Longevity starts with learning

Xishan County.

Located in the southwest of the Sanji Mountains, surrounded by mountains, it has been isolated from the world since ancient times.

Whenever there is trouble, this county is often the best place for people around Sanji Mountain to avoid disaster.

Even in today's technologically advanced era, this county is one of the few counties in this country that has not yet been connected to the outside world.

If you want to go out of the mountain, you almost have to rely on rugged mountain roads, or cross the mountains for hundreds of miles, and then go down along the Sanji River. If you want to go into the mountain, you can only cross the mountains.

Apart from this, there is almost no other choice.

Such isolation from the world naturally creates a great difference between this place and the outside world.

Although the information society has also allowed this county to have great exchanges with the outside world, the isolated geographical environment has still allowed this place to retain the living habits and even the living environment of hundreds of years ago.

There are no high-rise buildings. The wooden houses built along the mountain are ancient and quaint, and are obviously the architectural style of hundreds of years ago. Some ancient buildings are so old that they can even be traced back to thousands of years ago.

The streets are naturally not cement asphalt roads like the outside world, but ancient bluestone paving roads, crisscrossing each other. Each bluestone has a bright color after a long period of wear and tear.

The means of transportation on the streets are mostly animal transportation such as ox carts and donkey carts. Among modern transportation, only a few bicycles can barely adapt to the traffic environment in the deep mountains.

The only modern atmosphere that can be seen in the entire county is the electric lights and a few signal towers surrounding the mountains.

The fact that the mountain has been closed has not had much impact on Xishan County, which is deep in the mountains. Most of it is limited to the young generation who have had contact with the outside world.

The isolated environment has long formed a self-sufficient system.

If it were not for the modern information society that connected this county with the outside world, the mountain closure would probably have no impact on Xishan County.

To this day, the most direct impact on Xishan County is the martial law order.

With the order, all residents in the county must stay at home. Therefore, even at noon, the entire Xishan County was silent.

Except for the county officials who were carrying sprayers and spraying dye all over the county, there were basically no other people on the streets.

However, the geographical environment of Xishan County is special. Although the official inspection system here is stable, it is naturally not too perfect.

Especially in terms of manpower, it is always in short supply. Even if the martial law order has been issued for a long time, it can only rely on the many drones hovering over Xishan County to complete the most basic martial law in the county.

In addition, relying only on the few manpower in Xishan County is undoubtedly insufficient.

However, this inability has obviously disappeared after Chu Mu gave clear information about the target.

Outside Sanji Mountain, hundreds of large helicopters took off one after another, and the helicopters were all full of fully armed evil-removing soldiers.

The assembled drone formation, in coordination with the large bombers, directly brought down a heavy rain of dye in Xishan County.

Fighter jets circled over Xishan County, and the heavy artillery units also changed their coordinates and positions accordingly, with the black muzzles all aimed at this isolated mountain city.

In just less than half an hour, following the blockade of the outer perimeter of Sanji Mountain, a preliminary blockade line was also formed outside Xishan County.

In the command center, a meeting around Xishan County was also held urgently.

However, after the change just now, the command center has been transferred from the helicopter to a large camp outside the blockade line of Sanji Mountain.

In an information society, the existence of distance obviously does not have much impact on command.

The result of the meeting has been decided, but at this moment, it has not been issued to various departments.

The entire command center was silent, and everyone was waiting silently, only occasionally glancing at the closed door on one side of the command center, waiting for the people in the room to make the final decision.

If they couldn't make this decision, all they could do was to make further preparations and wait silently.

At this moment, in this room that could even be considered simple, Chu Mu sat cross-legged, his withered body seemed to have lost weight again.

His white hair fluttered without wind, and his face was no longer young, but old, no different from an old man who was about to die.

I don't know when Chu Mu slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes were no longer bright, but rather had a bit of old and turbid meaning.

Chu Mu rubbed his forehead, and his brows could not hide his fatigue.

He had been deliberately suppressing the return of the sword intent, and the most fundamental reason was that his current weak spirit could not bear his terrifying sword intent at all.

Once the sword will return, the soul blade across the sea of ​​consciousness will immediately raise his soul to a level that his current body cannot bear.

Moreover, the existence of the sword will also refine his spirit.

Although this is a good thing, it is undoubtedly a disaster in the absence of spiritual energy in this world.

After all, the premise of tempering is to have sufficient energy to satisfy the body and the spirit.

Tempering without sufficient energy supplement is obviously a way to death.

And after the change just now, he undoubtedly has both ways to die.

The blade of the soul stretched across the sea of ​​consciousness, and in an instant, the strength of his soul increased by several levels.

With his body, which is not even semi-mortal, carrying such a powerful soul, the natural result is that his blood will dry up and he will grow old.

As for the Soul Blade's tempering of energy and spirit, this is an unsolvable cycle.

Although he can suppress it, suppressing the Soul Blade means that he needs to use part of the Soul power all the time.

And in his current state, using the power of the soul at all times is obviously the way to die.

If he does not use the power of the divine soul to suppress the divine soul blade, but he does not have enough external energy to supplement the tempering needs, this will undoubtedly be a slow death...

"energy……"

Chu Mu pursed his dry lips, and the aura that had been maintained for a long time had to dissipate at this moment.

This situation was obviously out of his control.

He died before leaving the army...

This question was already the biggest problem before him.

As for how to solve the scourge of pollution and how to purify this spiritual world, these issues have to be postponed in the face of the problem at hand.

If not...

"One month!"

Chu Mu's eyes dimmed slightly, and a clear answer emerged in his mind.

With his current physical condition, if he doesn't find a solution within a month, it will be a dead end.

And the solution…

Dong dong dong...

At this moment, the door was suddenly knocked.

"Come in."

Chu Mu turned around and looked.

The door opened and Wang Yue walked in. Behind him, two men walked into the room carrying a large wooden box.

When the wooden box was put down, the two men bowed to Chu Mu, then respectfully exited the room, and the door was closed.

"Master, this is an urgent batch of medicinal materials. They are all according to your instructions. They are all over a hundred years old."

Wang Yue bowed and raised his hand to open the wooden box, revealing the wooden boxes piled inside.

After speaking, Wang Yue closed the wooden box and said cautiously: "Master, the blockade of Xishan County has been initially completed. Do you want to start the next step?"

Chu Mu said: "Continue to strengthen the blockade and search. As for Xishan County, the blockade will be maintained for the time being. As long as there are no abnormalities in the city, just keep monitoring."

Wang Yue hesitated and said: "If this is the case, will the source be haunted by ghosts?"

"Won't."

Chu Mu shook his head: "This source of ghosts and evil spirits is not unintelligent and barbaric. You can regard it as an intelligent AI that is not inferior to human wisdom. It has its own thinking logic."

"He has seen all our methods."

"He will inevitably change accordingly due to our methods."

"It's impossible to run out and die knowingly that you're outmatched."

"Until there is no absolute certainty, he will inevitably lurk in the dark and will not show up."

"Moreover, the sudden change just now cannot be said to be because He deliberately tempted us to make a move and made us make mistakes."

"The permanent population of Xishan County is tens of thousands. If such a large population enters rashly, He may take advantage of it."

"The initiative is in our hands. As long as we don't make mistakes, He will be the turtle in the urn."

"Now, just wait and see what happens..."

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