Fire Monster

Chapter 188 Wipe
Linjiang Prefecture, the old residence of the Zhang family.

The head of the Zhang family, the heads of each branch, the prominent and powerful figures in the family who worked in the Demon Suppression Bureau and the Governor's Office, as well as the elders of the family, gathered together again.

"Our Zhang family has done too much in the past period of time and attracted too much attention, especially the last time we used the Dao Palace to get out of trouble, but the effect was not long-lasting, and now the bad consequences are showing. For example, the ancestor of our Zhang family in the Dao Palace has completely cut off contact with our Zhang family."

"So, I think that our Zhang family should stop here and quit while we are ahead. We should stop obsessing over destroying the Second Pioneer City and killing Zhao Guanshan and Liu Yuwei. There is absolutely no benefit in doing this. We have been tricked by the Governor once, so why do we think we won't be tricked again?"

"Brother, let's stop here, we have to get back on track!"

The younger brother of the Zhang family patriarch directly bombarded the Zhang family patriarch. He was a three-seal martial artist and also the commander of a combat battalion under the Ninth Brigade of the Northern Camp of the Demon Suppression Division. He was also a very promising middle-level manager.

Because of Zhang Henian's death, the Zhang family did try to take revenge. However, they failed time and time again. Seeing that they had to continue to invest, he felt that something was wrong. He secretly contacted the heads of each branch and the elders of the clan and convened this family meeting.

"But my son died and I didn't even get to see him for the last time."

The head of the Zhang family sat there like a corpse. In just seven days, he had already aged terribly, with a head full of white hair and an increasingly decayed aura. He looked more like a sinister evil ghost seeking revenge than a wise and brave head who could lead the Zhang family to grow bigger and stronger.

So at this moment, the heads and elders of each branch of the Zhang family all had a decision in their hearts.

Their eyes converged on each other, and it seemed that someone was about to make a move.

The head of the Zhang family suddenly said, "Give me another five days. After five days, I will resign from my position in the Demon Suppression Division and give up the position of head of the Zhang family. The eldest branch of the family no longer has an heir. Without my son, I can no longer lead the Zhang family."

"I only ask you to give me a chance to take revenge."

"Five days later, I will give up the position of head of the family to the second branch. All businesses and workshops of the first branch can be handed over by then."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the Zhang family fell silent, including the younger brother of the patriarch of the Zhang family. Five days was not a long time. With the influence of their Zhang family, it would be no problem to delay it for another five days. It just required some more exchanges of interests.

Reasonable.

Even the Chief Secretary and the Taoist Temple would find it reasonable.

"Okay, big brother, it's a deal then."

"Of course it's a deal. Now, I want you to contact the Chief Secretary and the Taoist Academy and apply to the Taoist Palace to temporarily reduce the total amount of demonic energy released from the first line of defense to the second line of defense and the total number of eighth-level evil demons by half. They will all agree. They will be more than happy to do so."

The Zhang family patriarch smiled, but it was very cold.

This seems to reduce the amount of demonic energy released, and the difficulty will also be reduced, but the eighth-level evil demons are all smart guys. Because the amount of demonic energy released is reduced, they will choose to work together, and it will be a close cooperation.

No one understands better than him how terrible this kind of group cooperation is.

"In addition, I will go to the first line of defense in person and take charge of this matter myself."

As the head of the Zhang family spoke, his face was filled with morbid madness and hatred, the two intertwined, making him look like a monster.

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The Taoist Palace headquarters is located on top of the seven-story spirit-offering tower in Linjiang Prefecture.

At this moment, dozens of seventh-level Qi Refiners were sitting cross-legged at the top of the hall.

The leader is an eighth-level Qi Refiner, who has lived for more than 800 years and is one of the only five remaining masters in the Dao Palace.

He is also the rotating head of the Taoist Palace.

Traditionally, they rotate every fifty years.

"What's the situation of the first line of defense?"

At this moment, the old man with white hair and beard, who looked like a god, spoke lightly. In fact, under normal circumstances, he no longer needed to handle the daily affairs of the Taoist Palace personally.

It was indeed the explosive move made by the Demon Suppression Bureau this time that triggered a series of subsequent changes.

Not only did it alarm the rotating headmaster of the Taoist Palace, but even the rotating sect leader was alarmed.

"Reporting to Master, in the past two days, we have released eight tenth-order evil demons and eight Beijing's demonic energy to the first line of defense. Under our supervision, without direct intervention, the Demon Suppression Division successfully completed the killing of these eight tenth-order evil demons, and there were no casualties among the Qi Refiners, and the casualties of the martial artists were basically less than expected."

"The only thing is that the consumption of materials is a bit high, which requires the Dao Palace to replenish. For this reason, we have preliminarily adjusted the upper limit of Dao Palace contribution value and merit exchange to ensure that the material guarantee is in place."

"Very good, this is inevitable. Sending down the tenth-level evil demon will also reduce the burden on the overall defense of our Dao Palace. It's okay to give some resources. We can't let the front-line Qi cultivators feel disheartened."

