Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

In the 1200th year of the New Immortal Calendar, the wasteland in the civilized territory was almost extinct. The occasional fish that slipped through the net was considered a big news, which would attract the attention of hundreds of millions of people in the Taixu Illusion Realm.

However, in the 53rd year of the New Immortal Calendar, the wasteland was almost integrated into people's daily lives. Even within the Dinghuang barrier, the wasteland was still everywhere.

On the one hand, the Bafang Dinghuang barrier was not perfect when it was first built. It was like a fishing net with a large mesh, which could effectively block the ancient wasteland demons that were transformed by the real immortals of the heavenly court and had the power to destroy the world. In comparison, those with lower strength have the opportunity to drill through the gaps in the mesh and cause trouble. In fact, in the 100th year of the New Immortal Calendar, before the Immortal Alliance fully strengthened the Dinghuang barrier and greatly refined the mesh of the fishing net, the countries of the Immortal Alliance could only defend some key cities located in key areas, and then gradually expand. As for the vast wilderness areas, they are often full of murderous intentions and are not much better than the wasteland.

On the other hand, when the Heavenly Court fell and the Heavenly Dao became a wasteland, the wasteland covered the entire Kyushu at its widest. After decades of desperate struggle, people barely cleared out the pure land on which they could rebuild their homes with the eight Dinghuang cities as the core. But such a hasty cleanup naturally could not be comprehensive, and the so-called pure land was only relative. In the decades after the establishment of the Immortal Alliance, people often found remnants of wasteland that had not been completely cleared in the corners of the pure land. And every such discovery may be accompanied by bloodshed and sacrifice.

If it is said that in the 1200th year of the New Immortal Calendar, people's deep hatred of wasteland was the result of ideological indoctrination, the result of the combined influence of family education, school education, and social education. Then the Immortal Alliance people in the 53rd year of the New Immortal Calendar often hated wasteland deeply and felt the pain.

At the same time, the early Immortal Alliance, limited by insufficient conditions in all aspects, seriously lacked sufficiently accurate and popular means of identifying wasteland. Whether a person is a wilderness demon or a magic weapon is contaminated with wilderness poison, in most cases, it can only be judged by very simple identification techniques.

Therefore, extreme emotions and vague identification methods provide an excellent soil for the folk witch-hunting movement.

You are sneaky and suspicious, are you a wilderness demon?

The magic weapon in your hand is so evil that it makes people around you feel terrified once it is activated. Has it been contaminated?

Why are all the exercises you practice ancient methods? Do you want to actively transform the wilderness to break through the bottleneck?

…

Such questions have been filled with people's daily bits and pieces for a long time.

Considering the actual situation in the 53rd year of the new immortal calendar, of course, it cannot be said that such vigilance is wrong. But it is obvious that some people's vigilance was wrong from the beginning.

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"Xiao Wu, tell me the truth, do you really think that woman is a wilderness woman?"

Faced with the questioning of his brother who has the cultivation of Jindan, the young foundation-building cultivator smiled helplessly.

"Brother, you've seen the image in the water mirror. Not to mention whether it's desolate or not, I'm not sure if that person is a man or a woman!"

"Then why are you so sure that you smell the desolate smell? You even mentioned the death of my parents!"

"Brother, you're blaming your lifesaver. If I don't say it more seriously, how can I gain his trust?"

"You...you're really blaming me!?"

"Yes, I'm blaming you, but I can't help it! This time the village was attacked by the wild beast, and the pillars were almost destroyed and the whole army was wiped out. It seems to be an unavoidable accident, but in fact, the pillars of the village are definitely desolate. There has been feedback on this. I remembered the scale wrongly at the time. I thought it was just the regular noise of the Dinghuang Pillar, so I didn't take it seriously..."

"What? !"

"Brother, we are brothers, I will not hide anything from you. If I was really attacked by the wild beast before, then I died here, which was a worthy death. But since I survived... After the sect investigates, they will definitely find that I am derelict in my duty! And brother, as my guarantor, you will also be implicated!"

"..."

"Our Wu family has always served the Quanshan Sect. As a result, after the heavenly calamity came, the sect from top to bottom almost all became desertified. The ancestor of our Wu family The clan was also implicated and committed a heinous crime during the Battle of Dinghuang. It took our descendants decades to finally clear the suspicion, become innocent, and be valued by the superiors... If we suffer another blow, we will never be reincarnated!"

"Then you can't repay your life-saving benefactor with hatred!"

"Brother! I'm not repaying kindness with hatred! That person's magical skills are indeed very weird. Think about it, so many exotic beasts comparable to golden elixirs were wiped out by her magical power. Have you seen this kind of magical power? And after she saved people, she left in a hurry. Is it really not suspicious? "

"… …It’s suspicious, but what if we find out later that he is really a chivalrous man?”

“Find out? Alas, if you, brother, are in charge of the investigation, you may be able to find out everything clearly in the end. But what if that master takes action?”

“That… master?”

“It’s Master Pi who has relied on a pair of golden eyes to see through countless wild demons’ disguises and has risen all the way. In fact, our Wu family is also thanks to Master Pi’s care, so we can have what we have today. It’s time to return the favor… Brother, you are a great Jindan master, but you can only do some chores. Don’t you want to go further?”

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As the young people in the village built a foundation, they persuaded Brother Jindan who came to help and reported the relevant situation to Wangcheng with added details. The sects in the city quickly dispatched Master Pi, whose cultivation had reached the peak of Nascent Soul.

Led by Master Pi and accompanied by ten long-time warriors, Jindan quickly came to the village, conducted a serious investigation, and then gave an authoritative conclusion.

"I don't think that female Taoist fellow Taoist is some kind of desolate demon in disguise. On the contrary, I am very grateful to her for helping in time and saving the lives of the whole village. But unfortunately, after I received the news, I was in the sect's Baiyantang has carefully investigated all the directories and read the information of all Taoist friends registered nearby, but no one can match it..."

"So, either she is a distinguished guest from afar and has not had time to register in Wangcheng. Or there are some omissions in the registration work we carried out locally some time ago. In short, it is my duty as a person in charge of the job, and I must take the initiative to find her. On the one hand, she expresses her gratitude, and on the other hand, she also goes through the formalities carefully and issues a Qiongyue Jade Slip that can prove her identity.”

However, this official, Mr. Pi, who seemed to have a loyal personality and treated people with sincerity, was fully armed when he led the team, and his treasure bag was full of all kinds of vicious magic weapons and poisons. His ten golden elixir followers were also full of murderous intent, and they formed a hunting sword array as soon as they left the city. With such a lineup, even if you encounter a master in the middle stage of becoming a god, you are expected to have an advantage.

As for the water mirror, it seems that the most "female warriors" in the late Nascent Soul stage are easily captured.