Chapter 146 Wake Up (4K)
Zheng Fa was walking on the mountain path to the eighth peak.
It was early morning now, and there were many disciples of Uncle Pang's lineage on the Eighth Peak. When they saw Zheng Fa, the disciples with lower cultivation levels would first bow to him, and even the disciples with higher cultivation levels would smile at him.
Zheng Fa knew that this was due to the influence of that batch of yellow sprout rice.
At the beginning, Zheng Fa and Qianhe Sect agreed that the amount of yellow sprout rice per month was 300 dan.
But these 300 stones were actually sold out in just ten days, and later on they even had to restrict outsiders from buying.
According to current calculations, Jiushan Sect has to order at least 600 dan of yellow sprout rice from Qianhe Sect every month, which is double what was previously stated.
The biggest beneficiaries of this transaction are the disciples of Jiushan Sect.
Zheng Fa walked along the way, bowing to his fellow disciples and returning the greetings.
The journey that used to take less than an incense stick of time now took half an hour.
By the time we arrived at Uncle Pang's hall, the sun was already high in the sky.
Uncle Pang was in the hall, and he didn't seem surprised to see him. He just nodded at him and said, "Nephew Zheng, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zheng Fa bowed to Uncle Pang and took a look around the hall.
Many disciples still stayed here, looking at him curiously.
To be fair, among the three Nascent Soul masters of Jiushan Sect, Uncle Pang is actually the one who cares about his disciples the most.
Not to mention my own master, Sect Leader Yuan.
He has not met Master Huang, the master of Senior Sister Zhang, but he can see his residence.
Only Uncle Pang would pull his disciples over to teach them every now and then.
Master Pang is one of the rare people who always thinks about his own disciples.
Thinking of this, he was a little envious of these senior brothers.
"Uncle, I came here to ask for a favor." Zheng Fa said, "Now that Senior Sister Zhang has taken away many of my brothers, the General Affairs Hall and the Market are short of manpower. I would like to ask you to send some brothers to help me manage the Market."
“…”
Uncle Pang slowly sat up straight and looked at Zheng Fa.
His expression could only say one thing: Junior Brother Zhang had just left, and you were ready to raise the flag of rebellion? Zheng Fa certainly understood his thoughts.
The General Affairs Pavilion and the market town have always been Senior Sister Zhang's territory, and disciples of Uncle Pang's lineage are not allowed to interfere.
"I mentioned this to Senior Sister Zhang before she left." Zheng Fa explained, "Senior Sister Zhang also agreed."
In fact, Senior Sister Zhang took so many senior brothers away this time in order to clear some obstacles for him.
Seeing Uncle Pang still not believing it, Zheng Fa had no choice but to explain further:
"Over the years in the market, some disciples have taken advantage of Senior Sister Zhang to rob people, and some disciples have even colluded with those profiteers."
"Although Senior Sister Zhang has always been lenient with this matter, to be honest, this kind of thing can't be stopped despite repeated bans."
"The market is getting more prosperous now, but the people who are trying to get their hands on it are also getting bolder, and there are more of them than usual."
Zheng Fa knew that this kind of thing would continue in the future, and would even get worse.
He is confident that he can earn more and more spiritual stones and materials from the market.
On the other hand, as inspiration declines, these things become more and more valuable.
Even Senior Sister Zhang had to admit that no matter how capable she was, she could not control human greed.
Just suppress it by changing some rules.
"So you want to invite my disciple to go?"
"All of you are good at the Void Spirit Eye." Zheng Fa said with a smile: "I would like to ask you to guard the market. The first is to prevent people from causing trouble, and the second is to supervise the disciples in the market."
All the direct disciples of Uncle Pang's lineage have practiced the "Dongxu Spirit Eye" - of course, the unlucky Zhou Qianyuan has not.
In Zheng Fa's mind, these are all good candidates for security guards! They come with built-in surveillance!
Hearing what he said, the disciples in the hall looked at each other, seemingly not very interested - this job sounded boring and offensive, especially since the market town was Senior Sister Zhang's territory.
