【Tales of the Land】(Volume 9, Chapter 9)

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Chapter Nine: The Heavenly Fox Gate

Shui Linfeng laughed, "We've come this far, aren't you going down to take a look! If you're scared, stay here!"

Tang Lu retorted angrily, "What am I scared of? I'll go down!"

She angrily shook off Shui Linfeng's hand and walked away first.

Shui Linfeng laughed, "Why are you angry! I'm just worried about you! Don't walk so fast! It

's pitch black. Be careful, there might be something strange ahead!"

He chased after Tang Lu, who had already reached the end of the tunnel. In the darkness, a shrill cat's

cry rang out, mixed with the ghostly wail, making it even more chilling.

Tang Lu, just as she reached the lower stone chamber, was attacked by a dark shadow. Without thinking, Tang Lu swiftly swung her

Lingxi Sword, cleaving the shadow in two. With the surge of true energy, not a drop of blood splattered on her body or the sword. Just as she was about

to investigate what it was, her spiritual senses alerted her from behind. The thing moved without a sound,

spinning rapidly as the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword flashed past, slicing away the dark shadow behind it.

Clap clap clap—! The sound of Shui Linfeng clapping rang out, followed by his laughter: "Such swift movements! But

for killing cats, well… hehe!"

By the light of the spiritual lamp on Shui Linfeng's fingertip, Tang Lu had already clearly seen that the two dark shadows, one in front and one behind, were actually two

enormous fat cats, each over half a meter tall. If they hadn't run into Tang Lu today, they might definitely have become

demons in the future.

Tang Lu stamped her foot and said, "Xiang Jingyu! Look closely! These two aren't ordinary cats. Given time,

they'll definitely become spirits!"

Shui Linfeng laughed and said, "They've already become spirits, but they can't transform into human form yet. Ordinary knives and spears definitely

won't hurt them. Listen! That ghostly sound is floating around in this room!"

Tang Lu suddenly said, "Be careful! I just saw a pair of ghostly claws behind you! When you turned around, they

disappeared !"

Shui Linfeng said, "There's a barrier outside the room door. No wonder this ghost can't get out! Don't worry, I

'll make her show herself in a bit! This place looks like a torture chamber. Let's go check it out over there!"

Tang Lu said, "That's strange! The ghost seems to know that living people are coming, and it's stopped howling!"

This basement was about fifty meters long and extremely gloomy. The air around it was filled with the terrifying

smell of rotting corpses. At the far end of the opposite side of the room, there were two iron pillars with two thick iron chains attached to them, as if

something used to hang on them.

The lamplight shone in, revealing shattered jars and scattered bones and limbs on the ground.

Tang Lu, suppressing her nausea, said, "This is a prison cell! Who was it used to hold before?"

Shui Linfeng replied, "It wasn't just a prison cell, it was also a torture chamber. Didn't you see? Those scattered bones on the ground

weren't naturally weathered; they were all severed by sharp weapons, their limbs cut off and scattered here and there!"

Tang Lu nodded, "Those four skulls by the wall, two large and two small, judging from the bone color, the two large skulls

belong to a man and a woman, while the two small skulls belong to two young boys. Judging from the size of the small skulls, they should all be around

ten years old !"

Shui Linfeng approached for a closer look, saying, "The person who did this was too cruel. These four people, the two large and two small, were all alive

, their palms first nailed into them with steel nails..." They were fixed to the stone wall and slowly tortured to death. Look at the stone wall, there are still

remnants of metacarpal bones nailed to it with cement and steel nails. The bones are covered with hard wounds from external blows and fractures. Strange! On

the skull , each one has three or four fatal wounds. What

deep hatred did the person who did this have for this family of four that they would do such a cruel thing, not even sparing underage children!" Tang Lu shuddered and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it must be another tragic incident caused by

