Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 357 News
Wolong Mountain is located in the west of the Central Plains, stretching for thousands of miles, connecting Qinchuan. The whole mountain range looks like a crouching dragon when viewed from above, so it is named Wolong Mountain Range.

Most of the monks in the Chu Kingdom know that this is where the Zhu family is located, and the place where the dragon head is is the place where the Zhu family is entrenched.

Zhu Yunrou fell in front of a simple and majestic hall, and a man rushed up to greet him: "Sister Yun, Uncle has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Zhu Yunrou nodded slightly: "Why is my father calling me back urgently?"

"This..." The man hesitated to speak.

"What's the matter? Hesitating." Zhu Yunrou frowned.
"It's better for uncle to tell you."

Zhu Yunrou glanced at him suspiciously, went straight into the hall, came to a meditation room, opened the door and entered.

Sitting cross-legged inside was a tall, thin and refined elder, in his fifties, with white temples and a foot-long beard. It was Zhu Bochong, the eldest son of Zhu.

"Father, why did you call your daughter here?" Zhu Yunrou walked to him and sat down, holding his arm and saying.

Zhu Bochong lost his wife in his early years, and regarded his daughter as the jewel in his palm, and loved him very much since childhood, so the two of them never talked about common etiquette, just like ordinary people in the market, extremely casual.

Zhu Bochong opened his eyes, half loving, half helpless: "I heard that you are looking for the person who killed Guan Yulang everywhere, so you must be going to trouble Ding Jianyang again!"

Zhu Yunrou pouted slightly, acting like a little girl, and said coquettishly: "What's the matter! Who is Guan Yulang? You don't want to listen to other people's nonsense."

"I'm not so confused that I can't tell the truth from the fake, you! Hey! Blame me for being too conniving and developing such a willful temper. I have turned a blind eye to you messing around outside these years. Haven't you heard those rumors? They have all reached my ears."

"Hmph, that was all a trick of the Ding family to discredit us, father, I said earlier that the Ding family had no good intentions."

Zhu Bochong shook his head and said: "Stop messing around. Even if you don't like Ding Jianyang, be patient and stop embarrassing him. Today is different. Tomorrow I will invite people from Ding's family to visit us. For banquets in the mansion, don't be petty and make everyone feel uncomfortable."

"Invite them? Why? Will Ding Jianyang come too?"

"Let's talk about the cooperation between the two families. Our Zhu family tree is very popular, and there are countless people who covet us secretly. Now your grandfather has been seriously injured, and those young people are staring at us!"

Zhu Yunju said: "You mean to form an alliance with the Ding family?"

Zhu Bochong said with a smile: "If you want to talk about an alliance, haven't we already formed an alliance with the Ding family? Isn't the relationship between children and relatives closer than allies? The so-called alliance is just a piece of paper and cannot be counted. But if the other party and your interests If they are closely linked and closely related, then he will naturally become your ally. On the contrary, even if the sea is dry and the stone is bad, it is just empty words."

"Father, that Ding family is not a good thing, we should be more careful, especially Ding Jianyang, he seems to have changed in recent years, I think he must be holding back his energy to play tricks! "

Zhu Bochong smiled helplessly: "Then tell me, who is trustworthy? Who is unpredictable? Good or bad is a child's opinion. You are already a foundation-building monk. Maybe you will inherit the Zhu family's head in the future." In this position, you can no longer act according to your personal likes and dislikes."

"The important thing is whether it is useful. For us, it is better to have one more ally than one more enemy."

"As for Ding Jianyang, he is just an insignificant person. His views and thoughts are not important, but he must save face. I sent someone to kill that Guan Yulang. It is a gift for us to cooperate with the Ding family! "

"Ah?" Zhu Yunrou exclaimed, never expecting that it was his father who did it, and immediately became a little unhappy: "Father, why did you do this? He is the person my daughter likes."

Zhu Bochong's face darkened: "Why do you like it or not? You are just greedy for his good-looking body. This kid is so arrogant and presumptuous. Keeping it will be a disaster after all. I heard that he once met some cronies in Yujiao Tower During the banquet, they uttered wild words, saying that Ding Jianyang was cowardly and incompetent, that he was a dog you raised, and that the Ding family was the watchdog of our Zhu family, right?"

Zhu Yunrou said in a soft voice: "That's just a private drunk talk after drinking too much."

"Hmph, what kind of thing is he? The Ding family is a family of thousands of years of practice, so he is worthy of being judged? He really doesn't know how to live or die. Such a fool can live to this day, which is considered a blessing from his ancestors."

Zhu Yunju said: "So, you sent the person who warned him to leave Chu State a few days ago and never come back again?"

Zhu Bochong snorted and said, "I don't have that kind of carelessness. I went to say hello to him before I crushed him to death. It was the warning from the Ding family. How could the Ding family tolerate that kid who insulted the Ding family so much? But they looked at him anyway. On our face, save that kid's life."

"I didn't expect him to be so reckless that he would still linger, so I killed him. In case the Ding family kills him, if you have a temper and make trouble with the Ding family, it will not look good."

