Finally there is different information! Zhang Yuanqing’s eyes lit up and he straightened his back immediately, “Is there an inside story about this matter?”
Elder Zhao nodded slightly and said in a chatty tone:
“After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Tongzhou Association felt that it was no longer necessary to hide, and wanted to take advantage of the trend and become the official organization of the second region, so it established seven branches across the country according to the region: North China, Northeast China, East China, Central China, South China, Southwest, and Northwest China.
"Unexpectedly, not long after, fierce conflicts occurred within the Tongzhou Association. Some people did not want to become puppets of the West, so they quit the organization and started their own businesses. However, this was not the fundamental reason for the dissolution of the Tongzhou Association.
"The real reason is that the comprador government was driven to a corner. The new government has a strong sense of sovereignty and is determined not to compromise. In addition, the internal conflicts within the Tongzhou Association are fierce, and members continue to leave the organization. Therefore, the Tongzhou Association has not yet had time to
An official organization was established in the second largest district and then hastily disbanded.”
Although Elder Zhao laid a lot of groundwork and did not get to the main topic, Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang still listened with interest.
"The internal strife in the North China branch happened under this background, but it was not an internal strife, but a massacre." Elder Zhao finally raised his red hijab and got to the point.
"Massacre?" Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang looked at each other, and the former asked: "Who initiated the massacre?"
Elder Zhao shook his head: "I only know that before the Tongzhou Association was disbanded, the top management of the North China branch suddenly called all members for a meeting. The result of that meeting was that everyone died."
Zhang Yuanqing frowned when he heard this:
"In the case of internal strife, there will always be a winner in a battlefield with a large number of people. It is unlikely that they will all die together. If it is a massacre, it can indeed be explained.
"The North China branch held the meeting on its own. The only possibility is that the Tongzhou Association headquarters did it. But why did you massacre the members of the North China branch? How did you know about this, Elder Zhao?"
Even Gang Leader Jiang didn't know the details.
"Because there was still a survivor of the North China branch. When he convened the members for a meeting, he encountered an accident on the way and was delayed. When he arrived at the meeting place, he only saw a ruins stained with blood and war. Those members were even
There are no corpses left." Elder Zhao took a sip of tea and said, "You actually know the survivor and have had many interactions with him."
He put down the tea bowl and said before Zhang Yuanqing spoke: "He is the eternal mountain and river, the great protector of the Rose of Darkness."
Mountains and rivers last forever?!
This news caught Zhang Yuanqing a little off guard. He did not expect that "Mountains and Rivers Will Forever" would be related to the Tongzhou Association. However, combined with Headmaster Chunyang's scare last night, it seemed to correspond.
The eternal existence of mountains and rivers is the great protector of the Night Rose, and it involves a secret of the boat association, so Lingtuo arranged for Master Chunyang to show up and scare him, in order to prevent him from exploring the matter.
When Zhang Yuanqing appeared in succession, Zhao Chenghuang on the side said suspiciously:
"Master, why would Shanhe Yongcun tell you these things? I remember that the relationship between you two was not good."
Elder Zhao said calmly: "I recruited Shanhe Yongcun into the Taiyi Sect, and I once saved his life. In addition, we have a very good relationship, but we rarely communicate with each other."
How can a good relationship be considered if there is little contact? Zhao Chenghuang did not dare to talk back and nodded sternly.
At this time, Zhang Yuanqing retracted his thoughts and looked at Elder Zhao: "What else did Shanhe Yongcun say about the massacre of the North China branch?"
Elder Zhao shook his head: "He was not one of the first batch. He only got the character card at the end of the Republic of China. He was only a middle-level person at that time. In that accident, he was just a lucky person who survived."
The issue of the Freedom Covenant only broke out recently, and then involved the same boat group. Before that, even the first batch of people like Elder Zhao didn't know much about the Freedom Covenant.
Of course, I will not investigate the mountains and rivers for eternity in detail. It is too late to think about it now.
But if Shanhe Yongcun knows nothing, then why did Lingtuo arrange for Master Chunyang to scare me? This is unreasonable. Zhang Yuanqing raised his eyebrows.
Even if Shanhe Yongcun knew something, he had already betrayed the Taiyi Sect, and the top brass of Dark Night Rose were protected by Taiyin, so they couldn't find him, let alone arrest him.
In this case, what was the point of Headmaster Chunyang scaring him last night?
Unless the problem is not Shanhe Yongcun, Elder Zhao instinctively hides other secrets, and this secret is one that Lingtuo doesn't want me to know, or in other words, doesn't want to be made public.
What secrets does Elder Zhao have? Zhang Yuanqing suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked at the prim and serious old man and said:
"Let's not talk about the eternal existence of mountains and rivers for now. Elder Zhao, you seemed to be surprised that we mentioned the same boat meeting just now. What do you think the purpose of my trip is?"
After a pause, he got straight to the point: "What's in the basement?"
