A few days later, inside the Wuling Sect, Qian Chao's courtyard.
Five people gathered together and talked about what happened recently.
In fact, Tang Ping came to see Qian Chao yesterday. This time was the longest time Qian Chao stayed in Ruixuan Town. Lin Jian and Shangguan Hong each had their own plans to get rid of each other outside. He didn't do anything about it. The catch-up was solved by Tang Ping with a few companions and disciples in the sect. Tang Ping was used to asking Qian Chao to come up with ideas for everything, but he was not in the sect at the time, so she had to do it by herself. For this reason Yesterday, Tang Ping wanted to come to Qian Chao to complain, but when she opened the courtyard door, she saw Qian Chao in a plain robe, and she immediately understood that something had happened to Mr. Zhuang. After asking, it turned out to be the case. She saw that Qian Chao was still mourning the death of Mr. Zhuang. Feeling very sad, he stayed to talk to him to relieve his mood, and then called several of his companions today.
While drinking tea, Qian Chao told several of his friends what happened after Mr. Zhuang's death.
Lu Pingchuan was the first to speak:
"Well, I think Mr. Zhuang's life is quite miserable. He was harmed by those people and came all the way to Zhongzhou to hide. In the end, the methods he worked out so hard were used by those who harmed him. Go, huh, if it were me, I wouldn't give it to those guys and just let them die in that undercurrent, I shouldn't give it to them!"
Yanxuan said:
"After all, Yingzhou is Mr. Zhuang's hometown. Even if Mr. Zhuang can't go back, he definitely doesn't want Yingzhou to be destroyed by the undercurrent. But I am curious, what is this undercurrent? Are those monsters really so scary?"
Qian Chao took out a piece of paper with a humanoid monster drawn on it and said:
"Shopkeeper Bao of Yimingxuan has seen the corpse of a monster brought by Gongyang Xiushan. It is said that he is a leader of those monsters in the undercurrent. In order to kill it, Gongyang of Yingzhou destroyed several Nascent Soul levels. Character, I didn’t see the monster corpse with my own eyes. I drew it myself according to what Shopkeeper Bao said, and I asked him to look at it. It’s pretty much the same. It looks like this. According to Shopkeeper Bao, this guy’s height is about the same as It’s almost the same when Brother Lu activates his giant spirit body.”
Several people came over and looked at the paper curiously.
Li Jian asked:
"Brother Qian, what is going on with this undercurrent? Why do the monks in Yingzhou provoke them?"
"Yes, there must be something fishy here." Tang Ping also said.
Qian Chao said:
"I heard from Shopkeeper Bao that Gongyang Xiushan only said that Yingzhou suffered heavy losses from undercurrents one after another, but he never explained the reason. In my opinion, it was probably when Yingzhou sent out to look for land where they could establish a foothold. , somewhere very far away, he either got something, or robbed something, or did something he shouldn't have done. This angered the monsters in the undercurrent, and finally attracted Yingzhou. Otherwise, why would those monsters invade Yingzhou one after another for no reason? Well, I always feel that the hatred should not be just because of what they have done. It is probably that the monsters who invaded Yingzhou want to It’s unclear what will be taken back.”
Tang Ping nodded, agreeing with Qian Chao's speculation.
"Hmph, it must be those greedy guys who brought disaster to me. I couldn't defeat them and didn't want to give them back, so I came to see Mr. Zhuang." Lu Pingchuan said.
Yanxuan said with some worry:
"What if...Mr. Zhuang's bitter immortal method can't help them fight against the undercurrent, then will they really invade our Central Continent in the future when they can't resist it? Or as Gong Yang Xiushan threatened, he Are you going to lead the undercurrent to Central Continent?"
