When I become a demon king, I want to change my department to the Taoist sect.

Chapter 769 Yongzhou Chen Family
Yongzhou Prefecture.

Chen Mansion.

"It's been a year. I gave you this mission a year ago, but until now, I still don't know how many leaders the Zhide Shishi has, what their cultivation level is, or even whether they are men or women."

The old man standing in front of the hall, wearing a purple-red robe of an imperial tutor, with furious hair and beard like a lion, was none other than Chen Bojiu, the patriarch of the Chen family, the governor of Yongzhou, and the Earl of Yongning.

Although he received an official position and salary from the imperial court, in reality, Yongzhou was the Chen family's private territory.

Throughout the Great Sheng Dynasty, except for the three capitals and eighty-one states that were directly under the jurisdiction of the government, the remaining states were like this, privately governed by local families, a country within a country.

Even the taxes were kept for themselves. They only had to pay salaries to the court every year and call themselves subjects.

Therefore, any disturbances within the territory would be handled by the family in charge. If the imperial court intervened without authorization, it would be regarded as an infringement on private territory.

Just like this "Zhi De Shi" change, it only began to show signs about two years ago.

However, by providing the practice method for free, this unprecedented novelty spread quickly like a virus.

Even ordinary people who have a family and a career and will not go to study will talk about this matter inadvertently.

At the beginning, the Chen family did not take this seriously as a big deal.

I just thought that it was some small family or a cultivator who had just successfully established his foundation who did this in order to recruit slaves.

Yongzhou is big enough and has enough mortals. Sometimes the Chen family is also happy to see some poor and impoverished families settle in Yongzhou.

Because for the Chen family, these small and medium-sized families will not pose a threat to their status, but will be easier to control.

Just like collecting taxes, even more taxes can be collected than before.

After all, some wild places near the mountains have a sparse population, and the people are scattered everywhere, without a fixed place to live. It is too troublesome to try to get some money from them.

Before this, the Chen family had to go into the mountains to hunt regularly in order to collect this head tax.

However, after the Chen Mansion supported several branches of its own family to establish their own family in that mountain area, it became much less troublesome. All they had to do was collect their salaries on time and wait to count the money.

For the Chen Mansion, even if they are not families with the surname Chen, as long as these small families do not interfere in the rich land in the central part of Yongzhou and pay tributes on time, the Chen Mansion will be happy to see it happen.

But just when Chen Fujing was waiting for the head of the "Zhi De Shi" family to visit him with a big gift like everyone else.

Things did not go as usual. Just when the Chen family was puzzled, a disciple from the branch sect who had escaped by chance came here to ask for help.

The Chen family only then realized that this "Zhideshi" was just like his strange name and acted like a madman.

Not only did they abduct entire villages of mortals, but the monk families that governed that area were all subjected to a bloody and cruel purge without exception.

Almost no one was spared!

When the Chen family realized that the situation was not as they had imagined, a total of eleven families near Jijiang Mountain had been uprooted.

From then on, the entire Jijiangshan area was completely cut off from the provincial government and was out of the control of Yongzhou Prefecture.

It was not until this time that Chen Bojiu, the Earl of Yongning, who was in seclusion, was truly alarmed.

After understanding the whole incident, Chen Bojiu did not act rashly, but sent people to disguise themselves as ordinary people studying, sneak into Danjiangshan, and then find out the specific information and intelligence.

The people who were lurking were all direct descendants of the Chen family, an elite team.

But a whole year has passed, and this team that Chen Bojiu had high hopes for has not sent back even a single piece of news.

Danjiangshan is like a bottomless whirlpool, ruthlessly swallowing up anyone who wants to spy on its existence.

How could Chen Bojiu not be angry with such a result?

However, the people kneeling in the hall were all juniors whom he respected, so Chen Bojiu did not say much. After scolding them, he said calmly, "Don't worry about Zhideshi's affairs for now. I have my own arrangements."

"On the contrary, you guys need to pay close attention to the war in Dongzhou. Normally, after conquering a state, the barbarians in the north would choose to go back to recuperate, but this time they broke through two states in succession. If Dongzhou is conquered again, our Yongzhou Prefecture will have to face the barbarians head-on."

