Longevity starts with learning

"The situation is worrying..."

Chu Mu sighed and seemed to be a little sad.

The higher you stand, the farther you can see.

Although he did not want the position of Changsheng Zhenchuan, there is no doubt that this Zhenchuan Zun is the top existence in the Da Chu Xiuxian world.

Standing so high, the things he sees are naturally much farther than when he was a casual cultivator.

Although the Da Chu Xiuxian world seems to have restored peace now, this peace is more like the calm before the storm.

The storm is coming, and it is not false.

The ruins of the Heavenly Palace in the outer sea, the three tribes of the demon alliance, the temporary truce in the Yunlan Mountains, the unrest in the southwest border...

The interests of all parties are intertwined, and there is no possibility of any harmonious coexistence.

No matter which point breaks out, it will inevitably affect the whole body.

The behemoth Changsheng Sect is definitely not unrelated. It can even be said that no matter which point breaks out, Changsheng Sect will definitely be the first to bear the brunt!

Chu Mu raised his hand and the True Transmission Order on his waist hung in his palm. He had naturally reported to the Changsheng Sect Master when he came to the southwest this time, and he had also learned that there was no detailed information about the mysterious pattern yet.

This was undoubtedly a mixed blessing.

The good news was that if there was no whereabouts of the mysterious pattern, he naturally wouldn't have to deal with the two demon souls.

The worry was that the two demon souls and the two divine prohibitions were very likely to be related to the Tianyan Holy Beast. The longer it was delayed, the more unknown the result would be...

His thoughts flashed away, and Chu Mu took a step and walked along the street. From the Transmission Hall to the south, just a few miles away was the Caiyun Town Guard House.

According to the rules of Changsheng Sect, every market town, spiritual city, or mineral vein, spiritual plantation, or even sealed spiritual vein in the Great Chu Immortal Cultivation World is governed by Changsheng Sect...

Everything, as long as it is a little large and can bring benefits to Changsheng Sect, there will definitely be more or less Changsheng Sect disciples responsible for guarding it.

Ordinary market towns and immortal cities are generally divided according to the grade of spiritual veins.

A first-grade spiritual vein is often guarded by a foundation-building disciple and a team of Qi training disciples, and then divided into various functions, such as law enforcement and internal affairs, which is equivalent to a secular government office and the most basic ruling institution.

A second-grade spiritual vein is generally guarded by a fake Dan cultivator. If the situation is special, a Jindan Zhenren will even be arranged to guard it.

And a third-grade spiritual vein, or even a third-grade spiritual vein or above, is generally guarded by a Changsheng Jindan Zhenren, with a garrison, and the area under their jurisdiction is not just a fairy city or market town.

The functions of the garrison are similar to those of the secular prefectures and county towns.

Just like this Caiyun City, during the war, the one who sat here was a Yuanying Taishang of the Changsheng Sect.

With this Caiyun City as the core, the borders of several counties around it include nearly a hundred immortal cities and markets, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Caiyun Town Garrison.

Later, the war subsided a little, and the chaos in the outer sea changed, and the Yuanying power of the Changsheng Sect who sat here also withdrew.

This Caiyun Town Garrison is guarded by a direct disciple of the Tianji lineage, and there are also many direct disciples of the Changsheng Sect Jindan who assist in guarding here.

And above, it is often a temporary coordination.

Just like the Changsheng Zhenchuan who is currently in charge of various places, they often coordinate the relevant matters of multiple garrisons.

Of course, this kind of coordination is only limited to things below the Yuanying, and the Yuanying power of the Changsheng Sect who is in charge of various places is naturally not in this category.

After all, the Yuanying masters who are stationed in various places are often more symbolic than practical. They are basically elusive and naturally cannot be distracted to deal with trivial matters in various places.

The existence of Changsheng Zhenchuan just fills the gap in the connection of the internal system and power of Changsheng Sect.

In other regions of the Great Chu Xiuxian World, as long as they are under the jurisdiction of Changsheng Sect, they are mostly in such a ruling structure.

A system that is not much different from the secular state system.

The only difference may be that the great power is concentrated in one person, which brings absolute authority.

Stopping in front of the garrison, Chu Mu looked around for a while, and a true transmission order appeared. Several Changsheng Sect disciples who were about to scold subconsciously held back the scolding words they were about to spit out.

"Welcome to the true transmission!"

Several people bowed and worshiped, feeling very fortunate.

"Now it should be Fellow Daoist Fang who is guarding here?"

Chu Mu stopped in front of the mansion, turned his head to look at these disciples, and asked casually.

