Chapter 274 Comrades

"The road is under our feet, and the enemy is ahead. What's there to hesitate about?"

Under Hu Ma's gaze, the letter brought by Monkey Wine and Tie Guanyin's applause seemed to dispel the pressure in the hall slightly. However, even so, no one immediately echoed loudly or anything.

Only the heavy night outside the hall seemed a little lighter. Presumably, many people hiding in the night had quietly disappeared. They still needed to verify and wouldn't make a decision so quickly.

Even Erguotou and Miss White Wine needed to carefully sort out their thoughts.

Digua Shao didn't need to.

"I brought back the message from twenty years ago and completed my mission, so the burden on my shoulders is lighter."

Tie Guanyin also stood up, slowly exhaling a wisp of incense smoke and said to Hu Ma, "Arrange a quiet room for me in your house. I need to rest well and see how much of my former skills I can recover."

"Alright."

Hu Ma stood up and led the way, asking the old butler to tidy up a room in the north of the Hu family's old house. A table was set up in the room, and incense was burned. Before Tie Guanyin entered the quiet room, she stopped, didn't look back, and only said:

"Keep the Twelve Ghost Altars in Shangjing for now. I need the Twelve Ghost Altars to protect me, and I'll also take this opportunity to help you keep an eye on them. Other transmigrators who want to walk a few more steps on the bridge still need this."

"Also, I know you've met Longjing. Did you hear any evaluation of the current Ten Families from him?"

Hu Ma nodded and said, "Mr. Longjing believes that the former Ten Families were nothing, but after more than twenty years of recuperation, they cannot be underestimated."

"That's it then."

Tie Guanyin sighed and said, "I believe Longjing's judgment."

"That smart guy outside has set up a duel with the Ten Families, which is good, but duels require real skills to win. Only fairness and squareness can be convincing; tricks and schemes won't work."

"You are a descendant of Laojunmei, so I won't deceive you with words for outsiders. The road is indeed this road, but the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony is difficult to handle and requires five towns to be sacrificed."

"You are one of these sacrifices."

"Bearing the sky and carrying the earth, and bearing the will of the people, you must have been mentally prepared when you comprehended the Laojunmei's technique."

"But these five types of Zhenwu (suppressing objects) need to be carefully refined, without the slightest mistake, especially the Zhen Tian Treasure Seal in your hand. This is the first town, so the fourth character on the seal must be obtained, otherwise everything will be in vain."

"..."

"I understand."

Hu Ma nodded and said, "But since the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony has been decided, what are the specific five types of Zhenwu?"

He was also half a Zou Gui (spirit walker) at any rate. He understood that starting an altar required five Zhenwu, but when it came to the Luo Tian Grand Ceremony, which almost only existed in imagination, he was a little cautious about what level of Zhenwu to use.

Tie Guanyin said directly, "Treasure Seal, Weighing Sinker, Longevity Fruit, General's Order, Emperor's Skin."

Hu Ma said, "All in the hands of the Ten Families?"

"The vast majority."

Tie Guanyin smiled and said, "We couldn't figure out what stage the Ten Families would grow to after these twenty years, but the expansion of the Ten Families was expected. It will be much easier to take things back when they are in their hands."

"Of course, you have to rely on real skills to get them back."

Looking at her confident and proud face, Hu Ma also nodded deeply and suddenly said, "The previous generation of transmigrators did leave us a domineering, but passable path."

"But, have you really told them everything? Or are you still hiding something from them?"

"..."

Facing Hu Ma's question, the expression on Tie Guanyin's face suddenly became a little playful. She smiled and said, "It's not just me, don't you have it too?"

Hu Ma defaulted and did not answer.

"They need time to verify and make decisions, but you, as the chief priest, don't have much time left."

The smile on Tie Guanyin's face also slowly disappeared, and she said seriously, "I know what will happen if Laojunmei's technique is cultivated to the extreme now, so what we are really betting on is not just the transmigrators, but you."

"The Bu Shi Niu (unfed ox) lineage left a painting, which should be in your hands now, right?"

"Now that the historical process has returned to the right track, it is time for the title of Great Virtuous Teacher, which has disappeared for twenty years, to reappear."

"I will call all the transmigrators in seven days and tell them all these things in my name, and also tell them the fate of the transmigrators, but at that time, it will depend on your ability to persuade them to help you."

