The years I was in the human world

You Rong tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of blood foam, looking at Yao Guang coldly, sneering: "You are so arrogant when you hit your pain point. The so-called cultivator is nothing but a arrogant lunatic."

"Oh? We are all chosen by the heavens, so what if we are a little arrogant?" Yaoguang gathered strength in her palm. Who in the Zhongting Court did not respect her as the Pojun Lady? Now she was scolded by a mortal without any foundation, how could she not be angry?

Before he could strike out, Yu Zhao grabbed his wrist. This usually tolerant female general turned cold for the first time. She said, "The war isn't over yet, and you're killing the heroes first. Madam Po Jun is so arrogant."

"This boy is very disrespectful to me, and you want to protect him?" Yaoguang said coldly, directly calling Yu Zhao "you" without even putting on a show.

Seeing the conflict between the two women, Ye Yunzhou looked at Yaoguang who was angry, and chose to persuade Yu Zhao who didn't look that angry: "A Zhao, she is just a mortal, why do you have to--"

"Shut up." Yu Zhao turned around and scolded him before he could finish, disappointed and angry, "Today, Yaoguang was upset and beat a guard to death. Should she beat me to death tomorrow? Ordinary people can be beaten and killed easily, so should I, a half-hermaphrodite, be beaten and killed as well?"

"A Zhao, how can this be the same?" Ye Yunzhou frowned, a little unhappy, but as a mortal, he didn't understand why Yu Zhao was angry with him and even implicated Yaoguang.

Ye Yunzhou looked back and forth between the two of them with a gloomy gaze. He thought darkly that You Rong had some ulterior motives towards Yu Zhao, and that Yu Zhao was protecting her like this, it couldn't be that...

"You Rong, you go down first." Yu Zhao said, handing a jade talisman to You Rong, and added, "If there is anyone who is blind enough to come and cause trouble for you, you can activate the jade talisman to call me. I want to see who dares to act rashly!"

Ye Yunzhou, who had wanted to quietly get rid of You Rong after he separated from Yu Zhao, secretly clenched his fingers. Yu Zhao really had a different attitude towards this man.

You Rong took the jade talisman and went to see a doctor to check his wound. The doctor said that the medicine he had used before was very good and the wound did not need to be treated further. You Rong was stunned, and then he remembered the hemostatic powder that Xiao Fengzhuo had given him before. He felt a little complicated for a moment.

The monks brought by Yu Zhao were all arrogant and always shouted at him to kill, but they didn't really do anything. On the contrary, Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo, who didn't show off their talents, seemed like monks who truly upheld justice.

"Brother Rong, are you there?" The crisp voice of a girl sounded outside the door. You Rong hurriedly got up to open the door. Outside the door, under the shade of a tree, a pretty girl was standing there holding a basket.

"Ah Man, you're here?" You Rong forced a smile and waved to the girl standing there with sweat on her forehead, "Come in quickly, the sun is so hot, don't let the sun burn you."

"Yes!" Ah Man nodded, her eyes curved like a little moon. She put the basket on the table and took out a bowl of porridge and a plate of pickles. "My mother asked me to bring you some food. Where's Sister Zhao?"

"She's busy." You Rong brought the white porridge and placed it in front of him, picked up the chopsticks and picked up some pickles to eat with the porridge.

Ah Man then noticed that You Rong was missing an arm, and asked in a trembling voice: "Brother Rong, your hand...?"

"If it's bitten by a bug, just chop it off. It's okay." You Rong said nonchalantly. If he had acted slower, he would have lost his life.

"Brother Rong, it must be very painful, right?" Tears immediately filled Ah Man's beautiful eyes. She looked at You Rong, who only had one arm left, with heartache. She wanted to touch him but didn't dare to. She felt more pain than You Rong, the one who was actually injured.

"It doesn't hurt, don't cry." You Rong put down the chopsticks with his right hand, rubbed Ah Man's not-so-smooth hair, wiped away her tears, and smiled gently at her, "Really, don't cry, it doesn't matter as long as I'm protecting you."

"Brother Rong." The girl stared blankly at the gentle smile on the young guard's face, and suddenly grabbed his hand, holding it tightly, and promised seriously, "In the future, I will also protect brother and sister Zhao."

"Well, brother is waiting." You Rong nodded, thought for a moment, took out a small bell from his arms and put it in Ah Man's hand, "Go and play."

As the two were talking, there was a sudden noise outside, as if there was a quarrel and the situation was tense. You Rong heard the noise and hurriedly opened the door to go out. He saw several young monks holding whips and beating three or five weak old people, women and children on the ground. The whips immediately tore their skin and flesh. There were other people nearby who couldn't bear it and tried to stop them, but they were also entangled by the whips around the neck and fell to the ground.

