Fire Monster

Chapter 161 Quick Master
"Brother, I used the Image-Retaining Pearl. Can I prove my innocence?"

Xiao Chengyun flew down, her face turned pale with fright. Who could have thought that she was still angry about Zhao Guanshan's plan to marry the other party's sister the moment before, and the situation would take a sharp turn for the worse the next moment.

Zhao Guanshan was delighted at first, but then he smiled bitterly.

"It's probably useless, and it absolutely cannot be used. Now it's not about the truth, but we can't offend the Zhang family and the governor at the same time."

"Besides, if the governor hadn't made a thorough plan, these old bastards wouldn't have done this. Junior sister, I regret it a little. I shouldn't have let Liu Yuwei go back. If I'm right, Liu Yuwei should have met Zhang Henian in Linjiang Prefecture in the past two days."

"And Zhang Henian must have wanted to tease Liu Yuwei with the help of someone with ulterior motives. This matter must have been known to everyone a long time ago. Even the deputy governor of the North Camp of the Demon Suppression Division knew about it. Only we are still in the dark."

"Everything that needed to ferment and be laid out has already been done in the past two days. When everyone thought that Zhang Henian wanted to marry Liu Yuwei, it didn't matter how he died here."

"Then, is Senior Sister Yuwei still alive?"

"She's still alive. She's in Linjiang Prefecture right now, preparing to return with a large amount of supplies and people. The moment she comes back, this matter will spread at the fastest speed. No one will believe us, especially since this is not the first time we've done this."

"It's simply God's scapegoat."

"But what does the governor want? Isn't he afraid that we will rebel?" Wang Chen asked.

"Rebellion? Where are we going to rebel? To the Demon Suppression Department, and then be hung up and beaten by the Zhang family? From now on, we have no other choice but to surrender to the Governor."

"As for what the governor wants, they have a lot to gain. Once Zhang Henian dies, at least the First Pioneer City can be taken back naturally."

"Add to that our pioneer city, and we'll win two cities with one strike, and we'll make a lot of money, okay?"

"Senior Brother, what should we do now?" At this time, Xiao Chengyun had regained some composure, and others such as Wang Chen, Deng Jiu, Yu Che, Sun Zei, Zhang Qian and others gathered together.

"There is no way out. Don't even think about it. With the help of the Chief Secretary, all your families have been sent here. If I am right, our City Lord Liu Yuwei will bring back at least fifty carts of supplies this time."

"We are the human shield in the front, and the Chief Secretary is cheering us on from the back. That's basically the situation."

Zhao Guanshan sighed, this was inevitable. He really thought he could stay out of trouble by dancing between the two major forces.

Do you think the two major forces are fools?

This is the price, this is the backlash.

There is no such thing as pie falling from the sky in this world.

From the moment they wanted to monopolize the city and get a piece of the pie at the table, all this was destined to happen sooner or later.

"But I still feel that the Governor has gone too far this time. Even if they use us as a knife, how could the Zhang family be fools?" Sun Zei analyzed at this time.

"Excessive?"

Zhao Guanshan suddenly sneered.

"Don't forget why a gap suddenly appeared on the front line last time? Even if there was a gap, it would be fine. Why didn't the evil demons open a gap just when the governor sent a large amount of materials to prepare for the large-scale construction of the second pioneer city?"

"Have you ever thought that if the breach on the front line had collapsed a few days later, we wouldn't have been in any trouble. The Governor sent nearly 300 skilled craftsmen to deploy the first-level spirit tower in a few days. From our point of view, irrelevant people are just waiting to die, but from the perspective of the top leaders of the Governor, will they think this is a coincidence? With such a huge loss, you can just say it's a coincidence and ignore it?"

"Before, our level was too low, so even if we were in it, we couldn't see through the fog. When we really saw it clearly, we were already in the game and couldn't extricate ourselves!"

"So, if what you said is true, if the Dao Palace declares the war normalized this time, it is still possible that the front line opposite us will be breached by the evil demons again?"

Xiao Chengyun suddenly said.

"It's very likely. Things on the battlefield are ever-changing. Anything can happen."

"Damn it, the Demon Suppression Department and the Provincial Administration Department are fighting each other openly and secretly, and the Taoist Palace doesn't do anything about it?" Wang Chen suddenly cursed.

"How to manage it? Who will manage it? Someone has to do the work and investigate the truth. Even a senior Qi Refiner cannot see through everything. Besides, the Dao Palace is responsible for fighting against higher-level evil spirits. How can it have the time to take care of these trivial matters?"

"Unless things get out of hand, the Dao Palace will never care about it, including the fifth-level Qi Refiner of the Zhang family. He can't directly intervene. The rift between the Governor's Office and the Demon Suppression Office is not formed today. I don't know how many power struggles have occurred in the past."

Hearing what Zhao Guanshan said, Xiao Chengyun suddenly said:
"So, Brother, are we in a very passive position this time? Maybe the Zhang family will let in a rank 10 evil demon."

"A tenth-level demon is unlikely. That would be too obvious, because a tenth-level demon would really kill through the Imperial Seal Great Wall in one go. However, maybe a ninth-level demon would come in. In that case, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Zhao Guanshan said thoughtfully. He felt that he still had a great advantage this time because he had the vision of a divine statue. As long as he checked regularly, he could make arrangements in advance if there was any disturbance on the front line.

"Okay, everyone, hurry up and do your work. Every bit of preparation you make now will increase your chances of success in the future."

"War could break out at any time!"

