Chapter 259 Night Watchman

Because there were clues to follow, Dou Yuankong's whereabouts were quickly found out.

He last appeared in Nanming City, Wanquan County, Qingzhou, but at that time he had already left the city gate in a carriage, and judging from the direction, he should be going to Anyuan City, which is famous for its winemaking.

This road was not too far from where the body of his old servant was found.

But soon, with the confirmation of Dou Yuankong's final destination, the rumors about the matter gradually subsided.

No more news came from either Shengjing or Tianshuyuan.

It was not until three days later that some children from aristocratic families mentioned the matter again, and the final clues of the search for Dou Yuankong's whereabouts gradually spread.

"Found it?"

"Yes, it is said that he went to a winery. The owner of the winery said that he was drunk and insisted on looking for a singing girl. He left in a daze. There are mountains and wilderness everywhere near the winery. The owner said that he might have wandered into the forest while unconscious."

"So it's just bad luck? It has nothing to do with the evil seed? After all this trouble, how could this be the result?"

"It's a good thing that it's not a man-made disaster. Does it have to be another demon?"

“…”

Ji You had been in the library hall in the inner courtyard these past few days, reading through the records about Ding Dao, trying to find out if there was any way to bypass the Bureau of Inquiry and achieve Dao Integration.

The result is predictable, nothing was found.

For thousands of years, the cultivation system of immortal cultivators has always been fixed, and it is rare to find someone who practices in such an abstract way as he does.

In addition, he also looked at the records about the holy land of the sages, as well as some history of the surviving clans, including the research of the predecessors on evil species.

The Holy Land of the Sages is the place where the destiny of the human race will be revived. This is no different from what he had heard before.

And in the broken space of the holy land, there are indeed the altar of heaven and the ancestral temple of the human race.

As for the surviving families, there is less information and some things are difficult to verify.

He has also been paying attention to Dou Yuankong's affairs.

Because this matter is discussed every day, he doesn't even need to ask about it, those things will float to his ears.

While Ji You was flipping through the book in his hand, Wen Zhengxin and Ban Yangshu came to the library. They both had experienced the evil seed incident personally, so they were naturally particularly concerned about this matter.

After hearing the results of the investigation into the Dou Yuankong incident, the two hurried to look for Ji You.

When seeing Ji You flipping through books in the library, Wen Zhengxin couldn't help but think of the rumor that Dou Yuankong could only hit it a dozen times each time.

Junior Brother Ji's body is probably stronger than several thousand Dou Yuankongs.

"Junior Brother Ji, have you heard about Dou Yuankong's incident?"

Ban Yangshu sat next to him at this time: "It is said that his disappearance has nothing to do with the evil seed. It is purely his own bad luck."

Ji You looked at the two of them at this time: "Have you noticed that although the news has leaked out, those who walked outside the sect have not returned."

Ban Yangshu was slightly startled: "?"

"I feel it is fake, a false news that was deliberately spread."

"This... shouldn't be possible, right?"

Ji You looked at Ban Yangshu's uncertain expression and reached out to close the book. "The Directorate sent two groups of disciples this time. Don't you think this is very similar to the arrangement we made when we went to Qiling?"

Hearing this, Wen Zhengxin and Ban Yangshu looked at each other and suddenly understood what Ji You meant.

When the incident happened in Qiling, they were sent out as pioneers to investigate. Only after it was confirmed that there was immortal fate in the ruins did the seven major immortal sects send out the second group of people to compete for the immortal fate.

In other words, when the Directorate sent out disciples for the second time, they most likely found some clues that could represent Dou Yuankong and the evil species.

Otherwise, the almighty Immortal Sect would not have mobilized such a large force.

Wen Zhengxin opened his mouth, but after coming to his senses, he couldn't help but lower his voice: "Could it be that they found out something that can't be made public? So they used fake results to quell the discussion about this matter?"

“It should be possible.”

"What could that be?"

Ji You shook his head: "I don't know, but there are many things in Qingyun that cannot be made public, such as those family-inherited techniques and the way to determine the way. They are no longer new. I am just afraid that it will either bring good luck or disaster."

