A life of idleness in the world of demons

Chapter 62. Is that really the Celestial Master's Seal? (5.0K words - Large Chapter)

Ning Xuan had no idea that a demon was coming tonight, or which demon it was. He only knew that if Shanyang was besieged by the four prefectures, the person leading the troops would either be him or appointed by General Qin.

But he has priority.

He had already begun to bear the mark of the emperor's faction, and he was originally a general of the Wangyue Mansion among the four mansions.

Since the demons would think of impersonating the prefect to steal incense offerings, and since they would think of colluding with high-ranking officials, there's no reason why they wouldn't be beheaded.

Beheading has always been the most efficient and direct method.

Kill him, kill a "first-rank general", and in return, get your own people promoted and besieged by your own people. Why not?

The fact that they knew he was a "first-rank general" and could see the changes in the generals' information so quickly further proves that General Qin must have colluded with the demons. Otherwise, how would the demons know?
The demons were very cautious.

They were so cautious that they suspected his "first-rank general" status might be hiding his true strength, and then they exaggerated his hidden strength to the highest level, classifying him as a second-rank general.

The demons devised a plan to behead him, based on the standards of a "second-rank general".

Zen Master Baiyue was the one who was beheaded.

The body of the incense burner has extremely strong regenerative ability, but is cumbersome; while Zen Master Baiyue is a second-rank demon, lacking in regenerative ability, but agile, and more importantly, he has a powerful weapon, a weapon that can transform from one into a thousand and from a thousand into one.

If Zen Master Baiyue can sever his incense-burning body and find his hidden form, then the battle can be ended directly.

Just now, in Zen Master Baiyue's eyes, it should have been a single blow from its staff that cleaved the golden body.

No matter what power the golden body is still exerting, it will be interrupted by splitting into two.

Zen Master Baiyue would soar into the sky, peer into the golden body, and as soon as he caught sight of it, he would unleash a second strike, swiftly ending the battle. Then, he would vanish without a trace.

But it never expected that the madman in front of it would "burn his boats" in the very first attack.

This madman used up all his invulnerability points with his very first attack.

How could anyone fight like this?

Makes no sense.

Ning Xuan's golden body was completely destroyed before Zen Master Baiyue could even cut it open.

One side is determined to strike decisively, while the other is prepared to strike empty-handed.

In the blink of an eye, victory or defeat, life or death, is decided.

Was Zen Master Baiyue wrong?
That's right.

Its method of killing is flawless from any perspective.

The mistake was that it encountered a rather unusual opponent.

That's right, it became wrong.

This is not only a contest of power, but also a contest of self-awareness and choices made in the split second between life and death.

Ning Xuan won, that's all.

He raised his hand and grabbed the staff with a "snap".

His blood and qi surged, and he began to refine the ownerless Zen staff.

As he refined the essence, he remained vigilant. Although he felt that only Zen Master Baiyue had come, he still needed to maintain vigilance and could not assume that the battle was over.

Every part of the staff began to throb and resist, while his vital energy began to seep in and suppress it.

He refined the throwing knife in an instant, but it took him a whole night to refine the Zen staff.

As dawn broke the next day, the sunlight, trailing a golden tail, pierced through the clouds and fell, knocking down a few fallen leaves from the mountains, for it was early autumn after all.

The leaves tumbled and hesitated, more than ten of them coming from the same direction, some fast and some slow, carried by the west wind towards his direction.

Ning Xuan grabbed the handle of the monk's staff and gently swung it back.

The staff shattered into more than ten blades, each blade precisely striking a fallen leaf, splitting it in two.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
In the next instant, the shattered blades swiftly returned to Ning Xuan's hand.

Ning Xuan looked at the staff, and with a thought, the staff changed, turning into a knife of suitable length.

Ning Xuan gripped the knife, then suddenly flicked his fingers, and the knife transformed into a belt, which wrapped around his waist quite elegantly.

'What a treasure! It's a wonder that Zen Master Baiyue kept talking about you day and night in his nightmares.'

This was the first time Ning Xuan had acquired a treasure of this caliber.

Even though the golden body that had been painstakingly built up was lost, it was still worth it to kill Zen Master Baiyue and obtain such a treasure.

