Chapter 432: Hero or Sinner?
Things in the East China Sea.
It soon spread across the spiritual network.
And when the onlookers spread what happened at the scene through the spiritual network, the entire spiritual network exploded instantly.
The battle between the two geniuses who had reached the state of Divine Transformation actually led to the appearance of a powerful person at the state of Void, which was something no one had expected.
But what puzzled all the cultivators in the Central Region was what the Mountain Sect was. Many low-level cultivators hoped that someone might be able to answer their questions, but no one on the Spiritual Network could explain the origin of the Mountain Sect.
Half an hour later.
[Reader of many books: Shan Zong, I never thought there really is such a sect in this world. Many years ago, I accidentally entered a place of opportunity, where I learned about Shan Zong, or more accurately, about the secrets of a senior of Shan Zong.]
[Reader: Since we are talking about Shan Zong, let me tell you how big the world we live in is. ]
[The Central Region we are in, including the Upper Region and the Lower Region, was collectively called the Northern Territory back then. There are eight other regions similar to the Northern Territory, so our world is also called the Nine Territories.]
When the monks on the spiritual network saw the news, many of them were shocked. The Ninth Realm, this was the first time they had heard of a larger area.
It turns out that the world they live in is so vast.
For cultivators below the level of Divine Transformation, in their minds, the Northern Territory is already the entire land.
[I am not alone: There are eight regions that are about the same size as ours. How big is this world? ]
[Tian Di Xiu Xiu: Compared to how big the world is, I am more curious about why we have never heard of these places? ]
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[Readers: We have never heard of it. That is because tens of thousands of years ago, a major event occurred in the Nine Realms, and a shocking change occurred.]
[Back then, a special race of beings appeared in the Nine Realms. We called them alien demons. These alien demons feed on the souls of all things. Not only humans, but also monsters and even plant spirits are the targets of these alien demons.]
[These demons can possess all things, and those below the level of Divine Incarnation cannot deal with them at all, which leads to the demons wreaking havoc in the Nine Realms.]
[After the strong men from various tribes discovered it, they immediately strangled the alien demons, but they found that the alien demons were too difficult to strangle. They had no choice but to suppress the alien demons back to their source: the alien demon cave.]
[The Demon Cave has been sealed, and the Demon Rebellion has been mostly resolved. The reason why I say mostly resolved is because the seal is not thorough, and there will still be demons that escape from the seal.]
[In order to hunt down these escaped demons, the top sects formed the Demon Suppression Division. Whenever there is news of a demon, the Demon Suppression Division will go and suppress it.]
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After reading what [Reader] said, all the cultivators fell silent. They did not expect that there would be such a change in the Nine Realms back then. Fortunately, those strong men still managed to hold on. Otherwise, if the strange demon continued, the Nine Realms would be devastated.
[No one should chase me: Senior Qunshuzhe, after saying so much, you still haven't mentioned Shanzong? 】
[Reader: To talk about the elder of Shan Zong, you must first know this background. The following story is related to this elder of Shan Zong.]
[Readers: The demons were sealed, and occasionally there were some that slipped through the net, but they were quickly suppressed by the Demon Suppression Division, and the Nine Realms returned to peace. A thousand years passed like this, and the senior from the Mountain Sect entered the Demon Cave alone. Afterwards, the demons in the Demon Cave rioted, forcibly broke the seal, and came out in droves, and the Nine Realms fell into crisis again.]
[The demon cholera, the top sects of the Nine Realms had to join forces again to fight the demon. This battle lasted for a hundred years. One of the Nine Realms was completely destroyed, and many strong men from the top sects died. More than 60% of the top strong men in the entire Nine Realms died, and the number of human cultivators who died was countless.]
The monks on the spiritual network were already furious when they saw this. They could imagine how brutal the battle was.
The culprit behind all this is the people from Shan Sect.
[The King of the East Sea San Xiu: No wonder he told the deputy leader that Chu Ning is a disciple of the Mountain Sect, and no one can protect him. As for what the Mountain Sect did, any human cultivator can kill him.]
[Qi Chen: I used to admire Chu Ning, I was really blind.]
[Little Alchemy Master: The Dongxu strongman from Danshan Sect obviously also knows this secret, so why did he help Chu Ning? Chu Ning is now a public enemy in the whole territory.]
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On the spiritual internet, Chu Ning's reputation plummeted in an instant, and was almost entirely criticized.
