Ruins of the past

Chaoyao Mountain.

Yu Wenbin, who used to teach Chu Qiguang about demons, found him first and told him about Zhang Xinhui's fight.

Then he said with concern: "How do you plan to deal with this challenge?"

"Don't worry, teacher, it's okay." Chu Qiguang asked, "Do you also have stocks in our chamber of commerce?"

Yu Wenbin nodded. His Yuwen family was also a wealthy family in the south of Lingzhou. It had bought the stocks of Qingyang Chamber of Commerce more than a year ago.

Yu Wenbin said: "Not only the Yunyang Chamber of Commerce, but also your newly listed Lingzhou Agricultural Chamber of Commerce and Lingzhou Tianwu Chamber of Commerce, our family has all bought stocks, and even our farmland has been rented to the chamber of commerce."

"You have to give the teacher a letter of approval."

Chu Qiguang patted the other party's shoulder and said with a smile: "Teacher, just hold it. If you can't help it, don't sell it."

Next, Chu Qiguang walked towards the big library, intending to complete the next supplement of knowledge.

In this battle in the Buddhist world, he forgot a lot of forbidden knowledge in order to create demon dye.

Although there are some additions in Tianyi Pavilion, this kind of thing is like a strategic reserve, and Chu Qiguang never has too much.

After the replenishment of the large library is completed this time, the power of the Ring of Foolish Demon Ran will be even greater.

A few days later, after bidding farewell to Lin Lan who was reluctant to leave, Chu Qiguang planned to go to Tianqu Mansion to check on the work of the Chamber of Commerce and then respond to the invitation.

Next, I will go back to Yaoyin Village and re-learn the master's level textbooks I left there.

After all, he had forgotten this part of the knowledge the last time he fought against the leader of the Tianjian Sect.

By the way, he also wanted to check the research results of the Qi Blood Machine and the prisoners' dictation results.

Now Chu Qiguang's power is blooming in all directions, and it is growing crazily under the system he created.

He is like a sower, returning every once in a while to harvest what he has harvested, which can continuously nourish him and his companions, and improve his own savings.

…

As soon as Chu Qiguang arrived in Tianqufu City, Zhong Shan'e came over and asked him how he planned to deal with the battle.

After a discussion, the two left the city and came to a barren mountain in the outskirts.

After a while, waves of air continued to explode on the mountain. Circles of shock waves crushed the trees and sent rocks flying.

As the two figures flashed at high speed, thunder one after another continued to explode between them.

One of them was covered in flames, like the sun hanging high in the sky, turning hundreds of meters in radius into a lava hell.

Another figure was surrounded by electric light, and his body turned sharply like a dragon and snake moving around. His figure could be seen all over the place.

Chu Qiguang looked at Zhong Shan'e who had dodged his attacks time and time again, and thought to himself: ""Thunder Roar" is indeed known as the fastest in the world. After so many fights, I couldn't really hit him, so I could only rely on high temperature to burn him. ’

‘If we really want to decide the outcome, we still have to rely on the talisman, the Ring of Foolishness or the Sumeru Seal. ’

Zhong Shan'e on the other side was even more frightened. He was already surprised that Chu Qiguang could break through to become a Martial God at such a young age.

Who would have thought that after not seeing each other for just over two months, the other party's strength would have improved so much.

He felt that Chu Qiguang had made great progress in both vitality and physical strength.

Especially with the muscles and bones he had trained so hard, it was already difficult to hurt him without weapons at the level of a divine weapon.

Moreover, Zhong Shan'e could still feel that Chu Qiguang still had some strength left in his attack and defense, and it was obvious that he had not yet used all his strength.

Under another collision of Gangqi, the cliff at the feet of both sides suddenly collapsed and turned into huge rocks rolling down the mountain.

Chu Qiguang and Zhong Shan'e also stopped the Gang Qi outside their bodies and the Qi and blood power in their bodies, and all the strange phenomena on their bodies converged.

Zhong Shan'e looked at Chu Qiguang with some emotion: "You are progressing faster than I originally expected."

He reminded: "But after all, Zhang Xinhui is an immortal who has made a breakthrough for a long time, so you still have to be careful."

"When the time comes, we don't seek to defeat the opponent, even if we just need to maintain an unbeaten and undefeated result, it will be very beneficial."

In the eyes of others, Chu Qiguang is a martial god who has just made a breakthrough. If he can fight with a senior immortal immortal without winning or losing, it will be a huge improvement to his reputation.

