Volume 3 Nine Pattern Golden Pill Chapter 3 Demon Palace
Tan Tai Qingrun's statement is undoubtedly the most reasonable explanation.
The Zhenjiang underworld mobilized most of the Qingzhou underworld's forces to plan a corpse-puppet rebellion, but they still had to swallow their anger and endure silently for a hundred years.
Lingxu Tower, which has the best location and time, has suffered repeated setbacks in the hundred-year battle with the underworld. If there were no other forces behind the scenes to lend a helping hand, wouldn't defending the tower be a joke?
"Have you investigated the movements of Lingxu Prefecture's forces in recent years?" Lu Qingshan asked.
"Of course, I have been doing this for most of the past six months." Tan Tai Qing Run nodded, pointing to the dazzling array of jade slips on the table and said, "These jade slips record the major and minor events that have occurred in the past hundred years in the sects and families that rank among the top in Lingxu Prefecture."
"Didn't you find the problem?" Lu Qingshan asked.
Tan Tai Qing Run shook his head. "Among these intelligence reports, I have not found any information with loopholes yet."
"So..." Lu Qingshan seemed to be thinking about something. He walked to the desk and roughly flipped through the jade slips.
Tan Tai Qingrun stood quietly aside, silently watching Lu Qingshan scan one jade slip after another very quickly, and fell into deep thought from time to time.
After a long time.
Lu Qingshan has already gone through all this complicated information.
For a monk, it is not difficult to remember this information, but the difficult part is how to filter out the key information from this vast amount of information.
Swish! Swish!
However, Lu Qingshan already showed a confident look, and with a sweep of his spiritual power, two jade slips appeared in front of Tan Tai Qingrun.
"Take another look at the information recorded in these two jade slips." Lu Qingshan said.
Tan Tai Qingrun raised her eyebrows, finding it hard to believe that Lu Qingshan could find the problem that she had spent half a year without finding in just half a day.
She took the two jade slips and probed into them with her spiritual sense.
"In the 19,945th year of Chang'an, the second elder of the Poison Butterfly Sect, True Man Yuedie, entered the Monster Spirit Mountains in search of medicine and has since disappeared."
"In the 19,947th year of Chang'an, the young master of Shuiyue Castle entered the Monster Spirit Mountains and died there."
“…”
The first jade slip recorded a long list of cultivators from various forces in Lingxu Prefecture who had died in the Yaoling Mountains over the years.
The second jade slip contained a very brief message.
"In the 19,975th year of Chang'an, the Demon Spirit Palace announced that it would block the Demon Spirit Mountains for 50 years."
Tan Tai Qingrun raised his head and looked at Lu Qingshan with a puzzled look.
The Yaoling Mountains are a vast primitive mountain range, home to countless demon beasts. When cultivators break into them, they are defeated and killed by ferocious demon beasts. This kind of thing happens all the time in the world of cultivators and there is nothing strange about it.
"Master Dan Tai has been repeatedly investigating the human forces in Lingxu Prefecture during this period, trying to find out which sects may be colluding with the underworld, but to no avail. Master Dan Tai, have you ever thought about this possibility? It's not that you didn't find the problem, but that this problematic force is not within the scope of your investigation at all." Lu Qingshan said softly.
"But, I have already included all the powerful sects and families in Lingxu Prefecture. How much help can those small forces that are not worth mentioning provide to the underworld?" Tan Tai Qingrun retorted subconsciously.
"Are you sure you have taken into account all the major forces in Lingxu Prefecture?" Lu Qingshan asked back.
Tan Tai Qingrun was stunned for a moment, stumped by Lu Qingshan's question.
"You just count all the human forces." Lu Qingshan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a gleam of light flashed in them.
Qin Yitian, who witnessed the whole process, also had some understanding at this time and nodded thoughtfully. However, although she already had the answer in her mind, she did not rashly interrupt the conversation between Lu Qingshan and Tan Tai Qingrun.