"Of course, I won't let you work for nothing!" Zheng Fa held up three fingers and said, "I will give you three extra spirit stones per month on behalf of Senior Sister Zhang."
At this point, the faces of several brothers became moved——
Being bored is good!
Who wouldn't want to get paid for nothing? It's even better to offend people! The ones I offend are you guys who eat alone! With the spirit stone, everything is easy!
Uncle Pang looked at Zheng Fa, then at his own disciples who all had excited expressions.
I always feel that Zheng Fa can lead this group of disciples away with just a wave of his hand.
Three spirit stones a month is actually not that high - because disciples like Uncle Pang are at least at the foundation-building stage. Even if a foundation-building disciple in the market does not work hard to make money, it is not a problem for him to earn this income.
But Uncle Pang's lineage was really poor! They were in charge of the Discipline Institute and were paid a fixed salary.
Unlike Senior Sister Zhang’s lineage, which has a market under its control and a lot of money.
When it comes to drawing talismans, Uncle Pang's disciples are no match for Senior Sister Zhang's lineage - most of the talisman market for Xuan-grade talismans and above in the market town is controlled by Senior Sister Zhang's lineage.
It is precisely because of this that although Master Uncle Pang taught his disciples so diligently, there is actually no clear distinction between the strengths of the two lineages - after all, Master Uncle Pang's lineage does have fewer resources in comparison.
No wonder they are dissatisfied with Senior Sister Zhang.
On the one hand, Senior Sister Zhang's move was of course to tidy up the market.
On the one hand, it is also a concession.
"I actually underestimated Junior Brother Zhang's broad mind." After a long silence, Uncle Pang nodded gently: "In that case, whoever of you is willing to go, follow Junior Brother Zheng later."
After Uncle Pang finished speaking, he looked at Zheng Fa and suddenly said, "Have you reached the sixth level of Qi training?"
"yes!"
Zheng Fa nodded slightly and responded.
He was already practicing quite fast, and he had been at Senior Sister Zhang's house these days, so he had plenty of spiritual energy.
The breakthrough happened naturally.
"Others' breakthroughs become slower and slower, but yours become faster and faster..." Uncle Pang was silent for a moment: "Your breakthrough speed has actually caught up with that of nephew Zhang in his youth."
Zheng Fa was stunned. He didn’t know how fast Senior Sister Zhang’s breakthrough was—but what he knew was that Senior Sister Zhang was the fastest in the Hundred Immortals Alliance to establish a foundation…
But if you think about it carefully, it's natural.
The help that "The Foundation Building Method of the Way of Talismans" gave him was far greater than that given by Senior Sister Zhang.
If we include the modern times, he has been practicing for quite some time.
Now he lives in the place with the most spiritual energy in Jiushan Sect.
"You have made such progress, so as your elder, I have to reward you." Uncle Pang's hand flashed, and a jade tube appeared in his hand: "I still have some secret methods for practicing this "Dongxu Spirit Eye". You can take it back and discuss it with nephew Zhang."
Zheng Fa was stunned and looked at Uncle Pang - you really are keeping it to yourself? Of course, he also knew that this was Uncle Pang's way of returning the favor.
…
"You mean? Someone is watching me?"
Zheng Fa didn't expect that he would get big news just after he hired a few security guards in the market town - and the news was not about the market town, but about himself.
“Yes.” Seeing Zheng Fa’s confusion, Sun Daoyu explained, “Our lineage has always been responsible for the safety of the Jiushan Sect, and some disciples are patrolling the sect. We told those disciples to pay more attention to the situation near Junior Brother.”
Zheng Fa was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but thank him, "Thank you for your trouble, senior brother."
Sun Daoyu waved his hand and said, "Junior brother, you let us earn spiritual stones, but we don't have any secret methods like our master, so we can only do some small things."
Zheng Fa smiled bitterly: "This is no small matter."
