I am the main soul in the soul banner

Chapter 1172 Poisoner

"What took so long?"

Xiong Jianzun lowered his voice and looked at Dunyi with worry in his eyes.

The fluctuations of magic in the Senluo Palace have lasted for three days, and those of them who have great magical powers affiliated with Emperor Cheng have been guarding it for three days.

Three days was but a blink of an eye for the great monk.

However, the matter is of great importance and not a single mistake can go wrong, so it is inevitable that one feels a bit impatient.

"Be patient and wait a little longer." Dun Yi's face was heavy, and he was calculating rhythmically with his fingers.

Finding the ancestor is urgent. If even Tushan Jinghong can't help him, he will have to use some vicious plan. Otherwise, if things continue like this, the underworld will experience a catastrophe soon.

"We can't wait long." Yu Shen's expression was serious, and his words were unquestionable and mixed with suppressed anger.

Dun Yi turned his head sharply and said viciously: "You have to wait even if you can't!"

"Waiting like this is not a solution."

Xiong Jianzun said in a deep voice: "When the ancestor was here, a furnace of elixirs consumed very few divine materials, and Yinhun Pills only needed evil spirits to supply them. This gave rise to the rapid development of the underworld, and the unified Yintian quickly digested resources, giving birth to many great divine power fruit positions."

"The underworld is now like a huge ship flying at high speed. It has already started sailing. If you want to slow it down, even if you slow it down, conflicts will pile up."

"In the past, we had three bottles of Yinhun Pills that matched our realm each month, but now it's been reduced to one bottle. It won't be long before it's reduced to a dozen... a few... two, one, until we only get one every two or three months, or even one a year. Who would be convinced? The cultivators below would only think that we are greedy."

"Internal contradictions cannot be reconciled and can only be transferred outwards."

"They want to start a war to divert the conflict, and they control a large part of it. We have no money..."

"what to do?!"

Everyone who was asking the question fell silent in tacit agreement. This question is always "money" every year.

Of course, this is just a nickname. In fact, it should be called resources, magical materials, magical weapons, elixirs, scriptures,... Now without God, even the token of the underworld has to be cast slowly.

The end of the year is the time to settle accounts. We have been in deficit every year and are heavily in debt.

This year I will borrow from next year and the year after next, next year I will borrow from the year after next...

There are also annoying infighting and power struggles, and the policies they formulate are difficult to implement at every turn.

Everyone has already been troubled.

If they can't find their ancestor, they will probably be slowly driven out of the core of the imperial court. When those people hold the emperor hostage to control the other lords, there will be no place for them in the underworld at all.

Whether or not you have a position is another matter, but it is unbearable to watch the ideals you have been fighting for become distorted.

"I know." Yu Shen gritted his teeth. It was great when he had countless resources back then, and he defeated hundreds of millions of Jindan cultivators as his foundation.

How joyful it was then is how painful it is now.

Xiong Jianzun angrily smashed his fist and said, "What's the use of knowing? If we can't find our ancestor, the underworld will soon fall into their hands..."

"I'll go and take a look. If not, I'll use my magical powers to protect her." Xiong Jianzun was obviously a man of action. He was indeed confident. With his avenue of travel, he could completely anchor Tushan Jinghong who had the three flowers gathered at the top of her head.

……

Tushan Jinghong came back to his senses.

The divine eyes that sounded like the intersection of the avenues slowly closed, and she had already understood the cause.

After witnessing the fight between Tushan Jun and Qing Emperor, the Ten Emperors signed the agreement without any hesitation. Their common opinion was to unify the Yintian without bloodshed.

If you want to avoid bloodshed, you have to have room for relaxation, which takes a lot of time.

Things will eventually turn around if we take things slow. There is still room for the situation to turn around.

Therefore, the underworld has been slowly solving this problem over the past three thousand years and mobilizing the relationships among all the races in the underworld. This is much more difficult than fighting your way through. Even with the cooperation of powerful forces from all sides, it still takes a long time.

The people who suffer the most in war are still the common people.

Being able to seize the dominance of Dongyue in this way and then implement the county system in the underworld, Wu Rong is worthy of being the lord of the underworld, the holder of the scales of good and evil, and worthy of countless creatures in the underworld. He did not ignite an endless war because of his unparalleled power.

clack.

The voice made Jinghong glance sideways, and he bowed in surprise and said, "Thank you, senior, for protecting me."

"Where."

Xiong Jianzun smiled and asked expectantly, "Have you found any news about the ancestor?"

He quickly sent a message to everyone.

Everyone then hurried into the hall, but only a few old ministers were left of the originally large team. It was the Queen Mother of the Underworld who had not left and was guarding here.

Yu Shen asked earnestly, "How is it?"

Dun Yi tucked his sleeves into his pockets and looked at Jing Hong.

Ru Zang clasped his hands together and recited scriptures silently.

Looking at their expressions, Jinghong hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "There are some clues, but this is not the last moment. I need to look for the place where my junior brother passed away. I guess there should be clues there. At the very least, I can know who took the Honored Soul Banner at the last moment."

Hearing this, several people looked at each other.

Jinghong noticed their embarrassment and asked softly, "Are you having any trouble?"

"This……"

"No one knows where the master of the mansion passed away. That day he..." Yu Shen swallowed the words he had just said.

They asked Tushan Jinghong to identify the place where Wu Rong passed away because they didn't know it. It was said that Chongtong Da Daojun's magic was powerful and he could trace back to the past to know all the news.

Jinghong frowned and said, "Your sister-in-law doesn't know either?"

