Do not die

"Zhuang Sheng" Tudun left the cave and quietly blended into the extremely lively Sanchuan City today.

Unless the current "him" is carefully inspected by a true elixir monk at close range, or is killed and reveals his lotus root body, "he" will be an extremely real person in the eyes of others.

Moreover, in this idea of ​​"spiritual clone", Meng Zhou gave "him" a lot of information and the ability to respond intelligently.

"He" knows all about "Zhuang Sheng's" relationship network, and even if he meets these acquaintances, he can communicate with them with a consistent personality.

If something unusual happens, this "spirit clone" will directly remind Meng Zhou himself.

Not only can he know everything that is happening there, but he can also remotely control it at any time and change it from "automatic" to "manual".

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After leaving the cave, Bai Zhi did not go with Meng Zhou. Instead, she met Zhu Qian who was waiting outside and went to find their entertainment.

Because of the authority opened by Meng Zhou, although Zhu Qian without the formation token cannot enter and exit at will, her communication will not be intercepted by the formation.

After a period of "cold war" between the two masters and apprentices, they have returned to communicating with each other frequently every day these days.

Knowing in advance from Meng Zhou's mouth that today would be a rare "free day", Bai Zhi had contacted Zhu Qian early.

Bai Zhi, who walked away hand in hand with Zhu Qian, was neither her real image nor the image of "Zhou Nan", the former president of the Spirit Planter Branch.

In Sanchuan City now, there are many old friends from the Professional Association, so this identity has been temporarily frozen by her.

Meng Zhou also recognized her approach of taking the initiative to stay away from some troubles.

Meng Zhou also went straight to the center of the celebration, the building where Ding Ning preached that day.

There are not many people who know "Ge Ping" in Sanchuan Plain now. Moreover, these people are basically members of the Blue Blood Army. They are all at the celebration center now. Meng Zhou, who has restrained his aura, is walking along the way. There was no disturbance.

Seeing that the city was far more lively than in previous years, Meng Zhou had a strange feeling in his heart.

The nominal protagonists of this grand event were him and Ding Ning, but along the way, it didn't seem to have much to do with him.

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As early as a few months ago, after receiving Meng Zhou's permission, the Sanchuan Society and the Bixue Army became very active.

For these two "rookies" who have just stepped onto the big stage of Qingxuan Territory, this kind of thing that makes them proud and rectifies their status will of course go all out to build publicity.

With the current speed of information circulation in Qingxuan Territory, the information about this pill-forming celebration has already spread throughout the entire Qingxuan Territory.

In the current Qingxuan Territory, due to the increasing number of foundation-building monks, it gradually feels like a "bad street".

But the gold content of the True Pill cultivator has not faded at all.

On the contrary, because Qingxuanzong clearly recognized the status of non-Qingxuanzong Zhendan monks, they were allowed to move freely in the sun.

Coupled with the current general environment of Qingxuan Territory, it can be said that the changes in the past few years have been a huge benefit for them personally and for the forces behind them.

They are also the people who have benefited the most from the great changes in Qingxuan Domain in the past ten years, except Qingxuan Sect.

If you can't understand the "happiness" of practicing true elixirs now, then you will have a profound feeling if you look at what happened to the Mo family and the ancestors of the Mo family in Jade Lake ten years ago.

It can be said that the birth of every true elixir of casual cultivation is a huge encouragement to the entire cultivation world of Qingxuan Domain.

In the past, the Sanchuan Society and the Jade Blood Army were, at best, somewhat famous in their own spiritual veins, but if they were put on the stage of the entire Qingxuan Territory, they would not be worthy of recognition.

But now, through the upgrade of Sanchuan Yuan, I got the ticket to the top of Qingxuan Domain.

Now, another true elixir monk of his own was born, completely consolidating his foundation.

In less than ten years, it has surpassed the painstaking efforts of many powerful people for generations.

This is the "Qing Xuan Meng" of the spiritual world!

