"We will turn to the east side, and you will fight with Shen using the same sword technique just now..." Shen Liancheng moved to the east side and said while fighting: "Remember to use all your strength..."
Luo Xiaoyao already understood what he meant, and looked sideways at the field, but saw that Elder Liu was being surrounded by three Khitan guards. The situation was the most critical, so he said urgently to Elder Fu: "Elder Fu, you can get out later. Go and help Elder Liu, and once the siege is relieved, call out to retreat..."
"I understand..."
The three of them suddenly moved quickly, their swords flashed with phantom light and moved towards the east side of the garden. However, cold arrows were shot "whoosh, whoosh", and they were all blown away by the sword energy and flew down.
Luo Xiaoyao had already used three moves of the 'Nianqing Sword Technique' when he was swooping over, and his sword intention was becoming more powerful. When he reached the middle of the garden, he shouted, 'Yu Shuang Jing Mei', and the sword tip swayed with energy. , shook the tip of Shen Liancheng's sword, "Elder Fu, let's go..."
When Elder Fu heard the sound and retreated, he struck forward with the 'Qiushui Compassion' move again. With a "dang" sound, he separated from Shen Liancheng's long sword, and then used the 'Long Shadow Dark Snow' move. The sword struck out.
Shen Liancheng knew that his killing blow was about to come out, so he let out a light drink, and used the "Liu Ren Sword Technique" with the word "stick" to block it. Luo Xiaoyao raised his right hand, shouted violently, and his energy became strong. The 'Tenderness Like Water' sword style swayed the tip of Shen Liancheng's sword, and a ball of sword energy came out straight away.
Although the two of them had no intention of hurting each other secretly, Luo Xiaoyao followed Shen Liancheng's orders to attack each other with all his strength to avoid suspicion.
Shen Liancheng has cultivated a lot of elixirs in his arms, and his swordsmanship has reached perfection. He has seen the exquisiteness of the 'Nianqing Sword Technique'. When he was on the west side, it took two moves to break through the 'Tenderness Like Water'. Although he was shocked, he also felt eager to win.
But seeing Luo Xiaoyao's sword energy coming like a rushing river, he was full of heroic spirit, but he also used all his strength to meet it with his sword. With a "dang" sound, the two swords intersected, but they still shook the tip of Shen Liancheng's sword away, and the remaining force was still there. It has a tendency to spread thousands of miles.
Shen Liancheng stopped using his moves and retreated in the midst of lightning and flint. However, he heard several "bang bangs" and within a few feet of the sword energy, the potted plants burst and the vegetation was broken. Suddenly, pieces of porcelain and branches and leaves flew. While Luo Xiaoyao was collecting his moves, he heard Elder Fu shouting to retreat. With his mind composed, he turned around and rushed towards the north wall.
As soon as his feet landed on the courtyard wall, he looked back and saw several phantoms of people appearing. Fang Yuan, Elder Fu and others had already jumped up.
The soldiers and archers of the Southern Tang Dynasty who were standing around and occasionally shot cold arrows, but when they saw that the enemy and we were separated, they no longer worried about accidental injuries, so they launched arrows one after another at Luo Xiaoyao and the others. In an instant, arrows were flying, "whoosh, whoosh" flying arrows The sound is endless.
The people standing on the wall of the courtyard either used weapons or fists to deflect the flying arrows. At the same time, they glanced towards the field, but seeing that they were all escaping, they all shouted "Go" together and rushed towards the forest to the north. go.
Zhou Tong, Shen Liancheng and others were chasing after them hard. Unexpectedly, when they were about to reach the forest, the sound of "whoosh, whoosh" arrows suddenly sounded, and a rain of arrows came towards them. The sound of breaking through the air was harsh, but it was shocking. People are unstoppable.
Shen, everyone on Tuesday is a master of martial arts, but by listening to the sound of arrows, you can tell that the people who fired the arrows are all of high level, so they don't dare to neglect them, so they just hold their bodies back and block the moves.
