At the main entrance of the house, Jing Zhaoyin's government officials were pretending to ask about the suffering owner's situation, Ji Su's wife and children were crying and fighting, and the old soldiers from the Jing camp finally had a belated arrival. The backyard suddenly burst into light.

, there was a loud noise that shocked everyone!

Jing Zhaoyin's government officials were more experienced. They immediately pulled out iron rulers, chains, etc., and shouted angrily: "What a thief, you are so bold!" Then they quickly rushed into the house and threw themselves towards the backyard.

Then they pretended to be lost. After all, Master Jianzheng's mansion was huge and had too many yards. They also took a few expensive ornaments along the way. When they arrived in the backyard with a roar, there was no sign of the thief.

The cellar formation in the backyard was split open with a sword, and the fourth-level general who was guarding the entrance of the cellar was thrown dozens of feet away. He crawled out from the knocked down rockery, vomiting blood, and still had a look of fear on his face.

The government officials looked at the formation cellar and secretly rejoiced that they were wise. This thief was so cruel. If they had rushed over immediately and met the thief, their lives would have been in danger.

Ji Su's family members rushed over at this time, and when they saw the empty cellar, the wife and concubines couldn't bear the blow. They rolled their eyes and fainted.

The divine soldiers had quietly withdrawn, and found a secret place in the city to lurk themselves, and did not go back immediately.

The group of mysterious people who had snatched the exam questions were breaking into pieces. They each took the exam questions to look for the poor monks and threw the exam questions into their residences. Then suddenly they saw another sword light shining in Jisu Mansion, and the leader

Li Wuming understood in an instant: who did it.

He secretly admired: That man is amazing, careful and bold. Ji Su worked so hard and ended up marrying someone else. I'm afraid all the spiritual jade he sold for the exam questions this time has fallen into that man's hands.

The purpose of Li Wuming's trip is to ask for food and salary - I'm here to ask for money, you are such a heartless dog official, and you actually want me to spend money?

Those spiritual jade are all taken out of the mouths of our Flying Bear Army soldiers and must be used on the edge of the sword! Buy you a question? You are dreaming!

So even though the veteran had already suggested that we be flexible and give him money to buy questions, Li Wuming, who has a tough personality, immediately thought of the same idea as Sun Changming, at least the first half of it was the same, and Mr. Sun was even more bold.

Sun Changming was not in a hurry to call back the divine soldiers. This was the capital after all. If some great power secretly targeted the divine soldiers, they might follow the clues and find him.

Anyway, as long as Shenzuo Tianbing sees the test questions, it means he has seen them.

This time, the test question for the first level of the Dragon and Snake Ranking was from one of the imperial campuses outside the city, the Short-lived Valley in Xizheng Mountain.

Legend has it that long ago, when the demon clan ruled the earth, this was the place where the demon clan discarded the bones of human slaves - most of them were bones, and the flesh and blood had been eaten by the demon clan.

There are countless wronged human souls in the valley. As time goes by, changes occur in the valley. There is some evil force that cannot be accurately defined. As long as you enter the valley, your vitality will be rapidly weakened, so it is named "Short-lived Valley".

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Before the Great Wu Dynasty Dingding, during the era of melee, this place was a bad land on earth, and almost no human beings who strayed into it could get out.

After the establishment of the Wu Dynasty, they sent overhauls to seal the entire valley. Later, with the power of the Ministry of War, they transformed it into a military training school. Soldiers from the Beijing camp could enter it to practice in an organized manner, and use the evil spirit of the army to fight against the evil spirits in the valley.

That kind of vicious power is of great help in tempering the warrior's will and strength.

At that time, the Beijing Camp was the most combat-effective army in the entire Wu Chao Kingdom.

However, the Beijing camp gradually became corrupted and degenerated. The camp was filled with old and young soldiers. This school ground was actually idle, and no one was willing to enter it for training.

But the imperial court still has laws after all. The rules passed down from the ancestors must be practiced regularly in the Beijing Camp, so they invited powerful experts to find a "safe route" in the Short Life Valley. On this route, the fierce evil in the valley

It is the weakest in strength and can be resisted by wearing some talismans.

The soldiers in the Beijing Camp walked around this route, which was regarded as completing their routine drills.

