Chapter 255 Insider

Chapter 255 Insider

Chapter 255 Insider
Lou He stood at the window of the Lianshan Town Garrison and moved to the side to avoid the blood flowing from the corpse on the ground, then looked outside.

This is the commanding height, so you can see that the whole town is filled with densely packed tiny dots of light. Those are the disciples of the Dongyue Temple of the Zhenxing Sect who are carrying out Dongyue's order to conquer Tu Nan - just like the Pingshan City they passed by, the entire city was sealed off to keep the human souls alive in preparation for inviting the true spirits of the Five Mountains Emperors to descend to the mortal world.

Tu Nan was sitting on the city lord's seat at this time, slowly moving his body to rub the cushions on his back and buttocks, and then he breathed a sigh of relief: "People outside the parish still know how to enjoy it more. Miao Yi, just look at this seat, did you sit on it just now? It's really comfortable. Look at Pingshan City and Lianshan Town, they are shabby and messy, but the city lord and the town guard live a much more comfortable life than our mountain lord."

He patted the armrest and sighed: "Ah, so, what is this called, saving the people from hanging, punishing the criminals - this saying can be applied here."

When he spoke, Lou He immediately turned around and listened. After listening, he smiled respectfully: "Yes. The city lords and garrisons outside the parish are corrupt, and the people live like animals. But I still want to say about the expedition-"

Tu Nan waved his hand and said, "I know what you are going to say, but you'd better stop talking about it. I know you, so it's nothing. But if others hear you say that we shouldn't kill everyone, they might think that your Taoism is unstable. I think your return from Yulun Mountain is a merit, but some people think it's a fault, and that you lost the Tianxin Sect. If you let others find any evidence against you, I won't be able to use you anymore."

"It's not that I don't want to kill them all. I'm thinking that maybe we can use some lighter methods. My people on the mountain said that the people of the Sword Sect have already conquered the thirty-six sects. If we want to attack them, I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties. I think we should pick out the old, weak, women and children in Lianshan Town - these people, including the children, should all be driven to Dajie Mountain, and then let some of our people mix in with them."

"If the people on the Great Tribulation Mountain don't go up and are driven back, it won't be too late to sacrifice them as well. But if we do that, the Sword Sect and the Thirty-Six Sects will lose the support of the people. It would be even better if they take their people in, so that we can cooperate from inside and outside."

Tu Nan smiled and said, "No need. I'll tell you now, we may not need to charge forward."

Lou He was stunned: "Are we going to ask for the real spirit here?"

Tu Nan leaned back in his chair, looked through the window at the Dajie Mountain in the night, and let out a sigh: "We are not inviting here - the offerings here are sacrificial offerings. In two days, the people on the mountain will help us invite -"

He looked at Lou He and said with a smile: "Do you want to know who it is?"

Lou He shook his head: "If you didn't tell me before the expedition, there must be a deeper meaning. It's better for me not to know."

"Tiangong Sect."

"...Tiangong Sect? How could they..."

"They have a lot of things on their mind." Tu Nan smiled slightly, "It's not just them. All thirty-six sects have their own ideas at the Great Tribulation Alliance, but unfortunately they are all wishful thinking. Only the Tiangong Sect has a chance of success in what they want to do. I just said that there are people on the mountain who will help us invite them. Do you know how they will do it?"

Underground fire. Lou He immediately thought of this word - Li Wuxiang had told him about the underground fire before... Did anyone else think of it?

"Underground fire. The people of Tiangong Sect can stir up underground fire. They want to replace Juque Sect, so they asked us for some talismans that can stir up underground fire, hoping to capture the elites of the thirty-six sects and become the leader of the Great Tribulation Alliance. I told you before that we already have an insider in the mountain, and I'm talking about them."

It's exactly the same idea as Li Wuxiang's! Lou He was silent for a moment: "Zhengtao, why are you telling me this now?"

"Because we need you now." Tu Nan stood up from his chair and walked to the window. "The church has invested a lot in the Tiangong Sect and taught them some magic. The original intention was to let them stir up the underground fire. However, the people of the Tiangong Sect refused to elaborate on what method they wanted to use, so the church didn't know much about their affairs - we only know that they really want to do it and are doing it, but they are not sure whether they can succeed. We came to Dajie Mountain to prepare for their failure."

