Douluo: The Peerless Sun, Moon, and Yuhao

Chapter 187 The holy religion accepts new activities for a limited time
"I……"

Duke Anxi looked at the man in black robe who stood up and walked towards him with confusion. He had countless things he wanted to say but could not hold them back.

"Don't worry, sir. As long as I'm here, no one can hurt you."

The hoarse voice of the man in black robe made people feel uncomfortable, but Duke Anxi could only smile and nodded.

"Then, brave man... I don't know anything about today's events. When all the heroes decide when they can use their own places, I will invite you to drink with me all night long. I still have a lot of good wine in my house..."

"If I accidentally get a hangover and wake up to find that I am in a foreign country, then...then I have nothing to do. I will do whatever others say, and I don't want to."

Under heavy pressure that could kill people, Duke Anxi tried to get through by pretending to be an ostrich.

In the end, it was you who forced me!I, the Duke of Anxi, have been loyal for generations and have only a loyal heart to Your Majesty. The slight compromise is just to leave a useful person for Your Majesty to drive in the future.

In any case, the wealth and wealth of his Anxi Duke's Palace for generations must not be inexplicably cut off in his hands tonight.

If his whole family dies tonight, His Majesty the Emperor will probably either revoke the title of Duke of Anxi directly, or hand over this great title to his distant relatives...

Although Duke Anxi's choice deceives himself to the point of being puzzling, he still understands the current situation.

Forgetting one's righteousness for small profits, and cherishing one's life when doing big things. Over the past thousands of years, most of the nobles who relied on blood have been abandoned. Duke Anxi's performance is not surprising.

"It seems that our Lord Duke has figured it out, okay, okay, okay!"

The black-robed elder laughed loudly and clapped his hands repeatedly.

The other men in black in the room also applauded in unison, and for a while the entire side hall was bursting into applause. There was an unspeakable weirdness and madness in the late night night.

Duke Anxi looked at the group of uninvited guests in the house who seemed to be not in a normal mental state, and his inner tension and uneasiness had reached the extreme.

"From now on, the Duke will be one of our own, I will do it, you can do whatever you want!"

The black-robed elder waved his hand, and the person standing beside him took out a pot of wine and two wine glasses from the storage ring, leaned over and poured wine for the two of them.

"Come on, come on, come on!"

"You...you please."

Duke Anxi faced the weak candlelight and looked at the dark red liquid in the wine glass. The palm of his hand holding the wine glass could not help but tremble slightly.

After drinking this glass of wine with unknown black ingredients in it, there is probably no turning back. From now on, I will have no choice but to join forces with them until the end...

Damn it, forget it, it sounds like I have a choice!
After a while, Duke Anxi gritted his teeth, summoned up the fierceness in his heart, raised his head and drank all the wine in the glass.

"Gu...Gudong..."

"Okay, okay, the Duke is really happy. I didn't pick the wrong person."

Seeing Duke Anxi's generous and sacrificial action, the black-robed elder smiled and nodded.

Duke Anxi, who closed his eyes tightly and almost couldn't help but shed tears, felt a warmth coming from his lower abdomen.

The warmth was different from what he usually felt when he drank tiger penis wine. Compared to the lower abdomen, the place where the warmth came from seemed to be closer to... Dantian?
"This……"

Duke Anxi felt that his cultivation, which had not improved at all over the years, seemed to be loosening at this moment, and was climbing slowly but surely.

"Hey, I said that I will give you a fortune that will bring you great wealth."

"There are a lot of secret medicines that are not even available in the Tianhun Palace. I can feed you to your fullest."

"When you listen to our arrangements and become emperor in the future, you will have three palaces and six courtyards while achieving success in cultivation. You will have a hundred more years than ordinary people to enjoy the glory and wealth. That feeling, tsk tsk... even I will envy you."

Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard... Duke Anxi's thoughts, which had been stagnant due to his sudden breakthrough in cultivation, came back to his senses. Another question came to mind because of this word:
Where is my wife?
Seeing that his wife, daughter and mother were still safe and sound, Duke Anxi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and tentatively said:
"This... sir, since we are our own people, do you think my family is..."

The ladies of the Duke's Palace were in tears at this time. They couldn't figure out the reason why the family suffered such a sudden disaster today, and they couldn't help but feel heartbroken when they saw their husband and father being so willing to compromise with the gangsters.

The black-robed elder snorted, turned away his hands and looked in the direction of the lady.

"When we invited your daughter here just now, she released her martial spirit to resist our people. She was really fierce."

