Cyber ​​Daming

Chapter 551: The Demonic Might (Part )

Yushan County is located in the northeast of Guangxin Prefecture.

The most famous industry here is the construction of various fantasy dreams, which is even well-known throughout the Ming Empire.

Whether it is a high-quality customized dream specially serving the rich, or a low-quality product produced by various small workshops, whether you want to experience the life of a king, a general, or want to roam the world, or even become a Buddha, you can get what you want here.

Even some Buddhist orders who have particularly high demands on their own Huangliang Buddhist Kingdom will come here quietly and invite skilled masters to build the details of the Buddhist Kingdom for them.

Of course, these bald heads’ invitation method usually doesn’t cost money, but rather asks the other party to move their heads.

Therefore, Yushan County can be said to be one of the most important money bags of Longhu Mountain.

It was already nightfall, and most of the people in Yushan County had already started their nightlife, going into the Huangliang Cave in Longhu Mountain to practice Taoism.

On the empty streets, there were only teams of Yellow Turban warriors patrolling back and forth, their footsteps in unison. The talismans embedded in their faces glowed red, and there was a hint of creepy weirdness amid the solemnity.

In a patrol team responsible for the northern city area, two Longhu Mountain Taoist priests who controlled the Yellow Turban Warriors walked in the rear to provide support. One of them, a young Taoist named Yang Sen, yawned out of boredom.

He belonged to the 'Zhe Department' among the Nine Dragon and Tiger Departments. He thought that this time he followed the department chief down the mountain, it would be a thrilling journey to kill demons. Even if he was not qualified to participate in the killing, at least he could admire the majestic and heroic figure of the sect's immortal.

But they didn't expect that after arriving in Yushan County, they started doing the work that used to be done by the government guards, patrolling the city day and night, which was extremely boring.

Whenever he thought of this, Yang Sen was filled with complaints.

"Brother Yanghuo, how long will we stay in Yushan City?"

The senior brother that Yang Sen mentioned was a middle-aged Taoist with a calm temperament, and he was also a Taoist of the "Zhebu".

"Whenever we can destroy that evil demon, we will return to the mountain naturally."

"But Li Jun hasn't shown up yet?"

Yang Sen said dissatisfiedly: "Could he have already escaped from Guangxin Prefecture?"

"Don't you know about the attack on Yongfeng County not long ago?" The middle-aged Taoist glanced at him.

"Of course I know. I even applied to see the brief footage of the battle. But didn't it say that the attacker was not Li Jun, but a martial artist named Shen Li?"

Yang Huo said calmly, "Who told you that the only evil demon we are going to destroy this time is Li Jun? Do you understand that a gang commits a crime? Those people must still be in Guangxin Prefecture now, but they have hidden their whereabouts by some unknown method, so our Sky Track Star cannot find them for the time being."

"This is all the fault of the Dao Order of other sects in Baiyujing. If they hadn't taken advantage of the situation and made exorbitant demands, we would have already mobilized high-level celestial orbit stars like 'Beidou' and 'Yinghuo'. Would we be afraid of not being able to find those clowns who are hiding their heads and showing their tails by then?"

"Be careful!"

Yang Huo said in a low voice, "Do you think you and I can discuss the Immortal Master in Baiyujing? You have been practicing in the mountains for quite a long time, why are you still so unruly?"

"That's what senior brother taught me."

Yang Sen laughed awkwardly and scratched his head, saying, "But I am only doing this out of righteous indignation. After all, we are all Daoxu. It would be fine if they didn't help us at this time, but they are actually holding us back. I really don't understand what they are thinking!"

"Junior brother, it's a good thing that you have this kind of heart to consider for the sect."

Yang Huo sighed and said, "However, special Daoist artifacts like the Sky Track Star are not privately owned by any one family, but are under the jurisdiction of Baiyujing and are the common property of the entire Dao Order. If there were no authority threshold and usage limit, and everyone could use it at will, I'm afraid it would have been exhausted long ago. By then, the entire Dao Order would be in great trouble."

"So that's it."

As a fellow Taoist priest of Mount Longhu, Yang Sen already knew what Yang Huo said, but he still cooperated very well and showed his sudden enlightenment.

