Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 179 Planting Trees, Planting Trees

Lu Qingming, the national worker of the penance workshop, led a group of craftsmen to the side of the collapsed palace.

Dozens of craftsmen turned the capstan, the huge dome was raised again, and the palace was restored to its original state in a blink of an eye.

The craftsmen turned various mechanisms, and a crack appeared on the ground in the center of the palace.

The four walls moved one by one, like a bulldozer, pushing all the corpses, wreckage, flesh and crushed debris into the cracks, and the wall peeled off a layer automatically, and fell into the cracks together with the corpses.

Half an hour later, the palace was swept clean, not even a trace of blood was left.

State worker Lu Qingming asked the craftsman to bring the roster, and asked, "Have you found out those two people with cultivation?"

The craftsman replied: "One is Liu De'an, and the other is Shi Taibu!"

Lu Qingming looked at the crushed iron cage in the outer hall, frowned and said nothing.

The craftsman whispered: "Guogong, will these two escape?"

Lu Qingming glared at the craftsman: "Fuck your mother, the iron cage has been crushed into iron slag, where do you let them escape?"

The craftsman dared not make a sound.

Lu Qingming looked at the group of craftsmen, and said with a ferocious face: "We are doing this job, if we don't pay attention, we will lose our heads. If any of you are tired of work, just say, I will give him a good time, don't hurt everyone! "

……

The craftsmen stopped work and lived in the old palace, as if nothing had happened.

What was their purpose in killing two thousand innocent people?
Where did the bodies of those people go?

Holding the compass, Han Chen chased the bloody aura, and walked more than a dozen miles in the forest with Xu Zhiqiong, when the compass pointer suddenly stood up, indicating that the bloody aura was under his feet.

The two quickly hid in the distance, jumped onto a tree, and the pointer slowly calmed down.

Why does the bloody smell appear here?
Could it be that the people in the penance workshop used some kind of special mechanism to send the bones of the dead to this place?
What's so special about this place?
While thinking about it, I suddenly saw something wriggling on the ground.

Xu Zhiqiong was startled, thinking that Gu worms were coming.

Han Chen shook his head, indicating that this is not an insect, nor does it smell like Gu.

A tender green body broke through the ground, Xu Zhiqiong frowned and said, "Isn't this a bug?"

Han Chen smelled the smell in the air, and became more certain about his judgment: "This is definitely not a bug."

The body squirmed in the soil for a moment, and then began to grow longer, then thicker, with the tip split, as if opening its mouth, and seeming to be shedding its skin, while the body shook, it grew taller and taller.

It really isn't a bug!
It's a tree!

From breaking ground to sprouting in the blink of an eye, Xu Zhiqiong has only seen similar scenes in documentaries in his previous life.

Han Chen had seen it elsewhere, and said to Xu Zhiqiong in a low voice, "There are Suzaku cultivators nearby, and their grades are not low!"

While speaking, many buds burst out of the ground, densely packed, hundreds or even thousands.

The buds wobbled and grew, and gradually grew into branches. Xu Zhiqiong could hear the branches talking:

"For my daughter-in-law, tie a gold chain!"

"I don't need food in the future, save money to start a business!"

"I've made money, I'm rich!"

"Brother is gone and I'm still there, I'm taking care of my mother and my son!"

Xu Zhiqiong focused his eyes and saw strange fruits hanging from the growing branches.

Some fruit is an eyeball, some fruit is an ear, and some branches have fingers hanging on them.

There is a mouth at the top of the branch, and it talks non-stop.

"My brother is dead, I have to support my family, I have to support my son!"

"I'm not a beggar, I'm a person in a penance workshop, I eat imperial food..."

A sapling's voice was interrupted, and he was entangled in another sapling.

The two saplings were intertwined, quiet for a moment, and then said the same sentence in different voices: "I have to support my family, I have to support my children..."

Another sapling was drawn in, and the branches were all twisted together. At first, there were three or five trees, and then dozens or hundreds. The branches swam like countless snakes wrestling with each other.

The thick ones entwined the thin ones, the strong ones entangled the weak ones, the winners shouted loudly, and the losers followed suit.

Thousands of saplings are intertwined and twisted to the end, forming four big trees.

These four big trees have the leaves of locust trees, but like banyan trees, they have huge crowns and aerial roots all over their bodies.

As the night wind blew, the roots fluttered back and forth, and four voices faintly came to my ears:

"You're rich, girl, daddy bought you new clothes!"

