Cultivation starts with time management

"Let me check again." Qiu Changtian said confidently and calmly, then turned around and asked Kunlun Mirror:

"A Jing, how do I get to that cave?"

"Oh, it's very simple." Kunlun Mirror said lightly, "I'll do it."

As soon as the words fell, the two of them felt their world spinning, and then they appeared in a strange world.

I saw that there seemed to be an island below, surrounded by endless oceans.

Above the two are layers of cloudy clouds. Although it looks like a robbery cloud, it does not have the chilling atmosphere that pervades the sky and the earth. It seems to be just an ordinary cumulonimbus cloud.

Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian exchanged glances, then quickly landed on the island below.

There is a small town in the middle of the island, with houses lined up in row upon row, and it is roughly estimated that there are about a thousand households.

At this time, the residents were gathering in the open space in the center of the town, shouting at the mayor with righteous indignation.

Dozens of armed guards with spears scattered the residents murderously and forced them back to their respective residences.

Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian pressed down their sword lights and landed in the center of the town. The surrounding guards immediately looked as if they were facing an enemy, and rushed over with spears in their hands.

"Wait, stop!" The mayor hurriedly called the guards to stop, then stepped forward cautiously, cupped his hands and said, "I have seen the two immortals."

"Excuse me." Qiu Changtian said gently, "Let me ask you, have you ever seen such a practitioner?"

He briefly described Junior Brother Qiu's appearance and clothes, and the mayor immediately nodded and said:

"I've seen it! I've seen it! The Shangxian said that he wanted to help us solve the problem of thunderbolts. After taking the lightning protection pill, he rushed directly to the thunder cloud."

"Lei Shu?" Xu Yinglian asked in surprise.

"It's not safe here." The mayor stared at the cumulonimbus cloud above his head, and said with a fearful expression, "The two gods, please come with me, and let the old man explain later."

He ordered the soldiers to go back to their respective posts, and then he took the two of them home, closed the door, and called his wife to pour tea for them.

"So that the two celestial beings know about it." The mayor said with a bitter face, "You two celestial beings, you should have seen the thundercloud above our heads, right?"

"Not bad." Qiu Changtian nodded slightly.

"Our town is called 'Thunder Town'. According to the records left by the town, the thunder cloud above the head is called 'Evil Qi Jieyun', which is formed by the accumulation of evil spirit after death." The mayor sighed faintly. Said, "Probably every hundred years or so, it will descend on the island once."

"When the baleful cloud descends, everyone must stay at home and not be in the open air, otherwise there is a certain chance that they will be struck to death by lightning."

"This is strange." Qiu Changtian pondered.

He is a practitioner of the five thunders rectification method, so he naturally knows that this kind of tribulation thunder cloud is often born for a certain target, and if he wants to strike, he will strike that specific target.

It's the first time he's heard of the indiscriminate, large-scale random killing Leiyun mentioned by the mayor... However, considering that it's the condensation of evil spirits, maybe it's essentially a demon with spiritual wisdom.

"If that's the case, why did those residents gather outside just now?" Xu Yinglian asked puzzled.

"Ah." The mayor said dejectedly, "Once the evil spirit robbery cloud comes, it will stay over the island for a period of time, but the length is unknown. The shortest is a few days, and the longest is more than ten months."

"At first, Jieyun wasn't very active, but if a thunderbolt kills someone, Jieyun will grow stronger and stay longer."

"If 40 or [-] people die, the calamity cloud will cover the entire island, making the day as dark as night, and it will stay there for at least half a year. At that time, every family will be wiped out!"

"So, according to the instructions of the ancestors, the old man strictly ordered the residents of the town to stay at home and not go out until Jieyun left. It's just..."

"Oh." Xu Yinglian is also a smart person, and immediately understood, "There is also a difference between the rich and the poor among the residents. If they are not allowed to go out to farm and fish, the rich may last for ten months, and the poor will have no food in a few days."

"That's right." The mayor sighed authentically, "I have already talked to the wealthy family, hoping to distribute some food to the poor."

Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian looked at each other for a moment, and both sighed in their hearts.

People's joys and sorrows are difficult to communicate with each other.In times of natural disasters, it would be good for the rich not to sell food at a high price, but how about free relief?

"Fortunately at this time, the immortal you two were looking for suddenly appeared and said that he wanted to remove the evil cloud of calamity in the sky for the town." The mayor said cautiously, "The old man will follow the instructions of the ancestors and take away the evil spirits left by the ancestors." The Lightning Avoiding Pill was given to him, and the Immortal turned into a beam of sword light and rushed to Jieyun to cast spells."

"And then?" Xu Yinglian continued to ask.

"Then, then... that Shangxian disappeared." The mayor said with a sad face.

Although his demeanor is quite natural, but Xu Yinglian has an exquisite heart after all, and he keenly caught a trace of unnaturalness in it, and immediately glared and angrily said:

"What are you hiding! Why don't you invite it!!!"