"There is also a force that ranks among the top three in comprehensive strength in Lingxu Prefecture, but you have overlooked it." Lu Qingshan said lightly.
"You mean, the Demon Spirit Palace?!" Tan Tai Qingrun was stunned for a moment, then understood what Lu Qingshan meant.
In terms of combat power alone, the Yaoling Palace may even be the best among all the sects in Lingxu Prefecture.
But Tan Tai Qingrun never doubted the Demon Spirit Palace from beginning to end, let alone investigated them.
It wasn’t because Tan Tai Qingrun was confused, but because the Demon Spirit Palace, as its name suggests, was a demon force!
In fact , the demon race is spread all over the human territory, and in terms of strength alone, they are no less powerful than humans.
However, due to the wildness and racial differences of the monsters, most of them generally do not interact with each other. At most, they are like the dragon monster king, leading their own race to occupy the mountain and become the king. Only a very small number of them will form their own forces.
The Demon Spirit Palace is the only demon force in Qingzhou.
The first Palace Master of the Demon Spirit Palace was the Gengjin Tiger King, a fifth-grade peak level demon beast.
It is said that this Gengjin Tiger King has a faint bloodline of the ancient spiritual beast white tiger in his body, so his combat power is extraordinary. He unified the demon clan that had been divided in Qingzhou for tens of thousands of years, and established the Demon Palace. He became the king of Qingzhou and dominated the area, wreaking havoc for a thousand years.
A thousand years later, the Gengjin Tiger King failed to break through to the sixth level and his time was up, so he died.
After the death of King Gengjin Tiger, most of the wild and unruly monsters in the Monster Spirit Palace quickly left the palace because there was no absolutely strong man to crush them. Only a very small number of monsters were willing to stay in the Monster Spirit Palace to continue the palace's inheritance.
After the Demon Spirit Palace was torn apart, its sphere of influence began to shrink rapidly.
From being spread all over Qingzhou in its heyday, it can now only survive in the Yaoling Mountain Range at the junction of Lingxu Prefecture, Yanxi Prefecture and Changyang Prefecture.
But a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. In terms of top combat power alone, no single sect or force in Lingxu Prefecture can defeat the Yaoling Palace.
"If there is really a sect that has colluded with the underworld, it will definitely gain some benefits from the underworld. On the surface, it is impossible for everything to be calm. But in the past hundred years, none of the top human forces in Lingxu Prefecture have shown any signs of sudden rise, or any unusual major actions, which is inconsistent with your thoughts." Lu Qingshan said in a deep voice: "But there is such a Demon Spirit Palace, which has been making constant moves in recent years. First, the death rate of human cultivators entering the Demon Spirit Mountains began to surge, and then the Demon Spirit Palace even directly blocked the Demon Spirit Mountains from the outside world, which has never happened before."
The Yaoling Mountains are extremely large, and even the Yaoling Palace only controls the core area of the Yaoling Mountains.
Normally speaking, except for the core areas, cultivators are not prohibited from entering the Demon Spirit Mountains.
However, in the past hundred years, there have been constant bloody incidents in the Demon Spirit Mountains, and the number of monks who have entered the mountains and died or disappeared has increased dozens of times.
Later, the Demon Spirit Palace went against its usual practice and announced that it would blockade the Demon Spirit Mountains.
Given the vast area of the Demon Spirit Mountains, how could the Demon Spirit Palace be able to completely block it? It seemed that this statement was only intended to intimidate the human cultivators who wanted to enter the Demon Spirit Mountains.
After carefully considering the unusual behavior of the Demon Spirit Palace, Tan Tai Qing Run murmured, "It seems a bit too coincidental."
The Demon Spirit Palace has been making quite a lot of moves in the past hundred years, so Tan Tai Qingrun naturally noticed it.
However, since the Demon Spirit Palace is not a human force, Tan Tai Qingrun subconsciously ignored this problem.
But when he thought about it carefully, Tan Tai Qingrun suddenly realized that he had gotten into a dead end due to his subconscious mind.
Why can't the underworld cooperate with the demons?
