Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 50 Change exogenous change, Snake Valley

When Old Eunuch Chen and the others came up from the tunnel, they were in a manor shaded by green trees. There were people guarding the tunnel entrance all the time in the garden. They seemed to recognize Hanami, and after a few words of greeting, they led the way.

They met that important person in a magnificent living room with tables, chairs, cabinets and columns all red lacquer.

Behind the man stood guards, dressed in a scarlet dark-pattern robe with a round neck and wide sleeves, jade hairpins, slightly sunken cheeks, large beardless eyes, and silver-white eyebrows.

When Hanami and the others came in, the man was looking at a piece of letter paper in his hand, with an extremely cautious and dignified expression, and after a few breaths, he folded the letter paper between his fingers, pressed it on the table, and looked up.

Old eunuch Chen could tell at first sight that this was also a eunuch.

"This is the supervisor of Cochin, Master Ma Qiangma!"

Hanami introduced them, "This is Eunuch Chen from Jurchen Imperial City."

Ma Qiang's expression changed: "Jianyi?"

The old eunuch Chen's expression remained unchanged, he clasped his fists together, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect it to be such a big man as the superintendent, who secretly supports the leader of Huami. It's a pleasure to meet you."

Ma Qiang kept his face sullen and didn't speak. He looked at old eunuch Chen for a long time, then sighed, and turned his eyes away: "Forget it, the people in Chaoli are really heartless. Over the years, the confidants left by the late emperor, some humerus bones that were generous and peaceful, The ministers were eradicated one by one, and finally it was my turn. They are the ones who persecuted me to this point, even if I am dealing with Jianyi, it is no wonder that my officials are unrighteous."

Hanami directly sat down on the chair on the other side. Hearing this, she said in a surprised tone, "Oh, Mr. Ma's determination seems to be stronger than when we met last time. Could it be that he has received some news?"

The last time they met, they succeeded in besieging Jiuhe, and Hua Mi sent a message.

Jiuhe is not only Hua Mi's great enemy, but also offended Ma Qiang long ago.

At the beginning, Ma Qiang wanted to forcibly harvest the peacock's tail, so Jiuhe brought a peacock into the mansion to make a bet with him. As long as he put this peacock in the treasury, the treasury would be full of feathers overnight.

Ma Qiang naturally didn't believe it, so he made a bet with him, and let the magician guards he recruited to block the guards in the house. As a result, when he opened the treasury the next day, there were thousands of peacock tails created by illusion. , on the ground, swaying like flowers, after destroying the illusion, there is still a sharp sword hanging on the wall, the meaning of warning is self-evident.

Wudang's backstage was strong enough, and Ma Qiang didn't take it seriously when things really went up, so he had to admit the failure of the contract and hated it for a long time.

Ma Qiang is naturally happy to see the death of Jiuhe.

Ma Qiang said, "Let's talk about your reason for coming today first."

Hanami said: "The matter of fighting the law and seizing the order has gone wrong. If the original plan goes well, we will assist you at the Dharma Conference and find some means, and then let the winner of the seizing the order take the opportunity to destroy the ritual instrument. The price is to make all the mages present internally and externally trapped, and their mana is lost."

"Now this move is not going to work. We can only work hard on the other side. I want Lord Ma to use your relationship to place my subordinates in the defense of the Chengyin Mansion Ceremony."

If such a master can pretend to be a defensive soldier and explode at close range at a critical moment, the people at the ceremony will definitely not be able to handle it.

It's a pity that in the place of the ceremony, there must be many warlocks exploring Fengshui, so they can't use tunnels and other means, otherwise it wouldn't be so troublesome.

"It turned out to be for this matter. Hmph, leaving aside the arrangement of the Fa Conference, the matter of assassinating the King of Yue, now there is an opportunity to come to your door."

