Chapter 544: Lure the Snake Out of the Hole
The Sentinel Flying Sword broke through the air at high speed and was stopped by the palace. The guard took action and captured it.
“This is the Shaojin Flying Sword that comes from my Lingxia Mountain Gate.”
Ye Zang’s face darkened slightly, he glanced at the contents of the Shaojin Flying Sword, and hesitated. .
"Master Ye Cave, what happened at the mountain gate?" Ao Shang asked attentively when he saw Ye Zang's expression.
"No need to worry about small things." Ye Zang waved his hands and smiled, tilting his head and saying.
"If there is anyone I can help with in the future, Cave Master Ye just ask." Ao Chang narrowed his eyes and said.
"Thank you all for your love. Ye Han bids you farewell." Ye Zang bowed his hands and saluted, then flew away in the air.
Ao Shang looked at Ye Zang who was flying away, hesitating for a few seconds, and then summoned his bodyguards. These bodyguards were members of the common people of Ao Shang's lineage. They seemed ordinary. Unsurprisingly, Taoism also has the realm of Nascent Soul.
“Go and investigate the foundation of Tianheng Mountain.”
"Du Tong, he is just the master of Yilingshan Cave. Do you need to be so concerned?" the guard couldn't help but ask.
"This person has a clean foundation and extraordinary potential. He is new here and deserves a close friendship." Ao Shang said in a deep voice.
"My subordinates take orders."
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Ye Zang drove the mysterious light all the way and flew away through the air.
After half a day, we returned to Tianheng Mountain. Lingxia Cave is now flourishing. In the hundreds of cave palaces at the foot of the mountain, the outer disciples are concentrating on cultivating Taoism.
Hearing the commotion outside, they all came out to take a look.
But only a streak of bloody light could be seen, like lightning, going straight to the top of Lingxia Peak.
As soon as Ye Zang stepped into the ancient monastery, Han Boxong and three others came in a hurry, holding a gold slip with the seal of the imperial dynasty on it.
"Master Master, you are back!" Miao Yi said.
"What's the matter, calling me in such a hurry?" Ye Zang asked, taking a sip of spiritual tea. In the sentry golden flying sword, Han Boji and the others only said that the number of tributes had changed, without any detailed explanation.
"Junior brother, just take a look." Han Boxong's face sank slightly and he presented the gold slip.
Seeing that the three people looked very solemn, Ye Zang realized that the matter was not simple. He took the gold slip and did not look through it immediately. Instead, he asked: "Who gave this golden slip a spiritual sticker?" "Come here?"
"It was sent by Wang Xun Angel's Taoist boy, saying it was the tribute amount for this year's autumn." Gong Yuliang frowned slightly.
Hearing the words, Ye Zang opened the gold slip and took a look.
His expression changed, and his face immediately darkened.
The number of tributes to be paid this year is 200,000 high-grade spiritual stones, 300 thousand-year-old spiritual bamboos, and 50 thousand-year-old heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
"This number is wrong. There are only one or two hundred people in Lingxia Peak, including the outer disciples. Why do we have to pay so much tribute?" Ye Zang threw the spiritual stickers on the table. road. According to the tribute rules of the Fengtian Dynasty, Lingxia Cave Heaven only needs to hand over 5,000 spirit stones to break the sky this year.
"The Taoist boy said it was an old account from when the master opened the mountain gate, and now it has to be settled together..." Han Boxong said with an embarrassed expression.
“An old account from ten thousand years ago, haha.” Ye Zang sneered and said, “Someone must be causing trouble in this matter.”
Not counting the old scores after so many years, Lingxia Cave Heaven has just begun to show signs of rising and prospering, and this happened.
The things turned in this time were not a small amount. Ye Zang did not bring many spiritual pearls and spiritual stones with him when he came to Zhongzhou. Basically, all the previous expenses were spent on repairing the mountain gate. Moreover, Lingxia has declined over the years, and the surrounding spiritual land resources have been seized by others long ago. Now that they have just been recovered, they have not accumulated much wealth at all.
"Junior brother, do you doubt Luo Yanjun?" Miao Yi asked.
"Although Sikong Xunangang is Na Luo Yanjun's brother-in-law, he is meticulous and extremely upright in his actions. There is no way that this tribute matter will open up an old score from ten thousand years ago." Han Boxong frowned and said: "What's more, This year it was the patrolling angel who came to collect the tribute. Luo Yanjun had little contact with this patrolling angel on weekdays. "
"There is the patrolling angel's seal on it. The Wang patrolling angel must have seen this gold slip. , since he acquiesced to this matter, the tribute paid this time cannot be less, alas!" Gong Yuliang sighed.
The imperial seal has fallen, and no matter what, so much tribute has been paid.
It is a critical moment for Lingxia's development. To ask Lingxia Dongtian to devote so many resources is obviously to contain Lingxia. I don't know who is behind it.
“According to what the three senior brothers have seen, how should we deal with this matter?” Ye Zang looked up.
