Myriad Paths

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 a town, it was better to say it was 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 wise military advisor.

His body spirit loss is so serious that his soul has to take on other arrangements in the inner world, which directly leads to a serious limitation of his computing power.

Using the CPU to run the GPU work takes up a lot of his computing power, and the deduction in this case is 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.

The sun was setting 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 enveloped 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 wizard..." 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 then human emperor.

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 currently in a state of interference, 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, as 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 sign 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 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 like being in harmony with nature, and the other person 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 you sense his 'mood', you will naturally be able to blend in with your body.

Therefore, Bai Di immediately followed up, using his own movement speed to follow closely behind.

Perhaps realizing that he couldn't run away, the Wu Jin, who was in harmony with nature, chose to stop and at the same time released his form of integration with nature.

That was an ordinary shaman, also a seventh-grade one, but... the skills he practiced were significantly different from those in Wushen Mountain.

"As a witch, but being used by others, the Chongli clan is really... maverick." Bai Di also stopped immediately and spoke.

While talking, he was also observing the other person.

The skill is strange, and it is very different from the Wu Jin of Wushen Mountain, but the meaning of "same origin" can be clearly seen.

The two Chongli clans, these two shamans, were the two groups that finally chose to join the human realm when humans and gods were separated in ancient times.

Zhuanxu, who was both the Holy Emperor and the Human Emperor, ordered Chongli and Chongli to use their magical powers to separate humans and gods. This was a major change.

The result of the change was that "human beings and gods have different professions". Since then, there has been a distinction between the hundreds of officials in the human realm and the hundreds of officials in the witchcraft. Reflected in the names of official positions, the names of gods are no longer assigned to official positions, which has directly led to the ancient At the end of the era, the boundaries between humans, gods, and witches were completely drawn.

To this day, witches still have a good relationship with gods and demons, but humanity has already gone its own way, reaching the point of 'replacing heaven with man'.

"Humans and witches are one body, so there is no need to act alone, but the witch gods are unwilling to give up their power and recognize the name of the Holy Emperor. They think they can mediate all things in the middle. Isn't it more arrogant? They mediate in the middle to reconcile all things, and they themselves are Thinking that you are nobler than all things, what is the difference between that and humanity?" The man also replied.

But Bai Di didn't reply. He didn't care about things from the ancient times. He didn't know how long it had been. Just do whatever you want.

He was just paying attention to the opponent's technique and said: "Chongli are called together, and they are all attributed to Huozheng. The land of Huozhengli belongs to the people and is located in the south. So... you are using fire techniques to prevent water vapor from moistening? This heavy snow is your masterpiece.”

"That's right, but...why do you care about this? Aren't you going to chase me?" The wizard was a little curious.

"It's not necessary. This is not your true body. Killing it is useless. It's better to chat more." Bai Di said.

"Chat a few more words? That's right, you are possessed by the remnant soul of Haechi and can distinguish between true and false words. If I chat with you a few more words, I don't know how many things you will get out of." The wizard smiled and said, Pointed out Bai Di.