"The number of transmigrators may be more than you think. Many people are hidden deeper than you think. Transmigrators have never been a rigorous organization, just a group of people."

"There are good and bad, kind and dark, selfish and generous. Usually, when people are in a foreign land, they may be willing to release some kindness, but when it comes to life and death..."

"Perhaps some people would rather close their doors and sleep soundly, and ignore the flood outside!"

"..."

Hu Ma knew what Tie Guanyin meant, smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm prepared."

When he took over the identity of the Bu Shi Niu cult leader, the painting was also left in his hands. It was an opportunity to use the name of the Great Virtuous Teacher to call all the transmigrators.

Tie Guanyin, as someone who had also used the name of the Great Virtuous Teacher, had reason to ask for the painting back from his hands, but she only chose to remind him, and the purpose was self-evident.

She agreed with him using the name of the Great Virtuous Teacher to call all the transmigrators.

But this was indeed a major event...

And it needed a good opportunity.

Tie Guanyin walked straight into the quiet room, and Hu Ma helped her close the door outside. His heart was clear, and his steps were firm.

When he returned to the hall, Digua Shao was eating with oil all over his face, Miss White Wine had already left, and Erguotou had been waiting for Hu Ma here.

Seeing him come, he immediately stood up and said, "That crazy monkey is straightforward and directly agreed to a duel with the Ten Families, but the Ten Families all have real skills. We can easily shout slogans, but if we really face the Ten Families, how confident can we be?"

"We weren't in a hurry when there was no road before. Now that there is a road, what are we worried about?"

Hu Ma smiled at him and said, "The orthodox method of Zou Gui is with you, the law of Fu Ling is on me, Guiren Zhang has been abolished, and the Wang family has become a drowning dog. Now, at most, there are only six families left in the Ten Families."

"And Mr. Monkey Wine has written clearly in his letter that he has already booked the Guanshan Zhu family, and we only need to help a little at a critical moment. In this way, there are only five families left, so what's so difficult?"

"When did the Ten Families become existences that can be underestimated like this?"

Erguotou couldn't help but sigh slowly. Not only was that crazy monkey full of confidence, as if the Guanshan Zhu family could be easily taken down, but even this little brother in front of him had such a big tone.

Helpless, he sighed and said, "Then, where do we start?"

"Send the Bao Liang Army back to Mingzhou."

Hu Ma smiled and said, "Since history has returned to its normal course, the new emperor should also come out."

"As for which family to start with first..."

"The Bao Liang Army is leaving Mingzhou to seize the world. Who is the first opponent?"

"..."

Erguotou didn't pay attention to these things and frowned, thinking. Digua Shao next to him was already raising a chicken wing and shouting, "I know, I know. The one to the west of Mingzhou is the Baoping King. The strategist beside him is a branch hall official of the Wuchang Li family. That old bastard chased me before."

"And there's the Jingping King to the northwest, the Sanhu King to the southeast..."

"Hiss..."

Hu Ma and Erguotou didn't know what to say for a moment. They shook their heads and just smiled at Digua Shao and said, "Then, who do you want to vent your anger on first?"

What was said was done. The transmigrators still needed to think and hesitate, but Hu Ma couldn't delay any longer. Overnight, he had already arranged things in Shangjing City. It was actually simple, just leaving Miaoshan Xianggu here to serve Tie Guanyin.

After all, in terms of seniority, Tie Guanyin was still her aunt. Maybe Tie Guanyin had seen Miaoshan Xianggu when she was young, but in order to help Miaoshan avoid cause and effect, she deliberately alienated her later.

Of course, there was another reason for leaving Miaoshan Xianggu here, because Douguan was too unreliable in handling affairs.

As for Hu Ma, he went to burn incense for his grandmother and then decided to set off the next day.

Originally, the ancestral shrines of the Ten Families had all left Beijing, and the grandmother's incense could also be invited back to the Dayang Village, but Hu Ma understood what the old man guarding the ancestral shrine said, so he wasn't in a hurry to invite it.

Anyway, he could carry the Twelve Ghost Altars on his back. Leaving the incense here wouldn't suppress the Hu family and could steal the emperor's life for a few more days.

When he left the city the next day, he saw that huge and bloated flesh outside the city was still there, with disasters blazing inside, mixed with each other. If the disasters didn't extinguish, the flesh would wither and scorch piece by piece, but most of it still remained in its original state.