"I..." The Queen Mother pursed her lips and said nothing. Her union with Wu Rong was originally a marriage between Dongyue and the underworld. If she hadn't pitied herself and begged Wu Rong to leave her a support, Wu Rong wouldn't even be able to have a child. In this case, how could she know the place of death that even these senior officials didn't know about? "It doesn't matter. We'll investigate slowly." Jinghong was very patient.

Several important ministers could only arrange for Jinghong to stay.

……

evening.

Several people gathered together.

Dunyi spoke first: "You should remember that hundreds of years ago I proposed to carry out reforms to further transform food into a resource."

"remember."

Yu Shen narrowed his eyes.

He was deeply impressed by this incident. It was a good strategy, but it was rejected. First, the land was in the hands of the great monks, and they were unwilling to hand over their land for the underworld.

Secondly, it will easily aggravate internal conflicts. Ordinary people still rely on spiritual places for practice, and any disturbance will easily damage the credibility of the underworld.

The third is that the high-level officials in the underworld are all plotting in groups, fearing that they will suffer losses as a result.

"If we succeed, wouldn't we be making wedding dresses for others?" Xiong Jianzun looked at Dunyi.

Dun Yi sneered and said, "I am just making an analogy. This strategy is good medicine if it is taken slowly, which is beneficial to the development of the underworld. If it is radicalized, it will become poison and trigger conflicts in an instant."

"No!" Yu Shen quickly denied: "Doing so will still harm the underworld."

Master Ruzang added: “It is still the people who suffer.”

Dun Yi said in a deep voice: "I am not saying that we should do it ourselves, but rather that we should throw the plan to them and let them complete the task. When the conflict is completely exposed, we can use this opportunity to eliminate them and arrange for our monks to occupy more critical locations, thus regaining control of the underworld."

"This is also secondary..."

Dun Yi interrupted Yu Shen and Ru Zang's horrified gazes and the words that were about to come out of their mouths, and continued: "The main thing is to expose the problems of the underworld, the corruption of officials, the rampant corrupt officials, and shake the foundation of the underworld and the world of the living, so that the ancestor will know the current situation."

Yu Shen widened his eyes and stared at Dun Yi: "You want to force the ancestor to show up?!"

"That's right." Dun nodded in admission.

"But what if the ancestor has any plan, and we do this..." Xiong Jianzun took a breath.

Dun Yi shook his head and said, "No, I know him. It's true that he has a backup plan, but he will definitely not make a big plan."

Ruzang looked at Dunyi and said earnestly, "If we do this, many people will be displaced."

Dun Yi said: "This is the fastest and most effective way. How long will it take for others to find the ancestor? We must also take action."

"If you can't make up your mind, I'll do it."

"When the ancestor returns, chop off my head."

Yu Shen refused: "No, I am Zuo Cheng, I will take full responsibility!"

Seeing that Yu Shen took the initiative to bear the consequences, Dun Yi did not fight for it. It would be better to say that this is what he thought. He did not want to be the one who fulfilled the greater good. He did not want to die. He wanted to survive, and live well. He knew that as long as he said so, Yu Shen would definitely take the responsibility.

"I don't agree." Ru Zang shook his head firmly.

Xiong Jianzun was furious and said, "It's not your turn to agree! If you hadn't been so arrogant as to want to achieve great supernatural powers with your own strength, you wouldn't have been taken away by the Eastern Ghost Emperor."

"Have you forgotten why we built the underworld?" Ru Zang stood up suddenly, his eyes not wavering as he said, "The underworld is a place to judge good and evil, and should not be the source of evil. If you insist on doing this, please kill me first and walk over my dead body."

Yu Shen fell silent.

Should we choose ideal or reality?

Ru Zang took a step forward, grasped Yu Shen's wrist, and said, "It's easier to kill than to save. We have finally established such a place in the world... Don't let the Palace Master's efforts go to waste!"

'broken! '

Dun Yi's heart skipped a beat. It was true that Yu Shen would take the responsibility, and Ru Zang was also a persistent person, otherwise he would have used his great supernatural powers to become a fifth-step cultivator long ago.

The bad thing is that Ru Zang was not excluded. However, Ru Zang is also a veteran and an important official, and he was one of the three people back then. How to exclude him?

Yu Shen's blood immediately surged, thinking of the effort Wu Rong had put in, he sighed and said, "Wait a little longer, and cooperate with Tu Shan Jing Hong to see what happens."

……

The Tathagata of Righteous Dharma asked curiously, "Does the Emperor need to think about it for so long?"

"I want to save some lives." Tu Shanjun smiled and continued, "The Great Master should know that I can improve my cultivation by using my spirit."

"know a little."

Tu Shanjun said: "My earliest hope is to take out the spirits in the banner and send them to a good rebirth, or simply resurrect them and let them live their lives according to their own preferences, seek the Tao, ask Buddha, and live happily in the mundane world."

The Tathagata of Righteous Dharma Brightness asked in surprise, "Does the Emperor think the same now?"

Tu Shanjun nodded:

"Yes."

"Not entirely."

“There’s a lot of idealistic support to get to this point, but at the end of the day I just want to keep going.”

"I thought I would be a bystander for the rest of my life, but in fact, I had made a firm choice from the beginning."

“Why did the Bodhisattva choose to become a Buddha?”

The Tathagata said with nostalgia: "It's a long story. I once thought that becoming a Buddha would allow me to save all people."

Tu Shanjun asked: "What about now?"

The Tathagata of Dharma-Brightness said helplessly: "It is nothing more than one more Buddha in this world."