Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 23 The Secret of That Year
On the Huanling Sect's side, everything had already been prepared. Everything was ready, except for the east wind, and they were waiting for Lu Qingshan.
As for Lu Qingshan, he has never been a procrastinating person.
So after meeting Ximen Lie and understanding the details of the situation, the two hit it off and left the Huanling Sect quietly that day.
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Boom!
On the Kawakami Plateau, the mighty Zangbo River flows, stirring up layers of powerful waves.
The thunderous roar of the river continued to ring out in the Huanling Sect, but it seemed inconspicuous under the constant roars of beasts.
And just as Lu Qingshan climbed up to the Huanling Sect, south of the mighty Zangbo River, a pair of huge and narrow eyes slowly opened in the abyss of the south bank, looking far away at the Feihu Peak on the other side of the river.
His eyes contain the sun and the moon, and are as deep as the abyss.
"See you again."
"I have spared you once before. This is your luck."
"When luck comes, heaven and earth are on your side; when luck is gone, heroes are helpless..."
"I can't help you twice, even if you are mine..."
"But it's okay. It's a good opportunity to test whether you are a person with great fortune in this world. I hope you won't let me down..."
After a long time, a few barely audible whispers were heard from the abyss.
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Lu Qingshan first went to Zhishou Tower in Zhonglingyu.
Although he and Tan Tai Qingrun temporarily "parted ways" after the last operation against the underworld came to an end.
But considering the possible follow-up situations that might arise later, Tan Tai Qingrun very considerately prepared a token for Lu Qingshan.
With the token, even if she didn't show up in person, Lu Qingshan could face the top management of Zhishou Tower directly, saving him a lot of trouble.
After meeting the top management of Zhishou Tower, relying on his reputation and token, after a brief communication, Lu Qingshan was able to follow Zhishou Tower's large army to attack Hanzhou.
As for Ximen Lie, he disguised himself as an ordinary monk from Zhishou Tower, hiding in the action team to protect Lu Qingshan.
Hanzhou is a small state located in the northern part of Zhonglingyu.
As the name suggests, this is a state with bitterly cold winds. The icy air seems to squeeze into people's lungs, making them feel cold all over.
Here there are snow-capped mountains and icy wastelands that stretch for nearly ten thousand miles and are frozen all year round. There are also countless ferocious ice monsters. It is a place where few people go.
Also because it is sparsely populated, the resources here have not been exploited on a large scale and are extremely abundant.
Back then, Daxia valued the rich spiritual materials on the snowfields and established the human state capital here.
Anping Prefecture is a very inconspicuous prefecture in Hanzhou.
The reason why it is called Anping does not have much deep meaning.
However, when Hanzhou was first established, not many people were willing to come to such a dangerous and desolate place to "open up wasteland and help alleviate poverty."
Marquis Anping was one of the few Daxia cultivators who took the initiative to step forward and build Hanzhou.
After hundreds of years of hard work, he finally helped the human race in the prefecture gain a foothold in this dangerous place.
Later, in order to commemorate his great achievements, the people in Anping Prefecture named their prefecture after Anping Hou.
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Three days later, the large force arrived at the designated area.
The monks of Zhishou Tower began to secretly set up an encirclement.
When it comes to dealing with the branch halls of the underworld, even without counting his experience in his previous life, Lu Qingshan is one of the most experienced people.
But when he really arrived here, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised.
Because the branch hall of the underworld here is actually hidden in a deserted snowy peak.
"The location of this branch of the underworld is so secretive, how did your sect discover it?" Lu Qingshan couldn't help but ask Ximen Lie.
Besides being surprised and unable to help asking questions, the main reason was that the spiritual realm and underworld in his previous life were hidden so well that they had never been discovered.
But this time, the Huanling Sect was able to change the original historical trajectory and made new discoveries, which made him ponder all the way.
Of course, in Lu Qingshan's view, this is definitely part of the butterfly effect.
This means that with his intervention, the development of the plot is moving in a good direction.
However, he was curious about which link had changed and led to this breakthrough in Huanling Sect? Also, was there any trace of this breakthrough and could it be replicated?
Hearing this question, Ximen Lie was silent for a moment for no reason, his expression changed slightly, and finally he slowly said: "As one of the participants in the Seven Realms Forum, you should be very clear about the details of what happened, right?"
"Your Excellency, are you referring to..." Lu Qing paused and said in a deep voice, "The matter concerning the headmaster of your sect, Chang Geng?"
