Chapter 711 Exile (4)
Zhenmo Ridge, the ninth city with the word "Zhen".
This is a city built along the east-west Howling Ridge, on the southern foot of the mountain.
Behind him was a mountain. On the black iron-colored mountain, there were densely packed blood-thirsty pines and hanging man-eating vines. The trunks and vines of these blood-thirsty pines and man-eating vines were all blood-red. Countless bones were densely spread out in the pine forest. The yin energy , and the evil spirit was soaring to the sky. It was really a very dangerous place in the world.
The ninth city named Zhen is one of the earliest garrison fortresses built along the Zhenmo Ridge.
The original city was only a dozen miles in radius, barely able to accommodate tens of thousands of people. After several repairs and expansions, the city is now two thousand miles long from east to west and about a hundred miles wide from north to south. There are nearly ten million true immortals and cultivators in the city.
The city wall, which was hundreds of feet high and covered with countless formations and prohibitions, was stained with countless blood plasma. Wisps of strange smoke seeped out from the wall, winding upwards along the wall like a living snake, and sharp roars and cries were emitted from time to time.
On the city wall, a group of soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long spears walked slowly. They were all True Immortals, but they were full of unpleasant smells. Their faces were tattooed with bloody golden seals. On the left cheek, there were five bloody characters "Zhen Zi Jiu Cheng" and on the right cheek, there was a bloody word "Sin".
Yin Yuan walked in the team, his face stiff, his eyes blank, his steps heavy like a zombie. His metal combat boots landed heavily on the ground, making a dull thud.
Being banished to the Demon Suppression Ridge, they originally thought that this was the darkest moment in their lives, but they did not expect that the Taoist Master Taiwei of the Biluo Taoist Palace would actually assign the identities of "criminals" to Yin Yuan and his companions.
In Demon-Suppressing Ridge, what kind of existence is the "prisoner"?
You do the dirty work.
It’s hard work, you do it.
If you want to work hard, you should go.
When evil spirits attack the city, you have to be on the front line.
When exploring the secrets outside the city, you have to be at the front.
If you go to the blood-thirsty pine forest at the back and collect those rare and precious secret medicines watered with countless blood and blood, and those man-eating vines with amazing lethality, you will naturally need 'bait' to attract their attention... Such a life-threatening job is naturally for the prisoners.
Especially, there is no way that the prisoners can escape from Demon-Suppressing Ridge!
After they were sent here, they were like soybeans thrown into a stone mill. They were bound to be crushed to pieces and the last bit of oil in their bodies was squeezed out. When they became completely useless waste, they would be buried in a pit dug at random, and thus became the foundation of this city...
Well, it's lucky to be able to become a foundation. At least it represents a "good end" and a "burial place".
If the rotating city lord has ruthless means, the dead true immortals are still rare resources. Their skin, flesh, bones, tendons, and even souls can be used to refine various rare immortal tools...
There is no place to bury the body, no intact corpse, and after being torn into pieces, the body will be doomed to eternal life with no hope of reincarnation!
This is an extremely common thing for prisoners in Demon-Suppressing Ridge.
Many sneaky methods that cannot be used openly in other places can be used unscrupulously in Demon-Suppressing Ridge on prisoners - after all, they are prisoners. Who would treat the prisoners in Demon-Suppressing Ridge as human beings?
"Not even pigs or dogs!" Yinyuan tightly grasped the long spear in his right hand and gritted his teeth.
The experiences in the Demon Suppression Ridge in the past few years were like a nightmare. It was like a sticky and dirty glue that wrapped around him and entangled him. No matter how hard he struggled, he could not escape from this nightmare.
A beam of light fell from the sky and landed directly next to Yin Yuan's group of prisoners.
Dozens of prisoners lowered their heads in fear and trepidation - in Demon-Suppressing Ridge, those who were labeled as prisoners were not even qualified to look ordinary cultivators in the eye. If they dared to look up and look directly at others, they would either be beaten and scolded, which was the lightest punishment... If they encountered a great immortal with a violent temper, it was common to be beheaded on the spot.
There was a sharp "swish" sound, and a flash of lightning as thick as a thumb struck Yin Yuan's body fiercely.
The electric light was so powerful that the heavy armor on Yin Yuan failed to provide any defense. The thick armor was pierced, and the violent electric current rushed into Yin Yuan's body. His body suddenly lit up and was almost turned translucent by the electric current.
Yin Yuan roared, screamed, and fell heavily to the ground with his body twitching.
Before he could recover from the terrible electric shock, the man stepped heavily on his head. Strands purple fairy light burst out, and Yin Yuan's helmet shattered. The man's boots inlaid with countless green dragon scales rubbed and crushed his face, grinding his face into pieces.
Blood gushed out like a spring, and Yinyuan's skull made crisp crackling sounds.
"Yinyuan...Emperor Yin...it's time to pay back the debt." The person who came, a tall and thin middle-aged man with a gloomy temperament, touched the two small mustaches on his upper lip, raised his head slightly to look at the sky, and kept stepping on Yinyuan's head with his right foot.
"Give us a few more days." Yin Yuan screamed, "Give us a few more days... Lao Yu and the others will be back in a few days..."
"Your group of loyal dogs?" The man laughed and waved his hand, driving away Yin Yuan's group of prisoners . The sound of "bang bang" rang out, and dozens of prisoners ran away as if they were running for their lives.
“To be honest, it’s hard for them… a group of eunuchs, who were banished to the Demon Suppression Ridge and have come to this point, are still loyal to you, the former emperor… so loyal! Tsk!”
