Urban Sims

Chapter 453 The Anxiety of Chixing Mountain
Various emerging industries in Wancheng Country are developing rapidly.

However, Chixing Mountain in Wancheng Kingdom has been shrouded in cloud all day long these years.

Weakened day by day.

Every day more panic.

In the entire Chixing Mountain, no one is optimistic about the future.

There is only endless pessimism.

and growing despair.

Among them, Hongyan Daozu, the suzerain of Chixing Mountain, is even more frowning all day long. He often stands on the top of the main peak of Chixing Mountain, looking at the fireworks in the world through layers of mist, in a daze.

He muttered to himself: "Mortal, when did you surpass the head of the immortal?"

"I think how prosperous Chixing Mountain was back then. There were nearly a hundred immortals and nearly ten thousand disciples. Feiyun Mountain was suppressed by me for thousands of years. Guanglei Mountain did not dare to provoke me. The mortal city waited respectfully and competed to make offerings."

What about now?
"Hey~!"

Daoist Hongyan sighed, and the white hair fluttered around his ears, as if he had aged several decades.

There is no hope in sight.

This huge Chixing Mountain will soon fall apart and perish.

Why do you say that?
How could Chixing Mountain, which occupies the core section of the large spiritual vein, be destroyed?
But it is true.

In less than a hundred years, Chixing Mountain will definitely perish!

The reason, of course, is because of the evil Wancheng Kingdom!
Wan Cheng vigorously promotes education for all in the country, and the cultivation academy he founded almost started from the mother's womb, robbing all the source of disciples from Chixing Mountain.

Especially for those disciples with excellent aptitude and outstanding talents, various cities used to compete to send them to Chixing Mountain, and Chixing Mountain had to pick and choose.

What now?
Not to mention excellent aptitude, but a student with an average aptitude. If Chi Xingshan wanted to recruit him, he had to spend a lot of effort and use various means to convince the other party's parents.

The disciple elder had to be recruited to go down the mountain in person, taking the disciple up the mountain at the risk of being arrested by the Special Security Bureau.

In the past few years, six elders recruiting apprentices have been arrested and imprisoned for the crime of "child trafficking", and they have not been released so far.

He went to Guanglei Mountain to recruit apprentices, and after being discovered by Guanglei Mountain, the other party went directly to Chixing Mountain and forced the dozen or so apprentices back.

After exhausting all means, in the past few years, the number of new disciples in Chixing Mountain has been less than 100.

The number of disciples who died due to various conflicts and dangerous tasks exceeded 100.

In other words, in terms of talents, Chi Xingshan has been unable to make ends meet.

A more serious problem than the shortage of talents is the economic income of Chixing Mountain, which has fallen like an avalanche in the past few years.

The main reason is that the "supplication" from the mortal city has decreased dramatically.

In the past, Chixing Mountain received so much offerings from various cities every year that it was too much to use up. The food received was too much to eat, and a good part had to be thrown away. The property received was piled up like a mountain, and there was no warehouse to store it. Precious raw materials for refining equipment, medicinal herbs for alchemy...there are too many to count.

What now?
There are more than 60 cities in Chixing Mountain, but only five are still being offered for offerings... five of the twelve core cities around Chixing Mountain.

Not to mention the small amount of offerings, the value has also shrunk severely, and you can’t express your dissatisfaction. That will anger the only five remaining cities, and they will not offer offerings in the future.

This is also related to the battle with Feiyun Mountain many years ago. Chixing Mountain used mortal monks in twelve cities as cannon fodder, and more than 10 out of 9 people died in the battle. Filial piety, every family cried bitterly.

But Chixingshan didn’t give some property compensation and verbal comfort. The few thousand people who survived were only dismissed as outer disciples. All kinds of bullying by disciples.

In the end, almost all of these thousands of people went down the mountain and never waited on them again.

The people of Chixing Mountain lost their hearts, and the relationship with the twelve cities plummeted, which can be said to have lost the basic foundation.

There is a saying that "only when you lose it will you know how to cherish it". This is exactly the case in Chixingshan. After more than 99% of mortals stopped making offerings, in terms of economy, Chixingshan was seriously unable to make ends meet, and began to gnaw on the money accumulated in the past.

And Wancheng Kingdom, after products such as "Royal Sky Suit" and "Shenbing Three-piece Set" appeared, there was also a "buying wave" on Chixing Mountain. A large number of disciples had no intention of practicing Money, and then through various channels, to buy these sets.

Chixingshan's expenses skyrocketed.

Daozu Hongyan took strict measures to prohibit the purchase of those "mortal things". When he found one, he confiscated one, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among his disciples. ... even the immortals can't catch up.

Within half a month, more than 100 people defected successively.

Daozu Hongyan had no choice but to abolish the ban and return the confiscated magic weapon sets.

He even turned a blind eye to the behavior of many disciples sneaking down the mountain to earn money and work in psionic factories run by mortals, without restricting them.

Because these disciples earn their own money to buy those expensive magic weapon sets, it is better than they organize a group to steal the property in the sect's warehouse, and then sell it in the mortal world for consumption.

After all, the sect wouldn't pay these disciples to practice on the mountain.

Most of the disciples are penniless.

And seeing the hustle and bustle of the mortal world, those disciples gradually became bored with the boring cultivation, and they were full of interest in the new things that kept popping up in the mortal world, and their way of thinking was gradually influenced and even assimilated by mortals. , resulting in a strong goodwill.

Over time, the disciples downplayed their hatred for the Wancheng Kingdom, lost confidence in the sect, became confused, and wavered in their positions. Before the showdown against the Wancheng Kingdom, they were already timid.

Some disciples are even developing towards the "Surrender School".

One of the most fundamental reasons leading to this result is that Wancheng Kingdom is more advanced and stronger.

