Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 126 Class Teacher
With a loud "boom", the array plate in the core of Sanhua Manor's first-grade top-grade array formation broke, and the first-grade spiritual vein that provided energy for the array was also broken, emitting a large amount of spiritual power dust.

The dust and smoke soon dissipated, leaving all the guarding monks in Sanhua Manor exposed to the attack of the provincial government's troops.

“You are the lackeys of the state court, you are bullying your fellow Taoists on behalf of the Immortal Dynasty. The troops of the Liangyi Sect are coming, and you will die a horrible death sooner or later!!” Following an exclamation from the owner of the manor, Geng Xi, several powerful and superior magical weapons swarmed in and smashed the little-known head of the family into pieces.

"Kill!" The magistrate of Hong County, who was leading the team, looked at the Pingrong County people who were calm and composed on the side with displeasure, his face darkened.

The murderous Hong County militia marched into Sanhua Manor in great force. Nearly a hundred of them had been waiting outside the manor for nearly half a month, with more than twenty casualties before they were able to open the formation. They were ready to vent their anger inside.

Seeing that some monks from Sanhuazhuang were fleeing, some were fighting desperately, and then were instantly annihilated by the large group of monks who rushed up, Master Kang approached the magistrate of Hong County with a smile on his face, rubbed his fingers and said with a grin.

"Hehe, County Master Mo, I will give you a thousand spirit stones."

After hearing the laughter, County Magistrate Mo looked at Kang Dabao with some resentment.

He was the dignified Lord of Hong County, the legitimate son of a well-established family. Even in Yunjiao Province, his background was not bad. Yet, one day he was controlled by this small county lieutenant who came from a poor family.

There was nothing he could do about it. His team was made up of elite men who had been helped by many favors from his family.

Among the team of nearly a hundred people, there is not even a single person in the early stage of Qi training, nor do they recruit independent cultivators with no foundation. If they were to fight with real swords and guns, I'm afraid they would not be much worse than any small formation formed by any team of Five Phases Sect disciples.

Compared with the militia from various counties which were composed of weak soldiers with varying levels of cultivation, the Hong County team carefully organized by the Mo family, a foundation-building force, could be called elite.

The team that County Magistrate Mo had spent so much resources and energy to form this time was originally brought with the hope of the clan, and was eager to make contributions to the state court and shine.

Unfortunately, the vanguard position was snatched away by General Xu of Baohu Fenghe, which resulted in Kang Dabao, the down-and-out leader, showing up in front of Sima Fei.

In the subsequent battle, due to the outstanding individual combat power of the two Simas, the Five Phases Sect lost its formation in a few moves and was defeated too quickly.

Because the Hongxian team was relatively well-organized, Fei Sima and Zhou Ting's elite team were kept in reserve, and they did not have the opportunity to search and eliminate the remaining enemies and try to show their ability.

This meant that when the Hong County team was awarded merit, they were ranked before Jin County and Tanggu County, so naturally they didn't get any good place when they were assigned to clear out the Wuxiangmen vassal group.

If County Magistrate Mo really went back empty-handed, it would be extremely embarrassing for the Mo family of Hong County.

His family has different ideas from Master Kang. As one of the few foundation-building forces in Yunjiao State that dares to approach the state court directly, the Mo family is actively moving closer to the state court in all aspects, fearing that they will not be able to board the giant ship of Nan'an Earl.

Huo Bing will not live for many days, and his family has no other foundation to build, so the position of governor will be vacant. But if there is no performance, what can the Mo family use to fight for it?
At this time, Sect Leader Kang found Magistrate Mo and declared that he wanted to share with him the credit for conquering Sanhua Village. This was like a sleepy person meeting a pillow.

The asking price of one thousand spirit stones is not expensive, it can even be said to be very cheap.

Nearly a thousand spirit stones worth of spiritual materials can be confiscated from bandit villages like Guimaxiao, not to mention close vassals of the Wuxiang Sect like Sanhuazhuang.

