Yong'an 17 years, early October.

Nearly five months have passed since the Lingzhou stock crash.

With the Yunyang Chamber of Commerce's series of actions, more and more refugees have been resettled, and more and more wasteland has been reclaimed.

The cotton and cotton spinning markets are unprecedentedly prosperous, and the demand for workers has also increased significantly. More farmers are beginning to switch to cotton, and more people are working in factories.

The increase in the number of migrant workers has led to the development of a series of surrounding industries.

But the development of the Yunyang Chamber of Commerce is not entirely harmless.

The first to be hit were some original family workshops.

Because the cost and output could not compete with factories, they were quickly eliminated and their income dropped sharply.

As a result, a series of conflicts broke out, and there were even incidents where craftsmen stormed factories and smashed looms.

As the area of ​​cotton fields across the state increases and the area of ​​cultivated fields decreases, food prices gradually begin to rise...

However, Chu Qiguang was already prepared for these problems. He knew that industrial revolution and industrial upgrading were never gentle.

On the contrary, each time it will be accompanied by the elimination of a large number of traditional industries, causing many people to lose their original income and jobs.

Chu Qiguang continued to speed up the development of the chamber of commerce, encircled the land for farming in Lingzhou, expanded the scale of the weapons chamber of commerce, expanded the scale of the factory...continuously created new jobs, increased the income of civilians, and provided loans...

Just as the Yunyang Chamber of Commerce was booming, leading countless people in Lingzhou towards a different future, an undercurrent suddenly surged in the underground world of Lingzhou.

…

Beiyue Prefecture City.

With a loud bang, the gate of the government office was smashed into pieces.

Magistrate Xue Chengdao flew out along with the shattered door, rolling on the ground for several meters before he could stop.

This prefect had previously presided over Chu Qiguang's martial arts class and commented on the martial arts of Chu Qiguang and Jiang Longyu.

But at this moment, his face was covered in blood, his hair was disheveled, his clothes were in rags, and his body was still covered in large patches of dirt. He still had the calmness of the past.

As for the officials, government officials, and guards under his command, they were already dead and running away, and the entire government office was in a mess.

He raised his head and looked at the strong figure approaching slowly, with a hint of fear in his eyes.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, the opponent fell from the sky.

Gang Qi exploded all over his body, and he was as fast as lightning and thunder, and in the blink of an eye, he had killed all the people in the government office.

Xue Chengdao, a martial arts scholar, was unable to block the opponent's three moves and two moves. At this moment, he was beaten to death, and his blood was boiling.

In the end, he was knocked away from the main hall and out the door with a palm.

The hawk demon looked at Xue Chengdao who was half kneeling on the ground, his eyes full of killing intent, and he said in Chinese with a weird tone: "Where is Hou Xianglong?"

Xue Chengdao gritted his teeth and said: "Monster, how dare you attack the government office? Attack and kill the court officials?! Even if you are at the end of the world, don't even think about running away..."

A trace of impatience flashed in the eyes of the hawk demon. He came from a far-off country in the far west. He had no respect for the Han Dynasty and had contempt for human beings from head to toe.

After all, in his hometown, people are slaves on the same level as rat demons and rabbit demons.

Therefore, Xue Chengdao's words were completely incompatible with him.

I saw the figure of the hawk demon swoosh, and it had already grabbed Xue Chengdao and slammed into the outer wall of the government office.

Accompanied by rumbling crashes, courtyard walls, houses, and courtyards collapsed one after another.

Large swaths of smoke and dust rose up with the impact, and various exclamations and screams were heard one after another.

Soon after, a team from the nearby Demon Suppressing Department arrived, and all they saw were broken walls and ruins, and the prefect Xue Chengdao's body was not even intact.

"Lawless! It's simply lawless..."

…

Inside the Qianhu Office of the Demon Division in Lingzhou Town.

There are people in a hurry everywhere.

Yang Ling looked at the map of Lingzhou in front of him, his brows furrowed and his face as heavy as water.

Suddenly the door was pushed open, and Liu Fangyi, a householder in Tianqu Mansion, walked in: "The office of Beiyue Mansion was also attacked, and the prefect Xue Chengdao was beaten to death by the bird demon, and the whole body was not found.

"

Yang Ling pursed her lips and drew a cross on the map, but there were already five similar crosses.

Liu Fangyi said: "That bird demon has great martial arts skills and can fly without trace. We can't catch up with it or surround it."

"If this continues, the entire Lingzhou Demon-Suppressing Division will be disgraced."

Yang Ling sighed: "Mr. Zhong has taken many of the experts in the institute to Yunzhong Military Town and is negotiating with the two great martial gods. It is impossible to come back just because of this bird demon."

