It was not the first time for many people off the field to see the sound repairmen fighting, but it was the first time to see them using a loudspeaker in battle.
Although it was eventually confirmed that this thing had no magical power and could not cause any substantial harm, the mental trauma it brought was insignificant.
If a sound cultivator suddenly does this during a battle, he can scare his opponent into a daze.
For a moment, the entire square was filled with question marks: What is this
They did know that this kind of speaker-shaped thing could make the sound travel further, and there were some simple speakers in the mortal realm, but they didn't know that the sound amplification effect of this thing could be so strong.
However, there was no time for everyone to study the principle of vocalization. Huan Ruochan was captured and interrogated immediately.
Seeing that the situation was already decided, Huan Ruochan's face turned pale and he could only dejectedly tell the whole story.
It turned out that because his heart of Taoism was not pure, he had not made any progress for decades after the Nascent Soul stage.
This is nothing. The higher the realm, the harder it is to break through. There are many people in the cultivation world who stay in a certain realm for decades or even hundreds of years. In fact, most people may not be able to reach the Nascent Soul stage in their entire lives.
It was not until more than ten years ago that Huan Ruochan discovered that his internal organs were beginning to fail and he was showing signs of decay.
Jiang Hui thought for a moment, "Yes, Elder Huan suddenly aged a lot more than ten years ago..."
Zhu Changyang suddenly understood after hearing this. No wonder although they were also elders, Huan Ruochan's painting style was so different from that of the others. He looked like a middle-aged or elderly person.
But he was a modern man and was used to the setting that senior executives all had middle-aged faces, so he didn't think much about it.
To be able to become an elder of a sect as big as Yaoyin Pavilion, one's talent must be high. Huan Ruochan attained enlightenment quite early, and originally looked very young, around 30 years old.
After finding out that he was beginning to age, Huan Ruochan was greatly panicked. In the world of cultivation, aging was a precursor to death. Unless he could make a breakthrough and advance again in the short term, he would not live long.
Huan Ruochan was unwilling to sit and wait for death, but he had not made any progress in decades, and it would be difficult for him to make a breakthrough in a short period of time.
After reading various books on quick cultivation, Huan Ruochan decided to absorb a large amount of spiritual power through spirit stones, so as to quickly increase the spiritual power in his body.
But spirit stones are so rare that each major sect’s spirit vein can only mine a certain amount each year, which must be distributed to disciples for use. It is impossible to supply a large amount to one person.
However, Huan Ruochan happened to be the elder in charge of secular affairs, and he was responsible for all external affairs of the sect, including the management of Raoliang Academy.
Linliudu was at a critical juncture in recent years, and had to spend half of the year in seclusion, so he had to hand over some of his authority. Previously, Huan Ruochan had been the most active in management, and his results were good, so Linliudu naturally delegated this part of power to him. Who would have thought that he was no longer the same as before.
Huan Ruochan and headmaster Zou Fuyue worked together to make a fortune through the academy. Not only did they accept bribes to allow some rich children with insufficient talents to enter Raoliang Academy, but they also cheated in the exams and eventually entered Yaoyin Pavilion. They also cooperated with the Jinshi Shop in Gongyu City and required students to buy musical instruments and many items needed for daily practice from the Jinshi Shop.
Through these means, Huan Ruochan gathered a large amount of spirit stones in a short period of time. Finally, by accumulating spiritual power madly, he achieved a breakthrough in realm and entered the early stage of distraction a few years ago, thus suppressing the continued aging of his body.
At this point, Huan Ruochan's face turned even paler, and he smiled sadly, "If not for this, I would have met my end years ago, and would have been buried in the graveyard of Fuli Mountain."
Everyone looked at each other in silence, not knowing what to say.
They practiced hard throughout their lives in order to attain the Tao and rise to heaven, to escape the mortal cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death. However, only a few could finally rise to the top, and most people would inevitably meet their end like Huan Ruochan.
Lin Liudu and several other elders also had sad expressions on their faces.
Jiang Hui sighed, "When Elder Huan began to age, we all thought he would soon die and were very worried about him. Later, his cultivation level increased greatly and his progress was rapid. We thought he had finally devoted himself to cultivation and achieved enlightenment before the critical moment of life and death... I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it."
He didn't finish the rest of his words, but Zhu Changyang could fully understand his feelings.
A colleague who was originally in poor health suddenly becomes energetic and radiant. You think he has regained his health through exercise, but in the end you find out that he has taken drugs.
That’s not all, the money used to buy the medicine was embezzled company funds.
This is very rough.
After breaking through the realm and stopping the decline, Huan Ruochan should have stopped. But he had already tasted the sweetness of quick success through taking drugs, so how could he concentrate on practicing slowly? Instead, he further increased his means of making money.
There are many disciples in the major sects who have bought their degrees with their wealthy family wealth, and the immortal sects have always condoned the existence of this unspoken rule, but these places are strictly limited and cannot affect normal enrollment.