At the same time, he also realized that only Zen Master Baiyue had come; otherwise, the best opportunity to launch a sneak attack would have been when he was refining the Zen staff.

"Whatever your name was before, from now on you'll be called Ruyi Dao (meaning 'wish-fulfilling knife')."

Ning Xuan gave himself a name.

Then, he turned his head to look at Xiaojie.

Xiao Jie carefully hovered her finger over the blood spurted out by Zen Master Bai Yue, feeling the still-burning heat of the demonic blood. When she met Ning Xuan's gaze, she shivered, then took a deep breath and said, "My lord, I've noticed that some of the newly emerged demonic plague warriors in the manor are not as good as me in the martial world. What I mean is, could I also try to become a demonic plague warrior?"

The two looked at each other in silence.

Ning Xuan said, "There is a lot of unranked demon flesh and blood in the manor. To be on the safe side, you should start with unranked demon flesh and blood first. Once you get used to it, you can then take rank one. With the jade passed down from Flying Eagle Tower, you are relatively safe in the unranked stage."

As he spoke, he began to collect the flesh and blood of Zen Master Baiyue, which was an important resource.

And since he killed Zen Master Baiyue, his father should be able to obtain a considerable portion of the dragon's energy.

Given his father's temperament, he wouldn't hold back at all; he would share all of this dragon energy with his eldest brother.

Thus, the eldest brother was fully qualified to enter the second rank.

Every major battle, especially one like this where life and death are uncertain, leaves Ning Xuan with severe aftereffects.

Discomfort, nausea, and boredom surged forth.

He left General Ning's mansion to Madam Jie.

The general's mansion was not of much use to him. He initially chose this location simply because it was close to the Zen temple, where he could often go to burn incense and pray for peace.

Now, the female bodhisattvas can no longer withstand his torment, and there's not much point in this anymore.

However, Ning Xuan liked Lady Jie very much, so he naturally hoped that Lady Jie could travel with him more, which is why he took Lady Jie to experience that terrifying scene together.

If he dies, Mrs. Jehovah will naturally die with him.

If he hadn't died, Mrs. Jie would have seen what he would have to face, and then she would have made her own choice.

Ning Xuan was actually quite conflicted.

He both hoped that Mrs. Jie would go far away with him and that she would choose to stay away from everything, although he didn't know how to do so.

Therefore, he left the decision to Mrs. Jie herself.

But Mrs. Jie still chose the former.

Therefore, he gave her the entire Ning General's Mansion.

Use the resources freely, however you like.

He himself only kept one tiger tally.

After the great battle ended, he was able to enjoy himself at the Agarwood Pavilion and with Lady Jie.

But now, those pleasures have become uninteresting because of his powerful physique, and he has to be careful every time, for fear of destroying those exquisite paper figures and objects.

Wherever he went, people would respectfully address him as General, and even a crony like Liu Shirong would try to get him to join the "Mountain Cult".

After killing Zen Master Baiyue, Ning Xuan returned to the General's Mansion with Madam Jie. After giving a few brief instructions, he left a note indicating his whereabouts and departed.

He ran to a high mountain, jumped onto an old tree that jutted out over a cliff, then lay down, drinking fine wine and watching the sea of ​​clouds, trying to relax. He couldn't find any joy or happiness, and even the wine tasted bitter. He was extremely bored.

Another half month has passed.

Under the leadership of Chou Nu and others, the soldiers of the four prefectures were successfully mobilized and surrounded at the border of Shanyang Prefecture, waiting for Tian Youzi of Zixia Temple.

General Ning Xuan, also known as An Yuan, lost his freedom and was captured. He was forced to sit and command the soldiers of the three battalions in Wangyue Prefecture, as well as the soldiers of the surrounding three prefectures, issuing orders or, in other words, stamping documents with his tiger tally.

Ugly Slave and Fairy Yao Zhen were also present.

The difference is that one is in a camp, and the other is somewhere unknown.

The finished product, a second-grade demon-attribute elixir, was also successfully delivered.

The fairy Yao Zhen gave it to Ning Xuan. Ning Xuan went to the wilderness and took it.

He first summoned the Heavenly Demon Talisman of the "Fragrant Fragrance Rat" to raise his spirit attribute to 12.5, and then took the pill.

