Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 821 - 768: Human Cultivators, Demon Cultivators, Demon Cultivators, and Ghost Cultivators (2)
Given the reversal that occurred when the autumn Wilderness descended, the members of the courtyard didn’t dare to act recklessly last night.
Tonight everything was normal, outside the courtyard was a vast ocean. Except for Bai Yunqi, the other members weren’t skilled in water combat, so they didn’t team up to explore the surroundings.
Hu Zhile still took Yun Mo to train in Carefree City;
Bai Yunqi and Xie Chenyuan were going through the Flood Dragon Tomb dungeon;
Qing Niao was diligently guarding the Mizhang Ridge dungeon with Yun Que; 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Yun Ying had already begun to regain her strength and could craft simple puppets, studying the Puppet House blueprint given by Jiang Yuan;
Leng Yutang was meticulously crafting fire gathering basins, occasionally chatting with Hou Ze about business progress.
The eccentric Array Master had already arrived at the Golden Carp Lake Market, excited to play a strategic game against the Demon Realm Alliance’s arrays, so much so that he didn’t even charge money, determined to build the Teleportation Array while hiding in Hou Ze’s shop!
Everyone had their own tasks to attend to, the courtyard was quietly still.
Passing by, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt nostalgic for his apprentice and Old Dog, when the place was bustling with activity, chickens flying and dogs running.
One moment he was sighing with nostalgia, and in the next moment, he was engulfed by a lively atmosphere!
"Boom boom!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Fireworks burst consecutively in the sky, the golden light shining like a rain of gold.
"I have to say, humans are indeed ingenious! Look at this, something made by mortals, both cheap and beautiful!"
"Indeed, and they are also good at making delicious food. The other day I transformed into a child, went into their city to buy pastries, the freshly made taste was amazing!"
"Thanks to the masters of Cold Spring Temple, the evil cultivators in our city are now gone; those big guys on the Wilderness were also dealt with, our days are getting better and more hopeful."
"Who told you those big guys were dealt with? I heard the Lord didn’t manage to control them and let them cause trouble outside."
"Where did they cause trouble? Did they trouble you? Talking nonsense, it was the masters of Cold Spring Temple who proactively dealt with them for our safety, warning those big guys to stay away from our Cold Spring City!"
"Hah! What kind of nonsense did you hear? Let me tell you, it wasn’t the masters of Cold Spring Temple, dare you ask them, which master dares to claim this merit? It was actually a mysterious cultivator, who was in seclusion in Cold Spring Temple, whose soul emergence was disturbed by those big guys, so he went and beat each one of them hard!"
"Mysterious cultivator? In seclusion in Cold Spring Temple? Is it true?"
"I heard from Master Zhiming, that it indeed wasn’t done by the temple’s masters. Makes sense, Buddhists are compassionate and unlikely to cause trouble. But as to who exactly is the cultivator in seclusion in Cold Spring Temple, Master Zhiming only smiled and said ’Amitabha’ without revealing anything..."
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Jiang Yuan continued on, listening to the demon cultivators of the city gossiping.
Upon closer inquiry, it turned out that it was the past re-establishment of the Jade Throne Golden Buddha, the eradication of evil cultivators, the concentration of spiritual energy, and other happy events. After preparations were completed, Cold Spring Temple was conducting a ritual to pray for the city’s people at the Beginning of Autumn Festival, hence the lively celebrations these days.
Many rumors circulated in the city, saying that those powerful demon beasts previously scattered around Cold Spring City were beaten and vanished overnight, even their subordinate demon beasts became much more subdued.
As for who dealt with them, rumors had it that it was a mysterious cultivator who killed the most evil practitioners that night, originally cultivating in the temple. The disturbances from cleaning up evil practitioners attracted those big guys, so in a rage, the mysterious cultivator dealt blows to each of them!
Jiang Yuan: ???
It does sound quite satisfying, but I wasn’t the one who did it!
The evil practitioners were indeed caught with the Chaotic Heaven Bell; as for temple cultivation, the system blocked the cultivation technique in Prajna Hall, so I just took a nice nap there.
The tales of traversing the outer realms, attracting demon beasts’ envy, giving them a beating, and so on, exaggerated with more and more embellishment, some demon cultivators even swore it was a descent of a Celestial God, reincarnation, spinning more and more out of hand.
But exaggerations aside, Cold Spring City indeed was bustling with excitement.
The autumn Wilderness descent happened conveniently not far from a royal city in the Human World.