"You don't have to go hungry today, and you can eat white flour pancakes every day from now on!"

"Daughter-in-law, I gave you a gold chain!"

"Mother, I will take care of you, Duoer, I will marry you!"

This is almost exactly the same as the tree in An Shu Yuan.

The prince once said that there were his friends in that tree.

Han Chen gritted his teeth and said, "This is a sorcery, it must be destroyed now!"

He unfolded his rucksack and poured out countless silver needles, which turned into flames and flew towards the four strange trees.

A fire dragon suddenly appeared, flying up and down, devouring all the silver needles.

"Yin-yang cultivator, I don't want to be your enemy," a man's voice came from next to my ear, "I was just ordered to do something, and naturally I don't want to cause trouble after the task is done. That's it!"

Han Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Give me back these two thousand lives, and that's the end of today!"

The man said: "I didn't kill these two thousand lives. If you want revenge, you just go to the penance workshop."

Xu Zhiqiong said, "Who ordered you to do this?"

"Brother, what you are asking is so unreasonable. I have never asked why you are here, nor have you asked your names. You have no reason to ask me this. Will I answer you?"

Xu Zhiqiong didn't expect him to answer, he was trying to determine the location of the other party.

Through these few words, the location was judged. The opponent was in a mess of grass, about two hundred feet away from him.

This person is Suzaku cultivator, and he used the technique of the birth of all things to make the strange tree grow rapidly.

According to common sense, he should fight off Xu Zhiqiong and Han Chen first, so as not to destroy the plan.

But he took the risk of growing a strange tree first, and then issued a warning to Han Chen.

This proves that the strange tree can bring him great help.

In Anshuyuan, Xu Zhiqiong's skills often failed, and Qu Jinshan's yin and yang skills were sometimes ineffective.

But Niu Yuxian's Mohist methods are completely unrestricted.

There are hundreds of Mohist artisans nearby.

Don't stay here for long.

Xu Zhiqiong glanced at Han Chen, and silently said a word: "Let's go."

Han Chen was puzzled.

More than [-] lives stayed here, so they just left?
Xu Zhiqiong took out the sound transmission card and waved it in front of Han Chen.

Han Chen recognized the sound card, but couldn't hear Xu Zhiqiong's voice.

The sound card is broken?Or is the yin and yang technique not working?

Probably the latter.

Without yin and yang skills, Han Chen has almost no combat power, and fighting here is tantamount to death.

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the open space on the left, Han Chen understood, and quickly jumped down with Xu Zhiqiong.

As soon as the two of them landed, two fire dragons chased after them. Xu Zhiqiong knew the opponent's position, so he took precautions early and pulled Han Chen to avoid the fire dragons.

Thick smoke was everywhere, and trees were on fire. This move was not only for sneak attack, but also sent a letter to the artisans in the penance workshop.

Before the fire dragon dissipated, a man in his forties suddenly rushed forward, punching Han Chen with his fists on fire.

Xu Zhiqiong pushed Han Chen away, and punched the man under the armpit.

The man tried his best to dodge, Xu Zhiqiong's fist changed direction in the air, and hit the man's collarbone with one punch.

It is still effective to apply the essence of sword technique to boxing technique!

The man's collarbone was broken, he covered his chest and backed away again and again, gritted his teeth and said, "It turned out to be Killing Dao!"

He regarded Xu Zhiqiong as a killer, because Xu Zhiqiong's blow was too powerful.

Xu Zhiqiong and Suzaku Cultivator have fought each other before, and they know each other's methods.

Although the collarbone was broken, it was nothing to Suzaku cultivator, and he would recover soon.

Xu Zhiqiong was not in love with fighting, so he picked up Han Chen and started running wildly.

Suzaku cultivator didn't chase after him either, he just sat there and healed his wounds immediately.

Not long after, the craftsmen who saw the fireworks rushed up, and the national worker Lu Qingming ran out of breath, looked at a few burning trees, and said to the man: "Master Yu Si, did you just fight with someone? "

Master Yu Si shook his head: "To promote the growth of the sacred tree, Shicai exhausted too much energy, which caused a real fire."

"The sacred tree didn't miss, did it?"

"What could be wrong!" Master Yu Si smiled, pointing to the strange tree behind him, "Look, everyone, the sacred tree has grown!"

