It was late at night and the dew was heavy, and there was silence in Wenlu County.
Since the drastic changes in Dongsheng Capital in the past, there have been more and more disasters, and evil spirits have become accustomed to appearing at night. Therefore, curfews have been implemented in towns and cities across the Bear Kingdom. The city gates are closed after dark, and no one is allowed to wait on the road except soldiers and guards.
Come and go.
In the countryside outside the city, three figures came to a low farmhouse. Under the dim moonlight, their strange appearances were vaguely visible. One had a fat head and a wide mouth, with two beards. The other wore a bamboo hat with webbed fingers.
One person's eyes were swollen and he was spitting out, and his mouth was full of jagged teeth.
"Did you get rid of that guy?" The man with swollen eyes and jagged teeth asked breathlessly.
The man wearing a bamboo hat turned around and looked around: "I guess we are not chasing you anymore. The water-shaped clone is the most similar to our Qi machine. He must not be able to tell the difference."
The fat-headed man with a big mouth was carrying a big vat behind his back. He was so tired that he sat down on the ground: "I can't do it anymore. I can't run anymore. If I had known I was so tired, I should have used water to escape."
The man with swollen eyes and jagged teeth sneered and said: "Third brother, if you are not afraid of death, just give it a try. The river flooded due to the disturbance of the earth's veins, and the water veins for hundreds of miles around also flooded. Now you are running away with water, you
Do you think you have a long life?"
The third child became sluggish: "But when we, the water tribe, go to the ground and lose 30 to 50% of our mana, how can we beat those human monks?"
The man with swollen eyes and jagged teeth also turned around and asked: "Boss, I also feel that I made a mistake this time. Isn't it just to help the Rising Sun Sect, why are you being targeted by the masters of the Taiyi Sect?"
"It seems that the next time you see the people of the Rising Sun Sect, you must ask for more heavenly materials and earthly treasures." The boss raised his bamboo hat and looked at the city wall visible in Mo Lake in the distance: "Their manpower should be here.
Lu County, please get things done quickly!"
The third child yawned, picked up the vat, and was about to set off when he heard a shout from behind: "Cunning monster! I almost got deceived by you!"
The sound of shouting directly penetrated into the soul, and the three-headed monsters suddenly felt terrified. They saw a burly man holding a bamboo staff, floating in the wind. In the vast night, his whole body glowed with light, bright but not dazzling, even though he was wearing linen clothes and sandals.
He is simple and ordinary, but he can't hide his pure and upright spirit.
Before the man finished shouting, he waved the bamboo stick in his hand, and it suddenly became longer and larger, like a palace beam collapsing down, with the wind rushing towards him, blowing away the boss's bamboo hat.
The three demons were horrified, and the third child was at a loss. However, the eldest brother and the second child all moved together. One of them used his fin bayonet to block the bamboo stick, and the other opened his mouth and let out a thunderous frog sound, and the wind was suddenly full of fishy smell.
The frog roared in counterattack, and the man felt as if his orifices were being beaten and oppressed, but he gritted his teeth and stiffened, and the bamboo stick changed its offensive, turning into numerous stick shadows, trying to trap the three demons here.
"No!" The boss was the first to notice the man's intention and shouted: "Third brother, you go first and find someone from the Rising Sun Sect to help you!"
"I'll open the way!" The swollen-eyed and jagged Dick waved his fin bayonet and shot out a series of turbid water blades, shattering the numerous stick shadows and opening a gap.
Lao San, who was carrying the big vat, was about to cry. He sighed and raised his clumsy legs. He seemed to be moving slowly, but the ground under his feet turned into a piece of slippery mud. A puff of smoke rushed out of the shadow of the stick and headed towards Wenlu County.
And go.
"How can it be so easy?!" The man in the sky became even more angry. He held a bamboo stick in his hand, and the light from his body gathered on the stick, and threw it towards the running Lao San like a spear.
When the boss saw this, he immediately revealed his true form. It was a giant frog as big as a millstone. It stood on all fours and leapt violently. Its body was lightning, and it came first and blocked the bamboo pole spear for the third brother.
However, the bamboo staff condensed 10% of the mana. Even the monster's original body was inevitably penetrated by the bamboo staff and suffered severe injuries on the spot.
"Lao San, run!" The giant frog, which was nailed to the ground with a bamboo stick, yelled at the top of his lungs.
The man flew down and placed one foot on the top of the bamboo stick. The giant frog felt the weight of the mountain, and the flesh and blood in his body seemed to be torn out of his body, unable to move.
"Don't let the monsters escape!" The man clasped his hands and was about to cast his spell when the second man thrust his fin bayonet upside down into the ground, turning the ground under the giant frog into a soft quagmire.
The man's body was unstable and his technique was slightly delayed. He let out a deep roar, and dozens of strange tentacles sprang out from the swamp, entangling the man from all directions. The tentacles were tough and slippery, and the man could not escape even though he used his strength several times.