the struggle for power and succession among some noble brothers !" 　　Shui Linfeng said, "No way! From what I've come into contact with, apart from a few families like the Chen and Zhao families, it seems that noble families usually have one son and one daughter, and rarely two or three." "Such a few brothers, surely it's not a case of sons and daughters fighting over the title!" 　　Tang Lu turned to look at him and said, "I really doubt whether you're even a member of the Xiang family's royal lineage. A family with only one son and one daughter has only become popular in the last hundred years. Before that, each family had several male members, and brothers often fought to the death . Parents painstakingly raised several sons, hoping to prosper the family, but unexpectedly, internal strife arose among the brothers, and in the end, only one could survive. The surviving male heir not only killed his own brothers, but also, with the intention of eliminating any potential threats, poisoned his underage nephews and nieces, using methods that were utterly inhumane. In the early days of the Great Ze Empire..." "As a member of the royal family, you must ! My father told me that in your Xiang family, up to the last generation, something like this happened: your grandfather had no daughters but two sons. Your uncle, in order to seize your father's title, gathered a crowd and launched a rebellion on New Year's Eve. Although your father successfully quelled the rebellion, killing your uncle's entire family of four and hundreds of followers , he also suffered severe internal injuries and did not survive three years. Your mother died in that battle. You were about ten years old that year, how could you not remember?" 　　Shui Linfeng was fifteen years younger than Xiang Jingyu. When Xiang Jingyu was ten, Shui Linfeng was nowhere to be found. Xiang Jingyu only said that his parents died young, but he never mentioned how they died. Seeing that Xiang Jingyu was weak assumed that his parents were also in poor health and died of illness! But it turned out that there was this story behind it all. 　　He chuckled and said, "Actually, there's no need to fight like that. One male inherits the title, the other goes into business or does something else—it's the same! Why fight to the death like this!" 　　Tang Lu asked suspiciously, "Are you really Xiang Jingyu? How can you say such things! There's only one title. According to the laws of Daze, apart from the imperial nobles enfeoffed at the founding of the dynasty, no one can receive the title of imperial noble nobility no later, no matter how great their merits . Without the title, your uncle is a commoner. In your generation, you might still acknowledge your cousin, but what about after that? The so-called first generation is close, the second generation is distant, the third and fourth generations are not. Without the status of imperial noble nobility, you have to pay taxes to do business, and you have to be mindful of the attitude of the government officials. Do you know how heavy the taxes are in Daze? Do you know how difficult it is for ordinary people in Daze to get things done in the government ?" 　　Shui Linfeng smiled bitterly. He was a poor man himself, how could he not know the difficult access to government offices and the unpleasant bureaucratic atmosphere of the Daze Empire? Getting things done required giving money and women. Honestly doing business, working, or farming to get rich is a pipe dream . If hard work could lead to wealth, there wouldn't be so many ordinary people in Zedong who would be willing to join Xiang Jingyu 's "Jingxing International" and follow his every command.

Shui Linfeng concealed his unease, saying, "So, these skeletons in front of us are from over a hundred years ago? Wait—

! No, there should be one more!"

Tang Lu, not as perceptive as Ma Yingfei, was immediately swayed by the change of topic, exclaiming in disbelief, "No way!

There are only four, how could there be a fifth!"

As she spoke, that sinister laugh echoed again, accompanied by a ghostly howl: "That's me! The Bee

Demoness Pan Xiaolou!"

Suddenly, a surge of purple energy emanated from Shui Linfeng, protecting Tang Lu and himself, and he laughed, "The fifth skeleton is

the pickled food in that jar!"

Tang Lu said, "Pan Xiaolou? Who's that! I haven't heard of her..." "I already said it! Jar? Where did the jar come from?"

Shui Linfeng said, "From those broken tiles scattered on the ground, if they put the person in the jar, they must have cut off

her hands and feet . This is called a human pig, and that's the mother who became a vengeful ghost! Let me see where she's hiding first."

As he spoke, he flipped his index and middle fingers together, sweeping them across his eyes. He used his Dao power to open his Yin-Yang Eyes and

saw a reddish-blue ghostly figure behind the two of them. It was blocked by the purple-gold spiritual dragon energy and

was looking around furtively for a flaw in the spiritual light.

