Chapter 239
Father Gu's face was a little confused and he just said calmly:
"That's just following the trend. When we businessmen do business, we have to assess the situation and then follow the trend."
"This city is isolated from the outside world. The army is blocked in this city. If your father and I don't donate food, Li Changge will have to come to 'borrow' food in a few days."
"If he doesn't come to borrow it, other people in the city might come to rob it, and then they won't tear your father and I alive?"
"If you give out food early, you can earn some face."
When Gufu said this, his anger gradually disappeared.
"If you send food, send food." Gu's father said angrily:
"Our family has a big business, so it doesn't hurt to give some away."
For the sake of his eldest son, he finally nodded.
But after a while, when no one was around, Gu Fu secretly pulled Daozhen over again and warned:
"Child, don't listen to your brother. His brain is broken. He keeps saying that he wants to fight for the Great Yan and the people."
"How can there be any great inflammation in this desert? If the imperial court had meant it, reinforcements would have been sent long ago. Why is it like this?"
"With your brother's temperament, he will suffer a big loss sooner or later if he gets some serious illness."
"Okay." Daozhen replied seriously and blinked.
"You've been a kid with a clear mind since you were a child, but you just don't like to talk... Sigh, just don't imitate your brother in the future." Gu's father sighed:
"Your brother is not suitable to inherit the family business. Our Gu family still has to look at you... In short, doing business depends on following the trend."
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The scene changes.
Daozhen was still playing with the ants in the yard, but there was already an extra coffin in the inner room.
Gu Mu sat in front of the coffin dumbly, with tears on her face.
There were no tears on Father Gu's face, but his expression was dull:
"I asked you to be a hero. Do you know the price this time?"
Gu's father walked to the door of the granary in his home's warehouse and looked at the food stuffed inside, but his heart felt empty.
Daozhen was still teasing the ants, his eyes were clear and he didn't have too many emotions.
But at this moment, he suddenly raised his head.
At this time, the shadows of the clouds in the sky changed, and an old Taoist with white eyebrows appeared above the clouds, riding a cloud and standing in the sky.
"The great road is fifty, the Tianyan is forty-nine, there is a glimmer of hope in the end." The white-browed old Taoist looked down at the city below, waved his hand and touched his sleeves, and dozens of shining stones fell like raindrops, scattered on the ground. All over the city.
"This thing is called the Spirit Testing Stone." The white-browed old man's voice echoed:
"If there are any mortals in this city who can make the spiritual stone appear strange phenomena, they are those with spiritual roots and can practice the path of immortality."
"If there is anyone among mortals who really has spiritual roots, they can worship at the Immortal Gate and leave this place."
This old man with white eyebrows left as quickly as he came. When the generals in the military camp in the city gathered after hearing the news, he had already disappeared into the sky and disappeared, leaving only dozens of spirit-detecting stones scattered throughout the city. .
One of the stones fell right in front of Daozhen's house.
The sound of horse hooves came closer and closer. The spirit-detecting stone was picked up by a middle-aged general and held in his hand. He took a closer look and saw a faint light coming from the spirit-detecting stone.
"Changshi, do you really have spiritual roots? Now our Li family will not be extinct." A voice came from the side, and a middle-aged general with sword-browed eyebrows and starry eyes came over. The two looked very similar.
When Qiao Mu heard the name and looked up, he had some guesses in his mind.
Li Changshi was the old man who guarded the arsenal in the isolated city. However, when Qiao Mu saw him, Li Changshi was already very old and only had half of his face left. It was hard to tell that he looked really good in his middle age.
The person next to him was presumably Li Changge.
Li Changge's name, Qiao Mu, has been mentioned many times by the veterans of Gucheng. He was the deputy of the Martial Saint and the founder of "Lingxi Jue", but he died a little early.
After hearing this, Li Changshi frowned and threw away the spirit-detecting stone in his hand, frowning and saying:
"Brother, are you kidding me? Are you asking me to join the Immortal Sect?"
