Longevity from Liao Zhai

Chapter 148 Confucian Eighth Rank
Three days.

The tunnel was full of people and there was almost no room left.

But we are all cultivators and can dig our own holes.

There are several hollow spaces in the tunnel that can accommodate thousands of people.

The people closest to the secret realm are officials.

A man wearing a flying fish suit, he looks tall and handsome, but he has a shifty look in his eyes, and a sly gleam in his eyes occasionally.

He has a righteous face, but a pair of cunning eyes, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable and affects his appearance.

"Hey, isn't this Chief Song?" Magistrate Lu rubbed his hands and said flatteringly.

The Tixia is the head of the martial arts hall in Qianzhou County, which is equivalent to the head of the police in Qianzhou County.

Song Tixia is in Qianzhou City. He is a popular figure around the county magistrate, and he has the cultivation level of the fourth rank.

Practitioners are divided into upper three grades and lower three grades.

The top three grades are the first, second and third grades. Any cultivator who reaches the third grade will seclude himself from the world and seek a higher realm.

A fourth-grade cultivator is already the pinnacle in the martial arts world, especially Song Tixia, who is a fourth-grade warrior and an eighth-grade Taoist.

With this level of cultivation, one would be able to achieve peak combat power no matter whether dealing with demons or ghosts.

County Magistrate Lu had also met Tixia Song when he was in Qianzhou City. It can be said that County Magistrate Lu's father's status was even lower than that of Tixia Song.

Song Tixia nodded slightly. Although they were peers, County Magistrate Lu was like a junior in front of him.

"Is everyone ready?" asked Song Tixia.

County Magistrate Lu's smile turned into embarrassment: "In reply to your words, all the practitioners who entered the rank of cultivators in Qinghe County, including yamen runners, scholars, and people from the escort agency, are here."

Song Tixia nodded slightly.

County Magistrate Lu rubbed his hands and said, "Sir, it's pointless for me to go in, so why not just not go in?"

County Magistrate Lu still didn't want to go in. He was very self-aware because he knew that if he went in, he would definitely die.

Not only Magistrate Lu, but also the bailiffs of Qinghe County, Captain Leng and Wang Cheng did not want to go in.

The scholars naturally didn't want to think about it anymore, as they also knew that hundreds of people had died inside. For these scholars, entering inside meant certain death!

Song Tixia looked at Wu Laosan again.

Wu Laosan had a bitter look on his face. He was also forced to enter the secret realm.

Wu Laosan is also a fourth-rank official, but the fourth-rank official is different from the fourth-rank official.

Not only is Wu Laosan's fighting ability inferior to Song Tixia's, but his status is also inferior to Song Tixia's.

Not to mention Wu Laosan, even the third-rank ancestor of the Wu family has to listen to the county governor.

"Third son of the Wu family, don't worry. If you lower your cultivation level, the county magistrate will compensate you in the future." Song Tixia had a gleam in his eyes as he spoke.

Wu Laosan looked into Song Tijie's eyes and knew that this promise was bullshit.

"Not to mention the downgrade from fourth rank to eighth rank, this is something that no amount of natural treasures can make up for."

"Your promise means nothing. You don't have to acknowledge it in the future."

"As long as you don't admit that you said such a thing, where can I find the county governor to ask for compensation!"

Wu Laosan had heard of Song Tixia, a man who looked righteous on the surface but was actually extremely vicious. Moreover, this man was really vindictive, and if you said something that was not to his liking, Song Tixia would remember it for the rest of his life.

But even if he was unwilling, Wu Laosan knew that the situation was stronger than the person, because the county magistrate's son was in there!

Wu Laosan originally wanted to send a young man from the family, but Song Tixia got the handwritten letter from the ancestor.

The ancestor of the Wu family is a third-rank official, and he has lived for hundreds of years. The ancestor asked Wu Lao San to sacrifice himself to save the young people of the Wu family.

"Ancestor, you are harming me!" Wu Lao San originally wanted to strive for the third rank. After all, who doesn't want to live a few hundred more years? But judging from the current situation, he couldn't wait any longer.

Wu Laosan hated it! He hated himself for joining in the fun. He hated why Wu Dafu didn't take Zhao Tiancheng through the secret realm. He hated why Wu Dage, Yue Yunfeng and Zhou Ping hadn't rescued anyone yet.

"Maybe they are all dead. Zhao Tiancheng is dead, Dafu is dead, Wu Dage is dead, Yue Yunfeng is dead, and that little escort is dead too." Wu Laosan suddenly had this idea. He felt that everyone who entered the secret realm should be dead.

In addition to Wu Laosan, there were officials from the two counties, the Yan family escort agency, dozens of yamen runners from Qianzhou City, and three hundred soldiers.

"The governor of Qianzhou County is so courageous that he is willing to sacrifice hundreds of lives to save his own son."

"Hey, I wish I had a good dad like this."

"What are you thinking about? Maybe in the next life!"

The cultivators who were watching the fun chatted and laughed. These days, too many people died in the secret realm.

