Ruins of the past

In the cell built in Yaoyin Village.

Chu Qiguang picked up a book and started reading.

In front of him stood Qiao Zina and Kati, the harpy demons from Da Zhu.

At this moment, the two big Zhu harpies were wearing thin clothes, their bodies were thin, and their faces looked very weak.

This is because they are fed Ruanjinsan every day, which blocks the power of Qi and blood, causing their bodies to continue to weaken.

This kind of Ruanjin Powder is a drug from the Zhenmo Division, and is specially used to weaken some prisoners with high martial arts skills.

In order to make it easier for Chu Qiguang to take better care of the two hawk demons, he also took a batch from the Demon Suppression Division and fed them to them.

But even so, Qiao Zina's hands that were originally cut off by Chu Qiguang have grown back, showing the strong vitality of her demon bloodline.

Now the two monsters watched Chu Qiguang uneasily as he reviewed the contents. After reading, Chu Qiguang raised his head and closed his eyes for a while.

He had just read through the knowledge written down by the two hawk demons. There were many histories, myths, and rituals of Dazhu, as well as some rituals, allusions, and scriptures.

But he only harvested 2 profound gifts and 1 dark gift.

"The update is not bad."

"But I think you can do better."

"Let's do this...I'll arrange some colleagues for you."

Chu Qiguang wanted to send Qiu Yuebai, the saint of Huangtian Dao, and his group to Yaoyin Village.

When the time comes, unified management will also be convenient for him to read every once in a while.

Originally, he would have some scruples about this, but now that he has become a Martial God, he can do it with confidence.

Following Chu Qiguang's order, Qiu Yuebai and others were sent to Yaoyin Village a few days later.

Looking at the village full of monsters in front of them, the saints of Huangtian Dao and others were shocked.

The reputation of Youkai Village among many youkai is growing day by day.

Especially after Chu Qiguang led the Demon Suppression Division to clean up the wolf clan's stronghold in Lingzhou, Yaoyin Village has become the largest monster force in Lingzhou.

The number of villagers has been increasing day by day in the past six months. At this time, the number of villagers in the inner village has exceeded 3,000, and the number of intern villagers in the outer village has been nearly 1,500, and it is still growing.

These monsters have been trained in village schools and gradually become excellent labor forces.

Because farmers do the farming work for them, most of their destinations fall into two categories.

One is to stay, join a workshop or school, and follow the craftsmen of Yaoyin Village to participate in technical research work. Among them are research on qi and blood machines, and some research on earth knowledge written by Chu Qiguang.

The other type leaves Yaoyin Village and either joins the intelligence work in Lingzhou, or goes to Shuzhou to participate in the construction of Shuzhou Yaoyin Village.

Yaoyin Village itself is gradually developing into a technology research and development base and talent training base in the hands of Chu Qiguang.

But at this moment, the number of monsters was only one of the factors that surprised Saint Qiu Yuebai and others. Many scenes in the village were even more confusing to them.

There are long poles standing here and there on the road.

There are strange pipes on the poles, and the sound of water flowing can be heard faintly in the pipes.

Qiu Yuebai also saw that the pipes were connected to every house, and even connected to many tall and strong men with similar faces.

This is the blood pool network that has been continuously fed and expanded in the past six months, and has become more and more powerful. It has been connected to almost every corner of Yaoyin Village.

Although Qiu Yuebai and others were shocked by the sight before them.

However, they have also been taking Ruanjin Powder every day these days, so they cannot perform even 10% of their martial arts.

Fu Shui was no longer with him, and now he could only watch himself being escorted into a cell by the monsters.

After these months of hard work, Saint Qiu Yuebai looked thin and pale, as if she hadn't slept well for a long time.

But despite this, she still couldn't hide her elegant temperament, and she even had a sense of holiness because of this weakness.

But when she looked at Datongpu in front of her, she still had a look of dissatisfaction on her face. The conditions here were much worse than those in Tianqu Mansion.

But now that the situation is pressing, she can only accept this condition and live here with other goddesses and handsome men.

In addition to them, there are two harpies in Datongpu, Qiao Zina and Kati.

Both parties looked at each other warily and did not speak.

After a night's rest, the monsters and cultists were escorted by guards to a place called the dictation room by Chu Qiguang.

This is their future workplace.

Qiu Yuebai looked at the desk, paper and pen in the silent writing room, and the words 'Transcendence has no end' and 'Seize the present and win the future' written on the wall. She suddenly had a very bad feeling on her face.

"Are we going to continue dictating again?"

A trace of bitterness flashed across Qiu Yuebai's face. Over the past few months, she had felt like her brains were being squeezed dry.

