Chapter 946 Guest Elder (1)
The Linghu family has a secret guard called Fox Shadow.
Generally speaking, for a big family, in addition to the servants and thugs in public, it is normal to keep some death squads, spies and the like in private.
The Fox Shadow Secret Guards are Linghu family's death squad, and they also serve as an intelligence system.
This was a group of people wearing green clothes and green robes, covered in green dragon scale armor, and practicing unknown secret techniques. Their eyes glowed with a faint green light, and even their hair had a hint of green, like they were wearing a head of green grass.
Their movements were swift, vigorous, sharp, and silent, giving people the feeling that they were a group of foxes quietly foraging and hunting in the forest. When they moved, Lu Yi noticed that the secret techniques they used carried a hint of the Daoist rhyme of "wind" and "shadow", and were more profound in their essence of "hiding" and "obscurity".
In the main hall, a group of clansmen from the Twelve Houses, several deacons of the Twelve Houses, and dozens of young talents from the Twelve Houses were suddenly attacked by the Fox Shadow Secret Guards who suddenly appeared. They had their acupoints pierced by a special confinement secret treasure, which confined their magic power. They fell to the ground in a few moves. Not to mention resisting, not one of them even shouted loudly.
Even several deacons of the Twelve Rooms who had reached the level of Star Lord or even Heavenly Lord were knocked down cleanly by the Fox Shadow Secret Guards.
Dozens of specially made spikes pierced the acupoints, chains covered with barbs bound the limbs, a jade talisman pressed heavily on the center of the eyebrows, and the three deacons of the twelve chambers, who were unable to move, looked horrified - only then did they realize that the nine elders had really made up their minds.
The steward in the middle said in a hoarse voice: "Grandmaster, everything we do is for our Linghu clan... Please don't bring disaster to our Linghu clan..."
Linghu Tian looked at these tied-up clansmen indifferently and waved his hand gently: "Bringing disaster? What you are doing is bringing disaster to our Linghu clan... You are really stupid people who don't know what's going on."
The Fox Shadow Secret Guards silently grabbed the members of the twelve clans and headed straight for the secret prison set up by the Linghu family.
In the low sky, a series of dark green, arrow-shaped, and inexplicably sharp miniature warships with a length of only thirty feet were flying rapidly. A large group of Fox Shadow Secret Guards were dispatched to surround the residences where the twelve clansmen lived. All the males with cultivation levels above the level of generals were captured, regardless of their seniority or age, and all were stuffed into the secret prison.
Linghu Cloud City was certainly controlled by the Heavenly Court brought by Lu Yi, and the hub of the city defense formation was controlled. However, Lu Yi did not cut off the nine elders of the Linghu clan from the outside world. So the nine elders directly performed secret magic in the hall in front of many clan members, and with the help of a small sound transmission magic array, they transmitted the order to the strongholds of the Fox Shadow Secret Guards in various places in the Linghu clan territory.
In the vast Linghu clan territory, the Fox Shadow Secret Guards came out in full force.
All the male members of the twelve branches stationed outside, as well as those who stayed in the Linghu clan's ancestral land, were controlled by the Fox Shadow Secret Guards within just a quarter of an hour. After being captured and suppressed, they were stuffed into warships and sent back to Linghu Yuncheng.
In just a quarter of an hour, with one order given, all the male members of the twelve branches in the huge Linghu clan territory who had official duties outside were captured without a single one escaping!
Lu Yu's expression could not help but change slightly.
The efficiency of Linghu family's secret guards is amazing!
The nine elders of the Linghu clan have an amazing control over the Linghu clan!
The hall was completely silent. When the nine elders ordered the capture of the twelve males, all the clan members looked at each other, unable to speak. Many people's faces twisted and changed color, but they stood still. No matter how many shameful things they had hidden in their hearts, no matter how many worries they had in their hearts... who dared to make any move?
The city defense formation was controlled by the people from Heaven brought by Lu Yi.
