I thought it was just the past and the present

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"Elder Mao, what do you mean... if we don't personally manage mortals, we still won't be able to make it to the Immortal List in the future?"

"Yes. But you have also seen the current state of the Conferred Immortal List. When you make it up in that state, it is equivalent to the appearance of a handyman disciple in the sect."

Head: "..."

"Okay, you can go back and think about it yourself. I will stay in the sect for five days this time. Today I will go back to my own mountain to have a look. Come tomorrow if you have something to do."

"Yes..." Although the headmaster still had a lot to ask, Mao Qian had said so much, so he had no choice but to leave.

Mao Qian finally returned to his residence, ignoring a few handyman disciples who were probing their heads, he sat outside and made himself a pot of spiritual tea, and drank it himself.

To convince the monks of Tianyizong, Mao Qian does not need five days, only three days is enough.

On the same day when Yizong started to move, Mao Qian left, but he did not go back to Xia Kingdom, but turned around in the whole big world. He was sealed in the other 58 immortal officials—Xiao Qi and Liu Xing For the king, there is only one Xia country that occupies two places, and they are tied together, sharing the golden name attached to the back.

This morning, Xiao Qi sent Mu Zhen to the small side door of the palace as usual, but when Mu Zhen went out, both of them paused for nothing.Mu Zhen asked Xiao Qi with his eyes, Xiao Qi shook his head at him, but when Mu Zhen left today, he was somewhat more worried than before.

When Xiao Qi returned to the palace, he found Mao Qian who had come uninvited in the imperial study.

"Mao Xianren, what is your business?"

"I'm going to take a long vacation." Mao Qian said, he smiled happily, "I'm here to say goodbye to you today, I found a few people, they are very similar to you."

"Then I wish Immortal Mao's wishes come true."

Mao Qian was immediately unhappy: "Are you happy that I left, and you don't feel sad at all?"

Xiao Qi answered very simply: "No."

"Oh... I hope that one day, I will no longer be happy because of you, nor worry because of you." Mao Qian watched Xiao Qi's eyes become deep, he stood up, bowed to Xiao Qi, suddenly The time disappeared.

Seeing him like this, Xiao Qi had a moment of doubt: Is this person really in love with me?But he immediately put the thought behind him.Whether it's true or not, Xiao Qi won't respond to him, if he switches to someone else, it's a good thing for everyone, so he simply said: This crazy person should go as far as he can, and don't come back again!

After Mao Qian left, Xiao Qi got the news that Tian Yizong had moved.It was also Tian Yizong's move that drove other hesitant sects to follow suit.

Xiao Qi thought about whether Tian Yizong's movement had something to do with Mao Qian, but in the same instant, he threw this person into the back of his mind again.

The first thing the great cultivators did was to bring back the population that had been distributed in the past. After all, there were not many people left in their hands—either some scattered mortals or low-level monks who were hostages of spirit officials, Or belong to a family of elders from various sects.

The number of the former is too small, and the latter... has no reason to bring the sect to beat their own local tyrants.

Then I can only ask those spiritual official disciples to ask for it. Although the proportion of these spiritual official disciples on the list of immortals is not large (except for those with golden characters, there are also those with black characters), but there is always a thought .And they themselves are the bosses now, but once the mortals are handed over, they will be an outer disciple, a handyman disciple, or even a former aristocratic disciple who is nothing when they return to the sect. How are they willing to do this?

Those who seal immortals and demons are fighting with the sect, but their immortal seals are not as strong as sixty immortal kings. Although they are still unkillable, they are entangled by several monks, except for the little one they sealed themselves. If the officials can keep it, they can only watch the monks remove a large number of people.

Once the people lose too much, some of the functions of the Immortal Seal will disappear. Even if they use the Immortal Seal to deduct the merits of these robbing monks, but... just like them when they fight with other spirit officials, there is no way for everyone to deduct them directly from each other. The merits are the same, none of these monks were hurt when they came, even if they held down the immortal officials and beat them up violently, the deduction of merits is also limited.

what to do?Really go back to the sect and continue to be a dog?

Some people went back, but some people chose to look for those companions who were named kings.Since they all want to work for others, instead of going back to the sect and bowing their heads to be dogs for others, it is better to find like-minded people.

Some fairy kings are used to the people they cultivated and are unwilling to accept outsiders, while some fairy kings are willing to accept others to fight with them, but this is their own business.

On Xia Guo's side, Xiao Qi and Mu Zhen are busy.

In terms of population and territorial area, Xia Guo is still not enough to look at, but the shining golden characters are really too conspicuous, and it is too enviable and hated.Taking advantage of this wave of chaos in the world, demons and goblins came to make trouble.

