Chapter 723: Setting Foot in Yongzhou
Yongzhou is the most northwestern state in the entire Jiuzhou. This state is quite barren, even worse than Jizhou.
Huan Yin didn't know much about the Shura Sect in Yongzhou. He only heard from his fellow disciples and elders that the Shura Sect was a local sect in Yongzhou, and it seemed to be the only sect in that barren land.
This sect gradually rose from the mortal world. Because the local resources were too scarce, the sect soon formed an extremely tyrannical and ruthless style after its rise. Whatever the sect wanted, it would be robbed. If it was not given, the sect's followers would kill without saying a word, and even mortals would not be treated as an exception.
Therefore, the Shura Sect was completely equivalent to a cult. The followers of the Shura Sect regarded human life as worthless, and their hands were all stained with blood. In their eyes, there were only resources and interests. In addition, even among their fellow disciples, killing each other often occurs. Even the Shura Sect itself condones killing among its disciples, believing that this is the best way to train its disciples.
Not only that, Huan Yin also heard that the skills practiced by the disciples of the Shura Sect are extremely sinister and vicious. Not only are their skills extremely mean, but they are also the kind of vicious methods that devour people's vitality or rob people's essence. Whether it is a mortal or a cultivator, if they die in their hands, there will be no good results. Those who are lucky may be able to enter reincarnation, but they will also suffer all kinds of torture before death. Those who are unlucky may not even be able to enter reincarnation.
Moreover, the skills practiced by the disciples of the Shura Sect seem to require living bodies to grow. Therefore, this makes them constantly look for goals to improve themselves, so that they are notorious even among mortals.
The reason why Huan Yin went to Yongzhou this time was because the spiritual stone veins of the Wuliangmen branch sect in Yongzhou were coveted by the Shura Sect.
For that mineral vein, the Wuliangmen branch and the Shura sect fought for several months. Due to the viciousness of the Shura sect, hundreds of Wuliangmen branch disciples died in the hands of the Shura sect! However, since the combat power of the Wuliangmen Yongzhou branch was also extraordinary, the Shura sect did not gain any benefits in this battle and also suffered heavy losses.
As for the final result of the battle, the two sides temporarily formed a stalemate, and neither could do anything to the other. And the ownership of that spiritual stone vein could not be completely settled for a while.
The ownership of the spiritual stone vein could not be determined, so neither side could mine the vein with peace of mind. Such a result is naturally something that no one wants to see. Therefore, in order to break this deadlock and let the ownership of the mineral vein have a final result, under desperation, the top leaders of the Wuliangmen branch finally negotiated with the top leaders of the Shura sect.
The result of the negotiation was that each side sent three young disciples to fight one-on-one. The side with more winners would obtain the mining rights of the mine, and the other side would not be allowed to interfere again.
There are many outstanding disciples in the Yongzhou branch of Wuliangmen. However, this time, in order to ensure that it can obtain the mining rights of the Lingshi mine, the branch still asked the Yangzhou sect for help, hoping that the Yangzhou sect could send a sufficiently outstanding young disciple to Yongzhou for support. Moreover, it seems that there is a female disciple in the Shura Sect who is extremely troublesome for the Yongzhou branch. The female disciple is so strong that no one in the branch can match her.
So, Huan Yin was sent to Yongzhou this time to help the branch seize the mining rights of the Lingshi mine. Of course, to be more precise, he was actually going to deal with the female disciple of the Shura Sect.
At this moment, Huan Yin had already taken to the clouds and flew with a master uncle named Liu on the way to Yongzhou.
This master uncle named Liu and Duan Yun are of the same generation in the sect. However, he entered the sect much earlier than Duan Yun, and has been practicing Taoism for more than 60 years. However, his talent for cultivation is really not very good, perhaps because he did not work hard enough, so his current cultivation is still far behind Huan Yin, and he has only reached the spiritual wisdom realm.