Ma Qiang sneered, and said, "Originally, the governor of Jiaozhi, the King of Yue, according to the procedure we set up, first went to Jiaozhou Mansion, inspected the three prefectures in turn, and then arrived at Chengyin Mansion on the twelfth of July to prepare for the Hungry Ghost Festival. It's about the Fa conference. But he played a trick of surprise, and he came to Chenghe Palace more than ten days in advance."

Hua Mi narrowed her eyes: "Oh? With this method, it seems that the prince is not at ease with Lord Ma."

"It's more than worrying..."

Ma Qiang paused for a moment, "None of the official's confidantes over the Jiaozhou government sent a message to remind them of this matter, so it's probably not going well."

Hanami glanced at the letter paper and said, "Then where did you get the news?"

Ma Qiang stood up and said with great emotion: "This is what I have to say, the sky will never stop me. Although the king of Yue brought the most precious team, he could never have expected that there would be evil spirits who would attack him halfway. them."

"I'm on the side of the capital commander and envoy, and I have secretly planted some eyeliners. They suddenly received the search and rescue order today to respond to the prince's order. Only then did they realize that something was wrong and sent a secret letter to me."

He handed the letter to Hanami.

"The king of Yue should be guarded by the remnants of his troops, and fled into the Guangyu Ridge at the junction of Dongning and Chengyin. This prince is more courageous than we thought before, and his pace is compact, secretive, and even better. to your plan."

"Be sure to get rid of him before he is picked up by the army, otherwise he may directly launch a big move when he becomes Yin."

Ma Qiang was pacing in the hall, with his palms behind his back, his five fingers tightened, and his eyes gleamed with a sinister taste.

"The devil is causing trouble, God is helping me! Hanami, God will take the blame if you don't take it, and our arrangement will also change according to the trend. He guessed better than us, and his layout is deep. I'm afraid he has already involved all parties. All aspects are also more important than we thought. His death will bring more turmoil than the originally planned July [-]th. Those who use it, don't hold back any more!"

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Zhenwu Temple, in the Yaowang Courtyard.

Cracking, crackling, the sound of chewing can be heard endlessly.

When Qiushi and the others rushed over after hearing the news, Guan Luoyang had already eaten for almost half an hour.

Roughly estimated, there are more than 20 catties of medicine, which he has already swallowed.

"what happened?"

"I don't know, he suddenly asked me if I could take these medicines? Before I understood, he had already picked them up and was about to eat them. I had to point out the medicinal materials that I was going to use to make him a medicinal bath and let him take those medicines first." , at least eat those, it shouldn’t be poisoned by the medicinal properties, right?”

"It's true that poisoning is impossible, but without master and uncle's level of magic cultivation to protect the fire and adjust the potency of the medicine, it's useless for him to just eat it like this."

Qiu Shi looked worriedly at Guan Luoyang, who was holding on to the basket and chewing non-stop, and said, "There seems to be something wrong with him after the fight. Could it be that he was tricked by someone in the ring?"

After thinking about it, he carried the lantern and walked around Guan Luoyang, circling around, reciting Liujia Secret Blessings, one word at each step.

The so-called Secret Blessing of Liujia is recorded in "The Fourth Dengshe of Baopuzi's Inner Chapter": "It is advisable to know the secret blessing of Liujia when entering the mountain. The blessing said: 'Those who are fighting in battle, all go forward in array.' Every nine times, often When it is consecrated, it is omnipotent. It is not troublesome, that’s what it means.”

This kind of magic can expel evil spells and vain spirits, and restore people's tranquility and sharpness. Although it can't be said that it can eliminate all evils, as long as there are evil spells, under the temptation of Qiushi's chanting, there should be something. reaction.

After Qiushi walked around a few times, Guan Luoyang really raised his head, stopped chewing, and opened his mouth, as if to say something, with a look of discomfort on his face.

Qiu Di hurried forward: "Could it be that there is really an evil curse on you?"

