Chapter 32: The Black Magic Stone
Ji Buyun has long known that the five-person ruling does not want to pass the resolution of sending troops, and now it is an extraordinary period, and everyone is doing things with the attitude that more is better than less, and the five-person ruling does not inform the high priest of the imminent arrival of the grassland barbarian mission, so she naturally will not take the initiative to ask.
Captain Yu Ji said: "In twenty days, the plenary session of the Senate will officially begin, and my brother is here to congratulate you." ”
On the first day of the plenary session of the Senate, the five people in power officially announced the news of the high priest's marriage to Ji Buyun, but I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, this matter is now known to everyone in Haotian City and has become an open secret.
Ji Buyun chatted with him a few more words, and at the same time greeted his familiar colleagues, and got up to visit his uncle Buyun in the Consulate Hall on the third floor.
Ji Cheng was here with Master Buyun, and the two were discussing something with serious expressions.
After Ji Buyun entered the door to say goodbye, Lord Buyun personally got up and closed the door of the Consulate Hall, turned his head to Ji Buyun and asked, "This plenary meeting of the Senate, does the high priest intend to ascend the throne according to the oracle?"
Ji Buyun said: "She doesn't mean this for the time being." ”
Buyun said: "There is no best, now the rumors inside and outside the Senate about the high priest as the king are particularly powerful, and rushing to the throne may put you in the public target." ”
Both Ant and Master Buyun advised the High Priest not to rush to the throne, both of them were his closest relatives, and Ji Buyun faintly felt that there was something hidden here.
Ji Buyun asked, "Uncle, is there any problem?"
Buyun said: "Now there are more than a dozen foreign elders in Haotian City in tandem, to persuade the high priest at the plenary meeting of the Senate, these elders are not close to the four major families on weekdays, it stands to reason that they have the greatest loss of interests after the high priest ascended the throne, and now they take the initiative to persuade in, I have to make people wonder what secret is hidden behind this." ”
Ji Buyun asked, "Uncle, what about the opinions of the other four ruling lords?"
Lord Buyun sneered: "Of course, they hope that the High Priest will ascend the throne as soon as possible, so that the power in their hands can be hereditary, especially Lord Nenokoshi, who is said to have now regarded himself as the future Prime Minister of the Highlanders in his alliance. ”
He also said: "The queen of the highlands is a divine election system, and the descendants of you and the high priest cannot be hereditary, and the so-called enthronement as king is a formality, and it is not as good as the title of the prince of your Central Plains Empire, which has a county of fiefs." ”
The high priest had also said the same thing to Ji Buyun, and he asked, "Uncle, have you analyzed the intentions of those elders who want to persuade them?"
Buyun said: "At first, I thought that the other four rulers instructed these elders behind my back, they all knew that your uncle did not have such a great desire for power, and with your relationship, the last thing the high priest would treat after he ascended the throne was me, and they carried me behind my back in many things, I tried the other four rulers several times on this matter, and found that they did not understand the intentions of these patriarchs, the more so, the more problems there were." ”
The people present were all their own people, and Lord Buyun also came down at will, no longer referring to himself as an adult.
Ji Cheng interjected: "I discussed with Lord Buyun just now, and suggested that after the prince and the high priest got married, they should leave here as soon as possible in the name of returning to the imperial capital of the Central Plains Empire, and stay away from this place of right and wrong, as long as the high priest leaves Haotian City, the intentions of those people will be clear." ”
This suggestion is in line with the meaning of the high priest and Ji Buyun.
Ji Buyun said: "The high priest also planned it this way, I am afraid that she will be restricted by her identity and it will be difficult for her to leave." ”
Buyun said: "It's not a problem, as long as she doesn't ascend the throne for a day, the five people in power won't be able to brush her mind for a day." ”
Before the high priest ascended the throne, all the personnel arrangements of the court were still unknown, and if the five consuls wanted to occupy an ideal position in the court in the future, they could indeed only obey her wishes.
The three of them were discussing when there was a sudden uproar outside, and someone could vaguely hear someone shouting "Assassin" and "Protect Your Excellency", followed by the sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor.
Ji Buyun rushed over and pushed the door open, and asked Ji Meng and Ji Fan who were guarding the door, "What happened?"
Ji Meng said: "The guards said that there are assassins at the gate of the Senate, so go back quickly." ”
At this time, You Ji personally rushed to the foyer on the third floor of the Senate with dozens of Praetorian Guards, and Ji Buyun pushed Ji Meng away and ran over to ask him, "What happened?"
