Chapter 22: The Old Man (Three Watches)
The five-rank official surnamed Jiu immediately told the truth, and only then did Qin Yang understand the origin of some things. It turned out that Zhu Zhen abdicated, and after the new emperor Santa ascended the throne, he spent extravagantly, overhauled the construction of buildings, and built palaces.
In the two years he ascended the throne, taxes were raised three times a year, and many merchants could not afford to pay heavy taxes, so they closed their businesses one after another. Therefore, now Rongjing City is very deserted, and there is no longer the prosperity of the past.
This year coincided with another year of famine, and the peasant tax not only did not decrease, but on the contrary increased, and the peasants abandoned their fields and became homeless.
When Zhu Zhen was in power, he governed Yunluo Country to make the people rich and the country strong, and the foundation was extremely thick, and Santa was able to make a rich and powerful country like this in two years, and he was indeed a talent.
Many scholars miss the grand occasion when Zhu Zhen was in power, and often express their dissatisfaction with Santa in their poems, and Santa immediately raised a real literary prison and burned books to pit Confucianism.
The group of scholars who were killed by the pit that Qin Yang and the others saw were just a small number of people who had been killed by the pit since Santa ascended the throne.
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Qin Yang immediately entered the palace, and without saying a word, immediately arrested Emperor Santa, who was looking for joy.
Then he went to the Xuangang Temple and arrested the two immortals who protected the country.
These two Protector Immortals were not the original Xiang Tian and Meng Li, but two other monks of the Xuangang Sect.
Sang Wei gave people the feeling that he was like a pork seller, and he threatened loudly: "If you dare to touch me, I have the support of Xuangang Sect behind my Yunluo Kingdom, and my uncle is a Yuanying monk, if you dare to hurt me a single hair, I will immediately let you die without thinking about the corpse." ”
As soon as Sang Wei spoke, the ten Heavenly Mandate Cultists under Qin Yang all laughed, they were all cultivators in the late stage of the Yuan Infant, Qin Yang asked them to come out, he also wanted them to experience it and prepare for the impact on the Yuan Infant Great Perfection.
When the two Protector Immortals of the Xuangang Sect heard Sang Wei's ignorant words, they were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
They could see that the ten Heavenly Mandate Sectists under Qin Yang were all Yuanying cultivators, as for whether it was the early, middle or late Yuanying stage, although they couldn't tell it, but the coercion emanating from the three of them, they felt that it was no different from Chifeng, the head of the Xuangang Sect.
As for the Soul Destroying Scholar and Su Yu, they couldn't guess their cultivation realm.
They thought that Qin Yang's cultivation was the lowest, because Qin Yang's eyes were fierce at this time, he was angry, he had no coercion, and he had no master's demeanor at all.
They estimated that Qin Yang was just a bully mortal, and he belonged to the same category as Sang Wei.
How did they know that Qin Yang's aura had now reached the realm of sending and receiving freely, and he could completely restrain his aura without exuding a trace of immortal cultivator's breath.
As soon as he heard Sang Wei's threatening words, Qin Yang grabbed Sang Wei and beat him.
As soon as they saw Qin Yang's behavior, these two Protector Immortals were even more convinced that their judgment was correct, and this Qin Yang was a mortal who bullied people.
After beating Sang Wei to the point that his head was bleeding, Qin Yang grabbed the two Protector Immortals of Xuangang Sect and beat them violently, and then the two Protector Immortals realized that Qin Yang was not a mortal at all, and Qin Yang was so heavy that even if they secretly used True Yuan to resist, it would be useless.
After a while, he was scarred by Qin Yang, and he completely lost the temperament of the fairy wind bone.
"What about Zhu Zhen and Qin Yu?" Qin Yang asked sharply.
"They were rescued by the Lotus Sect of Jade Mirror City, the Immortal Xiangmen, the Yuqing Sect, and the people of the Extermination Sect. A protector of the country said tremblingly.
The Extermination Sect was a small sect established by Qin Yang when he was in Jade Mirror City, and he was preparing to develop a force to deal with Wuheng.
Qin Yang was immediately relieved to hear that Zhu Zhen and Qin Yu had been rescued.
He thought for a moment and asked again, "What about Meng Li and Xiang Tian?"
