Chapter 1 Encounter in Jianzhou

In the land of Liaodong, Jianzhou Camp City, a strange powerhouse arrived. This person's face was extremely young, seemingly in his early twenties, with a buzz cut, wearing blood-stained clothes, a brass longsword stuck in his waist, and two command flags hanging behind him, like an old general from the opera stage....

The blood-clothed man walked all the way to the place in the city where Nurhaci's family members lived, and met the women left behind by Nurhaci.

Fuca....

Heaven and earth suddenly converged, black mist surged, but there was no evil aura, but rather a majestic immortal might.

"A Northern Black-Clothed Earth Immortal? The Black Fox of Tiesha Mountain?"

There was only immortal might in the black mist, but no response. The two immortal-like figures said to the blood-clothed man, "This place is the territory of the Shaman religion, blessed by nature and held by the Earth Immortal. Who are you to dare to act wildly here?"

As they spoke, the appearances of these two people actually began to change, from delicate men into radiant women.

"Manchu Goddess Eyunt, who controls the wind and snow of Changbai Mountain."

"Dorong Gege, the legendary brave female archery god."

The blood-clothed man was very surprised: "The Jurchen's faith is attached to the Great Ming. Without the Great Ming's conferral, it should be impossible for divine positions to appear here."

"Faith is just an illusory thought beneath the Great Dao. Even the White Lotus Sect, the Yellow Turban Sect, and the Odor-Scent Sect, these thieves of incense of the Great Ming Zhu Dynasty, cannot condense powerful divine positions. After all, things obtained by theft are ultimately false."

"This wasn't condensed by Changsheng Tiangong (Eternal Life Heavenly Palace) to help you... So that's how it is, there are still other people helping you here. You actually dare to hide it from Changsheng Tiangong and secretly condense false divine positions... Without the Great Ming's conferral, then you are evil gods. It would be better to kill you to avoid conflicts in our cooperative relationship in the future."

"Changbai Mountain hermits, no matter which power is behind you, at least in Biao Shanhe (Outer Mountains and Rivers), there are few who can stand against me. If I see you, I will kill you without mercy!"

The blood-clothed man smiled, looked at these two native virtual gods of Changbai Mountain, shook the brass longsword in his hand, and chanted:

"Wu Wu Ri Dao, Yi Shu Xuan Xuan!"

The Laozi Li Er holy name suddenly appeared on the brass sword, and the Yin-Yang Taiji diagram formed and reversed. Suddenly, the peaceful and auspicious aura was replaced by a large amount of surging murderous aura.

"Weapons are inherently ominous; the sage only uses them when absolutely necessary!"

........

In Jianzhou territory, golden light soared into the sky on the Five Dragon Mountain of Dandong. A sixteen-year-old girl with beast hands, wearing silver armor, draped in a large red robe, holding the Azure Dragon and White Tiger Twin Swords, hid two Yin-Yang Qiankun Golden Balls in her sleeves.

A phantom of a giant red python seemed to be on her body.

"Fellow Daoist, hold on!"

This girl landed; the person in front of her was the blood-clothed man.

At this time, the blood-clothed man was holding several young children in his arms, hypnotizing and capturing several teenagers behind him, and dragging the blood-covered Chuying on the ground, leaving a long bloodstain.

"Oh, the Earth Immortal of Changbai Mountain, the Golden Flower Matriarch..."

"Did Kaitian Hongshengdi (Opening Heaven Great Sage Emperor) send you out one by one because he is dissatisfied with our unauthorized intrusion?"

"So what if he did? You still have to endure it, otherwise, do you still want to kill me?"

"But I didn't go on a killing spree. I just chopped down two Earth Immortals, seized two false divine positions... What, are you going to tell me who is behind you?"

The Golden Flower Matriarch, in the form of a girl, had a gloomy face: "Fellow Daoist, this Changbai Mountain territory is not a place where you can come and go as you please...! You have kidnapped people in my territory; you must give an explanation."

"Nurhaci has defected to us; isn't that explanation enough? Now that he is dead, the higher-ups sent me to take his children away; otherwise, his descendants will be ruined, and our arrangement will fail."

The blood-clothed man chuckled: "I know you also want to snatch these children. After all... Suddenly appearing divine positions, and suddenly appearing Earth Immortals, can you local immortals and saints of Changbai Mountain not know about this?"

The Golden Flower Matriarch stared at the blood-clothed man: "Who exactly are you?"

She couldn't see through the aura of the person in front of her, and she felt that this person seemed to be looming, as if he wasn't in the mortal world. She couldn't see through the other party's realm, only knowing that the other party was very strong, extremely powerful.

She thought to herself that as a thirteenth-realm innate great power, she was already close to reaching the peak of cultivation, yet she still had no confidence in dealing with the person in front of her.

Moreover, the intermittent aura on the other party gave her an extremely strange and ominous feeling.

"Who exactly are you?"

"I am Zhou Sheng, the Blood Rain Lord from outside Zhongnan Mountain!"

Upon hearing these words, the Golden Flower Matriarch was immediately shocked:

"You are that black miasma energy that escaped from an unknown realm in the seventh year of Zhengde, came to the Yang world, and transformed into a human form!"

In the seventh year of Zhengde, blood rain poured down for ten days. A black miasma energy transformed from an unknown realm, took on a human form and called itself Zhou Sheng, pretending to be a Daoist disciple. He encountered a monster transformed from a black fox, fought with it, killed it, and then set fire to burn the village and killed hundreds of people;

In the eighth year of Zhengde, Zhou Sheng obtained magic in Zhongnan Mountain and was hunted down by the people of Zhongnan Mountain, disappearing without a trace;

In the thirteenth year of Zhengde, two dragons, one black and one white, fought. Zhou Sheng emerged in response to the disaster, bathed in dragon blood, slaughtered several villages, replenished his blood energy, and disappeared again.

