Chapter 4981 Causes and Consequences
Mercenary City was originally an inconspicuous place, like a forgotten garbage dump in the city, a place that everyone despised, where a group of people struggled to survive.
They are already at the bottom of life, at the bottom of the food chain. No matter what level of cultivation they reach, they are destined to live a life of mediocrity until their lifespan is exhausted and they die here of old age.
Unlike other practitioners, the lifespan of the people here is not long, because the Tianhuang Realm has been eroded by the breath of the sea of demons, and there are a lot of impurities in the spiritual energy.
Unlike the disciples of the Long family, they can practice under the filter of the spirit gathering array. The spiritual energy here seriously corrodes their bodies.
The corrosion of spiritual energy, the damage caused by inferior elixirs, and the year-round battles with various monsters and sea monsters to compete for survival resources have left them in extremely poor physical condition.
What makes them most uncomfortable is that, for some reason, they cannot leave the Tianhuang Realm. If they leave the Tianhuang Realm, they will be suppressed by the laws of the outside world and cannot continue to absorb spiritual energy, resulting in the inability to practice.
On the road of cultivation, sailing against the current, once their cultivation stagnates, they will start to regress. With their cultivation, they can suppress the injuries and delay their onset, but once their cultivation regresses, they will die within a few years.
It is rumored that these mercenaries are cursed people who are destined to suffer here for generations. Therefore, apart from bullying them, the disciples of the Long family will hardly have any interaction with them.
There will be no such thing as intermarriage. The most important thing for practitioners is bloodline. No one wants to have their bloodline polluted by a group of lowly people.
Therefore, these mercenaries can only stay together for warmth, knowing that there is no future, but still living tenaciously.
However, their way of life was broken by the arrival of Long Chen, who passed on the Galaxy Celestial Art to them and gave them pills to activate the ancestral patterns in their Dantian.
After the ancestral patterns were resurrected, their bodies were completely transformed. All the hidden wounds were gradually being cleared away, and their strength was rapidly improving. They practiced the Xinghe Cangqiong Jue assiduously and understood its secrets.
They have ushered in a reversal in their lives. They cherish this opportunity very much. They are afraid that they will lose the opportunity to change their destiny because they do not work hard enough. They are too eager to change their destiny.
Under their hard training, their strength soared like a comet. Fang Liude improved the fastest. He had condensed hundreds of stars and had reached the threshold of attracting stars into his body.
They were pleasantly surprised to find that after the ancestral pattern awakened, the corrosiveness in the spiritual energy could no longer damage their bodies. They could absorb it with confidence and boldness. They no longer had to remove it bit by bit like before, but they would still be corroded. .
However, a powerful body also brings a certain burden to them, that is, the energy required by the body will increase, and if they want to quickly improve their strength, they need more resources.
As for the mercenaries, they have no resources at all, and they can only barely meet the current needs when doing tasks.
But things are different now. They need more resources and more elixirs, so they start hunting the monsters and sea monsters everywhere, looking for rare medicines, and exchanging resources with the Long family to support their own expenses.
As the mercenaries became stronger, they dared to go to many places that they did not dare to go before. However, if they did so, they would collide with some of the Long family disciples who were undergoing trials.
However, when the mercenaries encountered the Long family disciples for trial, they would avoid them so as not to disturb them. Unfortunately, even so, the Long family disciples were still disgusted.
Starting to yell at them and even drive them away, the mercenaries had no choice but to leave in humiliation. Although Long Zhantian fought for a larger hunting space for them, the Long family also agreed and promulgated the law.
However, dramas like law are sometimes just a game. The law was promulgated by the Long family, and the enforcement was also carried out by the Long family, but the people who were restrained were all these mercenaries.
Therefore, sometimes the Long family's promises are just words and cannot be fulfilled at all. Sometimes, the Long family disciples rely on their own strength to bully the mercenaries, only to find that the current mercenaries are very powerful. They can't beat it at all.
This made them shocked and angry, and they started looking for stronger disciples from the inner sect to come forward. As a result, one of the inner sect disciples had a conflict with Fang Liude and others, and injured Yuying, Fang Liude and others. In a rage, he beat the opponent.
As a result, this incident completely angered the disciples of the Long family and directly reported to the superiors that the mercenaries maliciously attacked the inner disciples of the Long family and were showing signs of rebellion.
I don't know how this matter reached the ears of Long Zaiye. Long Zaiye was furious. After hearing the news, he rushed directly to the mercenary city.
Fang Liude and others were frightened. Long Zaiyezi was angry with Long Chen and took it out on them. He beat and scolded them, but they did not dare to speak out and could only endure it silently.
As a result, when Long Zaiye insulted Long Chen, Fang Liude finally couldn't bear it anymore and retorted a few words, but was killed by Long Zaiye on the spot.
"This bastard, I should have killed him a long time ago." Long Chen almost exploded when he heard the whole story. He never imagined that this guy was so shameless, and that one of the four great saints in the past was so worthless. Bully a group of little mercenaries.
"Boss, I've embarrassed you. I can't beat Long Yifang. I can only watch them do whatever they want. I..." It turns out that Long Ziwei was there at the time. He wanted to protect everyone, but Long Ziwei, who was ranked seventh on the Tianlist, deliberately After making things difficult for him, Long Ziwei was also seriously injured.
Watching Fang Liude being killed, he was filled with self-blame, but was powerless. He went to complain, but everyone was in seclusion, and Master Tiansi was not there. Long was in the wild, covering the sky with one hand, and he had nothing to do.
Long Zaiye ran to Jiuli Pagoda and waited for Long Chen to come out. As a result, he did wait, but when he saw Long Chen's cultivation, he was a little disappointed. He was afraid that Long Chen could not cover these mercenaries.
"Rumble..."
After several teleportations, he arrived at the city closest to the mercenary city. Long Chen summoned the thunder wings and ran towards the mercenary city as fast as possible.
Soon, the mercenary city was in sight, and then Long Chen saw a scene that made him tremble all over. He saw dozens of pillars standing in the square. Yuying and others were tied to the pillars. They were covered with whip marks and blood. The pillars were stained red.
On the pillar at the front, there was a human head hanging, which was that of Fang Liude. In front of the square, a group of people were holding whips, beating Yuying and others, and seemed to be yelling and cursing. .
"Stop it!"
Long Chen roared, like the roar of a god. At that moment, the color of the whole world changed.