Shui Linfeng laughed, "You idiot! You couldn't even break the restrictions on that stone gate, how could you possibly break through this

king 's purple-gold dragon aura? Save your breath!"

The ghost chuckled sinisterly, "You can see me?"

Tang Lu also opened her Yin-Yang Eyes and laughed, "Oh my! Red with a hint of blue, the resentment is so strong! It's terrifying!"

Shui Linfeng laughed, "To earn a nickname in the martial world, you must have been a heroine in the past. Stop

sneaking around plotting against people! Show yourself!"

A ghostly howl rang out, and the red mist grew larger, revealing a ghostly form before the two of them. The crimson ghost, with a snow-blue face,

looked at them with a sinister, cold smile. Shui Linfeng also sneered, and suddenly, his "Soul-Catching Hand" flashed out like lightning,

grabbing the ball of red mist in his hand and slowly squeezing it into a ball.

The ghost howled in Shui Linfeng's palm. Shui Linfeng said, "I hate it when people look at me like that,

like 've got me cornered. It's just a hanging ghost, isn't it? You can only scare others. But in front of me, this

haughty attitude makes me angry. Let me show you what I'm capable of!"

He kneaded it into a red ball, then flattened it in his palms and straightened it. Tang Lu clapped her hands and laughed, "Fun!

Let me play with it too!"

Shui Linfeng laughed, "No! If I give it to you, she'll run away! She thought we were easy to bully and wasn't

on guard, so I grabbed her unexpectedly. If I let go, she'll run around in this room. Although she can't escape this

stone chamber, her soul is extremely fast. If she gets away, she'll easily..." "I can't catch her!"

Tang Lu laughed, "What are you afraid of! If I can't catch her, I'll just unleash the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword and destroy her!"

The red figure howled and screamed, "Spirit Rhinoceros Sword! You're a girl from the Tang family! Hehehe! Even if it's the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword

, if it weren't for the Heavenly Spirit Nail pinning me down for a hundred years, what could the Spirit Rhinoceros Sword do to me!"

Shui Linfeng's eyes gleamed, suppressing his wild joy, and said, "Who are you trying to fool! Was it the Heavenly

Spirit Nail personally refined by the Maoshan Dao Ancestor, or was it a replica made by a descendant of Maoshan? You need to make that clear. If it was a replica made by a descendant, then your cultivation in your previous life was just

so !"

The red figure said, "You junior, how dare you despise me! I, the Bee Demoness Pan Xiaolou, was once a Chaotic

True Body, only one step away from an Immortal Body. The Heavenly Spirit Nail pinning my crown was precisely..."

"It's the Heavenly Spirit Nail personally refined by the Maoshan Taoist Ancestor , otherwise how could it have nailed me down?"

Tang Lu laughed, "You're bullying us kids again! A soul nailed down by the Heavenly Spirit Nail can't get out!"

Shui Linfeng chuckled, "Yeah! Stop bragging! Where did the Heavenly Spirit Nail come from?"

Pan Xiaolou shouted sharply, "To the left! There's a deep cave in the shadows. My head rolled in there, my skull

was completely shattered, and that's how I got out! The Heavenly Spirit Nail is also in there!"

Shui Linfeng did as he was told, carefully walking to the edge of the deep cave, and laughed, "Why did your head end up in

there ? It's hot, so you were cooling off! Hmm! Sure enough, there's something that looks like a spearhead down there. Let me go down and take a look!"

Tang Lu pulled him back, saying, "The Heavenly Spirit Nail is an extremely yin and filthy object, specifically for nailing people down." " Skull top, let's talk about that! That hole is

incredibly narrow and dark. If someone puts some kind of vicious hidden weapon in there, once you're down there, your body won't be able to dodge, and

getting hit would be a real problem!"

Pan Xiaolou yelled. "It's all because of those cats! A couple of days ago, those two big cats, a male and a female, were fighting and broke

the jar that held my bones, which is why my head rolled into that deep ditch! Tang family's little girl, you can't stop him. This

kid's greed has taken hold. One of the three famous divine nails of the continent, the Heavenly Nail, is right in front of him. How can he let it go?

