Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 79 An Shuyuan (This chapter is high-energy)

At nightfall the next day, Qu Jinshan, Xu Zhiqiong and Niu Yuxian came to the north of the palace,
Anshu Courtyard is in the woods north of the imperial palace. There is only one road in the woods, which is more than three miles long, but they cannot walk this road.

This road is patrolled by forbidden soldiers, and Anshu Courtyard is a forbidden area, even if you are carrying a lantern, you are not qualified to trespass on the forbidden area.

Xu Zhiqiong thought things simple, he turned into a mouse, the limit distance of his skills was only one mile, and he couldn't even enter the gate of Anshuyuan.

Qu Jinshan had already prepared, he came to the edge of the dense forest and said to Xu Zhiqiong: "Let's get in from here."

How to drill?The branches in the forest are dense, and the branches are full of thorns.

Qu Jinshan took out a compass and began to calculate the location according to the distribution of trees. After a long calculation, he finally selected a location.

He marked the ground, took a two-foot-long wooden wedge, stuck it into the ground one foot, and left it on the ground. Two bottles were hung on the wedge, one containing mercury and the other containing mercury. iron foam.

Qu Jinshan concentrated his attention, and poured the yin and yang breaths into the bottle through his left and right hands respectively. The mercury boiled, the iron foam melted, and a foggy road suddenly appeared in the dense forest, extending into the distance.

Qu Jinshan turned his head and looked at Xu Zhiqiong and Niu Yuxian proudly, but this time, he gave these two young people a better understanding.

Unexpectedly, Xu Zhiqiong sniffled and remained expressionless.

Niu Yuxian's expression was dull, and he just walked with his head down.

Xu Zhiqiong had seen this kind of formation before, and Tong Qingqiu called it the opening formation, and it was one of his life-saving formations.

Every night, when Tong Qingqiu ran out of ammunition and food, he would arrange a way out in advance, trying to escape from the house before being beaten to death by his wife.

This passage ignores all obstacles in front, including trees, earth and stones, and even walls, and can pass through smoothly.

Tong Qingqiu used this formation many times, directly sneaked into Xu Zhiqiong's room, and then turned around and shouted: "Witch, are you really shameless?"

Mrs. Sister-in-law also chased her a few times, but because she had no clothes on, she retreated again.

The core of the magic circle lies in the position of the wooden wedge, which must be obtained through precise calculation, and this position will change every moment, even if Tong Qingqiu is in her own home, she has to recalculate every time.

This magic circle has another shortcoming, the effective distance is too short.

Xu Zhiqiong and Niu Yuxian followed Qu Jinshan for more than a hundred steps, dense forests and thorns appeared again, the magic circle reached its limit and had to be rearranged.

Qu Jinshan took back the wooden wedge and bottle by using the technique of transposition of yin and yang, and recalculated the position. After half an hour of calculation, the result was not calculated.

This is normal, and Tong Qingqiu often couldn't figure out the direction, and was once beaten unconscious by his wife, still holding the wooden wedge in his hand.

Niu Yuxian became impatient, and sighed: "The study of yin and yang is ultimately heresy."

Qu Jinshan said angrily: "Zhuzi, what are you talking about?"

The Mo family and the Yin Yang family were old enemies. Fortunately, Qu Jinshan had a higher position, and Niu Yuxian didn't speak back.

Niu Yuxian took out a pair of gloves from the sleeve and handed them to Xu Zhiqiong. The palms of the gloves had fine hairs, allowing Xu Zhiqiong to climb trees like a gecko.

Xu Zhiqiong climbed to the top of the tree, jumped up and down the canopy, and rushed to Anshu Courtyard.

Qu Jinshan sneered: "Zhiqiong cultivates the way of killing, he has this skill, can you climb a tree? Even if you can, can you still jump on a tree?"

Xu Zhiqiong is not a killer, but the judge's skill is more agile than a killer.

However, the cultivators of the Mo family and the Yin Yang family did not have such good skills, but Niu Yuxian had been prepared for a long time. He wrapped a layer of black clothes around his body and squeezed into the gaps in the trees. The black clothes looked ordinary, but No matter the thorns or twigs, if they touched him, they would break immediately, and he curled up among the thorns and walked forward, but Niu Yuxian was not injured at all.

