Chapter 948: Cutting off the Tail (1)
A public treasury of the Linghu clan was opened.
Mountains of cultivation resources, such as imperial coins, elixirs, and other various strange and weird things that can replenish qi and blood, including the essence and blood of various spiritual beasts and rare birds, etc., were sent into the several large warships accompanying Lu Yi like water.
The four tribes of Yaksha, Rakshasa, Asura, and Xiaoyao that Lu Yi brought out from the Eight Divisions of Heaven were squatting obediently in these large ships whose internal spaces had been blessed with forbidden spells and had become incredibly vast. After these resources were delivered, these chaotic innate creatures with strong and terrifying roots, who were born with a large number of acupoints in their bodies and just needed to be filled with resources, immediately welcomed a feast of gluttony.
After entering the Supreme Primordial Heaven, although they were also affected by the laws of heaven and earth, a ray of innate Taoism brought by the Eight Divisions of Heaven within the four major clans had not yet dissipated.
As long as they consume enough food, their cultivation can be rapidly improved. Their efficiency is much stronger than that of the intelligent races in the Supreme Primordial Heaven, whose every cell has been permeated and locked by the laws of heaven and earth and the invisible rules.
The Linghu clan's "bottomless" family heritage was rapidly transformed into the cultivation of these four major clans.
Especially those most powerful Asura giants, their talents are amazing. After taking enough food, in a very short period of time, their cultivation is directly improved to the level comparable to the native creatures of the Supreme Primordial Heaven who have opened up millions of acupoints... They have forcibly improved their own strength to the level of Heavenly Monarch!
The Asura clan is composed entirely of Celestial Monarchs, among whom there are dozens of the most terrifyingly gifted 'Eight Chosen Sons of Heaven', whose cultivation has directly broken through to the Great Celestial Monarch level.
All members of the Yaksha and Rakshasa tribes have reached the level of Half-Step Star Lord or above, and nearly 30% of the powerful individuals have broken through to the formal Star Lord realm, among which less than half have reached the level of Half-Step Heavenly Lord or even Heavenly Lord.
As for the little people with the worst talents, they were all overjoyed and raised their cultivation to the level of Half-Step Heavenly General or above. Nearly half of them broke through the Heavenly General realm, and a few tribal leaders even stepped directly into the Star Lord level.
What made the four major ethnic groups even happier was that in the Linghu family's warehouse, there were a large number of armors, swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and even various large-scale war machines, etc. These sophisticated military equipment were truly something they had never seen or heard of before.
When they put on these sophisticated weapons that could be enlarged and shrunk and adapt to their own physical changes, these clansmen that Lu Yi brought from the Eight Divisions of Heaven immediately became an elite army whose individual strength was even stronger than Linghu's Fox Shadow Secret Guards!
Their only shortcoming is that they don't know how to coordinate military formations and don't understand the changes of magical powers.
However, Ah Hu and others were in the large ship, cooperating with Buddhist initiations to conduct exercises on these ethnic groups who were born stubborn, extremely obedient and well-behaved because of their low IQ, and at the same time possessed terrible talents in war.
Lu Yu also threw a time restriction into these large ships. With Lu Yu's current cultivation, the speed of time in the large ships reached about five times that of the outside world. I believe that it won't take much time for these four major ethnic groups to truly transform into an amazing elite force.
Outside the Qingsang Cave, Lu Yi clasped his hands together and stood quietly at the entrance of the Qingsang Cave, which was an exquisite wooden building that almost blended into the surrounding mountains and rivers, as if it was formed by nature.
Several men and women dressed in blue shirts, ranging in age from boys of five or six to young men of seventeen or eighteen, were sitting under the shade of trees outside the building, drinking tea, playing chess, chatting, and looking Lu Yi up and down.
The auras of these men and women were erratic. With Lu Yi's current cultivation level, he was simply unable to detect their auras... Unless he stared at them closely with his naked eyes, once he closed his eyes, they gave Lu Yi the feeling that the place was empty, without a single ghost. How could there be anyone?
