Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 27
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Hongjing October 17th.Just as the atypical long sect monk An Xingmian was mingling with the ranks of corpse dancers in the depths of the illusion forest, some changes that he never expected appeared in his fellow disciples.This change came so quickly, it was unexpected.

Lan Qing has been hiding in Qingxie Town, a small town in the west of Lanzhou, for a month.When the emperor set off a rage to arrest the monk Nagato throughout the Eastern Continent, he deftly escaped the first arrest and hid all the way in Tibet, finally settling down in Qingxie Town.Qingxie Town is not far from Suohe Mountain, and herb collectors often pass by here to collect herbs, so there are always many strange faces in the town, which is convenient for him to hide himself.

He thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand what the head monk had done to bring about this catastrophe.In the first search, he escaped by hiding in a dry well, and heard the voices of his mentor and two senior brothers when they were captured in the well.They didn't resist, they just asked the officers and soldiers why they wanted to arrest these innocent people, but in the end they just got punched and kicked.

The emperor is crazy, Lan Qing thought, I can't change anything, I can't even rescue my mentor, I can only find ways to protect myself.For this reason, he has always been cautious in Qingxie, never daring to provoke any disputes, and never inquiring about any outside news.It’s just that because of his work, he can get the news without asking – he works as a handyman in a roadside tea shop, carrying water, boiling water, cleaning, and also works as a tea doctor. the wind.The operation to arrest Nagato monk is nationwide. Although the operation is relatively secretive, news will spread quickly after a long time.In such a remote town where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the government is more worried about the tense relationship with the Yu clan, and the people are free to let them go if they wish.

"I passed by Xunzhou a few days ago, and saw three long-door monks were arrested. They were beaten all over the body, and one old man's arm was broken. It's so miserable." At noon on this day, a tea guest He discussed the subject again with his friends.Lan Qing pretended to be inadvertently cleaning up the residual tea on the adjacent table, and listened with pricked ears.

"I really don't know what they did to cause such a disaster," another tea customer shook his head, "They are not like Tianqi, who always think about instigating wars and poisoning creatures, so they will always be banned. That’s just a group of ascetic monks living an honest life.”

"That's right, didn't the emperor just welcome the body of a highly respected Nagato monk with a big gift two months ago, why did he suddenly change his face?" The third tea guest interjected.

"I heard that the body caught fire and burned itself in public, which made him lose face. Maybe the emperor regarded Nagato as a bad omen."

Lan Qing couldn't stand listening anymore, and turned her head to greet a tea customer who had just walked into the tea shop.Although he didn't know much about the emperor, judging from his governance in recent years, at least he was not a faint or tyrant.It should not be the emperor's style to go to war against the entire Nagato for such a trivial matter as "losing face" by burning his body.He believed that there must be some deep-seated reason behind this, but unfortunately, with his knowledge, he really couldn't think of it.

The tea drinkers left in the afternoon.When Lan Qing went to clear the table, she suddenly froze.He saw someone carved a mark on the corner of the table, a small oval mark, and no one in the world knew this mark except the head monk of his sect.That is the secret code used by the members of this sect to communicate with each other, and this oval represents the coarse linen belt tied around their waists.

Other symbols engraved around the oval represent the specific meaning of the event.Right now, next to the oval is a triangle symbol, which clearly shows that this means that someone is calling nearby colleagues to come and meet, and there may be important matters to discuss.

It's really strange, Lan Qing stared blankly at the mark.In such a remote town, at such a dangerous moment, how could someone deliberately leave a mark to summon fellow disciples?
He thought for a long time, and came to the conclusion: Perhaps it was because of the critical situation that the master specially called a meeting to discuss countermeasures, and such a meeting should not be publicized, and it would be safer to choose a small place.This is a crucial step for Nagato Monk to save himself!He was so excited that he almost knocked a teacup by the table to the ground.

It was finally late at night when the tea shop closed.Holding a candle in his hand, he struggled to find the waypoints, and on the way he encountered a watchman from the town.The watchman looked at him strangely, and he could only falter and explain that he had lost his purse.

"Ah, it's not easy to work hard to earn a couple, so hurry up and find them!" The watchman said understandingly.

Lan Qing breathed a sigh of relief, ran away as if fleeing, and continued to search for the signpost.He found hidden marks on several wall corners and bark, followed the direction guided by the marks all the way west, and gradually left the town.

His heart was filled with kindness and longing to see his fellow disciples, and he followed the signpost to a wild graveyard.People who died of the plague were buried there, and no one took care of them.At this time, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the only thing that can be heard in the wilderness is the shrill sound of the wind, like a lonely soul sobbing. Even a monk with a strong spiritual cultivation level, it is inevitable that he will feel a little terrified.Lan Qing swallowed a mouthful of saliva, bit the bullet and continued to move forward, she could only comfort herself in this way: such a place would definitely not be found by outsiders.