Qu Jinshan said bitterly: "How rampant are the younger generations!"

After hating him, he had to step up his calculations, and Niu Yuxian's back was getting further and further away.

Xu Zhiqiong was the first to arrive at Anshu Courtyard, walked around the courtyard wall, and roughly calculated the distance.

The size of the royal outer courtyard is naturally not small, from the front wall to the back wall, there are about a hundred steps.

There are three hundred steps in Daxuan Yili (one step with left foot and one step with right foot), the depth of this yard is less than half a mile, and it is completely within Xu Zhiqiong's control.

Before those two people came, Xu Zhiqiong found a secluded place to hide himself first, then found a mouse, and prepared to go in and make a general inspection.

Mice are not always there, but Xu Zhiqiong was prepared in advance. He took out some rice grains from his rucksack and sprinkled them on the ground. These rice grains have been specially processed, and the aroma can spread far. Tong Qingqiu used to mix these rice grains Use poison to lure and kill pests.

Not long after, a mouse came over and tasted the rice carefully.

Naturally, there was no poison in these rice grains, and the mice had almost eaten it, so they exchanged glances with Xu Zhiqiong and left.

Xu Zhiqiong stayed where he was, blinking his eyes.

Possession was unsuccessful.

It shouldn't be, since Xu Zhiqiong was promoted to the ninth rank, he has never missed the skill of possessing a mouse.

How difficult can it be to be specific in the eyes and in the mind of Parkway?
Xu Zhiqiong sprinkled some more rice grains, and soon another mouse came to eat it. After eating the rice, the mouse left, leaving Xu Zhiqiong squatting on the spot alone in a daze.

Failed again!

Xu Zhiqiong discovered the reason, the power of thought and image could not be mobilized.

Could it be that there is a magic circle here that took away my cultivation?
Xu Zhiqiong sprinkled some more rice grains, and before the mouse came over, Niu Yuxian came over.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm planting rice!" Xu Zhiqiong clapped his hands, got up and said, "Where's Qu Dengshou?"

"Who knows what year and month he will come here, the study of yin and yang is not the right way, if you want to practice other Taoisms in the future, I can guide you into the Mohist sect."

Well-intentioned, the Mo family will not go, Xu Zhiqiong doesn't want to talk about the hardship.

After waiting for a while, but Qu Jinshan did not appear, Niu Yuxian said, "Let's go in and have a look first, and I'll open the gate."

Niu Yuxian brought a device to open the lock, but was stopped by Xu Zhiqiong: "It's not appropriate to go through the door, jump over the wall and go in."

The courtyard wall of Anshu Courtyard was more than two feet high, and Niu Yuxian crossed the wall with the help of chains.

Xu Zhiqiong took the opportunity to catch a mouse, hid it in his sleeve, and then climbed over the courtyard wall.

After entering the courtyard, Xu Zhiqiong discovered that the structure of Anshu Courtyard was different from normal houses.

Ordinary houses are divided into front yard, main yard and back yard, but Anshu Courtyard has a "Hui"-shaped structure, which is divided into outer yard and inner yard.

There are also such houses in Daxuan, but they are rare. The "Hui"-shaped structure is more suitable for cities.

After walking half a circle along the outer courtyard, Qu Qingdeng was already standing in front of the inner courtyard.

"Young Mohist boy, is the old Yin-Yang technique slower than yours?"

Qu Dengshou was usually steady, but he did not expect to show his childish temper when he met the Mo family.

"Since you're not slow, why are you waiting here?" Niu Yuxian was unambiguous.

"You don't want to wait, just go inside!" Qu Jinshan made a gesture of invitation.

Niu Yuxian headed straight for the door with a tool for unlocking the lock, and Xu Zhiqiong grabbed him.

The situation was obvious, Qu Jinshan did not dare to enter the door, which proved that there was something strange in the door.

Across the courtyard wall, Xu Zhiqiong seemed to be able to smell a bloody smell, and his power of thought and image seemed to have recovered a little.

