Chapter 36: Missing the Immortal Fate

Tong Gaolu, originally named Tong Dai, was the second illegitimate son of Tong Junjian, the Left Middle Lang of the Rong Kingdom. In the capital of the Rong Kingdom, he was considered a family of officials. Although he could not inherit the family business, he had no worries about food and clothing.

But good times didn't last long.

Soon.

As Tong Junjian's crimes of forming cliques, playing with killing, stealing and selling public land, leaking words from the province, corruption, and indulgence were exposed, under the punishment of multiple crimes, Tong Junjian was soon imprisoned and beheaded. The Tong family's property was confiscated by the government, and their family members were implicated. The male and female family members were all sent out of the mansion and exiled to the border to fight against the Dansu people.

In just an instant, the Tong family fell from a high building to the bottom in the capital.

But only thirteen years later, with the Dansu Kingdom knocking on the gate again, Tong Gaolu, the lowly illegitimate son who was once named Tong Dai, unexpectedly rose up suddenly, beyond everyone's expectations.

He led a military force composed of matrilocal sons-in-law, prisoners, and slaves, walked fifty miles overnight, raided the vanguard army of Dansu, personally beheaded three vanguard generals of the Dansu Kingdom, and recaptured the Yandang Pass.

Once this happened, Tong Gaolu instantly became famous in several countries.

Later, he gathered the remnants as a Great Martial Dao Master and fought for two years, finally pushing the military power of Dansu to the boundary marker, unable to advance an inch, and could only helplessly stop.

Since then, Tong Gaolu became increasingly uncontrollable.

Step by step, he entered the central government, opened offices, and built mansions. Today, almost half of the powerful people in the Rong Kingdom are his wings. His old friends and students form cliques for personal gain. Both military and civil affairs are in his hands, and even the emperor cannot restrict him.

It seemed that he was about to usurp...

"That Tong Gaolu was originally a lowly horse groom at the border, beaten by his master day and night. If there were no accidents, he wouldn't live long. But I heard from that Tong Yi that because Tong Gaolu felt compassion, he fed a bowl of muddy water to an old beggar who had fainted in the sun, and from then on, his fate changed."

In the quiet room of the mountain belly, Tu Shan Ge sighed and sighed, full of worry.

"It seems that the old beggar was a hidden expert, but I don't know what kind of great medicine or elixir he used on Tong Gaolu to make a horse groom suddenly achieve Embryonic Breathing."

Chen Hang tapped the desk with his fingers and said:

"This sounds a bit like a story in a mortal storybook. It seems that those great cultivators are more casual than I thought."

"It wasn't any great medicine."

Tu Shan Ge's expression was a bit strange:

"After the old beggar woke up, he just grabbed Tong Gaolu and pestered him, saying that he had knocked him down and demanded money for compensation, otherwise he would drag him to see the official... Tong Gaolu was a horse groom at the time, but he was also hot-tempered. He fought with him on the street, but not only could he not beat him in strength, he was also spat on by the old beggar, and slapped on both sides of his face."

Chen Hang's fingers stopped moving.

"When he returned to the forage room that night, Tong Gaolu was angry and hateful, and he fainted vaguely. When he woke up, he felt that his strength had suddenly increased, and his skin was as firm as iron. Clearly, he had achieved Embryonic Breathing and was reborn."

Tu Shan Ge looked at Chen Hang and continued:

"He had also read many storybooks and knew that he had bumped into an immortal fate. In joy, he first beat the master who had always oppressed him into rotten meat with one punch, and then raped and killed all the women in the mansion, before searching the city for the old beggar from yesterday, begging him to bestow the Dharma."

"But the old beggar disliked his unstable character. He was originally going to take him as a disciple, but now he wouldn't. But he couldn't stand Tong Gaolu's bitter pestering, so he had to give him a piece of broken silver, telling him to go to the market to buy a few cooked chickens and tender geese, just as a gift for apprenticeship..."

