Jiuzhou Continent, Lingzhou.
Lingzhou has many strange mountains and steep mountains, with peaks towering into the clouds and rolling hills all over. It is unknown how many caves and paradises are hidden.
Many sects in the world are located in Lingzhou. There is a sect or cottage almost every seven or eight hills. Of course, most of them are small sects. The strongest ones are just acquired first-rate warriors, with innate masters sitting in charge. There are very few sects.
As for the famous sects that have been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years in the Jianghu, most of them are located in the other eight states, not Lingzhou.
Because this is the place where the ancestral home of Taoism in Kyushu is located!
In the thousands of years of history of Kyushu, there have been many real Taoists who practiced and attained Taoism in Lingzhou. They were respected by thousands of people and were regarded as heavenly masters and national masters by successive imperial courts.
Taoism is mainly divided into three branches. It is said that each branch has several supreme masters, making it a well-deserved top sect in the world.
In the world, only the Demon Sect and the Buddhist Temple can compare with it!
Longhu Mountain is the seat of the Yuqing lineage of Taoism. This mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist all the time, and the fairy light of purple clouds is endless. It also has the potential of a tiger sitting on a dragon's plate. It should be regarded as the world's first-class Lingshan Immortal Mansion.
At Longhu Mountain, the leader of the Yuqing lineage saw the stars falling from the sky, and the light was comparable to the scorching sun. Suddenly, on a whim, a message appeared in his heart: (Note ①)
"The stars fell and the world was in chaos."
"The extraterrestrial demons are causing trouble in the Nine Provinces and must be destroyed!"
"Exterior demon?" Headmaster Yuqing frowned, not knowing why such a sentence appeared in his heart.
However, the word "Devil" does not sound like a good thing at first sight. It should be the same as the monsters in mythology. It is extremely harmful to Kyushu, the human race, and the world. Otherwise, he would not suddenly receive a warning from Heaven and act on a whim.
When the late Emperor of the Dayuan Dynasty was in power, the land of Kyushu was filled with complaints and people's anger continued.
But now that the young emperor has ascended the throne, there are relatives in power in the court, the empress dowager favors the eunuchs, treacherous ministers are in power, natural disasters are happening all over the world, and corrupt officials are plundering the people's wealth.
It can be said that the people are miserable and living in dire straits. The people of the Great Abyss have lost their hearts and there are signs of the end of the dynasty.
Now that the stars are falling, it will be the last straw that breaks the abyss, and will cause the world to enter troubled times faster.
If Headmaster Yuqing guessed correctly, the major families and clans in Kyushu should have been prepared for troubled times, and even wanted to replace the Dayuan Dynasty and become the next unified dynasty.
"Ask Qingxuan to come to Yuanshi Temple!"
An hour later, Qingxuan, the great disciple of the Yuqing lineage, led many of his brothers down the mountain to search for someone with the Qianlong destiny in the land of Kyushu to help him quell the coming troubled times, stabilize the world, and establish a new dynasty.
Of course, while looking for Qianlong, Qingxuan should also pay attention to the sudden emergence of rumors about strange people and monsters in the rivers and lakes. They are most likely to be extraterrestrial demons.
One of Qingxuan's tasks is to kill him. Even if he cannot kill him due to his strength, he can still send the news back to Longhu Mountain so that the headmaster and others can take action.
All the supreme masters on the land of Kyushu were like Master Yuqing, who suddenly had a whim and received a warning from heaven.
So all the top sects in the world sent out their disciples, searching for the whereabouts of the demons outside the realm, and wanting to participate in the coming troubled times.
For a time, the land of Kyushu was changing, and undercurrents were surging. Countless people in the world suddenly discovered that there were more and more innate masters who were originally very rare, and even very young masters. Even the rumored master masters appeared.
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Youzhou, Yunzhong County.
Outside Shiniu Village, dozens of cold corpses lay in a pool of blood, their eyes full of horror and fear.
Beside these corpses, thirty or forty bandits knelt on the ground, trembling violently. Some of the timid ones even had feces and urine flowing all over their lower bodies, and they were so frightened that they became incontinent.
"Immortal, have mercy on me! Immortal, have mercy on me!"
These bandits threw their weapons aside and kept kowtowing to Xie Jin standing in the sky, hoping to beg Xie Jin for his life.
"The little one has an 80-year-old mother lying in bed, and the little one has a newborn baby waiting to be fed. I beg the immortal to spare my life!"
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Xie Jin, who was standing in mid-air, saw this scene with an expressionless face and was not moved at all.
Half an hour ago, Xie Jin just flew out of the jungle and came into contact with the villagers of Shiniu Village, wanting to know the basic situation of the world here.
However, he did not expect that the human race here could not speak Lingwen (Zhenwuzhou had switched to Lingwen after hundreds of years), which made Xie Jin unable to understand what the villagers of Shiniu Village said for a while.
Fortunately, the spirit text conforms to the rules of heaven and earth. After some effort, Xie Jin was finally able to understand the words of the villagers around him who were worshiping him, and knew that the latter called him "immortal".
Immortals and gods should be equivalent, Xie Jin thought in his heart.
Since the emergence of Shinto, in the eternal world, not all warriors can be called gods. Only those people or ghosts who refine and control the gods' edicts can be called gods.
Just when Xie Jin asked about the basic situation of Jiuzhou Continent, a group of vicious bandits suddenly appeared outside the village, armed with weapons, trying to rob Shiniu Village of food.
What happened next was naturally that Xie Jin flew out of the village and killed more than a dozen bandits with one knife. As for the others, in horror, they quickly kowtowed to Pan and begged for their lives.
Xie Jin looked at the villagers in Shiniu Village and said, "These people are here to rob your village. How do you want to deal with them?"
Hearing this weird "immortal language", the village chief of Shiniu Village, holding a cane and with a wrinkled face, walked out and saluted Xie Jin tremblingly in mid-air: "Immortal, these people are from around these four villages and seven villages. Bandits who have been wandering around for a long time, it is better to send them to Guangyuan City to report to the official."
There are only sixty or seventy dead bandits here, but there are rumors that there are more than five hundred bandits. Obviously these are just part of them.
If these bandits died near Shiniu Village and the immortal left, then dozens of families in Shiniu Village would most likely be avenged by those vicious bandits. Massacres of villages were not uncommon in times of war and chaos.
It's better to send the bandits in front of you to the government. It will be trouble for the government to find other bandits.
"That's fine, as you wish." Xie Jin pondered for a moment and agreed with the village chief's words.
Seeing this, the village chief quickly ordered the young men in the village to take out hemp ropes and tie up all the remaining bandits, preparing to send them to the nearest Guangyuan City in a few days.
Under Xie Jin's pressure, the bandits did not dare to resist, so they could only let the villagers tie them up while trembling all over.
"Huh?" Suddenly, Xie Jin seemed to have discovered something, and his eyes fell on a bandit who was about thirty years old.
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Note ①: The author only knows a few famous Taoist mountains, so he chose a name. The Longhu Mountain in this world is different from the earth (fictional background of the novel)
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