Chapter 792 Chongli and Ershi
Zhang Xu advanced in the snowstorm, surrounded by a closed and miserable town, which was no different from the empty suburbs, because the lives living in it had long been destroyed.
Rather than calling it a town, it was better to call it a ruin.
However, there was still a little difference from the ruins, that is, the houses here were still usable, and people would not waste firepower on the houses. Although people died, most of these houses only suffered ordinary damage, and no one came to deliberately destroy the houses.
This made Zhang Xu breathe a sigh of relief, and he seemed to have a chance to breathe.
Because the house itself has power.
According to the theory of witchcraft, the land is like the body of a person. Under the sky, all are one body. The head and feet are separated by hundreds of millions of miles. People live on the land, just like fleas and lice eating people and stealing people's skin, just like people digging the ground and stealing the body of the land. Then the land of a house is like a part of a person's flesh.
Therefore, people living on the land or sleeping directly on the ground will be backfired by the earth, causing damage to the body. This is also the reason why sleeping directly on the ground will catch a cold.
Therefore, one of the important purposes of building a house is to isolate this kind of erosion, and people can be protected in the house.
Zhang Xu carefully found a house that looked more luxurious, because luxurious houses would have better effects, and then took a look at Feng Shui to make sure it was not a haunted house.
Then, he entered the house, took out a piece of red paper from the mustard bag, wrote the year, month, day and address on the ridge purlin with red paper, and slapped it on the beam with his saliva.
At the same time, he used a red head rope to string two strings of copper coins, a pair of chopsticks, and a half-foot red cloth horizontally tied in the middle of the ridge purlin, and wrote the words "good luck".
Then, he lit incense, began to pray to the house god, and wrote some simple blessings.
This is a common trick used by rural witches. It is essentially a sacrifice to the "house god", hoping to be blessed with the power of the house god.
After Zhang Xu finished worshiping the gods, he searched in the house again and found some bowls. He took out one of them, filled it with his own dry food, and then built it next to the house next door. This was to distribute it to neighbors and worship the lonely ghosts.
This series of rituals were actually to place the house god. Wudao believed that there were gods everywhere between heaven and earth, so the house god had been there since the day the foundation was laid. The house god itself was a wandering god, so the address had to be written on red paper and slapped on the beam to attract wandering gods from all sides to come and live.
The bowl covered outside was also for the wandering ghosts to help pass on the message.
If the wandering gods were willing, they would settle down here, become the house god, and protect the family.
Zhang Xu placed the house god in the middle of the ridge purlin, making it the highest position in the family, and it would bless the family's health from above. He used a red head string to string money, which was to pay respect to the house god first, and put it next to its shrine.
But...
There was a problem.
When all the rituals were completed, there should have been wandering gods returning to their positions as house gods, and then the power of the house god would protect the house and isolate the cold from the outside.
But the wandering gods didn't come.
Zhang Xu didn't understand, what happened?
If it was an orthodox witch, he would soon find the answer himself, that is because... there is no wandering god in the whole Song Kingdom.
The elimination of humanity is not just to eliminate those lives.
From the most basic plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, algae, to the spirits of the earth, to various wandering gods, ghosts -
all, without exception, all died.
The witches, or their witchcraft, sacrifices, using the power of mountains and rivers, and the help of gods from all sides, were all wiped out.
This battlefield was originally built to clamp down on the witches.
Although Zhang Xu is a warrior, although he does not practice witchcraft, he was born in a witchcraft environment after all, and he has learned a few tricks from the rural witch, and these methods are ineffective here.
Humanity has calculated everything and put it into practice.
Li Qi wants to deliberately let a major festival come out to lure humanity and solve the Baiyue crisis by the way?
Well, then eat the bait openly, drag the fishing rod and even the fisherman into the water.
You can fish, so don't the fish want to eat you?
Rendao may not know Li Qi's plan, but they certainly know that Li Qi has a purpose.
That doesn't matter.
Everyone has a purpose, so let's see who has better means and who can achieve the goal first.
This is a war, not a battle.
A battle between the four grades has already been fought.
And the war has just begun.
For Li Qi and the military strategist of Rendao, their struggle has slowly begun.
All the creatures of Baiyue, trillions of creatures, are beginning to be affected by the wisdom of the two. They can't even perceive this influence, but all this will be firmly promoted without any hesitation.
