Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Wolong Mountain is located in the western part of the Central Plains. It stretches for thousands of miles and is connected to Qinchuan River. When viewed from above, the entire mountain range looks like a crouching dragon, so it is called Wolong Mountain.

Most of the monks in the Chu Kingdom knew that this was the location of the Zhu family, and the place where the dragon head was located was where the Zhu family was entrenched.

Zhu Yunrou's escape light fell in front of a simple and majestic hall, and a man hurriedly greeted her: "Sister Yun, uncle has been waiting for you for a long time!"

Zhu Yunrou nodded slightly: "Why did father call me back so urgently?"

"This..." The man hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong? You're hesitating." Zhu Yunrou frowned and said

"It would be better if my uncle told you."

Zhu Yunrou glanced at him suspiciously, then went straight into the hall, came to a retreat room, opened the door and went inside.

Sitting cross-legged inside was a tall, thin and elegant elder, in his fifties, with white temples and a foot long beard. He was Zhu Bochong, the eldest son of Zhu.

"Dad, why did you call your daughter here?" Zhu Yunrou walked to him and sat down, holding his arm.

Zhu Bochong lost his wife in his early years. He regarded his daughter as the apple of his eye and loved her very much since childhood. Therefore, there was no common etiquette between the two of them, just like ordinary people in the market, they were very casual.

Zhu Bochong opened his eyes, his eyes filled with love and helplessness: "I heard that you are looking for the person who killed Guan Yulang everywhere, so you must be looking for trouble with Ding Jianyang again!"

Zhu Yunrou pouted slightly, looking like a little girl, and said coquettishly: "What's the matter! Who is Guan Yulang? Don't listen to other people's nonsense."

"I'm not so confused that I can't tell the difference between true and false, you! Hey! You blame me for being too indulgent and developing such a willful and willful character. I've turned a blind eye to all the mischief you've done outside these years. Haven't you heard those rumors?"

"Huh, that's all a ploy by the Ding family to discredit us. Dad, I told you that the Ding family had no good intentions."

Zhu Bochong shook his head and said: "No more nonsense. Even if you don't like Ding Jianyang, just be patient and don't embarrass him again. Today is different from the past. I will invite people from the Ding family to come to us tomorrow." There is a banquet in the house, so don't be so petty and make it difficult for everyone."

"Invite them? Why? Will Ding Jianyang come too?"

"Let's talk about some cooperation matters between the two families. Our Zhu family tree is attracting attention, and there are countless people who secretly covet us. Now your grandpa has been seriously injured again, and those gangsters are staring at us!"

Zhu Yunjudao: "You mean to form an alliance with the Ding family?"

Zhu Bochong smiled and said: "When it comes to forming an alliance, haven't we and the Ding family already formed an alliance a long time ago? Isn't the relationship between children and in-laws closer than allies? The so-called alliance is just a piece of rhetoric and cannot be done. But if the other party and your interests are If you are closely related to each other, then he will naturally become your ally.

"Dad, the Ding family is not a good thing. We have to be more careful, especially Ding Jianyang. In the past few years, he seems to have changed. I think he must be holding back his energy to do evil! "

Zhu Bochong smiled helplessly: "Then tell me, who is trustworthy? Who has ulterior motives? Good or bad is a child's opinion. You are already a foundation-building monk. Maybe you will succeed the head of the Zhu family in the future. In this position, we can no longer act based on our personal likes and dislikes.”

"What matters is whether it is useful. For us, having one more ally now is better than one more enemy."

"As for Ding Jianyang, he is just an insignificant person. His opinions and ideas are not important, but he always has to live up to his reputation. I sent people to kill Guan Yulang. It can be regarded as a meeting gift for us to cooperate with the Ding family! "

"Ah?" Zhu Yunrou exclaimed, never expecting that it was her father who did it, and she immediately became a little unhappy: "Dad, why did you do this? He is the person that my daughter likes."

Zhu Bochong's face darkened: "What do you like or not? You are just coveting his good-looking body. This guy is extremely arrogant and wanton. Keeping him will be a disaster after all. I heard that he once had some bad friends in Yujiao Tower. During the banquet, he made wild remarks, saying that Ding Jianyang was cowardly and incompetent, that he was a dog you raised, and that the Ding family was the watchdog of our Zhu family, right? "

Zhu Yunrou said softly: "That was just a drunken conversation in private after drinking too much."

"Hmph, who is he? After all, the Ding family has been a practicing family for thousands of years, so why is he worthy of making comments? He really doesn't know how to live or die. If such fools can survive to this day, they are considered to have great blessings from their ancestors."

Zhu Yunju said: "So, the person who warned him to leave Chu State a few days ago and never come back for life was also sent by you?"

Zhu Bochong snorted: "I don't have the leisure to go and say hello before crushing him. It was a warning from the Ding family. That kid insulted the Ding family like this. How could the Ding family tolerate him? But they looked at it anyway. For our sake, that kid was spared his life."

"I didn't expect that he would be so reckless that he would not leave, so I killed him. In case the Ding family killed him, you would get angry and cause trouble with the Ding family, which would make the Ding family look bad."

