thenovelthief Chapter 526
Chapter 526
In the Taoist temple.
The statue of the immortal that was cut into two pieces began to be coated with a light yellow layer, and the stench gradually rose.
"Who came up with this method?"
Qiao Mu stood in the crowd, watching the scene silently.
There were a total of 100 soldiers who broke into the Taoist temple, but including the centurion Lu Shun who led the army, and the Wuji tribe he mentioned... Qiao Mu knew nothing about it.
Among the 100 people, no one was a familiar face.
Fifty years is still too long. Jiuzhou has been through war for a long time. Even if mortals are healthy and free of disasters, it is difficult to live for a century.
And these fifty years are the distance of a generation.
For the immortal gate, this length of time may not be too long.... The means of Yanshendao follow the old path, which makes Qiao Mu feel familiar after a long time, except that there are some new tricks.
But the immortal army that can't find familiar faces, and the means of breaking the immortal in the heart with urine, all make Qiao Mu feel surprised.
After not seeing each other for fifty years, the Nine Provinces of the Human World have indeed undergone some changes that Qiao Mu did not expect.
Another fishing enforcement, another peeing to break the fairy in the heart, I really don’t know which genius came up with this trick.
“What are you in a daze? It’s your turn!”
At this time, the leading centurion Lu Shun snorted coldly and looked at Qiao Mu with a sharp gaze.
Qiao Mu had noticed these two people when he was selling incense at the foot of the mountain.
In the past few decades, there are actually not too few people who go into the mountains to avoid war, and there are also some who hide in the world and do not know which dynasty or generation in the outside world.
But the devout believers who go to the Taoist temple to worship gods as soon as they leave the mountain remind him of a type of people.
“Is it the believers who have been raised in the incense temple by the Yanshen Taoist sect since childhood?” This thought flashed through Lu Shun’s mind.
Fifty years ago, the Nine Heavens Immortal Sects competed with each other, and only the Xizhou Blood Lotus Sect, which was regarded as a demon sect, would use such an extreme method.
But in this era, it is different.
In order to dominate and become a super immortal sect that surpassed the nine heavens and ten earths in the past, Yanshen Dao made the incense temples spread across the nine states, and the means were naturally much more radical than before.
And he had seen the new generation of incense people like the two people in front of him who had been raised since childhood.
"You, come up and pee!" Lu Shun shouted.
He would not be polite to such incense people.
"It's not impossible, but does it have to be like this?" Qiao Mu was very calm. He sighed:
"The Yanshen Dao monks of this Taoist temple did not do anything evil at first. They just set up statues and built a Taoist temple."
".... That's all?" Centurion Lu Shun was stunned.
The soldiers behind him were also slightly stunned, and then their anger gradually rose.
But Qiao Mu waved his hand and continued:
"Don't worry."
"Even if there are some tricks to pretend to be gods, it does not harm the pilgrims and believers. Instead, it can refresh the believers and benefit them. This cannot be faked, and you cannot deny this."
"Look, putting aside other things done by the immortal gate, at least they are here, which is actually beneficial."
"Do we have to kill them all? Aren't you guys going too far?"
"Do we have to let these pilgrims and believers personally participate in the blasphemy of the gods and gods and collude with you?"
This voice fell and echoed in the color of the crowded ruins of the Taoist temple.
The pilgrims trembled inexplicably.
"......." Some pilgrims who had not started to urinate nodded secretly in their hearts, and did not dare to show their inner approval in front of these soldiers of the Immortal Army whose faces were getting darker and darker.
"Glib tongue." Centurion Lu Shun had realized that things were not simple at this time.
He snorted coldly:
"What a good one, let's put aside other things that 'Yan Shen Dao' has done."
He took two steps forward, and his finger almost poked Qiao Mu's nose:
"You are the kind of people who think they are very smart, and who think they know the whole picture after seeing a glimpse of it, and they will never die out!"
"The specialty of the Immortal Sect is 'Division'."
"They pretend to be immortals in war-torn areas to save the world, and stir up trouble in peaceful areas to support the Immortal Kingdom. This has never changed in the past fifty years, or even in the first alien war more than ninety years ago."
"Putting aside the overall situation and only talking about the local, you are blind and can only see the near, right?"
"You have eaten two sweet dates, and you are pretending to be a reasonable person? You are really talking nonsense and it stinks!" Centurion Lu Shun raised his hand to fan his nose, and sneered:
"Why, don't you take off your pants?"
"Do you need us to help you pee before you are willing to pee?"