Moreover, after accepting this sum of spiritual stones, when the Hong County militia opened a farm, Kang Dabao would not only not take a penny, but in return, he would also focus on describing the bravery of the Hong County troops who came to help in the battle report that would be submitted to the provincial court, and write about how the leading officer Mo personally braved the arrows and stones and how he led the troops by example, hoping to leave a good impression on the two Four Simas.

This completely moved the ambitious County Magistrate Mo, and he agreed to help Master Kang as a thug.

Compared with the possibility of being remembered by Sima Fei, the little gains in Sanhua Manor were somewhat insignificant to County Magistrate Mo, who was the legitimate son of the foundation-building clan.

As a result, County Magistrate Mo not only had to do hard labor for Master Kang, but also had to deliver spirit stones to Master Kang, and he also owed Master Kang a not-so-small favor.

Don't think that you are the only one who wants this battle report. The fact that we didn't invite everyone who wants it to gather together and hold a small auction means that Master Kang is taking care of you, County Master Mo.

Although this is the truth, County Magistrate Mo was still unhappy. He ordered the spirit stone with a reluctant look on his face and handed it to Kang Dabao. His tone of voice was gloomy and he didn't sound like a good person.

"You are so lucky, County Lieutenant Kang. When you get married, don't forget to send a notice to our Hong County Mo family. I will definitely come to congratulate you in person."

Kang Dabao put away the spirit stone with a smile on his face. He could naturally hear the jealousy in Magistrate Mo's tone. Like him, he also wished they could exchange the spirit stones.

Master Kang really had no intention of marrying the noble lady of the Fei family. It would be great if he could marry a beautiful girl like the younger sister of the He family and have a few more sons in peace.

But unfortunately, he couldn't even make his own decision on this matter.

The soldiers of Pingrong Township followed Master Kang and watched the show here for half a month. Seeing that the monks from Hong County and Sanhua Village were engaged in another fierce battle, all the resentment in their hearts disappeared.

After receiving the spirit stones, Sect Leader Kang released the spirit boat and led everyone back to Pingrong County.

The flying boat was much lighter on the return trip. Kang Dabao sat in a corner and called the two evil spirits of the Feng family and the Shao brothers and sisters to talk.

"There are three clerk positions under the Pingrong County Lieutenant. If you three Qian Xiu want to take them, I can make the decision. Madam Shao, I will also provide additional subsidies.

If you don't want to, I have 500 spirit stones here. You can divide them among yourself. I owe you a favor. Go back and do some clean business, and you won't have to worry about anyone targeting you in the future.

But let me make it clear first. If there are still some of you who are resentful, it will be easy to deal with. Once we get off the spiritual boat, let's get straight to the point and make it clear, regardless of life or death. Just don't try to plot against my Chongming disciples behind their backs or do anything shady, that would be ugly."

"I dare not." The eldest brother of the Feng family reached out to take the spirit stone and promised: "We brothers will never dare to make things difficult for the county lieutenant in the future."

The eldest son of the Feng family was given medicine by the medical officer and after more than half a month of recuperation, the injuries caused by the Fire Snake Curse have mostly healed. The second son of the Feng family was less fortunate, as the ice spike injured his brain, and the medical officer was reluctant to use good medicine, so he still looks stupid with his mouth drooling.

As for what will happen in the future and whether he can recover as soon as possible, it depends on whether the eldest brother of the Feng family can take good care of him.

The eldest brother of the Feng family was also full of regret at this time. He didn't dare to have any revenge in his heart. If he had known that Kang Dabao, who was still traveling around for business a few years ago, was such a ruthless person, he would have stayed away from him. Why would he blackmail him for those few spiritual stones and let his brother end up like this!

"The county lieutenant is now the son-in-law of the Fei family. How dare we, lowly people, provoke him?" Shao Wei grabbed his sister who wanted to say something, took the spirit stone and said with an apologetic smile.

Back then, their brother and sister did not just collect bribes from Kang Dabao and others on the road. If Master Kang had not had some experience, he would have almost fallen into their trap and had to suffer the consequences.

In this way, Master Kang Da did not let them charge into the battle and die, and he was a living Bodhisattva with great magnanimity.

But he is going to be the son-in-law of the Fei family soon. How can he dare to feel resentment towards his own brother and sister, who are insignificant characters? He just hopes that they will never have any contact with each other from now on.

