Wet viviparity

Chapter 381: Walled City, Mucha Mountain
The Liling Mountains have always been mostly populated by mountain people, who are the Sheba people in the southern part of the country, and are also known as "Baman", "Nanman", "Wuduman" and other barbarians.

Thanks to the expansion of Guhezhou outside Taiping Mountain into three Taoist territories and the vigorous promotion of Taoism, the Chinese and barbarians lived together in the state, and the barbarians were transformed into Chinese. Therefore, the southern barbarians also absorbed this Taoist spirit and gradually fell in love with Taoism.

Nowadays, even in the deep mountains of Lingnan, there are Taoist architectural features in the city walls, with the Baisha Pagoda Palace being the most prominent. The pagoda roofs, flying eaves, ridge beasts, hanging bells, etc. can be seen everywhere.

When Wu Dongye and Xie Chunchi landed in front of the pagoda, they heard a disciple of Pan Ku who was serving as a witch in the village walking among the livestock, causing a burst of mooing from the cattle.

"Brother!"

The disciples came over one after another to pay their respects.

Wu Dongye was a little worried, so he asked these Panku disciples in detail whether there were any unusual movements in Lingnan recently. Unexpectedly, his casual question actually revealed some things.

In Lingnan, there is a place called Jiangpu, where there is a fenced-off forbidden area.

Of course, this forbidden area is only for the mountain folks and barbarians. This place is the corpse-collecting ground of Panku Mountain, which is used to raise hundred-year-old zombies. Their armor and hair are cut off and refined into a kind of elixir, which is used for the elders in the sect to practice a miraculous skill called "Yin Jing Fu Shi Gong".

After mastering this secret skill, the Taoist organ, the untransformed marrow and the refined spell "Corpse Wandering Earth Evil" can turn the cultivator into a zombie after death, thus achieving another kind of immortality.

Wu Dongye was not interested in this secret skill. His body had not yet reached the stage of physical exhaustion. Even if he succeeded in practicing it, he could only enjoy it for 500 years. After 500 years, the three disasters would come and he would be reduced to ashes.

He learned from Pan Ku's disciples that the source of the Dantou where the zombies were kept in Jiangpu had not been heard from for a long time.

These Pankui disciples did not care. That place was isolated from the outside world and was a place where strangers were not allowed to approach. The disciples sent there to collect materials and refine pills were often harmed by Yin zombies, so no one was willing to go there.

This time, several disciples thought that it was another evil zombie that made unusual movements and killed the mountain people stationed in Jiangpu and Pankui's gatekeeper, so they did not pay much attention to it. But when Wu Dongfeng asked about it, he realized that he had not had any contact with Jiangpu for a long time.

Several disciples looked at each other, thinking about the recent news coming from Panku Mountain, and carefully sought advice from Senior Brother Wu.

Wu Dongye did not hastily mobilize Pankui disciples and local independent cultivators, but first went to the Baisha Pagoda Palace to meet the king of the city, who was also his fellow junior fellow disciple, Mulu.

In the palace, monks from the western plateau were ringing bells and burning herbs and spices in a small incense burner under the Seven Treasures Pagoda. Wu Dongye took a deep breath and immediately felt that the bones and blood in his armor became more active.

"Junior Brother Mu is enjoying it."

Wu Dongye walked past the monks and stopped in front of the lowered curtain and said with a smile.

"What's the enjoyment?"

On the couch behind the curtain, a shaved man got up from the woman's arms and the tiger and leopard fur blanket, pulled open the curtain naked, and revealed his naked body in front of Wu Dongye.

He bowed slightly to Wu Dongye, then came to a shrine, lit incense and prayed, and then, with the help of the waiters, put on a Buddhist crown and a Taoist robe, looking neither Taoist nor monk.

"Master has always disliked my behavior. I didn't practice the Panyuhua Sutra, but insisted on drinking blood and practicing the barbarian methods in the mountains. But who knows my suffering? Barbarians are fierce, short-sighted and have little respect for tradition.

If I had not practiced barbarian methods and worshipped the Southern Snake, how could Lingnan be stable, how could Pangu Mountain gain the reputation of "adapting to local customs", and how could these hundreds of thousands of mountain people be so loyal to Pangu Mountain?"

Mu Lu said to Senior Brother Wu.

Wu Dongye didn't quite understand these, but that didn't mean he disagreed.

In the past, the attitude of Panku Mountain towards the mountain people was to kill those who were disobedient and disloyal. It would be fine if they were killed. Anyway, after a few hundred years, these southern barbarians would grow back like weeds.