"And once the news leaks out, it will not only embarrass us, but it will also make Jiubian look down upon, affecting Mr. Zhong's overall situation."

"The other party has simply calculated that our strength is empty at this moment."

Liu Fangyi said: "Then we must ask the Tianshijiao for help."

Although the relationship between the Suppressing Demon Division and the Tianshi Sect is not good, in his opinion, in Lingzhou today, only the senior officials of the Tianshi Sect who are in charge of a large number of talismans can steadily suppress this hawk demon.

Yang Ling nodded: "You go find Dao Gangsi, and I'll go talk to Chu Qianhu."

Since Chu Qiguang received the false title of Qianhu, he was often called Chu Qianhu by the people in the Demon Suppression Division, and basically no one called him by his actual title.

After a while, Yang Ling saw Chu Qiguang and told him the situation.

Chu Qiguang looked at the book in his hand and said calmly: "I have sent someone to help find out about the hawk demon, but he can fly. Instead of looking for a bird, it is better to find a person."

Yang Ling's eyes moved slightly: "Hou Xianglong?"

Chu Qiguang said: "Since the opponent's target is Hou Xianglong, then you might as well find a way to find Hou Xianglong and wait for him."

Yang Ling nodded and then said: "The origin of the bird demon is unknown. His martial arts are very different from those of the Central Plains School. He can also fly into the sky and escape. I'm afraid I will ask you to take action when the time comes."

Chu Qiguang turned a page of the book in his hand and said casually: "Okay, I will take action."

"I'm also very curious about the origin of this bird demon."

…

In a ruined temple outside Beiyue Mansion City.

The hawk demon that was being searched everywhere by the Lingzhou Demon Division was suddenly here.

He sat cross-legged, his face calm and motionless, as if waiting for something.

As the sun gradually set in the west, strong winds came, and two more figures descended from the sky and stepped into the gate of the ruined temple.

It turned out to be two more hawk demons.

The leader looked like a foreign woman, with white skin, a high nose, deep eyes, long hair that was slightly curly, and the feathers on the wings behind her were all pure white.

The other man looked like a bald man with dark skin, small eyes, and strong muscles like marble sculptures. He flapped his black wings lightly and blew away all the garbage in the ruined temple.

The clothes on both of them were like robes, and the skirts covered the upper and lower bodies, but exposed the navel, arms, and shoulders, which was very different from the Central Plains style.

The leading woman had a string of crystal clear rosary beads hanging around her neck. She spoke in alien language: "Katie, what's going on?"

The hawk demon known as Kati lowered his head and said with a look of shame on his face: "I failed to kill Hou Xianglong on the spot. The other party had vague precognitive abilities and fled all the way afterwards. I have completely lost track of him."

The strong man on the side said angrily: "Even a bitch can escape from your hands. You have betrayed the trust of the Holy Lord."

The origin of these three eagle demons is the same as that of Jin Ji under Chu Qiguang. They come from a country called Dazhu in the far west.

Da Zhu is ruled by a three-headed demon king, known as the Three Saints.

The whole country is divided into different levels according to different races such as lion, tiger, elephant, eagle, pig, cow, etc.

These three harpies all belong to the upper class nobility in Da Zhu.

The leader of the female harpy is named Qiao Zina. She has the bloodline of the ‘Heavenly Saint’ among the three saints of Dazhu, and she has the most noble status among the three monsters.

There are countless human slaves in their family.

And all the way from the far west to the Central Plains, the Han Dynasty was the only country they encountered that was ruled by one person.

Therefore, in their view, the Central Plains is full of bastards and a complete mess.

The woman waved her hand: "Okay Guha, the first priority is to complete the task assigned to us by the Holy Lord. We have finished it here, and we will come over to help you next."

The harpy named Kati said in surprise: "Has your mission been completed?"

The strong man known as Guha said proudly: "We have found clues to the Star Sutra..."

"Okay." Qiao Zina stopped Guha from continuing: "I'm here to report to the Holy Ancestor and seek his guidance."

"The Holy Ancestor will calculate Hou Xianglong's position and give us the power to defeat our opponents..."

Kati and Guha sat on their knees and saw Qiao Zina placing a strange triangular incense burner with many human figures with wings drawn on it.

If Chu Qiguang were here, he would find that this incense burner is very similar to the Wuwei Sect's sacrificial vessel.

Then Qiao Zina lit the incense burner, dancing and jumping, showing a mysterious and ancient temperament...

Qiao Zina crushed a rosary around her neck, and the green smoke in the incense burner instantly turned into a mysterious figure.
To be continued...