Chapter 404: Black Sky (1)
The Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty, in the northeast corner, is adjacent to the Dazheng Immortal Dynasty, Kinkaku County.
The three major immortal dynasties under the Canghai Tower have vast territories and countless vassal states. The three major immortal dynasties, with countless vassal states, have formed an excellent buffer zone. Only the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty and the Dazheng Immortal Dynasty have their territories directly touching each other in Jinge County.
Because Canghai Tower strictly prohibits official conflicts from breaking out in the immortal dynasties under its jurisdiction, the Jinge County of the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty and the Yajiao County of the opposite Dazheng Immortal Dynasty, which are named as county seats but actually have territories the size of three or five ordinary state seats, only normal tax officials are stationed to collect land. Apart from these, no other administrative officials and troops are stationed there.
This place has become the appendix of the two great immortal dynasties.
As time went by, countless desperate bandits, independent cultivators, evil cultivators, ruined families, etc., all flocked to these two counties in search of a way to survive.
Gradually, this place became a lawless area.
The local forces that gradually became powerful could do whatever they wanted as long as they dealt with the tax officials sent by the two great immortal dynasties and obediently handed over their tributes, and they could even "replace the royal law with their own rules."
The chaos here can be imagined.
It was dusk when Lu Yi encountered the strange funeral procession in the mountains.
Yanou City in Jinge County is a small city located a little bit north of the central part of Jinge County. It has a permanent population of hundreds of thousands and a radiation range of thousands of miles. To the north, it is adjacent to a huge lake with vast ocean-like scenery. The other three sides are surrounded by green mountains, with many mountain bandits, evil cultivators, monsters, and some other indescribable and strange things.
Outside the city of Tern, beside the lake, there is a line of cliffs that stretch for thousands of miles. There are many bird nests on them, filled with black-backed and white-bellied terns. At dusk, countless terns that went to the lake to hunt for food flapped their wings, riding the evening breeze, and returned to their nests.
The sky was filled with the sound of flapping wings. When the lake breeze blew, countless bird feathers flew all over the sky. Some unscrupulous terns even moved their bellies in the air, causing bird droppings to splatter all over the sky. The air was filled with the smell of fish and feces, which made people want to vomit.
Twenty miles away from Tern City, on a remote cliff, a small, lonely temple slumped in the shadow of a hill. Under the setting sun, if you were a little further away, it would be difficult for people with poor eyesight to notice the existence of this small temple.
The sound of wooden fishes could be heard from afar. At dusk, the monks in the small temple were doing evening prayers. In the Buddhist hall, two skinny young monks were leading a group of twenty equally skinny young monks, beating wooden fishes and chanting sutras.
The abbot of the small temple was the bald man who transformed into Lu Yi's appearance and killed Jin Keng, forcing Lu Yi to abandon the temple and flee.
He had returned to his original appearance at this moment, sitting in a small thatched pavilion in the backyard, smiling as he looked across at the fat monk who was holding a huge wine gourd and drinking wine in big gulps.
This bald man was as thin as a stick insect.
The big monk sitting opposite him was so fat that he looked like a well-fed cabbage worm, round and plump, with tender, trembling fat under his skin that was almost about to burst through his thin skin.
The fat monk was slightly shorter than the bald man by an inch or two, but his waist was at least thirty or forty times thicker than the bald man's. He sat cross-legged under the pavilion like a mountain of flesh, and his entire body almost filled the limited space in the pavilion, and he was about to bounce the bald man out of the thatched pavilion.
The fat monk took a sip of wine, burped, and glanced at the bald man.
"When you have distinguished guests, you should always prepare some for dinner!"
The bald man smiled and nodded gently: "The small temple is poor and has no budget for dinner... and the small temple adheres to the precepts and does not eat after noon."
The fat monk was stunned and sneezed loudly at the bald man.
He rummaged in his sleeve with his right hand for a while, and with a "pop", he slammed a box in front of the bald man. It was one foot square, green in color like colored glaze, with countless golden threads growing inside. It was obviously made of some strange wood.
When the box was opened, it was filled with top-quality pearls that were only the size of pigeon eggs, but were perfectly round, silver-gray in color, and emitted a silvery glow that could almost blind a person's eyes .
"Bitterness? Not bitterness!"
"Look, here comes a great donor like me!"
"Hurry up, let the bald donkeys outside take it and exchange it for money, and then buy some good wine and good meat... If there is a good brothel in Yanou City, it would be nice to invite a few girls to play the pipa or the flute!"
"Hey... you, your life is really boring."
"You only need to observe the precepts occasionally... How good would it be to learn from me? For example, in the past two hours and three quarters of an hour, I have observed the precept of not killing for a long time."
The bald man's smile faded, and he curled his lips and looked at the box of pearls: "Where did this thing come from?"