Hearing this, the Duke's daughter's eyes were full of panic. She grabbed her mother's sleeve and shook her head.

She had just witnessed the guards sent by the royal family being dragged into the yard like dead dogs. If she had known that these gangsters were so powerful, how could she, a novice named Sihuan, put up a futile resistance?

"However, a little bit of character can lead to great things, and I like that."

After letting out a sly smile, the elder in black robe walked up to the Duke's daughter and said slowly:
"In this case, you will be my disciple from now on. When you reach the sixth level, you will be promoted to my direct disciple."

"Go, say goodbye to your father. From now on, you must practice hard with me and don't slack off."

Hearing the words of the old man in black robe, the Duke's daughter couldn't help but froze on the spot, and Duke Anxi almost knelt down.

"Sir, no, no! If the little girl is found missing, it will inevitably make people suspicious, and I'm afraid it will affect your arrangement..."

"What? You can't trust me so much? Or do you want to steal my beloved disciple?"

The black-robed old man squinted his eyes, with a faint smile on his lips: "The Tianhun Empire's method of refining medicine is simply child's play. I have no idea about the kind of medicine that will kill you if you don't take it every few days. I don’t want to use it on your family.”

"Don't dare, don't dare. It's all up to the adults."

Nodding with satisfaction, the old man in black robe said: "Your Excellency, the medicine you take for men in the evening, it is easy for me to make something similar for women."

"If you don't want your wife and daughter to become whores and whores, you know what to do and I don't need to say more."

"Don't disappoint me, I'm still waiting to see the day you are crowned."

"I will take my leave today and look forward to seeing you next time in the Sun and Moon Empire."

"You little girl, if you don't hurry up and follow me as a teacher, what are you waiting for? Do you want to bring your mother over for rice bowls?"

The Duke's daughter followed her away crying in the eyes of her parents who looked sad and desperate. Before leaving, she was even covered in a black robe.

After those men in black robes left the Duke's Mansion for a long time, Duke Anxi, who was slumped on the ground, stood up slowly and tremblingly with the support of his wife.

"Ying'er... I'm sorry for you as a father! I'm sorry for you!"

The Duke and Duchess could not help but cry while hugging each other. The man in black robe who was responsible for staying behind to protect the Duke had already put on the robes that originally belonged to the royal guards. Seeing their appearance, he tilted his head and said doubtfully:

"What do you two have to cry about? This is the blessing of your daughter. The elders don't bother to deceive people of your level. If you say that you teach her seriously, you will teach her seriously. Maybe she will be better than the Duke in your cultivation next time. It’s all high.”

Duke Anxi couldn't help but shake his shoulders when he heard this, and asked in a trembling voice: "You...do you think the only meaning of your life is to practice? Apart from your cultivation, are there no other important things in your life?" ?”

The new guard thought for a moment with his normally inactive mind, and replied seriously to his new master:

"Other brothers and sisters may have their own pursuits, but my pursuit is relatively pure. Apart from life, apart from cultivation and women, I can't think of anything that interests me."

"Oh...the elders have taught me that if you want to have a good relationship with others, you have to understand how to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Do you mean you want to find a man for Ling Qianjin? That's easy to say. I'll talk to the elders and I'll guarantee you as much as you want. , you can get whatever you want.”

"enough!"

The fear of being dominated gradually receded from his heart, and Duke Anxi had the courage to roar impulsively.

But seeing that the "guard" beside him didn't look like a serious person, he quickly put his arms around his wife's shoulders and protected her in his arms.

"You don't have to be like this..." the new guard curled his lips.

"We keep our word. If we say we will kill the whole family, we will kill the whole family. If we say we will protect your safety, we will keep your whole family safe."

He glanced at the Duchess who was huddled in her husband's arms, and he smiled and said:
"You are also my mistress now. Don't worry, under my protection, no man except the Duke can enter your room in the future."

The duchess's eyes widened when she heard this, and her trembling pupils were filled with fear mixed with disbelief, and her body couldn't stop shaking even more violently. Duke Anxi, who felt sorry for his wife, saw this and patted his wife's back quickly. Keep saying comforting words.

But Duke Anxi couldn't see the lady's gaze at this time. She suppressed her inner desire to avoid and looked at the young man in front of her, as if she wanted to read some hint from it.

But the latter just patted his chest quite proudly, leaving the Duchess completely unable to tell whether there was something in what he just said.

