Su Mansion.
Su Changqing had just passed the threshold of the main hall, and the elders of the Tai clan who were already waiting stood up one after another and saluted with their hands raised:
"Greetings to the young Marquis."
Su Changqing returned the gift with his hand, but found that the eyes of several high-status old men were full of sadness and anger.
"Everyone, you don't look too happy. Is it because I, Jizhou, didn't entertain you?"
"Young Master, please forgive me, but I have lost my temper."
"Young Lord Marquis has given you face by being able to see us. How dare you blame me?"
Su Changqing sat on the main seat, looked at them quietly, and said: "What exactly happened."
An old man with white hair at the temples, who was the oldest, couldn't control his emotions at all after hearing this, and burst into tears and said:
"I don't dare to deceive the young Marquis..."
"This time we have the Tai family who came with a sincere heart and brought several carts of treasures from the Tai family. We just want to get a few more millet seeds."
"However, when we passed by a large river outside Jizhou, the river god was dissatisfied with the sacrifices we offered, which caused a huge disaster..."
"All the treasures dedicated to the young Marquis were swept into the river. There were more than 130 people in our group, and we also suffered hundreds of casualties... Now only a few old people are left, who are lucky enough to survive."
"We don't have the shame to come back to see the young Marquis, but if we don't have five hundred kilograms of seeds per acre, we have no shame to go back to Xiqi and see the Tai family."
After the clan elder finished speaking, the elder burst into tears. He suppressed his grief and bowed heavily to Su Changqing.
"I'm so shameless. Please give me some seeds on credit first. When the harvest is good, I will repay you many times the money you owe me."
When Su Changqing heard this, he frowned slightly. Upon seeing this, the secret guard of Langya Pavilion beside him immediately reported in a low voice:
"Sir, my subordinates have found out that everything is true."
"That big river is called Zhangshui. The water god in the river is a black dragon."
"In these years, the biggest headache for Evergreen Escort Agency is him."
"This black dragon is sexually promiscuous and only likes female creatures. The sacrifices offered by the Evergreen Escort Bureau are all cows, female snakes, tigresses, etc."
"This time there was Tai's caravan, but the sacrifices to him were a few big men and bulls."
"That pissed him off."
Su Changqing:......
He remembered.
There is such a black dragon in the west of Jizhou.
"Go to Langya Pavilion and get the book of this black dragon."
"yes!"
After a while, Su Changqing got the black dragon's book, which recorded all the information about the black dragon in detail.
"One hundred and fifty years ago, black dragons appeared in Zhangshui, and the original river god of Zhangshui fell."
"A hundred years ago, the black dragon manifested magical powers, and all the surrounding humans were in awe of it. They offered sacrifices one after another and built temples to worship it."
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"Eight years ago, the Changqing Escort crossed the Zhang River for the first time. When the river was flooded, they had to offer sacrifices before passing."
This book not only records the legend of the black dragon's first appearance in the human world, but also records the sacrifices offered by the Evergreen Escort Bureau every time they crossed the Zhangshui River, as well as the judgment of the qi refiners in the escort agency on the strength of the black dragon.
"A little demon who is in the realm of refining energy and becoming a god?"
Zheng Lun once said.
When mortals cultivate immortality, they have four realms: refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform into spirit, refining spirit to return to void, and refining void to combine with Tao.
Collectively called the realm of transformation.
After refining the void and combining the Tao, thunder tribulation will be triggered.
If you succeed, you will become an Earth Immortal, and you will embark on the path of cultivating immortality.
If you fail, you will become a human immortal. From then on, you will stop on the path of immortality and can only enjoy the wealth and honor of the world.
It is a pity that the cultivation method of the great religion has never been spread to the outside world. The only cultivation method that can be found in the world today is the "Taishang Golden Elixir Method" passed down to the human race by the Supreme Saint.
Therefore, if these loose cultivators in the mountains and the gods of plants and trees want to practice, they can only find ways to become human beings and practice the Taoism of the human race.
The simplest way to transform is the way of incense.
After they generate spiritual intelligence, they will appear in the human world, coerce and lure tribesmen to build temples and offer incense for them, and then use the incense in the human world to condense their physical bodies.
This is also the reason why people worship evil gods everywhere in the world.
These gods are either the plants, trees, mountains and rocks that were nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and gave birth to spiritual wisdom, or they are the remaining monsters who have awakened their bloodline.
The black dragon is the latter.
According to Zheng Lun, the Avenue of Incense was originally invented by Emperor Fuxi during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, with the help of Empress Nuwa. Incense could be used to communicate with the Nine Heavenly Gods and invite them to come down to earth to help human beings.
After Emperor Zhuanxu gained the Jedi Heavenly Power, the Avenue of Incense was no longer useful, and finally became a method for cultivating plants and animals.
"Transformation and cultivation all depend on the human race, but they are above the human race, wreaking havoc and destroying people and animals."
"You really treat humans like leeks."
Su Changqing said calmly:
"Mr. Jiang, I don't have to accept your property for this year's seeds, or even escort you back to Xiqi, but I have a condition."
