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Chapter 97: Brushing Merits! Launching a Killing Promotion Activity
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Normally, the deacon of the Merit Hall has a bad temper, and his service attitude towards the disciples who come to redeem contribution points is not very enthusiastic.

But he was still polite to Chen Ningzhuo: "Deacon Chen, the rules for calculating the merit points of our Merit Hall were set by my master, Master Jin Guang. We have no say in this."

The reason for the good attitude is that the current strength of the Chen family cannot be underestimated, and it is visibly thriving.

Not to mention that Chen has a child who has joined the Fentian Peak lineage and is very likely to inherit Master Xuanyang's legacy in the future, even now Chen himself should not be underestimated.

The Twin Ghosts of Pishan and the Blood-Handed Demon Slayer were both extremely difficult wanted criminals on the blacklist, but they both fell into the hands of Chen.

Later, Chen even survived the sudden attack of the Blood Soul Sect and killed a Blood Deacon who was at the third level of the Foundation Establishment Stage and the beginning of the Spiritual Stage Stage, as well as three Blood Guards, without suffering any serious injuries himself.

This is undoubtedly hard power.

now.

Even the Poison Shadow Enchantress who was in the top ten of the blacklist died at the hands of Chen.

Not to mention that the Poison Shadow Demon Queen's poison skills are indeed amazing, just trying to dig her out of the rat hole is an extremely difficult task.

Among the three major sects of the Great Wu Kingdom, Yunyang Sect, Wanhua Palace, and Wuhen Mountain, there are a lot of disciples who can defeat Poison Shadow Demon Queen in a single fight. Who wouldn't want to exchange her head for merit?

But the Poison Shadow Enchantress has remained arrogant for so many years.

"Brother, I also know that I can't make things difficult for you." As Chen Ningzhuo spoke, he unnoticedly stuffed a storage bag into the hands of the deacon of the Merit Hall, "I just hope that you can present this exchange reward suggestion petition to Master Jin Guang."

“This…” The Merit Deacon wanted to shirk his responsibility, but he used his spiritual sense to secretly scan the spiritual stones in the storage bag and immediately relaxed. “How about this, I will only help pass the things to my master, and I will not be responsible for helping to persuade him.”

"That's enough. Thank you, senior brother." Chen Ningzhuo was very happy and presented a petition drafted by his father and written in the name of his eldest brother.

The deacon of Gongde Hall took the petition and left.

Chen Ningzhuo originally thought that he would have to wait for at least several days, even if it was more than ten days. After all, Jindan masters are often very busy.

Unexpectedly, less than three days had passed.

Then a disciple from the Merit Hall came personally to tell Chen Ningzhuo that the Master was waiting for him in the Merit Hall.

Chen Ningzhuo immediately went to the Merit Hall.

As a result, when he saw the Master, before he could even bow to him, the dignified, righteous Master Jin Guang started to scold him, "Did your Chen family's head get stuck in the door, Chen Ningtai?"

"You don't think that just because you have a child with three spiritual roots, and he becomes a disciple of Xuan Yang, he can act tyrannically and do whatever he wants in the sect, right?"

"How about this, I ask Master Ziyin to make the decision and hand this Gongde Hall over to your Chen family to manage?"

"Explain to me, Master, what does it mean that during the period of the Blood Soul Sect's killing order, we should organize a 'promotional killing activity' to increase the sect's merit reward value? If you Chen family have the ability, just go and kill a Blood Soul Envoy. That would be a [Great Merit], and 100,000 contribution points! Wouldn't it be paid immediately?"

Chen Ningzhuo lowered his head and let Master Jin Guang rant at him, with an honest and submissive look on his face. After Master Jin Guang finished ranting, he smiled cautiously and said, "Master, now the Blood Soul Sect is lurking in the dark, and all the immortal cultivators are in danger."

"If we can't dig out and eliminate the evildoers of the Blood Soul Cult soon, they will become a serious problem in the future."

"But the rewards are scarce right now, and the mission is extremely dangerous. Many noble families are not very enthusiastic about executing the [Extermination Order]."

