Unsurpassed Spirits

Chapter 129 Plague Demon
Tie Jinglun was somewhat embarrassed that his trip was in vain.

He was indeed the one who invited the monks from Jin Xuanzong. Before that, he had always hoped that the Immortal Sect would come sooner, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. The current situation was different from before.

At this point, Tie Jinglun could only make amends and apologize, and sent someone to prepare some generous gifts. Only then did the expressions of the three people behind the long-faced monk soften slightly.

The long-faced monk at the head asked: "Master Tie, how will this plague be solved?"

Tie Jinglun sighed and said: "Fellow Taoists, to be honest, I originally had no clue about this plague and could only isolate all the sick people. But later, a fellow Taoist passed by here and found out about this plague." The root cause of the epidemic turned out to be poisoning, so we came up with countermeasures... I am not fooling you. The epidemic was really urgent before, and this incident is indeed just a coincidence."

The four Jin Xuanzong people had different expressions. The long-faced male cultivator was silent for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "I wonder who this fellow Taoist who is passing by is, and is he still staying in Bose City?"

Tie Jinglun looked at Luo Qingli with a questioning look in his eyes. Luo Qingli took two steps forward and cupped his hands slightly, "Fellow Taoists, I'm Pei Yao."

The female cultivator of Jin Xuanzong looked her up and down, "Are you the one who solves the epidemic?"

Luo Qingli nodded lightly, the female cultivator narrowed her eyes, a look of dissatisfaction appeared on her face, and sneered softly: "Mind your own business!"

Luo Qingli raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I don't have any ambition to save people in distress, but I just happened to be passing by and did my best. Besides, several fellow Taoists took time out of their busy schedules to come to Bose City, isn't it just for this matter? No business?"

"What do you know!" The female cultivator glared angrily.

"Junior Sister He."

The long-faced monk shook his head slowly. The female cultivator surnamed He obeyed his words. She gritted her teeth and turned away with a soft hum. The long-faced monk nodded and said, "I am Jin Xuanzong Chang Hao. Junior Sister He is just impatient and outspoken. Don't blame me, fellow Taoist Pei. "

This man is quite polite.Anyone who can lead a team is naturally a thoughtful person.

Luo Qingli twitched the corner of his mouth indifferently, not having the time to argue with a stranger.

Chang Haofu asked again: "I wonder which sect disciple Pei is from? Since he can see the source of the epidemic at a glance, is he a medical practitioner?"

"I am just a casual cultivator, not a medical cultivator. The reason why I know the inside story of the plague is because I happened to encounter a similar thing eight years ago, and now I am doing the same thing."

Chang Hao's eyebrows moved slightly, and the other three members of Jin Xuanzong looked at each other in confusion. As their eyes moved, they didn't know what information they were exchanging.

Luo Qingli couldn't understand the riddles they were playing, and the scene became quiet again.

At this time, the third head of the Tie family made a timely suggestion: "I can't thank you enough for these fellow Taoists who have come to Bose City after a long journey. It has been a hard journey. Why don't you stop at my Tie family first and rest for a few days?" "

The disciples of the sect are all in the foundation building stage, so even if they don't make friends, they can't make enemies at will.

Jin Xuanzong and others looked at each other, Chang Hao nodded in agreement, and Tie Jinglun immediately asked his maid to prepare the guest room.

Until the four monks were led to the guest house one by one by the maids, Luo Qingli had no chance to talk to them.

Seeing the person walking away, Tie Jinglun let out a long sigh.

Although Jin Xuanzong is one of the three sects under Nanzhao, and its scale and power are far less than those of the Shangsanzong and Zhongsanzong, it is still strong enough in front of a small immortal cultivating family like the Tie family. They just want to show off their scores, and the Tie family also Nothing to say.

Tie Jinglun shook his head and said: "Fellow Daoist Pei, I'm sorry, I can't entertain you today."

Luo Qingli didn't care about this. He thought about it and asked, "Master Tie, are the disciples of Jin Xuanzong always behave like this?"

Tie Jinglun was stunned for a moment, looked around, and saw that there were no outsiders around. Then he sent a message and said: "We immortal cultivators are judged by their strength. We are all in the same realm, and we can treat ourselves as fellow Taoists when walking outside. And for ordinary people The big sects are somewhat powerful."

As he said that, Tie Jinglun smiled helplessly, "Our area is the junction of the two sects, Jin Xuan and Qiu Shui. Both sects wanted to expand their territory, but no one could compete with the other, so they simply ignored it. On the contrary, a small family like ours is allowed to occupy the land and become a king and establish itself... In fact, Jin Xuanzong's willingness to come this time is already the most benevolent and righteous."

