No, gentlemen also guard against

Chapter 244 Returning to the Underground Palace, Blessing Exchange

"Six Lang."

"I am humble!"

"After Liu Zilin and I leave, you protect Ah Qing.

"Look over there, through this forest, go northward for a hundred and twenty steps, you can see a deserted pavilion, and there is an open space behind the pavilion, where Qiu Shenji restrained me and the other brothers before.

"The brothers who were imprisoned in the cave, the burning sky shark oil, and the junior sister's skirt knife are all left there. You go to save people and get things later."

"Mingfu, let's not leave, we will follow behind and find a chance to rescue you! I have already sent someone to contact Master Xie..."

"No need, you guys don't follow, Liu Zilin is a frightened bird now, if you keep up, it will only make him more suspicious and drag me down.

"Liulang, help me with something at the end."

"Mingfu, don't talk like that, I'm afraid of a lowly position... What's the matter?"

"Give the skirt knife to my junior sister for me, and send a word...

"Just say, I'm sorry, as a big brother, I'm afraid I'm going to break my promise again. I just promised her today, and I won't leave without saying goodbye again, huh."

……

The official boat that Ouyang Rong, Liu Zilin and a group of slaves in Tsing Yi took was provided by Yan Liulang and others.

Walking by water, flowing down from Butterfly Creek, we soon arrived at Songlingdu, not far from Dagu Mountain.

About an hour later.

Dagu Mountain, a remote mountain road.

Liu Zilin and the slaves in Tsing Yi escorted Ouyang Rong who was willing to be a hostage.

Everyone carefully stepped on the moss-covered bluestone slabs and climbed the mountain step by step.

Right now, smoke is everywhere in the upper reaches of Butterfly Creek, the Digong Gate will collapse at any time, and floods will come at any time.

The people of Longcheng all gathered in the refuge camp in Dagu Mountain.

Seemingly in order to avoid these people in Longcheng, Liu Zilin deliberately chose a path that is inaccessible to the mountain, and carefully went to the underground palace of a certain temple that Ouyang Rong pointed out.

"Liu Sanshao's expression is so uncomfortable, maybe...Wei Shaoxuan and the others have come to Dagu Mountain, right?"

Ouyang Rong suddenly said with a chuckle.

Liu Zilin's back, which frequently looked around, froze slightly, then turned around and said:
"Ouyang Lianghan, do you want to die that much? Do you want Wei Shaoxuan to kill you?"

"Aren't they all the same? It's in the hands of both of you." Ouyang Rong nodded and said.

"Humph."

Liu Zilin turned his head back, narrowed his eyes and said:

"As long as you take out the real pretense and give it to me and get the tripod sword, I will naturally let you go. At that time, you walk your sunny path, and I will cross my single-plank bridge."

"Okay." Ouyang Rong smiled.

Liu Zilin also smiled.

Ouyang Rong looked away from the ropes that bound his hands and the servants in blue who surrounded him on both sides.

Silently felt the meridians of the dantian, and tried to mobilize the spiritual energy. Obviously the spiritual energy can flow, but the limbs are still empty and weak.

Regarding his bone-shrinking ability, Liu Zilin had a keen eye. After the hostage exchange, he immediately smelled a strange fragrance of cartilage, which made his limbs go limp.

Although the aura in the body can function as usual, the aura of a low-rank qi trainer cannot be separated from the body, and it can be regarded as a temporary loss of mobility.

Thinking about it carefully, Ouyang Rong always feels that the effect of this strange fragrance is not serious, so maybe it is only for flower pickers?

Ouyang Rong was speechless.

Seeing that it is getting closer and closer to Donglin Temple on the top of the mountain.

He suddenly asked:

"Liu Zilin, in fact, I've been curious since just now, how did you make sure that there is no sword in the sword case that the old man gave Wei Shaoxuan?"

Liu Zilin was silent for a while, then said with a sneer:

"The old gentleman will not take the initiative to help the Wei family obtain the sword, on the contrary, he will use the hand of the Wei family to destroy our Liu family.