"The governor of Dongzhou and I once had an agreement that the two states would help each other. Now is the time when both sides are in danger. You should bring some elixirs and supplies and go to support him. Then you will be under his command and be at his disposal." The people kneeling in the hall all accepted the order respectfully.

Although Dongzhou is not a good place to go, the barbarians on the grassland eat people and massacre cities, and are extremely cruel, but at least everyone knows what they are facing.

Compared to the unknown horror of the "Zhide World", it is still a good place to go.

Just as a few people were rejoicing in their hearts that although the mission was not carried out smoothly this time, they still escaped disaster.

A figure rushed in hurriedly. It was Chen Bojiu's fifth-generation great-grandson, Chen Qingya.

Seeing him so unpromising, Chen Bojiu couldn't help but frown and scolded him, "You are so flustered. How can you be so unbecoming."

"Ancestor, no...something's wrong." Chen Qingya said in panic when he saw Chen Bojiu.

"What happened?"

"Brother, your head has been delivered to your door!"

"You evil beast, what are you talking about?!" Chen Bojiu's eyes widened instantly, and even his breathing quickened.

Chen Qingya wanted to cry but had no tears: "It's true, big brother, it's in the front yard now!"

Chen Bojiu didn't care about anything else and fled to the front yard in an instant. When he saw the familiar face, even with his Yin Shen body, he couldn't help but tremble slightly. He couldn't believe it, and didn't want to believe the fact before his eyes.

Chen Bojiu has lived for a thousand years and has countless descendants. He has also witnessed many births and deaths. He has fathered thousands of sons and daughters, most of whom died before him.

Therefore, even if a blood relative died, he would not have any emotional fluctuations. As for his descendants a few generations later, unless they were talented and looked for someone to love them, they would be no different from strangers to him.

But this great-great-grandson is the offspring he has high hopes for.

Because he showed extremely high aptitude for cultivation since childhood, he was soon taken to Chen Bojiu for instruction.

It can be said that although Chen Bojiu is his great-grandfather, he is actually more like his father.

This situation is very common in families of cultivators. After all, blood relatives and ancestors after several generations are like strangers.

If one grows up like this, there will naturally be no emotions at all, so in order to ensure the stable inheritance of the family.

No matter how many generations later the bloodline is, as long as it shows excellent aptitude, it will be adopted by the clan leader or the elders, so as to re-establish the connection and break the barrier after several or even dozens of generations of bloodline inheritance.

Just like Chen Qingkong and Chen Qingya, they are the two most talented people of their generation.

They were all taught by Chen Bojiu himself, and now they have become the pillars of the Chen family, stabilizing the unity of the Chen family.

And Chen Qingkong is one of the few great monks in the Chen family who is about to break through to the third level of the Golden Core to become a Yin God.

In Chen Bojiu's opinion, whether the Chen family can break through the shackles and make further progress depends on whether this great-grandson can break through the Yang God.

But the successor he had appointed was now standing alone in front of him. How could he accept it?

Even when his own son died, he had never been as sad as this.

But Chen Bojiu was, after all, a great Yinshen monk who was in charge of a state, and he quickly suppressed his grief.

He asked in a cold tone: "How did Qingkong die?"

Chen Qingya made a bitter face and shook his head: "It was the servant who was cleaning the yard who found my elder brother in a corner of the mansion."

"But I don't know who did it. I think my elder brother must have met with an accident outside, and the thieves threw him into the courtyard. The ancestor is in charge of the mansion, so I don't think my elder brother was killed in the mansion."

Chen Bojiu asked again: "Has Qingkong left the city recently?"

Hearing this question, Chen Qingya seemed to have thought of something. He slapped his head and said in a daze, "My elder brother told me a few months ago that this year is the year to go hunting in the mountains again. Maybe he went to the Danjiang Mountain to hunt again!"

Chen Bojiu looked at the remaining head of Chen Qingkong, not knowing what he was thinking. After a long time, he uttered a few words.

"To serve the country and the world!"