The blonde woman disappeared from his sight again. Zhao Wenduo only saw a few pieces of melon seed shells swirling down, and there was a moment of confusion in his mind.

Then he felt a sharp pain in his ribs, and he couldn't hold his breath anymore. He exhaled without making any sound, and the breath leaked out.

Only then did he notice from the corner of his eye that the blonde had a playful smile on her face and poked a finger between his ribs.

"Brother Zhao, don't..."

He could hear Tianzhi's urgent cries, but years of hard training and life-and-death struggles still gave him the courage he needed. At the risk of losing his balance, he twisted around and delivered a vicious knee strike to the woman.

Emily is like a good little kitten in front of Yang Sheng, but that doesn’t mean she is like that to other people.

She just poked her finger forward a little bit, but Zhao Wenduo couldn't stand her poking his lungs like that, and he screamed in pain, unable to maintain his posture any longer, and fell to the ground with a thud.

Although he was in a mess, he finally realized the huge difference in strength between the two sides.

Over there, Yang Sheng patted the three weirdos on the shoulders, smiled at them, went around the cloth weirdo and helped him pick up the "Tetanus Knife" and handed it back to him. Although he didn't say anything, he successfully let the three people know that he had no ill intentions, and they followed him obediently.

Emily grabbed a handful of melon seeds, stepped back a few steps and started eating them, making it easier for Lan Tianzhi and Lao Xiao to help Zhao Wenduo who had fallen to the ground.

"Well, I heard from you that you can apply for an ID card and register your household registration for free? Do you think we can also follow the regulations and enjoy this preferential policy?"

"Damn, why didn't you tell me earlier? You scared me."

After Lan Tianzhi was stunned for a moment, he relaxed and started shouting on the spot.

……

Later, Yang Sheng called Nina and Lina down and asked them to pretend to come out of the nearby forest and get on the vans called by Lan Tianzhi with everyone else.

Go to the department where Lan Tianzhi and others are located, the Special Affairs Department’s headquarters in Shannan City.

The three weirdos were in another van. Although Yang Sheng did not beat them, they did have some wild beast habits. Knowing that he had absolute strength, they behaved more submissively.

I don't know who trained him.

They were in another van, like curious babies, curious about everything in the car.

In Yang Sheng's car, apart from the driver, Lan Tianzhi and Zhao Wenduo, the rest of the people were his family.

Although both sides had a lot of questions, the car was obviously not a good time to start a narrative.

In order to liven up the atmosphere and act as a lubricant, Lan Tianzhi introduced to Yang Sheng and the other three some matters that their Special Affairs Department could announce to the public.

Zhao Wenduo stared at Yang Sheng's family of four the whole way. Although he had no expression on his face, everyone felt that even though he knew there was a huge gap in strength, he was likely to rush up and attack at any time.

As for the old Xiao in the sportswear, his full name was Xiao Yuanjian. Now that the mission had come to an end, he had his own residence in Shannan City, so naturally he went home.

He rode a scooter, wore a helmet, and took another route.

The two vans drove along the road outside the city and entered a mountainous area. The Special Affairs Department was headquartered in a Taoist temple here.

It was almost midnight. There were some dim street lights on the road leading into the mountains, and some houses and small shops could be seen on the roadside, which gave it a very rural feel.

"Songshan Temple".

There is a parking lot at the gate of the Taoist temple, with several vans of the same model parked there. Judging from the Chinese characters on the car logo, they should be domestically produced in this mysterious country in this world. I just don't know if they are the homologue of the "Wuling Magic Car".

After the three weirdos got off the car, they, under the guidance of the cloth man, consciously stood behind Yang Sheng's family.

The cloth strip weirdo is the eldest of the three, and the other two completely follow him.

Having acted as a lubricant along the way, Lan Tianzhi's face was a little stiff from smiling. Time had passed so quickly that it was impossible for him to inquire about the situation overnight or work for several people. So he arranged a place to stay for one night first.