Master Jin Guang frowned and was about to scold a few more times.

The merit deacon who took money from others hurriedly persuaded him, "Deacon Chen, the Blood Soul Sect is the public enemy of the cultivation world. Every family has responsibilities and obligations. The resources of the sect are not blown by the wind. It is not easy to take out a part of it as an incentive. We can't think that this is owed to you."

Just as Chen Ningzhuo was about to speak, the Merit Deacon changed the subject and said, "Master, Chen's words do make sense. If we cannot fully mobilize the power of the immortal cultivation families, it will be difficult to dig the Blood Soul Sect out of its dormant state."

"After all, the immortal cultivation families are the local bosses and are very familiar with the local area. This advantage is something our sect does not have."

"Now that the Blood Soul Cult has revived, it seems that they have great ambitions. If we allow them to grow stronger, they will become a great threat.

"But if we really increase the exchange reward, I'm afraid it will be difficult to lower it back in the future. So why not just follow Chen's request and hold a limited-time promotion activity to increase the wanted reward for the Blood Soul Cult only during the [Extermination Order] period."

The deacon of merit had not originally thought of speaking for Chen, but then he thought, since he had already done the favor, he might as well do more. After all, Chen had great potential for advancement, and it would be beneficial rather than harmful to make friends with him.

"Hmph!" Master Jin Guang's expression eased a little, but he was still full of majesty. "Since the Chen family is so keen on encircling and suppressing the group of monsters of the Blood Soul Sect, this master also wants to see how much merit you can achieve."

"How about this? Our Merit Hall will issue a decree to exterminate the Blood Soul Sect. No matter which sect it is, as long as five or more Blood Deacon formations are exterminated, each Blood Deacon formation will be rewarded with two additional merits and 6000 contribution points."

Chen Ningzhuo's eyes lit up and he said, "Then does the Blood Deacon formation that our Chen family killed before count?"

"What's the harm in calculating it?" Master Jin Guang didn't care and sneered, "We've already agreed in advance that if there are less than five people, then we'll still calculate according to the original policy order."

He simply didn't believe that the Chen family could kill five blood deacons' formations. Together with the blood deacon formation that was previously defended and killed, their family could kill three teams in total, which was already the best they could do!
Chen Ningzhuo expressed his gratitude repeatedly, and then asked eagerly: "What if ten formations are wiped out?"

"roll!"

Master Jin Guang glared at him angrily: "You keep staring at the resources in the sect's pocket all day long."

"Yes, yes, thank you for your compassion, Master. I will leave now." Chen Ningzhuo knew when to stop and immediately left the Merit Hall.

After leaving the Merit Hall.

Chen Ningzhuo was also filled with emotion.

Just as my father said, sometimes being thick-skinned might have miraculous effects. Even if you fail, it doesn’t matter. At most you will get scolded by Master Jin Guang.

This time, the reason why Chen actively instigated the sect to carry out "promoting killing activities" was mainly because after the destruction of [Poison Shadow Demon Queen], he found a letter from the Blood Soul Sect recruiting her and instigating her to go out and stir up trouble, as well as a Blood Soul Order containing a trace of the spiritual consciousness of a blood deacon of the Blood Soul Sect!

I don't know if it was the effect of the explosion of the golden mark of Big Brother Chen Ningtai, but after that, through the [Purple Qi Divination Algorithm], combined with the Blood Soul Order and the letter, it was very easy to search and locate this wave of Blood Soul Sect monsters.

It turned out that the hiding place of this group of Blood Soul Cult monsters was not far away, just in a manor dozens of miles near the Lishui River.

This manor belonged to the Liyang Zhong family, one of the six northern guards of Hedong County. On the surface, it was engaged in the industries of raising silkworms, fishing and mulberry trees part-time.

But in fact, a very deep secret palace had been dug out at the bottom of the manor, and a group of sixty to seventy Blood Soul Sect monsters were hiding in this secret palace.

The accuracy of this information is beyond doubt because it comes from father Chen Xuanmo.

My father personally entered the underground palace to investigate in the form of a heroic spirit.