Zhong Shan'e guessed that the stock price would not only not fall, but would even rise slightly.

To be able to solve this incident with personal strength without using any weapons or spending any money, this is the best result in Zhong Shan'e's opinion.

Chu Qiguang asked curiously: "Where is the Tianxing Mountain where we are meeting this time?"

Zhong Shan'e introduced: "It is a mountain range located at the junction of Lingzhou and Yongzhou. It can also be regarded as a famous mountain. It is said that the mountain used to be a temple of the Maha religion. It was very popular and famous, but now it has been abandoned for a long time. "

Chu Qiguang said thoughtfully: "A famous mountain?"

Zhong Shan'e was relieved. After Chu Qiguang returned, he summoned the management of the Yunyang Chamber of Commerce to inspect the work of the past two months.

Then he ordered someone to make an announcement, indicating that he accepted Zhang Xinhui's invitation to fight.

As soon as the news was released, it quickly spread throughout Lingzhou, like fire cooking oil, and countless people began to look forward to the confrontation between these two peak powerhouses.

After finishing the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce, Chu Qiguang went back to Lingzhou Demon Suppression Division.

He checked the collection of ancient books sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and obtained two more profound gifts and one dark gift.

Then there was another exchange with Juno. The other party was observing the changes in Lingzhou during this period, and only then did he realize that Chu Qiguang still had such a huge foundation in his hands.

This change in Lingzhou was also a strange sight that Juno had never seen before after traveling to so many places over the years, which aroused deep curiosity in her heart.

She also expressed her understanding of Chu Qiguang's acceptance of Huang Tiandao's appointment.

"Don't worry and do your thing."

"The changes in Lingzhou are very interesting. I will just walk around during this time, don't worry about me."

Letting Wang Cailiang and Liu Yao entertain each other temporarily, Chu Qiguang has already returned to Yaoyin Village with Jiaojiao.

…

As soon as Chu Qiguang and Zhou Yujiao returned to Yaoyin Village, Qiao Zhi, who had returned to the village early, greeted them.

As soon as she entered the village, Zhou Yujiao cheered, sprouted a piece of cat hair that she hadn't seen in a long time, and rushed out with joy, causing everyone to jump.

She had been away from Yaoyin Village for several months, and it had been a long time since she had played so wildly in the fields and trees.

Looking at Zhou Yujiao who disappeared in the blink of an eye, Chu Qiguang felt as if his own cat had run away.

He shook his head, looked at Qiao Zhi and asked, "How is the village doing lately?"

Qiao Zhi chuckled: "Very good."

When mentioning the development of Yaoyin Village, Qiao Zhi couldn't help but smile.

In Yaoyin Village today, the number of monsters in the inner village has exceeded 3,000.

In the past three years since Yaoyin Village was established, through life and study... the monsters here have been shaped to be completely different from the outside world.

In particular, the ideological courses written by Chu Qiguang himself, coupled with the study of knowledge and changes in life... all constantly and subtly adjust the monsters' thoughts.

Let them regard the current rulers of the imperial court as enemies instead of human beings as opponents.

The study of martial arts, Taoism, writing, mathematics, etc. has made many monsters become excellent migrant workers, doing various intelligence, research, management and other tasks for Chu Qiguang.

Qiao Zhi thought in his mind: 'I always feel that Chu Qiguang in this life is very different from the previous one. ’

Qiao Zhi had this kind of comparison in his mind three years ago.

Especially starting from the ideological class hosted by Chu Qiguang, it was very different from the training of monsters in the previous life.

In the previous life, Qiao Zhi still remembered what he had been talking about about freedom, democracy and the liberation of cat monsters. The ideological lessons of this life are about class conflict, liberating the people, and common prosperity.

Nowadays, the development of Yaoyin Village and Qingyang Chamber of Commerce has made Qiao Zhi feel the difference between the two lives more deeply.

Recalling his last life, Qiao Zhi always felt that Chu Qiguang had some indescribable sense of urgency at that time.

Standing alone at the highest peak, in the end he was squeezing almost everything that could be squeezed and used, beating the world, and crazily promoting the improvement of his own strength.

Countless people and monsters were turned into flesh-and-blood gears, and in the huge state machine... they were continuously consumed as they ran, turning into nourishment for Chu Qiguang.

In contrast, Chu Qiguang in this life seemed to be more capable because of the help of Qiao Zhi.

He is not only improving his own strength, but also working hard to train more subordinates and companions.

