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Chapter 152 The Three Demon Sects

"You want to go?"

“Very well. After nine years of cultivating in the clan, it’s time to go out and see the world. It’s likely that most of the famous families in the world of supernatural beings will be attending Grandpa Lu’s 80th birthday celebration. This is a good opportunity to let them meet the successor of my Zhuge family.”

When Zhuge Wen, the patriarch of the Zhuge family, heard that Guan Yi planned to attend the Lu family's birthday banquet, he smiled gently and agreed: "The journey is long, more than a thousand miles. I am too old to travel such a long distance. Originally, I planned to have Zhuge Cheng take Xiaoyue with me."

Since you intend to go, let Zhuge Cheng take you with you. The situation is chaotic, so please be careful.

“I understand, Chieftain.”

Zhuge Cheng is Zhuge Yue's father, Zhuge Wen's third son, and Zhuge Chen's third brother. Guan Yi should call him "Third Uncle".

His skill as a sorcerer was similar to that of Zhuge Chen. He was kind, steady, and measured, and was originally the candidate for the next patriarch of the Zhuge family.

Hearing that Guan Yi was going, Zhuge Cheng was overjoyed. As a father, he knew best how 'mischievous' his daughter was, but unfortunately, he still didn't understand her well enough.

When the day of departure arrived, Zhuge Yue packed her luggage even earlier than Guan Yi and Zhuge Cheng and waited at the village entrance.

He chuckled as he saw the two approaching.

What started as a duo has become a trio.

……

Because of the chaotic situation, the Zhuge family mostly stayed at home. The farthest place Zhuge Yue had ever been in the past 25 years was the neighboring town.

On her first long journey, she was very excited, chirping incessantly like a lark, but as the journey grew longer, she gradually fell silent.

It is springtime, but it also means that everyone has just survived a harsh winter. Corpses can be seen by the roadside, and most of the people seen in the villages we pass through are emaciated.

"So, so everyone's suffering like this? Cousin Yi, before you went back to the Zhuge family..."

“Grandpa is an extraordinary person, at least he can guarantee our family’s food, clothing and shelter,” Guan Yi said. “It’s a bit worse than being in the Zhuge family, but not by much.”

"Is that so? That's not bad."

Zhuge Yue murmured, looking at the skeleton of a young boy she saw by the roadside, and a strange formation unfolded around her.

"Kunzi·Tuheche!"

The soil was turned over, burying the bones.

Zhuge Cheng glanced at his daughter and sighed silently. For most of the younger generation in the Zhuge family, the phrases "starving people everywhere" and "barely clothed" were just words from books. Without seeing it with their own eyes, they could hardly imagine the suffering that was happening on this land of China.

With the Zhuge family's capabilities, they could only help the surrounding villages and towns, but not those further away.

It was a good trip.

As for Zhuge Yi, he lived outside the Zhuge family for eighteen years, so there's probably nothing to worry about.

That was just the background set in the plan. In reality, Guan Yi had never lived in this era, and in the previous round, he had hardly ever left the Zhuge family's house.

He learned all of this from history books, and some of the scenes were quite impactful for him.

One person's strength cannot change the world's格局 (geju, a concept encompassing overall situation, overall structure, and overall character). But... things will eventually get better!

"Kunzi·Tuheche!"

The next time he saw the remains, Guan Yi also released a spell to bury on the spot those who could not survive in their own village and who wanted to find a way to make a living elsewhere but froze and starved to death on the way.

Zhuge Yue glanced at him and nodded gently.

At least let them rest in peace.

During the rest of their journey, the two buried more than a dozen more skeletons. This slowed their progress, but given their extraordinary speed, they still covered several hundred miles in three days.

We left Zhejiang and entered Jiangxi.

They traveled through wind and rain during the day.

We stayed overnight in a village or town.

They were stopped when they were about to pass through an old village called 'Jiangshan Village'.

The man who stopped them looked like a skilled farmer; he was lean but clearly muscular and very strong.

"You are……"

“Travelers passing through,” Zhuge Cheng stepped forward and explained, “Please rest assured, we are merely passing through your village and will not linger here.”

In those days, bandits roamed everywhere, but the men in this village weren't worried that they were bandits.

After all, the three were neatly dressed and unarmed, and one of them was a girl with skin so fair that he almost dared not look directly at her.

"Please, please take a detour," the man stammered. "Recently, quite a few people in our village have fallen ill with a strange disease."

"A strange illness?" The three looked at each other. Among the sorcerers' methods were many ways to practice medicine and save lives, and along their journey, they had also provided free medical treatment to ordinary people in the villages and towns where they stayed several times.

Zhuge Yue immediately asked, "What are the symptoms? If it's convenient, we can help take a look."

The man paused, but instead of showing any joy at meeting a doctor, he repeated, "You should leave quickly, please leave..."

Boom! Just then, a strange roar suddenly came from the village!

