Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 504 Boating on Xuanwu Lake, Northwest to Chengguan

In the imperial capital of Nanming, in Jinling City, there is Xuanwu Lake.

The wind is sunny and the mountains are green. King Zheng Gui of Yue and Taoist Master Jiuying of Wudang are boating on Xuanwu Lake.

The boat drifted with the current, and a small low wooden table was placed in the center of the boat, with drinks, fruits, pastries and drinks on the table.

"Have Qiu Di and the others responded to the news these days? They are in charge of the Seven Kills Sect and the Yuyuan Army. The task is difficult."

After the wine in the jug was halved, Zheng Gui leaned against the bow of the boat, holding the wine glass in his hand, and said with some melancholy, "Actually, I thought about it two years ago, I would go north alone for a while. Circle, hold a plenum meeting of the leaders of those sects."

He smiled, "It's very bold. I will do it all by myself!"

"At that time, I said this to Qiu Shenjie, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Qin Baichuan, a senior scholar. Everyone was very excited and said that this matter was too dangerous."

Zheng Gui waved his hand, "I said it doesn't matter, I will use it for ten days, if I don't stay much longer, I will only use it for ten days, and I will bring twenty magic weapons and twenty purple spirit cores."

"Take a spiritual core to spend on the road during the day, break into the Nine Palace Taoist, Xu Shouru, their residence at night, use the magic weapon to compete with them, see their martial arts progress, and in recent years, they tend to use the city's methods."

"If it looks okay, then it's a sparring session. No, I just blow up the magic soldiers on their house, and it should be enough to take the opportunity to escape."

Jiuying held a small knife in his hand and was peeling pears. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "I've heard about it, and it's really too radical."

"Yeah, they all said that, if I do this, the follow-up situation will become very, very complicated, and it will be too difficult to deal with. One bad word may cause Daming to lose the opportunity to continue to develop. , was dragged into the quagmire in advance."

Zheng Gui laughed at himself, "So later, I gave up, and now thinking about it, I still feel sad."

He drank all the wine in the glass, threw it away, and the white porcelain glass drew an arc and fell into the lake, leaving a fleeting wave on the water.

"Actually, as you know, I have been a soldier for half my life, and I can be regarded as an expert in fighting. The situation in the Northland is called a buffer zone. In fact, no matter how many years it buffers, it will always be resolved through war. .”

"If the war is coming, and the details of the enemy are not clear, what can I do? Although my method is radical, it is the most straightforward way to find out their details."

The pear peel in Jiuying's hand was peeled round and round, and it was connected from the beginning to the end. It was very thin and complete. She focused her eyes on the knife edge and said casually: "You are not telling the truth, at least not all of it. .”

Zheng Gui fell silent, and the only thing on Xuanwu Lake seemed to be the sound of the waves beating against the hull of the boat when it was drifting.

The surface of the lake is sparkling, and the small islands in the water are getting closer and closer.

Zheng Gui looked at those islands, and after a long time, he heard a clicking sound in his ears.

Jiuying started to eat pears. He cut the pears into small pieces, put them on the plate, and picked them up with the tip of a knife to eat. He drank the wine, ate the sweet pears, and looked at the scenery, very leisurely.

Zheng Gui couldn't help it: "Brother, you really can hold your breath."

Jiuying ate very fast. In the blink of an eye, the freshly cut pear meat was almost eaten. He picked up another Sydney pear, ready to cut it, and praised: "This pear is very good."

"Ugh!!!"

Zheng Gui sighed, "Brother, don't you really feel irritable? This big battle is finally coming."

Jiuying said indifferently: "Since we had contact with Yuanjun Temple back then and had a certain understanding of the past situation of the Earth Mother God Race, didn't we already have a premonition?"

"This big battle is inevitable. It has been a lucky thing to start a tentative confrontation after so many years."

Zheng Gui shook his head: "Is this really lucky? Over the years, the more I learn the exercises of Yuanjun Temple, the more I feel the strength of the Earth Mother God Race back then, and the more I can understand that the current Yuanjun Empress, it has recovered to such a terrible degree."

"You and I are already the ninth heaven and the tenth heaven, but the two of us add up, even if we add the realm knowledge lent to us by the members of Yuanjun's family in the twelve heavens, and join forces to face the empress Yuanjun, it is not even the first place. I can’t even handle it.”

"Both the Heavenly Palace and the Divine Hall have strong men who are at the same level as the Empress Yuanjun. Fifty years ago, from the first moment of their recovery, it was impossible for us to really curb their actions. In the past 50 years, our cultivation speed, It is far inferior to the speed of recovery of these monarchs."

"If tomorrow, the battle really comes to a decisive moment, then among those monarchs, as long as one person is free, he can kill us, all the troops of our Ming Dynasty, and all the resistance forces. reduced to nothing."

