book of troubled times

Chapter 737 The beginning of heaven seeing and earth hearing

In the guest house, the moon and stars are sparse.

Yue Hongling was leaning against the pavilion while drinking. She looked at Zhao Changhe sitting in the courtyard practicing kung fu with his eyes closed, and the smile never stopped on his lips.

Whether it was this performance of racing against time to practice or the conversation just now, Yue Hongling really liked it more and more as she watched it. Almost every word seemed to be spoken in her heart.

She doesn't think this is a hero, she just thinks he should be like this. This is the man who makes her heart stay in the world, and it has never changed since they met. Regardless of whether the intentions of Li Shentong and others are the same as before, Zhao Changhe must be.

Whether he was a bandit in the Beimang Mountains or the powerful King of Zhao today.

But if she knew that Zhao Changhe's so-called "racing for time practice" was actually talking to other women, I wonder if her smile would freeze on her face.

——This woman has bullied her more than once.

"Let me tell you news from afar?" The blind man sneered in Zhao Changhe's sea of ​​consciousness: "Do you still want to convey your thoughts to them?"

Zhao Changhe said: "It would be best if you can..."

The blind man said: "Do you think of me as QQ or WeChat?"

"It seems that you have a lot of fun in this world... One day I can go back, and I can really add you's WeChat account."

"roll."

"It's really not negotiable?"

"Are you referring to sending you a message or adding me on WeChat?"

"...adding you on WeChat is just a polite word, forget it." Zhao Changhe said sincerely: "Tell me what's going on in Jinzhong now? Is Qing'er in trouble?"

"Are you really so natural that you just ask this question? Just like you are so natural that you regard this place as Shu County of the Han Dynasty, and you are so powerful that you can't even think about it?" The blind man sneered: "You think I am full of muscles. Idiot?"

"Do you think Li Shentong can't change his mind because I'm a natural? You really think he is stupid." Zhao Changhe sighed: "They are really shocked because of my proposal to divide the land and open education, and they are too lazy to argue with me about anything else. You Guess if he really pretends to be Shu County and arranges personnel and promotion of officials, you can see if he will throw me out."

The blind man said "Huh" and made no comment.

Because she can't understand. Allocating land to others, why should Li Shentong be shocked? Those things could have been his, shouldn't it be more appropriate to throw you out?

Gods and demons are far away, and what everyone cares about is always different.

"Li Shentong has nothing to talk about. I want to see Qing'er." Zhao Changhe said coquettishly: "Let's talk about it... we are so familiar with each other."

The blind man didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Do you know how disgusting it is for such a big man like you to act coquettishly?"

"No matter how embarrassing I am, you have seen it, no matter what...it is you after all."

It's you after all... The blind man was startled, and he snorted coldly: "You are familiar with me, but I am not familiar with you. Stop talking nonsense, I can't be your eyes and ears, so what is going on? If you have the ability, you can see for yourself , this is just the ability of heaven to see and earth to hear, and it’s not unique to me, you can do it too.”

Zhao Changhe said: "That is to extend my current ability to overlook the world. This must be at least the level of the third level of Yujing. When can I go there?"

"No matter when you get it, you have to practice. If you don't practice, you will never have it." The blind man crossed his arms: "Day by day, avoid taboos, practice overlooking the eyes, and avoid everything. Then he turned around and said, "We are very familiar with Blind Blind." , it’s you after all. Are you disgusting or not?”

Zhao Changhe: "...I'm not very shy about looking down."

"Tsk." The blind man sneered and ignored him.

But Zhao Changhe really doesn't shy away from the overlooking eye. He has felt from previous tests that the overlooking eye is nothing more than the result of the expansion of spiritual consciousness and five senses. It is an upgraded version of the "listening to identify position" in the early years.

But with the blessing of the behind-the-scenes eye, the range may be enlarged, and you may “see” more clearly than others. Normal people should only have a "perception", but if they witness it, this is the effect of the blessing of the behind-the-scenes eye. It does not mean that the entire external effect is brought about by the behind-the-scenes eye.