The headquarters of Sihai Trading Company.
Yun Anlan looked at his grandfather and asked curiously, "Grandfather, did the Shan Sect really do such a terrible thing back then?"
Mountain Sect.
Yun Anlan knew this because the company had been secretly searching for information related to Shanzong over the years. This was instructed by his grandfather himself, but all information about Shanzong was top secret and only his grandfather knew it in the entire company.
This is also the reason why, when she learned that Chu Ning was a disciple of Shanzong in the East China Sea, she immediately sent a message to her grandfather through the spiritual network.
The white-haired old man had a look of reminiscence in his eyes, and asked, "Why do you think the man from Shan Zong wanted to enter the Demon Cave?"
Yun Anlan pondered for a moment and said, "Could there be treasures in the Demon Cave?"
The white-haired old man smiled slightly and continued to ask: "In your eyes, what kind of person is Chu Ning?"
"A guy who is blinded by money." Yun Anlan replied unhappily.
"Is it really that unbearable?"
Yun Anlan was silent for a moment: "Not really, it's just that this guy is too good at pretending. People who are not familiar with him will really be fooled by his appearance."
"What is the surface?"
"In the eyes of other monks, this guy is regarded as a hero and a selfless person."
A selfless person?
The white-haired old man suddenly laughed: "What if he's not pretending?"
"How is this possible? That guy took away so many spirit crystals from our company."
Yun Anlan didn't believe it. Anyway, Chu Ning was a very smart guy.
"Does the company make a lot of money from Chu Ning?"
Faced with his grandfather's question, Yun Anlan was stunned for a moment and fell silent.
The company naturally made more money from Chu Ning, otherwise she would not have given Chu Ning so many spirit crystals. Whether it was the gambling or the operating ideas Chu Ning gave to the spirit network, the company made more money.
"Since the company makes more money from Chu Ning, why can't Chu Ning ask for his own compensation?"
The white-haired old man smiled slightly and said, "Although the actions of the Shan Zong that year caused the decline of the Nine Realms and the fall of many powerful people, you must know that the Shan Zong entered the Alien Demon Cave for the sake of the lower-level cultivators."
"For the lower-level cultivators?" Yun Anlan was a little puzzled.
"Even though the Demon Cave is sealed, the demons can still escape, but those who can escape are only low-level demons. Even if these demons escape, with the existence of the Demon Suppression Division, they will not have much impact on the entire Nine Realms."
The white-haired old man sighed softly, "Those high-ranking top forces were not affected at all. Only those ordinary people and those low-level monks became food for the alien demons. Whenever these alien demons devoured enough ordinary people and monks, the Demon Suppression Division would discover them and kill them."
"Do you think these low-level monks will be grateful to these top forces?"
Yun Anlan pondered for a while, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Grandfather, what you mean is that these top forces did this on purpose. They didn't seal the alien demons completely, so that they could let them escape. In this way, when the alien demons cause trouble, these forces can take action again, and these low-level monks will be grateful to them."
"People's hearts are not so bad."
The white-haired old man shook his head and said, "The reason why these top forces failed to completely seal the Demon Cave is not because they didn't want to, but because they couldn't. The Demon Cave is where the demons came from. The major forces in the Nine Realms joined forces to force the demons back, and then set up a formation to seal the exit. The reason why the seal was successful was because the demons didn't fight to the death with the major forces."
"This is a result that both the top forces and the alien demons can accept. The consequence is that batches of low-level cultivators will be devoured. However, there are so many cultivators in the Ninth Realm. Which sect would care about these low-level cultivators?"
"The man from Shan Clan went into the alien demon cave alone in order to anger the alien demon and drive it crazy. Although we don't know what he did, he succeeded. The alien demon went completely crazy and broke through the seal. The top forces in the Nine Realms were unable to seal the alien demon this time and had to choose to go to war with the alien demon. This led to the tragic battle that followed, in which the alien demon was completely eradicated."
Yun Anlan's face was filled with emotion. She had never imagined that the purpose of the senior from the Shan Sect entering the Demon Cave was actually this.
It is for the lower-level monks.
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"Now, do you think what Shan Zong did was right or wrong?" the white-haired old man asked again.
"To those top forces, Shan Zong is naturally extremely hateful, but to all the lower-level cultivators in the Ninth Realm, Shan Zong's merits are immeasurable."
Yun Anlan gave his own judgment.
