From a carp to a dragon god

Hushan Island, Jishuitan.

Yu Shuyang sat with his back to the east and facing west, Li Taiping sat at the end, Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi sat in the north and south respectively, surrounding the earthen platform beside the Jishuitan.

The four demons each held a talisman pen in their hands and took turns drawing on a jade plate. As the number of spiritual texts and talismans increased, the jade plate became more and more mysterious.

Sketched on the jade plate were the formations calculated by Yu Shuyang: the twenty-eight constellations, the twelve zodiac signs, the five elements returning to earth, and the four-gate formation.

Li Taiping held the talisman of the Zhoutian stars in one hand to attract the response of the star gods, and held the talisman pen in the other hand to continuously outline the secret talismans of the twenty-eight constellations.

The twenty-eight constellations are arranged according to the four symbols and the four directions. From time to time, they appear and take shape, transforming into the appearance of star beasts, such as Jiao Mu Jiao, Dou Mu Xie, Kui Mu Lang, and Jing Mu An.

Yu Shuyang used the Qi Sui Xin stick as a pen to draw on the power of the Tai Sui Dragon God, which continuously transformed into Yuan Chen Tian Fu, guiding the twenty-eight constellations to divide into the twelve zodiac palaces.

The rat corresponds to the Xu constellation, the ox corresponds to the Niu constellation... the pig corresponds to the Shi constellation. The twelve zodiac animals correspond one by one to the twelve constellations.

Yin Chenzi held a golden rod with thunder and fire patterns in his hand, and from time to time he refined the five elements, turning them into pill patterns, which fell on the cloud board and manifested as five mountains to control the four directions.

The five elements flow in sequence, from east to west, bringing with them a force of life, while water and fire harmonize them, sinking into the central earth element and transforming into a force of returning to earth.

Yang Fuzi holds a charred dead branch in his hand, constantly drawing power from all directions, transforming it into four array gates that connect with the Four Symbols, Twenty-Eight Mansions, Twelve Zodiac Palaces, and Five Elements.

The four monsters used their own methods, and the spiritual array restrictions were added layer by layer. As the array restrictions grew, the spiritual power consumption became greater and greater.

From the first level of forbidden refining to the eighteenth level, Yu Shuyang and Li Taiping could no longer hold on and stopped at the same time.

The rhythm of the formation was broken, and Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi were forced to stop. They couldn't help but sigh as they looked at the formation diagram on the jade plate.

This formation diagram still carries the teachings of the four demons, and is connected to each other through the stars, Yuan Chen, the five elements, and the four directions, which in turn affects the person who is performing the ritual.

Third-grade demon cultivators like Yang Fuzi and Yin Chenzi also gained some insights and gains. This opportunity is really rare.

Yu Shuyang smiled and put the jade plate away. He had not originally thought of refining the formation plate in this way. He just came to meet Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi.

When the four demons were chatting, they mentioned the Demon Cultivation City and talked about the island protection formation and the imprint of the Demon Fairy City. Yin Chenzi brought the city foundation stone and construction craftsmen from Qingqiu.

Only then did Yu Shuyang realize that the Fairy Demon City in the Fox Kingdom was protected by the city foundation. Moreover, the Qingqiu Islands were mostly inhabited by fox demons, and they were suppressed by the clan spirit and national destiny, so they would not gather any evil spirits.

He took out the deduced formation and handed it to Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi for evaluation. In fact, this formation integrated most of Yu Shuyang's background.

Yin Chenzi saw at a glance that this was a "Tao map" that carried the laws of the Tao, so he took out the city's foundation stone and proposed to perform a sacrifice on the spot.

This is how the four demons' combined formation diagram came about. To be honest, Yu Shuyang didn't want to invest too much in the mountain protection formation.

Hushan Island, Changliu Mountain, Wild Horse Farm, and Taoliu Blessed Land are four islands located in four directions. They are originally the outskirts of Yaoxian City. It is not like the beginning, when the islands were completely closed and no one could enter or exit without the formation key.