“In the west of Central Continent, you can’t offend anyone by offending the patrolling angels, and you can’t default on paying tribute. Now in this situation, we have to grit our teeth and sell the spiritual land. Otherwise, when autumn comes, the tribute will not be collected. If Immortal City is blamed, the consequences will be disastrous..." Han Boxong lowered his head slightly and said with a frown. The spiritual land had just been taken back from Taixu Cave Heaven, and it was still warm in his hands. When Han Boxong suggested it, his heart was bleeding.
"A few years ago, there was a sect in the west that failed to pay the tribute in full. The Wang Xun Angel overthrew the mountain gate of the sect in anger." Gong Yu said with a palpitating conscience. With the ability of Wang Xun Angel, if he gets angry, Lingxia Cave Heaven will never be able to withstand his anger.
"Wang Quan took up the position of Patrolling Angel five hundred years ago. At that time, he had already achieved the third level of Nascent Soul. In these years, he suppressed secret places in the west and collected tributes in order to accumulate military achievements and exchange for cooperation with the dynasty. In terms of Tao's out-of-body Taoism, his strength ranks among the top three among the seven patrol angels in the west," Miao Yi also said.
In Zhongzhou, whether it is forming a pill or the soul leaving the body and traveling in the secret realm of Taixu, it must be checked and balanced by the imperial dynasty.
Therefore, after many talented casual cultivators become Taoists, they will choose to work in the dynasty, accumulate military exploits, and plan a first-line path for themselves.
Ye Zang listened to the three people talking and was thinking about countermeasures.
Summer has just entered, and autumn is still three months away. The spiritual veins under Lingxia Peak can produce at most a thousand high-grade spiritual stones. Counting the resources of the surrounding spiritual lands, they can't even survive. Ten thousand.
Ye Zang has a lot of treasures on his body, and he can exchange for resources by going to the Yibao Society. He can take advantage of this loss.
But those who are secretly obstructing must be found out and pay the price with blood.
The patrolling angel Wang only cares about the amount of tribute. The more he collects, the more battle achievements he will accumulate, but he cannot take advantage of it. The bad debts left by Chen Baishan at the beginning are justified. As for the life and death of Lingxia Cave, he didn't care.
"Is there any clue about the murder of Senior Brother Miao Yi's direct disciple?" Ye Zang asked. He heard about this when he first came to Lingxia. At that time, Miao Yi's direct disciple was sent to the fairy city to do business. He was ambushed and killed on the way. The murderer was extremely arrogant and put the head of Miao Yi's disciple in a rosewood box. , sent to the gate of Lingxia Mountain.
During these days, Miao Yi was constantly running around for this matter.
Listening to Ye Zang mentioning this matter, Miao Yi also sighed and slowly said: "My disciple's body was found a hundred miles away from Lingxia Peak. The Taoism used in it is extremely weird. It was like the sect of Tianheng Mountain. "
The head was cut off and brought to Lingxia Peak, and the other bodies were found in the barren land far away from Lingxia Peak. At that time, the relationship between Taixu and Lingxia was tense, and Miao Yi thought it was Taixu Dongtian who did it. However, after carefully checking the Taoist aura remaining on the corpse, he found that it was not Taixu's Nascent Soul Master who did it.
The person who did this was obviously deliberately retaliating and killing for no reason.
"In the past, when the master was still there, he dominated Tianheng Mountain and drove away many small sects in Lingshan. He made many enemies. The death of my nephew may be related to the remnants of those sects." Han Boyong condensed the spirit. .
During the years when Lingxia Cave Heaven was in decline, the descendants of the sect who were driven out of Tianheng Mountain by Chen Baishan in the past caused a lot of trouble for Han Boxong and the others.
"Where is the body of Master Gao's nephew? Can you let me have a look?" Ye Zang asked at this moment.
Miao Yi said with a deep expression, and immediately offered up a crystal coffin.
The body of his direct disciple Gao Yuan is being sealed inside, with his head chopped off and surrounded by a ghostly aura. This is the only clue. Miao Yi is well preserved.
The corpse has the Taoist aura left by the perpetrator.
Ye Zang's Dharma Eye penetrated through and observed it carefully.
"The murderer of the Taoist attack was Yuanying Taoist." Ye Zang took a closer look and noticed a few wisps of Yuanying's magic power.
In Tianheng Mountain, most of the Yuanying Taoists are the headmasters and supreme elders of the same sect. Those people are the only ones in total. If not them, they can only be monks from outside.
"During these days, have other Nascent Soul Taoists entered Tianheng Mountain?" Ye Zang asked.
“I’ve never noticed it.” Han Boxong frowned and shook his head.
"That person acted like this and killed the most talented disciple of my Lingxia Peak. He was not the Yuanying Taoist of Tianheng Mountain. It can be inferred that he must have had some kind of life-and-death grudge against me, Lingxia. According to what Senior Brother Han just said, it was probably These are the descendants of those sects that Master expelled back then," Miao Yi deduced.
"Since there is a first time, there must be a second time. Let the disciples be more careful and stop walking outside before the murderer is found." Ye Zang's eyes sank slightly and he said thoughtfully: "We have to find a way to lure the snake out of the hole and lead the man out."