Qu Jinshan sighed: "Zhiqiong is still stable, the inner courtyard has yin, hostility, murderous, bloody, all kinds of aura mixed together, but I don't know how dangerous it is."

Niu Yuxian sneered: "It's as if you saw it with your own eyes."

Qu Jinshan made another gesture of invitation; "Just go and meet me."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Qu Dengshou, you check the source of the breath here first, and I'll check for any abnormalities in the outer courtyard."

Qu Jinshan nodded and said: "Be careful, you must not enter the inner courtyard without my news."

Niu Yuxian said to Xu Zhiqiong, "I'll go with you."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "You are here to help Qu Dengshou."

Although he was reluctant, Niu Yuxian never disobeyed Xu Zhiqiong's orders.

Xu Zhiqiong walked around to the back wall and took out the mouse from his sleeve. Only then did the mouse struggle so hard that it almost showed its feet.

What Qu Jinshan said was right, there was a chilling aura in the inner courtyard, the Mo family was slow to the aura, Niu Yuxian didn't notice it, but Xu Zhiqiong noticed it, and this mouse also noticed it.

Xu Zhiqiong sat in the corner and used the skill again on the mouse. The power of mind and image really recovered, and the skill was successful this time.

Strange to say, outside the courtyard wall, Xu Zhiqiong's skills were restricted, probably due to the effect of some magic circle, just like Tong Qingqiu's cultivation was taken away.

But in the yard, why did the skills recover?
This magic circle makes people unable to understand the law.

Xu Zhiqiong attached himself to the mouse, slowly approached the courtyard wall, and crawled into the courtyard along the ditch under the wall.

He knew it was dangerous, but since he came to explore the way, he must find out, using a mouse is better than using a real body.

Through the moonlight, Xu Zhiqiong saw the whole picture of the courtyard.

There are no buildings in this yard, just one tree!

The huge Anshu Courtyard only has a large courtyard surrounded by a small courtyard, not even a single house!

Is this where people live?

Concubine An Shu lived in this place back then?
Xu Zhiqiong scanned the yard, except for a locust tree in the center of the yard, he saw no other furnishings.

The locust tree is very thick, almost two people hugging each other, but the tree is not high, only about nine feet, about the same as Chu He.

The huge canopy almost covers the entire yard, and a large piece of aerial roots hangs under the canopy, like hair, slowly fluttering with the night wind.

Call ~
A gust of night wind blew past my ears.

"hatred……"

there's noise.

Xu Zhiqiong heard someone talking.

The voice was low and hoarse, and even Xu Zhiqiong's hearing was so good that he couldn't hear it clearly.

"hatred……"

"Blood……"

"kill!"

This time Xu Zhiqiong heard three words clearly, it seemed to be a woman's voice.

He didn't know the meaning of these three words, and more importantly, he didn't know who was speaking.

Take a closer look?Maybe someone is hiding behind the locust tree.

Xu Zhiqiong took two steps forward, but the mouse's instinct made him shrink back.

Don't come near, don't come near.

The smell of blood in the wind became stronger and stronger, and the voice in my ear became clearer and clearer. It should be a woman singing.

It wasn't that Xu Zhiqiong's hearing got better, but the voice was getting closer.

The dense roots became clearer, not because Xu Zhiqiong's eyesight had improved, but because the aerial roots were growing rapidly.

Time to go, gotta go.

Just as Xu Zhiqiong turned around, a pair of muddy boots appeared in front of him.

Someone, someone is behind.

Rat raised his head slowly, and saw a dirty white robe over the boots, and above the white robe, he saw a face covered with hair.

Through the hair, Xu Zhiqiong saw the high bridge of the nose, deep-set eye sockets, and a pair of blood-red eyes in the eye sockets.

The blood-red eyes lowered their heads, looking at the mice on the ground.

Who is this person?

Concubine An Shu?

Roots have grown to the ground and are spreading towards the rats.

Among the roots, Xu Zhiqiong finally heard the singing clearly:
My hatred, who knows?

Who will solve my injustice?

My hatred has no end!

My blood is still wet!

I kill!

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　　Also, guess what, who is this man in white?
　　
　
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