Lingzhu City is located on the west coast of the Ghost Hell Sea, and the entire Lingzhu City is built on a mountain. Although it is built near the sea, it is not afraid of tsunamis.

In fact, within thousands of miles along the coastline, there is a shallow sea of money. Especially in the shallow sea within hundreds of miles around Lingzhu City, there are a large number of human-faced mussels.

These people's faces are as big as wheels, and small as a palm. The patterns on the mussels on the human face are like human faces, which looks quite terrifying.

But the spirit beads in the bodies of these face mussels are very valuable. Therefore, most of the people in Lingzhu City live on Lingzhu.

The bottom of this, of course, is the pearl divers.

There is a tradition here that women can only fish for spiritual beads. A man has a strong yang energy, which will destroy the spirit beads. Therefore, the pearls are almost all women.

There are tens of thousands of pearl divers, and they need to go deep into the sea to catch mussels.

No matter how shallow the sea is, it is dozens of zhang deep. Especially after years of fishing, the upper layer of the face mussels have been fished out. If you want to get the face mussel, you have to dive deeper.

The sea of the Ghost Prison is cold and demonic. Not to mention mortals, even cultivators can't stand soaking in the sea water for a long time.

Of course, pearl divers are mortals, and even if they know how to breathe a little, they can't withstand the soaking and erosion of the sea water of the ghost hell.

Pearl divers usually go to sea at the age of 14 and can work for three or five years at most. The body will age and not look like it. There are many monsters under the sea, and pearl divers often encounter various accidents.

It's a dangerous business, but because the profits are high enough, there are always people who are willing to risk their lives.

Of course, high profits breed many dark evils. Gangs were soon established to take control of the pearling industry.

When the Heart Sword Sect settles in, naturally it can't allow gangs to run rampant. As a sect, the Heart Sword Sect should be considered as a great order.

However, the Heart Sword Sect didn't like to deal with mundane affairs. The practice of the Heart Sword Sect is to call all the gangs together and let them pay their income proportionally.

As for this ratio, it is divided according to the proportion of the site.

Such a rough management method is the sect's favorite free-range breeding.

Since then, the pearl diving industry has also been included in the management of the Heart Sword Sect. However, the fate of the low-level pearl divers became more and more miserable.

Because of the Heart Sword Sect, the gang also has to pay a certain amount of income. This income vacancy will be compensated for by the pearl divers.

The pearl diver fought with her life, but she got very little money. Without money to retire, even if you can leave the shallow sea alive, it is difficult to live past the age of forty.

Xuanshi has an old-fashioned and square personality, and he believes that cultivators should not interfere in the lives of mortals. Gangs, this is a system of power established by mortals themselves, and since they exist, they have the value of existence.

Xuanshi will only faithfully implement the rules of the sect, as long as the gang obeys the sect, he will not care. As for the pearl diver, it is nothing in the eyes of Xuanshi.

The world is so difficult and difficult. People in any place, everywhere, live very hard. The pearl diver is just one of them.

Cultivators are responsible for protecting the community, but it is impossible to interfere with the fate of some people at the bottom. That's not what a cultivator should do, and a cultivator can't do that.

From the traditional concept of monasticism, there is nothing wrong with Xuanshi. And he has an old-fashioned personality and will not be flexible. Rigid implementation of rules, but do not feel wrong.

What's more critical is that the cultivators of the Heart Sword Sect have all managed it like this in the past generations. Including other sects, their management methods are much the same.

After becoming a cultivator, he is no longer a mortal. For mortals, there is no such identification. For the tragic fate of mortals, at most it is a few words of emotion.

The presiding officer of the Lingzhu Daoist Academy has changed, but the major gangs don't care. It is customary for the heads of the major gangs to visit the new presiding officer in person.

It's just that things were too hasty, and everyone needed time to prepare expensive gifts, so they didn't have time to visit Gao Zhengyang.

Of course, many of the gang leaders don't care too much about the new host.

To be able to gain a foothold in Lingzhu City, these gang leaders are inextricably linked to the Lingzhu Daoist Academy.

The chair of the Lingzhu Daoist Temple will change in turn, but except for the host, everyone else is a local.

These elders, hall masters, will naturally form families and establish personal power. It is precisely because of such a complex relationship that no matter who is the host, it is difficult to change the status quo of Lingzhu City.

