I Killed Gods and Demons in Song Dynasty

Chapter 111 Qingqiu Fox Tribe
After a while, the screams on Qingqiu Mountain gradually subsided, leaving only corpses and bloodstains on the ground.

Zhenren Chunyang stood on the top of the mountain with a cold gaze, looking down at this once prosperous land. There was no mercy in his heart, only endless murderous intent and cold determination.

This is His way!
Just as the sword immortal was looking down from above and using his divine sense to investigate whether there were any fish that had escaped the net on the Qingqiu grassland, a huge flame suddenly rose into the sky from the ancient altar on the top of the mountain, so fierce that it seemed to tear the sky apart.

True Man Chunyang turned his head and saw flames with strange purple and blue-black colors, interweaving into an unsettling light.

Around the altar, shadows twisted and rolled, as if countless hidden mouths opened and uttered terrible whispers.

A blurry face emerged from the thick smoke, shouting angrily:
"Lü Dongbin, you have such a cruel heart!

"What hatred do my Qingqiu fox tribe have against you? They have already lived in harmony with the world, yet you still want to kill them all, even sparing newborn babies who don't know magic!"

The Pure Yang Master Lü Dongbin stood tall and straight on the top of the mountain, his Taoist robe fluttering, and said coldly:

"Humans and demons are not compatible. If I see them, I will kill them. There is no need to waste time talking nonsense! If you are not convinced, you can break through the realm and seek revenge on me, Lu. I will accompany you at any time."

After saying this, he jumped up and walked away on the wind, his clothes fluttering like a wisp of green smoke, dissipating in the wind.

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The scene then quickly fast-forwarded, and it was unknown how much time had passed before two silhouettes quickly appeared next to the altar on the top of the mountain, and soon they turned into two half-human, half-fox monsters.

One of them was a small and frail little fox with two tails. His face was covered with tears. He looked at the corpses scattered all over the mountain and asked:
"Grandma, my mother...was my mother really killed by that evil man?"

The one she called grandma was another six-tailed fox demon. She looked young, with delicate and smooth skin, like a beautiful woman in her twenties, but with a mature and elegant temperament, and her eyes were deep and restrained, as if they had experienced many changes in the world.

At this moment, the fox demon had a look of grief and indignation on his face, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"That's right, your mother is dead. If I hadn't seen you playing beside the altar and you were saved by the ancestor, I'm afraid our entire clan would have been destroyed.

"The man who killed him is named Lü Dongbin, also known as the Pure Yang Sword Immortal. You must remember this name. One day, our Qingqiu clan will seek justice."

At this time, the flames on the altar were lit again, and a huge face appeared and disappeared, and a voice seemed to come from ancient times:

"My power is limited, so I can only hide you two. Now the Qingqiu Fox Clan has suffered a catastrophic disaster. You must endure the humiliation and live on to avenge my clan!"

The six-tailed fox demon kowtowed in front of the altar and asked:

"Please, ancestor, send down an oracle and guide us to take revenge!"

The voice from the altar echoed:

"A hundred years from now, the end of the world will begin, and Qingqiu will have run out of luck. Your chance lies in the newly established Song Dynasty in the Central Plains. Go there first, transform into a human form, hide your identity, and wait for your chance.

"Remember, pray to me on time on the third day of August every year and wait for my response."

As soon as he finished speaking, the altar immediately fell silent. No matter how the two foxes kowtowed and prayed, there was no response at all.

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The scene stopped abruptly here, and Li Qingyun suddenly opened his eyes, as if thinking about something.

This fox demon came from a place called "Qingqiu". Their entire clan was killed by the Pure Yang Taoist Lu Dongbin. Therefore, the two surviving foxes hid in Bianliang City, planning to take revenge on him?

But what does this have to do with Pang Yu?
Li Qingyun felt that he had uncovered part of the truth, but the whole thing still could not be fully connected together. There were still many doubts that were difficult to explain, and...

I seem to have offended a very powerful person... He took a deep breath and realized that the five-tailed fox demon he killed today was the young two-tailed fox in the divination picture.

Beside her, there is a more powerful "grandmother". Back then, she had six tails, which was equivalent to a cultivator in the fifth realm. Today, she may have broken through to the sixth realm.

Not to mention that the Qingqiu Fox Clan also has an "ancestor" who is in the upper realm and already possesses divinity, which means that it, or He, is at least a demigod of the seventh realm.

The grandfather and grandson had a deep blood feud and came to Bianliang City to avenge the Pure Yang Sword Immortal Lu Dongbin. Now they have mixed up with Pang Yu and set up the Dragon Transformation Pool. What they are planning must be horrifying.