This was the elder of the Linghu clan who had previously "retired and enjoyed honorable living".
It is unknown how much higher their seniority is than the nine elders who are currently in charge of Qingsang Cave.
Because they were retired, they didn't need to grow white hair and beards to show their age, seniority and qualifications... As their cultivation became more sophisticated, these guys gradually let themselves go. Not only did they make themselves look like children and teenagers, but there were even two boys who were clearly 13 or 14 years old, but they put on aqua green palace skirts to pretend to be sisters!
Lu Yi kept muttering to himself... this Linghu family is really full of evildoers.
There are actually guys who like women’s clothing?
However, when he focused his mind and looked inward, he saw the nearly one thousand Buddhist treasures left over from the ancient Nalanda Temple, which were slowly rotating above his mind and emitting brilliant light, crystal light, golden light, forbidden light, and even pure light and brocade light. Lu Yi gritted his teeth and endured it!
The nine current elders of the Linghu clan are very generous.
Lu Yi had gone to their family's secret vault before and every time he saw a Buddhist treasure, he would put his hands together and say, "This treasure is destined to be with me." Then, the Buddhist treasure became his!
Linghu Shi was very straightforward and allowed Lu Yi to take away all the Buddhist treasures in his secret vault!
So generous, so magnanimous... Lu Yi sighed quietly in his heart. He was a shy person, and people had already taken the initiative to give him such a big benefit. Even if these Buddhist treasures were like "chicken ribs" to the Linghu family, this favor was heavy enough and must be remembered.
Therefore, when Lu Yi was doing things, he couldn't help but be a little too concerned and a little too hard.
Many of the Linghu clan members in the secret prison were beaten half to death, and many were almost beaten to death...but the confessions were obtained. Lu Yi ran to Qingsang Cave on purpose to deliver the confessions to Linghu Tianjiu.
Ding, ding, ding!
The clear sound of jade chimes rang out, and the door of the exquisite wooden building in front of him opened. Linghu Tian walked over with his hands behind his back and frowned. He took the jade tablet that Lu Yi handed over, which recorded all the existing confessions. At his fingertips, pieces of rosy light appeared, and all kinds of words, sounds, and pictures poured out. In an instant, they turned into strands of extremely fine auspicious light and floated into Linghu Tian's eye between his eyebrows.
Linghu Tian looked at Lu Yi in astonishment.
Lu Yu clasped his hands together and gave Linghu Tian a bitter smile: "So, I didn't go to find the acting head of the family, but came directly to the old masters. If this matter is to be investigated thoroughly, the manpower and material resources required are probably a bit scary... But if we don't investigate... Hehe, I'm afraid that Linghu Clan will..."
Linghu Tian tightly grasped the jade tablet and said in a hoarse voice: "This group of unworthy people, are they stupid? Our Linghu family is already a flourishing and prosperous clan, what else do they want? Aren't they satisfied? They..."
When it comes to the Linghu family’s level, there is really no further progress to be made in the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
If you want to go further, it will be necessary for a great emperor to emerge from the family!
But this emperor...
Want to become an emperor!
Haha, now on the surface of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, the three emperors Taichu, Taimi and Taiyi are in control of the heaven and earth. Whether there are three, five, seven or eight more hidden in other secret places, only those at the level of the emperors know.
The three emperors in the open had a rather ambiguous attitude towards whether a new emperor would emerge, and they did not explicitly prohibit it. But it was obvious that once a new emperor emerged, he would have to share the meat with the three emperors or some emperors hiding behind the scenes!
The risks are obvious.
The Linghu clan members involved in these matters revealed information in their confessions that was actually related to 'promotion to the great emperor'!
Linghu Tian didn't know what to say for a moment.
He really wanted to curse to the sky.