The cultivators' mood also gradually changed from treasure hunting at the beginning to watching the fun.

Everyone is now more interested in seeing who can get the storage jade!
The son of the governor of Qianzhou County was left inside! And he was most likely dead.

So everyone felt much better. After all, they had both the background and the strength.

People like this can't get the storage jade, and they feel much more comfortable when they can't get the storage jade.

Song Tixia looked at Fan Shiyi and Meng Jiusheng who were not far away. He couldn't afford to offend these two people!

However, Song Tixia did not expect that Fan Shiyi and Neng Jiusheng did not stop him from letting these scholars enter the secret realm.

According to the information obtained by Song Tixia, an escort who was also a scholar entered the secret realm.

Meng Jiusheng and Fan Shiyi both came here to look for this young escort.

This means that Song Tixia, Fan Shiyi and Meng Jiusheng have the same goal.

They all want to rescue the people in the secret realm!
……

Beijing.

Fan Zhongfu was writing poetry in his room.

One of them is Quiet Night Thoughts.

One of them is "Pity the Farmers".

"I can't believe that Qinghe County has produced two talented people!"

"Although the sentences in these two poems are very simple, they spread very quickly. Even illiterate people can recognize them."

"Especially this song of pity for the peasants, who hoe the field in the middle of the day, sweat dripping down to the soil, but who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the result of hard work. It is even more popular than "Quiet Night Thoughts"!"

Fan Zhongfu looked at the two poems and couldn't help but sigh.

As the president of the academy and the foremost Confucianist, Fan Zhongfu cared more about the inheritance of cultural context.

The appearance of these two poems made Fan Zhongfu very happy. He could feel that the appearance of these two poems added a bit of literary flavor to the entire Wei Dynasty.

Fan Zhongfu looked at the two poems and murmured to himself, "I don't know what happened to Eleventh Lady. Why hasn't she brought the person who wrote Quiet Night Thoughts with her?"

At this time, in the fields, a group of children were running happily.

A child fell to the ground with a mouth full of mud.

The child did not cry, but stood up and continued to chase the other children.

"Donkey Egg, come and catch up with me. If you catch up with me, I will teach you how to write poetry."

"I've caught up with you, what poem are you going to teach me?"

"This is what my father taught me, when the sun is high and the field is covered, sweat drips down to the ground."

"I know, I know, but who knows that every grain of rice on the plate is the product of hard work."

"We also know this poem." "Okay, let's recite it together."

The emergence of the poem "Ming Niu" spread faster, even more than "Quiet Night Thoughts".

Quiet Night Thoughts mainly expresses the feelings of people who are wandering outside.

"Ming Nong" is about people who farm the land.

The number of people who farm the land far exceeds the number of people who wander around doing business.

At this time, in the secret realm.

The human-face tree absorbs the spiritual energy of all the people who enter the checkpoint, especially Zhao Tiancheng, Wu Dafu and others who came in first. Their faces have become dry and their eye sockets are sunken, and they look like they are about to die.

Zhou Ping was slightly better. He came in here relatively late, and his body was wrapped in the Ruyi cassock, so the spiritual energy he absorbed was relatively slow.

But Zhou Ping was not feeling well, he was in a fantasy world. All around him was white, nothing.

Zhou Ping tried to use the Heavenly Spirit Technique to break the illusion, but it didn't work. He tried to call the ghost bride and ghost baby, but he couldn't sense their presence either.

"What a powerful illusion!" Zhou Ping wanted to use the "Tianya Zhichi" technique to leave, but he couldn't.

Suddenly, Zhou Ping felt the slight sound of his body breaking. "Huh? The illusion is so real, I even have the feeling of breaking through the realm."

At this time Zhou Ping felt that he had made a breakthrough, and it was a breakthrough in Confucian cultivation.

Zhou Ping is an eighth-rank Buddhist, an eighth-rank warrior, a tenth-rank Taoist, and a ninth-rank Confucian.

As the sound of cracking was heard inside his body, Zhou Ping's Confucian cultivation broke through again.

"It turns out that this is not an illusion." Zhou Ping suddenly realized that he must have succeeded by relying on the meaning of "Mercy for the Farmers"!
As Zhou Ping's Confucian cultivation reached the eighth level, the scene before his eyes suddenly changed.

Within the perception range of the Tianling Fa, there was no longer only an illusion, but a human-faced tree appeared.

The breakthrough in his Confucian cultivation caused Zhou Ping's righteousness to surge. It was also because of this that the illusion's control over Zhou Ping began to loosen.

The moment the illusion loosened, Zhou Ping saw the ghost bride and ghost baby, as well as Yue Yunfeng and Wu Dage.

At this moment, Zhou Ping thought of a solution. He used the method of borrowing the spiritual energy from the sky and began to desperately absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

The Heavenly Spirit Method can absorb the spiritual energy of plants and trees, and then form an inner elixir in Zhou Ping's abdomen.

These human-faced trees are also plants!
Although they are very strange, they cannot escape the scope of plants and trees.

