The Taoist ancestor is Cthulhu

Daozu is Cthulhu Chapter 276: Escape as soon as possible

The sun flies by, and the years fly by. In the blink of an eye, another month has passed. Doing the math, it is almost the sixth year that Li Fan has traveled to another world to cultivate immortality.

At this time, Li Fan was lying on the rock bed cut out of a large piece of amethyst in Taisu Realm, bathing in the moonlight.

‘Li Fan’s mood has improved a bit. The current mood is 17.6k/17.6k, and the charge is full. ’

"Ha-yah, alas, the realm of divine transformation is far away..."

In fact, the East China Sea is a crystal mine world where the false moon and evil spirits are especially strong. One night of worshiping the moon can increase the price by 34k. However, in order to avoid some old scumbags hiding behind the scenes, Li Fan had no choice but to go crazy and complete tasks in Zhenhai this month. I found an opportunity to go out to sea and repeatedly used the dog Frisbee and the system to confirm that no one was following me before I dared to worship the moon on an isolated island in the ocean. I was bitten by a snake once and suffered from Parkinson's disease for ten years.

Being so cautious, it took him a month to regain his mood, but Guixu Yuanying was still as skinny as a stick, barely growing a layer of skin and flesh, as if he had anorexia. It seemed like it was really hurt.

If compared with a year ago, when he had just had enough sleep, Li Fan's long journey from Mozhu Mountain to Penglai Mountain. Although he had gone through a lot of killings and gained a lot of emotional limits, now his actual On the contrary, his cultivation strength has dropped significantly.

Thinking about it carefully, the most hurtful thing is not the self-destruction of three mountain gods, because he can still practice the mountain god Taoist body. If it is too slow, he can directly use the mood limit to max it out. It doesn't take much effort in the first place. There are so many monsters and ghosts in the East China Sea, and from time to time, the sea monsters corrupted by Xuyue will cause trouble. If you are greedy, you can go to Yulin Village to get some octopus eggs and sashimi. The demon fetus that drinks wine will definitely be enough. It will only take a couple of seconds to practice again. Just months.

The real damage was actually caused by the time when the Thousand-Faced Immortal got on his body.

I remember that the first time I saw the reflection of the Thousand-Faced Immortal at the ruins of Leize's spaceship, I was half-dead. This time, as soon as his upper body stepped through the door, the purple and fat Guixu Yuanying raised by Li Fan was immediately crippled. All his true energy, flesh and blood were exhausted, and he was almost turned into a skeleton! Now Li Fan is really worried that when he gets old, he will be as skinny as Master Liang!

Alas, these Dao Ancestors are really killing people...

'But Li Fan, you have to prepare to leave Penglai. This deviation value has exceeded the sky. ’

‘Killing the legion’s apostles, cleaning the legion’s mines, and smashing the legion’s rail guns, it’s impossible for the legion to not react at all. ’

‘You won’t always be so lucky. If you stay near Penglai to worship the moon, sooner or later you will be seen through by other apostles or those Taoists. You’d better find a way to escape as soon as possible. ’

‘Yeah, I got all the fish back anyway. ’

...You are just thinking about those fish. What's wrong with finding it again and saying it failed...

However, those gold-scaled fish were indeed recovered. After all, no matter who took them away in the first place, they would not stew the ornamental fish in soup. They were all regarded as spiritual beasts and specially thrown to the villa for support, so Li Fan found them by the way while searching for various islands on a patrol mission.

After all, when the new Zhenhai Master comes to visit, it’s not too much to ask you to pay tribute to a hundred black and white carps, right? In fact, if Li Fan hadn't firmly refused, not to mention a few fish, other people's family members would have dressed up as Jin Qing and stuck to him!

In short, Li Fan now puts all the carps in Penglai's house and raises them for the maids of the Huan family. He only follows the system's instructions and keeps two "barely qualified" ones, one black and one white, around him. , continue to use fishing bait and Qiankun Qi to raise it, so that it can be continued as a branch line.

But regardless of whether it is a fish or not, the system is right. Penglai is still too dangerous. There are too many Tao Lords and Shen Lords. The connection with the system is intermittent. Recently, a legion mine has been established. So really It is not suitable for people to worship the moon and practice Taoism here for a long time. Now that Li Fan has recovered from his illness, he has to find a way to escape.

So he stretched himself and returned to the Tai Chi world. The first thing Li Fan did was draw a wave of prizes.

It's a pity that although his reactor battery is still there, the two system-killing weapons of plasma cannon and teleportation flying sword are too sharp, and he was forced offline by the plot killing after trying it once.

However, it may not be possible to go offline. From the behavioral analysis of the technological equipment in Axi Bar, which has always been installed in the anti-detection package, the apostles of the system also have detection methods for each other. If the technological equipment is used too much, sooner or later it will be exposed. Identity, the power of system technology to assassinate, Li Fan has really learned this time, who can stand it if he snipes and checks suddenly...

