Yinshan Record

Chapter 665 The Ghost Ancestor's Ingenious Plan (Part 2)
"Senior, when did you arrive?"

Su Che finally smiled when he saw the two elders arrive.

"Just arrived. Hey kid, you didn't secretly curse us, did you?"

Ghost Ancestor frowned, and a chill suddenly filled the air.

"Hey, Old Ghost, don't worry, Su isn't that kind of person."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King smiled and said, "At most, he'll scold you a few times, but he'll never scold me."

Humph.

The Ghost Ancestor snorted.

"Hey Su boy, you're busy attacking cities and seizing territories," the Yin-Yang Dharma King asked curiously, "Are you trying to help the Great Liang regain control of the Western Regions and then launch a pincer attack on the Northern Dynasty?"

what?
Su Che looked at the Yin-Yang Dharma King, thinking, "Is this even possible? After consolidating the power of the seventy-two kingdoms, I would have already sent Yuwen Rui to the moon to become an extraterrestrial power. Why bother with all this trouble?"

"I don't have that kind of free time."

Su Che shook his head: "It's all because we're bored."

"What you're saying doesn't sound like human language."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King shook his head and said, "You probably can't see the two of us welcoming you. You were abandoned here by the Su Nu Dao women and you're a bit flustered."

"Pretty much, senior. It's better to see through things than to say them out loud."

Su Che smiled.

"But you two..."

"We were busy with this and that, and we never expected these seventy-two countries to be so interesting."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King winked and made faces. The Northern Mang Ghost Ancestor, mindful of his status, refused to be the commentator, but the Yin-Yang Dharma King, being humorous and fond of his junior Su Che, directly began to explain.

"It's truly a complex web of layers, one inside the other."

He then posed a question.

"Hey Su, how come there are so many powerful monsters in these seventy-two kingdoms? A three-headed Rejuvenation Demon, you rarely see that anywhere else."

Su Che thought to himself, "You can't stump me. I watched all of these TV dramas when I was a kid."

"If a demon can accomplish something, there must be a deity behind it. Could it be that the Buddhist kingdom is involved?"

"Hehe, it's ambiguous."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King laughed and said, "But what you said makes sense; there really are immortals here."

"Qingxu Sect."

With a cold laugh, the Ghost Ancestor of Beimang revealed the answer directly.

"The three demon kings at the core of that group of monsters in Anguo were all raised by the Qingxu Sect."

This news was explosive, but not entirely unexpected.

To attain immortality, talent and luck alone are not enough. The process of refining the elixir, practicing the Void Refining Technique, and attaining immortality requires a complete system behind the scenes to support the foundation of one's Dao.

Three-headed Rejuvenating Pill demons are easy to gather, but three-headed Immortal Demon Kings are absolutely impossible to gather.

Su Che initially thought it was some kind of trick by those bald men in the west who talked about the equality of all living beings, but now it sounds like it was actually a trick played by the Qingxu Sect.

"Why did the Qingxu Sect bring out these three immortal demon kings?"

Su Che couldn't figure it out.

Using these monsters as the bad cop so they can step forward and play the good cop, acting as saviors?
Isn't this unnecessary?

Of the seventy-two kingdoms, the Qingxu Sect is the least in need of this effort, because they are already the most authentic saviors here.

Using these monsters as henchmen is even more unnecessary, because none of the seventy-two kingdoms can withstand them.

The Qingxu Sect is the only dominant sect in the seventy-two kingdoms. This is not an exaggeration, but a simple fact.

"Little Green Mountain."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King raised his eyebrows: "Guess who's behind that?" "It's definitely not you."

Su Che looked at the Northern Mang Ghost Ancestor on the other side without saying a word.

"Why are you looking at me? It has nothing to do with me."

The Ghost Ancestor of Beimang angrily revealed the answer to the riddle.

"The character 'Qing' in Xiao Qingshan means that it is also associated with the Qingxu Sect."

Su Che was both somewhat enlightened and completely bewildered upon hearing this.

What is clear is that this perfectly explains why these forces were able to rise to power.

With the backing of a powerful sect like Qingxu Sect, one can certainly act with impunity in any region.

But why would the Qingxu Sect, which was living a perfectly good life, raise these demons and monsters?

"Are they crazy?"

"Almost like being crazy."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King said with a sense of melancholy, "The internal strife has reached this point; someone must be stirring up trouble behind the scenes."

"Magic Gate?"

Su Che thought of a possibility.

The Ghost Ancestor of Beiman finally showed a slight smile.

"Okay, he's not really stupid."

“Young Su, this is called inner talent. We can’t be sure which member of the Demonic Sect was behind it yet, but it’s almost certain that the internal strife in the Qingxu Sect was instigated by the Demonic Sect, and there should be someone in the sect who has already fallen into demonic possession.”

The Yin-Yang Dharma King said with considerable certainty.

"Didn't the Qingxu Sect notice anything?"

Su Che had also heard of the terror of sects encountering demonic calamities. Demonic cultivators would use various means to instigate internal strife and external suppression, eventually swallowing up a sect piecemeal.

Therefore, all major sects are extremely wary of demonic contamination and the spying of demonic cultivators.

However, one can only be a thief for a thousand days, not a thief for a thousand days. The harassment from the demonic cultivators is indeed difficult to guard against.

"So what if you notice?"

The Ghost Ancestor of Beiman let out a cold laugh.

"If one of the most promising talents in your sect, like you, Su, suddenly develops a mental demon, how would you handle it? Would you just drag him out for public execution? Who knows if he might overcome this demonic obstacle and even reach a higher level?"

"Just like you, Su boy, if you really learned some of the demonic sect's methods and became tainted by inner demons, would Huang Tiandao drag you out and chop you up?"

Su Che's face turned serious upon hearing this, because unfortunately, he seemed to actually know some of the Demonic Sect's techniques.

The Ghost Ancestor of Beiman shook his head and said, "The struggle between heaven and man, the rise and fall of the Dao and the demons, is simply a part of cultivation. It's not something that can be easily overcome. The same goes for sects. After passing the demonic tribulation, there are countless members who have reached even higher levels within the sect."

"But I think the Qingxu Sect is most likely not going to make it through this ordeal."

The Yin-Yang Dharma King sighed softly.

During this period, he and the Ghost Ancestor of Beimang collaborated, their footsteps almost traversing the entire seventy-two kingdoms. With their shrewd methods and formidable cultivation, they managed to roughly reconstruct the situation of the seventy-two kingdoms.

The Qingxu Sect is now divided into three factions, which distrust each other. Some factions are fighting for interests, while others are in conflict between their own thoughts and the laws of the sect. Of course, all three factions also suspect that someone in the other faction has fallen into demonic possession.

In order to fight against each other, the three parties divided up their territories and used various means. The internal infighting was moved to the outer areas of the seventy-two kingdoms and turned into open conflict.

The ghost cultivators of Xiaoqingshan and the demon king of Anguo are both products of open conflict.

This gave the two of them room to intervene.

The Ghost Ancestor of Beiman quietly appeared and easily instigated a fight between the two sides.

"Among the Void-Stepping Ghost Cultivators over at Little Green Mountain, there are a few who have achieved considerable prominence."

The Ghost Ancestor of Beiman looked at Su Che and said, "There happens to be one among them that matches your method."

(End of this chapter)