The man smiled, and a wisp of purple fairy air fell from his hand. He grabbed Yin Yuan's neck and lifted him up like fishing, then carried him away quickly on the flowing clouds.
In the ninth city, guarding the city lord's mansion, more than a dozen true immortals wearing half-body immortal armor inside and immortal robes outside stood in front of the door, talking lazily about the latest news that had happened in the city recently.
Seeing the gloomy middle-aged man carrying Yin Yuan from the sky, a male immortal with long hair and snow-white peony-shaped light patterns looming around him suddenly laughed: "Why is Manager Shan personally collecting debts? Tsk, this is, this is, that emperor? How much does he owe you?"
Shopkeeper Shan grinned, "Not much, but even if we squeezed him dry, he still couldn't pay it back... I don't expect this guy to be able to pay the debt. Today, I'll use him as an example to make those bastards who owe my family money understand!"
The ground cracked at the finger point, and a stream of clear spring gushed out, which instantly turned into an ice pile as thick as a man's embrace.
Shopkeeper Shan laughed strangely and threw Yin Yuan onto the ice stake.
Countless tiny ice crystal barbs burst out from the ice stakes, piercing through Yin Yuan's body and firmly fixing it on the ice stakes. The cold air entered his body, and Yin Yuan's body, which had just been convulsed by the electric current, was suddenly frozen and seemed to crack, and he couldn't help but let out a shrill howl.
The next moment, Shopkeeper Shan raised his hand and three electric whips with a sharp hissing sound fell on Yin Yuan in an instant, hitting him so hard that electric flashes splattered all over his body and large pieces of flesh and blood were burned into charcoal.
Countless monks gathered from all directions, pointing at Yin Yuan and marveling at him.
The origins of cultivators in the major cities of Demon-Suppressing Ridge are extremely complex.
The largest number of them are people like Yinyuan, who have violated the sect's rules or offended the sect's top leaders, and were branded with a golden seal of criminal and thrown in to endure the hard times to survive.
Then, there are disciples from major sects such as Taoism and Buddhism who have a tacit understanding with each other.
They took turns to be stationed and guarding these cities, some for long periods of time and some for short periods of time. The shortest ones had been stationed here for ten or eight years, while the longest ones had been stationed here for about a thousand years.
In addition to these disciples of the great sects who were assigned to guard the city, there were also idle disciples from the large and small sects who formed their own teams and came to these cities to "explore" and "make money." These cultivators were numerous, and most of them were one or two true immortals who came with a large group of fellow disciples.
Many of these people came to Demon-Suppressing Ridge for the first time, so they also liked to watch the fun.
Regardless of the disciples of these sects, the most diligent ones in going to and from Demon Suppression Ridge are the members of large and small caravans. Some of these caravans are backed by the great sects of Buddhism and Taoism, and some are backed by the top families... The personnel are complex, good and bad, but they are the people who like to watch the fun and get information the most.
To use the words of a senior True Lord who was in charge of the Demon-Suppressing Ridge - even if these low-class people in the caravan came across a pile of cow dung, they would go up to it and smell the odor, or even taste it themselves to see if they could find any bargains.
Among these more serious people, there are also a large number of unserious people.
For example, those who have committed crimes, killed people, violated the sect's rules and regulations, and all kinds of messy 'fugitives', when they have nowhere to go, will run to Zhenmo Ridge and take refuge under the unique rules of Zhenmo Ridge - in the major cities of Zhenmo Ridge, the Taoist court and the Buddhist sect jointly issued a ban, strictly prohibiting 'normal' infighting among monks!
Therefore, Yinyuan, the "improper" criminal, was punished in public, and a large group of people of all kinds gathered from all directions, looking at Yinyuan with flashing eyes and various purposes.
Shopkeeper Shan now had a leather whip covered with barbs in his hand.
He whipped Yinyuan slowly and steadily, each blow going deep into the bone, causing Yinyuan to twitch and wail continuously.
From childhood to adulthood, has Yinyuan ever suffered such hardship?
"My fellow Taoists, my fellow Taoists, watch out!" Shopkeeper Shan was beating Yin Yuan while shouting, "I am Shan Youren, the shopkeeper of the 'Renyi Bank' in the ninth city of Zhenzi. If you are short of money, or need to cross the bridge urgently, you can go to my Renyi Bank!"
"Open the door to welcome guests from all over the world! I, Renyi Bank, have no other benefits, but just a sense of righteousness. It's a sense of righteousness. Whenever a Taoist friend asks for help, I, Renyi Bank, will do my best to help you!"
"But, our Renyi Bank is loyal and we hope that you fellow Taoists will also keep your promises, right?"
"This guy's name is Yin Yuan. Hey, he was originally an emperor... But now that he's been confined to the Demon Suppression Ridge, he has to follow the rules, right?"
"Three years ago, his wife was seriously ill, and she borrowed 30,000 low-grade immortal crystals from my Renyi Bank to buy a Hundred Herbs Filling Marrow Pill to save her life... We at Renyi Bank value loyalty, damn, loyalty... Because he was short of money and couldn't make ends meet for the time being, we didn't rush him to pay it back!"
"Now, after more than three years of delay, the money has compounded into 300,000 high-grade immortal crystals!"
"He... can't even pay!" Shopkeeper Shan said in a hoarse voice, "He can't even pay... He's even overdue on the interest for several days... Is there any justice in this? Is there any law in this?"
Another whip fell hard on Yinyuan.
