Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 218

Tang Ning nodded slightly to the two disciples, the two understood, took out a black gold awl, and stabbed him on the back of the head and neck, causing Dou Wen to wake up in pain.

"Dou Wencai, why bother? You would have spoken earlier, and you would have suffered less. Now that it has fallen into our hands, do you still expect the Corpse Puppet Sect to save you?" Tangning said.
"Successful kings and defeated bandits, what can I say again? If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you." Dou Wencai bowed his head and said

Tangning said softly, "Uncle, this person is stubborn, let's hand it over to the Zongmen's Prison Department!"

Jiang Ming nodded slightly.

Tangning waved her hand, "Suppress Dou Wencai."

Two disciples escorted him away.

"Nephew Tang, I will leave the matter here to you." After Jiang Ming finished speaking, he left the hall, and everyone got up to see him off.

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

"I invite you all to come today. I have nothing else to do. I want to get acquainted with you. Come, please drink this cup together." Tangning picked up the wine glass and drank it down.
In fact, the patriarchs of these powerful families were invited, one to warn them, and the other 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 disagree.

Needless to say, it is necessary to push glasses and change glasses at the banquet, and the banquet lasts until late at night.

After the affairs of the Dou family were over, he temporarily assumed the position of head of Qin Chuan. After a period of leisure, about a month later, a new head of the sect's sect took office. His name was Xu Chong, who was originally a disciple of the Foreign Affairs Academy.

Tangning naturally returned to the sect to reinstate and continue to serve as the head of intelligence and liaison.

As the key figure in this mission, Zongmen rewarded him with [-] spirit stones.

Equivalent to two years of salary.

But he doesn't like this spirit stone anymore. With his wealth and resources, it is impossible for anyone under the Jindan monks in Qianyi sect to compare with him.

Maybe, even Jindan monks may not be as rich as him.

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Time flies, and it is several years in a flash.

In the past few years, the Demon Sect has become more and more powerful, gradually eroding a lot of Taoist industries, and occupying the cultivation resources that originally belonged to Taoism.

Some small families even changed their flags and joined the Demon Sect directly, and some big families also had an ambiguous attitude, and tax arrears began to appear.

The tax set by Xuanmen for all practicing families is [-]%, and half of the resources occupied by any family must be handed over to the local Xuanmen.

Whether it's ores, medicinal herbs, or gold dust, all the resources in the territory under the rule belong to the Taoism in theory.It is leased to those families to take care of it, so it is natural to charge high rent.

After the Mozong occupied those cultivation resources, they still handed them over to the local families to take care of them, and only collected [-]% of the tax from those cultivation families.

In this way, those family forces entrenched in the local area naturally took refuge in the Mozong.

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 punished by the family, the Lu family took over most of the Dou family's property. The Corpse Puppet Sect's forces used the Xushu Mountain Spirit Mine as their base and pushed forward in all directions. The surrounding cultivating families also changed their ways and turned to them.

The Corpse Puppet Sect's power has now expanded eastward to Guangyang County at the border with Qinchuan. It is adjacent to the place where the Lu family occupies. Because of the Lu family's ambiguous attitude, they delayed paying taxes for various reasons last year.

The disciples of the Zongmen sect paid the tax only after repeated coercion. It is estimated that they are ready to join the Corpse Puppet Sect at any time.

Faced with the pressing force of the Demon Sect, Xuanmen of course organized a counterattack, but every time they returned without success.

Every time the Mozong expands to a place, it will set up formations there and arrange suitable forces to garrison. It can be said that it is step by step. Once it encounters an attack from the Taoist sect, there is a sound transmission formation inside the formation, and the rear will immediately know the change. Support can be sent to the front line within hours.

In this way, the Demon Sect's camp supported each other, forming a series of strong fortresses, making it impossible for Xuanmen to speak.

If you invest less power, you won't be able to attack their defensive camp. If you invest more power, it will immediately turn into a big melee.

After the battle of Xuanyue Mountain, the senior officials of Xingang Xuanmen also knew that the overall strength of the Demon Sect was not inferior to them, so they only sent a small group of troops to counterattack, and there was no large-scale decisive battle.

Tang Ning's daily liaison with the intelligence department is about refining Qi and practicing. No matter how lively the fight outside is, it has nothing to do with him. No matter how fast the Demon Sect's power expands, it will not be able to attack the Luoyun Mountain Range. At most, it 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, his cultivation will be at best a high-level cannon fodder with his strength.

In these years, he has been in charge of intelligence liaison. Reports about the demon sects in various places can be described as daily reports and monthly reports.

