Chapter 212: Sowing discord and driving the tiger to devour the wolf

“Sister, others may not know, but you should know it very clearly. The roots of the Tianqiao Mountain are in ancient Western Buddhism. That group of people look down on our demon race the most. They always call us “furry and horned” and “born from eggs”.

“It was not until our generation, when there was no one to take over, that Master accepted us two demons. This was because he valued our water and fire bloodlines. Before that, all the temple masters were human. But even so, Master would never be nice to us on weekdays? If there was any good thing, wouldn’t he give it to the other three?

“Master died suddenly while pregnant and did not designate a successor. This is our last chance. If we fail to become the mountain master this time, those of us born in the demon tribe will never have another chance. We will always be what they call “furry and horned” people.”

Cheng Xinzhan persuaded him one sentence after another.

Xue Linglong’s eyes flickered. She waited until Cheng Xinzhan finished speaking before she asked,
“We? But there is only one mountain master.”

Cheng Xinzhan looked directly at Xue Linglong and said in a deep voice,

“After the matter is accomplished, I will be the mountain master and you will be the deputy mountain master. We will rule Tianshao Mountain together with water and fire. In addition, to make up for your loss, I will kill Li Laogui and the dragon bone will belong to you. In addition, when I become the mountain master, the snake corpse with Xiangliu bloodline left by my master under Tianshao Mountain will also be given to you!”

Xue Linglong’s heart skipped a beat. If he could get the dragon bones and Xiangliu, then whether he became the mountain master or deputy mountain master would just depend on his own decision, right?
But Xue Linglong knew that there was no such good thing in the world, so she asked,
“Then why do you do everything for me? Stop talking to me about suspicion between humans and demons, and tell me the truth.”

Cheng Xinzhan also smiled when he heard this, and then said solemnly,

“Master, I want to learn the method of getting pregnant by “controlling the white flow”. And you know that the masters of Tianqiao Mountain have always been men. This is due to the ancient Buddha’s habit of favoring boys over girls. But more importantly, we only have the method of getting pregnant by “controlling the white flow” in Tianqiao Mountain, and we don’t have the method of “leaving the red leak”, so this is useless to you.”

The woman was stunned when she heard this, thinking that this was why he did this. But then she changed her mind and realized that this was indeed the biggest reason why he wanted to seek the position of mountain master. If there was no method, no matter how the pill was washed, it would not reach the fourth realm.

But if this is the requirement, then it is not impossible to discuss. Even if there is a four-level method, it is not so easy to conceive a Nascent Soul. Didn’t the master die in utero? Can he succeed alone?
Getting the dragon bones and Xiangliu yourself is the real benefit.

Cheng Xinzhan looked at Xue Linglong without rushing her, waiting for her to think slowly.

What he said about the existence of “Zhi Bai Liu” but not “Li Chi Lou” was the truth of Tian Jiao Mountain. The method passed down from generation to generation by the masters of Tian Jiao Mountain has always been a pain point in the hearts of mandrills and snake monsters. Snake monsters are female and cannot practice it. Although mandrills are male, they have been looked down upon because they are demons. Therefore, it is not his turn according to the normal inheritance.

As for the origins of the methods of “Controlling the White Flow” and “Leaving the Red Leak”, they are actually the sayings of ancient Buddhism. In Taoism, they are called “Subduing the White Tiger” and “Slaying the Red Dragon”, which are respectively the means for male and female practitioners to lock up their life essence.

Cheng Xinzhan patiently waited for Xue Linglong’s response. From the mandrill’s memory, the mandrill and this woman had always had a good relationship, which provided the basis for a union. Now both parties had their own needs, and most importantly, their interests were irrelevant. She could not practice the method he wanted, and the dragon bones and snake corpses promised to her were indeed not particularly useful to the mandrill.

Both parties have sufficient motivation, so there is no need to worry that she will not be tempted.

The woman thought for a long time and said only one sentence:
“Please come back.”

Hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan was not surprised. If he could succeed by just going to the door and promoting it, that would be strange. So he just smiled and nodded.
“If you want to talk to someone next time, come to the Fire Temple and find me!”

Xue Linglong did not answer.

Cheng Xinzhan didn’t take it seriously and turned around and walked out of the water temple.

—-

Two days later, inside the Fire Temple.

“Lord, will the snake demon agree?”

Wu Qingbo asked.

Among the five temples in Tianshao Mountain, the three temples of Fire, Water and Wood were the murderers who directly massacred his village. He wished that they all died sooner.

Cheng Xinzhan closed his eyes and meditated, using the Yang Fire Thunder Talisman to refine the inner pill of the mandrill. The poor quality of the demon pill was really unbearable for him. When he heard Wu Qingbo couldn’t help asking, he replied,
“Even if you use the flying sword, it will still take some time to take effect. Just let the flying sword fly for a while.”

After hearing this, Wu Qingbo had no choice but to agree.

“Master! Master Xue wants to see you!”