Later, the veteran soldiers in the Beijing Camp didn't even want to leave this scene in person, so they paid to hire people, put on their own military uniforms, took their own number plates, and performed the short-lived valley drill on their behalf.

There are many ordinary people in the capital who cannot survive and rely on this to make money. Although a short-lived trip to the valley will be extremely harmful to one's own health, it is better than being unable to survive.

Those who got the test questions early and were well-informed immediately went to Jingying to find a way and buy a map of the safe route. Those who could not get the safe route could also make some preparations in advance.

Mr. Sun sent a message to Ruan Sansheng in the middle of the night, and soon the map of this route was delivered to him - these things are kept on record in Chaotian Division, after all, it is the department responsible for monitoring the world.

However, the captain who delivered the map was interrogated many times on his way here.

Jingzhaoyin and Jingying have a very good grasp of the time scale for this "strict investigation": as soon as the case occurs, they are required to patrol the streets immediately and set up traffic jams at major intersections.

But the people working below were dragging their feet, always finding various excuses to delay, and when they counted the time, it was time for the real "bandits" to run away and hide, and then they aggressively took to the streets to investigate.

Those who dare to attack the Imperial Palace's residence are all desperadoes! They are in great danger.

Throughout the second half of the night, ordinary people in the capital and those casual cultivators from poor families must not have slept well. After setting up cards along the street with no results, they began to conduct door-to-door inquiries. Naturally, no one dared to disturb the places where dignitaries lived, such as Mr. Sun's.

courtyard.

But some wealthy businessmen with little foundation will inevitably be ripped off.

This kind of interrogation then affected the Dragon and Snake List the next day. Many people were supposed to be waiting under various city gates before dawn, and set out as soon as the doors opened. Then they were searched again under the city gates.

The Short Life Valley in Xizheng Mountain is about sixty miles away from the west gate of the capital. You can see young monks flying with swords or riding beasts everywhere along the way. They are so high-spirited that no one else can.

There are also many poor and humble cultivators who either fly by themselves or run wildly close to the ground, bringing up light yellow gray dragons one after another.

Sun Changming took his time and ate Hanmei's breakfast. Accompanied by Wu Yuanji and Zhao Xiaoyao, he took the machine speed car out of the city, then took off in the sky and headed to the West Zhengshan Mountain.

This morning, Hanmei thoughtfully added four more fern leaves to her breakfast, and protected the food so that no one could eat it, leaving all of them to her eldest brother.

For this time's Dragon and Snake Ranking, the Beijing camp dispatched a large number of manpower to repair some facilities at the entrance of the valley. The sealing formation in the valley was originally intended to be strengthened, but when I came to see it, the seniors who set up the formation back then were...

Almighty, they can only perform basic maintenance on the attack according to the methods left by their ancestors. They don't have the ability to strengthen or modify it.

When Sun Changming arrived, two phalanxes of young monks, each with 10,000 people, were already standing at the entrance of the valley according to the number plates issued, and the third phalanx was taking shape.

And around the valley, the sky and the earth are crowded with monks, who are the followers and protectors of these young talents.

Sun Changming paid the registration fee of ten spiritual jades according to the rules, received a number plate, and then followed everyone into the third square formation. Wu Yuanji and Zhao Xiaoyao marched for him behind: "I wish you victory with great courage.

Win first place!”

Then Wu Yuanji lifted off the speed car, and a group of overhauls prepared to sit down, eat and drink, and watch the first round of competition in the short-lived valley below.

As soon as Sun Changming entered the team, a round-faced young man with short eyebrows and small eyes came up to him and asked mysteriously: "Brother, do you want to try? I sold it at a cheap price. This is the last chance before entering the Short-lived Valley. How can I pass this village?"

This store no longer exists.”

Of course Sun Changming didn't want it. He shook his head slightly and said nothing. He immediately went to the others. Sun Changming watched from behind. His business was actually really good, and he sold more than ten copies in no time!

This made Master Sun couldn't help but sigh: The capital is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, they are all talented people.

It was originally scheduled to start today, but it was delayed inexplicably. Sun Changming guessed that Ji Su was probably not in a bad mood just now when he learned that his home had been robbed, so he delayed the time.