Zhu Yunrou said dissatisfied: "Dad, why do you always talk to the Ding family, as if everything is your daughter's fault? It was you who forced me to marry Ding Jianyang, and I felt disgusted when I saw him. But I still follow your wishes. It’s done, but now it’s all my daughter’s fault.”

Zhu Bochong sighed helplessly: "You are so stubborn. In the future, let alone being the head of the family, you will suffer a big loss. If you don't like it, Ding Jianyang, just let it go! Dad won't force you, but don't be so willful. At least save some face for the Ding family."

"Why does my daughter have to take over as the head of the family? It's tiring and annoying. My daughter just wants to be with her father all her life. My father will never let others bully me."

Zhu Bochong smiled but said nothing.

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Tangning left the attic and fled all the way back to the Qianjun Mountain Intelligence Station.

The days that followed passed relatively peacefully.

Although it is rumored that the old man of the Zhu family was seriously injured, he will not die soon! But I never saw him actually burping, so those who were ready to peek at the Zhu family naturally didn't dare to do anything.

The Corpse Puppet Sect is also relatively peaceful. After occupying the western part of the Chu Kingdom, it can be said that it has been working hard to develop. It has been encouraging those practicing families to plant medicinal herbs and breed spiritual beasts. It has been very lively and impressive.

Recently, they have created an organization called the Alchemist Association, mainly to cultivate talents for alchemy.

The internal organizational structure of the Demon Sect has always been chaotic. To be more precise, it is general. There is no precise division of duties like the Xuanmen. This has led to their extreme lack of monks with "one skill".

Those alchemists, weapon refiners, talisman masters, and formation masters cannot be cultivated overnight. They need to be accumulated over a long period of time.

Now the Corpse Puppet Sect has occupied the northwest of the Chu Kingdom. After these years of cultivation, they have received a large number of various types of elixirs and herbs, but the problem is that they do not have the talent to refine the herbs into elixirs.

There are only a few people within the Corpse Puppet Sect who know how to make alchemy, and the few that can be pulled out are all half-skilled by Ye Luzi. Not to mention second-level elixirs, even refining Qi Condensing Pills is difficult enough.

This made them very distressed, so the Alchemist Association came into being.

This Alchemist Association has brought in almost all the alchemists from all the families within its jurisdiction to teach some selected disciples of the Demon Sect. Not only that, they have also used coercion and inducement to invite many well-known alchemists in the alchemy field. The casual cultivator.

According to Tang Ning's intelligence information, the Corpse Puppet Sect offers very generous conditions to the alchemists they hire, and those disciples who are selected to learn alchemy are given treatment and status that are superior to those of ordinary disciples.

Obviously, the Corpse Puppet Sect has spent a lot of money and is determined to do this thing well and cultivate a group of alchemy disciples who can stand alone.

But alchemy is not something that can be accomplished overnight. In addition to resources, it also depends on individual talent. It cannot be done in a few years, ten years, or even decades. This is a long-term project, and investment and return are directly proportional.

The Alchemy Masters Association is just an experiment. If it goes well, they may continue to create the Alchemy Masters Association, the Formation Masters Association, the Talisman Masters Association, etc. to cultivate disciples with specialized skills.

For a family of practitioners, the treatment given by the Demon Sect is undoubtedly generous. For most casual cultivators, the western part of the Chu Kingdom controlled by the Demon Sect was undoubtedly a dragon's nest and a tiger's den. The Demon Sect's disciples killed monks wantonly, and the Demon Sect's top leaders completely ignored them, causing a large number of casual cultivators to escape from Qinchuan and Longyou.

This is related to the nature of the Demon Sect. Most of the techniques they practice are related to flesh and blood, and require the bodies of monks as materials.

The Corpse Puppet Sect is a typical representative. Their main material for refining corpse puppets is the bodies of monks.

Therefore, the top leaders of the Demon Sect could not prohibit such behavior by their subordinate disciples.

But the Demon Sect protects the practicing family very well. Whenever there are disciples who kill the family's children, they will kill each one. Since they occupied Qinchuan Longyou, they have killed more than a dozen disciples.

Therefore, those cultivating families support the Demon Sect very much, and the two sides can be said to have a close relationship.

Tang Ning handled the affairs of the intelligence station every day, reporting important secrets to the intelligence department. On the other hand, she also continued to develop insider information for various forces.

He rarely personally takes action in these matters. He always leaves it to the disciples below to handle it, and he also finds some monks with lower cultivation to act as insiders.

When it really couldn't be solved, he took action personally.

Time flies, ten years have passed.

On this day, Tangning was sitting cross-legged in the room with her eyes closed and practicing as usual. The little white snake was coiled next to him, surrounding him with its body and resting its head on his legs.

Outside the house, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Tangning opened her eyes.

Kong Ji pushed the door open, bowed, handed him the file in his hand and said, "Uncle Master, this is the news from the sect."

"what's up?"

Kong Ji paused and said, "Uncle Lu, he was removed from the post of deacon of the Intelligence Section."