Big Data Cultivation-Chapter 2104 - 2106: Daoist Sects’ Expectations

In the end, someone connected the two cases of jumping off buildings in the small town; after all, the town is not large.

However, the other person is already completely dead, and investigations yield nothing.

On the fourth day, another five people died, but Feng Jun is not in a hurry—the death of five each day means that over two hundred people will be gone in less than two months.

On the tenth day, someone in the town was hit by a car and killed—not far from the Daoist Temple, the wicked ones amount to more than just three.

On the fifteenth day, another person in the neighboring town died after jumping off a building. Finally, everyone felt something was wrong; although such unusual deaths are not rare, they shouldn’t be this frequent, right?

On the eighteenth day, it was time to cut off the electricity to the Daoist Temple again, but people couldn’t find those responsible for pulling the plug, and even the ones creating accidents had disappeared, which caused some unease.

On the twentieth day, as everyone planned an environmental protest, they realized eight people had died, and five of them were suicides by jumping off buildings... The protest had fewer than thirty people, and ten of those were just spectators.

This is too frightening. The Gauls are not particularly sensitive to the disappearance of life, but no one can accept such eeriness.

Finally, someone began collecting oddities of the Daoist Temple; it had displayed anomalies before, but some people have goldfish memories—just that brief. The wild ones enjoyed causing trouble, occasionally testing boundaries.

The daily deaths of five people continued; on the twenty-third day, the slow-to-react Gauls finally realized the punishment from the Daoist Temple had arrived—what’s worse, the punishment wasn’t just on the Gauls; Teutons, Britains, and even Silent Mourning Country saw suicides by jumping off buildings too.

Thus, they began to besiege the Daoist Temple, demanding Qingcheng Other Court take responsibility. Qingcheng Other Court remained indifferent, simply insisting, "It’s not us, we didn’t do it, don’t spread falsehoods," and even suggested consideration of legal action if the rumors continued.

The Gauls were not afraid of legal action from the Daoist Temple; local protectionism exists everywhere, especially in Europa, where the success rate of yellow race lawsuits against locals is not higher than that of Teutons suing Gauls.

But the relentless flow of death news each day continued!

On the twenty-fifth day, a Gallic parliament member spoke up, saying that someone had targeted Huaxia’s religious groups, carrying out unsavory actions, which was wrong as Gauls valued religious freedom.

This member was one the Huaxia were trying to win over; until now, he had seemed anti-Huaxia, but at his core... a politician, as everyone understands.

Huaxia paid attention to his voice, yet the next morning, everyone was shocked—the parliament member had jumped to his death at midnight!

Beauty Lin and her group were stunned too; even a call came from above, "Wasn’t it said this person should not be touched?"

"He wanted to jump, what does it have to do with us," Beauty Lin could only respond like this, "Is there any evidence suggesting it was a homicide?"

Who dared to say it was a homicide? So the matter essentially ended ambiguously. Truth be told, few really liked such two-faced chameleons.

On the twenty-eighth day, the number of people coming to burn atonement incense at the Daoist Temple suddenly surged, with some even traveling from Australia just to offer a stick of atonement incense.

The Daoist Temple paid close attention to the atonement incense, but Feng Jun didn’t care about it—if you’ve made a mistake, can you solve it with a stick of incense? Then what are the police for?

Even with his list of over two hundred people, which was quite detailed, addresses couldn’t be updated in real-time, nor were there DNA records, so he couldn’t track them.

Therefore, those coming to burn atonement incense indeed escaped a disaster.

Yet the calamity continued; by the thirty-fifth day, the crowd offering atonement incense at the Daoist Temple was overwhelming—many had indeed offended the temple, but since there was no clear intention, Zhang Dongyuan couldn’t possibly note them all.

The killing spree lasted forty-six days, with more than two hundred deaths.

Originally, the killings should have ended on the forty-fifth day, but on the forty-sixth day, a journalist published an article—"Do Huaxians bring spiritual solace or environmental pollution to Gauls?"

That night, the journalist jumped to his death.

Beauty Lin couldn’t help but find Feng Jun, "The person just wrote an article, was such action necessary?"

Feng Jun, ever the sly one, maintained his usual oblivious demeanor; with his current status, there’s no need to pretend, but he found this topic unlikely to warrant discussion, "Do you know how Liu Yiliang died? He merely wrote a book."

In essence, the contest in the realm of ideas is often as futile as scratching an itch through footwear, yet when it turns brutal, it’s shocking.

This is the general situation with Qingcheng Other Court. With Feng Jun backing them—even though their capacity for retaliation is powerful: if you dare provoke me, I dare kill you—Qingcheng’s developmental environment greatly improved.

The Daoist temple in Amstan, Australia encountered relatively fewer setbacks.

