In the General's Mansion in Guangling City, Gu Cheng's left hand was filled with yin candles and dark fire, and the black yin flying thunder on his right hand was exploding.
At the same time, the spiritual energy in Gu Cheng's body was gathering, and the internal energy was also swimming in the spiritual veins, reaching a delicate balance.
When this balance reached a limit, Gu Cheng pressed the Seal Technique with his hand, and the cold and blazing Yin Zhu Minghuo and Xuanyin Flying Thunder gathered close to each other. At the same time, spiritual energy and true energy began to intertwine, repelling each other and exploding!
Gu Cheng immediately snorted, his face turned pale, and his mental energy was constantly being consumed.
But he held on and used all his strength to fuse the two.
The spiritual energy of a Qi refiner comes from the outside in, while the initial Qi of a warrior comes from the inside out, tempering the physical body to obtain Qi Jin, transforming Qi Jin into Zhen Qi, and condensing Zhen Qi into Gang Qi.
The two are fundamentally different from each other in terms of their fundamental attributes. The difficulty of forcibly integrating them into one can be imagined.
Although Gu Cheng knew that Murong Hou could do this and proved that it was feasible, he didn't know exactly how to do it and had to explore step by step.
Gu Cheng had actually failed countless times before, but this time was the closest and the most likely to succeed.
Finally, when Gu Cheng's mental power was almost exhausted, Yin Zhu Minghuo and Xuanyin Flying Thunder finally merged together, and a ball of deep and evil thunder and fire emerged in Gu Cheng's hand.
While the white underworld fire was burning, there were also jet black wisps of thunder surging in it. Gray white and black intertwined, forming an extremely strange appearance.
Gu Cheng violently dispersed the power, but even if he actively dispersed the power, the aftermath caused the whole house to tremble violently.
He let out a long breath, his Yinming Thunder Fire was completely refined, and its power was far from as simple as one plus one.
Moreover, the consumption of this move is not that high, it is similar to that of Yin Zhu Minghuo plus Xuanyin Flying Thunder. However, although it does not use much power, it is very mentally draining to control it. In exchange for some strength,
A practitioner who doesn't have strong control will probably blow himself up in the first step.
Gu Cheng stood up and moved around. It took him more than half a month to take this step, but in fact this was only the first step. There was still a long way to go before he could reach the level of Murong Hou.
Just when he was about to go out to see what happened during this period, Huang Laojiao had already come to the door.
Among the people currently under Gu Cheng's command, Huang Laojiao is the one who has the least communication with Gu Cheng.
Everyone knows what this old water thief is thinking. When he was under the command of Fang Zhenhai, he was in his own way. Now he is under the command of Gu Cheng. Gu Cheng has no intention of making him completely surrender to him, as long as the other party can obey his orders on the surface.
That’s it.
Gu Cheng didn't think he had any domineering aura and could make this old water thief bow down to him.
During this period of time, the other party was just guarding the state capitals around the Qulan River. Although there was no credit, nothing happened to cause trouble to Gu Cheng.
So when he came this time, Gu Cheng was still a little confused.
"Brother Huang, did something happen to you over there?"
Huang Laojiao's face looked a little ugly: "Something happened. One of the ships under my command disappeared, and the elixirs escorted on the ship were also gone."
At present, Gu Cheng controls the elixir trade of various sects in Nanyi County. Some of them are done by land, but some are closer by water.
The naval forces under Huang Laojiao had nothing to do except patrolling the Qulan River every day, so Gu Cheng handed over some elixirs that could be transported by water to Huang Laojiao for escort, and then gave him some extra salary.
Gu Cheng frowned and said, "It's gone? Did someone take action? How come a good ship is gone?"
Although the building boats under Huang Laojiao are somewhat uneven, apart from some small sampans used for exploration, the smallest building boat is about ten feet long. How could it be gone?
Huang Laojiao smiled bitterly and said: "It just disappeared like this.
There was a sect that was working hard, and the elixir arrived a little late, so I wanted to sail late at night and take the nearest waterway to deliver it.
I didn't often walk on that waterway in the past, and there were a lot of reefs in the water, but it didn't matter if I walked on it a few times now and then.
As a result, just the night before yesterday, a big wave hit, and there was no trace of the ship. After that, it was completely calm, as if nothing had happened."
Huang Laojiao hesitated and said: "I was not outside at the time, but resting in the cabin, but someone vaguely saw a black shadow swimming on the water, as if it was some giant thing."
"Is it caused by a monster?"
Huang Laojiao shook his head and said: "It is absolutely impossible to be a monster, I didn't notice the slightest bit of monster energy.
Although there are many strange things on the Qulan River, this is the first time I have encountered such a confusing thing."
"You didn't even send anyone to salvage it afterward?"
Huang Laojiao smiled bitterly and said: "I personally took action and used the secret method of water channels to explore the water, but there was no trace at all. And I didn't dare to go down any further.
Anyone who has lived on the Qulan River knows that it is dozens of times more dangerous underwater than above water, and it was still dark at the time.