Then came a series of whippings, and the blood and flesh were instantly blurred. You Rong was already furious with Ye Yunzhou, and now seeing these monks, he was even more furious. He intercepted a whip with his right hand, and his right palm was broken and bleeding in an instant. He was completely unaware, and just stared at those people with his eyes open and said, "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" The monk stared at him for a while, and when he found out that he was just a mortal without any roots, he sneered and said jokingly, "These people are full of ghostly auras. I'm afraid that evil spirits have entered their bodies. Am I waiting to help them exorcise the evil spirits?"

Exorcism? Is it necessary to be so cruel to exorcise evil spirits? It is clearly destroying the lives of mortals and making fun of them.

You Rong threw away the whip in his hand, fearing that he would anger the monks on the opposite side. They were even more cruel to these old, weak, women and children. He took a deep breath, trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart, and said calmly in a negotiating tone: "It is normal for the evil ghosts to be contaminated with ghost energy after they have just retreated. If you immortals want to exorcise the evil spirits, you might as well use some gentle means. They are all old, weak, women and children, and they can't stand such a whip."

"Why do you, a mere mortal, need to interfere in the work of immortals?" You Rong didn't want to negotiate in a good tone. The cultivator opposite him didn't want to reason with him. He swung the barbed whip towards his face. You Rong was caught off guard and half of his face was torn off in an instant, leaving a bloody and horrifying sight.

"Brother Rong!" Ah Man saw You Rong being beaten and immediately shouted in panic and worry, which also attracted the attention of those reckless monks. They looked the girl up and down and said with a playful look, "Oh, there is such a beauty among the lowly people?"

You Rong's heart tightened. These people were so cruel to the old, the weak, women and children, and he didn't know what they would do to Ah Man. He knew that he could not stop this group of jackals and tigers by himself, so he hurriedly crushed the jade talisman in his hand, anxiously hoping that Yu Zhao could come to rescue him as soon as possible.

Outside the secret realm, Baili Changqing and Gu Yin were both disappointed. They have always followed the inner principles of punishing evil and upholding justice, and they have taught their disciples to take saving the people as their own responsibility. However, they did not expect that it was mortals who stood in the front line in the face of the disaster at Dongshan. The cultivators who had received the favor of the mortals not only did not help, but were arrogant and vicious and took pleasure in trampling on human lives. This was really contrary to their purpose.

Xiao Fengzhuo, however, looked at him with a strange expression, holding his cheek with his hand, as if he had discovered something but was not willing to say it out loud. Seeing that he looked like the only one sober while everyone else was drunk, Lu Zhouxue asked, "Why do you have such an expression, Azhuo?" Hearing this, the others also looked at him.

"I discovered something interesting." Xiao Fengzhuo smiled meaningfully, but refused to say what it was. Fortunately, everyone present was eager to know what happened next, so since he didn't say anything, they didn't ask any further questions and turned back to look at the scenes in the secret realm.

As for why Xiao Fengzhuo had such an expression, it was naturally because of that group of cultivators who abused mortals. He had seen some of them in the dungeon of the City Lord's Mansion. Thinking of the names that the Green Ghost told him when they left, combined with what he saw now, it was really interesting, he thought with some evil taste.

"How can these cultivators be called righteous when they are so vicious?" Baili Changqing shouted angrily, flicking his sleeves. Gu Yin frowned at the leading cultivator and said hesitantly, "Jiang Ling?"

As soon as Gu Yin spoke, Li Lanyin and Baili Changqing also noticed a young man with a whip in his hand and a ferocious face in the picture.

"How could this be Ling'er?" Li Lanyin was also surprised. Lu Zhouxue looked at Xiao Fengzhuo with a puzzled look, and the latter understood and explained: "Jiang Ling is famous for being the master of the Seventh Layer Sword Formation, but he was taught by Gu Yin."

Lu Zhouxue suddenly realized, no wonder Baili Changqing, Gu Yin, and Jiang Ling were all sword cultivators, it turned out that they were all closely related.

Gu Yin was greatly shocked to see his most proud student, and Baili Changqing also found it unbelievable. Although he and Jiang Ling disagreed on the concept of treating foreigners, he had the impression that Jiang Ling should be a gentleman. How could the person who disregarded human life in the secret realm be him?

"You evil ghost really have bad intentions. You use forged records to deceive us and try to alienate us from the right path!" Gu Yin's first reaction was disbelief.

However, Li Lanyin, who was equally shocked, not only did not agree with what he said, but her face turned pale and she looked quite embarrassed.

"Ha." The ghost chuckled and said sarcastically, "How much weight do you think your so-called friendship is worth? Do you need me to sow discord between you?"