This kind of external release can be practiced by everyone, but when you practice it by yourself, you always have to use it with the eyes behind you. But it’s impossible for you not to practice. The higher your practice, the bigger your vision and the clearer your vision will be. That’s the decisive difference between strength and weakness. How could you not practice? If you have played games, you know what opening a map is, right...

The reason why I practice less is because there are too many things to learn, and the time is so short. It is impossible to practice this or that. I have long forgotten the sky when looking down. It is really not a deliberate avoidance.

After being despised by the blind man, Zhao Changhe suddenly climbed up the pole: "Then let me teach you how to practice. I learned the wind control from the Thief Saint. I feel it is very helpful for hearing. The wind brings it I can listen carefully to the sound, and the range is much larger. But it’s just listening, what about watching?”

The blind man said smoothly: "You act like you know everything under the night sky, so this is not your control? Do you need to control the wind? What the hell."

After saying this, he paused again and said mockingly: "The new Ye Emperor will only use his status to play the role of a revered person. If the Ye Emperor knew about it, he would not be able to poke seventeen or eight holes in you!"

"Eh? What's wrong with me as the Night Emperor? Why don't others understand and you don't understand either? No, when did I use this identity to play the role of a venerable? We are both in love!"

"I don't understand, I'm not familiar with the brothel." The blind man said coolly.

Zhao Changhe: "..."

The two of them remained expressionless for a while, and Zhao Changhe suddenly became more energetic.

These days, I have been tempering and echoing the meaning of the galaxy through the Galaxy Sword. Although I have not been able to break through the imperial realm, I am really getting more and more familiar with echoing the galaxy.

Hazy, I always feel like my consciousness is floating in the sky, with the moon shining slowly, overlooking the earth.

It is naturally impossible to see the whole world like a blind man, but the effect is unexpectedly good - before, the bird's-eye view could only see a radius of one mile at most, but now that I have advanced in practice, I thought I could see a city, but I realized It continues to expand, not only overlooking the entire Chengdu, but also beyond, extending all the way to the suburbs for an unknown number of miles.

This is the effect of Yu Xinghe, plus the blessing effect of the eyes behind him. It is not just a matter of practice... Can you imagine how much the visual range can be increased when you truly break through the Yu Realm?

That will happen in the future, but at this moment, you can vaguely see someone sneaking out of the city and flying outward.

Zhao Changhe smiled slightly and regained his energy.

Fawning over the blind man, first of all, he wanted to know the situation of Suzaku and the others in the distance, and secondly, for this reason.

——Every word I say to Li Shentong is true, but the other party may suspect that he is deceiving. The dividing line between authenticity and falsehood is whether I have spread these words and put them on public opinion. I don't want to use public opinion to kidnap people at all. What I want is Li Shentong's sincere help. If he is misunderstood, nothing will happen.

In this case, could there be a third party who is unwilling to cooperate with Li Shentong, such as Tingxue Lou's secret, and deliberately spread it?

"I'll help you dig them out", this sentence at the banquet corresponds to this backhand.

But at that time, what I wanted to do was not rely on this kind of spiritual consciousness to catch people from a bird's eye view. What I planned to do was to rely on the art of looking at the qi to see the sword energy hidden in their depths. That is obviously not reliable. If the opponent has no sword energy at all and is just bribed, it will be difficult to see the energy. You can only see that the opponent has evil intentions, which will not convince anyone. . Being able to catch him on the spot now is more intuitive than anything else.

Zhao Changhe opened his eyes.

Yue Hongling was leaning in the pavilion and practicing. Zhao Changhe opened his eyes. She seemed to feel something and opened her eyes at the same time.

Zhao Changhe said: "Are you... protecting me?"

Yue Hongling smiled and said: "Of course, you were in a deep state of trance for a period of time just now, so of course I have to protect you."