Moreover, they had been hiding here since the founding of the Song Dynasty. In other words, they had been lurking here for almost a hundred years, and had been plotting in secret...

Um, a hundred years?

Hiss...

Thinking of this, Li Qingyun suddenly froze in place, as if he had been struck by lightning. The hairs all over his body stood up, as if he had discovered some unbelievable and horrifying scene.

He recalled hearing the Qingqiu ancestor say just now, "A hundred years from now, the end of the world will begin." That was exactly a hundred years ago, so the time should be quite close.

Although he could not determine the exact year of the divination picture, he knew that it was the first year of Jiayou in the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. It had been ninety-six years since Emperor Taizu was crowned emperor, and it was only ten years away from the so-called end of the world, or possibly even earlier.

He had also heard such apocalyptic theories from Madam Wei, the envoy of the Wu Shi Religion, but he did not take it to heart at the time. After all, she was a cultist and could not be judged by normal people.

But this time the news was revealed by a god, who also gave a specific time, so he had no choice but to believe it.

After this divination result, Li Qingyun's good mood of being promoted and becoming stronger was instantly gone.

Now that the end of the world has come, if you want to survive, you have to keep getting stronger, but your current strength in the third realm is far from enough.

With this in mind, he decided to immediately start practicing martial arts using his magical power of "acting".

But thinking that I was already exhausted and in bad shape today, and that forcing myself to practice would easily lead to a loss of control, I temporarily suppressed the idea.

After calming down, Li Qingyun turned his attention back to the trouble in the Grand Tutor's Mansion.

Compared to the doomsday that will come in a few years, the current crisis is more urgent. He needs to find out what Pang Yu is planning, whether it will endanger the people of Bianliang City, and whether it will implicate himself.

Thinking of this, he poured out a few drops of the fox demon's blood from the small jade bottle, hoping to use it as a guide to divine the situation inside the Grand Tutor's Mansion.

Holding the blood in his hands, Li Qingyun continued to recite silently:
"The blood master's real motive for helping Pang Yu..." After entering the mysterious palace, in the picture projected by the gray eyeball, Li Qingyun only saw a tall and magnificent gate tower inlaid with golden copper nails, shining brightly.

There is a huge plaque hanging on the door with three big characters "Tai Shi Fu" inscribed on it.

As soon as the perspective entered, the scene quickly dissipated, and no revelations were given.

Li Qingyun frowned slightly when he came out of meditation, and changed several different divination sentences unwillingly. But no matter from which angle he deduced the matter, it would eventually point to the luxurious Tai Shi Mansion, and then he could no longer proceed.

This illustrates two problems.

First, in the revenge plan of the Qingqiu Fox Demon, Pang Yu and the Grand Tutor's Mansion are a key link that cannot be avoided. Their ultimate goals may not be the same, but at least they have inseparable intersections in some major events.

Second, someone is covering up the secret for Pang Yu and the Grand Tutor's Mansion. This person might be the one who helped hide the entrance of the Dragon Pool, and his strength and status are quite high. Even with his identity as a third-level agent, he is unable to clear the fog and separate the true from the false.

Of course, this is also related to the medium of divination. He only used the blood of the fox demon. It is difficult to directly establish a connection with Pang Yu's fate, and the effect will be greatly reduced.

Li Qingyun had a strong premonition that if he could get his hands on Pang Yu's personal belongings, or tissues such as hair and blood, he would be able to break through the limitations and see the true plan of Pang Yu and the Qingqiu fox demons.

However, it would be extremely difficult to accomplish this, especially since Pang Yu could ask someone to conceal the secret for him and must be very familiar with various divination techniques. He would also attach great importance to these details and it would be impossible for him to let others obtain items that are closely related to his own destiny.

Alas, this guy from the Grand Tutor's Mansion is very careful in his work. If it weren't for his divination ability, Chen Jin would have been killed by the Qingqiu fox demon tonight, all clues would have been lost, and no one would have suspected him at all.

I hope that Fourth Brother Lu's spiritual communication can make some progress... Li Qingyun lay on the bed with his clothes on, calmed down, and roughly sorted out the things he had to do recently:
The first thing, of course, is to use the magical power of "acting" to improve your strength.

The second is to continue investigating Pang Yu, especially to find out whether this guy has blamed himself for the death of the Qingqiu fox demon.