After Ji Su was confirmed as the chief examiner, he was taken away directly and isolated from the outside world according to the procedures. It was not easy for him to spread the examination questions. What happened at home last night would not be spread to his ears so quickly.

It was delayed until almost noon, and this year's Dragon and Snake Ranking finally began. The examiner Ji Su did not even show up, and the auxiliary officer came out to announce the start. Then the overhaul of the Beijing camp started the formation, and the monks in the three square formations were placed at the same time.

Moved into the valley of short life.

The monks each rely on their abilities, and the first one to come out will be ranked first, and so on. The top three thousand will enter the second level of the Dragon and Snake Ranking.

The ranking order of each level is related to the final ranking on the dragon and snake list.

Sun Changming felt a blur before his eyes. For a moment, he was in a state of weightlessness and distortion. Then everything around him condensed again and appeared in a gray, lifeless valley.

Sun Changming looked up and saw that about a thousand feet high in the sky above, there was a formation with a faint light. Under the seal of the formation, some unconscious black shadows were vaguely visible, floating like jellyfish in the sea, and occasionally a few

The black shadows collided together and dissipated into nothingness, but not long after, they re-condensed somewhere else.

A figure suddenly approached Sun Changming quickly. Sun Changming turned his head and stared at him with a half-smile.

The figure immediately stopped, raised his hands and said, "Brother, don't get me wrong, I just want to be by your side." It turned out to be the guy who sold the map before.

"Follow me?"

"Hehe!" The guy smiled: "I have paid attention to it. Among so many monks, only you, my brother, were escorted here by two people from the sixth realm. Your status is amazing. If I follow you and get the glory, you can always succeed.

Get out."

Sun Changming sauntered away with his hands behind his back, seemingly without any purpose: "You have a map of the safe route, why are you following me? Hurry up and follow the map and compete for the top three thousand spots."

"I always feel that things are not that simple this time. Although Ji Su is very bold, why would the court entrust a person like him with such a big matter as reopening the Dragon and Snake List?" He came up and introduced himself: "My name is Zhang Chunfa.

, what do you call me, brother?"

Sun Changming glanced at him lightly: "It's not convenient to tell you."

Zhang Chunfa was not embarrassed and raised his thumb: "He is indeed a big shot!" He really followed him. Sun Changming looked at him and smiled and said: "Forget it, if you can keep up, come on."

"Okay!"

Sun Changming actually agreed with Zhang Chunfa's doubt: Why should the imperial court hand over such an important matter to Ji Su? Even though the Wu Dynasty was rotten from top to bottom, Lord Lu Guangxiao was still here.

Originally, asking Lu Guangxiao would clear up the doubts, but Master Sun didn't dare to contact Lu Guangxiao.

In this first level of assessment, Sun Changming also wanted to get a feel for the situation. If it was really important, he would obediently go to Mr. Lu's house to pay his respects immediately after it was over and ask for all the information.

The situation in the Short-lived Valley is somewhat similar to the Realm of Destruction. It looks like a valley from the outside, but when you actually come in, you find that the space here is distorted in some way. The interior is extremely vast. Tens of thousands of monks were sent in, and everyone was coaxed to disperse.

It will be difficult to meet each other again.

The monks soon discovered that there were some obviously malicious forces floating around, washing over them repeatedly, and their vitality continued to drain, causing them to suffer from fatigue, sleepiness, laziness, boredom and various negative states.

So they began to eagerly follow the markings on the map to find a safe route.

But Sun Changming didn't seem to be affected at all, wandering around without knowing what he was looking for.

Zhang Chunfa followed him, and gradually became unable to hold on: "Brother, are you really not going to find a way out?" Sun Changming didn't answer at all. He raised his palm towards a flat boulder, and the boulder rose in the air, revealing the dense forest below.

Bones!

These human bones were completely decayed, and after being exposed, they quickly turned into a piece of white sand. But with the appearance of these white bones, the malicious power around them suddenly increased. Zhang Chunfa let out a muffled groan, and his face became increasingly gray and ugly.

Sun Changming flicked the boulder and dropped the boulder again. In his body, the flat peach objects rotated slowly, replenishing his vitality. Everything in the valley had minimal impact on him.

He has no fear of the short-lived valley, naturally because the flat peach responds to the material and is not afraid of the loss of vitality!
To be continued...