Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 34 The Secret of the Millennium (3)
As soon as he turned around and walked out of the cave, the monks of the long door hesitated for a moment, but followed them out.Xumizi stretched out his hand and pointed to the winding and rugged mountain road in the distance, "You should have good eyesight. Have you seen the man in the bamboo hat? That's my apprentice. He is taking my instructions and going down the mountain. Find an absolutely safe place to hide, you will not be able to catch up with him. If I fail to meet him after three days, he will mercilessly reveal the secrets of Tianzangzong to the world. That's right , not only the secret itself, but also the locations of the several caves you mentioned, I have written them down."

The faces of the Nagato monks were all pale and at a loss, Xu Mizi continued: "Think about it, how many priceless rare books will be hidden in the book cave that lasts for thousands of years, and how many important inventions that you Nagato deliberately concealed. , how many appalling historical secrets. Emperors will be very interested in these caves, speculators will dream of getting valuables in them, and ordinary people will flock to them. People search for them with a clear goal. Can you find one or two, two or three?"

"Shut up!" A long door monk finally couldn't help shouting violently.These ascetic monks have cultivated their morality and self-discipline all their lives. Even if someone tied them up and tortured them, it would be difficult for them to speak evil words. But right now, someone is trying to destroy the foundation of Tianzangzong, which is really unbearable.

"I'll give you a quarter of an hour to discuss and discuss, and I won't wait when it's too late." After Xu Mizi finished speaking, he walked to the side, leaving behind the shocked and angry monks.Before their eyes, the haze of death is slowly unfolding, and the disclosure of Tianzangzong's secrets is like layers of dark clouds gathering above their heads.

"It's going to rain heavily." Xumizi stretched out his hand and wiped away the first cold raindrops that fell on his face.

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"So after a quarter of an hour, those long door monks still compromised?" An Xingmian asked in a low voice.This was already 23 years ago, but when he thought of the helpless painful choice—in fact, there was no room for choice at all, he couldn't help but feel some kind of unspeakable sadness, and he hated Sumiko meaning.Sensing the change in the other party's mood, Sumiko sneered.

"Although you hate me, Xu Mizi has eight thousand enemies in this life, not more than you," Xu Mizi said, "but you'd better not think of revenge on me, otherwise no one will be able to protect you you."

"I won't take revenge on you. Even if they do, they won't be able to come back to life, and the Yunzhong Monastery won't be able to come back to life." An Xingmian recalled the scene of seeing Han Xinzhi in Yunzhong City, "and no matter what, Thank you for telling me all this, and I have a general understanding of the emperor's actions. An emperor, coveting the book cave of Tianzangzong, may be a reasonable enough explanation. By the way, you succeeded in killing those people later?"

Xu Mizi smiled slightly: "I didn't kill them, I just cut off all their limbs and threw them in the mountains. I don't know whether they were fed to worms or tigers and wolves in the end. Although the spiritual cultivation of your long-door monks is not good It is good for outbreaks, but it is very convenient for the spiritual connection of the corpse dance, and it is like the corpse servants that have been used for several years. I am really reluctant to destroy them."

"Destroy? Since it's easy to use, why destroy it?" An Xingmian was puzzled.

"That's their dying wish," Xumizi said, "They also know that I never break my promise, so they made a final request to me, hoping that after helping me solve that problem, I will leave it to you." Their corpses were destroyed, and I no longer use them. In their original words: "Even if it is for a tiger, one time is enough." I agreed without thinking much at the time, and later found that they were so easy to use. Too late to regret, but the promise must be kept, I still destroyed them, and the remains were buried in Kuyun Peak, but there were only 28 of them. The last one who was responsible for filling the soil, I let him jump off the cliff. "

An Xingmian was silent.Although he had already admired what his teacher Zhang Haoge did, but after hearing the stories of the 29 monks, he seemed to have truly understood the beliefs of the so-called monks.In order to keep the secrecy of this sect, the 29 people hardly hesitated—Sumizi only gave them a quarter of an hour to think about it—and resolutely made a choice. Secret protection.He couldn't help thinking, if it were me, would I make such a choice?
He regained his composure, and looked back at Xumizi who was in the midst of reminiscing about the past, "Although you killed 29 monks of the Nagato sect, by accident, you became the only one who could pass on the secrets of the Tianzang sect." People. If you turn around and save Nagato’s crisis, you will become Nagato’s benefactor—how ironic.”

Xu Mizi said lightly: "I don't care about kindness, and I don't care about hatred. Now I have told you everything I know, let's leave now."

"However, my friend also wants to ask you a question." An Xingmian said hastily.

There was some anger on Xu Mizi's face: "Presumptuous! I answered your question only in exchange for Feng Qiuke's body. Who do you think Xu Mizi lives to answer the boring questions of you little dolls? Is it?"

