Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 193 The Star Officials Take Their Positions: Di Tu Hao and Fang Ri Tu
The Daluo Palace protects the area, and the people of Cuishan Town are simple and honest.

After only two days, the young men and women fell in love with the place. Moreover, the Daluo Palace also taught ordinary people how to meditate and cultivate their inner energy. Even if they didn't have the talent to learn magic and true energy, they could still become martial arts masters.

Many of the Taoists in the Daluo Palace were originally strongmen from the surrounding mountains and forests. Later, when people traveled around to spread chivalry, they brought some back with them. Although they were powerless against demons and monsters, ordinary people were still far inferior to them.

For example, the Taoist priest who led the pilgrims up the mountain during the New Year's Grand Ritual at Daluo Palace was a martial arts master in the palace. Although he was not talented enough to cultivate immortality, his skills were still those of a master in the mortal martial arts world.

Seeing that everyone around him was having a good time, He Feng naturally accepted Daoist Yansong's invitation to join the Daluo Palace and become one of the Twenty-Eight Guardian Star Officials.

Di Tuhao, officially in place!

"I want to join the Great Luo Palace too!" Hu Yufei shouted, pointing to the fourth of the seven shrines along the mountain path. "I want to be the Fang Ri Tu!"

"You're actually a rabbit spirit?" Yun Yang asked in surprise.

"What rabbit spirit!" Hu Yufei puffed out her chest. "I am of the Jade Rabbit bloodline, I am no ordinary being!"

"Why does the rabbit spirit have the surname Hu?" Yunyang asked curiously.

"Why can't the Jade Rabbit Spirit have the surname Hu?" Hu Yufei asked rhetorically.

Yun Yang was speechless.

Hu Yufei approached Gu Zhao and bowed respectfully. "I have never harmed anyone in my life. I sincerely wish to join the Great Luo Palace. I beg the sect leader for permission."

Gu Zhao patted the folding fan in his hand, "You are originally a Spirit Lord, and you are friends with the Daluo Palace, not enemies. It is not a problem for you to stay in the Daluo Palace. We will still treat you as a friend."

“But joining the Great Luo Palace and becoming a Guardian Star Official is different.” Gu Zhao said to Hu Yufei very formally, “As a Guardian Star Official, you have the responsibility of protecting the Dharma. If you encounter an external enemy, you must stand up and fight regardless of its strength.”

Hu Yufei glanced at Yun Yang and responded formally, "At the sect leader's command, this humble woman will never shrink back!"

Gu Zhao smiled and said, "Then welcome Miss Hu to the team."

Hu Yufei smiled, and Bai Ke stepped forward and took her hand, saying, "Congratulations! From now on, we're family."

Hu Yufei pulled Bai Ke's hand back, "Why don't you become the Heart Moon Fox?"

Bai Ke shook her head seriously, "The embroiderer is Gu Zhao's bed warmer and cannot stay in the Daluo Palace permanently. I have to go with her, so I can't be a guardian star official."

Hu Yufei glanced at Gu Zhao, then at Bai Ke, a half-smile on her face, and asked in a low voice, "The embroiderer is a bed warmer, do you have any thoughts about that?"

“Yes!” Bai Ke nodded. “I also want to mate with him, but he said the time is not right and he won’t let me tell anyone.”

Hu Yufei: (°Δ°`)
……

"The Daluo Palace is growing stronger and stronger."

Standing on the high platform in front of the Sanqing Hall, Gu Zhao couldn't help but sigh.

After returning from Baishi Mansion, the elderly Taoist priests, spurred on by the experience, went out to uphold justice again. Master Mingyu, who was closest to breaking through, was the most enthusiastic. He teamed up with Master Yanling, who had mastered the Taiyi Divine Light, and vowed to wipe out all the demons and monsters in Changping Mansion.

Master Jingfeng, Master Qingyuan, and Master Mingchong also descended the mountain to sweep away the evil spirits and collect evil energy. The progress bar, which had already increased significantly after defeating Rongxuan of Wuliang Cave, accelerated again, and the next thunder seed was almost within reach.