These archers are all the best archers in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Their cultivation is at the Return to True Realm. The power of the arrows they trigger is not trivial, not to mention more than ten people shooting at once, firing several arrows in succession to chase Shen Liancheng and others. The man's body was blocked, but he quickly retreated.
Shen Liancheng and others caught up again, but before they were fifteen feet away, another rain of arrows came. The person who fired the arrows was the magic archer of Tongbao Pavilion. His power was not small, and he had several crossbows. The attack forced Shen Liancheng and others to stop and resist.
In this way, the two groups of archers took turns to block, and after entering a dense forest area, Shen Liancheng, Zhou Tong and others chased for more than a hundred feet, but they were worried that Luo Xiaoyao and others would counterattack and attack secretly, so they did not dare to pursue anymore, so they had to retreat in anger.
When they were about to arrive at Xuanwu Lake, Manager Zhu ordered the Tongbao Pavilion Arrow Guards to sneak back to the other courtyard and led everyone to several fishing boats waiting on the shore of the lake.
Mo Bushan, who was standing on the bow of one of the small boats, jumped to the shore when he saw the crowd approaching. Luo Xiaoyao hurriedly stepped forward and asked anxiously: "Junior Brother Shang, how is his injury..."
Mo Busan sighed and shook his head.
Luo Xiaoyao's heart was shocked, and he quickly jumped onto the boat that Mo Bushan had just left. He saw Lin Wanzhen leaning against the cabin wall with tears on her face, holding Shang You in her arms with a long arrow pierced through her chest, and blood bleeding from the corner of her mouth.
In a daze, she leaned over and reached out to explore Shang You's veins, but she heard Lin Wanzhen say more loudly: "Senior Brother Shang has gone..."
Suddenly, like thunder, Luo Xiaoyao stared at the motionless Shang You, and two lines of hot tears fell quietly.
In the midst of silent grief, I heard the slight sound of water, and the fishing boat was already leaving the shore.
Zhe Deshou, who had already taken off his disguise, looked at Luo Xiaoyao who was half-kneeling in the cabin, and sighed, "If I hadn't taken action first, maybe Brother Shang wouldn't have suffered..."
"The fashion brothers have gone to the west courtyard. It is no longer possible to take Miss Wan Zhen through the corridor to the east side... General, but don't blame yourself." Tian Ying next to him continued.
It turned out that after the successful assassination, Zhe Deshou left the toilet and went to the east side door, but he knew that Luo Xiaoyao had gone to the west courtyard. Even if he restored Lin Wanzhen's vitality, it was impossible to bring her to the east side to meet and leave under Reggio's eyes. .
Knowing that Xiao Buye's death would be discovered soon, they and Tian Ying decided to expose themselves in order to attract Shen Liancheng's group and give Luo Xiaoyao and the others a chance to break out from the west courtyard.
At that time, the accompanying guard noticed that Xiao Buye had not come out of the toilet for a long time. He asked for help but received no answer. When he went in to investigate, he found that Xiao Buye's body was missing, so he shouted for help.
Already on the way to the back garden corridor, the two Tians began to fight, and Elder Fu and others who were lying on the east side of the north also heard the sound and rushed to help.
When Shen Liancheng drove out, he saw Liu Zhenyi, disguised as Zhe Deshou, fighting with a group of guards. He was shocked, but he also guessed that someone was pretending to be disguised. Lei Jiao, who happened to come after hearing the sound, was slightly surprised. Asked, he immediately realized that Zhao Huwei and others were also disguised by others, so they chased them to the west courtyard, blocking Luo Xiaoyao from escaping.
Chu Nanfeng and Luo Hanshui both knew that Luo Xiaoyao was involved in the assassination. When the editor replied that Luo Xiaoyao could make the decision on his own, he also asked Fang Yuan, who had a great cultivation level of Bao Dan, to secretly help him.
The reason why Fang Yuan was allowed to go was due to some considerations. Firstly, Fang Yuan's cultivation level was not lower than that of Luo Hanshui after he was injured. Secondly, he had never shown his skills in the arena for decades, nor was he like Weng Mu. I met Zhiku face to face.