From this we can see that although Lan Tianzhi and his guys talk quite meanly, they are quite honest in doing things, or rather, the people who make the regulations for them are quite honest in that they did not arrange 500 executioners here to arrest them. Yang Sheng saw the shadow of the "Three Old Articles" unique to the mysterious country in this.

The residence arranged for Yang Sheng's family is a separate small courtyard. It looks old from the outside, but it is very well maintained. The inside is also very clean and tidy, and there are several very thick cypress trees.

At least the three girls were quite satisfied with it. It was no worse than those hotels in some top tourist attractions which were extremely expensive and had very simple conditions.

Yang Sheng confirmed through his "mobile phone" that the "submarine airship" had been following him automatically and stopped a few hundred meters above the Taoist temple before he fell asleep with peace of mind.

……

At dawn, Yang Sheng and his family got up without listening to the bell in the Taoist temple.

It's not just temples that ring bells; Taoist temples also have this business, but it depends on the income of the temple and the need for a sense of ritual.

Listening to the morning bell and evening drum in a Taoist temple where a thin mist rises in the early morning is indeed very poetic.

Yang Sheng felt that he no longer had those worldly desires (meow)... Well, just sayin'. He listened to the bell and checked the well in the yard. He thought the water quality was fine and fully met the standard for direct drinking. Of course, it was no problem to use it for washing.

It’s just that there’s no place to take a shower here. After doing morning exercises with the three girls, he can only wipe it simply with well water - no wonder, [Cleaning Spell] is a regular spell in his daily life, and he can stay clean even without water.

Just as they finished packing, Lan Tianzhi, dressed in a Taoist robe, came into the yard.

Before, I thought he was a professional COSER so he had long hair. Now seeing him in a Taoist robe, Yang Sheng felt that this guy might have such trendy long hair mainly because he is a Taoist priest.

Lan Tianzhi came not to inform Yang Sheng to attend the morning interrogation, but to take them to the Taoist temple's cafeteria to eat.

Not far from the courtyard, they saw the three of the cloth-strip weirdo guarding the roadside. When they saw Yang Sheng's family coming, they first bowed to them and kowtowed to them, regarding themselves as juniors, and then followed behind them, performing the etiquette of disciples.

The submissive look was completely different from the wild and unruly look last night...six people.

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Lan Tianzhi took Yang Sheng and his family to the cafeteria of Songshan Temple.

This is probably a mixed office, serving as both the office of the Special Affairs Department and the Taoist gate of Songshan Temple.

The workers in the cafeteria were half and half wearing Taoist robes and half wearing casual clothes.

The food here is average, but perhaps because of the "cultivation" and the fact that Taoists do not strictly follow the dietary rules and regulations, there is no lack of meat in the food.

For example, chicken legs, fried fish, etc., and drinks such as cola and soda are also provided.

Although Yang Sheng is usually picky, he is not that delicate, and the same goes for the other girls.

Lina has always had a good appetite, probably because the earth is rich in materials and fried food tastes better. She ate 10

Serving size.

Everyone around was stunned. Originally, their table attracted attention because there were two blonde foreigners, both of whom were beautiful. Lina's appetite also attracted a lot of attention. It was estimated that before breakfast was over, the news that a beautiful woman with a big appetite had arrived in the office would spread throughout the Taoist temple.

This is the cafeteria, so you don’t have to clean up the dishes yourself after eating. You just need to put them in the designated place, and there will be special people to take care of it.

Yang Sheng made himself a pot of tea - since there was already a ready-made "supernatural atmosphere" here, he did not pay special attention to the details in this regard. He took out the teapot and teacup out of thin air, put tea leaves in it and filled a pot of hot water.

"Hey, you actually have mustard equipment"

Lan Tianzhi was still amazed at his ability to take objects out of thin air.

Yang Sheng didn't know much about Taoist culture, but he knew words commonly seen in online articles such as "许臾芥子", which was the classical Chinese term for "space storage equipment".

"Why, things like this are very precious...outside?"