Qiu Shi glanced at the lantern in his hand, the flame was steady, without any feedback, he shook his head and reminded: "He needs to drink water."

Qiu Di hurriedly turned around to fetch a bucket of well water. Guan Luoyang held the bucket and poured it directly into his mouth.

He has eaten up all the medicinal materials that these Taoist priests prepared to make him a medicinal bath, and it can only be said to have a strange taste.

Those tastes like hay, wood, and even stones are secondary. After all, with his chewing ability, even a real stone can be easily crushed and ground into powder.

But bitterness, spicyness, stickiness, and a fishy-sweet smell in the viscous, it is really not so easy to bear when these tastes are mixed together.

Guan Luoyang drank half a bucket of water and took another mouthful in his mouth, only then did he feel that the smell was slightly diluted.

He pressed his stomach, and could clearly feel the tremors of his belly muscles, and even, he could hear the sound of blood vessels flowing, sending streams of heat quickly.

With such a weird taste, he can bear it until now because he feels the real benefits.

The restlessness that stimulated his spirit, after swallowing these medicinal materials, was relieved step by step, and the vitality of the blue bird extended down to the chest and abdomen in front with a feeling of fullness.

After having room to think calmly, Guan Luoyang half guessed, half speculated, and roughly understood where the restlessness of the blue bird's vitality came from.

It may take a long process for this growth of vitality to spread from a certain part of the body to the whole body. Like the foreigner who can grow scales all over his body, it should be done by water, overflowing and overflowing, and it will happen naturally.

And Guan Luoyang got this vitality, but the time was actually very short. It was in a situation of yang energy conflict and external blows, allowing the blue bird's vitality to spread from the shoulders to the spine, which was almost equal to the growth of seedlings.

More efficient and violent ways are needed to replenish the foundation.

He is not so much digesting the medicinal materials now, it is better to say that the green bird's vitality is directly extracting the beneficial things in the medicinal materials, supplementing him, the speed is incredible.

More than 20 kilograms of medicinal materials may not sound like much, but you must know that these are all dried in the sun. In terms of volume, it is almost equal to the size of more than half an adult, which is enough to support multiple medicinal baths.

After Guan Luoyang swallowed it all, his stomach didn't swell too much, precisely because the blue bird's vitality began to extract and condense at the first bite he took.

Qiu Shi and the others saw Guan Luoyang sitting there with water in his mouth, his expression became more and more peaceful, as if there was nothing wrong with his body, so they felt relieved.

"Eh?" Qiu Shi suddenly noticed that the temperature around Guan Luoyang seemed to be higher than that in other places.

He took a few steps outside, but the feeling was not too obvious, so he simply quickened his pace and walked out of the courtyard, and then re-entered the courtyard to feel it carefully.

Sure enough, the temperature in the whole yard was higher than outside.

In Nanyang, the natural climate itself is hot enough. Even if you burn a stove in the yard, it may not be able to make such a significant difference in the temperature of the whole yard.

He hurried to Guan Luoyang's side and reached out to touch his shoulder.

Fortunately, although the surface of his body is warm, it can't be said to be too hot. The heat seems to gather from the outside world rather than radiate from his body.

'Is it the effect of some kind of spell? '

When Qiu Shi thought about it this way, he felt that everything made sense. It was very strange for boxing practitioners to eat medicinal herbs all of a sudden, but seven out of ten magicians had eccentricities, not to mention eating medicinal herbs raw. Even swallowing glazed beads raw and chewing pages of books are normal things.

After all, Guan Luoyang was a man with magic power, not exactly a boxer.

Although Qiushi hit it by mistake, he almost guessed the truth.

Goo!
Guan Luoyang swallowed the saliva and pressed his stomach, Ning He's expression gradually frowned again.

The heat received by the blue bird's vitality will also be fed back partly, and the bones of his whole body are warm, but this kind of warmth, on the contrary, sets off the feeling of emptiness between his chest and abdomen.