Although this matter has nothing to do with Zhiku and the others, once it happens, someone will definitely spread the word. And anyone with a discerning eye can guess that this matter was done by the Central Plains Court. If Chu Nanfeng and others took action, the noise would be too great, and it would be impossible. After Zhou Tong, Shen Liancheng and others were all killed, the martial arts techniques used would spread widely in the world, but instead attracted the attention of Zhiku and others.
The day before the assassination, Fang Yuan had secretly appeared to meet with Manager Zhu. After learning the plan, he lurked not far away from the east side of the post house. He expected Luo Xiaoyao and others to escape over the wall and wait for an opportunity to stop the pursuit. However, when he saw everyone breaking in and fighting, he had no choice but to show up to stop Zhou Tong, allowing Zhe Deshou and others to withstand the siege. However, they could not find Luo Xiaoyao, but they did not dare to Get away and leave.
When Elder Fu broke in to respond, he did not find Luo Xiaoyao, so he went to the west side of the garden to look for him. When he saw Luo Xiaoyao in danger, he threw his long sword to force Shen Liancheng to withdraw his killing move.
Among the seven or eight guards who besieged Shang and Lin, there were also two who were in the Guizhen Xiaocheng realm. Under the protection of Lin Wanzhen, Shang You was unable to kill them for a while. When he killed one of them, The Khitan archery master who jumped to the roof guided the arrow and shot it at him.
When he used his sword to block the first flying arrow, his arm was already numb from the shock. When he split the arrows that followed, the long sword came out of his hand, and he saw the third flying arrow coming again. , knowing in his heart that if he avoided Lin Wanzhen, he would be killed by an arrow. In the midst of the lightning and flint, he turned around to protect her, but an arrow pierced her chest. And if he hadn't pressed Lin Wanzhen down, the arrow that pierced her chest would also have been shot. It will hurt Lin Wanzhen.
At that time, Mo Bushan, who was fighting with the Khitan masters in the garden, heard Lin Wanzhen's lamentations. He relied on his excellent Qinggong skills to escape and quickly went to look for him. When he arrived, he fired darts and killed Nan Tang who tried to take advantage of the opportunity. Guard. But the man who was using arrows on the house was afraid that Elder Fu would go up to the roof to fight at close quarters, so he had no choice but to shoot Elder Fu with arrows. Since he could not stop him, he could not help but save him and leave.
When Luo Xiaoyao, Elder Fu and Shen Liancheng came to fight from the west, everyone became calm. After hearing Elder Fu shouting to retreat, they all tried their best to force their opponents away, but they did not expect that Shang You had already He was killed by an arrow.
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Not long after, in the Buddhist hall in the west courtyard of the Zhao Mansion in Kaifeng City, Mrs. Zhao Du knelt down on a futon, spinning rosary beads in her hand and chanting something.
Today was the expiration of her one-month appointment with Zhiku. She guessed that Zhiku would sneak into the Buddhist hall in the mansion and show up just like last time. So at twelfth hour in the morning, she went to the Buddhist hall to worship Buddha and chant sutras while waiting for her. When Zhiku arrived, little did he know that even though he had been kneeling and worshiping for nearly three hours, Zhiku did not appear.
Fortunately, Mrs. Zhao Du often worshiped Buddha in ordinary times. After each incense stick burned out, she got up and walked around the courtyard. After moving her hands and feet, she continued to burn incense and worship. Finally, she lit the eleventh stick of incense. , a voice came from behind, "Amitabha, good, good."
Zhao Du felt relieved, leaned forward slightly, inserted the incense into the incense burner, turned around and saluted, "Zhao Du has seen the master."
The person who came was none other than Zhiku. He bowed before the Guanyin Buddha statue enshrined in the Buddhist hall, then turned to look at Zhao Du and said, "The old monk is late. I have kept my wife waiting for a long time."
After saying this, he moved his left hand, and the futon on the west side in front of the Buddha statue moved smoothly and diagonally a few feet to the southwest. Zhiku stepped back slightly and sat down cross-legged.
