I was favored by the evil god, and I became a white-bone bodhisattva.

Fei Wei repeatedly pondered over the siege methods he had read in military books, and had come up with three or four ideas along the way.

But when he actually arrived in Zhongling County, he was stunned.

"My lord, the rebel seems to want to fight with us to decide the outcome?"

Even though the other side had already deployed their troops, Fei Wei's generals still spoke in an uncertain tone.

The main reason is that Ge Chongtian's behavior is too unbelievable, he is simply crazy!

"Hahahaha, Mr. Fei, do you recognize this person?"

Although Ge Chongtian was the boss, he did not shrink back. He rode his horse to the front and used a fat man as a human shield in front of him.

This, this, this, this......

"How did Prince Fu fall into my hands? Because he didn't stay in Yizhou properly, and insisted on personally escorting the water cart to the capital to show his loyalty."

Ge Chongtian laughed wildly, patted his horse, and rushed out with the Hundred Immortals Army and all his brothers.

"Prince Fu is here, shoot the arrow if you dare!!!"

Ge Chongtian's move definitely caught Fei Wei off guard. He didn't have time to think about it and subconsciously shouted out the most irresponsible words.

"Don't hurt His Royal Highness Prince Fu—"

Prince Fu is being pushed to the front of the charge. How can we fight without injuring Prince Fu?

The soldiers in the front row held their spears tightly, not daring to move, and could only watch in despair as Ge Chongtian broke through their formation.

"kill!!!"

.........

In the battle of Zhongling County, Fei Wei suffered heavy casualties and fled in a panic.

The emperor was furious when he heard the news. He wanted to settle both old and new scores and execute the incompetent general, but the generals strongly advised him against it.

"Your Majesty, if Lord Fei had made the slightest mistake at that time, His Royal Highness Prince Fu would have been dead."

"This is not a crime of war, please revoke your order, Your Majesty!"

When the emperor first ascended the throne, he forcibly replaced the general with Lu Zhongliang, which made the Military Merit Group extremely dissatisfied.

Not to mention that Fei Wei's defeat was understandable. Even if he was defeated for no reason, he was still one of ours. How could we let the emperor kill him at will?

The emperor was both angry and unfamiliar with the generals' tough attitude. He was furious, but these people did not give in at all.

"Your Majesty, please take back your order—"

"If you want to kill Fei Wei, then kill me as well!"

"Behead this general as well!"

Cut it off -

Cut it off -

The shouts of "behead" echoed in the court. The emperor's face turned ashen, but there was a hint of panic in his eyes.

"Forget it, forget it. Since you, my dear ministers, have pleaded for Fei Wei, I will spare his life."

After a pause, the emperor resumed his tough tone and said, "But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped. Fei Wei will be demoted three levels and surrender his military power immediately!"

"Your Majesty is kind--"

Fei Wei's matter has been dealt with, so what's next...

The emperor cast his gaze towards Lu Zhongliang, but before he could speak, someone shouted, "Your Majesty, please recall Xue Deming and order him to lead the Shanhe Guards to quell the rebellion!"

Originally, the emperor thought it didn't matter who would go to quell the rebellion, as long as they could bring back Ge Chongtian's head as soon as possible.

But after what happened just now, the emperor no longer thought so. He was eager for his confidant Lu Zhongliang to truly take control of the military power.

"The Mountain and River Guards are still cutting down mountains and destroying temples. How can they be recalled at will?"

The emperor was determined not to allow it, but the Military Honor Group strongly advocated it, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

Then, something magical happened.

Before one side compromised, the imperial court was not in a hurry to send troops to quell the rebellion.

After defeating Fei Wei, Ge Chongtian used Zhongling County as his base and began to wreak havoc on the entire county!

..........

In many ways, the current emperor is far inferior to his father.

When the previous emperor was in power, the Military Merit Group was completely at his disposal. However, less than half a year after his death, the conflict between his successor and the Military Merit Group intensified to the point where a stalemate was required.

In addition to this typical example, the emperor's inability is also reflected in the control of public opinion.

The straw man in the imperial mausoleum intercepted the army. How serious is this?

As a result, he just found a scapegoat and naively thought that the matter was over.

There is no turning of the page.

A terrible public opinion was brewing, but the emperor in Yujing City was still unaware of it.

'It feels like a lot of big things happened in just a few days'

In a small county town in Langya County, Tangtang couldn't help but sigh in her heart as she listened to the people around her talking.

First, a super villain captured a city, then the former emperor appeared in the form of a scarecrow (?), and then the super villain captured Prince Fu for unknown reasons and defeated the rebel army.

I heard that Kaiyang County is very dangerous right now, and robbers may appear at any time and steal your things.

The little girl was walking on the street, and because she was distracted by what people were saying around her, she accidentally bumped into a stall.

"Sorry"

Tangtang quickly apologized, and after she apologized, a look of surprise appeared on her face.

There are three reasons. First, the things sold in this stall are very strange, they are silkworm pupae; second, the stall is run by a couple, the wife's belly is very big, and she might give birth in a few days; finally, the couple are both cultivators, and their cultivation is good, both of them are at the peak of the pupa pill level.

"That's all right, all right. Dao, would you like to buy some pupae to eat?"

Tangtang’s cultivation level is similar to that of the other two. She can tell that the other party is a cultivator, and the other party can also see her identity at a glance.

........

"Hey, silkworm pupae can be eaten?" The little girl was surprised.

"Haha, this is not a silkworm pupa but a butterfly pupa. But it's edible. It's delicious when fried."

Well, forget it. It feels weird.

