Lonely Immortal

In the following days, there were constant reports of thefts in the Lin Mansion, from the various hall masters to the various deacons, but there was no news of any miscellaneous people losing any property. Of course, the instigator of this matter was naturally Zhang Zhiwen.

Zhang Zhiwen did not steal the property of the lower-level monks. On the one hand, there was nothing good to steal from these miscellaneous people. On the other hand, his goal was very clear, that is, to target the people with connections in the mansion.

That's right, the people working in the Lin Mansion now are all people with connections, without any exception. Zhang Zhiwen has been in the Lin Mansion for a long time and has observed many people. He is almost certain that the people in the Lin Mansion are all people with connections.

As for the people with connections, Zhang Zhiwen naturally did not hesitate to steal from them when he met one. After all these miscellaneous thefts, Zhang Zhiwen also reaped a lot of rewards, such as the recipe of the Earth Soul Pill, a large number of spirit crystals, and a large number of Dao Soul Stones, including some acquired middle-grade Dao Soul Stones, and even some of the owners of the lost items had innate Dao Soul Stones and Dao Soul Flowers hidden on them.

These people made a lot of money. Anyway, they squeezed the hard-earned money of the lower-level cultivators. In fact, the class system in the Lin Mansion is very strict. Those above the deacon are all relatives and are all eight-star and seven-star official immortals, while those below the deacon are ordinary cultivators.

Logically speaking, those who can work in the government office must be official immortals to be qualified, but this is not the case. The government office also needs a large number of lower-level cultivators to complete various tasks, such as hunting strange beasts, doing odd jobs, refining medicine and ore, etc. How can those high-ranking official immortals do such rough work? And these official immortals are all relatives, so it is even more impossible for them to do such work.

Of course, there are also nine-star clerks among them, but there is only one nine-star clerk, Zhang Zhiwen, because the Immortal Dynasty has just changed the system of immortal selection, which is referred to as the Immortal Dynasty Reform. Therefore, such a strange phenomenon has occurred. There are no nine-star clerks in the government office, and the rest are ordinary cultivators. These ordinary cultivators are either originally nine-star clerks, and then their clerk status is abolished, or they are not originally clerks. The internal forces of the Lin Mansion have been redivided, so the overall layout is similar to that of the county government.

Under normal circumstances, nine-star clerks are not qualified to be deacons in the Lin Mansion. The government office requires at least eight-star or even seven-star clerks to be qualified to serve as deacons or hall masters, and even hall masters need higher-level clerks to serve.

Therefore, the reform of the Immortal Dynasty has caused great fluctuations and changes in the internal situation of the major mansions on Wanxian Island, and the flow of personnel is also very obvious. Some nine-star clerks have been removed from their status, so they can only go to the county government to participate in the county examination and then regain their status.

Or if they are not able to participate in the county exam, for example, if their Dao Soul has not reached the level of Xiantian Dao Soul, they can only become the low-level cultivators in the government office. There were many nine-star official immortals in the government office, but now some have left and those who remain are just doing daily tasks in the government office. That's about it.

The cultivators in the government office were originally low-level cultivators, so they basically did miscellaneous work. Zhang Zhiwen did not steal from these low-level cultivators, who did not have much money. He only stole from the disciples in the inner courtyard of the government office, that is, those cultivators who were originally related households, and those who are still related households now.

It seems a bit complicated to say, but it is not complicated in fact. In a word, those who have money have become Zhang Zhiwen's target. Therefore, after this theft, Zhang Zhiwen gained a lot.

He felt that if he continued to steal like this, it would not be long before he could raise his cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core, and his beast soul could be easily raised to the realm of the Ancient Beast Soul. For a moment, he was somewhat grateful to Lin Jingyuan. If it were not for this old thief who insisted on recruiting him, he would not have known that the cultivators here were so rich. These relatives were like mobile money vaults. As long as Zhang Zhiwen went out and stole casually, he would make a lot of money.

But the matter also became a big deal. Now it has attracted everyone's attention, and it seems that they are going to start a thorough investigation of how this happened.

It was obviously a bit chaotic outside, but Zhang Zhiwen had no pressure here, and he was very satisfied with the money he made. His cultivation and beast soul were rapidly improving for several days. If he continued like this, he felt that it would not take long for him to raise his cultivation to the late stage of the Golden Core, and his beast soul could also be raised to the innate middle grade or even the innate upper grade.

Once he reaches the late Jindan stage and his beast soul reaches the innate upper grade, he is not really afraid of Lin Jingyuan. If he breaks through to the Yuanying stage and his beast soul reaches the ancient beast soul, he can kill Lin Jingyuan with just one finger.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen feels that staying in the Lin Mansion is really a pleasant thing, and he is reluctant to leave.