Zheng Gui smiled wryly, "I understood this deeply two years ago, that's why I came up with such thoughts."

"The future of the world actually depends entirely on the success or failure among so few people. Everything we do and any consequences we need to consider are actually not important. If this is the case, why are you not comfortable?"

"If I had really gone to the north, fought with those sect leaders, and died happily, at least I would still know how and why I died. It would be better than being directly blasted into flying air by the aftermath of the masters on the battlefield. Hui, he died so muddled."

Although he was persuaded in the end and gave up that idea, it was only because he was fettered by favors.

In fact, in the past two years, he felt more and more that if he had really done that, it might not have resulted in a better result.

However, Zheng Gui also knew that this idea of ​​his was actually a bit of self-defeating, so he endured for two full years, restrained his own thoughts, reinvigorated himself, worked hard to practice, and often retreated.

It wasn't until recently that news about the north came that he finally couldn't bear it anymore and came out of the customs to talk to Taoist Jiuying.

"Heaven has permanence, it does not survive by Yao, and does not perish by Jie. There is no difference between a sage king like Tang Yao and a tyrant like Xia Jie. So what is the difference between the sun in the sky and the grass on the ground?"

After listening to Zheng Gui's analysis, Taoist Master Jiuying said calmly, "Junior brother, you also went to the mountains to learn Taoism. You should know that the place of Tao is as small as it is without inside and as big as it is without outside. It covers the universe." , all over the dust. The Dao has never existed only for the strong."

"In the world, there are those beings who are as powerful as gods and demons to do, and there are people like us to do, there is no distinction between superior and inferior."

"The monarchs of the Heavenly Palace and the Temple may kill a hundred Jiuying with a wave of their hands, but since we haven't met, he is no different from the pear in my hand."

"Well, they sure won't taste as good as my pear."

Taoist Jiuying cut a piece of pear, gave it to Zheng Gui, and said with a smile, "No matter what the result will be, until the result really comes, it will not affect us to do things according to our own heart. Why worry about gains and losses?"

Regulator Zheng sighed: "Understanding the truth does not mean that you can really convince yourself to act in accordance with the truth. You, an expert, can probably be regarded as the unity of knowledge and action that Mr. Yangming said. I can't learn it." here."

He opened his mouth, and the depression in his heart could finally be dispelled, so he took the piece of pear and ate it.

Before they finished eating a piece of pear, Zheng Gui and Jiuying showed strange expressions at the same time, and looked towards the northwest.

They vaguely felt that something happened in the far northwest, but it was just a vague feeling, and they couldn't tell the specific reason.

Not long after, a blue-shelled crab the size of a millstone flew from the air, and when it was about to land on the boat, its size suddenly shrank and then shrunk, and finally it became the size of a palm, and landed on the table.

Daoist Jiuying said hello: "Brother Yunhua."

This Mr. Yunhua was the first member of the Dimu tribe who came into contact with Nanming.

The cooperation between Yuanjun Temple and Nanming was decided by Zi Yuanjun, but the foundation was laid by the friendship between Yunhua and Jiuying.

"Brother Jiuying."

The big crab made a slightly old voice, but it was full of energy, and said, "Mrs. Yuan Jun said, there are ancient relics in the Minshan Mountains, and there is a lot of movement. She has already rushed to check it out. Tell you Be prepared, maybe the masters here will have to participate in some things in the future."

Zheng Gui quickly asked: "What relic is it, is it from the Yuanjun Temple, or from the Tiangong or the temple?"

"Probably not at all. Although the entire Earth Mother God Clan was headed by our three parties in ancient times, there are still quite a few forces second only to us."

Yunhua said without hesitation, "Actually, since those people defected from the ancestral temple and founded the Taiyuan Temple, the overall strength of our Yuanjun Temple excluding the Yuanjun Empress may not be comparable to some non-monarchs. The Holy Land of the Great Religion that sits in town."

"I think the relics in this world may be related to one of the forces of Kungu, Yanliang, Fudu, Yangping, and Tongen."

Yunhua is knowledgeable and thoughtful. He was also a master at the peak of the Twelve Heavens. He belonged to the humerus minister of Yuanjun Temple and knew almost all the classics collected by Yuanjun Temple.

He made some guesses, pointed out Taoist Master Jiuying and Zheng Gui, and listed all the masters above the seventh heaven in Nanming.

Nanming had already had a cabinet, and the emperor basically became a symbol, and the officials of various ministries performed their duties. After the Yuanjun Temple came into being, in addition to teaching them various exercises, they also referred to them from ancient times. system.

In today's Nanming Dynasty, in terms of government affairs, almost no one is truly indispensable. Even if some people are transferred from seemingly important positions, someone will immediately act on their behalf, allowing the entire system to run in an orderly manner. , the government remained generally stable.

