"You entered the Shenyin Hall!" Master's eyes widened and he looked at Xu Zhiqiong in shock.
"This is... the Shenyin Hall?" Xu Zhiqiong looked at the door and didn't know how to echo his master's sentiments.
The houses in Xingyuan Palace, Xingwei Palace, and Xingxiu Corridor all have domineering names. Judging from the names alone, Shenyin Hall seems to have nothing special.
The master looked Xu Zhiqiong up and down, and the corners of his eyes trembled slightly: "You entered the Shenyin Hall and you actually came out alive?"
When mentioning this matter, Xu Zhiqiong still had lingering fears: "Master, the situation in this room is really bad. There is a group of people singing in it. They have all kinds of tunes, and they can sing together. You can't listen to that music. Once you hear it, you will
It's like being killed by a thousand cuts..."
Master interrupted Xu Zhiqiong: "You didn't lie to me?"
"When have I ever deceived Master? Doctor Bai can testify to this!"
Master and Xu Zhiqiong looked at Bai Yueshan together. Bai Yueshan hid the broom behind his back, nodded and said: "This disciple was practicing nearby at the time, and he did see Ma Changshi coming out of this room."
The master shouted: "You just watched him enter the Shenyin Hall!"
Bai Yueshan was confused and didn't understand what he had done wrong.
First of all, he didn't know that this was the Shenyin Hall.
Secondly, he didn't know when Xu Zhiqiong entered.
Third, he didn't know what the consequences would be if he entered the Shenyin Hall.
Xu Zhiqiong said from the side: "Master, Doctor Bai is not to blame for this."
The master sighed and said: "It's my fault, but this is my fault! I don't take enough care of you, and I don't use my thoughts too much."
Xu Zhiqiong followed his master back to the main hall. Bai Yueshan took a deep breath and continued cleaning.
The master sat next to the desk and drank half a sip of wine. Xu Zhiqiong asked: "Master, what third-level skills have I learned?"
The master shook his head and said, "I don't know what kind of skills you developed after you entered the Divine Music Hall and listened to the Divine Music."
Xu Zhiqiong recalled for a moment and said: "Master, when I went to the Shenyin Hall, I had not yet been promoted to the third rank."
The master sighed: "You were just one step away from the third rank at that time. Due to the intervention of Shenyin, you first had the prototype of the third rank skills. After you were promoted to the third rank, you did not immediately learn the skill of ruling the universe. The third rank's personality was unknown.
Techniques take over."
"Unknown skills take up space?"
The master nodded and said: "To put it bluntly, with your current cultivation level, you can only undertake one third-level skill, but this unknown skill has taken over it."
"Can a third-level cultivator only learn one third-level skill?"
"Third-level skills are the ultimate achievement of techniques. Even if you reach the level of Star Officer, it is difficult to learn two third-level skills."
Xu Zhiqiong thought for a moment and said: "Master, do you know the painter Li Shabai?"
"You know it, how can you not know it?" The master smiled bitterly, seeming to be quite helpless about this person.
"As far as I know, he knows the third-level skills of Mohism and the third-level skills of Yin and Yang."
The master sighed and said: "You don't know how high his cultivation level is, and you don't know how many years he has been practicing.
His cultivation has long been above that of the mortal world, but this person is still greedy for the mortal world. Whether it is a blessing to the mortal world or a disaster to the mortal world, it is difficult to say with certainty."
Xu Zhiqiong was silent for a moment, then asked: "Which true god's voice is it in the Divine Sound Hall?"
The master blinked and lowered his voice: "After listening to his voice, do you still want to know his honorable name?"
Xu Zhiqiong waved his hands repeatedly and said: "It doesn't matter if you don't listen, it's not worth being fooled by this matter."
Master still couldn't figure out what happened in the Divine Music Hall: "I have entered the Divine Music Hall three times, and I narrowly escaped death every time. How did you come out alive?"
"That piece of snake skin," Xu Zhiqiong did not hide it. "At the critical moment of life and death, I put the snake skin on my body."