“Of course, in the Dharma Ending Age, spiritual energy is exhausted. Only cultivators like us who have been blessed by our ancestors can absorb some spiritual energy from the heaven and earth by guarding our own secret realms. After thousands of years in the outside world, ninety-nine percent of the magic tools have lost their magical powers or their spiritual energy has been exhausted, and have become…”

Lan Tianzhi thought about it and said, "It has become a product of feudal superstition."

"Oh, I see"

Yang Sheng nodded, "You said 'we', could it be that you also come from a sect with its own secret realm?"

Lan Tianzhi nodded, "That's Songshan Temple. It seems that although you are very receptive to the outside world, you still don't understand the affairs of our cultivation world. Like Fellow Daoist Fengjian, you are from a secluded and hidden mountain gate. Our Songshan Temple is the leading large-scale cultivation sect in the southwest, and everyone knows that we have our own secret realm."

Fellow Daoist Fengjian refers to the three brothers of Bu Tiao Weirdos. Fengjian may be the Daoist name of Bu Tiao Weirdos.

"Oh, I see. But if you are so famous, why didn't I hear any news outside?"

Yang Sheng asked.

"Of course. How would ordinary people know about the cultivation world? People in the cultivation world will not spread the news everywhere, especially to ordinary people. The name of our unit, 'Special Affairs Department', is very obvious. How can a confidentiality agency publicize it to the outside world? And when you came, you didn't see the sign of 'Special Affairs Department' hanging on us. To the outside world, our Songshan Temple is just a Taoist temple with a thousand-year heritage."

Lan Tianzhi said.

"So are you a sect or an official organization?"

"Songshan Temple is a sect, but the 'Special Affairs Department' is an official organization. There is no conflict between the two. Do you see those people?"

Lan Tianzhi pointed at the diners in the cafeteria who were wearing casual clothes.

"They are serious civil servants, with a formal national system. As long as we don't commit crimes and violate national laws, the state will not interfere with the normal operation of sects like you and me. Even in some 'secret realms', the state fully respects our ownership of the secret realms. But after all, times have changed. Even in secret realms, we must abide by some iron laws. We can't deal with disciples as arbitrarily as before. Regardless of whether they violate sect rules or laws, they must be handed over to the Special Affairs Department for handling. The Special Affairs Department has a judicial system specifically for practitioners. Now, all domestic cultivation sects or organizations are subject to the constraints of the "Mysterious Country Practitioner Convention"

After thinking for a while, he added: "Well, let's put it this way. Now the sects or organizations of cultivators in the country have all formulated their own rules in line with the "Mysterious Country Cultivator Convention". Even the secret realms of the sects are not beyond the law."

Yang Sheng: “…”

The last sentence really gave me a sense of déjà vu...

……

After drinking tea and putting away the tea utensils, Lan Tianzhi led the group out of the cafeteria.

When passing by the courtyards of Taoist temples, you can see many people "practicing martial arts". In addition to the disciples of Songshan Temple wearing Taoist robes, there are also many people in plain clothes.

Yang Sheng and his friends took a few casual glances and realized that it was just a fitness exercise.

Or only when there is abundant spiritual energy can you practice something.

The situation on the scene was similar to that in old movies. In each place there was a person who should be a master or coach giving instructions. He would shout out a code name or the name of a move, and the students would perform corresponding movements and postures according to the routine.

He didn't know martial arts, but he had been practicing the routines in World 02 for several years. He learned them from Hu Li, Emily's former martial arts club president, who returned to her own martial arts school as the owner after graduation.

What she practiced was pure physical boxing, without any mysterious elements.

If she hadn't learned the common sense of modern fitness from Yang Sheng, her children's jobs would probably be difficult to come by...

"Well, you teach breathing techniques to ordinary disciples here?"

Yang Sheng observed along the way and found that although these ordinary disciples did not have any extraordinary powers, they all had good physical fitness and their breathing rhythms were uniform, and it was obvious that they had received professional training in this area.

"Breathing technique? Oh, you mean the breathing technique, it's the basic skill, of course it should be taught. Even if you can't enter the realm, practicing the breathing technique can make people breathe long and prolong their life. Doesn't your sect teach these things?"