Ban Yangshu and Wen Zhengxin looked at each other, then pursed their lips and said, "What the seven major immortal sects care about must be a big deal. It's better not to know. Anyway, small people like us can't get involved."

Hearing what the two said, Ji You gently placed his hand on the desk.

The seven major immortal sects hold the reins of power in the world and have always been the real rulers who lead the human race to survive in the world.

Small people really cannot participate in what they are planning, but the problem is that the things they decide may not always be a good thing, which is what is most worrying.

Now that Fengzhou has just begun to develop, people are already living a good life. What they fear most is the occurrence of unexpected events.

However, the fact that a person like me, who practices privately in the countryside, could prevent a few children from dying was already beyond my expectation.

You have to know that his original idea was just to find a bandit den and become the leader, robbing immortals to help the poor whenever he had time.

Wen Zhengxin also saw the book about Rong Dao on the table at this time, and couldn't help but glance at Ji You.

Ji You had lived in her yard for a period of time before. At that time, he was practicing meditation. Then Ji You resolutely embarked on the path of body refining.

He claimed to others that he was interested in body training and said that a good man should have a good body, but Wen Zhengxin always felt that Ji You was unable to integrate the Tao. Now, looking at the books he had read, he felt a little more confirmed.

At this moment, Ban Yangshu's voice suddenly sounded in her ears.

"What book are you reading, brother?"

"?"

Wen Zhengxin turned around and found that Ji You had a book in his hand with three words written on the cover - Night Watchman.

Ji You picked up the book, thought for a while, and then said, "Do you know that there was a saying called Night Watchman in Qingyun World?"

Wen Zhengxin frowned and said, "I've never heard of any night watchman."

"It seems like this is really a story made up based on a real-life background."

"Fabrication? What are you researching, Junior Brother?"

"Nothing, just a look..."

After chatting for a while, Wen Zhengxin and Ban Yangshu left.

Just as they said, even if Dou Yuankong was really related to the evil species, this was not a matter they could get involved in.

It was okay to join in the fun when everyone was talking about something, but if something unexpected really happened, they would just pray that there would be no dangerous follow-up.

Seeing Ban Yangshu and Wen Zhengxin leave, Ji You looked at the book "Night Watchmen" in his hand again.

He discovered this when he was looking up information. He was attracted by the name at first and felt it was quite interesting, so he just picked it out.

This book was placed on a bookshelf that stored body-refining techniques, and body-refining techniques were at the deepest part of the entire library. This book was in the very corner, so it was difficult for ordinary people to find it.

After all, body-building exercises have always been regarded as unorthodox, and no one would come to study them specifically.

Even Ji You had never paid attention to this corner within a corner before.

The book "Night Watch" does not tell the history of Qingyun Tianxia, ​​but is more like a story in a vernacular novel.

When he first opened it, Ji You thought that the book was misplaced by someone.

There is a legend in the story, which says that there is a terrible night hidden in this world. There are countless dangers hidden in the night, including man-eating monsters and world-destroying disasters.

However, people are not worried about the arrival of night because there are night watchmen in the world they live in.

This is a profession that has existed since ancient times, as old as the history of the advent of the Holy Relics.

Every generation of Night Watchmen is born in the Heavenly Academy, and their inheritance, like that of the Heavenly Academy disciples, comes from the Enlightenment of the Heavenly Book.

However, the Night Watchman does not live in the Heavenly Academy, but guards the mountains alone to resist demons and disasters. Apart from the seven major immortal sects, he is basically unknown to the public.

The reason why Ji You regarded it as a vernacular novel was that the descriptive style of this book was like a vernacular story.

Moreover, he not only asked Wen Zhengxin and Ban Yangshu, but also asked an elderly elder who was in charge of the library. He had never heard of the name of the Night Watchman in real life.

When Ji You saw the words "guard alone" and "until death", he couldn't help but complain, thinking that there were such jobs in the world that even dogs wouldn't do.

Yes, only those who write story-telling novels can come up with such a plot.

Because if this happened in the real Qingyun world, the Night Watchmen would have the ability to resist demons, and they would have to re-establish an immortal sect to exercise their power and authority.

