Chapter 260: Transformed into an Evil Species
The Wuliu Company was established last winter and has provided relief to many poor farmers in Kyushu.
After the spring, as the ice and snow in Fengzhou melted, the beneficiaries who had signed the employment documents came to Fengzhou to work.
In fact, on the way here, they were still full of anxiety.
On the one hand, it is because you are unfamiliar with the place and it is difficult to predict what you will encounter after you arrive there.
On the other hand, there were also some people in Qingyun who had to work outside to make a living, but all of them ended up dying in a foreign land.
But when they really followed the Wulv Trading Company's convoy to Fengzhou, their uneasiness disappeared, and the only thing left was astonishment.
Because what they saw was a scene completely different from that in the other eight states.
The land is fertile and the grass is abundant, there are many markets, and children dare to go to the streets without their parents' supervision. The cultivators walking on the road also have friendly faces, as if they are not from the same world as them.
The government then allocated housing to them, with six people in one room, and their food and clothing were provided by the government.
Later, some of them were sent to farmland and others to pasture.
But no matter what they do, the working hours are not long, and they even have time to go to school and listen to lectures.
However, until they truly integrated into Fengzhou and began to adapt to the pace of life here, these strangers still did not know what the immortal named Ji You wanted.
But the good times didn't last long. With the arrival of summer, the atmosphere in Fengzhou seemed to change.
Some cultivators who were usually friendly suddenly lost their former friendliness, and the government officials also suddenly became silent.
The local people of Fengzhou became cautious in their words, especially when they met immortal cultivators, fear once again appeared in their eyes.
It is said that something went wrong with the immortal master.
Although the world is separated by the heavens and the earth, Fengzhou has changed so much over the years that even the old farmers at the grassroots know why.
Fengzhou has become better not because those foreign immortals have compassion, but because the young master of the Ji family is getting stronger and stronger because of his compassion.
But since the summer, when the news about Young Master Ji coming out of seclusion spread, they gradually heard a lot of discussions about this matter from the surrounding practitioners.
Some people say that Young Master Ji may no longer be able to suppress Fengzhou in the future.
The one who was most worried was Zhang Pingyang, who came from Tianyuan Villa.
He married Lanlan, the daughter of a farmer, and settled down in Fengzhou. He had long considered himself a Fengzhou native.
The concept that immortals are superior and mortals are just ants has actually gradually become blurred in his mind.
But after Ji You entered the holy land of sages but failed to break through, causing the surrounding atmosphere to suddenly change, he felt as if he was waking up from a beautiful dream.
Because he also knew that those manor owners and elders who were in charge were not willing to participate in the farming affairs in Fengzhou. The biggest reason was that they were suppressed by Ji You and could not do anything.
And now, he can no longer control Fengzhou, so Fengzhou will definitely return to its former state.
By then, the major immortal villages will re-enter the city, divide the taxes, and continue to be high and mighty.
But he couldn't abandon his pregnant wife, let alone return to his fairyland.
The peak of this anxiety occurred two days before Ji You returned to Fengzhou.
At that time, many family geniuses who had entered the Tianshu Academy came to send messages, wanting to know whether Ji You had arrived.
Zhang Pingyang had previously heard from people in the manor that Ji You did not fit in at Tianshuyuan because of his background. Otherwise, he would not have been unable to enter the Immortal Palace even though he had entered the inner courtyard.
These people are so concerned about his return probably just to laugh at him.
What was imaginable did not happen.
There was no concealment of the fact that Ji You returned. He took a carriage into the city, and after a day's rest, he began to visit various immortal villas, first the ones with greater power nearby, and then the surrounding ones.
He went to each house alone.
After being visited, every immortal manor became exceptionally quiet, especially the manor owner, who was extremely respectful and looked particularly honest and dutiful, except that his hair was a little messy and his eyes were a little fearful.
The sixth fairy village visited was Qingxu Fairy Village.
Ji You stayed there for half an hour and then left.
The owner of Qingxu Xianzhuang came to the door with a group of elders, watched the imposing figure like a ball of fire leave, and reached out to touch his cheek.
Where his palm was pressed, there was a faint, very bright red slap mark that was swollen and red, and blood was also flowing from the corner of his mouth.