Zhao Chenghuang's entry into the basement was self-defeating, but it was also a mistake. Elder Zhao must have thought that he instigated Zhao Chenghuang to sneak into the basement to explore, and the purpose of this trip was also the basement.
That's why Elder Zhao was surprised when he mentioned the boat club and had no interest in the basement.
After asking this question, Zhang Yuanqing was ready for Elder Zhao to fall out.
Unexpectedly, Elder Zhao calmly sipped the tea soup and said calmly:
"You want to know what's in the basement?"
"Can I know?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.
Elder Zhao drank tea in silence until the tea bowl reached the bottom. He seemed to have figured out something and said in a deep voice:
"I don't let the city god get close to the basement because I don't want my children to be contaminated by this cause and effect. If you insist on getting to the bottom of it, then come with me."
Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang stood up at the same time, but the latter was forced back by Elder Zhao's look.
Elder Zhao, who was sitting on the wooden bench, turned into starlight and disappeared.
Zhang Yuanqing also used the Star Escape Technique and followed Elder Zhao's aura to the underground.
He appeared in an old, dark corridor, the walls were made of cement, and the top cement was cracked and weathered, exposing dense roots.
Elder Zhao stood in front of a rotten wooden door and looked back:
"come in!"
With a heart-wrenching sound, he pushed open the wooden door and entered the dark basement.
Zhang Yuanqing lost the aura of Elder Zhao, and the latter seemed to have entered another world.
Secret? It seems that the things in the basement cannot see the light. Zhang Yuanqing quickly stepped forward and entered the dark basement.
The Night Walker's special vision allowed him to see through the darkness effortlessly and take in the scene in the basement.
The basement is about twenty square meters, and the only furnishing is a shabby long table with a clay pot on the table.
That's all.
On the contrary, the ground and walls were covered with spiritual urn formations, which were "secret" formations that even Zhang Yuanqing had never mastered.
Zhang Yuanqing was stunned for a moment. This was different from what he thought. Such a crude basement did not match its status as the "Zhao family's forbidden area".
What does Elder Zhao want to hide?
He turned his attention to the table and the clay pot. As the master, he could see at a glance that the two items were mortal objects and did not possess any spirituality.
At this time, Elder Zhao walked to the clay pot, reached out and dug out the black soil inside the pot, and pulled out a black seed as big as a fingernail.
He looked back and said in a deep voice: "Do you know what it is?"
"A seed." Zhang Yuanqing replied.
"Do you know its origin?" Elder Zhao asked.
Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.
Elder Zhao said slowly: "It was left by Lingjun's biological mother."
The relics of Lingjun's biological mother? Hearing Elder Zhao's explanation, Zhang Yuanqing was at a loss at first. He didn't understand what was so special about the relics of Lingjun's biological mother that Elder Zhao was so taboo about it that he even went so far as to set up a Taiyin formation in the basement.
But soon, he searched his mind for information that he had almost forgotten.
In the sex audio between Demon Lord and Teng'er's mother, there was a conversation about Lingjun's biological mother.
——Lingjun's biological mother claimed to have discovered a terrible secret and doubted that she would survive long, so she called her sister, Teng'er's mother, hoping that she could raise Lingjun.
Not long after, Lingjun's biological mother entered the dungeon and never came out again.
She died in the copy.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanqing perked up and pretended to be puzzled: "Is the relic of Lingjun's biological mother worthy of your cherishing and preserving it?"
He didn't expect that the sex scene he overheard would have a follow-up.
Elder Zhao shook his head slightly:
"Before she returned to the spiritual realm, one day, she suddenly came to me and hoped that I could help her keep this seed. She said that there was a secret hidden in the seed and asked me to keep it properly. If its existence is accidentally revealed, even I will be killed.
You may suffer a fatal disaster.
"I asked her how to deal with it, and she said she didn't know.
"Not long after she handed the seeds to me, she returned to the spiritual realm."
No wonder Elder Zhao didn't allow anyone to enter the basement. No wonder he said he didn't want Zhao Chenghuang to be contaminated by Karma. Zhang Yuanqing suddenly realized, and immediately questioned: "Why did she give such an important thing to you instead of giving it to Elder Miao?"
"People named Miao are not very secretive." Elder Zhao said calmly: "Feng Ling is my student. She gave the seeds to me. There is nothing surprising."
Zhang Yuanqing knew early on that the Lord of the Stars and the current Qing Emperor were cousins, so the Taiyi Sect and the Baihua Society were very close, and it was not surprising that Lingjun's mother was a student of Elder Zhao.
He said in a deep voice:
"So, Lingjun's biological mother was silenced?"
Elder Zhao sighed: "No, she did return to the spiritual realm in the dungeon. I saw this with my own eyes. The surveillance and the servants who served her can all testify. She was not very lucky and encountered an S-level dungeon."
So, is it really a coincidence? Zhang Yuanqing stared at the seed: "Have you tried to crack it?"