The reason why this uncle surnamed Liu wanted to go to the Yongzhou branch with Huan Yin was because too many disciples of the Yongzhou branch died in the battle. As a cultivator whose cultivation value was no longer great for the Yangzhou sect, he was arranged to go to the Yongzhou branch to manage some affairs.
The uncle surnamed Liu was quite talkative, so he was the first to open his chatterbox while the two were flying.
"Huan Yin, the one-on-one battle will be scheduled in five days. Counting the time we will spend on the journey in the past two days, you only have three days to prepare in Yongzhou. In these three days, you must adjust your state, not to embarrass the sect, and not to disgrace your title as the first person in the younger generation of Yangzhou's immortal cultivation world." Uncle Liu twisted his beard and said.
Nodding with a smile, Huan Yin responded: "Uncle is right, I will definitely deal with it seriously. Moreover, I am not such an easy person to deal with. I think a female disciple of that small evil cult should not pose any threat to me."
Now Huan Yin also speaks with a bit of arrogance. However, this is normal, because he has no rivals among the younger generation of Yangzhou's immortal cultivation, and he can even suppress some of his predecessors. So, what can a small evil cult in Yongzhou produce that he can see?
However, Uncle Liu shook his head and said: "You still shouldn't be careless. I heard that the little demon girl from the Shura Sect seems to be very evil. At least a dozen of our branch disciples died at her hands. . Moreover, this woman seems to have a beautiful face and is good at evil spirits, so it is almost impossible for male monks to resist her. "
"News came from the branch sect a few days ago, saying that a strong man in the late Tianchong stage was killed in public by the little demon girl, and he died miserably."
After listening to Uncle Liu's words, Huan Yin's heart suddenly tightened, and he thought: "In the late Tianchong period, isn't that someone who is only one level lower than me in cultivation? If that witch can really kill the late Tianchong monks, it would be really bad. deal with it.”
Secretly remembering what Master Liu said, Huan Yin did not want to continue to struggle with this issue. He believes in his own strength, and he also believes that evil will never defeat good.
So, after Huan Yin was silent for a while, he asked a question that had always been in his mind: "Uncle Liu, hasn't our Yongzhou sect been established only a dozen years ago? Why do we already have the spirit stone vein? That one Did we really occupy the mine first?"
Uncle Liu smiled and said: "I'm not sure about this. However, since the branch master brothers say yes, then that's it. What's more, even if the mine belongs to the Shura Sect, we won't be able to seize it. Nothing is wrong. After all, we are the righteous people and they are the evil spirits.”
"If a large-scale cultivation resource like the spirit stone vein is controlled by evil spirits, it will be equivalent to encouraging evil spirits. But if it is controlled by my righteous way, it will be tantamount to adding light. When I say this, do you understand?"
Huan Yin opened his mouth, but in the end he did not continue to ask, and just nodded again.
Two days later, Huan Yin finally flew into Yongzhou with Uncle Liu. Not long after they entered this place, they were shocked by the barrenness here.
This is not a desert or a snowfield. However, the ground here has almost completely dried up, and the cracks are on the ground, which looks shocking.
In such a land, signs of life are extremely rare. Apart from occasionally seeing one or two tenacious grasses or small trees standing alone on the dry ground, Huan Yin could hardly find anything else. Even small mosquitoes are very few.
Huan Yin subconsciously felt the spiritual energy around him, and to his surprise, the spiritual energy here was pitifully thin. Wanting to practice here and become a strong person is simply a fool's errand.
"Is there really a spirit stone vein in a place like this?" Huan Yin smiled bitterly and shook his head. He felt that there was no life in the air here. How could a spirit stone vein be formed in a place like this?
"No wonder a mine vein can trigger such an endless battle. It is extremely difficult to have a mine vein in a place like this, so who wouldn't be surprised?" Uncle Liu's words came from Huan Yin's side. And his words deeply touched Huan Yin's heart.
"Let's go, the branch sect is in the south." After a brief pause, and after figuring out the direction, Uncle Liu took Huan Yin and flew south again.