Luo Qingli nodded clearly, Tie Jinglun had thought it through very thoroughly, and this was something they were asking for, so there was no need to worry about it.

"But this time all the people here are foundation-building monks, which is quite surprising." Tie Jinglun muttered.

Luo Qingli's eyes couldn't help but pause.

When she was in the Jade Toad Sect, she did not go to the Chief's Hall to receive tasks, but she went to the Chief's Hall many times and passed by the Mission Hall several times.

There is a huge mission board in the mission hall, which lists various mission information. After completion, there will be corresponding spiritual stones or contribution points.

The rules among the nine sects of Nanzhao are similar. Similar to this kind of moral assistance, the rewards that can be obtained after completion are actually not many. Even if someone takes it, they are basically Qi Refining monks, just like those who went to Xingshui City to rescue them. Just like a Qi refining monk.

Luo Qingli still remembered that when he first met Han Jinyu and others from the Canghai Sect, there was a water ghost in a village, but Jin Xuanzong let it go for a while because the village did not pay enough immortal silver.

She could not say that Jin Xuanzong always treated people like this, but according to common sense, if a plague did not occur on his own territory, and if it did not receive enough attention, he should not dispatch the four foundation-building monks of Jin Xuanzong. , and they are all elite disciples of the inner sect without exception. Their attitudes are also a bit strange, and they seem to take this plague very seriously.

But what’s even stranger is that what they pay attention to is not the plague itself, nor how many people have been saved and injured. They are even angry at her for intervening in the matter...

Luo Qingli thought that these four people might have other purposes for coming here.

But this is just her guess after all, and there is not enough basis to confirm it.

Luo Qingli kept it in mind and casually chatted with Tie Jinglun for a few words before returning to his guest room.

But at this time, the four foundation-building monks of Jin Xuanzong gathered together, but among the four, Chang Hao was sitting, while the other three stood respectfully aside.The face of the female cultivator surnamed He was completely devoid of the delicate and mean look she had just now. Instead, she frowned with a serious look and asked in a deep voice: "Uncle Haoying, could the plague that Pei Yao mentioned eight years ago be caused by the Jade Toad Sect?" The one in Xingshui City?"

"It should be..." Chang Hao pondered for a moment and said: "The plague in Xingshui City was the first to be noticed by the Immortal Sect. For a long time after that, there was no trace of the plague demon's activities in the world."

Another male cultivator with a baby face asked: "Uncle Haoying, do you think there is anything wrong with Pei Yao?"

"It's hard to say." Chang Hao whispered: "I think she is not too old, she should be under 50 years old. There are not many casual cultivators who can build a foundation before the age of 50... But there is nothing sinister about her. You can rest assured about this, but it’s best not to believe everything she says.”

Everyone nodded.

The female cultivator surnamed He bit her lip and clenched her fists, "It's really shameful. We arrived a step too late, and we don't know if the plague demon has escaped again!"

Chang Hao pursed his lips and said: "The plague demon was born among plague ghosts. Wherever it went, the plague spread and killed countless people. It has devoured too many plague ghosts and developed spiritual intelligence. It has always been good at disguise... and it needs to refine the plague ghosts. Even if time moves away, it will not go too far. Perhaps, it will still be here, even lurking around us."

Several people looked at each other with solemn expressions.

In the past few years, several plagues have occurred in Nanzhao from time to time, and these plagues mainly occurred in the secular world. At first, they did not receive much attention. The Immortal Sect only regarded it as an ordinary natural disaster. But later, Shang San Zong discovered that the real cause of the epidemic was that these mortals were poisoned, but he had no clue who the poisoner was.

After that, the Shangsan Sect paid attention to this matter and sent its disciples to pay attention to the developments in the secular world. However, the poisoner did not know what the news was, so he disappeared and stopped doing evil. There has been no similar disaster within the jurisdiction, and this matter has gradually been forgotten.

But later, several years later, a similar plague occurred again in the territory of Tianzhen Sect.

The Tianzhen Sect is located in the easternmost part of Nanzhao, close to the sea. This plague was not properly controlled. Thousands of people died. In just half a month, a secular city was destroyed. The impact was extremely bad. And the cause of the plague was It's also poisoning.

The Tianzhen Sect is the third sect in the middle and has always been on good terms with other sects. When the Canghai Sect heard about this incident, it was immediately connected to the poisoning incident in the secular world a few years ago, but the culprit was still at large and had not been caught.

Every time a poisoner commits a crime, many mortals will die unexpectedly. At first, the Immortal Sect guessed that this was the work of an evil cultivator.

Some evil cultivators need a large number of souls to practice evil skills, and natural disasters are exactly the opportunity for many human souls to appear at once. This plague may be deliberately done by evil cultivators.