But... there is a hidden danger.
Li Qi will be more tired.
He just fought with the fourth-grade Zhechong Duwei of Rendao, and when the other party knew his footing, he was tied by targeted tactics.
But the other party can recover from his injuries, while Li Qi has to drag his seriously injured body to continue to compete with the other party's wise military advisor.
His loss of the spirit in his body was so serious that his soul had to take on other arrangements in the inner world, which directly led to a serious limitation of his computing power.
Using the CPU to run the GPU's work took up a lot of his computing power, and the deduction in this case was naturally severely limited.
In other words...
Li Qi's intelligence has become lower now.
For humanity, maybe this is also included in the calculation?
All in all, the situation remains uncertain.
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On the other side, Bai Di came to the battlefield.
He was ordered to come here to collect intelligence. There must be similar roles in humanity. After all, Qipin said it was small or big, and it was just right to do this kind of thing.
He climbed up a bumpy road and came to a desolate wilderness.
It was sunset at this time, orange-red snowflakes were blown up by the wind, rocks and thorns were scattered on the plateau, shrubs were bent under the weight of snow, and the vast winter sky shrouded everything.
It was obviously not the season for snow, but because of the magic, it was snowing for thousands of miles.
The ground is now covered with snow, and the orange-red sunset reflects on the snow, dazzling people's eyes. What falls in the sky is not so much snow as ice, which is blown up by the strong wind. A flutter flew down from the sky, hitting the ground with a rustling sound. From time to time, a shrill whistle sounded in the wind, which was extremely harsh.
The snow is falling, the wind is blowing, the cold light is messy, and the scenery is bitterly cold.
"The method of praying for disaster... This snow disaster is the method of witchcraft." Bai Di looked at the snow. He had been investigating for several days and had almost obtained the results.
The sky has three elements, the earth has five elements, and the five elements are composed of the earth's energy. Water does not moisten the bottom, fire does not burn the top, the wood does not bend and straight, the metal does not follow the leather, the earth is in love with the crops, and the crops are not ripe, this is called losing its nature. The nature of the five elements originates from the earth, humans are attached to the earth, and the five things of humans correspond to the five elements of the earth.
The current situation is that ‘the water does not moisten the water’.
If the water does not moisten it, it is a sign of fault.
All kinds of disasters include constant cold, constant darkness, snow and frost, hail, evil fish, locusts, pigs, dragons and snakes, horses, epidemics, drum monsters, meteorites, floods, water changes, black eyes, and black auspiciousness. All belong to water.
At this moment, there is a magic trick that prevents the water from flowing down, causing the five elements to become unbalanced, and then there is heavy snow for thousands of miles, and the coldness of this snow is almost irresistible.
For an individual strong person, such a cold can be tolerated, and at worst it will only cause frostbite, but it will not damage the roots. However, for the army, this kind of snow disaster will not only affect morale, but also lead to widespread tragedy. Battle casualties.
"A humane witch..." Bai Di thought for a while and finally came to this conclusion.
There are also witches in humanity.
In the past, when the human and witch families separated, the Chongli clan did not follow the witch path, but chose to follow the human emperor at that time.
Now it seems that Wu Jin from the human side should have taken action.
He copied the information and sent it to confidential offices through magic.
A team of experts will soon take over this information and study how to crack it.
The battlefield is like this. You move against each other, competing with each other with their own methods. If you can't break it, then the advantage should be taken by the opponent.
After doing this, Bai Di continued to wander around the battlefield, searching for traces of the enemy's army, and reporting immediately upon discovery. Through this stupid method, the fog of the battlefield was lifted bit by bit, and the trends of humanity began to become clearer.
There is no other way but to use stupid methods. Direct deduction will definitely be interfered with, and viewing from a distance with magic, or simply looking down from the sky, may be affected.
For example, Bai Di is in a state of interference at the moment, and ordinary deduction methods cannot find him.
Then we can only use people, let the scouts come to the battlefield to see it in person, and then report it to the superiors. Such fragmented information can be pieced together into a complete battlefield.
However, he did not take action. After all, it was not impossible for these humane armies to surround and kill the seventh grade. He had to be careful. Intelligence was more important.
However, when Bai Di was doing this, he suddenly turned around.