Kid! Jump! That hole isn't deep!"

On this continent, legend has it that there are three divine nails that can even kill gods. Anyone nailed by these nails, whether human,

ghost, god, immortal, demon, or monster, will have their soul scattered and never be reborn.

The Heavenly Spirit Nail was personally crafted by the founder of the Maoshan Daoist sect, specifically for nailing down on the celestial spirit. However, to prevent misuse by later generations,

a yin-yang handle made of male and female tigers is attached to the nail. It can only be closed with the power of the Great Dao. If the handle is not closed,

it will take a hundred years, or even longer, for the soul to dissipate after being nailed down.

The Spirit Dragon Suppressing Nail was personally crafted by the founder of the Longhu Mountain Daoist sect. A single nail can conjure up to eight azure

dragons when unleashed, subtly representing the eight trigrams. The eight azure dragons striking together can kill zombies below the silver-eyed level; other spirits

are easily defeated. The Heart-Piercing Nail was personally crafted by the founder of the Qingjiang Pavilion Daoist sect. When unleashed, it appears as a pair of

flying swallows, specifically targeting the heart. Any creature struck in the heart instantly vanishes, even gods.

These three nails have disappeared in recent years. Shui Linfeng, a man of thrift,

would not easily give up such valuable items.

Pan Xiaolou, perhaps having been a ghost for too long, seemed to have lost all cunning in his resentment, uttering such foolish words.

Upon hearing this, Shui Linfeng laughed and said, "Mrs. Tang is quite right! It's pitch black down there,

better not go down!"

He pinched Pan Xiaolou with two fingers and said, "Who's tormenting you like this!

And who are those four dead people, two big and two small, in the corner?"

Pan Xiaolou cried out, "Why should I tell you! To possess such power! If I'm not mistaken, you must

have already cultivated the Qian Yuan Body! If you agree to avenge me, I'll tell you!"

Shui Linfeng laughed, "Your ghost eyes are quite good, aren't they? You're a Qian Yuan Body, just barely entering the inner sanctum! The night is long,

and there's no cigarette to smoke. Fine, don't tell me then! Bring me a fire!"

The fingertips of his other hand immediately condensed into Nine Yuan Fire, the purple flames flickering as they moved towards Pan Xiaolou, who was held between his fingers

.

Pan Xiaolou was terrified and exclaimed, "Nine Yuan Fire! Nine Yuan Fire! You can summon Shao Daoren's Nine Yuan Fire!

This fire is too domineering, take it away! It will burn me to death!"

Shui Linfeng didn't actually want to burn her to death. If he wanted to, he would have simply

ignited and in no time, her soul, severely damaged by the Heavenly Nail, would have been finished.

Pan Xiaolou said, "It's so boring not to talk about this! In my previous life, I was Wu Tianlu's second wife.

Before , I was one of the eight beauties of the Intelligence Bureau, a prized disciple of the Earth Fox Sect, known as the Bee Demoness!"

Shui Linfeng smiled and said, "I've only heard of Wu the Dwarf's Intelligence Bureau and the Heavenly Fox Sect.

Where did your Earth Fox Sect come from?"

Pan Xiaolou asked curiously, "Wu the Dwarf? You are 1.8 meters tall, sir. How are you short?

The founders of were both disciples of the same person, and later they founded the Heavenly and Earthly Fox Sects respectively!"

Shui Linfeng said, "The founder of the Heavenly Fox Sect was a nine-tailed fox." "Li, what's her name, Hu Zanyu? Her master is my

beloved slave, Feng Piaoxue..."

Before she could finish, Pan Xiaolou roared, "Bullshit! My grandmaster is a celestial being, eternally youthful, and unpredictable.

How could she be your beloved slave? Bullshit, bullshit!"

Shui Linfeng laughed, "If you don't believe me, fine! And what about your Earth Fox Sect?"

Pan Xiaolou angrily said, "The founder of our Earth Fox Sect is my master, Li Nonghua..."