But when he looked back, he fell silent.

Because the story says that in order to have enough combat power to guard this world, the Night's Watchers all take the path of forging a hegemonic body, and achieve a realm with their flesh bodies...

Things in the world are so strange. When he was looking for information on body training, he found nothing. But now he found some related words in a vernacular novel.

Because of this sentence, Ji You was unable to come back to his senses for a long time.

This story is too mysterious and has a very exaggerated feel. It looks like it was written by Gongshu Chou.

But the information revealed in this sentence made him feel as if there was some kind of correspondence in the universe.

Because the physical training method he was practicing blindly was almost the same as what was described in this book.

Everyone in the world thought that he was a private cultivator in the countryside and had no family inheritance, but in fact only he himself knew that he did have an inheritance.

His inheritance lies in the half volume of immortal book he picked up in the dense forest.

However, he had never found the source of that half volume of the heavenly book, nor had he heard of similar body refining methods, but at this moment he suddenly had a feeling of connection.

If the Night Watchmen really exist, then the skills I practice might not be theirs.

At this time, Ji You closed the book, sat quietly in the library, and thought.

In order to save Qiu Ru, he broke through two realms in one night, then coughed up blood for several days and his spiritual essence was shattered.

He always thought that it was the result of backlash, but if what he cultivated was really the dominant body forged by the Night's Watch, then it meant that this was not backlash.

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This is most likely the right way of practice for this lineage of Night Watchmen.

From awakening the spirit, to micro-illumination, to condensing the essence, the hidden power of the technique had already laid a foreshadowing in his body. When the lower three are perfected, the spiritual essence will naturally break down, allowing the spiritual energy to be infused throughout the body, laying the foundation for body building.

That makes sense.

Because after Ji You entered the Tianshu Academy, he looked up many rumors about the destruction of spiritual essence, and without exception, all of them ended in death.

If it weren't for the technique of forging a dominant body, he would probably have ended up like this.

However, why did he get the inheritance of the Night Watch?

Could it be that a night watchman had passed by Fengzhou and accidentally lost half of the immortal book, which was picked up by me? Then where are they guarding now? Ji You has always been quite lonely, mainly because he can't find a sense of belonging.

Old Qiu called him Young Master, but he knew clearly that he was not that Young Master Ji.

As for Tianshuyuan, forget it.

His sense of belonging to Tianshu Academy is not as strong as that to Lingjian Mountain. After all, there are tsundere people in Lingjian Mountain.

After knowing that there was a lineage of Night Watchmen in Qingyun World, Ji You suddenly felt a sense of belonging in his heart.

This is not because they may be practicing the same skills, but also partly because according to the story, these night watchmen seem to be good people.

I wonder if I’ll have a chance to meet you in the future?

However, he should forget about such a lonely and undemanding job as guarding the mountain alone. He is not suitable for it. He can't even sit still in Tianshu Academy, let alone in the mountains.

To be honest, this kind of work of keeping watch alone at night is not something that just anyone can do.

Ji You pondered in the library for a while, then closed the book and walked out of the library.

After knowing the possible source of his inheritance, Ji You actually felt a certain degree of peace of mind.

Because before, he always felt that his choice of body training was a helpless one, especially since everyone around him said that body training was a unorthodox path, which made him worry that this path would be a dead end.

But now it seems that I was not practicing blindly.

The Night Watchman's inheritance also comes from the Heavenly Book, but it is different from that of Taoist practitioners. This can explain why the Heavenly Book that he senses is different from that of others.

Ji Bochang is really lucky. He can train anyone he picks up into this level, and he even picked up a beautiful girl.

However, Ji You still didn't know the answer to why he saw Yan Shuyi in the heavenly book.

In the following days, Ji You paid close attention to matters concerning the Night Watchmen. He asked many people around him who knew the truth, and even went out of his way to check out the collection of books in Tianshu Academy.

The information gained is very little, not even as much as a page from that book.

Cao Jinsong was also questioned by him, but he didn't have much information to provide: "What is the origin of the Night Watchman?"

"Teacher, it seems that you still know very little about this world."

