Defying the Martial Way to Burn the Heavens

A group of warriors with similar clothes to Ji Rao and others were scattered in a certain ice crystal hall, carefully looking for something.

Because he didn't know much about the Fengtian Dynasty, Zuo Feng didn't know that the reason why the clothes of these warriors in front of him were so similar to those of Ji Rao and others was because they also belonged to the forces of Fengtian Beizhou.

If divided from a broad direction, Fengtian Dynasty has two imperial forces here. One of these two forces belongs to the army directly, and the management is relatively strict. The other belongs to the city lords of each city, and their management is relatively loose.

The power directly under the imperial army is more focused on the training of warriors, and naturally it is also a force where strong people emerge in large numbers. Of course, these powerful warriors are naturally subject to strict constraints from the army, and their freedom is definitely a little worse.

On the other hand, the city lord forces are composed of various county cities, main cities and town cities. They are scattered all over the empire, and the stars are like a big net covering the entire Fengtian Dynasty.

They are responsible for all cities and everything in the corresponding range around the city, from grain farming to the trading of materials, from the training of some warriors to the training of various refiners and alchemists.

The city lord can be said to have very great power, but the management is relatively loose. They can develop the city under their jurisdiction according to their own ideas.

Although the empire will not personally participate in the specific ideas and means of development, it only stipulates the amount of resources to be handed over to the empire before the end of each year. If the development is good, there will be no difficulty in handing over these resources, but if the development is not good, then they will have to plunder the cities and surrounding areas under their management.

The Fengtian Dynasty has a policy that no matter where it is, it is not allowed to stop the flow of population. That is to say, when a place is not developing well, or even to the point of chaos, the people under its jurisdiction will naturally leave.

Losing the population will naturally lose the ability to hand over resources, and this will form debts by the end of the year, and these debts will eventually fall on the city lord.

Such a city lord will not only be dismissed, but also transferred to the capital of the empire to become a team directly under the lord of the country.

It sounds good, but in fact, it will be difficult to stand out in the future after joining this team, and it will also become a shame to bear.

This is why after the fall of Beizhou, these city lords headed by Wan Liang, even if they took risks and swept away all the resources and warriors they could take away, were unwilling to return to the imperial capital to develop again.

Because when Beizhou fell, they inevitably took on a lot of debts. This is the system of the Xuanwu Empire, which will not be shaken or changed because of the special situation of the invasion of the Nether Beast.

One of the important reasons why the Fengtian Dynasty has been able to gradually grow to the top of the various empires in recent years is that they manage the empire with a system, not a certain person.

Whether it is the civil strife of the Xuanwu Empire some time ago, or the recent fall of the Ye Lin Imperial Capital, the reasons for these civil strife are all because of "people".

When people manage the empire, once they take advantage of the contradictions between people, or a beheading operation against the high-ranking lord, it may directly shake the foundation of the entire empire.

When an empire is controlled and managed by the system, let alone the fall of Xiangbeizhou, even if the imperial capital falls and the king is directly beheaded, it can still ensure that the empire itself will not fall into chaos.

The entire Fengtian Dynasty is like an earthworm. Even if it is cut in half, it can still survive tenaciously and grow again.

Therefore, Wan Liang and others did not dare to stay in the scope of the Fengtian Dynasty, because even if there is no threat from the Nether Beast, they can't think of winning a place for themselves under this system.

If in Ye Lin and Xuanwu Empire, you only need to rely on a powerful force or a powerful super family, then you can develop with the help of shelter. But the system of the Fengtian Dynasty simply cannot allow the existence outside the system management.

Wan Liang came to this point today, and his heart was full of helplessness, but what made him even more desperate was that his and others' desperate last gamble pushed them into a greater abyss.

Now Wan Liang led several followers to explore the crystal wall of the hall carefully, but his eyes occasionally glanced at several figures sitting cross-legged in meditation not far away.

An old man with long silver hair and a simple and resolute appearance, and a middle-aged man with a thin body and a blue-gray face.

In this somewhat strange team, the strongest ones are the two of them. Wan Liang could only feel that the other party's cultivation was far higher than his own, at least above the Yu Nian period, but he could not accurately judge at which level.

While observing secretly, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his mind. Even with the cultivation of the middle stage of Condensing Nian, Wan Liang almost fell to the ground.

