Pawn Crossing the River

As soon as the scholar's evil spirit dispersed, the big hand holding Qi Xuansu began to disintegrate. Qi Xuansu fell back to the ground and was free again.

At this point, He Nian was captured, the scholar, Bai Yongguan, Zhu Cheng, and Xia Chang were dead, leaving only Lin Zhenyuan and the Wu Zhu woman missing.

Qi Xuansu stepped forward to the scholar's body, turned it over for a while, and found that there was nothing on the guy. He didn't know if the money was hidden somewhere, or if it was all handed over to the Lingshan Witch Cult.

Qi Xuansu is probably in the former situation. After all, he is a middle-level figure in the Lingshan Witch Cult. He should have some private wealth, but he does not have Xumi treasures to carry with him, so he hides them somewhere. With the death of these people, Qi Xuansu It's impossible to get it, and I don't know who will get the advantage.

But having said that, even if you know that according to the rules of the Taoist sect, these are stolen money, you still have to turn it over to the Taoist sect.

As for spiritual objects, they are quite common in Taoist sects, but not so common outside Taoist sects. Take Zhang Yuelu as an example. If she was not a member of the Taoist sect, even if she was a banished immortal, she would not be able to own a Sumeru item based on her level of cultivation. But in the Taoist sect, she was not only given a Sumeru object, but also a semi-immortal object. You must know that the top leaders of Lingshan Witch Cult may not have a semi-immortal object. This is the foundation of the Taoist sect.

Therefore, you cannot ask other people according to Taoist standards. Whether you can have a spiritual object before a heavenly being depends entirely on financial resources and luck.

Not long after, Zhang Yuelu came over and saw Qi Xuansu standing in front of the scholar's body. Although he had expected it, he still couldn't help being a little surprised and sighed: "Tianyuan, you can always surprise me. Compared to you, I feel a little incompetent. I have only one level of cultivation, but I have allowed several demons to escape from me. On the contrary, you defeated the strong and killed several demons. "

Qi Xuansu waved his hands repeatedly and said: "You personally take action in all tough battles. At most, I just follow behind and pick up the slack."

This is true. Qi Xuansu can defeat the scholar by relying on his majestic energy and surprise. But if he faces Lin Zhenyuan, Zhu Cheng, Xia Chang and others, it will probably be difficult to achieve results. In the final analysis, Zhang Yuelu still had to fight all the way with real swords and guns. It was precisely because of the fierce battles that Zhang Yuelu fell into a situation of near exhaustion. If Zhang Yuelu was in his prime, this scholar wouldn't be able to withstand a few swords.

Seeing that Zhang Yuelu was still talking, Qi Xuansu interrupted: "You and I should stop complimenting each other. It won't be too late to give me a few nice words when we are in front of the real person in charge."

Zhang Yuelu smiled and said: "Destroy this underground palace first, and then I will report it to the real person in charge."

While they were talking, following the death of the scholar, the other demons from the Lingshan Witch Cult were completely defeated. Some knelt down and surrendered, while others resisted to the end and were shot to death by the men in black. After all, the men in black and the Qingluan Guards also had good players, and they were numerous and powerful, so they were good at fighting together. Even though there were one or two innate people in the Lingshan Witch Cult, they were besieged to death.

Wang Zicheng commanded the Qingluan Guards to cremate the heads piled into the hill on the spot, and then asked the men in black to place explosives around the Wuluo statue, and at the same time escorted the surrendered Lingshan Witch Cult monsters out of this place one by one.

After the Qingluan guards searched again, they did not find Lin Zhenyuan and the Wu Zhu woman. It seemed that they were not here, and they could not find anything useful, such as the list of monsters. It seemed that they were all on Lin Zhenyuan. It is also common practice to annihilate all kinds of demons. The demons rarely put their own situations into words, and it is difficult to uproot them.

The rest of the men in black and the Qingluan Guards transported the bodies and evacuated the underground palace, leaving only some of the men in black and Zhang Yuelu, Qi Xuansu, Wang Zicheng, Mr. Zhao Qian and others.

General Zhao Qian commanded his men to blow up the statue of Wuluo. Amidst the loud bang, the underground palace shook, gravel shot out, and smoke and dust flew everywhere. Wuluo's statue collapsed and turned into ruins.

Then Mr. Zhao Qian asked his men to place explosives at various load-bearing locations in the underground palace, intending to completely destroy the underground palace here.

Finally, Mr. Zhao Qian asked Zhang Yuelu and Wang Zicheng for instructions: "Master Zhang and Wang Zhenfu, can they withdraw from the underground palace?"

Wang Zicheng looked to Zhang Yuelu and asked her for her opinion. After all, Taoists were the experts at dealing with the Gu Xian Association.

Zhang Yuelu looked around again and nodded: "There should be no problem. Exit the underground palace."

Qi Xuansu, Zhang Yuelu and others and the last group of men in black began to exit the underground palace one by one, leaving only two people laying leads.

After Zhang Yuelu and Qi Xuansu returned to the ground, they found that the entire Xia residence had been sealed and guarded by Qingluan Guards. The courtyard far away from the underground palace is filled with corpses, which are sorted by the police, government officials, and widowers. The corpses of the men in black and Qingluan Guards must sort out their remains, record their names, prepare coffins, and place them properly. The corpses of the Lingshan Witch Cult monsters are much more random, piled up in one place, just waiting to be burned in a fire.

The remaining prisoners were all escorted back to the local Baihu Station, where they would be interrogated in detail by Qingluan Guards afterwards.

Wang Zicheng has sent someone to notify the local Qianhu Office. Although Lin Zhenyuan of the Qianhu Office has defected, there are still two deputy Qianhu Offices who can serve as directors. The manpower of just one Hundred Household Office is still insufficient.

