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"The self-explosion power of the Mantra Buddha Bead is not weak. He is already injured and will add more injuries. I guess he will not catch up again. But don't be careless, you have to leave as soon as possible, cough..." He said , Bai Xiaoyun couldn't help coughing up a mouthful of blood.

"You should take care of your injury first." Seeing that his face was as golden as paper, Shen Luo couldn't help persuading him.

Bai Xiaoyun hesitated for a moment, took him to find a mountain stream, and flew down.

After landing, he took out a yellow elixir and took it, closed his eyes and meditated to heal his injury.

Shen Luo took out a mountain crossing talisman and placed it by his side, submerged himself in the mountain stream, and performed an unknown exercise to absorb the aura of heaven and earth and restore mana.

Neither of them dared to delay for too long, but after a cup of tea, they got up and set off again.

By the time he caught up with the others, it was already half an hour later.

The surviving people in Jianye City were still rushing eastward. Although they had left the border of Jianmen Pass, they were still near the Wushan Mountains, and there was a risk of encountering monsters again at any time.

Seeing that the two of them returned safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Senior White, Senior Shen, it's really great that you came back safely." Shen Yu said sincerely.

Previously, she was the one who led the Shen family members to run at the forefront, and the journey was full of panic and crisis. Now seeing the two of them, she was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

In order to calm people's hearts, before the two of them came back, they both washed off the blood on their bodies and changed into clean clothes.

Shen Luo swept his eyes and saw the exhausted people all around, sitting on the ground staggeringly, some with terrified faces, some numb, some relatives died, but they didn't dare to cry loudly, they could only suppress and sob in a low voice.

"How about casualties?" Bai Xiaoyun asked.

"There were no casualties in the Shen family. The Bai family and the Lin family lost one monk and six clan members each. As for the other families... more than half of them were injured, and three out of ten survived." Bai Bi said, staring at the ground.

"There are still four casual cultivators who ignored the dissuasion and left the others and ran away first." Shen Yu gritted her teeth angrily.

"He didn't escape alone?" Shen Luo looked over after hearing this, but was a little surprised.

He caught a glimpse of Lu Yong squatting under an old tree beside the road, still surrounded by many casual cultivators, whispering to each other.

"Come here, everyone." Bai Xiaoyun shouted loudly.

Hearing the sound, all the monks surrounded him one after another, and many people also cast their searching eyes.

"Everyone, the Jianmen Pass has been lost, and the only safe passage to Chang'an no longer exists. What are your plans?" Bai Xiaoyun asked as he glanced at the crowd.

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Hearing this, everyone sighed in a low voice, their morale had already dropped to the bottom, no one spoke for a while, and the atmosphere was rather depressing.

"Since that's the case, everyone might as well leave here. With so many people gathered together, the goal is too big, and it will easily attract the attention of demons." The bearded man who had been following Lu Yong glanced at Bai Xiaoyun, and broke the silence. .

A middle-aged man with protruding eyebrows looked downcast. He was lowering his head. Hearing this, he was dissatisfied and said, "You said it lightly. As monks, you can go away, but what should the common people do?"

As the patriarch of a small clan in Jianye City, he is followed by the last blood of his lineage. If the crowd were to disperse, it would be impossible for him to protect himself alone, let alone bring such Multiethnic people.

"Fellow Daoist Chen Chuan, this is the end of the matter, so don't blame me for speaking harshly. Under the current situation, everyone is like a mud bodhisattva and cannot protect themselves. If you still hope that everyone can protect your people, it is a bit too selfish?" Lu Yong heard the words and spoke.

"Senior Lu, if someone else said this, I would not be able to refute it, but if it comes from your mouth, I have to say something." Hearing the words, Chen Chuan said, with a flash of anger that he tried his best to suppress, and said.

Hearing this, Lu Yong frowned and squinted at him.

Seeing this, Chen Chuan lost his momentum by three points, but he still didn't back down, and continued:

"Before, everyone respected you as a senior, and they were very respectful and filial to you. Didn't they just hope that you could protect everyone in times of crisis? You also made this promise. But what did you do when you were in Jianmen pass?"

As soon as this remark came out, many people around looked at Lu Yong, they were all members of the many small families who followed him before.They had the same doubts in their hearts, why didn't Lu Yong help them when their own people were attacked?

"What do you mean by that? If Senior Lu didn't break open the city gate to allow everyone to escape, our casualties would only be heavier." The bearded man immediately retorted.

"Don't you feel ashamed that you don't know how to appreciate someone's favor?" Several people who had gathered with Lu Yong earlier also echoed.

Shen Yu, Bai Bi and the others couldn't help but twitch their mouths, revealing a sneering smile.

They knew very well in their hearts that if Shen Luo hadn't climbed to the top of the city to break the sword array and lift the restriction on the formation on the city wall, how could Lu Yong be able to open the city gate?

"Isn't this the time to blame each other?" Bai Xiaoyun asked.

When everyone heard the words, they immediately silenced and stopped talking.

"Senior White, there is no way to leave the Jianmen Pass right now, we can't go straight through Wushan, right?" the bearded man hesitated.