He digested it in just one day.

He glanced at the panel:

Ning Xuan

[Life (Constitution): 10]

[Sex (Mental): 12]

He has already achieved the true "Double Second Rank" without having to use the Heavenly Demon Talisman.

The improvement in one's destiny is quite direct.

But sex is a strange thing.

Even though Ning Xuan had reached level 12, his performance was still limited to gathering incense offerings; nothing else.

This time, the incense offering was simple.

He was already branded with the mark of the emperor's faction, so to a certain extent he was required to obey orders, especially good ones, which he could not refuse.

After having no choice but to agree to take over the five prefectures and resolve their issues, Chou Nu made contact with the Celestial Master of the other prefectures and sent the incense and Buddha statues from those prefectures to Ning Xuan.

The upper echelons of the five prefectures, except for Shanyang Prefecture, began to realize that a "first-rank general" would be stationed in their respective areas.

good thing.

All are happy.

The general has at least four chances to "try and fail," and his future is limitless, far surpassing that of the demon plague warriors.

Just this morning
One after another, incense-burning Buddha statues were delivered to the camp.

Ning Xuan threw all the Bodhisattva statues into a sack, preparing to go to the wilderness to collect incense offerings.

Ugly Slave escorted him to the camp and whispered, "What kind of demon did you kill that day? Master Taiyi obtained a lot of dragon energy. That batch of dragon energy helped me break through to the second rank directly, and there was even some left over."
I'm not saying this to investigate anything, and neither Mr. Taiyi nor I have told you anything. We just want you to be careful and not face danger alone.

Ning Xuan smiled and nodded.

If he hadn't stayed alone at the mountain villa, Zen Master Baiyue wouldn't have shown himself so rashly, and even if he had, he would have surely killed everyone around him.

Moreover, he is actually better suited to fighting alone than cooperating, because he is always alone in his nightmares.

He carried the bag and went to the countryside.

In the woods beside a river where horses drink, he casually sat down, then casually took out incense-burning Buddha statues, sucked up all the incense, and then kneaded the clay statues into powder, which he then scattered at will.

The expeditions of the government troops were usually accompanied by people from the martial arts world.

Among these people from the martial arts world were some young people, young people like Ning Xuan, both men and women.

Ning Xuan had only been sitting for a short while when he witnessed a dispute between two young heroes and a female hero, and also heard a young hero and a female hero whispering sweet nothings to each other under the shade of a tree.

So he moved to a different place.

He went to a place further away from the garrison and thoroughly cleaned the incense and Buddha statues.

Just then, he heard the voice of Fairy Yao Zhen.

"General Ning, Senior Brother Tianyouzi has arrived! He wants us to meet him at Wolf Ridge Plain ahead."

Ning Xuan replied, "Coming."

The next day.

The soldiers of Wangyue Prefecture were the first to push to Langji Plain.

Langji Plain is a small plateau near Shanyang Prefecture. Standing on it, one can see Shanyang Prefecture in the distance through the gap between two high mountains.

At this moment, on the still lush green plateau, a palanquin was being carried by four burly men, accompanied by six prison carts.

Two of the six prison vans were in full swing, their shackles completely removed.

But strangely, this wasn't a prison break.

Upon arriving, Ning Xuan immediately spotted the two prisoners who were not in the prison cart.

They were on the lush grass outside the prison van. One of them was standing, constantly twisting his head and turning his body, as if his flesh and blood had been stiff for a long time and needed to be relaxed and invigorated; the other was sitting, constantly pulling up grass from the ground, crushing it, and then bringing the grass juice to his face to smell it, as if he hadn't smelled fresh grass in a long time.

Before coming, Ning Xuan had already learned a lot of information from Fairy Yao Zhen.

Tianyouzi often needs to resolve dangerous incidents, so he doesn't have a suitable general partner. He usually travels with four ordinary Taoist boys who carry him and six special prison carts.

Each of these six special prison vans contains a human demon.

The general failed to take the elixir and was transformed into a demonic warrior.

If a warrior who has been infected with the plague fails, he will become a human-demon.

The Human Demon is a demonic warrior who has succeeded in terms of power, but has become increasingly deranged in terms of personality, with his conscious time each day decreasing significantly.