As soon as he turned around, he seemed to be planning to ignore An Xingmian and walk away.But what An Xingmian said next made him stop in his tracks.

"Just for Jiang Qinyin, okay?" An Xingmian said softly, "When Jiang Qinyin was alive, you couldn't be together; now that she's dead, can't you make an exception for her apprentice?"

"Just this once," he added.

Looking back now, Xue Huaiqing suddenly discovered that she had hardly spoken to Xu Mizi in the past.Originally, Xu Mizi and Jiang Qinyin rarely met. Once they met, the two would only focus on quarreling and even fighting. Xue Huaiqing was a completely redundant person beside him.Xu Mizi only has a good impression of Jiang Qinyin, and will never love the house, so Xue Huaiqing also tries to keep silent in front of him, not to provoke him.

But now, Xu Mizi stood alone in front of her and talked to her, which really made her a little nervous, and she didn't know how to speak for a while.On the other hand, Xu Mizi, after being silent for a while, suddenly asked: "She has always been in good health, why did she suddenly die of illness?"

Xue Huaiqing looked sad: "Actually, the death of the first teacher is related to you."

"Is it related to me?" Xu Mizi was startled.

"Master has always wanted to surpass you, but she also knows that in terms of talent, she is far from you. If you follow the conventional practice method, you may not be able to do it in your lifetime," Xue Huaiqing said, "so she decided to find another way , looking for some methods other than corpse dance, such as combining corpse dance with ordinary secret arts. Later, she got some fragments of secret arts, which are said to come from the evil book "Book of Charms" handed down from ancient times "..."

"Nonsense!" Xumizi was furious, "Most of the secret techniques recorded in the "Book of Charms" have great damage to the performers themselves, and they are not good things at all! How could she be so confused?"

"When a woman is dazzled by love, she is so confused." Xue Huaiqing said.

"What do you mean by that?" Xu Mizi was startled again.

"The first teacher has always wanted to be with you, but she knows that your eyes are higher than the top, and she feels that her skill is far inferior to yours, and she will definitely be looked down upon by you in the future. This is the reason why she has been trying to catch up with you," Xue said. Huai Qing said, "She wants to surpass you, not to surpass you, but to get a chance to be with you."

Sumiko was speechless.It seemed that only at this time did he really know Jiang Qinyin's heart for the first time.His body trembled slightly, the muscles on his face twisted, his eyes showed extreme pain and sadness, and he did not make the slightest attempt to hide it in front of Xue Huaiqing.

So my pride is also a mistake?It turned out that I thought I was rebellious and independent in this life, living a chic and happy life, but I never realized, what is it that can really make me happy?Xu Mizi thought blankly, forgetting everything outside his body.It wasn't until Xue Huaiqing spoke again that he came back to his senses.

"Master has practiced several secret techniques in the "Book of Charms". At the beginning, she was very happy, thinking that those secret techniques are really profound and helpful to her, but after a long time, her body changed. Weaker and weaker, and more and more surly."

Xue Huaiqing recalled, "I kept persuading her to stop practicing "Book of Charms", but she didn't listen to my advice at all, and continued to go her own way. In the end, she couldn't get sick and died a few months later."

Xu Mizi let out a long sigh: "Qin Yin's temperament is just like that. If you are sure about something, you will never listen to other people's opinions. It can also be said that you were harmed by me."

His voice was full of infinite pain, but the pain did come too late. Even if the dead could stand up again in the hands of the corpse dancer, they were just puppets without life and will.At that moment, for the first time in his life, Xu Mizi felt disgusted with the corpse dance.

"I've already told you what happened afterwards. I used my master to make a corpse servant. It took about a year or so until it was destroyed by someone." Xue Huaiqing continued.

"Where is she buried?" Xu Mizi asked.

Xue Huaiqing told him, Xu Mizi nodded: "Okay, stop talking about these irrelevant things, what questions do you want to ask me?"

Xue Huaiqing didn't expect Xu Mizi to be so patient. After answering An Xingmian's question first, she turned her head and was willing to answer her. She was already prepared to return empty-handed.She froze for a moment, and hurriedly said, "I want to ask about something that happened 32 years ago, which was the 11th year of Shengde."

Xu Mizi frowned: "You two are really interesting. You started to ask about 30 or [-] years ago. You probably weren't born then, right?"

"I didn't, I was asking for my adoptive father," Xue Huaiqing recounted what happened to his adoptive father Shen Zhuang back then, "so I would like to ask you, did you encounter similar incidents back then? After all, the Jinwu Guard Before he died, he said in person that you played an extremely important role in the whole incident."

She paused, and then added: "In fact, what he said was: 'The whole thing is actually to be blamed on a corpse dancer, and his name is Xu Mizi'."