"This seed was cultivated by wind chimes. It requires special techniques to make it take root and germinate. I tried many methods, but couldn't revive it. I couldn't ask the wood demon for help, so I gave up." Elder Zhao pinched the seed.
Seeds, rubbed back and forth with fingertips:
"I have watched the stars countless times, but I have not observed the date of its birth in the long river of destiny, nor have I seen the appearance of people entangled with its cause and effect. Maybe someone blocked its destiny, maybe it has the ability to guard against prying eyes.
I really didn’t know what to do with it, so I just put it in the basement.”
Zhang Yuanqing asked: "Then why are you telling me this today?"
Elder Zhao flicked the black seeds into Zhang Yuanqing's arms, and said with a smile: "You are not my great-grandson. If you insist on forcing the cause and effect, what does it have to do with me."
"." Zhang Yuanqing hurriedly flicked the seeds back: "Let's stay here with Elder Zhao for the time being. The place is protected by the Taiyin and is very safe."
It's safer than putting it in his inventory.
Elder Zhao looked serious: "Yuanshi Tianzun, I brought you here not because I want to dump a hot potato on you, but because you are the best candidate to unlock its secrets."
It bounced back again.
While saying not to throw the hot potato to me, Zhang Yuanqing mercilessly threw him over and said with a smile: "So I am the one destined by fate?"
Elder Zhao shook his head: "You have a mess of cause and effect. If you have too much of it, it won't be much, and if you don't have it, it won't be much. Furthermore, I am not determined to unlock the secret left by the wind chime, but you can. As we all know, Yuanshi Tianzun was born unruly and rebellious. I
I have great confidence in your character."
The two bounced around and finally left the seeds in the basement.
After all, it has been in the basement for more than 20 years and nothing has happened. The safest thing to do is to keep it as it is.
Zhang Yuanqing promised Elder Zhao to help investigate the matter and promised not to leak it to anyone.
Returning to the courtyard, Zhao Chenghuang left with him on the pretext of seeing Yuanshi Tianzun off, and walked out of the old alley. He couldn't wait to ask:
"What's in the basement?"
Zhang Yuanqing said angrily: "Although you are not my great-grandson, and you insist on being involved in the cause and effect, I still won't tell you."
Zhao Chenghuang: "???"
Songhai.
In the bedroom of Fu Jiawan Villa, Zhang Yuanqing was lost in thought.
He is now a member of the Gou Dao, and all matters are handled by his avatar. The main body is controlled remotely. Under the background of the demigod not taking action, there is almost no danger.
His current level is not high enough for a demigod to end.
Closer to home, Zhang Yuanqing found that things were becoming more and more confusing. He originally suspected that Lingtuo's purpose was to prevent him from tracing Shanhe Yongcun, but later suspected that Lingtuo's real purpose was to prevent him from exploring Elder Zhao's basement.
But when he left the Zhao family courtyard, he realized that something was wrong. Lingjun's biological mother gave the seeds to Elder Zhao for safekeeping. This matter was protected by secrets and Lingtuo could not know.
Since you don’t know, how can you stop it?
Free Federation.
In the villa facing the lake, in the bedroom with the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, Zhai Cai sat cross-legged on the bed, her chest and abdomen swelling and contracting rhythmically, and a brassy shimmer erupted from her nose.
During this period of time, he has been preparing for the dungeon, and it has been eight months since the last dungeon.
According to the rules of level 7 masters, there must be a copy within a year.
In other words, he will enter the dungeon at any time in the next two months.
Zhai Cai's current experience value is 95%. If he enters a dungeon below level A and above level C, he can smoothly reach level eight.
Based on his hidden points, this copy will be A-level at most, and most likely B-level, so that’s not a big problem.
Every outstanding genius should learn to control his own hidden points and ensure that the difficulty of the dungeon he enters does not exceed B each time. This is the safest way to upgrade.
You can go all the way to level eight or even level nine.
The price is calculated based on the long cycle of dominating the copy. It may take half a century or even longer to reach level nine.
Not long after, Zhai Cai ended her meditation and was about to go outdoors to practice her sword skills and physical fitness. At this moment, a spiritual prompt sounded in her ears:
[Ding, the spiritual realm map is opening. You will enter the spiritual realm in 20 seconds. The spiritual realm you enter this time is "Twilight of the Knight", number: 16]
[Difficulty level: S]
[Type: Single (death type)]
[Main mission: Survive for 30 days, or destroy all enemies. 】
[Note: Non-spiritual items are not allowed to be brought in.]
[Introduction to the spiritual realm: Darkness covers the earth, the blood moon descends, and the demons in the shadows wake up from their slumber, and they surround the Holy See! 】
Zhai Cai's face turned pale, and her eyes showed incredible shock and a trace of despair.
An S-level dungeon in the dominance stage?
"This is impossible, impossible, my hidden points cannot reach the S-level threshold!"
He rushed out of the room desperately and roared: "Ji Qi, my copy has arrived, S-class Knight Twilight."
He disappeared into the room, leaving only the lingering sound.