Jiang Kui cried with joy and said: "Little Marquis, please tell me!"
"Xi Bohou still has a prejudice against our grain seeds in Jizhou and is unwilling to promote their cultivation in Xiqi."
"Even our caravans from Jizhou are still unable to sell grain in Xiqi."
"You have been planting seeds with a yield of 500 jins per mu over the years, but the price you sell is as high as Xiqi's grain with a yield of 100 jins per mu. With 20% of the land, you have harvested 60% of the grain. For this money, no one can Are you jealous?"
A few of the Tai family couldn't help but lower their heads and remained silent.
"My conditions are very simple. You must sell this year's harvest to the people of Xiqi at a price of 20%."
"In the future, I can also give you seeds for free. Or even send them directly to the clan area where the Tai family exists."
"But you must always sell grain at this price."
"Until Xibohou is willing to come and talk to me."
"this……"
Several people looked at each other, not expecting that Su Changqing would make such a condition.
They naturally knew that Ji Chang was afraid of Su Changqing.
However, they don't understand why.
Ji Chang even sternly criticized Jizhou's grain crops at the court meeting.
The hexagrams indicate that this will cause Xiqi Valley to run out of food, and all food and clothing will be in the hands of Su Changqing.
"This is a big matter, we need to return to our clan..."
Su Changqing stood up after hearing this, waved his hand and said: "I'm not discussing with you, I'm just giving you a choice."
"To do it, or not to do it."
…
Half an hour later.
A Tai family caravan bowed and left the Su Mansion.
Su Changqing watched them leave and said:
"Su San, go to the Seedling Department and ask them to hand over this year's seeds to the You Tai family."
"In addition, let the Changqing Escort Bureau send a team to escort them back to Xiqi."
"Is it great to know the innate gossip? Ji Chang, I'm waiting for you to come to Jizhou to find me."
After that, he looked in the direction of Zhangshui and narrowed his eyes.
This time.
Black Dragon's behavior completely angered him.
"The little dragon who refines his energy and transforms into a god dares to harm the human race so unscrupulously in the human world."
Su Changqing has never had any conflict with these evil gods adsorbed in the human world.
Even though Zheng Lun had the ability to kill some weak gods, he did not act rashly and kept silent.
After all, Zheng Lun's magical snuff power is so famous.
Two white lights came out, taking away people's soul.
I can't hide it even if I want to.
Once his act of killing gods is leaked, the news of Jizhou's disrespect for gods will spread throughout the world, and his power in the world will become the target of all gods.
Humans need to fear the gods and offer sacrifices and incense. This has been the case for thousands of years.
For these incense gods, killing an evil god is not just as simple as killing an unrelated person of the same kind.
But someone wants to break this established rule.
An unfair code of heaven and earth upon which the incense god lives.
Once someone breaks this rule, they will be punished by all the Incense Spirits.
By then, neither his escort agency nor the caravan will be able to move forward.
These gods will even confuse the people of the world and become enemies of Jizhou, rendering Jizhou into a dark and ignorant land.
As for some of the casual cultivators he recruited, they did not dare to take action.
They worry that there are greater forces behind these gods.
For example, this black dragon may be of dragon bloodline.
Killing him would be tantamount to offending the dragon clan.
"Over the past 150 years, a total of 2,600 human lives have been destroyed."
"This account must be settled."
During the Tribulation of the Gods, the status of these obscene evil gods was lower than that of the human race, and no one cared about their existence at all.
Heavenly Court will only confer strong men in the Immortal Realm who have survived the Immortal Tribulation as gods.
These obscene sacrifices to evil gods.
Even if he kills him, it won't affect anything.
Su Changqing's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he spoke calmly, saying:
"Beifeng, from now on, I will ask the eldest son to handle all invitations for greetings."
After that, he asked the guard to get pen and ink, thought for a moment, wrote several secret letters, and handed them to Su Jiu.
"This letter is sent to Jizhou. This letter must be handed over to King Wucheng Huang Feiwu."
"Tell him to keep an eye on his eldest son, Huang Tianhua, and be careful not to be kidnapped by demons."
"If possible, let Huang Feihu send Huang Tianhua to Jizhou Academy to study."
This is the future Lord Bingling of the Three Mountains. How could he take advantage of the True Monarch Qingxu Daode?
He continued:
"The second letter was given to Chaoge's chief manager of Changqing Caravan, asking him to invite Chaoge's wealthy businessman Song Yiren to Jizhou. Use all means, even buy all his properties."
"The third letter was given to the Changqing Escort Bureau near Yanshan, telling them not to do business recently, and to patrol Yanshan, looking for babies who appeared after the thunder."
"Give the fourth letter to Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of Chentangguan, and tell him that if he wants to know why Mrs. Li has not given birth for two years, come to Jizhou to find me."
A sealed letter was handed into the hands of Langya Pavilion spy.
It wasn't until Su Changqing stopped writing that they all clasped their fists and bowed to accept the order.
"I will obey your orders!"
Su Changqing's eyes narrowed, hoping that these responses could increase his understanding and physique.
He immediately retreated and began to practice.