Yu Ji hurriedly said: "There is an assassin, and the super man of Nezhi is injured. ”
Ji Buyun turned around and shouted at Ji Meng and Ji Fan: "Protect Lord Buyun." Then, regardless of the impact, he jumped up directly into the air and jumped out of the foyer on the third floor.
During the landing, he observed that there were nearly 100 Praetorian Guards armed with swords in the square in front of the Senate who were besieging a gray-clothed man under the command of a deputy captain, and several Praetorian Guards were lying on their backs on the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive. In the distance, countless idlers were watching or hurriedly taking shelter.
On the stairs of the Senate, there were two people in purple senator clothes, one of whom was covered in blood, and there were guards and janissaries standing in front of and around the senator.
Ji Buyun summoned the purple gold sword in his palm during the fall, and jumped into the encirclement of the Praetorian Guards after landing on the ground.
The Assassin in the center of the encirclement was dressed in the most ordinary gray robe, with a black mask exuding murderous intent on his face, and armed with two quaint black scimitars, the blades covered in blood.
He stood there as if no one was around, watching coldly as hundreds of Praetorian Guards circled around him, and whenever anyone stepped into his attack range, the scimitar in his hand was a thunderous blow, and those who were close to him were either killed or injured.
The Praetorian Guards, deterred by his lethality, were now just circling in the distance, and no one dared to attack again.
Ji Buyun knew that with the skills of these ordinary Praetorian Guards, it would only increase the number of casualties if they went up, and it seemed that he could only deal with this assassin on his own. He waved his hand for the Praetorian Guards to step back, back of his way, and walked into the encirclement alone, standing two feet away from the Assassins.
The Assassin looked at him with an indescribable chill in his eyes.
Ji Buyun took a deep breath, the colorful aura spread all over his body, and stepped forward into the assassin's attack range, and when the assassin swung his double sword in the air to attack him, he stabbed out with three sword intent according to his legal will.
A two-zhang long sword light spat out from the tip of the purple gold sword, and the latter came first, and the assassin in mid-air couldn't dodge at all, and the colorful sword light directly pierced the assassin's body.
The scimitar fell to the ground, and as the assassin's body fell lightly from the air, Ji Buyun saw a trace of black murder intent hidden in the void.
The assassin who had been rampant for a long time was killed by Ji Buyun's move, and all the Praetorian Guards cheered in unison and surrounded him, and all that fell to the ground was an empty robe and a black mask.
Ji Buyun motioned for the Praetorian Guards to disperse, and he carefully used his purple gold sword to pick open his robes, scimitars, and masks.
The robe was the most ordinary of highland gray robes, there was nothing in it, the scimitar and the black mask were very rare, and the black paint exuded a metallic sheen.
Ji Buyun immediately remembered that these two things were made of the same material as the black relief in the queen's palace.
The queen had told him that the Demon King had begun to resurrect, and now he had a demonic will.
Could it be that this assassin was actually transformed by demonic intent, and the black killing intent hidden into the void was the will of the demon king?
If this is the case, then there will be a first time and a second time, and the Senate will be murderous and never at peace.
He picked up the mask on the ground, and Anya rushed over at some point, and he picked up the two scimitars.
Ji Buyun asked the deputy captain under his command to quickly lead people to clean up the battlefield, waved his hand to signal the rest of the Praetorian Guards to hurry back to their posts, and then walked up the stairs of the Senate with a heavy face.
The super man was covered in blood, but fortunately the two knives were not cut at the vital point, but only flesh wounds, and the other patriarch was just a layer of skin cut by the blade on his arm.
After examining the wounds of the two patriarchs, Ji Buyun was suspicious: looking at the assassin's methods of dealing with the siege of the Praetorian Guard just now, these two patriarchs should have no reason to survive, did he deliberately show mercy to his subordinates?
Captain Yu Ji ran over from the Senate with a few guards at this time, and he saw Ji Buyun holding a black mask with a deep face, and he didn't dare to speak, and followed him carefully.
Ji Buyun handed him the mask in his hand and said, "Captain, I suggest that you immediately apply to the headquarters for additional manpower to block the Senate, and everyone who enters the Senate Square must be inspected in the future, especially pay attention to this kind of mask." ”
You Ji took the mask and looked at it, and said, "Yes, deputy commander, what is this mask?"