Unexpectedly, Senior Sister Zhang's foresight really helped him avoid trouble.
Sun Daoyu took him to the inn on the corner of the street.
There are already several senior brothers here at this time, communicating with the innkeeper.
"Master Zheng!" This shopkeeper was not a disciple of Jiushan Sect. He seemed to be a relative of a senior brother. He opened an inn in the sect to make a living.
"It was you, the shopkeeper, who discovered it?"
"Of course! As soon as these two entered our inn, they stayed in their room and didn't come out. I don't know what they were doing every day." The innkeeper nodded and said, "I know that room. The window faces the courtyard of your home, Master Zheng."
"These real people came to ask me if there were any suspicious people near your home, and I remembered these two people."
When the shopkeeper said this, his face was a little bitter: "I was actually a little suspicious, and I didn't think they really had bad intentions. I think the young man among these two people likes our Jiushan Sect very much."
"like?"
"Yes, after that person watched "Saving Little Cultivator Pang Qian", whenever he saw me, he liked to talk about the good things about our Jiushan Sect, and his tone seemed full of envy..."
Zheng Fa and Sun Daoyu looked at each other.
"Do you really believe this?" Sun Daoyu said slowly.
"...More than I do." The shopkeeper looked puzzled.
Even Zheng Fa didn't know what to say. After the drama was released, most people in the Jiushan Sect just watched it for fun. It didn't have a strong brainwashing effect - but unexpectedly it moved the bad guy.
All I can say is that distance creates beauty.
"Where are the people?"
"We went to knock on the door, just to ask, but who knew that the two men ran away as soon as they saw us..." A senior brother said, "Several senior brothers went to chase them, but the body movements used by these two people seemed to be the legendary Heavenly Demon Absolute Shadow."
Sun Daoyu was startled, his expression became more serious: "The Heavenly Demon Shadow is the secret teaching of the Great Freedom Demon Sect. Junior Brother Zheng, I have to report this to Master, what do you think?"
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"I'll go see the headmaster too."
…
“Devil’s Shadow?” On the ninth peak, the head of the sect frowned upon hearing this technique, and showed a rare look of worry: “Great Freedom Demon Sect?”
He thought for a while, then suddenly looked at Zheng Fa: "Did you hook up with the Saint?"
“…”
What a big disciple PTSD.
"...No, it won't." The headmaster shook his head.
Zheng Fa felt inexplicably relieved in his heart - this old man still trusts his character! "Zhang Shiji will not give you this opportunity."
“…”
Senior Sister Yuan on the side nodded and stared at Zheng Fa vigilantly.
"Master, what kind of existence is this Great Freedom Demon Sect?"
"...The Demon Sect." The head of the sect suddenly sighed and said, "You also know that the Great Freedom Demon Sect was founded by the cultivators who survived the previous catastrophe."
Zheng Fa and Senior Sister Yuan nodded.
"Rumor has it that some of those monks are still alive."
"ah?"
This is a bit too turtle-like.
It has been at least a million years since the last catastrophe.
How could someone survive until now? "Including the Great Freedom Demon Sect, we know of a total of thirteen great families of demon sects - that is, there are thirteen ancient monks who passed down their bloodlines, and they are collectively called the Demon Sect."
"These people are called the Thirteen Demon Ancestors. Some of them may still be alive. The most likely one is the founder of the Great Freedom Demon Sect."
"...Master, I just have one question, how did our sect survive?"
According to the rules of the Xuanwei world, the older you get, the stronger you become.
If someone could really live that long, what would they play? "From the classics, the last catastrophe was indeed dominated by the Demon Sect, but the Tianhe Venerable single-handedly raised his sword, destroyed the thirteen great families, and fought with some giants hidden in history before unifying Xuanwei."
“…So this calamity is the time for the Immortal Sect to take charge, and we Immortal Sect have also been working hard to suppress the Demon Sect.”
The head of the sect sighed and said, "Now that the traces of the Great Freedom Demon Sect have appeared, it is really not good news."