Anyway, let’s draw a lottery. This time the upper limit is 17.6k. I hope there will be something awesome.

‘The prize has been delivered’

A purple bell fell into Li Fan's hand. It was only the size of a walnut. He shook it casually but there was no sound. Maybe it was some kind of disguise.

‘The bell, developed based on analysis from the Thousand-Faced Immortal, could theoretically be a device that could trigger ripples in the membrane through gravitational waves, thereby traveling to extra dimensions. ’

‘Please note that the bell is a one-time consumable and may cause unintended consequences. ’

‘Note that contact with the membrane will consume a huge amount of Guixu True Yuan. ’

‘Note that the destination reached through extra dimensions is not known. ’

‘Attention, please use the Thousand Faced Immortal Dao Body when traveling through extra dimensions to prevent accidents. ’

‘Note that fluctuations in the membrane can cause the deviation value in the area to rise sharply. ’

...So what is this thing?

‘It’s a thing based on the data recorded when you imitated the Thousand-Faced Immortal and jumped out of the door, but it’s still slightly, well, hugely different from our technology. So we don’t know what it is.’

‘Just think of it as a one-time emergency escape prop. ’

Oh...consuming a huge amount of Guixu True Yuan...can you really still survive if you use this to escape?

However, this bell is a one-time escape equipment equivalent to the Enlightenment-level teleportation skill. If it hadn't gotten into Penglai's lair, how could there have been so many Enlightenments in the world? It's better than letting the Thousand-Faced Immortal take over and being half dead, right?

A life is not bad at all.

So Li Fan put the bell in his arms, packed up the Zuntianmo Dojo, and prepared to fly back to Penglai.

In fact, it is not difficult to leave the East China Sea. Now he is Li Datang, the real person of Penglai Zhizhen Zhenhai. He is the named disciple of the master, the disciple of Penglai Taoist Zhou Chengxue and the popular man in the Sanxian Mountain of the East China Sea. If he wants to go out to the Central Plains to experience, no one will stop him. He just needs to register with the sect, hand over the Zhenhai Golden Seal, and get any other tasks to go out. After all, not many people are willing to do the job of Zhenhai Master. .

Yes, after Li Fan finished his tasks this month, he discovered that Zhenhai Zhenhai was both a fat man and a hard worker. Some people may not get what they ask for, and some may think it is a burden. It is not a big deal to put this job off.

The hard work is obvious, there are a lot of things to do, there is always something to do, the tasks are refreshed anytime and anywhere, and it is impossible to finish them. Not to mention studying the Five Arts, refining elixirs and refining treasures, there is no time left to practice Qi. So the monks from the inner sect of Penglai really couldn't avoid it.

It is obvious to say that there is a good deal. As long as the offerings paid on each fairy island meet the sect's quota, you can completely line your own pocket with the rest, which can be regarded as the default commission and hard-earned money.

But the real reason why no one wants to receive this Zhenhai Seal is because Zhenhai's "fat difference" is already a thing of the past. It's a pure chore now.

This time Li Fan personally patrolled the East China Sea, looking for fish while observing the situation in Penglai. In addition, he asked Xiao Yunan about the local situation and clarified a lot of things.

First of all, Taishang Jiuzhen Sect is indeed worthy of being at the forefront of the Nine Mysterious Sects. It is really strong. To put it too much, these generations of successors fought so hard that they had no real impact on the big tree of Jiuzhen Sect. At most, it might just be a little injury to the Lingzhen Palace lineage. But what about cutting off a generation? The direct blood of Sanshan is counted from 'ju' to 'big', but there are ten characters!

A behemoth like the Taishang Jiuzhen Sect has enough foundation to withstand war-level damage, not to mention that the selection mechanism is still functioning normally, and what is even more 'remarkable' is that the entire sect is operating in an almost machine-like, very cold-blooded and ruthless manner. The efficiency is squeezing the resources of the entire East China Sea.

In fact, when the Jiuzhen Sect first took over Penglai, it was a relatively normal ordinary sect. The rules it initially established with all ethnic groups and islands in the East China Sea even had the feeling of winning over the hearts of the four public and six people. Moreover, he is a well-known and upright sect and an authentic Xuanmen sect. He is still very popular among the Donghai Ling clan and casual cultivators. They flock to him like ducks and eat the pulp from the pot, just like Lou Guandao.

But with the dominance of the entire Three Immortals Island in the East China Sea and the entire territory under the Jiuzhen Sect, the entire sect began to carry out ‘reasonable and efficient planned production’.