But... Although the demons and ghosts came in a raging way, in the eyes of outsiders, the result was like a feather falling in a big lake, without even arousing a ripple, it disappeared with the waves.

Seeing this scene, some behind-the-scenes messengers quickly sent messengers in private to talk about it.They also know that the mouths of those monsters and goblins are not guarded, and they may not be able to keep their secrets.They came, Xiao Qi and Liu Xing are also willing to meet, it is very simple to settle this grievance, that is the population.

Since the accident on the list of immortals, people who were not taken seriously before are now in short supply everywhere. Who will let them or their subordinates do it themselves?Only people can be sent.

There were also those who pretended to be stupid, but one year after the last monster was caught, black words suddenly appeared on the list of immortals: "Wang Moumou conspired to bring disaster to Xia Kingdom, Bingyin Wang Xiao, Dingmao Wang Liu, and the His merits are 3000 million. Zhang Moumou conspired to kill the people of the Xia Kingdom, Bingyin Wang Xiao, Dingmao Wang Liu, and cut their merits by 800 million." In turn, there are a total of 3000 people, with a maximum of 900 million and a minimum of [-] million. Cut off [-] million merits.

This "announcement" has been on the Fengxian list for two months, and everyone who has read it feels cold behind their backs.The sects that were sent to the common people before were joked that they were afraid of trouble, so they all hurriedly touched their chests, full of joy.

How much merit a person has now, you can find a fairy official to see it, and the monks naturally know it.Even if so many spiritual officials were sent out to squeeze oil and water before, the person with the highest known merit is only more than 600 million, which is not enough for the last one, a fraction of the cut guy.

As for the one with the highest cut of 3000 million... This one should hurry up and switch to the magic way.

"Don't tell me... the king's master suddenly went mad on the day when the words were displayed on the list of conferring immortals, his flesh and body exploded, and his primordial spirit turned into a real demon." Several casual cultivators discussed below.

"Yes, and that head Hu is also..."

"These two fairy kings are also domineering, then Xiao... Isn't His Majesty Xiao just a mortal in the past? He really ascended..."

"Speak carefully, speak carefully!" His companion made gestures with him.

Everyone shut their mouths, but after a while they began to discuss again: "Since the king's head has become a demon, why didn't he see his name on the black letter below?"

"Don't you know? I heard that there is an obvious condition for being listed on the list of immortals, which is merit. But there is also a hidden condition, which is the awe of ordinary people. No one knows if you have done a great deed, and you can't be sealed if you are full of merit. Immortal list. Becoming a demon is also the same, not only is there a lot of debts, but it also has to be feared or hated. The debts of those few masters are enough, but who of us is afraid of them?"

The rest of the people nodded and said, "That's the truth."

"Hey... we casual cultivators have no family or job. In the past, we hoped to find a small sect to be a guest after passing Jindan. Now where in the world is there any place to take people?"

"I want to try my luck in Xia Guo."

"Xia Guo?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Yes, go to Xia Kingdom to become a spirit official. Although monks are in charge in other places, the sects themselves feel that mortals are not enough. How can they arrange for us? As for other fairy kings, they are not good enough."

A monk said: "Why do you have to be a spiritual official? Anyway, there are still 400 years left. The Immortal List will bring these people to the Immortal World, and those Immortal Seals will follow. At that time, the big world will still have to be like it used to be." live."

"But isn't the reason we have practiced for many years to become immortals? If we still fail to grasp the great opportunity that is in front of us now, 400 years from now, it will be nothing but struggling in vain."

"..." This is really heartbreaking, old man.

All the scattered immortals shut up until they dispersed, and no one brought up a new topic.But when they returned to their cave, seven or eight out of ten of them packed up their belongings, brought their apprentices or family members, and headed towards Xia Kingdom or other lands under the jurisdiction of the Immortal King that they thought they could take refuge in...

Xiao Qi didn't know that there would be a large number of casual cultivators coming soon, those sects who paid compensation were busy with his subordinates, and now he is busy with a group of demons and ghosts.Dealing with them now is not to leave them alone on purpose, but to discuss a basic plan only now.

There are also "familiar monsters" here, that is, the tiger demon king and his fox military adviser that Xiao Qi spied on through the jade card decades ago, but now only the two of them are seen, and the monsters who were with them in the past are not present.

Except for the two of them, the other 40 or so monsters are very strange, there are more than [-] magic cultivators with demon faces, more than [-] black and gloomy ghosts, and the largest number of little one hundred kangaroos. Can't get out of their own spirits.

Don't look at their ugly looks, it's just that they are suppressed now, if not for the high proportion of immortal officials in Xia Kingdom, who can cover every corner, the current Xia Kingdom would have changed dynasties long ago - refer to the legendary Shang Dynasty .

