I have 99 innate treasures

Chapter 326: Daojun's Disaster
The first thing that appeared in the water mirror technique was the streets of Baiyun City bathed in the afterglow of the evening. The streets were crowded with people and monks coming and going in an endless stream.

The cries of vendors, mixed with the conversations and laughter of the monks, created a lively atmosphere.

The old demon Cangshan's gaze swept across the bustling crowd and stopped on a heartwarming scene.

Qin Mu, Cang Bo, and the housekeeper Liu and his wife were seen, each holding a child in their hands, and the whole family was happily moving among the crowd.

Qin Mu was wearing a light blue robe, with a gentle and elegant temperament, holding the lively and lovely Cang Ziling in his hands.

She was wearing a purple Liuxian dress, with her hair tied up in delicate knots. Two red ribbons fell from behind her ears to her shoulders, dancing in the wind.

Although there were other little girls on the street, only Cang Ziling was dressed like a lady from a wealthy family.

Although she only eats home-cooked meals every day, her originally thin body has gradually become plump and looks much healthier.

When the old demon Cangshan saw this scene, a sense of trance flashed across his eyes.

He still remembered the first time he met Cang Ziling, she had dry yellow hair, a thin body, always kept her head down, and looked timid and cowardly.

But in just a few months, she underwent a complete transformation.

At this time, Cang Ziling was not only dressed cutely, but her big black and white eyes also sparkled with bright light, making her look smart and clever.

I saw her little hand tightly holding Qin Mu's sleeve, sometimes pointing curiously at the small stall in the distance, and sometimes excitedly moving among the crowd, full of confidence and liveliness.

The old demon of Cangshan noticed that whenever Cang Ziling saw a gadget that interested him, he would excitedly pull Qin Mu's hand and squeeze in front of the stall.

Her little face was filled with an innocent smile, and her big eyes were sparkling with curiosity and excitement. She lowered her head and selected all kinds of strange goods on the stall, and from time to time she looked up at Qin Mu to ask for his opinion.

Qin Mu smiled and nodded, looking at her lovingly without any impatience.

The old demon Cangshan's gaze lingered on Cang Ziling for a long time, as if he wanted to engrave every detail of her in his heart.

Then he looked at other people.

Beside Cang Ziling, Cang Ziyu was also looking at her lovingly, tightly clasping a brush that exuded a faint spiritual charm in his hand.

Cang Sha Ren and Cang Sha Sheng were controlling two magical wooden swords. When they saw the wooden swords slowly floating in the air beside them, excitement lit up in their eyes.

Cang Bo and his wife, Steward Liu, stood beside them, protecting a small space for them among the endless stream of people.

After seeing how Qin Mu's family treated the four children, a gentle smile flashed in the eyes of the old demon Cangshan.

At this moment, Qin Mu in the picture came to a stall.

The smile on the face of the old demon Cangshan suddenly disappeared, replaced by a gloomy look.

He narrowed his eyes and stared at the stall owner, the coldness in his eyes almost overflowing.

The stall owner was a middle-aged monk wearing light yellow clothes, with two mustaches under his nose. His eyes were small but sparkling, making him look extremely shrewd.

There were five items on his stall: an oval token made of bronze, a fist-sized iron block that shone with purple, red and gold light, a crystal that was as big as a human head, a red feather that flickered with fire, and a wooden scroll made of blue wood.

The tablecloth beneath these items was a furry animal skin with silvery flashes.

The Old Demon of Cangshan didn't even look at the goods on his stall. He just stared at the stall owner, as if he wanted to memorize his voice and appearance in his mind.

Soon, Qin Mu reached a deal with the stall owner and left with Cang Ziling. The image of the water mirror technique was also shattered at this time.

Qin Mu slowly opened his eyes with a tired look on his face and asked, "Senior, do you remember what that person looks like?"

The old demon Cangshan nodded expressionlessly, and did not tell Qin Mu about his plan. He just smiled faintly, raised his hand and pointed at the other items taken out of the storage ring in front of him, and said with a gentle smile: "I guess you don't know these good things."

Qin Mu nodded lightly.

"I will introduce you to..."

The old demon Cangshan nodded and smiled, pointing at the blue wooden scroll that had become slightly dull due to the erosion of time, stroking his beard and said: "This is a secret scroll made using ancient methods, equivalent to the jade slips of ancient times."

"These secret scrolls record many skills, magical powers, and secrets of Taoism, Buddhism, and the demon race. They were collected by me when I was a Taoist master."

"The seven secret scrolls represent the collections of seven Dao Lords."

Qin Mu's eyes moved slightly, and he asked curiously: "Seven Dao Lords?"

The old demon Cangshan nodded gently: "There are two more Taoists who brought their collections from the Eight Extremes to Kunlun Mountain and arrived at Ziweiyuan."

Qin Mu was shocked when he heard this, and said in surprise: "The Taoist Lord appeared after the death of Emperor Jing, and Emperor Jing appeared after Emperor Qing. Doesn't this mean that at that time, there was not only the Jedi Tiantong, but also the Qing Emperor's formation?"