Li Lanyin frowned slightly, but Lu Zhouxue and Xiao Fengzhuo looked at each other, and saw interest in each other's eyes. You know, among the monks that Li Lanyin offered as tribute on the altar were Jiang Ling and several of his disciples. If the two of them had not arrived in time, Jiang Ling would probably have lost his life.

"Mianmian, do you think Li Lanyin really knows nothing about what happened back then?" Xiao Fengzhuo quietly wrote on Lu Zhouxue's palm, stroke by stroke. Lu Zhouxue felt itchy and couldn't help but shiver. "What a coincidence, all the monks involved in the incident back then are dead. Isn't this really revenge?"

There was one thing Xiao Fengzhuo did not tell Lu Zhouxue, that was that he had seen You Rong, who was Yu Zhao's right-hand man during his lifetime, and became an evil ghost under Li Lanyin's command after his death. Although it was possible that You Rong had originally died in Dongshan, this was too much of a coincidence.

Lu Zhouxue lowered his eyes and seemed to be thinking about something. He was seriously considering Xiao Fengzhuo's words. Such a guess was not unreasonable. After all, Jiang Ling was also trapped in the secret realm of the sexy ghost. Li Lanyin should have known about it, but she didn't mention it now. I just don't know why she also hated Jiang Ling.

While they were talking, the scene in the secret realm continued. Naturally, the beautiful and innocent Ah Man also had a ghostly aura about her. A set of whip techniques to exorcise evil spirits was used on her, but she died in the middle of the process. At that time, the sun was setting and the setting sun was as red as blood.

The corpse lay there covered in blood. Several monks said something rather unlucky and then their eyes fell on You Rong who was kneeling there looking at the corpse with a dazed look on his face. The jade talisman in his hand was almost smashed into powder, but Yu Zhao still didn't come. He was pinned to the ground by the monks' spiritual power and couldn't do anything. He was wondering why this happened. Ah Man, whom he had worked so hard to protect from the evil spirit, died in the hands of the monks.

“Isn’t that too much?” A cultivator whispered. His voice was so low that You Rong couldn’t hear it, but the people outside the secret realm heard it clearly. “Although the queen has instructed to arouse public anger…”

"What are you afraid of? They are just mortals. It is their honor to contribute to the Final Court."

"That Yu Zhao has controlled Dongshan for many years. If things continue like this, the entire Zhongting will be controlled by her. Now Zhongting is just a division of power and a balance of power."

"If not, how could she lose the support of the people? Although she is a cultivator, how is her means of fighting for power different from those of the human dynasties?"

……

Yu Zhao, who was late in arriving, was naturally tripped up by Yaoguang, and there was a flaw in the formation he set up. It was clearly a chant to purify the souls of the dead, but he didn't expect that an evil ghost would crawl out of the gate of the formation that Yaoguang was responsible for. The evil ghost had a green face, fangs, and a bloodthirsty nature. He was by no means comparable to the previous minions.

As soon as he appeared, he twisted off a monk's head, opened his big mouth full of fangs and sucked in the man's spiritual energy, then turned and pounced on the next person with a ferocious face. The monks were all in chaos for a moment and blamed Yu Zhao one after another.

Yaoguang pointed at Yuzhao's nose and angrily scolded: "You actually colluded with the evil spirit to deceive us. You have such a sinister mind!"

At that time, Yu Zhao still didn't know what kind of conspiracy was waiting for her. She just killed the first batch of evil ghosts that appeared with one sword, looked at Yaoguang lightly and said: "If you want to say so, then say it, but I must remind you that when the formation was activated, your secret blood sacrifice to summon ghosts was seen clearly by Yunzhou and I." Ye Yunzhou's eyes flickered, but he didn't respond.

Yu Zhao had no time to care about anything else. She sacrificed her sword with blood, and under the skylight, the Zhaoyang Sword glowed with a sword light as hot as the scorching sun. She held a long sword in her hand, and her military uniform was as bright as a phoenix feather in the setting sun. The sword that could break mountains and fill the sea went straight into the gate of the formation from which the evil spirits were pouring out. Then a huge ball of red fire exploded, and the entire gate of the formation was blown open. The remains of the evil spirits were scattered everywhere, and then they were all wiped out by the remaining power of the sword.

Yu Zhao had exploded her spiritual power, and now her internal strength was severely depleted. She swayed and knelt on one leg, barely relying on the Zhaoyang sword inserted into the ground to support her whole body strength. Just when she breathed a sigh of relief, the sound of an arrow breaking through the air was suddenly heard, and then she felt a pain in her chest. The arrow that was said to be able to kill gods and demons pierced through her chest from the back, leaving a bloody hole in her chest and fell into the ground in front of her.