Xu Mizi fell into deep thought, and said after a long time: "I have to think about it carefully. I have offended countless people. The people who want to kill me and turn my ashes into ashes can probably equal the number of people in Ten Thousand Snake Lake. The lake was completely filled, but I don't remember that I offended any Jinwu Guards in Shengde's 11th year. That is to say, even if I destroyed their plans, they must have been disguised at that time and did not Reveal your true identity."

"There is a possibility, after all, the identity of the Jinwu Guard is too ostentatious." Xue Huaiqing said.

"And I haven't been to Hexiling where your adoptive father lives," Xu Mizi said, "but when it comes to Suohe Mountain, I have actually been there, there is such a thing... there is such a thing... wait, You said that the relatives your adoptive father killed were his wife and his newborn son, that is to say, a young woman and a baby, right?"

Xue Huaiqing nodded, and Xu Mizi snorted: "Then I know what it is. Not only do I know what it is, I can even guess why they killed your adoptive father's wife and children."

"Why are they killing people?" Xue Huaiqing asked hastily.

"Your adoptive father was wrong. The witness back then left without seeing the whole process of burning the corpse, so he took it for granted that they killed people and burned the corpse to ashes," Xumizi said gloomyly, "In fact, they Just need two charred corpses to bring back to order, a young woman's and a baby's. They were ordered to hunt down such two people, but they failed, so this is the only way to get away with it. Your foster father His wife and children are nothing but stand-ins for death."

"So it's like this..." Xue Huaiqing murmured, "Now I finally understand."

"And he was right. If it wasn't for my obstruction, they could have completed their mission. To some extent, I was the indirect murderer who killed the mother and son. And the most interesting thing is that this incident The matter is also related to the Nagato monk, this group of ubiquitous people..."

August of the 11th year of Shengde.In the southeast of Zhongzhou, at the foot of Suohe Mountain.

Xumizi has been chasing a middle-aged elder monk all the way for three days.A few days ago, he met this long-door monk in a small village outside Tianqi City, and immediately became very interested in this person's "material".Although he has always looked down on Nagato Monk's way of meditation, he has to admit that the physique cultivated through this kind of meditation is very suitable for corpse dance.

Although Sumeru 32 years ago already had quite high strength, his skill was still not as pure as later, so he would be very cautious when killing people, and try not to conflict with redundant people.He followed the long door monk, not in a hurry to do it, but prepared to do it in a sparsely populated place.Fortunately, this long-door monk carried a large basket covered with cloth on his back, and headed all the way towards Suohe Mountain, and it seemed that he was going into the mountain.Once in the mountains, there are more chances to attack him.

Like a hunter stalking prey, Xu Mizi patiently followed the head monk to the foot of Suohe Mountain, and it was already afternoon.There is a small open-air tea shop, where passers-by are used to resting, having some tea and simple pasta.Changmen monk had no money, but the owner of the tea shop was very respectful when he saw him, and he opened his mouth to address him as master, and brought him the cheapest rough tea and two steamed buns.It's not that the shopkeeper is stingy, but that the long door monk only asks for the simplest food, and refuses to accept food that is too delicate.

There were quite a lot of people in this tea shop, Xu Mizi naturally couldn't do anything here, in order to avoid being suspected, he also sat down and ordered a cup of tea and some pastries, while eating, he waited for the head monk to continue his departure.At this moment, two groups of people came to the tea shop, one first and the other later.

In fact, there were only two people in the first group, and one of them was a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.He, or she, is carried on the back of a young woman, tightly wrapped.This woman has a mediocre appearance and dark complexion. She looks like an ordinary village woman, but Xu Mizi can tell at a glance that she has quite superb martial arts.He took a closer look and found that the woman's quality was also good, but she was still a little worse than the long-door monk he was following.

You are lucky, Xu Mizi thought viciously, if I hadn't already had a goal first, you would have died in my hands, and your children would have to be buried with you.

Just thinking about it, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and it sounded like a large number of people.As soon as the footsteps came, the young woman's expression suddenly changed.Sumeru observed the words and expressions, and immediately judged that most of these people came to chase her.

The second group of people appeared very quickly, they were a group of rough men dressed as warriors, there were thirteen of them in total, people like this could be encountered many times on the road every day.But these people are all very skilled, and they are by no means as rude and vulgar as they appear.After they entered the tea shop, they immediately started clamoring for food, picking on the bad tea, picking on the tea shop for not selling alcohol, and fighting for tables with others, which made the tea shop restless, and some timid customers had already left early.Xu Mizi watched coldly, and found that these people seemed to be making noise casually, but actually occupied every possible escape position, blocking the female guest's escape route.The owner of the store also saw something, and was afraid in his heart, and quietly hid beside the head monk, as if hoping that the master would show his magical powers to protect him.He was also a little embarrassed about his actions, so he started to find something to say: "I haven't asked where this master is from?"

(End of this chapter)