Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 258: Master Taiyi is going to take action? The magic weapon given by Nezha
The flame of the tung oil lamp swayed in the draft, and the earthen walls of the garrison's duty room were covered with marks of years of smoke.

Zhao Sanmaizi was holding a half-roll of moldy military newspaper, and his beard was stained with the dog demon's black blood. It seemed that he had secretly caused trouble for the imprisoned dog demon.

Zhao Sanmazi put one foot on the bench and said, "Damn it! The caravan from Xiqi said that a group of nine-headed pheasant spirits appeared on the bank of the Wei River and ate up thirty miles of rice fields into wasteland!"

Qian Quezi squatted beside the brazier roasting millet cakes, his missing front teeth mouth leaking air: "Donglu is even more bizarre! My cousin passed by Jiangjiabao while transporting salt last month. He said he heard a baby crying in the middle of the night. He followed the sound and found only leftover bones..."

The biscuit crumbs fell into the charcoal fire, and a puff of green smoke with a fishy smell rose up, making people's eyes slightly sore.

Wang Sanpao huddled by the door frame and rubbed his hands. "My second uncle came back from Nandu and said that entire fishing villages in Yunmengze have disappeared! Only some fish scales, no bigger than a palm, are left on the shore!" He suddenly lowered his voice, "Someone saw...saw a dragon's claws reaching out of the water!"

"You're a mother of shame!" Zhao Sanmazi threw the military report on the table. "If there really was a dragon, General Li would have led us to slay it long ago!"

Fang Yu paused slightly as he wiped the spear.

For the Dragon Clan and the Undersea Monsters to come to Chentang Pass is as easy as pressing an elevator button. If this group of people knew that they would have to fight against the Dragon Clan and the Undersea Monsters soon, they probably wouldn't be able to laugh now.

While everyone was talking, Liu You walked in.

"Chaoge Order, each pass is required to collect 30% more iron to forge the Demon-Suppressing Halberd. In addition, a fleet escorting iron will pass by us tomorrow."

"Ah? You want iron tools again?" Wang Sanpao frowned.

"The Demon-Suppressing Halberd is useless!" Qian Quezi suddenly opened his shirt, revealing a centipede-like scar on his chest. "If this thing was useful, I wouldn't be injured like this. I don't know which wicked person came up with this stupid idea! Demon-Suppressing Halberd? What's the use of this halberd?"

Liu You sighed, "The refugees who escaped from Chaoge last month said that there are more monsters than people within 500 miles of the royal capital! The charlatans in the Imperial Observatory are always performing magic tricks, but it's useless!"

"Who cares if it's a charlatan or a monster!" Zhao Sanmazi relit the oil lamp. "Tomorrow the fleet escorting the ironware will pass through Chentang Pass. Everyone, open your eyes!"

After that, he looked at Fang Yu and said, "Brother Fang, you have done a great job in catching the dog demon, so you can take a rest first!"

"Ah."

"Disperse, disperse!" Zhao Sanmazi kicked the bench away. "We're patrolling the wheat fields in the western suburbs at midnight. Wang Sanpao, you lead the way!"

The sea fog at the hour of Mao was like a tissue soaked in Vaseline, covering the Chentangguan Wharf heavily.

The masts of twenty red horse boats pierced through the fog, and the sides of the ships creaked under the pressure of pig iron, as if they would burst open in the next second and spit out a cabin full of iron spears into the sea.

The guards' shouts were muffled in the humidity, like wails coming through a layer of coffin boards.

"Wang Sanpao! Are you a fucking coward? So slow! Be quick!" Zhao Sanmaizi kicked the cargo box, shaking off a few drops of salty dew.

The new recruit staggered as he picked up two iron halberds. The blue-gray color of the halberd heads looked dark like corpse spots in the morning light.

Fang Yu walked across the gangplank with his head down, his Sharingan rotating slightly under the shadow of his hat, and he felt uneasy.

The sea breeze brought the smell of rotten fish mixed with the odor of rust.