However, those clan members who committed crimes in the secret prison were all our descendants, so it seemed a bit inappropriate to curse them...
So, Linghu held the jade tablet and walked towards a few old seniors who were playing freely under the shade of a tree. He handed the jade tablet to a little girl who was sitting cross-legged on a stone bench and eating pomegranate seeds with a smile. She looked only five or six years old, with red lips and white teeth and was extremely cute.
The little girl threw a handful of pomegranate seeds on Linghu Tian's face and said lazily, "Don't look for us... We have already retired, so we can just spend our days leisurely, eating and drinking all day... The affairs of the clan are agreed to be the responsibility of you nine little brats, so it's your business."
"Just do it. No matter who that person is, the worst that can happen is a fight."
The little girl squinted at Linghu Tian and said with a smile, "You know how many immortals there are in our family. Unless we run into the emperor head-on, who would our Linghu family be afraid of?"
Linghu Tian looked at the little girl seriously: "Grandma, are you serious?"
The little girl was laughing so happily, her eyes moving around and becoming extremely smart... Uh, looking at her sly smile and her overly smart eyes, why did Lu Yi feel that this little girl was a little unreliable?
"Seriously, seriously. Go ahead and do it." The little girl said slowly, "The Linghu family is not afraid of trouble, but they can't cause trouble for their own family... Those children who committed the crime, ugh, they have eaten too much lard and have lost their minds."
Waving her hands, the little girl put her head in front of Linghu Tian and said, "Hurry up and braid a beautiful pigtail for me. Hurry up!"
"Hey, hey!"
Linghu Tian respectfully braided the little girl's hair into a pigtail, and tied a beautiful Ruyi knot on the pigtail with a red hairband, and hung three brand new imperial coins that jingled on it.
The little girl shook her head with a smile, and the three imperial coins collided, making a crisp and pleasant sound.
"Go ahead, don't be too harsh on those little brats who have committed crimes. Punish them if they deserve it, but after all, they are our descendants, and they haven't done anything too harmful to the world or against our ancestors, so punish them a little more severely, but don't go too far."
Linghu Tian nodded slightly, then shook his hand and threw a sky-blue, pure and transparent nine-tailed fox token, as clear and flawless as flowing water, to Lu Yi: "My family's Fox Shadow Secret Guards will act upon my orders. Elder Fahai, it is not appropriate for my family to use this matter, so I will have to trouble you."
Lu Yi looked at Linghu Tian in shock: "Are you sure? Let it go? Don't care?"
Linghu Tian touched his nose in embarrassment and laughed dryly: "We still have to take care of it. Uh..."
Linghu Tian looked at the group of old antiques standing aside and watching the fun. He hesitated for a moment and was about to speak when the group of old antiques seemed to be on fire. They let out a strange cry and turned into shadows all over the sky, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
Lu Yu was so frightened. These guys ran too fast that he couldn't react at all, let alone find where they were running to.
Linghu Tian helplessly spread his hands: "Forget it, I will take my two brothers with me, alert a few elders who are in seclusion, and follow the elders of the Fahai clan..."
Only then did Lu Yi feel relieved.
You, Linghu Tian, were too generous and magnanimous before, so Lu Yi took those Buddhist treasures. But you threw the token for mobilizing the entire Linghu clan's Fox Shadow Secret Guard so confidently, allowing Lu Yi to allocate them at will.
If you, Linghu Tian, were not by his side, Lu Yi would have suspected that you, old man, had dug a hole for yourself.
With Linghu Tian in charge, the Linghu family's huge and terrifying family foundation quietly began to operate. Some secret forces that even the previous head of the family, Linghu Ku, and the imprisoned stewards and elders of each branch were unaware of, such as a private fleet hidden somewhere, a base of assassins hidden somewhere, secret agents spread all over the place, and even the star gates secretly built by the Linghu family in their own territory and even in the territories of their neighbors, etc.
Some star gates are single-use items.