Because, the first resistance comes from within. Although the host has great power, without the support of his subordinates, he can't do anything.

For the foreign hosts, the small Lingzhu City was not in the eyes of the original. As long as the Daoist Academy is operating normally, the Lingzhu business has enough profits, and the others don't need to be cared about.

Some lazy hosts who don't even care about anything.

It is precisely because this situation has lasted for too long, with internal and external collusion, and local forces have formed a dense network. Outside hosts must be set aside.

Local gangs are also self-aware and will not take the initiative to provoke the host. At least on the surface, make a deferential enough appearance.

However, this time, there was a sudden incident, but it was a conflict between the trial disciples and the local gang.

The trial disciples are either inner disciples or personal disciples, and they are all above the top, and they don't care about the gang's idle affairs. The gang will not provoke this group of people.

However, among the disciples who came to the trial this time, there was one person who was always full of resentment and couldn't find a place to vent.

This person is Zhenming, he knew that Zhenfang accompanied Gao Zhengyang to sleep to question, but he was defeated by Zhenfang, who had cultivated to Dajin, and fainted with anger.

After that time, Zhenming's cultivation took a step back. Every time he found someone looking at him, he suspected that the other party was secretly laughing at him.

Zhenming hid in the cabin and didn't dare to go out, but when he arrived in Lingzhu City, he had to come down.

However, he was still reluctant to test with the big team. I found an opportunity to sneak out alone.

Because of this, let Zhenming see that there is a group of people who drive pearl divers to work.

In the vast shallow sea, dozens of cyan fishing boats are scattered. On each fishing boat there are dozens of girls in leather clothes with faces as white as paper. Several big men held leather whips and swords, and kept shouting and scolding ruthlessly, driving the girl to the sea.

There were two girls whose frozen lips were purple, trembling all over, holding the legs of the big man and begging bitterly: "Uncle, you can't go down any longer, let our sisters rest for a while, and if you go down again, you will die......"

Dahan unceremoniously kicked the girl in the face, making her delicate little face bruised and swollen, "Fuck you have a lot of business, let you go down, don't talk nonsense." ”

The girl lay on the plank shivering, and she couldn't speak because of the pain in her face.

Dahan was even more dissatisfied, so he went up directly and gave him two whips. The girl screamed continuously, and the voice was so miserable that the hearts of those who listened to it were tense.

The girl's sister saw her sister being beaten and hurriedly pounced to protect her sister.

This angered the big man even more, and the leather whip was pulled down without a head, and a few whips knocked the sister unconscious.

The many pearl divers on the side looked numb, and many of them turned their faces and didn't dare to look at it again.

The big man was even more proud, pointing at the many pearl divers and shouting: "Turn your head for me to take a good look, disobedience is the end." ”

The arrogant and proud appearance of the big man is really disgusting.

Generally speaking, Maaki doesn't actually care about this kind of nosy. He is not a child either, and it is normal for people to bully people. It's like him, it's not that he's been bullied by Gao Zhengyang.

But Zhenming is in a bad mood and always wants to find a chance to vent. Seeing the big man with a whip and shouting five and six, Zhenming couldn't help it.

As a seventh-order cultivator, Zhenming naturally had no difficulty in sending this kind of big man. He didn't speak, and flew directly over with a palm thunder.

Thunder fell, and although the big man's body was strong, he was only a small second-order. The body turned directly into a piece of charcoal under the thunder light.

The sudden drastic change also shocked the other big men. The pearl diver was even more frightened and ran around.

Zhenming looked at everyone's panicked looks, and he was even more proud. He sneered, "You wicked people who do evil deserve to die." ”

As he spoke, he didn't allow the other party to react, and blasted out palm thunder one after another. Although he is not good at thunder, it is easy to deal with these little minions.

A series of more than ten palm thunders blasted all the big men into a ball of charcoal.

Zhenming easily killed many people, and his mood was greatly relaxed. He said to the pearl divers, "You are free, you can go." ”

Many pearl divers looked at Zhenming with fear on their faces, and no one dared to speak out.

Zhenming was quite dissatisfied, and these stupid women didn't know how to kneel and kowtow to thank him for his great saving grace. However, after killing some of the wastes who did evil, the mood was really very comfortable.

Though women are ignorant, they are nothing.

