Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 532 Quietly Lost Contact

The subtle connections made Chu Tai's aura gradually entangled with the aura of Qingli Caixian.

Under the [Boy] Dao Fruit Fragment System, the abilities of the eighth-grade [Wandering Scholar] and the seventh-grade [Alchemist] began to take effect.

[Wanderer] Condenses corresponding regional spells based on the region and rumors about himself.

[Alchemist] can transform the local legends collected and recorded during travels into exclusive abilities.

The original status of these two abilities was not high, but using them at this time just helped Chu Tai contact Qingli Caixian, allowing him to borrow a little bit of the other party's power and sense the other party's Tao fruit power.

The most important thing is that this method of relying on the power of will can itself draw on the power of humanity to a certain extent, allowing Chu Tai to better compare the changes in the Qingli Caixian Dao Fruit.

Golden light rotated at the fingertips, condensing into a special copper coin. After Chu Tai carefully sensed it, he let go of his hand and the copper coin fell to the ground.

"As expected... In order to achieve the third rank, this guy chose to merge with humanity to a certain extent..."

'Come to think of it, it's only been about a hundred years since he became a fourth-grade master. If he wants to become a third-grade master as soon as possible, humanity is the best choice.'

Chu Tai did not find it strange about Qingli Caixian's choice. He and Master Tianque had speculated that there was a high possibility of another collision or partial fusion in the next two days, and the many recent changes also silently demonstrated this possibility.

And once unrest occurs again, it will inevitably become more difficult for Qingli to attain enlightenment. After all, in a turbulent situation, it will be difficult for him to perfect his teachings.

Only by achieving the third level in advance can one have the opportunity to protect more people when the two days collide.

Chu Tai, who understood this, looked in the direction where he had previously felt the aura of Qingli Dao Fruit, and sighed in his heart.

'It's a pity that his choice gave them leverage in the eyes of some people. The idea of ​​saving sentient beings has become their capital to make further demands. Otherwise, if this wealth fairy could have supervised the forging of those copper coins, it wouldn't have caused such a negative impact. I don't know if he can survive it...'

While Chu Tai was thinking, he glanced at the statue of the God of Wealth in Baiyun Temple. After Xiao Bin's practice and tempering over this period of time, the impurities and dirt inside have been in a relatively stable state.

The same situation also occurred in Faguang Temple. At this moment, Zen Master Zhiyu was paying close attention to the changes in the statue, refining the power of the statue day and night to prevent filth from growing. When Chu Tai looked towards Faguang Temple, he suddenly saw a wisp of strange clouds.

The clouds condensed like a black curtain, but there was a faint image of flying snakes inside, and there were also streams of blood rising up, surrounding it.

"Hmm? A fifth-rank military monk? He seems to be an acquaintance, and he seems to be planning to come to Baiyun Temple?"

Chu Tai greeted Xiao Bin and went back to the backyard to start making plans.

The other party's cultivation was much higher than that of the Yangmei Mountain Man played by Chu Tai at the moment. In order not to weaken his posture and not to be noticed by others, he drew the momentum of the surrounding mountains and rivers to form layers of precious light surrounding himself.

Therefore, when Shen Zhanpeng arrived here, before he went up the mountain, he saw layers of precious light rising from the mountains, spiritual energy lingering, and forming auspicious clouds surrounding the mountains.

"What a great place for cultivation, what a wonderful landscape, so full of inspiration, it seems that the Yangmei Mountain Man is really an old friend of mine."

Shen Zhanpeng asked the soldiers who followed him to stay at the foot of the mountain, and he went to visit with two personal guards.

When Xiao Bin first met Shen Zhanpeng, he was frightened by the blood on his body and carefully led him to Chu Tai.

As soon as they met, Shen Zhanpeng smiled and said, "It's been a long time since we last met. How have you been recently? Speaking of which, Si Shubai had been looking for you for a long time, but gave up when there was no news. I wonder where you are practicing now?"

"It's just that he found a place to stay and practice well. Whether he can achieve enlightenment in the future is still to be seen. However, Baihu's aura is getting more and more fierce. It seems that his cultivation has improved a lot in recent years."

As they were talking, Chu Tai had already stood up and led Shen Zhanpeng into the room. The two personal guards who followed Shen Zhanpeng stood outside the door and did not follow them in.

"What do you mean my cultivation level has improved a lot? It's just that I was forced to run back and forth. There were more battles, and my aura is no longer peaceful."

After sitting down, Shen Zhanpeng said again: "I envy you very much for this. You have a pure aura, abundant spiritual energy, and are vaguely in harmony with the heaven and earth. This is how you make rapid progress in your cultivation and have the hope of becoming an immortal."