"You are right. The top forces in the Nine Realms hate Shan Zong to the core because of this. After the war between the alien demons, the Nine Realms erased all news about the alien demons and all information about Shan Zong. In addition, several top forces jointly announced that they would issue a wanted warrant for Shan Zong's disciples and exterminate Shan Zong's heritage."
"Has the Shan Sect's heritage become extinct?"
After Yun Anlan asked the question, she laughed first. She asked a stupid question.
If the Shanzong heritage was extinct, how could there be the current Chu Ning?
"The inheritance of Shanzong is very mysterious. In fact, even if the top forces did not erase the information about Shanzong, there would not be much news about Shanzong in the Nine Realms. Shanzong was known to all the major sects only because of the appearance of that person who claimed to be a disciple of Shanzong. As for where Shanzong is and how many disciples it has, it is still a mystery."
"So mysterious?"
"If not, why would Xiang Xishan attack Chu Ning?"
The white-haired old man stroked his beard, with wisdom in his eyes, and said slowly: "Before the war, Dingfeng Island was just a third-rate force. It did not participate in the fight with the alien demons at all, and naturally had no grudge against Shanzong. The reason they attacked Chu Ning was because of the Shanzong inheritance behind Chu Ning.
"Mountain Sect inheritance?" Yun Anlan murmured.
"Back then, there was a rumor in the Nine Realms that the Mountain Sect might be involved in the legendary realm above the Void Realm, and this realm is the goal that all the top forces in the Nine Realms, those Void Realm powerhouses, desire."
The white-haired old man pinched a chess piece with his fingers and placed it on the chessboard, saying, "In the current northern border, the top forces of the past have long since changed their leaders, and they don't have much hatred towards Shan Zong, but this does not prevent them from using this as an excuse to explore the Shan Zong heritage behind Chu Ning."
"A man is innocent but guilty of possessing a treasure."
Yun Anlan understood what his grandfather meant. Regardless of whether the top forces in the Northern Territory were implicated by the man from Shan Zong in the past, these forces could use this as an excuse to take action against Chu Ning.
"Doesn't that mean Chu Ning is in a very dangerous situation now?"
Thinking that Chu Ning would face the covetousness of the top forces in the entire Northern Territory, Yun Anlan felt inexplicably worried. Even she herself did not expect why she was worried about Chu Ning?
"Are you worried about Chu Ning?"
"Grandfather, Chu Ning has earned a lot of spirit crystals for our company, and he has many ideas about the spirit network in his mind. If Chu Ning encounters an accident, I am worried that our company will lose a lot of spirit crystals."
Yun Anlan found an excuse to explain herself. In her heart, she felt that this was the reason why she was worried. Otherwise, who would care about Chu Ning's life or death?
The white-haired old man looked at his granddaughter in silence.
"Grandfather, what are you looking at?"
"I'm wondering if I should help Chu Ning."
"ah?"
Yun Anlan never expected that his grandfather, who had always been aloof from the world and had no interest in anything except formations, would actually want to help Chu Ning.
"But forget it. I thought you were interested in Chu Ning, so as a grandfather, I should help my grandson-in-law. Since you don't have this intention, then I will naturally not waste my energy on Chu Ning."
"Grandfather, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Yun Anlan was angry and acted like a little girl: "Chu Ning has a Taoist partner."
"What's the point of having a Taoist companion? Who stipulated that you can only marry one Taoist companion?"
"My granddaughter will never share a Taoist partner with anyone else."
Yun Anlan has her own pride. She never thinks that she will compete with others for a Taoist partner, no matter how outstanding that person is.
Even Chu Ning can't do it.
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Spiritual network.
【Readers: You can judge for yourself whether it is right or wrong. 】
The spiritual network was also silent at this moment. After all the cultivators had cursed Chu Ning and Shan Zong, this [Reader of Many Books] said the same thing as the white-haired old man.
Is the guy from Shan Zong a hero or a sinner?
After a long time, a monk spoke on the spiritual network.
[Chengshan Zhixiu: I come from Chengshan Territory, the same territory as Senior Chu. Senior Chu has a very high reputation in Chengshan Territory, and almost everyone can sing his deeds. When I was in the foundation-building stage, I visited Senior Chu's earthly residence before he entered the cultivation realm, and saw a line of words written by Senior Chu there.]
[I wish I had thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor people in the world and make them happy. Even if I die of cold in my broken house, I am still content.]
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