Tang Ning nodded to the two disciples. They understood, took out a black gold awl, and stabbed the back of his head and neck. Dou Wencai felt pain and woke up.

"Dou Wencai, why is this necessary? If you had spoken earlier, you would have suffered less. Now that you have fallen into our hands, do you still expect the Corpse Puppet Sect to save you?" Tang Ning said.

"If you become a king and lose a bandit, what else can you say? If you want to kill or behead, you have to do whatever you want." Dou Wencai bowed his head and said.

Tang Ning said softly: "Uncle Master, this person is stubborn and unresponsive, so he should be handed over to the sect's Prison Department for disposal!"

Jiang Ming nodded slightly.

Tang Ning waved her hand: "Push Dou Wencai down."

Two disciples escorted him away.

"Martial nephew Tang, I will leave matters here to your disposal." Jiang Ming stood up and said, leaving the hall directly. Everyone got up to see him off.

"Everyone, a banquet has been set up in the temple, let's go right away!" Tang Ning led everyone to the side hall. The banquet dishes were already prepared and everyone took their seats one by one.

"I invite you all to come today for no other reason than to get acquainted with you. Come on, please drink this cup together." Tang Ning picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

In fact, the heads of these powerful families were invited to come, firstly to warn them, and secondly to appease people's hearts. Therefore, Jiang Ming was invited to come forward and demonstrate a scene of whipping Dou Wencai, so that they would not dare to have any objections.

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Needless to say, changing glasses at a banquet is a banquet that lasts until late at night.

Tang Ning came to the Houshan Cave, which was originally Jiang You's cave. He occupied the magpie's nest and used it as a place to stay.

There are pavilions, pavilions, gardens and waterside pavilions in the cave, and there are all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, and the decoration is extremely elegant.

He came to the main room, sat cross-legged on the futon, patted the spirit animal bag, and a white shadow flashed past. The head of the little white snake lay on his shoulder, spitting out its scarlet tongue, and its head rested on his palm.

Tang Ning took out the elixir. The little white snake swallowed the elixir with a swish. The white snake flashed and got into a wine jar in the corner. It swallowed the spirit wine, rolled and twisted in the jar, and was full in a short time.

As if he had drunk enough, his snow-white belly was exposed and floating in the wine jar.

Tang Ning smiled at its lazy appearance, took out the fairy mother-of-pearl clam from the storage bag, and poured the green spiritual power in her body into it continuously until the spiritual power was almost exhausted.

After the affairs of the Dou family were over, he temporarily took over the position of chief of Qinchuan. After a leisurely period, about a month later, a new chief of the sect took office. His name was Xu Chong, who was originally a disciple of the Foreign Ministry.

Tang Ning naturally returned to the sect and resumed her duties as intelligence liaison manager.

As a key figure in this mission, the sect rewarded him with 10,000 spirit stones, equivalent to two years' salary.

But obviously, he no longer values ​​this spiritual stone. With his wealth and wealth, it is impossible for anyone in the Qianyi Sect and under the Golden Core monks to compare with him.

Maybe, even the golden elixir monks may not be as wealthy as him.

Time flies, and several years pass by.

In recent years, the Demon Sect has become more and more powerful, gradually cannibalizing many Xuanmen industries and occupying the cultivation resources that originally belonged to Xuanmen.

Some small families even directly changed their ways and joined the Demon Sect, while some large families also had ambiguous attitudes and began to default on their taxes.

The tax rate set by Xuanmen for all cultivating families is 50%, and half of the resources occupied by any family must be handed over to the local Xuanmen.

Whether it is minerals, medicinal herbs, golden sand, etc., all resources within the territory under the rule are theoretically belonging to the Mystic Sect. If they are leased to those families, they will naturally charge high rents.

After the Demon Sect occupied those cultivation resources, they still handed them over to local families to take care of, and only collected 30% of the tax from those cultivation families.

As a result, those local family forces naturally turned to the Demon Sect.

It is worth mentioning that the Qinchuan Lu family is one of the big families with a very ambiguous attitude.

After the Dou family was executed by the clan, the Lu family took over most of the Dou family's properties. The Corpse Puppet Sect's forces used the Xushu Mountain Ling Mine as their base and advanced to the surrounding areas. They have eaten into a lot of the cultivation resources under the Qianyi Sect and have become entrenched. The surrounding cultivating families also changed their tune and turned to them.

The Corpse Puppet Sect's power has now expanded eastward to Guangyang County, which borders Qinchuan, and is adjacent to the Lu family's territory. Therefore, the Lu family's attitude is ambiguous, and they delayed paying taxes for various reasons last year. The disciples of the sect have repeatedly He paid the tax only under coercion, so he was probably ready to join the Corpse Puppet Sect at any time.

Faced with the Demon Sect's pressing pressure, Xuanmen of course organized counterattacks, but failed every time.

Every time the Demonic Sect expanded to a place, they would set up formations there and arrange appropriate forces to station them. It could be said that they were moving step by step. Once they were attacked by Xuanmen, there was a sound transmission array within the formation, and the changes would be immediately known behind them. Support can be sent to the front line within hours.

In this way, the Demon Sect camp and the other camps supported each other, forming strong fortresses that made Xuanmen unable to speak.

If you invest too little force, you won't be able to attack their defensive camp. If you invest too much force, it will immediately turn into a big melee.

The senior officials of Xingang Xuanmen also knew after the battle at Xuanyue Mountain that the overall strength of the Demon Sect was not inferior to theirs, so they only sent a small group of troops to counterattack without a large-scale decisive battle.