Zhao Du was not surprised. She bent down and picked up another futon, walked to a place about ten feet away from Zhiku, put down the futon, and knelt down.
"Madam, have you thought about it?"
Zhao Du glanced sideways at the Guanyin Buddha statue and said to Zhikuheshi: "I have so many considerations and worries to avoid, how dare I refuse the Master's wishes? I wonder what the Master wants me to agree to?"
Although she knew she was greedy, she just wanted to have peace of mind. She just smiled and said, "That's it, the old monk said it bluntly... Madam can transfer the remains of your master's ancestors to the old monk.
"
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao Du's face became happy, and then she became calm again, "Can you be particular about auspicious times?"
"It's not yet time to lay it down, so just contact the old monk first. The old monk will make arrangements by then."
"Oh?" Zhao Du was slightly surprised at this moment, "How dare I ask Master, when is the time to lay it down?"
"Amitabha. Madam has agreed. The old monk will never lose his promise..." Zhiku paused, pondered for a moment, and then said: "This is not the place for detailed discussions. Madam, we can meet you at the place where we last met at noon tomorrow.
Wait, the old monk asked his apprentice to prepare a car to pick him up."
"It's going there..."
"It's exactly the place that Madam wanted to see last time." Zhiku smiled slightly, stood up, chanted the Buddha's name, bowed and bowed to the Guanyin Buddha statue again, then walked out of the Buddhist hall and walked to the corridor.
At the edge of the pillar, he paused and said: "Madam can decide the auspicious time for the relocation of the remains, and it can be done within three months..."
"Then..." Zhao Du's voice just finished, but Zhiku's figure flashed and disappeared.
She wanted to ask how to deliver the bones, but seeing that Zhiku had already left, she had no choice but to shake her head and walk towards the backyard. As soon as she walked out of the archway across the courtyard, she saw Zhao Kuangyi running from the pavilion in the backyard with a surprised look on his face, "Mother
,Then the eminent monk is here?"
"Look at you..." Mrs. Zhao Du's face looked majestic, "How can you be so upset?"
Zhao Kuangyi's expression calmed down and he hurriedly bowed and stood still: "My child knows that he was wrong."
"Yuen Long has returned home?"
"Second brother is now the commander in front of the palace. I think there are more affairs than usual." Zhao Kuangyi said respectfully: "I went to the morning court at Mao hour and still haven't come back. My mother called him if it was an emergency... I immediately went to look for the child."
Zhao Dushi looked around and said, "Forget it, I'll just tell him what happened when I come back tomorrow."
Zhao Kuangyi felt happy when he heard this, but knowing that his mother had already met Zhiku, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Then... will the child accompany his mother tomorrow?"
Zhao Dushi glanced at Zhao Kuangyi who was overjoyed, and hesitated for a moment, "I wanted you to go with Yuen Long, but it might take some convincing to persuade him... Then you can go with me tomorrow."
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At noon the next day, Zhao Du and Zhao Kuangyi came to the meeting place in the south of the city, got on the carriage waiting for Long Congyun, and headed towards Qinglong Mountain. Just like the last time they came, they got off the carriage and were still blindfolded.
Under the guidance of Long Congyun and Zhiguang, after a series of ups and downs like flying in the clouds, when the blindfolds were removed, Zhao Du's mother and son found themselves in the passage of the cave.
Zhao Weiyi looked behind him and saw the sun shining through the curved passage, but in front of him was an uneven passage. The passage gradually went down. He guessed that it should be halfway up the mountain. Following Long Congyun's guidance, he walked in the cave.
There was a passage with a faint green light on the wall. It took about a stick of incense to arrive at a very large cave.
At this point, there were many twists and turns, but the two of them could no longer tell the difference between east, west, north and south. However, they saw that the cave was more than five feet high, with rocks of different shapes and heights hanging upside down from the top. Directly opposite the entrance of the cave,
Under the walls surrounded on three sides, there is a pool nearly ten feet long and more than three feet wide.
