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Chapter 25 Big and Small Things (please collect, follow up, monthly vote, recommend vote)
  Between the mountains, on a cliff.

Gu Heng's figure turned into a stream of light and disappeared in the sky, landing on a huge rock on the cliff. He looked at Taoist Yucheng who was quietly watching the endless forest under the cliff.

He smiled and said, "I'm in such a good mood today that I came here to see the scenery."

Taoist Yucheng flicked his fingers lightly, and shot out a powerful force, which bounced off the strong wind on the cliff, and then said: "Back then, when we had just succeeded in practicing Qi, we searched the mountains and patrolled the monsters together, fantasizing about slaying monsters and eliminating them, and we became admired by everyone. The great Xuanmen monk is almost two years old in the blink of an eye, right?"

"Two Jiazi... It seems like yesterday!"

Taoist Yucheng exhaled, turned to look at Gu Heng, and said with a chuckle: "You almost had your heel dug off, you really can endure it!"

Gu Heng said angrily: "What can I do? The people above are planning it, so I can only pretend not to see it." After that, he took out a bottle of wine from his storage bag and took a big sip.

"The purpose of the people who arranged the plan is to steal the national destiny of the Xia Dynasty... I estimate that in another hundred years, the world will be in chaos, but I don't know how this time it will be."

Taoist Yucheng took the wine from Gu Heng and lowered his voice: "The royal family..."

Gu Heng interrupted: "I'm not interested in the overall situation, and you shouldn't be too persistent. Wouldn't it be better to just guard our Taoist temple steadily and enjoy the fine wine, beautiful scenery, and beauties in this world?"

Taoist Yucheng took a serious look at Gu Heng, then raised his head and took a sip of wine, staring at the great river and mountains in front of him, and said: "We really have no ability to affect the overall situation, but as a chess piece, we can slightly affect the pattern of Nanlin Road. There is still a little bit of hope.”

"For your precious apprentice?"

"It's for all of us!"

"Don't forget the failure last time. We talk softly. If the higher-ups don't nod, we can't do anything."

When Taoist Yucheng heard these words, a smile appeared on his face for some reason. He smiled and said: "Bow down, who can't? I can, you can, and my disciples can too!"

...

riverside.

Feng Miao and Xia Yao built a wooden platform for Zuo Suzi, and then burned his body cleanly with a fire to prevent evil spirits from cultivating his body.

There is no weird saying in this world, but it is still possible to refine corpses, and the corpses of Qi practitioners are the best material.

After the fire started, Xia Yao and Feng Miao pressed the snake demon in front of the fire. One person pressed the snake demon's head, and the other used the 'soul search technique' on the snake demon.

The Soul Searching Technique is also a commonly used spell among Qi Practitioners. It is included in Taoist Yucheng’s spell books, but Wang Ping hasn’t had time to learn it yet.

"How is it?" Wang Ping asked when he saw Feng Miao finishing her work.

"The memory has been deleted, even the memory of Beishan Mountain Forest has been deleted..." Feng Miao's face turned ugly. As she spoke, she silently glanced at Zuo Suzi's body in the fire.

"As I thought, the little demons are here to attract us. Their purpose is to get rid of us here. It was originally a foolproof plan..."

Xia Yao acted very calmly, looked at Wang Ping and said, "Thanks to Taoist Changqing, otherwise we would all have to answer here!"

Wang Ping thought thoughtfully. The secret magic monks cooperated with dozens of little demons to kill all four of them without any effort. Then they pushed the matter to the Beishan little demon. Even if the Daozang Palace found out, it would be nothing more than a search for the mountain. You can explain it.

But now it's different...

"There must be something hidden in Beishan. Even if I turn over the entire mountain forest this time, I still want to see what secrets they hide!" Feng Miao said fiercely.

"I'm afraid it will only be more trouble in vain!"

