Chapter 23 The Secret of the Year

On Huanlingzong's side, everything has already been prepared, and everything is ready. The only thing they owe is Dongfeng, and they are waiting for Lu Qingshan.

On Lu Qingshan's side, he has never been a procrastination person.

So after meeting Ximen Lie and understanding the specific situation, the two hit it off and left Huanlingzong quietly that day.

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Rumble!

On the Kawakami Plateau, the mighty Zangbo River flows through, stirring up layers of powerful waves.

The thunderous roar of the river rang continuously in Huanlingzong, but under the cover of the roar of beasts one after another, it seemed a bit inconspicuous.

And when Lu Qingshan boarded the Huanlingzong, south of the mighty Zangbo River, there was a pair of huge and narrow eyes that slowly opened in the abyss on the south bank, looking at Feihu Peak on the other side of the river from afar. .

The eyes contain the sun and the moon, as deep as an abyss.

"I saw you again."

"I have saved you once before, this is your luck."

"The heaven and the earth all work together, but the hero is not free..."

"It is impossible for me to save you twice, even if you are mine..."

"But it's okay, just to verify whether you are a person of great luck in this world, I hope you won't let me down..."

After a long time, such whispers came from the abyss.

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Lu Qingshan first approached the Zhonglingyu Zhishoulou.

Although after the last action against the underworld came to an end, he and Tantai Qingrun temporarily "parted ways".

But considering the possible follow-up situation in the future, Tantai Qingrun also gave Lu Qingshan a token very thoughtfully.

With the token, even if she didn't come forward in person, Lu Qingshan can face the upper management of Zhishou Building directly, saving him a lot of trouble.

After seeing the senior management of the Zhishou Building, relying on his reputation and tokens, and after a brief communication, Lu Qingshan was able to follow the Zhishou Building's large troops to Hanzhou.

As for Ximen Lie,

He pretended to be an ordinary Zhishoulou monk and hid in the action team to protect Lu Qingshan's security.

Hanzhou is a small state located in the northern part of Zhonglingyu.

As the name suggests, this is a cold and windy state, and the icy air seems to be squeezed into people's lungs, making people chill all over.

There are snow-capped mountains and snowy wastelands that stretch for nearly ten thousand miles and are frozen all year round, as well as countless ferocious ice field monsters. It is a place rarely visited by people.

Also because of the inaccessibility of people, the resources here have not been extensively exploited and are extremely rich.

Back then, Da Xia valued the rich spiritual materials on the snowfields, so he established the Human Race State City here.

Anping Mansion is a very inconspicuous mansion in Hanzhou.

The reason why it is called Anping does not have much deep meaning.

It's just that when Hanzhou was first established, not many people were willing to come to such a dangerous and barren place to "open up wasteland and help the poor".

Marquis Anping was one of the few Great Xia monks who took the initiative to stand up and build Hanzhou.

After hundreds of years of painstaking efforts, he finally allowed the human race in the territory of the prefecture to gain a firm foothold in this dangerous place.

Later, in order to commemorate his great achievements, the human race in the Anping prefecture named the prefecture after the Marquis of Anping.

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Three days later, the large force arrived at the designated area.

The monk Zhishoulou began to secretly set up a siege net.

Even if the experience in the previous life is not counted, Lu Qingshan belongs to the group of people who are extremely experienced in dealing with the branch halls of the underworld.

It's just that when he really arrived here, he couldn't help feeling a little surprised in his heart.

Because, the underworld branch hall here is actually hidden in a desolate and inhabited snow peak.

"The location of the underworld branch hall here is so secret, how did your lord find out?" Lu Qingshan couldn't help asking Ximen Lie.

He couldn't help asking the question because of surprise, but the main reason was that the spiritual domain and the underworld were so well hidden in the previous life that no leaks had been discovered.

But this time, Huanlingzong was able to change the original historical trajectory and made new discoveries, which made him ponder all the way.

Of course, in Lu Qingshan's view, this must be part of the butterfly effect.

This means that under his intervention, the development of the plot is going in a good direction.

However, what he was curious about was, which part of the change made Huanlingzong have such a breakthrough? Also, is this kind of breakthrough traceable and can it be replicated?

Hearing this question, Ximen Lie was silent for a while for no reason, his expression changed slightly, and finally he said slowly: "As one of the participants, you should be very clear about the details of what happened in the Seven Realms Discourse. situation?"

"Your Excellency means..." Lu Qing paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "The matter of your sect's Chang Geng being in charge?"