Yang Sen, who was able to read people's expressions, saw that his brother's expression had eased a little, so he asked tentatively, "Brother, since we are fine now, how about you tell me about the origins of these evil demons?"

"You are still too young. You don't know how dangerous the situation you are facing is."

Yang Huo thought so with a heavy heart, although he didn't want to say a word now, he just wanted to finish the patrol as soon as possible and return to the Taoist Palace.

But after all, they were fellow disciples and were assigned to work together. Yang Huo felt that he still needed to warn the other party, lest he be careless and cause unnecessary trouble, which would be bad if he were implicated.

Thinking of this, Yang Huo nodded and asked, "How much do you know about them?"

Yang Sen was shocked and quickly told everything he knew: "I know the leader is called Li Jun, a lone warrior who used to be a Jinyiwei in the Japanese area. I heard that there is a black armor named Ma Wangye beside him. As for other more detailed information, I am not qualified to view it now."

"As a new sect cultivator, you cannot only learn about the enemy through the sect's channels. You must also learn how to search for the information you want from the Huangliang Cave Heaven. When necessary, you must also learn how to disguise yourself as a Daoist from another sect and find ways to obtain information from others. This is what it takes to be a qualified member of the 'Zhebu'."

Yang Huo taught him another lesson, and then slowly said: "Regarding Li Jun, his information first appeared in Huangliang Cave Heaven because he killed a Taoist priest named Yu Kou from Mount Qingcheng. According to our analysis, Yu Kou was planning to train Li Jun into a furnace for taking over other people's bodies and turn him into an old-school cultivator."

"I remember that Qingcheng Mountain announced to abandon the old-school monks a long time ago. Why do some of them still want to take this path?" Yang Sen asked puzzledly.

"Anyone who does anything, no matter how counterintuitive it is, must have his own purpose behind it. If you want to understand Yu Kou's behavior, you have to look at it in light of his identity background and the situation he was in at the time."

Yang Huo said, "When the world was divided, Qingcheng Mountain issued a series of reward rules to motivate the disciples to participate in the war. One of them was that the Huangliang authority obtained could be inherited by the son after the father's death. So after the war, the leader of Qingcheng Mountain no longer had the final say. Instead, several major families and multiple minor families checked and balanced each other. The Yu family, to which Yu Kou belonged, was one of the weaker of the many minor families."

"The most powerful cultivator family in Qingcheng Mountain today is the Liang family, which holds the seat of the Baiyujing Celestial Immortal. In order to change the current situation in Qingcheng Mountain, the Liang family has been trying to take back the scattered Huangliang authority for many years. However, due to the original rules, they can't do it too ugly in public. Even so, small families like the Yu family are still in a critical state of uncertainty."

"But the promotion of new monks is inseparable from authority, and the Yu family has no other way to obtain it. But if they don't get promoted, the authority they have now will become a hot potato. Therefore, the Yu family has only two options. One is to sell the authority to a more powerful family at a good price in exchange for the protection of others."

"The other option is to become an old-school monk and use other methods to break the lock and advance!"

Yang Sen took over the conversation and asked in confusion: "But I still don't understand one thing, Senior Brother. We had old-school cultivators in Longhu Mountain before. As far as I know, don't they also need Huangliang authority?"

"You don't need to know the specific reasons here."

Yang Huo did not explain this point, and continued: "You should have heard about what Li Jun did after killing Yu Kou. There were mountains of corpses and seas of blood along the way. Almost all the disciples of the Four Mountains and One Palace died at his hands. He is a truly vicious and evil demon."

"After he returned to the Empire from the Japanese region, a group of people gathered around him. Among them was..."

Yang Sen said excitedly: "I know there is a Buddhist order named Yuan Mingfei!"

"You know a lot." Yang Huo glanced at the other person faintly.

Yang Sen smiled naively and said, "I only know their names, I really don't know anything else."

Yang Huo did not blame the other party for showing off his cleverness. He nodded and said, "Yuan Mingfei was born in the Jokhang Temple of the Fandi Buddhist Sect. She used to be a lowly goddess. Later, she stole her consciousness back from the Huangliang Buddhist Kingdom and escaped to the old two capitals and thirteen provinces. However, when she appeared in the Japanese area, she had become one of the Four Black Heavens of Buddhism. We have not yet investigated the reason clearly."

