Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Tang Ning nodded to the two disciples. They understood, took out a black gold awl, and stabbed the back of his head and neck. Dou Wencai felt pain and woke up.

"Dou Wencai, why is this necessary? If you had spoken earlier, you would have suffered less. Now that you have fallen into our hands, do you still expect the Corpse Puppet Sect to save you?" Tang Ning said.

"If you become a king and lose a bandit, what more can you say? If you want to kill or behead, you have to do whatever you want." Dou Wencai bowed his head and said

Tang Ning said softly: "Uncle Master, this person is stubborn and unresponsive, so he should be handed over to the sect's Prison Department for disposal!"

Jiang Ming nodded slightly.

Tang Ning waved her hand: "Push Dou Wencai down."

Two disciples escorted him away.

"Martial nephew Tang, I will leave the matters here to your disposal." After Jiang Ming said this, he left the hall and everyone stood up to see him off.

"Everyone, a banquet has been set up in the temple, let's go right away!" Tang Ning led everyone to the side hall. The dishes for the banquet were already prepared and everyone took their seats one by one.

"I invite you all to come today for no other reason than to get acquainted with you. Come on, please drink this cup together." Tang Ning picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

In fact, inviting them, the heads of powerful families, is to warn them, and to appease people's hearts. Therefore, Jiang Ming was invited to come forward and demonstrate a scene of whipping Dou Wencai, so that they would not dare to have any objections.

It goes without saying that at the banquet, cups and glasses are exchanged, and the banquet lasts until late at night.

After the affairs of the Dou family were over, he temporarily took over the position of chief of Qinchuan. After a leisurely period, about a month later, a new chief of the sect took office. His name was Xu Chong, who was originally a disciple of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Tang Ning naturally returned to the sect and resumed her duties as intelligence liaison manager.

As a key figure in this mission, the sect rewarded him with 10,000 spiritual stones.

Equivalent to two years' salary.

But he no longer looked down upon this spiritual stone. With his wealth and wealth, it was impossible for anyone in the Qianyi Sect and under the Golden Core cultivators to compare with him.

Maybe, even the golden elixir monks may not be as wealthy as him.

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Time flies, and several years pass by.

In recent years, the Demon Sect has become more and more powerful, gradually cannibalizing many Xuanmen industries and occupying the cultivation resources that originally belonged to Xuanmen.

Some small families even directly changed their ways and joined the Demon Sect, while some large families also had ambiguous attitudes and began to default on their taxes.

The tax rate set by Xuanmen for all cultivating families is 50%, and half of the resources occupied by any family must be handed over to the local Xuanmen.

Whether it is minerals, medicinal herbs, gold sand, etc., all resources within the territory under the rule are theoretically belonging to Xuanmen. It was leased to those families, so they naturally had to charge high rents.

After the Demon Sect occupied those cultivation resources, they still handed them over to the local families to take care of them, and only collected 30% of the tax from those cultivation families.

As a result, those local family forces naturally turned to the Demon Sect.

It is worth mentioning that the Qinchuan Lu family is one of the big families with a very ambiguous attitude.

After the Dou family was executed by the clan, the Lu family took over most of the Dou family's properties. The Corpse Puppet Sect's forces used the Xushu Mountain Spirit Mine as their base and advanced to the surrounding areas. They have eaten into many of the cultivation resources under the Qianyi Sect and have become entrenched. The surrounding cultivating families also changed their tune and turned to them.

The Corpse Puppet Sect's power has now expanded eastward to Guangyang County, which borders Qinchuan, and is adjacent to the land where the Lu family is entrenched. Therefore, the Lu family has an ambiguous attitude, and last year they delayed paying taxes for various reasons.

The disciples of the sect paid the taxes only after repeated threats. It is estimated that they are ready to take refuge in the Corpse Puppet Sect at any time.

Faced with the Demon Sect's pressing pressure, Xuanmen of course organized counterattacks, but failed every time.

Every time the Demon Sect expanded to a place, it would set up formations there and arrange for appropriate forces to be stationed there. It could be said that it was a step-by-step approach. Once it was attacked by Xuanmen, there was a sound transmission array within the formation, and the changes would be immediately known behind it. Support can be sent to the front line within hours.

In this way, the Demon Sect camp and the other camps supported each other, forming strong fortresses that made Xuanmen unable to speak.

If you invest too little force, you won't be able to attack their defensive camp. If you invest too much force, it will immediately turn into a big melee.

The senior officials of Xingang Xuanmen also knew after the battle at Xuanyue Mountain that the overall strength of the Demon Sect was not inferior to them, so they only sent a small group of troops to counterattack without a large-scale decisive battle.

In addition to liaising with the Intelligence Department, Tang Ning spends his days practicing Qi refining and practicing. No matter how lively the fighting outside is, it has nothing to do with him. No matter how fast the Demon Sect's power expands, they will never be able to attack the Luoyun Mountains. At most, they will plunder all the resources outside the sect. .

The most important thing for him now is to improve his cultivation. Otherwise, once the war starts, he will be nothing more than a high-level cannon fodder given his strength and cultivation.