"If my guess is true," Qian Chao said, "then Gongyang Xiushan's threat is difficult to establish. It is just bluffing. If they really got some priceless treasure from a far away place, that thing If it is so precious that they want to keep it in their hands even if they let Yingzhou suffer disaster, they should not take the risk of bringing it to Central Continent. First of all, those monsters are after that thing and not Yingzhou. Even if they can occupy Central Continent, Those monsters will also follow them, and the situation will hardly change; secondly, if they invade Central Continent for the third time, they will just find themselves another powerful enemy, which is extremely unwise. To say the least, even if they end up burning the boat. Invading Central Continent is not guaranteed to be successful. If they launch an invasion and fail, then the Yingzhou monks will face a desperate situation."
Finally Qian Chao said:
"I always feel that my guess is correct."
"But" Li Jian said, "They have obtained Mr. Zhuang's method of suffering immortality. Doesn't it mean that this method can make Yingzhou monks break through the limitations of blood and become stronger?"
"Yes, that's true, but only the Gongyang family and the Zhuang family in Yingzhou have obtained that method. I don't think the Gongyang family and the Zhuang family will share the Kuxian method with the other five surnames in Yingzhou, hum. Shopkeeper Bao commented that the seven surnames in Yingzhou were just greedy and greedier. In order to prevent the spread of Kuxian's method in Yingzhou, they killed many people and forced Mr. Zhuang away because Kuxian's method was harmful to them. It is a great threat to them. If such things are spread, they will definitely feel uneasy. Therefore, even if Gongyang Xiushan and Zhuang Xie go back, they must quietly find people to teach them in their own homes. Before the undercurrent Try to protect yourself first, and then talk about other things.”
Tang Ping said:
"I still feel that the elders and founders of the sect were a little hasty in giving Gongyang Xiushan the method of Kuxian. If they have that method, even if they hide it for themselves, it will definitely make the overall strength of the Yingzhou monks stronger. Once they defeat the undercurrent, will they come back with the benefits brought by the Bitter Immortal's method, and will they attack Zhongzhou again at some point in the future?"
"Yes, I think so too." Lu Pingchuan also agreed.
"Anything we can think of, the elders in the sect and the founder of Yuhu Mountain can naturally think of it," Qian Chao said. "First of all, Mr. Zhuang's method of suffering immortals is not actually effective for all Yingzhou monks. For example, Shopkeeper Bao said that Mr. Zhuang once gave him a detailed explanation of the method of suffering immortals, but due to his lack of talent and intelligence, he has never been able to fully understand it. Therefore, his cultivation basically stopped at the level of pill formation. From now on, There will be no greater improvement, but it is already a great benefit to Shopkeeper Bao. When he was in Yingzhou, Mr. Zhuang once found some people to teach this method, and they all had the same "immortal blood" as Mr. Zhuang. For mixed and impure people, what is needed to understand the method of the Kuxian is not the purity of blood but the talent. Only one or two out of ten people can truly understand it, and if these two people can grow up smoothly, , can become a figure comparable to Gongyang Xiushan. Don't underestimate the ratio of one to two people. Among the monks with mixed blood in Yingzhou, it is a huge number, enough to make the seven surnames who rule Yingzhou feel frightened. , so the Seven Surnames of Yingzhou had to destroy this method, so those who had been taught by Mr. Zhuang were killed, regardless of whether they understood the method of Kuxian. Shopkeeper Bao said that the Seven Surnames caused a revolution in Yingzhou that time. It was a bloody storm, and they would rather kill the wrong person than let anyone go, which shows their fear of the Kuxian method."
Then Qian Chao pointed his finger at the portrait of the monster that everyone had seen on the table and said:
"The second point is more important. Look at this portrait. Do you think this is a monk?"
"this……"
Several people looked at the piece of paper again.
"Didn't you say that this was a monster that invaded Yingzhou in the undercurrent?" Li Jian said.
