Chapter 288: Secret Enemy
There is no need for us to continue to mix in the follow-up battles, leaving some of the array mages to assist the Heavenly Sword Sect in repairing the sword formation, and the rest can be evacuated, right?" Yu Qi asked Qin Guan Dao.
Qin Guan nodded: "This is natural, now that Lingyin Lou suddenly retreated to the edge of the West Sea for some reason, leaving the middle piece of territory to the Heavenly Sword Sect, there should be some conspiracy and tricks to implement, but it has nothing to do with us for the time being." What we should have done has already been done, and the rest will be left to the Heavenly Sword Sect itself. ”
It's not that Qin Guan doesn't care about the Heavenly Sword Sect, but because the sword cultivators of the Heavenly Sword Sect also have their own dignity, and now that there is no Lingyin Mansion eyeing them outside, Qin Guan and they don't need to work hard for the Heavenly Sword Sect anymore, otherwise even if Qin Guan doesn't have any ideas, the monks of the Lingshan Cultivation Federation will complain in secret.
Moreover, Qin Guan now wanted to go back to Lingshan as soon as possible, so as to find out why Lie Yutang had failed miserably at the hands of Du Huafeng. And with the current situation of Lingshan, Qin Guan was also a little uneasy, and he didn't know why he always had a feeling of storm in his heart.
It's not that he's suspicious, but that his cultivation has reached the point where he is now, and he always has a sense of danger. And Qin Guan also encountered this feeling for the first time, he didn't know how to deal with it, he just wanted to return to a familiar place in order to regain that sense of security.
After saying goodbye to Yu Yuezhong, Chu Sheng and other leaders of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Qin Guan led a part of the monks of Lingshan back to Lingshan. As soon as he stepped out of the teleportation array, Qin Guan noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with Lingshan's current situation: "Why are there so many people?"
It was only less than five months since they left Lingshan, and Lingshan, which was originally four million monks, now has a lot of more people, most of whom are sect monks, and it can be seen from the neat clothes of all kinds that these people must be monks of different sects.
But Qin Guan only remembered that Qing Xuan said that most of the loose cultivators under the command of Lie Yutang were sent to Lingshan by Du Huafeng, but he didn't remember what Qing Xuan said about these sect monks.
When he saw the stewards in the Sword Pavilion, Qin Guan knew what was going on. It turned out that a few days ago, not only was Du Huafeng sent no less than seven million scattered cultivators, but also from the territory near the three super sects, there were many small and medium-sized sects that sneaked over. These sects are not only worried that they will be implicated in the war of the three major sects, but they are also worried that they will be used as cannon fodder and consumed on the battlefield by the Lingying faction, which is now in the limelight. Therefore, go around and find out where there is still a place in Beihai for them to practice in peace. And since the Lingshan Cultivators increased to four million monks under their command, they have become the sixth largest force in Beihai in addition to the five major forces, and just a few months ago it became the fifth-Lie Yutang has been considered disbanded by the monks of the Beihai cultivation world, and even if there are still fish that slip through the net, it will be difficult to escape the pursuit of the Lingying faction everywhere - therefore, these small and medium-sized sects can no longer care about the spiritual land of the sect and so on, and they began to throw themselves into Lingshan one after another.
This is the largest migration of monks since the establishment of Lingshan, not only because the current situation in Beihai is incomprehensible to the monks, but the nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages makes them no longer look ahead, and finding a suitable place to live is the most important thing.
After listening to this, Qin Guan only felt that the uneasy feeling in his heart was getting heavier and heavier, and he asked, "Have you examined these monks in detail to see if there is a prohibition in their dantian?"
The stewards glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but hesitate, Qin Guan knew at a glance that these people must have let everyone in without careful inspection. He also understood the thoughts of these people, but because more monks entered the Cultivation Alliance, they had more power in their hands, and at the same time, the Cultivation Federation became more powerful.
Qin Guan was a little helpless: "You guys, let me say something good about you! Is it important to develop the Cultivation Federation, or is the safety of the Cultivation Federation more important? Lingyin Building will not ignore us because the focus is on the Lingying Sect and the Chongxu Gate, why don't you hurry up and go for testing! Do you still want me to urge you?"
