"You know our Taoist sect?" Zhang Jiugu didn't find it strange. "This is what Xu Zhiqiong told you, right? He is a fellow Taoist of mine. I came to him just for the sake of the Taoist sect. Please call him out quickly. Don't miss it."
Business!"
"Bah! Who is the same as you? You have no shame!" Chang Decai spat, "Thieves, our family not only knows your sect, but also your character. You are so cunning.
Tell us, what bad ideas are you hiding in your heart?"
Zhang Jiugu smiled charmingly: "Little pump girl, you should take a guess!"
"Little girl? Ouch, our family is so embarrassed," Chang Decai covered his mouth and laughed, "Do you even need to guess? Qiongqi cultivators are the most treacherous. You thief must not have come alone. You made such a big noise.
, you also bring a helper who can cultivate yin and yang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chang Decai suddenly turned around and tore off a piece of flesh from the man behind him.
The man screamed in pain and backed away with his bloody arms. He was hiding in the yin and yang magic circle. He was originally going to attack from behind, but he didn't expect Chang De to react so astutely.
"Qiongqi and yin and yang are not easy to fight!" Chang Decai looked at the two people from left to right.
"Not only is it difficult to fight, you are also a burden!" Zhang Jiugu rushed straight towards Shi Shuangliu.
If Chang Decai went to rescue Shi Shuangliu at this time, the man would definitely attack Chang Decai from behind.
Unexpectedly, Chang Decai ignored Shi Shuangliu, grabbed the man, and stabbed him twice in the chest.
The man pointed his finger through the heart, and the man immediately vomited blood. If Chang Decai stabbed him a third time, the man would definitely die.
This is Chang Decai's tactic. If Zhang Jiugu insists on killing Shi Shuangliu, Chang Decai must trade with her. If he goes to rescue Shi Shuangliu, he must involve both of them.
After one exchange, Changde was confident of killing Zhang Jiugu. Although Shi Shuangliu was not protected, the battle was considered a great victory.
The tactics were correct, but there was a problem with the execution. Chang De did not use the third move, but turned around and kicked Zhang Jiugu, saving Shi Shuangliu.
Aren’t they supposed to replace one with another? How could such a serious mistake happen?
This is not Chang Decai's fault, it is Zhang Jugu's skill.
The man who saved his life used onmyoji to become invisible and prepared for another sneak attack.
Chang Decai looked at Chen Jiugu and said: "I almost forgot, this is your sixth level skill, blinding!"
Qiongqi's sixth-level evil skill, Blind Eyes, can make the opponent distracted by distracting thoughts, instantly forget the situation of the battle, and perform behaviors that are indifferent to priority.
Now that the man who knows Yin Yang magic has become invisible, the battle situation is extremely unfavorable to Chang Decai.
Zhang Jiugu kept exuding evil thoughts, and Chang Decai found it difficult to concentrate.
Shi Shuangliu's condition was not good either. She realized that Chang Decai didn't want to save her just now, and driven by evil thoughts, she developed some hatred for Chang Decai.
We can't fight anymore. If we fall into the Yin Yang family's tricks again now, everything will be over.
Chang Decai turned around, suddenly picked up Shi Shuangliu, and rushed to the door. The yin and yang cultivator suddenly appeared from behind, and a ray of yang energy hit Chang Decai's heart.
Chang Decai suddenly dodged, grabbing Shi Shuangliu with one hand, and dealing with the two enemies with the other hand.
How can one hand defeat two enemies?
What's more, the two enemies' cultivation levels are not low, and their skills are so weird.
What I didn't expect was that these two enemies had no skills and competed with Chang Decai with fists and kicks.
Except for the killing sect, no Taoist sect should compete with eunuchs. This is the most unwise way to fight, but both Zhang Jiugu and the Yin and Yang cultivators made serious mistakes.
This is the ninth level of eunuch skill - thorough service.
Even though it is a ninth-level skill, it is the eunuch's strongest skill. This skill is most in line with the eunuch's character. As the eunuch's level increases, the effect of the skill will continue to strengthen.
Under the influence of "Complete Service", the enemy will unconsciously fall into the eunuch's fighting rhythm, and enjoy the process of "battle" under the eunuch's "service".
Every time Xu Zhiqiong encounters a eunuch, he always thinks about fighting with the eunuch. He always forgets to use his skills at critical moments. This is because he is influenced by "service and thoroughness".
But forgetting for a moment does not mean that you will forget forever.
The yin and yang cultivator was punched and kicked a few times, and a layer of skin was peeled off. Under the pain, he woke up and began to arrange the formation.
Zhang Jiugu also came to her senses and used her blinding technique again to interfere with Chang Decai's judgment.
Chang Decai didn't dare to fight, so he jumped out of the courtyard wall with Shi Shuangliu.
Zhang Jiugu wanted to catch up, but a broom suddenly appeared in front of her and hit Zhang Jiugu on the head and face.
Zhang Jugu tried her best to tear the broom into pieces, but Chang Decai had already disappeared without a trace.
The yin and yang cultivators vomited blood one after another, the yin and yang magic circle dispersed, the fog in the yard disappeared, and the sound came out.