Lou He frowned: "Aren't they cutting themselves off from the Thirty-Six Sects?"

"That's not the case. Once it's done, the Tiangong Sect will say it was us, and we will admit it - that's what they say." Tu Nan turned to look at him, smiled and shook his head, "If they say that, they will believe it. That's why I said they will help us to invite the true spirit - once the underground fire is aroused, the emperor's true spirit will come down to the world to suppress it. What we do here is to raise sacrifices for the true spirit to come down to the world. By then, all the elites of the thirty-six sects will be gone, and the underground fire will be suppressed, so it won't be out of control, and everything will be easy to handle."

"Conquest, what do you want me to do?"

"I want you to go up and see for yourself how they are doing. I have asked Tang Xi of the Tiangong Sect several times these days how he is doing, but he was not very clear. The Tiangong Sect claims to use earth fire frequently and is familiar with the nature of earth and fire, but no matter how familiar they are, can they be as familiar as we are in the Zhenxing Sect? When I asked him, I sent him a letter and heard him speak in a voicemail. I felt that he was hesitant and not very happy, so I was worried that something had gone wrong with them."

Tu Nan sighed, "If there is a mistake, we are not afraid. Asking the Tiangong Sect to provoke the earth fire is the best strategy - the emperor's true spirit will come by itself, and we can use these people to sacrifice."

"I have also prepared a middle plan. If their plan fails, we will inform the thirty-six sects about this matter and ask them to fight again on the mountain. We will take the opportunity to attack and we won't have to call in the true spirits."

"As for the worst plan, even if the underground fire is not aroused, and the thirty-six sects are really unified by the Sword Sect as you said, then we will have to sacrifice the lives of our disciples to force the true spirit to come. We have suffered too many casualties in the past one or two months outside the diocese, which is really a pity. Just now you said that you wanted to send people to the mountains. I think this is a good idea, so you can go there."

After following Tu Nan for these days, Lou He felt that he had figured out his character.

This person did not take the lives of people outside the parish seriously and was very satisfied with the situation within the parish. He felt that the old, weak, sick, disabled, beggars and the like he saw on the way here were all animals and not human beings. He also felt that this place was filthy and should be cleaned up like the situation within the parish as soon as possible.

Therefore, in his eyes, Miao Yi's crimes of "losing the Tianxin Sect", "allowing Li Wuxiang to lead out the souls of the Sword Sect from the Youjiuyuan", and "causing the death energy to gush out from the top of Yulun Mountain, causing the town under the jurisdiction of the Tianxin Sect to be almost dead". These were all merits - in the past, the Tianxin Sect was won over in order to control the nearby population, and now that the population was almost gone, it was a good opportunity to clear it out and reorganize. In his words, "it saves a lot of worry".

The monks in the diocese, like him before, believed in the True Form Emperor. Most of the time, if a person has a "faith", his mind will be simpler and duller than before, so Lou He felt that Tu Nan's mind was easy to guess, and he could please him with a little trickery. What happened in the past few days proved that what he thought was right - most of the time, he didn't ask any questions and just did what Tu Nan said. Only occasionally, when he felt it was too cruel, would he try to find other reasons to ask, like today.

But in the past, no excuse could change Tu Nan's mind, so when he was unhappy, Lou He said, "I didn't think of this. The idea of ​​conquering is indeed more wise."

After a few interactions, Tu Nan actually felt that Miao Yi was "smart enough", "just lacked experience", and "was a promising talent".

But Lou He felt it was a little strange that he was asked to go up the mountain tonight - why did he tell him everything at this moment, but kept it secret before?

While he was stunned for a moment, Tu Nan turned to look at him and said with a smile: "Are you curious about why I am telling you this at this time?"

"Talking about conquest at this time must have a profound meaning."

Tu Nan nodded: "It's not that there is any deep meaning. I told you that it was to conceal the truth. Miao Yi, do you think that everyone in our True Form Sect is devoutly worshipping the Emperor?"

Lou He was stunned for a moment: "This is natural. Otherwise, wouldn't I be punished by God?"

"Haha, the Great Emperor is the incarnation of destiny, and all living beings are ants. No matter what the ants think, as long as they don't alarm the heavens, there is no question of divine punishment. For example, this time, we are bold enough to say that we have calculated against the Great Emperor's true spirit. Aren't you afraid of divine punishment?"