“Hurry up, hurry up!” Zhao Sanmazi’s scabbard slapped a new soldier’s back, splashing water. “If we miss the time to deliver these demon-suppressing halberds, those bastards in Chaoge will turn our skulls into chamber pots!”

At the hour of Si, the sun had just climbed up the Wanghai Terrace when a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared in the eastern sky.

The originally cotton-like clouds began to twist and swirl, as if an invisible giant hand was stirring the sky.

Wang Sanpao squatted under the mast and ate a piece of cake. The crumbs fell into the sea, causing ripples: "Why do these clouds look like they were splashed with ink..."

Before he finished speaking, a shrill crow cry exploded in the cloud vortex!

A black tide of tens of thousands of crows poured down, and the friction between their wings was like millions of blunt knives scraping against an iron pot, making one's teeth ache.

Fang Yu's observation Haki suddenly felt a sharp pain - a black-robed figure stood in the center of the cloud vortex, with a crow feather cloak fluttering like a soul-calling flag, and red-gold vertical pupils that made people's backs cold across half a mile of sea!
This thing is
"Listen up, you ants of Chentang Pass!" The voice of the Crow Demon King was like a rusty chain dragged across the deck, "You have three days to hand over my nephew, otherwise..."

Zhao Sanmazi drew his sword and jumped onto the bow, pointing the tip of the sword at Heiyun and cursing: "Otherwise, I will kill you! I..."

A flock of crows suddenly swooped down and rushed towards the fleet like rain!
Fang Yu saw the Demon-Suppressing Halberd being picked up by crows not far away, and the beasts' beaks and claws actually created sparks on the pig iron.

The guards hurriedly shot arrows, but the arrows hit the crow feathers and seemed to pierce into the iron armor, falling into the sea with a clang.

"Form a tortoise shell formation!" Zhao Sanmaizi's roar was torn apart by the crows' cries. The guards huddled behind their iron and wooden shields, listening to the teeth-grinding gnawing sounds coming from above their heads.

These beasts are actually pecking at the iron tools!

Wang Sanpao curled up in the corner of the cabin, a urine stain on his crotch: "They... They are eating iron!"

Fang Yu took the opportunity to touch the back of the mast, and his Sharingan spun rapidly.

The scales on the Crow Demon King's neck were clearly visible under the pupil technique, and an old centipede-shaped wound ran across his Adam's apple, with burn marks on the edges.

Just as Fang Yu was about to take a closer look, the demon pupil suddenly turned to him, and the pressure was like a landslide: "Your little pawn has a sharp eye."

Fang Yu remained unmoved and allowed the Crow Demon King to stare at him with malicious eyes. He left a V50 Flying Thunder God mark in the barrier of Chentang Pass. If the other party wanted to attack, he could just run away with the Flying Thunder God, and even the demon king could not catch up with him.

The flock of crows was like a black cloud, and the sound of their beaks and claws gnawing on the iron halberds was like thousands of steel needles scraping against the skull.

"Fire rockets! Pour kerosene!" Zhao Sanmaizi's roar was drowned out by the crows' cries.

The guards hurriedly lit torches, but found that these beasts knew how to wet their feathers when they swooped over the sea! They couldn't light them at all.

Just when the twenty ships' worth of ironware were about to be swept away, a group of pink auspicious clouds suddenly appeared in the sky!

A round flying pig was lying on the cloud, and on the pig's back sat a fat Taoist priest with his chest and belly exposed, with a wine gourd jingling from his waist.

The immortal burped drunkenly in mid-air, and the wine gourd tied to the pig's tail hit the flagpole with a bang, and the spilled wine soaked Zhao Sanmaizi's head.

"Damn it!" The old soldier wiped his face and tasted the sweetness of the peach wine on his tongue. "Is this the immortal wine?"

"Oh my!" Taiyi Zhenren landed on the dock in Sichuan dialect, sweeping away a cloud of crow feathers with his whisk, "What's so noisy? Could it be that they knew I was coming and arranged a special welcome ceremony?"

The flying pig landed on the dock with a grunt, and its fat belly crushed three bundles of cables.