Therefore, even if these masters of Nanming usually hold several positions, when necessary, they can also throw themselves into the war without much burden.

Jiuying and Zheng Gui personally dispatched, and the action of mobilizing the masters was fast enough.

But just two quarters of an hour later, Qiudi contacted Yunhua through Yuanjun Temple's communication core.

"You saw Brother Xiaoguan from back then...repelling the Lord of Heaven...Thousands of Miles Abyss...Holy Land of Davidia involucrata..."

After Jiuying and the others learned what Qiudi had experienced recently, they were shocked for a while before they came back to their senses and grasped the key point.

A large number of martial arts resources from ancient times are preserved in the wild spirit stones of the Davidia involucrata Holy Land, and a large number of experts above the Seventh Heavenly Layer are needed to mine them.

Yunhua got in touch with Zi Yuanjun again and confirmed the news.

Everyone dared not delay, and set off immediately.

When Yuanjun Temple taught them all kinds of martial arts skills over the years, it also created a lot of magical weapons for them.

Most of these magic weapons are sword weapons. As long as you hold the sword in your hand, infuse qi and blood or fill it with gems such as purple spirit cores, you can generate huge flying power on the sword body, and even form a layer of exhaust shield , driving the human body to fly at high speed.

After the news was heard and the order was issued, everyone drew their swords by the Xuanwu Lake and took off with their swords.

In an instant, groups of streamers streaked across the sky, even in daylight, they could be seen quite clearly.

Among those streamers flying with swords, only Jiuying was flying with weapons.

The main reason is that his weapon is a Spring and Autumn Broadsword, which is black, thick and heavy, with a wide blade. If it is held in the hand and flies, it is really not very elegant, but it is just right to fly by stepping on it.

The Holy Land of Davidia involucrata was of great importance, and they did not spare their spirit cores, they put in all their strength and flew all the way, and it didn't take long before they were close to the Minshan Mountains.

But before entering the mountains, they already felt an extremely depressing atmosphere, and their speed couldn't help but slow down.

The clouds above the entire Minshan Mountains seemed to be in a frozen state, and above the clouds was a black fortress.

In front of the old mottled castle, there are two figures floating.

Yunhua has shrunk to the size of half a palm at this moment, lying on Jiuyingdao's long shoulders, with two thick white beards hanging down in front of the crab's mouth.

"This breath is the Heavenly King and Constant King of the Ancient Heavenly Palace!!"

The old crab's beard trembled, "They actually recovered the old Iron Star Fort?!"

Taoist Jiuying and others hovered in the air and looked over there.

They could already see the huge cave in the Minshan Mountains, which was tens of miles in diameter, and it was bottomless.

The castle in the clouds is actually on the west side of the abyss, and there are two figures on the mountain peak on the east side.

A man with black hair and black clothes, with his right hand behind his waist, five fingers as smooth as jade, and a tall and straight figure, even more like an ancient pine that has been around for thousands of years, inexplicably makes the body feel a feeling that even if the sky falls and the earth cracks, it can't bend him.

Beside him was a woman with high temples, a long purple dress, and a light purple veil covering the lower half of her face.

The aura of these two people does not interfere with each other, it seems that they just happened to come to the side of this abyss, overlooking the scenery in the abyss, chatting and watching, but it is like a match made in heaven, black and yellow stand together, and the sun and the moon run side by side.

Let anyone understand that if someone approached the area they were in at this time, they would definitely receive a terrifying blow that would turn the world upside down.

This attack may have come from Guan Luoyang, Yuan Ting Yuezhi, or Zi Yuanjun, who was careless, or it was more likely that the two of them launched a devastating attack at the same time.

It seemed that a long time had passed, and it seemed that they had just watched Guan Luoyang and the others for a while.

The fortress above the clouds slowly landed and was located on the west side of the abyss.

Clouds and mist drifted across the fortress, and the silhouettes of Tianwang and Hengwang were looming, and they all disappeared into the fortress. Instead, groups of Tiangong clansmen stepped on the edge of the abyss from the west, cautiously Clinging to the cave wall in batches, they descended into the abyss.

On the east side, Guan Luoyang gave a low laugh, turned his head to the south, and said hello.

"Master Daoist, my lord, long time no see."

Daoist Jiuying and the others all landed here and said hello.

In fact, Daoist Jiuying and the others didn't get along with Guan Luoyang for long, and that time was not the most unforgettable moment in their lives.

However, seeing each other now, the Taoist and the prince can't help but have many feelings in their hearts.

They settled down and decided to talk about the Davidia involucrata Holy Land first.

Guan Luoyang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have a new exercise here, and it won't be too late for you to go down after you have learned it."

(End of this chapter)