Meng Li and Xiang Tian were the original two Protector Immortal Masters, who were once controlled by Wuheng, and were later forced by Qin Yang to take the poison pill and serve Qin Yang.
"Meng Li was imprisoned in the Xuangangguan underground palace by Santa, and as for Xiangtian, he defected to Jade Mirror City, and heard that he joined the Extinction Sect. A Protector Immortal said in a trembling voice.
"Oh, bring me Meng Li. Qin Yang said to a Heavenly Mandate Sect disciple.
"Yes, Sect Master!" said a Heavenly Mandate Cultist in the late Yuan Infant period.
Seeing the respectful attitude of the late Yuan Infant Sect disciple towards Qin Yang, the two Protector Immortals suddenly showed a look of astonishment on their faces, they couldn't guess Qin Yang's identity.
After Meng Li was brought to Qin Yang, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he hurriedly bowed and said, "Mr. Qin, you are finally back." ”
Qin Yang glanced at Meng Li and said, "What happened to the end of the Yunluo Kingdom?"
After asking Meng Li completely, Qin Yang then asked in detail about the two Xuangang Sect's Protector Immortals who had sent them to the Yunluo Kingdom, and the two Protector Immortals knew everything, and told Qin Yang what they knew, what they had heard, and even some gossip.
After listening to the stories of several people, Qin Yang also roughly knew what was happening in Yunluo Kingdom.
The Yunluo Kingdom is a secular state controlled by the Xuangang Sect of the Xiuxian Sect, and the reason why Zhu Zhen was abolished involves the changes in the internal forces of the Xuangang Sect.
Santa, a genius figure in Xuangang Sect, because of an adventure, in forty years, after cultivating from the early stage of Yuanying to the late Yuanying period, he was even more hot in Xuangang Sect, and even the head of Chifeng had to give him a few points.
Santa is also a member of the Yunluo Kingdom, he returned to the Yunluo Kingdom a few years ago, and one of his nephews saw that he actually had an immortal elder, so his ambition swelled and wanted to be the emperor.
This matter was too easy for Santa, and he immediately returned to the sect to report to Chifeng, the head of the Xuangang Sect, and Chifeng immediately agreed to Santa's request.
Chifeng immediately issued an edict to abolish Zhu Zhen and establish Sangwei as the emperor of Yunluo State.
Santa let his ten disciples take Chifeng and the edict to find the protector of Yunluo Kingdom, Shangxian Xiangtian and Meng Li, immediately deposed Zhu Zhen, and set up Santa's nephew Sang Wei as the emperor of Yunluo Kingdom.
For Chifeng's order, Xiang Tian and Meng Li were extremely embarrassed, they had taken Qinyang's poison pill, and they had to take Qinyang's poison pill regularly every year to be able to survive, they did not dare to disobey Chifeng's order, nor did they dare to abolish Zhu Zhen.
The two of them thought about it and decided that they would rather offend Xuangang Sect than Qin Yang.
Meng Li stayed in Yunluo Kingdom to deal with Santa's people, and Xiang Tian went to Jade Mirror City to find Zhou Hong to report the matter.
After Zhou Hong received Xiang Tian's report, he immediately told Xiao Yue'er, Ren Yao, and Xue Rui.
Zhou Hong took more than 30 monks from the Wuwu Sect, Xiao Yue'er took more than 10 monks from Yuqingmen, Ren Yao and Xue Rui also rushed to Rongjing City with the people of the Lotus Sect and Xianxiangmen.
At this time, Santa's ten disciples controlled Meng Li, abolished Zhu Zhen's throne, and established Sang Wei as the emperor of Yunluo Kingdom.
Zhu Zhen was deeply influenced by Confucianism and did not want to destroy the lives of Yunluo Kingdom because of the struggle for the throne, so he prevented Zhou Hong and others from regaining the throne for him, and Qin Yu's thoughts were the same as Zhu Zhen's.
Zhou Hong, Xiao Yue'er and the others actually didn't care about the throne of the secular world, they respected the opinions of Zhu Zhen and Qin Yu, and were ready to bring Zhu Zhen, Qin Yu, and their children and grandchildren to Jade Mirror City.
After Sang Wei became the emperor of Yunluo Kingdom, he had to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and he wanted to kill Zhu Zhen, Qin Yu and many princes and grandsons.