Thinking of the piece of snake skin, Master figured it out.
"You must keep that snake skin with you in the future, and don't give it to anyone who asks for it."
Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said: "That's natural. Why should such a good treasure be given away to others?"
"Even if the owner of the snake skin asks for it, you can't give it to him!"
"Master? Who is the owner of that snake skin?"
"Don't worry, I'll talk to you later."
Thinking of the piece of snake skin, Master felt a little more at ease.
"With the protection of that piece of snake skin, your third-level skills shouldn't have too much backlash."
Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise: "Backlash? Will techniques also backfire?"
The master closed his eyes and nodded slightly: "The techniques formed by external forces occupying the position of cultivation and replacing Taoist skills are called external usurpation techniques. External usurpation techniques often have backlash."
Xu Zhiqiong only felt a little regretful for not being able to learn the skill of Qiankun's arbitrary decision. At this moment, when he heard the word backlash, he felt a little scared: "The skill of external usurpation is unique to us as judges?"
The master shook his head and said: "Although the skill of external usurpation is extremely rare, it has appeared in every Taoist sect. There are three reasons for it, and one of them is indispensable.
First, the Yuan Shen is extremely weak, and when the energy of each cultivator is exhausted, the Yuan Shen will be extremely weak or even seriously damaged.
Second, it happened to be that he was promoted, and he had just gained the rank, but had not yet acquired the skills of the rank, which just left room for the skills of external usurpation.
The third is the blessing of external forces. When the cultivator's vitality is exhausted and he is promoted, external forces take advantage of the situation and occupy the right position, which will form the skill of external usurpation.
Our Taoism does not focus on Qi movement, but it is the same when the power of imagery is exhausted.
At that time, your soul was extremely weak. You had just been promoted and had not yet learned the third-level skills. You had listened to the divine voice before, and external forces were hidden in you. Now you took advantage of the weakness and occupied the right position, thus forming the skill of external usurpation.
"
Xu Zhiqiong asked: "Has Master ever seen the art of external usurpation?"
The master nodded and said: "The technique of external usurpation is most common among cultivators of the Suzaku Dao because it has many branches and complicated external forces. When a cultivator is promoted, if his energy is exhausted and he is easily invaded by external forces,
I once saw a fifth-grade cultivator of Shengdao who would bleed all over his body when he used the skills of the fifth-grade."
Xu Zhiqiong was shocked when he heard this. The backlash effect of this technique is really strong!
However, the stronger the backlash effect, the more powerful the technique is estimated to be.
"Can this cultivator of the Way of Life be able to kill his enemy in an instant after bleeding all over his body?"
The master shook his head and said: "You can't kill the enemy, it just bleeds."
"Uh...then what's the use of this technique?"
Is it porcelain?
Got beaten and then lay on the ground covered in blood?
The master sighed: "This cultivator has gone through a lot of hardships before he was promoted to the fifth rank.
He was unwilling to give in, and in order to explore the secrets of the technique, he performed two fifth-level techniques in succession to understand the power of the technique."
It turns out that it needs to be used twice to exert its power.
"How powerful is it?"
"The power was so great that after using it twice, the cultivator bled to death from excessive blood loss."
Xu Zhiqiong took a breath and was speechless for a while.
The master continued: "I once saw an eunuch cultivator whose seventh-level skills were usurped. When he used his skills, he would be covered with spikes."
"This technique has some uses. The spikes all over the body can effectively make up for the eunuch's low defense weakness."
The master sighed: "It's a pity that this technique was only used once. All the eunuch's internal organs were pierced and he died on the spot."
Are these spikes growing from the inside?
This external tampering technique is too deceptive!
Xu Zhiqiong lowered his head and drank a bowl of wine silently.
Putting down his wine glass, Xu Zhiqiong raised his head and said, "Master, why don't you lock up such a powerful Shenyin Hall?"
The master shook his head and said: "The power of the true god is sealed in that hall. I can't lock it. There are many dangers in the Star Corridor. I told you not to break in, but I didn't expect that you broke in there..."