Disasters were for taking people's lives, not ordinary fire, and this Tai Sui (Grand Duke Jupiter) body had some living human characteristics, so it would be burned by the disaster fire, but it wasn't quite the right cure, so it burned very slowly.

And this flesh that fell from the sky was the best blood food, and it was still a Blood Tai Sui.

The amount was really indescribable. Although things that fell from the sky inevitably made people feel fear and awe, there must be ambitious and greedy people who had long been eyeing this huge blood food.

Hu Ma saw that some of the people in Shangjing City who had suffered disasters and those around them who were not well-fed had already gathered around. On the first day, they were just hiding far away, and on the second day, some people approached. Now, on the fourth day, some people had already tried to harvest it.

It was precisely because of the existence of this disaster flame that they didn't dare to get too close.

Hu Ma approached and glanced at the faint flame, which looked similar to ordinary fire, but there was a shocking heat as soon as he got close.

He thought for a while and pulled over the disaster bag around his waist to look at the disaster snake inside.

This little thing used to be very crazy, but following him, it didn't take him seriously. However, it suffered a big loss when it wanted to drill out to deal with the national teacher before, and now it seemed much more honest, and even looked a little listless.

Hu Ma carefully touched its head and said, "Although I don't understand stealing disasters, since you are following me and you came out of the cave, then you should be able to solve the fire burning here now, right?"

The disaster snake spat out its forked tongue, and its black eyes looked like it wasn't very smart.

Hu Ma glanced at the huge mountain of meat and suddenly threw the black disaster bag into the air, and the disaster snake slipped into the mountain of meat.

In an instant, the sky turned dark, and disaster winds rose around.

The disaster snake also sensed it and quickly flowed through the mountain of meat. The disasters around gathered on its body like flowing water.

The people holding scythes and carrying bags were originally worried about the huge flesh, but now when they saw the yin winds rising around, they were also afraid. They retreated while seeing Hu Ma standing in front of the mountain of meat.

Seeing him just raise his hand, and the black wind rising around, and the flames between the mountains of meat were quickly converging, they immediately shouted excitedly, "A capable person has come to put out the fire..."

Amid the cheers, they looked at each other and finally couldn't hold back. They rushed up in a swarm, waving their sickles and scrambling to harvest the red flesh.

"Tai Sui is an indescribable object from outside the sky, and blood food is its body squeezed into the world."

Seeing this somewhat crazy and even spectacular scene, Hu Ma's heart also thought of the blood food mine and the old miners like Second Master who had been cutting blood food for a lifetime, and he suddenly seemed to have some understanding:

"Perhaps one day, the Tai Sui consciousness will come, and these flesh will become the nightmare of the world, devouring the entire world."

"But before that moment, what Tai Sui is there? It's just rations."

"The common people dare to eat this thing, so why should we, the people in the know who have learned skills, be so afraid?"

"..."

Thinking like this, his heart was also a little excited. Hearing the rustling sound, he opened the black disaster bag again, and saw that the disaster snake had swam back from the mountain of meat, its body was covered with dark red scales like blood flames, and it looked like it was shaking its head and looking much more energetic.

Hu Ma looked at this scene, sighed softly, stepped forward, took the Faguan Dadao (Judge's Broadsword) and cut off a piece of red Tai Sui, slowly filled it into his mouth, chewed it carefully, and swallowed it.

"Tai Sui eats people, and people eat Tai Sui. Who is worse than whom?"

"..."

Hu Ma also said to Erguotou next to him, "Since the Bao Liang Army has come, it's not good to go back empty-handed. Such a big mountain of meat is probably hundreds of thousands of pounds of blood food. Even if you remove the burned ones, the remaining amount is quite considerable."

"Let people start cutting it all off and take it back as military rations!"

"..."

Erguotou listened and hurried to give orders, but Digua Shao next to him didn't need to be told. He picked up a sack and went up.

She even didn't understand how Senior Laobaigan and Erguotou had only lived a few days of wealth, guarding such a blood food mine and still talking and pretending here.

Didn't you see that the common people are already up?

Blood Tai Sui is such a valuable thing. Now that you go up and cut it, what's the difference between that and falling into a pile of money?