Bai Xiaoyun fell silent when he heard the words.

"Senior White, don't you really want to take everyone into Wushan?" an old man asked.

"The situation in Wushan is complicated, and there are indeed great risks, but it is the shortest way for us to go to Chang'an." Bai Xiaoyun said with a sigh.

"I don't want to go to Wushan. I'd rather go back to Jianye and die than enter Wushan." A monk from a small Jianye family shook his head and said.

"I don't want to go in either. I escaped with my clansmen and traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an. I'm not afraid of dying in a foreign land, but I definitely don't want to bury my bones in Wushan..." Another person said with horror on his face.

"Bone burial? I'm afraid there will be no bones left after entering Wushan." Another person said in despair.

"Senior White, if you plan to enter Wushan, please forgive me for not being able to go with you." At this moment, Lu Yong's voice suddenly sounded.

"Me too..." Then, four or five people responded in unison.

Among these people, including the big bearded man, all were casual cultivators who surrounded him earlier.

"What do you mean?" Bai Bi couldn't help asking when he saw this.

"Since you all don't want to be this villain, then I will do it. I will also say the bad things. I think you all know very well in your heart that bringing these ordinary people is useless except to be a drag, right? ?” Lu Yong said.

"Finally I have spoken my heart..." Chen Chuan raised his eyebrows and said.

"You don't need to sarcasm, this is just my own opinion, I think you all know it very well. If you still don't know how to choose, the result will be annihilation of the whole army, what do you think?" Lu Yong did not change his expression. , said.

"You..." Chen Chuan didn't know how to refute for a while.

When all the monks heard the words, they also lowered their heads one after another, all of them showing tangled expressions.

"What Fellow Daoist Lu said is right..." At this time, another voice sounded, and others looked at him.

Lu Yong raised his brows, looking a little surprised, because the one who spoke was none other than Shen Luo.

"However, have you ever thought that in this difficult time of the world, if we, the human race, can't watch and help each other, who else can we ask for protection? Is there a chance of revival?" Shen Luo changed the subject and asked rhetorically.

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of those monks who fled with the descendants of their clans all changed slightly.

"Look at those children, they are the future of the human race. If we don't even want to protect them, then will the human race still have a future?" Shen Luo continued, although his tone was calm, but the questioning in his words made everyone My heart skipped a beat.

Everyone's eyes swept over the young children in the crowd, and their eyes couldn't help becoming compassionate and softened.

"Fellow Daoist Shen, everyone can tell the truth, but entering Wushan is no different from seeking death, forgive us for not being able to accompany you." Lu Yong said with a flash of anger in his eyes.

"The ways are different, so we don't conspire with each other. Since Fellow Daoist Lu has the intention of leaving, we won't force him to stay." Shen Luo said immediately.

When everyone heard this, surprise flashed in their eyes. No one expected that Shen Luo would take the initiative to let him leave. Even Bai Xiaoyun couldn't help casting doubtful glances at him.

No matter what Lu Yong said, he was also a monk in the out-of-body stage, and besides Bai Xiaoyun, he was the one with the highest cultivation level among all the people. If he left, it would be a loss no matter how you look at it.

"This person has already intended to separate. Even if we say something to keep him, it doesn't mean much. Even if they don't leave immediately, it's just to attract more monks to leave together." Bai Xiaoyun said.

"From what you said, it's true." Bai Xiaoyun replied via voice transmission.

"Look, once Lu Yong says he wants to leave, then he must not be the only one who leaves. The few of them gathered together before were probably discussing about leaving." Shen Luo said via voice transmission.

"Okay, okay, since Fellow Daoist Shen has said so, what reason do I have to stay? If you agree with me, you might as well go together." Lu Yong sneered, clapped his hands and said.

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"Senior Lu, I'll go with you." The bearded man was the first to respond.

"Let's go too." Sure enough, the previous casual cultivators also responded one after another.

For a moment, the faces of everyone present became ugly, and many people even cast reproachful and angry eyes at Shen Luo.

"Senior Lu, fellow daoists, don't speak angry words." The old man smiled, trying to act as a peacemaker.

How did he know that these people have already made up their minds to go.

Lu Yong also just glanced at him, and didn't mean to speak softly at all.

At this time, Bai Xiaoyun suddenly took a step forward, and Lu Yong and the others subconsciously took a step back.

"Everyone has their own aspirations. Since you all want to leave, it is inconvenient for us to force you to stay, so please leave." Bai Xiaoyun said with his eyes narrowed.

While speaking, an invisible aura emanated, which immediately made the hearts of all the monks present jump wildly.

His attitude was the same as Shen Luo's, even tougher, and he directly issued an order to evict the guest.

Originally, many monks who had other thoughts, because of Shen Luo's previous words, did not dare to abandon their relatives directly and go with Lu Yong and the others. Now when they saw Bai Xiaoyun's appearance, they immediately put away all the thoughts they shouldn't have.

After all, a monk in the Mahayana period is more reliable than a monk in the out-of-body period.

