Chapter 296

【Xie Yuan sighed softly, full of emotion: "The demons in this world, the Demon Slaughter Division has become increasingly difficult to contain in recent years, and instead, they are killing more and more."】

【The Demon Slaughter Division is a special government office of the Great Qi, specializing in killing demons.】

【In addition to the Demon Slaughter Division, the current imperial court also has the position of God Hidden, specializing in managing demon lands, and even has demon species serving in it.】

【The demon disaster is not only rampant in Jiannan Dao, but also rampant in the thirteen state roads.】

【Because the capital road has the academy sitting in town, demons dare not run rampant.】

【The sons of the nine great clans, besides entering the official career through imperial examinations and joining the army.】

【There is still one way, which is extremely tempting—that is to serve as a captain of the Demon Slaughter Division in the three state prefectures, accumulate merits, and even exchange for precious quotas for studying in the academy.】

【However, this road is quite dangerous; demons don't know that you think you have a noble background.】

【Zhang Yuzhi's father's younger brother was a captain of the Demon Slaughter Division who had his heart pecked and swallowed by a bird demon, and died tragically in front of him; he hated demons to the extreme and vowed to slaughter all the demons in the world.】

【"Miss Zhi, you are too polite."】

【You looked at Zhang Yunzhi, who had a serious face, and said: "Xie Guan has shallow wisdom, and it is not worth teaching; if Miss Zhi really has difficulties, it is my honor to be able to help."】

【You have always kept in mind the help Zhang Yunzhi gave at the Daguan Garden last time.】

【Receiving kindness, naturally keep it in your heart.】

【"Thank you, Young Master Guan."】

【You smiled slightly and said: "Miss Zhi, if you don't mind, just call me Xie Guan."】

【Hearing this, Zhang Yunzhi couldn't help but blush and nodded slightly.】

【Xie Yuan held his head high and said confidently to Zhang Yunzhi: "Fourth Cousin, maybe I can also help you."】

【At this time!】

【Xie Yuan's gaze was tightly locked on the map, especially the center of Zeh Lake, where a black circle was particularly striking, as if it symbolized a palace, particularly mysterious.】

【This is where the Zeh Lake Long Gong is.】

【Zeh Lake is vast, covering nearly ten thousand acres, originally just a vast and misty natural marsh. Its history can be traced back to the Warring States period three thousand years ago.】

【In ancient times, it was called Yunmeng or Zeh Lake.】

【In the lake, there is a stone palace carved by nature.】

【Folk rumors say that this is the cave of gods, so Zeh Lake was given the reputation of "Heavenly Palace Lake" and "Immortal's Residence," spreading in the world.】

【The shore of Zeh Lake is rich in aquatic products, and the farmland is fertile. People have lived here for generations, working hard. The harvest in one year is enough to feed the people of the entire Jiannan Dao.】

【During the Tang Dynasty before Qi, there was also a legend of the Dragon Girl sending a letter, where a scholar who was going to take the examination met a dragon girl by Dongting Lake and helped her deliver a family letter, obtaining treasures.】

【Now it has become a demon gathering cave, and people can hardly be seen around.】

【"I don't know how many big demons who harm living creatures have hidden in this thousand-mile Zeh Lake to avoid disaster."】

【The Great Qi has the Demon Slaughter Division, and the Great Sui also has the Daoist sect to eliminate demons; the world cannot tolerate demons.】

【Xie Yuan recalled his childhood, and the elders would threaten: "The demons of Zeh Lake are coming to catch disobedient children!"】

【As for the origin of this demon species, it remains a mystery to this day.】

【The demons in the world, since a catastrophe 1,500 years ago, have begun to breed demon species.】

【In the history books, it is recorded that the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty committed atrocities, actually cooking the crown prince into meat soup to please his favorite concubine, a fox girl, and giving birth to an ominous offspring.】

【This act angered heaven and earth, triggering the strange phenomenon of the heavenly dog eating the sun, and the world was in chaos. At that time, demons were rampant in all state prefectures, and beasts in the mountains became spirits, eating people, and living creatures were charred.】