However, the Linghu clan's ancestral temple was the last line of defense for the Linghu clan to "fight to the last", or even "burn everything down together". There was also a small but extremely powerful defensive formation here. This formation was directly controlled by the nine clan elders. Who among the clan members present dared to make any unusual moves? Did they think that the nine clan elders could not hold their swords steadily?
'Ding, ding, ding.'
In the sound transmission array, the clear and crisp sound of jade chimes could be heard. It was the Fox Shadow Secret Guards stationed in various places reporting back to the nine elders that they had captured all the members of the twelve clans on the list.
Linghu Tian nodded and said calmly: "Now, those from the 23rd Chamber, please come out... Your affairs are the same as those of the 12th Chamber. Over the years, your accounts have been well managed. What's the matter? Does the clan need you to eat or drink? Do they need you to embezzle the clan's public funds?"
With a sneer, Linghu Tian said sternly: "The Nine Aperture Wind Essence Stones that the Twelve House has embezzled over the past thousand years are enough to forge 250,000 standard warships of the Five Armies of Heaven... and the various metal mines that your Twenty-Three House is responsible for have also 'lost' metal ores over the past thousand years, enough to forge 1 billion sets of Heavenly Soldier-level, 100 million sets of Heavenly Lieutenant-level, 30 million sets of Heavenly School-level, and 500,000 sets of Heavenly General-level top-grade armor."
"Where are these things?"
"If you use it to forge armor and raise a private army, that's fine... but our family members have some small ideas and want to control some of their own private military forces. Although it's a bit too greedy, it's still our own strength after all, so we can accept it."
"If not, then what about these armors?"
"If you didn't forge armor, but exchanged it for Emperor Coins...what about Emperor Coins?"
"If all the Emperor Money or other cultivation resources you have obtained were used on the younger generations of your own family, then your twenty-third family would have at least tens of thousands of children with good qualifications over the years, and their cultivation should have improved very quickly. What about those children whose cultivation has skyrocketed?"
Linghu Tian squinted at a group of tribesmen whose faces suddenly turned pale in the crowd: "Don't tell me, you all spent all of it on drinking and partying, and visiting brothels... More than a billion sets of top-grade armor, if you spent them on visiting brothels, even your kidneys would be as empty as bacon, right?"
A large group of Fox Shadow Secret Guards appeared silently and knocked down a large group of clansmen from the 23rd House in a few moves. They tied them up like dumplings and took them to the Linghu family's secret prison in a mighty manner.
Next is Room 29, which is responsible for the cultivation of magical herbs and herbs, as well as some related peripheral industries.
They also did some calculations, and a huge amount of spiritual medicines and herbs and related alchemy resources were missing. According to the data that the nine elders found out from some unknown channel, these alchemy resources that evaporated out of thin air were enough to train hundreds of millions of elite heavenly soldiers, heavenly officials, heavenly lieutenants, and heavenly schools... At the same time, once these elixirs were refined, they would be enough to support the daily consumption of an elite army of billions!
Lu Yu's face was trembling.
These members of the Linghu family are planning to rebel!
Look, battleships, armor, elixirs... everything!
If you bring these resources together and piece them together a little, you will have a regular army of astonishing size!
After Linghu Tian punished the twenty-ninth room, he glanced at the crowd and said quietly, "The twelfth, twenty-third, and twenty-ninth rooms are all stupid... Although they are good at making up accounts, we are just old, not confused... If we really want to investigate, how can we not find out?"
"I just didn't expect, I didn't expect, there is a master among our Linghu family's children, there really is a master!"
"People from the fifth house, the seventh house, the ninety-eighth house... People from your three houses, come out and tell us how you do your accounting. Tsk tsk, one of you is in charge of our family's caravan business, one is in charge of our family's pawnshop, and one is in charge of our family's various black market stores... The flow of people is huge, and the amount of imperial money flowing is even more astonishing. All kinds of resources are coming in and out, and the numbers are too huge. The people we sent out actually have no place to start for a while!"
Linghu Tian smiled as he looked at the tribesmen in the crowd who had cold sweat on their foreheads, and said softly, "We know you have tricks up your sleeve, but your methods are much more advanced than those of the three families before, and we didn't find out for a while... So, why don't you confess?"