"The reason is very simple, as long as Wei takes away the sword box and finally finds that there is no sword in the box, the bamboo basket will be empty.

"Then the anger must be directed at the Liu family. In this way, I, the youngest of the Liu family who survived alone, will die without a place to die. This old man is killing two birds with one sword.

"When he was alive, he witnessed the brotherhood of the three brothers of our Liu family. After his death, someone cleaned up the Liu family for him. Hahahaha, our Liu family will be buried with him."

Ouyang Rong was curious: "What did you do to make this old man hold grudges so much?"

Liu Zilin didn't answer, and said to himself:

"Furthermore, when Wei Shaoxuan left with the Mohist sword box, the eldest lady of Yunmeng Jianze did not intend to stop her at all. She clearly knew that the tripod sword was not in the Mohist sword box. In her eyes, Wei Shaoxuan was just like an ant, unworthy of attention, and ran away as soon as he ran away."

Ouyang Rong frowned slightly:
"According to what you said, why did the old man send both Ding Jian and Ah Qing to Yunmeng Jianze? What kind of friendship do they have, why did they go to such lengths?"

Liu Zilin shut up suddenly, turned his head to look at Ouyang Rong, his eyes were suspicious after he had climbed more than half of the mountain:

"It's fine, why did you bring the precious beads that the old man gave you to this place that doesn't shit? Pure Land Palace? What kind of shit place?"

Ouyang Rong was calm and composed:
"It seems that the people who are being followed by your Liu family are not very competent. They don't even know that I didn't go back to my hometown a few days ago, and I came to Donglin Temple to eat and stay?"

Ouyang Rong told Liu Zilin before that the old man not only gave a blue butterfly paper flower, but also gave Ah Qing a precious pearl, and he asked him to leave.

At this moment, Liu Zilin held the moonlight long sword tightly around his waist, stared at Ouyang Rong for a while, and nodded slowly:
"Ouyang Lianghan, I've had enough. You should know the consequences of lying to me. Well, you never will. It's to save that little girl and die instead of her, right?"

Ouyang Rong smiled.

Liu Zilin, who was looking at him, also smiled.

Unfortunately, laughter has different meanings.

Immediately, everyone finally reached the end of the mountain road, and the buildings of the ancient temple fell into their eyes.

Everyone climbed over the wall, entered the temple carefully, avoided the monks, and rushed towards Beitian Jiyangyuan.

But along the way, Ouyang Rong frowned slightly, lost in thought.

In fact, he doesn't have any so-called orbs at all.

That old senior really only gave Ah Qing a paper blue butterfly flower, but he didn't know what to do with it.

And now it seems that it is not the so-called "pretentious thing".

There is another point of doubt.

Liu Zilin obviously knew something about the old senior and Yunmeng Jianze, so he firmly said that the old senior would give the newly cast tripod sword, and Ah Qing, who is a vigorous person, to Yunmeng Jianze together.

The eldest daughter of Yunmeng Jianze came suddenly today, and it is very likely that she has received news from the old senior.

But the problem is, if you follow Liu Zilin's statement completely:

The tripod sword had already been cast in advance, and it was secretly given to Ah Qing with blue butterfly paper flowers and other objects as "pretentious" containers.

Then why didn't Yunmeng Jianze be notified directly to take Ah Qing and Ding Jian away in advance?
This doesn't affect it. After pretending to forge a sword today, it will be safer to kill Liu Zian and Liu Zilin, and play tricks on Wei Shi.

The old man didn't do that.

Based on the valid information that Ouyang Rong possesses, there are only two conclusions:

First, the relationship between the senior and Yunmeng Jianze is not as close and tacit as imagined, on the contrary, they may be indifferent and have very little communication.

The strongest desire is to cast the tripod sword.

Of course, under the supervision of the Liu family, the old man must have had little contact with the outside world and devoted himself to forging swords.

It's just that I don't know why the old man wanted to give Ding Jian and Ah Qing to Yunmeng Jianze before he died.