The six special prison carts that Tianyouzi brought contained six second-rank martial arts demons.

These second-rank demons are awake for four or five hours each day, so they work in three shifts, rotating in pairs, to ensure that there are always two demons guarding the third-rank celestial master.

Because it was a human-demon, even if it perished in a dangerous event, it was still an existence whose potential had been exhausted. It was better than the death of a promising general.

As for these scoundrels, the imperial court had long ago spent a fortune to win their loyalty, and made arrangements for their families, their funerals, and so on.
at this time
Fairy Yao Zhen ran excitedly to the palanquin. Her usually cold and aloof demeanor melted away as she happily called out, "Senior Brother!"

The carriage curtain was lifted, revealing the slightly purplish face of a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man stroked his goatee, smiled, said nothing, and closed the carriage curtain again.

Fairy Yao Zhen said, "Senior brother, look at the general I brought. This is the partner I chose."

She acted like a child in front of this middle-aged man, even with a hint of showing off.

This time, the middle-aged man lifted the carriage curtain again, glanced at Ning Xuan beside him, nodded, and then closed the curtain again. He still didn't say anything.

Just then, two demons suddenly stepped forward and stood guard on either side of the carriage.

Fairy Yao Zhen pulled Ning Xuan back slightly.

Ning Xuan looked over.

The sky hung low, the clouds were as dark as ink, and suddenly a dark purple halo rose from the carriage, neither mist nor smoke.

The halo rose higher and higher, and soon fell into the distance, condensing into a large black-purple seal in the sky above Shanyang Prefecture. Rolling mist rose up, like seaweed twisting its slender body in the deep sea, or like the long black hair of a drowning woman struggling.

Ning Xuan was stunned for a moment, his eyes fixed on the eerie blackish-purple color. His powerful physique and spirit made him feel an inexplicable, subtle, and cold sensation.

Fairy Yao Zhen said excitedly, "A third-rank seal, with purple aura coming from the east, this is the true Celestial Master! Senior Brother Tian Youzi is a third-rank Celestial Master."

Immediately afterwards, the large, dark purple seal began to fall.
Start to melt
It began to transform into a layer of dark purple mist that enveloped Shanyang Prefecture.

A single Celestial Master's Seal has covered an entire city!
Various rumbling sounds began to emanate from Shanyang Prefecture, mixed with the roars of many demons. Even from a great distance, some of these sounds could still be heard. They were forced out, as if trying to break through some kind of restriction, but all in vain.

After a while.
The sounds suddenly fell silent.

Suddenly, one of the demons beside Tian Youzi darted out and jumped straight off the cliff. He then rushed around the mountains like a whirlwind, quickly turning into a black dot before disappearing into the distant Shanyang Prefecture.

Fairy Yao Zhen looked at her partner beside her and said, "General, my senior brother said that there are only some second-grade demons in this mansion. He has already suppressed them. Now all we need to do is send second-grade human demon servants to kill them."

Sure enough, just two hours later, the demon returned from afar, carrying two human heads, a rat's head, and a fox's head.
Tianyouzi did not speak, or rather, he was communicating with Yaozhen Fairy through a "whisper chain".

Suddenly, Fairy Yao said, "General, Senior Brother Tianyouzi said that the demons here are not too strong. As long as we determine their location, we can easily deal with them. However, there is still some chaos in the city, and we need to lead our troops into the city to maintain order."

Ning Xuan was a little confused.

Today, he's preparing for a major battle.

But from beginning to end, he didn't even figure out what was going on before the battle was over.

Fairy Yao Zhen said again, "General, let's go. My senior brother still has to go to the Frozen Hell to oversee things. He just came to help out on the way."

Sure enough, as soon as the words were spoken, the palanquins started moving again, and the six prison carts slowly started moving, heading towards the Frozen Hell.

Ning Xuan felt completely dazed.

He had always thought that in the battle between demons and celestial masters, the celestial masters were the ones who were completely suppressed, but today, he suddenly realized that he still knew too little about this world.

Especially that dark purple Celestial Master Seal just now, that little bit of purple was just decoration, it was just missing the billowing black smoke, was that really the Celestial Master Seal?
After a series of thoughts flashed through his mind, he said, "Let's enter the city first."

(End of this chapter)