The bodies of the dozen or so deacons present from the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninety-eighth Houses swayed slightly. A slightly plump middle-aged man from the Fifth House pursed his lips, walked out of the crowd with steady steps, and bowed to the nine elders: "Nine ancestors, please be wise. With your wisdom and intelligence, you actually couldn't find any flaws in us... It shows that we are indeed innocent, without any..."
Linghu Tian raised his right hand, waved it gently, and shook his head.
The plump man shut his mouth.
Linghu Tian sighed, "Using our wisdom and intelligence to shut us up? It would be fine if it were normal. Hey, hey, we are all our descendants. If you are a little greedy, as long as it does not affect the foundation of the family, you have some little thoughts, then you have some little thoughts, right?"
"For old folks like us, your embezzlement of public funds is just like when you were little and still had a runny nose, and your brothers and sisters were fighting over fruit. It was nothing more than you eating one more bite and he eating one less bite... Your means of embezzlement were sophisticated enough, and that was your ability. You deserved to eat one more bite."
"They are all our descendants, so we should keep the wealth within our family. If you have the ability to take more from other brothers and sisters, that's your ability... As long as it doesn't hurt our family's foundation, we'll turn a blind eye. After all, these resources are ultimately used for our descendants, right?"
"But you shouldn't have used these resources... for unknown reasons, and used them for some inexplicable and horrific things."
"Linghu Ku... Linghu Xiong... and all of you." Linghu Tian drooped his eyelids and whispered, "Do you think you are capable? Have you grown up? Have you grown wings? Can you fly into the sky and hide underground? The Linghu family is so big, can't accommodate you? The master over there in Taiyutian can't protect you?"
"You feel wild and want to fly?"
Linghu Tian shook his head and sighed: "I won't waste my time talking to you. As the old saying goes, a good son is born under the stick... We haven't used the stick enough in recent years!"
Another group of Fox Shadow Secret Guards rushed forward and quickly tied up all the men from the three houses.
Next, several powerful clan members who were in charge of clan affairs were ordered to be executed by the nine elders. They were tied up and sent to a secret prison.
Seeing their clansmen being sent away one after another, the deacons of each family who were still left in the hall, who only received a share of money and food from the public treasury and had no real power and could not make any extra money, all had eyes shining brightly!
My goodness, all the clan members of these families have problems. For a family as big as Linghu, there must be someone to take charge, right?
Well, the ones who are in charge are definitely the nine elders.
But under the nine elders, there must be someone responsible for the operation and management of the family affairs, right? The Linghu clan is so large, its territory is vast, and in terms of territory area alone, it is almost equivalent to the size of the fiefdoms of more than 20 powerful kings in heaven.
In such a vast territory, the Linghu clan controls most of the food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, defecating and various industries.
These industries all need someone to take care of them!
Everyone who stayed in the hall looked at the nine elders with sharp eyes, expecting them to say the words they expected.
However, they were soon disappointed.
Linghu Tian put his hands behind his back, walked slowly in front of Lu Yi, and smiled bitterly: "The youngsters in our clan are acting recklessly, which makes Master Fahai laugh. Alas, these trouble-making kids, I don't know what kind of lawless and shameful things they have done... Master, can you cover up for our family?"
Lu Yi looked at Linghu Tian in surprise.
Cover up for you guys?
Well, Lu Yi doesn’t think there is anything that needs to be covered up about what happened in the Linghu clan today.
Isn’t it just embezzling some public funds?
It's just private savings... private savings... Lu Yi's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Linghu Tian in astonishment - old man, do you know what you are talking about? Uh, don't tell me, you suspect that your descendants want to rebel, right? Uh, or rebel against those emperors? Haha, they are not stupid enough to do that, right?
However, when he saw Linghu Tian's handsome old face, which was leisurely, graceful, and calm, Lu Yi smiled.
Uh, you've punished so many of your people, but you don't even show any anger or worry? You didn't show any negative emotions at all... Old fox, you're too smart, and you gave yourself away... Tsk tsk!
"Old sir, do you really not know what your own disciple has been doing over the years?" Lu Yu asked Linghu Tian curiously.