Zhang Yuelu found a secluded place and used the Zimu Talisman to contact the real person in charge.

Qi Xuansu stood far away, waiting for the result.

At this moment, the two men in black who were responsible for laying the leads finally exited the underground palace, and everyone began to leave the underground palace in order to avoid being accidentally injured.

The man in black who was responsible for detonating the explosives detonated the explosives in the underground palace through the fuse after consulting Mr. Zhao Qian.

Qi Xuansu only felt a continuous muffled sound coming from under his feet, the ground shook, and several houses and walls even collapsed.

This continued for a while, and the large underground palace had been completely destroyed.

In addition, the county magistrate, county magistrate and other civil servants are also extremely busy. There are many servants in the Xia family. The dead need burial and compensation, and the surviving ones need to be properly settled.

As for how to resettle them, the imperial court set up a Puji Hall to take in the widowed, lonely, poor, sick and helpless, as well as the elderly, weak and disabled. There were also medical officers in the hospital responsible for diagnosis. If you have children or want to become a monk, this will involve the Wanxiang Taoist Palace, and the local government must communicate with the local Taoist government after the case is settled.

Qi Xuansu had never participated in such things and could only stand aside doing nothing.

About a stick of incense later, Zhang Yuelu ended the conversation with the master in charge and came to Qi Xuansu's side.

Qi Xuansu asked: "Two demons in the Yuxu stage are equal to two 'Yellow Character Gong', and five demon leaders in the Return to True stage are equal to how many merits?"

Zhang Yuelu didn't sell it: "Of course there are five 'Xuan Zi Gong'. The real person in charge has already decided, the five leaders are considered to be from the Taoist sect, and the rest are from the imperial court. The credit for destroying the 'God's Descent' should be done by our two families working together."

Qi Xuansu calculated: "The stage of returning to the truth is the 'Xuanzi Kung Fu'. The last time I last hit Diswen, it was also the 'Xuanzi Kung Fu'. Plus you and Lingquan, the principal, there are exactly three 'Xuanzi Kung Fu', then Isn’t it the ‘Earth-Character Skill’ to kill a demon who is a celestial being alone?”

Zhang Yuelu nodded and continued: "I don't know how the imperial court records merit. On the Taoist side, destroying the ancient immortal's 'Shenjiang' is counted as one 'earth character skill', which is three 'mysterious character skills'. If The fractions are calculated as whole numbers, so after excluding half of the imperial court, there is still one 'Xuan Zi Gong' and two 'Huang Zi Gong', plus five leaders, a total of six 'Xuan Zi Gong' and two 'Huang Zi Gong' Huang Zigong'.

Qi Xuansu thought for a while and said: "Qing Xiao deserves the most credit for being able to thwart the ancient immortal demon's conspiracy this time. I just followed suit. Now I already have two 'Yellow Character Skills', as long as you give me another one 'Huangzi Gong' and two 'Xuanzi Gong' can make up three 'Xuanzi Gong', and the remaining four 'Xuanzi Gong' and one 'Huangzi Gong' belong to Qingxiao. Come, I can be directly promoted from the sixth-grade Taoist priest to the fifth-grade Taoist priest."

Zhang Yuelu shook his head and said: "It's not that simple. Although the Taoist sect values ​​young people, it also has a seniority suspension system."

"What is the suspension system?" Qi Xuansu couldn't help but ask.

"The so-called suspension of years system, to put it bluntly, is to gain seniority." Zhang Yuelu explained.

"The Taoist sect has two systems: position and grade. The positions are deacons, principals, deputy hall masters, etc., and the grades are the ninth-grade Taoist priest system. For example, the deputy headmaster is the real person, the deputy headmaster is the position, and the grade is the first-grade innocent Taoist priest."

"It's okay when you're at a low level. Positions and grades aren't too tied up. A seventh-grade Taoist priest can be a deacon, and a fifth-grade Taoist priest can also be a deacon. The span is quite wide. But when you reach a high-grade Taoist priest, the two become incompatible. Separation. The most obvious example is that the Grand Master is the position and the Super Grade is the rank. No one dares to separate the two and create a Super Grade Deputy Master. The Super Grade can only be the Grand Master. Taoists can only be super-grade. In the same way, no one dares to create a second-grade deputy head priest. These positions and grades must be tied together, so the position of a high-grade Taoist priest has become a disguised grade. Collectively, they are called the Ninth Grade and Twelve Grades.”

"In this case, the 'stop year' system modeled on the ancient 'stop year' system came into being. The promotion of grades is strictly restricted by the stop years. The so-called 'stop year' means that a certain grade must stay The number of years, that is, the minimum number of years, according to the regulations, a Taoist priest of the seventh grade must wait for one year to advance to the sixth grade, a Taoist priest of the sixth grade must wait for one year to advance to the fifth grade, two years for a fifth grade Taoist priest to advance to the fourth grade. It takes three years to upgrade to the third grade, and it takes three years to upgrade to the second grade.”

"According to this calculation, it will take seven years at the fastest for a seventh-grade Taoist priest to be promoted to a third-grade Taoist priest, no matter how talented he is and has repeatedly made military exploits. As for the selection and promotion system, in the vernacular, it is like a carrot and a pit. It’s hard to say how many years it will take for someone to come down before someone can come up. If you’re lucky, it only takes a few years, but if you’re not lucky, it will take more than ten years.”

Qi Xuansu understood: "In this case, even if I have three 'Xuanzi skills', I cannot be promoted to a fifth-grade Taoist priest immediately. I have to stay as a sixth-grade Taoist priest for one year. Compared with a 'Xuanzi skill' The promotion method of "Gong" plus three years of assessment is equivalent to two years of "Xuan Zi Gong"."

Zhang Yuelu nodded and said, "That's right."