After he heard that someone had rescued Zhu Zhen and the others, he immediately asked Santa's ten disciples to chase after him, and after Santa's ten disciples chased him to Xianchou Mountain, he showed the name of Xuangang Sect, and asked Xiao Yue'er and the others to leave this matter alone and hand over Zhu Zhen and Qin Yu.
Qin Yu is Qin Yang's sister, no matter how strong the other party is, Xiao Yue'er and others are desperate to protect the integrity of Qin Yu's family.
Among Santa's ten disciples, one of them was a monk in the early Yuan Infant period, and his name was Bai Xi.
The rest are also the Great Perfection of the Jiedan, the monks in the later stage of the Jiedan, Bai Xi didn't take Zhou Hong, Xiao Yue'er and others seriously at all.
He saw that Zhou Hong, Xiao Yue'er and others had a tough attitude, so he unceremoniously launched an attack on Zhou Hong and them.
Zhou Hong and Xiao Yue'er did not have Yuanying monks on their side, and the highest cultivation level was the five Jiedan Great Perfection monks, although there were many of them, they were still inferior to Bai Xi and other ten people.
Under the melee between the two sides, there were casualties, Xiao Yue'er and others killed several Jiedan monks on Bai Xi's side, but most of the Jiedan monks on their side were killed by Bai Xi, and Zhu Zhen was also killed in the melee.
The knot stage and the Yuan infant stage are not the same concept at all, Xiao Yue'er and the others can't resist Bai Xi at all, and all three of them are seriously injured.
At the critical moment, Xue Zheng and Ren Zhong arrived, and they killed Bai Xi and other Xuangang Sect monks, and rescued Xiao Yue'er and others.
After knowing the cause and effect of the incident, he killed the two protectors of the Xuangang Sect. Then refining their Yuan Shen into the Ten Thousand Consciousness Beads, Qin Yang used his divine sense to sweep away the memories of the two, and they really didn't dare to lie.
Sang Wei is the culprit of the whole thing, Qin Yang naturally will not let him die easily, Qin Yang called a few eunuchs, first castrated Sang Wei into a eunuch, and then put this pig killer full of emperor's dream in a sack and took it to Jade Mirror City to be handed over to Qin Yu to deal with.
After two days, Qin Yang and the others arrived at Xianchou Mountain.
At this time, Qin Yang sensed a wave of aura fluctuation coming from the other side of Xianchou Mountain, Qin Yang released his divine sense and swept it, and found that five or six hundred miles away from them, there were two groups of monks who were fighting fiercely.
Qin Yang's face sank, and he immediately flew towards the place where the two groups of monks were.
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On the other side of Xianchou Mountain, the second team of monks fought hard, one of the monks was Zhou Hong and Hao Xianshi's more than ten monks in the Dan period, and the other team was a monk under Li Gang of the Tianyin Sect of Jade Mirror City.
After Yuki-masa and Ren Zhong kill Santa's disciple Bai Xi, they anger Santa.
Chifeng, the head of the Xuangang Sect, was also very annoyed that a Yuanying monk of the Xuangang Sect was killed, if there was no aftermath of this matter, then anyone could bully the Xuangang Sect in the future.
The two monks of Xuangang Sect with the highest cultivation were all enraged, and the consequences were very serious, and Chi Feng, as the city lord of Xuandu City, immediately issued an edict to order Haisen, the city lord of Jade Mirror City, to assist in arresting Xue Zhenghe and Ren Zhong.
Sang Wei took the two early Yuan Infant monks and nearly a hundred Jiedan monks from Xuandu City, and with this edict, he found the city lord Hai Sen and the deputy city lord Li Gang of Jade Mirror City.
Hai Sen knew the relationship between Qin Yang and Xue Zheng and Ren Yao, and he also knew the relationship between Qin Yang and Xue Laowei, so he fled overnight after receiving the order.
Because Qin Yang killed Li Gang's son and grandson, Li Gang had long held a grudge against Xue Zheng and Ren Zhong, and when he heard that Xuangang Sect was going to deal with Xue Zheng and Ren Zhong, he was very excited and very active.
Li Gang also became the city lord of Jade Mirror City, and after Li Gang became the city lord of Jade Mirror City, he immediately took several Yuanying monks from Jade Mirror City to attack Xianxiangmen with Sang Wei.