"When did Xu Zhiqiong invite such powerful helpers?"
Zhang Jugu said: "I came to see you last night, and I only knew that he and the one who knew yin and yang were not at home. Who knew that this woman could be so vicious! Xiao Situ, are you okay?"
This man is Xiao Situ.
The man shook his head and said, "I am not seriously injured. I will go to your house to rest for a while."
"Should I tell Da Sima about this?"
"Tell him what to do? That guy is so vicious that he will definitely not let us off lightly! Now that we have found the door, we are not afraid of not being able to find him. When this guy comes back, we will set up another ambush!"
The old beggar sat in the alley, leaning against the wall, motionless.
He is just a beggar, so as long as he pretends to be asleep, no one will notice him.
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Xu Zhiqiong followed a group of laborers for another day and arrived at the Royal Hunting Garden at dusk.
There are a total of six royal hunting gardens in Daxuan. This is the closest hunting garden to the capital and the largest hunting garden. It is called Ponu Garden.
There are four forests in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Ponu Garden, surrounded by two pastures in the middle, with three rivers running through it. The area is comparable to a county. Emperor Daxuan Wuzong destroyed Tunu here, hence its name.
This hunting ground is too big!
The Royal Hunting Garden was heavily guarded and no ordinary people were allowed to enter. After walking for more than ten miles, no one was seen. However, there were many birds and beasts coming and going, which frightened everyone.
A craftsman from the ascetic workshop laughed and said: "I'm telling you, don't run around when you are working. If you are eaten by a big insect, no one will collect the body for you!"
When they reached the northwest corner of the Hunting Garden, everyone saw the palace.
There was originally a palace in the Hunting Garden, but now a new palace has been built next to the Hunting Garden. Xie Yong looked at the palace, smiled and said to Xu Zhiqiong: "You also said that the National Workers lied to us, isn't the palace right there?
So? This is almost finished. I think we can go back after just a few days of doing chores."
Xu Zhiqiong laughed dryly and said nothing.
Throughout the day, he and Han Chen kept trying to persuade people around them to run away, but no one believed them.
A middle-aged man said: "The palace has been renovated, why do you ask us to come here? Could it be that we are asked to go back after working for two days? I'm afraid we won't even earn a drop of money!"
A craftsman said from the side: "What? Are you afraid that you will be left without work? I'm afraid that you will complain when you can't do it!"
Xie Yong laughed and said: "It's not a hero who complains! You have a hundred days of work, and I will work here for a hundred days!"
Everyone was cheering nearby, and Xu Zhiqiong said in a low voice: "Brother, if you work for a hundred days, Duo'er will get married. Why don't you drive with your brother first when you get back, and then go learn potter's work after you collect enough tuition?"
"You are such a stupid person!" Xie Yong was annoyed, "My brother is gone! That night when I went to Beiyuan to drive, I met that Xie Xing, and even the man and the horse were gone! I also wanted to learn to be a potter, but who To support the family?"
Xu Zhiqiong was shocked. He did not expect that his brother was one of the more than 20,000 dead.
Xie Yong bit his lip and said: "Brother, I know you are a good person, but you are afraid that I will be deceived, but if you still don't believe the imperial examination, who can we believe?"
A middle-aged man next to him said: "You always advise us to leave, why don't you leave yourself? You want to eat alone here! There is no way!"
"That brother just now is right! If there is a hundred days of work, we will work here for a hundred days and earn twenty taels of silver. We will no longer live in Beiyuan and go to the east of the city to buy a house to live in!"
"When I make money, I will give my wife a gold chain to save her from always saying that I haven't bought her any jewelry!"
"That's right, we men must be able to support our families!"
"With this money, my old man can also marry a wife and no longer have to beg for food on the streets!"
Everyone laughed, and Xu Zhiqiong also laughed.
Han Chen's expression became more solemn, and the bloody smell of the compass became stronger and heavier.
A craftsman came over and shouted: "Let's go to the palace first and change your clothes. Let's see what you look like in these rags."
Everyone entered the palace. This palace was different from what Xu Zhiqiong had seen.
The main hall is very spacious, and it is not crowded when more than two thousand people stand inside.
The floor is made of stone, which is very rare in Daxuan. Most palaces in Daxuan are made of wood.
Not only is the floor made of stone, the walls are also made of stone, and even the roof is made of stone.
Moreover, the roof is very flat, not even a single seam is visible, as if it was polished from a single piece of stone.
The palace was obviously not built recently. How much did such a magnificent palace cost?
Xu Zhiqiong looked around and felt strange. Lu Qingming, a national worker, stood in front of everyone and said to everyone: "From today on, you are the royal craftsmen. Although you are just laborers, you still have to show the majesty of the royal family! Work! You can’t be vague when you’re doing it, and you can’t be vague when you’re learning a craft. From now on, you’ll follow our hard training workshop and eat royal food!”
Everyone was speechless after hearing this.
"And teach us skills?"
"Are we considered ascetic workshop people?"
"Can I eat royal food in the future?"
The crowd cheered and dozens of craftsmen walked into the crowd and each handed out a cloth bag.