"You and I are old acquaintances, so let's not be so witty. What exactly is the purpose of the centurion coming here today?"

Seeing this, Shen Zhanpeng's face was slightly solemn: "It's not a big deal, I just came to take a look at the problem of the statue of the God of Wealth here."

"The court knew there was something wrong with the statue? Then why didn't they take it back?"

Chu Tai's question made Shen Zhanpeng sneer: "Take it back? Who will pay for the manpower and material resources consumed during the period? Who will pay for the re-inspection and re-building of the statues? The silver allocated by the court has been used up, and the various government offices have also stamped their official seals to indicate that they are qualified. If we take these statues back now, do we have to investigate the crimes of those people in the government offices?"

"Shouldn't it be?"

Chu Tai answered casually, Shen Zhanpeng smiled but didn't say anything. The previous paragraph was actually out of line. If he wasn't really depressed and had some ability and was not afraid of gossip, he wouldn't have said these things.

But this amount of content is already the limit, and it can be evaded with excuses like nagging or chatting about family matters, but if you talk about it later, it has the flavor of a statement, and even his family background cannot cover it up.

Chu Tai also saw Shen Zhanpeng's concerns, so he didn't ask any more questions and said softly, "I wonder what the current solution is?"

"Let me and a few other centurions patrol the various places. If we find anything wrong, we will secretly disperse the impure energy in the statue. If anyone tries to stop us, we will regard them as having turned to evil..."

Hearing this, Chu Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes. He guessed that some abstract decisions would be made in the court, but he didn't expect things to be so abstract.

They regard those who are blocked by the statue as demons, and are unwilling to take action to clean up the statue. Is this really the court that inherited the Holy King's Avenue, rather than a backward country under the monarch-demon system?
Seeing Chu Tai's surprise, Shen Zhanpeng sneered: "I also thought what I heard was ridiculous, but since they are one level higher in rank, I can only choose to accept it and try not to hurt those who were deceived. But in this process, I did make another discovery."

Chu Tai sensed something and suddenly felt a sense of crisis. He suppressed his emotions and asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

"There really are demonic monks who are interfering with the affairs of these statues. And it's not just one or two cases. Basically, every three or four towns, there will be one or two people who have fallen into the demonic path. The demonic methods practiced by these people are all kinds of strange and bizarre."

"From feeding secret demons, to swallowing blood to refine magic, from extracting souls to refine spirits, to peeling skin and pulling tendons, from targeting others to targeting oneself, basically, the low-level magic of the Heavenly Demon, Blood Demon, Buddha Demon, and Sovereign Demon can be seen in these people, and each one is more ordinary than the other."

"What they have in common is that they all devoutly believe in the God of Wealth. They have always believed that it was the God of Wealth who taught them the way of cultivation, allowing them to break free from the shackles of mortals and have the power to control their own destiny." Chu Tai did not respond immediately. After thinking for a while, he said, "But the fact should not be like this."

"The mountain man has a keen eye and saw the problem right away. We have investigated carefully and found that those who practice magic and fall into the devil's way are either bad-tempered or full of hatred. Many of them were able to control their emotions or reconcile with themselves and return to normal life, but they went to extremes one by one after worshiping the statue of the God of Wealth."

"In this case, the government is still unwilling to clean up the statues?"

Faced with Chu Tai's sigh, Shen Zhanpeng shut up again and did not speak.

With a sigh, Chu Tai asked again: "The captain told me these things, it should not be for chatting with me, what is the reason?"

"You are straightforward, so I will tell you directly. The place you are staying now is Taiyi Jinhua Sect, right?"

There was nothing to hide about this. Chu Tai nodded to indicate that it was correct. Su Zhanpeng smiled and said, "I wonder if you, hermit, have any say in the sect?"

"I can barely speak a few words."

"That's good. My cousin's grandson has been eight years old for a while, but his progress in military and martial arts training is slow. However, he learns Taoist and Buddhist scriptures very quickly. I wonder if you can help introduce some to me, so that my cousin can see the atmosphere of the immortal sect."

Chu Tai heard this and said with a smile: "I remember that Baihu's family is well-off. They are also a branch of the founding heroes of the dynasty. They have the blood of celestial beings and thousands of acres of spiritual fields. If they want to become a disciple and learn the law, many sects will welcome them. Why go far away?"

"My cousin's grandson was raised in a pampered way. We don't have any connections with ordinary immortal families. We are worried that we might end up with enemies instead of friendship. So we want to find an acquaintance so that even if something goes wrong, there will be some room for recovery."

