Chapter 62 Control "Old monkey, we are here to do business. I heard that you always trade goods with the villagers." "We came here to buy monkey wine, why did you turn hostile?" Yan Yunyue and the other Taoists around him rode in a carriage and headed straight for Monkey Mountain in the Southern Wilderness. It was a journey of two thousand miles, traveling day and night without stopping. However, they did not expect that they would be blocked outside the mountain before they could even get into Monkey Mountain, and they were driven away as soon as they came into contact with them. "Outsiders, you have come into our wild land of Yuntu to burn and kill people, disturbing our peace. Are you here to give us snacks?" "Monkey wine? No. But I can use your skulls to make two large bowls, and your arm bones to make a pair of bone chopsticks, ah ah ah ah!" An old monkey with white eyebrows was holding a stick that reached his eyebrows. He was about two meters taller than his body, covered with gold and white fur, with a large indigo face, a bridgeless nose, and a protruding mouth. He looked very ferocious. He was wearing armor that didn't fit him well. He jumped down from the crooked old tree and shouted with his teeth bared. "People eat monsters, monsters eat people, monsters eat monsters, it's really a wild place?" "You old monkey are telling me a joke!" Yan Yunyue's face darkened as he looked at the monkeys that came out from everywhere and surrounded him and others. He clenched the wind flag in his hand tightly, and the Taoists behind him also cast their wind-controlling decrees. Accompanied by several long howls, old monkeys on the stone walls on both sides climbed up the wet moss one after another, and swung down into the forest along the green vines. The roars and cries on both sides came one after another, making the hairs of several people stand on end.
Leading the group were four old apes standing upright, with pointed mouths and thunder god faces, wearing tattered armor that they got from nowhere. They were over ten feet tall, each holding a stick, and surrounded the Taoists with a fierce look in their eyes. Several Taoists from the Wu family took a deep breath, forced themselves to remain calm, and gathered together with their backs, guarding against the hundreds of monkey demons and old apes in this forest. There are no monsters in Jiuzhou. When they came here, they imagined that monsters should be larger beasts that have become spirits. They never thought that these monsters would be so... disgusting! It has gotten rid of the bad habits of birds and beasts to forage for food on the ground. Its transverse bone has been opened, its tendons and bones are strong, its back and waist are strong, and it looks like an old monkey! It has fangs in its mouth, and looks like a cannibal. Its hind legs stand up, and its arms seem to have grown three joints, similar to human hands, and can grab sticks, knives and guns. This beast's form and bones but its imitation of human body and movements is simply disgusting. "Boss Yan, what should we do?" "How about we retreat first?" The cultivators were feeling disappointed. They looked around and found that the old apes filling the forest were too shocking, especially the old goblins, many of which did not look like monkeys. Looks like he wants to eat someone! "Retreat? You and I haven't closed our eyes for two days and two nights. We finally got here, and we're going to retreat?" "Hehe! There are so many old monsters in this world. Even a nest of old apes can scare us away. How can we cultivate on this path?" "Fight, fight hard, roll up the mighty wind formation, even if it means flattening this peach mountain, even if it means burning this hundred-mile peach forest, you must take it down for me!" Yan Yunyue's face turned grim, and he raised the Great Wind Banner outwards. It immediately turned into a fluttering banner three feet high. He held the banner with both arms and nailed it into the ground with all his might. The banner went two feet into the ground and he placed it on the top of the mountain. As soon as the big banner was raised, a sudden wind blew across the peach forest that covered several miles. All the monkeys that were clinging to the crooked trees, hanging on the old green vines, or climbing on the mossy stone walls were knocked down by the evil wind and saw stars. "What are you standing there for? Wind Sacrifice Order!" "They are just some hairy monkeys, just kill them." Yan Yunyue's eyes were full of bloodshot. After two days and two nights of running non-stop, he was numb and excited at the moment. Malice rose in his eyes, and he was about to strangle this demon nest. He was not like the Wu family's children who had grown up in the mansion picking mulberry leaves, herding livestock, fishing, and guarding their surroundings. Since I graduated from the Taoist temple, I came from a humble background and have been hanging out with the local people in the prefectures and counties for many years. I have seen all kinds of human hearts and minds. If I want to stand out, I have to be ruthless! Be ruthless to others, and even more ruthless to yourself! "A strong wind rises."
