Killing Demons: Upgrading from Calligraphy

"Old friends are all in good repair, seeing a letter is like meeting in person..."

On three or five pages of yellow-brown letter paper, there are three to five thousand words, but the writing is a mess, with some words in the sky and some words on the ground.

Especially Hu Tianzong's illegible handwriting, which was inherited from his family, made Qi Xiu, who started his career as a calligrapher, frown.

I couldn't help but imagine that when Hu Tianzong wrote this letter, he was squatting on a chair, grabbing the brush, dipping it in ink and writing cursive.

"What is bound to come will eventually come. If we can repay the favor we showed today, it will be considered as a karmic reconciliation.

To me, that’s not a bad thing.”

Whispering softly, Qi Xiu waved his right hand lightly, and the letter paper in his hand suddenly caught fire and turned into wisps of embers that fell to the ground.

Although Hu Tianzong's letter seems to have a lot of words, in fact more than 80% of it are polite remarks, and the really useful content is concentrated in the last few paragraphs.

The first was that Hu Tianzong explicitly told Qi Xiu that the five great families in Liaodong were ready to enter the country at any time, as they had announced to the whole country before, and it was not just talk.

Secondly, the five great families from Liaodong entered the pass ostensibly to mediate the disputes and wars within the pass, but in fact they also wanted to take advantage of the Zhao family's loss of power and let the heroes compete for supremacy.

To gain a share of the benefits that you deserve for yourself.

Seeing the rare and neatly written words "deserve" on those pages of letter paper, Qi Xiu had already seen the determination of Hu Tianzong and all the Liaodong families this time.

Hu Tianzong only had one request in this letter.

Then take necessary action to help the Hu family solve a difficult target, because for some reasons, the methods of the five major families in Liaodong are difficult to work on them.

If you want to solve it without any risk of failure, you must hire a strong foreign aid.

During the trip to the Nanming Wilderness, Hu Tianzong was very clear about Qi Xiu's strength, so he signed a letter of divorce, intending to settle the previous karma and favor.

After all, at their level, they are very clear about the importance of cause and effect to future practice.

Hu Tianzong's letter this time also contained some thoughts of helping Qi Xiu resolve the previous cause and effect.

After all, his request this time was not difficult for Qi Xiu.

"I hope my hunch is wrong..."

After burning the letter, Qi Xiu transformed into a divine light and left. It would take some time for the Liaodong family to enter the pass, so he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to arrange everything in the sect.

After a careful investigation over the past period of time, the entire Shenxiao Sect, whether it is the main family or the branch family, the inner gate or the outer gate, including the elders of the Yun generation, have all gone through the thunder pool again.

Moreover, each one was completed under the personal supervision of Qi Xiu's incarnation.

After such a thorough and detailed investigation, several undercover spies who were hiding very deeply were actually uncovered.

However, Qi Xiu did not expose these needles inserted into the Shenxiao Sect on the spot.

Instead, they allowed them to get away with it, allowing them to think that they had successfully hidden themselves again.

“It’s easy to kill them, but who can guarantee that after we kill them, the forces behind them won’t send new people.

Instead of doing this, it would be better not to alert the enemy and stabilize them. Now that we know their identities, we can be more cautious in the future.

We can even use their mouths to pass on some of the messages we want them to pass on.”

Faced with Qi Xiu's suggestion, Elder Yun Feng, who was in charge of the gate guards and the criminal hall, thought about it and felt that it was safer.

Therefore, these undercover spies who thought they had once again concealed their true identity were placed under strict surveillance and control, and Yun Feng, together with several elders of the Yun generation, began to formulate some "fake news" specifically for them.

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The year 1844 of the Great Xuan calendar is the beginning of summer.

The largest civil war in history broke out within the entire Daxuan Dynasty.

The six provinces headed by Huihuai Jiedushi Yang Du posted a notice throughout the country that the current royal family is doing evil and the people are living in misery, which has led to demons rampant and evil cultivation spreading. In order to protect the survival of the human race, the six Jiedushi formed a camp to support the king and intend to enter the capital to support the king and bring justice to the human race.

Faced with Yang Du's aggressive army with hundreds of millions of troops, the Zhao royal family defended Jiangnan and Shangjing to the death and would rather die than abandon their troops and surrender.

However, due to the pressure from Yang Du and other six Yuanshen Jiedushi, the Jiangnan Province blocking the front was defeated step by step. The national defense general Weicheng died in the capital of Jiangnan Province. The 40 million Nanshan troops suffered heavy casualties and not a single one survived.

The entire Jiangnan province almost turned into a bloody battlefield. The bloody resentment rising into the sky could not be eliminated in a short time even if more than a thousand Buddhist masters joined forces to perform the salvation operation.

Just as Yang Du's camp to support the king was advancing like a hot knife through butter, within a month they had captured thirteen prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River and were heading straight for the capital.