"This is obviously a trick of the Xianmen. It is obviously an attempt to divide the soldiers and civilians in the city and disrupt the morale of our military."
"In my opinion, we should collect all the stones scattered by the Qing Taoists and leave nothing behind."
Li Changshi still had a clear conscience.
If the stranger did not leave a way for the soldiers and civilians in the city to survive, then the people in the city would naturally have only one option: fight to the death until the city is destroyed.
If someone with extraordinary talent who lives in spiritual roots is really detected, people's hearts may change.
If not enough, there will really be people who are willing to send talents into the Immortal Sect, just to save their lives.
Li Changshi is a determined spirit-refining martial artist, but others may not be able to withstand the temptation to survive.
Chapter 254 Follow the Immortal and Defy the Mortal (4k
"Long poem... you still don't understand." Li Changge shook his head slightly, and a tired look appeared on his face again.
After Wu Shengren left, Li Changge became the strongest man in the city and the leader in the army.
He holds great power and is also strong, so he can see further than ordinary soldiers and generals.
He knew clearly...that their remnant army could not be the opponent of the Immortal Sect.
Although he didn't know why Xianmen didn't attack by force, Li Changge also knew that the city would eventually be destroyed, and they would die after all, with no possibility of survival.
This was also the reason why he advised Wu Shengren to leave.
"If you stay in this city, everyone will die, including me." Li Changge said calmly:
"If there are talents in this city who can make even strangers' hearts flutter, then it's not a bad idea to send them out. It's better to live one by one than to die with the rest of us."
The words have not yet fallen.
Then he saw a half-year-old child in the distance behind him picking up the spiritual stone, and the stone emitted a dazzling light.
"This..." The two brothers Li Changge looked at each other with shock on their faces.
"The spirit-detecting stone can display such a strong vision... Is this the kind of person Qing Taoist people are waiting for?"
Li Changge looked at the child who picked up the stone and said calmly:
"I heard that among the immortal monks, there is a kind of top spiritual root qualification, which is called Tian----"
"It's Iron Spirit Root, yes, it's Iron Spirit Root." The child suddenly raised his head and said this.
From the moment he spoke, the expression on the child's face changed slightly. He was obviously still the same person, but he looked a little different.
In fact, Qiao Mu couldn't hold himself any longer.
He could still pretend to be dreaming without mentioning the spiritual roots, but when he mentioned the heavenly spiritual roots, he was instantly broken from his previous immersive state.
How could he not know about his spiritual roots? Even in his dreams, he never thought that one day he would have heavenly spiritual roots.
The sense of immersion is too bad, bad review.
"What kind of spiritual root is Iron Spiritual Root? I've never heard of it. I'm afraid it's Heavenly Spiritual Root?" Li Changge was confused in his dream.
"The situation has become smaller. After practicing the Iron Crotch Kung Fu to the highest level of perfection, you can enter Taoism through martial arts, enter the Immortal Tao through martial arts, and condense a supreme iron spiritual root. How can it be compared to a mere heavenly spiritual root?" That half The older child said so.
Now that he was freed from the immersion state, Qiao Mu stopped pretending.
He then tried to explore in the illusion... Now it seemed that this dream-like hallucination was not just a memory replay, Li Changge in the hallucination would still react to Qiao Mu's answers.
Outside the illusion, Daozhen was also a little surprised, his eyes showing a strange light.
In fact, what he wanted to do was very simple, just to send the Qiao family warriors into a dream, forgetting his own existence in the dream, and put himself in Daozhen's shoes and experience his own memories, in order to test the sincerity of the famous Qiao family.
But why could this Qiao family member wake up from their dream? This was an accident that Daozhen had never encountered before.
"Perhaps this Qiao family is too strong? I have never seen such a powerful martial artist. Maybe if you have practiced martial arts to a certain level, you can also resist the magical magic array to a certain extent." Daozhen has no doubt about him.
