Daomen, since the establishment of the Dao Ancestor, after the continuous restructuring of the successive dynasties, its internal structure has been very similar to that of the secular court. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the ancestral court of Daomen is regarded as a temple of the imperial court, the palaces and pavilions are like the six departments and nine qing, and the branches of the Daomen are equivalent to the local three divisions of the yamen, and there is a demon suppression hall that is very similar to the Secret Guard Mansion, no matter from which point of view, the Daomen is like another court in the cultivation world that rules the world.

According to this statement, such as Buddhism and Xuanjiao can be regarded as a prince, and as for the Sword Sect, it is a chaotic party with a heavenly name. Now the "thief leader" Gongsun Zhongmou of the chaotic party has been awarded the head, but there is still a remnant Xu Beiyou who has fled abroad, so after the real person returned to the mountain, he personally issued an edict in Zixiao Palace, ordering the Demon Suppression Hall to work with various Daomen to arrest the remnants of the Sword Sect Xu Beiyou, regardless of life and death, life and death must see people, and death must see corpses.

According to the information found in the Demon Suppression Palace, Xu Beiyou, the remnant of the Sword Sect, is a person from the Northwest Xiheyuan, but because of the collapse of the Zhongdu Chonglongguan, the power of the Demon Suppression Hall in the northwest has been greatly reduced, and the Dark Guard Mansion is fighting back and forth with the Dark Guard Mansion because of this matter, so the Demon Suppression Hall did not spend too much energy outside the Northwest Fortress, but retracted all the hands back into the Guannei,

There are a total of one hundred and eight deacons in the Demon Suppression Palace, and forty-six deacons were sent this time, and there were more than 120 disciples of the Demon Suppression Hall below the deacon. At the same time, the local Taoist sects also sent countless disciples to lay a net in the entire Jiangnan and even in the north of the Central Plains, waiting for Xu Beiyou, a fish that slipped through the net, to throw himself into the net.

This large network of Daomen is dominated by Huzhou, Jiangzhou and Jiang, followed by Huizhou, Yuzhou and Qizhou, followed by Zhili Prefecture, Yanzhou, Shaanzhou and other places.

Among the forty-six deacons sent by the Demon Suppression Hall this time, there are ten archdeacons and thirty-six deacons.

Each of the seven states and capital has an archdeacon in charge, and another archdeacon is in charge of the overall situation. And the thirty-six deacons are also high and low, such as Ye Sin, such as Ye Sin, naturally stay in the south of the Yangtze River and wait for the credit to come to the door, and those who are not very proud are assigned by their bosses to Yanzhou, Shaanzhou and other places.

Zhang Yugui is a deacon of the Demon Suppression Hall who has just been promoted for a short time, and there is not much difference in age from Ye Sin, but he is not as good as Ye Sin, he can only be ranked at the end of the one hundred and eight deacons, not to mention the hall master on weekdays, even ordinary archdeacons can't see each other a few times, this time to arrest the remnants of the Sword Sect, he was naturally assigned to Yanzhou, one of the most remote three states.

Daqi has a vast territory, and the Demon Suppression Hall is only a few hundred, if you want to control the entire state capital, it is inevitable that you will not be able to do it, so the general Demon Suppression Hall must be cooperated by the Daomen from all over the country, this time Zhang Yugui's subordinates were also assigned more than 100 disciples by the Yanzhou Daomen, but he did not have the joy of holding the authority, only a sense of apprehension.

Because before this, the forty-six deacons of the Demon Suppression Hall had a secret meeting under the auspices of the chief archdeacon, in which several routes were basically set for Xu Beiyou to go to the south of the Yangtze River, namely from Yanzhou Xilingkou into Qizhou, from Shaanzhou Dayi Mansion into Yuzhou, or directly detour through Shuzhou into Huzhou, but no matter which way he went, the final destination must be Jiangdu, so the chief archdeacon set a strategy of loosening the outside and tightening the inside, and concentrated the main manpower in the Jiangnan area, and only used a small number of people to scatter in the peripheral states。

If the remnants of the Sword Sect were caught in Jiangnan, then the people stationed in Jiangnan would definitely be the first-class credit, but the deacons in the peripheral states would only have a little bit of hard work left, and if it was found out afterwards which state the remnants of the Sword Sect came from, the people stationed in this state would also be implicated and held accountable. Zhang Yugui had just been promoted to deacon not long ago, but he didn't want to be demoted again because of this matter.

According to the law of the Demon Suppression Palace, seventy-two deacons can command and lead one hundred and twenty Daomen disciples from all over the country when necessary, Zhang Yugui himself has a first-grade realm, and there are more than 100 Yanzhou Daomen disciples whose realms range from six to four grades to help, if there is only one first-grade realm of the Sword Sect remnants, he is not afraid at all, he is afraid that there are also sword qi volley hall masters accompanying the guards next to the remnants of the Sword Sect, if it is one or two sword masters in the immortal realm, then more than 100 of them are not only beating the grass and startling the snake, but also hitting the stone with an egg.

