Dalian, Liaoning.
Tang Mu turned into a little local dog and huddled in the trash can in the alley. Although the surroundings were surrounded by extremely stinky garbage, his attention was obviously not on it. Instead, he kept his ears straight and listened carefully to what was going on outside.
More than half an hour passed, and Tang Mu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw nothing unusual.
He was not in a hurry to go out, but instead used his demon power to recover from his injuries while thinking about the current situation.
"Songfeng Mountain, Sanqing Temple, Xiangshui Temple, and Qianshan Wuliang Temple have been confirmed to be involved. Only some people from Taiqing Palace should join, but the specific number of people has yet to be discovered."
Whispering softly, Tang Mu licked the bloody wound on his left paw, and narrowed his eyes: "Is the Maoshan sect secretly leading the way? It's not like that, although the Taoist sect targets ghosts, they have their own magnanimity and often lead the general trend. It’s not like it is now, full of intrigues and cunning..."
Tang Mu recalled the information about the major forces in the Northeast cultivation world, his heart suddenly moved, and he sneered: "Since you are confronting me with conspiracy, and I am repaying you with conspiracy, aren't you just relying on your power to bully me into not having a helping hand in the Northeast? Now? No, that doesn’t mean I can’t create a helping hand…”
Amid the sneer, Tang Mu unconsciously recalled his experiences since traveling to Northeast China.
When he first arrived in Heilongjiang, Tang Mu did not rush to the entry point of Wuyiling District. Instead, he went to Harbin, the provincial capital, to explore the source of the rumor that caused Chi Shang to besieged by the heroes.
Tang Mu had a steady temperament and was naturally very cautious in his actions. He just didn't expect that he would be discovered halfway through the investigation, and then he would be chased by the local sect Songfeng Mountain.
If it were someone else, they might think that Songfeng Mountain was surrounded by soldiers because Green Pine Taoist had ambushed him in the past, so they attacked him for no apparent reason.
However, although Tang Mu was a dog demon, he had a deep understanding of human nature and immediately realized that the situation was not good. He didn't even bother to defend himself and ran away immediately.
Although Tang Mu was only at the fifth level in terms of true cultivation, he was born with the magical power of light and darkness. Once he used light escape or shadow escape, even the tenth level might not be able to catch him.
At first, it was just the Songfengshan family who was chasing him, but after repeated capture failures, several forces got involved, and without exception, they were all Taoist forces from the three eastern provinces.
There are five Taoist forces in Liaoning alone, including Qianshan Wulong Palace in Anshan, Taiqing Palace in Shenyang, and Sanqing Temple, Xiangshui Temple, and Qianshan Wuliang Temple in Dalian, not to mention Songfeng Mountain and Xuandi Temple from Heilongjiang and Jilin. Watch other forces.
The overwhelming Taoist priests were chasing Tang Mu in groups. Even though Tang Mu was the master of planning, the opponent relied on their superiority in numbers and strength to force Tang Mu to a point where he had no way to go, all the way from Harbin, Heilongjiang. He fled until he was near Dalian, Liaoning Province.
However, as the chase went on, Tang Mu also gradually discovered some clues. The man behind the pursuit of him was definitely not a Taoist. Moreover, this man behind the scenes was very capable. Logically speaking, the news of such a vigorous pursuit must have spread long ago. All over the country, but I didn't find any news about this matter either on Tianji.com or in reality.
Tang Mu was also a bit stubborn in his temper. Since the other party was hiding in secret and planning to kill him, he did not want to ask the Yin Yang Sect for help. Instead, he wanted to rely on his own strategy to confront the other party.
At this point, it was no longer that Tang Mu came to investigate the news too late, so he became hostile to the other party, but that Tang Mu and the other party had already started a game of chess while the other party was constantly chasing him.
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At night, most people in the city have gone to sleep, and only a few dim lights streak across the sky from time to time, revealing the unusually tense atmosphere in the city today.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, these streams of light converged on a wasteland in the suburbs. When the light and shadow dispersed, they saw that these people were all members of the Taoist sect. They were all wearing Taoist robes and dressed in ancient styles, but their faces were not very good-looking.
"Not found." A long-bearded Taoist shook his head.
"Has the monster escaped from the city?" An old Taoist looked suspicious, "Otherwise, we should have found his traces after such a large-scale search."
"It's hard to say. This monster is good at escaping. Before, several fellow Taoists in Taiqing Palace set up a large formation, but he still found a gap to escape. If it had been hiding, it might have been able to escape our pursuit."
"Didn't the fellow Taoist from Qianshan Five Dragon Palace go to get the monster hunting rope and they haven't come back yet?"
"It's early. My sect is in Anshan, not here."
"Yes, it will probably take a day or two for this to happen."
"Speaking of which, this monster's cultivation is only at the fifth level. Is it too exaggerated for us to arrest it on such a large scale?"
"Who knows, it's just that for some reason the senior officials of your family and I have given death orders to catch this monster."
While all the Taoists were discussing, the long-bearded Taoist who had spoken first looked around and wondered: "Why haven't the fellow Taoists from Songfeng Mountain come back yet? Didn't they say we would meet at three o'clock?"
"I don't know!" A young Taoist priest took out a jade slip, as if he wanted to send a message to the people in Songfeng Mountain.
Unexpectedly, a loud noise suddenly came from the distance at this time. Fire could be seen in the distance and murderous intent surged into the sky. Before everyone could react, they saw the phantom of a green pine appear out of thin air. Thousands of pine needles were like a torrential downpour, sweeping across the world and shaking endlessly. .
"That's the immortal pine in the "Pine Wind Sutra"!" A Taoist exclaimed as he recognized the phantom of the green pine.