"Uh..." That's actually a state where the consciousness is released and cannot be distracted. But in fact, the more you are in this state, the clearer all the changes around you are, but you really don't need the protection of others. But Yue Hongling's thoughts made Zhao Changhe feel warm in his heart, and he said softly: "Why didn't you say a word during the whole dinner before? You are also an honored guest, so don't behave like my guard."

Yue Hongling said simply: "In these matters, I am your bodyguard, and I am willing to be your bodyguard."

Zhao Changhe: "..."

Yue Hongling said: "You suddenly fell into practice. What are your thoughts?"

Zhao Changhe took her hand: "Let's go, if someone gives us a way to break the situation, of course we have to accept it."

He paused and suddenly smiled: "It's great to have you. If I were the only one, I wouldn't be able to take care of you."

"Sect Master, Zhao Changhe and his wife suddenly left the guest house and looked north."

Li Shentong stood up, feeling quite sad in his heart: "Are you really trying to spread the word... Let's go and have a look."

Under the moonlight, several figures left the city from different directions, quickly escaped into the dense forest, and headed north.

What Zhao Changhe said during the banquet frightened some people. No matter whether the Han Dynasty and Bashu would unite because of these things, they couldn't bear it.

That's digging roots.

Equalizing farmland, opening up education...this is magic!

Once it is really pushed away, it will not only be the death knell of the wealthy family, but also the death knell of many small sects, and it will also be the death knell of local subordinates. From then on, inheritance and monopoly became a thing of the past, and everything was put on the table for competition. Li Shentong slaughtered aristocratic families, but he failed to do this. Zhao Changhe actually wanted to uproot Bashu with just a few words!

Not to mention others, even within the Shenhuang Sect, there were no opponents.

Because their Shenhuang Sect is also a powerhouse with a monopoly on martial arts, and it is representative.

Everyone thought that Li Shentong would not agree to this, but looking at Li Shentong's performance, they were quite touched...Whether he would really implement it is another question, depending on Li Shentong's attitude, it may not be true, but once his heart is shaken, it will be a wake-up call. . In any case, since Sect Master Li believes that once it spreads, it means that Zhao Changhe cannot be trusted, then why can't we spread it? This will not harm the sect leader.

Just as they were thinking about this, in the woods ahead, someone sat on a rock and grinned at them.

Several people stopped urgently, their footsteps leaving long scratches on the ground, and their hearts were filled with horror: "...Zhao, Zhao Changhe!"

At this time, I saw Zhao Changhe sitting there under the moonlight in the forest. It was like an ordinary person walking through the mountains at night and suddenly saw a dazzling white-fronted tiger. The aura that came towards me was really frightening.

Zhao Changhe jumped off the rock: "Everyone, the winter nights are bitterly cold and the dew is getting heavier. Why don't you have a good rest at home? Why go to the dense forest outside the mountain to drink from the northwest wind..."

He didn't even flash the knife, but the legs of everyone in front of him were already trembling subconsciously. Fear dominated everyone's heart, and they shouted instinctively, and they all drew their swords and slashed at Zhao Changhe.

——Now his blood evil no longer needs to be deliberately mobilized, it is already everywhere. But it is not yet known how much of the bloody horror effect this time will have. It is entirely caused by human influence. Zhao Changhe, who slaughtered gods and demons, is so legendary in the eyes of the world that no one has been able to pull out the cauldron stuck in the city gate.

"Clang, clang, clang!" Several crisp sounds rang out, and several knives struck Zhao Changhe in unison.

Zhao Changhe tilted his head slightly, pinched the knife on his neck with two fingers, and grinned: "The Shenhuang Sect shouldn't be so aggressive. I have used the explosive power of the Shenhuang Wind and Thunder Palm to this day. You guys I haven’t learned anything yet.”

No, who is the Shenhuang Sect? How come you were chopped with a knife and didn’t even get a seal?