It was the first time for the stewards to see Qin Guan's angry appearance, Qin Guan was smiling on weekdays, and the majesty of the Yuanying Monk was still enough to make these stewards of the Jindan period tremble. But fortunately, Qingxuan has always been there after all, although he doesn't have much energy to govern everything, but he still knows a little bit about the situation here, and he has already arranged a little means in advance before these stewards let people in regardless of it, which can have a little bit of a preventive effect.
"Palace Master, don't be angry, these people are just because they don't know what kind of treacherous place Lingyin Mansion is, otherwise they would have been strictly guarded a long time ago. Yu Qi comforted beside him.
He is the one who really understands the methods of Lingyin Tower, if it weren't for Luo Nan's action, maybe the entire Kunyu clan would have been made into pills by Lingyin Tower, where could they still practice well in Fangcun Mountain.
Qin Guan sighed: "Fortunately, as soon as my heart jumped, I knew that something must have happened in Lingshan, and I had to come back to take a look, and it was really like this." Fortunately, it's not too late, otherwise it would have been a great disaster for Lingshan to wait for Lingyinlou's trick to be launched. ”
However, things are often impermanent, and the worse you imagine, the worse the outcome. Although Qin Guan had already urged the stewards to test the people who came to Lingshan one by one, because there were too many people coming, if they were all crowded outside the Thousand Islands Great Array, the threat to Lingshan would also be huge. So as a last resort, before everyone finished testing, they had already released people into the big array.
Because of this, on the first day alone, there were many things that threatened the security of Lingshan, although there were no dead people, but there were many injured people. Although all the disciples of the Sword Pavilion were scattered all over the Spirit Mountain and the Thousand Islands by the stewards at the first time, they still couldn't avoid some omissions. In just one day, nearly a hundred monks were looted, and no one knew exactly who had attacked them.
The atmosphere in the Sword Pavilion Hall was a little solemn, and the faces of the first few Yuanying monks were also as heavy as water, especially Qin Guan's face was the worst, but he didn't expect to hurry back and urge people to test, and in the end, it still caused so many disasters. If he remained in the Heavenly Sword Sect now, perhaps the consequences would be even more serious, and that scene made him shudder just thinking about it.
The stewards below all bowed their heads, all like frightened quails, silent, although there were two thousand people in the whole hall, but it was as if there was no one, and even the sound of breathing was extremely weak.
Among the several Yuanying monks, in addition to the original six sects, there were also two more Yuanying monks, one was Li Yixian, the original head of the Water Moon Cave Heaven, who had successfully broken the pill and become an infant last month and became the eighth Yuanying monk of the Cultivation Federation, while the other was a scattered cultivator who had only recently defected to Lingshan. Don't look at the name of the original scripture that sounds strange, in fact, what is even more strange is his cultivation method - he clearly practices the exercises of the demon clan, and it is also the exercises of the Ahuizotl clan, but he is a serious human monk. At first, this was inconceivable to the monks present, but it was the original scripture that told the truth.
It turned out that Yuan Jing had been adopted by the demon clan since he was a child, and he had never seen his biological parents. According to his adoptive parents, they found him from a small sampan, just a baby who had just croaked to the ground. It is estimated that his parents suffered a catastrophe and tried their best to preserve their bloodline.
And the original scripture thrived under the nurturing of the parents of the Ahuizotl family, and after becoming an adult, he followed his parents to practice the physical cultivation method of Ahuizotl, but he didn't expect that he was a human race, and his understanding was not low, and he was faster than the brothers and sisters of the other Ahuizotl family. Therefore, he is also recognized by his adoptive parents as his own lucky star, and all kinds of cultivation resources will be inclined to him. But things are never perfect, his adoptive parents and siblings have died one after another, and he is the only one who survives because his cultivation is high enough.
Then, he bid farewell to the Ahuizotl clan and became a casual cultivator. Originally, the days of freedom were very good, but the war in Beihai broke the peace of his spiritual life, so that he had no choice but to lead the Ahuizotl to find a place to hide.
Originally, he was going to lead the Ahuizotl to the Ten Thousand Demon Valley, the gathering place of demon cultivators, but halfway through, he heard that the Ten Thousand Demon Valley had also suffered a disaster, and now he was taking care of himself, so he had to turn around and return to the center of the hinterland of the North Sea to find Lingshan to seek refuge.
