Chapter 177 176. May, killing parents (please subscribe!)
The moment Xu Qing saw these cloud insects and the blue-white beads they spit out to strengthen the rain clouds in the sky, he realized a terrible fact -

Behind the natural disaster, there are people fanning the flames.

Some people are trying to make natural disasters affect a wider area and cause greater harm.

And it was done blatantly right under their noses, using some tiny bugs that no one would pay attention to, in a way that was a small effort but achieved great results!
Through Bai Lualiao's narration, Xu Qing had a general understanding of the habits of this cloud insect.

When there is no rain, cloud insects will hide quietly in the cracks of rocks. Ordinary people and cultivators will not go out of their way to turn over rocks to look for these insects.

Even if I see it, I won’t care too much.

Insects and the like are very common. It is normal for some insects to hide in the cracks of rocks.

No one will care, and no one will think there is something wrong!
Only when it rains will these cloud insects crawl out from the cracks in the rocks and turn their breath into clouds.

But at this time, most ordinary people were hiding from the rain, so they wouldn't care about the insects crawling out of the woods and rocks and spitting out breath.

Cultivators would not pay attention to these tiny insects that are not even as good as ordinary animals.

Xu Qing's eyes were solemn. He had to inform the temple and the court of this news immediately. He couldn't let these insects continue to intensify the rain.

Xu Qing waved his hand, and the vital energy in his body surged, and the cloud insects lying on the rocks fell into his palm one after another.

"Laolao, please come with me next. The matter concerning these insects involves the safety of countless people, so please lend us a helping hand!"

Xu Qing paused, and then continued: "And you said that these bugs have the scent of the thief who stole something from your village. Obviously, these bugs are the work of that thief."

“So our goals are aligned!”

Bai Lele blinked his eyes and said, "Big brother, do you have food and shelter?"

Xu Qing couldn't help but smile: "Of course."

"Then I promise big brother." A hint of joy flashed across Bai Lele's face. "Big brother is right, our goals are the same."

Xu Qing rolled his eyes at him, his big, round, bright eyes flickering with a faint light, as if there were stars floating in them.

"Let's go then!"

Xu Qing flew up with his Yuan Qi. He deliberately did not bring Bai Lele with him. He just said, "Lele, follow me from now on."

He was still a little wary of Bai Lele.

"Okay." Bai agreed, then took out a centipede about the length of a finger from the insect bottle hanging around his waist.

When thrown into the sky, the insect swelled up in the wind, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a flying centipede that was more than ten feet long and had six wings on its back, like dragonfly wings.

Bai Lele leaped up and sat on the head of the six-winged centipede. He patted the solid shell under him and said, "Dragon King, follow big brother."

Xu Qing looked at the six-winged centipede for several times, and now she understood why her family let her go out to chase the thief.

A poisonous insect that is at the fourth realm or almost the fifth realm can go anywhere in the world except for a few places.

What's more, this flying centipede may not be Bai La La's greatest reliance.

The two of them galloped all the way and soon arrived at the river.

"Junior uncle?" Senior Brother Yinshan, Taoist Anyuan and other disciples who were setting up a water-suppressing formation noticed the commotion and all looked over.

"Senior Brother Yinshan, Senior Brother Anran" Xu Qing landed on the river and immediately spoke in a deep voice: "I found something very troublesome."

After hearing what Xu Qing said and looking at his expression, Senior Brother Yinshan and Taoist Anran became serious and listened attentively.

Xu Qing briefly told the two about the cloud worm.

"It's a cloud insect." Taoist An Ran casually grabbed it, and one of the cloud insects that Xu Qing took out flew up and landed on his palm.

"The natural disaster predicted by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory was clearly only of the 'earth-covering' level, but now it is getting worse and worse, and the scope of influence is getting wider and wider. The reason is actually caused by this little bug?!"

"The person behind this is really clever. He used a bug that no one cares about to go with the flow and intensify the natural disaster."

After hearing this, Senior Brother Yinshan also looked solemn.

This method is not particularly clever, it is just a cover-up. However, compared with those practices that pay a huge price to induce natural disasters, it undoubtedly has the meaning of "following the will of heaven".

Today's natural disasters are destined by heaven, and the people behind the scenes just gave it a push.

It's like setting a few more fires in a raging wildfire, making the fire burn even more fiercely.

It is naturally difficult for firefighters to detect the man-made fires in the wildfire.

"Two senior brothers, should we ask the government to arrange personnel to deal with these insects immediately?" Xu Qing suggested.

"It's useless." Senior Brother An Ran shook his head. "It's too late. It's been raining for months. It's useless to wipe out these cloud bugs now."

"According to the divination of the Kyoto Astronomical Bureau, this natural disaster will only last until mid-May. After mid-May, the heavy rain will completely end."

