Starting from the imperial palace guards, his clones spread all over the world

#257 - One more life

Liang Jin looked at this message, lost in thought.

“Everything in this world is fake, but the items in the inventory are real.”

“Doesn't this message mean that I, or others, can take real things from here out?”

Liang Jin decided to experiment properly.

He immediately took out a [Qi Boosting Paste] from the [Inventory] and held it in his palm.

Then, Liang Jin exited the Nine Void Unbounds.

The next second, he returned to the dilapidated temple.

And in his palm, he was actually holding a [Qi Boosting Paste].

“It really works!”

Liang Jin looked at the [Qi Boosting Paste] in his hand and couldn't help but feel surprised.

“As long as the rewards are real, people will be motivated to keep fighting in the Nine Void Unbounds, since they won't really die anyway.”

“As long as the rewards are big enough, people will be even more eager to enter the Nine Void Unbounds and will fight even harder.”

“As long as I control the intensity and don't let them realize their mental strength is severely overdrawn, they won't think there are any adverse consequences.”

“As long as there are enough people, wouldn't that… really be like playing a game?!”

But very quickly.

Liang Jin realized there was a new problem.

“If I move away from this Lei Zhen, will I still be able to summon him into the Nine Void Unbounds?”

“My goal is the sea of stars, I can't just stick with a few guys, right?”

Immediately, Liang Jin decided to try it out.

He came outside the dilapidated temple.

A strong wind immediately rose.

Then Liang Jin rode the wind and disappeared into the night.

He flew very far.

At least dozens of miles.

At this time, looking at the radar interface on the [Nine Void Unbounds] attribute, there was only one bright spot left.

Obviously, this had exceeded the range that the radar interface could search for extreme people.

At this time, Liang Jin entered the Nine Void Unbounds.

The next second.

He was already standing in front of Gold Mountain.

“Let me see if I can still summon Lei Zhen in.”

Liang Jin's mind moved.

He could feel that he could still summon Lei Zhen into this Nine Void Unbounds.

This put his mind at ease.

As long as there were no distance restrictions, he could achieve his grand goal.

But when Liang Jin tried to summon him, he didn't succeed.

“It shouldn't be a distance issue, but rather the problem of Lei Zhen's current state.”

“I'll try again after Lei Zhen wakes up.”

“But speaking of which, why haven't I suffered from Lei Zhen's situation?”

“I've been fighting with Lei Zhen all along, and I haven't experienced mental exhaustion?”

Liang Jin also felt very strange.

Logically speaking, his mental consumption should be the same as Lei Zhen's.

But it seemed that he was completely unaffected by this mental consumption.

Could it be… that the martial intent produced by Lei Zhen during combat can constantly nourish his spirit?

Could this be the key to forging martial intent?

Liang Jin was also puzzled, but he quickly discovered a new situation:

“Huh? Is there a new system message?”

Sure enough, a new message had already appeared on the panel.

It's just that he had been preoccupied with studying the [Nine Void Unbounds] and hadn't noticed it.

Immediately, Liang Jin looked at it carefully.

【Congratulations, Host, for successfully summoning a martial artist using Nine Void Unbounds. You will receive a special reward: Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill × 1.】

There's a reward!

It turned out that the [Nine Void Unbounds]'s attribute rewards were calculated according to the number of martial artists summoned.

This was just right, coinciding with Liang Jin's plan.

“Pills are usually just 'rewards', but there's never been a 'special reward' before.”

“Could it be that this Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill has some special features?”

Liang Jin immediately checked the effects of the [Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill].

【Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill: After use, it can revive an avatar who has encountered a fatal disaster. If the physical body is damaged, it can also be recast and resurrected. It is also effective if the host dies. As long as this pill is in the inventory, it will be used automatically, allowing the host to recast the physical body and resurrect in place after seven days. The avatar will not die along with the host during this period.】

Liang Jin understood after reading it.

Isn't this equivalent to having an extra life?

Most importantly, it also has an effect on Liang Jin's main body.

Moreover, it's not an immediate resurrection, but a resurrection in place after seven days.

As long as Liang Jin's main body can successfully resurrect after seven days, then the other clones will not die either.

Even if Liang Jin's corpse is gone, it can still recast the physical body.

This effect is quite strong!

“This reward is really great!”

“I won't have to hold back in the future. Who else dares to provoke me?”

Liang Jin also felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

Having an extra life allows Liang Jin to have ten times more confidence!

The current Liang Jin is terribly brave. Even if the emperor provokes him, he dares to kill the emperor!

Anyway, he has a chance to be reborn. What else in this world can Liang Jin fear?

But Liang Jin quickly felt that he was being a little too arrogant.

“To live a long life, don't do short-sighted things.”

“This Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pill should be used as a last resort, and I can't rely on it to be arrogant and disdainful of everything.”