"This... I think that as long as we worship sincerely, the emperor will not care about the means used. As Zheng Tao said, this is to conquer the Great Tribulation Mountain and unify the thirty-six sects. The emperor is the embodiment of destiny and will not care about what the ants do."

Tu Nan looked at him with interest for a while, then smiled: "Yes. The little thoughts of ants are nothing. But this is for those of us who are sincere in doing things, while there are still some in the church who are really rebellious. You went to the Coffin City before. Do you know that there was a person in the Coffin City? Lou He?"

Lou He's head felt numb and his heart skipped a beat. The moment he heard his own name, his face almost changed!

But these days, no matter what he thought in his heart, it always started with the three words "you Miao Yi", so when he heard his own name, he was slightly stunned.

Because of this, he didn't speak immediately.

Tunan turned away and looked out the window again: "You should have heard of him and seen him. When you were in Coffin City, you should have chosen him to be by your side."

"But you may not know that this Lou He once betrayed our sect and became a swordsman."

When he heard this, Lou He was finally able to let the shock completely show on his face: "Conquest——"

"You didn't know about it, so it's not your fault. The church didn't know about it either." Tu Nan sighed, "This happened a few years ago. Lou He went to Coffin City for training and had a conflict with Wu Meng, the mountain master of Coffin City, so he apostatized from the church. Damn Wu Meng, he didn't even report this and lied that Lou He left Coffin City and went to another place in the church."

Lou He whispered, "Zheng Zheng, there is such a thing... I really don't know about it. Why did Wu Meng conceal it?"

"Humph, because Lou He wasn't the only one who defected from the sect, there was also Wu Meng's son. It's easy to explain if Lou He left - he went to his place to gain experience. But as a mountain master, even his own son has defected from the sect. It's not a matter of whether he can continue, but he has to return to the headquarters to reflect on his mistakes."

"There are more than two people like Lou He in the church, especially this time. It's a tough job to go out of the church. You were the garrison commander of Deyang before you came to me, so you have a responsibility. But those disciples who are practicing the spirit have gone through the killing calamity, so who would want to come? Even if this is where the great emperor's destiny is, there is still a question of who will go first and who will go later. Do you think there will be one or two more Lou He among these people, among those around me? Humph, it's hard to say, I have some around me right now."

Lou He was silent for a moment: "Zhengtao...how did you know about this?"

"Is there a wall that is impenetrable? Lou He did not change his name after he rebelled against the diocese. He probably felt that there was a huge difference between the inside and outside of the diocese, and that information was not flowing smoothly. He also felt that there were many people with the same name. Or maybe he wanted to take revenge, so he did not change his name or surname. He was thinking about this, and nothing happened in the past few decades - but there happened to be someone in the Tianxin Sect who had seen him when he was a swordsman."

"Didn't he go to Yulun Mountain with you before? That person saw him on the night when Guiyin Zhenjun's true spirit descended to the world. After that, he left the mountain and fell into the hands of our sect. I didn't know that the swordsman Lou He was once a disciple of our sect. It was only yesterday that Zhou Qian came to see me and said that the man was assigned to be a prisoner under his command, along with two palace soldiers from the Coffin City. After listening to them talk about the Coffin City, I figured it out and reported it to Zhou Qian."

"You said before that Lou He had given you advice when you were on Yulun Mountain. Let me tell you, if it weren't for him, the situation on Yulun Mountain might not have reached that point. Miao Yi, didn't you realize that there was something wrong with him at the time?"

Is he asking about Miao Yi or Lou He! ?

Lou He raised his head and looked at Tu Nan. This man usually liked to smile when he talked, smiling, sneering, and smiling smugly, but now, Lou He felt that the smile on his face seemed to be mocking!
He remained silent, not knowing whether to ask Waixie for help - if he was asked to help him seize Tu Nan's body immediately, what would he ask for this time! ?

But before he could speak, Tu Nan turned his face away and said calmly: "So going up the mountain this time is a punishment for you. After all, you were able to survive Li Wuxiang's hands on Yulun Mountain. If something unexpected happens this time, you may still be able to save your life."

(End of this chapter)