As Yan Yunyue took the lead, those old apes rushed up against the strong wind. The Taoists no longer hesitated and each cast a wind-controlling decree. Grinding gale blew out from under their feet and headed straight for the face of the old ape in the front. The strong wind was like a blade, tearing off a large piece of flesh just by passing through the old monster's face, and sometimes rolled up broken stones and sharp branches, accidentally piercing the throat of some spiritual ape! During the battle, the fruits in the peach forest fell one by one, green branches broke, rocks flew everywhere, and the originally peaceful forest turned into a mess in an instant. Monkeys all over the mountains were advancing together, but their numbers were too many. Although wind magic was most focused on momentum and was best at large-scale group attacks, it could not withstand such a large number. "Don't be stingy with your spiritual power. When have you ever failed to keep up with me, Yan Yunyue? Just create the strong wind. Leave everything else to me." "Some old apes, with no magic skills and no magic weapons, are just like killing pigs!" Yan Yunyue steadied everyone and mobilized the big wind flags, weaving the violent wind together, forming several wind rolls from bottom to top, knocking down the monkey demon in the front, and the old monster at the back stepped on it again, leaving only faint wails in the wind! The monkeys slowly formed a circle, half-crawling and running forward, avoiding most of the bone-scratching wind blades in the Gangfeng formation. In just ten or so breaths, they were within a hundred feet of the cultivators. "Wait a minute, let him in and kill him!" Yan Yunyue raised her head to look at the wind roll that was woven by the wind flags and rose into the air. She searched around for the figure of the old monkey monster with a blue face and white eyebrows with her peripheral vision. He clasped his right hand tightly on the mustard seed bag and held his breath. When the monkeys were within sixty feet, he kicked over the big wind banner and roared: "Fire talismans, fire spells, and flame spells are thrown up!" The wind flag fell, and the huge wind roll that had been stagnant in the air for a long time finally fell down, almost becoming a semicircular high-speed wind wall, cutting the monkey group in half inside and outside. The violent gale even directly rolled up the smaller monkey monsters high up. If they fell down again, they would probably not survive. Crunch! Crunch! Bang! Bang! "You guys guard the eye of this formation, and watch how I push this beast down." The cultivators only heard a strange sound of metal clashing behind them, and then saw a giant red and black object, like an iron bull, ejected, leaving only the sound of Yan Yunyue's arrogant roar echoing in its place. The red and black giant was about ten feet long, spewing red flames from its mouth. This red fire was not like ordinary flames, but like red oil. When it came into contact with the circle of wind wall, it directly lifted up the entire forest and turned it into an oil pan hell. Ah! Roar! However, no one could hear the monkey monster's roar clearly. When it spit out its flaming tongue, the fur on the monkey monsters' bodies immediately caught fire and turned into little fire monkeys. "This hot breath is so scorching!" "Open the protective shield of the robes. This hot breath can hurt your throat." Even though several Taoists were standing in the center of the wind and fire formation, they could not stand the heat of the red flames, and those who had not opened their robes' protective shields quickly opened them. Looking around, the whole mountain was ablaze. How could he tell which was the monkey monster and which was the charred wood? He couldn't find Yan Yunyue either. After a long time, Yan Yunyue was seen coming back driving a huge object. That was not an iron ox at all, but a fire river chariot! This is a powerful weapon of the Yandao sect, also known as a puppet mechanism. The Fire River Chariot, as its name suggests, is a chariot of the flames that can go up to the sky and into the earth, into the water and climb rocks. There is a big mouth on the front of the chariot that can spit out red fire. Yan Yunyue was rewarded with this treasure by the old lady of the Wu family when she entered the mansion. She once used this chariot to burn to death a casual cultivator who stole young animals from the beast garden outside Dongjun. The Fire River Chariot is extremely fierce! There were two ramming horns at the front of the Fire River Chariot, and the body of the old monkey monster with white eyebrows and blue face was hanging on one of the ramming horns! Yan Yunyue stood on the chariot, holding the red crystal-like railing with both hands, looking at the mountain fires on all sides and the scattered fleeing monkey demons, and sneered: "This monkey monster is used to bullying mortals in the wilderness. He really doesn't want to accept my toast and will be punished." "Come, take my wind pennant, and go into the cave to see what the monkey wine is like!" All the cultivators looked in a daze at the steward who had just arrived a few years ago. Although they knew that these stewards had to have special skills to be able to enter the mansion, they were also deeply shocked by the scene. The nine of them formed a Gangfeng formation, and when the formation was over, they released his Fire River Chariot. The wind helped the fire, and with just this one man and this chariot they were able to destroy the entire demon nest. No wonder Yan Yunyue put so much thought into pleasing the head of the Wu family. This Fire River Chariot alone would be enough to benefit him for the rest of his life! Let’s not talk about the great battle that took place here. The Southern Desert City is also bustling with activity now. The immortals who guard the three deserted cities have been rotated. The village chiefs in each village have sent people or gone to the deserted city in person to meet the new immortals. Unlike ordinary people, they knew the magical powers of the immortal, and could not forget the earth-shattering battle more than 20 years ago. At least, the gods in the wilderness who had enjoyed blood sacrifices for thousands of years were dead!
The thousands of miles of land east of the deserted city have all been occupied by the group of immortals. They have sown seeds and have been reaping rich rewards year after year. In recent days, a "Taoism" called Taiping Dao has emerged in the Southern Wilderness. Yes, they call themselves Taoism, worship Huang Tian, and require believers to kneel down and worship the God of Heaven! Of course, as believers, they would give a yellow talisman to those who encountered illness. Burning the yellow talisman and immersing it in clean water would instantly cure the disease. It worked every time. In just a few days, there were thousands of followers. What's more, some people claimed that they had dreamt of the God of Heaven, who granted them supernatural powers and made them grow several feet taller overnight. The most outrageous is the Taiping Dao doctrine, which promotes the way of goodness in order to "achieve peace". It wants everyone to be free from exploitation and oppression, hunger, cold, disease, disasters, fraud and theft, and to be free and happy. Then a believer asked the yellow-robed preacher: "Master, I seek goodness, food and shelter, freedom, and happiness, but this world is cruel and I cannot live. Why?" The Yellow-robed Preacher said, “Since this is the case, keep the good path in mind and seek survival for yourself.” The believer asked: "The world is full of dangers. The thieves in the temple sacrificed my younger brother to the river god. The demons in the wilderness took my father and grandfather as blood food. The local bullies bullied my weak body and humiliated me in every way. How can I survive?" The yellow-robed preacher said again: "If you want peace, you should have good thoughts in your heart, but if there are evils everywhere in the world, you should fight hard!" "I will teach you a way to stop killing by killing. This is called the Way of Peaceful Killing!" So, the Yellow-robed Preacher gave the young man a magic crossbow and a Yellow Heaven Token. (End of this chapter)