Zhu Yunrou said dissatisfied: "Father, why are you talking to the Ding family everywhere, as if everything is the daughter's fault. At the beginning, you insisted on forcing me to marry Ding Jianyang, and I hated him when I saw him. But it's still according to your wishes." It’s done, but now it’s all about my daughter.”

Zhu Bochong sighed helplessly: "If you don't accept your temper, let alone be the head of the family in the future, you will have to suffer a lot. If you don't like Ding Jianyang, you can do as you like! Father will not force you, but you don't want to be so capricious. At least save some face for the Ding family."

"Why does my daughter have to take over as the head of the family? Tired and annoying, my daughter just wants to be by my father's side for the rest of my life. My father will never let others bully me."

Zhu Bochong smiled, but said nothing.

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Tangning left the attic and fled all the way back to the Qianjun Mountain intelligence station.

The days that followed were relatively peaceful.

Although it was rumored that the old man of the Zhu family was seriously injured, his life would not be long!But I have never seen him burp, so those who were just about to peep at the Zhu family naturally didn't dare to act rashly.

The Corpse Puppet Sect is also relatively peaceful. After occupying the western part of the Chu Kingdom, it can be said that it has been working hard to develop. It has been developing silently, encouraging those aristocratic families to grow medicinal herbs and breed spirit beasts. It is very popular and impressive.

Recently, they created an organization called the Pill Pharmacist Association, which is mainly for cultivating alchemy talents.

The internal organizational structure of the Demon Sect has always been chaotic, more precisely, it is general, without the precise division of duties like the Taoist sect, which leads to their extreme lack of monks with "special skills".

Those alchemists, weapon refiners, talisman masters, and formation masters cannot be cultivated overnight, they need to be accumulated over a long period of time.

Now the Corpse Puppet Sect has occupied the northwest of Chu State. After these years of cultivation, they have received a large number of various elixir herbs, but the problem is that they have no talents who can refine herbs into elixir.

There are very few people in the Corpse Puppet Sect who know the art of alchemy, and the few who managed to pull out are all of the half-baked level of Ye Luzi's background. Not to mention the second-level elixir, even refining Qi Condensation Pill is enough.

This made them very distressed, so the Pill Medicine Association came into being.

The alchemist association almost brought in alchemists from all the families under its jurisdiction to teach some of the selected disciples of the Demon Sect. Not only that, they also invited many well-known alchemists in the alchemy industry by means of coercion and lure. casual repair.

According to Tangning's information, the corpse puppet sect offered very generous conditions to the alchemists it hired, and for those disciples who were selected to learn alchemy, they gave treatment and status that surpassed that of ordinary disciples.

Obviously, the Corpse Puppet Sect has spent all their money, and must be determined to do a good job in this matter, so as to cultivate a group of alchemist disciples who can be independent.

But alchemy is not something that can be accomplished overnight. Apart from resources, it also depends on the talent of the individual. It cannot be done in a few years, ten years, or even decades. This is a long-term project, and the investment is directly proportional to the return.

The Alchemist Association is just an experiment. If it is done well, they may continue to create the Artifact Refiner Association, Array Master Association, Talisman Master Association, etc., to train disciples with professional skills.

For the cultivation family, the treatment given by Mozong is undoubtedly generous.For most of the casual cultivators, the western part of Chu State controlled by the Demon Sect is undoubtedly a den of dragons and tigers. The disciples of the Demon Sect wantonly killed the monks, but the high-level officials of the Demon Sect did not care about them at all, causing a large number of casual cultivators to escape from Qinchuan and Longyou.

This is related to the essence of the Demon Sect. Most of the exercises they practice are related to flesh and blood, and they need the monk's body as material.

The Corpse Puppet Sect is a typical representative. The main material for their refining corpse puppets is the monk's body.

Therefore, the high level of the Mozong has no way to prohibit this kind of behavior of the subordinate disciples.

But the Demon Sect protected the family of practice very well. Whenever a disciple of the sect killed the disciples of the family, they found that they killed one by one. Since they occupied Qinchuan Longyou, they have killed more than a dozen disciples.

Therefore, those cultivating families are very supportive of the Demon Sect, and the two sides can be described as fish and water.

Tang Ning handles the affairs of the intelligence station every day, and reports important secrets to the intelligence department. On the other hand, she also keeps developing the inside lines of various forces.

He seldom does these things himself, and he always asks his disciples to do them, and he finds some low-level monks to act as insiders.

If he couldn't solve it, he went out in person.

Time flies, and ten years have passed in a flash.

This day, Tangning sat cross-legged in the room with her eyes closed to practice as usual. The little white snake was entangled beside him, surrounding him with its head resting on his legs.

Outside, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Tangning opened her eyes.

Kong Ji pushed the door open, saluted, handed him the file in his hand and said, "Uncle Master, this is the news from the sect just now."

"what's up?"

Kong Ji paused and said, "Uncle Lu, you have been dismissed from the post of deacon of the intelligence department."

(End of this chapter)