The same is true for other people in Huangtian Dao, especially the last time the goddess Luo Binghong said she would explode in one breath, trying to make Chu Qiguang fascinated.

As a result, they burst into brain stem pain and wrote out all kinds of stories, histories, religious scriptures, legends, and taboos one by one, but Chu Qiguang seemed to be fine.

If Chu Qiguang hadn't been away for a long time, they would have exposed all the martial arts and Taoist techniques of Huangtian Dao sooner or later.

The following days made them feel more and more desperate. In addition to drinking porridge and sleeping, they wrote down knowledge every day.

The person with the lowest number of updates will be locked up in a single room for a day, suffering without food or water.

In addition, the most painful thing for them is the cold winter.

Nowadays, these former masters take Ruanjin Powder every day, and their martial arts skills have deteriorated greatly. However, in this winter, the cells are not even provided with a heater, let alone a hot bath.

Even Qiu Yuebai couldn't take a shower anymore, and his face turned bitter when he smelled his own stench.

The goddess Luo Binghong was the first one who couldn't bear it, and she ran out one night.

But Chu Qiguang came with burning fire and punched Luo Binghong to death in front of many prisoners.

Looking at Chu Qiguang's power, which was clearly at the Taoist level, despair flashed across the faces of the prisoners.

Looking at Luo Binghong's painful face, the prisoners who originally wanted to escape quickly stopped their thoughts.

Then Chu Qiguang began to set up rewards.

With the advent of hot baths, a day in a single room with a heater, meat, and other rewards... the prisoners began to get involved.

As the competition continued to become fierce, the Eagle Demon and the cultists of Huangtian Dao even gradually began to memorize various martial arts and Taoist techniques in their own memories.

The cultivation systems of Da Zhu and Huangtian Dao began to show their glimpses in front of Chu Qiguang.

In the yard on the other side, Luo Binghong was devouring her meal, with a hint of fear in her eyes.

Although she had negotiated terms with Chu Qiguang, after being imprisoned with Qiu Yuebai and the others for so long, she really almost thought that Chu Qiguang had forgotten their agreement, or had gone back on it.

At this moment, Chu Qiguang was reading the knowledge written down by the prisoners these days.

After this period of harvesting, his current Ring of Foolishness has turned into 28 profound gifts, 8 dark gifts, and 6 cursed gifts.

But now the prisoners' updates have gradually slowed down, and he plans to wait for a while before coming back.

Thinking of this, Chu Qiguang lamented that there were still too few prisoners in his hands.

After all, he now wants to increase the power of the Tiangang Dragon-Slaying Sword. He had previously thought of integrating the three major horizontal trainings, which required too much knowledge.

‘Practice martial arts is indeed a difficult road. I have so many people helping me but it’s still so slow. ’

With a sigh in his heart, Chu Qiguang lowered his head and continued to look at the updates from the hawk demons.

"There are also traces of Buddhism in Dazhu's martial arts and Taoism. Sure enough, it was Fanjing Sect, one of the three major Buddhist sects, who passed down the practice method in Dazhu."

"Why did the Fanjing Sect bring the Star Sutra to the West? And why did it bring it back?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head and looked at a meditation method written silently by the saint of Huangtian Dao.

"The cultivation method of Huangtian Dao is completely different from any martial arts and Taoism I have ever learned."

After reading the knowledge in his hand, he glanced at Luo Binghong and asked, "What are your plans next?"

Luo Binghong swallowed a mouthful of meat and said, "I want to go to Shuzhou."

Chu Qiguang nodded: "Okay, I happen to be going back to Shuzhou in a while, so you can go with me."

Before leaving Yaoyin Village, Chu Qiguang inspected the work as usual.

This time when he came to the Qi and Blood Workshop, he saw the Qi and Blood Machine that Shisanniang and others were designing.

In the blood pool at this moment, a farmer with an unusual body shape was sinking and floating.

He has four limbs and arms, and his head and trunk have armor and a helmet made of white bones.

The four arms were pumping blood back and forth, and were performing a set of Tianling body-building fists.

Originally, it was normal to see this place, but what shocked Chu Qiguang next was...

As the farmer was hoisted up, the bone armor on the back was pushed away from the inside.

Then a small figure crawled out.

"Zhou Yujiao?" Chu Qiguang stared at the figure and said, "Why are you in there?"

Zhou Yujiao glanced at him, put one hand on the farmer's bone armor, and sighed: "Brother... I'm too tired from practicing martial arts."

"I can't retreat as fast as you."

"So I decided!"

"I want to find a way to defeat Lei Yushu without practicing martial arts!"

Looking at the scene in front of him, pictures of various Gundams, mechas, colonial suits, etc. flashed through Chu Qiguang's head.

