Cyber Daming

Chapter 550: The Demonic Might

Chapter 550: The Demonic Might (Part )

Zhao Yanlong is Yanglong's secular name.

Chen Qisheng was not very clear as to why this former senior brother from Longhu Mountain came to him.

But Li Jun had relayed to Chen Qisheng what Yang Long had said before he died that day, so Chen Qisheng did not refuse this meeting.

In the secret room of the temple, Taoist Wu, who was controlled by Concubine Yuan Ming, became a tool for passing messages. Yang Long in Huang Liang's dream communicated with Chen Qisheng in the present world through Taoist Wu.

"how did you find me?"

Chen Qisheng's voice was full of vigilance.

"Junior brother, don't worry. Longhu Mountain doesn't know that you are still hiding in Shangrao County. But I can find you by analyzing Xie Bian's whereabouts. Zhang Qingyu will find this sooner or later, so you'd better move as soon as possible."

"Zhang Qingyu?"

Chen Qisheng naturally knew this famous abbot of Xuantan Hall of Tianshi Mansion.

"Is he in charge of the operations at Mount Longhu now?"

"It was the great Heavenly Master Zhang Chongyuan who personally came out to appoint the generals."

Yang Long said in a serious tone, "Zhang Chongyuan is really angry this time. He not only appointed Zhang Qingyu, one of the top 34 Taoist priests in Baiyujing, to lead the team, but also sent five chief officers from the Dragon and Tiger Divisions. He also mobilized two old Heavenly Masters of the Xi Generation sealed in the Heavenly Master Mansion. He is determined to wipe you all out in Guangxin Mansion."

"Zhang Chongyuan has mobilized half of Longhu Mountain. This is a big move."

Chen Qisheng took a deep breath, and a heavy gloom appeared between his brows.

Zhang Qingyu and the five chief officers of the Nine Departments were fine, but what really surprised Chen Qisheng were the two sealed Heavenly Masters of the "Xi" generation.

According to the current seniority system at Mount Longhu, the one named 'Xi' is one generation older than the one named 'Chong' who currently holds power at Mount Longhu. Both of them had already entered the fourth level of Taoism or above when 'the world was divided into martial arts', and could be called masters who 'attained the Tao'.

It's just that due to some special reasons, the Tao foundation of these people fell into the irreversible "Five Deteriorations of Heaven and Man", so they could only choose to seal their own Tao foundation and enter the Huangliang Cave to cultivate their consciousness.

However, due to their decline, the strength of these people can only be maintained at the threshold of Dao III at most. Moreover, because their consciousness stays in Huangliang Cave Heaven for a long time and cannot return to Daoji for nourishment, their consciousness inevitably falls into the confusion of reincarnation, gradually losing the ability to think, and finally only has the instinct to exorcise demons.

But even so, these sealed heavenly masters are still the true foundation of Longhu Mountain.

"Why are you telling me this?"

If the information Yang Long revealed now was discovered by Longhu Mountain, it would be enough to imprison his consciousness in the "Fengdu Cave Heaven" and suffer endless torture.

In Chen Qisheng's opinion, the relationship between him and Yang Long was nothing more than mutual exploitation, each taking what they needed, and there was no affection between them that would allow the other party to take such a big risk to pass on information to him.

"In your eyes, Junior Brother, I, Zhao Yanlong, should be just a mean person who only cares about profit, right?"

Yang Long smiled bitterly and said, "That's true. If I hadn't been profit-driven, I would have died a long time ago. But this time, I don't want to make any deal with you. I just want to verify some things with you."

Chen Qisheng frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Have you destroyed your spiritual power, cancelled your Dragon and Tiger Dao membership, and given up all the rights to Huangliang belonging to Longhu Mountain?"

"Yes."

Chen Qisheng nodded. Now that he had already rebelled against Longhu Mountain, there was naturally no need to hide these things.

"Have you really been promoted to Human Immortal Lord?"

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Chen Qisheng felt that the words coming out of Taoist Wu’s mouth were slightly trembling.

The source of the trembling was not fear or surprise, but irrepressible excitement.

"How did you get to this point?"

Before Chen Qisheng could answer, Yang Long couldn't wait to ask, "Do you know the true rituals of the old Taoist order?"

"I don't know what you really mean. The rituals of the old Taoist order that I know of all originated from Mount Longhu."

Chen Qisheng paused, "But I didn't meet any of the requirements when I broke the lock and advanced to the next level."

"Then why did you break through, and how do you know that this step is called Human Immortal Lord?"

"It just comes to me. When I see it, I know it."

Chen Qisheng slowly spoke his answer. He did not lie, but he left Yang Long in a long silence.

"Is it a blessing from God? Perhaps you and Li Jun are the same kind of people, a counterattack of the declining old-school genes against the twisted and deformed Dao order. People like me are destined to not be able to embark on this path to immortality."

Yang Long seemed to accept Chen Qisheng's ridiculous answer, which was almost a witty remark, very easily.

Chen Qisheng could even picture Yang Long's lost and gloomy expression in his mind through his words.

"Are you also an old-school monk?" Chen Qisheng asked.