"How did they reach the Baji Land in this case?"

The old demon of Cangshan smiled and said, "Nothing in the world is absolute. Whether it is the First Emperor's ultimate heavenly passage or the Qing Emperor's formation, they can all be broken, but the price is very high."

After he finished speaking, he saw Qin Mu's curious face and couldn't help but smile and said, "Well, I'll tell you about it."

"I have already told you about the Daojun Disaster, but you, who were born under the rule of Dayu, will never understand how horrible that era was."

"To put it simply, the most common people in the world are mortals, but do you know... what are mortals in the eyes of monks?"

Qin Mu asked tentatively: "Servant?"

The old demon Cangshan shook his head and said, "In the eyes of the so-called righteous monks, mortals are slaves, servants, tools for sexual gratification, beasts like cattle and sheep, ignorant breeds who have been imprisoned in secret realms for generations, and tools for providing faith for great monks."

"In the eyes of the evil, mortals are food. They are materials for refining weapons, and their mothers are taken away as soon as they are born. Their bones, flesh, souls, blood, emotions, and corpses can all be used as materials for refining treasures."

"Whether they are righteous cultivators or demonic cultivators, they were once mortals. When they were mortals, they might be well-known good people, or they might be filial people who respect their parents and elders. But the moment they set foot on the path of cultivation, they will gradually feel that they and mortals are two different species under the education of their teachers and elders."

When Qin Mu heard this, his face turned serious.

The old demon Cangshan smiled at him and asked gently, "Will you not eat the piglet just because you think it's cute?"

Qin Mu was speechless for a moment.

The old demon Cangshan said again: "Perhaps you are thinking, are all cultivators evil? If this continues, won't the human race be wiped out?"

He asked these two questions, gave Qin Mu a chance to think, and then gave the answer: "Human nature is evil. It is human nature to bully the good and fear the evil. The seven emotions and six desires are instincts."

"There has never been a saint without desires. When faced with a charming and alluring beauty who is willing to be touched by you, you can remain unmoved for a day or a lifetime, but a cultivator's life span is long. Once you are moved once, there will be a second, third, and countless times."

"One day, you will lose your feelings for the beauty in front of you. At this time, you hear that a person who is far inferior to you has raised countless beauties in the mortal world. Can you still keep your original heart as always?"

"Perhaps you think you can do it, but can you guarantee that your fellow apprentices can do it, too?"

"So, many monks would raise some mortals like raising cattle and sheep, in order to protect the mortals from becoming extinct."

“Half-demons are the evil creatures born from the marriage between demons and humans. Their status is lower than that of mortals.” When Qin Mu heard him say this, he could already guess in his mind why Daojun was able to conquer the world in such a short period of time.

The old demon Cangshan stroked his goatee and continued calmly, "We, the Dao Lords who are high and mighty in the future, were also evil animals kept in captivity by the cultivators at that time."

"After the nine of us worked together to kill a weak cultivator, we began to practice his skills. When we reached a certain level of cultivation, we made friends with other cultivators under the pretext of making friends, and then killed them."

"Gradually, we collected the skills of Buddhism and Taoism, and finally came together to study the skills together."

"We know very well that with only nine of us, we can never change the fate of the half-demon clan."

"So, we taught the derived skills to all the half-demons we saw, and promoted them among the human race in the world through the half-demons."

Qin Mu sighed: "In order to control the majority of people, you created the so-called evil doctrine?"

After hearing these words, the old demon Cangshan suddenly laughed so hard that his body shook.

After he stopped laughing, he couldn't help but said, "In the memory that Cangshan Old Demon learned, it is indeed an evil doctrine, but if I explain it to you as the Taoist Lord of Immortality, what we preached is not some evil doctrine, but some simple words."

"For example... there was a man who saw his father being tortured and killed by a monk, his mother being taken as a concubine, and he himself being a slave raised by the monk."

"At this time, we appeared beside him, gave him a technique that did not require spiritual roots to practice, and avenged him, but the requirement was that he join us."

"Do you think he'll join?"

Qin Mu sighed softly, "Probably will join."

The old demon Cangshan shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not probably, but definitely. When I gave you the example, I didn't mention their misery, but you should be able to associate the darkness of that era with the misery of mortals."

Qin Mu nodded lightly.

The old demon Cangshan said, "But if there are too many people, we will not be able to manage them effectively. So when they join us, they will drink a cup of blood wine with us. This cup of blood wine is the essence of the half-demon's blood."

"As long as he drinks this cup of blood wine, his blood will be changed and he will gradually become a half-demon and possess spiritual roots."

"In this way, even if there are a few traitors, they can only betray us for a while. When their cultivation becomes higher and higher, the half-demon blood in their bodies will allow them to have more half-demon characteristics."

After saying this, he smiled softly and said word by word: "So... there has never been a technique that can be practiced without spiritual roots. All of this is a scam created by us in order to get more mortals to join us."