But hundreds of years later, the southern barbarians were as stubborn as the most stubborn wild bulls, stubborn to death and rioting from time to time.

Although the resistance of the ants is ridiculous, over time, even a pig's brain can draw lessons from experience, so the people on the mountain began to change from slaughter to taming, and what Junior Brother Mu did was just one of the methods.

During major festivals of the Southern Barbarians, several immortals would dress up in barbarian clothing and ornaments, and face the barbarians in this manner, winning the overwhelming worship of the barbarians and mountain people. That scene had deeply shocked Wu Dongye. The mountain people gained the inner benefits, and the barbarians gained the outer benefits, and the two were deeply connected.

Of course, there were also those who couldn't stand it. His master, Old Tian Wu, just couldn't stand this kind of behavior of fawning on the Southern Barbarians, and as a result, he had always been very dissatisfied with Junior Brother Mu and never took him to practice with him.

Wu Dongye put aside his distracting thoughts and said to Junior Brother Mu, "Junior Brother, there has been no news about Jiangpu for a long time. It may have been occupied by the Taiping Dao. You are needed to make a quick decision on this important matter."

"I have also heard about the Eight Dao Generals, but we are deep in the mountains. Who dares to go deep here alone?"

Mu Lu said with a smile, with some disapproval in his words.

"Junior brother."

Wu Dongye's face became more serious. If his master had not restrained him from changing his sect, he would not have argued with this junior fellow apprentice.

"Who is the Taoist general? He is the elite of the southern world and the pride of the righteous path. How can we treat him with common sense? Quickly contact the local miscellaneous cultivators, the old monsters in the deep mountains, and the evil spirits in the evil mountains. We must resist this Taoist general."

Seeing Senior Brother Wu’s serious tone, Mu Lu became more alert.

"Okay, since Senior Brother has given me the order, I will sacrifice my dignity and go to Mucha Mountain to invite the four generals over. With their practice and prestige, plus the local cultivators, even the Taoist Taiping can be captured."

After hearing Mu Lu's words, Wu Dongye subconsciously wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks.

However, the origins of the four generals of Mucha Mountain flashed through his mind, and his eyebrows flew up, praising them: "Good plan, if these four generals get into trouble, we can definitely bring in the Palace Master of Yudie Cave in Jihu Mountain in the South China Sea."

The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. That palace master was notorious for protecting his own people. Relying on the long-standing Taoist heritage of Jade Butterfly Cave, he never took the three righteous sects seriously and often caused trouble in the Taoist lands in the east.

Mu Lu felt dissatisfied after hearing what Senior Brother Wu said, but he held back and did not lose his temper. He felt that Senior Brother Wu was boosting other people's morale and destroying his own prestige. He wanted to let Senior Brother see that there were many talented people in Lingnan.

That day, after the discussion, Mulu immediately sent several letters and asked the mountain people in the village to deliver them to various places. Among them, the letter to Mucha Mountain was given to his eldest son to show his respect for the four generals of Mucha.

In a few days, the city was crowded with people.

Among them, there are four who are so powerful that no one dares to approach them.

One of them looked like a sturdy and strong man, holding a delicate and small iron gourd in his palm as big as a palm-leaf fan, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was resting, with an arrogant look that looked down on everyone. He was the "strong general" among the four generals of Mu Cha.

One of them had a fair complexion, wore a red robe, and had lips painted red, like two smears of cinnabar. He had a fiery aura in his body and it was obvious that he had some extraordinary magic. He was the "True Fire General", one of the four generals of Mucha Mountain.

One of them was dressed in Taoist attire, with golden eyes, and surrounded by groups of tigers and leopards. He was as obedient as a cat slave. He spoke fluent Taoist Mandarin and had a lively conversation with Wu Dongye, Xie Chunchi and others.

This man is the "Soul Driving General" of Mucha Mountain. Like Wu Dongye, he considers himself a Taoist priest, yearns for the Taoist style of the Central Plains, and can be considered a person who practices asceticism.

The last one was wrapped in a tiger skin skirt, had a green mane and a lion face, with thunder horns on top that made a crackling sound. At first glance, he looked like a human, but in fact he was a ghost. He was the "Man Dian Qing Lion General" among the four generals in Mucha Mountain, and all the cultivators in Lingnan respected him as the "Mantou Master".

“Master, Master, please take your seat.”

In front of the Mantou master, Mulu acted like a junior disciple.

His face flushed slightly. It had been many years since his Baiyue village had been so lively. He was already thinking of using this incident to increase his family's prestige.

"General Dao, General Dao, I think he is a lucky general."

(End of this chapter)