Immortal Road.

Chapter 525: Bu Xiu's sudden appearance, Mu Yan's fame

The deer head of Old Ancestor Lu Que swayed from side to side, as if he was lost in memories.

"Thirty years ago, I traveled northwards with my vague senses. When I passed through a small town on the northern border of Yan State, I met a wandering Taoist priest."

"This person has a loud voice and an extraordinary temperament. The key is that his spiritual consciousness is completely unfathomable. It makes me feel very mysterious."

“He stopped me directly on the street.”

Yan State is a demonic kingdom. Although Patriarch Lu Que was a headless man at that time, it was nothing big in the demonic fairy town.

Many people in the magic world like to take unorthodox ways and train their bodies to look like neither human nor ghost, so everyone's aesthetic thresholds vary and it is no longer surprising.

"He stopped me on the street and wanted to tell me my fortune."

"I had just had a fight with a sect on the road, and I was in a bad mood. Plus, the charm of this man's words made me obey him."

"In the end, he just asked a few questions, and I simply told him about my troubles, and then he reconstructed the whole incident and told it clearly!"

"This includes you, my brother. You, the leader, are both wind and thunder masters, you are also a soul cultivator, you have two elixirs, you are pretending to be Lei Fengzi, the deer head is in your hands, and so on."

"Afterwards, he only charged me three spirit stones as fortune-telling fee."

When Lin Shan heard this, his expression became a little serious.

It wasn't that Patriarch Lu Que had exposed his lies, nor was it that his dual cultivation of the Golden Core and the Soul Core was discovered by others.

Instead, this wandering Taoist priest understood the essence of the matter at once with just a few words from Patriarch Lu Que!

This is not something that ordinary people can do at all!
"I suspect that this person is most likely the extinct Bu Xiu in the world!"

Bu Xiu.

The planning connects the heavens and the earth, and the hexagrams calculate the past and present.

Such people were extremely rare in ancient times, seldom seen, and extremely secretive.

In today's era, it is even more rare.

Ancestor Lu Que was just suspicious and did not dare to be 100% sure.

Because divination has always been a research topic for all the top sects.

Among the ten major academies in Lu State, there are many teachers who specialize in teaching this.

Lin Shan had attended some such courses while studying in Yunchuan, but they were just superficial and of no importance to him.

If one wants to become a true Bu Xiu, each link is indispensable, whether it is the corresponding qualifications and understanding, or even inheritance and fate.

The teacher at Yunchuan Academy only knows a little bit.

If they were really asked to tell people's fortunes, the best they could do was to point out some vague directions based on the case experiences given in ancient books.

In the world of cultivation, divination is mostly used in the process of interpreting dreams.

Because there are the most cases of dream interpretation in ancient books, it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false, and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t.

This has also led to the birth of many scammers.

However, the person that Patriarch Lu Que met was obviously not a liar. He had real skills. Even his fellow Shuangdan practitioner Lin Shan could guess it. That’s quite amazing!

In a trance.

Lin Shan suddenly remembered Zuo Ning, the son of Zuo Zhenren. He once lived in Yichuan in the north of the Song Dynasty, which is now the south of the Yan State. He also heard that a wandering Taoist priest gave him directions.

At that time, in order to extend the life of Zuo Zhenren, the only thing the Song Dynasty could find was the "Seven Evils Soul-Locking Technique".

I originally thought this was a trap.

But after Lin Shan really obtained this small magical skill, he discovered that this skill could really temporarily lock up Zuo Zhenren's soul and delay his aging and death.

It’s just that it’s too difficult to obtain, and it’s certainly not possible with Zuo Ning’s strength.

In fact, in the end, with the help of Lin Shan, the boy went to Nanman and finally got the "Seven Evils Soul Locking Technique". Even though he did not catch the last train before Master Zuo's death, he did not let down the wandering Taoist priest's prediction.

This shows how powerful it is!
Lin Shan immediately ordered someone to find Zuo Ning.

After a while, this person came in front of him and ancestor Lu Que.

Thirty years have passed, and he has advanced from the late stage of Qi training to the foundation-building stage.

"Senior, are you looking for me?"

Lin Shan looked at him. He was only in his fifties, but still looked like a young man. It seemed that he had good aptitude. After all, he was the descendant of Zuo Zhenren.

Of course, according to the organization, they are a member of the Ji Ge Kun Sect, and they are temporarily being trained by the Xun Gu Sect, just looking for some tasks and things to do.

Long time no see, I asked about how you were doing.

"Thanks to my master and seniors, everything is fine in Tianfu Mountain. The chief steward Lu of Xun Gu Sect and my fellow disciples are also taking good care of me."

"That's good."

Lin Shan nodded and did not ask any more questions. Instead, he started talking about the wandering Taoist priest he used to be.

After comparing it with what Patriarch Lu Que said, his clothes, expression and tone of voice, it turned out to be the same person!
The world is so big, it’s full of coincidences!
"It seems that this wandering Taoist priest is indeed an extraordinary master."