Next, Zhao Guanshan commanded everyone to burn the bodies of Lu Dashan, Lu Dahai, Zhang Henian and others, and the first-level imperially-sealed chariot naturally belonged to them.

The five trucks were filled with supplies, all of which were hard currency.

There are ten psychic heavy crossbows and five hundred energy-storing arrow boxes.

One hundred new psychic heavy shields were produced.

One thousand psychic spears, three hundred psychic swords, one hundred psychic broadswords, fifty psychic longbows, and five hundred imperially-sealed iron-feathered arrows.

Three hundred psychic daggers and one hundred psychic spears.

Ten thousand doses of Demon Sealing Potion.

Three thousand portions of the 80th grade marrow cleansing spiritual liquid, and five hundred portions of the 90th grade marrow cleansing spiritual liquid.

Fifty thousand rune nails used for repair and construction, and three thousand sets of level three sealed armor.

These are definitely worth more than a hundred thousand coins, and they are full of sincerity, but they are just inhumane.

Sun Zei was responsible for storing these supplies, while Yu Che was responsible for placing the psychic heavy crossbows on the city wall.

Xiao Chengyun officially began to enchant the weapon of the team's main attacker. A broken gold rune could almost double the power of a psychic sword. If they really had to face a ninth-order evil demon in the future, a quick victory and greater and higher damage output would be very necessary.

As for Zhao Guanshan, he took Deng Jiu away.

He wanted to create an illusion to see if he could pass on Wei Tieniu's experience and skills in mastering the heavy shield to Deng Jiu.

"Brother Deng, you must absolutely believe that I will not harm you, understand?"

After arriving at the battalion headquarters and entering a room, Zhao Guanshan specifically reminded him again.

"I know, Brother Zhao, don't worry!"

Deng Jiu nodded seriously. Zhao Guanshan had already told him what to do. Although he thought it was ridiculous, he was still willing to believe it because Zhao Guanshan was a Qi Refiner.

This is the golden signboard.

"Now, Brother Deng, relax first. Close your eyes and imagine your family, your children. You miss them very much, so you take the Imperial Seal Chariot and return to Linjiang Prefecture. After passing the customs, you carry your luggage and pass through the Imperial Seal Great Wall. Then you look up at the sky in the east. The statue of the immortal in that direction is extremely huge and extremely clear..."

Zhao Guanshan spoke calmly, and at the same time, he also visualized his Lihuo Dao Talisman.

Illusion is generated.

Here he cleverly borrowed the Lihuo Taoist Talisman and its corresponding female immortal statue.

The moment Deng Jiu thought of the statue of the female immortal, his Lihuo Dao Fu successfully completed the illusion.

At this moment, Deng Jiu was unable to walk through the Imperial Seal Great Wall in the illusion, and he was now in the foggy square.

This is the best fantasy.

Otherwise, too complicated details would consume a lot of Zhao Guanshan's mental energy and easily lead to the collapse of the illusion.

Of course, Deng Jiu is in pretty good shape at the moment.

He knew what he had to do.

As soon as he entered the illusion, he stopped thinking about his family and began to follow Zhao Guanshan's instructions and imagine the scenes of him practicing the psychic heavy shield on a daily basis.

At the same time, Zhao Guanshan also sent out the heavy shield mastery experience package left by Wei Tieniu in his visualization world, but there was still one last step left.

This requires Deng Jiu to be able to resonate with this experience package when he imagines himself practicing psychic heavy shield.

During this process, Zhao Guanshan could not help. He was now at best a matchmaker...

Whether it can succeed depends on whether Deng Jiu really has the ability to do so.

At this moment in the illusion, Deng Jiu gradually forgot himself, and his deep memories about the heavy shield began to emerge unconsciously.

If Zhao Guanshan was a nightmare demon at this time, he could use these deep memories to invade and penetrate Deng Jiu's soul in all directions, and then attack him, and finally absorb Deng Jiu's soul power.

And now, he just watches the show.

These deep memories include many scenes from Deng Jiu’s childhood, his father, mother, and various emotions of happiness, sadness, loneliness, and fear.

His father was also a single-seal martial artist, and unsurprisingly, he was best at using the heavy shield.

Every time his father came back from the front, he would bring back a lot of delicious food. That was also the happiest time. He would sit on his father's shoulders and listen to him bragging about things that he could not understand at all.

Unfortunately, when he was seven years old, his father never came back.

In his memory, he looked forward to his father's return every day until he was a teenager. This was also the reason why he was obsessed with learning the heavy shield even though he was clearly not suitable for it.

"Dad! Dad! Are you back?"

The illusion actually changed, and Deng Jiu suddenly burst into tears and cried loudly!

It turned out that for some reason, Wei Tieniu's experience package was integrated into Deng Jiu's memories of his childhood, and eventually merged with Deng Jiu's memories of his father.

Wei Tieniu became his father.

Then Zhao Guanshan was surprised to see that the experience package evolved rapidly, generating memory images that did not exist originally.

In this memory, he grew up happily, and his father trained him strictly and harshly.

This memory even lasted throughout his entire teenage years, a full five years.

Of course, in Zhao Guanshan's view, it was just a matter of a moment.

The next moment, the illusion disappeared silently. It was not a collapse, but Deng Jiu had fallen into a deep sleep. A man in his thirties with an unshaven beard was crying like a child.

But, it worked!

Unprecedented success.

The heavy shield experience package that Deng Jiu possessed was even more perfect than the one Zhao Guanshan got from Qi Huanzhang.

So, is it possible to use this method to train experts in batches?

If I remember correctly, Su Hai's psychic weapons were specially sealed up by Xiao Chengyun.

(End of this chapter)