The lake island has been arranged in the center, and subsequent floating islands are also being slowly moved in. Once the island expands large enough, we can start building the Demon Fairy City.

"Xuan Yunzi, when do you plan to start building the Demon Fairy City? Will the inner and outer cities be built according to the regulations of Yazhou or Qingqiu?"

Yin Chenzi asked very seriously. Ever since he brought the black fox Pengwei to meet the king, his mentality has changed.

No longer caring about temporary gains and losses, and at the same time, ready to bet completely on Yu Shuyang, he was already preparing to move the entrance of Qingqiu over.

Seeing Yin Chenzi's serious question, Yu Shuyang also became formal. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Master Yin, I think neither is good. I plan to build it according to the rules of the Taoist Alliance.

The five islands and eight cities of Yazhou are nominally the Demon Fairy City, which gathers wild demon cultivators who have fled from the inland of Jiuzhou.

In fact, it is nothing more than growing crops and raising livestock. The demon fairy family is the final harvest. Once the demon fairy dies, they will reap the wealth accumulated by the family.

The hundreds of cities in the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom are filled with fox demons from top to bottom. Even some demons from different tribes are taken in as demon servants or married into the country.

Strictly speaking, the Fox Kingdom is a gathering of six fox tribes, used to integrate and bring together the fox tribes so that they can merge together.

The Fairy City I want to build will be like the Dao League, a city for spreading the Dharma. There will be no private property here, and the floating islands can be run by the Fairy families at will."

Yu Shuyang used the Yiqi Suixin stick as a pen to draw in the void. Donghaidaoyuan was the first layer, which was considered the inner city within the city. The demon cultivators who practiced the hundreds of arts of immortality and the market town were considered the second layer.

A large open space will be reserved outside the Demon Fairy City, which is reserved for the Taoist disciples and their families, who can settle down in the outer city.

The four-sided island is considered the third layer. It is the guard island of the Demon Fairy City and also the magic circle guarding the four directions.

Outside the four islands, Yu Shuyang plans to set up a fourth floor, where floating islands will also be deployed in the future and sold to wild monsters and wandering cultivators who come here to make a living and seek the truth.

Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi are both thousand-year-old demons. Naturally, they can see Yu Shuyang's intentions and can't help but worry.

First, Yang Fuzi pointed at the fourth-tier floating island and said, "Even if you sell the floating island to the wandering cultivators and wild monsters, they may not be able to keep it. When the monster immortals' lifespans are exhausted, there will still be some to be divided.

Besides, we can’t just sit back and watch as the five islands and eight cities of Yazhou do this. You’re targeting them.”

Yang Fuzi is concerned about the distribution of benefits. Behind the five islands and eight cities of Yazhou is the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, which also has to support a large number of disciples.

Not all demon cultivators are like Yu Shuyang, who carries the Taoist lineage and has great luck. He does not need to absorb additional cultivation resources to transform his luck into cultivation.

Like the fish mother running a noodle shop and Brother Fathead Fish steaming fish buns day and night, all of this is to accumulate the resources for the practice of the white-case spiritual chef.

Yu Shuyang's disdain for the methods used by the five islands and eight cities of Yazhou does not mean that this is wrong. It is just a matter of distribution and redistribution of interests.

"Master Yang, I've considered this as well. The Dao League recruits disciples and teaches the Dao, and they also have to set up a Daoist entrance exam. The floating islands I set up are also a test.

Those who can enter the Tokaido Temple can naturally move their families to the inner island. Even if the demons and immortals in the clan die, their clan land will be retained.

Of course, the destruction of a blessed land can give birth to geniuses and treasures. If you want to go to school again at that time, you have to donate the treasures.

