"Whew-" Zhang Mingcong put down the glass in his hand and let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"33 yuan, thank you for your patronage. The boss's voice rang in his ears at the right time.

Syllable!

Zhang Mingcong skillfully auctioned out a hundred-yuan bill, "Change 34 thank you." ”

"You, you......" The boss shook his head helplessly, "Why don't you bring change every time you go out?"

Maybe it's because the boss is easy-going, or maybe it's because there are fewer old-fashioned teachers who "wear glasses" to look at him from the Zhang family, in short, Zhang Mingcong, who has always paid attention to etiquette and the eyes of others and lives cautiously, is a little less restrained in the boss's shop, but a little more reckless and free.

Only at this time will people ignore his peerless immortal wealth and amazing identity, and only in this way will people truly realize that Zhang Mingcong is just a teenager, a high school student who should have enjoyed his time on campus and wandered in the sea of learning.

"Conscience of heaven and earth, boss," I only heard Zhang Mingcong defend to the boss, "You are really losing money in this transaction, you see, every time the kid drinks 33 yuan of glazed fruit, he only insists on making 34 change, isn't this just to help the boss make a profit - do you know how many people complain about this matter, I can't count?"

"Come less. Obviously, the boss was not moved by Zhang Mingcong's "true feelings", and only listened to him: "Last time you drank two glasses, but you still only gave a red ticket, and you still have to insist on finding 34 yuan." ”

"This ......" Zhang Mingcong suddenly showed a crying and laughing expression, "Don't you care?"

"I can't say that," the boss said, "It's my freedom to take any raw materials, but I'm a businessman now, and the business is as much as I should be, how can I not be serious?"

"Well, you're defeated. Zhang Mingcong shook his head helplessly.

"Say," the boss seemed to remember something, "I said okay last time, why didn't you go to the Candle Dragon Ruins with me to pick, haven't you always wanted to go?"

In an instant, the boss felt that Zhang Mingcong's breath had changed. It's not good - the boss said to himself, and immediately laid an enchantment (although there were only the two of them in the boss's store at this time).

After a short silence, Zhang Mingcong, who had a serious expression, said: "Boss, in addition to Kunlun, Penglai, Shushan and other hidden immortal sects from ancient times, the world's Xuanmen, especially the Fu Sect, all respect the ancestor Heavenly Master (Zhang Daoling) as the leader. Speaking of which, he's a descendant of the boss, right?"

"Probably......" the boss touched his nose, "after all, there was a gap of four hundred years between Gaozu Lihan and the Taiping Dao Rebellion ((1)) at the end of the Han Dynasty, and he was able to enter the history books by founding Zhengyi ((2)) at that time." And my old Zhang family has been multiplied by four hundred of you, and it is difficult to tell which one he is. ”

"Okay......" Listening to the boss's somewhat casual answer, Zhang Mingcong wiped the cold sweat that broke out, "Then I don't know how much do you know about the Dao of the Shangqing Sect on Maoshan Mountain, which belongs to the same 'Three Mountains Fuqi' as my Dragon and Tiger Mountain Heavenly Master Dao, and respects the Dharma lineage?"

"Well...... Although I, an old man, can't keep up with the times, I still know a little bit about the different laws in the world. The boss said without thinking: "The Maoshan faction, together with Longhu Mountain and Gesoap Mountain, is known as the 'Three Sects of Fu Zong', and it is the giant of the Daomen Fu Sect. In the fourth year of Song Zhezong Shaosheng (1097 AD), the imperial court ordered that the three major factions of Zhengyi, Shangqing and Lingbao with Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain and Gesoap Mountain as the main mountain were named "Jingqi Three Mountains". At that time, it was the Three Mountains Dingli who led the Taoism of the entire Jiangnan region (at that time, the Quanzhen Dao, which belonged to the Danding sect in the northern region, was the most prosperous and competed with the southern Taoism). But by the time of Emperor Li of the Southern Song Dynasty, the situation had changed subtly. Because of Zhang Tianshi's meritorious service, the emperor named the thirty-fifth generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Keda as "raising the Three Mountains Fu Gong and the official affairs of the palaces in front of the palace". It is because the Dragon and Tiger Sect was able to unify the various factions of Fu, and the disciples of each faction were commensurate with their brothers, and the wonderful methods of the various factions were also circulated - according to my reading of the classics of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain Dao, I learned that the Maoshan Dao method is mainly based on driving and calling as the support. He is best at the art of soul, regent, and god beating (please god). ”