It took countless efforts and resources to build it, and huge amounts of resources are invested every year to carefully maintain it, all for the sake of a certain use, which would bring huge returns to the family, or bring the most terrible pain to the family's enemies!
As many as twelve of these extremely precious and secret star gate passages were used in succession.
After one of the star gate channels was activated, a small, hundred-foot-long warship that looked ordinary and had no obvious features on the outside quietly arrived at Linghu Yuncheng.
This warship was directly taken in as Linghu family's private flagship. The Heavenly Book Laojun's clone on the warship, as well as a large number of elite Heavenly Court members from Taichu Yuanting that he brought with him, all changed into the robes and armor of Linghu family's Fox Shadow Secret Guards.
Especially this incarnation of Tianshu Laojun, who performed a transformation spell, shed his white hair and beard, and his three-foot-tall body grew to about nine feet tall, looking like a handsome, elegant and wealthy young man.
Subsequently, a large group of Linghu clan’s private warships quietly set out, following the opened star gate secret passage and heading towards the location mentioned in the confession.
These star gates of the Linghu clan were all located in extremely remote and secret places, almost in remote corners of the countryside where "there are few people in the world". Inevitably, some places have too harsh natural environments to be able to set up star gates. Therefore, there are inevitably long stretches of difficult and dangerous roads between star gates, which require the fleet to cross by itself.
In the void, various strange energy tides surged. The flagship that Lu Yi and others were riding on had already activated all kinds of defensive formations and defensive prohibitions at full power, but it was still slightly shaken by the impact.
Sitting cross-legged on the top of the ship, in an exquisitely decorated tea room, Lu Yi and the three elders Linghu Tian, Linghu Ri, and Linghu Jiang, as well as the incarnation of Tianshu Laojun, sat around a small table, quietly sipping tea.
The tea leaves came from Taiyu Heaven. It was said to be an ancient species cultivated by Emperor Taiyu himself. There was only one in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, and it was extremely valuable. Except for the Linghu family and the Nangong family, the Taiyu Emperor's trusted celestial clans, who could get a few leaves from the gaps between Emperor Taiyu's fingers as heirlooms, even if Emperor Taichu and Emperor Taimi wanted to taste this tea, they had to shamelessly visit the door in person and ask for this tea by name, depending on Emperor Taiyu's mood, to get a cup or two.
I won’t even mention the taste of the tea.
The word 'taste' cannot describe its taste.
When the tea enters the stomach, it turns into a wisp of light and strange fragrance, which slowly wanders throughout the body. Then all the acupoints in the body, whether already opened or not, all light up with a strange light. Wisps of warm breath swirl around in the acupoints, and the whole body becomes bright. Wisps of acquired impurities continuously evaporate from the body. The qualifications of this physical body, and even indicators in all aspects, are improved a lot so quickly.
As for the improvement of the physical body, it would be fine. Lu Yi calculated that based on his current cultivation level, the power of each acupoint would be increased by 1% on average!
But please note - this is a 1% improvement in claws and scales that was made out of thin air, based on the strict shackles and laws of heaven and earth established by the Heavenly Court!
This tea has the magical effect of breaking the shackles of heaven and earth!
No wonder even when Emperor Taiyu was in a very good mood, he would only reward three or five pieces each time to his trusted powerful families like the Linghu and Nangong families!
Emperor Taiyu is also the creator of the strict heavenly rules and regulations of the Supreme Taichu Heaven. He can't use the treasure in his hand to break the heavenly rules and regulations he created, right?
It is obvious how rare this kind of tea is!
Lu Yi drank tea happily and said quietly: "Emperor Taiyu actually has such a strange species in his hands. It can be seen that... other emperors may be able to..."
It can be seen that the Lord of Heavenly Book is in a very good mood.
Or maybe, this clone of his was a young man, so inevitably his mentality became younger. He smiled and shook his head and said, "Rules are just used to restrain the people below... As for the people who make the rules... hehe, hehe!"