This time, Shui Linfeng interrupted her, laughing, "Li Nonghua, my foot! She's also a fox. Piaoxue

told me that four hundred years ago, she took in..." Three foxes were her disciples. The "Li" in your master Li Nonghua's name should be

related to the "li" in fox. She was a pure black Black Prison Fox, and the other was a fire fox named Hao Xinxiu, who

was the true patriarch of the fox clan. For some reason, she drove your master and the white fox out of the fox clan's territory,

forcing them to wander in the Great Swamp. Afterwards, all foxes capable of transformation were either Hao Xinxiu's disciples or clan members, or

foxes of other colors who submitted to her, including black and white foxes. And none of the foxes wanted to become your master or

the nine-tailed fox 's disciples. I really don't know why.

Pan Xiaolou sighed, "You can't blame those foxes. It was actually my master and the nine-tailed fox who betrayed the fox clan. They thought

they had attained human form and tried to seize a virtuous human as a mate, but their plan backfired. They secretly led that person

deep into the fox clan's territory and destroyed the fox clan's sacred altar! From then on, all the foxes had no hope of becoming immortals!"

Shui Linfeng said, "That's not right either! As far as I know, Piaoxue only recently cultivated her Golden Core, so she should

be a Qian Yuan Dao Body like me. But you're a Hun Yuan True Body, which is far too different. Are you lying to me again?"

Pan Xiao... Lou Xi said, "Grandmaster has achieved the Golden Core! Congratulations! You little brat,

what do you know? Cultivation is divided into cultivating nature, cultivating life, and cultivating both nature and life. In Daoist teachings, nature and life are two

different concepts. Nature is the physical body, and life is the soul. Someone who cultivates the Chaotic Heaven Dao Body doesn't necessarily have an Inner Core, and

someone with an Inner Core doesn't necessarily upgrade to the Golden Core. Similarly, someone with both an Inner Core and a Golden Core isn't necessarily a Chaotic Heaven Dao Body. However, cultivating

the Innate Dao Body is the most basic foundation. Only after cultivating the Innate Dao Body and expelling impurities from the body

can one..." You can cultivate further.

Only those who cultivate both body and spirit, achieving the Primordial Chaos True Body and obtaining the Golden Core, can ascend to immortality. The Golden Core

and the Inner Core are fundamentally different, like the difference between a human and a monkey. A human, no matter how small, is still a human, while a monkey

needs countless years to evolve into a new species. You can't say that a large monkey growing to two meters tall is a human.

My grandmaster only wanted to achieve the Great Dao, abandoning many spells and focusing solely on ascension. After cultivating the Golden Core,

he already possessed an immortal body; with further diligent cultivation, becoming an immortal became a possibility. My ability to become the Primordial Chaos True Body was largely due to... In terms of degree,

it was due to the use of Wu Tianlu's power and the consumption of the national treasure, the Purple Jade Fragrant Reed, from the Great Swamp. However, the core within the body remained only an inner core,

slowly changing from the lowest-grade red core to a purple core, then to a yellow core, but it could never become a golden core. No matter how high

the magical power , it would ultimately not escape the calamity of life and death!

Shui Linfeng laughed, "That's true! But in the Intelligence Division, I only know of thirteen dragon souls, male tigers and female leopards,

I've never heard of any eight or nine beauties!"

Tang Lu said from the side, "Jingyu! She might be referring to something from over a hundred years ago. Many years ago, the Intelligence Division had to count seven

sons and eight beauties." " Your martial arts cultivation is the highest, but perhaps because your parents died early, many secrets among the nobility have never been told to you

!"

Pan Xiaolou hissed, "What year is it now?"

Shui Linfeng replied, "This year is the 194th year of the Great Ze Empire, the seventh month of summer, and the lotus flowers outside are in full bloom

!"

Pan Xiaolou said, "I'm talking about the 83rd year of the Great Ze Empire. Counting it up, it's been over a hundred years.

Over a hundred years ago, I used my allure to win the favor of our Intelligence Bureau's Chief Wu Tianlu, who disregarded his family

's objections and took me, a woman of commoner origin, as his wife..."

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