Volume 1: Rebellion in Chang'an Chapter 18: Tantai Qingrun
There was a horizontal table in the room, and on top of it was an incense burner, with sandalwood rising from it.
There was a woman sitting cross-legged behind the desk, and the middle-aged man was standing quietly behind the woman, very respectfully.
Lu Qingshan took a deep breath of the light sandalwood scent in the air, and suddenly a cool feeling rushed into his mind.
I felt refreshed, and some distracting thoughts in my mind gradually faded away.
This is [Calming Incense]!
An excellent treasure to assist in cultivation, it can allow cultivators to enter the state of cultivation faster while improving their efficiency.
The market price of a most common calming incense is one third-grade spirit stone. People who use calming incense to assist in cultivation are either rich or noble.
However, considering the status of the woman in front of him, it is quite normal for her to use calming incense to assist her practice.
The owner of the county city branch of Zhishou Tower is a Jindan cultivator .
The first four stages of a cultivator are Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Elixir, and Nascent Soul. Every time you advance to a new stage, your strength will experience a qualitative leap.
Jindan cultivators are considered to be the highest level of combat power in Yuanshan City.
The owner of Yuanshan Tower is a woman who looks to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old.
He was dressed in white, as white as snow, with sharp yet delicate features, very pleasing to the eye.
However, since he is a Jindan cultivator, his age cannot be simply judged from his appearance.
Maybe it’s someone of your great-grandmother’s generation.
Lu Qingshan pondered in his heart.
Because if he remembered correctly, the age of this body of his was only fifteen, a real young monk.
The woman looked Lu Qingshan up and down, her face calm as water, and her voice indifferent: "Where did you hear the name of the underworld?"
Lu Qingshan replied calmly: "It was a coincidence."
"Coincidence?" The woman's tone rose slightly.
"My name is Lu Qingshan, from the Lu family of Zhenjiang Prefecture, Qingzhou." Lu Qingshan did not directly answer the woman's question, but said again: "I wonder if you can know the name of the host."
The Lu family is one of the thirty-six major cultivation families in Zhenjiang Prefecture.
Although this little power would not be taken seriously by Zhishoulou, Lu Qingshan still didn't mind giving himself a background.
"Tan Tai Qing Run." The woman frowned but still gave her name decisively without any pretense or hesitation.
"Master Tantai." Lu Qingshan nodded and said, "The Underworld is a demon organization that has been lurking among the human race. Its sphere of influence covers the seven regions and is extremely vast. At the beginning, the Underworld was formed by some demons with camouflage and lurking abilities who sneaked into the seven regions of the human race and used inducements or coercion to win over a large number of cultivators. Under the nourishment of interests and desires, the power of the Underworld has become increasingly powerful. They take human lives lightly and commit all kinds of evil. In the war 20,000 years ago, although Xia Daozu led the human cultivators to repel the demons and severely damaged the power of the Underworld, and then established the Great Xia Royal Family to protect the human race, the Underworld has never disappeared, but has stubbornly continued. The Underworld has quietly lurked redeveloped its power, like a cancer, growing wantonly in the territory of the human race."
Lu Qingshan calmly explained his understanding of the underworld.
The world of "Nine Heavens" is very big.
The reason why "Nine Heavens" is called Nine Heavens is because there are nine worlds in this world.
But even before the time travel, Lu Qingshan only knew the names of two of the worlds.
One is the world where the player is born, and it is also the current world controlled by the human race, the sky!
The other is the world where the demons live, the abyss!
The Abyss and the Sky are two adjacent worlds. In order to compete for resources and strengthen their own race, the demons of the Abyss have always attempted to capture the Sky and turn humans into vassals and slaves of the demons.
Twenty thousand years ago, during the full-scale invasion holy war launched by the demons , the human cultivation world, which was based on a sect system and divided between good and evil, had been fighting each other. They were defeated by the demons and all the lives in the seven realms of the sky were devastated.
When the sky was about to be lost and the human race was about to be enslaved by the demons, Daozu Xia overcame nine heavenly tribulations, achieved the status of Daozu, and with his power turned the tide, saved the country from collapse, and defeated the demons.
After driving the demons back into the abyss and rebuilding the human race, Xia Daozu learned his lesson and, on the basis of preserving the independence of the sect, established the Great Xia Royal Family to unify and protect the human race.
This is also the reason why there are so-called royal families in the world of immortals and heroes.
There is no other reason, the bloodline of the Taoist ancestor is the emperor, and no one can be disrespected!
After Xia Daozu defeated the demons, he built a large human city, Tianhe City, at the border of the sky and the abyss.
Using Tianhe City as the front-line battlefield base, the human race has blocked the demons outside the sky. Coupled with the deterrent power of Daozu, the human race has been able to recuperate and rest in the past 20,000 years, and has gradually become stronger.
However, the underworld, as a force of the demon clan, is lurking in the human territory, like a bomb that may explode at any time.
Therefore, eliminating the forces of the underworld has always been a very unified goal of all major forces of the human race.
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Tan Tai Qing Run raised his eyebrows slightly: "That's quite true, but these are not things that a cultivator of the second level of Qi Refining like you can know, not to mention that you can find our Zhi Shou Tower."
Tan Tai Qingrun's eyes turned cold.
In an instant, a heavy pressure descended upon Lu Qingshan.
[Release your divine thoughts]!
The pressure released by the Jindan cultivator's divine consciousness alone was enough to make Lu Qingshan, who was at the second level of Qi Refining, unable to move.
Lu Qingshan pulled the corner of his mouth with difficulty: "The existence of Zhishou Tower is to fight against the underworld. Are you sure... you don't want to listen to what I have to say?"
"Owner." The middle-aged male cultivator who had been standing aside without saying a word suddenly spoke up and advised, "Why not listen to what he has to say?"
Tantai Qingrun frowned his beautiful eyebrows, thought for a moment, and finally nodded and said, "Go on."
Lu Qingshan felt his whole body relax.
The suffocating pressure has dissipated.
One plays the bad guy, the other plays the good guy. It's a very classic old routine, but it has become a bit cliché.
Lu Qingshan chuckled and suddenly said, "The demon cultivator is True Man Xueshi. His current location is in Yuanshan City. His strength is at the foundation building stage. He looks like a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. He is accompanied by a female disciple at the fourth level of Qi Refining."
Tan Tai Qingrun was silent for a moment.
"What do you mean?"
"I'll give you a small gift first, and then we'll talk about what's next."
"The matters of the underworld are of great importance. It is better to believe it than not to believe it." The middle-aged male cultivator said to Tan Tai Qingrun.
A gleam of light flashed in Tan Tai's clear and moist eyes, and he nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble Uncle Rong to go there."
The middle-aged male cultivator looked at Lu Qingshan meaningfully, then turned and left the room.
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After the middle-aged male cultivator left, only Lu Qingshan and Tan Tai Qingrun were left in the room.
For a moment, the atmosphere seemed a little weird.
"Master Tantai is a swordsman, right?"
