Chapter 35: Red Sulfur
Late autumn.
Moqiu's wind blew a solemn aura.
There were few living creatures in sight on the Wanli Plain, only the Heavenly God Mountain stood alone on the earth, with a gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.
Bleakness is a kind of desolation, the hesitation when entering the evening scene.
I don't know when the high, resplendent Tianshen Palace actually gave people a feeling of sunset.
In fact, Tenjin Mountain is still Tenjin Mountain, and Tenjin Palace is still Tenjin Palace, and it has become not a magnificent building here, but the people who live in the palace.
The former cultivator of the Heavenly God Palace, his aura is incomparable, and wherever he goes, he will usher in the attention of all the people.
But since the great change of the times 130 years ago, everything has become different.
The massive loss of population has led to the withering of all industries, and the number of reserve talents has been greatly reduced. Although there are still countless people who want to enter the academy every year, the number of geniuses has been reduced, the number of indiscriminate people has increased, and the overall quality of the cultivators of the Heavenly God Palace has dropped significantly.
Luck no longer favors them, and the probability of natural and man-made disasters increases greatly every year, and the disciples of the Heavenly God Palace who go out often fall due to various inexplicable reasons, and the proportion of talents lost is gradually higher than the talents who enter.
When the speed of talent withering in an organization is greater than the speed of talent introduction, it will inevitably enter a period of weakness.
This made many people panic.
It's just that the heart is panicking, but there are not many people who can really take action to redeem this qiē.
In fact, what Tang Zheng did was not complicated, it was nothing more than changing people's livelihood and introducing talents.
However, it is such a simple thing, but it is not easy to do it well.
There have also been people who have tried to deal with problems like Tang Zheng, but firstly, their own ability in this area is not enough, so their wisdom is used in cultivation, how can they understand politics, and secondly, their attitude towards work is also very problematic. With the ability of Tang Zheng, it will take thirty years of hard work to get to where it is today, and those people want to use the promulgation of a few decrees to get it done, how can it be so simple. In the end, coupled with the deliberate sabotage of the Moon Washing faction and the abandonment of luck, all the reforms ended in failure, and there was even a suspicion that the more they reformed, the worse they were.
The Heavenly God Palace used a knife for itself, and failed to solve the old evils, but caused a great internal turmoil.
Sixty-eight years ago, the six generals of the Heavenly God Palace joined forces to attack and kill the Eagle King Shi Haomei outside the Jade City, and the Dragon King Chang Hong was injured and escaped without a trace, and then the Eagle Hall Dragon Pavilion was washed in blood, and more than 140 cultivators died, including more than 30 Tianxin Realm real people. It's just because these two people are strong reformers.
The head of the Heavenly God Palace, Jin Wuxi, was furious, and personally killed the principal Zhentianhou Jing Bonan, and the other five generals also wanted to kill, but they still released Wunian and fought without injury, and Han Wuxin joined forces to protect it, so that the five generals were changed from capital crimes to a hundred years in cold ice prison.
Now 130 years have passed.
One hundred and thirty years of change can change more than a dozen dynasties, can bring earth-shaking changes, can make a nation from weak to strong, can also make a strong organization gradually decline.
In these hundred and thirty years, the Heavenly God Palace has gradually withered.
This is too fast for many cultivators, after all, for a cultivator, one hundred and thirty years may be just a rather difficult retreat, a leisurely hike in life, or a precipitation of the soul.
Yesterday's glory is still in front of us, and today it has become like this, a qiē came so quickly, and it was so unexpected.
Wu Nian Palace.
Standing on the arched cornices of the palace roof, Shi Wunian looked into the distance.
The palace in the distance is staggered and undulating, stretching far and wide.