The moment he turned back——
The two flying knives had already come within two feet of him.
The Haechi sword in his hand was unsheathed directly. With a clear and sweet sword sound, two flying knives were knocked down. At the same time, a phantom began to appear around Bai Di.
Like an ox, it has one horn and green hair, its body is like a deer and its four legs are like a bear.
That is the phantom of Haechi, the appearance of an upright beast.
"?" Bai Di showed a puzzled expression. He found no trace of anyone.
But it was obvious that there had been an attack just now.
Before he could figure it out, there were two more flying knives.
The flying knife cut two thin lines in the snow, passing through the air silently, silky and full of arc beauty.
It's fast and the blade is light.
However, in front of Haechi's eyes that could see through right and wrong, this was nothing at all. Haechi's sword swung again and penetrated the flying knife.
Then, almost at the same time, Bai Di's demonic energy was injected into the sword body, the rotating blade changed instantly, and a violent blow came instantly!
In the seemingly empty air——
The blade of the sword penetrated the flesh, stirring up a splash of blood. The friction between the blade and the muscles and cartilage made a tooth-piercing sound.
A figure then ran away, avoiding Bai Di's pursuit.
"Being in harmony with nature...it is indeed a witch." Bai Di swung his sword, and the blood fell into the white snow, and then melted into the orange-red sunset, as if nothing happened.
Just now, it was a blend of body and nature, and the other party seemed to think that this could blind him.
Fortunately, Haechi’s eyes can see through people’s hearts.
He really couldn't find the opponent, but he could clearly see the fluctuations of 'mood'. This was different from the principle of 'penetrating the human heart' of high-level practitioners. This was Haechi's innate magical power, but in any case, it was enough to see through the opponent.
As long as he could sense his ‘mood’, then his body would be fused with nature.
So, Bai Di immediately followed him, using his own speed to follow closely.
Perhaps realizing that he could not run away, the witch who had fused with nature chose to stop and at the same time lifted the form of fusion with nature.
That was an ordinary witch, also of the seventh rank, but... the cultivation method was significantly different from that of Wushen Mountain.
"As a witch, but used by others, the two clans of Chongli are really... unique." Bai Di also stopped immediately and spoke.
While speaking, he was also observing the other party.
The cultivation method was strange, and there was a huge difference between it and the witches of Wushen Mountain, but it was obvious that they were of the same origin.
The two clans of Chongli, these two witches, were the two branches that finally chose to join the human way when the ancient humans and gods separated.
Zhuanxu, who was both the Holy Emperor and the Human Emperor, ordered Chongli and the others to use their magical powers to separate humans from gods and to connect the earth and heaven. This was a major change.
The result of the change was "humans and gods have different professions". Since then, there has been a distinction between the hundreds of officials of the human way and the hundreds of officials of the witch way. This was reflected in the names of official positions, which no longer gave the names of gods to official positions. This also directly led to the end of the ancient times, and the boundaries between humans, gods, and witches were completely drawn.
To this day, witches still have a good relationship with gods and monsters, but the human way has already ridden far ahead on its own path and reached the point of "replacing heaven with humans".
"Humans and witches are originally one, so how can they be independent? It is the Wushen Mountain that refuses to give up power and is unwilling to recognize the name of the Holy Emperor. They think they can mediate all things. Isn't it more arrogant? They mediate all things in the middle, which itself thinks they are more noble than all things. What is the difference between them and the human way?" The man also replied.
But Bai Di did not reply to this. He did not care about the things in the ancient times. It had been a long time. Whatever happened, it was fine.
He was just paying attention to the other party's magic and said, "Chongli and Li are both called together, and both belong to Huozheng. Huozheng Li is in charge of the land and belongs to the people. It is located in the south, so... you are using fire magic to prevent the water vapor from moistening down? This heavy snow is your masterpiece."
"Yes, but... why do you care about this? Aren't you going to chase after it?" The witch was a little curious.
"No need. This is not your real body. It is useless to kill it. It is better to talk to you for a few more words." Bai Di said.
"Talk to you for a few more words? That's right. You are possessed by the residual soul of Xiezhi and can distinguish the truth from the false. If I talk to you for a few more words, I don't know how many things you will get out of me." The witch smiled and pointed out Bai Di.