Jiuzhen Palace is used as a unit, with islands and sea areas as divisions, and large-scale centralized management is carried out. Jiuzhen Palace specially designs and arranges corresponding arrays and enchantments to transform the weather of heaven and earth, spiritual vein formations, division of labor on each island, and centralized management. The production of specific cultivation resources is contracted and managed by the families of the disciples of various palaces in Penglai. To maintain maximum management and production efficiency.

For example, a certain island specializes in growing a kind of herbal medicine for alchemy, and finally it is unified in the alchemy workshop to refine the medicine. The mission of the cultivation family on the island is purely to maintain the operation of the magic circle, concentrate on cultivating spiritual herbs, and expel monsters. Then, based on the harvest of herbs that year, 40% of the harvest will be handed over to Penglai for deployment, and the remaining 60% can be freely used. But if you want to trade, you have to transport it to the three major fairy islands to conduct internal transactions in the Nine Palaces.

Therefore, those vassal states in the Central Plains also flocked to Penglai, just to obtain the qualifications to trade with Sanxian Mountain in the East China Sea. If you go to sea without the permission of Jiuzhen Sect, it is equivalent to smuggling, and there is no need to say what the consequences will be if you are caught. In short, with this method, a large number of powerful families and wealthy businessmen along the coasts of Gen, Zhen and Xun gathered under the umbrella of Penglai and listened to their orders.

Each island only produces a single cultivation resource, which leads to breaking away from Penglai's system, which is seeking a dead end. There is no room for other foreign sects to settle down. Naturally, these East China Sea cultivation families all support the Jiuzhen Sect. Even if they can accumulate some resources, they will train the children of the clan, continue to take exams and stay in Penglai to practice, and continuously provide talents.

Although there are many problems, such as Zhenhai Zhenhai's rich position will enrich his own pockets, such as the Immortal Island families falsely reporting their harvests, such as Shenjun's family relying on their ancestors, still violating the sect's precepts and smuggling rare materials privately, such as Jiuzhen's various The resources of the sea area under the palace's jurisdiction are different, the harvests are different, and there are always disputes. For example, some Taoist palaces can support many Taoist disciples, some Taoist palaces lack resources, some Taoist palaces are nepotistic, and so on. But in general, the good news is that the money is not going to outsiders, and the Jiuzhen Sect is getting bigger and bigger.

It’s just that the days of peace have been long. The Penglai Three Mountains are far away overseas and have avoided several rounds of disasters in the Central Plains. There are more and more monks in the inner sect. What’s more, the terrible thing is that the resource demand for ancient practice has increased exponentially. Authentic The disciples of Taoism are all Nascent Souls, and they can become gods if they work hard. Jiuzhen Palace also has the life-saving elixir Changchun Dan. So a group of old gods on the mountain all said that I want to retreat, and they all realized enlightenment at the same time. Just don’t move!

In the beginning, he still guarded the mountain gate, and there was an old man in the family as if he had a treasure. But now there are too many gods and kings, and even the wealth of the East China Sea cannot afford to support them. Jiuzhen Sect began to have obvious deficits within the sect, and it was unable to make ends meet.

Moreover, when encountering the Luo Jiao rebellion and Beichen's annihilation of the family, Penglai's own people did not die, but consumed a lot of resources. Therefore, the situation was severe. After Xinghua came to power, he made some reforms, which eventually led to him winning the title of "The Greatest in Penglai's History". The 'honor' of being number one among the annoying bosses.

In fact, it cannot be regarded as a 'reform'. The manifestation is to slightly strengthen the intensity of ranking rewards and punishments, adjust the distribution method of the nine palaces equally, and in order to ensure the supply of cultivation resources for the inner sect monks, a minimum performance evaluation is added. Well, taxes are increased. .

Specifically, the allocation of resources is determined based on the ranking of contributions of each palace sect.

The basic training needs of the inner sect are all borne by the sect, and this has not changed. However, the additional portion required for basic practice will be distributed in the form of rewards, but only those Taoists who have the potential to realize the Tao in the Nascent Soul realm will be rewarded. Therefore, for the subordinate Jiugong, one more Taoist disciple who is hopeful of enlightenment will bring huge benefits to the Taoist palace and receive a large number of rewards from the sect. And one more divine king who has no chance of enlightenment will only waste his own resources.

As a result, the rewards obtained by the elites have been greatly increased, and almost all winners get it. At the same time, not only do those at the back receive no rewards, but minimum performance standards for various tasks are also stipulated. In other words, the sect does not raise idlers. You are not allowed to fail the mission. If you fail, you have to pay for it yourself to compensate for the sect's losses.

Of course, the inner sect's volume is ultimately due to insufficient resources. After all, Penglai disciples neither fight with each other's swords nor can they drink wine with each other. Therefore, in order to ensure that the inner sect disciples at least have sufficient training resources, based on the number of inner sect disciples in Jiuzhen Palace , to determine the overall quota of the sect and the islands in the East China Sea for that year.