He couldn't help but have a thought in his mind: 'My sister actually pilots a mecha? ’

But this thing seemed so different from the world in front of him, so he quickly shook his head.

Next, Chu Qiguang just wanted to ask Zhou Yujiao how she thought of getting into the farmer.

Suddenly, he remembered the scene where he asked his sister to get into the loom, and secretly wondered if it was him who inspired him.

Thirteenth Niang on the other side said: "We originally wanted to create fists, palms, swords, and armor that can circulate qi and blood, but it is too troublesome to create such a qi and blood machine alone."

"We can only try to imitate the structure of the Farmer again and again, thinking about learning the technology of the Farmer, and then create our own Qi and Blood Machine."

The farmer and the inventor of the blood pool is a Taoist immortal. It is obviously not easy to imitate the above technology to create a new qi and blood machine.

Especially the power source of the farmers, until now Shisan Niang and others were completely confused.

Just when this kind of research was getting into trouble, Zhou Yujiao, who was watching the show on the side, said, "Why go to such trouble and just let people go into the farmer's body? Weapons and armor are already ready."

So Thirteen Niang and others gave up on building new machines, and instead changed the farmer's body structure to create space for a person inside.

The current progress of the research is still slow, and the available space can only accommodate a ten-year-old girl for the time being.

Thirteen Niang and others said: "Next, we are thinking about whether we can enlarge the size of the farmer and adjust the length of the limbs, but this will require stronger power.

We just wondered if we could combine multiple farmers to increase power, and add more bones on the outside for support..."

Listening to the reports of these craftsmen and warriors in the workshop, Chu Qiguang was also stunned.

Originally, he gave guidance several times, hoping that the craftsmen could develop something like guns, trains, and automobiles.

Now he finally understands that the thinking of people in this world is fundamentally different from that of people on Earth, and the technology developed through martial arts may indeed be more suitable for the human form.

'Perhaps the thinking on earth limits me in this regard...'

Looking at the eyes of everyone, Chu Qiguang nodded and said: "You have done a good job. Your money will be doubled this month. Let's continue to work hard."

At the same time, Chu Qiguang couldn't help but look at Zhou Yujiao a few more times. Seeing the 'lucky Jiaojiao' in the seeker's eyes, he thought to himself: 'Several studies related to blood pools seem to be all because of me. This sister speeded up the progress. ’

‘The result of drawing Cursed Gift after praying last time is also good. ’

'My sister...'

'Her luck seems to be picked up. ’

Chu Qiguang touched Zhou Yujiao's head a few more times and praised, "Well done."

When Zhou Yujiao heard this, she immediately smiled proudly on her face.

Chu Qiguang thought for a while: "Didn't you say you wanted to go to the capital with me?"

Zhou Yujiao immediately became excited after hearing this: "You want to take me there?"

Chu Qiguang nodded: "Let's go together then."

Zhou Yujiao jumped up excitedly.

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A restaurant in Lingzhou.

Li Yaofeng, disguised as an ordinary merchant, walked in and ordered a large table of dishes directly from the waiter.

This battle with Chu Qiguang made him realize that he could not easily deal with the opponent, and he would even be at risk.

So he could only give up the goal of Chu Qiguang temporarily.

Next, he plans to go back to the Nine Sacred Mountains, prepare for it, and then go deep into the Buddhist world to find new Buddha fire.

He thought that after he had refined the new Buddha Fire and improved his cultivation level, he would come to Chu Qiguang to settle the score.

At this moment, I heard the conversations of other drinkers.

"Chu Wushen is really a talented martial arts wizard. He beat up the leader of the cult at a young age."

"I heard that Li Yaofeng had one of his legs broken and crawled out."

"More than that... I heard that he kowtowed and begged for mercy. Mr. Chu didn't investigate for a while, so he escaped with his life..."

Li Yaofeng couldn't help but have a murderous look in his eyes as he listened to the bragging and spanking of these common people.

During this period, the news in Lingzhou about the battle between Chu Qiguang and him became more and more outrageous.

Those ordinary people don't understand the difference between martial arts and Taoism, and the strong ones who have entered Taoism. They only listen to the wind and rain.

Li Yaofeng also killed a few people who gossiped at first, but later found that almost the entire Lingzhou was doing this, and many of the people who took the lead were local wealthy families, and they all bought stocks.

His interest waned for a moment, and he sighed in his heart: "This land of Lingzhou really smells like copper. People's hearts are not as old as they used to be. From the nobles to the right and the common people, they all lie and believe in rumors." In contrast, the folk customs in Shuzhou are simple and ancient. ’

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These two chapters are not easy to separate, so they are combined into one.