Just at this moment, a report came from outside the temple.

“Look, here it comes.”

Cheng Xinzhan opened his eyes.

He knew that Xue Linglong would not let go of this opportunity. Both the dragon bone and the Xiangliu were treasures that would influence Xue Linglong’s path. Moreover, there was a chance that he could become the deputy mountain master and sit in the position of the master. Why not fight for it?
As for these two days, it goes without saying that he must have gone to find Old Ghost Li in the Wooden Temple to find out the truth.

“please come in!”

Cheng Xinzhan said something.

So soon, Xue Linglong entered the Fire Temple and came to him.

Xue Linglong was seen frowning, as if the hot atmosphere here made her very uncomfortable. After coming in, her eyes naturally fell on the ferocious and burly Hanba first. The giant with six arms and twelve eyes was truly breathtaking.

“No wonder brother has such great ambitions. With this corpse in hand, it seems that brother has gained a lot of confidence.”

Xue Linglong came to Cheng Xinzhan and said.

Cheng Xinzhan smiled and asked,
“Sister, have you gone to see old ghost Li?”

Xue Linglong’s face instantly darkened.

“Yes, I went to find him. I believed what my brother said, but Li Laogui and my sister are also quite close. I can’t let him die in vain.”

Cheng Xinzhan laughed in his heart, but his face showed a curious expression.
“Oh, what did my sister say, and what did Old Ghost Li say?”

Xue Linglong heard this and said angrily,
“I was lamenting that the dragon girl’s body had been refined to the extreme, but now it was held back by the dragon bones. If there was any dragon treasure that could be refined into it, it would definitely be a different scene. I am willing to pay any price. However, after hearing this, he avoided the topic and did not respond to the dragon treasure. So I released the dragon girl for him to see, in fact, I wanted her to detect whether he had the dragon power.”

“What was the result?” Cheng Xinzhan asked.

“He really has it!”

Xue Linglong’s voice was even colder than the stream water in the water temple.

Ah!
Cheng Xinzhan sneered in his heart. Of course he had the Dragon Power! He drank the Dragon Power that he had personally sent to him. It had only been a few days, so it was impossible for him to refine it completely, so naturally he couldn’t hide the lingering Dragon Power!
Cheng Xinzhan did not lie to Xue Linglong. After he became the Hanba, Li Laogui from the Wooden Temple really came to ask for benefits. However, what he wanted was certainly not the dragon blood crystal, because the stories about traveling to the Southern Wilderness, encountering a monk by chance, and the dragon traces in Wujiang were all made up by him!
That day, Li Laogui was just acting like a rogue and asking for an exorbitant price. Of course, I could just give him nothing and send him away, but if I didn’t make good use of this opportunity, I wouldn’t be Cheng Xinzhan.

He pretended to be weak because of the excessive blood loss in refining Hanba, and asked Li Laogui to take care of him, and was willing to give him a wisp of dragon energy he had obtained in his early years. Li Laogui was so happy that he lost his composure on the spot, and said that he did not despise the origin of the mandrill, and wanted to become brothers with the mandrill!

Cheng Xinzhan was not afraid of Xue Linglong asking, because the relationship between the two was just superficial, far from the level of asking about the adventures and secret treasures. In other words, there was no such relationship in the Demon Sect, and any adventures and secret treasures of his would never be told to others, even the master and the apprentice had to keep it secret.

The fact that he could tell Xue Linglong about the fabricated story of the Wujiang dragon’s tracks showed that he was extremely sincere!
Therefore, when Xue Linglong went to ask Li Laogui, he could only ask him indirectly about the matter of Long Bao, and Li Laogui naturally would not tell him about drinking Long Gang. He would definitely avoid the subject, and the two of them would talk for ten days or half a month without either of them telling the other the truth.

Therefore, as long as Li Laogui has the dragon’s power, Xue Linglong will believe 99% of what Cheng Xinzhan said. One has dragon blood, and the other has dragon’s power. If someone says that this is an opportunity that the two of them got by chance, Xue Linglong doesn’t believe it at all. She has been looking for Long Bao for so many years, why hasn’t she come across the opportunity?

There are only two ways to break this situation. One is that Old Ghost Li really takes out a dragon bone and gives it to Xue Linglong, or he takes out Long Gang and explains it clearly to Xue Linglong. Otherwise, Xue Linglong will definitely want to kill him!
Of course, both of these paths are impossible for Li Laogui.

“I am willing to tell my sister the truth, but now it seems that Old Ghost Li is unwilling to do so.”

Cheng Xinzhan shook his head and sighed, “But if my sister still refuses to take action, it’s fine for me to continue planning alone. I just hope that my sister will pretend that she doesn’t know because I’m being frank with her.”

“Cuckoo~”

Xue Linglong covered her mouth and laughed, “I didn’t know that my brother had the heart of a daughter, and he deliberately said such words to make people laugh.”