Back then, Daxia united the seven major Taoist sects and the hundred top sects to hold the Seven Realms Forum in order to select talented cultivators from among the human race. It was a matter of finding a thousand-mile horse.
In order to disrupt the smooth holding of the Seven Realms Forum, the Underworld sent people to secretly make trouble, but they ended up falling into the trap of the Master of Tianji Temple and suffered heavy losses.
They even caught a high-ranking human traitor - Chang Geng, the head of the Huanling Sect.
Ximen Lie nodded silently.
"Is the exposure of the location of the underworld branch here related to Master Chang Geng?" Lu Qingshan quickly understood Ximen Lie's implication.
"That's true." Ximen Lie said.
"It's just that," Lu Qingshan quickly discovered the irrationality in it, "Hasn't it been more than three years since the identity of Chang Geng was exposed? Why is it only now..."
If he remembered correctly, after the identity of Sect Master Chang Geng was exposed, he was taken to the Huanling Sect by the Master of Tianji Temple.
Later, he also asked his master about the follow-up measures of the Huanling Sect.
The news we received was that on the day when the head of Tianji Temple escorted the head monk Chang Geng to ascend to the Huanling Sect, the Huanling Sect did not have any personal bias that the family's dirty laundry should not be made public, and simply chose to sacrifice their own family for the greater good.
They publicly executed Sect Master Chang Geng in front of most of the sect's senior monks and thousands of inner disciples.
The abbot of Tianji Temple watched the execution personally.
Under the nose of this spiritual practitioner with great cultivation, there is absolutely no possibility of any secret operation.
It can be said that Chang Geng, the head of Huanling Sect, was as dead as could be at that time.
Then how come three years later, the matter of Chang Geng as the headmaster has opened a new chapter?
“Not all cultivators who have colluded with the underworld are necessarily from the underworld,” Ximen Lie patiently explained when he saw Lu Qingshan’s doubts, “There are also cultivators who only have a cooperative relationship with the underworld.
They reveal some "small" intelligence to the underworld that they think has little impact, or help the underworld do some "small" things in exchange for huge benefits. "
At this point, Ximen Lie's voice became heavier and more serious. "Master Chang Geng is one of these people. He is not a cultivator from the underworld, and has no direct subordinate relationship with the cultivators from the underworld. However, he revealed a lot of information to the underworld and did some things for the underworld, which in return earned him a lot of resources, which allowed him to continuously improve his cultivation, and finally he even ranked among the three masters of our sect. According to him, he and the underworld only have a so-called cooperative relationship. But in our opinion, his behavior is even more hateful than the cultivators from the underworld."
"Because, the cultivators in the underworld are at least completely bad and know that they are not good people. But people like Master Chang Geng are two-timing. On the surface, they deceive themselves and say that they are still human cultivators, but the harm they cause to the human race behind the scenes is far greater than that of the former."
Speaking of the sect's tragedy, the great master of Huanling Sect seemed to have no taboos at all and appeared extremely frank, even criticizing the former sect leader wantonly.
This made Lu Qingshan look at the Huanling Sect with a higher opinion - making mistakes is not terrible, what is terrible is not daring to face up to mistakes, but choosing to deceive oneself and others, and covering one's ears and stealing the bell.
If you have the courage to face your mistakes, you will be able to learn from them and become stronger after the pain.
This may be one of the reasons why the Huanling Sect has become increasingly powerful in the past 20,000 years.
"In order to maintain the integrity of our sect and to serve as a warning to others, we chose to execute him on the spot to show that we have zero tolerance for collusion with the demons."
Ximen Lie continued, "After this, the matter is not over, because whoever takes action must have a beginning and an end left. Therefore, we carefully reviewed the life of the headmaster Chang Geng and examined the clues. After checking, we found that the headmaster Chang Geng came to Anping Prefecture in Hanzhou because of the sect's mission, and then after returning to the sect, he suddenly began to rise. Obviously, there must be deception. We followed this line and sent people to follow the mission he performed that year in Anping Prefecture. Finally, we found the location of the underworld branch hall here."
“Of course, this branch of the underworld can only be said to be the first underworld that Master Chang Geng has come into contact with.
After this, he must have come into contact with the real high-level officials of the underworld.
After all, to allow him to become an existence of this level as the sect's head master is not something that a small prefecture-level branch of the underworld can achieve.
Unfortunately, the clues after this are a mess and confusing, leaving us at a loss as to where to start.
Although we in the Huanling Sect have never given up the investigation, we are also well aware that there will most likely be no new discoveries in the short term.