In addition to liaising with the Intelligence Department, Tang Ning spends his days practicing Qi refining and practicing. No matter how lively the fighting outside is, it has nothing to do with him. No matter how fast the Demon Sect's power expands, they will never be able to attack the Luoyun Mountains. At most, they will plunder all the resources outside the sect. .

The most important thing for him now is to improve his cultivation. Otherwise, once the war starts, he will be nothing more than a high-level cannon fodder given his strength and cultivation.

Over the years, he has been in charge of intelligence liaison, and reports on demon sects from various places have been reported daily and monthly.

As more and more information was gained about the Demon Sect, he gained a deeper understanding of the Demon Sect.

I also gradually understood the origin of the current world trend of Dao Xiao Mo Chang. The root cause is the arrogance of Xuanmen.

Logically speaking, Xuanmen holds the land of ten states and most of the world in its hands.

The Demon Sect is in poverty, hiding in a corner, and living in a corner. This should be a vicious cycle.

The Demon Sect has no base of its own. The sect has been broken into pieces and divided into many branches, hiding in various places. It has no cultivation resources, let alone any spiritual veins or mines. It is also surrounded and suppressed by the Xuanmen from time to time, often scurrying around, and there is no internal structure. Unity, how can such a sect develop?

If there are no cultivation resources on hand, then the monks' logistical support will be insufficient, their cultivation will stagnate, and high-level monks will not be produced. Without high-level monks, the overall strength of the sect will be weak.

The weaker you are, the less you can fight for cultivation resources, and the less you have cultivation resources, the weaker your strength will be. This should be the development path of the Demon Sect.

Xuanmen, on the other hand, is just the opposite. It has sufficient resources for cultivation, sufficient logistical support capabilities for the monks, and accepts well-qualified disciples. These people become high-level monks and strive for more resources for the sect. This should be a virtuous cycle.

But why is there a situation in which Dao eliminates demons and rises?

Tang Ning had never been able to understand this problem before. The development of everything has its own laws and regulations. At first glance, the general trend of Tao Xiaomo's rise goes against these laws.

It wasn't until he deeply understood the organizational structure of the Demon Sect that he understood why Dao's elimination of demons had become a general trend in the world.

Because of arrogance.

Taoism has too many additional conditions for recruiting disciples, such as age restrictions and only recruits young people between the ages of eight and eighteen.

Once you exceed this age, no matter how talented you are, Taoism will not accept you.

There are also restrictions on the mountain gate. The sect is opened once every ten years. A person only has this opportunity in his life. If he misses this time, he will never have the opportunity to enter the Xuanmen in his life. Although there are messengers in the Xuanmen, but for the huge base, ten

The quota is a drop in the bucket.

Only these two restrictions caused many spiritual root owners with excellent qualifications to miss the opportunity to be accepted by Xuanmen and thus switch to the Demon Sect.

Xuanmen recruits disciples and there is a limit on cultivation qualifications. Even if you are at the right age, encounter Xuanmen's great trick, and come to its sect to seek immortality, you may still be turned away even if you have spiritual roots.

Xuanmen generally only recruits spiritual root holders with average or above-average cultivation qualifications. Unless you have connections within the sect, you can be admitted to the sect even if you greet each other privately. However, there are so many people in the world, and most of them are spiritual root holders.

He comes from a poor family, how can he meet the big shots in the sect!

If a spiritual root owner like Tang Ning, whose cultivation qualifications are in the middle to lower grades, had not received a house plate distributed by the Immortal Envoy of Duan Yuan by chance and came to visit the mountain gate according to the formal procedures, there would be a high probability that he would be turned away.

This is the root cause of the decline of Xuanmen. It is too arrogant, which makes the spiritual root owners who are not allowed to enter Xuanmen have no choice but to switch to the Demon Sect.

The Demon Sect has no restrictions on recruiting disciples. No matter how old you are or how low your qualifications are, as long as you have spiritual roots, can practice, and are willing to join them, they will accept you anytime and anywhere, and then teach you the method of practice, even if you have already

As long as they are willing to join the casual cultivators who are entering the path of spiritual practice, they will also fully accept them.

The Demon Sect was divided into various branches before, and they were recruiting troops from all over the place to strengthen themselves. When they were integrated, the number of their low-level disciples even exceeded that of the Xuanmen. As the saying goes, the sea is open to all rivers, and the tolerance is great. The Demon Sect relied on this to survive in a difficult environment.

Down and out, surviving in the cracks, and still standing.

Xuanmen's arrogance is not only reflected in recruiting disciples, but also reflected everywhere.

For example, the control over resources and the restrictions on casual cultivators and cultivating families can be said to be very overbearing.

Xuanmen has a monopoly on the cultivation resources under its rule. Take Xingang as an example. The three major Xuanmen divide the entire Xingang. Chu State is under the jurisdiction of the Qianyi Sect. All cultivation resources outside the sect are taxed at 50%.

No family or casual cultivator is allowed to grow medicinal herbs or breed spiritual beasts privately.

On the other hand, on the Demon Sect's side, the Corpse Puppet Sect has taken over the surrounding area of ​​nearly a thousand miles with the Xushu Mountain Spirit Mine as the center.

Within its jurisdiction, only 30% tax is charged on all cultivation resources, and the cultivating families within the jurisdiction are allowed to grow medicinal herbs. They only charge 20% tax on the medicinal herbs grown. Now many places within a thousand miles of Xushu Mountain are

Medicinal herbs have been planted, and recently there has been information that a family within the Corpse Puppet Sect has started a business of breeding spiritual beasts.
Chapter completed!