Lu Qingming quickly covered his eyes: "We don't look at it, and we can't see it either. We've only heard about this sacred tree, but we've never seen it. Brothers, put out the fire quickly, we haven't seen anything!"

……

Xu Zhiqiong ran out of the hunting garden with Han Chen on his shoulders. Han Chen formed a magic circle and took Xu Zhiqiong through the night. At dawn, the two returned to the capital from the north gate.

Xu Zhiqiong was not in a hurry to go home, so he went to Beiyuan to find a water well first: "Brother Han, wash the clothes, don't let the people in the penance workshop see it, and you will be messed up again."

After washing his clothes, Han Chen clenched his fists and said, "Over [-] lives are lost just like that? That young man is still waiting to make money to support his family and marry a wife!"

Xu Zhiqiong took out Xie Yong's bag, and took out the silk handkerchief Duoer gave him from it.

Han Chen said with tears in his eyes, "Brother Xu, what is this all about?"

Xu Zhiqiong also couldn't figure it out: "Brother Han has traveled all over the world and has more knowledge than me. I can't understand this matter, and I can't understand it. Have you seen those strange trees?"

"Ms. Han has never seen that kind of monster before," Han Chen shook his head and said, "I have been wandering in southern Xinjiang for many years, and I have seen many murders. Yu Xianguo's people are vicious, but they are all scourges of our Daxuan people. Unless there is a deep hatred, they seldom attack their own people, why did the court of Daxuan..."

Xu Zhiqiong signaled Han Chen to stop talking, this is not the place to talk.

After resting for a while and recovering their strength, the two walked home, passing Wanhualou, and just about to enter the alley, they suddenly saw the old beggar standing in front of them.

"Master, you donate two, I haven't eaten for two days."

Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback, what is this old beggar going to do?

The old beggar staggered and bumped into Xu Zhiqiong's body: "Master, don't hit me, sir, I don't want your money, just give me a stutter."

While talking, the old beggar pressed against Xu Zhiqiong, squeezing and bumping. Han Chen was annoyed, looked at the old beggar and said, "Are you begging for food, or are you robbing?"

Xu Zhiqiong knew something was going on here, so he deliberately pushed and shoved the old beggar: "You old beggar is still relying on me? I won't give it to you, what can you do?"

The two pushed and shoved all the way, and when they reached the side of the street, the old beggar said in a low voice: "Master Deng Lang, there are people in your house, I don't know who they are, they can beat them all!"

Hearing this, Han Chen took out a few silver needles and said, "I left a mark at your house, let's see how many people come."

After calculating for a while, Han Chen raised his head and said, "The twelve people are all above the seventh rank."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled wryly: "I can't even go home now."

Han Chen gritted his teeth and said, "Why are you afraid of him? These beasts must have something to do with the people in the hunting garden, let's kill them all!"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "There are things you can count, and there are things you can't. Knowing that they are plotting against us, how can you stretch your neck to get in?"

Xu Zhiqiong asked the old beggar, "How is my family?"

"One girl can fight, but she escapes with another girl."

"Miss Chang is still reliable," Xu Zhiqiong smiled, and took out an ingot of silver and gave it to the old beggar, "Take your grandson, go to Li Qi Tea House, find their shopkeeper, and say that I sent him here, let him Help find a place for you to stay first, and you can't come out to beg these days."

"Master Deng Lang, I dare not ask for your money!"

"Dare to dawdle! Do you want to kill yourself?"

After seeing off the old beggar, Xu Zhiqiong touched the slave ghost jade on his chest.

Chang Decai responded, and he took Shi Shuangliu to live in the Fulai Inn.

"Brother Han, come with me to the Lantern Yamen to move troops. None of these bastards will leave today!"

The two went to Zhangdeng Yamen, and just arrived at the door, but saw an acquaintance come out to welcome them.

"Xu Hongdeng, you are really hard to find. Our family has traveled all over the capital, and our shoes are all worn out. That's when we met you!"

Xu Zhiqiong's hair stood on end, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on Han Chen's forehead.

Really did not count.

The third-rank eunuch Chen Shuncai brought several eunuchs to Xu Zhiqiong.

What is he going to do?

Instead of guessing, it is better to ask directly.

"Why is Chen Bingbi looking for me?"

Chen Shun said with a smile: "It's not our family who came to look for you, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who is looking for you, please come into the palace!"

Prince looking for me?

The prince is looking for me, how could he send you here?
(End of this chapter)