"Although you all attempted to fail, you have already violated the laws of my country of Xia. According to the law, you should all be killed. You should have also discovered that your companions have lost more than half. It is verified by the immortal seal, and the crime is unforgivable. of."

Except for a few little elves who cried out in fright, the other demons and ghosts kept their low-browed and pleasing expressions-although based on their appearance, some guys had low-browed and pleasing eyes like winking, while others had low-browed expressions. It's pleasing to the eye like wanting to eat people...

In the 100-plus years of intense changes in the big world, instead of being slaughtered, they lived a nourishing life. Many of them even made it to the black list of the Immortal List.Now that the ship capsizes in Xia Country, he also knows how to save his life.

"But we are short of manpower in Xia Kingdom, so don't die, just do coolies for us." Xiao Qi took the jade seal in his hand, and he took away both the demon cultivator and the ghost, and the underworld was finally about to be formed.Lifting his feet, he glanced at the tiger monster and took the tiger away.

"Ah! Your Majesty! Please take me away too!" The vixen yelled quickly, "Don't! Don't let me be separated from my king... my tiger..."

The vixen threw himself on the ground with tears in his eyes. He originally wanted to grab Xiao Qi's feet, but he couldn't make it through.Xiao Qi glanced inside the jade seal, the tiger head found that he had changed places, and immediately found the tiger's original body, turning his body to expose his belly and throat: "Your Majesty the Immortal King, I will do it even if you ask me to pull a cart and guard the gate as a coolie. And please don't let me be separated from my little fox."

Xiao Qi also had no intention of being a mandarin duck beater, so he pointed at the vixen and put him into the jade seal.

The big tiger begged with its belly up, and the vixen just landed on the tiger's belly.The white-haired belly even flicked the vixen twice. The vixen sat still, looked at the big tiger, and wailed: "My lord~~" The tiger demon didn't even bother to change back, so he used two balls of fur. The slap captured the vixen in its claws.

Xiao Qi: "..."

Suddenly I thought it was cute, if I have the ability to change when I come back, try it with a big pillow?

But the matter of the couple's interest, that will be discussed later, it is still important to get down to business now.

Waiting for one tiger, one fox, and Li Gui Moxiu to be released again, even though they are demons and heretics, they were shocked by the current scene-this place is obviously underground, with jagged black rocks above their heads, and no soil under their feet , densely packed with fiery red manjusawa, and it is possible to see these clearly because there are countless faint green lights floating around.

Green Fire couldn't stare at it, otherwise they couldn't help but follow along. If you listened carefully, you could hear the sound of rushing water.

"That...Your Majesty, where is this?" The tiger demon asked while rubbing his head.

Moxiu and Li Gui were taken in first, they didn't know about the tiger and the fox, but since Xiao Qi let them be members, the tiger demon knew that this fairy king was quite kind.

Xiao Qi glanced at him, and the tiger smiled silly at him.

"This is the underworld, where the souls of all enlightened beings in the world return."

Demons and ghosts, look at me, I look at you, even though they are demons and outlaws, they also know that the Nether is not like this - the upper level of the fairy world cannot be seen, but although the great monks of the lower Nether can come and go freely, But it can also be seen clearly.Nether is a big chaotic funnel, the soul enters from here, and when it exits, it washes away the mortal world and reincarnates.

Xiao Qi waved his hands to them, motioning them to follow: "Of course the past was not like this, but it will always be like this in the future. Moreover, you are the first batch of civil servants of Youming."

Demons and ghosts: "..."

They saw a big river that they couldn't see from here. This was where the sound of the water came from. It was strange, but now that they were closer, they couldn't hear the sound of the water. They could only see the dark brown river flowing faintly. He couldn't see the bottom.

Xiao Qi waved his hand, several large ships approached the shore, Xiao Qi asked: "Which of you will be the helm?"

It is impossible to ferry people to Huangquan. With the population density of the big world, even if it is a natural death, it is impossible to know how many people will die, and a small boat cannot fit it.So many large ships are only invested in the first phase, and after these ghosts are brought out, there will be more large ships in the future.

"Those who want to cross the river have to use their merits while they were alive to pay for the boat fare. You don't need to collect it. When they get on the boat, it will be deducted automatically. If the sin is too deep, the boat will fall in the middle of the underworld. Floating along the Huangquan River to the lower levels of the underworld, it has nothing to do with you. Of course, because you are wearing a sinful body, you don’t have to think about the salary for the first 200 years. The advantage of this job is that there are not many documents. For work, it’s good to sail on both sides, the downside is that it’s busy every day, and at least for ten years, you don’t even think about having vacations.”