The fat monk smiled even more brightly: "Wasn't I in Xuanfeng City, helping you stop those idiots? Haha, since I even shattered their Void Teleportation Formation, I also destroyed the bedrooms of several imperial concubines in their imperial city and took some wine money."
The bald man stared straight at the fat monk.
The fat monk looked at the bald man with a smile.
The two looked at each other for a while, and the bald man sighed, took out a pearl from the box, and slowly stood up: "Forget it, those young disciples are innocent and have never touched these worldly things... Don't ruin their practice... I'll go buy you some good wine and meat."
"Remember, if the Buddha blames you, the sin will be all yours."
The bald man said to the fat monk very seriously: "The precepts must still be observed!"
The bald man's body shook and disappeared.
The fat monk raised his wine gourd, took a few gulps of the old wine, and muttered in a low voice: "Buddha... Damn, I have been practicing for so many years , and I have never seen even one of the legendary Arhats and Bodhisattvas, Buddha?"
"Precepts? Haha, Master Buddha, I believe in my heart that everything I do is precepts... Then, Master Buddha is a person who keeps precepts!"
"Oh, really, they are all no different from bandits. What are you talking about rules and regulations?"
"If you really want to abide by the rules, why did you go and kill that unlucky kid? Why did you frame that little thief Fahai? Haha... The reputation of Yuanlingtian Buddhism has been ruined by a bunch of hypocritical monks like you."
"Ah, that little thief Fahai is so pitiful. I don't know what he has become now ."
"If he can survive a year under the combined efforts of Canghai Tower and Baoguang Pavilion, I will accept him as my disciple?"
"Tsk tsk, how could a mere thief like Jinlian Kai survive for more than a year under their hands? There's also the matter of that crazy woman in the photo studio... She even killed her precious son."
While the fat monk was muttering to himself, the bald man had already arrived in Tern City.
Above Tern City, thousands of feet above the ground, a bronze mirror was suspended on a cloud, emitting a dim light that swept across the bald man's body.
The bald man let the mirror light sweep across his body and walked slowly across the street.
This precious mirror was set up by the landlords of Yanou City, the Ouyang clan, who fled from other places three hundred years ago. It was used specifically to monitor the monks entering and leaving the city to prevent their enemies or the remnants of the previous landlords of Yanou City three hundred years ago from sneaking into the city.
There is only one tax collector and ten minor clerks in Tern City.
The Ouyang clan, which has nearly a thousand members and is said to have an ancestor who is half a step into the Illuminating Void Realm, is the de facto ruler of Yanou City. The Yanou City Defense Army, which is nearly 60,000 strong and mainly composed of Furnace Realm monks and a small number of Fiery Realm monks, is the private army of the Ouyang clan and tightly controls the territory of more than a thousand miles.
The bald man didn't take all this to heart.
He was stationed in Kinkaku County because of the lawless place and the chaos here... and some private secrets that could not be revealed.
On weekdays, he went in and out of Tern City and never caused any trouble.
When he entered the city today, he did not feel any danger.
Not to mention Tern City, no one in the entire Jinge County is qualified to make people feel the slightest bit of danger.
He walked leisurely into the city and found a pawnshop opened by the Ouyang clan in the city. He placed the extremely precious luminous pearl in front of the pawnshop keeper.
"Buddha has mercy on me. This is the money donated by a donor. Please help me to exchange it for a little." The bald man smiled and bowed to the attendant behind the counter. "I will not redeem it until it dies... As for the price, please have pity on the poverty of this small temple and give me a little more."
The old Chaofeng 's eyes lit up and he picked up the pearl and examined it carefully.
The bald man was not in a hurry. He stood quietly in front of the counter, watching the old official use various methods to test the bead.
In the main mansion of the Ouyang clan in the south of Yanou City, a deacon who was responsible for daily monitoring of the city's movements hurried to the study of the current head of the Ouyang clan and handed over a portrait quietly.
"This person is on our territory."
The current head of the Ouyang clan is a middle-aged man with an imposing appearance and excellent looks.
He took the portrait and his eyes widened suddenly. "How is this possible? According to the news from above, this guy is clearly roaming around the northwest... He has already robbed several state capitals in succession!"
After taking a deep breath, the face of the head of the Ouyang family glowed slightly red. "It seems that we will make a contribution this time. Send the news back to Xuanfeng City as soon as possible, using the most urgent Blood Feather Talisman, and it must reach His Majesty directly. There must be no mistakes."
The head of the Ouyang family was so excited that he was shaking all over. "I never thought that such a great man could be hidden in the small Yanou City? Regardless of whether he is a clone or a magical power, this merit is enough for us to be transferred from this barren and broken place to a richer place, right?"
In an instant, an urgent letter was transmitted to Xuanfeng City through a secretly set up micro magic circle at lightning speed. After changing hands twice, it was delivered to Xuan Taiyi who was waiting at the ruins of Dajinshan Temple.
"This..." Xuan Taiyi exclaimed, and immediately ordered: "Him alive!"