Over the years, he has been in charge of intelligence liaison, and reports on demon sects from various places have been reported daily and monthly.

As more and more information was gained about the Demon Sect, he gained a deeper understanding of the Demon Sect.

I also gradually understood the origin of the current world trend of Dao Xiao Mo Chang. The root cause is the arrogance of Xuanmen.

Logically speaking, Xuanmen holds the land of ten states and most of the world in its hands.

The Demon Sect is in poverty, hiding in a corner, and living in a corner. This should be a vicious cycle.

The Demon Sect had no base of its own. The sect was broken into pieces and divided into many branches, hiding everywhere. There are no cultivation resources, let alone any spiritual veins or mines. It is also surrounded and suppressed by Xuanmen from time to time, often scurrying around, and there is no internal unity. How can such a sect develop?

If there are no cultivation resources on hand and the monks have insufficient logistical support, their cultivation will stagnate and high-level monks will not be produced.

Without high-level monks, the overall strength of the sect would be weak.

The weaker you are, the less you can fight for training resources, and the less you have training resources, the weaker your strength. This should be the development path of the Demon Sect.

Xuanmen, on the other hand, is just the opposite. It has sufficient cultivation resources, sufficient logistical support capabilities for the monks, and accepts well-qualified disciples. These people become high-level monks and strive for more resources for the sect. This should be a virtuous cycle.

But why is there a situation where Tao Xiaomo is on the rise?

Tang Ning had never understood this problem before. The development of everything has its own laws and regulations. At first glance, the general trend of Dao Xiaomo's rise goes against these laws.

It wasn't until he deeply understood the organizational structure of the Demon Sect that he understood why the elimination of demons had become a general trend in the world.

Because of arrogance.

Xuanmen has too many additional conditions for recruiting disciples, such as age restrictions and only recruits young people between the ages of eight and eighteen.

Once you exceed this age, no matter how talented you are, Taoism will not accept you.

There are also restrictions on the mountain gate. The sect is opened once every ten years. A person only has this opportunity in his life. If he misses this time, he will never have the opportunity to enter the Xuanmen in his life. Although there are messengers in the Xuanmen, but for the huge base, ten The quota is a drop in the bucket.

Only these two restrictions caused many spiritual root owners with excellent qualifications to miss the opportunity to be accepted by Xuanmen and thus switch to the Demon Sect.

Xuanmen recruits disciples and there is a limit on cultivation qualifications. Even if you are at the right age, encounter Xuanmen's big move, and come to its sect to seek immortality, you may still be turned away even if you have spiritual roots.

Xuanmen generally only recruits spiritual root holders with average or above-average cultivation qualifications. Unless you have connections within the sect, you can be admitted to the sect even if you greet each other privately. However, there are so many people in the world, and most spiritual root holders are Coming from a humble family, how can I get to know the big shots in the sect?

If a spiritual root owner like Tang Ning, who has lower than average cultivation qualifications, had not received a house plate distributed by the Duyuan Immortal Envoy by chance and came to visit the mountain gate according to the formal procedures, there is a high probability that he would be turned away.

This is the root cause of the decline of Xuanmen. It is too arrogant, which makes the spiritual root owners who are not allowed to enter Xuanmen have no choice but to switch to the Demon Sect.

The Demon Sect has no restrictions on recruiting disciples. No matter how old you are or how low your qualifications are, as long as you have spiritual roots, are able to practice, and are willing to join them, they will accept you anytime and anywhere, and then teach you the method of practice, even if you have already entered the sect. As long as they are willing to join the casual cultivators of the spiritual path, they will also fully accept them.

The Demon Sect was divided into various branches before, and they were recruiting troops from all over the place to strengthen themselves. When they were integrated, the number of their low-level disciples even exceeded that of Xuanmen. As the saying goes, the sea is open to all rivers, and tolerance is great. This is what the Demon Sect relies on to survive in a difficult environment. Down and out, surviving in the cracks, but still standing.

Xuanmen's arrogance is not only reflected in recruiting disciples, but also reflected everywhere.

For example, the control of resources and the restrictions on casual cultivators and cultivating families can be said to be very overbearing.

Xuanmen has a monopoly on the cultivation resources under its rule. Take Xingang as an example. The three major Xuanmen divide the entire Xingang. Chu State is under the jurisdiction of the Qianyi Sect. All cultivation resources outside the sect are taxed at 50%. No family or casual cultivator is allowed to grow medicinal herbs or breed spiritual beasts privately.

On the other hand, on the Demon Sect's side, the Corpse Puppet Sect, centered on the Xushu Mountain Spirit Mine, has captured nearly a thousand miles of surrounding land.

Within its jurisdiction, only 30% tax is charged on all cultivation resources, and the cultivating families within the jurisdiction are allowed to grow medicinal herbs. They only charge 20% tax on the medicinal herbs grown. Now many places within a thousand miles of Xushu Mountain have Medicinal herbs have been planted, and recently there has been information that a family within the Corpse Puppet Sect has started a business of breeding spiritual beasts.

To be honest, it was done well and impressive, and the management was much better than under Qian Yizong.