Different from Shuanglong Pool, this pool is full of white water that is shining brightly. In the middle of the pool, there is a stream of water that is also glowing, connected to a tall green tree about three feet in front.
tree roots.
The leaves seemed to grow out of the ground, covering the roots, and seemed to have been pruned. The whole tree stood on the ground in an umbrella shape, but the Zhao family and their children did not know what kind of tree it was. What was even more surprising was that
, the water flowing towards the green trees, which was nearly ten feet wide, actually covered the ground like clouds, condensing and not dispersing.
Zhao Kuangyi was very surprised. He took a closer look and found that the water flow was more than an inch above the ground. It was like a rice paddle but not condensed. It was slightly undulating, and it was like a thick piece of white paper spread on the ground. When he looked sideways, he saw that
I found that the same was true for the water in the pool.
"Amitabha." A sound of Buddha's chanting came from behind the green trees. Zhiku walked out slowly and pointed to several futons placed on the left side of the entrance passage, "Madam, sir, please sit down..."
After Zhao Du's mother and son sat down on their knees, Zhiku picked up a futon, walked to a place close to the green trees, put down the futon, and sat on it cross-legged.
"The lady and the young master have formed a predestined relationship with the old monk, so the old monk won't hide it anymore." Zhiku turned the rosary in his left hand and said, "I remember last time the lady asked the old monk if his destiny was fulfilled, which emperor should be destined?
After death, his descendants should inherit the throne... The old monk will start from here.
Any blessed place where great luck gathers takes many years, and the people who are destined for the blessed place have their ancestors' remains first buried in the blessed place's spiritual cave.
Only the Lord can pass it on from generation to generation until the spiritual energy of the blessed land is exhausted..."
Mrs. Zhao Du nodded when she heard this. When Zhiku asked for the remains of the Zhao family's ancestors, she felt happy because of this reason.
"But this dragon vein is different... Although its manifestation into the world was caused by the way of heaven and the wishes of the people. It took nearly a hundred years to gather energy and become the Tao, but at this time, there was also a calamity when the Tao came into the world..."
"Jie Dao?" Zhao Kuangyi was surprised, and just as he was about to ask, his sleeve was pulled by Zhao Dushi. He suddenly felt something, his face turned red, and he listened attentively.
"It is during this process of dragon vein energy gathering that the calamity path that matches it is found to attach itself to, and the only person in the world who can bear these two auras at the same time is the Ying Jie Emperor... The remains of his ancestors would not be able to be replaced by anyone else.
This blessed land is placed in the dragon's cave of Chengze, so that this blessed land can recognize its owner."
Zhao Du nodded with understanding, raised her eyes to look at the glowing pool, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Now that the dragon's veins have appeared, then the emperor has ascended the throne in accordance with destiny, right?"
Zhiku smiled slightly and said, "Madam, if you have any questions, you may as well speak up."
"This dragon vein was created for the wishes of all the people, and its energy should be majestic and majestic... But from what the master said, this calamity seems to be unfavorable to the emperor. I just don't understand. What calamity can regret the wishes of all the people?"
"Amitabha, this is the reason why the old monk intervened in this calamity." Zhiku turned the Buddha beads and said with a wry smile: "Madam, I don't know, this calamity also comes from the hearts of all people... It's just the resentment accumulated over time.
road."
"Ah?!" Zhao Dushi and Zhao Kuangyi said in surprise at the same time. Zhao Dushi said: "Why?"
"My lady is well versed in reading scriptures, and Mr. Zhao is an important minister in the court. He must know about Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the Buddhist tribulations during their reigns...?"
Zhao Du was horrified, "Master, are you saying that this calamity will destroy the Buddha... Is it the same as the Buddha's calamity during the three emperors' years?"
"Amitabha, sin, sin." Zhiku Heshi said: "It's not the same, it's the same grievance... Only the reason for eliminating the calamity is that it continues intermittently to this day."
"Then...how did the resentment of this calamity come to be, and why did it descend on Buddhism?"