The third is to deal with the remnants of the Wu Shi Sect. Although Qiu Wang is dead, the location of the divine descent ceremony has not been found. Madam Wei also disappeared mysteriously. It is not known whether she went to recuperate or something else happened.

If she doesn't show up tomorrow, I will go to Deputy Gang Leader Wei's house and find one of her belongings to do some divination.

The fourth is to visit the two children of the Wei and Zhu families again. Although they seem to have recovered from the infection of evil spirits, further confirmation is needed.

The fifth is to expand the power of the Changle Gang and turn it into their base and source of intelligence in Bianliang City.

The moonlight was quiet, the stars moved, and Li Qingyun thought and thought, and slowly fell asleep. His tired body and mind found rest in this tranquility.

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At the same time, in Kaifeng Mansion, Lu Zhen stood in front of the corpse of the Qingqiu fox demon and quietly lit two white candles, preparing to communicate with the spirit.

Bai Yunrui saw that he had taken an extra step and asked in confusion:
"Fourth brother, why did you light candles tonight? The lights in the room are not bright enough?"

Lu Zhen glanced at him calmly and smiled slightly:

"Yunrui, do you remember the last time I was communicating with the spirit, I accidentally looked directly at the Faceless Immortal, causing my spirit to be damaged and causing me to suffer a great loss?

"Later, I learned my lesson and mixed a special material into the candle. It can enhance my spirituality and sharpen my intuition in a short period of time. I can use my premonition to avoid the strange things in the spiritual world as much as possible, and avoid seeing things I shouldn't see and hearing things I shouldn't hear."

Bai Yunrui suddenly realized, nodded and said:
"That makes sense. It's easy for a spirit to go wrong when it travels in the spirit world without the protection of a physical body. Fourth brother is really thoughtful."

Lu Zhen shook his head, his voice still ethereal, as if he was telling someone else's story:
"It's not that I thought it through, but that experience was too unforgettable. I have a feeling that it will change my life..."

After saying this, he stopped talking, closed his eyes and quickly entered into a state of meditation, communicating with the illusory and vague spiritual world once again.

After a moment, Lu Zhen opened his eyes. There was no white in his dark eyes, which became extremely deep and profound, like an obsidian mirror, reflecting all kinds of bizarre scenes.

Soon, a blurry, pale, beautiful face appeared in his pupils. It was the beheaded Qingqiu fox.

Lu Zhen opened his mouth slightly and uttered a low murmur that was completely different from his own voice, as if speaking a language from another world that was incomprehensible...

……

In the spirit world, in a thin river as thin as mercury, Lu Zhen captured the bewildered fox demon spirit, but did not step forward to seize the other's memory as usual. Instead, he locked her with a special spiritual spell.

According to Bai Yunrui and Xu Liang's description, this was most likely a fourth-level demon, whose realm was higher than his. If he rashly seized the other party's memory, he would probably be usurped by the powerful spirit of the fox demon. Therefore, Lu Zhen was extremely careful and only used means to freeze the other party's spirit and interrogate her:

"What is your name and identity?"

The fox demon replied stiffly and mechanically:
"My name is 'Jiuling Suying', and I come from the Qingqiu Nine-tailed Fox clan."

Qingqiu... Lu Zhen was knowledgeable and immediately remembered the mysterious fox tribe he had read about in an ancient travel book.

They were a famous demon tribe that was active during the Tang Dynasty, but disappeared by the end of the Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that they were hunted by human cultivators, so the entire tribe hid in a paradise and had not appeared in the human world for nearly two hundred years. How could there be descendants living in Bianliang City and have a connection with the Grand Tutor's Mansion?
With full of doubts, he further asked:
"How many people do you Qingqiu clan have in Bianliang City, oh no, foxes?"

Jiu Ling Su Ying's confused and empty eyes suddenly burst into anger, and she gritted her teeth and said:

"Our entire clan was wiped out by Chun Yang Zi Lu Dong Bin, leaving only my grandmother and I to depend on each other.

"My grandmother is currently traveling around the world, looking for a way to make my fox clan reproduce. I am the only one in Bianliang City."

There was only one fox demon... Lu Zhen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Bianliang City had not been infiltrated by monsters yet. At least one hidden danger could be eliminated.

With this in mind, he went straight to the point:

"What is your relationship with Pang Yu? What is he planning?"

Upon hearing this question, Jiu Ling Su Ying's face immediately lost its vitality and returned to its distraught look:
"Young Master... Young Master is my benefactor. He is the person who loves me the most and cares for me the most in the world. He is helping me find a way to rebuild the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, and he is almost successful..."

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(End of this chapter)