Chapter 375: Storybook

"Let's talk while riding the wind."

Kong Yu seemed to have been looking forward to it for a long time. He was afraid that the business would be snatched away by his fellow disciples. He couldn't stay at the foot of the mountain for a moment. He rode the wind and flew in Mount Shanjie County, saying in his mouth:

"According to my master's words, it should be someone from the Mount Luoxia Mountain of the Northern Daoist Immortal Sect who came down to experience the calamity. I don't know which Great One it is. In short, it is nine months of Qi Refining, three years of Foundation Establishment, possessing beauties, breaking noble clans, eliminating demonic cultivators, enjoying the blessings of all people... all the way back north..."

"This! This..."

Li Li Xuanxuan didn't believe it a little, but couldn't say anything, only said in a low voice:

"If so, we are just passing through that place, and there is nothing serious..."

A trace of fear flashed on Kong Yu's face, and he said in a muffled voice:

"Fellow Daoist hasn't seen this kind of person, so naturally you feel it's nothing. It's just a genius. When you see this kind of person with fate or even golden nature one day, you will know."

"Senior Li Tongya should also know. Fellow Daoist can go back and ask."

After saying this, he closed his mouth, and no matter how Li Li Xuanxuan probed, he didn't reveal anything else.

The two had to change the topic and chat about other things. When they flew to the border between Yue and Xu, the night was thick. Kong Yu took out a jade box, placed it on his palm, drummed his cheeks, and blew a piece of black cloud from it, shouting:

"Fellow Daoist, this is the magic treasure 【Night Walking Cloud】, which can cover the figure. This journey is dangerous after all. It's better to bring your spirit beast in."

"Good!"

Li Li Xuanxuan was not polite. Although the Brother Xuan Yue Sect was desolate and fallen, it had a heritage after all. Kong Yu was a descendant of True Person Senior Changxi and was full of treasures.

The demonic cultivators are rampant today, and the two cannot walk through Yufu County. They walk through hills and jungles, full of wild temples and rogue cultivators. I don't know how many demonic cultivators are ambushed, which is really dangerous.

They had to land and cultivate during the day, and ride the wind at night. Kong Yu was a talkative person and had quite a lot of knowledge in talismans. He and Li Li Xuanxuan verified each other's talisman techniques, and both gained something, which was an unexpected joy.

One day, the two flew to the border between Yue and Xu. A cultivator was fleeing with demonic wind. Golden light flowed in the night sky, and a person behind was driving a golden ring to break through the air, chasing closely.

The two had seen this scene many times and always avoided it. What's more, both the immortal and the demon were at the peak of Qi Refining, which was not easy to provoke. Kong Yu stopped and said in a low voice:

"People from the Slaughtering Jun Sect... The Situ family has some friendship with my Kong clan, so it's not good to stand by and watch... I'll help a little."

Having said this, he sacrificed a jade seal and hit it head-on. Li Li Xuanxuan sighed and cast a few spells, cooperating with talismans to block the demonic cultivator.

"Boom!"

This demonic cultivator was at the end of his rope. Blocked by the two, surrounded front and back, he had no use for his life-saving escape secret techniques. After dozens of rounds, he lost his life.

The Slaughtering Jun Sect disciple's golden ring danced, releasing dim golden light, and took the demonic cultivator's corpse in front of him. It looked like he wanted to occupy it alone, and he was not polite in his mouth, saying directly:

"Who is coming?"

Li Li Xuanxuan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him, so he pretended to be led by Kong Yu and retreated behind Kong Yu. Kong Yu also frowned and replied:

"I am Kong of Brother Xuan Yue. It has been a long time since I saw people from the Slaughtering Jun Sect. This time, I didn't come to share the wealth, but just to keep in mind the favor of letting the road in the past, so I helped."

"Oh."

This young man looked very indifferent, which made Kong Yu's hot face stick to a cold butt. He slowly said:

"Oh?! Fellow Daoist is a warm-hearted person."

Kong Yu's face was already unable to hang, and he flicked his sleeves and returned. The young man also had no good face, sneered and said:

"I thought who it was, it turned out to be the 'One Incense Clan'!"

"How dare you, junior?!"

Kong Yu was furious, his magic treasure flew up, and he cursed. This young man was not afraid at all, showing disgust, and replied:

"Let you know, Kong Nuomeng married Situ Yi, and was long ago slaughtered by the lineage where I, Situ Mo, am. If you mention any favor of letting the road again, you are going against my family!"

Kong Yu was turned pale by this sentence, as if he had seen some strange thing, both angry and funny, gritted his teeth:

"Stupid thing! Situ Tang is a hero of a generation, yet he gave birth to such stupid things!"

Having said this, he turned and left, regardless of the angry face of Situ Mo, the direct descendant of the Slaughtering Jun Sect. Li Li Xuanxuan hid in the clouds and listened, terrified. Seeing that this person didn't catch up, he let out a long breath and sighed:

"Why is the fellow Daoist doing this?"

"The Slaughtering Jun Sect's cultivation technique is good at attacking. This Situ Mo is also a direct descendant, and the golden ring in his hand is very powerful. If you really anger him, I fear there will be trouble."