"Madam also has a desire to worship the Buddha. The old monk boldly asked, Madam, now she offers incense and worships Buddha every day. What do you want?"
Zhao Du was stunned for a moment, then listened to Zhi's bitter words: "If my wife were an ordinary person and had no food to eat, what would she ask for every day? If Master Ling broke the law, he could escape punishment by escaping into Buddhism.
Madam, is she willing? Or maybe someone hurt Mr. Ling, and that person hid in Buddhism, making it impossible for Madam to seek legal redress. What should Madam do?"
After hearing several metaphors, Zhao Du was stunned for a moment. After a while, she glanced at Zhao Kuangyi beside her and frowned in thought.
"Our Buddha's compassionate path spreads widely among all peoples. However, some disciples who have not yet practiced the path have mistakenly understood the true meaning and misinterpreted the method of compassion. Instead, they have caused injustice to the people and are contrary to the law, so they have resentment... This resentment has been accumulating day by day.
Once you have achieved the path of calamity, you will borrow the emperor's hand to bring calamity to Buddhism."
"The person who eliminates calamity refers to..." Zhao Du glanced at Zhiguang and Long Congyun, who were sitting cross-legged and with eyes closed on the right, looked at Zhiku and said doubtfully.
"That's good, that's good." Zhiku smiled slightly, "Every time a Buddhist catastrophe occurs, Buddhist disciples will take action to prevent it, so Buddhists call them calamity-eliminating people... Haha, madam, I think you guessed the old monk now.
It’s also used to eliminate robberies, right?”
Zhao Dushi nodded and said hesitantly: "Then why not let this calamity disappear naturally and prevent it from happening... so that the disaster continues to this day?"
Zhi smiled bitterly, but the answer was wrong: "During the Taiwu period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, an eminent monk from Tianzhu saw that the spirit of destroying the Buddha had entered the world, and wanted to enter the world to stop it. To make it difficult for the Buddha to disappear, the only way to make it difficult for the Buddha to disappear was to make the Yingjie Emperor
The only option is to die, that is, to kill Emperor Taiwu..."
"Ah?!" Zhao Kuangyi exclaimed.
Zhiku seemed to have not heard anything, and slowly said: "However, there was a master protecting Emperor Taiwu, but he could not succeed. The eminent monk returned to Tianzhu and invited a Buddhist monk to help, and then the master was
They wanted to kill him, but the two eminent monks also suffered internal injuries. They found a temple and spent the past few months in seclusion before they could recover, so they wanted to kill Emperor Taiwu.
Unexpectedly, on the way, they learned that Emperor Taiwu had killed someone for his servants. The two eminent monks gave up and wanted to go back to Tianzhu. When they arrived at the land of Liu Song (Song Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties), they inadvertently found themselves in a place.
The Taoist temple heard a piece of news...about the cause of the Buddha's calamity and the time when the tribulation will disappear.
Just as the lady said, if the path of calamity is allowed to follow the number of days, it will disappear when the time comes. And if it is stopped midway, the remaining energy will still be there. When Emperor Taiwu dies, those who have no response to the calamity will escape into the earth and wait for it.
When the emperor who fits him is born, he will be reborn.
What surprised the two talented monks even more was that the master they jointly killed was a Taoist priest who was protecting this calamity. Because of his death, Emperor Taiwu's luck could not be continued, so he was killed...
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"Guardian?" Zhao Kuangyi asked suspiciously.
"Yes, he is the person who protects this calamity and disappears according to the number of days. At that time, the two eminent monks knew the principle. The monk who was invited here, I think..." Zhiku paused and shook his head.
He added: "The eminent monk thought he had regrets, so he left without saying goodbye and disappeared without a trace."
After he met Ming Wu, from the fact that Ming Wu's "Big Wrath Fist" evolved into a move without anger or anger, he inferred that the Tianzhu monk who was invited to help kill the guardian had regrets in his heart, so he used his powerful force to do so.
The murderous aura of the 'Great Wrath Fist' disappeared.