When the almost invisible crescent moon in the sky slowly set, and a hazy trace of morning white appeared at the end of the sky, in a forest more than a hundred miles away from the Duke's Palace, groups of people took off their black robes and completed the ceremony last night. The soul masters who were tasked with negotiating with their respective targets gathered at a predetermined location.

"It seems that this mission has been completed well. No one is missing...Hey, why are there so many more people?" A stout old man asked with a smile.

"We encountered a tough idea, which made my proud disciple dare not let go and blow them up, so he lost a few corpse slaves. Are you planning to refining him to compensate my disciple?" The old man wearing a bamboo hat pulled The man next to him with a sack on his head, who looked like a walking corpse, said coldly.

"Huh, how dare you brag about your apprentice's one-time corpse slave? Why don't I catch someone with good qualifications during this trip and go back to work as a medicine slave?"

The fat old man laughed a few times when he heard the words, and then looked at the Duke's daughter with tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, and the old man beside her who had no unnecessary expression, his eyes lit up and he said with a smile:

"Second Master, are you buying new high-quality goods for Xishui Alliance?"

"Haha, then the quality of this is really good. The second elder's methods are obvious to all. When the time comes, the brothers will definitely try it and support it."

"Humph, get away from me," Nangong Wan snorted angrily.

"This is my new disciple. Don't confuse it with those who are thrown out for sale by the bottom class. Whoever dares to harass my disciple, I will chop up his things and make them into wine."

"You...are you? Your disciple?"

The charming woman who had just caught a drug slave and was in a good mood had a strange look in her eyes when she heard this.

"With this qualification, even if you are thrown into contempt by the big shots like a dog, is it worthy of being favored by you?"

"Oh, so I can run the Xishui Alliance for the Holy Religion, but you can still only engage in some crooked ways, and you can't even make medicine." Nangong Wan stabbed in a neutral tone.

"Second Master, you... are you anxious because you are attracted by the two saints? You can't be selective about food. Is there anyone in the Xishui League who is better than this loser?"

Looking at the girl, she must be about 20 years old, and her cultivation level is only [-]th ring. It can be seen at a glance that this speed is considered to be a failure by the standards of the Holy Spirit Church, let alone being "promoted" by the second elder.

The duke's daughter listened to the harsh words of these people, and no matter how slow her reaction was, she knew that she was now in the evil spirit master's den.

Tears rolled down like broken pearls again. She no longer expected the day when she would be free again. She only hoped to have a quicker death and not be thrown out like those people said. Sell ​​or make dogs for others.

Until today, she has been living a life of pampering, fine clothing and good food, and she cannot bear the hardships.

And, I hope this group of people can let her parents go after achieving their goals.

"If you don't know how to appreciate and carve beautiful jade, don't talk nonsense. Even for her father's sake, I will teach her well so that her father can cooperate with the Holy Cult with peace of mind."

Nangong Wan said with a kind and kind face: "Ying'er, among us, in terms of background, you are the most noble one. Why don't you introduce yourself to everyone?"

…………

Mingdu, somewhere in the underground laboratory where Huo Yuhao has set up camp in recent days.

Jing Hongchen looked at the "finished products" introduced to him one by one by the researchers in front of him, shock and ecstasy constantly intertwined in his eyes.

He had long been prepared to spend a lot of money to train Huo Yuhao and wait for a few years before seeing results. Anyway, he was not in a hurry.

Unexpectedly... this first round of "soul" experiments gave him a huge surprise.

The first round of preliminary feasibility verification experiments did not use expensive thousand-year soul beasts, and all "human-animal matching" were successful.

There were no problems with things like the fusion of weapon souls with soul beasts, which was a bit uncertain, and even weird things like the "white five rings" were created unintentionally.

Except for some volunteers who were too weak and died or went mad after the experiment of "raising three rings in a row" by violently consuming pills without considering life safety, everything was so perfect that it was unbelievable.

Of course, their sacrifices also paid off - at least it allowed Huo Yuhao to successfully verify that "hundred-year-old souls can indeed only provide two soul rings."

"Okay, okay, you did a good job! If you have any needs later, please feel free to ask today!"

"By the way, how do you deal with those mentally disturbed volunteers?"

Huo Yuhao cupped his hands at Jing Hongchen, who was also wearing a mask and a white coat, and replied:
"He is temporarily detained."

"When all subsequent experiments on the souls are completed and the souls are revealed to the world, I will keep my promise and spare their lives... However, it is impossible to release anti-social people like them directly. I found a mental hospital for them and abolished the cultivation system." I will send them to spend their remaining years peacefully."

(End of this chapter)