"Without the rainstorm, these cloud bugs are just ordinary bugs."

Senior Brother Yinshan agreed with Xu Qing's suggestion: "We still have to do something. Now that we know about it, it's better to mend the situation than to do nothing."

Senior Brother An Ran frowned slightly: "Senior Brother, how can the government have enough manpower now?"

"In the past few days, you and I have known that the river patrol censors and river management censors of the Dushui Qinglisi in several prefectures have been transferred to deal with unknown water veins."

"They even ignored the breach of the water suppression formation along the river!"

"The same is true of the North Pole Exorcist's House. In such a large Yangzhou Prefecture, there are only two demon hunters responsible for dealing with the demons that cause trouble."

"If there weren't a canal transport soldier stationed here, with only two fourth-level monster hunters, the water monsters that washed ashore would have eaten up all the people in the villages and towns outside the county seat."

"According to Junior Uncle-Master, there are such bugs in Nandu and even the entire south, unless we ask a cultivator with great supernatural powers to take action."

"Otherwise, one or two fourth or fifth realms are simply a drop in the bucket."

Senior Brother Yinshan remained silent.

He also knew that what Taoist An Ran said made sense, but he couldn't just ignore it.

Before Brother Yinshan went up the mountain to worship at the Taoist temple, his family of five was washed away by a flood, and he was the only one left alive.

That was why he became a disciple of Elder Jingyi and was taught the "Taishang Zhengyi Hetu Life-saving Talisman" and followed the water path.

The goal is to one day be able to control the world's water veins so that the world will no longer be affected by floods and disasters.

No family will be swallowed up by the flood, and no one will watch their loved ones disappear in the river;
No house will be washed away, and those who survived will be left homeless;
No fields will be flooded, and no harvest will be lost after hard work.
Even if there are only ten days left before the disaster, if we allow these cloud insects to continue to intensify the rain, more and more people will surely be affected.

But getting rid of the cloud bugs can prevent the disaster from expanding further and maintain it at its current scale.

Taoist An Ran looked at Senior Brother Yin Shan and knew what he was thinking. He sighed and said, "Well, the government can't spare any manpower. It seems that we will have to put in more effort next time."

Senior Brother Yinshan looked at Taoist Anran with gratitude.

at this time.

Senior Brother Yinshan and Taoist Anran's faces suddenly changed. They looked towards the big lake adjacent to Yangzhou Prefecture and said in a lost voice:

“The dam broke?!”

At the same time. Fengyang Prefecture, Fengyang County.

Ye Anshi, the prefect of Fengyang Prefecture, who was overwhelmed with official duties and disaster relief affairs, suddenly heard a commotion outside the door.

He frowned tightly, feeling dissatisfied. How could there be such a commotion in the yamen?

But before he could order someone to go and reprimand them, a figure stumbled and pushed open the door, shouting:

"My Lord! The dam has burst!"

"The dam broke?!" Ye Shian stood up suddenly, "Which dam was breached?"

"all!"

all?!

Ye Shian's pupils shrank to the size of needles, and a chill ran from his coccyx all the way to the top of his head.

How can it be? !
We have clearly dispatched water control officers from several prefectures, how could we possibly allow all the dikes to breach?!

After being shocked, Ye Shian flew into a rage: "What are those people from the Du Shui Qing Li Si doing? Why did they allow all the levees to be breached?!"

"I don't know."

The person who ran in to report had a dazed look on his face. Neither the river inspector nor the river manager of the Du Shui Qing Li Si knew why the dam suddenly collapsed.

“I don’t know???”

There seemed to be flames spewing from Ye Shian's eyes.

Then he realized something, his expression changed several times, and his voice was filled with great fear and anger:
"Quick! Send all the people in the government office to Kang Jinlong."

"This" the visitor hesitated after hearing this, "What about the people?"

The levee broke, but the people from the Du Shui Qing Li Si were still there, and they would definitely stop the river from flooding.

At this time, they should immediately send people to take the people to refuge.

Ye Shian was breathing heavily, his brows were grim, and his face was extremely ugly: "Are you the Shangguan or am I the Shangguan? Hurry up and go!"

He didn't care whether the levee would burst and the river would flood the whole area, or whether the people would be swallowed up by the flood or displaced.

He only cares,

Fengyang Imperial Tomb!!!

The responsibility for the levee collapse lies entirely with the Du Shui Qing Li Si, but if the imperial mausoleum is lost, both the black gauze hat on his head and the person on his neck may fall to the ground!
"Yes." The man finally obeyed the order and led people to guard the imperial mausoleum.

Outside Fengyang City, on a hill.

"How are those levees?" asked the mysterious man wearing the Qilin mask to his returning companions.

"It works just as you expected." The Gu Master wearing a Taotie mask raised a green-feathered duck in his hand, "Those dikes have already burst."