If they really fought, Kong Yu, an old man who hadn't broken through to Foundation Establishment for nearly a hundred years, couldn't die, but Li Li Xuanxuan, a small shopkeeper who made talismans, would mostly lose his life. Naturally, he was terrified.

Kong Yu sighed and said in a muffled voice:

"In those years, True Person Senior Changxi passed through the Slaughtering Jun Mountain, moving the mountain and affecting the earth veins. The Slaughtering Jun Sect moved several peaks, so they formed a bond and pointed out the marriage contract. I didn't expect that time has changed, and the Situ family has become such arrogant and extravagant young masters."

The Slaughtering Jun Sect had been in chaos for so long, how could Kong Yu not know the changes in the Situ family? The branch that the Kong family married into had long been slaughtered.

It was just that the Kong clan was weak and didn't want to form a grudge, only counting the favor on the Slaughtering Jun Sect, wanting to continue to be allies. Now he was scolded by Situ Mo for calculating clearly, and his heart was cold.

Li Li Xuanxuan was still thinking about the "One Incense Clan" and didn't ask out loud. He just comforted him silently, waiting for him to speak.

Li Li Xuanxuan was not a noble clan child who practiced honestly on the immortal mountain since childhood. He had rolled in the world for decades, and he saw it clearly. Kong Yu said something about his dead senior brother as soon as they met, and said something about the favor of letting the road. It can be seen that he is a character who can't hold back tragic things and is self-pitying by nature. No need to ask, after waiting for a dozen breaths, Kong Yu really opened his mouth:

"To tell the truth, the Kong clan has suffered deeply from things like Yufu County."

"My Great-Gao Zu died because of this. In those years, he went out to collect spiritual items and lost his mind when he was near Jishui County in the State of Xu. He was like a madman, traveling thousands of miles to find a small tavern, but he had to be rude and bully a young man."

"That young man just sneered and left. Half a year later, he hit the clan, killed my Great-Gao Zu, and my Great-Gao Zu, a peak Foundation Establishment immortal cultivator, actually let a Qi-Refining cultivator run away!"

Li Li Xuanxuan was like listening to a storybook, and said in disbelief:

"How is it possible!"

"How is it impossible!"

Kong Yu's face was full of haze, gritting his teeth, and said in a low voice:

"His own child was beaten to death in front of him. He was confused, and actually played a game of insisting on one incense stick with that young man! And he lost to others. Since then, he has become a laughing stock!"

"Do you say it's ridiculous or not?!"

He laughed loudly, full of bitterness, and said in a low voice:

"The people sent out by the family became fools one by one, fed to him one by one, and finally the peak Foundation Establishment Great-Gao Zu also died in his hands. That young man broke my family's immortal mountain, disbanded the Kong family, and finally returned to the north."

"What about True Person Senior Changxi?"

Li Li Xuanxuan's mouth was dry. After listening to him, he asked hurriedly.

Kong Yu replied in a low voice:

"Later, True Person Senior Changxi broke through and returned. My Kong clan, a three-hundred-year noble clan, scattered into pieces within three years, and even got the name 【One Incense Clan】. True Person Senior Changxi was terrified and moved away from the State of Xu, which led to the later Brother Xuan Yue Sect."

"Alas..."

Li Li Xuanxuan listened with cold sweat on his back, echoed and sighed, secretly thinking:

'No wonder the Brother Xuan Yue Sect is so desolate. The clan members with cultivation died seven or eight out of ten in those years, and they haven't recovered yet...'

Kong Yu was full of heartache, only replied:

"The catastrophe of my Kong clan is full of the word 'helpless' on the paper. I don't know what kind of helplessness the ancestor felt when he encountered this disaster."

"This matter is well-known in the State of Xu, and everyone knows it. The clan members who fled were mixed into the various families and were known by everyone."

Li Li Xuanxuan was moved by his words and said in a low voice:

"That one in those years... what is

"That person from back then... did he have a title?"

Kong Yu spread his hands and smiled:

"A title? This humble cultivator dares not speak of it."

Li Li Xuanxuan was suddenly choked for words. Listening to this all the way through, he suddenly felt something was not quite right and said in a low voice:

"Since he is such a lord who cannot be provoked, why still do this... making it known to everyone, which brings no benefit to one's own family... Only by forgetting this matter can one preserve the lives of future generations..."

'Spreading it everywhere like this, isn't it clearly telling that lord that the Kong family harbors deep hatred?'

Li Li Xuanxuan added a sentence in his heart, but Kong Yu looked at him deeply and replied:

"This humble cultivator dares not speak of it, dares not hate, dares not avoid talking about it. When mentioning this matter, I must recount it from beginning to end. There is no other reason; it is purely to pass this matter down, to please that lord, and to seek a meager survival."

"After all, it is a storybook that the lord painstakingly arranged. As long as the storybook spreads widely, the Kong family is the monument witnessing his rise, and the lord will be less willing for my family to perish."

"But if even the villain of the storybook forgets the storybook, how could the people watching the play still find it interesting?"

Kong Yu's voice was low.

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The Li family.