Besides the increasing number of Taoists brought from Earth, there are also five guardian star officials recruited locally. Lou Jingou Huang Yuan and Di Tuhao He Feng have the deepest cultivation, with a total of four hundred years of Taoist experience, and each of them is capable of dominating a region on their own.

Gui Jin Yang Yang Chi, Zhang Yue Lu Lu Yue, and Fang Ritu Hu Yu Fei are slightly inferior in cultivation, but after practicing the new cultivation method with Taoist ideas, their cultivation efficiency has increased by a level compared to before, and their future is promising.

"So I'm getting busier and busier." Gu Zhao couldn't help but sigh.

The embroiderer stood by without saying a word, only smiling with her lips pursed.

Bai Ke didn't give Gu Zhao any face, "These past few days you've either been in seclusion cultivating, or playing with Sister Zhuo, painting, chatting, and taking walks. What have you been busy with?"

Gu Zhao waved his hand lazily, "You don't understand."

Once the lightning seed condenses again, I'll embark on my search for people once more. Why not hurry?
I feel like I'm looking for people more and more frequently these days. Maybe I should save up a few and look for them all at once; that would make things easier.

For example, if you collect seven or eight of them, you can wipe out Zhenwu Mountain in one fell swoop!
……

Zhenwu Mountain.

"What? Junior Brother Zhang is gone? He left with a young man?" Master Qingwei asked in surprise. "He said he was going to Guangzhou to practice martial arts and cultivate Taoism? He left early on the sixth day of the lunar new year?"

Master Qingwei calculated the time and realized it was the day after he had invited Master Qingyuan to come out of the mountains and was refused. He remembered that Gu Zhao had even helped Master Qingyuan smooth things over at the time.

"So they're poaching people?" Master Qingwei was speechless.

But he still couldn't understand it.

Master Qingyuan has lived his whole life on Zhenwu Mountain. He even refused to become a teacher at the Taoist temple when invited by me. So why would he leave with Gu Zhao to go to Guangzhou?
So Master Qingwei dialed Master Qingyuan's cell phone, but found that no one answered.

"What's going on?" Master Qingwei frowned.

He didn't suspect that Gu Zhao had bad intentions towards Daoist Qingyuan. After all, Daoist Qingyuan lived a life of poverty and, apart from cultivating Daoist Qi, he didn't even have the qualifications to be coveted by a swindler.

Moreover, Gu Zhao has also cultivated the true Qi of the Daoist school, which would be considered a complete master of the Dao in ancient times, and a true inheritor of the Dao in modern times. He does everything openly and honestly, and he doesn't even hide his affairs with two women, which shows his uprightness.

He was simply curious about what Gu Zhao had said to Daoist Qingyuan, and why Daoist Qingyuan would give up the place where he had lived for half his life and follow Gu Zhao to Guangzhou.

So Master Qingwei sent a text message to Master Qingyuan and inquired about it.

Just as Master Qingwei was sending the text message, Master Yihong also called Yandu, saying that he wanted to invite true Taoists from all over the country to study Taoist culture in Guangzhou and apply for a quiet little Taoist temple.

Because of his years of traveling around collecting Longmen classics, Master Yihong's application this time is reasonable. The only thing that has attracted attention is that he is unwilling to accept the young Taoist priests arranged by the Taoist Association for the Taoist temple, and wants to manage everything himself.

"Someone has to do the odd jobs in the Taoist temple, right? Cleaning, receiving tourists, and the like?"

“Our Taoist temple is not open to the public,” Master Yihong refused. “We can clean up the mess ourselves, and I’m not applying for any separate funding, so what are you worried about?”

"It's not that I'm afraid, the problem is, why can't we just allocate you a small courtyard behind Baiyun Temple? Why do we have to do it in Guangzhou?"

Master Yihong said calmly, "Because my Daoist heart is at peace."

(End of this chapter)