Huan Ruochan had been doing things very secretly before, but later on, the spirit stones collected by these means could not satisfy him any more, so he secretly instructed Zou Fuyue to increase the proportion of degrees bought and sold for money.
Therefore, many of the new disciples who have entered Yaoyin Pavilion in recent years have extraordinary family wealth, and they are given a fairy-quality musical instrument as soon as they enter the door.
Some elders, such as Jiang Hui, usually devoted themselves to cultivation and paid little attention to worldly affairs. Although they felt that the talents of new disciples had slightly declined in recent years, they did not think too much about it.
Lin Liudu was in seclusion most of the time, and his impression of Huan Ruochan remained the same as before, so he had no time to doubt him.
Until this year's exam, Yaoyin Pavilion announced that the first-place student in the exam would play with Jiang Hui on the Le Tian You. When the news came out, the students of Raoliang College were shocked. Someone immediately found Zou Fuyue privately and asked him to do it on his behalf.
Among them, the Peng's Bank in Gongyu City was the most generous. Not only did it offer a large amount of spirit stones, it also took the initiative to offer to manage the accounts for Huan Ruochan.
However, among the students taking the exam this time, there was a female disciple named Jie Xizhi whose skills were particularly outstanding. To be on the safe side, Zou Fuyue instructed Peng Gu to find an excuse to destroy Jie Xizhi's pipa so that she could not take part in the exam.
Unexpectedly, Xie Xizhi somehow managed to collect enough spirit stones before the exam, and bought a new pipa from Jinshihang, so he took the exam in time.
But having come to this point, Raoliang Academy could no longer allow Jie Xizhi to enter Yaoyin Pavilion.
With Xie Xizhi's talent, once she enters Yaoyin Pavilion, she will definitely attract the attention of the elders. Xie Xizhi and Peng Gu have a deep grudge, and she must have some speculation about the private transaction between Peng Gu and Zou Fuyue. If she mentions it in front of other elders, things will be bad.
So Zou Fuyue decided to go all out and ignored the extraordinary skills that Jie Xizhi displayed in the college entrance examination and simply shut her out.
I thought the matter ended there, but I didn't expect that just one day later, Jiang Hui suddenly started investigating the affairs of Raoliang College.
Jiang Hui had not been involved in worldly affairs for many years, so he was inevitably unfamiliar with this. In addition, time was tight and he acted in a hurry. He thought that the other party would not dare to do anything to him, so he did not conceal it carefully.
Little did he know that Huan Ruochan had already discovered his secret relationship with Yin Kanwei. Jiang Hui went out of the mountain several times a year to meet with Yin Kanwei, and this had never stopped for decades.
Huan Ruochan was in charge of secular affairs and had long suspected his whereabouts, and finally discovered this secret several years ago. However, Huan Ruochan himself was already addicted to taking drugs and practicing, so he did not report the matter.
After discovering that Jiang Hui was secretly investigating Raoliang College, Huan Ruochan immediately thought that he could make a big fuss about this matter so that Jiang Hui would not have the opportunity to report him.
What happened next was what the guests saw and heard at the banquet.
Lin Liudu did find demonic energy around the hall, but it was not set up by Jiang Hui and Yin Kanwei, but left by Huan Ruochan.
Huan Ruochan was already possessed by demons and was on the verge of falling into the devil. He found Yin Kanwei's mark on Jiang Hui's Jiaowei Tongqin, and used it as a source to create a large amount of similar demonic energy to confuse Lin Liudu.
Huan Ruochan deliberately chose to start the fight at the Leyou Banquet, hoping to use the pressure from many of his peers to force Lin Liudu to convict Jiang Hui as soon as possible to serve as a warning to others. When Yin Kanwei showed up, Jiang Hui had no chance to defend himself.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Changyang intervened, and Lin Liudu did not convict Jiang Hui, but interrogated him personally. Seeing that things were not going as they had planned, Zou Fuyue hurried to a side hall with Huan Ruochan to discuss matters in a hurry.
The two men acted cautiously and checked the surroundings carefully first to make sure their conversation would not be overheard by anyone.
Who would have thought that Zhu Changyang, who was far away in the hall, could have heard their conversation silently and even reproduced it.
This kind of skill is so terrifying.
Finally, they failed.
At the end, Huan Ruochan was in disbelief again, staring at Zhu Changyang and asking, "How on earth did you do that?"
"Haha, it's nothing, just a little technique." Zhu Changyang said modestly.
In fact, the truth of the matter is very simple. He guessed Huan Ruochan's purpose at the Leyou Banquet, but Jiang Hui had no evidence at that time, and Huan Ruochan had made careful arrangements. It was not easy to expose Huan Ruochan with just a few words.
After Jiang Hui was taken away, Huan Ruochan looked strange. Zhu Changyang guessed that he might have a trick up his sleeve, so he gave the recording equipment used to record records to Jun Shu and asked him to follow secretly.