"Humph, how could this happen?"

In the meeting hall of the Lin Mansion, the deputy lord Liao Wangyuan was extremely unhappy. These days, thefts have occurred frequently, and the matter has alarmed the lord of the mansion, but he has not found anything after several days of investigation. He has no idea who did it. He feels that someone is deliberately looking for trouble with him.

As the deputy lord of the Lin Mansion, he looks powerful, but in fact he is Lin Jingyuan's follower. He has to maintain all aspects of the Lin Mansion for Lin Jingyuan. If he does not maintain it well, the performance of the Lin Mansion in all aspects is not good, and the Immortal Dynasty blames it, how can he bear it?

The Lin Mansion needs to pay tribute to the Immortal Dynasty every year in order to obtain the status of the Immortal Official Mansion given by the Immortal Dynasty. However, if the tribute cannot be kept up and the Immortal Dynasty punishes it, the Lin Mansion will be demoted and directly removed from the government office. Demoted to the county government, once demoted to the county government, the Immortal Dynasty will take back the various resources and power of the Lin Mansion.

This Lin Mansion is a government office, in charge of the affairs of more than ten county governments. It has human rights, financial rights, official rights, land and salary are even more generous. These are all given by the Immortal Dynasty, so use the human rights, the government The government office has the right to allocate various positions. Let’s talk about financial rights. The government office has the right to collect taxes from the county government. Let’s talk about the power to seal officials. This is even more powerful. It can directly seal officials. Officials with six stars and below, such as nine-star officials, eight-star officials and seven-star officials, use this to expand the network of related households and occupy local power and positions in government offices, as well as land and salary. Needless to say, Lingtian If there are too many, it will mean a large amount of resources, mines, etc., and if there are too many officials and immortals, the salary of the immortal dynasty will also be a huge sum of money.

Therefore, the resources in the hands of the government are still very rich, but the Immortal Dynasty also needs the government to manage a piece of fairy land, let the government exploit the low-level monks, and let the low-level monks work for the Immortal Dynasty, then there will be tribute. statement.

But now it's better. Overnight, a large number of wallets of related households have disappeared, and years of accumulation have been wiped out. How can this government office survive? How to hand over the tribute from the Immortal Dynasty?

Therefore, Liao Wangyuan was extremely angry and anxious. He issued a death order to find out the thieves hiding in the house, and then cut them into pieces.

But it had been several days since the order was issued, and these losers couldn't find any clues. They couldn't even find any clues about the other party. It's no wonder that Liao Wangyuan was extremely angry.

And what capabilities do these related households have? There are many Houtian Taoist monks among them. In addition to relying on connections to climb up, let them investigate the thief? Then forget it.

Therefore, this group of people lowered their heads and did not dare to say a word, and Liao Wangyuan was naturally extremely dissatisfied.

"Humph, you are a bunch of trash. You have no news about such a big living person hiding in the house?"

The bunch of losers below still didn't say a word. They didn't dare to say a word. They didn't know what was going on. In fact, they were also victims and had everything stolen.

At this time, the deputy head of the Law Enforcement Hall came out to speak.

"Sir, this matter is actually extremely strange. We have searched for several days but can't find anything. Could it be that our house is haunted?"

"fart!"

Liao Wangyuan didn't listen to his nonsense. This kind of haunting was simply nonsense, and many people thought it was haunted. He already had a strong opinion on this matter, and he felt that besides talking nonsense, these idiots were not good at anything else. No, now the deputy head of the Law Enforcement Hall actually dares to jump out and openly say something about being haunted. Doesn’t this mean he is treating Liao Wangyuan as a fool?

The deputy leader of the Law Enforcement Hall was startled and did not dare to say anything, but the captain next to him still didn't know whether to live or die, so he came out to speak.

"Sir, what the deputy hall master said may actually make sense. You see, there are no outsiders in this mansion. Even if it is stolen, it is accidentally stolen. How can it be stolen continuously? I'm afraid it is really haunted. !”

The captain really didn't have any eyesight. He couldn't tell what was going on now. Sure enough, Liao Wangyuan made this guy completely angry, and he slapped him away.

The Nascent Soul master, who was born with a high-grade Taoist soul, directly beat the captain to death, and everyone's expressions changed drastically with fright. This was a rare killing by Liao Wangyuan. It can be seen that this matter really angered Liao Wangyuan.

"Whoever dares to talk nonsense again will be killed by me without mercy!"

After killing a piece of trash, Liao Wangyuan seemed to be in a better mood, but this frightened the deputy hall master so much that he simply shut up and did not dare to say anything.

