Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 276: Signing the Military Token

Because Sun Fu released the letter in time, Ge Yangwei and the hunchbacked middle-aged man were unable to sneak back to Changning Sect. Halfway through the journey, they were intercepted by Jiang Qing.

After the two leaders of the major sects were taken back to Chongming Sect, they were not very lonely. This was because the group of companions they had left behind earlier were also captured early by Leader Wang and Dragon Beast Master and his group, who had split up with Jiang Qing.

From then on, Changning Sect's attempt was considered a complete failure, but Chongming Sect did not gain much advantage either.

Li Bing died, and many of Qinghanyuan's guards also died, including a very accomplished alchemist. If you count carefully, it's possible that our side has lost a lot.

These people had their Dantian locked and were guarded by Jiang Qing, waiting to be dealt with after Kang Dabao returned to the sect.

Two days later, Sect Master Kang, who had escorted Shan Gong all the way to the Biha Cave, returned to the sect and asked about the cause and effect. With a serious expression, he turned to Yuan Jin and asked, "Have you found out everything?"

Yuan Jin's face turned pale, and his mood was heavy:
"After asking, the leader of the Ge family said that there was only one team of theirs. But even he himself couldn't tell if there were any more people coming behind.

As for whether the Changning Sect will make some big moves against us in the near future, he couldn't say for sure. He selected a number of people to interrogate them separately, and the statements all matched. "

Ye Zhengwen had just come out of retreat and hurried over to discuss matters. After hearing this, he said, "That is to say, they may not be the first team to hide here. It is possible that before them, there were already bandits from the Changning Sect hiding in the Jackdaw Mountains."

This was something that had to be guarded against. Kang Dabao frowned when he heard this, turned to Fei Shuhe, put his rough big hand on the white and tender hands and said, "I'm afraid Madam, please take extra care."

In public, even though Fei Shuhe was known as a dashing and capable lady among the nobles, she couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed when she was suddenly shown such an intimate gesture by Master Kang.

Pulling his hand out without leaving any trace, Fei Shuhe pointed at one person in a clear and pleasant voice, "Dragon Beast Master, double the number of Golden Winged Owls released to the outer area of ​​Jackdaw Mountain."

The dragon beast master looked embarrassed and said, "My dear lady, if this is the case, there won't be enough owls around Qinghan Courtyard."

"It's okay," Fei Shuhe turned to Nanny Sun and said, "Madam, please ask Chief Wang to select reliable people and leave some guards in the outer courtyard to maintain the operation of the formation in Qinghan Courtyard. The rest of the guards will be temporarily moved to Chongming Sect to live in peace."

Nanny Sun's eyes lit up with surprise, but Chief Wang was a man who lacked common sense. After hearing what Fei Shuhe said, he almost asked, "Where will the maids in the inner house and you, the young lady, live?"

Fortunately, he was not a fool. When the words were on the tip of his tongue, he saw the harmonious look on the face of Master Kang and swallowed the words back silently.

Kang Dabao looked at Fei Shuhe with a hint of gratitude in his eyes. Just as he was about to speak, Yuan Jin spoke first: "Master, this matter must be related to Qiaogong Fort. We need to call them to ask."

Pei Yi felt that this matter was inappropriate before, and used rhetoric to temporarily persuade Yuan Jin to calm down, but the head of Kangda felt that what Yuan Jin said made sense.

It is true that the borders between the two sides are long, and it is difficult to defend against a small group of elite troops infiltrating the enemy, but it is also an indisputable fact that Chongming Zong suffered losses in his followers as a result.

The people of Qiaogongbao are already guilty, so Kang Dabao doesn't need to be polite to them. He doesn't believe that they would dare to turn against them and go back to live under the Liangyi Sect.

The high-ranking officials of Liangyi Sect, headed by Jiang Yuan, must remember this force that slapped them in the face and broke their alliance.

After returning, ordinary disciples will have a very small chance of survival, but the leader and elders of Qiaogong Fort will definitely not survive.

However, it is still a long way from the time when Taoist Heilu and the New Cloud Alliance have agreed to jointly attack the Changning Sect, and Kang Dabao does not want to make any big moves to provoke the Changning Sect.

If the latter were to disobey the rules and attack with the entire clan, the Chongming Sect would be forced to fight back hastily. Even if it could hold out until the other clans arrived to provide assistance, the losses would certainly be huge.

But the news of these people's capture could not be hidden from the Changning Sect's top leaders for too long, and would be exposed sooner or later.

If their lair was about to be discovered and Chongming Sect was still hiding and not taking any action, this would surely arouse the vigilance of Changning Sect.

This is definitely not a good thing for the head of Kangda, who wants to gather strength and launch a surprise attack.

In this case, let's send more people to Qiaogong Fort to make the fighting between the two counties' military camps more bloody, so that the Changning Sect's side will mistakenly believe that this is Chongming Sect's act of revenge, and eliminate their vigilance.

Seeing Kang Dabao was moved, Ye Zhengwen also wanted to stand up to persuade him, but was stopped by the former: "Junior Brother Ye, go to Xuanqiaogongbao Pingrong County and ask him to come to the sect to explain to me."