Zhenming flicked his sleeves in a dashing manner, and was about to leave, but the girl lying on the board suddenly struggled to get up, knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Dao Master, please stay, please stay." ”

"What's the matter with you?" Maaki was a little impatient, although the girl had two colors, she was far worse than his Makomi.

The girl said excitedly: "Master Dao, they are members of the Flying Feather Gang, if you leave like this, all of us will die." Please also ask Dao Ye to be gracious and save us. ”

Zhenming said disapprerovingly: "If there is something, just report my name: Zhenming." No one dares to touch you. ”

The girl kowtowed vigorously and begged: "True Ming Daoye, the Flying Feather Gang is powerful, and will never let us go, and please stay and help us." ”

The other pearl divers also came to their senses, and dozens of pearl divers knelt down and kowtowed together and begged: "Master Dao, save us, save us......"

Zhenming is a little annoyed, this group of women has a lot of things. He had killed them all, and he needed his help. Still?

He was about to flick his sleeves and leave, but someone flew up from a fishing boat in the distance and flew towards him.

Zhenming glanced at it and found that it was a young man of thirty years old, with a large robe on his body, and his chest was all exposed. His hair was also scattered, and he was barefoot.

This young man was tall and thick-shouldered, and although he was dressed casually, he looked very powerful. He has thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, a black beard on his mouth, and a dress up, which is very heroic.

"This Daoist Master stayed. ”

The young man stopped in front of Zhenming with a smile, and said with a smile: "I don't know what to call the master?"

"Who are you?" Zhenming glanced at the other party, a little seventh-order martial artist, running in front of him and snorting something.

The young man was also angry and introduced himself: "My name is Chen Changzai, and I am also a member of the Feiyu Gang. ”

He asked puzzledly: "I don't know how these people offended Dao Ye and provoked you to personally punish them." ”

"This group of guys forces women to do things, and their methods are vicious and cruel, and they are inhumane. Dao Ye did the right thing for heaven and destroyed this group of scourges. ”

Zhenming said that he pointed to the fishing boats around him and said, "I don't think you Flying Feather Gang is a good thing. Or dissolve it immediately, and save the Taoist master from destroying you with his own hands. ”

Dao Ye joked. ”

Chen Chang showed a touch of anger on his face, and then said with a smile: "My father Chen Ting is the master of the Dharma Transmission Hall of the Taoist Academy, and we are all a family. ”

"There are scum like you in the Daoist Academy!"

Zhenming didn't care about the master of the Dharma Transmission Hall in a small lower courtyard, and said disdainfully: "As a cultivator, you still organize a gang to do such dirty things, you should be damned......

Zhenming looked at Chen Changzai's ugly face, and his heart became more and more happy. The feeling of bullying people is cool. Of course, he is also happy and happy.

The master of the Lingzhu Daoist Academy's Dharma Hall is nothing, and he doesn't even have an official Dharma name, but after all, he is a person from the outer gate. He didn't have a reason for it, and there was no need to mess with the other party.

Chen Changzai didn't know that Zhenming was scaring him, he just saw that Zhenming was a personal disciple, and there were obvious marks on his Taoist clothes. Such a character goes back to complain, and their father and son can't bear it.

Chen Changzai couldn't help but feel murderous intent, this sea area is secluded, and there are no outsiders. Kill this guy, as long as you do it cleanly, who knows that he did it.

Zhenming didn't expect Chen Changzai to have that guts, he has always looked down on the outer disciples, the son of such an outer disciple is a fart.

He sneered and said, "In front of me, are you qualified to stand and not kneel down and die?" ”

Chen Changzai was still hesitating, he was a noble disciple, and he didn't know what the consequences would be if he killed one. But as soon as he was scolded by Zhenming, he had a strong anger in his heart.

Within the scope of Lingzhu City, Chen Changzai is also rampant. To be honest, it was the first time he had met such an arrogant and hateful guy. What's more, this man still wants to kill him.

Chen Chang faked a smile and said, "Master Dao, I'm young and ignorant, just spare me." ”

"Don't talk nonsense......"

Zhen Ming was scolding, when he saw Chen Chang flipping over his hand, and a cold sword light pierced him in front of the door.

"Vertical looking for death!"

This time Zhen Ming was really angry, he shouted loudly, and urged the palm thunder to send out a thunderbolt, which hit Chen Changzai.