Several disciples looked at each other, and one of the middle-aged men bowed and responded cautiously:

"Reporting to the true disciple, Master Fang and Master Ming went out of the city last year to hunt down the remnants of the evil cultivators, and have not returned yet."

"The one who is now in charge of the city is Master Yu..."

Chu Mu nodded, thinking.

If he remembered correctly, the several disciples who are now in charge of Caiyun City are all from the Zhenyu lineage.

The one with the highest cultivation level is Fang Qing, who has reached the realm of Golden Core Perfection. According to rumors within the Changsheng Sect, this person was also a famous true disciple seed within the Changsheng Sect, but in the end he was still slightly inferior and never crossed the threshold from personal disciple to true disciple.

The other two disciples are Ming Ye and Yu Zecheng, who are in the middle and late stages of Golden Core respectively, and they have been Changsheng's disciples for many years.

And at this moment, as if sensing the movement outside the mansion, a powerful aura of magical power suddenly appeared in the government office. Then, a flash of light rose into the sky and landed outside the mansion gate in an instant.

The light dissipated, and a gray-white gown was revealed.

"Disciple has seen a real person."

All the immortal disciples immediately paid homage.

"I didn't know that the true disciple was coming, but I missed you from afar. I hope the true disciple will forgive me."

The man stepped forward quickly and bowed to Chu Mu.

"Junior brother, there is no need to be polite."

Chu Mu raised his right hand, and a surge of magic power lifted the man who was bowing to worship.

Yu Zecheng said cautiously: "I wonder why Zhenzhuan came here this time?"

"I'm afraid I won't bother you, junior brother, for some personal matters."

Chu Mu smiled and changed the topic suddenly: "Chu just heard that Junior Brother Ming and fellow Daoist Fang went out of the city to hunt down evil cultivators last year, and they haven't returned yet?"

"To be fair, it's a long story..."

Yu Zecheng looked a little ugly, and while leading Chu Mu into the government office, he spoke slowly.

When they arrived at the lobby of the government office, Yu Zecheng finally finished speaking. After telling him, Chu Mu probably also knew the reason for this matter.

According to what Yu Zecheng said, after the Changsheng Sect destroyed the True Way Alliance, although they regained the southwest, it was naturally impossible to uproot the True Way Alliance in such a chaotic situation.

After all, the southwest is a frontier land, and the Langya family has been in the southwest for tens of thousands of years. When the Langya family was in its heyday, the so-called southwest countries were just the back garden of the Langya family.

However, as the years passed, and with the deliberate suppression and planning within the Changsheng Sect, the Langya family slowly lost control of the southwest countries.

But even so, the Langya royal family's influence and tentacles in the southwestern countries undoubtedly still exist to a greater or lesser extent.

The Changsheng Sect's so-called pacification of the Southwest only resulted in the defeat of the Southwest Righteous Alliance, with the Langya family as the main body. A considerable part of the Langya family basically fled to the southwest countries in an organized manner, entrenched themselves on one side, and were still hostile to the Changsheng Sect.

It is precisely for this reason that although the Southwest has been pacified for many years, it has never been completely stable.

But this time, the two so-called evil cultivators who came out of the city to hunt down were actually a Jindan elder from the Langya Wang family.

This Wang family's golden elixir has been spreading throughout the southwest to cause chaos since the collapse of the Southwest Righteous Alliance with the Langya Wang family as its core.

From time to time, they attack one or two cities. With the power of the golden elixir, ordinary cities and fairy cities naturally have no power to resist.

After so many years of wandering around and changing places, the Changsheng Sect didn't have much to do with him.

Previously, it even angered the Yuanying of the Changsheng Sect who was stationed here, and personally took action to arrest him. However, this person seemed to be aware of the danger and lurked without any movement.

Under such circumstances, even if the Nascent Soul is so powerful, there is obviously nothing that can be done.

Later, turmoil broke out in the outer sea, and the powerful Nascent Soul who was stationed here was urgently summoned back by the sect.

And when the powerful Nascent Soul left, the hidden Wang family's golden elixir unexpectedly emerged again.

But this time, the attack was even more extraordinary. With just one person, he directly destroyed a large spiritual plant garden established by the Changsheng Sect in the southwest.

He slaughtered hundreds of Changsheng Sect disciples who were guarding the Lingzhi Garden, wiped out many of the spiritual plants planted in the Lingzhi Garden, and even extracted the soul of one of the guardians of the Lingzhi Garden.

Such evil deeds undoubtedly put the Changsheng Sect on fire in an instant.

Regardless of the reason, the Changsheng Sect obviously cannot remain indifferent.