Yang Sen asked excitedly: "What about Zou Sijiu?"

"He is a little-known person in the Yin-Yang Order. Even the East Palace within their organization has not paid attention to him."

Yang Huo gave his evaluation and said with emotion: "However, Zou Sijiu is very lucky. After following Li Jun, his luck has flourished like a fire. His sequence promotion was unstoppable, and he became a Yin-Yang Four Zhuang Zhou Butterfly in a very short time. Now the East Palace must have included him in the scope of key attention. It is not ruled out that some kind of connection has been established between them."

"Brother, I heard that the rituals of this group of rats value authority backdoors and fate. The latter sounds very vague and ethereal. I have never been able to understand what it means. Can you explain it to me?"

"Yang Sen, have you ever realized the truth?"

Yang Huo did not give a direct answer, but asked back.

"Brother, are you referring to the reincarnation in the cave? Of course I have. I have accumulated 84 years of reincarnation experience, including the identities of a swordsman and a military commander."

Before Yang Sen finished counting the dream identities he had experienced, he was interrupted by Yang Huo: "No, the enlightenment I'm talking about takes place in the real world. It's the understanding of the world, the Tao, and myself." Yang Sen shook his head in confusion.

As a cultivator born in Guangxin Prefecture, Yang Sen grew up in a strong Taoist atmosphere. He was very familiar with every word mentioned by his senior brother. However, after adding the premise of "real world", he suddenly felt that he could not understand the meaning.

Heaven and earth, the way of the Tao, and the self, aren't these mysterious things all happening in the dream world? How can this be possible in the real world?

"I have never had this experience. I have only heard of this concept at the Dao-teaching ceremony held at the Wanfa Sect Altar in the Tianshi Mansion. But the people of Yin-Yang Order can calculate their own destiny and understand their 'Dao' in the real world."

"Forget it. I don't understand these things myself, so I won't mislead you here."

Yang Huo shook his head in self-mockery, his mind moved slightly, and he controlled a team of Yellow Turban warriors to turn around and return to the Taoist palace in the center of the county.

"There is another person under Li Jun, who is our former fellow apprentice. However, he has gone astray and is no longer a Taoist master of Longhu Mountain."

"Brother, why did Yang Xuan Chen Qisheng dare to betray the sect?"

Yang Sen said sarcastically, "After hearing about this, I checked the history of the Dou Department. Their entire department has never made any decent contribution to Longhu Mountain. They are completely supported by the sect! The chief officer Xuan Dou is also a useless person. Since he took charge of the Dou Department, the number of disciples has been decreasing. Almost all of them have transferred to other departments. In the end, only he and Chen Qisheng were left. It turned out that one of them embezzled and misappropriated the sect's resources, and the other was the biggest traitor in Longhu Mountain today. What a 'hero'!"

"The current Dou Department has been disbanded and reorganized, and its members will also be new-school monks in the future."

Yang Huo said in a deep voice: "But I remind you that the current Doubu chief officer Yang Zong has a special status. He is also the director of the Tianshi Mansion. If you mess with him, even our chief officer can't protect you!"

"Isn't it just a bait thrown by the Great Taoist Priest? Why should we be afraid of him?" Yang Sen muttered in a low voice.

Yang Huo suppressed his anger and said, "He is indeed a bait now, but what if he survives after catching the fish? Will the Great Heavenly Master not value him and reward him?"

"Don't worry, Senior Brother. I can still tell the difference between the important and the unimportant."

Yang Sen had a playful look on his face, his hands crossed and tucked into the sleeves of his Taoist robe. He looked at the empty street in front of him, turned his head and suddenly asked, "Brother, do you think that Master Zhang Tianshi really wants to establish a Taoist country on earth in Guangxin Prefecture?"

"Why are you asking about this again?" Yang Huo asked back with a frown.

"I am a native of Guangxin Prefecture, and I have many relatives living in the secular world, some of whom live in Yushan County."

Yang Sen smiled and said, "I heard from them that the Huangliang Dreamland business that supports the entire Yushan County has been greatly affected. In the past, when Ruxu was in power, their officials would find ways to organize the black market and build channels to export some of the lucrative and low-quality Huangliang Dreamland. But now that they have been driven away, these channels have naturally disappeared."