After performing the Borrowing the Sky Spirit Technique, Zhou Ping fell into the illusion again, but his Borrowing the Sky Spirit Technique was still working.

The human face tree is absorbing Zhou Ping's spiritual energy, but Zhou Ping is also absorbing the spiritual energy of the human face tree.

Moreover, Zhou Ping absorbs the spiritual energy of the human face tree even faster.

After a while, the human face tree next to Zhou Ping began to dry up and wither.

The human-faced tree let out a painful wail and then turned into ashes.

At this time, the inner elixir in Zhou Ping's body grew a little bigger.

The environment in front of Zhou Ping disappeared! The Ruyi cassock also returned to its original appearance.

Zhou Ping came to the ghost bride and the ghost baby and absorbed all the spiritual energy from the two human-faced trees. The ghost bride and the ghost baby were thus freed.

"Husband." The ghost bride said with some concern.

Zhou Ping nodded and said, "Use fire and see if you can burn all these trees to death."

The ghost bride and the ghost baby cast a spell and set the human-face tree on fire.

In a short while, all the human-face trees were burned to ashes.

The person trapped by the human-face tree also woke up slowly. Zhou Ping quickly lay on the ground and pretended to know nothing.

"What happened?" Zhao Tiancheng woke up. He looked at his withered arms and the ashes on the ground, still not understanding what had happened.

Wu Dafu, the Wu family members, and Pu Ren also woke up.

Wu Dage and Yue Yunfeng also woke up in confusion, and Zhou Ping also pretended to have just woken up.

"Wu Dage, Yue Yunfeng, were you the ones who saved us?" Wu Dafu knew the situation in the secret realm better than Zhao Tiancheng. He knew that the group was trapped in the secret realm.

Wu Dafu looked at his withered arms and felt a sense of fear. If no one helped them break the illusion, they would probably die.

Zhao Tiancheng, Pu Ren and his companions quickly took various pills to replenish their spiritual energy.

Wu Dafu also knew that the secret realm was so dangerous that ordinary people could not reach it. You know, out of the 200 people in their group, only about 20 were left.

Moreover, among these two hundred people, there are well-trained soldiers, good fighters from the younger generation of the Wu family, and people from the temple.

So many people died in this kind of lineup, which shows how dangerous the secret realm is.

Although Wu Dafu said he was not convinced, he knew in his heart that among the younger generation, only Wu Dage and his son-in-law Yue Yunfeng could compare with him in terms of talent and agility.

Especially when he saw Wu Dage, Wu Dafu understood that it must be because Wu Dage lowered his own cultivation level that he was able to pass through the secret realm successfully and save everyone.

However, neither Wu Dage nor Yue Yunfeng answered Wu Dafu. They both looked at Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping looked confused. He looked at the two and asked, "What's going on?"

Isn't it him?
Wu Dage and Yue Yunfeng were even more confused. They knew they were trapped in a secret realm, but it was not them who broke into it.

The first thought of the two was that Zhou Ping saved them!

But Zhou Ping looked confused, as if he had not broken the illusion.

Wu Dafu looked at Zhou Ping, a man he did not recognize. Why were these two looking at this young escort?

Wu Dafu wanted to ask more. He thought about how Wu Dage and Yue Yunfeng broke into the secret realm.

"Okay, stop talking and get ready to move on to the next level." Zhao Tiancheng said with a gloomy face.

As the pills were taken, Zhao Tiancheng and his group regained some of their spiritual energy.

Zhao Tiancheng didn't want to wait any longer, he wanted to move on to the next level.

After Zhao Tiancheng spoke, Wu Dafu said nothing more. In his heart, it was Wu Dage and Yue Yunfeng who saved the group of people.

"Let's go." Zhao Tiancheng said.

At this moment, in front of everyone, there was only a huge dead tree with a hole as high as a person on the trunk of the dead tree.

Zhao Tiancheng walked in first, followed closely by Wu Dafu, and then the others.

The last ones are Wu Dage and Yue Yunfeng.

Zhou Ping also followed.

"Zhou Ping, I thought you wouldn't enter the next level." Wu Dage laughed.

During this mission, Wu Da Ge also got to know Zhou Ping. Zhou Ping was quite enthusiastic, but also cautious.

Given Zhou Ping's personality, his mission had already been completed and he should have left, but Zhou Ping didn't even say anything about leaving.

Zhou Ping smiled faintly, and glanced at the panel. According to his personality, he was definitely unwilling to get involved in what happened next.

But because in the secret realm, Zhou Ping accepted a mission from a soldier. The soldier asked him to tell a girl named Xiaofang in the suburban county of Qianzhou City that Xiaofang didn't have to wait for him anymore.

This task has a lifespan of ten years and has been generated as a task on the panel.

After Zhou Ping and his companions found Zhao Tiancheng, his secret realm mission was completed and the two-year lifespan reward was received.

The route for another mission was immediately generated. However, according to the route, Zhou Ping was not going back, but forward.

There is an exit in the next level!
(End of this chapter)