In one day, the huge mountain of meat was cut to the end, leaving only some scorched flesh and blood in the field, reminding everyone of what a terrifying thing had been born here, and Hu Ma and others also led their troops to set off.

This trip back was more troublesome than when they came.

The Bao Liang Army was originally brought here by Erguotou using magic, but now the Bao Liang Army has become heavier because it has been stained with purple energy, and it is difficult to cast magic on them.

In addition, now everyone is carrying blood food, which makes it even more impossible to cast magic, so they can only pull out their formations and go straight from Shangjing to Mingzhou. Fortunately, the army was strong and no one dared to provoke them. They also took this opportunity to take a look at this world.

Unknowingly, from passing the New Year and arriving in Shangjing, to now going back after a duel, more than a month had passed. The weather was gradually warming, and the spring was beginning to sprout.

Because in this duel, Hu Ma directly drove away the purple energy in Shangjing City and returned it to the world, nourishing the earth, it was seen that the spring rain was abundant and everything was sprouting. Perhaps a good season will come, and a bumper year will pass.

It can also be regarded as letting the people of the world breathe a sigh of relief before this great chaos, and then they will usher in even greater ones.

Along the way, Mingzhou was getting closer and closer, and they were about to return home. Hu Ma was also calculating the time. On the seventh day, at the time agreed with Tie Guanyin, he took out the painting he had obtained from Bu Shi Niu and came to the ancient and dilapidated Natal Spirit Temple again.

That night, Tie Guanyin's voice sounded as scheduled:

"I am Tie Guanyin, a first-generation transmigrator. You must already know the news I brought back from twenty years ago."

"It's time to wake up. We are not time-travelers, nor are we protagonists with a sense of superiority playing games in this world. We are just the dregs left behind by Tai Sui's devouring. We are ghost servants by Tai Sui's side. We are a kind of inescapable prisoners."

"But we are also the afterglow of the previous civilization. Our presence here represents everything that our long-cherished homeland looks like."

"In our hometown, we have different identities. We are not necessarily outstanding, and we are not necessarily successful, but here, we are the only remaining brilliance, we are the last vitality of our hometown..."

"..."

"..."

In fact, before this, the secret she revealed in Shangjing City had spread throughout the world, and many transmigrators must have already known about it. Now it was just a formal announcement through the Natal Spirit Temple.

Since she appeared in Shangjing seven days ago, the transmigrator community had been in a strange state of depression, and even lacked the noisy atmosphere of the past.

And in reality, no one knew how many people were caused by this news to doubt themselves, and even split and despair.

Her voice now had some solemn and serious meaning, but the gray decadence and despair were still lingering. After this speech, there was still no one answering for a long time.

It was at this time that Hu Ma slowly inserted the half of the incense into the incense burner, flashed through the drafts he had thought about along the way, and then placed his palm on the incense burner, straightened his waist, and slowly opened his mouth:

"Everyone from the other world, this is a native of this world, a descendant of Laojunmei, a first-generation transmigrator, the fourth chief priest of the Daluo Fa Sect, Hu Ma, a descendant of the Zhen Sui Hu family, codenamed Laobaigan calling to transmigrators all over the world..."

"Two hundred and forty years ago, Tai Sui descended, and the world was in turmoil. The Daluo Fa Sect prayed to the sky and invited you to descend to save our people from fire and water."

"I once received a gift from Laojun of the other world and learned the truths of your world."

"Therefore, although I know the terror of Tai Sui, I still believe that although my world is weak, it still has hundreds of millions of living beings. Although I am stupid, I also have a bold spirit and an unyielding will."

"They dare to wave their knives to cut the flesh, and I also do not hesitate to spill my flesh and blood, willing to be a vanguard and knife for the people of the world to fight Tai Sui."

"..."

The voice slowly spoke out, and Hu Ma also paused slightly, as if there were invisible vitality and blood surging in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, he mustered his mind and opened his mouth again: "I am in Mingzhou, and I will use the name of the Great Virtuous Teacher of this world to change the world, compete for the Mandate of Heaven, and finally face Tai Sui..."

"There are thousands of difficulties and dangers here, but I am confident that I will eventually clear everything and return a bright and clear world to my world, but at this time, I need your help, and I also believe that you will lend a hand, just because we believe in the same truths..."

After a slight pause, he finally said the two most sacred words that existed in the gifts given by Laojunmei:

"...Comrades!"

(End of this chapter)