High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 160 - 114: Divine Farmer Bureau, Demon Shedding Technique (Double - )
"Hoo..."
Shen Xingzhu took a deep breath, calmed down, and gently lifted her hand. Invisible Spiritual Qi acted like a massive hand, restoring the mountain peak that had split in two, averting its imminent collapse.
The rubble and dust gathered together, merging the mountain peak into one. However, from top to bottom, a fissure that could not be bridged remained.
Originally, there was a spring pond atop this mountain. Now, due to this fissure, it leaked beside it, forming a straight and slender silver waterfall.
Who knows, years from now, will the local residents witnessing this spectacle give this waterfall the name "Feixian Waterfall"...
Shen Xingzhu squinted her eyes, looking into the distance.
From where she stood, she could effortlessly see the broad Jade Wave River.
Both banks had turned to scorched earth, with no trees spared. Amidst the vast surrounding lush forest, an abrupt patch of pitch-black land stood out prominently.
That was the battlefield of the Yihuo Sect and Chen Kuang.
Shen Xingzhu could now clearly sense the position of Shen Meinan, in other words, she could almost instantly get to that brazen, untrustworthy fellow.
But at this moment, she did not come for Chen Kuang.
Because after today, Chen Kuang would no longer be her Heart Demon, while she would also face some prices difficult for ordinary people to accept.
However... perhaps it shouldn’t be called a price.
Shen Xingzhu let out a breath, took a deep look at the bank of the Jade Wave River, and thought:
"Originally, I could have helped you delay until leaving the Liang Kingdom, but now, you broke the agreement first."
"Heh... you are indeed extremely clever, yet limited by cultivation level, missed something."
"This decision was supposed to be made long ago. Had Meinan not run away from home, I would have already lost patience long before. Today, it’s time to end everything."
Shen Xingzhu once again transformed into a stream of light.
Soon she reached the eastern border of the Liang Kingdom.
Here was a chain of undulating, rugged mountains named Qishan Mountain, marking the border between the Liang Kingdom and the Yang Kingdom.
The water of the Jade Wave River flowed out from the canyon between these mountains and was renamed Da Ping River in the Yang Kingdom segment.
Due to the treacherous terrain, few ventured here, but there was still a checkpoint meant to have some Liang Kingdom soldiers stationed.
However, after the Liang Kingdom’s defeat, these soldiers fled upon hearing the news, afraid of becoming cannon fodder, leaving a chaotic garrison.
The Great Zhou hadn’t originally sent soldiers to garrison here, but now, a few campfires flickered at the site.
It seemed someone was here.
As Shen Xingzhu approached, several thick and vast auras suddenly erupted within the camp, carrying a vigilant hostility.
These auras were all at the Grandmaster level!
But then, seemingly recognizing the visitor’s identity, the auras suddenly calmed somewhat.
In the night, three figures flew out from the camp, saluting Shen Xingzhu from afar in midair.
These three, the leading figure wearing a wide blue robe, was a broad-forehead elder.
On the right was a pale-faced youth with a round fan at his waist, appearing chronically ill.
To the left was a middle-aged beautiful woman in a neat and solemn white palace dress, holding a heavy bunch of rice.
"We have been waiting for a long time, Fellow Daoist Shen."
Shen Xingzhu paused midair, her cool and transcendent figure in the night more pristine than the moon.
Returning the greeting, she softly said, "There’s no need for such courtesy from you, seniors."
Though she spoke thus, the three did not truly comply, merely smiling, with the robe-wide elder saying:
"With Fellow Daoist Shen assisting and a teacher overseeing, this operation will certainly be a definite success in re-suppressing the great demon."
Shen Xingzhu replied, "We still have to rely on the Divine Farmer Bureau."
The youth with a round fan at his waist chuckled, "It’s nothing, our Divine Farmer Bureau’s duty is to manage demons for the world, this task precisely our responsibility."
It turned out these three were Commanders of the Divine Farmer Bureau of Zhou Kingdom.
"Rain Master," "Wind Marquis," and "Jiren" were respectively most skilled in "Rain," "Wind," and "Life" techniques.
Though the Divine Farmer Bureau was located in the Zhou Kingdom, its relationship with the Great Zhou Court wasn’t close, unlike the Three Tribulations Sect which almost became the national sect of Great Zhou.
However, the Divine Farmer Bureau was initially established by the Great Zhou Court as an organization dedicated to suppressing demons, not a sect.
But later, Zhou Kingdom experienced a demon upheaval, almost losing the throne to demons, finally foiled by the Divine Farmer Bureau who identified and slew the demon.
This upheaval led to Zhou Kingdom’s gradually rising power, annexing other countries, reducing small nations, unifying the previously chaotic calendar, with many countries adopting the current "Cangyuan Calendar."
It has been just over a millennium since.
Yet this process seemed extremely complicated, leading the Great Zhou Royal Family to develop a great rift of distrust towards the Divine Farmer Bureau.
After that, the Divine Farmer Bureau took the opportunity to escape royal control and grew stronger.
Until today, becoming a major sect with hunting demons as the creed, and its main stronghold now not in Zhou but in the Yang Kingdom.
In Liang Kingdom, there were places like the Jiangning Commerce Association where demon beasts could be bought and sold freely, and even demon race cultivators roamed freely.
But in Great Zhou or Yang Kingdom, the demon race dared not reveal themselves.
If discovered by Divine Farmer Bureau, being immediately killed might even be considered lucky.