In this way, the cycle of demon immortal families can continue, and sooner or later the threshold of demon immortal families will be raised. If all demon immortal families are of the upper third rank, the time when their life spans are exhausted will only be infinitely pushed back."

Yu Shuyang explained in detail, but there was one thing he didn't say. The floating island was left for the five islands and eight cities of Yazhou to eat. Without external pressure, there would be no internal harmony.

Yang Fuzi nodded without saying anything else. He too had grasped the underlying purpose, and couldn't help but think of the Wu Turtle Clan of Bagong Mountain. Under his protection over the years, the clan had thrived in Bagong Mountain, prospering both within and beyond the cave. Inevitably, this had led to corruption and degeneration, imitating the ways of the aristocratic human families.

Yang Fuzi has not returned to the clan in these years. In addition to protecting Yu Shuyang's safety, he is also dissatisfied with the clan's atmosphere and sees the younger generations of the clan turning to the human race.

Yin Chenzi, who was standing nearby, remained silent for a long time. After listening to Yu Shuyang's explanation, he asked, "Are you planning to move the Dao League here?"

It's no wonder Yin Chenzi had this idea. After listening to Yu Shuyang's various narrations, he found that most of them were exactly the same as those of the Taoist Alliance, except that one or two forms were improved.

Yu Shuyang was stunned at first, then grinned and said, "Why do you have such doubts, Master Yin? Is there anything wrong with the Dao League's style?"

These words instantly confused Yin Chenzi. Yes, isn’t the Taoist Alliance good?
"That's not what I meant. You know that the Dao League has the founder's teachings, and the Taiqing Palace's Three Caverns Sutra, which also passes on the Three Methods and Four Paths.

The Taoist Palace has developed to this day and has accumulated ten Taoist lineages, with countless disciples and descendants of each lineage, which has led to its current foundation.

It is true that you are the founder of our lineage, but it is just the beginning now. Both Tokaido Academy and Yaoxian City are good, but the question is, how far can you achieve in the end?
You also know that when the founder came to the Middle-earth to preach, he was stopped by the Heavenly Dao. Even though he bound the will of the Heavenly Dao, the founder was still driven out of his own world.

Now, the Dao League has no choice but to hide in dreams, and preach through dreams to avoid potential threats."

Yin Chenzi stopped talking here and didn't dare to continue. The mention of the will of heaven just now had already made him feel frightened.

Yu Shuyang had already heard his subtext. The current situation in Middle-earth is that humanity is flourishing and the human race controls most of the inland areas of Kyushu.

The Taoist Holy Land, one of the nine holy places of humanity, is a conspiracy of the human race against the Taoist Alliance, openly weakening the development of the Taoist Alliance.

This is a test and also a line, just like the line drawn by the Military Holy Land against the Military Immortal Family, which does not allow the demon cultivators to master the complete martial arts heritage.

Yu Shuyang then explained, "Master Yin, I understand your concerns, and this is a simple matter.

The Fairy Demon City that I want to build is a sword-making city, specializing in forging all kinds of swords. All my disciples, foreign fairies, and human cultivators can try out the sword.

As long as one is chosen by the spirit sword, he or she can take the sword away. In this way, the sword art will surely flourish in the East China Sea.

At the same time, I also have the Five Thunder Curse separated from the Great Dao of Thunder, which can be spread out and can also allow the development of independent cultivators and wild monsters.

Jiancheng is also a thunder city. Relying on this, it should not be difficult to gain a foothold in the East China Sea!"

Yu Shuyang also didn't say a few words, which is that humanity and the human race must be weakened.

There are the Jiuyi tribe led by the Dongyi Emperor, the True Dragon clan led by the Great Dragon God Canglong, and the three forces of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the Taoist Alliance, and the Earth Mother Palace.

The nine human families may not be able to cope with it, not to mention that Yu Shuyang has mastered the dust catastrophe and can help the disciples of the Taoist Alliance to cleanse the human Yuan Qi.