Not to mention those forces that are related to the Sanchuan Society and the Jade Blood Army and are of high quality and have received invitations. Even those who have not received invitations from the Sanchuan Society and the Jade Blood Army are all rushing here with their heads sharpened. .

In addition, the date of the alchemy ceremony was originally during the traditional exchange meeting in Sanchuan Plain. In the huge Sanchuan City, if you look around, you can see that the pits and valleys are full of practitioners.

Moreover, the weakest ones are in the late stage of Qi training. As for the young monks in the early and middle stages of Qi training, they can't even touch the edge of Sanchuan City at this time and can only wander around other places outside the city.

Infected by the atmosphere in the city, Meng Zhou couldn't help but walk around a few more times.

At this moment, when he looked up and saw Tu Baiyao walking towards him hurriedly, Meng Zhou asked: "It's so urgent. Are the other Taoist friends already here?"

Tu Baiyao nodded quickly and said, "Yes, the other seniors have already arrived."

"Then take me there." Meng Zhou nodded and stopped watching the fun.

Soon, the two arrived at the celebration center, and Meng Zhou was led to a room in the center.

There is nothing special about this room except that it is larger in size, has more light, is located in a higher position, and has windows on all sides. It can easily overlook the entire Sanchuan City, and the view is extremely broad.

No matter the appearance or the interior, the materials used or the design and decoration are very ordinary.

At this moment, there were more than thirty monks sitting casually among them, with some spiritual fruits, spiritual wine, spiritual tea and other things placed in front of them.

Several good-looking female nuns shuttled between them from time to time, passing around preserved fruits and pouring tea and wine.

When Meng Zhou entered the room under the guidance of Tu Baiyao, the cultivators who were conversing all turned to look at him.

Facing more than thirty pairs of meaningful looks, Meng Zhou handed over his hands and apologized: "Ge was rude today!"

All the guests had already gathered, but he, the main host, arrived late and seemed a bit neglectful.

He also gave a brief explanation of the reasons. One was of course that he had formed the elixir not long ago and was eager to stabilize his cultivation.

Another one, on the way here just now, I was fascinated by the lively atmosphere in the city and walked around twice more.

After hearing his explanation, all the cultivators chuckled and nodded.

A monk sitting next to Ding Ning greeted directly:

"Fellow Daoist Ge, come and sit here."

He pointed to an empty space next to him. There were not only futon tables and short tables, but also spiritual fruits and other things had been prepared there. They were obviously prepared for him in advance.

Meng Zhou walked over and sat down.

The monk continued:

"I heard that Fellow Daoist Ge has set the date of the celebration for today, and I couldn't help but feel a little sweat for you.

At the beginning, it took more than a year from the time I borrowed a place for seclusion at Qinglin Peak to the time I came out of seclusion.

Even so, when I came out of seclusion, I still felt that there were a lot of things wrong. Later, I stayed in seclusion in my own cave in Cuiyu Lake for more than two years, and then I finally stabilized my cultivation. "

Another monk next to him also nodded in approval:

"Yes, actually, after participating in this kind of celebration once, you will know that it is all about setting a stage for others, and it actually has little to do with the parties involved.

Fellow Daoist Ge has just become a pill-former, so everything must focus on his own cultivation, and everything else is trivial. "

Apart from Ding Ning, these two people were closest to Meng Zhou and showed unusual closeness to him.

Meng Zhou also knew that these two people were called Cao Lie and Song Yang, respectively, and they were representatives of the Cuiyu Lake City Lord's Mansion and the Professionals Association who came to Sanchuan Plain to take charge of the affairs.

There were also only two true alchemy monks in Sanchuan Plain before.

In this harmonious atmosphere, both Cao Lie and Song Yang enthusiastically helped Meng Zhou introduce other monks.

None of the monks who can have a place here are Yi Yu's generation.

It can basically be regarded as a group of people standing at the top of the Qingxuan Domain, except for the behemoth Qingxuan Sect.