Kang Dabao expected that no one would be willing to take on Ling Shi, an official of low rank and status, as he saw that everyone had taken the spirit stones.

Everyone is not stupid. No one would think that just because the Wuxiang Sect in Wang County has been destroyed, Yunjiaozhou will really become the world of the David Immortal Dynasty. If they want to win over the hearts of the people and eliminate the influence of the Liangyi Sect, they still have a long way to go.

Kang Dabao's thoughts were in a mess at the moment and he was in no mood to say anything.

A few simple verbal warnings like this can guard against gentlemen, but not against villains, and they may do something unfavorable to Emperor Chongming in the future.

If there is a safer way, it would be to gather all these desperate people together, call Jiang Qing and his fellow disciples to kill them all.

But if he really did that, it would be too ugly, violating the promise Kang Dabao had made in advance, and also tarnishing the reputation of Kang Dazhang in Pingrong County.

There will certainly be many wars in the future for the provincial government, and it looks like Master Kang will not be able to avoid going into battle.

If our reputation is ruined too badly in Pingrong County, it will be very difficult to recruit some independent cultivators in the same way next time.

By then, not only will the independent cultivators not believe him, but all the forces will not believe him either. If he wants to cleanse this dirty reputation, he will have to spend dozens of times more energy.

Don’t you see that Master Kang is still described by Sima Fei as “vindictive and a bully of women”?

After much thought, I decided it would be better to give these vicious people a chance to live.

Master Kang felt extremely exhausted, so he quickly called over the remaining money and others, and comforted them with a few words. Then he gave each of them fifteen spirit stones as a subsidy.

After everyone took turns riding their spirit boats back to the county with mixed feelings, as soon as they landed at the county government office, Sect Leader Kang hurriedly dispersed the team.

Everyone dispersed as if they had been pardoned.

Tie Xishan is the only one in charge of the county now, and it's a good thing that Sun Bingdou is still in Tanggu, as it saves Kang Dabao from the verbal sparring that he had prepared.

Luo Heng stayed in the yamen and did not come out. The news that the Luo family had lost all their soldiers in the battle had been reported back to Pingrong County. This time, the Luo family had lost half of their cultivators.

This made Luo Heng both angry and afraid of Kang Dabao. After thinking for a long time, he did not dare to come out from the back court to see him. He just stayed in the room crying sadly.

In this way, Kang Dabao was happy to just have a brief handover with Tie Xishan, the chief clerk, and then return to Chongming Sect.

The spirit boat from Pingrong County naturally fell into the storage bag of Master Kang. This flying magic weapon that could carry fifty or sixty people quickly was a good thing. Although it was only a first-level magic weapon, it was more expensive than the general second-level spirit weapon.

If the provincial government had not sympathized with the shortage of public funds in various counties and selected some materials with inferior workmanship from the Niu family's warehouse and marked them at a low price, it would have been impossible to buy them with the little spiritual stones that Pingrong County had collected in the past two years.

However, the spirit boat consumed too much spirit stones and spiritual power, so Kang Dabao took his old donkey from the back hall to continue his journey.

Almost two months passed, and the old donkey seemed to have even shinier fur. The clerk said that Luo Heng had specifically instructed him to take good care of the donkey.

Kang Dabao thought that this guy had bad intentions and was probably hoping that the news of his death would come back soon so that he could kill the donkey and eat its meat to vent his anger.

"But it didn't go as you wish. The Taoist priest came back alive!" Sect Leader Kang snorted, thinking that all his hard work was done while the old donkey had enjoyed the position for so long. He felt unhappy and whipped the old donkey very fast, urging him to run faster. They were about to reach the archway of Chongming Sect.

At this moment, the grass and trees stopped breathing, the birds disappeared, and the area within a hundred feet seemed to be filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere.

Kang Dabao heard a sharp sound of wind, which made his hair stand on end and cold sweat broke out from every pore of his body. The Hunyuan Gourd on his waist was already flashing with light and was about to emit green smoke.

"The assassin from Liangyi Sect is coming so quickly!"

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