‘Although he is still very ruthless towards his enemies, he is much more lenient towards his own people. ’

‘If it were Chu Qiguang in his previous life, would the Qingyang Chamber of Commerce have already started employing child labor, cat slaves, and dog slaves? ’

No matter what, Qiao Zhi still liked the Chu Qiguang in front of him more.

He reported the situation in Yaoyin Village to Chu Qiguang.

In addition to the changes in the monsters, what Chu Qiguang is most looking forward to is the improvement of Qi and blood technology.

There are more air and blood vessels in Yaoyin Village today than two months ago.

At the same time, with the expansion of the Tianwu Chamber of Commerce and the improvement of Lingzhou's agriculture, the entire industrial chain continues to develop, and the blood pool is receiving more and more supplies.

Most of the profits made by the Tianwu Chamber of Commerce from selling bone tools were thrown into the blood pool.

A large amount of food and even medicinal materials were put into the blood pool, constantly increasing the productivity of the blood pool.

Now, if the blood pool is fully output, it can produce 1,000 bone swords every day, and the productivity is five times that of the past. And this growth rate is still increasing.

In addition, there is the research and development of Qi and blood machines.

Last time, Chu Qiguang relied on the Tianwu consciousness of the Taoist Martial God to directly decipher the internal flow of qi and blood in the 'Farmer' created by the blood pool, as well as the core of qi and blood power.

He handed over the entire principle and process to the workshop and let Shisanniang and other craftsmen study it together and then stopped paying attention.

This time when I visited the workshop again, I saw that Shisanniang and the others had copied the new power source using the blood pool according to the information he gave them.

In the blood pool, a mass of flesh and blood the size of a head, like a heart, was beating continuously.

Every time it beats, a group of qi and blood will be spit out, and the surrounding qi and blood will be sucked in.

Thirteenth Niang swung the fox tail behind her back and glanced at Chu Qiguang with her charming eyes. Her enchanting figure always attracted everyone's attention without even realizing it.

She introduced with some pride: "This qi and blood core can already form the simplest qi and blood circulation route."

"Even if you take out the blood pool, it can run alone for a day. After the blood pool is full of power, you can take it out and continue to use it."

The original Thirteenth Niang always relied on her amazing beauty and some scheming tricks to compete with others.

But since Chu Qiguang ignored the female fox's seduction several times, she had no choice but to use other talents to gain status and power in Yaoyin Village.

Her sister had some talent in mathematics and was sent to calculate accounts. Thirteen Niang followed her for a while but found that the more she calculated, the more dizzy she became.

Later, she simply used her fifth-level martial arts cultivation to help Chu Qiguang research the Qi and Blood Machine.

And the more she studied, the more she realized how powerful this thing was.

Thirteenth Niang thought to herself: ‘The whole world...maybe will change because of this. ’

Chu Qiguang looked at the qi and blood core in the blood pool, nodded and asked: "Let's find a way to improve it on the textile machine. In the future, our textile machine will be completely separated from hydraulic operation."

After letting the craftsmen note this down, Chu Qiguang looked to the other side.

It was a farmer who was quite a bit larger in size, and his body was covered in white bone armor.

The farmers were running and jumping back and forth in a square, showing amazing athletic ability.

Especially between the punches and kicks, waves of heat were released.

From time to time, Zhou Yujiao's excited shouts came from inside the farmer.

After running around like crazy for a while, Jiaojiao came to the workshop one step ahead of Chu Qiguang, just to see if the farmer she controlled had made any progress.

Thirteen Niang introduced: "After copying the Qi and blood core, we tried to adjust the farmer's size and added five Qi and blood cores to him to strengthen his Qi and blood power..."

In addition, based on the "Hunyuan White Bone Demonic Skill" given by Chu Qiguang last time, they also imitated an inferior version of bone armor, which covered the farmer's body like iron armor.

However, the bone armor is not flexible enough, the farmer's own lack of intelligence makes the martial arts stiff, and the operator has to endure the heat caused by the power of qi and blood, so he needs to dissipate heat... The farmer still has many flaws that cannot be improved.

But even so, the fighting power displayed by the farmers now is almost equivalent to that of the warriors in the third realm.

Chu Qiguang thought to himself that people in this world really like to fight, so he wanted to use such an easy-to-use physical mecha for fighting... This was probably due to differences in culture and history, which caused differences in thinking.

And now after a series of adjustments and strengthening, the farmer is obviously no longer suitable to be called this name.

Thirteenth Niang specially waited for Chu Qiguang to come back to the village and let the leader of Yaoyin Village come up with a name.