However, I did investigate some information during the day. The waterway I took was on the edge of Yuanshui Town in Moyang Prefecture. There seemed to be some local legends about the River Dragon King, which seemed to be related to my incident.
It’s just that these matters involve a local force, the Dragon King Gang. Although I am not afraid of them, the matter is a bit sensitive, so I am here to trouble you, sir.”
Gu Cheng had already seen Huang Laojiao's little thoughts, but he didn't expose them.
Huang Laojiao, an old water thief, was used to being cautious. Whether he was afraid of death or cautious, he would definitely choose the safest way to deal with something wrong.
If he was still a water thief at this time, he would probably have endured it himself.
But now that he had become a member of Jingyesi, and the matter also involved some local martial arts forces, he just passed the matter to Gu Cheng.
Although it is correct to handle problems carefully and carefully to avoid causing greater troubles, you always push the matter to the superiors. So what do the people above want you as a subordinate to do? As time goes by, the people above will inevitably
Have an opinion on it.
But Gu Cheng didn't care. Anyway, Huang Laojiao was only going to be his subordinate for a while. When someone from the Hero Gang arrived after a while, the old water thief would be left to him to take care of.
So Gu Cheng didn't expose the other party, but said calmly: "If that's the case, let's go."
Moyang Mansion is a small state capital next to the Qulan River. It is not too big. It is not even as big as a county seat in a large state capital. Yuanshui Town is a small town with only a thousand people, so it is in Fang Zhenhai.
Before the occupation of Nanyi County, there were no men from Jingyesi stationed there, and the same was true after Fang Zhenhai occupied it. Now it was Gu Cheng's turn, and he also ignored them.
This place seems to be a forgotten place. If it weren't for the sudden incident of Huang Laojiao's men, no one would even notice it.
When Gu Cheng followed Huang Laojiao and others here, on the bank of the Qulan River, groups of villagers were carrying bright red sedans without a roof, led by a middle-aged woman dressed as a goddess.
Slowly we will walk towards the riverside.
Sitting in the sedan was a young woman of about twenty years old. Tears were clearly streaming down her face, but her expression was strangely smiling, and her body was sitting upright.
The goddess shook the tambourine and bells in her hands, and recited specious incantations in her mouth, just like the dancing master.
Gu Chengyi frowned: "What are they doing?"
Huang Laojiao also looked puzzled. He called one of his men and asked, "What are these guys doing?"
The subordinate was from a nearby village. He heard the words and said: "Reporting to your lord, it is the custom of Yuanshui Town to sacrifice the Jiang Dragon King. It is said that every three years, a young woman must be selected to worship the Jiang Dragon King.
Otherwise, the River Dragon King will overturn the river and flood the entire Yuanshui Town to punish them for their disrespect. This custom seems to have been going on for hundreds of years."
"Bullshit!"
Gu Cheng waved his hand and said: "Stop them."
Such nonsense as worshiping the Jianglong King is simply nonsense to practitioners who truly understand demons and ghosts.
Some low-level monsters indeed have an irresistible temptation to eat blood.
But as the levels of demons and ghosts get higher, although they also need blood food, what they need is not ordinary people, but practitioners.
And let alone whether they are worshiping the River Dragon King, even if they are only worshiping ordinary monsters and ghosts, they still have to eat one person every three to five years. I have never heard of eating one person every three years, and it is not enough to fill the gap between the teeth.
"How come no one has mentioned these things before?"
After Gu Cheng asked this question, he sighed and understood.
Thinking about the situation in Nanyi County, only one person is sacrificed every three years, which is really not a big deal. Even the local officials may not be willing to provoke these ignorant people.
At this time, the goddess had finished a great dance and shouted sharply at the top of her voice: "Sacrifice to the Dragon King!"
The villagers carrying the sedan were about to throw the sedan into the Qulan River when they were stopped by Huang Laojiao's men.
The face of the goddess was smeared with colorful paint, and she was twisting angrily. She pointed at the group of people and cursed angrily: "Who are you? Can you afford to delay the time of sacrificing the Dragon King?"
"We are the navy under Gu Gu, the commander-in-chief of Jingyesi in Guangling City. How dare you commit crimes with me waiting in front?"
In the past, they were all water thieves that everyone yelled at, but now they were able to say these words with dignity and awe as a member of the imperial court, which was actually a bit satisfying.
But the goddess didn't show any respect at all, and was still shouting randomly: "I don't care who you are, if you delay the time to sacrifice the Dragon King, everyone will die!"
An old man who was carrying a cane and seemed to be very famous in the local area also stood up and advised: "Several adults have misunderstood. We are really not deliberately harming people. If we sacrifice one person, we can save the entire Yuanshui Town.
"
Huang Laojiao's men were all stunned there, not knowing what to do. After all, they had never dealt with this kind of thing before.
Gu Cheng frowned and walked straight over. The goddess was still saying something with her teeth and claws. At this time, a sharp sword energy passed by, and the goddess's head flew directly into the air. Blood spurted out along with the headless corpse. .
"She's just a pretending goddess, why are you talking so much nonsense to her?"
Gu Cheng glanced at the entire audience, and there was a sudden silence.