Listening to this organization, the ways to make money can be described as colorful and varied. From grain to ore, from silk to cloth, from spices to tobacco, from the dark-skinned Kunlun slave to the versatile and slender Guangling thin horse; In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, temples and markets, as long as it is a money-making business that people can think of, there is no place where the tentacles of the truth cannot reach; Reasonable, secret, illegal, as long as it is stained with a lot of silver, this behemoth can be accepted without taboos.

And the smartest enemy of the Diting Organization is their organizational structure, which is extremely streamlined! If I had to put it in a concrete way, it would be the shape of an octopus. Every time a new trade route is opened, it is like a new tentacle stretched out; And although these tentacles all originate from the ontology, they are also side hustles that can be given up and cut off at any time. The most important thing is that the core of Diting not only rarely shows up, but also never participates in any business. In this way, no matter how many righteous knights like Shen Gui are, they can only cut off one of their tentacles, which is not enough to hurt the root of Di Ting.

However, today, the Taoist Qilin Jun, who was deafened by Bai Wenyan's rolling words, is one of the six chief stewards of the high-level Diting.

The name of this organization is called Di Ting, and it comes from a kind of mythical beast recorded in the texts of the Buddha.

According to the records of the classics, the divine beast can recognize all things in the world and listen to the true heart of all creatures, and can also be infected with nine qi and give birth to six; And it is well versed in Buddhism, so it can also ward off evil spirits and drive away evil, and kill demons and demons.

Since it is a divine beast, it must give birth to a group of beasts. It is said that the whole body of the divine beast is snow-white, with a tiger head and a single horn, a dog's ear and a dragon body, and a lion's tail and unicorn feet; The single horn represents its fair decision, and the tiger head represents both wisdom and bravery; The dog ear represents listening to all things in the world, and the lion's tail represents the patience and generosity of the Buddha beast; Coupled with the unicorn foot that represents the stability of the four levels and eight stability, it also constitutes the divine beast of the Liberation Gate that represents wisdom and auspiciousness - Di Ting.

If you want to maintain the stability of such a rich and rival organization, the forces required must be extremely large; And the leader of this huge force is the Taoist in front of Shen Gui - Qilin Jun.

If you have to make a quantitative comparison of the skills of the people in the rivers and lakes, then it is obvious that the Heavenly Spirit Vein is the existence of the first class; Next are the top masters of the sub-heavenly spirit vein level, such as Yue Haishan, Qilin Jun, Jiang Xiaolou, Shen Gui, etc.

However, even if they are all people of the same level, the true combat strength of each person is also high and low: for example, Yue Haishan, who is known to the world, showed no less transcendent strength than the Heavenly Spirit Vein in the famous battle in front of the Eastern Customs. Although he was invincible at the time, he adopted the method of consuming his own essence and blood in exchange for a short period of powerful combat ability; But this method is not a secret, but there is still no one who comes after him to the extent that he can reach the level of being able to reach the level of being able to attain it.

At least Yue Haishan, who was in front of the Eastern Customs, was already enough to rival a Heavenly Spirit Veiner! Of course, the first condition is that this Heavenly Spirit Vein is not Bai Heng Bai Wenyan......

And Shen Gui's current face Qilin Jun is also a person of this level. Although this Qilin Jun is not as good as Yue Haishan in terms of martial arts; But in other fields, he is also a top master that Yue Haishan can't match! As long as it is a trick that can kill and injure the enemy, whether it is evil, noble or lowly, the Qilin King only wants to use it or not, but he will never use it!

The reason for this difference is also because people who have reached their level of martial arts practice are already meaningless and wasted in what kind of mental method they practice and which school of martial arts they practice; Therefore, for them, since they have never been able to break through the invisible and untouchable shackles of mortals, it is better to save that effort and use it to broaden the width of their personal cultivation.

Since Qilinjun can become a high-level Diting, then he must not be a transcendent idle cloud and wild crane inside. When he reached the pinnacle of the world, he immediately chose a more practical path: Yiduo does not pressure himself.

In his opinion, since the result of his unremitting cultivation for a lifetime is just a brilliant moment like Yue Haishan; So why did he waste that effort? Why don't you just study the side crafts related to killing, and maybe you can understand it on other paths?

Over the years, although he is listening to the internal high-level, if compared to martial arts cultivation, then he Qilin Jun is just an ordinary person who stands out from everyone; But if you talk about all kinds of strange ways of killing, then everyone has to give a thumbs up and praise him Qilin Jun for learning from ancient and modern times and applying what he has learned.