However, the underground palace has a complex terrain, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the overall strength of the Blood Soul Sect monsters is quite strong.

Therefore, Chen did not act on his own, but only let Su Yuanbai hide nearby in disguise and monitor him secretly. He would wait until Chen Xuanmo recovered his purple energy and accumulated strength before destroying him.

Now that Su Yushan is able to take charge of the Sheshan market, Su Yuanbai has been released and no longer has to stay in the market all the time.

Of course, Chen believed that the more money he could earn, the better, so when Chen Ningzhuo went to the sect to claim his reward, he took the opportunity to petition for an activity.

As expected, the sect is now very troubled by the Blood Soul Sect. In addition, the Chen family is no longer the same as before, so they reluctantly gave them a small event.

Of course, before leaving the Merit Hall, Chen Ningzhuo did not forget to collect all the rewards from the Poison Shadow Enchantress, and obtained four [Merits], 14000 Contributions, and a bounty of more than spirit stones.

The [Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra] only exchanged for one [Merit] and 4000 contribution points. It seems like a loss, but in fact, this kind of superior wild method does not have the Dao Seed Mark like the Golden Elixir Orthodox Method. Chen can still use it by copying a copy.

The sect was willing to include the Ten Thousand Poisons Art only because it had never included this poison-inflicting technique before. In fact, the Yunyang Sect already has at least several volumes of various high-level poison-inflicting techniques, so they don't need yours.

In addition, the [Poisonous Spirit Sword] that Poison Shadow Fairy herself possessed was a mid-grade spiritual weapon, and Chen chose not to sell it, but to keep it first. In the future, the family might have a cultivator with poisonous spiritual roots, and then it could be used.

The spiritual stones and other items on his body, plus a [Breath-Containing Jade Bracelet], are worth a lot overall.

It can be said that Chen's hunting of the Poison Shadow Fairy was really rewarding, as it made up for the loss after the money-making industry was banned by Cui.

Of course, Su Yuanbai also shared a wave of benefits, but he was not the main force and could only take a small share. But even so, it was enough to make Su Yuanbai excited. Following the Chen family, he had already collected all the foundation-building pills for his grandson Su Yushan.

However, the merits gained by Chen were spent before they could even warm up to the full potential.

Following his father's instructions, Chen Ningzhuo spent four merits and 12000 contribution points in the sect to exchange for a set of portable formation plates [Small Five Thunder Formation].

The Small Five Thunder Formation is an ordinary thunder formation. Under normal circumstances, it only requires two [Merits] and about 6000 Contributions, but it needs to be built on the family's spiritual vein. And to achieve the greatest effect, it is best to build it on a thunder spiritual vein.

However, this set of [Small Five Thunder Formation] is a portable set of formation plates and formation flags, so it does not need to be connected to the Thunder Spirit Vein. But as an offensive formation, it must be charged with [Mid-grade Spirit Stones] or [Mid-grade Thunder Spirit Stones]. The former has a general effect, while the latter can bring out the maximum power of this set of formation plates.

In the past, the Chen family did not have much demand for mid-grade spirit stones, but as Chen Ningtai's cultivation was approaching the middle stage of the Shouyi Realm, in order to maintain his current cultivation speed in order to sprint to the late stage of foundation building, the spirit stones used to assist in cultivation needed to be gradually replaced from low-grade to medium-grade, so as to achieve better growth.

In addition, the [Foundation Building Stage Combat Puppet] exchanged by the family also requires medium-grade spirit stones to drive. Ten medium-grade spirit stones are inlaid at one time, which can maintain its high-intensity combat for two hours, which is very expensive.

therefore.

This time, Chen Ningzhuo also exchanged twenty mid-grade Leixing spirit stones. Twenty mid-grade spirit stones, with a total cost of 6000 spirit stones, basically used up the bounty on the Poison Shadow Demon Girl.

Such a generous exchange.

It seems that Chen Xuanmo's [Five Elements Formation] plan has been postponed again, but in fact, with the current strength of the Chen family, the only way to exchange for the [Five Elements Formation] as soon as possible is to fight to support the war.

Only by strengthening oneself can one slay more evildoers of the Blood Soul Cult and gain more merits.