It's not as difficult to suppress as before, but after all, it means that the body is not satisfied.

Guan Luoyang coughed lightly, and asked in a low voice, "Are there any more of these herbs...?"

"Do you still want to eat?" Qiudi blurted out, looking at Guan Luoyang's stomach with some trepidation, as if afraid that it would burst in the next moment.

Guan Luoyang said: "If I eat it directly, it seems that it will also have the effect of strengthening bones, but these are not enough."

Qiu Shi shook his head and said: "There are still some auxiliary medicinal materials. Even the yin fir sawdust, I can re-separate them from other pills. However, among the many juniors in Zhenwu Temple, no one has reached the standard of bone training medicine bath before, and no Specially prepare the main medicine for bone training."

Guan Luoyang asked, "Is this medicine rare?"

"It's very rare. It's mainly the snake bones and gallbladder of the Xiongbo snake. This is a type of python, but the female snake has poisonous glands and fangs. The male snake's head is as thick as its abdomen."

Qiu Shi said, "There are only three places in Jiaozhi where there are traces of this kind of snake, all of which are dangerous places. The nearest one is more than 20 miles away from here, at the junction of Dongning Mansion and Chengyin Mansion, a place called Snake Valley. It is said that there are tens of thousands of poisonous snakes and pythons inside."

There was a thoughtful look on his face, "Going to Snake Valley to catch the Xiongbo snake is very difficult for others, but with your martial arts achievements, ordinary poisonous snakes can't bite your skin, and you can walk on the flat ground in the dangerous valley." , um, I’m going to ask Priest Zhiyuan for a few bottles of incense pills that can lure this kind of poisonous snake, and you go there yourself.”

"it is good!"

Guan Luoyang got up, looked up at the dawn sky, "It's only about 20 miles, if everything goes well, I can walk back and forth in a day."

He rubbed his stomach again.

But before that, he had to go to the toilet first.

After cleaning his stomach and getting the fragrant pills, Guan Luoyang left from the back mountain.

Qiu Shi and the others still had to go to the front hall to deal with the follow-up of Wei Dinggong's incident.

After breakfast, the mages of each sect took a short rest and gathered in the hall to discuss the people who are related to Leshi Temple, and discuss whether there should be changes to the Dharma Assembly for the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Suddenly someone galloped to the foot of the mountain and rushed up the mountain.

"Daoist Qiu Shi, a lord has been attacked by evildoers and disappeared. He commanded the lord envoy and the lord prefect to offer a great reward. I hope that among the mages who are good at tracking, follow me and wait for the horse."

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When the sun was hot, Guan Luoyang came to Shegu and uncorked a bottle of incense pills.

With fragrance in his left hand and a knife in his right, he stepped into the deep valley.

This valley, which is said to have tens of thousands of poisonous snakes and pythons, is overgrown with weeds, small trees are messy, and sparse big trees stand in the distance.

Every corner seems to have traces of snakes and insects crawling.

But Guan Luoyang couldn't hear any strange sounds in his ears. He walked deeper and deeper, almost crossing the entire valley without seeing even a snake.

"Strange, is this a scented pill for attracting snakes, or a scented pill for driving snakes away?"

Guan Luoyang glanced at the few balls in his left hand, and wondered if there was something strange about the blue bird vitality in his body that made the snakes escape far away.

He found a stone for Xiangwan and put it there, then rushed to a very high place, planning to look down from the height to see if any snakes would take the bait.

However, when Guan Luoyang rushed to the high place, he was very surprised by the first scene that came into his eyes, so he suddenly stopped.

He saw a zigzag gully sweeping out from the woodland, sunken deep in the grass, winding to the distance, where small trees bent and boulders fell.

The rough tree roots have obvious defects after being rubbed violently.

Countless crawling trajectories of snakes and insects followed this long ditch unanimously, from the valley to the high place, and to further places.

(End of this chapter)