A desolate and vast taste appeared in his eyes, and Shi Wunian suddenly said: "Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Moqiu people walked out of that small island, and it took more than four thousand years to develop into what they are today, and there was a lot of blood and sweat in the middle. The warrior Tiecang broke into the forest sea alone, Bimu Zhenjun stood on the three-eyed kraken, Shenwei Hou fought a bloody battle for thousands of miles and slaughtered millions of males, and the old man did not dry up to stop the enemy from sacrificing his life, and even the ancestors of my Shi family had thirty-one people who fell in countless battles in that history. It is their blood and sweat that have made my Heavenly God Palace majestic. My Heavenly God Palace can be defeated, but it will never be defeated!, but now, we have not been defeated, but we are already about to be defeated?"
A long sigh rang out.
There was a slight movement in the palace of the Wunian Palace.
A man in a golden robe had appeared beside Shi Wunian.
"You've been getting more and more excited lately. ”
Shi Wunian lowered his head and said, "It's Wunian's mistake, Brother Zhang." It's just that when I think of the situation in my Heavenly God Palace in recent years, I feel anxious. ”
This golden-robed man is none other than the Heavenly God Palace's head of the sect.
At this moment, Jin Wuyu said lightly: "Isn't it that there are fewer people, and there is less laughter on everyone's faces, why is it as if the end is coming." ”
Shi Wunian muttered: "These are still trivial matters, the problem is how ...... Heavenly Dao operates."
He didn't say any more, because he noticed that his brother's face had sunk.
As Shi Wunian said, fewer people, lower quality talents, and less self-confidence are not big things. As long as the foundation is still there, it can always be cultivated. However, the reversal of fortune is a major event, a major event related to the rise and fall of a faction, and it is a weather vane for future development.
Although the Celestial God Palace does not understand fate, it can feel fate.
The changes brought by the change of luck to the Tenjin Palace can be felt very lightly, and the inexplicable increase in natural disasters, man-made disasters, and all kinds of bad luck cases has risen sharply. The disciples who rushed to the pass will die at every turn, and less than half of the mortality rate can increase several times under the premise of bad luck, and there are all kinds of demons, the heavens and the earth are not bells, and the demons are rampant. The Celestial Offering is one such sign.
Corresponding to it is the Beast Refining Gate, and the territories of both factions are in a situation where they have been abandoned by luck.
Correspondingly, the Seven Peerless Heavenly Ends Pavilion Thousand Feelings Sect remained unchanged, and the Moon Washing Sect was the sole leader and thriving.
With such an obvious difference, coupled with the big action of Tang Zheng back then, who still doesn't know what's going on.
Take the mortal as the line, control one side, and influence the world, this is the unique power of fate!
As a result, both the Heavenly God Palace and the Beast Refining Sect knew that fate had abandoned them.
Although this is the result of manipulation, it is undeniable that the result of this abandonment is terrible.
Some people have already guessed where the transferred luck has gone, and the worries about the future are even deeper.
Not every citizen of the dead country has to die until the end of the day to find out, in fact, most of them have felt it before that, but although they know it, they can't do anything.
Even if you are a cultivator, there are times when you can't do anything!
At this moment, Jin Wuxian said: "Your soul injured by the Tianxuan Exterminating Divine Sword is not yet well, your spirit is difficult to control yourself, and you are irritable at every turn, you should meditate and recuperate, and you should not think too much." ”
Hearing what the senior brother said, Shi Wunian had no choice but to bow his head.
When he was helpless, a cultivator came to report: "Zheng Liang has seen the master, may the Lord." ”
Jin Wuyu looked at the cultivator: "Zheng Liang, what is the matter with what you want to prepare?"
Zheng Liang replied, "All the red sulfur has been prepared and delivered by the disciple himself. ”
Red sulfur is an extremely rare material, which is of great benefit to feeding monsters and monsters. However, this item is scarce, and only a small amount is produced in the territory of Mochuli, among which Mochu has the best texture. Every year, the Beast Refining Sect would buy a large number of this item from the Heavenly God Palace, which was also one of the sources of friendship between the two factions.
This Zheng Liang is the third disciple of Jin Wuxi, the soul transformation realm, and his strength is close to the top. With him in charge of escorting this year's red sulfur, Jin Wuxian is also more relieved. However, he still said: "In order to complete the strategy, you go to the golden body of the ancestor as usual, and ask for a wisp of divine thought to protect you." ”
With a wave of his hand, a decree flew towards Zheng Liang.