Speaking of this, the boss suddenly thought of an old acquaintance, so he learned from the tone that the guy used when he gave lessons to his apprentice who had been complained about by his poisonous tongue many times: "It's like a summoner in a mage." ”

"Boss, you're very happy to be so skinny......" Zhang Mingcong was a little difficult to accept such a painting style, but he still kept it serious, "The problem lies in Maoshan's method of conjuring spirits." ”

"Oh?" the boss frowned - it seems that the mess caused this time is really not small.

"A senior brother of the Maoshan faction of my generation, to be specific, that is the eldest disciple of the Shangqing Palm Sect, he originally wanted to detain a few evil ghosts for himself - first, to make them listen to their use in front of his tent, and second, to reduce the risk of powerful ghosts hurting people, and to protect the living beings of one side - but he never expected that that senior brother could really detain a big ghost king!"

"This ......" the boss's brows furrowed even deeper, "I haven't paid attention to the affairs of the cultivation realm for a long time, but in my impression, the realm that can give birth to a peerless ghost king has nowhere else but Xudu, could it be that you, senior brother, mistakenly accepted the ghost king raised by the Zhong family in Xudu?"

In addition to the sects that are inherited by the Taoist system and the Dharma lineage, there are also countless Xiuzhen families linked by the concept of bloodline, which is very Chinese characteristics. And the Zhong family mentioned by the boss is a family composed of the descendants of the famous ghost king Zhong Kui left in the yang world. The Zhong family has always been known as "the people of the yang world, the way of the underworld". Born as a human being but cultivating ghosts, coupled with the secret method of cultivating and refining ghosts, the family has never been liked by the righteous and famous families, and the successive heads of the Zhong family seem to be doing their own thing, both good and evil, which makes the children of the Zhong family have always had perverse personalities and strange tempers, but they are extremely protective of each other. This is quite a bit of the style of the "Peach Blossom Island Disciple" under the "East Evil" sect written by the Jin family, which can be called the first difficult family in the cultivation world.

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Mingcong heard the change of color in this family in the cultivation realm, he only smiled slightly bitterly and said, "If it were really them, it would be fine." The words really revealed a bit of hope.

"Okay...... "The boss's smile has already changed a little, "it seems that the trouble is much more than that." ”

"That senior brother is not an ordinary ghost, but a 'devil'!" Zhang Mingcong recalled his busy days in recent days, and only felt that the three corpse gods were jumping.

"Devil?" The boss felt that the development of the situation was becoming more and more incomprehensible at this time, "Could it be that this ghost has also practiced the Demon Dao Exercises?"

"Uh...... To be exact, he is a 'demon'. ”

"Demons?"

"Yes, the demon clan from the Western Hell is still a lord with a head and a face, and his lord is one of the seventy-two pillar demon gods!"

As soon as these words came out, everything was quiet.

It took a while for the boss to organize his own language:

"Well, this is a national war - but since his feudal lord is one of the seventy-two pillar demon gods, how can he allow his vassals to be taken by foreign monks so easily?"

"Who knows?" Zhang Mingcong smiled bitterly, "According to the letter from the Magic Association that the Dao Alliance received yesterday, they are also confused now. ”

"So......" the boss's eyes seemed to wander.

"What the hell is going on in hell?"

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Exegesis:

Note (1): Taiping Dao Rebellion: The "Yellow Turban Rebellion" launched by Zhang Jiao (?-184) in the first year of Zhongping (184) against the corrupt court of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Because many of its subordinates are Taiping Dao disciples, it is called the Taiping Dao Rebellion.

Note (2): Zhengyi: In fact, the official name of the sect founded by Zhang Daoling in the late Han Dynasty is Zhengyi League Weidao, also known as Tianshi Dao. And "Five Buckets of Rice Dao" is a contemptuous term for outsiders, and Taoist disciples will not call Zhengyi like this, just as Confucian disciples will never call Confucianism "Ten Dried Meat Teaching" because Confucius wanted to collect his disciples to restrain the belly (ten dried meat tied together).