Tianshu Laojun patted his mouth lightly and chuckled, "You are so talkative, really!"
Deep in Lu Yi's eyes, a cold light flickered.
That is to say, now in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, everyone has been completely imprisoned and restricted - one acupoint can only have the power of nine scales and nine claws... But the three emperors Taichu, Taimi and Taiyi, as well as those emperors who may exist and are hidden behind the scenes, they don't abide by the rules?
If they open up the same acupoint, could they have the power of a hundred scales and a hundred claws?
even……
Thousand scales and thousands of claws?
Even more...
Ten thousand scales and ten thousand claws?
It’s really weird... In this case, unless one can break the constraints and shackles of the entire heaven and earth, who can challenge these emperors?
"Rules are just used to restrain those below you"!
What Laojun Tianshu said hits the nail on the head.
Lu Yi sighed, "Forget it. I just want a peaceful and stable life. I don't ask for too much. It's enough for me to have a place to settle down, to be able to live a carefree life with my brothers and relatives. As for the rest, hey, people's ambitions should not be too big, right?"
The Heavenly Book Lord smiled at Lu Yi and said, "Such a mindset is excellent. Fahai, if you can have such a mindset, you will definitely live a good life whether you are in the Heavenly Palace, Taimi Heaven or Taiyi Heaven!"
Lu Wu smiled and nodded, raised the teacup in his hand towards the Heavenly Book Lord, drank it all in one gulp, then picked up the small teapot on the small table and filled his own cup with it... Lu Wu even performed a small forbidden spell, and the tea in the cup was one inch and three centimeters higher than the rim of the cup...
Drinking tea happily, Lu Yi looked at Linghu Tian and the other two and said, "Three elders, do you seem to have something on your mind?"
Linghu Tian put down the teacup in his hand and sighed: "Buddhists are generally very wise, Elder Fahai, can you guess?"
Lu Yi waved his hand and said lazily: "I am not a proper monk. I am not a proper monk. I am still looking forward to getting married and having children, and having a lot of babies to play with... So, wisdom and enlightenment may be something that other real Buddhist masters have, but I, a fake monk, obviously am not."
"Stop talking nonsense and just tell me straight. Is there something wrong?"
Linghu Tian pursed his lips and sighed: "Grandma and the others ran too fast."
"When something like this happens in the clan, it's really abnormal for Grandma Yitai and the others not to roll up their sleeves and get involved happily." Linghu Tian said dimly: "In the confession, not even a powerful elder was implicated, let alone a clan elder, or a retired clan elder..."
"But so many members of the clan secretly colluded with outsiders and embezzled such a large share of public property... and they were able to hide it from the nine of us old guys... Haha! If I say that it was a little kid at the level of the deacon of each room who did it, do you believe it?"
Lu Yi shook his head, he didn't believe it.
He read the confessions of the imprisoned Linghu clan members from beginning to end .
It is very detailed, with absolutely no concealment, but precisely because there is absolutely no concealment, it is terrifying to think about it carefully... Because some key links are missing in the confession, and the lack of these key links makes people feel that there must be a big fish hidden behind it!
Linghu Tian continued, "Things like becoming an emperor, do those little kids have the qualifications to get involved? Do they have the qualifications? It's not that I look down on my own kids, it's just... with their cultivation level, they wouldn't even be able to smell a fart if they got involved in such a big event!"
"To be qualified to get involved in this kind of business, at least one of those old monsters whose cultivation is close to the threshold of the Great Emperor, right?"
Linghu Tian sighed, "That old monster, to be honest, in my Linghu clan, there is... in the two families under Taiyutian that are as famous as the Linghu clan, there is also... that is the clan's most precious treasure, the real backbone... they... if it was them... tsk tsk!"
Linghu Tian shuddered with fear: "A bunch of old guys, all of them are so smart, hey, they are retired and don't care about anything anymore? Hey, hey, they must have smelled the smell a long time ago, right?"