When he said this, Chen Hang hadn't reacted yet.

Tu Shan Ge, who was full of worry before, couldn't help but laugh now:

"Tong Gaolu took the broken silver, and just as he arrived at the market, he saw a beautiful woman in a brothel beckoning to him."

"This person was a man of lust. Having been suppressed for so many years as a horse groom, how could he endure it? He immediately gave the silver to the brothel keeper, and just as he was about to have sex with the beautiful woman, the woman transformed into the appearance of the old beggar. Ignoring Tong Gaolu's crying and begging, he threw him a Universe bag and flew away on the clouds..."

"If I'm not mistaken."

Chen Hang suddenly spoke: "That old beggar must be from the Five Lights Sect, right?"

"I haven't said it yet, Master, how did you know?"

"Tong Yi's arrogance is wild, boasting that he can use the Five Lights Sect as a backer. Putting it together, the old beggar must be a senior from the Five Lights Sect who went out to play in the world."

Chen Hang shook his head:

"The Five Lights Sect is a sect with Primordial Spirit True Persons residing there. Tong Gaolu actually didn't know how to cherish it, losing the gate of the Great Dao because of a little lust. I didn't expect this... With such character, this person is not difficult to deal with."

"There is no backer! Tong Gaolu's actions have completely lost the old beggar's heart. How could the Five Lights Sect care about a mortal?"

Tu Shan Ge sighed and shook his head: "I interrogated that boy repeatedly before I learned that although the Five Lights Sect didn't care about the Tong family, the Universe bag left by the old beggar contained tens of thousands of talisman money and three mid-grade talisman artifacts. This is the most worrying thing..."

Talisman money doesn't need to be discussed.

Mid-grade talisman artifacts are great killing weapons. For example, Chen Hang's Thunder Fire Thunderbolt Bead—clearly Deng Zhongzhi and he were both Embryonic Breathing, but once the Thunder Fire Thunderbolt Bead came out, Deng Zhongzhi was left with nothing but to wait for death.

Although Qi Cultivation is not comparable to Embryonic Breathing, in this level of fighting, besides talisman artifacts, there are more Qi Cultivation Arts, Dao techniques, etc.

But having a few high-grade talisman artifacts on one's body, although it cannot play a decisive role, is also a benefit.

"What is Tong Gaolu's cultivation?"

"Seventh layer of Qi Cultivation."

"Seventh layer?" Chen Hang pondered silently, then suddenly smiled: "He doesn't have five brothers? Tell me."

Tu Shan Ge was stunned, but answered honestly.

Embryonic Breathing is not so easy to achieve. This realm, praised by martial artists as a "Great Martial Dao Master," even if Tong Gaolu had bumped into an immortal fate, he could not make his brothers rise to heaven like chickens and dogs.

Among the five, only Tong Jizhen, who was most proficient in military strategy, had achieved the third layer of Qi Cultivation, and Tong Feng had achieved Embryonic Breathing. The other three were just mediocre and had not stepped into the gate of cultivation.

Hearing this news, Chen Hang nodded, feeling more confident.

"Master, Tong Gaolu has three mid-grade talisman artifacts on him. What should we do?"

"It is better to move one finger than to hurt ten fingers. First remove that Tong Jizhen, who is at the third layer of Qi Cultivation. That can be considered a certificate of merit." Chen Hang said indifferently.

"Certificate of merit?"

"What do you think the Rong Kingdom relies on to establish the nation? Although the imperial family is declining, why hasn't it been usurped yet?"

Chen Hang smiled: "Those who follow the Dao have many helpers, those who lose the Dao have few. Although this act of taking chestnuts from the fire is dangerous, the gains are not small..."

Tu Shan Ge frowned first, then realized, and also laughed.

After a while.

A Mo Yun flying boat rushed into the sky from Yangshan like a red light, heading straight for the capital of the Rong Kingdom. ===== CHAPTER 37 =====