Yang Long quickly adjusted his mentality and said calmly: "It can only be said that it was once. Now I am no longer worthy of being a Taoist priest of the 'Yan' generation in Wudang Mountain."

Chen Qisheng's face suddenly showed a look of shock. Yang Long was not only a monk of the old school, but he was also a Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain? !
What is Wudang Mountain? Before the division of the martial arts, it was the only Taoist ancestral temple in the entire Ming Empire that was qualified to stand shoulder to shoulder with Longhu Mountain. It was the culmination of the old Taoist order, and it was also the only force whose disciples could fight against the martial arts order without losing!

Even after the war, Taoism was able to share Wuxu's legacy with Confucianism and Buddhism, and take the second place among the three religions, all thanks to Mount Wudang.

However, in the "Taoism Dispute" that is now a secretive issue within the Taoist order, Mount Wudang disappeared without a trace.

Even a young monk like Chen Qisheng could only see a few words about Wudang Mountain in some documents of Longhu Mountain. And it was probably that they had been revised and reviewed layer by layer, so the authenticity was impossible to verify.

"You are the Taoist master of Wudang Mountain, so how did you enter Longhu Mountain?"

"It's just a seizure."

Yang Long was obviously unwilling to say more about this and just glossed over the topic.

"The rituals of the new-school cultivators focus on the strength of their Tao foundation and the level of Huangliang's authority. The strength of the Tao foundation is determined by the number and years of reincarnation, while the level of authority is determined by the seat in the Baiyu Jingxian class." Yang Long said slowly.

Chen Qisheng had not yet recovered from the shock of Yang Long's true identity and was in a daze.

"The rituals of the old-school monks are closer to the traditional Taoists recorded in Taoist scriptures. They emphasize the perception of heaven and earth and the tempering of one's own spiritual thoughts. It is a pure practice without the help of any external force."

Chen Qisheng said in a deep voice: "This is different from the philosophy of the old-school monks inherited from Mount Longhu today."

"Of course it's different. If they could accept this concept, the 'dispute over the orthodoxy' wouldn't have broken out back then."

Yang Long said calmly: "The current 'Four Mountains and One Palace' plundered the heritage of Wudang Mountain and modified it, forcibly applying the artificially controlled rituals of the new school of monks to the old school's route, trying to find universality and regularity from it. The 'Fighting Department' was established for this purpose. But the final result was not what they wanted. After the reformed old school monks were shackled by Huangliang's authority, they degenerated into a product of nothing."

"After discovering that this road was not feasible, other Taoist forces chose to give up and focus all their resources on developing Huangliang Cave Heaven. The real reason for the decline of Longhu Mountain lies here."

Chen Qisheng listened quietly to Yang Long's story, waiting for him to unveil the thick veils covering the true history of Taoism.

"During the unification war, Longhu Mountain, as the instigator, was fully counterattacked by Wudang Mountain and suffered heavy losses. Most of the 'Xi' generation of Daoists who were in power at the time were beaten to death, and those who survived by chance fell into the 'Five Degenerations of Heaven and Man' due to serious injuries, and could only hide in caves to linger for a while."

"Fear breeds irresistible desire and greed. In order to master the power of the old Wudang monks, Longhu Mountain did not conduct gradual exploration and experimentation like other forces, but instead used all the power of the mountain gate to conduct experiments. A whole generation of Taoist seeds born from the basic population and a large amount of material and financial resources were consumed in this process, but the results were disappointing to the Zhang family. By the time they woke up, Longhu Mountain had been left behind by other Taoist forces, and the former Taoist ancestral home had become an empty shell with no substance."

"If it's really as you said, why can my master become Dao Si?" "Think about it carefully, is Xuan Dou Tianshi's Dao Si the same as yours? I told you, that's the wrong way after being modified."

Yang Long sighed, "Authority is a shortcut, but it is also a cage. Your unintentional action has allowed you to break the golden rope and the jade lock, and you have accidentally embarked on the right path. Perhaps this is God's will."

"So new is new, and old is old. The essential difference makes these two paths incompatible and interoperable."

From then on, Chen Qisheng finally understood the cause and effect of everything.

"That's right. The Dao base nourishes the divine consciousness, and the divine consciousness feeds back to the Dao base. This is the Dao sequence's method of cultivation. But with the emergence of the Huangliang Cave Heaven, the divine consciousness is like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins. The shocking speed of improvement has made the new-school cultivators completely addicted to it, prompting them to give up all the senses and flesh that breed desire in exchange for a longer dream reincarnation. But the result of doing so is that the skyrocketing divine consciousness can no longer match the weak Dao base that has lagged behind in evolution, so more and more new-school cultivators are going astray."

Yang Long's voice suddenly became excited, and he shouted crazily: "They are all wrong. No matter how real the Huangliang Dream is, it is not even one ten-thousandth of the real world. There is no shortcut in the path of cultivation. The Huangliang Dream is not an opportunity, but a disaster! It is a trap that can completely destroy the Dao Order."

trap?

Chen Qisheng frowned. Daoxu was one of the leaders in establishing the Huangliang Dream and the biggest beneficiary. If this was a trap, who was the person behind it?