"Take off all these tattered clothes on your body. What do you look like? Aren't you going to embarrass the royal family? Take them off quickly, put them all in a bag and leave a mark. I will give you new clothes later!"
Everyone looked at each other, a little embarrassed.
Lu Qingming shouted: "Why are you still standing there? Take off your clothes!"
Everyone started to take off their clothes in a hurry. Xu Zhiqiong looked at Han Chen: "Do you want to take off your clothes?"
Han Chen turned around and said, "Brother, can you stop looking at me?"
It doesn't matter if you just take off your clothes, the key is to put everything on you in a bag.
An old beggar said: "Master, this is the three hundred coins I was rewarded when I signed up, please let me take it with me!"
The craftsman smiled and said: "Old man, who can steal it from you? If you lose it, I will give you another three hundred coins! Hurry up and pack the bag. I will ask someone to kill all the lice on it later, and then I will return it to you.
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The old man reluctantly stuffed the money into the bag and asked for a drawing pencil from the craftsman. He didn't know how to write his name, so he could only draw a few lines on the bag as marks.
Xie Yong took off his clothes, neatly folded them into the bag, carefully put the money bag away, and neatly folded the silk handkerchief Duo'er gave him and put it in.
The craftsmen brought dozens of carts and sent the clothes that everyone took off to the outer hall.
Xu Zhiqiong and Han Chen didn't take off their clothes for a long time, not because they were shy, but because they couldn't take them off. Xu Zhiqiong's clothes contained the seal of the master, the seal of the master, the soft armor made by Niu Yuxian and the hair collected before.
Han Chen couldn't even take it off, as a bunch of yin and yang magic weapons were hidden in his clothes.
The craftsman stepped forward and urged: "What are you two waiting for? Take off your clothes quickly!"
Lu Qingming, a national worker, shouted: "Don't take off your clothes yet. Go to the outer hall to show your things to everyone. Come back later to change your clothes."
Xie Yong said to Xu Zhiqiong from the side: "Brother, look at the baggage for me. I drew a flower on the baggage."
Han Chen let out a long breath, and Xu Zhiqiong felt a little guilty in his heart.
Why were the two of them allowed to go out to see something? There were still many people who had not taken off their clothes.
Walking out of the gate of the inner hall, Xu Zhiqiong found that the dividing wall between the inner hall and the outer hall was also strange.
This is a wooden wall, a very thin wooden wall, it seems to be a temporary partition wall.
The two of them came to the outer hall and stood next to a pile of cloth bags. After a while, everyone took off their clothes and all their luggage was piled in the outer hall. Lu Qingming said: "We are all waiting here. I will get you new bags."
Take off your clothes!"
A group of craftsmen left the main hall and walked out of the palace. Lu Qingming came to Xu Zhiqiong and Han Chen and said with a smile: "You two have great cultivation!"
Xu Zhiqiong was startled and was about to take action against Lu Qingming. Lu Qingming stepped on the stone slab under his feet, and an iron cage fell from the sky, locking the two of them inside.
This is really a joke, even an iron cage wants to trap me?
Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward to pull open the iron cage and found that the railings were only slightly deformed.
Lu Qingming smiled and said: "You are so powerful, you have reached the sixth level of killing, right? With such a good cultivation level, why do you come here to seek death?"
Xu Zhiqiong was still tearing at the railing, and Lu Qingming said: "Don't waste your efforts. I don't know where you got the courage to cause trouble in the Ascetic Workshop! This scenery is nice. It's a blessing to be buried here!"
Lu Qingming turned around and left, closing the palace door.
Xu Zhiqiong said to Han Chen: "Brother Han, do you have a way to escape?"
Xu Zhiqiong had many ways to escape, but he couldn't leave Han Chen here.
Han Chen threw out a piece of silver needle and inserted it into the ground, forming a magic circle.
The silver needle glows, but the magic circle does not take effect. There are construction methods underground to prevent the magic circle.
"As expected of a penance workshop, this craftsmanship is truly exquisite!"
Han Chen increased his strength and used his fourth level cultivation to inject all the yin and yang energy into the silver needle. The silver needle turned into smoke, the formation was activated, and the two of them disappeared together with a pile of baggage.
When they appeared again, the two of them were already in the woods three miles away, and they could barely see the palace through the trees.
On the compass, the bloody air spurted out, and Han Chen said: "No, they are going to take action."
Xu Zhiqiong said: "I'll hold off those craftsmen first, and you can go rescue them!"
The two were about to rush out of the woods when they heard a loud noise!
The roof of the palace fell, throwing up a cloud of smoke and dust.
Xu Zhiqiong stayed where he was, speechless for a while.
He understood why the roof was made of stone and why it was flat.
This is not a palace at all, this is a rolling mill made by an ascetic workshop!
He seemed to see a piece of blood foam in the smoke, and more than two thousand people were instantly crushed to pulp!
"These beasts!" Han Chen's eyes turned red, he took the magic weapon and tried to fight for it.
Xu Zhiqiong grabbed Han Chen.
A gust of night wind blew, bringing with it a bit of fishy smell.
A cloth bag was scattered behind him. A flower was painted on the bag, and a handkerchief fell out of it.