Among them, in addition to Ding Ning, Cao Lie, and Song Yang, there are four other Zhendan monks.

However, unlike Cao Lie and Song Yang, they are all based in Cuiyu Lake and will leave after this celebration.

In addition, most of the other monks present here only have fake alchemy cultivation.

Compared to them, Meng Zhou paid more attention to those foundation builders.

Based on the feedback from everyone present, combined with the information in their own "interpretation of the world", these people can basically be regarded as "seeds of true elixirs", and it is very likely that they will be able to talk to everyone as their peers in three to five years.

What surprised Meng Zhou was that Ding Ning, who was very cheerful and cheerful in private, could not let go on such occasions.

All thoughts are basically on the person in front of me. Unless someone takes the initiative to inquire, otherwise, he will hardly take the initiative to communicate with other people.

Seeing her being so "cold", everyone just let her enjoy herself there.

After getting a general understanding of the characters at the scene, Meng Zhou asked: "What were everyone talking about before I came here?"

This is not a random topic. When you first came in, you could feel that the atmosphere in the room was quite solemn.

However, the interruption caused by Meng Zhou's arrival actually dispersed the atmosphere at that time.

Therefore, he was indeed a little curious about what everyone was talking about at that time.

Cao Lie said: "We were just talking about the Lihen Sect."

Meng Zhou was surprised and said: "What happened with the Lihen Sect? What trouble did the Lihen Sect cause?"

Meng Zhou did not hide his confusion and surprise. He had been in seclusion for more than half a year and did not understand the latest situation of the Lihen Sect. This was normal.

Cao Lie shook his head and said:

"It's not the Lihen Cult causing trouble... Fellow Daoist Ge was still in retreat at the time and didn't know the situation.

At the beginning of February, Qingxuan Sect suddenly launched a raid throughout the Qingxuan Territory. Its scale was larger than the time when the Mo family in Cuiyu Lake was destroyed.

Before the action, we had no idea. When it was over, we learned that the Qingxuan Sect had wiped out more than 70 strongholds of the Lihen Sect within the Qingxuan Domain.

Among them, one real elixir and three fake elixirs who were retreating in Cuiyu Lake were even involved. "

“At that time, many people were confused, and some thought it was Qingxuanzong who was causing trouble.

But in the end, it turned out that these people did have a big problem. "

"How to prove it?" Meng Zhou asked curiously.

"On the one hand, many people were invited by Qingxuan Sect to participate in the interrogation of the living. The dead were also examined and many facts were confirmed."

"On the other hand, some people put the wiped out strongholds together for review and discovered some shocking things."

"What discovery?" Although he had already made some guesses in his mind, Meng Zhou still showed his curiosity and "ignorance" about this matter.

“Those strongholds have no relationship on the surface, there is no grudge or interest.

But if you take them out from their respective places and place them within the Qingxuan Domain, you can find that they often benefit from seemingly unrelated conflicts of forces and the death of foundations. "

Meng Zhou nodded thoughtfully and said:

"So, many of the troubles that have occurred in Qingxuan Territory in recent years were actually caused by the Lihen Sect behind the scenes?"

Cao Lie nodded and said, "Yes, and after this amazing discovery, a trend arose in the dark."

"What's the ethos?"

"Everyone has begun to consider the various conflicts of forces that have occurred around us in recent years, especially the conflicts involving the collapse of foundations, in the context of the overall situation of the Qingxuan Territory."

Having said this, he paused, looked at Meng Zhou, and said, "Do you know what everyone discovered?"

"What?" Meng Zhou looked confused, but in fact, the "deduction world" in his heart had begun to follow this line of thinking, and he also made some new discoveries.

However, because he has not updated "Current News" for a long time, the information in "Deduction World" is more than a year behind the progress of the real world.

In addition, the current affairs news he collected through the Sanchuan Society could not really cover the entire Qingxuan Territory. There were many gaps, and a lot of information was superficial and lacked deeper inside information.