Amidst the laughter of the soldiers, they raised their weapons and pointed them at Qiao Mu, hugging him.
Then some people who were curious really started to boo.
For a while, hearing the boos, people couldn't help but squeeze their legs together.
Qiao Mu's expression was still calm, just like the beginning.
Ever since he knew the essence of his immortality and lived through the long dream of immortality for 50,000 years, he could not help but embark on the path of transcendence that the former Da Dao Sect Lingyuan Patriarch said.
A few years old child can be happy all day if he is given a little money just enough to buy toys.
An adult in his twenties or thirties will also be happy if he is given a huge sum of money.
But for an old man in his seventies or eighties who has seen a lot and is rich enough to rival a country, even if he is given a huge sum of money ten times as much, he may not be able to gain much joy.
Having lived through the dream of immortality for 50,000 years and knowing that he is immortal, he rarely has emotional changes of great sorrow or great joy.
After the 69,000-year-old Qiao Mu was resurrected, he was named "Qiao Huo".
But he was more like ashes that had long been burned out.
But at this moment, there was a very faint emotion flowing in his heart, like the faint aroma of wine permeating from the sealed wine.
"Is that so." He lowered his eyelids.
He was obviously scolded and accused by a group of soldiers, pointing at him with weapons in their hands, and scolding him to take off his pants quickly.
But there was a very faint joy and relief spreading in his heart.
"What are you doing? Why don't you take off your pants?!"
Centurion Lu Shun and others were sneering and approaching step by step.
"Wait a minute." At this time, the voice of Tongtian Shuiling came from the side:
"He didn't take it out because he was afraid of scaring you. My urine is yellow, let me go first."
After speaking, Tongtian Shuiling flashed and bypassed the heavily guarded soldiers and blocked Qiao Mu behind him.
"Your urine is yellow, so you dare to pee for him?" Centurion Lu Shun wanted to yell at it.
But the Tongtian Water Spirit came over... The image of the water spirit changed a lot. When it entered Jiuzhou, it had changed from a member of the Qiao family to a pretty lady.
Of course, it was only the appearance that changed.
The essence of the water spirit is a ball of water with intelligence. If it wants, it is not impossible to hide a colorful bird under the appearance of a pretty lady.
The soldiers certainly don't know that in their eyes, it is a beautiful girl who volunteered to come over and said that she wanted to pee for Qiao Mu...
"Ah, this..."
"Are you serious?"
The soldiers' brains were stuck for a moment, and then they saw the Tongtian Water Spirit reaching for his crotch.
But what appeared from his crotch was neither a colorful bird nor what the soldiers thought, but-----
Boom!
A strong stream of water sprayed out, breaking the statue of Yanshen Daojun in front of him into pieces.
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The soldiers who were blocking the surroundings were caught off guard and were also washed away by the violent water flow.
Rumble.
The remaining force of the water flow was not weakened, and it collapsed the wall of the Taoist temple and rushed down.
And Tongtian Shuiling pulled up Qiao Mu, who was standing there in deep thought, with one hand, and had already stepped onto this thick water flow, rising into the sky and disappearing from everyone's sight.
............................
The water flow carried Qiao Mu and the other person up to the sky, and finally fell back into the Tongtian River, and continued to flow south.
The shadow twisted, and a fat cat climbed onto Qiao Mu's shoulder from the shadow, and said strangely:
"Qiao Qiao Qiao Qiao... Why did you suddenly start talking weirdly?"
Qiao Mu did not answer.
He was still carefully experiencing the very faint emotion in his heart, just like an old monk who had not tasted meat for ten years and encountered a beautiful sow.
"Don't say it." Tongtian Water Spirit spoke at this time:
Fifteen years have passed, and it is no longer the newborn demon spirit of that year. After seeing thousands of sails, it has become the Tongtian Demon King who returned from Guixu.
So it just pretended to be shocking to interrupt the tense atmosphere and prevent those immortal soldiers from really using knives and guns against the Qiao family.
"Senior Qiao Huo is not fanning the flames. He has two intentions."
"First, to break the immortal in the heart." Tongtian Shuiling explained:
"Just peeing may not be able to make all the believers and pilgrims break the immortal in their hearts."
"So he is using words to guide Centurion Lu Shun, letting him use words to refute the reasonable guest, so that the pilgrims can understand the reason, which is also part of breaking the immortal in the heart."
"Secondly, maybe it is also a test for those immortal-killing soldiers." Tongtian Shuiling looked at Qiao Mu and said faintly:
"See if those immortal-killing soldiers only know how to execute the military orders of the grandma, and whether they have their own judgment."