The other is that Wancheng Kingdom is more developed and richer.

And no matter in that respect, Chi Xingshan has no chance of winning at all.

Even Chixing Mountain still has an ancestor in trance.

Where is the road?

How to choose and plan for the future of Chixing Mountain?
Regarding this issue, during this period of time, Daozu Hongyan discussed with several elders in the sect, as well as the only remaining ancestor, for several days.

This issue is still being discussed today.

Inside the Zongmen Hall.

"It's better to relocate the mountain gate, leave Wancheng Kingdom, and find another suitable spiritual vein. With Wancheng Kingdom here, I, Chixing Mountain, will be destroyed sooner or later." An elder said, thinking that only by moving out, the orthodoxy of Chixing Mountain will be destroyed. , to be continued.

"No!"

Someone immediately shook his head and retorted, "How hard is it to find a suitable spiritual vein? There are mountain gates occupying slightly better spiritual veins. If you want to move, you have to destroy these mountain gates! Destroying the human sect, even if the damage to Chixing Mountain is slight, but from Large-scale spiritual veins, migrated to small and medium-sized spiritual veins, insufficient spiritual energy, and slow cultivation, who can adapt to this environment?"

A rich man who is used to living a prosperous life now wants him to be poor, and he is required to barely make do with it. The huge gap is not to mention unacceptable in thought, and it is unbearable in habit when it comes to that situation.

What's more, these elders in the temple are on Chixing Mountain, facing caves with aura intensity of 100 times and 80 times respectively, none of them would choose the cave of 80 times to practice.

So when thinking of moving the sect to those small spiritual veins that are only 50 times stronger in caves, almost no one in the field agrees.

"My Chixing Mountain's spiritual veins are incomparable to any mountain gate in the world. If you migrate away, you will be looking for weakness, absolutely not!"

"If we don't move the mountain gate, what if Wancheng Kingdom intensifies the persecution? If we can't receive disciples and have no financial resources, aren't we just as weak?" the elder asked.

The hall was quiet for a while.

"boom!"

An elder hammered down the low table in front of him, gritted his teeth and said, "Then we will try our best to destroy the Wancheng Kingdom! Take back everything that belongs to Chixing Mountain!"

This elder is one of the few remaining hardliners in Chixing Mountain. His voice of fighting with all his strength and fighting to the end once dominated the mainstream, but now...

No one responded, they just shook their heads.

"We still have our ancestors. As long as the ancestors kill all the high-level officials of Wancheng Kingdom, Wancheng Kingdom will collapse!" The elder stood up and shouted.

"Bi Daozi, please sit down. This method has been tried before, but the Wancheng country has a special system. The heads of the country are rotated. Killing a few has no effect. Instead, it will anger them and attract thunder to retaliate." Hong Yan Daozu shook his head and said.

Of course, killing Zhang Shanhe, the soul of Wancheng Kingdom, would definitely have an obvious effect, but that Zhang Shanhe is extremely cunning, has countless substitutes, and the probability of a successful assassination is extremely low. The hostile forces felt pain down their spine and deeply regretted it.

Even if Zhang Shanhe was successfully killed, Daozu Hongyan did not dare to confirm that Wancheng Kingdom would really be in chaos and collapse, because this country has a special system, and the death of a few important figures will not affect the overall situation to the extent that it can shake the overall situation.

Therefore, Daozu Hongyan never expressed his agreement with the claims of the hardliners in the sect.

The only remaining ancestor Yinkui is the last hole card of the sect. Daozu Hongyan would never play like that, and then exchange for the rapid demise of Chixing Mountain.

"It doesn't work to relocate the sect, and it doesn't work to assassinate the high-level officials of Wancheng Kingdom. What should we do?"

"Isn't it okay to just sit and wait for death?"

An elder cried out, his face full of despair.

"merge."

"Chixingshan can be merged with other big ones."

At this time, the patriarch Yinkui, who was sitting at the top and had been silent until now, suddenly opened his mouth and said a word.

merge?

The elders in the field were very surprised and asked, "How to merge, merge with that sect?"

"Qingyun Mountain."

The patriarch Yinkui said, "Qingyun Mountain has been severely suppressed by Guanglei Mountain in recent years, and its strength is insufficient, so it needs external assistance."

"I went to Qingyun Mountain the day before yesterday and discussed this matter with Daozu Hongping. He agreed, but..."

"But what?" someone asked immediately below.

"However, after the merger, Qingyun Mountain should be the main one, and Chixing Mountain should be supplemented. After entering Qingyun Mountain, you can no longer act in the name of Chixing Mountain. We will all be Qingyun Mountain's disciples from now on."

After the ancestor Yinkui finished speaking, there was silence below.

Or rather... extremely disappointed.

What is the difference between this merger and the demise of the sect?
Who will remember Chixing Mountain in the future?

Of course the people and Taoism are still there, but in the future they can no longer say that they are the elders of Chixing Mountain, and they are no longer people from Chixing Mountain.

From then on, she lived under the fence of others, watched people's faces, ate people's handouts, and had to be driven and yelled at by others. She became a second-class goods and completely lost her autonomy.

Who accepted this result?

"I think that the merger can be..."

Seeing that no one responded, Daozu Hongyan spoke. He communicated with the ancestor Yinkui in advance, and he thought that the merger could be accepted, although he lost the name of the sect.

"The suzerain and all the elders and patriarchs, Shen Quan, the traitor of our sect and the ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Wancheng Kingdom, went up the mountain to ask for an audience."

At this moment, the disciples outside the hall came in to report.

Daoist Hongyan was stunned for a moment, and the words were blocked back to his stomach.

Shen Quan.

This traitor, what is he doing again?
(End of this chapter)