It is not wise to be stingy in upgrading your equipment.

And Chen Xuanmo.

Naturally, he had already fallen into a sleeping state long before Chen Ningzhuo went to the sect.

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, it was the 216th year of the Xuanmo calendar.

At this time, it had been 19 years since Chen Xuanmo's death.

Chen Xuanmo woke up slowly as the sound of sacrificial texts rang out from the Chen family ancestral hall.

He first looked around at all the descendants in the ancestral hall, and seeing that nothing was wrong, he felt much more at ease.

Last year, Chen Xuanmo consumed a total of 284 strands of purple energy, leaving only 130 strands for emergencies.

This time when he woke up, Chen Xuanmo absorbed another 265 strands of purple energy, adding up to a total of 395 strands. This was considered a wave of blood recovery, which made Chen Xuanmo more confident.

The sacrifice is over.

Enter the reporting stage in Moxiang Pavilion.

Chen Ningtai first chattered about some trivial matters in the family as usual, and then got to the point: "Father, Jingyun's first search for nephrite mines in the safe zone failed. He consumed a golden seal and found a small hematite mine. After preliminary exploration, its reserves are not large, and the total value should be several thousand spirit stones."

Uh……

Chen Xuanmo was also a little depressed.

If you say that a golden seal can be exchanged for a small hematite mine worth thousands of dollars, you can just send a family cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage to lead some mortals to mine it. In theory, it is a good deal.

But Chen needs nephrite mines more now.

However, Chen Xuanmo was not discouraged. He had never thought of solving this problem within one or two years. He just wanted Jingyun to continue his efforts this year.

Subsequently.

Chen Ningtai mentioned the matter of the Blood Soul Sect demon that Chen Xuanmo was most concerned about.

"Father, the preparations to wipe out the Blood Soul Cult monsters have been completed." Chen Ningtai said, "Especially the Li family of Lishui. Under our secret instructions, as soon as the rainy season was over this year, they built a dam at Hulukou of the Lishui River under the pretext of dredging the Lishui River. Now the water level upstream has risen as expected!"

“However, even though Brother Yuanbai has been keeping an eye on the movements of those monsters for years and discovered that they have not left the underground palace for a whole year, for the sake of safety, I think I have to trouble my father to use his heroic spirit form to conduct another investigation before taking any action.” “Swish swish swish!”

Xuan Mo Lingjian wrote two words on the desk in a flamboyant manner: "Start the war!"

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Two days later.

In Liyang Wei, only a few dozen miles away from the Lishui River, there is a very secret manor.

For the sake of tranquility in the manor, Liyang Zhong Shi deliberately cleared the surrounding area when building the manor. There was not even a mortal village within a hundred miles around it, so the manor was almost buried in the jungle. Coupled with the effect of the concealment formation, even the locals rarely knew that there was a manor here.

There is a hidden underground palace beneath the manor.

This underground palace was built very spaciously, without any oppressive atmosphere. The walls and the roof had been reinforced layer by layer, making it very solid and able to withstand violent explosions or battles between masters.

It is obvious that the needs of combat were taken into consideration when this underground palace was first built.

And it is indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In some narrow areas of the underground palace, there are even specially designed formations, crossbows and other defensive equipment. If outsiders want to capture this place, they must have at least twice the combat power!

In addition, this underground palace has several hidden exits, and the farthest escape passage leads directly to the Lishui River dozens of miles away.

at this time.

Inside a retreat room in the underground palace.

A man in a black robe who looked like a middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged in meditation.

A strong bloody power lingered around him, and the thick blood almost dyed his black robe dark red, making him look like a bloody demon from the bloody hell.

After a long time.

The bloody evil power was absorbed into his body and refined by him.

He then opened his eyes, and there seemed to be two blood-red whirlpools swirling in his scarlet pupils.

The man in black robe let out a long sigh, and a hint of joy flashed across his eyes.

By absorbing a large amount of blood evil power, after completing this training, he was finally promoted from the initial stage of Lingtai Realm to the middle stage of Lingtai Realm, and his strength was enhanced again.