Yang Sheng pondered for a moment and realized what he meant, "Doesn't your sect teach ordinary disciples these things?"

Without waiting for his answer, Taoist Fengjian spoke slowly in his strange voice:

"Yes, but... our master... only teaches... our respective breathing techniques based on... our talents."

After last night, the three brothers had changed into more normal clothes, that is, Taoist robes, and might have taken a shower. Only a slight smell from before remained on their bodies. If it weren't for Yang Sheng's sensitive nose, he would not have been able to smell this smell.

But Taoist Fengjian was still wrapped in cloth strips - Yang Sheng knew that his body was covered with marks of burns, and compared to his original body, he looked more normal with the cloth strips wrapped around him.

"Oh--"

Yang Sheng nodded and saved himself the words.

"I will take you to see Director Liu later. Don't worry, I will not be interrogating you. I will just ask you some normal questions. You just need to answer truthfully."

The interrogation took place in a side hall, but after a modern renovation, it was equipped with screens, sofas, and coffee tables, making it look more like a reception room.

Or maybe it was originally a reception room.

Director Liu is an old man with a kind face. He is not a Taoist priest. He has short hair, but he wears a Taoist robe.

The first to be questioned were the three Fengjian brothers, after all, they were the main targets of Lan Tianzhi and the other two.

Yang Sheng and three others were sitting on a sofa nearby and listening in. There wasn't even a screen to block the conversation. It was truly open and transparent.

After listening to the questions and answers from both sides for a while, Yang Sheng found that it was more like popular science rather than an inquiry. Director Liu patiently and carefully explained to Feng Jian the management system for practitioners in the mysterious country, such as how the ownership of the "secret realm" was stipulated and how the related property rights were stipulated. His explanations were very patient and detailed.

This is also what Yang Sheng felt benefited the most from. These regulations were obviously formulated by "professionals" according to the characteristics of the "secret realm" and "practitioners", and were of great help to him in managing the "Guanyingshan Force" - he even felt that he could copy some laws and regulations to his own territory for trial use.

However, the old man also asked some seemingly irrelevant questions in a roundabout way. The three brothers of Fengjian Taoist didn't seem to be very smart and couldn't understand the meaning of these questions.

Yang Sheng and Emily looked at each other and saw hidden smiles in each other's eyes - Director Liu was asking the three people about their methods of cultivation. He was probably not coveting their "secret realm" or "secret method", but the green fire spell used by Taoist Fengjian. It seemed to be an evil spell that collected corpse qi and ghost fire for cultivation. It required a large number of corpses and then processed in a specific way to produce the so-called "corpse qi".

We all know about the funeral system of the mysterious country. Burning the corpses into ashes will not produce "corpse gas", so we have to find out the source of these corpses.

They soon found out that the three brothers were picked up by their master and brought back to the secret realm more than 30 years ago. This was the first time they came out of it. The "corpses" used for cultivation had been there for a long time. The clothes of the third brother, the mute Taoist, were stripped off from the corpses... The three brothers didn't know how old the corpses in the "corpse cave" were, but Taoist Fengjian briefly described the characteristics of those corpses... Well, they were not from the previous Republic of China. They might be corpses from the Qing Dynasty or even the Ming Dynasty.

Some of them are said to be their ancestors, and they plan to deal with themselves after their death and bury them in the "corpse cave", provided that they can find the next generation of successors to their sect this time.

Yang Sheng felt that their future was worrying... He didn't think anyone would deal with their bodies in the future.

From the fact that they are the only remaining heirs of the sect, we know that this unknown small sect is quite bleak... Is it really necessary for such a sect to continue to exist in the context of the times?

As for the "corpse qi" mentioned by Fengjian Taoist, he speculated that it might be phosphorus gas or will-o'-the-wisp produced by the corpse.

The former is a very common phenomenon in the ordinary world, but the latter requires at least a certain objective supernatural element basis to produce ghost fire, and there are many types of ghost fire. Without personally going to their "secret realm" to explore, it is difficult to judge what type of ghost fire secret method Fengjian Taoist practiced.

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