Her expression became serious. Black miasma energy was a well-known disaster. No wonder she couldn't see through the realm of the person in front of her and even felt the ominous aura on the other party. It turned out that the other party was not a living person but a monster transformed into a human form!

"Do you think I'm ominous? That's right. Before you elves reach pure Yang, your cultivation path itself is somewhat inclined towards the Yin element. This is determined by your roots and origins, so you will be frightened when you encounter me."

The blood-clothed man Zhou Sheng smiled. At this time, several more rays of light appeared around them, or clouds and mist. These were all the elven immortals of Jianzhou. Among them, the black cloud rolled in, the Old Black Woman of Tiesha Mountain, and a ghostly aura accompanied by a cool breeze.

In the clouds and mist, the Earth Immortals spoke:

"Zhou Sheng, we know you are not human, so we won't bother to talk about relationships with you! Let us say this, although you are a black miasma demon, the Kaitian Hongshengdi is also in the mountains and can come here in an instant. We don't believe you are not afraid of pure Yang power!"

"Put down a few of Nurhaci's children, and our faces will look better. Otherwise, none of these kids will survive today. Even if we kill them, we will never let you take them out of Jianzhou territory!"

Someone else said, "The sword in your hand is the Supreme Limitless Sword of Louguan Dao. You stole it from Zhongnan Mountain, and now you dare to use it so openly. Do you really think that there are no Louguan Dao successors in Biao Shanhe who can deal with you?"

Zhou Sheng immediately laughed: "Then come and kill me, kill all these children! Anyway, the people behind you also want to support a new dynasty, right? Kill them all, let's stare at each other with big eyes and laugh together!"

At this moment, there was no sound from the clouds and mist. After a long while, someone asked:

"You said Nurhaci is dead, is that true?"

Zhou Sheng pointed to the south: "Of course it's true. His soul was beaten into the Fengdu Dharma Realm, his wishes returned to our Changsheng Tiangong, and his body, well, it was probably crushed into slag."

"Offending a soaring expert is not so easy to escape."

Shocked voices immediately came from the clouds and mist:

"What did you say, a soaring expert?! Where is there a soaring expert in Biao Shanhe!"

Zhou Sheng laughed loudly, not minding: "There wasn't one in the past, but there is now! The national fortune of the Great Ming has returned, and two soaring experts have emerged. I advise your Kaitian Hongshengdi to quickly remove the title of emperor that the Jin Kingdom conferred on himself, and stop proclaiming it everywhere."

"After all, now that Nurhaci has been killed by the Great Ming, maybe the Great Ming will have a brain fart, blood rush to the head, can't control their soldiers, and come up with another 'Wanli Plowing the Court'."

"Someday, a soaring expert will come knocking on your door... Changbai Mountain, you have to prepare early! Pure Yang realm, heh! Is it so amazing?"

"But then again, these soaring experts are obstacles to the establishment of a new dynasty. While there are only two of them, you might as well put the energy you are using to deal with me into dealing with them. After all, Nurhaci wasn't killed by me..."

The many spirit immortals in the clouds and mist were immediately furious:

"The reason why Nurhaci died in Shuntian must be inseparable from you! Stop trying to clear yourself here! Changsheng Tiangong, we have remembered this name!"

"Zhou Sheng! Tell your Changsheng Tiangong's fellow disciples in Biao Shanhe! Do not step into Jianzhou again, otherwise we will kill them without mercy as well!"

Seeing that there was no way to divert the trouble, Zhou Sheng snorted twice in his heart, secretly thinking that these guys were all bullying the weak and fearing the strong. Why didn't they vent their dissatisfaction on the soaring experts?

So, he casually threw a few children on the snow. The other side of the clouds and mist rolled up these children and took them away.

As for Hong Taiji, he was of course left behind by Zhou Sheng. Zhou Sheng believed that this child must be the person Cao Taixu wanted.

A gloomy voice came from the clouds and mist:

"Jianzhou has undergone a major change. Nurhaci is dead, and Shuerhazi should be dead too, right?"

"Old White Woman, please help us divine it!"

........

Watching those Earth Immortals leave, Zhou Sheng also left here, but couldn't help thinking in his heart:

(Without stirring up the hatred of the Jianzhou immortals, they will not attack the Great Ming now and will protect themselves.)

(The era of the Pure Yang realm deterring the world is over... These two new soaring experts are indeed extremely deterrent to the surrounding countries. One is Zhang Tianshi, and the other's origins are a mystery, said to be from the end of the Han Dynasty, who knows.)

(But, if you want those around to attack the Great Ming, create a chaotic world, and benefit from it, then the first target to attack... must be to kill these two soaring experts, at least one of them...)

"I wonder who I will join hands with to attack a soaring expert?"

"But, if you want a soaring expert to fail, then you have to..."

"Gather the wishes of more than ten thousand people to have a certain degree of influence on a soaring expert... In that case, the White Lotus Sect and its various branches are very good choices."

"The Ming court would not have thought that after they defined all the different sects as the White Lotus Sect, although the teachings within the White Lotus Sect were completely chaotic and confused, the wishes and casual believers that the White Lotus Sect possessed became stronger and stronger."

"That's right, Cao Taixu said to change your name..."

Zhou Sheng suddenly remembered something, looked at the little baby Hong Taiji, thought for a while, and decided:

"Your luck will not change because your name changes, but changing your name will prevent anyone from divining you in Biao Shanhe. I will hide your true name and create a new name for you."

"From now on, you will be called—Shen Kui."