In this way, Taoism will inevitably suffer losses, and perhaps several important Taoist successors will be instigated to rebel.

Moreover, the human race is not the only one that dominates the inland of Jiuzhou. There are many blessed places and caves hidden in the mountains, rivers, and many demon and fairy families.

There were also quite a few of them, just like the Quanyi in Huzhou, the Baiyi in Menzhou, the Dongman and Liaoman in Bashu. The human race originally established the Five Cities and Five Prefectures Armies in order to deter all kinds of enemies.

Once the human race reveals a flaw, it will inevitably be attacked by everyone, just like the founder of the Taoist Alliance joined forces with the ancient gods to drag the will of heaven into a dream.

No one wants to have another father above him, especially when this father only wants to exploit and enslave him.

Judging from the reactions of the northern workers and the changes in the Lingzhou Beifu Army, it can be seen that the human race has already sensed the danger and has begun to slowly make adjustments.

For example, the craftsmen are studying the secret method of training monsters into puppets, and the Five Evils Bun Fish of the Fathead Fish is one of them.

The armies of the five cities and five prefectures also began to become restless. The trend of excluding the demon soldiers and demon cultivators turned from covert to overt, and they had already begun to slowly target them.

For this reason, Yu Shuyang persuaded his sixth brother-in-law Shu Qing to not go back with his sixth sister, but to stay in Donghai.

Obviously, the sixth brother-in-law has many concerns. He has to consider the entire Shu family. It is too difficult to move from outside Yanmen Pass to the East China Sea. The clan members cannot give up this blessed land.

What's more, there are many members of the Shu family in the Lingzhou armies. Once they leave on a large scale, it will inevitably attract the attention of the military government and may even lead to hunting them down.

Therefore, Yu Shuyang and Yu Tienan took turns to persuade, but still failed to convince the sixth brother-in-law. So far, he has not asked Yu Shuyang to learn martial arts.

Yin Chenzi was not as smart as Yang Fuzi. He didn't think too much for a moment and kept muttering: "Thunder City, Sword City, Thunder..."

It's no wonder he thought too much. The black fox Pengwei had just selected five fox demons on the island in the middle of the lake and gave them five thunder beads and thunder spells.

Now that he thought about it, this thunder curse must be Yu Shuyang's inheritance. He recalled Yu Shuyang's words just now, which seemed to have mentioned the Avenue of Thunder Luck.

At this moment, Yin Chenzi became instantly alert. The inheritance he had been thinking about had already been arranged.

Thinking of this, Yin Chenzi's heart warmed up, and he said, "Giving away swords and thunder spells, although it is a way to share profits, still has many limitations.

After all, those who can practice swordsmanship and thunder magic are still a minority. How many people can they win over? I'd better start refining the elixir.

I think there should be quite a few people who take the elixir. Moreover, we can also make sacrifices to refine the elixir of immortality. As long as we spread the word, the aristocratic families of the human race will definitely protect the Taoist temple in secret."

Yin Chenzi secretly made up his mind that since he wanted to bet on Yu Shuyang, he naturally could not do it the same way as before and had to place a heavy bet.

As the saying goes: "There is never a need to help someone when the weather is cold, only to add icing on the cake."

At this time, Yin Chenzi was ready to put in a lot of effort to help, and would definitely not spare any effort or cost.

Yang Fuzi, who was standing by, nodded and said, "The elixir does have a wider audience, but it's best not to make the matter of immortality known to the public.

Back then, the Nine Families of Humanity eradicated the Elixir of Immortality, and many behind-the-scenes assassinations were carried out. The Fox Clan's five sacred places and the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance were driven to the East China Sea, which is why there is no Elixir of Immortality."

The core of human development has always been that one generation continues to pass on to the next. Only by doing so from generation to generation can we continue to innovate and develop.

If all power is in the hands of an immortal person, all development will stagnate and he will become a tyrant.

(End of this chapter)