Chapter 375 Shen Geng's memory
The memories Mu Xingqiu got from Shen Geng's mind were fragmented, but they were enough to outline his experience over the years.+
After escaping from Luanjing Mountain, Shen Geng indeed went to the place of demons to hide, but in less than a year he got tired of it. After five years of thinking about the three years of Yangshen Peak, he had enough of a lonely life, so he made an extremely bold decision. He pretended to be a casual cultivator and secretly went to the Chess Mountain on the sea.
Among the nine major Taoist dynasties, only Qishan is mixed with fish and dragons, which is the best place to hide. When the demon clan attacked Pangshan and Luanjing Mountain in large numbers, Qishan was temporarily closed for a while. When the demon clan's offensive weakened and Qishan opened again, it was still the same as before. All races in the world are welcomed, and the only premise is that you can afford expensive fees.
Shen Geng had no money, but he was not idle during his year of hiding in the land of demons. He killed many demon clans and obtained more than a hundred demon pills, several of which were of high level, enough to exchange for enough golden and silver souls, allowing him to stay in Qishan for a while.
Shen Geng became a demon Taoist priest, and was soaked in the place of the demons. The Taoist priest's temperament was very little left. Qishan was very vigilant, but he could not see a Taoist gang mingling among the wandering cultivators. There, Shen Geng was very honest. He covered his eyes with a piece of cloth and only looked at things with magic. He often sat in a dim tavern for a day, listening to the conversations of people around him, never interrupting, nor making friends with anyone.
There was no internal news about Taoism from the casual cultivators, but Ding Wei's name appeared several times. Wangshan was inexplicably closed. He was the only disciple who was left outside. He was favored by Qishan and could live in the inn for free for a long time. The price was to accept a thorough inspection by the higher Taoists. This inspection was somewhat humiliating and was not necessary. No Taoist was willing to accept it.
Shen Geng actually felt a little sympathy for Ding Wei, but more interested. At that time, he had decided to make friends with this person before he had thought about how to use this lonely Taoist priest.
He is a disguised cultivator, and Ding Wei is a Taoist priest of Wangshan Ban Secret Coronation. The two have very different identities and status on the surface, so it is not easy to become friends.
Shen Geng showed great patience in such matters. He often went to the market. Whenever he saw Ding Wei, he would follow him, observe what he asked and bought, and guess the interests and hobbies of the mountain Taoist priests.
Ding Wei was obsessed with talismans. It was not a talisman commonly used by ordinary people, but a powerful Taoist talisman. But it was just a fantasy. The materials used for Taoist talismans were both rare and expensive. He could not afford it. He could only use common materials to do some experiments.
What he wanted to buy most at the market was a ten-foot demon pill, but this thing was very rare. Occasionally, someone sold it, and it would soon be raised to a very high price. Ding Wei, who was living under someone else's roof, could only take a look from a distance.
This is a slightly pedantic Taoist priest of the Forbidden Secretology who spends a lot of time wandering around the market and practicing, but he never thought of leaving Qishan to obtain the Ten-Square Demon Pill himself.
Shen Geng left. The demon pill he brought in the past was about to be sold out, so he returned to the land of the demons. After spending a full half year, he finally found a single ten-foot monster and killed it and took him to take the pill.
This memory is very clear. The ten-foot monster is difficult to deal with. Shen Geng was only the fifth level of swallowing smoke at that time, but he had his own ruthlessness and used sneak attack methods. Even so, he could win by luck. This monster finally escaped from a battle, was covered in injuries, and his strength was greatly reduced.
Shen Geng brought the Ten-Shang Demon Pill back to Qi Mountain. A few days later, he stopped Ding Wei at the market and said bluntly: "You know talismans, I have demon pills, we can do a big business."
Ding Wei was shocked by the bold casual cultivator and did not leave immediately. After Shen Geng took out the ten-foot demon pill and shook it, he was moved.
The big business compiled by Shen Geng is like this: mortals like talismans, not only Longbin can use them, but ordinary people often have to rely on the power of talismans in their lives. A very ordinary talisman can be sold at a good price. Since Ding Wei can write more powerful Taoist talismans, why not make money with this ability? In this way, you can buy more rare materials and write more and better talismans.
Ding Wei felt that this was a ridiculous idea, so he sneered and shook his sleeves and left. Three days later, he took the initiative to climb onto the island where the casual cultivators gathered and asked for detailed plans to the casual cultivators with their eyes covered in details.
This is how the two met.
Shen Geng pretended to be very interested in Taoist talismans, and patiently listened to Ding Wei talk about the way of talismans, which took one or two hours. At this time, Shen Geng neither knew the art of soul-turning, and naturally he had no such thoughts. He just wanted to contact a real Taoist priest and learn about the news within Taoist dynasty.
The two gradually became friends who could talk about everything. Ding Wei revealed that there was a unique talisman that could exchange their souls. Because it was too despicable, the Taoist statutes of each family had no way to preserve the method of writing talismans, so it must have been lost.
"What about Longbin's Society? Since it was differentiated from the Taoist talisman, it might retain the ancient methods, but it lacks materials, so it cannot be made." Shen Geng was moved and saw a path to return to Taoist sect.
The two came to Huangjing together. Shen Geng made a detailed plan, but unexpectedly, Longbinhui warmly welcomed the Taoist priest Wangshan, regarded Ding Wei as a distinguished guest, and responded to all requests, providing all materials for free, and then gradually revealed his intention to hope that Ding Wei would join the Longbinhui.
Although much younger than Ding Wei, Shen Geng immediately realized that this was a conspiracy and he found...
The next memory disappeared, not because Mu Xingqiu's illusion failed, but because Shen Geng's mind was not preserved at all, which was obviously intentional.