Seeing the little girl waving her hands repeatedly, the man smiled and stopped selling. The pregnant woman warmly invited him, "It's fate that we meet here. Do you want to come to our house?"

For both the unfamiliar customers and the stall owner, such an invitation was very abrupt.

But considering that they were all practitioners, the woman's invitation was a natural thing to do.

"Okay, when will you two close the stall?"

"Collect it now!"

The man quickly packed up and pushed the wooden cart towards the rented house.

That’s right, it’s a rental house.

This is a pair of Taoist companions who are extremely poor, comparable to Dan Yunhe who has nothing in his pocket and makes a living by selling tofu.

Chapter 117: Emerging from the chrysalis to the butterfly

This Taoist couple are both independent practitioners. The man's name is Yuan Wu, and the woman's surname is quite rare, Hua Yin.

When they learned that Tangtang was also a casual cultivator, the two of them became even more enthusiastic.

"It's not easy to be a casual cultivator, especially when you reach the Pupa Pill stage. Soul Transformation Pill and True Transformation Pill are hurdles that are hard to bypass."

Yuan Wu poured a glass of water for the little girl, his face full of sighs.

"As for independent cultivators, they usually complete tasks for large sects in exchange for elixirs, right?"

A certain casual cultivator who went astray and was eventually killed by his own magic weapon once talked to Tangtang about this matter, so the little girl knew a little about it.

"Yes! Short-term missions have high risks and high returns, while long-term missions have the opposite."

Yuan Wu sighed, "Hua Yin and I are both on long-term missions. We worked hard for a sect for twenty years before we were able to get the Soul Transformation Pill. If we want to continue to exchange for the True Transformation Pill, we have to work for another thirty years. Thirty years! We can't do it anymore, so we can only take the Soul Transformation Pill and leave."

Tangtang counted on her fingers and felt that the foreman was quite unreasonable.

The lifespan of a Pupa Dan monk is not much different from that of an ordinary person. Twenty plus thirty years is enough to pass most of his life.

Moreover, you were not born as a Pupa Pill Monk. If you really want to exchange these two kinds of pills through hard labor, you will have to sacrifice your entire life.

"If you have resources of equivalent value, Tangtang can find a way to exchange them for Huazhen Dan for you."

Although she had suffered a loss once in this matter, the little girl was still eager to help.

Yuan Wu and Hua Yin both showed surprise, but the next moment they both smiled bitterly at the same time.

Individual cultivators with resources usually have a strong spirit of adventure, while hard-working individual cultivators like them are all poor.

........

After thanking the little girl for her kindness, Hua Yin hesitated for a moment and said, "Daoyou, when I was working in the sect before, I was always thinking about a question."

"what?"

"The art of alchemy only began to develop rapidly after the Great Jin unified the Nine Provinces. Could it be that without elixirs, the human predecessors before them would never have achieved immortality?"

Tangtang reacted quickly and said immediately: "The elixir was invented later, so there must have been other ways to advance before!"

"I think so too"

Hua Yin said with great joy, "Unlike the uneducated demon cultivators, we humans are truly well-educated. We have a particular way of naming each realm. Pupa Pill, Pupa Pill, the pill refers to the Soul Transformation Pill and the True Transformation Pill, then what does Pupa refer to, and why is the word Pupa before the word Pill?"

This fellow Hua Dao has a really divergent mindset, but there seems to be nothing wrong with his thinking.

Tangtang pondered for a moment and turned her gaze to the pile of butterfly pupae.

"Friend Hua, do you want to watch an insect emerge from its pupa and become a butterfly, so that you can transform into an immortal?"

"Not bad!"

Hanane looked like she had found a confidant, but soon lost her temper.

“Unfortunately it failed”

Yuan Wu said helplessly on behalf of his Taoist partner: "We watched the caterpillars transform into butterflies hundreds and thousands of times, but I don't know if we are just stupid or what, but in the end we didn't get any insights at all. There are a lot of butterfly pupae left that we can't bear to throw away, so we can only sell them at the market to supplement our family income."

Well, it's good to have the courage to try.

Just as the little girl was about to say something to comfort her, Yuan Wu cleared his throat and said, "Although it failed, I think Ayin's idea is correct. It's just that this method is not suitable for us."

........

If one method doesn't work, then naturally we have to try the next one.

"Fellow Daoist, do you know that the Huazhen Realm was actually called the Xiantai Realm a long time ago?" Yuan Wu asked with a smile.

Ding You once told Tang Tang about this matter. The little girl nodded and said, "It seems that the name was changed to suppress secret cultivation."

“Yes! Immortal fetus, since it has the word ‘fetus’ in it, maybe it will give birth to a little life, and we can gain insights from it and successfully break through.”

Is that why Hua Daoyou got pregnant?

The little girl had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite figure it out for a moment.

"Feeling the little life in my belly growing day by day, I feel an indescribable joy in my heart."

Hua Yin stroked her belly gently, and her expression infected Tangtang, making her involuntarily think of the time when she used the bone stick to conceive the White Bone Demon.

'In the blink of an eye, Xiaobai has grown from a relic into a grown-up girl.'

While Tangtang was sighing, she also felt a sense of joy and pride in her heart.

At this moment, the pupa pill in her body began to shake slightly.

Huh?

Seeing the little girl holding her stomach in surprise, Hanane quickly asked her if she was feeling unwell.

"I'm not feeling uncomfortable anywhere, it's just that Tangtang's pupa pill suddenly moved a little bit just now, but now it's not moving anymore."

Nothing is trivial when it comes to the Pupa Pill.