Li Brother Yuanping took inventory of the households. The Li family currently rules five peaks and eighteen towns, supporting 320,000 people, plus 280,000 in the East East Shanyue, totaling a full 600,000 people.

"600,000 people!"

The fertility of these lands on the Li family's five peaks is second only to the vast fertile fields of the dense forest, and far better than the deep mountains and old forests of the Fei family, but supporting 600,000 people has reached the limit.

Thanks to this, although the Li family's Qi Refining cultivators are only a handful, they possess the largest number of Tai Xi cultivators among all the families. With the five peaks establishing a prefecture system overnight, the registered Tai Xi cultivators surged, from nearly 200 people at the beginning of the year to a full 300-plus now.

Li Brother Yuanping knew clearly: firstly, the prominent clans saw profit to be made and immediately entered their own cultivated cultivators into the Li family's clan register; secondly, rogue cultivators saw the benefits and immediately came to seek refuge.

"It is nothing more than wealth moving people's hearts!"

A cold sneer appeared on Li Brother Yuanping's pale face:

'There must still be more than half of the Tai Xi cultivators among the outer surnames and prominent clans who have not entered the clan register, fearing that I, Li Brother Yuanping, am playing tricks, waiting for this piece of meat to fall first!'

He looked at these name lists and only said in a low voice:

"Once you enter the register... it will no longer be up to you!"

"Please, everyone, come in!"

Li Brother Yuanping gave the order, and Dou Yi immediately went down to announce it. Then, a string of cultivators was seen entering one after another. At the head were An Jiyan and Tian Tian Zhongqing. The An and Tian families had the greatest merit, so they naturally walked in front, followed by Chen, Xu, Ren, Xu...

"In this demonic disaster, the Tian family contributed the most."

Li Brother Yuanping looked at everyone below and said softly:

"Tian Tian Zhongqing, appointed as Shanfeng Inspector of Huaxian Mountain."

Regarding Li Brother Yuanping's appointment for him, Tian Tian Zhongqing was not surprised.

Li Brother Yuanping's prefecture system has three main heads: Shanfeng Curtain, Shanfeng Inspector, and Shanfeng Master.

The Shanfeng Master holds the array disk and is always a direct descendant of the Li family. Although their strength is not high, they hold the array disk; as long as they check it from time to time, they can cultivate with peace of mind.

The Shanfeng Curtain is only held by Tai Xi cultivators, with three divisions underneath, in charge of taxes, general affairs, and supervision. They have dozens of Tai Xi cultivators under them; it is a position that requires both heart and labor, so it was impossible to put him there.

The Shanfeng Inspector is the garrisoned Qi Refining cultivator, responsible for eliminating demons and subduing monsters. It is the position with the greatest strength and the most leisure. Tian Tian Zhongqing is only forty years old, which is a good time to improve his cultivation.

"Xu Gongming appointed as Shanfeng Inspector of Mount Yuting Mountain, Xu Shumu appointed as Shanfeng Curtain of Mount Huashan Mountain, Xu Gongyu appointed as Shanfeng Curtain of Wutu Mountain, Brother Shamoli appointed as Shanfeng Inspector of Wutu Mountain..."

Seeing that the general positions were filled to the point of barely maintaining stability, the remaining positions were not read out.

A crowd of cultivators looked over one after another. Li Brother Yuanping put away the things in his hand and said warmly:

"There are still insufficient cultivators in the clan. Once the Tai Xi cultivators distributed to the various peaks are sufficient, Brother Yuanping will promote those with merit from among them."

Li Brother Yuanping looked at their appearance of looking at each other in dismay and smiled:

"The positions in the peaks are just those few. They are evaluated based on cultivation and merit. Each position is equipped with magic treasures, distributed elixirs, and established cave dwellings. The burden on the clan is also strenuous."

With these three conditions thrown out, the crowd of guest cultivators, prominent clans, and branch lineages below immediately turned red-eyed. In this world today, demonic cultivators are rampant; once you go out, don't think about coming back. The only source of magic treasures and elixirs is the main family.

The Li family is poor, and the cultivators under the Li family's rule are even poorer. Although peak affairs are equipped with magic treasures, if you lose the peak affair, you have to return the magic treasure. However, it is truly unbearable that several families do not have a single magic treasure.

What's more, elixirs and cave dwellings are both for increasing cultivation. Breaking through earlier might mean an extra hundred years of lifespan. This kind of temptation is hard to let go of...

Li Brother Yuanping saw that everyone below had wandering eyes and greed had arisen. He nodded and waved his hand to let them go down.

'The snake demon's cave dwelling is even bigger than I thought. The direct descendants do not lack cave dwellings for cultivation, so these cave dwellings on the mountains can be thrown to them... Magic treasures are just sitting there anyway. What is paid is nothing more than some clan stipends and elixirs.'

Li Brother Yuanping let out a breath, looked at the few reports on the desk, and prepared to expand the Mount Yuting Guard and the Clan Justice Court.

"Need to increase stipends again... spirit rice, spirit stones, spirit elixirs, which one is not lacking? There are truly too few spirit objects at the bottom of Wangyue Lake. If only I could enter Mount Mount Dali at will..."