Lin Shan clapped his hands and sighed, his mind drifting away.

Patriarch Lu Que seemed to see what he was thinking, and probably was eager to recruit talented people.

"Does the leader want to recruit such a great talent?"

"That's true."

"I think it's unlikely. This person has the ability to discern the secrets of heaven. Maybe he is practicing in the mortal world. He is not bound to stay in one place, nor does he work exclusively for a certain force."

"Oh, you have a point."

Lin Shan had a lot of doubts of his own, and often wanted to have a fortune teller to tell his fortunes for him, especially after he knew the abilities of the wandering Taoist priest.

However, he also knew that it was difficult to recruit such people, so he just sighed.

The world is so big, we probably won’t meet again in the future.

Send Zuo Ning away.

When they arrived at the meeting hall on the top of the mountain, most of the Xun Gu Sect's top leaders, except those who were out, were already present and had been waiting for a long time.

Lin Shan sat on the throne of the leader, with Master Zhan Kong and Patriarch Lu Que sitting on both sides.

Let me first talk about the matter of Patriarch Lu Que joining the Xun Gu Sect.

Logically speaking, the sect should celebrate the addition of a late Jindan master with a proper ceremony.

It just so happened that so many Jindan-stage cultivators from the Lujiang League had arrived together during the day, which was considered a witness. There was no need to go through so much trouble to do it again and invite all parties to watch the ceremony.

On the spot, Ancestor Lu Que was appointed as the elder of the sect.

He ordered his men to plan a place with rich spiritual energy in the back of the mountain to build a hall, cave, experimental field, monster garden, island lake, and other facilities. He also ordered his men to find a place not far from the mountain to dig a canal to divert water and build a snake valley for the old ancestor Lu Que to raise pets.

The treatment is so good that it makes people jealous, which shows how much Lin Shan cares about it.

Ancestor Lu Que himself is just a casual cultivator in the East China Sea. He is used to being alone and it doesn't matter where he goes.

If Xun Gujiao can satisfy his needs, then it's fine to live in seclusion here. The most important thing is that he is bound by the previous bet and has no choice but to follow the trap.

There are now more and more Foundation Establishment cultivators present below. Not counting those who have gone out, there are still more than a dozen people on the scene.

Some of them were disciples of Master Zhankong, and some were talents recruited from Jingyang Academy and Yunchuan Academy.

"Master, the situation on the northern front has become increasingly tense after a long period of confrontation. Half of our disciples have been sent to provide support."

"Now it has attracted the attention of the entire two regions of western Shandong and northwestern Shandong. Everyone is watching the battle between my sect and the merchants to see how it will end."

"Some ambitious people even spread rumors and fanned the flames, saying that this was a proxy fight between the Lujiang League and the Shangyang Academy, and that the ultimate goal was to stir up a cross-region war between western Shandong and northwestern Shandong, causing civil strife in Shandong!"

Lu Xiuming talked about the biggest thing happening now.

It goes without saying that those who spread the rumors are either local tyrants in western Shandong who are at odds with the Lujiang League, or competitors in northwestern Shandong who are displeased with the merchants.

After a long period of confrontation, the reasons why merchants insisted on settling in Chixiao City and Kuaihuo Lin and insisting on opposing the Xun Gu Sect were gradually revealed.

It turns out that this has to do with the development of the families in the world of cultivation.

As time goes by, some ordinary cultivation families gradually decline and are eliminated by the law of the jungle. Some of them prosper with talented people and gradually expand their scale.

When it comes to the level of merchants, they have already become a giant family. Basically, as long as there are no major problems and they can ensure that there is an ancestor in the late Jindan period in charge of each generation, they will most likely not decline.

But is there any family in this world that will always be prosperous?

Over time, the family became overpopulated, development stagnated, and factions became bloated, so it had to expand outward.

Moreover, due to the polarization of interest distribution, many illegitimate children, even if they are not bad in talent, cannot compete with the legitimate children because there is not enough cake to go around, and the conflicts will become increasingly serious.

The only way to divert class contradictions is to provoke disputes with foreign countries.

This logic applies in any world.

Without exception.

Therefore, the elders of the Shang family acquiesced and allowed the illegitimate faction of the family to expand outward and plunder resources and real estate.

The masters of Chixiao City and Happy Forest had just been killed by Lin Shan's side. Without a leader, it was a good opportunity for them to take advantage of the situation.

In addition, under the banner of revenge for the old city lord and resisting the erosion of Lujiang League and Xun Gu Sect, he could also gain acceptance from local forces.

Besides, they had made plans long ago. They had a family relationship with Chixiao City and had invested in infrastructure in Kuaihuo Lin, so they could move in legitimately.

The Xun Gu Sect seemed to be in the wrong.

Killing the leader first and then coming to seize the territory will naturally arouse hostility from the natives.

However, there are reasons. Just the fact that the Lujiang River Basin is being integrated and the pro-Lujiang Alliance forces are supported is nothing that others can say.