It stands to reason that his early cultivation should be enough to protect the Ahuizotl clan, but he knows that if he is alone, he will not be afraid of the five major forces. But now that he is dragging his family and mouthing, his weakness is naked in front of others, and once someone has a bad heart towards the Ahuizotl family, it will inevitably make him stumble and tired of coping.
Fortunately, when he was a casual cultivator, he heard all kinds of legends about Lingshan, and with a trace of inquiry, he came to Lingshan alone to observe. In the end, it was concluded that Lingshan really had no hostility towards demon cultivators, and even thousands of disciples in the Sanqing Palace, one of Lingshan's main sects, were demon cultivators. He finally put his mind at ease and brought the demon cultivators of the Ahuizotl clan to Lingshan to join him.
At first, he thought that so many demon cultivators had come to Lingshan to defect to Lingshan, and they would have to be imprisoned for a period of time to investigate them, but he didn't expect that the elders of the Sword Pavilion just discussed it and let the monks of the Ahuizotl clan in, and there was no difficulty except for the necessary testing. This made his heart that had been hanging finally let go, and because his cultivation realm was there, he was also invited by the people of the Sword Pavilion to have a discussion with Yuanying monks from other sects.
Yuan Jing and Li Yixian, as newcomers, would not say anything in such a scene, and their cultivation was the same as Gu Qinfang, and they were at the bottom of the group of Yuanying monks, so the three of them sat at the end of the nine Yuanying monks, waiting for Qin Guan to admonish the steward of the Sword Pavilion without saying a word.
Qin Guan glanced at the stewards around him and said, "You also know that our Lingshan Grass has only been created for decades, but now it has reached nearly 20 million people, and with so many monks gathered in the Thousand Islands, there will definitely be all kinds of problems. But these things can be avoided, but everyone here has not taken this matter to heart. He muttered two sentences before asking all about what happened yesterday, and finally warned the stewards to control the law and order, otherwise the peace of Lingshan would no longer exist.
After the stewards had left, Qin Guan smiled bitterly and said to several Yuanying monks beside him: "Everyone, let's sit in the crater now, once something happens, we may never recover!"
The other people naturally knew what Qin Guan meant, Lingshan originally only had four million people, but suddenly there were more than 10 million, and they were all monks above the Qi cultivation period, no matter how you look at it, it was a huge pressure. What is in front of them is how to manage so many people.
Lingshan's previous method could be regarded as effective in the face of millions of monks, but after suddenly there were several times more monks, it was inevitable that he would encounter various problems of manpower shortage.
That's right, it's a shortage of people. Because not everyone in the Sword Pavilion can enter, it must be someone who agrees with Lingshan very much to join, otherwise once the people in the Sword Pavilion are not aligned, it will be even more dangerous than the current situation.
But the current stewards of the Sword Pavilion were already very busy managing millions of monks, and with so many more people, it was inevitable that there would be omissions if one person split two. For example, Qingxuan, Qin Guan has been back for many days, and he hasn't seen Qingxuan a few times in total, which is enough to show how heavy the burden is on these stewards.
But there is no way, since the Lingshan Cultivation Federation has played the banner of "uniting all the monks", it has to bear the responsibility, otherwise it will be a slap in the face. And the current scale of Lingshan is even a little larger than the period when the Imperial Hall was strong.
However, the fate of Lieyutang is not good, and there are many monks in Lingshan who have run out of Lieyutang now, as a lesson from Lingshan's past, they can't help but let Qin Guan and others face the current situation carefully.
Just as everyone was discussing countermeasures, there was a sudden sound of footsteps from outside the main hall, and then Yusu and the other stewards of the formation hall hurriedly came in and said to the Yuanying monks: "Elders (Yuanying monks are the elders of the Thousand Islands of Lingshan), there is a gang of gangsters who attacked one of the eyes of the Thousand Islands Great Array, and suffered heavy casualties, and I also ask the elders to take action to arrest the key culprits. ”
The eyes of the Lingshan Thousand Islands Great Array are generally more than three grades of spiritual land, and there will be a group of monks in the Jindan period living on it all the year round, and this time they were actually attacked, and they also caused a lot of casualties, so it must be the Yuanying monks who made a move, otherwise they would not be so panicked.