Taiyi Zhenren rolled over, with the hem of his Taoist robe still stuck in the gap between pig's trotters: "Don't panic! I'm going to show you a 'celestial being descending to the earth'." Before he finished speaking, he fell into the pickled fish barrel with a plop, his two short legs kicking in the air.

"Master! Master, help me!" Wang Sanpao rushed over and grabbed Taiyi Zhenren's trouser leg, "Help!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Taiyi Zhenren pulled his head out of the fish bucket, with a salted fish hanging on his bun. "The way you welcome guests at Chentangguan is quite unique, isn't it? There are crows and salted fish."

Zhao Sanmazi pointed the tip of his knife at the black spot that almost disappeared in the sky: "That is the demon crow that robbed the iron! Immortal, hurry up!"

"Demon crow?" Taiyi Zhenren squinted and looked at it. "Your eyesight is not good, kid? It's obviously a dark cloud! Look at the shape--"

He drew a circle on the deck with fish blood on his hands. "This side is the dragon's head, and that side is the pig's butt. It's definitely auspicious clouds!"

The guards were collectively petrified. They wanted to curse, but they didn't dare to. They just felt that the immortal was unreliable even when drunk.

"Master! It's true! Those crows are evil monsters that harm people! They took away all the iron!"

Taiyi Zhenren finally sobered up a little, "Oh, so that's it."

As he spoke, he suddenly became interested, "Make way! I will show you my unique skills!"

Taiyi Zhenren staggered and made hand gestures, and the alcohol condensed into a crooked Bagua formation, "The sky and the earth are boundless, Qiankun borrows the law!"

The magic circle exploded into a ball of pink smoke, and a dozen rabbits the size of a palm jumped out of it and danced the yangge around the guards.

Wang Sanpao's knife fell to the ground with a clang: "Master, this... is this a spell?"

"Oops! I made the wrong move!" Taiyi Zhenren scratched his belly and laughed, "This is the 'Jade Rabbit Welcoming Guests Formation' that I created last month. How do you think it is? It's very comfortable!"

After such a delay, the crow had already flown away.

Zhao Sanmazi desperately hugged the last half of the iron halberd: "Master! Chaoge blames it, Chentang Pass..."

"Chaoge?" Taiyi Zhenren suddenly became serious, "But you want to forge a demon-suppressing halberd? Use cast iron to make the halberd? Did your Chaoge official get his head stuck in the door? This thing is too dull to even chop wood! How can it suppress demons?"

Zhao Sanmazi cried, "But! But, no matter what, we have to bear the blame! We are all doomed now!"

Seeing the expressions of the soldiers, Taiyi Zhenren felt a little embarrassed.

"Oh no! I let the monster run away. Drinking caused trouble! Drinking caused trouble!"

Taiyi Zhenren sat on the edge of the pickling fish barrel, with the hem of his greasy Taoist robe soaked in the fishy brine.

He burped loudly, shaking the seabirds on the wooden piles of the dock and flying up. His finger suddenly stabbed at Fang Yu in the crowd like a sword: "Why is there a piece of..."

Fang Yu's pupils suddenly contracted!
Under the influence of the Fairy Palace's magical bloodline, he could clearly feel the immortal power condensed at Taiyi Zhenren's fingertips!

That was not a drunkard's prank, but a soul-searching curse!

The Earth Resentment Tentacles on Fang Yu's body instantly straightened, and the armed color domineering aura surged under his skin like black mist. As long as Taiyi Zhenren continued to move, he would use the Divine Barrier and Flying Thunder God to escape.

"Master! This is the hangover soup you requested!" Wang Sanpao rushed over with a ceramic bowl at this moment. He poured the soup on Taiyi Zhenren's Taoist robe, and a sour white smoke rose up.

The experienced fingers dropped with a "click".

"belch--!"

A burp louder than thunder exploded.

Taiyi Zhenren suddenly covered his mouth and stumbled into Zhao Sanmazi's arms, the smell of alcohol coming out of him carrying the pungent smell of pickled garlic: "Look, it's wrong!" He drunkenly pulled Fang Yu's leather armor to wipe the corner of his mouth, "You young man, you look like the beggar's chicken that I roasted last year."