"However, such frequent devolution of the tenth-level evil demons, too frequent battles, and intense pressure may cause some degeneration. The Dao Palace should be prepared early and conduct demon heart intervention to avoid a catastrophe."

"Here!"

"Speaking of which, it has been three hundred years since we wiped the statues of the five Taoist immortals. There must be some dirty things on them. Let's take some time out this time to wipe them. The five Taoist talismans are the core of our Qigong practice. All our actions must be based on the Taoist talismans. Anyone who deviates from the Taoist talismans must be ruthlessly attacked." "This is the foundation of our Taoist Palace and the foundation of us Qigong practitioners. To be honest, even the five Taoist immortals cannot change this truth."

“So, this has to be reiterated constantly.”

"The Chief Administrative Office, the Taoist Academy, and the Demon Suppression Office must cooperate in conducting a comprehensive inspection."

"It is strictly forbidden to privately worship the five guardian celestial beings, it is strictly forbidden to privately worship the five guardian celestial beings, it is strictly forbidden to communicate with the five guardian celestial beings through illusions, and it is strictly forbidden to construct evil celestial beings in the spirit world through visualization."

"Once there is any sign, no matter who is involved, they will be killed without mercy!"

The rotating leader of the Taoist palace said this calmly, but his eyes were extremely deep and firm.

Those five guardian immortals should have died long ago, or some of them died, or some of them are still alive, but it doesn’t matter. Even they cannot change the nature of the talisman, even if this talisman was passed down by them.

This kind of persistence is very important. Otherwise, who knows whether the one you are worshipping and communicating with is a guardian angel or a world-destroying demon?

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now,

In the demon-suppressing net defended by the Second Pioneer City, the demonic energy has begun to become extremely thin, and even a distance of more than ten kilometers can be seen at a glance.

The low-level evil demons that were originally growing everywhere like weeds have now been wiped out by the ten eighth-level evil demons. All of them were captured as able-bodied men, but they were not formed into an evil demon army. Instead, they were killed directly and thrown into the Demon Spirit Pool in the Demon Mother's lair.

Not even cattle and horses.

They are collecting all the demonic energy at all costs just to support the Demon Mother's lair.

After two days of development, four of the Demon Mother's nests have reached maturity and turned into hills hundreds of meters high.

There are also three demon mother nests that are more than 70 meters high.

The last three Demon Mother's lairs are the smallest, only more than 30 meters high.

Viewed from the sky, these ten Demon Mother's lairs look like a pyramid or a triangle.

There are three in the center, forming a triangle shape, and seven outside, forming three sides.

The distance between them is less than ten miles at the farthest and less than five miles at the closest.

It's really dense and messed up.

Then the ten evil demons were like ten lion kings, loyally guarding their own territory and their own nests, while the remaining seventh- and sixth-level evil demons formed a team and constantly patrolled the surrounding area.

No matter which direction you attack from, you will face counterattacks from at least five eighth-level demons.

If you are unlucky, you may even be hit head-on by more than eight heads.

Anyway, even Zhao Guanshan felt a little headache after seeing it.

There is no doubt that it was their previous violent behavior of killing five evil demons in a row that made the remaining evil demons choose the more reliable mode of banding together to bear the damage.

One drink and one peck, could it be a predestined decision.

"Zhao Guanshan, we have to get ready and start destroying the Demon Mother's lair. Do you have any plans?"

At this moment on the city wall, Liu Yuwei came over to talk to him about this matter.

"Senior Sister, I don't know much about the maturity and output of the Demon Mother's Lair. Can you tell me about it?"

Zhao Guanshan asked casually, while his statue's vision was sweeping back and forth over the ten Demon Mother's lairs.

Liu Yuwei nodded and explained: "There are standards for the maturity of the Demon Mother's Lair."

"Normally, two days is the most basic maturity condition, and it has reached the standard for harvesting. However, at this moment in the Demon Mother's Lair, the quantity and quality of the Demon Spirit Liquid can only be considered acceptable."

"If we can wait for four days, the Demon Mother's Lair will be more mature, and the quality of the Demon Spirit Liquid produced in it will double. However, the difficulty of attacking it will also increase, because at this time the Demon Mother's Lair can already hatch a large number of seventh-level evil demons."

"But this is still not the highest quality. If a Demon Mother's lair can develop for eight days, the quality of the Demon Spirit Liquid inside will be greatly improved again. At that time, the Demon Spirit Liquid obtained from harvesting one Demon Mother's lair will be equivalent to the Demon Spirit Liquid obtained from ten lair now."

"And this is almost the limit, because such a Demon Mother's Nest can hatch eighth-level evil demons. In fact, the Demon Mother's Nest at this time will even generate self-awareness. Therefore, if the Demon Mother's Nest makes a judgment that it may be breached, it can hatch at least hundreds of seventh-level evil demons in just one stick of incense, and consume all the magic liquid inside in one breath, which is equivalent to drawing water with a bamboo basket, and then drawing water with a bamboo basket."

"So to be on the safe side, the convention is to start the harvesting attack two days in, and no later than six days, otherwise there will be almost no harvest at all."

(End of this chapter)