"Did you find that monster?" Another person asked in surprise.
"Hurry over!"
Everyone reacted at this time and cast spells to fly towards the fighting place.
Because Tang Mu's escape skills were too cunning, the personnel sent by each family were not weak in strength. The weakest ones were in the transformation stage, and a few of the strongest ones even had the cultivation level of the emptiness stage.
So everyone was speeding along, and the strongest ones only took half a minute to arrive at the fighting place.
As they approached the battlefield, they saw two groups of people fighting in the night. One group was several people from Songfeng Mountain, and the other group was a group of men and women wearing modern clothes.
On the Songfeng Mountain side, this time the team was personally led by the mountain owner, Taoist Green Pine, and there were three fusion-stage elders. They were naturally quite strong, but the side they were fighting against was not weak at all, and was even suppressing several people from Songfeng Mountain. onslaught.
Seeing the reinforcements arriving, Taoist Green Pine said urgently: "Fellow Taoists, come and help!"
"Help you big-headed devil!" A burly man who was chasing Taoist Green Pine opened his eyes angrily, opened his mouth and roared like thunder, which shocked Taoist Green Pine's chest. His original retreating movement was also stagnant, and he was stopped by the big man. Taking advantage of the situation, he caught up and punched the old Taoist in the chest.
With a click, this man's punch was so powerful that he punched the Green Pine Taoist who was still in the weak stage to pieces. Only the dim Nascent Soul floated out from the top of his head, and the Taoist people who came to help hurriedly fled.
The first few people who arrived at the battlefield were all still in the void stage. Seeing how brave the burly man was, their hearts were clouded. Fortunately, they also knew how powerful they were. Except for one person who took action to lure Taoist Green Pine, the rest of them all came together. They took action, raised their spiritual weapons, and bombarded the burly man.
"Who are you playing with?" Seeing the spiritual weapons coming with the billowing spiritual energy, the burly man spat, raised his right hand, and pulled out a tomahawk out of thin air, slashing at them head on.
I don’t know who the big man is, but the power of this ax blow is so terrifying. With a bang, several spiritual weapons that were attacking were chopped into pieces by his axe. Then he kicked his foot, and his whole body was like a Attacked like an ancient tyrannosaurus.
The spiritual weapon was shattered, and several Huanxu Taoists felt severe pain in their eyebrows. They didn't even react in time, and allowed the big man to rush forward and swing his ax in a horizontal slash, directly cutting several people in half.
Among the few people, only the old Taoist priest who had previously rescued Taoist Green Pine escaped. Even so, when he saw his companion die in a blink of an eye, this man was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were broken. Even the Nascent Soul of several people could not care to protect him. With a flick of his sleeves, he was about to flee high into the sky.
But before the old Taoist priest could fly a few meters, there was a sudden shout in the distance, and a spear flew out of the darkness, piercing him in the air with incomparable accuracy. Blood spattered everywhere, and another sword struck from the left and right. Cut it off and divide the old Taoist's body into several sections.
At this time, a group of talents with weaker cultivation hurried to the battlefield, and saw from a distance that all the strong men in the sect were dead. Those people all became pale and did not even bother to take action, and they fled back in a hurry.
These Taoists were far away from the battlefield, and the burly man and others had no time to pursue them, so they simply allowed them to escape.
Just waiting until the battle was over, looking at the ruins around them, the burly man and several other men and women had gloomy faces, but they were a little confused in their hearts.
After being quiet for a long time, a woman with short hair asked hesitantly: "Speaking of which, are these Daomen people crazy? Why are they coming to beat us in the middle of the night?"
"How do I know," the burly man frowned, "Have you offended someone from the Taoist sect recently?"
Everyone shook their heads, and one person asked in confusion: "Fourth General, could it be that the Taoist sect wants to target our evil alliance?"
Evil alliance! This group of men and women turned out to be members of the Evil Alliance, and the burly man who had just killed several people in the Void Stage was the fourth general of the Evil Alliance, a top warrior in the late imperial level.
The fourth general was also confused. Although their evil alliance was secretly powerful and not inferior to the three inner Taoist sects, they had rarely had conflicts with other forces. The biggest conflict in the past few years was the previous siege of Chi Shang. , but that time several generals were killed one after another by Shi Chishang, which was considered the biggest loss since the establishment of the Evil Alliance.
Moreover, although Taoist sects are all over the country, they are not actually strong in the Northeast. They are all Outer Taoist sects, and none of the Inner Taoist sects is located in the Northeast. Therefore, Taoist sects have rarely interfered with matters in the Northeast. There are dozens of Outer Taoist sects in the Northeast. Taoist temples are also very peaceful and rarely cause trouble.
So no matter what, there is no strict conflict between the evil alliance and the Taoist sect at all. There is absolutely no need for a large group of people to suddenly come and attack me in the middle of the night?
"Could it be that the Taoist sect wants to bring the Northeastern cultivation world under its control?"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in the fourth general's mind. Even though he was a strong man in the late emperor level, his heart trembled. In terms of overall strength, the Taoist sect was definitely stronger. The evil alliance could at most rival one of the three inner Taoist sects. This Regardless of their apparent strength, if they were to compete with their background, how could the Evil Alliance, which had only been established for a few years, be an opponent of these forces that had been inherited from ancient times to this day.
"We can't take any more here. Let's go back to the headquarters first," the fourth general thought for a moment and said solemnly, "I also want to inform the boss. If the Taoist sect really plans to eliminate the Northeastern cultivation world, then there will be a huge war."
Everyone also felt the pressure and quickly left the place after packing up their things, leaving only ruins.