Xia Yao looked towards the north mountain. The secret magic cultivator had not been able to succeed in one attack just now. He would definitely run away immediately and most of the secrets would be taken away.

She had returned to a rational state and said: "Also, Taoist Master Gu Heng was right, we are not suitable to participate in this mountain search again..." ˆ ˆ ˆ "I will stay, you go back and recover first..."

"What I mean is that we can join as ordinary Qi practitioners, not in the name of a mission."

Wang Ping added: "Let's wait until the fellow Taoists from Sanhe Temple arrive..."

...

The people from Sanheguan arrived the next day.

Zhao Qing met them halfway. The leader was a middle-aged Qi practitioner named Guangxuan, who was leading dozens of disciples. It seemed that they wanted to completely eradicate the monsters in Beishan.

The group did not go to the county seat, but stayed at a wealthy man's house outside the city.

The wealthy family's surname was Tian, ​​and Guangxuan called him Mr. Tian.

After the two parties greeted each other, Feng Miao directly asked about the business...

Guangxuan did not answer directly, but looked at Mr. Tian and said with a smile: "Tell me first how you got to the current situation."

Mr. Tian looked about fifty years old, with gray hair, obvious wrinkles on his face, and the blood in his body was declining. When he heard Guangxuan point at him, he smiled and cupped his hands and said: "Fellow Taoist priests, the matter in Beishan is... It started ten years ago…”

It’s a very cliche story. Ten years ago, someone first exchanged the good furs from Beishan for business, and then slowly formed a huge business network. In the end, no one could tell how deep the water was.

"We ordinary people can't imagine that much. Over the years, the amount of silver that has passed through my hands is at least [-] taels, but the actual amount that has come into my hands is less than [-] taels. Most of the money has been taken away. Make up for the deficit of the governor's Yamen..."

"What's wrong with the governor's Yamen?" Xia Yao asked.

"The military expenditures for suppressing the rebellion in the northwest were all raised by the governor's offices in the south. If it weren't for the business in the mountains and forests, we would have been filled with resentment..."

"It's our fault that you say that?" Guangxuan asked with a half-smile.

"Don't dare!" Mr. Tian waved his hands repeatedly.

Guangxuan didn't talk nonsense to him, and faced the topic directly: "My disciples of Sanhe Guanmen will be able to build an outpost camp and a sentry tower outside the Beishan Mountain Forest tonight. The documents from the prefect have also been sent to the hands of the two county masters. They We will gather our troops and horses as quickly as possible to join us."

This was said to Mr. Tian, ​​to show his attitude.

"I am willing to pay [-] taels to fund this mountain search!" Mr. Tian stated decisively, and then left with an excuse.

After the master left in a sensible manner, Guangxuan looked at Wang Ping and clasped his fists and said: "Fellow Taoist Changqing, to tell you the truth, I already know the situation in Shu County, but the water here is very muddy, and the relationships are intertwined. We can only try to maintain a balance and prevent the monsters in the forest from coming down from the mountain and hurting people."

"The world is getting sicker and sicker!" Feng Miao exhaled.

There are many things like this in this world. The mountains and forests are governed by mountain gods canonized by the imperial court. The mountain gods are monsters from Zhao'an. Over time, they will take over the mountains and become kings, or they will collude with local government officials and clans to do some shady things. Buying and selling, the darkness that breeds here is too numerous to count.

Feng Miao and Xia Yao have been practicing outside all year round and have seen too many such things. However, Taoists sometimes don't do certain things and their thoughts never make sense. Some of them may even become one of them.

Guangxuan smiled slightly at Feng Miao's gaze and continued: "Now that things have come to this point, not a single monster in Beishan can escape this time, including the secret magic monks behind them!"

"Qianmu Temple will also participate in this mountain search operation. The inner disciples are rushing here. This is the order sent by Master last night." Zhao Qing added.

"Master?" Wang Ping was a little surprised.

"Correct!"

(End of this chapter)