With more and more information about Mozong, he has a deeper understanding of Mozong.

I also gradually understood the origin of the current world trend of Daoxiaomochang, and the root cause is the arrogance of the Taoist sect.

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

The Mozong was poor and poor, hiding his head and keeping his head down. This should be a vicious circle.

The Demon Sect has no base of its own, and a sect is broken into pieces, divided into many branches, hiding everywhere.There are no cultivation resources, let alone spiritual veins and spiritual mines.They are surrounded and suppressed by Taoist sects from time to time, they often run away with their heads in their hands, and they are not united internally. How can such a sect develop?

If there are no cultivation resources in hand, and the monks' logistics support is insufficient, the cultivation base will stagnate, and high-level monks will not be produced.

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

The weaker you are, the less you can compete for cultivation resources, and the less you have cultivation resources, the weaker you are. This should be the development path of the Demon Sect.

On the other hand, Taoism is just the opposite. There are enough cultivation resources, monks have sufficient logistics support, and they accept disciples with good qualifications. These people become high-level monks and strive for more resources for the sect. This should be a virtuous circle.

But why is there a situation where Dao eliminates demons and rises?
Tang Ning had been unable to understand this question before. The development of everything has its own laws and regulations. At first glance, the general trend of eliminating demons and increasing Taoism violated the laws.

It wasn't until he had a deep understanding of the organizational structure of the Demon Sect that he understood why Dao Elimination of Demons had become the general trend of the world.

Because of arrogance.

There are too many additional conditions in the recruitment of Taoist disciples, such as age restrictions, only boys between the ages of eight and eighteen are recruited.

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

There is also the restriction of the mountain gate, opening the sect once every ten years, a person only has such a chance in a lifetime, if you miss this time, you will have no chance to enter the Taoist sect in your life, although there are messengers in the sect, but for the huge base, ten The number of places is really a drop in the bucket.

Only these two restrictions caused many spiritual root owners with excellent aptitude to miss the opportunity to be accepted by the Taoist sect, and thus switched to the Demon Sect.

There is also a cultivation qualification limit for recruiting disciples in the Taoist sect. Even if you are at the right age, come across the big move of the Taoist sect, and come to its mountain gate to seek immortality, even if you have spiritual roots, you may still be rejected.

Xuanmen generally only recruits spiritual root owners with high-level cultivation qualifications. Unless you have connections in the sect, you can also be admitted to the sect if you greet privately among disciples. But there are so many people in the world, most of the spiritual root owners are Coming from a poor family, how can I get to know the important figures in the sect?

Spiritual root owners like Tang Ning, whose cultivation aptitude is lower than the middle level, if they hadn't gotten a house number issued by an immortal envoy by chance, if they came to worship the mountain gate according to the formal procedures, there was a high probability that they would be turned away.

This is the root cause of the decline of the Taoist sect. It is too arrogant, so that the spiritual root owners who cannot enter the Taoist sect have no choice but to switch to the Demon Sect.

And the Demon Sect has no restrictions on recruiting disciples. No matter how old you are or how low your aptitude is, as long as you have spiritual roots, can cultivate, and are willing to join them, they will accept you anytime and anywhere, and then grant you the method of cultivation, even if you have already entered the school. As long as casual practitioners of the way of practice are willing to join, they will fully accept it.

Before the Mozong was divided into various branches, they frantically recruited troops from various places to strengthen themselves. When they were integrated, the number of low-level disciples even surpassed that of the Taoist sect. Down, survive in the cracks, and have been standing still.

The arrogance of Taoism is not only manifested in the recruitment of disciples, it is manifested everywhere.

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

Xuanmen monopolizes the practice resources under its rule. Taking Xingang as an example, the three Xuanmen divide up the entire Xingang. Chu State is under the jurisdiction of the Qianyi Sect, and all practice resources outside the sect are charged [-]% of the tax. No family, casual cultivator, private planting of medicinal herbs or breeding of spirit beasts is allowed.

On the other hand, the Demon Sect, the Corpse Puppet Sect centered on the Xushu Mountain Spirit Mine, and has taken over the surrounding area for nearly a thousand miles.

Within its rule, all cultivation resources are only charged [-]% tax, and the cultivation families within the jurisdiction are allowed to grow medicinal herbs. They only charge [-]% tax for the medicinal herbs planted. The medicinal herbs were planted, and recently there was information that a family within the jurisdiction of the Corpse Puppet Sect had started the business of breeding spirit beasts.

To be honest, it was done well, impressively, and the management was much better than under Qian Yizong's rule.

(End of this chapter)