After that, we decided to change our thinking and see if we could use this branch of the underworld as a breakthrough point..."
I see……
After understanding the details, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
It seems that it was because the King of the West Rat discovered Shura's figure in Lundao City that led to the exposure of Master Chang Geng and a series of chain reactions that followed.
In this way, as far as the battle between humans and demons is concerned, the trend of the plot development is more like a snowball - one good thing leads to another good thing, and then slowly rolls bigger, rather than the repeated jumps he has always worried about - a good thing that would not have happened leads to another bad thing that did not exist.
This undoubtedly gave him more confidence.
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Here, the encirclement of the monks in Zhishou Tower had been completely set up quietly.
"Action!" After confirming it beyond a doubt, the leading monk of this trip shouted in a low voice.
The next moment, spiritual light became brighter, and with the snow-capped peak where the underworld was located as the center, a layer of ripple-like spiritual light turned into a barrier, like an upside-down jade bowl, covering the entire snow-capped peak and forming a closed space.
This is a no-fly barrier, and its function is to isolate the space transmission nodes within the barrier.
This barrier is specifically designed for teleportation arrays, because only the space teleportation power of teleportation arrays is based on nodes for transmission.
——This snowy peak has always been deserted. If there were people going in and out all year round, it would be very easy to be exposed. Therefore, there must be a space teleportation array in this branch of the underworld for them to pass through.
This is Zhishoulou’s judgment.
Then, a layer of dark light curtain appeared almost at the same time as the no-fly barrier, covering the previous layer of barrier, and the two overlapped.
There were three monks from Zhishou Tower sitting in it, maintaining the existence of this layer of dark light curtain.
Siye barrier, a large-scale group suppression barrier.
As soon as the two barriers were formed, the other monks in Zhishou Tower, including Lu Qingshan, rushed into the barriers.
They planned to cooperate with the suppressive power of the barrier to search and kill the monks from the underworld hiding in the belly of the Snow Peak Mountain.
It only takes a few breaths of time.
The sounds of bombings rang out one after another, and the figures of the underworld monks rushed out from the belly of the mountain, looking at Lu Qingshan and others who suddenly launched an attack with a look of shock on their faces.
The monk Zhishoulou did not give the monks from the underworld much chance to react, and with a fierce murderous intent, he charged towards this group of unsuspecting monks from the underworld.
The situation is one-sided.
After just a few dozen breaths, more than 30% of the cultivators in the underworld had been killed or injured.
Rumble rumble!
At this moment, a terrifying sound like an earthquake shaking the mountains suddenly came.
Lu Qingshan, who had not yet taken action, subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.
From the belly of the mountain, there were five snake necks hundreds of feet long sticking out.
On top of the snake's neck are five huge snake heads in the shape of an inverted triangle. The heads are as big as towers, and the eyes are like millstones. They look extremely ferocious.
The five snake necks are intertwined and dancing with each other.
Dark saliva continuously dripped from the snake's mouth, smelling extremely fishy. Once it fell on the ground, it would make a sizzling sound and corrode a huge hole.
This is a demon beast raised by the monks . It is a mutant beast of the fifth level perfect realm, and is extremely powerful.
If we allow it to wreak havoc for a while, it will inevitably cause considerable casualties to the monks in this building.
The Divine Transformation cultivator who was leading the group had been in control of the situation. Seeing this scene, he quickly made this judgment in his mind.
With a thought, he pinched the magic formula in his hands, formed a hand seal, and was about to cast a spell to destroy the monster.
Just as he was about to cast his spell, a sense of destruction that was so sharp that it even made him feel a little terrified suddenly arose, and it came at an incredibly fast speed.
The true meaning of destruction, the true meaning of the origin of attack.
A flash of sword light, one step faster than his spell, or even two steps faster, shot towards the snake demon beast that had not yet fully emerged.
The sword light was as sharp as chopping melons and vegetables. It penetrated directly into one of the snake heads of the snake monster, then disappeared into it.
After a brief period of calm, thousands of sword lights and sword energy exploded from the five snake heads and five snake necks of the snake demon beast.
The powerful body of the monster and the various weirdness of the demons were of no use in front of this sword that contained the true meaning of destruction.
Then, the huge body of the snake demon beast actually disintegrated into countless tiny pieces of flesh and blood, which exploded in the air, forming balls of flesh and blood fireworks, which was extremely spectacular.
What a fierce sword!
What a fast swordsman!
The incarnation monk of Zhishou Tower silently put away the spell he had just cast halfway, feeling somewhat complicated.