Although many locals still didn’t recognize this Daoist temple, Sofia had performed miracles in public too many times, and Feng Jun had been rooted here for a long time. Coupled with the Rain Prayer Array and such, the reputation of the miraculous had far exceeded Australia, drawing many foreigners to come and worship.

Feng Jun didn’t spend much effort in Australia, but his hometown of Chaoyang took quite a bit of his time—because someone wanted to reclaim the mountainous land contracted by his father.

Ordinarily, no one would be foolish enough to provoke Feng Jun, but this indeed happened, catching even him off guard.

In fact, he was completely unjustly treated. The reason Feng Wenhui’s contracted land was investigated was solely because—Chao Ying fell from power.

Chao Ying’s brother used to be a very formidable Judicial Commissioner of Yuyuan. Later, he moved elsewhere to become a Governor, originally thinking he could develop further into the Administrative Commissioner, but he offended some people.

This matter can’t be detailed; to elaborate would mean Siless was involved. In any case, Chao Ying and her brother both fell, even involving the unlucky Big Boss, Elder Hu, from Yuyuan, inevitably leading to a series of further reckonings.

On the political map, Feng Wenhui was affiliated with Chao Ying’s faction. So, no matter how many other aspects he had, when investigating Chao Ying, they found him too.

This turmoil was significant and unstoppable by anyone’s will. Even Elder Hu withdrew; for Feng Wenhui to be caught in the sweep was perfectly normal. It was a sweeping change of tectonic plates, from which no one could escape unscathed.

If things were just this, it would have been manageable. Feng Jun’s capability could barely protect his family in such a storm, but there was no defense against those determined to dig down to the very bottom of the Chao family.

The Chao family had essentially given up resistance, falling into the "what you say is what it is" mentality. But Feng Wenhui refused to give up his family’s industry, feeling he was hit by an unprovoked disaster.

The more Feng’s father resisted, the more pressure was applied from the other side because the amount involved in the Feng Family’s land contract was significant and involved extensive construction. Only by pinning down Feng Wenhui and declaring this large project out of compliance could the Chao family be entirely nailed down.

The other side even indicated that as long as Feng Wenhui cooperated, he wouldn’t lose much on this project—their goal was never the Feng Family; however, if not cooperating, the losses could be unpredictable.

Feng Wenhui was stubborn in his principles. First, he didn’t want his family to bear any stigma since in the mountain contracting process, the operations were very proper. They even shared the road they completed with the newly developed Moon Lake tourist area.

The scenic area development was actually a catalyst, but the Feng Family withstood the county’s pressure initially, refusing to cooperate on this project.

Feng Wenhui believed he made no mistakes, even claiming merit rather than fault, so why should he admit wrongdoing?

Secondly, being past fifty, he absolutely didn’t trust the other party’s promises—despite them sounding good now, who knows what might be waiting after admitting fault.

The more he resisted, the more pressure was applied by the other side, leading the Chao family to discover that... huh, the Feng Family’s resistance seemed strong, so perhaps they could leverage it?

The Chao family somehow decided to seek life amid death. By the time matters reached this extent, even Feng Jun stepping in couldn’t easily settle it; thus, this issue dragged on for over two months, during which a series of events unfolded.

The details can’t be fully articulated; in any case, at one point, Feng Jun cut off supply of iron ore and petroleum, causing Dou Jiahui’s lighting factory to halt operations for three months, eventually forcing some to abandon suppressing the Feng Family.

Indeed, after Feng Jun got involved, the other party had softened, repeatedly stating that as long as they admitted wrongdoing and symbolically paid back a few million, the matter would be completely resolved.

Even the money wasn’t to be truly paid; they would use a pretext to reward it back to Dou Jiahui’s lighting factory.

However, Feng’s father was determined, and Feng Jun wasn’t one to suffer losses; needless to say about paying, they wouldn’t even admit any wrongdoing.

After all, the hullabaloo over this issue had quite an impact, with some slinking away, resulting in Chao Gang finally being released, albeit Chao Ying was punished thoroughly. Still, the Chao family managed to avoid the worst disaster.

Halfway through this entanglement, the secret realm of Danxia Heaven opened again. This time, not to mention Feng Jun, even Zhang Caixin didn’t participate. Only Yu Qingzhu at the Third Level of Qi Refinement, Gu Jiahui at the Qi Refining Second Layer, and Innate Expert Gao Qiang led the team.

The related gains were needless to mention, as the members of Luohua weren’t interested. In fact, they entered the secret realm mainly for battle practice, as Feng Jun wasn’t quite reassured with them trialing at Kunhao.

After the trial concluded, many, struck by the formidable combat prowess of Luohua’s members, urged their sects to strive for more Spirit Gathering Arrays.

But Spirit Gathering Arrays are only produced by Luohua and are tightly controlled, so, how to obtain them?

Hearing that even at the Qingcheng Other Court in Gaul, there was one, Daoist sects everywhere resolved—to enhance the disciples’ cultivation, consideration must be given to venturing overseas!

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