In this way, the harvests of various islands in the East China Sea are also added to the ranking. The payment is not limited to 40% of the harvest. Minimum payment standards for various resources are also set according to the overall needs of the sect. In fact, it is now far beyond the "40%", even to around 80%.

If the output of each fairy island does not meet the standard, the contracting family will lose all their money and pay for it. If it cannot keep up, the last one will be eliminated. If the amount of materials paid on a certain island is always too low and it suffers losses for consecutive years, not only will the local aristocratic family directly lose the qualification to contract the production of the fairy island, but even the disciples of the family will lose their sect salary and be punished. And if this person is not a gifted Taoist, his test scores are not high, and there is no family to provide training resources, the Taoist palace masters must consider not to accept him into the inner sect easily because of family ties, lest the Taoist palace has to treat him. Using limited resources to support others in their cultivation, such average and low-level talents are almost equal to severing their path to immortality.

Therefore, Li Fan took a look around and discovered that all the cultivating families in Penglai were forced to become involved in internal affairs and were exhausted from production, but could not get any substantial rewards. Therefore, they were very dissatisfied with the harsh taxation of manifestation, but they did not Dare not to pay. After all, if Zhenhai Zhenhai cannot receive offerings, then the task will not be as simple as patrolling the sea. Some like Zhou Chengxue are soft-tempered and will give you some money themselves, while others are like the three who went to the Huan family, eating out every family and slaughtering their entire family. Xuanmen is so big, there must be both kinds of people, you can bet on which one you will meet...

After all, in the world of cultivating immortals, sects are the largest violent group, and although the Nine Palaces are scolding the manifestation, the three masters of the Dao Dao are definitely on one side of this big deal about sect distribution, but some people are playing the red face. Someone is just playing a bad role.

After all, from the perspective of the Jiuzhen Sect, with so many divine kings and real people, everyone must seize their limited lifespan to practice and attain enlightenment. How can I have so much time to spend on resources, production, and construction with you? Now that Xian Huan can get all these resources under the infamy, what does it matter if he protects his shortcomings and gets more for the Zhizhen lineage? It's enough to just curse a few words, so how can you really object?

Therefore, the decision to abandon middle- and low-grade talents and focus on cultivating high-grade talents is absolutely correct. Because that's all it can do. Moreover, he had calculated how much harvest the Manifestation sent down to collect. Squeeze a little more this year, and squeeze a little more next year, but always guarantee that there will be a little bit of soup left, so that each family can also cultivate one or two golden elixir-stage children, as a 'hope of winning the bet', so as not to be forced If you are too anxious, you can still cultivate a conducive atmosphere of hard study and positivity from an early age. Isn’t it wonderful to read books at UU www.uukanshu.net?

Alas, it is really insidious...

So although the cultivation family in the East China Sea hates manifestation, they can do nothing about it. After all, the East China Sea has not been sealed. If you are dissatisfied, you can go back to the Central Plains to develop...

Unfortunately, the reality is that the powerful families in the Central Plains are now fleeing like crazy, rushing to the islands in the East China Sea, continuing to squeeze the space of local cultivator families, because the situation in the Central Plains world is getting more and more chaotic.

Lord Xiao died.

Yes, he died. As soon as Li Fan returned to the mountain, he didn't even have time to feed the fish, so he threw himself into Xiao Yunan's arms and cried for a while, listening to her sobbing and talking a lot.

To sum up, probably during this month, there was fierce internal fighting in Penglai, and the fighting in the Central Plains was even more fierce. The Hou Gu rebels were flooded and burned, and finally captured Taicheng.

The lord of Xiao died, the prince was captured, and immediately ascended the throne. The new lord of Zhenzhou, of course, was actually reduced to a puppet in the hands of Hou Gu. He was directly worshiped as the king of Han, the general, the prime minister, the commander-in-chief of Zhenzhou's military forces, and he was dismissed by edicts. The armies that came to help.

And the Xiao family is really hopeless, and they are really falling apart!

After all, Lanling has been completely slaughtered by Hou Gu's rebels. Taicheng has turned into a swamp of blood. There are mountains of corpses and bones. The plague is rampant. Everything of value is gone. There are still more than 100,000 rebels and rioters. The entire It has become a hot potato, and of course no one is willing to take it.

So until the desired result was achieved, the kings of the Xiao family immediately responded to the call and led their troops back, each returning to his own home. Of course, these vassal kings who were leaving the town felt relieved now that their father was dead. No one could control them anymore. They tore off the last layer of fig leaves, and each set up their own armies to conquer, expand their territory, and join It’s time to compete in the chess game of the world.

In just one year, the entire country collapsed and the world was in chaos.