The mayor was so frightened that he quickly knelt down on the spot and cried out:

"It has nothing to do with the old man! Please Shangxian clearly check, the old man has issued repeated orders, but there are still six or seven troublesome people in the town. After the Shangxian rushed into the evil spirit, they still ignored the prohibition and sneaked out to sea!"

"Later, the robbery cloud killed one of them, and the remaining five or six fled back to the town in embarrassment. The old man immediately knew something was wrong, only to find that the robbery cloud in the sky had grown much stronger, and the sword light in the cloud had gradually faded, and finally dimmed …I think it was Shangxian who was harmed by that robbery cloud, but it wasn't the old man who murdered him, it's just that he was powerless!"

The mayor snotted his nose and burst into tears, and spoke bitterly.

Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian exchanged glances again, and their expressions became a little complicated.

This Junior Brother Qiu... How should I put it, he was really unlucky.

At the critical moment of fighting with Jieyun, he happened to encounter a town resident who went out to sea privately and was killed by lightning, which made Jieyun stronger.

It was this point that happened to be the straw that broke the camel's camel's back, which led to his unfortunate final fall and his untimely death.

Chapter 36 Senior Brother Receives Teaching, Junior Sister Dances in the Face

Xu Yinglian ordered the mayor to bring the fishermen who killed Junior Brother Qiu earlier.

The mayor took the order to leave as if he had received an amnesty, and Qiu Changtian sighed and asked:

"Junior Sister, how do you plan to deal with those people?"

"Of course he was killed." Xu Yinglian said seriously.

"Oh?" Qiu Changtian was a little puzzled, "Thinking about those people, there is nothing they can do. After all, if the family has enough food, who would take the risk to go fishing?"

"Senior brother, I naturally know." Xu Yinglian said calmly, "Just imagine this scene, brother: If you are fighting with a demon cultivator in the mountains, at this time a hunter is hunting outside the forest and mistook your figure for White Deer, shot an arrow at your back, causing you to be distracted for a moment, and as a result, the demon cultivator took the opportunity to injure you, destroying most of your skills, and you had to flee in embarrassment."

"Then afterward, if you found the Orion who wrongly harmed you, how would you deal with him?"

Qiu Changtian had no choice but to smile wryly, and understood what the younger sister meant:

According to the hypothetical scenario of the junior sister, although the Orion is indeed unintentional, but... the skill of a hundred years of hard work, was destroyed because of him!It would be a good temper if he didn't kill Orion's family to vent his anger afterwards.

This has nothing to do with the Orthodox Devil Sect, but because the loss is too great, if the hatred in the heart is not vented, sooner or later there will be inner demons.

"Our orthodox people are nothing more than paying attention to the words 'emotion' and 'reason'." Xu Yinglian said awe-inspiringly, "Those fishermen went out to sea without authorization for their own livelihood. Their feelings are pitiful; but they killed my Kunlun people But it’s a fact, and it’s unreasonable!”

"We put him to death in order to avenge our fellow Kunlun disciples, which is a word of reason. Before we do it, explain the facts to them and ensure that their wives and children will not be harmed, but it is a word of love."

"It's reasonable and reasonable, never overstepping the rules, and it's the right way."

"Junior Sister is right, Senior Brother has been taught." Qiu Changtian pondered for a moment, and said seriously.

From these conversations, he can see that Xu Shimei's "ancient thinking" is indeed different from his own "modern thinking" in many places.

Modern people pay attention to "people-oriented" and are used to wrapping everything in a warm and affectionate human touch, so that when thinking about how to deal with those fishermen, even if they have great perseverance, great wisdom, and great determination, it is inevitable that they will occasionally subconsciously substitute them Go on and think about the other party.

Junior Sister Xu’s logic is much simpler and clearer:

If you accidentally killed my Kunlun people, you will have to pay with your life.Whether you have your own reasons or not is another matter.

One yard counts for one yard, no matter how big a problem you have, you have to die, you have to die!

Speaking of this, Qiu Changtian thought of the so-called "massacre problem".

The so-called "massacre problem" means that the enemy army is in the outskirts of the city. If you organize the residents to resist the enemy, there will be two results. If you succeed in defending, it is best, but if you fail, there is a high probability that you will be massacred;

But if there is no resistance, although the probability of slaughtering the city is reduced, the residents in the city can only be slaughtered, and the degree of loss suffered is between "successful defense" and "slaughtering the city by the enemy".

The reason why it is called the "massacre problem" is because in the face of this problem, any human group will inevitably be divided into two factions, namely the "surrender faction" and the "fighting faction".

Since the outcome of choosing to fight is highly uncertain, and human beings have a natural instinct of aversion to risk, the more peaceful the era, the more people with weak wills, and the more people choose to surrender.

After all, Qiu Changtian came through time travel. Although he was burdened with the heavy mission of being a savior, his will was much stronger than ordinary people, but there were still some traces of modern thinking unavoidably.

On the other hand, Junior Sister Xu, if she encountered such a problem of massacring the city, she would probably forcefully control all the surrender factions and force them all to fight on the city wall.

The rational thinking of ancient people still has many merits!I should really learn from my junior sister.

Learn from her extremely rational thinking, and when you want to seize the fragments of the Sky-Mending Stone in the future, you must do it ruthlessly, and you must not be swayed by the love of your children!