In the past, he was just an ordinary cultivator with four spiritual roots. Every step forward on the path of cultivation was extremely difficult. But it was not like now. As long as he had sufficient blood evil power, promotion would be as easy as eating and drinking.

Almost uncontrollably, a strong ambition surged in his heart. There was still a lot of blood evil power in his blood evil gourd, enough for him to impact the high level of the spiritual stage realm.

If there is another blood sacrifice, he will have a chance to reach the peak of the Lingtai realm!

Perhaps one day, he would really be able to condense the Blood Evil Golden Pill and become a high and mighty Blood Soul Envoy, extending his lifespan to five hundred years!
This kind of achievement was something he had never dared to even think about before.

But since he joined the Blood Soul Sect and switched to practicing the Blood Evil Magic, everything has become clear.

Just as the blood deacon was feeling excited.

A female voice sounded outside: "My Lord Twenty-one, I have something important to report."

"Come in."

Blood Twenty-One immediately put away his distracting thoughts about the future, and his voice became cold and deep.

As the leader of the Blood Soul Cult, he naturally needs to maintain his dignity.

A graceful female Blood Guard entered the retreat room and bowed respectfully, saying, "Your Excellency, I just received news that the Poison Shadow Fairy, who had not responded to any messages, was killed a year ago. We don't know who killed her yet."

Upon hearing the news, Blood Twenty-One had not yet reacted, but Chen Xuanmo, who was in the heroic spirit state beside him, frowned.

These Blood Soul Cult evildoers are hiding in a rat hole, so it's normal that their information channels are delayed.

However, only a few people in the sect and a few people in the Chen family knew that Chen killed the Poison Shadow Demon Queen. Even the families of the victims were not notified. For the time being, the sect paid the reward spirit stones.

Is it possible?

Is there someone within the sect colluding with the Blood Soul Cult?

Chen Xuanmo first ruled out the deacon of Gongde Hall and Master Jin Guang. If they wanted to leak the secret, they would have done so long ago, and the leaked information would be much more accurate.

Moreover, Chen had already informed the deacon of the Merit Hall about his killing of the Poison Shadow Demon Queen, and the matter was kept secret for the time being. Even Chen's information was hidden in the Merit Book, and some of the treasures that were exchanged recently also temporarily hid Chen's information.

In the past, the Chen family would not have been able to do this, but now, the Chen family’s reputation in the sect is growing.

Could it be that someone had peeked at the Merit Hall's Merit Book and leaked the news to the Blood Soul Cult! ?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, a layer of gloom suddenly covered Chen Xuanmo's face.

Anyone who can secretly see the merit book cannot be an ordinary disciple and can basically be confirmed to be a deacon level!

This shows that the Blood Soul Cult has actually infiltrated the middle levels of the sect!

It seems that I have to be more careful in doing things in the future.

Blood Twenty-One was also stunned for a while after hearing the news, his face also looked a little gloomy: "I used to think that Poison Shadow Fairy was a smart woman. After recruiting her into the sect, she could become my right-hand man. But I didn't expect that she would be such a waste. My good intentions were in vain."

"Sir, should we evacuate?" the female blood guard asked in a low voice, "I'm afraid someone will follow the clues and catch us all in one fell swoop."

"Impossible." Blood Twenty-One said confidently, "This deacon was extremely careful when he came into contact with her. He never met her face to face. She only had a letter and my Blood Soul Order on her. Unless she actively activated the Blood Soul Order to contact me and tried to lure me into a trap, there is no way she could find us."

"Besides, Poison Shadow Fairy died a year ago. If we were going to be exposed, we would have been exposed long ago."

These words were well-reasoned and the female blood guard was very convinced.

She put this matter aside for the moment and continued to report: "There is another matter. In the past two months, the Li family of Lishui has started the dredging project of the Lishui River. They built a dam on the Lishui River. A few days ago, they sealed the dam and completely blocked it, causing the water level of the waterway passing through our manor to drop. In less than ten days, our waterway will dry up."

