I borrowed my brain from the Emperor

The long-lost information reminded Chen Luo of the painted monsters he had met in Guoshan County. Although these monsters were also monsters, they were incompatible with the monsters that Chen Luo had learned about. They were more like an alien species, a kind of monster with innate special abilities!

The faceless monster in front of him is stronger than the painted monster in Guoshan County.

There are even traces of human skills on his body. This is a strange monster who knows how to practice cultivation.

"You are here to play the role of a human being, and wait for the 'flower'?"

Chen Luo saw the masks on the other person's sleeves, two rows stacked together, ten on each side.

“It’s cultivation.”

Wumian shook his head, thinking that Chen Luo’s statement was not accurate enough.

"What is a flower?"

"Can't say."

Chen Luo nodded, then pointed to the unfinished fish on the table and spoke to Wumian opposite him.

"Let's eat and talk at the same time. The top-quality spirit fish I caught today tastes extremely delicious! Come, have some soup."

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Wumian took a look at the fish inside, then raised his head and looked at Chen Luo.

"Can you take the poisonous insect back? I saw the soul-parasitic insect."

Wumian is not a human. He can actually see the Soul-Parceling Gu that even the Divine Transformation Cultivators cannot see! This makes Chen Luo more interested in the strange monster. He originally wanted to trick this guy, but he didn't expect that he was seen through. It seems that the "brain" of the strange monster Qianmian is not for him.

"Really? Maybe it wasn't cleaned properly. It's normal for fish to have some poisonous insects in them."

Chen Luo took the soul-parasitic insect out of the fish bowl without blushing or beating his heart.

“I don’t know what your purpose is in coming here, but the Epiphyllum Country is related to my path, so I hope you won’t destroy it, otherwise…” Wumian didn’t say the rest of the words, but Chen Luo knew what he meant.

"I like quietness the most and never cause trouble to others. I will leave after this meal."

Chen Luo immediately spoke up to express his position.

Wumian, who was sitting opposite him, subconsciously clenched his hands, but finally gave up. Just as Chen Luo couldn't see through him, he couldn't see through Chen Luo either. The man in front of him gave him a very strange feeling. Although he was not a spirit, his aura was very complicated.

Wumian sensed a similar aura from him.

It was the feeling of one person carrying hundreds of "faces". As a Thousand Faces, he was particularly sensitive to this kind of aura. It was precisely because he sensed it that he hesitated.

He has been practicing for more than 2,000 years, and has one face every 100 years. So far, he has only 20 faces. However, the man in front of him has nearly 500 auras. From the perspective of their "Thousand Faces", this man has lived for at least 50,000 years!

What does fifty thousand years mean?
Not even immortals can live that long!

Qianmian couldn't imagine it, so he didn't dare to do anything.

The same goes for Chen Luo.

This was the first time he had encountered a monster that could even see through the soul-parasitic insect. He felt it was difficult to deal with this evil monster.

For safety reasons, he decided to play it safe.

The man and the demon sat opposite each other until they finished the fish in the bowl. Neither of them could see through the other, and neither dared to attack. In such a harmonious atmosphere, the two chatted about some useless gossip, and then dispersed. Chen Luo did not stay in the Epiphyllum Kingdom for long, and left that night.

Qianmian sent Chen Luo all the way to the border, and only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure he had left.

"It's good that you're gone. Don't let anything unexpected happen at the last minute."

Looking at Chen Luo's disappearing back, Qianmian said something, and then his face twisted, and a mask flew over his face. As the face was replaced, his body also changed. After a series of crackling sounds, his body suddenly became three inches shorter and turned into a chubby official.

It was Mr. Tang who died in the courtyard not long ago.

Chen Luo thought that Qianmian had twenty identities, but in fact it was not the case. Qianmian was a strange monster just like his name.

Thousands of faces, thousands of lives.

There are men and women, old and young.

Among the more than 20,000 people in the Tanhua Kingdom, nearly 1,500 of them are Thousand Faces. The 20 masks represent the 20 solidified "identities" of Thousand Faces. This is the realm of Thousand Faces' cultivation and has nothing to do with his ability.
The sixth city.

Just like when Chen Luo left, the Sixth City was calm. The struggle between Xuanyin Mountain and Huangquan in the upper levels did not spread here. All the storms fell on the leader Tu Cheng. As the only incarnation of the Heart Demon Sect, those forces could only notice him. Weaker people could not enter the Dao Sect's field of vision, and no one would care.

This was also the reason why Chen Luo stayed in this small place in the beginning. If he really went to Xuanyin Mountain with Le Qingzhu and had the title of Xuanyin Mountain disciple, it would be impossible for him to live such a comfortable life.

Reputation and resources.

There is still trouble.

Unlike now, when I practice in a low-key manner, I can still meet an interested "Thousand Faces". The number of such strange monsters is very rare, but it is undeniable that they are powerful.

Chen Luo was very interested in what kind of 'flower' was that could keep Qianmian withered for three hundred years.

He felt that when the "flower" bloomed, it would be necessary to check on Brother Qianmian to prevent him from being deceived by the "flower".

"Master!" In the Changqing sect courtyard, Chen Luo stood in the yard feeding the fish in the pond.

Two golden red carps swam in the pond, their tails swaying from time to time. Just like ordinary people in Epiphyllum Country, these two fish had lived in the pond since birth. They didn't know there was a wider world outside. In their eyes, the pond in the courtyard was the whole world.