Chu Qiguang thought for a while and said, "Then let's call them workers. I hope that the direction of your future research will focus on work and labor, and don't always think about killing."

Thirteenth Niang nodded thoughtfully.

At this moment, Lei Yushu ran over from a distance.

At the age of physical growth, he took various elixirs and practiced martial arts.

Lei Yushu is taller than the last time we met, almost three heads taller than Jiaojiao, and his whole body looks very slender and tall.

Because she no longer had to pretend to be a boy, Lei Yushu now had long hair, which she casually tied into a ponytail, bouncing around the back of her head as she ran.

The whole person exuded a heroic aura, somewhat like a female general.

"master!"

A smile appeared on the girl's beautiful face. She ran to Chu Qiguang, then stopped, looking at Chu Qiguang with red cheeks, and a hint of excitement and shyness in her eyes.

Chu Qiguang touched the other party's head and asked, "Are you still comfortable in the village?"

"Um!"

Lei Yushu nodded solemnly. For her, who had lived among monsters and bandits since she was a child, Yaoyin Village was obviously more suitable for her than the previous Hundred Households of Ba Mansion.

After all, the way the monsters live here is simply better than what she dreamed of.

Listening to the content of the ideological class and watching the monsters in the village reading, studying, practicing martial arts, researching, and farming... Lei Yushu felt more and more how powerful his master was.

The idea in my heart that I wanted to change the world together with the other party became even more intense.

Every time she thought of this, she felt like her body was heating up. There seemed to be endless energy in her body, and her martial arts training efficiency was also greatly improved.

Chu Qiguang touched Lei Yushu's head again: "How are you practicing your martial arts?"

Lei Yushu nodded and said: "I've been trying to sense the brain recently, and I want to reach the fifth realm as soon as possible. Master, you haven't given me any advice for a long time..."

Looking at Lei Yushu's expectant eyes, Chu Qiguang smiled: "Follow me, and I will teach you martial arts alone in a while."

At this moment, Jiaojiao, who was controlling the 'laborer', suddenly shouted and rushed towards Lei Yushu.

Zhou Yujiao shouted: "Lei Yushu! Take the move!"

Lei Yushu looked at Chu Qiguang, because Zhou Yujiao was Chu Qiguang's sister after all.

Chu Qiguang said: "Hit as you like, but don't hurt the people inside."

The two figures, one small and one large, instantly struggled with each other.

Lei Yushu shouted violently, and with the surge of energy and blood in his body, streams of heat burst out, and the skin all over his body turned pink, with traces of white gas coming out.

The muscles in her hands suddenly swelled, and she had already pinned the tall 'laborer' to the ground.

After all, Lei Yushu has reached the fourth realm for almost a year, and recently there are even signs of impacting the fifth realm. It is far from being defeated by a 'laborer'.

Zhou Yujiao, who was sitting in the ‘laborer’, looked dejected: ‘We lost again. ’

Next, Chu Qiguang gave new instructions to Yaoyin Village, preparing to start transporting more monsters from Yaoyin Village to Shuzhou to reserve talents for the future development of Shuzhou.

After explaining the situation in the village, Chu Qiguang finally had time to come to the dictation room to do some harvesting in the next few days.

Qiu Yuebai, the saint of Huangtian Dao, Qiao Zina, a noble of Dazhu, and others all sat together in a row, watching Chu Qiguang pull out a book and read the knowledge they had recently written down.

Seeing Chu Qiguang frowning, looking serious, and gazing at other times, Qiu Yuebai and others were also in a state of confusion.

As they write from memory day by day, their output becomes less and less, and it feels like their brains are being squeezed dry every day.

But Chu Qiguang didn't talk much for the next few days while harvesting knowledge. The more this happened, the more people couldn't let go.

This batch of knowledge written down by the prisoners contained a lot of secrets of Huangtian Dao and Da Zhu, and even many martial arts secrets, which allowed Chu Qiguang to gain more than ten gifts at once.

However, Chu Qiguang also knew that the prisoners in front of him were reaching their limit, and if they continued to squeeze them, nothing good would come out.

As Chu Qiguang put down the last book, Qiu Yuebai and others immediately became excited.

Just listen to Chu Qiguang say: "Not bad, in more than ten days, you can accompany me out."

Since the knowledge in his mind could no longer be squeezed out, Chu Qiguang planned to use their other values.

When they heard that they could go out, Qiu Yuebai, Qiao Zina and others' hearts moved, and various speculations emerged.