But obviously, the old man was just doing his best, and he didn't push too much. Otherwise, the power of Yunmeng Jianze should have intervened in the sword casting between the Liu family and the Wei family, instead of just coming today.

He even paid little attention to and helped Ah Qing, a vigorous person in the past. That blue butterfly paper flower looks more like a wicked joke right now?
This old man is actually very cold inside.

That's right, after all, everyone around is greedy for the sword he forged, no matter who it is, they will gradually look down on human nature.

As for the second conclusion.

The tripod sword should indeed have been cast successfully at noon today, and it wasn't cast in advance.

The reason is very simple, the phenomenon of the birth of the Dingjian is too great, the anomaly of Yunmengze's crazy flooding today cannot be concealed, and it cannot deceive Qi practitioners who can expect Qi.

Moreover, as analyzed before, if the tripod sword can be forged secretly in advance, the old man will have more choices.

The fact is that the Liu family and the Wei family have always controlled the old man and the Jia character sword casting furnace, and only like today, the tripod sword was successfully born without any accidents.

This old senior, who doesn't know what kind of enmity, will start his revenge so heartily at noon today.

Ouyang Rong sighed.

So here comes the last question.

According to Liu Zilin, Wei Shaoxuan and others, to obtain the tripod sword and recognize the master, you need the ninth grade, sword formula, real name, and "pretending things".

Since there is no real sword in the Mohist sword box.

So where is this "pretentious thing"?
Or, who was it actually given to by the old swordsmith?

Why is that lady Yunmeng so certain that there is no sword in the sword box?
Excluding the matter of revealing his real name to Ah Qing in advance, before the old swordsmith was thrown into the furnace and died, he turned his head and said his "real name" to Ouyang Rong, Wei Shaoxuan, Liu Zilin, Ah Qing and other people who were at or below the ninth rank at the door.

To put it bluntly, at least one of the four of them should obtain this "pretentious thing" that really hides the tripod sword.

Otherwise, without a real name, wouldn't this new tripod sword never show itself?
Maybe it's the lack of important information, maybe it's the old man's brain circuit, he really can't understand it.

Ouyang Rong frowned.

He thought quickly, but his thoughts were in a mess.

"Is this the Pure Land Palace you mentioned?"

Liu Zilin suddenly turned his head, pointed to a dry well in front of him, and asked suspiciously.

Ouyang Rong came back to his senses and nodded calmly: "That's right."

There were no unexpected setbacks along the way. Ouyang Rong was brought by Liu Zilin and others to the backyard of Beitian Jiyangyuan. The servants in Tsing Yi stood in front of the dry well, looking around on guard.

Liu Zilin looked down at the well, and motioned for his men to fetch the rope ladder.

He turned his head, stared into Ouyang Rong's eyes and said:
"You're fine, why put the orb here?"

"It's quiet down there. I like to sit quietly. I climbed up yesterday and forgot my orb."

Ouyang Rong said as usual, he walked first, put down the rope, and slid down with ease:
"Let's go, don't dawdle, what you want is below, I hope no outsiders will pick it up."

Liu Zilin frowned, waved his hand, and led a group of subordinates to keep up, and slid along the rope into a dark underground palace under the well.

Downhole.

When someone came to the underground palace again, it was like returning home, and the landing operation was skillful and easy.

Liu Zilin observed Ouyang Rong's light and familiar movements sideways, and the suspicion in his eyes lessened a little.

Seems to be a regular.

"Let me introduce, this is Master Unknown... Well, you can also call him Xiuzhen."

"Amitabha, all benefactors, this place is a lotus...ah!"

In the darkness, a haggard monk with a compassionate face came up, screamed "Ah", was knocked down by a punch, and lay on the ground lifeless.

Liu Zilin shook his loose right fist, raised his chin and signaled to his subordinates beside him, "Drag away."

Ouyang Rong: ...

"Your friend?" Liu Zilin asked sideways.

"I don't know, a crazy monk." After a pause, he added a sentence that seemed superfluous: "The beloved disciple of the abbot of the temple."