Dominating the south, the Yi Tian Army organized by Zhu Shanhe, Gao Tianxiong and Li Huangliang suddenly set out with lightning speed and seized the government offices of the two major provinces of Fujian and Shandong.

This forced the Fujian Jiedushi Feng Tianci and the Lujin Jiedushi Wang Hui to return to defend their base in order to avoid having their old nests completely destroyed and becoming helpless.

As soon as Feng Tianci and Wang Hui left, the strength of the King’s Camp was suddenly reduced by one third.

The pressure on the Jiangnan province was greatly reduced, and at this time the Zhao royal family also took out their heritage of holding the imperial artifacts for more than a thousand years.

Anyone who has entered Shangjing and become the common leader of the human race would be qualified to control the imperial artifact when he ascended to the throne.

This imperial artifact not only symbolizes the identity of the royal family, but is also a key, a key that can activate many of the royal family's secret treasures.

Faced with Yang Du's royal camp and the precarious Jiangnan province, the Zhao royal family decisively activated the imperial artifact and revived a killing artifact.

God-killing platform!

This is a terrifying artifact whose mission is to kill gods.

Its power is enough to be called earth-shattering.

The turbid fog that shrouds the sky above the Great Southern Ocean all year round is so thick that even the Yuanshen Zhenzun of the Taoist Alliance is helpless against it.

In the end, it was completely cut in half by a sword from the God-Slaying Platform.

This shows the terrifying power of this artifact.

However, every use of such a powerful ancient artifact also means an enormous consumption.

The people's morale and the wishes of all living beings that had accumulated before the God-Slaying Platform had all been consumed by the sword in the Great Wilderness of Nanming.

However, facing Yang Du's relentless pressure and the approaching iron hoofs of the King's Camp, the Zhao family chose to sacrifice this sacred weapon to break the current situation, even at a huge price.

That day!

The divine sword that once illuminated the vast wilderness of the Southern Sea and cut through the turbid fog that had shrouded it for ten thousand years reappeared in the Middle-earth realm.

But this time its target is the human race.

Faced with the earth-shattering blow from the God-Slaying Platform, the four Yuanshen Jiedushi led by Yang Du joined forces to fight back.

The extremely dazzling white light enveloped half of the Jiangnan province.

After the light faded, the sword disappeared.

Since then, Qingjiang Jiedushi Wanyan Cang has never appeared in the king's camp again.

There is news that the governor was escorted back to Qingjiang by ninety-nine red-robed lamas, but no one saw the extent of his injuries.

After suffering such a heavy blow, Yang Du's camp to support the king had to slow down.

A cornered dog will jump over the wall; a cornered rabbit will bite.

These two metaphors reflect the Zhao royal family in an extremely vivid way at this moment.

At this moment, the Zhao royal family was like an irritated porcupine. Anyone who dared to approach at this time would be shot in the face with thorns.

Although Yang Du's camp to support the king had an absolute advantage in numbers.

But in addition to the Zhao royal family, he also had to be wary of Zhu Shanhe and his Yitian Army, who were dominating the south and eyeing him covetously.

After all, when the Great Xuan Dynasty was still at its peak, Zhu Shanhe was recognized as the strongest among the twelve military governors, and he was also a king of a different surname.

Even Zhao Baiye, the Zhao family's patron, had said clearly that he could not see through this man with such a majestic kingly aura.

At this point, the entire Middle-earth world has become a three-way balance of power.

Yang Du's side is the strongest. Not only does it have six Yuanshen Jiedushi, it also has the largest number of troops and occupies nearly half of the country's territory.

Zhu Shanhe's group is second. Although they only have three provinces in their hands, they have strong men and horses, and Zhu Shanhe, the strongest of the twelve military governors, is in charge. Their strength should not be underestimated.

The worst-off were the Zhao royal family who defended Shangjing to the death.

Faced with the abandonment of the Taoist Alliance and the oppression of Yang Du and Zhu Shanhe, they can only hold on tightly to the only remaining resources in their hands, looking forward to the illusory and almost invisible vitality.

However, this situation of three parties standing in opposition began to crack in a national announcement.

The five great families in Liaodong chose a day to leave the country, hoping to mediate the situation inside the country by force.

As soon as this news came out.

The leaders of the three major forces all revealed an indescribable expression.

The great province of Liaodong!

This is the most special province among the twelve provinces.

First of all, its area is the largest among the twelve provinces, even three times larger than the smallest province, Fujian.

Secondly, Liaodong Province is the only province where the Jiedushi is not in power and is not a true Yuanshen.

The Liaodong Province, due to its geographical characteristics, is inherently cold and densely covered with deep mountains and old forests, where many ancient and powerful spirits were born.

The unique Taoist tradition of Liaodong gave them the ability to control and manipulate these spirits.

This also means that the overall strength of Liaodong Province is the most difficult to predict among the twelve provinces.