Therefore, after the incident broke out, under the coordination of Fang Qing, almost all the counties and counties followed suit and began a nearly drag-net-like pursuit of the Wang family's golden elixir.

However, the method of that Wang family's golden elixir is really weird.

Even though he was surrounded and chased several times, and many immortal golden elixirs joined forces to surround and kill him, they were all allowed to escape in the end.

More than half a year ago, he disappeared again and was hard to find.

After this incident, at least in the Caiyun counties, the Changsheng Sect was undoubtedly disgraced.

With people's hearts fluctuating, the remnants of the Righteous Alliance rejoiced, and the situation in the southwest, which was already unstable, became even more chaotic.

The monks of the Changsheng Sect who were stationed here were also running around almost all day long and were exhausted from dealing with it.

"Is this person a Gu Dao monk?"

After sitting down in the hall, Chu Mu asked casually.

"Exactly."

Yu Zecheng nodded: "This person's name is Wang Yu, and he is the direct grandson of the ancestor of the Wang family. You should also have heard of the true story of that ancestor of the Wang family."

"The powerful Nascent Soul, who is known as the first monk of Gu Dao in the southwest, during the Battle of Southwest, two of our sect's Nascent Soul ancestors fell in his hands."

Chu Mu asked again: "Has this ancestor of the Wang family fallen?"

"Not sure yet."

Yu Zecheng shook his head: "In the Battle of Langya, the ancestor of the Wang family was personally suppressed by the sect master. According to rumors, he should have been severely injured by the sect master and never died. However, since the Battle of Langya, this person has Disappeared, never to be seen again.”

"According to the speculation of the Yuan Ying ancestor of our sect, Wang Yu often comes out to cause trouble, slaughtering people everywhere, and plundering the life essence of the monks. I am afraid that he is using it to heal the wounds of the ancestor of the Wang family..."

Chu Mu took a sip of tea, thought for a moment, and didn't ask any more questions.

He came here only for personal matters.

Even if the southwest is turned upside down, as long as there is no higher-level order, it obviously has nothing to do with him.

Thinking of this, Chu Mu suddenly changed the topic: "Chu came to the southwest this time to search for some Gu Dao spiritual materials."

As he spoke, Chu Mu raised his hand and a jade slip floated in front of him. With a wave of his hand, the jade slip flew towards Yu Zecheng.

At this moment, Yu Zecheng took the jade slip and looked through it for a moment, but he showed hesitation.

Before Chu Mu asked, Yu Zecheng put down the jade slip and said: "This Gu recipe of yours should be a legacy from ancient times, right?"

Chu Mu nodded, seemingly puzzled.

"You don't know, the Gu cultivation is different from our immortal cultivation. Although their Gu cultivation is a system, there are also many changes in the system."

"From ancient times to now, there have been countless evolutions, and many Gu Dao spiritual materials have many names, and even have long been unrecognizable..."

"Many Gu Dao spiritual materials have either been completely lost or have undergone countless iterations and evolutions..."

"And this Gu recipe of yours has nearly a hundred kinds of Gu Dao spiritual materials..."

At this moment, hearing what Yu Zecheng said, Chu Mu reacted a little late.

He really hadn't considered this point.

Gu Dao is special. Almost every Gu cultivator has his own unique Gu technique. The spiritual materials needed to refine Gu techniques and Gu worms have undergone countless iterations and evolutions under the special conditions of Gu cultivators.

Even now, new Gu Dao spiritual materials emerge almost every moment, and new Gu techniques and Gu worms appear.

And the Gu cultivator's natal Gu worm is often the biggest taboo of himself, unknown to others, let alone publicizing it.

Even if it is passed down, unless it is a unique personal inheritance or a special inheritance left behind, it is estimated that it is extremely difficult for others to copy it.

This undoubtedly means that in the system of Gu cultivators, inheritance is the most important factor, and distinguishing the past and the present is even more important!

Although his Gu recipe is a legacy, it also records in detail the process and taboos required for refining Gu.

But the question is, how can he be sure that the required Gu Dao spiritual materials recorded on the Gu recipe, after the evolution of the long years from ancient times to the present, correspond to which Gu Dao spiritual materials today?

His Gu recipe has nearly a hundred kinds of Gu Dao spiritual materials. Even though most of them seem to be still in the current Gu Dao spiritual material system, even if it is only a small part, a very small part...

In any aspect of cultivation, a slight mistake can lead to a huge difference!

A Gu recipe is even more related to the birth of a Gu insect's life. Once there is a mistake, let alone whether it will fail, the final result will probably not be a silkworm...

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