"I don't care about anything else. I only give you three days to capture the thief and bring him to justice. If you still haven't been caught and brought to justice within three days, I will sacrifice your heads to the flag!"

Liao Wangyuan was planning to go on a killing spree, but things here were also strange. The captain was also an Eight-star Immortal. Liao Wangyuan would kill whenever he said. Didn't he know that the other party was an Immortal of the Immortal Dynasty?

In fact, it is not true. Liao Wangyuan himself is the deputy palace master and a seven-star official immortal. He holds the power in his hands. However, the captain deceived the public, disturbed the morale of the army, and was lawless. Everyone saw it, so it was not enough for Liao Wangyuan to kill him. Strange.

In addition, all the officials present with their respective duties must obey Liao Wangyuan's orders. Now that such a major theft occurred in the mansion, it is the unshirkable responsibility of these people to catch the thief. If they can't even catch the thief, then It's because they failed in their duties, and as officials in the Immortal Dynasty, if they failed in their duties, they would be severely punished, ranging from being thrown into prison to being executed.

Then Liao Wangyuan did not commit indiscriminate killing, nor did he violate the rules of the Immortal Dynasty. He was exactly using the laws of the Immortal Dynasty. The laws of the Immortal Dynasty stipulated that anyone who did not abide by the laws and regulations of the Immortal Dynasty failed to fulfill his duties as an official. The crime could be serious or minor, so wouldn't it be easy for Liao Wangyuan to aggravate the crime at this time?

For example, he could have said that someone in this group was colluding with the thief. Otherwise, why couldn't he find out who the thief was after days of investigation? The crime of colluding with thieves and invading the Immortal Dynasty is not excessive, right?

Therefore, even though Liao Wangyuan was very angry at this moment, he had been on the road of immortal official for a long time and he naturally knew how to deal with these losers.

Therefore, this group of people were frightened to death. A large group of people knelt down and begged Liao Wangyuan to give them more time.

But this matter is actually a bit strange. Logically, the Law Hall should be responsible for investigating this matter, and then the Law Enforcement Hall should send people to catch the thief. How can all the official immortals be held responsible? But it is obvious that the official system of this Immortal Dynasty is extremely chaotic, and it can be said that it is a makeshift team. Whatever they think of, they will do it. Liao Wangyuan naturally called everyone to be held accountable, and did not tell them how to investigate or how to cooperate. Anyway, he did not care, he just let these people figure out how to catch the thief.

But how can these people catch him? They are all relatives. Even if they are more powerful, they are just cultivators like the head of the Law Enforcement Hall, that is, innate Dao soul cultivators in the late Jindan period. This kind of strength is actually barely in the top ten of the county test, but this guy is actually a seven-star official immortal.

If the reform of the Immortal Dynasty is interesting, then all reforms would be done, but the Immortal Dynasty is not like that. It plays this kind of strategy, this kind of checks and balances, on the one hand, giving the lower-level cultivators a chance to emerge and counterattack, and on the other hand, letting the eight-star and seven-star official immortals and other related households conflict with the official immortals who emerge from the lower levels.

This is the disgusting part of the reform of the Immortal Dynasty. Now, this drawback has suddenly appeared. Just a newly emerged official immortal like Zhang Zhiwen has made the whole Lin Mansion restless. Of course, Zhang Zhiwen is a very strong official immortal, but if it is replaced by a newly promoted official immortal like Chen Huanzhi, the result will be similar, right?

Chen Huanzhi must have other means to deal with these related households, right? For example, go outside to assassinate a few, or deliberately challenge these people to a duel, what's wrong with that? There is something that can be done without a law, and taking advantage of the duel, they directly killed these people with connections openly. When the people with connections were killed, the foundation of the government office was destroyed. This is equivalent to the Immortal Dynasty using the hands of the newly promoted official immortals to disintegrate the power of the government office, and further, it can be said to disintegrate the power of the state office.

See, this move is so damaging, and why did Lin Jingyuan accept Chen Huanzhi as his last disciple? It is nothing more than wanting Chen Huanzhi to go to other government offices to cause trouble. This open and secret struggle is not visible to ordinary people.

Therefore, Lin Jingyuan was extremely angry and planned to retaliate against Zhang Zhiwen. He even thought that Zhang Zhiwen was sent undercover by a government official immortal, otherwise why would he kill Chen Huanzhi?

And now, as soon as Zhang Zhiwen did something, the whole government office was in chaos. Moreover, Zhang Zhiwen was more powerful than Chen Huanzhi. Every move he made was to hit the vital point of the government office. He was determined to fight to the death. Once Zhang Zhiwen had stolen everything from the government office, this government office would probably be demoted to a county government office by the Xian Dynasty. Then Lin Jingyuan would be finished!