From then until the date of the battle, Chu Qiguang studied the master's textbooks he had prepared by himself in Yaoyin Village.

From time to time, he would use his cultivation as a Taoist Martial God to provide guidance on Lei Yushu, or assist in the research and development of Qi and Blood Machines.

After Jiaojiao lost to Lei Yushu, she ran to the workshop every few days to help improve the workers.

Chu Qiguang would make another trip to Tianqu Mansion when he had time to appease the major shareholders or check on the operating status of the Chamber of Commerce.

During this period, he also used the power of Lingzhou Demon Suppression Division to find a dog ghost and several lonely wild ghosts in Lingzhou.

After saving them one by one, Chu Qiguang finally learned the second chapter of "The Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts".

From then on, Chu Qiguang became more attracted to ghosts.

Chu Qiguang also tried to use the Ring of Foolishness to flow out the knowledge from the two chapters of "The Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts" like the remaining chapters of "Elixir of Immortality" and "The King of Sumeru Mountain", and turned it into demon dye and sent it into the monsters. .

However, the content of "The Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts" is not like the "Elixir of Immortality" or the "Sutra of Mount Sumeru King", which involves connecting to the void to obtain blood pools and secret techniques such as refining magic.

Chu Qiguang guessed that the creation history of "The Record of Ten Thousand Ghosts" was much shorter than the previous two methods, and no successful practitioner could store information here.

Time passed like this day by day, and Chu Qiguang's strength continued to grow day by day.

The day of the battle finally arrived.

…

Yong'an 18 years, early August.

The junction of Yongzhou and Lingzhou.

Tianxing Mountain.

This famous mountain was originally a famous temple of Moko Buddhism.

However, since the operation to exterminate the Buddha, the temple on the mountain has been completely burned down and gradually turned into a barren mountain.

However, at this moment, countless people gathered on Tianxing Mountain.

The battle between the Taoist Immortal and the Taoist Martial God has been a grand event that has not happened in decades.

What's more, the outcome between the two is also related to the rise and fall of the stock prices of Yong and Ling prefectures, the profit and loss of thousands of taels of silver, and the lives of millions of people.

It can be said that countless gentry, right-wingers, high-ranking officials and powerful forces in the two states, as well as the Celestial Master Sect, the Demon-Suppressing Division and other forces, have all set their sights here.

There are people all over the mountain and down the mountain. There are people sent by major forces to watch the battle, there are warriors who want to watch the battles of powerful warriors, and there are major shareholders who are concerned about the rise and fall of stocks...

Even Zhou Junyan, one of the two great martial arts gods in Jiubian, brought people to watch the battle.

Even the vicinity of Tianxing Mountain has been blocked by the army to prevent anyone from disturbing the situation and affecting the outcome of this battle.

Zhou Junyan, who had a rough face but a somewhat short stature, looked at Zhong Shan'e beside him and said with some worry: "Can Chu Qiguang do it? If he loses, it will not only be his fault."

Zhong Shan'e thought for a while and said, "It should be no problem."

But Zhou Junyan was still worried: "If he is about to lose... why don't you and I work together to stop this battle, at least to minimize the impact."

Zhong Shan'e was noncommittal and did not answer this question.

On the other side, Qiu Yuebai and Qiao Zina were also brought to Tianxing Mountain by Chu Qiguang.

When they learned that today would be the day when Chu Qiguang and Huangtian Taoist leader made a secret battle, their hearts were filled with ups and downs, and they even thought of running away.

However, during the days they stayed in Yaoyin Village, they took Ruanjin Powder every day, and their bodies were extremely weak. With Shisanniang, Lei Yushu, Chen Gang and others watching around them, they couldn't even make waves.

Only Qiu Yuebai's eyes flickered, as if he was thinking of something.

Zhou Yujiao followed Juno and stood aside. At this moment, she was looking around with a look on her face.

At the top of Tianxing Mountain, a lonely figure stood on the cliff. It was Zhang Xinhui who was meeting this time.

Suddenly, his eyes were like lightning, and he looked towards the foot of the mountain with a hint of dragon power.

Following his action, countless warriors present seemed to have a feeling in their hearts: Chu Qiguang is here!

Wherever Zhang Xinhui looked, surging flames burst out from a figure, like a rising sun.

As the figure walked towards the top of the mountain, the terrifying heat wave forced the spectators around to retreat again and again.

At the same time, a dragon roared from Zhang Xinhui on the top of the mountain, and the situation suddenly changed.

Dark clouds rolled in from the sky, gradually shrouding most of the mountain in shadow.