The giant frog sank into the mire. Seeing this, the man raised his energy and the light from his body turned into the shape of a sword. He chopped off the tentacles one by one, then pulled out his bamboo stick and flew up.
The man was about to chase the third child with a fat head and a wide mouth, but he was blocked by several turbid water blades. He waved his bamboo stick and blocked them one after another. He looked at the second child with swollen eyes and jagged teeth on the ground and shouted coldly: "The world is turbid.
The monsters like you are really getting more and more aggressive!"
The second child rubbed the teeth in his mouth and said in a low voice: "We are just trying to make a living. If you, Liezi, insist on pursuing us, do you still blame us for fighting back?"
"Still want to quibble?" Chang Liezi waved his bamboo stick, swung the water blade, and said: "I clearly saw you poisoning the wells, causing people in several villages to become sick. Such evil deeds are not worthy of death. How dare you
Are you talking about your livelihood?"
After saying that, he swung the bamboo stick again, this time it did not directly attack the second child, but hit the ground. Suddenly hundreds of sharp bamboo shoots burst out of the ground like a mountain of swords.
The second child hurriedly lifted himself up, but as an aquatic monster, he was not good at flying, and because of the heavy turbidity, he tried his best to lift himself up, but was still injured by the sharp bamboo shoots.
"Come and accept your fate!" Chang Liezi waved his staff, and the bamboo shoots turned into a dense bamboo forest, tightly clamping the second child's figure.
Just when Chang Liezi was about to take the life of the second child, a long tongue shot out from behind, wrapped around Chang Liezi's legs and pulled him back with astonishing force.
"Difficult!" Chang Liezi saw the giant frog crawling out of the swamp. Although he was seriously injured, he was still tenacious and could stop him.
"Kill you first, then chase that fish monster!"
Chang Liezi was also aroused with murderous intention. In the bamboo forest where the magic was performed, bamboo leaves drifted and fell. The seemingly light bamboo leaves contained sharp killing power, spiraling around and falling like rain towards the giant frog.
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"What did you say? Does anyone know the whereabouts of Qianji Lingju?"
Upon hearing the report from his subordinate, Deng Feibao was stunned.
A few nights ago, he suddenly sensed that Qian Ji Lingju was in Wenlu County. Deng Feibao immediately sent people to secretly search for him in the city. At the same time, he communicated privately with the local county magistrate and asked the officers to strictly check the people coming and going.
Unfortunately, even after doing this, he still couldn't find the Thousand Ji Spirit Moment. Deng Feibao used magic to search every hour for several days. Although he occasionally sensed that the Thousand Ji Spirit Moment was in the city, he could never determine the specific location, which made him irritated.
Become uneasy.
Deng Feibao thought of the leader's words, and now he could be sure that Tao Heling must be surrounded by experts to help him. He did not know what means the other party used to deceive the sensor inspection of the key Yuan Dan.
The other party stayed in Wenlu County for several days in a row. Perhaps he wanted to hide in the crowded market place. After all, it would be difficult to find an accomplished practitioner if he really wanted to hide.
Deng Feibao thought about conducting a large-scale search and inspection in the city, but he was currently short of manpower, and as the master of Qianji Pavilion, he did not have such real power. He could only give generous gifts privately in exchange for help from local officials.
"This is the man who was telling stories outside the Temple of Heroes. He was arranging the events of Qianji Pavilion and even mentioned Qianji Lingju. So we arrested him." The subordinates grabbed an old man.
"Storytelling?" Deng Feibao stared at the timid old man and asked, "Do you know Qianji Pavilion?"
The old man bowed repeatedly and his mouth trembled: "Hero, spare your life! Hero, spare your life! The little old man talked nonsense and offended the hero. He will never dare to do it again next time!"
Deng Feibao looked at the old man and confirmed that he had no magic power and was just an ordinary person, so he asked: "Okay, answer me obediently... Let me ask you, how do you know the Qianji Spiritual Moment?"
"What, what?" The old man was confused.
Deng Feibao frowned and said: "If you continue to be tough, then I will have to use some cruel methods."
After saying that, the subordinates on both sides pulled the old man's arms behind his back, as if they could tear his arms off at any time.
"Hero, spare your life!" the old man said continuously, "I really don't know why you asked about this!"
"Still pretending?" Deng Feibao smiled coldly: "A storyteller like you will make up random rumors after hearing some rumors. I'm too lazy to deal with it. But you are so stubborn that you just mentioned Qianji Lingju. This thing is for people like you.
Can you find out? Tell me, who taught you to say this."
"Teach? No one taught me!" the old man cried: "Everyone has always known that Qianji Pavilion followed Taizu to conquer the world. Isn't the treasure Qianji Lingju given to Qianji Pavilion by Taizu?