The sound was like a wooden door being smashed open, followed by several panicked shouts: "Liu San'er's wife has gone mad again! Quick, hold her down!"

"Ah...that damned woman actually grabbed me!"

"They're possessed by evil spirits! I said these people are beyond saving, they should just be thrown into the pond!"

They were speaking in dialect, but Guan Yi and the other two could understand the gist of it. The man in front of them was terrified and ran back, shouting, "Don't touch my wife!"

Guan Yi and his two companions exchanged glances again and followed the man named Liu San into the village. From the source of the noise, they saw a disheveled woman wildly waving her arms, indiscriminately attacking those around her. What struck them most was that a humanoid monster, resembling rotting mud, was clinging to her body, waving its claws in response!

"What is that?!" Zhuge Yue exclaimed in surprise.

"The Three Corpses? The methods of the Three Demons Sect!" Zhuge Cheng's expression immediately turned serious.

"The Three Demon Sect? That's the Three Corpses?"

The Three Demons Sect can be seen as a branch of Taoism. Successors of the Three Demons Sect throughout history have acted together with the Quanxing Sect, making them extremely mysterious.

They practice special techniques that allow them to control the three internal organs representing 'greed, anger, and ignorance' within themselves to attack their opponents, and also to manipulate the three internal organs of others.

The mud demon hanging on the woman in the distance was clearly one of the Three Corpses, but the ordinary people had no perception of Qi and could not see it clearly. They only felt that the woman was possessed by a demon and had gone mad.

“The character '巽' (xùn) and the wind rope.”

Seeing the chaos continue, Zhuge Yue couldn't help but intervene. A rope formed from wind snaked out and instantly bound the woman being controlled by the three corpses, pulling her to the ground.

The surrounding villagers froze, staring in astonishment at the three people: "Immortals?!"

A few minutes later, at Liu San's house, Liu San knelt heavily before Guan Yi and the other two: "Please, three immortals, save my wife! Please, three immortals!"

"We've already said we're not immortals."

Zhuge Yue looked at the woman lying on the bed, her three corpses having returned to their bodies after a long sleep, with a headache, and then looked at Zhuge Cheng and asked, "Father, do you have a solution?"

Zhuge Cheng shook his head: "Once the three corpses are activated, they can only be suppressed by her own will. External forces cannot help her. Even the successor of the Three Demon Sect who activated her three corpses cannot change it."

He looked at Liu San, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked with a serious expression, "Get up first. How long has your wife been in this condition? Has anything happened to her?"

Liu San didn't understand what "Three Corpses" meant, but considering the three people to be immortals, he gritted his teeth and said truthfully, "It's been... about seven or eight days. That day I came home from digging the fields and found... found my wife had been raped by some bastard, and then she went crazy. I... I didn't dare to find a doctor..."

"Rape?" Zhuge Yue's face darkened.

This era placed great importance on female chastity. In closed clan villages like this, if a woman lost her chastity, she might even face horrific tragedies such as being buried alive or drowned.

No wonder Liu San, who initially mistook them for doctors, refused to let them treat women; such men are rare these days.

"That bastard from the Three Demons Sect not only attacked ordinary people, but also..."

“Those wicked people from Quanxing are just like that, completely unrestrained,” Zhuge Cheng said in a low voice. “Seven or eight days, he might not be far away yet. Xiaoyue, we…”

He couldn't bring himself to say the words, "Leave here as soon as possible." Even though, rationally, they should avoid encountering Quanxing, emotionally, as a father, he didn't want to disappoint his daughter.

Moreover, this is exactly what Zhuge Liang intended!
Although it was somewhat shameful for an elder to feel at ease because of the presence of a junior, Zhuge Cheng quickly changed his mind and said, "We should be careful and stay here for a while. Teaching her some meditation techniques might help her."

Zhuge Yue nodded gently: "Cousin Yi, do you have a better idea?"

"Let me try."

Guan Yi walked to the bedside, using the Qi of the Upper Elixir, the Essence of the Middle Elixir, and the Essence of the Lower Elixir as the source of energy, and suddenly ignited the Samadhi True Fire, which he controlled carefully to burn towards the woman's three corpses.

The flames that can burn the soul can also burn the three corpses, but the woman's body was too weak. Guan Yi stopped after burning her for only two seconds, as burning her any longer would have killed her.

"With Samadhi Fire, the art of calming the mind, and the knowledge of meditation, three days should be enough to make him fine."

"Really? That's great! Cousin Yi is amazing!" Zhuge Yue cheered.

Guan Yi looked at her bright smiling face and thought to himself that she must have died here in the last round.

No wonder that judging from the state of Zhuge Yue's corpse, she had scratched her own face. The enemy was a villain who would insult women, and only in this way could she avoid greater humiliation.

Are they the successors of the Three Demon Sects of this era?
That's really outrageous.

A murderous intent rose in Guan Yi's heart.

　I didn't set an alarm today and slept until noon. Sorry! I'm currently writing like crazy. The next chapter will be posted this evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)