Ji Buyun naturally couldn't tell him about the Demon King, and said vaguely: "This is the sign of an assassin, don't pay attention." ”
Ji Buyun returned to Lord Buyun's Consulate and explained in detail what happened in the square and his suspicions about the injured senator, and at the same time concealed his personal speculation about demonic intentions, only saying that assassins can do magic, and finally said: "Uncle, I must go back to the priest's court now and leave Ji Meng and Ji Fan behind to protect you." ”
Buyun said: "No need, you pay attention to your own safety, I have the protection of the Praetorian Guard, and it will be fine." ”
Ji Buyun said: "The Praetorian Guards can't deal with this kind of assassin who knows spells at all, I have the ability to protect myself, uncle, I can rest assured that they can protect you." ”
Seeing that Ji Buyun had been insisting, Ji Cheng also persuaded a few words, and Lord Buyun had no choice but to agree.
Ji Buyun came out and said a few more words to Ji Meng and Ji Fan, and then took Anya directly back to the priest's courtyard barracks.
As soon as he arrived at the barracks, he immediately went to find Qi XVII himself.
Qian Seventeen was on duty in front of the priest's courtyard with a squadron of Praetorian Guards, and when he saw Ji Buyun, he immediately ran over and greeted, "Brother Ji." ”
Ji Buyun was not polite, and asked him directly: "Does Brother Qian know about the Demon King's punishment?"
Qi Qiqi said: "Why did Brother Ji think of asking this?"
Ji Buyun told him in detail what happened in the Senate Square, including the black killing intent he saw.
Qian Qiqi smiled and said: "Brother Ji, this matter is not Xingtian's doing, but it seems to be Zhu Yan's usual means. ”
Ji Buyun asked, "Is it the monkey with four tails and a tiger's head?"
Qian Qiqi said: "Yes, has Brother Ji seen him?"
Ji Buyun said with a smile: "Not only have I seen it, I also cut off his four tails." ”
Qian Qiqi also smiled and said: "Brother Ji, then you and his enmity can be bigger, among the fierce beasts, Zhu Yan is the most resentful." ”
Ji Buyun told the high priest in detail about his rescue of the high priest, and said: "Zhu Yan dared to violate the high priest, Brother Qi said that I could not make a move? ”
Qi Qiqi said with a smile: "The matter of Zhu Yan's main sword soldier is purely a rumor, the fact is that the monkey is narrow-minded and scheming, whoever wants to offend him, he must find a way to retaliate, his own ability is limited, he will go around to tell right and wrong, stir up trouble, and the cultivators who have seen Zhu Yan generally have fought with others in a short period of time, and after a long time, there is gradually a saying that Zhu Yan is the main sword soldier." ”
Ji Buyun couldn't help but laugh dumbly, Zhu was disgusted with the matter of the main sword soldier and came about like this.
Qian Qiqi said: "Brother Ji has seen the mountain protection sword formation broken by the Lord of the Seven Islands, it is just the sword intent left by the ancient sword god, it has such a might, the mana of the demon king is much stronger than the sword god, if he makes a move, even if it is a wisp of demonic intent, the Senate is now gone." ”
Ji Buyun said: "Does Brother Qian know how to deal with this Zhu Yan?"
Qian Qiqi said: "It's not difficult to deal with him, as long as you know his next step." Brother Ji cut off his four tails, with his character, this revenge must be avenged, you have a dragon pendant on you, he can't get close to you, he can only attack the people close to you. ”
He pointed in the direction of the priest's courtyard and said, "The high priest is your closest person, and the priest's courtyard is where Haotian is enshrined, and he didn't have the courage to go in, so he provoked the people of the Tibetan Sword Palace to make trouble last time, and now that the younger brother is here, Brother Ji can rest assured." ”
Ji Buyun said: "There is Brother Lao Xuan." ”
Qian Qiqi said: "Brother Ji is the boss of the younger brother, and it is the responsibility of the younger brother to maintain the safety of the priest's house, and it should be." ”
Qian 17 has only been in the Praetorian Guard for two days, and the official language is one set of words, it seems that the original foundation must be good.
Ji Buyun asked, "Does Brother Qian know what kind of spell Zhu Yan used?"
Qian Qiqi said: "I don't know much about the Demon Dao, I only know that the mask is made of black magic stones, which can temporarily retain a trace of the will of the Demon Dao cultivators. ”
Ji Buyun said: "How to crack this spell?"
