Chronicles of Celestial Origins

The bright moon hangs high in the sky. The chirping of insects and birds in the jungle is endless.

A ray of light came straight in, startling thousands of birds to fly.

The light escaped and fell into the forest, revealing the figure of a man in his forties, with a Chinese character face, big eyes and thick eyebrows, and several deep wrinkles between his eyebrows. His expression was solemn and unsmiling.

He raised his eyes and looked around, and walked slowly to the foot of a camphor tree. The tree was very strange and thick, like three giant trees entwined in one place, criss-crossing each other, and looked like a human shape. Its circumference was two feet thick.

The man walked around the camphor tree and saw something different in the soil under his feet. It was lighter in color and seemed to have been newly plowed.

He knelt down and checked carefully to confirm that it was correct. He put his spiritual power in his hands and dug it into the ground. In the blink of an eye, he dug out a foot-deep pit. There was a stone buried under the ground, and a piece of paper was hidden under the stone. Book.

The man took out the paper book, opened it, took a look, and then turned into light and left.

After walking for several hours, he arrived at a dilapidated Taoist temple. As he disappeared from sight, a man hurriedly greeted him: "Senior Zheng, you are finally back."

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Seeing his hurried expression, the man surnamed Zheng asked.

"Senior Du is here and waiting for you in the hall."

The man frowned and walked forward quickly, feeling slightly confused.

The two of them had always been Xuan Ying's messenger and exchanged news. No matter what happened, it was he who always called him to meet. This was the first time that he came to see her in so many years. He didn't know what happened.

In the hall, Tang Ning and Du Yuankai were sitting in order of priority, and a man with a broad forehead and a broad face stood beside him with his hands hanging down.

"So, your contact with insiders is all through correspondence?"

"Yes, unless there is an emergency, they usually send us a message once a month." The man standing aside replied

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face, big eyes and thick eyebrows walked straight in.

Du Yuankai stood up to greet him, and Tang Ning also stood up.

"Duke Xianshi, why are you here in person? Did something happen?" the man asked, looking at Tang Ning.

Du Yuankai smiled and said: "Nothing, I came here to see you, Brother Zheng! Let me introduce to you, this is Junior Brother Tangning from the Headquarters. Junior Brother Tang, this is the Taoist Fellow Zheng Wei that I mentioned to you before."

Tang Ning bowed her head slightly, and Zheng Wei returned the salute.

"This time, Junior Brother Tang has come to take over the post of director of the Silver Fox Intelligence Station under the order of the sect. Brother Zheng, you will be well assisted in the future."

Tang Ning said: "I heard the name of Daoyou Zheng a long time ago. He is the humerus of Senior Brother Du and is the mainstay of this site. Tang is new here and is unfamiliar with everything and people. I hope you can give me some advice from Daoyou Zheng in the future."

"How dare you?" Zheng Wei hurriedly replied: "Fellow Taoist Tang is the Immortal Envoy of the Shangzong. If you have anything to do, just give me your orders. Since the Immortal Envoy Tang has taken over, will the Immortal Du Du return to the Sect?"

Du Yuankai said: "I am old, my life is short, and I no longer have the energy to manage these things. A few years ago, I wrote to the Ministry of Education and the sect, requesting to resign from this position, but the sect has not been able to find the right person. I haven’t agreed yet, but now that I’m sending Junior Brother Tang down to take charge, I can take off this heavy burden and rest for the rest of my life.”

This was said sincerely. He was indeed fed up with this job and lived every day cautiously, walking on thin ice. I was always worried about exposing my identity and being targeted by the Demon Sect, so I couldn't be as carefree and happy as I was in the sect.

What's more important is that even after seventy years of taking over, his cultivation has stagnated. It can be said that time is wasted and half a life is wasted.

Zheng Wei said: "Tang Immortal Envoy is not very old, but he is still wealthy. He is already a monk in the middle stage of foundation building. I think he must be an outstanding disciple of the Shangzong!"

"Brother Zheng is right. Junior Brother Tang is a well-known figure in our sect. He is the most eager disciple of our sect. Many of our sect's uncles appreciate him very much. Even our sect's headmaster praises him very much." add."

"Senior Brother Du is ridiculous. I am just a nobody in the sect. How can I be appreciated by my uncle or the master?"

"Junior brother Tang, there is no need to be too modest. Who doesn't know that you are a highly valued disciple of Palace Master Luo? If you are a mediocre person, can you be recommended by Palace Master Luo himself?"

Tangning didn't want to get entangled in this matter anymore, so she asked, "Fellow Daoist Zheng, you are responsible for intelligence collection. You have eighteen monks under your command. How come these are the only ones in the Taoist temple? Where are the rest of them?"

Zheng Wei replied: "This Taoist temple is my temporary office. It is used to handle daily affairs. There are only five monks. The rest are scattered throughout the Chu Kingdom to inquire about information, collect intelligence and contact internal disciples."

"After all, our intelligence network not only targets the Corpse Puppet Sect, but also the insiders of the Chamber of Commerce and various cultivating families. They all need to be closely monitored. And I can't handle all the affairs by myself, so I will use the less important insiders on hand to Leave it to them to contact.”

Tang Ning asked, "Can you tell us the specific situation in detail?"

Zheng Wei said: "There are a total of eighteen monks under my command. Five of them are handling affairs in this Taoist temple, and the other eleven are collecting intelligence in various places."