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Time passed quietly. In the blink of an eye, two months passed, and the weather gradually became cooler.
As autumn approaches, the caves of various sects in Tianheng Mountain have successively received tribute gold slips from the patrol angels. They are all preparing spiritual materials and spiritual objects and do not dare to neglect.
The mountain gate of Taixu Cave, inside the palace cave.
Luo Yanjun was sitting on the futon with his eyes closed and meditating. The rich spiritual incense was burning on the table, attracting the spiritual energy from all directions.
Since his defeat to Ye Zang that day, he has become more diligent in practice, studying Taoism and magical powers all day long, in order to one day be able to disgrace the Snow Jade Dragon Tiangu.
Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried steps outside. Lu Laodao was wearing a green robe and making hunting sounds. His eye sockets were sunken and his expression was extremely gloomy. But at this moment, he was smiling, as if he knew something extremely Happy things make the whole person radiant.
"Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Luo, God help me!" Lu Laodao strode away and laughed sternly.
Luo Yanjun squinted his eyes, raised his brows, and asked attentively: "Fellow Daoist Lu, why are you so happy? Could it be that there has been another breakthrough in Taoism?"
"That's not the case. What happened on Lingxia Peak a few days ago? "Have you heard about this, fellow Taoist?" Lu Laodao said with a sinister smile.
Luo Yanjun's eyes darkened, he thought for a moment, and said: "Yesterday, the clouds and mists dispersed. There was thunder roaring in the sky at Lingxia Peak, but what happened in the Nine Heavens? Or is there any rare talent left behind?"
"No, just listen to me slowly!" Lu Laodao fluffed up his sleeves, took a big sip of the spiritual tea, and said with a smile. : "I have been dormant around Lingxia Cave these days, observing Lingxia's mountain-protecting formation. Unexpectedly, I have an unexpected harvest. Isn't the master of Ye Cave a young infant? Yesterday, he was crossing the lotus of the fourth level. "Jie, the thunder that was triggered was so overbearing that it split the top of the mountain a hundred feet apart, sending dust and gravel flying everywhere!"
"Oh?" Luo Yanjun stood up with his eyes narrowed.
"I have a hidden clue buried in Lingxia Cave. He is a disciple of the inner sect. According to what he said, Cave Master Ye could not survive the Lotus Tribulation by force. Instead, his family suffered heavy injuries. He was preparing to go to the Yibao Society in the Immortal City to exchange for the healing treasure. !” Fellow Daoist Lu smiled sadly, his eyes darkening, and said: “It’s a shame that he didn’t successfully survive the tribulation, otherwise his magical power would have greatly increased, making it even more difficult to deal with in the future.”
“This is serious! ?" Luo Yanjun's eyes flickered, as if he was thinking about something.
"How can it be false? All the disciples of the inner sect of Lingxia saw it. The monastery of Master Ye Cave was split into pieces, his whole body was bleeding from all his orifices, and even the eight divine veins were torn apart. , the Dao body was severely injured. Haha... Sure enough, he is still too young. How can he be in a hurry to warm up the Nascent Soul? The Ye Cave Master probably wanted to improve his Dao practice as soon as possible, so something went wrong during the Lotus Tribulation of the fourth level."
When Luo Yanjun heard Mr. Lu talking excitedly, he remained silent in his heart and walked around the hall with his hands behind his back.
"Fellow Daoist Luo, this is a rare opportunity. We might as well work together to ambush and get rid of Ye Han on their way to the fairy city. After that, in autumn, Lingxia Cave Heaven will be collected by tribute again. Shanmen will be completely lonely and unable to rise!" Lu Laodao said bluntly, his green robe swaying.
"Let me think for a moment." Luo Yanjun thought cautiously.
"What else is there to think about? Bring the other two Nascent Soul Taoists in the cave with you. Plus me, there are four Yuanying Taoists in total. Ye Han is only a young infant. He was still severely injured, this ambush will definitely kill him," Lu Laodao said with a sonorous tone.
This time he returns to Tianheng Mountain to avenge his family’s destruction in the past. He has also coveted the gate of Lingxia Mountain for a long time. After this, he will seize the gate of Lingxia Mountain and rebuild the gate. Reproduce the glorious appearance of Zixiao Sect.
"When will Ye Han leave for Fairy City?" Luo Yanjun asked.
"It is estimated that in the next few days, his divine veins have been severely damaged, and he must take the healing treasure as soon as possible, otherwise the foundation will be damaged. Han Boxong and Miao Yi will escort him there, these two old guys are angry Blood decay is nothing to be afraid of." Lu Laodao said with murderous intent in his eyes.
After a few breaths of silence, Luo Yanjun immediately waved his hand decisively and called his eldest disciple Xu Longchang over.
"Master, what are your instructions?" Xu Longchang cupped his hands and said.
"Call the two elders here, I have something important to discuss." Luo Yanjun said in a deep voice.
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(End of this chapter)