"Yes, Gongyang Xiushan calls this thing a monster. He doesn't know what it is, doesn't know its name, doesn't know its origin, doesn't know its purpose, and knows nothing about it, so he can only call it a monster. Listen to what Shopkeeper Bao said , Gongyang Xiushan’s cultivation level is definitely a powerful figure at the Yuanying level in our Wuling Sect. He is also an important elder in the Gongyang clan, the strongest among the seven surnames in Yingzhou. His knowledge and experience should be extraordinary. In this way Characters all use monsters to refer to this kind of thing, so those Yuanying Patriarchs on Yuhu Mountain may have never seen this kind of monster and know nothing about it. Whether it is Gongyang Xiushan or Yingzhou monk No matter what, we are all monks after all. Even if Gongyang Xiushan tried every means to harm Mr. Zhuang, even if they invaded Central Continent twice, no matter what, we are still monks. If we don’t want to fight or can’t fight, we can still negotiate, as long as we pay the price or No matter what conditions you agree to, you can resolve the conflict, but they are the only ones..."
Qian Chao said this and tapped the portrait on the table with his finger.
"They are monsters, not monks. They are incomprehensible and cannot communicate, at least in the eyes of Yingzhou monks. Otherwise, if they could communicate with each other, there would be no undercurrent invasion. They are another kind of creature in this world that is different from monks. Powerful existences are what the elders in our sect and the founders on Yuhu Mountain are worried about. They...are not of my race and are a big threat to the monks. Our sect will hand over the Bitter Immortal Technique to the Duke. Yang Xiushan asked them to take them back, not to help the Yingzhou monks overcome the difficulties, but to help the 'monks'. Shopkeeper Bao said that Mo Zu told Gong Yang Xiushan at that time that a big change was going to happen in the world, and it was very likely that Mo Zu This is what Zu is referring to, maybe more and more of this kind of monsters will appear in the future, and it is very likely that it will eventually spread to Central Continent."
Tang Ping said:
"I understand what you're saying, but I'm still curious, what exactly is it that's invading Yingzhou in the undercurrent?"
Qian Chao smiled and said:
"Then how do I know? I haven't even seen the monster's body, and there are no similar records in the books I have read in the past. There are always places in this world that we monks have never set foot on, and there are always places that we don't know about. Things like that, the monsters in the undercurrent are like this."
Yanxuan said:
"Will those monsters invade Middle-earth in the future? What should we do then?"
Qian Chao said again:
"Mr. Zhuang left me a letter before he died. In the letter, he entrusted the old shopkeeper Bao Jiang to me. Well, this old shopkeeper's cultivation is definitely an elder in our sect. But Mr. Zhuang asked me to let shopkeeper Bao return to Yingzhou when I am able in the future. Think about it, what kind of cultivation should we have to go to Yingzhou? What's more, the reason why the old shopkeeper didn't go back with Gongyang Xiushan, There must be something else in Yingzhou that worries him. If one day I really have the ability to not only bring Shopkeeper Bao back but also help him solve all his problems, what kind of cultivation should we have at that time? It's still early. , Sister Yan, Yingzhou will definitely not collapse so quickly. I heard shopkeeper Bao talk about Yingzhou. It is a place truly suitable for monks to practice. In Yingzhou, everyone is a monk, and there are no ordinary people. This shows that The spiritual energy of Yingzhou is so rich. If it weren't for the fact that Yingzhou would one day head north into the extremely cold sea, the monks in Yingzhou would not be willing to give up that place, nor would they want to replace Yingzhou with Zhongzhou so that they could continue to live and settle down. For the sake of their own land, the Yingzhou monks will fight to the death to resist the undercurrent. Moreover, I estimate that after this time, some of the Yuan Ying Patriarchs in our sect may go to Yingzhou to see with their own eyes and see what the undercurrent is. What's going on, how powerful those monsters are, maybe in the future the Nascent Soul Patriarchs from the six sects of Central Continent will come to Yingzhou to help in the battle."
Li Jian said:
"That's true. Even if the undercurrent invades Central Continent now, we will definitely be unable to do anything with our cultivation. Now we just have to practice diligently, so that one day in the future, we can help."
"Yes, for us, it's too early to say that. All we have to do now is practice."