"?"

Ji You did not continue the question, but changed the subject: "Teacher, have you received your monthly salary?"

Cao Jinsong immediately waved his hands: "No, not a single cent."

"That's not right. It seems like the salary payment date has already passed?"

"There are only a few disciples stationed in the Office of the Administrator now. The others have not returned yet, so the payment of monthly salaries has been delayed."

Ji You frowned when he heard this: "Has the person from the Director's Office not returned yet?"

Cao Jinsong nodded, and his eyes became more serious.

Ji You felt that the story that Dou Yuankong encountered the evil spirit because of bad luck was false, and Instructor Cao also knew about this.

In fact, he originally thought that his evil disciple was just exaggerating, but after noticing that the disciple from the Head Office had not returned for a long time, he actually began to have some doubts in his heart.

However, within a few days, Ji You received a note from Kuang Cheng, inviting him to come down the mountain.

Ji You then went down the mountain and came to Kuang Cheng's yard, and saw Kuang Cheng looking at Ji You solemnly.

"Brother Ji, did you hear about Dou Yuankong's incident a few days ago?"

"I heard that he was unlucky because he got drunk and wandered into the forest by mistake. He got lost and wandered around aimlessly. He didn't know how he ended up in Sanli County, and then he encountered the evil species."

Kuang Cheng looked at Ji You at this time: "Things are not that simple."

Ji You raised his eyes and looked at him: "What did you find out?"

"I have a colleague who just returned from Anyuan City and went there on the way."

"Is there no so-called winery there?"

Kuang Cheng shook his head: "There is a winery, but there is only wine and no people inside. It's like they have disappeared from the face of the earth. Either there was no one in the winery before, or it disappeared after the seven major immortal sects went there. But the truth must not be what they said."

If there was no one in the winery before, then there would be no owner who would reveal Dou Yuankong's whereabouts.

If the seven major immortal sects have gone there and still no talented people, it means that there are some things that the immortal sect does not want the outside world to know.

Ji You had guessed this earlier and was not surprised: "Are the outsiders of the seven major immortal sects still in Anyuan City?"

"No longer. According to what my colleague said, there are no immortal cultivators in Anyuan City now."

“But they didn’t come back.”

In fact, Ji You had already sent a letter to Lingjian Mountain after he knew about this matter.

In his opinion, no matter whether the matter was concealed or not, Yan Shuyi always knew what happened.

But until now, he has not received a reply.

So in the following days, Ji You kept training his body.

Knowing that he was not practicing blindly, he was not as cautious as before. He continued to practice until the autumn was approaching, and then Ji You and Kuang Cheng left Tianshu Academy together.

With the help of the Heavenly Dao and the cultivation in the holy land of the sages, it will be autumn again in the blink of an eye.

For the two of them, there are some major events in the world that they cannot interfere with. Even if they care about them, it doesn't make much sense. However, the autumn harvest in Fengzhou is what they should do.

"Ji You is back in Fengzhou again?"

"It's almost autumn now. He has to go back every year at this time."

There had been no discussion about Ji You in Tianshu Academy, but after learning that Ji You had returned, there was a sudden surge of discussion.

Because almost everyone knew that he returned to Fengzhou for the autumn harvest.

This matter seemed very important to him, and he would always find time to go back whenever he participated in the Tiandao Conference.

The reason why they are concerned this time is mainly because Ji You is still a master of the art of enlightenment after coming out of the Holy Land of Sages. So in their view, those immortal villages that once succumbed to Ji You's tyranny may not be so cooperative anymore.

But what they didn't expect was that the actual situation was not the case.

The descendants of the immortal villages in Fengzhou basically all come from major families in the north.

Therefore, they have enough channels to know what happened after Ji You returned.

It is said that after Ji You returned for the first time, he rested for a day and then visited several larger families in Fengzhou.

At that time, the attitudes of these immortal villas were not very good, and even the doorman who opened the door had a cold face.

What was surprising was that when Ji You came out, the previous indifference was completely gone. Not only did the owner of the manor personally send him out, but he even nodded and bowed to everyone...

(End of this chapter)