Although the two junior brothers still had different opinions, since Master Kang had made up his mind, it was impossible for them to refute it, and each of them remained silent.

At this moment, Chu Huer, who had been waiting for a long time, finally got the chance to speak. He stepped out and asked, "Master, Junior Brother Li was killed by a thief. I beg you to behead the thief to comfort Junior Brother Li's spirit in heaven."

It was the first time that Sun Fu, who was the last in line in the hall, was able to listen to an important event. He burst into tears, bowed his head to the ground, and said sadly, "I beg you to allow me to do so, Master Brother."

Kang Dabao sighed, "Junior Brother Li is a pillar of the sect and has always been diligent in his work. I never expected that he would die in the hands of a villain." After sighing, he asked Chu Huer, "Have you found out who did this?"

"Ge Yangwei from the corpse-refining lineage of the Changning Sect," Sun Fu answered quickly with red eyes.

"Third brother, bring Ge Yangwei out later and let Junior Brother Sun avenge us!" Kang Dabao nodded in approval without any hesitation.

After talking to Jiang Qing, he said to Pei Yi, "Junior brother Pei, go find Deng Baichuan later. The rest of the captured thieves will be taken to the prison in Chongmingfang City. Ask him to sign the military tokens for these people and send them to the state army."

When Kang Dabao talked about "Signing the Military Token", he could not hide his envy.

The provincial government still had a trick up its sleeve for Yunjiaozhou natives like themselves. The "military signature token", a real military and national weapon, was always in the hands of trusted people in the capital like Deng Baichuan and Gun Shilu.

Over the years, not even a first-level one has been leaked.

If he could also obtain some of it, he could use the captured enemies for his own use in the future. When facing the enemy in battle, his disciples would be able to shed less blood.

"Why should we trouble Captain Deng?" Fei Shuhe smiled slightly. Nanny Sun understood and took out a stack of silver-white cold talismans.

"Is this the military signature?!" Kang Dabao was shocked and frightened.

This is because since the early years of the country, countless Jindan cultivators and Yuanying Zhenren have been locked up as spiritual slaves by these ordinary talismans, forced to serve the king and be loyal to the country.

Even today, there are many monks who hate these talismans that restrict freedom.

Kang Dabao had heard Taoist Hei Lu say that when Taizu had just lost the ancient forbidden land, the high-level monks of the Immortal Dynasty had reached a consensus: the royal family of the Kuang family, after their defeat, had to promise that they would no longer use military talismans to detain people, otherwise they would be attacked by people all over the world.

However, as the first generation of Nascent Soul True Immortals and Golden Core Cultivators who were deeply harmed by the military talismans gradually died out, this ban had been relaxed to varying degrees in various parts of the Immortal Dynasty a hundred years ago.

Up to now, the Immortal Dynasty can use military talismans in any path, openly, and on a small scale, to detain some low-level cultivators who have committed heinous crimes and use them as spirit slaves.

However, there are countless ways to control low-level cultivators in the cultivation world. The military talisman is just a convenience, so the high-level cultivators don't care much about it.

Unless a second-level or higher military talisman appears in the world and it really concerns them, they will only be concerned.

The saying "those who eat meat are vulgar" is very appropriate no matter where it is put. However, Master Kang did not think that these high-level monks really did not know what the flood of military talismans would mean to the entire David Immortal Dynasty.

Kang Dabao has been in the chess game for a long time, but he feels that the relationship between the David clan and the thirty-three Nascent Soul forces of the Immortal Dynasty is subtle, and cannot be simply described as "hostile".

According to what Shan Gong said, in recent decades, not only the signing of military tokens, but many of the rules and regulations that were previously set for the David clan have shown signs of loosening.

There must be some kind of exchange of interests among these low-level cultivators that they cannot even figure out no matter how hard they try.

"This is what my father brought back from the army and left for me," Fei Shuhe took the military amulet from Nanny Sun and handed it to Kang Dabao, saying softly, "Take it and use it."

"Ugh."

————The next morning, at Qiaogongbao, the headquarters of Pingrong County.

Mo Wen, the chief of Pingrong County in Qiaogongbao, looked at the letter sent from Chongming Sect last night and sighed.

It was really a case of a tiger falling into the open air. Qiaogongbao was a well-known foundation-building sect in several nearby states, but one day it was captured by that lucky guy from Chongming Sect.

You know, even when his sect's founder Zhang Yuandao was alive, he didn't dare to be so disrespectful to Qiaogong Fort. It's really sad!

"If I had known earlier, I would have hacked that peddler to death!" A bearded old man beside Mo Wen said angrily.

"How could we know so much in advance?" Mo Wen shook his head and sighed. They had stood on the wrong side before at Qiaogongbao, so they were lucky enough to survive.

At least he was able to save most of his disciples because he knelt quickly. This fate was much better than that of the Lin family, Zhenling Sect and other old allies.

The latter two families did not gain any benefits by following the Liang Yi Sect firmly. They were forced to get involved with losers like the Fengzhou Ge family and continue to use the flesh and blood of their children and disciples to feed the Liang Yi Sect's weapons.