After walking for a while in the barren tomb, he faintly saw a black figure standing in front of him, and hurriedly walked up to meet him.Seeing him approaching, the other party said in a low voice: "The enlightened one has no heart."

This is exactly the incision between Nagato, Lan Qing was overjoyed, and immediately responded: "Nagato is boundless." Just after saying this, he was suddenly hit on the back of the head, and fainted before he could react past.

After waking up, he found that he was imprisoned in a dark room with sealed doors and windows. All kinds of severe torture followed, without explanation or questioning.Only then did he realize that those marks of Nagato were just traps, someone had stolen or tortured various secret marks and incisions of Nagato, and used them to trap Nagato monks who had not yet been caught.The emperor is really determined to catch Nagato all at once.

Half a day later, he passed out several times under the torture, and the other party probably worried that the torture would kill him, so he temporarily stopped the execution and gave him some water.Lan Qing swallowed two mouthfuls of steamed buns with difficulty, drank a bowl of stinky muddy water, and began to put herself into a meditative state in order to relieve the pain.But meditation cleared his mind, and he suddenly thought of a fatal problem: the codes he saw were not common to Nagato, but only belonged to his sect!In other words, what the emperor was really interested in was not all the long-door monks at all, but only his sect.

What does the emperor want?Could it be... Lan Qing finally realized the horror of the matter.The only thing left for his sect to attract the emperor is the secret, the great secret that has been guarded for thousands of years.No matter how difficult the years are, generations of predecessors have guarded this secret fiercely and never let it leak.But now, the emperor knows the secret and wants to dig it out.For this secret, the emperor involved the entire Nagato as a cover, that is to say, except for his sect, the other Nagato monks suffered innocently.

When Lan Qing was imagining the great disaster that would happen in the future in fear, the door of this torture room was pushed open, and the thugs with torture tools filed in, and finally followed another person.The man walked up to Lan Qing and asked coldly, "Are you from Tianzangzong?"

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Much the same happened elsewhere.After the emperor hunted down a large number of long door monks, he only detained them and did not kill them, but secretly screened all the members of the Tianzang sect and put them in solitary confinement.At the same time, the false signs that Lan Qing had seen were appearing everywhere, and people from the Tianzang Sect like Lan Qing were also trapped.The emperor's big net is being tightened step by step.

And An Xingmian didn't know anything about all of this for the time being, he was playing the corpse servant in the Illusion Forest, and stared dumbfounded at Xu Mizi who appeared in an unimaginable way.At that moment, apart from the four words "unbelievable", it was really difficult for him to find other words to describe Xu Mizi.

It's really crazy.As the most powerful corpse dancer of this era, he killed the second and third corpse dancers, then made them into corpse servants, and collected the original corpse servants of the two deceased to the account.Then he disguised himself as a member of the corpse servants, manipulated the two walking corpses to appear at the seminar, successfully deceived the eyes of others, and let the two dead corpses perform a big show.It wasn't until the very end that he actually showed up and taunted everyone with a good heart.

This is not just toying with other people, it is an overbearing and blatant show off.Xuanyuan Wuxin had 24 corpse servants, and Tan Xiao had 25. Including themselves, there were a total of 51 people on stage.In other words, Xu Mizi, who was disguised as one of the corpse servants, easily manipulated fifty corpse servants by himself!This is a shocking number, more than the sum of the corpse dancers that Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao can control.

Another layer of virtuosity is making the dead speak.Even if an ordinary corpse dancer has cultivated to a very high level, at most one dead person can be manipulated to speak, but Sumeru can make two people talk to each other and interrupt each other at the same time.This kind of cultivation is indeed far superior to all the corpse dancers present, no wonder he is so arrogant.

"Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao, ordinary corpse dancers probably only feel awe when they mention their names," Xue Huaiqing shook his head lightly, "but such two masters died so quietly at the hands of Xu Mizi , it’s unbelievable.”

"And he brought them here to provoke other corpse dancers openly," An Xingmian sighed, "There is nothing to fear."

The corpse dancers fell into a long silence again. They were shocked by Xu Mizi's strength and angered by his arrogance, but they knew clearly that they were far from him.Among the corpse dancers, it is not uncommon for two or three people to join forces to fight against the enemy, but it is definitely not their style to win by relying on the many.

"How about it, does anyone want to come up and challenge me?" Xu Mizi asked unhurriedly.