【Zhang Yuan touched his chin and said: "Zeh Lake, the Great Qi is not without the opportunity to flatten this place, but it has grown because of various reasons."】

【"This Zeh Lake was originally no different from any other demon place in the world."】

【In the 800th year after the founding of the Great Qi, not long after the first Master of the Academy passed away, a half-human, half-demon monster rose, gathered demons, and built a Long Gong in Zeh Lake.】

【After hundreds of years, the Long Gong's power grew day by day, becoming a giant capable of shaking the world situation.】

【The world situation, besides the Great Qi in the east, the four directions are also divided and disputed.】

【In the south, Buddha established a religion; on the night the Buddha's son was born, lotus flowers bloomed, and the east wall of the Buddha temple collapsed by itself.】

【In the north, there are Tatars who believe in the Eternal Heaven, the hero of the Nur family was born in response to the times, and there are prophecies of the Red Emperor descending to earth recorded in the Tantric scriptures.】

【In the west, the Great Sui rose in four hundred years; now the Emperor Cheng of Sui accidentally entered the fairyland when he was a child and wanted to become the hegemon of the world.】

【The Great Qi respects the world, the Great Sui is second, and although the Eternal Heaven in the north and the Buddhist country in the south are eager to move, it is difficult to compete with the two countries.】

【And the geographical location of Zeh Lake is just in the gap between the Great Qi and the Great Sui.】

【Xie Yuan sighed: "If the Master could have been ruthless back then, there would be no Zeh Lake Long Gong, and all of them would have been slaughtered by this group of demon cubs."】

【In the past, a half-blood demon commander in Zeh Lake practiced to the martial arts "Xuan Dan Realm," the peak of martial arts in the world, led the crowd to make trouble, turned into a real dragon body, commanded tens of thousands of demon soldiers, ravaged Jiannan Dao, harmed living creatures, ate meat and drank blood, and the casualties reached hundreds of thousands.】

【The Master was furious when he learned of it, stepped out of the academy, picked up a ruler in his hand, and the purple energy stretched for thousands of miles, and wherever he went, demons burst and died.】

【The demon commander of the Xuan Dan Realm didn't even see the Master's face, and was knelt at the bottom of Zeh Lake by his pressure.】

【In the end, the demon commander of Zeh Lake committed suicide to apologize, otherwise, the demon tribes around Zeh Lake would have been destroyed.】

【Old things!】

【Xie Yuan clapped his hands and said with admiration:】

【"Back then, the Second Master traveled the world, and when he passed by Zeh Lake, he witnessed the tragic situation of the people sacrificing women to the demons in the lake, so he accompanied a woman who already had the heart to die into Zeh Lake."】

【"In an instant, a giant python as big as a mountain jumped out of the water. However, the Second Master only used one sword"】

【Xie Yuan clicked his tongue in wonder and continued to tell: "With just one sword, he split the ten thousand-acre lake, and the demon blood in the lake dyed the ten thousand-foot lake water red, and the fishy smell did not dissipate for three days."】

【"It's a pity, but the First Master thought the Second Master's killing karma was too heavy."】

【"Therefore, the Second Master did not kill all the demons in Zeh Lake, worried that the demons would retaliate against the people after he left, so he lived in a hut by Zeh Lake for five years. He hung a sharp sword on the lake surface and set a rule: those who come out of the water surface die."】

【"Tens of thousands of demons, entrenched at the bottom of the lake for five years, could not see the slightest daylight."】

【Xie Yuan smiled and said: "If I were the Second Master, I would drain the Zeh Lake water, and the demons would come out of the water, and they wouldn't have violated the rules."】

【Scholars in the world all yearn for the four masters of the academy; except for the Master's disciples, the four masters are all people followed by the world, and are rare talents of the current era.】

【Hearing this, you couldn't help but think of the "Ghost-Slaying Sword" in your mind.】

【It came from the inheritance of the Second Master.】

【The Second Master has nine swords, one sword and one style.】

【You looked at the Zeh Lake terrain map, and the five waterways out of Zeh Lake.】

【Now the demons are powerful, still in the nest of Zeh Lake.】

【How to break the enemy?】

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