With a calm face, Ouyang Rong turned around and walked straight to the stone lotus pedestal in the center of the underground palace.

Liu Zilin kept his right palm on the hilt of his sword, and looked around this strange underground palace curiously.

The surrounding servants in green went to the Sifang murals tacitly to investigate, and finally confirmed that the underground palace was not in danger. They were distributed in the Sifang to stand guard.

At this moment, in the empty underground palace, Liu Zilin and the servants in Tsing Yi surrounded Ouyang Rong.

If you can't hand over something, you can't escape.

"It's here, where is my sword?" Liu Zilin asked gently.

"What's the rush? It's down here. I'll look for it. It seems to have fallen down here."

The young magistrate sits on a lotus pedestal in a meditation posture.

He bent down as if no one else was there, and stretched his palms into the dark shadows under the pedestal to fumble.

At the same time, he silently closed his eyes and glanced at the remaining merit points in a certain merit tower.

"After spending [-] yuan, is there still so much merit left..." He lowered his head and sighed.

With a "bang", the sword light suddenly appeared.

"What kind of merit, what are you talking about?" Liu Zilin drew his sword and asked in surprise.

Once again, the belly of his finger touched the rough and cold four-character stone carving below, and Ouyang Rong raised his head, showing an embarrassed smile at Liu Zilin.

He suddenly felt that fate had played a big joke on himself.

When he wanted to leave, he couldn't.

When you don't want to go, you have to go.

Ouyang Rong was silent for a moment, then sighed: "I said... I found it."

Liu Zilin quickly stretched out his palm: "What did you find, where is it? Ouyang Lianghan, my patience is limited, give it to me!"

But in the next second, he was startled, rubbed his eyes, and realized that he hadn't been blind. Ouyang Lianghan in front of him... had purple eyes?
Liu Zilin suddenly took a step back in fright.

Ouyang Rong's eyes were purple, and his face was as calm as death:
"I found my way home, so today is the day, let's exchange it... Go back!"

He drank lightly.

Slowly close your eyes.

In the Merit Tower, a row of blue-gold numbers decreased rapidly... [-] merits were completely cleared!
clang--! ! !
In Ouyang Rong's ears, a dull bell sounded like a grand bell.

It was the loudest, most sonorous blessing bell he had ever heard.

All of them show the specialness and extraordinaryness of this expensive blessing.

From the first awakening in the underground palace and the discovery of the stone inscription "Guigui Laixi", to now the knife is on the neck and forced to exchange for the blessing of "Guigui Laixi".

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that it has been almost half a year. He went down the mountain to accumulate merits, met a group of like-minded partners in Dragon City, and did a lot of things that benefited the country and the people.

There are joys, there are also regrets, and there are... people who are reluctant.

But life is impermanent, no one knows where tomorrow's self will be, what things will be done, and who will be met.

look ahead.

At the last moment, the young man who had hoped so much to go home for the postgraduate entrance examination showed reluctance and looked up.

He looked up at the top of the well where he had hoped that climbing up would be a relief to go home, and looked up at the blue sky outside the well that was exactly the same as in his previous life.

But, this hope is a long time.

Ouyang Rong raised his head for a while.

But the well in sight is still that well, and the sky is still that sky.

There was no movement around him.

Ouyang Rong frowned and looked around.

The scene of the underground palace is not disturbed.

Wait, his [-] merits are worth rewarding! ?
What about going home?

Rocking forward so slowly?
Come on, hello!

Ouyang Rong sat on the lotus seat and waited, with a slightly anxious face, looking around.

Then he met the strange gazes of Liu Zilin and the others behind him.

"..."

Everyone looked bad, and they were all looking at him.

I'm afraid that the air will suddenly be quiet like this.

Whoosh!An icy sword edge emitting gray moonlight caused the hairs on his neck to fall off a few.

Ouyang Rong turned his head stiffly, met Liu Zilin's cold and terrifying gaze, and the latter squeezed out a few words:
"Ouyang Lianghan, what are you pretending to be?"

Ouyang Rong: ...

(End of this chapter)