Is it my fault?
I didn't know the way!
Xu Zhiqiong's facial features were slightly distorted and he said: "Then what should I do now? If I accidentally used a third-level skill, wouldn't I have to..."
The master thought for a long time and said: "Let's stay in the Xingwei Palace for a few days first and see if there is any abnormality in the power of imagery. If there is no abnormality, just be careful in the future and don't use unknown techniques.
Even if it is used accidentally, with the snake skin protecting it, it may not be seriously injured."
He didn't learn any third-level skills, but he still planted a time bomb on his body.
Xu Zhiqiong was in a depressed mood, drank two bowls of boring wine, and went to Xingwei Palace alone.
Squatting in the dark room, Xu Zhiqiong mobilized the power of imagery and transformed into the appearance of his master.
The transformed master twirled his beard and said seriously: "Zhi Qiong, don't be afraid, my master is here."
Xu Zhiqiong punched his master in the old face:
"I'm suffering from the plague, what's the benefit of having you as my teacher? I can't see you all year round, and you even create a hall of divine music to trick me. I'll beat you to death, old man!"
Xu Zhiqiong punched him more than ten times in succession. The master suddenly slapped Xu Zhiqiong and knocked him to the ground.
"Crazy man! Insolent!"
Uh? How did this master come back to life?
Xu Zhiqiong sat up and saw two masters in front of him.
One is the real master, the other is an illusion.
The real master entered Xingwei Palace at some unknown time and suddenly appeared in front of Xu Zhiqiong.
He looked at the illusion around him, frowned and said, "Is this what you imagined?"
Xu Zhiqiong nodded.
"It really looks like..." Master stared at the illusion for a long time.
Xu Zhiqiong looked embarrassed and said: "Disciple is used to joking. Master, please don't take it off. This illusion is not that similar."
Like, really similar, even Master himself can't tell the difference.
How could it be so similar?
…
King Lu Hong Zhenkang returned to his mansion and lay down in his bedroom, not thinking about tea or food.
The ten-day period has passed, and the five million silver has not yet been found.
If the god calls him into the palace, he will have to kill him.
After waiting in confusion for two days, the housekeeper came to report, and Ruan Baoqing, the Minister of Personnel, asked to see him.
Ruan Baoqing, the Minister of Civil Affairs, was a disciple of Yuan Chengfeng. On the night of the Strange Rebellion, all of Yuan Chengfeng's disciples in the capital were killed, and he was the only one to escape the disaster.
His mission that night was to keep an eye on Hong Juncheng and wait for an opportunity to use the orifice-sealing technique on Hong Juncheng.
I succeeded in sealing the orifice, but I didn't expect that Hong Juncheng was a substitute.
Afterwards, Ruan Baoqing did not take any action, and Hong Juncheng did not delve into the matter, but this allowed him to save his life.
Hong Zhenkang hesitated for a moment, straightened his clothes, and welcomed Ruan Baoqing into the main hall.
Ruan Baoqing is a second-grade official and holds an important position. He may be able to help Hong Zhenkang in times of crisis.
Hong Zhenkang really guessed it right.
Ruan Baoqing brought a friend. He looked to be in his fifties, with blond hair and blue eyes. He looked like a Tunu person, but his facial features were soft and had some characteristics of a Qiancheng person.
"This friend's name is Duan Zifang, and he is a fur trader from Tunu Country."
merchant?
Hong Zhenkang's eyes lit up.
Duan Zifang stood up and saluted: "I have taken the liberty to come here because I have a small gift that I would like to present to King Lu."
"Why are you so polite?" Hong Zhenkang smiled and thought secretly:
Since he is a businessman introduced by Ruan Baoqing, he must be worth a lot of money. From him, he should be able to get three to five million silver, and he can also support the Lord God for a while.
Duan Zifang saluted again and said: "Duan has brought five million taels of silver, please accept it with your Majesty's approval."
Five million silver, all together!
Hong Zhenkang was overjoyed: "Mr. Duan, please take a seat!"