After so many years, both places have their own puppets who came to power and split the original Chixiao City and Happy Forest into two halves.

The Lord of Chixiao City personally seeks the ancient sect, the deputy Lord of the City personally seeks the businessmen, the head of Kuaihuo Lin personally seeks the businessmen, the second in command personally seeks the ancient sect, and they attack each other.

"The one that Hall Master Mu supported in Chixiao City was the eldest son of the former city lord of Chixiao City. Because he was dissatisfied with his father's preference for his younger brother, he was willing to be a pawn of our Xun Gu Sect. After he succeeded the city lord, he obeyed our orders."

"The person Shang Jia supported was the fourth son of the former Lord of Chixiao City, that is, the legitimate son of Madam Shang. He was supported by most of the old subordinates. After he succeeded as the deputy Lord, he opposed our Xun Gu Sect in every way."

"However, because my sect has the first-mover advantage there, and the strength of Master Mu has increased by leaps and bounds in recent years, he is enough to suppress all the villains, so we have a slight advantage in the situation in Chixiao City."

"We actually have the advantage?"

Lin Shan did not expect it to be such a pleasant surprise that his subordinates could actually stand on their own without the leader, and he could not help but feel deeply relieved.

Lu Xiuming and the senior executives present sighed repeatedly:

"Master Mu Yanmu has always been invincible in his level, and has overwhelmed the entire Chixiao City. Since he broke through the late stage of foundation building, he has defeated many foundation building cultivators sent by the merchants."

"Later, the Shang family had no choice but to invite a Shang family genius from the Shangyang Academy, a leader of the younger generation, but he was still severely injured on the spot by Master Mu!"

"It was said that it took less than three rounds of bloody battle between the merchant geniuses, and the people around them almost dropped their jaws!"

"Afterwards, there was not much reaction from the State of Lu, but there was a lot of discussion at the Shangyang Academy. It seemed that the genius from Shangyang was very famous in the northwest of Shandong, but he didn't expect to fail in the west of Shandong."

"The merchant was so angry that he couldn't win over the shady ones, so he hired a famous assassin from the underground world of cultivation to carry out a surprise attack and assassination!"

"Master Mu was alone, but he killed four assassins of the same rank who were on the blacklist. The last one was seriously injured and escaped, but died three days later."

At this point, everyone's faces turned strange.

The popularity of Xun Gu Sect in recent decades seemed to be brought by this kid Mu Yan. Everyone in Luxi knew that Xun Gu Sect had a genius who was invincible at the same level and could challenge higher-level opponents from time to time.

The key point is, why could such a talented person grow up so wildly without ever studying in an academy?
Lin Shan was not surprised.

He had long discovered that this kid was outrageous. When he first took him under his wing, he knew that this day would come sooner or later, so he is actually the calmest now.

If you can retreat and break through to the middle stage of the Golden Core, there is nothing wrong with others reaching the late stage of the Foundation Establishment.

Since Chixiao City has its men to protect it, there is no need to worry too much.

As the leader, I live for enjoyment. I must let my subordinates do the work. Otherwise, would I be feeding them for free?
"Happy Forest is just the opposite. We are at an overall disadvantage."

"As the sworn brother of Shi En Sanren, the current head lord has won over most of the old subordinates who were hostile to us and joined the merchants to fight against us."

"The second in command was a traitor to Happy Forest back then. He was found by Captain Gao and invited back to take over, so he is not very popular."

"Faced with the pressure and squeeze from the big boss and merchants, we have been retreating step by step over the years. A while ago, we couldn't hold on any longer, so we sent a group of reinforcements from within the church to help."

Gao's progress was not smooth because his strength was not as good as that abnormal boy Mu Yan. In addition, his men and team were all ragtag. He incorporated Lao Mo's loan sharking organization, and was notorious in Happy Forest and everyone wanted to kill him.

The merchants took advantage of the hatred of Shi Ensan and the conflict intensified, making it difficult for the Xun Gu Sect to survive there.

Lin Shan didn't say anything after hearing this, it wasn't a big deal.

In fact, he had been very optimistic about Gao Zuoda. He was bold and careful, efficient in his work, and although he was rather dark and despicable, he was very easy to use and suitable for doing dirty work for him.

It’s a pity that despite their talent and strength, it’s normal that they can’t stop the Shang family, which has the background of a giant.

How many foundation-building monks are there in the business?

How many foundation-building monks are there in Xun Gu Sect?
There is still a gap in the overall quality between the old forces and the emerging forces.

"Since the north has been going back and forth, with both advantages and disadvantages, let's just hold on and wait and see what happens."

"Tell me about the information about the Star Swallowing Gate in the Star Swallowing Mountains in the Demonic Chu State!"

"Especially, how far have they progressed in their search for Yuxing Zhenjun's secret treasure?"

Lin Shan has been paying attention to this and asked Li Yuanjie, who was in charge of this matter.

(End of this chapter)