The guards let out suppressed laughter.

Fang Yu caught a glimpse of the magic mirror slipping from Taiyi Zhenren's sleeve!
When the mirror passed over the hem of the clothes, it clearly reflected a shadow shrouded in black mist.

But when the light hit his face, he looked harmless again. Seeing Taiyi Zhenren being helped to the other side, Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first time he felt the oppression of the immortal.

Although this version of Taiyi Immortal looks very funny and nonchalant, as the beloved disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun, he has all kinds of magic weapons, and Fang Yu may not be able to deal with him even if he takes out two or three of them.

The Qiankun Circle, the Hun Tian Ling, the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover, the Fire Spear, the gold bricks, the Wind Fire Wheels, the Yin and Yang Twin Swords, the leopard skin bag, the Talisman Secret Book, the Eight Diagrams Dragon Whiskers, and so on and so forth.

This guy's physical strength is enough to directly resist the natural disaster, and his strength is unfathomable.

Fang Yu didn't want to run into someone of this level at this time.

The twenty red horse boats of Chaoge were now floating crookedly at the Chentangguan Wharf like fish bones gnawed by a giant beast.

The side of the ship was riddled with holes, and the edges of each hole showed signs of corrosion from the crow demon's poisonous saliva.

The guards sat slumped on the flooded deck, looking at the iron filings floating on the sea. They reflected a strange phosphorescent light in the setting sun, as if thousands of will-o'-the-wisp fires were wandering on the water.

"It's all over, it's all over!" Zhao Sanmaizi punched the side of the boat, not even noticing the wood chips piercing his knuckles.

Wang Sanpao suddenly rushed to the cabin like crazy and fished out a palm-sized piece of iron from the accumulated water.

"More! There's still some in the water!"

Zhao Sanmazi drooped his eyes and complained helplessly: "Is this enough to fill our heads?"

"Oh! You don't have to be so pessimistic!" Taiyi Zhenren suddenly stood up, "The monster wants to steal the iron, what can you mortals do?"

Liu You coughed twice and said, "You don't know, Immortal, when Chaoge does things, they never care about the process, but only the result. The result is that the ironware was robbed when it passed through Chentang Pass. We are to blame. Losing our heads is a small matter, but I am afraid that our families will be implicated!"

Taiyi Zhenren frowned, "It's just some iron? Is it really that serious?"

Zhao Sanmazi had snot hanging from his mouth. "My Lord, my Lord! Look at me, a man of eight feet tall, but I have become so depraved. How can it be false?"

Taiyi Zhenren looked towards the sky, "Alright! Stop talking! I'll go catch that crow now! Wait!"

Having said that, he flew out.

Seeing Taiyi Zhenren walking away, Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't want to stay with Taiyi Zhenren anymore.

It seems that the people from Yuxu Palace might be able to see the clues in me.
"I can't stay in the Immortal Family camp for now. Do I have to join the incompetent King Zhou?"

When Fang Yu thought of King Zhou's behavior, he wanted to spit.

But it also depends on Daji's specific appearance.

He has seen situations where netizens' previous and subsequent comments were completely reversed because of a film or TV work.

What about traveling back in time to become King Zhou and kill Su Daji first, and then seeing Daji's willow-leaf eyebrows, cherry lips, soft lips and those charming eyes?
Go to hell with your sister!
I have to do something for the prosperity of the Shang Dynasty!

anyway.

The news of the lost iron was soon reported back to Chentang Pass.

As soon as the fish market opened, the fishy smell was diluted by the more pungent panic.

Aunt Liu, who sells pancakes, banged the chopping board with a rolling pin, making a deafening noise. "Have you heard? Chaoge's ironware was taken away by a monster. Chaoge will probably be punished by Chentangguan."

Widow Hu from the fish stall next door was throwing her scaler, the blade sparking on the bluestone slab. She suddenly lowered her voice and said, "If it were me, General Li should rebel against his mother!"