"The Li family lost a foundation-building patriarch, and their influence and prestige have been greatly reduced. I think they are probably planning to do some big projects..." Xue Twenty-One said it indifferently at first, but as he spoke, his brows began to frown.

He suddenly took out a topographic map from his storage bag and repeatedly checked the distance between his manor and the Lishui River, as well as the changes in the terrain in between, as if to confirm.

Sure enough, the terrain of the manor is relatively low-lying...

"Something's wrong, something's wrong." Blood Twenty-One was a little frightened and hurriedly ordered, "Go through the secret passage and go to the bank of the Lishui River immediately. The dam is about ..."

He hasn't finished speaking yet.

Suddenly.

The underground palace trembled violently.

Immediately afterwards, there was a deafening explosion.

Before he could change his expression and ask, there was another violent shock and another explosion.

"Oh no, something happened!" Blood Twenty-One's face changed drastically, and he shouted, "Quick, organize people to defend."

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at the same time.

The sky outside the manor was clear, and two small spirit boats were hovering in the sky.

This small spiritual boat has been modified, and each of them is equipped with a cloud-piercing crossbow on the bow. They have obviously just fired explosive crossbow arrows and are in the second round of reloading~~~
Looking down from the sky.

Two large pits were blown up in a hidden place in the manor. The pits seemed to be the entrances and exits of the underground palace. They were completely exposed after the explosion, and the entrance was more than doubled in size.

And at the same time.

A section of the embankment of the Lishui River in the distance seemed to have burst, and the flood was pouring towards the manor along the low-water river channel and jungle. The flood was moving very fast and had been rushing for some time, so it didn't take long for it to rush directly into the manor.

The manor buildings were instantly torn to pieces.

The raging flood rushed into the underground palace through the blasted entrance, rushing along the corridors inside the underground palace, sweeping away wantonly, as powerful and terrifying as a roaring angry dragon.

There was panic in the underground palace.

Although the corridor in this underground palace is spacious, it is just a corridor after all. The rushing water is restrained by the corridor, and its original power is amplified to twelve times, making it even more terrifying.

Some blood soldiers with low strength were scattered by the flood. Not only could they keep their formation stable, it was even difficult for them to keep their bodies stable and not be washed away by the current.

Only the five blood guards and Blood Twenty-One managed to keep their footing, and with their powerful strength, they rushed out of the cave against the flood.

Especially Blood Twenty-One, whose blood-killing magic skills are extremely powerful, and even the flood cannot stop him from escaping.

Moreover, he was extremely confident that as long as he could rush out of the underground palace, reach the ground and get free from the constraints of the flood, he could immediately use his proud blood escape technique and run away quickly.

But what he never expected was.

Just as he rushed out of the underground cave and was about to jump out of the water, a gorgeous blue light suddenly appeared in the water.

He suddenly felt something was wrong and immediately wanted to use the Blood Escape Technique.

However, it was too late.

He felt a tingling sensation all over his body, and then a rumbling sound of thunder rang in his ears.

That's why he rushed out of the water due to inertia, and his whole body was numb.

It's numbness in the true physical sense!

Fortunately, he had a high level of cultivation, and he could recover from this level of paralysis in just two or three breaths.

But the next moment.

He discovered that the surface of the water had been covered with a thick layer of fog, which not only blocked his vision but also restricted his spiritual awareness!
Damn it! !
Blood Twenty-One gnashed his teeth, feeling both shocked, angry and horrified.

He didn't expect that the person behind the scenes could not only force Li to do things for them, but also locked the location of the manor early on!

Even so many arrangements were made outside the manor without anyone noticing!

He had to find a way to get out of this thick fog quickly!
Suddenly!

He felt a chill down his spine, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he tried his best to move to the side, suppressing the numbness and weakness in his body.

"Pfft!"

A dark golden sword silently pierced through his ribs on the back, splashing a pool of blood.

He avoided the vital points but could not avoid the harm.

"Do it!"

A majestic and steady voice sounded.

In the thick fog, several figures surrounded and attacked Blood Twenty-One like ghosts, and all kinds of spells and spiritual weapons, wrapped in powerful power, came at him head-on.

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(End of this chapter)