After some laughter, Xue Linglong’s expression slowly darkened and he said,

“Brother, you will be the mountain master. The pregnancy method will be yours. I will be the deputy mountain master. The dragon bone and Xiangliu will be mine. Other than that, I will split the master’s treasures 50-50.”

“Sister, you are calculating too much. You don’t need the pregnancy method, but the dragon bone and Xiangliu are the best things. Even if the rest of Master’s things are added together, they are probably more valuable than these two. You still want a 50-50 split, which is impossible.”

“Then it’s 40-60. We will also divide Li Laogui’s things and the wooden temple corpse cellar 40-60.”

“Eight, no more words.”

“Three-seven.”

“it is good!”

Cheng Xinzhan’s eyes sparkled, and he said,

“Sister, you have to think it through. This is a road of no return. After killing old ghost Li, you still have to deal with the two temples of Jin and Tu. Don’t give up after you get the dragon bone and taste the sweetness. If you do that, you will be left alone and in a dilemma.”

Xue Linglong laughed, “Brother doesn’t trust me and underestimates me. Now that things have come to this, if we really start fighting, how can a dragon bone satisfy me?”

Cheng Xinzhan’s eyes were burning. “Sister, if you want to do something big, then I am not afraid to say something ugly in advance. How about swearing an oath?”

Xue Linglong nodded. If she didn’t swear an oath, she would be even more worried about this kind of thing, especially after seeing the devil-like Hanba. If he killed Li Laogui, she would become the second ghost. After swearing an oath, everyone would feel at ease.

“Brother, tell me, what oath do you swear?”

Cheng Xinzhan looked at Xue Linglong and said, “Of course it’s the Yuanshen oath!”

Xue Linglong raised her eyebrows when she heard this, a little surprised.

Oaths are very interesting. They do not impose any constraints on mortals, but they do impose heavy constraints on cultivators. After all, heaven has eyes and everything has its purpose. Cultivators cultivate the spiritual power of heaven and earth, so they will naturally be restricted by it.

There are many oaths in the world, the most famous ones are the oaths of mountains and seas and the oaths of heaven and earth. Those are oaths that can only be made by the True Immortals of the Five Realms or even the powerful ones in the immortal realm with the land of harmony with the Tao or the foundation of becoming an immortal. There are also common ones such as the Golden Elixir Oath and the Primordial Spirit Oath. Even minor cultivators can take blood oaths.

The oaths between monks naturally cannot be made without any basis. The oaths between monks are often inseparable from talismans and spells.

After seeing Xue Linglong nod, Cheng Xinzhan cut his finger, drew a blood symbol in the air, and said,

“Shan Xingwei swears here that today I will form a friendly alliance with Xue Linglong, aiming to take the position of the leader of Tianshao Mountain and attack the three temples. After the success, Xue Linglong will be appointed as the deputy leader. After the success, I will not take the dragon bones of Li Xiahuai or the Xiangliu of my deceased master. In addition, I will give Xue Linglong 30% of all the benefits. If you break the oath, your soul will collapse and your corpse will be your witness!”

Xue Linglong watched the oath talisman taking shape in the air. The head of the talisman was a skull with flames on it, the orifice was the shadow of Lord Shita, and the tail was a lotus formed by two metacarpal bones supported by each other. She recognized that this was the oath talisman unique to Tianshao Mountain and it could not be fake.

She repeated the oath that Cheng Xinzhan had recited twice in her mind, and thought that there was nothing wrong with it. She even felt that Cheng Xinzhan was very sincere, so she cut her blood and merged it into the oath, and recited,
“I, Xue Linglong, swear here that I will form an alliance with Shan Xingwei today to attack the three temples. After the success, I will respect Shan Xingwei as the mountain master and give up the method of my late master’s pregnancy. I will only take the dragon bone of Li Xiahuai and the Xiangliu of my late master. Other than that, I will give Shan Xingwei 70% of all the benefits. If you break the oath, your soul will collapse and your corpse will be your witness!”

The blood of the Xiao and the blood of the snake merged together to form an oath talisman of bone and blood. As the spell fell, the oath talisman split into two, entering the center of the eyebrows of the two people and imprinting on their souls.

Both men breathed a sigh of relief.

“Brother, since you came to my sister’s house first, I guess you have already thought of a way to deal with Li Laogui?”

Xue Linglong asked.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Xinzhan shook his head and said, “Old Ghost Li and I have always been at odds. Last time he helped me go to Longbo Village, it was you who acted as the middleman. We don’t deal with each other often, so I’ll have to trouble you to give me some advice.”

Xue Linglong chuckled. This old baboon not only had a bad relationship with the Wood Temple, but actually had bad relationships with the other three temples as well. On weekdays, he only visited his own Water Temple.

How to take down Li Laogui is something that needs careful thought. After all, we cannot make too much noise, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with if the Tu and Jin temples find out. Once we have completely taken control of the Mu Temple, we won’t be restricted in dealing with the Tu and Jin temples.

(End of this chapter)