Zheng Liang took it and raised his voice: "Respect the will of the master!"
The Heavenly God Palace's division of the golden body of the gods is very detailed, a trace is one hundredth, and a wisp is one-tenth.
Over the years, the Heavenly God Palace's beast refining sect has had bad luck one after another, disasters have continued, and all kinds of bad luck have happened. In order to avoid losses, the Tenjin Palace is also extremely cautious. For example, when it comes to the transportation of materials that are important to the red sulfur, not only do you need to send a disciple like Zheng Liang to do it, but you also need to use the golden body and mind.
It was in this situation that the Heavenly God Palace could ensure that it would not suffer heavy losses, but the miscellaneous affairs of the high-level cultivators suddenly increased, which made people complain.
At this moment, Zheng Liang took the order and went to the ancestral hall.
In front of the ancestral hall, a golden body stands on the hall. At first glance, it looks inconspicuous, just a standing statue of clay stone carving, and the craftsmanship is still a little rough, and it is not elegant. But if you look closely, you will find that there seems to be divine light circulating in this golden body, which is obviously a clay figure, but it seems to be alive.
There were also two old men sitting cross-legged under the statue, and if they looked closely, they were both powerhouses of the Soul Transformation Realm.
After Zheng Liang arrived, he first handed over the decree of Jin Wuxi, and then came to kneel down in front of the statue and said in a long voice: "Respectfully ask the ancestor, ask the ancestor for protection!"
"Please bless the Ancestor!" Zheng Liang repeated in a long voice, repeating ten times in a row.
Finally, a golden light emanated from the statue and hit Zheng Liang's eyebrows.
Zheng Liang's whole body trembled at first, and a huge sense of satisfaction appeared on his face, as if the entry of this divine thought brought him endless pleasure.
After a while, Zheng Liang stood up and bowed respectfully to the statue of the heavenly god before exiting the ancestral hall.
Leaving the ancestral hall, Zheng Liang had already flown to the outside of the Outer Heavenly God Mountain.
was about to go out of the mountain, but saw a cultivator flying in the distance, and when he saw Zheng Liang, he greeted him with a smile on his face: "It turned out to be Senior Brother Zheng, I haven't seen him for a long time, Senior Brother looks good." Senior brother, I just received some southbound tea a few days ago, and I was about to invite someone to drink it together. Since Senior Brother is here, why don't we join us?"
Zheng Liang hurriedly responded: "It turned out to be Huang Zhenren." The real person is kind, Zheng conscience has received it, but my master has explained some things, and I have to do it quickly, and it should not be delayed. ”
"If it's not a big deal, I can go later. That Huang Zhenren didn't let go, and grabbed Zheng Liangli to invite him forward.
Zheng Liang was helpless, so he had to whisper: "Master asked me to transport red sulfur to the Beast Refining Sect. ”
Huang Zhenren's face was solemn: "Transporting red sulfur? That's really not a trivial matter, are you going to set off now?"
Zheng Liang patted the mustard seed bag on his body: "It's not." ”
Huang Zhenren's eyes swept around the mustard seed bag, and he laughed dryly: "Since that's the case, then don't disturb the senior brother." ”
Zheng Liang confessed his guilt and left.
Watching Zheng Liang fly away, Huang Zhenren's gaze retracted, and he suddenly turned his head and flew towards another place.
flew straight to the distance, and it was estimated that the divine thoughts of the Sect Leader could not reach this, so he laughed and said, "Senior Brother Zheng, don't blame me for being ruthless." It's really that the big tree of the Heavenly God Palace is about to fall, and I have to leave a way back for myself. ”
As he spoke, there was an extra fire talisman in his hand, and after it was ignited, a flash of fire had disappeared into the air and disappeared.
High in the sky to the south of the Tenjin Shrine.
Tang Zai sat cross-legged in the outermost Gangfeng layer. Let the wind blow, standing still.
His eyes suddenly opened, and Tang Zheng smiled: "The little lamb has come out." ”