Zhao Changhe suddenly took action, and there was a crisp sound of "ding, ding, ding," and all the swords came into his hands. Then he grabbed them, twisted them into twists, and threw them on the ground.

"Let's go back to the city with me and let's talk to Sect Leader Li."

Before he finished speaking, Li Shentong's sigh came from the distance: "In the end, you are the Shenhuang Sect and I am the Shenhuang Sect?"

Zhao Changhe smiled: "It's not good enough. Could you please give me some advice from Sect Leader Li?"

Li Shentong's figure walked out of the mist of the dense forest and said calmly: "You, the moment the sword came to you, temporarily changed the muscle composition... It is quite laborious, and if the prediction of the landing point is wrong, it will Something went wrong.”

Zhao Changhe said: "That's true. But that's all it can do for the time being."

Li Shentong nodded: "There is still room for improvement."

After saying that, he didn't say much, and his cold eyes fell on those people: "I thought Tingxuelou was the one who would do these things, but I didn't expect it was me, the Shenhuang Sect, myself!"

"Sect Master!" Someone shouted: "He is digging roots! Don't believe his lies!"

There was deep disappointment in Li Shentong's eyes: "If you have any opinions, you can raise them with me privately. Can you afford to act on your own and damage the relationship between forces? What's more... why do you and I raise troops?"

Is this mind the same as before?

Regardless of whether Li Shentong is the same as before, the arms with him may not be the same as before.

People are different.

Even Li Shentong himself needs to ask himself repeatedly... Even if he asks himself, he may not really have any answer.

Just like now, no matter how disappointed he is, he doesn't want to punish these people severely. If the reason for the punishment is given, it is "self-assertion" and "undermining diplomacy."

"Bring them all back to me, and they will be imprisoned for ten days..." I wanted to say ten days, but before I could finish my words, there was a sound in the air.

Yue Hongling held a hemp rope with five or six people tightly tied to one end, and it dropped from the sky like a kite. Falling in front of Zhao Changhe, Yue Hongling threw all the prisoners to the ground and said with a smile: "These people are running around, it's quite troublesome to catch them... Fortunately, they did not disgrace their orders."

No matter how they ran around, it was just a lot of effort in front of Zhao and Yue who could fly now.

Everyone in the Shenhuang Sect who had originally planned to protest suddenly turned ashen, and Li Shentong's face was as gloomy as the bottom of a pot.

These are not people from the Shenhuang Sect. Even though they don’t know each other, I can tell that they are servants sent by some officials from Bashu. The officials who would do such a thing must be the "important minister" who was at the banquet hall at that time. The status is no small matter.

The people of the Shenhuang Sect naturally knew that Bashu had buried many secrets of Tingxue Tower, and now the attributes of these people have been revealed.

"What the enemy wants to do, you do it together. Do you think you are smart?" What Li Shentong just said about "ten days in prison" directly changed his words: "Ten years in prison, bitten by poisonous insects day and night, no reduction in sentence!"

He bent down and grabbed a servant's neck, lifted it up with one hand, and said coldly: "Take me to your master's house, take a slow breath, and break one of your fingers."

Zhao Changhe and Yue Hongling caged their hands and sat aside, as if they had nothing to do with themselves.

It is said that many of the previous killings were not caused by them, and at least half of them were due to Situ Xiao cleaning up the ground for his master. Now this carrot can bring out a big lump of mud, and he doesn't need Zhao Changhe's Qi-gazing technique at all. This time, the angry Daxi King doesn't know what he will do...

…………

No matter what King Daxi might do, Zhao Changhe's "authenticity" was completely proven through such a thing.

The young couple slept peacefully in the guest room warmed by the stove for a night. Early the next morning, Situ Xiao knocked on the door: "Get up and pee."