At that time, he will not be a degraded dismissal, and I am afraid that his life will be guaranteed.

So after Zhang Yugui received this hot errand, he was careful in everything and reported everything to the top, and his immediate boss was the Archdeacon Wucheng Tianguan who was sitting in Yanzhou.

Although Wucheng Tianguan is only ranked thirty-fifth among the thirty-six archdeacons, since there is martial arts in the name, it can be seen that his martial arts are quite good, he is not proficient in the secret method of Xuantong, and he enters the Tao with martial arts, which is somewhat similar to the domineering sword of the Sword Sect.

Xilingkou is an important entry route to Yanzhou, and Wucheng Tianguan has arrived here on Chinese New Year's Eve. At this time, in the garrison mansion at Xilingkou, the tall and majestic Wucheng Heavenly Official did not wear the signature robe of the Demon Suppression Palace, but changed into a standard iron armor of a great Qi general, which made him more and more arrogant.

Sitting next to the Wucheng Heavenly Official was the local master, the garrison commander of Xilingkou.

Although this garrison commander is a military general, he looks like a civil official, wearing a military general's uniform, but holding a sage book in his hand, revealing an elegant atmosphere from the inside out, in stark contrast to the Wucheng Heavenly Official.

Although there have been some discord between the Daomen and the imperial court in recent years, it is all a matter of the big people above, and most of the people below are still the same as before, discussing their own friendships.

The commander's surname is Wei Mingsheng, the Jinshi of the second year of Chengping, he was a scholar, and later there was a small rebellion on the northwest border in the fifth year of Chengping, he went out with the army as an official of the Ministry of War, and then mistakenly transferred from the Ministry of War to the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and it was actually "from Rong". However, this dynasty does not discriminate against martial artists, so Wei Sheng didn't feel much wronged, so he took root in the northwest, and after so many years, it was also a blessing in disguise, and he was mixed with the big man from the third grade. If he continued to stay in the capital and be promoted step by step, Ding Potian would be a five-grade outsider.

From the real power of the third-grade general to the fifth-grade Beijing official, the gap between this is not a star and a half.

If he didn't have this real 3,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, would the Wucheng Heavenly Official, who was one of the thirty-six deacons of the Demon Suppression Palace, have intersected with him, a scholar who has no power to restrain chickens?

A light snow fell in early spring, and the Wucheng Tianguan looked out the window and asked softly, "Brother Wei, you said that the remnants of the Sword Sect are likely to leave Yanzhou?"

Wei Sheng, who was studying, frowned, raised his head and said indifferently: "It's about thirty percent, if I were him, I wouldn't go to Yanzhou or Shaanzhou, but from Liaozhou to the sea, and directly from the sea to Jiangnan." ”

With that, he turned his gaze back to the saint chapter in his hand.

Wucheng Tianguan's expression was a little gloomy, and he began to pace back and forth in the room, and his armor leaves rattled.

The rather handsome commander frowned again, put down the book in his hand, and said helplessly to this old friend who had known him for nearly ten years: "I have already distributed the portrait of that person, and there are people you brought to investigate in secret, as long as he dares to go from Xilingkou, then he will definitely not be able to escape from the palm of your hand, and rest assured." ”

Wucheng Tianguan stopped and let out a long sigh, "It's really a big matter, I don't dare to take it lightly, but now I can only borrow Brother Wei's auspicious words, I hope so." ”

Wucheng Tianguan and Zhang Yugui couldn't have imagined that Xu Beiyou was now under their noses, but he only changed his appearance slightly and mixed in the caravan, plus he had always been calm, even if he passed by the deacon of the Demon Suppression Palace, he could be calm and light-hearted, so whether it was a disciple of the Daomen or the officers and soldiers guarding the city, they could not recognize him as the remnant of the Tianzi Sword Sect who was arrested everywhere.

It was snowing lightly outside, and Xu Beiyou stood under the eaves of the inn, his hands in his sleeves, looking at the fluttering snow, stunned.

The sky seemed to be black but not black, like a piece of white paper soaked with a little ink, showing a dull dark blue color, just like this weather, which makes it difficult to give birth to joy and joy.

The old man surnamed Yan walked out of the inn, glanced at Xu Beiyou, hesitated slightly, and said, "Little Brother Xu, the atmosphere in the city seems to be a little wrong recently. ”

Xu Beiyou smiled and said, "Yan Lao also noticed it?"

"Oh?" the old man surnamed Yan froze, "Could it be that Little Brother Xu knows what's going on?"

Xu Beiyou seemed to be careless and said: "The Demon Suppression Hall is doing things, and the remnants of the Sword Sect are arrested." ”

The old man surnamed Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said in a deep voice: "The old man knows, even if the little brother goes, the old man just doesn't see anything." ”

Xu Beiyou nodded, watching the old man turn around and go back to the inn, a faint smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

The young master of the Sword Sect pretended to be the deacon of the Demon Suppression Hall to hunt down the remnants of the Sword Sect, but it was really a cold joke that was not very funny.