Linghu Ri added fiercely, "Perhaps one of those old guys outside Qingsang Cave was involved in this matter."
Linghu Jiang said calmly: "So, Linghu Yuncheng is still sealed to cut off the internal and external contacts, so as to avoid leaking the news..."
Lu Yi said nothing and continued to drink his tea happily.
He has a very accurate positioning of himself.
He is just a pure tool... With his identity, his qualifications, his cultivation, his strength, his background and so on... He is very lucky to be a safe and happy tool in such a vortex.
There is a lot of money to be made and the risk is not high. Is there anything better than this?
As for what plans Linghu Tian and the others have, what worries they have... As for what plans and concerns Old Lord Tianshu has... These things are none of Lu Yi's business.
Tianshu Laojun sighed: "It's about the same. The situation in the Heavenly Palace is also..."
Just as Tianshu Laojun was about to speak, Lu Yi stood up as if his butt was on fire, took away the teapot, teacups and pot, turned around and left the tea room: "Everyone, please chat slowly. I'll go to the cabin to check... Those guys just came from the chaotic wilderness, and they are still wild. Don't make any trouble on the ship."
Lu Yi ran very fast.
Tianshu Laojun rolled his eyes.
Linghu Tian smiled and said, "He is indeed a wise monk... Such a monk is a good monk and a monk who lives a long life."
Linghu Ri looked at Tianshu Laojun with interest: "However, monks are afraid of trouble, but we are not. Hey, is there any trouble in your Heavenly Palace? I heard that the imperial treasures of Emperor Taichu in your Tianshu Secret Pavilion were secretly taken out and used to restrain you, Laojun... Hehe!"
"There aren't many people with such great means in the Heavenly Court, right? If we investigate carefully, we will find out everything!"
Linghu Tian, Linghu Ri and Linghu Jiang looked at Tianshu Laojun with great gloating.
The face of the Heavenly Book Master drooped, and he sighed: "The scary thing is that the thread has been cut off. We have arrested countless minions, but what can those people know? We have uncovered countless cases of corruption and abuse of power, but none of them have anything to do with the real big things."
"However, you are right. There are only a few people in the vast Heavenly Court who have the ability to reach out to the Tianshu Secret Pavilion."
Tianshu Laojun sighed: "The problem is, those people..."
Tianshu Laojun drank the tea in his cup in one gulp with a sad face, and picked up the teacup that Linghu Tian had put down without any hesitation, and drank it all up with a 'slurp' sound: "Your Majesty, this time it will be difficult! The palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh!"
Linghu Tian and the other two elders were terrified and their faces twitched when they heard this.
'The palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh', what does this phrase describe?
hehe!
There’s a lot of fun in heaven!
It all depends on how Taichu the Great Emperor, who established the strict heavenly rules, governed the vast heaven, and used violence to uphold those strict heavenly rules, would deal with this matter of right and wrong!
The Lord of the Heavenly Book suddenly laughed, "Don't talk about the ups and downs in my Heavenly Palace. You guys are not at peace here either, are you? In the territory of Taiyu Heaven, there are only a few people who dare to shout the slogan of 'promote to the emperor'... who can bewitch your Linghu clan to rush forward like moths to a flame... hey, hey!"
Tianshu Laojun said softly: "You, the Linghu clan, are also in a dilemma, right?"
Pointing his finger at the sky, Tianshu Laojun also smiled with gloating: "That person's temper is a hundred times worse than the one I served... You guys, you guys!"
Linghu Tian and the other two's faces twitched and they sighed in unison.
The huge fleet was moving at full speed in the void. Wherever it passed, there were desolate and uninhabited places, so there was no trouble along the way.
They continued on this path, using the star gate passage secretly arranged by the Linghu family. It took them a full year and a half to finally arrive at an extremely chaotic place.