In fact, when the owner of Qingxu Villa heard that Ji You had visited the previous villas, he called all the disciples back to the villa, and the murderous aura had already gathered.
He never expected that a huge slap would come towards him. The slap should have been restrained, but it made him feel as if a ferocious beast that could swallow the sky was sitting in front of him...
The aura that swayed up into the sky was majestic and roaring, making him feel that the other party could easily kill him.
"Damn it, the first five immortal villages are too tight-lipped!"
"Master, they must have done this on purpose."
"I didn't mean to be slapped. Go, get all the sickles in the village and sharpen them in front of the door. I won't go out for a few days."
"Master, be careful, that's not a sickle, it's called a Crescent Moon Scimitar..."
The chief elder of Qingxu Villa couldn't help but give a reminder.
I don't know whether it was agreed upon or there was a tacit understanding among these foreign fairy villages in Fengzhou.
Soon, a scene appeared where a large number of disciples were sharpening sickles in front of every immortal village.
Afterwards, an elder from Qingxu Xianzhuang came out with a jade box in his hand, and then quickly came to an inn in the outer city of Fengzhou Prefecture.
At this time, on the second floor of the inn, three people from Yunzhou were sitting opposite each other drinking tea, with doubtful expressions on their faces.
Two of them are from the Ding family, one is Ding Yuan, the younger brother of the head of the Ding family, the other is Ding Shaojie, the eldest son of the Ding family, and the other is the business manager of Yuyunzhou. They all belong to the Lingshi Chamber of Commerce.
In fact, after knowing that Ji You came out of the Holy Land of Sages but failed to break through, the Lingshi Chamber of Commerce made a series of plans.
In their view, Ji You, who had failed to even succeed in melting the Dao, would no longer be able to control Fengzhou, and the control of Fengzhou would soon fall into the hands of the foreign immortal villa, and the transportation pipeline of the Snow Demon Stone would certainly be no exception.
Ji You ignored them before and they were helpless.
But now, the predicament has been resolved.
They can control the official roads of Fengzhou through these fairy villages in Fengzhou, and thus obtain the operating rights of the Snow Demon Stone in disguise.
But after Ji You came back, the sincerity they had shown was returned one after another...
This was so different from their previous plan that the three people in the room fell silent, but the confusion in their eyes remained.
The people of Fengzhou are not sensitive to such things, and they don’t know what happened in those immortal villages, but they can feel the change in the atmosphere.
The immortal cultivators living in Qingyun World have obviously become more friendly than before, and the people in the government also seem to be relieved.
The most obvious thing is that they were sharpening their sickles in front of the door, as if they were doing it for someone to see.
Seeing this, the people can be sure that they can live in peace again this year.
"In fact, this is a good thing. Now, no matter what rumors those immortal villages hear in the future, they will not act rashly before they actually see me."
"Otherwise, I have to go and coax them every time, and my hands will be tired."
At this time, Ji You returned to Ji Village, and looked calmly at the immortal villages he had passed along the way, muttering to himself,
Old Qiu found that the young master was in a good mood and felt a little relieved.
His young master has been practicing in Tianshu Academy all year round, and he, the servant, has always been responsible for the spring ploughing and autumn harvest.
After these years of personal experience, he has basically figured out the relationship between the Fengzhou Immortal Sect, the government and his own young master.
He knew that if the young master was really going to be lost in the crowd as rumored by the outside world, then the consequences would definitely not just be the suspension of the autumn harvest and the redistribution of taxes.
After all, when the young master came here to establish a family, he killed many people in the street, and the retribution must be a revenge of life and death.
Now that nothing had happened, he finally felt relieved.
But apart from this, Lao Qiu had something else on his mind.
"Master, it's time for you to get married."
Old Qiu has already met Yan Shuyi and Yuan Caiwei, and is always wondering when the two young ladies who came last year will be able to marry into his family.
If we talk about the past, there was really nothing to offer if one wanted to get married in this poor place.
But life in Fengzhou is getting better and better now, and it has gradually begun to get rid of the title of poverty. More and more women are coming from other states to marry here. Old Qiu is very confident, so he suggested that Ji You go and propose marriage.
"Didn't I tell you last time? This is not urgent."
"But according to our Yuyang County tradition, if you are satisfied after the first visit, you must send an engagement the next day."
"It won't be too late for me to practice for a few more years, but you can keep the baby first."