Despite this, it seems that this Qilin Jun and Zuo Qiuliang, the head of Zhuhai Sword Pool, are like-minded people; But in fact, the main directions of the two scholars are completely different paths. Zuo Qiuliang is a real miscellaneous scholar, and all the things he studies and comprehend are all studies that seem to have little to do with the way of martial arts: for example, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, medicine, astrology, flowers, birds, fish and insects, farming, fishing and hunting, etc.; Even the trail of silkworm raising and weaving, the left head also has a deep research!

However, Qilin-kun is different, and his favorite miscellaneous studies are all closely centered on a simple theme - murder.

He studied smelting carpentry in order to create more lethal weapon mechanisms; He researched the antidote to poison in order to find more assassination weapons that could be used to seal his throat with blood and be easy to use. He studied the art of war in order to extract its essence and formulate a more thorough plan of action...... It can also be said that Qilin-kun's whole life has been dedicating his talent and hard work to the action department he founded, Hyakki.

And the selection criteria of this hundred ghosts are very much like the elite army policy in another sense; They adopted a system of last execution, strictly controlling the scale of the maximum number of 100 people. And the entire work of the 100 Diting elites is only one - to kill people and eradicate all those who are enemies of the Diting organization.

If the help in the court is the yang side of Di Ting, then this organization called Hundred Ghosts is the yin side of Di Ting.

Tracing back to the source, in fact, this Qilin Jun is not a native of Huayu. This person's mother was originally a singer of the East, but for various reasons, she was not allowed by the people of her country; In desperation, he had no choice but to carry the infant Qilin Jun to Nankang by smuggling on a maritime cargo ship.

Nankang is a dynasty with an extremely developed commercial civilization, and the streets are full of gentlemen of different shapes, and she is a Fusang woman, which is not conspicuous at all. Therefore, Qilinjun's mother relied on weaving, raising silkworms, and helping people train singers as her main business, and finally when Qilinjun was eight years old, she was officially listed in the Nankang register.

Due to the extreme lack of entertainment, Kirin-kun's mother usually likes to listen to some weird legends in Dongying after work. All stories of gods and monsters that can penetrate into the hearts of the people must be based on religion as the matrix; And the native religion of Toeijima, although it claims to be the original Shintoism; But in fact, a discerning person can see through its essence at a glance as long as he understands it a little:

The so-called Shinto religion is actually just a chowder of Xuanmen Taoism and shamanism.

So when Qilinjun was young, due to the poverty of the family and the absence of a father in the hall, he wanted to study literature, but he had no money to pay the bundle silver; If you want to learn martial arts, you can't even afford a bite of food; Therefore, Qilinjun grew up slowly under the influence of that period of legends and monsters.

However, although Kirin-kun's mother was tough enough, she only lived to the time when he was eight years old; According to Lang Zhong's diagnosis, the cause of his mother's death was long-term overdrawing of her heart and energy, and her work was too heavy and tiring. In such a situation, it can be said that he was exhausted to death, or he died of natural life......

When Kirin-kun's mother died, he resolutely stepped into the ranks of cultivation with his attachment to his mother. However, when he found a Taoist master with enthusiasm and expressed his desire to practice orthodox Taoism, he was completely rejected by a reason that he had never thought of at all.

The environment of the Nankang court was extremely open, allowing any religion to take root here, and also allowing people from Fanbang to spread their faith; However, foreigners who have become naturalized Nankang are not allowed to participate in any religious activities.

Although I don't know what kind of painful lesson the Nankang court suffered before it formulated such a puzzling and obscure law; But at least for the eight-year-old Kirin-kun, this blow is no less than a thunderbolt from the sky!

He couldn't understand it, and he couldn't accept it!

However, perhaps the Taoist Master was grateful that he could have a pious cultivation heart at such a young age, so although he could not accept him as a disciple, he also pointed out another clear path for him:

The Northern Yan Dynasty was different from Nankang, and he could go to worship under the Xuanxu Taoist Temple located in the territory of the Northern Yan Dynasty.

As the so-called lost mulberry elm and harvested east, it is of course a beautiful thing to be able to worship the authentic sect of Xuanmen and learn the most orthodox Taoism!

However, when he came to the foot of Xuanyue Mountain with great difficulty, he was severely humiliated by a Taoist boy guarding the mountain! And the origin of the dispute between the two is the customs clearance document that records that Qilinjun was originally a person from Dongying.

In fact, there is no rule at all that Xuanxu Taoism does not accept foreign disciples; And this mountain guard boy has only been in the Xuanmen for only one year. However, if this incident is classified as racial discrimination, it is better to say that a naughty child deliberately found fault and fought, wanting to use it to test the results of his penance in martial arts in the past year......

After all, the people on this mountain are all senior brothers and sisters, even if a cook pops up at random, it is much stronger than him, a child who has just practiced for a year!

Today, the little Taoist boy has long since disappeared; But he may never know for the rest of his life what a terrifying Qilin Jun he created by the bullying he did back then!