"Sigh." In his mind, the Kunlun Mirror sighed unobtrusively, but Qiu Changtian didn't hear it.

Qingpingjian heard it, and sighed softly.

"Why are you sighing?" Kunlun Mirror asked with a frown.

"I remembered something sad." Qingping Jian said seriously, "Why are you sighing?"

"I also remembered the sad things." Kunlun Jing said quietly, and silently sorted out the plan of how Butian Hou stabbed Chen Guanshui in the back and pushed him into the Shura field, from beginning to end.

In order to save their lives, the mayor here quickly caught those fishermen and dragged them to the ground to kowtow.

Xu Yinglian stood up with his sword in hand, and in front of the five kowtowing fishermen, explained the reasons for killing them, and promised not to harm their family, and would leave a certain amount of food for them.

Among the five fishermen, three lay limp and shivering, one thanked her with tears, and the other with a cloudy expression, suddenly rose up and rushed towards her, and was killed by Xu Yinglian with a sword.

While the sword light was turning, the other four fishermen were also pierced through the heart, and died instantly, but the whole body was left behind.

"Put the bodies of these five people at your place temporarily." Qiu Changtian ordered the mayor, "After we solve the robbery cloud in the sky, you can bury them."

How could the mayor dare to refuse, so he could only accept it with a bitter face.

Qiu Changtian asked the mayor to go to the back house to get two lightning protection pills, but they were black and round pills, which could reduce the damage of Lei Shi when he put them in his mouth.

This thing is just an ordinary pill. It is useless to deal with the powerful thunder of the Heavenly Tribulation, and it will die if it is struck.

However, the baleful cloud in the sky obviously cannot have the strength of the Heavenly Tribulation of Condensing Pills, and using the Lightning Avoidance Pill can also increase a bit of safety.

The two left the mayor's mansion and stood up with their swords in their hands. They saw dark clouds rolling in the sky, but there was no sign of thunder falling.

"If everyone goes out, there will be thunder, how can mortals dare to risk their lives to go out?" Xu Yinglian sighed casually, "It is because of such uncertainty that they will die, but it makes people more stupid and lucky."

"In the art of war, there are also cases such as 'encircling three ques and one', 'breaking the boat', and 'fighting to the last stand', all of which take advantage of the weaknesses in human nature."

"Senior brother, on the path of cultivation, you must not ignore any flaws in your xinxing."

I just complimented you a few words, you are addicted to preaching, right?

Qiu Changtian was speechless in his heart, but said:

"I have been taught. Junior sister, stand back and let me deal with this robbery cloud."

Jieyun, who was able to fight inextricably with Junior Brother Qiu at Huafu rank, obviously couldn't be the opponent of Jindan Realm Qiu Changtian.

But just in case, he still took out the Thunder Hammer and Thunder Cone, and mobilized a certain amount of true energy to stimulate Taixiao Lei.

The silver-white thunder light jumped at the tip of the cone, and soon a giant dragon was condensed into the surging clouds in the sky!

Chapter 37 The Electric Mother Flows Gold, Chang Geng Takes the Treasure

The dragon formed by Tai Xiaolei rushed into the cloud of evil energy.

After condensing the golden core, Qiu Changtian's true essence was many times stronger than when he crossed the catastrophe.

Therefore, Thunder Dragon easily tore through Jieyun's defense line of evil spirit, and wreaked havoc inside it to his heart's content.

Suddenly, Qiu Changtian raised his hand quickly, and Tian Yuan shot out with a qi sword, bringing back something from the robbery cloud.

It was a set of clothes worn by Kunlun disciples, even the storage bag was tied around the waist, but it was stained with a lot of blood.

"There are traces of evil spirit in the blood." Kunlun Jing added, "It seems that it is not some kind of self-mutilation and fake death, but a real injury by evil spirit."

"Tsk tsk." Qiu Changtian expressed his condolences.

As a Jindan real person, when he released the Taixiao Thunder God Dragon, he didn't actually use his full strength, mainly because he was worried that the evil energy would be directly torn into pieces.

As the battle between Leilong and Jieyun became more intense, lightning flashed in the sky and thunder broke out.

Xu Yinglian stood slightly lower in the air, standing on the sword, thinking that the senior brother only made one move, and he hit Jieyun almost unable to fight back.

As expected of a Jindan real person... No, no, only the senior brother should be able to do this.

I also have to hurry up to form a pill.

As Jieyun's side gradually fell into a disadvantage, the area has shrunk by more than half.

"Attention, it is going to escape!" Kunlun Mirror suddenly reminded.

Qiu Changtian's expression froze, wanting to escape?

Seeing the robbery cloud rushing towards the south suddenly, Qiu Changtian casually raised his arm and struck out a Taishang Xuanji talisman.

With the support of the mighty true essence, the speed of the magic talisman was comparable to that of a sword light, and quickly pierced through the evil spirit robbery cloud. The latter almost stopped immediately, and then had no power to fight back, and was torn to pieces by the dragon formed by Tai Xiaolei .