Therefore, the new information he deduced based on the "World of Deduction" was not much, and most of it was very vague, but it was enough for him to understand what Cao Lie's so-called "discovery" probably meant.

Cao Lie said in a deep voice:

"We have discovered that in recent years, about half of the chaos that has spread throughout the Qingxuan Territory's spiritual veins, especially the kind that has developed to the point of death in foundation building, has one or more hidden forces behind it.

The most typical one is the big conflict in Hongliang Bay that involved hundreds of foundations. Behind it were not only people from the Lihen Cult, but also at least three other forces that were adding fuel to the flames. "

"Because of this trend, Qingxuanzong's attack was not the end, but a beginning.

Either because someone followed the clue, or because of a guilty conscience, or because someone was eager to clear up the beginning and end but made a mistake in the rush... More than a hundred cancerous tumors were exposed one after another. "

Having said this, Cao Lie's body was filled with murderous aura unconsciously.

"These people are cancerous. They are eating out of the pot and smashing the pot at the same time."

Meng Zhou and other monks present nodded after hearing this.

Song Yang next to him also said: "In the past six months, five such cancers have been exposed in our Sanchuan Plain."

"So many?" Meng Zhou asked in surprise.

Song Yang nodded and said:

"Yes, the Sanchuan Plain has developed too fast, and there is a mixture of fish and dragons. It is not surprising that there are some rats hiding there.

Compared to Cuiyu Lake, the situation in Sanchuan Plateau is considered good! "

Meng Zhou also learned that just before his arrival, these people were conducting an "intelligence reconciliation" to see if they could find some undiscovered "big fish" through complementary information.

Meng Zhou also didn't expect that the dozens of Lihen Sect strongholds he provided to Qingxuan Sect would actually trigger such subsequent changes.

All forces in the Qingxuan Territory spontaneously launched a wave of "strict crackdowns" throughout the Qingxuan Territory.

This will inevitably bring about a lot of killing, but its effect is positive and can greatly improve the cultivation environment of the entire Qingxuan Domain.

Moreover, after such a "national action", if there is a large-scale conflict in the future, especially one that is likely to affect the life of the foundation, both the conflict participants and the bystanders will have an extra chord in their hearts.

Before starting the fight, they would keep their eyes wide open to see if there was anyone secretly guiding them and treating them like monkeys.

Even the most violent person will choose to calm down first at this time.

"I have really done a great deed of immeasurable merit." Meng Zhou thought in his heart.

At this moment, President Pan suddenly hurried into the room.

Meng Zhou stared carefully and confirmed that President Pan had successfully become a fake elixir monk.

In the past, it was normal for monks to send out invitations and organize a grand event after forming a fake elixir.

But now, there are fewer and fewer monks doing this. At most, they just close the door and enjoy themselves at home.

However, the protagonists of this celebration are not so much Ding Ning and Meng Zhou, but it is more appropriate to say that they are the Sanchuan Society and the Blue Blood Army.

In the Sanchuan Association, all the fake alchemy monks, including President Pan, and a group of high-level officials from the Blue Blood Army, headed by Yao Gu, were all outside to greet them.

Seeing President Pan come in at this moment, everyone knew that something must have happened, and they all turned to look at him.

President Pan said: "Xuan Yuanzi and Deputy Hall Master Fan of Qingxuan Sect have arrived."

Everyone in the room was shocked and stood up to greet him.

Although, senior officials of Qingxuan Sect came to Sanchuan Plain only once or twice. When the scale was the largest, they were even accompanied by the deputy sect leader.

But that was all for official business, either a major matter like upgrading the second-order spiritual veins to a third-order spiritual land, or a sensitive incident involving the core secrets of the third-order sect in the outer domain.

The nature is completely different from this time.

With two high-level officials from the Qingxuan Sect attending, it is hard to overstate the gold content of this elixir formation celebration.