"Master... why are these demon ancestors so obsessed with continuing their bloodline?" Zheng Fa couldn't help but ask.
This was what he could not understand the most.
When practicing Taoism to achieve immortality, reproduction becomes less important.
Especially for an existence that can be told from listening that it has lived for a million years - this blood relationship is quite distant.
"The magic sect's skills all come from the Thirteen Demon Ancestors, and only their bloodline can practice them. I have never seen these skills, but a great man once said that to the Demon Ancestors, these people are both their descendants and their cauldrons. In the end, they may even be their blood food."
"There are also rumors that a demon ancestor has been relying on taking over the best blood of his family to survive for so long."
Zheng Fa was stunned for a moment, then understood: "This is to deal with the decline of spiritual power... to cultivate a spiritual plant that only you can use?"
“…While it’s true what you said, it makes me a little scared.”
The head of the sect was silent for a long time before he spoke.
…
The uncle and nephew who were monitoring Zheng Fa ran all the way and escaped for their lives.
The Demonic Shadow was an excellent way to escape into the air, but someone among the pursuers called over the Jindan disciples, and not only did the two fail to escape, but they watched the people chasing them getting closer and closer.
"Uncle? Where are we going to escape?"
"Young Master once said that if we are exposed, we should go to a secret place to meet him, and he will rescue us." The middle-aged man said as he ran, "That place is not far from here, and we will arrive soon."
This is the corner of the river bank, and there is a small house at the corner, probably used by fishermen.
"That's it!"
The middle-aged man pointed at the small house and said.
But when he reached the door, he suddenly stopped his nephew and gave him a blood-colored pill.
"Uncle?" the young man asked in surprise.
"If something happens after entering the house, just swallow this Heart Burning Pill."
After saying that, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and pushed open the door.
A mysterious light flashed in the room, and a middle-aged man shouted a reminder: "Take the pills quickly!"
When the young man heard this, he immediately swallowed the Heart-Burning Pill in his hand.
The next moment, the blood in his body began to coagulate, and his heart slowly stopped beating.
He suddenly realized that there was no young master in the room at all, and it was most likely just a reminder magic circle.
As soon as they entered, the young master knew that they were exposed.
At this time, the young master was asking the spirit of the Holy Ancestor to cut off the lives of his uncle and nephew.
In the Great Freedom Demon Sect, those with pure blood and high cultivation can decide life and death of these people through this method without even having to take any action!
He felt his body gradually stiffen, with only the heat from the Blood-Burning Pill maintaining the fire in his heart.
I lay down at the door of the hut and saw that my uncle was already lying in the house, without a single movement...
His chest was burning hot, not just from the effect of the Heart-Burning Pill, but also from the burning anger in his heart.
“Found it!”
Behind him, he heard the shouts of the pursuers.
He raised his head, stretched his neck as far as he could, and whispered to the person who came: "Save...save me."
The disciples of Jiushan Sect were stunned. Seeing the other party lying on the ground and gradually fainting, they looked at the Jiushan Sect uniforms on their bodies and couldn't help but wonder: "...Did he see the wrong person?"
…
When he woke up again, the young man found himself lying on a couch.
Next to the collapse, a man was holding a ceramic bottle with a long thin tube extending from the mouth of the bottle, which pierced into his arm.
"…Are you awake?"
Seeing him wake up, Zheng Fa smiled, stretched out his hand and waved, and the channel formed by the blood-sucking talisman disappeared into the void, as if nothing had happened.
Looking at the bottle, the young man who had just woken up remained silent and just asked, "Where is this?"
"Nine Mountain Sect."
Zheng Fa clearly saw the man's face, and for a moment, a look of shattered faith appeared on his face...
"Junior Brother Zheng! We've run out of blood again!" Li Nuo pushed the door open, his face full of requests for funding. He looked at the porcelain bottle filled with blood, sniffed it, and asked in surprise, "Is this the new blood you bought, Junior Brother?"
"Hey? Why is this person dizzy?"
(End of this chapter)