Of?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?! Qianji Lingju is clearly——" Deng Feibao shouted loudly, and was about to refute, but immediately stopped, then waved his hand to his subordinates and said: "Take him down and give him one round of soul-testing whip to ensure that he
Can tell the truth."
The old man's voice begging for mercy gradually faded away. While Deng Feibao was still thinking, another group of subordinates came over: "Deng Shenmei, we just found this from the market."
Deng Feibao didn't know why, so he took the clay figurine doll from his subordinates. It turned out to be a unique pottery figurine from Qianji Pavilion. Although it was only about the size of a palm, it was quite exquisite and had a majestic shape. It was obviously a favorite of children.
"What's going on?" Deng Feibao asked.
The subordinate replied: "It was a stall selling clay figurines in the market. Suddenly, a large number of Qianji Pavilion's ingenious creations were placed. We asked the stall owner and he said that these were the clay figurines he made at home and sold to children.
play."
"Of course I know this is a doll!" Deng Feibao said angrily: "Where is the stall owner? Why wasn't he arrested?"
The subordinate looked troubled: "There are a lot of children surrounding his stall, as well as big businessmen in the city. It is not convenient for us to arrest people on the spot, but we have sent people to keep an eye on him and found out the stall owner's home."
Deng Feibao was puzzled: "Did he make a lot of clay figurines?"
"About...more than three hundred." The subordinate replied: "There are big and small clay figurine dolls, and there are even iron kites that the envoy Deng rides on."
The expression on Deng Feibao's face changed, he was angry and laughing at the same time: "Okay! Okay! This is someone's plan to trick me on purpose, right?"
Deng Feibao looked at the clay figurine doll in his hand that seemed to have been made by a famous craftsman, and smashed it into pieces, feeling furious in his heart.
"Bring a few more people and keep an eye on the stall owner's home. Everyone who interacts with him must find out their origins and movements!" Deng Feibao immediately ordered.
After his subordinates left, Deng Feibao once again took out the Hub Yuandan to perform the spell, but this time there was no response at all, as if everything had disappeared into the sea.
After a while, the subordinates who tortured the storyteller reported: "Her Majesty Deng, we asked clearly. The man insisted that he dreamed these things, so he arranged them."
"Dream? Are you kidding?!" Deng Feibao yelled, almost laughing out loud at the end. He found that he was completely fooled.
The soul-testing whip is a magic weapon given by the leader. It can whip the soul and make people speak the truth, which cannot be concealed. The storyteller is an ordinary person and cannot resist the magical effect of the soul-testing whip. This can only show that the person behind the plan is very sophisticated.
Deng Feibao had heard that some experts from the immortal family could teach immortal magic through dreams, so it was not difficult to convey the message in this way.
The storyteller must have been secretly bewitched. He thought he had dreamed about the secret of Qianji Pavilion, so he arranged and sang it in the market.
Thinking about it this way, the stall owner who fabricated the clay figurine doll might have been secretly given some tips. Although the ingenious creations of Qianji Pavilion have frequently appeared on the battlefield and are not known to many people, driving the iron kite himself is a close call.
It took several years to complete, so how could a clay craftsman know?
"This is trouble."
Deng Feibao suddenly felt a sense of uneasiness. The person who secretly planned all this must have known that he was pursuing the Qianji Moment, otherwise it would be impossible to conduct such a confusing search.
"Her Majesty Deng, the county magistrate has sent someone to invite you to come over for discussion." At this time, another subordinate came.
"Again?" Deng Feibao was shocked, but since it was an invitation from the local county magistrate, he couldn't ignore it and had to make arrangements to go to the county government.
Before entering the government office, I smelled a strong fishy stench. There were the carcasses of a giant frog and a big fish in front of the government office. Despite the stench, there were still many people watching from a distance and whispering.
"What happened?" Deng Feibao came to the government office and asked.
The county magistrate frowned and said, "This morning, as soon as the patrol sergeant opened the city gate, he saw the corpses of these two monsters."
"Who killed it?" Deng Feibao glanced a few times and found that there was a penetrating wound on the belly and back of the giant frog, and that the large jagged fish had most of its scales scraped off, and the top of its head was dented. It must have been hit by a heavy object.
The county magistrate shook his head: "I don't know. I dragged the corpse to the gate of the government office not only to reassure the people and prove that the government has been cracking down on evil spirits, but also to hope that the righteous people who eliminate evil spirits will show up to receive the reward. I asked Pavilion Master Deng to come here because I want to ask for advice.
One or two, I wonder if you know where the master will take action."
Deng Feibao had been in the Rising Sun Cult since he was a child, and he was well-informed. He looked at the dense mottled scars on the giant frog, as if it had been scratched by countless sharp knives.
"The Xihe Sword Pavilion's Pearl-sleeved Fanghua Sword? It doesn't look like it. The scars are too short and dense." Deng Feibao observed for a moment and noticed a trace of bamboo leaves in the stench. He was puzzled: "Bamboo leaves? Could it be...