When the Ghost Mother Cult was preparing to massacre the people, Kunpengfang.

Under the Prime Minister's Mansion, on the east side of the Ministry of Justice, one of the six new ministries, less than a mile away from the Ministry of Justice, there is an extremely luxurious garden with a large plaque with golden characters hanging in front of the gate - "Liu De Ju"!

The disciples of Dayin Wenjiao said that a "gentleman" has "six virtues", namely "wisdom, trustworthiness, holiness, benevolence, righteousness, and loyalty".

This garden is named after "Six Virtues". As the name suggests, people who come in and out here on a daily basis are all humble gentlemen of culture and education.

This "Liude Ju" was indeed a famous gathering place for the cultural and educational disciples of Haojing. Literary men and scholars often talked and criticized the government here, or commented on officials and cursed certain "eunuch party" and nobles who were harming the country and the people.

Tonight, there is no gathering in Liude Center.

In a small building in the backyard, in an extremely sturdily built secret room underground, the owner of Liudeju, Duan Fangxin, the son of the current Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Duan Fangyu, who also holds the position of Construction Langzhong in the Ministry of Works, was tied up with three golden ropes like a rice dumpling and hung on the wall of the secret room.

An old man, who looked very old and deathly, had almost lost all his hair and his scalp was covered with age spots. His body could no longer stand up straight and was hunched over like a cooked shrimp. He was sitting at a small square table in the middle of the secret room, eating peanuts and drinking sips of liquor, enjoying his meal very much.

On the west side of the secret room, at the base of the wall, on an extremely gorgeous altar, there is a nine-foot-tall female statue made of pure gold with an obscure face.

The statue has a strange shape, with one female head and eight arms. The eight arms are stretched out, and on the palms are lifelike heads of women, who are either laughing, crying, angry, twisted, numb, or crazy.

Below the statue, on a spirit tablet, was written a line of small gilded characters neatly - 'Li Wanjie crosses the remnant soul, controls the underworld, and rules over yin and yang. He is the Supreme Saint of the Nine Yin Ghost Mother'!

Liudeju, which is usually crowded with distinguished guests and where ordinary people come and go, is the headquarters of the Ghost Mother Worshipping Sect in Gaojing.

And the beloved son of our Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Duan Fangyu, the construction doctor of Dayin Ministry of Works, is well-known in Haojing City for his 'generosity', 'righteousness' and 'friends all over the world'. Duan Fangyu is the 'Nine Yin Holy Son' who ranks third in the Ghost Worshiping Sect and is in charge of all affairs in Haojing City!

Oh, right.

Other sects in Dayin call the direct descendants who may inherit the throne of the leader of their sect "Holy Son".

As for the Ghost Mother Worshipping Sect, they worship the 'Nine Yin Ghost Mother'.

Therefore, they usually call Duan Fangyu "devil"!

At this moment, Duan Fangyu, who was tied up tightly, was cursing at the old man with red eyes.

"Elder Shi, if you act so recklessly, our sect's foundation in Gaojing City will be completely destroyed by you!"

"A few days ago, you ordered our followers to come out in full force and attack the government offices in various markets in Gaojing. Eighty percent of the followers that we worked so hard to recruit were killed. The remaining 20% ​​will also be beheaded on a chosen day!"

"There are only a few hundred of our most elite members left in Gaojing!"

"You actually, actually want to use them to attack the Imperial City, and then let them commit suicide as a sacrifice!"

"You are the sinners of the Nine Yin Sect. You have destroyed the foundation that the ancestors of the Nine Yin Sect have worked so hard to build over hundreds of years in Gaojing City!"

“You, you…”

Duan Fangyu shouted at the old man at the top of his lungs: "Pull back before it's too late!"

Elder Shi chewed peanuts and looked at Duan Fangyu quietly.

When Duan Fangyu had screamed until her voice was hoarse, he slowly picked up the small wine glass and took a sip: "Ghost, you are still young and in the prime of your life. You are only in your early thirties... You are at the Tuomai realm. You can live to be 120 years old. You still have decades to live."

"Especially, you are a gentleman of culture and education, you come from an official family, and you are also a devil of our religion. The mountains of gold and silver that flow through your hands every year are enough for you to live a life of luxury and extravagance for the rest of your life."

"But we old fellows, the nine old fellows who assist you in the city of Haojing, how old are we?"

"The boss estimated that he only had two years left to live. No matter how hard he struggled, he would not be able to survive."

"The second one is even worse off than the eldest. When he was young, he was very brave and aggressive. He fought dozens of battles with the Sikoutai's dogs and was seriously injured. It didn't matter when he was young, but now, he is a dozen years younger than the eldest, but now, his life span, at most, can only last for half a year, right?"

"I won't talk about the other brothers."

"As for me, I feel that my Yuan Qi is almost disintegrating, and my meridians and acupoints are shrinking and shrinking. My death is within two to three years."

"But I'm not willing to give up."

"The eldest and the second brother are not willing to accept this either!"

"We live in a mansion, with beautiful concubines and maids to play with, and enjoy fine clothes and delicious food. Alas, this world is so beautiful, how can we bear to die like this?"

"A few years ago, I just got a pair of twin sisters to be my 139th and 140th concubines. I just tasted a little of their flavor, how can I bear to give them up?"

"I have millions of private property, hundreds of mansions and estates in and outside of Gaojing City, and tens of millions of acres of fertile fields, forests, pastures, fisheries, and mines outside of Gaojing City."
"Also, I have so many sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren..."