What's more, back then on the top of the Jiazixu Hill in Xiaowu Mountain, Chongming Sect and Qiaogong Fort each served their own masters and they fought several battles against each other.

Mo Wen didn't think Kang Dabao was a magnanimous gentleman who would let bygones be bygones. He was well-known for "taking revenge for every grievance and bullying women". It was normal for him to threaten private revenge when he got the chance.

Mo Wen put away the letter and turned to the old man with a long beard who had reached the peak of Qi training and said, "Junior brother, you should organize the disciples. This time, Kang will probably use the same old tricks to force us to leave Dingshe Village again."

"Damn it!" The bearded old man's face flushed red, and it was obvious that he was full of anger, but couldn't utter it.

"Brother, please don't act on impulse. When the head brother asked us to move to Pingrong with our disciples, he told us that in order to continue the sect, we need to keep a low profile and wait for the right time.

To put it bluntly, we came here to defend ourselves. The sect has reached such a situation, we have nothing to complain about, we just have to hold out for one more day!"

These words sounded very cold, and Mo Wen's expression was also indifferent when he spoke: "Okay, Junior Brother needs to pay more attention to the matter of connecting to the second-level spiritual vein at home. I'm going first, I want to see what kind of show Kang Dabao put on for me?!"

Mo Wen stopped talking to the bearded old man. He walked out of the main hall and passed the brand new Qiaogongbao archway. Two boys had already brought a thick-armored mechanical puppet in the shape of a bull and were waiting there.

Mo Wen sat on the mechanical puppet, and the two boys followed closely behind, each riding a wolf-shaped mechanical puppet.

They walked all the way to the foot of Xiaohuan Mountain without stopping. Kang Rongquan, who was guarding the mountain gate, saw that the puppets under the three people were extraordinary, so he could guess what sect the people in front of him belonged to.

Kang Rongquan almost lost his temper on the spot. He just exchanged a few words with Mo Wen in a bad tone, which contained many difficult and sarcastic remarks. However, the latter remained calm after hearing it, without showing any anger.

Kang Rongquan suddenly felt bored when Mo Wen ignored him. After all, the former was a true cultivator at the foundation-building stage, and Kang Rongquan, as a disciple on duty, could not treat him lightly for too long.

So they used a token to pass the message, and after getting the approval of the elders in the sect, Kang Rongquan opened the battle formation and brought Master Mo Wen and his two disciples to the presence of Sect Master Kang.

"Friend Mo, you have arrived so quickly. Your presence today really makes our sect shine."

What surprised De Mo Wen was that Kang Dabao did not start the conversation with threats as he had said before. Instead, he looked very happy and friendly when he saw him, and did not seem to want to hold him accountable.

"Having received the letter from the county magistrate, I dare not delay." Although Mo Wen was surprised, his tone remained respectful, trying his best not to let Kang Dabao find any fault with him.

"Brother Mo's sincere desire to serve the country is admirable."

Like Kang Rongquan, Kang Dabao had no good feelings towards Qiaogong Fort. Even though they served different masters back then, it was an indisputable fact that both sides had the other's blood on their hands.

However, the head of the Kang family could not express this thought as directly as Kang Rongquan.

Kang Dabao still wanted to trick Qiaogongbao into using his life. Back then, the artillery puppets formed by the Qigongbao monks could cause considerable damage to the second-level formation.
Now that Mo Wen, a true foundation-building cultivator who has inherited all the true teachings of Qiaogong Fort, is available, Kang Dabao will not let his personal likes and dislikes affect his main business.

Because now, for Chongming Sect, nothing is more important than overthrowing Changning Sect. Being targeted by a powerful sect with double-digit foundation building and nearly a thousand disciples is not a good experience.

The praise from Master Kang did not make Mo Wen let down his guard. The latter did not respond, but just bowed his head in return and said that he dared not.

Kang Dabao saw that Mo Wen did not respond, but he did not panic. He finished his polite conversation and said bluntly: "The border between Baisha County and our county has been plagued by rampant banditry recently. We need Daoist Brother Mo to transfer more disciples to help our county pacify the area."

Mo Wen frowned. Although he had thought about this before coming here, it didn't mean that he would have to take the knife without even struggling.

"Reporting to the county lord, Qiaogong Fort has stationed 51% of the disciples from Pingrong County in five military camps at the border between the two counties. If you want to transfer more, it is possible, but our sect is not strong enough to accomplish this in the short term. I hope the county lord will give you more time."

"Well, what Fellow Daoist Mo said is correct." Kang Dabao nodded in agreement and said:
"I can see clearly the sincerity of your loyalty to the emperor and the country. I think even Lord Bo has his own judgment and keeps it in mind. To be honest, I had thought of your difficulties before you came, and I also thought of a solution."

As soon as the head of Kang Da finished speaking, a stack of silver-white cold talismans appeared in his hand. Mo Wen's face changed, and his eyes were full of doubt and uncertainty: "Signing military talismans?!"

"Oh no, this guy seems to have become much more valuable in the provincial government?!"

(It will probably be around this time tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, please forgive me.)
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