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Pei Ruyi was strolling in the yard with Qiu Ru at this time. After hearing this, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.
When she came back from Tiandaohui, she heard that the young master of Lingjian Mountain had been there.
It is said that she used to wander around the village, and people called her Madam Ji and Young Madam everywhere.
Pei Ruyi imagined it for a long time, but felt that nothing he could imagine could match that scene.
Moreover, it was hard for her to imagine living in the same courtyard with the Little Master of Lingjian Mountain in the future, and watching her strolling around with her baby in her arms...
In the afternoon, a horse-drawn carriage was hurriedly coming along the official road that had been repaired last year, then entered Fengzhou Prefecture and stopped in front of Jizhai.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Kuang Cheng stepped down from the shaft of the carriage.
He and Ji You returned from Shengjing together. Ji You was responsible for "greeting" those immortal villages, while he went to Danshui County.
The Zhenbei Army's garrison camp is located in the southwest of Danshui County. When the official road was repaired last year, the Zhenbei Army was responsible for supervising the work, and Kuang Cheng had already been there once at that time.
This time, the main purpose of my trip was to thank the Zhenbei Army for helping Fengzhou eliminate the evil species.
Although the road construction and elimination of evil species were assigned by Daxia, according to Ji You, this emotional value must also be given.
Of course, these soldiers have been guarding the northern border all year round, and even if they have done nothing in Fengzhou, they are worthy of condolences in Kuang Cheng's opinion.
Kuang Cheng stepped into the courtyard at this time, and when he saw Lao Qiu, he couldn't help but ask: "Where is Brother Ji?"
"The young master has gone to the study."
After hearing this, Kuang Cheng went to the backyard. When he reached the door of the study, he saw Ji You sitting behind the desk, reading a book in his hand carefully: "How are those restless immortal villages doing now?"
Ji You raised his head when he heard the voice: "After my concern, they have become much more honest. There shouldn't be any problem with the autumn harvest. What about the Zhenbei Army?"
"The North is not peaceful. They are discussing breaking camp and returning to the North these days."
"The Barbarians have been unusually active recently. Perhaps it is related to what happened in Jiuzhou in the past six months. With the Zhenbei Army returning to garrison, we can feel more at ease."
Kuang Cheng nodded after hearing this, but he was still worried about the natural anomalies and the hidden things behind the appearance of evil spirits.
As a well-versed history reader, he has always known that what can truly lead a country or even an ethnic group to destruction is rarely due to external troubles, but more often due to internal troubles.
Kuang Shusheng came back to his senses at this time: "Brother Ji, what are you looking at?"
After hearing this, Ji You picked up the book in his hand and said, "I asked someone to bring the county annals from Yuyang County to see if there were any miraculous things that happened in our county before."
"Something miraculous?"
"It's something related to immortals."
After reading the story of the Night Watchman, Ji You began to pay more attention to news related to it.
He guessed that the half volume of Tianshuyuan that he picked up came from the Night Watchman, so the Night Watchman should have been to Fengzhou.
This place is barren and isolated, and even the foreign immortal villages that he has cared about do not have a long history.
Therefore, if a powerful cultivator really appeared in Yuyang County, it would definitely be recorded in the county annals.
The facts were just as Ji You had expected. There were indeed records about the immortals in the county annals. For example, the Ji family was destroyed because they offended the immortals, and there was also a very detailed account of himself and Fang Ruoyao being accepted into the Tianshu Academy.
However, earlier records are very fragmentary and there are few clear ones.
Kuang Cheng took one of the county annals and flipped through it. "Speaking of supernatural things, I did know a few when I was collecting folk stories and local legends."
"I heard from the older generation that a very powerful immortal did appear in Yuyang County in the past, and he even had a conflict with others. The fight was so fierce that the sky was dark and the mountains shook."
Ji You looked at him strangely: "You are obviously a scholar who reads the books of sages, why are you collecting folk stories and local legends?"
Kuang Cheng was stunned for a moment when he heard the voice: "Um, I have a friend from afar who is quite interested in Fengzhou."
"What else? Keep talking."
"There was a legend before that an immortal lived in a nearby mountain for a while and would come out to gamble from time to time."
Ji You frowned: "When did this happen?"
Kuang Cheng shook his head: "A long time ago, I don't know the exact time."
