Chapter 8: Great Cleanup In the main hall of the Taoist temple, there are images of dozens of immortals and sages throughout the Taoist history. Below them are the county governor's office, Zhou, Wu, Jiang and other prominent families, as well as the Taoist temple's teachers and deacons! The secret realm of the blessed land will be opened in two days. No matter whether it is the instructor accompanying the team or the several big families who share the responsibility of guarding, they will all gather together in the Taoist temple and be assigned tasks by the County Magistrate's Office! "I heard that the Wu family also established a Taoist camp and asked the Taoist temple for a place in the blessed land?" The elegant man in the first seat, the county magistrate's legitimate son - Ying Qinghe asked with a smile. "Not only that, the second master of the Wu family has also turned to practicing Taoism and military tactics." "Look, the aristocratic family's spiritual seal has been leased to the Zhou family. It's really like selling the father's land to the son. How can you not feel sorry for it?" "Who knows, maybe they are going to follow the example of the White Wolf Gongsun Clan and form the Youzhou Tuqi?" Before Wu Yong could answer, a sarcastic remark sounded. The Youzhou Gongsun clan was originally a branch of the Daoting immortal clan - the Dugu clan. They were the descendants of a true lord of the Dugu clan and a woman from another world. Later, by chance, they came to the Jiuzhou world to return to their clan and recognize their ancestors, but because their blood from another world was naturally without spiritual roots, they were unable to practice the immortal way. His father took pity on him and asked for a military strategy for him! To this day, there are very few spiritual cultivators among the descendants of Gongsun, but they specialize in Taoism and military tactics. After thousands of years of development and the support of Dugu, they have come to dominate Youzhou and formed a huge Youzhou cavalry.
There are countless White Wolf Taoist soldiers, thousands of White Wolf strongmen, no less than fifty Wolf King protectors, and every generation has a Four-Turn Taoist general to suppress them. The Youzhou cavalry have been following the Dugu clan in Baiyujing to sweep across the worlds for years. The name of White Wolf Gongsun can simply stop a child from crying at night! How can the small Wu family compare with the Youzhou cavalry of the Dugu branch? This person was obviously mocking Wu Yong's overestimation of his own abilities in such a public setting! After all, the Wu family is an old and aristocratic family in Dongjun. These words are extremely disrespectful to them! Wu Yong tilted his head slightly and glanced at the person who insulted his Wu family. Ok? No impression! Then, he turned around and bowed gently to the future county magistrate with a warm face. "I don't have much talent. I don't have the talent of Brother Qinghe, nor the ability of Brother Boyue. I can only do my best to maintain the family's appearance." "How can we call it a Dao Camp? It's just a training camp for new guards!" Wu Yong was extremely humble and did not refute those who mocked him face to face. He even called Ying Qinghe and Zhou Boyue his brothers. In fact, these two people were indeed much older than Wu Yong. Wu Yong was only nineteen years old, and was a student of the previous Taoist Academy. However, due to the death of the Wu family ancestor, he interrupted his Taoist studies early and did not participate in the Taoist Academy examination. That was why You Xue, Chen Qun and others called Wu Yong "senior". Zhou Boyao, who was already 28 years old, was a famous sorcerer who had been immersed in the art of fire for a long time and had a great reputation in several nearby counties. Ying Qinghe is already nearly forty years old. He is a sorcerer who is proficient in Feng Shui and is known as one of the ten most promising wizards in the Dongzhou Taoist Palace! Although for a sorcerer with a lifespan of three hundred years, they are only young men, but their qualifications are still much more profound than Wu Yong. "Brother Yong is being modest!" "However, I just asked my father for the position of the Taoist master of the East County Taoist Camp! In the future, perhaps I will have a lot of common topics with my brother Yong." "By then, you and I should move around more!" The Wu family declined, but all of their spiritual fields and the spiritual seals issued by the Dao Court that allowed the family to participate in plane conquests every fifty years were packaged together and sold to the Zhou family. Although I don’t know if they are “voluntary” or what? The County Magistrate's Office still has to balance some of the forces in East County. The Zhou family's business is now a little bloated! Ying Qinghe nodded, indicating that the two families should visit each other more often. After greeting each other, he turned around and started chatting with other people! Wu Yong extended his right hand and glanced at the middle-aged sorcerer among the Wu family guards. The latter immediately understood what he meant, and gloomily glanced at the stranger in the crowd who insulted Wu Yong, then turned around and left the hall. The Wu family has now become the leftover food of Dongjun, so naturally no one is going to cook for them anymore! Wu Yong was happy with the quietness. He sat alone in a corner, sipping tea from time to time, but he didn't know that his and his disciples' little movements were seen by others.