He is also a casual person. Qiao Mu's performance was beyond his expectation, but it made him feel more interesting.
He did not interfere with the fantasy, but continued to watch quietly.
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"Supreme Iron Spiritual Root?" Li Changge thought thoughtfully. He seemed to really believe it and said seriously:
"There is such an immortal genius in the city... You shouldn't stay in this city."
"Why can't you stay?" Qiao Mu looked up as a half-grown child and asked:
"Then why does Li Changshi stay again? He can die, but I can't?"
Qiao Mu raised his head, not looking at Li Changge. Instead, he looked up at the sky and asked loudly:
"Since you already know that staying in this city will eventually lead to death, then why don't you leave? Why don't you let Li Changshi surrender first and then worship the immortal gate?"
"Since you already know the outcome of the future, why do you choose the path of death?"
"Whose children are here, both big and small?" Li Changshi was a little unhappy:
"If the soldiers I have dare to ask that, I will have to punish him."
Li Changshi muttered a few words and frowned at the child in front of him:
"I don't want to surrender. I know that staying in this city will lead to a dead end. Naturally, it's because...it's because of ---------"
Li Changshi lost his voice midway through his words. He just looked straight at Qiao Mu, his expression turned blank, and he seemed to be saying something, but no sound came out at all.
Not only him, but also Li Changge next to him.
The two middle-aged generals became expressionless wooden men at this time, looking directly at Qiao Mu.
"It's really like a dream..." Qiao Mu finally tried it out this time.
The abnormality of the Li Changshi brothers is like a virgin's erotic dream, which always ends abruptly at a critical moment... The relevant DLL file is missing and cannot be loaded at all.
If this hallucination is regarded as a dream created by Daozhen, then in his dream, even if the Li Changge brothers appeared, it would be difficult for the two dreamers to personally tell the reasons for voluntarily dying.
Because Daozhen cannot create such a dream.
Distorted, lost in reality.
If you force the performance to continue, it will crash due to the lack of DLL files.
Qiao Mu thought this, and sure enough, he felt that the scene around him had changed again. He had clearly walked out of the yard and returned to the house of Daozhen's house. Brother Li Changge had also disappeared. There was only the ancient father and mother in front of him, and a coffin.
At the same time, Qiao Mu once again felt a little confused, and his sanity was obviously affected... Apparently someone couldn't pretend anymore, so he just lifted the table outside the venue and skipped this scene.
Qiao Mu smiled slightly, but did not resist. He continued to let his mind wander and continue watching the show.
This time, the old father and the old mother were still quarreling.
Only the subject of the quarrel has changed.
"Do you regret it?" Gu's father glared at Gu's mother, his eyes hard to hide his anger:
"The eldest son went to be a soldier, so you just followed his words and talked about righteousness. Now he has become a hero and got his wish. Are you satisfied?"
Gu's mother looked dull and silent, just sitting there without speaking.
It was obvious that she regretted and was shaken, so she did not refute what her husband said.
But when Gu Mu was silent, her eyes caught sight of Daozhen standing at the door of the room, and the radiant spiritual stone in his hand, and she was startled.
She glanced at Daozhen a few times, then looked at the coffin outside the house.
"It's better to be alive. It would also be good if I could have a child." She looked at the coffin and said blankly.
....
"Congratulations to Senior Brother Qingyi for finding such a good disciple with Heavenly Spiritual Roots in this mortal city."
Taoist Qingzhuo looked slightly envious:
"I didn't expect that there would occasionally be such talented people among these mortals. I will go to this mortal dynasty to find one in the future."
"Junior brother is joking." Taoist Qing stroked his long beard and said with a smile:
"With the Heavenly Spiritual Root, one is naturally a genius in the immortal way, but there are also many geniuses who die in their infancy."
"Spiritual root qualifications are naturally extremely important, but the road to immortality is long, and your character must not be bad. Otherwise, even a genius in the immortal world will have a hard time walking for a long time."
Qingdao looked at the half-grown child in front of him with a smile.