The mysterious man wearing the Qilin mask smiled upon hearing this:
"Fengyang is the place where the dragon veins and earth energy rise. The 'Kang Jinlong' lineage of the North Pole Exorcism Institute has guarded the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum for generations."

"Now that Fengyang has been flooded, the six departments of Nandu and the North Pole Exorcism Institute must be terrified."

"We have also tied up part of the power of the imperial court and the North Pole Exorcism Institute." The Gu Master wearing the Taotie mask grinned, "Now we are only one step away."

"How are your arrangements for that evil baby going?"

"The day after tomorrow is May 5th." The mysterious man wearing Qilin laughed softly, "The evil baby who bears the greatest malice and hatred towards the Cao family will also be born."

May child, kills parents.

The ghost baby born by Liu Sanniang, who was pregnant with the blood of the Cao family but died before being born,
After being reincarnated dozens of times but still unable to be born, he has accumulated tremendous resentment.

It will be born the day after tomorrow, but on the unlucky day of May 5th.

There is a saying, "The first month of the year begins, and the fifth month is the peak of the sun. If a child is born in this month, his essence will be intense and intense, overpowering his parents. The parents will not be able to bear it and will suffer from it."

Having died in infancy many times in reincarnations and being born on a poisonous day in May, this ghost baby will have extreme hatred and murderous intent towards the entire Cao family.

"How did you hide this method of cultivating evil monsters from the Cao family and the imperial court?" the Gu Master wearing a Taotie mask asked curiously.

"Yuanfu Temple informed the court and the Cao family that we had taken the remains of the Cao family bloodline from the Drowned Infant Pond. How could they not be on guard?"

"Where there are people, there will always be struggle." The mysterious man wearing a Qilin mask shook his head and said, "The ancestor of the Cao family was originally a fisherman on the shore of Huai'an. He followed the Taizu of the Great Sheng Dynasty and rose to power, and eventually became a king or a prince."

"And by some strange coincidence, he got a share of the Huai River water transport, and was in charge of the Huai River water transport for generations."

"But now the imperial court wants to intervene in the Huaihe River shipping and replace military commanders with civil officials. The Cao family will naturally not give up such a huge benefit for nothing."

"There are many people in the court who wish him dead. Not giving him a push in secret is already extremely merciful."

"Tsk." The Gu Master wearing the Taotie mask laughed.

The struggles among the officials in the court were exemplified by the lives of countless common people below.

"As long as the head of the Cao family dies now, his share of the Huaihe River water transport will return to the Huaihe River."

"Then the seal of Huaijing under Guishan will surely break, and the Wanfa Daojun of Yuanfu Temple will no longer be able to take action."

The mysterious man with the Qilin mask suddenly looked back at this time: "When the time comes, please attack Yuanfu Temple when Hu Jun walks down the river."

I saw a mist floating behind the mysterious man, revealing a few hazy figures whose outlines were only visible.

"Don't worry." One of the figures said, "We have a blood feud with Yuanfu Temple. We wish to drink their blood and eat their flesh."

"Now that we can enter the mountain gate, we are more than happy to do so, without your telling us."

The mysterious man wearing a Qilin mask nodded slightly:
"The haunted house has held back some of the high-end combat power of Huai'an City, Beiji Exorcism Institute, and Yuanfu Temple."

"If something happens to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum again, the six departments of Nandu will definitely send people to guard the imperial mausoleum."

"After many plans and arrangements, now the time, location, and people are all right. If nothing unexpected happens, Mr. Hu's escape to the river will be a success."

"Why did you help that Lake Lord to cross the river so much?" asked a figure in the mist.

Wearing a Qilin mask did not hide:

"Fengyang is an important node of the Dasheng dragon vein. Nandu was the capital established when Dasheng was founded. Although the capital has been moved now, Nandu still gathers a lot of Dasheng dragon vein energy."

"The Huai River flows through these two places. Once the Lake Lord successfully flows into the sea, the stability of the Dasheng Dragon Vein will be cracked."

"You want to overthrow Dasheng?"

“This is a good thing for you too.” The Gu Master wearing the Taotie mask continued, “In the beginning, the one who destroyed your lineage and reduced you to the status of a lost dog was not only the Taoist leader of Yuanfu Temple, but also the Great Sheng Ancestor.”

"This twisted dynasty should have perished long ago." The figure in the mist snorted coldly.

　1. "A baby born in May will kill its parents" is a feudal superstition, please do not put yourself in it.

　　2. The plot will be moved forward as quickly as possible. Nowadays, people pursue a fast pace and kill, kill, kill. Especially for newcomers, doing other things is thankless. I will try my best to retract the foreshadowing in the previous part and form a complete plot. My writing ability is limited, so please forgive me if there are any omissions.

　　
　
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