Linghu Tian coughed lightly, and his face turned slightly red.
Lu Yu widened his eyes in surprise once again, looking at the other eight elders who were also well-maintained and looked like young men in their twenties, but with white hair and beards to indicate their age - these nine old guys, even the degree of blushing was exactly the same, so just right, a light blush!
"Haha!" Lu Yi knew it well.
These nine old fellows probably know everything about the children of each branch secretly trying to benefit their respective branches.
But in the past... As the elders of the three clans, the members of each branch of the clan were all their direct descendants... When the members of each branch of the clan benefited their own family, in the eyes of the nine old guys, it was a sign of "their children and grandchildren are smart and capable"...
Although they are all descendants of the same family, there are also differences in closeness and distance .
Even if they are both biological sons, there is a difference between being born by the first wife and being born by the concubine!
Therefore, the nine old guys were probably aware of the past misdeeds of the clansmen, but they just didn't bother to care about it. But this time, they had to deal with something, so they had to take action.
"Alas, every family has its own problems... With so many descendants, it is inevitable that some will be unfilial, disloyal, foolish, and greedy." Lu Yi sighed slowly, "But..."
A blue-green glazed pagoda about a foot high flew out of Linghu Tian's sleeve and landed quietly in Lu Yi's hand. The glazed pagoda quietly stuck to Lu Yi's palm, as if it had always been in Lu Yi's hand.
The powerful and familiar Buddhist rhyme is distant and majestic, with the rhythm of indestructible Vajra, infinite vitality, and a pure and bright appearance... This is an ultimate Buddhist treasure, and it is inseparable from the Nalanda Ancient Temple.
The Taimi Emperor's Axe vibrated slightly in Lu Yi's mind. Could this pagoda actually sense the Taimi Emperor's Axe?
Lu Yi took a deep, deep, deep breath of cool air, then smiled brightly at Linghu Tian. With a spin of his hand, the pagoda transformed into a ray of blue-green Buddha light that injected into Lu Yi's brows and quietly floated in Lu Yi's mind.
The Golden Buddha of the Soul changed his seals, and the secret seals of the ancient Nalanda Temple in the Nalanda Buddha Fruit turned into golden flowers all over the sky, constantly imprinting on the pagoda. A low roar continued to sound, and the pagoda suddenly released a vast, boundless, ancient and pure Buddha light, like water washing the blue sky.
'Oriental Glazed Pillar'!
A profound and clear message flowed into Lu Yi's soul from this 33-story pagoda with an ancient shape.
It is clearly a pagoda-shaped Buddhist treasure, but why is it named "pillar"?
Soon, Lu Yi learned that this was the former Supreme Taichu Heaven Buddhist holy land, the pillar of the 'Eastern Lapis Lazuli Pure Land World', the branch of the ancient Nalanda Temple that was divided into four directions. It was the hub of the great formation of that vast heaven, and the root of the Taoism of that holy Buddhist land!
Countless years ago, the Great Emperor Taichu and his men attacked the Nalanda Ancient Temple and wiped out the Supreme Taichu Heaven Buddhism. The four lower courtyards of the Nalanda Ancient Temple, namely the Four Great Buddha Heavens, also collapsed, and countless Buddhists were slaughtered. This (root) Eastern Colored Glaze Pillar is a magical object with spirits, which dims its light and hides all kinds of magical changes. It fell into the hands of an old ancestor of the Linghu clan and has been passed down in the Linghu clan until now.
The method practiced by the Linghu clan focused on 'illusion', 'spirituality', 'change' and 'ghostliness', which were incompatible with and completely opposite to this pagoda. Therefore, for countless years, the Linghu clan knew that this pagoda was a top-level treasure, but no one in the clan could use it.
Linghu Tian simply took it out and gave it to Lu Yi as a bribe.
Naturally, Lu Yi was happy to accept it.
He had a serious face, but he was actually smiling from ear to ear.
"No problem, absolutely no problem. I have always been kind to others and never gossip about others behind their backs!" Lu Yi looked solemn, clasped his hands together, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that..."