"Nothing recent?"
"The most recent one? But the only immortal who appeared recently is Brother Ji."
After hearing this, Ji You fell into deep thought, thinking that although the story told by Kuang Cheng was vague, it sounded like there had indeed been a person who looked like a night watchman in Fengzhou.
Then the origin of that half volume of the immortal book might really be here.
But without details, it is difficult to verify.
After a while, Ji You closed the county annals.
In fact, he didn't necessarily have to trace the origin of the immortal book, he was just curious about things related to himself.
Because the idea of losing something was actually a bit unreasonable, he just wanted to know whether the matter regarding the half scroll of the immortal book was really that simple...
After cordially comforting those dishonest immortal villages and confirming that the autumn harvest could be carried out as scheduled, Ji You and Kuang Cheng left Fengzhou and returned to Tianshuyuan.
Ji You has disappeared from everyone's sight for a while because he entered the holy land of the sages but failed to break through.
After all, there is an old saying in the world that talented people emerge in every generation.
In the past, there were some people who cultivated at an extremely fast speed, but due to the limitations of their own talents, they entered into an eternal bottleneck and gradually faded out of everyone's sight.
The person that the inner and outer courtyards are most concerned about now is the disciple from the Elders' Pavilion who entered the courtyard after the Tiandao Conference last year. They are waiting for him to break through and enter Tongxuan.
But the autumn harvest seemed to draw those distracted eyes back again.
If we say that during the autumn harvest last year, the immortal villages in Fengzhou were afraid of Ji You who returned from the holy land of sages, then the threat he posed to the immortal villages in Fengzhou should have disappeared since he had not even entered the Rong Dao. Everyone was confused as to why those immortal villages did not even resist.
Cao Jinsong naturally knew the reason. Looking at the returning Xianzhuang, he couldn't help but ask, "Did he take action?"
Ji You shook his head: "Just a greeting."
"That must be painful too..."
Cao Jinsong had no doubt about Ji You's current strength.
Ji You looked over the wall to the southwest at this time: "Has the person from the Directorate not returned yet?"
"Not only that, the three directors left a few days ago, and several elders also left the Heavenly Academy. I don't think I will be able to receive my monthly salary this month."
Ji You was thinking when suddenly footsteps were heard outside the door.
Wen Siyuan, the head of the courtyard, came here, pushed the door open and bowed slowly: "I just heard people in the courtyard talking about Junior Brother Ji coming back. I didn't expect it to be true."
When Ji You saw him, he immediately said, "Brother Wen, you came at the right time. I have something to ask you."
"Brother Ji, you can go ahead and say whatever you want."
"What are you doing going out for this time?"
"That... I don't know. The location and mission of the senior brothers in the upper fifth realm sent by the Director's Office are kept secret. I came here because I have a letter from you, which has been kept for three days."
Wen Siyuan reached out, took out the letter and handed it to Ji You.
There was only a line of simple small words on the letter, with the name of Chunhua Inn and the room number written on it.
Ji You originally thought that the letter came from Lingjian Mountain, but he didn't expect it to be sent from Shengjing City.
The only person in Shengjing who would send him a letter should be Kuang Cheng, but Kuang Cheng had just separated from him.
Moreover, there is no signature on this letter, which does not seem to be Kuang Cheng's style.
After observing the font, Ji You felt it looked familiar, so he got up and left Tian Shuyuan.
After arriving at the inn, Ji You came to the room on the second floor according to the reserved room location and pushed open the door.
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu were sitting in the inn and stood up immediately when they saw him.
"Uncle."
"Sir."
Neither of them wore Lingjian Mountain's sword robes, but instead changed into ordinary dresses. Their beautiful figures made the fabric bulge out, making them look slim and curvy.
After Ji You closed the door, he looked at them and asked, "Why are you in Shengjing?"
Ding Yao and Zhuo Wanqiu looked at each other and said, "The young master wrote to the master earlier to ask about Dou Yuankong. The master felt that it was not safe to send the letter, so he sent the two of us here specially."
When Ji You heard this, his eyes gradually became solemn.
Because from the way they sounded, this matter is indeed very serious.
"What happened?"
"The seven major immortal sects tracked Dou Yuankong's whereabouts and found someone who could transform into an evil species."
(End of this chapter)
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