After the curtains were peeled back layer by layer, what appeared before Chen Qisheng's eyes was an even thicker fog.

"Brother Zhao"

Chen Qisheng stood up, clasped his hands together, and said solemnly, "I wonder what you need me to do, brother?"

The importance of Yang Long's words to Chen Qisheng is self-evident. It is no longer a simple solution to doubts, but more like a teaching.

Chen Qisheng is not a person who accepts rewards without merit. It is his nature to distinguish between gratitude and resentment.

"The Wuxu sect still has Tianque, but Wudang has nothing left. It has been completely reduced to ashes. What else do I need you to do?"

Yang Long said in a bleak tone: "I am a coward who is afraid of death. When the sect was facing life and death, I chose to retreat. Now I will not force you with the things I dare not face. The reason why I told you this is just to do something for the real old-school monks, so that the sin in my heart can be alleviated a little."

"Perhaps Master Xuan Dou also saw something, so he named you Qisheng."

Yang Long sighed: "Junior brother, the road ahead is long, please take care of yourself."

As soon as he finished speaking, Taoist Wu was like a puppet with its strings cut. The light in his eyes faded and he retreated into a corner.

"How true and false do you think what Zhao Yanlong said is?"

By the door, Yuan Mingfei leaned against the door frame, looking at Chen Qisheng quietly.

"Nine true and one false."

Chen Qisheng exhaled and said, "The contents of the new and old Taoist prefaces are true."

"What is that 'one holiday'? He doesn't just want to do something to atone for his sins, but wants to play the long game and catch a bigger fish?"

"Do not."

Chen Qisheng stood up and walked to the window of the secret room of the Jingshe. The ruins of Shangrao Dao Palace were reflected in his eyes. "This fake is because Zhao Yanlong is not a coward."

"It's possible, otherwise he wouldn't take such a big risk to contact you at this time." Yuan Mingfei smiled without comment.

"Sister Yuan, where is the Taoist official sent by Longhu Mountain now?" Chen Qisheng suddenly asked.

"Currently temporarily stationed at Cangsong Temple in the north of the city."

Yuan Mingfei said: "According to the information collected by Zou Sijiu, you may know the leader of this group of Taoist officials."

"Who?"

"The current director of the Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion and the chief of the Dou Department is Yang Zong."

Chen Qisheng looked up at the sky, his eyes fixed on the sun that was gradually moving westward, and a cold smile slowly appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"I am very familiar with him."

"A top 4th Daoist master from the top 50 of the Earthly Immortals, two sealed Heavenly Masters who are suspected to be 3rd Daoist masters, plus a group of elite members of the Nine Divisions of Dragon and Tiger, it seems that you have completely angered that Great Heavenly Master this time, and he actually sent out such a luxurious lineup to kill you, the Wuxu evil demon."

Lord Ma analyzed, "Shangrao, Yushan, Yiyang, Guixi, Yongfeng, there are five counties in the population base of Guangxin Prefecture. Shangrao is led by Yang Zong, and Zhang Chongyuan pushed him out. It is obvious that he is a bait. There must be at least one Dao San around him, right? Shen Li of Yongfeng County has been tested. He is the chief officer of the three Dragon and Tiger Nine Departments. Guixi is the mountain gate of Longhu Mountain, and Zhang Chongyuan is in charge personally."

"So from this point of view, either a Dao San is ambushing in Yushan and Yiyang, or it's the Xuantan Palace abbot named Zhang Qingyu?"

"I didn't realize it, Master Ma, when did your brain become so sharp?"

Li Jun stood on the crown of a green pine tree on the top of a mountain, overlooking the Yiyang County town below the mountain and jokingly said.

"A man can only make a living temporarily by relying on his looks, but only by being brave and resourceful can he make a living forever. Master Ma is just too lazy to use his brain. If I really get serious, even Concubine Yuan Ming will admit defeat."

"so smart?"

"Of course."

"How does he compare to Zhang Fengyue? I helped him do some work for nothing many times without knowing what was going on. I still hate him when I think about it now."

Li Jun teased, "How about you help me trick him once?"

"What do you mean by sneaking in? That's what you did wrong. How old is Zhang Fengyue? He's almost 200 years old! Why are you arguing with him? Do you know what it means to respect the old and love the young? Suffering a loss is a blessing?"

Lord Ma snorted, "Stop teasing me here, kid. You are only Wu Xu. If you were Ming Gui, you would know what kind of person I, Lord Ma, was in the past."

"I know. He's like an eagle."

Li Jun smiled and said, "How about a bet? Who is Zhang Qingyu or Dao San of the Xi generation in Yushan City now?"

"What are you gambling?"

“Who loses and who pays?”

"Sure, no problem. I haven't practiced for a while, so my skills are a little rusty. I need to go and brush up on them."

"You are older, so you choose first."

"I choose Zhang Qingyu!"

"Sure?"

"determine."

"Then you just wait to be paid!"

Li Jun laughed loudly, opened his arms, and jumped down from the top of the mountain.

"What do you mean? You have already got the information, are you trying to trick me?"