"Not only that, there are rumors that the New Donglin Party will soon counterattack us. The prefectures and counties under their command will announce a complete blockade of Daoxu. We don't recognize treasure notes, and they don't recognize immortal yuan. They will use the same means to counter us."

"okay."

Yang Huo interrupted the other party and said indifferently: "You and I don't need to worry about these things. The sect's heavenly masters will naturally find ways to deal with them."

"I'm just worried that these worldly affairs will affect our practice of Taoism." Yang Sen chuckled.

"Longhu Mountain has no shortage of things to maintain your Dao body, and Ruxu cannot control the length of your dream reincarnation. Even if it really comes to the point of breaking up, you can just send your family members to the cave heaven. The Array Department should not make it difficult for you to do such a small thing."

Yang Huo rubbed his brows sleepily, "Our main task now is to maintain the order in Yushan County. If someone with a weak heart wants to cause trouble at this time, you should know what to do, right?"

Yang Sen replied, "Brother, rest assured. This flying sword in my hand has never seen blood since it was forged. If anyone dares to jump out at this time, I will use him to sacrifice the sword!"

Although Yang Sen beside him was still looking agitated, Yang Huo felt that the other party might have listened to his warning to some extent.

It doesn’t matter even if it’s not much, as long as I can survive this action and don’t get myself into trouble.

Dragon and Tiger Kill Demons
This kind of thing has never happened in the base of Longhu Mountain, and the identity of the other party is actually Wu Xu.

Is the world divided into two martial arts again? Or is it that this time the world is divided into two sects?

The more Yang Huo thought about it, the more worried he became. Although he was just an ordinary Daoxu under the command of the "Zhebu", his years of exposure to intelligence made him clearly understand one thing: as long as a fight broke out, people like him would be cannon fodder.

A life that has been cultivated for many years is only worthy of being a number in the memorial submitted to the Heavenly Master, or even just a small part of a number.

Perhaps only by giving up the present body and completely entering the cave to become a "yin god" can he escape the fate of becoming cannon fodder.

While Yang Huo was daydreaming, the Yushan County Taoist Temple was already in sight.

But at this moment, the Yellow Turban strongman walking in front suddenly stopped without any warning.

"Why, do you still want to disguise yourself as a Yellow Turban Warrior and sneak into my Taoist Palace?"

"When did you find out?"

"When you come into town."

"Sky Track Stars?"

"It's the stink of your flesh and blood."

"It seems that I still underestimated Longhu Mountain."

"No problem. Just remember it when you reincarnate in your next life."

The sound of conversation coming from the front made Yang Huo's eyes widen in horror. He subconsciously controlled the Yellow Turban Warriors to spread out to the left and right, and saw a dazzling figure like a sword standing in the front of the team.

And further away, under the eaves of the Taoist palace, stood a thin Taoist priest in a purple robe.

Yang Huo naturally recognized that old face with a strong sense of decadence. It was Zhang Xishou, the sealed Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master Mansion in Yushan City.

"Who are you?!"

An angry roar exploded in his ears, and it was like a thunder rolling and roaring in Yang Huo's heart.

"You son of a bitch, you want to die yourself, why are you trying to hurt me?!"

Boundless anger surged up, Yang Huo turned around and stared fiercely at his companion beside him, his face ferocious, as if he was going to choose someone to devour.

A fan-shaped cold light swept over.

In Yang Huo's sight, Yang Sen's huge head rose into the sky, and blood spurted from his neck for several feet.

Just as the joy of revenge had just risen, Yang Huo found that the scene in his eyes suddenly rose, and then quickly darkened as it swayed from side to side.

When everything was about to return to chaos and silence, an ancient and majestic dark golden armor and a spear as bright as thunder were reflected in his dilated pupils.

In front of the Taoist temple, luxurious and majestic purple robes fluttered in the wind. Dense talismans and flying swords rose from all directions. The light from the talismans was like will-o'-the-wisp fire, and the tail flames were like stars.

"All disciples, follow this Heavenly Lord to slay the demons!"

thump.

Yang Huo's head fell to the ground, and his dead face was illuminated by countless colorful colors that swarmed up.

(End of this chapter)