It happened that the workshop activated new momentum the day before, and Zhu Changyang upgraded the function of the recording equipment to achieve better recording effects.
After Jun Shu followed, he saw Huan Ruochan and Zou Fuyue meeting secretly and going to a side hall. He got ahead of them and put the recording equipment on the beam of the side hall.
This recording device is made purely of ordinary materials and does not contain any spiritual power. Zhu Changyang even specially replaced the original spiritual power battery with an ordinary dry battery.
So Huan Ruochan didn't notice it at all.
The truth is so plain, but Zhu Changyang is not a fool and it is impossible for him to reveal the technology of the phonograph in public.
With so many people watching, it was an opportunity to showcase the product, so he pointed to the huge bronze flower on the ground and said, "To be honest, this is the phonograph I recently made. You have all seen its functions, but its main function is actually this..."
As he said this, he took out another vinyl disc, put it on, and pressed the start button.
The disc slowly rotated and the moving sound of the pipa sounded. The vivid demonstration instantly made everyone understand the true purpose of this machine.
Zhu Changyang rubbed his hands and said, "Friends who are interested can contact me later to consult and order. The quantity is limited, first come first served."
Off the field: “…”
This transition is both abrupt and smooth.
Lin Liudu sweatdropped a little, luckily Zhu Changyang was very tactful, he immediately stepped aside after advertising and did not accept consultation or sell goods on the spot, otherwise he really wouldn't know what to say to him.
At this point, the cause of the whole incident is roughly clear, except for one thing.
"Elder Huan, it seems that you were also responsible for the theft of the tomb in Fuli Mountain?" Lin Liudu looked at Huan Ruochan solemnly, "Why did you do this? And where did the stolen bodies go?"
Huan Ruochan's expression changed, and after a while, tears fell from his eyes: "I am ashamed of all the ancestors and predecessors. Because of my own selfish desires, they cannot rest in peace after their death."
At the end of his speech, he sobbed in his throat.
Although he was afraid of death and made a big mistake, he had stayed in Yaoyin Pavilion for many years and always had respect for the founder of the sect.
At this point, all his crimes were exposed, his reputation was ruined, and he felt that it was all just a dream. Everything that happened during that time was just a bubble. The guilt in his heart that was suppressed by greed resurfaced.
Lin Liudu heard something unusual and asked, "What happened?"
Huan Ruochan wiped away her tears and continued, "Those tombs were stolen by outsiders who forced me to work together. Because my sea of consciousness is insufficient, using spirit stones to quickly cultivate has many consequences, and I need to suppress it with elixirs, but that is just drinking poison to quench thirst. Later, I also developed a demon in my heart, which made me controlled by others. Those elixirs are, are... are..."
He said "yes" several times, but he still couldn't say the rest of the words.
"It's a silencing spell." Lin Liudu thought to himself that something was wrong and pressed his fingers against Huan Ruochan's forehead.
But it was too late. After Huan Ruochan mentioned the elixir, his throat seemed to be locked. His voice became smaller and smaller, but his eyes became wider and wider. He suddenly screamed and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
Surging spiritual energy burst out from his body and spread to the surroundings.
Everyone was startled, and when they looked again, Huan Ruochan had collapsed to the ground, looking as haggard as a mortal centenarian, with his black hair completely white, and no sign of life in his body.
Lin Liudu's index and middle fingers were still on his forehead, and after a moment he slowly retracted them and said softly, "Elder Huan exploded."
"How could that be?" Jiang Hui asked in surprise, "Even if he was silenced, at most he would be injured, but it shouldn't be that serious..."
Lin Liudu said succinctly, "It is the consequence of forcibly using spirit stones to improve cultivation."
Jiang Hui was stunned, and finally sighed.
The abundant spiritual power in the spirit stone can help with spiritual practice and make up for the deficiency of drawing energy from heaven and earth on a daily basis.
However, the quick-learning technique of using spirit stones has always been banned by various sects, because spirit stones can bring a large amount of spiritual power in a short period of time, but if it is not based on long-term hard training, the sea of consciousness is insufficient, and a large amount of spiritual power accumulation can easily cause problems. In the mildest case, it can lead to obsession and mental disorders, and in the worst case, the sea of consciousness cannot withstand the excessive spiritual power and eventually explodes and dies.
In Huan Ruochan's case, it should be both.
Zhu Changyang sighed upon hearing this and said with emotion: "It seems that no matter where you are, just taking drugs and not keeping up with exercise won't work."
Studio:
[Changyang is so annoying, did he know that I use health supplements to comfort myself and deliberately scare me? ]
[Thank you, I was educated. I will immediately switch to the fitness live broadcast next door.]
The author has something to say:
Chang Yang: A positive anchor, always remind everyone to take care of their bodies! Exercise scientifically! Apply nutrient solution frequently!
(End of this chapter)