After about two incense sticks of time, Ying Qinghe had come into contact with all the forces. When he returned to the main seat, his smile suddenly disappeared. He looked at everyone with dignity and said in a deep voice: "Over the years, the number of students practicing Qi has been decreasing at Dongjun Taoist Academy. This year, the number of students practicing Qi and cultivating spirits is only half of what it was six years ago. It is the lowest in recent years!" "And the blessed land has not been cleaned up for a long time, and the monster population is growing larger and larger. The death rate in the trials in the past two years has also been getting higher and higher." "This time, I invited everyone to come and take advantage of the Taoist Academy Trial to clean up the Boneless Forest Blessed Land!" The reason why the construction of the Boneless Forest Blessed Land was repeatedly delayed was ultimately because of the Wu family. The original Dongjun blessed land did not have a boneless forest. It was just a single river valley. The valley was similar to other counties, with only a few ferocious beasts, birds of prey, water ghosts and mandrills. Later, the Ying, Zhou and Wu families worked together to refine a secret land obtained during the plane conquest into the Dongjun Blessed Land, greatly increasing the heritage of the Dongjun Blessed Land. It was just that the Wu family had weakened in the past few years, and the three families had been jointly cleaning up the blessed land, maintaining the output, and sharing the harvest equally among the three families. The Wu family gradually became powerless, and in the following years they no longer participated in the cleaning of the Boneless Forest. After the Wu family was gone, the Ying and Zhou families should have taken over the tasks and benefits from the Wu family and shared the output of the blessed land equally. But in the end, the two families failed to reach an agreement, and they stopped cleaning the blessed land for several years, and now the output has been greatly reduced! Now we have no choice but to carry out the cleaning task. "In the name of the County Magistrate's Office, I want to unite the aristocratic families in the county, as well as the Taoist soldiers and guards that the Taoist Academy usually hires for trials, to jointly kill the monsters in the Boneless Forest to protect the safety of my Taoist Academy students during the trials!" "Each family should work together to eliminate this hidden danger that concerns the future of the county. On behalf of the county governor, I will declare that all the spoils of this major cleanup will belong to each of your families!" When the people from the Wuhuo Zhou family heard this, the corners of their mouths immediately curled up! 'Ying Qinghe has a good plan. The harpy tribe is getting bigger and bigger. Even several spiritual medicine fields in the Boneless Forest have been affected. He can trick each family into working!' With two families having a great wizard who had reached the third level of immortality, the situation should not have been impossible to handle. It was just that the Ying family was greedy and they wanted to take over several medicinal herbs sites after the Wu family withdrew. Thinking that the Zhou family of Wuhuo is also in a period of transition, the Ying family's appetite is growing! The two families failed to reach an agreement, and the maintenance and cleaning of the blessed land has been put on hold. Now, more than ten years later, the monsters in the blessed land are no longer controllable! The most important output of the blessed land of Dongjun is the materials from the harpies, but this kind of low-level material is not consumed much by the Ying and Zhou families in a short period of time. With no demand for the property and the two families being angry with each other, the situation became even more serious. Could it be that the ancestors of each family would really be killed? Tens of thousands of spirits comparable to Qigong practitioners are not so easy to deal with. Zhou Boyue said nothing, his eyes narrowed as he watched Ying's performance. For a long time, the blessed land has been monopolized by the two noble families and the county governor's office. How could other prominent families and Taoist temples have a