This is also why in the original work, Ning Caichen stayed at Lanruo Temple for one night and came back safe and sound. When he went to ask for money from his debt, the restaurant owner didn't even dare to default on the debt, so he readily gave it to him.
It wasn't that he was afraid of Ning Caichen, a weak scholar, but that he and everyone in the town thought that Ning Caichen had become a ghost, and was just obsessed with it before his death. He never forgot to ask for the bill back and came here. Debt collected.
When ordinary people encounter things like ghosts demanding debts, without special means to restrain these spirits, how dare they not follow the ghosts' wishes.
When Zhong Yu's army arrived at Jinhua Mansion, the prefect general of Jinhua Mansion did not dare to resist at all, and directly led the 5,000 defenders in the mansion to surrender.
Then when Zhong Yu stayed in Jinhua Mansion, during a banquet, he overheard the eunuch of Jinhua Mansion complaining to him that the tree demons in Lanruo Temple in Guobei County were rampant and slaughtered passersby wantonly.
In the three years since he took office, no less than a thousand people have died at the hands of the tree demon, and the local people have suffered greatly.
When he just heard the news, Zhong Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately thought of the extremely famous movie A Chinese Ghost Story, which is also one of the most outstanding stories in Chinese fiction.
Among them, the love story between Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian is naturally very touching, Yan Chixia's righteousness and Bo Yuntian are also admirable, and even the evil of the tree demon grandma is hateful, but these are not the reasons why Zhong Yu pays attention to him.
Although Grandma Dryad is strong, according to intelligence speculation, she should have reached the sixth level.
But he was hampered by his true nature. Although the thousand-year-old locust trees stretched for dozens of miles and were huge, he had many advantages in fighting at home.
But because of this, he couldn't move around at will, and his range of activities was limited to the area around Guobei County, making it impossible to create a big climate at all.
Especially for Zhong Yu, who controlled hundreds of counties, the gains and losses of just one county were nothing. They could not disrupt his overall situation, let alone threaten his rule.
This must be the reason why the former governor of Northern Jiangxi Province knew that a tree demon was causing trouble in Guobei County of Jinhua Prefecture and was causing serious harm, but he never sent troops to conquer it.
It is because they know that the Dryad cannot become a climate, and because of its strong strength, it has a home field advantage and is extremely difficult to deal with.
If one person is not good, he may be in trouble, and the gain outweighs the loss.
But this is just because the governor's view is shallow, or his intelligence understanding of the tree demon is too one-sided, and he is not very clear about his roots.
The tree demon grandma is a subordinate of a big demon, the Black Mountain Demon King, and the Black Mountain Demon King is a big demon who suffers from cholera in the underworld.
The Demon King of Black Mountain recruited troops in the underworld and continuously attacked the underworld led by Emperor Fengdu. Now it has occupied 1/3 of the territory in the underworld, with great momentum and seriously disrupted the order of the underworld.
It can be said that a large part of the credit for the current chaos in the world, with demons and ghosts running rampant, is due to the hands of the Black Mountain Demon King.
The Black Mountain Demon King is very powerful. Legend has it that he is an eighth-level master and one of the best among them.
Moreover, there are countless ghost soldiers under his command, all of whom are elite troops who have experienced battles for a long time. Otherwise, the Fengdu Emperor would have been unable to fight and retreated steadily.
As a subordinate of the Black Mountain Demon King, the Dryad Granny appears in Guobei County. Even if she cannot leave because of her true body, the reason is worth pondering.
After all, although the tree demon is strong, it is only a sixth-level demon. Compared with the old Black Mountain demon who has reached the eighth level, he is not much different from an ant. How can he be specially chosen by the old Black Mountain demon? , and took him as his subordinate.
There must be some unknown secret in this, and the secret is related to the Black Mountain Old Demon's certain layout of the Yin and Yang worlds.
If this kind of layout appeared in other places, such as empires such as Korea, Wei, Tang, and Jin, then Zhong Yu would naturally not go to meddle in his own business when he was full.
After all, although Zhong Yu aspires to unify the entire human world, and even conquer the underworld, and even the legendary heaven that does not exist.
But all of this was something he only considered before he had this strength.
Now that Zhong Yu is weak, if the old Black Mountain demon can help him weaken the strength of the powerful empire next to him, maybe he will secretly laugh and take the initiative to help.
As for the difference between men and monsters, Zhong Yu, who has been emperor for a long time, has long since ignored it. He only considers the interests of the empire.
As long as the old demon of Montenegro can help him weaken the power of the neighboring empire so that he can have a better and easier strategy in the future, then he will only be grateful, not angry.
At most, for the sake of political show, to promote the righteousness of the human race, the cruel behavior of the old Black Mountain demon was scolded a few times in public, and then declared to be incompatible with each other.
But now the Black Mountain Old Demon has his hands on the Ming Dynasty. Zhong Yu, who has long regarded the Ming Dynasty as his own meal, will naturally not tolerate others taking food from his mouth, let alone allow his empire to rule. Great hidden danger.
No matter what the purpose of Grandma Dryad is, as long as he dares to appear in his own territory, no matter how powerful his backstage is, he must be removed.
It seems to be mentioned in the original book that after the Dryad Granny was eliminated by Yan Chixia and others, the big boss behind the scenes was the Black Mountain Demon King. After a battle of wits and courage, Yan Chixia and others successfully defeated the Black Mountain Demon King. He escaped from some underworld and successfully sent Nie Xiaoqian to reincarnation.
However, from Zhong Yu's point of view, since Yan Chixia had a neck-and-neck fight with Grandma Dryad, and was even at a disadvantage, then his strength must only be at the sixth level, and no matter how strong he is, he cannot be stronger than the seventh level.
But he was actually able to defeat the old demon of Heishan. You must know that the old demon of Heishan is an eighth-level master. There is a gap between Yan Chixia and Yan Chixia by two small levels and one large level.
How could Yan Chixia defeat such a powerful person so easily, even with the help of the seemingly powerful Buddha Diamond Sutra
It is not too difficult to fight across lower levels at lower levels. Zhong Yu can do it by himself. With a sixth-level cultivation level, he can easily challenge more than ten seventh-level warriors in single combat.
Now it is about to break through to the seventh level. When the strength increases dramatically, it will not be difficult to deal with dozens or even nearly a hundred of them at the same level.
But if he were to deal with an eighth-level person, he would be seeking death.
After all, although the sixth and seventh levels are called demigods and half-immortals, they are not true immortals after all, they are just a transition between mortals and immortals.
If you are not a god, you are still an ant after all.
If you want to deal with a real immortal god, you can only succeed if you gather hundreds of sixth- and seventh-level masters to form a large formation so that the immortal god cannot escape.
But even if they succeed, these masters will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and not many will survive in the end.
Besides, asking an immortal to stay in place and allow the enemy to attack is unlikely to be possible no matter how you look at it.
So this is nothing more than a falsehood. Mortals cannot deal with immortals.
(End of chapter)