Meng Zhou glanced at President Pan and thought that the first time he got on the line with Deputy Hall Master Fan of the Law Enforcement Hall was because of the Lihen Cult. Later, Vice Hall Master Fan also came with the group many times.

Presumably, President Pan had established a certain personal relationship with him, and Deputy Hall Master Fan's arrival this time was probably at his invitation.

Soon, a group of people surrounded the two monks and re-entered the house.

Cao Lie and Song Yang, who were walking beside Meng Zhou, looked a little strange, and Meng Zhou knew the reason.

They knew Xuanyuanzi, but before that, they only knew that his name was Tang Yuan and that he was just a fake alchemy monk from Qingxuan Sect. They did not know that he was actually a figure of the Xuan generation of Qingxuan Sect.

Xuanyuanzi, who had been so angry by Ding Ning when they first met him, had a look of displeasure on his face at this moment.

In front of everyone, he held President Pan's hand and communicated in a low voice, appearing very close.

Meng Zhou understood that the little unhappiness that Ding Ning brought him had long since disappeared in front of the big gifts that President Pan threw at him one after another.

At present, this "Operation to Catch Thieves" covering the entire Qingxuan Territory and involving all the people is great news for Qingxuan Sect.

And if you trace the origin within Qingxuan Sect, you will naturally trace it to the list of Lihen Sect strongholds provided by Xuanyuanzi.

After making such a great contribution, looking at Xuanyuanzi's smiling expression, you can tell how much benefit he has gained.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou's heart moved, he looked at Deputy Hall Master Fan and thought, maybe this is the reason why he was invited to participate in this celebration.

In the past, the impression given to him by the deputy head of the Law Enforcement Hall was that he always had a straight face and a strong aura, as if his face was made of iron. Anyone he stared at would become the target of his law enforcement.

But today he realized that this person actually knew how to smile and talk to people in a pleasant manner.

Because of the arrival of these two people, the de facto protagonists of today's celebration, Ding Ning and Meng Zhou, gave up their seats in a tacit understanding.

Xuanyuanzi and Deputy Hall Master Fan became the center of the crowd.

Cao Lie, Song Yang and others also brought the two of them to the center of the topic without leaving any trace.

Meng Zhou didn't care about this, and even felt relaxed.

It can be seen that Ding Ning is also happy to see the results.

Unconsciously, the topic once again came to the common topic that everyone is most concerned about recently.

When someone asked for more specific information about the more than 100 "bad elements" who had been exposed, ruined their meals and did nothing, Xuan Yuanzi, who was relatively talkative, closed his mouth and looked at Deputy Hall Master Fan next to him.

Deputy Hall Master Fan pondered for a moment and said:

"It's fate today, so it's okay to tell you...but be careful not to spread it everywhere."

Everyone was shocked and pricked up their ears when they knew there was something useful.

Deputy Hall Master Fan said in a deep voice:

“You think there are only a hundred or so cancers, but in fact, we have more than two hundred here.

There are many that you didn't notice and were secretly eliminated by us in advance.

The composition of these people is also very complex.

Some were originally tribulation cultivators, and taking advantage of this opportunity, they put on a layer of white skin to confuse the public, but secretly they were still doing the work of tribulation cultivators, and they were even more unscrupulous.

Some are just blinded by the power of others, want to fish in troubled waters, and add fuel to the flames.

There are also some strongholds of the Lihen Sect that have not been cleared out. In addition, there are several strongholds built by secret forces in the Qingxuan Domain. "

Having said this, he glanced at everyone and said:

“Two of the more famous ones, some of you should have heard of them.

One is called Yingshalou, which specializes in assassinations, and the other is called Mingxin Pavilion, which specializes in selling all kinds of secret information. "

Then, he briefly introduced the situation of these two hidden forces.

After listening, all the cultivators present could not help but gasp, whether they knew it or not.