"The elders of the Heart Demon Sect have all disappeared. Now all the affairs of the Heart Demon Sect are handled by Tu Cheng's disciples. Tu Cheng has not shown up for a long time. Without the constraints of those elders, we have developed very quickly. At present, the fifth city has been completely taken over, and the seventh and ninth cities also have our people."

Hu Si reported to Chen Luo on their progress over the past year.

"Well done."

Chen Luo replied casually. After his thoughts on cooking fish soup were interrupted, he quickly returned to reality. The development of the Changqing Sect requires time.

During the truce between Huangquan and Xuanyin Mountain, more and more people from the Heart Demon Realm poured in. In addition to the people from the two major forces, there were also some unfamiliar independent cultivators. These people were very powerful, and each of them had his own information channels behind him.

They are all searching for something.

The people from Huangquan were looking for her, the people from Xuanyin Mountain were also looking for her, and the people who came in later all had the same purpose.

But what on earth could cause the ghost cultivators in Huangquan to mobilize such a large number of troops and even affect so many sects?
Chen Luo had several guesses in his mind, but they were all rejected in the end. Guessing without clues is meaningless. Without the perspective of the Dao Sect Immortal Clan, it is impossible to understand what they want. It's like a farmer trying to guess what the Queen's lunch is. She can only think of the golden hoe, not knowing that there are people in this world who don't have to work.

"It's not time to slow down the expansion."

The upper limit of the sect depends on the strongest person in this force. Before he becomes a god, Chen Luo does not intend to stand in the open. If it really comes to that, the pressure faced by Tu Cheng, the leader of the Heart Demon Sect, will fall on him, which is inconsistent with Chen Luo's original intention.

He created the Evergreen Church to provide convenience for himself, not to cause trouble for himself.

"Yes."

Hu Si was a little confused, but still nodded his head in agreement.

During this period, the Evergreen Sect has developed rapidly, and the power of the Heart Demon Sect has been eroded by them by nearly one-third. This sect, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has become the nutrient for the birth of their Evergreen Sect. Originally, Hu Si wanted to speed up the progress, but now that he heard what Chen Luo said, he decided to slow down the plan and put safety first.

After asking a few more questions, Chen Luo sent Hu Si away.

Not long after, Hu Shan also came over to report the situation. After Chen Luo briefly praised him, he gave him the same order as Hu Si.

After dealing with these trivial matters, Chen Luo left the Changqing Sect’s headquarters and went to Lonely Mountain where he had practiced before.

gazebo.

After more than a year, Chen Luo started making tea here again.

"I thought you wouldn't come back."

Le Qingzhu's figure appeared here as promised. When she saw Chen Luo, she was slightly stunned. When her spiritual sense swept over him just now, she found that she couldn't see through him. This meant that Chen Luo's cultivation had made great progress in the more than one year since he disappeared.

This is the Nascent Soul Realm!

No one knows better than Le Qingzhu how difficult it is to break through this realm. It is precisely because of this that Chen Luo's aptitude is even more terrifying, which makes Le Qingzhu's thoughts, which he had already put aside, come to mind again.

"Forget about the invitation. I don't have any ambitions. I just like being a mountain king."

Without waiting for Le Qingzhu to speak, Chen Luo interrupted him and changed the subject.

"What have you been up to lately? My men haven't seen you in over a year."

Hu Shan had discussed this issue with Chen Luo when he reported the situation before. Le Qingzhu never came again after Chen Luo left, which cut off Chen Luo's source of information at the Dao Zong level. This time he came to her for this reason.

"I don't know what's wrong with the old man Huang Quan. He has been causing trouble for our Xuanyin Mountain for the past year. Several of our disciples have been killed by him."

When talking about this matter, Le Qingzhu was also a little angry.

For the disciples of Xuanyin Mountain, this was an unexpected disaster. They were practicing at home, but suddenly the ghost cultivators from Huangquan came to their door and asked them to hand over the "murderer", saying that even if they didn't know the murderer, they must have a relationship with the murderer. The confused Xuanyin Mountain monks naturally would not give in. After a few words, they turned into a fight, and finally turned into a melee. Later, the two sides fought fiercely, and the original three-year armistice agreement became a dead letter.

Yellow Spring?

Chen Luo recalled the three Yellow Spring ghost cultivators whom he had previously killed using the Dongtian Gourd.

He wiped out all traces of one of them, but kept the traces of the remaining two who were cursed to death by the "Book of Life and Death". It was originally just a casual move, but unexpectedly it actually worked.

Something must have happened in the meantime, but the process is not important.

As long as the result is right, it's fine.

The trouble is transferred away, and you can practice in peace again.

"We haven't found out the specific reasons. We only know that several ghost cultivators in Huangquan died from the curse of the 'Book of Life and Death'. They couldn't find the murderer, so they pointed the finger at us and asked us to help them investigate. This is an absurd request." When he said this, Le Qingzhu suddenly stopped talking.

She suddenly looked at Chen Luo opposite her.

This guy seemed to have learned the "Book of Life and Death" from me. Although he only glanced at it, considering his qualifications, he might have learned it a long time ago.

"You didn't do that, did you?"

Although there is no evidence, Le Qingzhu instinctively feels that the murderer is Chen Luo. (End of this chapter)