Qian Qiqi said: "This is easy, not to mention the mask with a trace of his will, even Zhu Yan's real body is also very easy to deal with, Brother Ji remembers the formation that my two junior brothers led the brothers to practice yesterday?"
Ji Buyun nodded and said, "Remember." ”
Qian Qiqi said: "That battle formation was specially designed for mortals to use rune weapons for melee combat before the junior brother came here. ”
Ji Buyunqi said: "Does the Wind God Temple also create rune weapons?"
Qi Qiqi said embarrassedly: "Building is building, but the craftsmanship and power are not comparable to the elves at all, and the younger brother originally brought a few rune weapons from the Wind God Temple, so he didn't take them out to offer ugliness." ”
Ji Buyun asked, "Does Brother Qi use rune weapons?"
Qian Seventeen said: "Yes, yes, but the runic weapon spells created by different cultivators are different, you still have to find Wan'er, as long as there is a spell, you can use this melee battle array to completely restrain Zhu Yan's black magic stone spell." ”
Ji Buyun said: "Okay, I'll be responsible for this, you let your two juniors and disciples hurry up and train the Praetorian Guards, the sooner the better, I think Zhu Yan will go to the Senate to make trouble." ”
Qian Qiqi said: "No problem, Brother Ji, the younger brother has one more thing to ask for." ”
Ji Buyun thought that he wanted to see Nan Wan'er, and said, "Brother Yu, please speak." ”
Qian Seventeen said: "My father ordered my little brother to come to Brother Ji this time, in addition to maintaining Brother Ji's safety, he also wants my little brother to recruit some highly qualified disciples for the Wind God Temple among the highlanders, I don't know if Brother Ji can agree to this matter." ”
Ji Buyun said: "I'm fine, but the highlanders have always only had the priest clan master spells, and the priests' court will not agree to you recruiting disciples for the Wind God Temple on a large scale." ”
Qian Seventeen said: "This little brother understands, I only hope that Brother Ji can say a few kind words in front of the high priest, the little brother will not make a noise, quietly recruit a few disciples, and send them directly to the Wind God Temple to practice after recruitment, which will not affect the priest's court." ”
He also said: "Brother Ji doesn't know, the aura of the world has been sealed for three hundred years, the gods and demons cannot communicate with humans, and now there is a shortage of disciples in all the cultivation places in the East China Sea. Now that the matter of Shenlong and the Lord of the Seven Islands coming out for Brother Ji to freeze the Sword Palace has spread in the East China Sea, and that cultivator dares to come to the Highlanders to start a sect. ”
It turned out that Qian Seventeen was so active in training the Praetorian Guards because he had the intention of recruiting disciples for the Wind God Temple, Ji Buyun knew that this was a good thing, but it was difficult for the priest's court to pass, and he really didn't dare to agree to Qi Seventeen.
He had an idea and asked, "Are there any female disciples in the Wind God Temple?"
Qian Seventeen didn't know why, so he pretended to be smart and said: "Yes, yes, but they are all middle-aged people." ”
Ji Buyun said with a smile: "Brother Qian has thought too much, the Priest's Court only allows women to serve as priests, if there are female disciples in the Wind God Temple, this estimate can be accommodating." ”
Qian Qiqi understood what Ji Buyun meant, was overjoyed, and said: "If this is the best, please Brother Ji, brother will wait for your good news." ”
Ji Buyun came to the priest's courtyard and asked to see the high priest, and she met the priest of Woyue at the door, she saw Ji Buyun and said with a smile: "It just so happens that I am going to look for you." ”
Ji Buyun said: "Did the High Priest summon me?"
Priest Woyue said, "No, my lord let me tell you that she has something very important and important tonight, and she can't see you." ”
Ji Buyun had no choice but to turn around.
After dinner, he sat on the bed and opened the booklet that the ants gave him, the booklet was obviously some years old, the silk album had been yellowed, and the original color could not be seen, there were words on the album, and the pictures and words were still very clear.
He carefully looked through it twice, and it was exactly the same as what he had learned, and he was sure that it was the Dragon Dance, and he was a little discouraged in his heart, and the Dragon Perry on his chest suddenly radiated a faint brilliance.
The faint glow reflected in the booklet, and three scrolls slowly rose from between the pages, one with the dragon on it, one on the dragon and the dragon on the other.
The three scroll phantoms floated in the jade pendant brilliance, and suddenly the light flashed, and they disappeared into his divine mansion together.