Yingshalou takes orders to kill people, regardless of good or evil, right or wrong, as long as you give enough spirit stones and place an order, Yingshalou can kill people for you.

Mingxin Pavilion seems to be in better condition than Yingsha Tower, but if you think about it deeply, you will know that its harmful nature is no worse than that of Yingsha Tower.

As long as a customer needs certain information to place an order, as long as they are given enough spiritual stones, they will do whatever it takes to get it for you.

There is a lot of information, which is basically the core secret of certain forces or individuals, and will not be disclosed to outsiders easily.

How did you get it? ! It’s chilling to think about.

“Not to mention the all-pervasive penetration ability and information retrieval ability.

In the most extreme case, Mingxin Pavilion can also use the soul-searching technique to directly search the soul of the target person.

Or use other torture methods aimed at the soul to directly interrogate. "Deputy Hall Master Fan said.

"Hiss~~"

All the cultivators gasped.

Not to mention the fake foundation-building elixirs present, even the casual cultivators of the true elixirs all felt awe-inspiring.

While Meng Zhou looked solemn, he couldn't help but think of the black cloud of information above the Soul Pond of the Sea of ​​​​Consciousness.

There seem to be many methods specifically targeting the soul, including soul-searching techniques.

Deputy Hall Master Fan waited for the cultivators to calm down before continuing to throw the last information bomb.

"There are others, but they are directly related to the third-level sects in the outer domain. As for the specific ones, you should not explore them."

Who dares to explore?

At this moment, no one even dared to use the air conditioner, they just sat there quietly.

Only the intense heartbeats let people know that the hearts of everyone in the room were far from as calm as their faces showed.

At this moment, a long and harsh sound suddenly came from the sky above everyone.

This long roar was like a long sword with jagged cuts, piercing directly into everyone's sea of ​​consciousness, causing everyone's souls to tremble and their minds to become unstable.

Some of the Foundation Establishment monks couldn't stand the stimulation and vomited blood directly. The faces of the fake elixirs present also changed suddenly. They didn't dare to distract him and worked hard to suppress the chaos in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Only a group of Zhendan cultivators withstood the impact relatively easily, but they all frowned sternly and fled out of the room one after another, arriving on the platform outside.

But high in the sky, they saw a figure riding a giant bird piercing the clouds, swooping down, and quickly approaching their location.

As the figure approached, everyone saw clearly that the giant bird the man sat on was not a real bird, but a bird-shaped spirit puppet.

But the fluctuations in momentum emanating from the spirit puppet made all the True Alchemy cultivators present feel tremendous pressure.

At this moment, Xuanyuanzi and Deputy Hall Master Fan slowly walked out of the room with gloomy faces.

The two of them looked up at the figure in the sky, which was obviously coming from an evil person.

Deputy Hall Master Fan said in a deep voice: "Lingyu Sect!... Are you coming or am I coming?" The latter words were addressed to Xuan Yuanzi.

Xuanyuanzi didn't answer at all. He stretched out his hand and pointed towards the swooping figure, and saw purple lightning suddenly surrounding that person.

The void where the man was, up, down, left and right, turned into a complex network of fine purple electric snakes criss-crossing, completely covering him.

No matter which direction one breaks through, they will inevitably hit the waiting purple power grid.

"Huh!"

The man in the sky made a sound of surprise, as if he didn't expect that there were people with such methods below.

However, his speed did not slow down at all.

The long beak of the giant spiritual bird suddenly flashed with light, and it hit the purple electric grid blocking the front without any hesitation. It broke through the layers of interception and swooped down.

Soon, he was already above everyone.

Except for the dimming of the light on the giant bird's long beak, it is completely worthy of being free and easy.

In an instant, he sat down and the giant bird disappeared. It fell from the sky lightly. Ignoring the gazes of others, he looked at Xuan Yuanzi who had just made a move. He cupped his hands casually and said:

"Uncle Xuanyuanzi, I didn't expect that we could meet here again."