Back then, Great Xia joined forces with the Seven Dao Sects and the top 100 top sects to hold a discussion on the Dao in the Seven Realms, in order to select talented monks among the human race, and what they did was to find the Chollima.

In order to interfere with the smooth holding of the discussion on the Seven Realms, the Underworld sent people to make trouble secretly, but in the end they fell into the hands of the Master of Heavenly Secrets and suffered heavy losses.

Even, a very high-status traitor of the human race was caught—the head teacher of Huanlingzong Changgeng.

Ximen Lie nodded silently.

"The exposure of the location of the underworld branch here is related to Chang Geng's head teacher?" Lu Qingshan quickly understood the implication of Ximen Lie's words.

"Indeed." Ximen Lie said.

"It's just," Lu Qingshan quickly discovered the irrationality, "Hasn't it been more than three years since Chang Geng's identity as the head teacher was exposed? Why did it take until now..."

If he remembered correctly, Chang Geng was taken to the Huanling Sect by the master of Tianji Temple after his identity was revealed.

Later, he also asked Master about the follow-up treatment of Huan Lingzong.

The news I got was that on the day when Chang Geng, the head of Tianji Temple, led Chang Geng to ascend the Huanlingzong, the Huanlingzong didn't have the slightest prejudice that family ugliness should not be publicized, and chose to kill relatives righteously.

In front of most of the high-ranking monks in the sect and thousands of disciples in the inner sect, they executed the punishment publicly and personally executed the head teacher Chang Geng.

The master of Tianji watched the punishment in person.

Under the eyes of this spiritual cultivator who has reached the sky, there is absolutely no possibility of hiding anything.

It can be said that Chang Geng, the head teacher of the Huanling Sect, was extremely dead at that time.

Then how come after three years, Chang Geng's matter of being in charge of teaching has turned over a new chapter?

"Not all monks who have colluded with the underworld must be from the underworld." Seeing Lu Qingshan's doubts, Ximen Lie patiently explained: "There are also some monks who are only cooperative with the underworld.

They disclosed some "small" information to the underworld government that they thought would have little impact, or helped the underworld government do some "small" things in exchange for huge benefits. "

Speaking of this, Ximen Lie's voice became more and more serious, "Headmaster Chang Geng belongs to this kind of person, he is not a monk of the underworld, and has no direct affiliation with the monks of the underworld.

However, he revealed a lot of information to the underworld and did some things for the underworld, in exchange for a lot of resources, so that his cultivation continued to improve, and finally he even ranked among the top three teachers in this sect.

According to him, he and the underworld government are just a so-called cooperative relationship.

But in our opinion, his behavior is even more hateful than the underworld monk. "

"Because, the underworld cultivator is at least completely bad, knowing that he is not a good guy.

However, people like Chang Geng, the head teacher, acted and stood up, deceiving himself on the surface, he was still a monk of the human race, but he caused far more harm to the human race behind the scenes than the former type of person. "

When it comes to the death of the sect, this Huanling sect master seems not to shy away from it at all, he is extremely open-minded, and even wantonly criticizes the former sect head teacher.

This made Lu Qingshan take another look at Huanlingzong—it is not terrible to make mistakes, but the terrible thing is not to face up to mistakes, but to choose to deceive oneself and others, to hide one's ears and steal one's bell.

Since you have the courage to face your mistakes, you can learn from your mistakes and become stronger after the pain.

This may also be one of the reasons why Huanlingzong has become more and more powerful in the past 20,000 years.

"At that time, my sect chose to execute him on the spot in order to abolish the sect's style and imitate others, so as to show my zero tolerance attitude towards collusion with the demons."

Ximen Lie continued: "From now on, this matter is not over yet, because whoever makes a move must have the first and last residues.

Therefore, we carefully reviewed Chang Gung's life as the head teacher, and examined the clues in it.

After the inspection, we found that Chang Geng, the head teacher, came to Anping Mansion in Hanzhou because of the mission of the sect, and after returning to the sect, he began to rise suddenly.

Obviously, there must be deceit in it.

Following this line, we sent people to follow the missions he performed back then in Anping Mansion, and finally found the location of the underworld branch hall. "

"Of course, the sub-district of the underworld here can only be said to be the first underworld to come into contact with Chang Geng's head teacher.

After that, he must have come into contact with the real high-level people in the underworld.

After all, it is not something a sub-district of the underworld at the level of a small prefecture can do to make him an existence at the level of the sect's head teacher.

It's a pity that the clues after this are all in a mess, making it impossible for us to start.

Although our Huanlingzong has never given up on the investigation, we also know that there is a high probability that there will be no new discoveries in a short period of time.