The two people around him subconsciously came to support him, but they also trembled, their faces turned pale in an instant, and they uttered a suppressed roar.

This sudden change, on the one hand, Blizzard and others just glanced at it lightly, and then retracted their gazes, with indifferent expressions without too many waves.

Those who wore the same clothes as Wan Liang had anger burning in their eyes, but when they looked at the gray-faced middle-aged man, they were filled with fear and despair.

Everyone has just experienced the pain that goes deep into the soul, and along with the pain is torture that cannot be described in words.

Among all the people present, there were actually only a few city lord-level figures headed by Wan Liang. They had heard of the existence of "Soul-eating Insects", but they did not understand the specific situation.

As for the true horror of the Soul-Eating Insects, people who have never really come into contact with it cannot express it in words. Moreover, for people outside the ancient wilderness, few people have heard of the names, and the specific situation is even more difficult to know. .

For Wan Liang and others now, they feel very regretful. They regret that they might as well have fought to the death. Even if it is difficult to escape the fate of being killed in the end, at least he does not have to suffer such painful torture. Every moment, people feel the suffocating pressure.

Of course, this is because they are now parasitized by soul-eating insects, so they have such thoughts in their hearts. If there are no soul-eating insects in their bodies now, and they are asked to make a choice again, there is really no telling what they will choose.

The pain came quickly and was very severe, but it also went away very quickly, and apart from feeling that my soul became a little weaker, it didn't seem to cause any serious damage.

Chakul felt somewhat uncomfortable with such torture. On the contrary, Zhen You had lived in the ancient wilderness for a period of time. Therefore, his inner thoughts changed quickly, and he was now able to face it calmly.

As for Han Bing, he actually has relatively little contact with the outside world. In his eyes, he only cares about the life and death of the people he values. This aspect is very similar to Nifeng.

Huan Kong didn't change much from the beginning to the end. Now he was just doing his exercises and regulating his breathing. Even the people in the team just think that he is a little special, but no one really knows what is special about him.

Blizzard's eyelids moved, and he glanced at Ghost Nightmare with narrowed eyes. This was originally just a very inconspicuous little move, but Ghost Nightmare immediately noticed it.

"Hey, it's already reached this time, and you have other thoughts. Isn't this just contempt for my method of Gui Man Pavilion? This is just a small punishment and warning. If you have other thoughts, then Don’t blame me for being rude to you.”

When he said this, Guiying suddenly turned his head slowly, looked at Blizzard with a meaningful look, and said: "You clearly gave them a great opportunity, but you didn't cherish it. Isn't this just asking for death? You Is that right...?"

Blizzard raised his eyelids slightly, then looked back at Ghost Nightmare calmly, and said in an approving tone: "What Brother Ghost Nightmare said is exactly what the opportunity is... of course you must cherish it, otherwise you will have no choice but to regret it. In time.”

The two of them looked at me and I looked at you. After looking at each other for a long time, they suddenly burst into laughter. The laughter shook the entire ice crystal hall as if it was shaking violently.

The laughter of the two people sounded very lively, but it stopped suddenly at a certain moment. From the loud laughter before to the sudden silence at this time, there was no buffer in between, giving people the feeling that the whole heart suddenly fell into the abyss. Such uncomfortable feeling.

Wan Liang, who had just experienced severe pain, sighed and glanced at the two people around him. Although he didn't say anything, the two followers around him immediately understood Wan Liang's thoughts.

Wan Liang did have some caution before because he saw that the team controlling him was very special and seemed to have deep internal conflicts.

So he considered whether he could take advantage of this. However, his little idea was not only discovered by the ghost, but also directly warned by the other party.

Especially for Gui Mao and Blizzard, their meaningful conversation did not conceal their conflicts, but at the same time, their laughter revealed part of their cultivation.

It was precisely because Wan Liang saw the powerful cultivation of the two that he gave up completely. Because facing such a strong man, he didn't think he had much chance at all.

The main reason why I and others are still alive is that they are still valuable. If you lose your value, death is likely to be waiting for you.

With a desperate and helpless sigh, Wan Liang began to search for clues on the ice wall seriously.

In this busy environment, no one noticed that Huan Kong's neck moved slightly, and then wisps of thought power slowly spread outward in his body.