The enormous city where the Emperor resides naturally had human cultivators stationed. Upon the descent, the Buddhist cultivators of Cold Spring Temple took the initiative to negotiate, both parties agreed not to interfere with each other.
The city protection arrays of both cities were slightly adjusted, allowing some small demons and human cultivators to visit each other.
As long as no one caused trouble on each other’s territory, everyone coexists peacefully, and it even facilitated mutual trade.
Thus, fireworks and various delicacies made by mortals began to flow into Cold Spring City.
The demon cultivators here weren’t necessarily of high realm, but being demon cultivators living in the city, it wasn’t hard for them to produce some gold and silver.
As long as they didn’t frighten or cause trouble, the merchants from the royal city liked doing business with these generous demon cultivators.
With comings and goings, under the same sky at night, Cold Spring City celebrated with fireworks, and there were some eager to join in the royal city, so the fireworks alternated across the sky in a lively manner.
"If only demon cultivators could all practice Buddhist cultivation, how wonderful that would be." Jiang Yuan sighed existentially as he basked in the strong atmosphere of fireworks.
Upon recalling the demon monk Guang Hui, he sighed again, realizing that even if they all practiced Buddhist cultivation, it’s of no use. Once revered high monks can also fall into debauchery out of greed for life and fear of death. No matter how good the law, if cultivated crookedly, it’s all in vain.
After Cold Spring Temple’s campaign to clear the evil cultivators, its incense flourished with the boost of various rumors.
At a glance, it was like looking at those Golden Week tourist photos online, a sea of heads full of people.
Probably the masters enforced "air control," except for some small novice monks performing Sword Flight to guide the traffic, there was no chaotic flying around.
Jiang Yuan followed alongside the pious believers into the temple, navigating through a vaguely familiar route, towards a somewhat secluded courtyard.
The demon cultivators who came for the ritual were simply too many, even the most remote corners were crowded. Fortunately, it didn’t hinder the system’s function. As soon as he reached the designated location, the prompt appeared successfully.
[Special Mission: Black Tortoise]
[Since the invasion of this world by the Demon Race, violent, bloody, resentful, and other negative energies have saturated the world, causing numerous repercussions. The Four Symbols Divine Beasts guarding this world have gradually fallen to resist the pollution of the Outer Heaven Demons, the Black Tortoise taking the brunt.
The power of the Divine Beast returns to the world, condensing into a new spirit.
However, the Demon Race expels the Human Race with deceitful tactics, greed, slaughter, self-destruction of roots, the spirit of the world is tainted, the new spirit develops selfish intentions and degenerates into a demon, coveting pleasure and unable to ascend.
Eight thousand years ago, the demon beast Yan Xuan, who should have ascended into the Divine Beast Black Tortoise, acted recklessly, wandering between realms, finding joy in devouring living beings.
Over seven thousand years ago, Yan Xuan wandered here, causing disaster after disaster. The Buddhist cultivators sacrificed themselves to suppress it, and it has been guarded by the fourth Abbot since, continuously converted by Buddhist scriptures, yet still obstinately wild.
Now, only the power of Vermilion Bird barely supports the Four Divine Beasts, urgently needed to guide the demon beast Yan Xuan to cleanse its sins and ascend into a Divine Beast to fulfill its duty of saving the world. Please complete the mission within the specified time to earn rich rewards.]
[Mission 1: Enter the Suppressed Fierce Beast Space, and converse with the demon beast Yan Xuan. Reward: Divinity +2]
"Oh my!" Jiang Yuan was stunned reading the details, realizing Xuanyuan Yangguang never found the Black Tortoise because it used to wander around in the external world, causing chaos and then being suppressed here!
No wonder it was the first demon beast to be polluted after reincarnation, it sure knows how to have fun, even strolled into the Otherworld.
In comparison, Elder Dragon Zhou Jian transformed into a human body and wandered around the Wilderness World, had it not for getting exposed, he might have happily married Senior Lin Yao of the Black Tortoise Pavilion;
Shi Hu didn’t even manage to enjoy the Wilderness World, kept it bottled up, and now no one knows where it’s wandering.
He pondered, the system must be impatient now, but Elder Dragon and Shi Hu’s strength are far lacking, cannot rely on them immediately; first must try to get the fake Black Tortoise out, cleaned up and in order, to take over the role of Vermilion Bird.
If not mistaken, when he last saw Abbot Master Faxian, the system details showed he had been guarding the fierce beast for over a thousand years, unable to leave the retreat location, truly painstaking.
Since accepting the mission entitles involvement, he should visit the Abbot Master for a discussion!