"I even have a private army of more than 100,000 people. In my private territory, I am no worse than the emperor, right?"

"You want me to throw it all away, to return to dust?"

The old man looked at Duan Fangyu and shook his head and smiled: "Impossible, impossible, not to mention that you are just the third devil, even if you are the first devil, or even the leader in person... no one can stop us."

Duan Fangyu stared at the old man deeply and said, "I have informed the leader of the changes in the city of Haojing."

The old man shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "It will take half a month for the leader to receive the news and rush to Gaojing... But as long as we wait until dawn, everything will be settled!"

"We helped the Ghost Mother to massacre the imperial city with blood, and sacrificed so many believers and even more so the people of Gaojing... The nine of us brothers don't ask for much. We just want to transform into immortal ghost bodies and continue to enjoy our wealth and glory."

"As long as we are still alive, we can slowly gather and train these lost believers..."

Duan Fangyu stared at the old man: "The leader... our master will not let you go... Ha, the followers of Gaojing City are the biggest source of income for our sect, and they have gathered most of our elites... For the sake of your own lives, you have consumed them all in a short period of time. You... are unforgivable."

"If the leader won't let us go, then we'll kill him and find another leader." The old man looked at Duan Fangyu with a smile: "Who made us lucky? A few months ago, we were the first to welcome the ghost mother who came to the world?"

"As long as we obtain the true ghost body as described in our religion's legend, we will be above the ordinary world and become a kind of ghost or god..."

As the old man spoke, his body trembled with excitement. He didn't swallow a sip of wine properly and started coughing violently. He coughed so hard that he fell forward and backward, and blood spurted out of his throat.

Duan Fangyu looked at the old man in despair: "Elder Shi, that ghost thing you welcomed... is it really the Nine Yin Ghost Mother that our Nine Yin Sect has worshipped for thousands of years? Do you believe it?"

The old man was silent for a while, then smiled brightly: "Believe it or not, what does it matter? She is a ghost, a woman, so she is the Ghost Mother... As long as she can give us a real ghost body, whether she is the Nine Yin Ghost Mother or not, does it matter?"

Glancing at Duan Fangyu, the old man said leisurely, "Ghost, don't be fooled by the leader's old rhetoric... The teachings of the Nine Yin Sect, ugh, are long outdated."

"To us, the Nine Yin Sect is now just a tool to make money... Since it is a tool, we should use it when we need it and throw it away when we need to!"

The sound of hurried horse hooves could be heard.

The sound of horse hooves actually came from behind the stone wall of the secret room.

Under the horrified gazes of Elder Shi and Duan Fangyu, a tall horse with gray mist wrapped all over its body, its eyes spewing bloody light, its four hooves also wrapped in blood light, its mane flowing like waves, continuously spewing out cold and piercing gray mist, its whole body glowing with a faint phosphorescent light, suddenly jumped out from the stone wall.

Sitting on the horse was a handsome and elegant man in his forties, with a handsome face and a short beard. He was dressed in a purple robe and looked more like a modest gentleman than 99% of the scholars in Gaojing City.

He wore a purple robe, a jade belt, a jade pendant with a Chilong pattern, and a black gauze hat with five beams.

This person is actually a high-ranking official of the third rank in the Dayin Dynasty!

"Leader?" Elder Shi stared at the stone wall with a dull look.

Even if our leader used the best mount available, it would take more than half a month for him to get here from his current location.

How come he arrived in Haojing City just not long after Duan Fangyu sent the message?

Moreover, using such incredible means, he came out from underground, directly passed through the five-foot-thick stone wall of the secret room, and broke into the secret room directly?

Elder Shi is an elder of the Nine Yin Sect. He has been in the sect for more than a hundred years. He dares to swear on his life that such strange and miraculous methods have never been heard of in the Nine Yin Sect.

"Master... Master..." Duan Fangyu was so excited that he kept shouting, "The nine elders were causing chaos. They sacrificed almost all the believers in Gaojing City and made them attack the government offices, killing almost all the believers."

"They sacrificed their followers in order to pay tribute to an unknown being they called 'Ghost Mother', causing that being to cause a huge commotion in Gaojing City."

"Now, the eight elders are leading the last few hundred elite believers in the city to start an uprising in the imperial city."

"They want to kill all the servants serving the imperial city, and use the lives of hundreds of thousands of people to sacrifice their blood, spirits and souls to 'that guy', increase his strength, and kill the Empress Dowager and others, saying that it is to 'sever ties and ascend to heaven in one step.'"

Elder Shi looked tremblingly at the Nine Yin Sect Leader who was as heavy as water on the horse's back and said nothing. His body swayed and he knelt on the ground with a thud.

He said in a hoarse voice: "Master, it is really the Nine Yin Ghost Mother who has come to the world. She promised that from now on, our Nine Yin Sect will be..."

The leader of the Nine Yin Sect raised his right hand and slapped it lightly.

With a 'pop' sound, Elder Shi exploded into a ball of blood mist, and a thin layer of blood was evenly smeared on the walls of the secret room.

"Even so, this Sect Leader should be the one to enjoy the greatest benefit..."

"You are overstepping your authority."

Dayin, 120,000 miles east of Haojing City, is the second-rank governor of Luozhou and the expeditionary envoy, as well as the leader of the Nine Yin Sect. Shi Wuyou sneered and waved his right hand, and the ropes on Duan Fangyu's body broke into pieces.