“Unless… I can get dozens or hundreds more Nine Revolutions Soul Return Pills, that would be about right.”

Liang Jin shook his head helplessly.

This kind of special reward is not so easy to obtain, and the probability is often extremely low.

“It's time to go back.”

Liang Jin then withdrew from the Nine Void Unbounds and prepared to return to the dilapidated temple.

Just then.

Suddenly, a bright spot appeared on the radar interface of the [Nine Void Unbounds].

At the same time, a message was displayed at the bottom of the interface:

【Detected a person of utmost evil near the host.】

【Do you want to bring him into the Nine Void Unbounds?】

【Yes/No】

A person of utmost evil?

Liang Jin looked at the radar interface and saw that the light spot was still relatively far away from him.

Now Liang Jin only needed to select [Yes] to pull that person into his Nine Void Unbounds.

There was absolutely no need to go and see who this light spot actually was.

But Liang Jin still decided to go and see for himself.

Because this was Changzhou, where drought and famine were occurring.

Here, many people lived from day to day without knowing what the next would bring.

Liang Jin had finally encountered a new worker, and he didn't want this person to die just like that.

Immediately, he accompanied the strong wind and quickly headed in the direction of the light spot.

… … … …

The wilderness by the road.

The night was thick, and nothing could be seen clearly.

But in this wilderness, there were still bursts of muffled groans.

The muffled groans were scattered everywhere, obviously there were many people lying in this wilderness.

These people were all weak and lagging behind in the fleeing famine teams.

They were too hungry to walk and could only lie on the ground.

Perhaps when dawn broke tomorrow, some people would be able to stand up and continue walking.

But some people, I'm afraid, will never get up again.

“Wife… let's just lie here and don't move.”

“As long as we don't move… we won't be so hungry…”

Wang Niu lay on the ground and said weakly.

He was not from Zhongsong County, but had fled from afar.

After two years of severe drought, the fields yielded no grain.

If they continued to stay in the village, they would only starve to death.

You say surplus grain?

How could ordinary peasant families have surplus grain?

Only landlords would have surplus grain.

The grain that the peasants worked so hard to grow was mostly used to pay taxes, rent, and prepare a portion for corvée labor.

The remaining grain was lucky enough to feed a family.

So once a natural disaster occurred, a large number of peasants would have to go hungry.

If they didn't want to die, they could only flee the famine.

Go to a place with food to make a living.

The premise was that they could reach it alive.

There was grain in the city.

But the city didn't allow disaster victims to enter.

Only young and beautiful disaster victim women would be bought into the city by the gentlemen in the city.

The government should also have grain.

According to the Daqian law: three years of cultivation must have one year of food, and nine years of cultivation must have three years of food. Every three years of cultivation, one year's reserve grain must be stored in the granary.

But it is said that the Changzhou officials have been secretly embezzling and reselling stored grain in recent years, resulting in no stored grain in the granary for disaster relief when the drought occurred.

The landlords and powerful families also had grain.

But the grain was all in the landlords' Wubao, and would not be distributed to the poor ghosts.

Even if anyone approached the Wubao, the landlords would lead their guards and rush out with knives and guns to kill people.

The landlords were also afraid that others would be hungry and desperate to rob their grain, so almost all the landlords in Changzhou were raising the walls of the Wubao and recruiting more guards.

In this year, too many people died, the order had collapsed, and the government could no longer take care of the cases of landlords killing and robbing grain peasants.

Now, under the drought and famine, the fleeing team also had to face various false messages.

Often, rumors that a place was releasing grain for disaster relief would attract a large number of disaster victims to flock there.

But when the disaster victims ran there in droves, they found that there was no such thing at all.

The disaster victims could only go to the next place where they might survive based on various messages.

Most of the disaster victims fell in this back-and-forth running.

Wang Niu's family was like this.

They had run to many places, and recently heard that Zhongsong City was releasing grain, so they took their family, old and young, to go there.

But when they arrived here, the old and the young had already starved to death.

Only Wang Niu and his wife were left, lying weakly on the roadside.

“Wife… when we have food… we must have another baby…”

“We can't let the Wang family… die out…”

“No, no! I won't give birth… ”

“Otherwise, giving birth to a baby… will suffer…”

Wang Niu couldn't help but recall the scenes he had seen along the way these days.

The corpses of babies and children could be seen everywhere by the road.

In this famine, the weak were the first to be unable to bear it.

The child he had given birth to before had already come into this world, but in the end, he could not escape this disaster.

He didn't want any more of his children to be born and suffer this crime in the world.

“Wife… why aren't you talking?”

“Wife… wife?”

Wang Niu said to himself for a while, but he couldn't hear his wife's reply.

He couldn't help but turn his head to look at his wife beside him.

I saw his wife lying quietly, motionless.

Her mouth was wide open, and a group of ants were crawling in and out of her mouth…