Then, we are going to change our thinking, and want to see if we can use this sub-district of the underworld as a breakthrough..."

I see……

After understanding the specific situation, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

From this point of view, it should be because King Xishu found Shura in Lun Dao City, which led to the exposure of Master Chang Gung and a series of chain reactions that followed.

In other words, as far as the battle between humans and demons is concerned, the development trend of the plot is more like a snowball - one good thing leads to another good thing, and then slowly rolls up, rather than the repeated sideways jump that he has been worried about - A good thing that didn't happen leads to another bad thing that didn't exist.

This undoubtedly gave him a little more confidence.

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Here, the encirclement circle of Zhishoulou monks has been completely arranged quietly.

"Action!" After confirming that there was no doubt, the leading monk on this trip shouted.

In the next moment, the spiritual light flourished, centering on the Xuefeng where the underworld was located, a layer of rippling spiritual light turned into an enchantment, like a jade bowl turned upside down, covering the entire Xuefeng within it, forming a closed space.

This is the air-forbidden barrier, and its function is to isolate the space transmission nodes within the barrier.

This enchantment is specially designed for the teleportation circle, because only the space teleportation power of the teleportation circle is based on nodes for teleportation.

——This snow peak has always been deserted. If people come in and out all the year round, it will be extremely easy to be exposed. Therefore, there must be a space teleportation circle in the underworld branch hall for them to pass through.

This is Zhishoulou's judgment.

Immediately afterwards, a layer of dark light curtain appeared almost at the same time as the air-forbidden enchantment, covering the previous layer of enchantment, and the two overlapped.

There are three Zhishoulou monks sitting in it, maintaining the existence of this dark light curtain.

The night division enchantment, a large-scale group suppresses the enchantment.

Once the two barriers were formed, other Zhishoulou monks including Lu Qingshan rushed into the barriers.

They are going to cooperate with the suppressing power of the barrier to search and kill the underworld monks hidden in the hinterland of Xuefeng Mountain.

But the time to count interest.

The bombardment sounded one after another, and the figures of the underworld monks rushed out from the mountainside, looking at Lu Qingshan and others who suddenly launched an attack, with a look of astonishment on their faces.

The monk Zhishoulou didn't give too many opportunities for the monks of the underworld to react, and killed the group of monks from the underworld who were caught off guard with a murderous intent.

The situation is one-sided.

After dozens of breaths, more than 30% of the monks in the underworld were killed or injured.

Rumble!

At this moment, a terrifying sound of shaking the mountains suddenly came.

Before making a move, Lu Qingshan subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound source.

It was only seen that in the middle of the mountain, there were five hundred-zhang-long snake necks sticking out.

Above the snake's neck, there are five huge snake heads in an inverted triangle shape. The heads are as big as towers, and the eyes are like millstones. It looks extremely ferocious.

These five snake necks are intertwined and dancing.

There is black snake saliva dripping continuously from the snake's mouth, and it has an incomparably stench. Once it falls on the ground, it will make a sizzling sound, corroding a huge hole.

This is a monster raised by monks in the underworld. It is a mutant beast with a fifth-grade perfect state, and it is extremely powerful.

If it is allowed to rage for a while, it will inevitably cause a lot of casualties to the monks in this building.

The cultivator who led the trip had been controlling the field all the time. Seeing this scene now, he quickly made this judgment in his heart.

With a thought in his mind, he pinched the magic formula in his hand, condensed his fingerprints, and was about to use the spell to exterminate this monster.

But just when his spell was about to be fired, a sense of destruction that was so cold that it made him feel a little horrified suddenly came out, and it came very quickly.

The true meaning of destruction, the original true meaning of attacking the end.

With a flash of sword light, one step faster than his magic spell, even two steps is not too much, and shot at the snake demon beast that had not yet fully protruded.

The sword light was as sharp as chopping melons and vegetables. It penetrated directly from one of the snake heads of the snake monster, and then disappeared into it.

After a short period of calm, thousands of sword lights and sword qi exploded from the five snake necks of the five snake heads of the snake demon beast.

The powerful physical body of the monster and the strangeness of the demon race did not have any effect before this sword that contained the true meaning of destruction.

Immediately, the huge body of the snake demon beast disintegrated into countless tiny pieces of flesh and blood, which exploded in the air, forming a mass of flesh and blood fireworks, which was extremely spectacular.

What a ruthless sword!

What a fast sword repairer!

Zhishoulou's cultivator of Huashen silently put away the spell he had just activated halfway, feeling a little complicated.