"..." None of the demons and goblins accosted, which is also understandable, after all, they are all guys who advocate freedom.

"Okay, let's cross the river first, go through all kinds of jobs, and you can choose again." Xiao Qipiao got on the big boat, stood on the side of the boat, he suddenly turned his head and smiled, "I hope you can all find jobs that you really like, Instead of letting me choose for you."

Even if they are a group of demons and ghosts, at this moment, I feel a chill in my back...

The demons and goblins also knew that there was no way out now, so they boarded the boat very honestly.When they stepped on the board of the boat, they felt that they sank, not because their bodies sank, but because their souls sank suddenly.But after a while, they returned to normal.

The ghosts and goblins couldn't help taking another look at Xiao Qi, but Xiao Qi just looked at them cheerfully and didn't say anything.

They have never seen other fairy kings, but this fairy king who is a mortal who ascends to immortality, Yazi is not normal no matter how you look at it...

Although they were bound by the shackles of the restraining power, and all the magical treasures and elixir were searched away, the staff of the Xia Kingdom were not familiar with them after all, and they were all old and cunning guys, so they still kept some things at the bottom of the box , still has the power to hit.When he was released, he found that Xiao Qi was the only one around, and they had already made eye contact and agreed on how to run away.

It's just that this place is beyond their imagination, so this group of guys didn't do it at the beginning.

Should it be said that it was fortunate that he didn't do anything?

When the boat reached the middle, many guys were trying their best to hold on to the fence or the mast. They didn't forget what Xiao Qi said just now, that someone would fall.

As a result, the bottom of the boat did become transparent, and there was a huge suction that sucked them downwards, but it was also only for a moment, and the boat was still transparent, but the suction disappeared.

A demon cultivator asked: "Your Majesty, what if there are monks who intend to fly over this yellow spring?"

Xiao Qi didn't answer directly, but said: "When there are monks flying, you will be able to see it. My words are relatively shallow, and I can't describe the heroism in detail."

"..." What kind of situation is it that needs to be described by words like heroic?

Inexplicably a little anticipation.

Looking from the boat, the river bank on the other side is also a piece of land covered by manjusawa. When they really stepped on the ground, they saw a passage, including the tiger and the fox that had never been separated. No one else but themselves.

"Don't be afraid, keep going forward."

Xiao Qi only gave an order, he didn't care about those who continued to mess around, and let them toss around in the passage by themselves.

Honestly, he walked forward alone, and within a few steps, he saw a large empty room.

There is also a passage in the room. Since His Majesty Xiao didn't say anything more, they continued to walk. Sure enough, they arrived at a hall, where all the ghosts and ghosts gathered together again.

Xiao Qi said: "All the ghosts who disembark will walk into a passage, and then be received by a group of judges. Those who are guilty will be transferred to be punished, and those who are not guilty will queue up to go to reincarnation."

"How is this crime punished?"

"You can judge as you want." Xiao Qi squinted and smiled at Moxiu who was asking the question, and when his eyes lit up, he said again, "Do you think I will say that?"

Although Xiao Qi was teasing them, he knew that to ask such a question meant that he had the intention to stay at work.

"Hehe." The tiger demon rubbed his head and muttered, "You people still say that we monsters are stupid..."

Moxiu looked ugly, but he didn't dare to refute, so he could only hold back.

"Of course there are corresponding regulations, and you don't have to worry, you can't be judges, you can only be ghost messengers who maintain order." After all, they all have vicious looks, which are more intimidating.

They waited for a while, and waited for those foolish people behind to come forward and catch up with the team, and then moved on.

Xiao Qi could transfer all the settings of Huangquan from the other two worlds, but after researching with Mu Zhen, he decided to keep things simple.The Huangquan River in front sifts out the heinous crimes, and manual checks here are enough.

Behind it is Fengdu City, which has only a city wall so far... The souls that have not yet had their turn to reincarnate live here temporarily.

Xiao Qi mainly took them to the lower level. There are no eighteen floors in this hell, there are only two floors, one is the living area, and the other is the labor reform area...

Xiao Qi also doesn't let them go up the knife mountain or down the frying pan, how boring is that?It also wastes manpower and material resources. The ghosts with the most sins just work. They are ghosts anyway, and they don’t know how tired they are. They are the best coolies.

Xia Guo is now getting bigger and bigger, and people's lives are getting better and better. Most of the more dangerous jobs in the past have been replaced by puppets.But there are still many high-strength and high-repetition jobs. The cost of using puppet dummies is too high, but the labor cost is also getting higher and higher-so every time a new city is built, a large number of businessmen flood in, and there is no need to worry about newcomers coming. .However, with the improvement of education level and the flow of population between the old and new cities, the labor costs of the new cities will gradually increase.