"You're courting death!" The charcoal seller's wife covered her mouth, and the charcoal ash left two black marks on Widow Hu's face. "Didn't you see the new notice posted at the city gate? Anyone who discusses government affairs will be beheaded!"

By the fishing port's pier, a few old fishermen were huddled among a pile of broken nets, twisting hemp ropes.

Old Man Wang tapped the side of the boat with his pipe: "My eldest son is a slave in the halberd foundry in Chaoge. Last month, he sent someone to tell me that the halberds that suppress demons are mixed with human bone powder!"

"Bah! You are fooling around!" Li Quezi spat at the fish dregs. "If it really can suppress demons, why can't it even stop a flock of crows? In my opinion, this iron tool is the work of those bastards in Chaoge! I don't know what its function is. Whose pockets are they enriching?"

At the foot of the garrison wall, a dozen refugees gathered around half a bowl of washing water.

The old man with a Jizhou accent clutched a piece of millet cake crumbs and said: "There are three hundred people in my village, but we were slaughtered by the Chaoge Tiger Guards just because we paid two less carts of iron." He tore open his clothes, and the charred word "prisoner" was branded on his chest.

"Be content!" The woman from Bingzhou hugged the sleeping child, "My husband was working as an ironworker in Yunmengze. The government said he was hiding iron slag and hung it on the city gate to dry for three days." She suddenly laughed nervously, "Guess what happened in the end? My husband was pooping and peeing on the city gate, affecting the city appearance. He was beaten with two boards and then released."

The cloth canopy of the old teahouse in the south of the city was rustling in the sea breeze. The old man who was also a part-time storyteller slapped the wake-up stick on the tortoise shell hexagram plate and said, "If we talk about the disaster at Chentang Pass, the root cause was ten years ago! Back then, Master Wen suppressed the rebellion in Beihai."

"Flat ass!" Master Wang from the blacksmith shop threw his tea bowl. "He's just nurturing an enemy to protect himself! Do you know why Chaoge has increased the iron levy every year? The swords, spears and arrows used by the North Sea monsters are all engraved with the Chaoge workshop's seal!"

Shopkeeper Zhou of the silk shop twisted his goat beard and said: "If you ask me, General Li should learn from the Duke of Xibo! What did Ji Chang do? He reduced taxes and implemented benevolent policies."

"Shh!" The teahouse owner suddenly splashed the stale tea in the basin, "There are soldiers at the street corner!"

Everyone scattered like birds and beasts, leaving only the storyteller muttering to the empty seats: "This hexagram shows 'marsh water trapped', Chentang Pass is likely to be in great trouble!"

The morning mist at the hour of Yin was filled with a salty and fishy smell, and dark red blood stains were condensed on the bluestone slabs in front of Li Jing's mansion - it was because Zhao Sanmaizi knelt too hastily and his knees were broken and the skin was seeping out.

More than twenty guards knelt in a row, their wet hair sticking to their shoulders, like a group of defeated crickets.

"I deserve to die!" Zhao Sanmaizi suddenly shouted and slammed his forehead heavily on the stone slab.

The knock brought with it a strong wind, making the copper bells under the eaves jingle violently. Blood beads rolled down the bridge of his nose and into his beard. "I should have let that crow eat my head! So as not to bring trouble to the whole family!"

Fang Yu stood three steps behind the right side of the kneeling formation, his clothes and armor were neat and eye-catching. Yesterday was his day off, and the incident of the lost iron weapon had nothing to do with him.

Li Jing's black iron combat boots rolled over the moss and stopped in front of a pool of undried blood.

The general's eyes were dark with overwork, and morning dew condensed on his stubble: "I have said that you cannot stop the demon king from robbing us."

"But you are a high-ranking official in Chaoge." Zhao Sanmaizi was about to kowtow again, but Li Jing lifted his boot and pressed it against his chin.

The old soldier's beard rubbed against the golden scales on the general's boots, and his spit mixed with blood splashed on the coiled dragon pattern: "The guy who delivered the iron fled to the East China Sea this morning! He said he wanted to file a complaint with the emperor."