share? Ying Qinghe's words immediately made the families think about it. They all wondered if there was something wrong with the blessed land or if there was something wrong with the two families. Could it be that there is a trick? "Everyone, don't think too much. It's just that the Boneless Forest has not been maintained for nearly ten years, and the Taoist Academy Trials have never involved the deep part, so the number of spirits in the forest has skyrocketed!" "It's hard to deal with this huge number of monsters at once. After all, the blessed land is buried in the earth veins and cannot be entered and exited at will." "In the depths of the Boneless Forest, there are dozens of monster tribes, large and small." The County Magistrate's Mansion's magical tools, such as feather arrows, claw knives, daggers, short swords, etc., made from the claws of the harpy, have long been coveted by everyone. Magical tools are difficult to refine. Low-level magical tools are already commonly used weapons by Qigong practitioners, Taoist soldiers, and even some second-level sorcerers and strongmen. It would be a good idea to take this opportunity to stock up on some materials! "My Jiang family has sent a team of Qigong practitioners, led by Warlock Jiang Wenhong, to assist in the cleanup of the blessed land secret realm." "My Guan family..."
"The mission of our Taoist Academy this time is mainly to eliminate the enemy. This time we have two escort teams, four mercenary Taoist corps and five teachers." The blessed land should have been the private property of the Taoist temple, but now, no matter the dean or the instructor, they are almost not allowed to go near the depths of the Boneless Forest. If it were not for the explicit regulations of the Taoist Court, every batch of students in the Taoist Academy would have to take part in the blessed land trial, be ranked, and use the harvest from the blessed land as the first nourishment for their path of cultivation. Perhaps, Ying Zhou dared to embezzle the entire blessed land, and such a situation is not uncommon in the entire Dongzhou. "It's just that Wu Yong..." The chief deacon of the Taoist temple suddenly hesitated to speak. Wu Yong had previously taken a place in the Taoist soldier list for the trial in the blessed land from him. After all, the Wu family had given up their status in the blessed land a few years ago. He suddenly didn't know whether Wu Yong should be counted as part of the mercenary corps, or whether the Wu family should participate in this event as a prominent family. Wu Yong also frowned, his original intention was to get as many harpy spirits as possible during this trip to the Taoist temple. After all, the formed Fire Crow and Fire Bird essences are expensive. If he wants to refine the Ten Thousand Crows Pot, he can't really rely on buying 10,000 Fire Crow essences. If that were the case, even if he sold the entire Wu family, it wouldn't be enough! This completely disrupted Wu Yong's plan. Many forces in the county poured into the Boneless Forest. How could they get a few harpy spirits? "Brother Yong doesn't need to apply for a place in the Taoist Academy. I heard the other day that Brother Yong was buying up the spirits of harpies from students in the Taoist Academy." "Why not just bring the Wu family's guards and Taoist soldiers with us to join the cleanup, so we don't have to go through the hassle of buying them up!" "Anyway, many years ago, the Wu family's guards often worked with us to clear out the Boneless Forest, so many people should still remember the route." An elegant young man gently waved the red feather fan in his hand and smiled. Upon hearing this, Ying Qinghe, who was sitting at the head seat, nodded in agreement. It would be great to be able to participate together, and he would not object just to save Zhou's face. "The Wu family is one of them. Brother Yong should also recruit a group of capable guards when he returns!" This trip to the blessed land was thus decided. It’s not that the Yingzhou clan really can’t handle a small blessed land. The two core figures of the younger generation came forward mostly for training. Otherwise, if each family had a dozen sorcerers, they could inflict a devastating blow to the entire group of monsters in the Boneless Forest in just one morning. (End of this chapter)