Now that the five great families of Liaodong have entered the pass, they say on the surface that they want to mediate by force, but anyone with a discerning eye knows the inner meaning.

Here we are to share Daxuan's piece of cake.

Judging from the current situation, no matter which side the five major families of Liaodong join, it is likely to disrupt the current balance.

This province, which has been keeping a low profile for a long time, finally showed its most powerful side at the most critical moment.

At a time when the provincial military governors and the Zhao royal family were fighting each other, the country was plunged into a period of warlord infighting.

The clans and families in each province remained silent as always.

After all, compared to the military governors who intended to get their hands on the imperial artifact, the sect families had no desire for that artifact.

Practicing enlightenment and cultivating the art of longevity are what they pursue.

However, this time the change of leadership was obviously more drastic than the previous ones.

After all, in terms of strength, this generation of the Daxuan Dynasty can be said to be the most powerful since the Middle Ages.

The Zhao royal family, together with the military governors of various vassal states, have more than a dozen Yuanshen Zhenzun.

Among all the human dynasties in history, it can also be ranked among the top.

However, this situation has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that there are such a large number of Yuanshen Zhenzun sitting in charge of the whole country, and the demons and evil cultivators are first-rate, and those ten thousand mountains cannot cause any waves.

The downside is that how can the true Yuanshen be under someone else's rule for long? There have been signs of warlords fighting and heroes vying for supremacy.

Therefore, in the face of the increasingly fierce and tense melee, the sects and families in various provinces, which had been silent for a long time, began to visit each other and started discussions.

In an inconspicuous green bamboo forest, the green bamboos swaying in the wind made rustling sounds.

Deep in the bamboo forest, a small clay sculpture sits in the middle of thick bamboo leaves. At first glance, it looks like a work of children playing around.

But in fact, in the eyes of the truly powerful, this small clay sculpture contains a majestic aura that shakes the world.

“This melee was a little too fierce.

Those military governors are now obsessed with seizing the throne and have no regard for the vitality of our human race at all.

If the fighting continues like this, several large provinces may become deserted.”

Inside the small clay sculpture pavilion, there is a different world, a vast space with layers upon layers, clouds and mist, and colorful clouds, which looks like a heavenly palace.

There are powerful and majestic auras, and Taoist masters with completely different bodies are scattered among them.

The world is in chaos and the fighting is fierce.

The spiritual world originally did not want to intervene.

However, because the warlords' fighting this time was too brutal, the number of civilian casualties was so large that all the major sects and families could no longer bear it.

After all, many sects still rely on selecting the good and the bad from the secular world and accepting them into their sects.

Your fight for the throne resulted in countless deaths and injuries among the common people.

If this continues, where will these sects and families get to recruit disciples?

In this way, wouldn't it be digging up their past?

The person who just spoke was Li Xiong, the grand elder of Qingxuan Holy Land, one of the top ten sects in Jiangnan Province.

The Jiangnan province, as the main battlefield of this warlord melee, has become a sea of ​​blood and corpses and a barren land.

Although Qingxuan Holy Land also has its own independent mountain gate world.

But their roots are in the great province of Jiangnan after all.

Now the entire province is deserted and has become a deserted place. If they want to recruit disciples in the future, won't they have to go to neighboring provinces or even further away?

This would make the sects and families in other major provinces laugh to death.

“You’re right. These warlords did go too far this time. It’s just that these people are fighting over this.

Before you get what you want.

I don’t think it’s possible to get them to stop and just give up.”

"Indeed, the temptation of that imperial divine weapon is too great for them."

"Then we're just going to watch? If the fighting continues, not only the Jiangnan province, but all the provinces will be turned into a sea of ​​blood and corpses."

“In my humble opinion, the clans and families in each province should unite to protect the civilians. The warlords can fight if they want, and they can divide the roads and fight however they want, but they must not affect the civilians.

Otherwise, if this continues, it will cause too much damage to the vitality of our human race."

"Hey, this plan is feasible."

“Well, you can fight for the throne, but the warlords have committed too many sins of murder. If they continue like this, it will be like the devil.

I also agree with the opinions raised by fellow Taoists. "

As more and more people agreed, everyone's eyes turned to the person who had just made the suggestion.

He was a young Taoist with a handsome and fair face, a calm expression, and a dark blue Taoist robe.

Feeling the gazes of the crowd, the Taoist nodded slightly.

"So young, so reserved, I can't tell what his true self is. Whose living fossil is this?"

"This robe...Shenxiao Sect?"

"Hiss, I remember now, isn't this the Master of All Laws of the Divine Sky Sect?"

"It's him? The Divine Sky Sect actually sent him to participate in this meeting. It seems that this guy has already become a high-ranking official in the Divine Sky Sect."

“It’s not just the top executives.

As far as I know, this True Lord Hunyuan Wanfa is now the deputy headmaster of the Shenxiao Sect.

He is truly second to none and above ten thousand people!"

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