Li Jing suddenly leaned forward and clasped Zhao Sanmazi's shoulder armor with his black iron wrist guard: "Listen! Since I am wearing this helmet, I have an iron shoulder to support me even if the sky falls!"

Seeing that no one reacted, Li Jing frowned and glared.

"Are you all deaf?" Li Jing's voice was like thunder, shaking the dust on the door lintel. "Go back and wash your armor! If the demon king comes again, there will be a battle to fight!"

Zhao Sanmaizi wanted to argue, but he saw the general put his thumb on the blade of the sword. The old soldier kowtowed heavily, leaving a bloody crescent on his forehead on the stone slab, and he staggered back supported by his comrades.

Fang Yu turned around and was about to leave when he suddenly felt a piercing gaze coming from behind.

When he looked back, he saw Li Jing looking at him.

"You're looking for me?"

Li Jing nodded and said, "Come into my house and talk."

Fang Yu followed Li Jing into the mansion and stepped into the spacious hall.

Li Jing sat down in the main seat and motioned Fang Yu to sit down next to him. He then locked his eyes with Fang Yu and asked, "When the dog demon was captured, did it mention the power behind it? I heard it boast that its father was the Dog Demon King and its sworn brother was the Crow Immortal Lord. Is that true?"

Fang Yu's expression stern, he nodded quickly and said: "General, please understand, that evil beast did say so, and threatened that if you don't let it go, you will massacre Chentang Pass in three days."

Li Jing couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, with a trace of worry in his eyes: "My old soldiers only thought about how Chaoge would blame us if we made any mistakes, but they didn't expect the monster's revenge to come so quickly."

After saying that, he quickly passed down the order, "Defend the perimeter of Chentang Pass strictly and strengthen the vigilance to prevent the monster tribe from attacking!"

Then, Li Jing turned his gaze to Fang Yu and instructed him separately: "Fang Yu, I order you to take care of the dog demon. You will be responsible for everything about the dog demon. Its diet, daily life, safety and defense cannot be allowed to be wrong at all. Do you understand?"

Fang Yu heard this and said, "General, rest assured, I will do my best."

After watching Li Jing leave, Fang Yu was about to turn around when he saw a flash of red light in the corner of his eye.

He subconsciously turned his head and saw Nezha running towards him silently without him noticing.

The devil Nezha had dark circles under his eyes, looking like he hadn't slept well, but that couldn't hide the cleverness in his eyes.

"Hey, brother!" Nezha greeted him casually, "I heard you're going to take care of that dog demon? Do you need my help?"

Fang Yu became curious and raised his eyebrows and asked, "How can you help me?"

Nezha chuckled, took out a silk package from his arms, and proudly introduced it: "Look! This is the Hun Tian Ling that Master Fatty gave me. It's very powerful. It can be used to entangle monsters and it will always kill them!"

Fang Yu couldn't help but twitch his eyelids when he heard this, and asked in surprise, "Are you really going to give it to me?"

Nezha waved his hands nonchalantly, puffing out his chest: "That's nothing! You are my younger brother, and it's only right that a big brother helps a little brother! Take it, I'm sure you'll need it!"

Fang Yu carefully took over the Hun Tian Ling. It was soft to the touch but seemed to contain endless power. A strong fairy aura wafted over him.

He couldn't help swallowing his saliva, secretly happy in his heart, with the help of the Hun Tian Ling, he would have more protection. "Thank you, Brother Zha!"

"Why are you thanking me? You're still being polite to me!" Nezha put his hands in his pants in a classic move. "I hate those monsters coming to Chentangguan to cause trouble. If it weren't for this barrier that sealed me off from leaving, I would have destroyed all their nests within a hundred miles!"

Speaking of this, Fang Yu raised his eyebrows!
If I let Nezha go out and kill all the monsters, then I will be much safer wandering outside by myself?

Hey! That's a solution!

(Thanks to the 1782 starting coins rewarded by Tongtian Jiaozhu Lingbao Tianzun! Thank you! Thanks(ω))
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