"See if the immortal-killing soldiers after fifty years have only improved their martial arts, or have really taken over the torch from the Qiao family."
Tongtian Shuiling said in a deep voice.
Fifty years ago, the Qiao family cut down mountains and destroyed temples, and the power of the family conquered the Jiuzhou incense Taoist temple.
Fifty years later, it was the immortal-killing soldiers who did such things.
And he actually had doubts in his heart.
It is easy to destroy the immortal in the mountains, but it is difficult to destroy the immortal in the heart. This sentence is not only for the pilgrims, but also for the immortal-killing army.
"I understand: I didn't understand." Fat Cat nodded as if he understood.
Unlike Tongtian Shuiling, who grew up rapidly after traveling through thousands of worlds, Fat Cat has seen thousands of sails and still has a heart and a mind as pure as a child.
After listening to Tongtian Shuiling's long speech, it was already dizzy.
"You... are right." Qiao Mu finally woke up from the emotion he was immersed in when he heard this.
Hearing this, he realized belatedly why the very faint emotion just now came from.
"I understand." Qiao Mu lowered his eyebrows:
"'My martial arts are in the human world', this obsession from 50,000 years ago, turned out to be this meaning."
The Wufa Wunian Gong is the instinct of giving the body to the martial artist, sealing one's own human desires and obsessions, just like an adult solemnly locking the note that he passed with Bai Yueguang when he was young in a drawer.
The note is still there, and the memory is still clear.
But when he picked up the small note and saw the beautiful handwriting on the yellowed note, he could no longer pick up the mood of his youth.
Immortals are mountain people.
Although Qiao Mu does not regard himself as an immortal, he is indeed standing too high now, standing on an invisible mountain.
He was so high that he had been away from the human world for 50,000 years. This is the gap between mortals and extraordinary people, as different as the difference between heaven and earth.
If he wants to pick up the hearts of the people in the past, he must return to the human world first.
Return to the mortal world.
This is the "sun" planted in Qiao Mu's heart 50,000 years ago by imitating the sun-chasing cultivation method of the Kuafu tribe.
After realizing this, Qiao Mu couldn't help but have such a thought in his heart.
"If I continue to walk in this world, can I pick up the desires of the people in the past?"
At this time, the heart that had been calm for a long time unconsciously rippled.
After knowing his immortal nature, Qiao Mu's life was actually very dull, and he could no longer experience the excitement of running naked on the street when he was zero life.
Because he knew that he had put on a heavy armor that he could never take off.
But now..... he had a faint expectation in his heart.
"Let's go."
He moved his body, no longer being pulled forward by Tongtian Shuiling, but stepped into the water and moved forward quickly.
In his perception, there are actually more than one Taoist temple in the Northwest State, but dozens or even hundreds of them.
But now, when he senses more carefully, he can feel that around these Taoist temples, there are also warrior teams like Centurion Lu Shun.
These teams are scattered throughout the Northwest State, just like sparks that begin to spread on the vast grassland.
Some fires have burned down the Taoist temples, and some fires are still on the way, with different progress.
"Centurion Lu Shun and his hundred soldiers are not isolated cases in the Northwest State." Qiao Mu judged:
"It seems that the immortal and mortal structure of Jiuzhou today has undergone some changes that I did not expect."
"Then let's go and find out first."
Qiao Mu's figure flashed, like a gust of wind, and fell to a city on this vast wilderness.
Daliang City is under Tongtian Mountain, and it is also one of the big cities along the Tongtian River.
Most people in the underworld go to bars, teahouses and inns to get information. There are all kinds of people here, and fierce dragons often appear.
Later, after the appearance of Tingchao Tower, the status of teahouses in the underworld has been subtly elevated, and it has become an irreplaceable place to get information.
Qiao Mu originally just walked on the street, but when he arrived at the door, he sensed a faint demonic aura and saw a storyteller in the lobby who was talking with saliva flying.
"The storyteller of Tingchao Tower, it's been a long time since I last saw him." Qiao Mu narrowed his eyes and walked in.
I only heard the storyteller chanting: "The tortoise may live long, but it still has its end; the flying snake rides on the mist, but it will eventually turn into dust."
"There is no end to the world. After the disappearance of the Qiao family and the ancestors of the immortal sect, the Liangyi Sect and the Tongtian Sword Sect were also swallowed up in the war between aliens that lasted for fifty years."
"But the Changsheng Sect and Yanshen Dao, which grew stronger from their corpses, have surpassed the nine great immortal sects of the past----"
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