is it now?"

"Kyongsan."

"The last palace of the Golden Empire?" Axun didn't believe it, "Father, this information..."

"Very reliable." My father started coughing when he got excited.

He had a punctured lung in combat three years ago and has not been able to speak as breathlessly since.

Axun immediately poured him water.

After finally coughing, my father did not drink water. Instead, he took out a small cloth bag from his arms and opened it.

There are three plants lying inside, which look like fungi and moss. They are gray and white in color and have a very special shape. They are rhombus-shaped with jagged edges and are arranged closely together with almost no gaps.

"Snake skin? No."

When Axun first saw it, he didn't think it was a plant, but the skin of some kind of python.

"This is the dragon-armored mushroom. Before ancient times, it only grew in the territory of the dragon clan. Nowadays, very few people have seen it or recognized it. I also learned about it from an ancient book." Father whispered, "Where do you think my informant found it?"

"Kyongsan?"

"Yes, it's Jingshan!" The patriarch smiled, "When I was your age, I saved a Celestial Master. But he was seriously injured and died a few days later. Among his relics, in addition to the Celestial Master Dao There is also a booklet outside the Dharma that records the strange things that I have personally experienced, and there is a secret in it that the dragon-armored mushroom may also grow around the Luoshengjia."

"Now that the dragon-armored mushroom appears in Jingshan Mountain, it means that Luo Shengjia has returned there again." He said solemnly, "I will leave tomorrow, and I will entrust all the affairs of the clan to you."

Axun hesitated: "Father really believes that that armor can make its owner invincible? If this is true, how could the last king of the Golden Empire fail?"

"Later, people wore Luoshengjia and achieved great achievements. They could do it, why can't we?" The patriarch smiled, "Don't forget, we are also the royal descendants of the Shining Gold Empire! Luoshengjia should have been mine. Yes, of course I am qualified to wear it."

I just changed my last name midway.

After the fall of the Golden Flash Empire, the descendants of the Royal Pang family changed their surnames one after another in order to avoid disaster.

Axun scratched his head.

These are all legends and cannot be verified. Who doesn’t want to put gold on the face of their ancestors? After all, if the ancestors were famous, then they would be the queen of a famous family, and it would be a honor to tell them to go out.

Of course he would not be stupid enough to refute this, and would only say:

"But this armor is very powerful..."

The father was full of confidence: "The key depends on the user. As long as I am determined, I can control this armor."

"The outside world is not understanding of us, and your second uncle covets my position. In recent years, my health has not been very good. Yaoguo..." When my father said this, he sighed, "The Yaoguo assigned us There are more and more tasks, either to collect debts or to kill people, and they seem to use us as thugs."

Axun also fell silent.

Foreigners hate Yingren and regard them as traitors. There have been many conflicts in recent years. There were two other times when foreign tribes united to conquer Yingren. In order to protect themselves, Ying Ren reluctantly took refuge in Yao Kingdom.

But if you want to take shelter under the wings of the strong, you have to pay a price.

Yaoguo often assigns tasks to Yingren, and A Xun and his son cannot refuse. But if we continue to carry out these tasks, we will become even more hostile to surrounding forces.

He becomes more and more passive and offends people more and more.

The knot of the vicious cycle just cannot be untied.

The clan members have great opinions on this. The clan leader's younger brother, Axun's second uncle, has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the clan leader more than once.

Without the intervention of powerful forces, this cycle of death cannot be broken.

From this perspective, it is reasonable for the father to look for Luo Shengjia and place his hope in Luo Shengjia.

"If Luo Shengjia is found, at least your second uncle will not dare to act rashly; when I go out to fight, I can return to my peak!" The clan leader patted his son on the shoulder: "The current situation of our clan cannot help me not being firm!"

"Father is the leader of the clan and has a great responsibility." Axun said immediately, "I will get it for you!"

The father snorted and said without hesitation: "You have made rapid progress in practice, but you are too weak! You are not happy enough to kill people, and you are too arrogant in doing things. With your kind of temperament, there is no way you can touch Luo Shengjia!"

He let out a long sigh: "It would be great if Alei was still here. He is brave and determined, and is the best candidate to win the title."

Axun's face turned green and red as he spoke, and then he lowered his head.

Alei was his elder brother. He was originally the pride of Yingren and the heir to whom his father had high hopes. Unexpectedly, he died in a tribal fight three years ago.

My father was in great mourning and aged ten years overnight.

Axun knew that in his father's mind, Alei was the warrior most likely to grow into a hero and the most suitable successor.

But now he only has his son A Xun left.

"Look, you are obviously angry, but you don't even dare to retort. You are nothing like me, the Yingren Warrior!" His father's face showed disappointment, "You are very similar to Yao Ren."

"Father!" Axun's face turned completely red with anger.

Comparing his courage with Yao Ren is really the biggest insult!

"Anyway, during the few days I leave, you should take good care of the clan and don't let the second one take advantage of you." Father smiled, "Don't you like Mengmeng? Her father only allowed her to marry the son of the leader. You should take good care of the house. , I’ll be back in a few days, and I’ll propose marriage for you then!”

When Axun heard this, his face turned red again.

At this moment, it started to rain again, making a pitter-patter sound on the tent.

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A flash of thunder flashed across the sky, and there was a shout of praise.

Snail Toad jumped out of the ground and saw a small town ahead. A few lights gave off a soft halo in the rain.

Dong Rui yawned: "You said before, where is our destination?"

"Baitou Ridge, it is said that it is close to Yao Kingdom." He Lingchuan just came out of the underground, and his sense of direction was not good, "Where is this?"

"Let's go and ask!" Dong Rui pointed to the town, "I've been on the road for three days, I don't want to rush for one night. Also, I want to have a bowl of hot noodle soup."

What he said made sense, so the two went down to the ground to put away the snail toad, held up their paper umbrellas, and went into the town.

There are about two to three hundred households in this small town, and there is only one tavern. The front door is shabby, and the cloth cover is sticky with rain.

He Lingchuan walked in. The owner was taking a nap with his hands curled up. There were five tables in the store, but there was only one customer.

Business is slow. But on a rainy day, who has nothing to do to run outside?

Dong Rui rubbed his hands and stepped forward. He slapped the table and woke up the shopkeeper: "Two bowls of hot noodle soup first! What else is delicious here?"

The shop owner said sleepily: "Yesterday the hunter in the mountains shot down a big deer..."

"Oh?" The venison is a big supplement. Dong Rui is very happy. He didn't expect that there is game in the small shabby shop in the town. "Cut two plates of venison for me, with tendons!"

"Sir, I haven't finished what I said." The shopkeeper muttered, "The venison is sold out, the deer's face is gone, and only a little rice blood made of deer blood is left. Would you like some?"

Dong Rui's shoulders slumped: "Come on, come and get whatever you want. Give us another bottle of wine."

The hot noodle soup came first, two large bowls, which seemed ordinary at first glance, but turned out to be spicy and sour as soon as it entered the mouth.

There is not much material in it, the egg flower strands are almost invisible, but the carrots are cut like hair. I have to say that the shop's knife skills are good. But the advantage is that the sour soup is well prepared, the multigrain noodles are chewy, and some mint is added.

Dong Rui took a mouthful of noodles and a mouthful of soup, sighed a few times, and felt relieved.