"Zhang Long, an eighth-level Qi refining practitioner, joined our organization seventeen years ago. He is now located in Bianjing and is responsible for liaising with Tainan Gufang City's insiders. He mainly collects intelligence information from Tainan Gufang City."

"Wang Shuhua, an eighth-level Qi refining practitioner, joined our organization twenty years ago and is now located in Cangshan County, Central Plains. He is mainly responsible for gathering intelligence information about the Huan family."

"Xu Zhenxian, a seventh-level Qi refining practitioner, joined our organization fifteen years ago and is now located in the southern area of ​​Longyou. He mainly listens to the Feng family's intelligence information."

"Kong Yue, at the sixth level of Qi refining, thirteen years ago..."

Zheng Wei introduced them one by one. Tangning nodded and said, "How do you contact us? How often do you contact us?"

"Each region has an intelligence point set up by us. They don't know our exact location. They can only send the news through the intelligence point. The intelligence points in each region use Black Eagle to transmit the news to the Central Plains Intelligence Point, and then forward it to the Central Plains Intelligence Point. Give it to us. Only the person in charge of the Central Plains Intelligence Point knows our location. Under normal circumstances, the information is delivered once a month. Unless it is urgent information, it will be submitted urgently. "

"Are you personally handling the intelligence liaison between the Corpse Puppet Sect's insiders?"

"Yes, I have information channels on four internal disciples of the Corpse Puppet Sect. Last month, I developed an internal disciple."

Tangning asked, "What conditions did he put forward? Is it a fraud?"

Zheng Wei said: "This person's name is Chen Xun. He is a descendant of the Chen family in the southeastern part of the Central Plains. The Chen family is a small family. The head of the family, Chen Yinglong, is at the ninth level of Qi refining. There are only ten monks in the entire family."

"Chen Xun is Chen Yinglong's nephew. Twenty years ago, the Qianyi Sect made a big move. He went to pay homage to the mountain, but was turned away. Since then, there has been no trace."

"We learned that he was accepted as a disciple by a foundation-building monk from the South China branch of the Corpse Puppet Sect and joined the Corpse Puppet Sect."

"I learned about his life experience from the insider disciples, so I found the Chen family and asked Chen Yinglong to get in touch with him, and coerced and induced him to become our insider."

After Zheng Wei finished speaking, he turned over his left hand and took out a piece of paper: "This is the information he sent today. He is about to send Xuan Ying to convey the message to Du Xian."

Du Yuankai took the paper and unfolded it, took a look at it, and then handed it to Tang Ning: "Brother Zheng reported to me about developing Chen Xun as an insider, and I agreed."

"After our investigation, this person meets the conditions for development as an inside disciple. His master was a foundation-building monk from the South China branch. He died in the battle at Xuanyue Mountain. Chen Xun is quite neglected within the Corpse Puppet Sect, and there is no one to protect him. , I don’t have much ability.”

"Junior Brother Tang, you know that within the Demon Sect, status and salary are determined by meritorious service. He has no meritorious service and has only received the minimum salary every month. In addition, his high-ranking mother is still alive, and now we have control. Think about it. He didn’t dare to act rashly.”

Tang Ning took the paper book and saw only a few large characters on it.

Failure, death.

"What does it mean?"

Du Yuankai said: "A late-stage foundation-building monk named He Ling from the Corpse Puppet Sect tried to attack the Golden Core Realm last month, but failed and died."

"Senior Brother Du, you said that intelligence work is like businessmen doing business. They provide intelligence information and we pay for it. How many spiritual stones do we need to pay for information like this?"

"Three hundred spirit stones."

"Three hundred spirit stones?" Tangning was shocked. Such an ordinary piece of news costs three hundred spirit stones. The entire Silver Fox Intelligence Station only has 30,000 spirit stones a year. So it's all spent casually.

Du Yuankai saw his surprised look and smiled: "It's not that this news cost three hundred spirit stones, but that it cost three hundred spirit stones to buy him."

"What do you mean by this?"

Du Yuankai said: "Didn't Brother Zheng just say that? Coercion and inducement. Naturally, the coercion is based on the lives of the Chen family and his mother, and the inducement is these three hundred spirit stones."

"News like this is not worth a penny, but with this letter, it is equivalent to having a handle on him. If he has other intentions in the future, he will hand over the correspondence to the Corpse Puppet Sect, and he will naturally die without a burial place."

"This can be used as a means to blackmail him, but threats alone are useless. The rabbit will bite when it is anxious! From time to time, you have to give him a sweet treat, such as giving him hundreds of spiritual stones every year, or the information he provides is of great value. , but if you give more rewards, you won’t be afraid of him betraying you with this two-pronged approach.”

Tang Ning said, "I see. One piece of intelligence information will cost you three hundred spirit stones."

"If it's truly useful information, let alone three hundred, it's not much. Don't worry about funding. You can apply for a subsidy from the sect when you use it up. Like this time we have developed a new insider disciple, we can apply to the sect for a subsidy." Apply for additional spiritual stone subsidies. Fellow Taoist Xu will help you in this regard. She knows how to handle it.

"Shouldn't the intelligence information coming and going be in cipher text? Why doesn't his letter use cipher text?"

"The cipher text is used to transmit information within our organization. It is to prevent the intelligence information from being intercepted during the transmission of Xuan Ying's message and exposing the identity of the insider. They do not need to do this. If they themselves are discovered, everything will be over. Write No cipher text is of any use."