No one answered, and no one uttered insults, because although the corpse dancers were angry in their hearts, they didn't like to talk for cheap.With a faint smile on his face, Xu Mizi waited for a while and said: "It seems that no one dares to come up to challenge me, so let's just let this seminar go. Let's leave."

At that moment, An Xingmian suddenly noticed that there was a trace of sadness in Xu Mizi's smile, although it disappeared in a flash, it did not escape his eyes.He quickly analyzed in his mind, and found the answer in a very short time. The answer surprised him, but at the same time, he felt a little sympathy for this arrogant and unruly genius.

"Xu Mizi came here not to show off that he killed those two people, nor to provoke other corpse dancers," An Xingmian said to Xue Huaiqing, "He just used those two people's excuses to find a way for himself. A superficially plausible reason is to come to the conference to find someone. He has long wanted to meet that person, but has been reluctant to reveal it. With this "show off", he can just create a chance encounter with her at the conference As expected, he is still smelly and stubborn, but he...does really want to see her."

Xue Huaiqing was shocked and understood the meaning of An Xingmian's words.She lowered her head and said softly after a long time: "It's a pity, my master is dead. They will never meet again."

"The crazy words he said just now were originally meant for your master," An Xingmian sighed, "He knows very well that with your master's temper, if he hears him speak like that, even if he knows he is invincible, he will definitely show up Challenge. But your master never showed up, so now he knows very well that the person he wants to see has not come. I can see his disappointment—what's wrong with you?"

He saw Xue Huaiqing's eyes wide open, her face pale, and her lips trembling slightly.Even in the face of death threats from the Avengers, he had never seen Xue Huaiqing fear.

"Now anyone can see his disappointment," Xue Huaiqing's voice trembled slightly, "I think Xu Mizi is going to go crazy."

"Why?" An Xingmian frowned.He also found that the confident smile that had been left on Xu Mizi's face just now had disappeared without a trace.On the contrary, this person's complexion was ashen, and his teeth were clenched, as if he had accumulated a lot of resentment all at once.

"Because he is as smart as you and knows my master very well," Xue Huaiqing said, "he first judged that my master was not coming, and then immediately thought that with my master's temperament, it is absolutely impossible not to come to such a lively occasion, unless . . . she's dead."

"I really don't understand why these two people refused to bow their heads slightly to each other back then," An Xingmian said, "What will he do now? Fight indiscriminately?"

"You can see clearly when you get closer." Xue Huaiqing replied.

The corpse dancer, who knew Sumizi best among all the people present, issued an order to lead her two corpse servants, one real and one fake, to squeeze towards the earthen platform.

Everyone saw the change in Sumeru's mood, but no one knew the reason.What they could see or feel was that Xu Mizi became murderous in an instant, that inherent arrogance mixed with the chill of the blade, as if it could freeze the air at once.

"If I had known today, why would I have pretended to be foolish?" Xu Mizi said to himself as if no one was watching, "I was conceited to be extremely smart, but I was mistaken by my cleverness. I didn't realize until today that I am actually the only one in the world." No. [-] muddlehead."

The strongest corpse dancer in the world, who was so arrogant just now, seemed to be a different person in an instant, and his voice was full of sadness and pain.Among all the people present, except for Xue Huaiqing and An Xingmian, no one knew the reason. They were just surprised at Xu Mizi's moodiness, and secretly speculated in their hearts what his words meant.And the two people who knew the truth were also shocked by his true feelings.

"Is this person... really like what you described, never showing his true feelings?" An Xingmian was a little emotional, "But looking at him now, it seems that people all over the world don't care about what's on their minds gone."

"Maybe it's because he finally discovered that what he lost was far more precious than he imagined," Xue Huaiqing said, "that kind of pain made him unable to maintain deliberate rationality any longer."

An Xingmian secretly gave a wry smile, realizing that Xue Huaiqing, a girl who seemed to have never experienced anything, seemed to know everything.He continued to cast his eyes on Xu Mizi, only to see that Xu Mizi seemed to have calmed down and stopped talking, but the murderous aura just now became stronger and stronger.

Something is going to happen!This thought flashed through An Xingmian's mind.There are fifty corpse servants behind him, fifty...

As soon as he thought of this, the corpse servants behind Xumizi had already started to act.Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao suddenly rushed forward, toward the crowd below the stage, threw a piece of light blue liquid from their hands, and scattered it into water droplets and dripped on the people.The few corpse dancers standing in the front row and the corpse servants they carried were hit by these water droplets before they had time to react, and blue smoke rose from the contact parts instantly.The attacked corpse dancer screamed in extreme pain, fell to the ground and kept rolling, while the corpse servants who did not feel pain still stood in place, allowing others to see clearly.

(End of this chapter)