This time, he didn't dare to be careless, and used Tiangang Zhenglei, the strongest thunder method he mastered. The shining thunder turned into an incandescent electric dragon, and the sound was extremely powerful.

Chen Changzai was not afraid, he flicked his fingers, and a three-color spirit bead flew out.

Spirit beads are graded by color. The more miscellaneous the color, the higher the spirit bead. A single color orb, the lowest order.

Spirit beads mixed with different colors also have different changes in Yuan Force. It has been hundreds of years since the mining of spirit beads, and identifying spirit beads has become a science, but no one can say all the changes in various spirit beads.

Chen Chang is already a high-grade spirit bead in this three-color spirit bead. Take it out and take it out for at least a few hundred taels of gold.

This three-color spirit bead contains a strange spell: Spirit Mirror Reflection.

To put it simply, as long as the attack does not exceed the tolerance limit of the three-color spirit bead, the three-color spirit bead can turn into a spirit mirror and reflect the attack back.

The three-color spirit bead was stimulated by the Tiangang Thunder Law and turned into a three-color interlaced fantasy mirror.

The Tiangang Thunder Method, which was like an electric dragon, suddenly reflected back after encountering the three-color mirror and fell on Zhenming.

Zhenming is only a seventh-order, and he has cultivated since he was a child, so he doesn't have much actual combat experience. Not even better at this kind of close combat. He didn't expect that Lei Fa would reflect back when he released it.

In a hurry, I wanted to pinch the French seal and resist hard. But how fast the Lei Fa is, the distance between the two sides is close, and before the True Ming Law Seal is completed, the person is hit by the Tiangang Lei Fa.

Fortunately, he has a protective decree given by the teacher, and when he encounters danger, he automatically activates a protective law shield.

But Zhenming's Tiangang Thunder Method is very powerful, and he also sent out a magic weapon just now, which is extremely powerful. The protective decree was struck by the thunder law, and it also shook and shook, and it was about to be shattered.

Zhenming also breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, he finally blocked his thunder law. But before he could catch his breath, the three-color mirror suddenly shattered, and a cold sharp sword light pierced the protective magic shield and pierced directly into Zhenming's eyebrows.

The True Ming Yang God was shocked, and before he could react, he was eroded by the strong poisonous qi on the blade, and his soul was quickly shattered.

Chen Changzai was merciless when he succeeded with a sword, and with a turn of the sword, the sword qi exploded, shattering Zhenming's head.

He hesitated for a moment and removed the two magic weapons from Zhenming's body.

The battle between the two was extremely short, and before the many pearl divers below could react, Maaki died.

Seeing Zhenming's headless body falling on the sea, many pearl divers were stupid.

Chen Changzai glanced at the many pearl divers, and sneered: "A group of scourges, you can't be left behind." ”

He was afraid of leaving traces, so he took out a red spirit bead from his waist and threw it on the boat.

The thousands of flames erupted after the spirit bead exploded, turning the fishing boat into a huge furnace. The pearl divers were also covered in flames, and they cried and jumped into the sea.

But the flame did not go out when it met the water, but burned more vigorously.

In a short time, all the pearl divers turned into charred corpses.

Chen Chang was looking around, and the nearest ship was also miles away. With the eyes of these people, it was impossible to see what was going on. Even if you want to tell the truth, you can't say anything.

Chen Changzai flew back to his ship, ordered everyone not to move, and he returned to Lingzhu City alone.

As soon as he returned home, Chen Changzai found his father Chen Ting and told him the whole thing.

After Chen Ting heard this, he was also extremely angry. This son doesn't have a city government in the end, it's obviously a simple thing, but he made it like this.

But at this point, there is no turning back.

"We couldn't hide this matter, so we insisted that it was a foreign cultivator who had a conflict with that personal disciple, and killed a boatload of our people......"

Chen Ting said: "The Ghost Flame Dao people of the Heavenly Ghost Sect are always wandering around, and this person likes to do it in secret, so he said that he did it well. He has to carry this pot if he doesn't carry it, he can't explain it!"

In the afternoon, Gao Zhengyang saw Zhenming's headless corpse.

The killing of a personal disciple is not a trivial matter!

According to others, it was the Ghost Yan Daoist of the Heavenly Ghost Sect who did it. When it comes to the Heavenly Ghost Sect, things are even more troublesome.

It's Xuanguo, they all frowned, feeling that things are a bit tricky.

(End of chapter)