Ding Wei did not want to join the Longbin Society. Even if there was only one person left in the entire Wangshan Mountain, he did not want to give up his identity as a Taoist priest. He got a lot of help from the Longbin Society, but he did not have the technique of soul-changing, and the talisman masters had never even heard of this method.
Shen Geng got it, and the details were another erased memory.
So after half a year after arriving in the imperial capital, the strange cultivator around the Taoist priest of Wangshan disappeared. Shen Geng occupied Ding Wei's body for a long time, returned to Qishan a year ago, joined the Demon Slaying Association, frequently delivered inspiring speeches, secretly promoting the concepts and benefits of Taoist talismans, and gained the followers of many lower Taoist priests.
But Qishan is still dangerous. Shen Geng knew that as long as the higher Taoist priest noticed Ding Wei's abnormality, he could not hide it. Moreover, he did not want to be too far from his body, so he went to Huangjing again. This time, his cooperation with Longbinhui became closer, and he frequently blessed the Fire God Seal on Ding Wei's body and his talismans were eliminated. This was a kind of damage to Ding Wei's body and practice, but this was exactly what Shen Geng cared about the least.
Shen Geng provided a large number of excellent talismans to Longbinhui. The only regret is that he lacked the pure inner elixirs of Taoists. He could not write Taoist talismans. In Longbinhui, this inner elixir, which is a top-level material, has a unique name - Immortal Dream Dun.
The Demon-Slaying Association helped "Ding Wei" solve the problem. The Taoist priest Shen Jiyi of Yashan also joined the Demon-Slaying Association and brought three "Immortal Dream Break", which was enough to write thirty to fifty top-level Taoist talismans.
The talisman writer was still Shen Geng. In order to test the power of the talisman, Shen Jiyi found Lan Bing Curling.
Mu Xingqiu wanted to know why Shen Jiyi joined the Demon-Slaying Society, how to get the three inner pills, and why Lan Binggui was used by lower-class Taoists, but Shen Geng didn't have these contents in his memory, and he himself was always wary of Shen Jiyi.
In Shen Geng's memory, Mu Xingqiu always occupies an important position, and hatred and revenge run through every step of his plan.
Mu Xingqiu didn't care about this, but only focused on the factual part in his memory.
Shen Jixian called Mu Xingqiu to talk for this part of the memory. After he took Shen Geng away, he immediately used the mind control technique to conduct a comprehensive examination and found that the memory of the past few years had been copied by the illusion.
"Shen Geng has been taken away from his inner alchemy. He will be sent to Xingshan Demon-Bao Cave to serve his sentence in two hours, and it will never end." Shen Jixian used this as his opening remark, which means to ease the atmosphere, "I think you should be satisfied."
Shen Geng deserves his sins, and the punishments made by the higher Taoist priest have nothing to do with Mu Xingqiu. What can he be satisfied with? He would rather see Erliang fighting with him lively and competitively, but he didn't want to say these things. There are more important things to talk about, "I don't understand why the Taoist priests should protect Longbin's so much? He even gave the Taoist priests to the talisman master as a gift."
"What do you know?" Shen Jixian's face looked a little gloomy. Shen Geng's memory did not have many secrets, but he was worried that Mu Xingqiu could guess something based on this.
Mu Xingqiu did guess that since he decided to save Xin Youtao, he has been very interested in the relationship between Longbinhui and Daotong. He even read the big book "Qiankun Ding" and found that the relationship between Daotong and Longbinhui is surprisingly stable, and this stability will never appear in mortals.
"Through the soul-changing talisman, the controller of the Longbin Society is actually the same person. No, the same group of people. For tens of thousands of years, every time they have their souls attached to another young man before their physical life is approaching, they can continue their lives."
"This is also good for the Taoist dynasty," said Shen Jixian.
"Of course, no matter how perfect the agreement is, it is dead and needs to be executed by living people. Taoist priests have a long lifespan and memory never fades, which can ensure that the agreement remains unchanged. But Longbin will be an organization of mortals. They have short lifespans and rapidly change generation after generation. After several generations, they may forget the original agreement, or feel that it was not what they participated in and there is no need to strictly abide by it. This is unacceptable, so Longbin will have several controllers who are almost as long as Taoist priests to ensure that the agreement is valid."
"That's about that."
"Why don't you just appoint a Taoist priest to take charge of the Longbin Society?"
"The Longbin Society was indeed managed by Taoist priests at first, but the result was very bad, so I changed another method, which is the current method. It works well and has not had much deviation in at least 40,000 years."
"Don't you know about Shen Geng?"
"Before tonight, no high Taoist priest knew that Shen Geng was hiding in the imperial capital. Shen Geng committed an unforgivable crime. The Taoist throne would not be particularly kind to him. Longbin would conceal the Taoist throne in this matter." Shen Jixian paused and found that the conversation was moving in the direction he least wanted to see. "I said that the Taoist throne has a line. You are standing by the side now. The next step you take is very important to you and the Taoist throne."
Xin Youtao is still Xin Youtao. He has been occupied by other people's souls and will become one of the leaders of the Longbin Society. Saving him will disrupt the exquisite arrangements of the Taoist dynasty and the Longbin Society for tens of thousands of years.
"I hope to say a few words to all the higher Taoists in the imperial capital." Mu Xingqiu understood that what he was going to do was the first person in the Five Elements Department of Pangshan that could not be decided.
"Do you want to participate in the consultation of the higher Taoist priests?" Shen Jixian showed some surprise. "This is even rarer and more difficult than your resurrection of the Mind Heart Department."
"yes."
Shen Jixian sighed, knowing that this sentence alone could not stop Mu Xingqiu, "Okay, I will break the rules and tell you some of the most important secrets of Taoism. I hope you will make a decision after listening to it."
Chapter completed!