Chu Tai knew it was a lie as soon as he heard it, but he couldn't expose it. After thinking for a while, he said, "I can give you a letter of recommendation. As for whether it can be successful, it depends on the fate of your cousin's grandson."

"A letter is enough. I dare not ask for anything else."

Shen Zhanpeng expressed his gratitude repeatedly, and then left with the letter written by Chu Tai.

But when he was leaving, Captain Shen suddenly said, "It would be best if you don't get too involved in the affairs of this Wealth Immortal."

Hearing this, Chu Tai's eyes became a little dark. Looking at the leaving Shen Zhanpeng, he didn't know what he was thinking. He silently made a gesture and asked Qiao Ran'er from the Thief Sect.

Unexpectedly, this immortal thief has lost contact.

Chu Tai was shocked, and silently made calculations, and contacted several other cultivators from the Dao Sect. He was surprised to find that they were unaware that Qiao Ran'er had lost contact.

Chu Tai was even more surprised, and silently calculated the related secrets, but the more he calculated, the stranger things he saw.

According to the information he deduced, Qiao Ran'er was sometimes in a state of death, sometimes in a dangerous situation, and sometimes it felt like he did not exist.

Several times Chu Tai touched Qiao Ran'er's tail a little bit, but was avoided by Qiao Ran'er nimbly.

'Who is he hiding from?'

Chu Tai noticed something was wrong and changed the angle of calculation. With the help of the Donghuang Bell and the [Yun Zhongjun] mist, he finally found some trace of this person.

After saying something to Xiao Bin, Chu Tai took a step forward, the shadows of mountains and rivers changed, and Chu Tai rushed towards the place where Qiao Ran'er's breath was last seen.

As for Qiao Ran'er, she was quite surprised when she was calculated several times before, but later she found that the other party's calculation method was a little special, so she gritted her teeth, dispersed some of her aura so that outsiders could sense it, and then quickly escaped.

Just this momentary leak of breath was enough to make the people chasing him realize that something was wrong.

There was only a loud bang, as if there was a thunder drum rumbling in the sky. Then, dark clouds turned into a giant hand that fell down. With five fingers spread out, it covered an area of ​​a hundred feet in radius, blocked the void, and grabbed fiercely.

Qiao Ran'er, who was in the middle of it, saw the big hand pressing down, her face changed slightly, and she sacrificed a magic weapon without hesitation. Five rays of spiritual light gathered and turned into a thin layer of mist that propped up upwards. With the sound of silk tearing, the Five Qi Return to Origin Tent that she had nurtured for many years was completely destroyed.

But Qiao Ran'er also took advantage of the gap created by the magic weapon, and continuously made several hand gestures. His body suddenly turned into dozens of flying blood lights, and when they gathered together again, they were already dozens of miles away.

However, the price of using this method was that his face turned pale and his blood and energy dissipated.

But before Qiao Ran'er could catch his breath, a blue rainbow light fell, turned up and down, and strangled his neck.

With a flick of his long sleeves, the broken Yin-Yang scorpion tail hook flew out, trying to hold the rainbow light, but it was easily cut off. Qiao Ran'er was so scared that she could only throw out a crudely made straw man to be chopped off instead of herself.

Qiao Ran'er escaped dozens of miles away again and hid under a big tree. His body blended with the scent of the surrounding grass and trees, and he silently groaned in his heart.

"What a loss, what a loss. I didn't expect to encounter a few demon monks who sneaked into the Central Plains this time. It's true that things from the court are not easy to get, especially when such treasures are given away at the beginning. It's even more fatal!"

Thinking of this, Qiao Ran'er took out a jade talisman from his arms. The jade talisman emitted a faint light, protecting Qiao Ran'er's breath and preventing outsiders from detecting his whereabouts and deducing his fate.

"Crack!"

A slight sound came from the jade talisman. Qiao Ran'er looked at the cracked jade talisman with a pale face. He vaguely guessed what the problem was, but he had no time to think about it and had to continue to escape.

It happened that at this time Chu Tai's incarnation arrived, and after seeing Qiao Ran'er, he grabbed this friend from the thief sect and fled underground.

"It's useless. They have some kind of magic weapon that can help them hide and conceal themselves. Ordinary escape techniques won't work on them."

Hearing this, Chu Tai did not respond. While dodging the attacks from the sky, he pulled Qiao Ran'er to a valley. The mountains were surrounded by clouds and mist. He stretched out his hand and a faint mist emerged, merging with the mist on the mountains.

Qiao Ran'er, who originally wanted to persuade them, was stunned for a moment when she saw this scene, and then she saw several rainbow lights falling beside them without hurting them.

(End of this chapter)