"And as long as they join us, they will definitely become half-demons."

"Except for joining us, if they appear before any normal cultivator, they will only be killed."

"It is with this method that we have controlled billions of cultivators. Hundreds of years ago, Emperor Yu was able to conquer the world with just a group of mortals, and we have billions of cultivators under our command."

When he said this, his tone paused.

Then he smiled and said: "If you grew up in that era, then all the people you would meet in your life would be cultivators practicing the Dao Lord's Law."

"Like the so-called Four Clans of Creation, and those great holy lands, because they are afraid of being completely annihilated by us, they either hide in their ancestral lands or seal off their mountains with large formations."

After saying this, he sighed helplessly, "When they hid, Shenzhou became meaningless to us, so we set our sights on Qingdi's formation."

"The Zhoutian Star Array and the Xiantian Five Elements Array are indeed powerful, and the Qingdi is indeed terrifying. He is worthy of being a figure who suppresses an era."

"Even if the nine of us work together, we can't shake these two formations."

As he spoke, a cold light flashed in his eyes and his voice was filled with coldness.

"Fortunately, we have a lot of people. If nine people are not enough, we can call on nine million, ninety million, nine hundred million, as long as we have a lot of people, no big formation can stop us!"

"After we broke the Green Emperor's formation, we headed to the other eight states and hunted ancient monsters to purify our bloodlines. Eventually... the strength of each of us reached an earth-shattering level!"

"But the First Emperor's ultimate power has forcibly suppressed the cultivation of people like us, making it impossible for us to become immortals."

"There is a crack between heaven and earth. That crack is infinitely high and infinitely wide. It is impossible to cross it with human power."

When he said this, his tone suddenly became strange.

“So, based on the example of Demon Lord Tianku who once sacrificed hundreds of millions of lives, Daojun Dushi came up with a solution, which is to use the blood of cultivators to penetrate heaven and earth, and use the lives of cultivators to pave a bridge across the crack between heaven and earth for us!”

"Then, the nine of us set up a blood sacrifice formation, sacrificed hundreds of millions of cultivators, and with the resentful and bloody energy rising into the sky, we forcibly rushed into the crack between heaven and earth, preparing to counterattack Ziweiyuan."

"But no one expected that there was such a great terror in the crack between heaven and earth. Six of the nine of us died in it, and most of the monks who followed us were also killed or injured."

"With no other options left, I can only return to the human world with Bixia and Dongji to complete the Innate Five Elements Formation."

“But when completing the formation, Daojun Bixia and Daojun Dongji felt that there were not many humans left in Shenzhou, and staying in Shenzhou would only restrict them, so the two of them stayed in Baji with millions of cultivators.”

"Later, they passed through Kunlun Mountain and climbed up Ziweiyuan."

"There is only one Dao Lord left in this vast world, me."

When Qin Mu heard him say this, he suddenly remembered what the old demon Cangshan said when he opened the jar, and couldn't help muttering: "The Ziwei is always high, don't force yourself to climb it, the nine-fold world will prove your immortality?"

The old demon of Cangshan laughed and said, "This sentence reflects my state of mind at that time. The difficulty of climbing up the Purple Wei Fence is beyond human power, so I was thinking at that time that staying in the human world might not be impossible to achieve immortality."

After laughing, he sighed helplessly.

"It's a pity that I was also seriously injured at that time. Some of the cultivators who followed me became disloyal and wanted to kill me and become the new Dao Lord."

"They are numerous and powerful. I don't want to die at the hands of those villains. I can only arrange a tomb for myself and sit in it to die."

"Among those people, some indeed became Dao Lords, and there are quite a few of them, as many as forty!"

When he finished speaking, he showed disdain on his face and sneered: "It's a pity that they are just a bunch of rabble after all. Even if their cultivation is unfathomable, they are still fools."

“When all nine of us are here, the so-called Four Clans of Creation are nothing more than loaches in a puddle, a chicken on fire, a dog with its tail between its legs, and a turtle with its head tucked in.”

“But under the leadership of those fools, millions of monks were slaughtered.”

"Today, they have gone into hiding."

After Qin Mu heard what he said, he couldn't help but ask, "So, doesn't that mean hundreds of millions of cultivators have died completely? There shouldn't be many mortals left in the world, right?"

The old demon Cangshan chuckled and raised his eyebrows, saying, "If you think so, you are underestimating those great immortal sects. At that time, only the number of mortals in the land of Shenzhou decreased, but how many immortal cultivators are there in the world? Even if there are not a thousand, there must be eight hundred."

"There are just as many mortals in the world of immortal cultivation as there are in the land of Shenzhou."

"Many of the immortal sects and great clans that exist in the human world today migrated from the immortal cultivation world at that time."

"The mortals who were kept in the sects by them naturally followed the settlements of these sects and spread all over Shenzhou, like tribes, surrounding these sects."

(End of this chapter)