The two of them washed up randomly and came out of the courtyard. Situ Xiao had already laid out breakfast in the courtyard. Without waiting for the two of them to come out, I hugged a bowl of dandan noodles and ate it happily: "Damn, you guys slept soundly. I couldn't sleep all night because of your tossing."

Zhao Changhe sat in front of him with a smile: "Why, how many did you kill?"

Situ Xiao was embarrassed to say it, and stretched out a finger: "Less than a hundred."

"Less than a hundred? That's much less than I thought. It's very restrained."

"I'm talking about a hundred tribes."

"Pfft..." Zhao Changhe had just taken a bite of noodles, and when he heard this, he spit it out and inhaled with a "hissing" sound.

It’s only been one night!

Situ Xiao said with an expressionless face: "In troubled times, you are not doing much more kindness than us in the capital. That is still managed by the famous and elegant Tang Wanzhuang... They are just like immortals, lurking in our place as traitors. Do you really think we have no temper?"

"No..." Zhao Changhe gasped: "Even if the dinner table was spicy last night, why do you even serve spicy breakfast!"

"What misunderstanding do you have about Bashu?"

"Can I have two steamed buns? You can't make the steamed buns so spicy, right? Well, if I remember correctly, the steamed buns come from Wuhou, so they also belong to Bashu."

Situ Xiao ordered his left and right to get the steamed buns, and muttered: "I can't even eat the spicy ones, but I'm still a hero. You see, my wife can eat them too."

Yue Hongling smiled but said nothing.

"It's not that I can't eat spicy food. Isn't it just that I can't eat something light in the morning?" Zhao Changhe said angrily: "Besides, I didn't say I was a hero."

"But my master looked at our ancestor's ancestral hall this morning and kept saying 'hero, hero'."

"..."

Situ Xiao sighed and whispered: "What you said touched him a lot. Originally, they didn't know whether you were true or not. It's easy to say for the time being. Once they were convinced that it was true, I felt that Master had aged a bit."

Zhao Changhe asked curiously: "As for what?"

"As for that." Situ Xiao said seriously: "He thought he was serving the people, but looking back on the past, some things are hard to comment on. And your perspective gave him another blow, making him feel like he was just a stick."

"You are Bangchui." Li Shentong's voice came from outside the door: "How could I raise a kid like you?"

Situ Xiao buried his head in eating noodles.

Li Shentong walked in, put a handful of steamed buns on the table with his own hands, and showed a smile that was uglier than crying: "The poor hospitality made King Zhao laugh."

Zhao Changhe happily took the steamed bun and gnawed on it, and asked: "To be honest with Sect Master Li, I know how to use the power of gazing at qi. Do you need me to take another look around and dig out other sword slaves hiding their sword qi?"

"Then Li won't be polite to King Zhao anymore. It's necessary." Li Shentong said calmly: "In return, when the Han Dynasty and Guanlong are fighting, Bashu will cooperate with the troops to enter Hanzhong. The war will be left to my junior brother Shi, and Situ will assist him. , and I will go north with King Zhao."

Situ Xiao opened his mouth and looked at Zhao Changhe eagerly, hoping that he could borrow more people.

But I heard Li Shen said: "Don't even think about going north. If you go there, you will just serve as a general in Huangfu Yongxian's army, because you can't participate in the battle of Yujing. Who told you to be such a waste? You are about the same age as King Zhao. Look at what kind of dog's belly you have lived at your age?"

Situ Xiao held it in for a moment, but he didn't say that at such an old age, you are only half a grade above Zhao Changhe. What kind of dog's belly are you living at your age?

Zhao Changhe said: "Situ once fought with General Huangfu and is familiar with him. It's okay to let him go to Yanmen."

"Then go to Yanmen." Li Shentong did not dwell on this and said instead: "You said yesterday that the Kunlun gods and demons are not interested in fighting for hegemony in the world, which is not necessarily the case. Since I have decided to cooperate with you, let's take care of the things here Telling you something can be regarded as reciprocating a favor."

(End of this chapter)