Lu Yong looked around and saw that apart from the few people who followed him earlier, there was no one else standing in line to follow him, he cursed inwardly, but he could only respectfully say: "The junior will take his leave."

After finishing speaking, he clasped his fists slightly, and then turned around and left with those people.

Shen Luo looked at the backs of several people leaving, and didn't feel that there was any loss, and secretly said in his heart: "If you don't stop, you will suffer from it."

"They...really left, so what should we do next?" Chen Chuan asked after those people had gone far away.

"After I have recuperated for a few days and recovered from my injuries, I will sneak into Wushan alone to find a passable path." Bai Xiaoyun said after pondering for a moment.

"There are not a few big monsters and trolls in Wushan. The risk is too great for you to sneak in alone." Shen Luo immediately frowned when he heard this.

"Yes, this move is too risky, inappropriate, inappropriate..." The rest of the people also discouraged.

"Besides this, I'm afraid there is no other way." Bai Xiaoyun mused.

"I still have a way here, you can try it." Shen Luo had already thought about it before, and then said.

"What way?" Everyone asked hurriedly.

"Detour all the way to the east, bypass the entire Wushan Mountains, pass through the Zhenguan Pass, and then go northwest to Chang'an, how about it?" Shen Luo said.

After hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.

"Although this is a very long detour...but it seems to be safer." One person pondered.

"But I haven't received any news about the fall of Zhenhai Customs yet..." Chen Chuan said hesitantly with a look of hesitation on his face.

"Now that the communication between the various places has been cut off, who knows if there is a breach there, if we rush there rashly, I am afraid that we will still have to fetch water from a bamboo basket." Another person was also worried.

"About this point, it doesn't matter. Everyone knows that the geology of the Zhenguan Pass is special. There are many cave passages eroded by underground rivers entering the sea. We can sneak through the underground waterway." Shen Luo explained.

Zhenguan is located in Yuzhou, close to the East China Sea, and Shen Luo has never been there.

He had only read the news about these dark rivers and waterways from some ancient books in the past, and now he said it more to calm people's hearts.

"If that's the case, it's really a good strategy." Chen Chuan thought for a while, nodded.

The rest of the people also felt that this method was feasible, and they all nodded in agreement.

"Since everyone has no objection, let's continue to set off after resting for half a day." Bai Xiaoyun concluded the coffin.

Without Lu Yong and others, plus the loss of manpower at Jianmen Pass, there are only about [-] immortal cultivators left in the entire team, and ordinary people have suffered heavy losses, with only a few hundred people left.

Under the leadership of Bai Xiaoyun, this team whose morale was extremely low embarked on a detour to the east with difficulty.

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Time flies, it is several months later.

On the border of Yuzhou, in a rolling mountain range, hundreds of huge blue toads jumped and galloped one after another in the forest, overwhelming the dense mountain forest piece by piece, constantly stirring up bursts of smoke and dust.

The complexion of these blue toads is like bronze, densely covered with poisonous glands, and covered with a layer of powder crystals that look like copper rust, floating all over the ground with the wind.

Where the powder landed, no matter the flowers, plants or trees, they all withered and turned yellow instantly, and even the soil on the ground was not spared, stained with a layer of dark green traces, and turned into wasteland.

However, on the back of the leader of a giant toad, sat cross-legged a low stature old man, wearing a very large green robe, but was still bulging by his plump figure.

The old man's face was quite ugly, with a broad and flat forehead, a flat and collapsed nose, and surprisingly large eyes. Coupled with a wide and fat toad mouth, no matter how you looked at it, he looked like an old toad turned into a spirit.

The old man held his hands in front of his body, as if he was meditating. There were two big bumps at the place where his chin reached his neck. As he stretched and shrunk with the rhythm of his breathing, two wisps of dark green poisonous gas emerged from the corners of his mouth one after another. .

At this moment, a sharp howling sound suddenly came from above the old man's head, and immediately after that, a huge shadow hovered in midair and fell towards this side.

The old man toad put away his embracing posture, looked up, and saw a huge golden eagle about ten feet long, stretching its wings and gliding towards it. When it was about to fall, the wings retracted, and the golden feathers all over its body were immediately covered by the streamer , turned into a middle-aged man wearing a golden crown with pearls on his head.

This man looks quite handsome, his eyebrows slanted into his temples, his eyes are sharp and shining, his aquiline nose is curved just right, he doesn't seem to have the slightest sense of prey, but his expression is very indifferent.

"Fellow Daoist Falcon Zhi has such an expression, it seems that he has not been able to find those stray dogs?" the old man Toad spoke first, and asked with a smile.

"Hmph, old toad, don't laugh at me either. Your apprentices and grandchildren are not the same as being played around by others. After searching for so long, they also failed to find them." The eagle-nosed man named Falcon branch, cold snorted.

"Forget it, the purpose of our coming here is not to find those people, but they are just lingering ants. We have to go to the East China Sea to support quickly. If we delay our efforts, the gain will not be worth the loss." The old man toad was not angry when he heard the words , just waved his hand and persuaded.