Immortal cultivators should eliminate demons and defend the Tao. People like this who are doing things in reverse will quickly get rid of them.

Therefore, the nine Nanzhao sects, including the Sanxiu Alliance, all took this matter seriously and tried to kill the evil soul-refining cultivators.

But after that, Nanzhao went quiet for a while, until half a year ago, something similar happened again in the southwest corner of the Beast Control Sect.

With two precedents, the Immortal Sect has been vaccinated. This time, the Beast Control Sect attacked very quickly and did not hurt too many mortals. Moreover, the Beast Control Sect has always been good at controlling beasts, and the spiritual beasts in the sect There are many kinds of things, among which there is a white spirit dog with an outstanding sense of smell raised by a golden elixir monk, which smelled a distinctive scent on a mortal.

The golden elixir monk knew something was wrong, so he attacked the mortal without saying a word. The mortal received a solid slap, but did not die. Instead, his whole body overflowed with ghostly energy, and at the same time, cracks appeared all over his face, starting from his forehead. A long crack appeared, and a black thing sprang out from the long crack. It turned out to be a human-shaped black shadow.

This black shadow is not the evil cultivator that Xianmen initially suspected. It is not even a human being, but a very special kind of demon.

There are records in the classics that those who died from the epidemic may turn into plague ghosts. The plague ghosts devour each other and only one of them is left, which is called the plague demon. The plague demon spreads the plague and likes to eat the plague ghosts. Wherever it passes, the disease sweeps everywhere and destroys all life.

The fact that this plague monster has grown to this point is a miracle in itself. It has swallowed countless plague ghosts, and it has already developed spiritual intelligence. It knows how to seize the opportunity to spread the plague, and also knows that it is best not to appear in the realm of immortal cultivators. , so he has always been active in the secular world.

Moreover, it is good at using human skin to disguise itself. If the golden elixir monk hadn't happened to have a white spirit dog, he might have been fooled by it.

After the plague demon appeared, the monks of the Beast Control Sect rushed to attack it. The strength of this plague demon was almost comparable to that of the monks in the golden elixir stage. Moreover, it was covered in plague poison and had no physical body. It could be regrouped if it was scattered. Ordinary spells It couldn't be hurt at all, and the Beast Control Sect had only an early-stage Jindan monk present at the time, and he wasn't very good at fighting, so he didn't take it down completely, only destroying half of its true form, and was eventually killed by it. escape.

Knowing the existence of the Plague Demon, the Beast Control Sect immediately reported the matter to other sects.

The plague demon was severely injured and must eat the plague ghost to heal its wounds. No one knows where it will commit crimes next, so the immortal sects can only increase their monitoring efforts.

As a result, the plague demon was able to hold it back and remained silent for half a year. Once it took action, it was a place that was not under the jurisdiction of any sect.

In the past, it only focused on the secular world, but now it has reached out to the world of immortality.

After the Tie family sent a request for help to Jin Xuanzong, the Director's Hall quickly arranged for someone to come over. Chang Hao was just a pseudonym, but he himself was a middle-stage Jindan monk with the Taoist name Haoying. The cultivation level shown by the real person to the outside world is the same as that of these three juniors. They are all in the early stage of foundation building, and they all treat each other as senior brothers.

When they first arrived near Bose City, they saw that the epidemic here was not as severe as expected. Several foundation-building disciples thought that their trip was in vain. Of course, they didn't feel good about it, but they didn't expect that the truth was that they had been interfered with.

The female cultivator surnamed He sighed softly: "Unfortunately, unlike the Beast Control Sect, we have spiritual beasts like the White Spirit Dog, otherwise we would be able to find out where the Plague Demon is."

One of the three foundation-building disciples, a small-eyed male cultivator, rolled his eyes, stepped forward and said with a smile: "Uncle Haoying, since the sect has sent you here, in addition to your own outstanding strength, you must also have something Are you tracking the method of identification?"

The other two people's eyes lit up when they heard this, and Master Haoying curved his lips and smiled, "If the plague demon is still there, I can indeed recognize it when we get close to it."

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and Master Haoying put his lips to his lips and coughed softly: "Since we have come to the Tie Family in Bose City, why not take a look around the Tie Family first, and then go to the city to have a look?"

The three foundation building disciples responded with smiles.

Tie Jinglun heard that the four members of Jin Xuanzong were going to visit the Tie family. As a sign of friendship, he personally became their guide and took them around the Tie family.

　There have been guests at home these days, so I don’t have much time to type, and the updates are unstable. I’m sorry everyone, I’ll just be busy for the past two days.

　　Thanks to Shang Bie and Farewell Shang for the reward~
　　
　
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