Volume 1 Iron Blood Shadow Chapter 7 Hidden Suspicions
Lu Zijing and the two returned to the cabin on the second floor, and Wu Di hurriedly came up to talk. Lu Zijing walked to the main couch with an expressionless face and sat down and said, "Dog, you go out first." Rong Gou'er bowed and turned to go out.
Lu Zijing stared at Wu Di and said, "You just went out to make trouble, right?!" Wu Di looked at Lu Sanzhi and Qianhui, and saw that the two of them bowed their heads, and hurriedly said: "No, no... Ahh ”
Lu Zijing shouted in a low voice: "Apart from you, who else on this boat has the audacity to attack Xiang Jiulang regardless of it?" Wu Di licked his face and said: "Sixth brother, I didn't ignore it! I'm careful! No one saw me beat that Xiang Jiulang, and besides, I used the secret thunder water fingering method to intercept Xiang Jiulang's air pocket, how could they not find me here." As he spoke, he couldn't help but have a hint of pride on his face.
Lu Zijing said angrily: "Are you still reasonable? What I said when I left should be ignored? Do you think people are stupid? I won't suspect you? If you make such nonsense again, I will go back to Xing'an immediately." You, you immediately thought about it until I got off the ship!"
Qianxiong, who was sitting on the side, burst out laughing, gloating: "Xiaodi, you are miserable, you are miserable, this year's master is recruiting apprentices, and you may not be able to pass this level of the sixth senior brother! haha!"
Lu Zijing turned his head and glared at Qianxiong, and said, "You also thought about it for me, immediately!" Qianxiong's eyes widened, and he wondered: "What's wrong with me? I didn't say a word as you commanded, Sixth Senior Brother!" Lu Zijing said: "You didn't speak, but when you mentioned Senior Brother to the brothers, your triumphant look can be seen by everyone." What kind of anger have you raised over the years? You have been with us for so many years? You say, which senior brother is so impetuous when you are so old? You are really angry with me. ”
Qianxiong got up dejectedly and was about to kneel down the wall like Wu Di. But I heard Lu Zijing say: "You two turn around for me, listen to me first." The two of them hurriedly knelt down and turned to face Lu Zijing.
Lu Zijing said: "This time, I came to Tianyi and Fengming to do an important matter entrusted by the senior brother. I wanted to keep a low profile and keep my secrets, but unfortunately I met you and my plans were all in jeopardy. Fang Cai's Xiang brothers kept tempting, I am afraid that they already have some suspicions. If I send you back now, their doubts will be even greater. I can only go with the flow and see the tricks. The three of you remember that in addition to traveling, the purpose of our trip to Fengming was to scatter and cultivate Xiaohui's Qi Realm. We are all side branches of the Lu clan of the Liang State, and the clan is in the northwest border city of the Liang State, Anyan. The three of you are my direct line, named Zixiong, Zidi, and Zihui, and Sanzhi is the side branch brother of our clan. ”
The three of them couldn't help but be moved when they heard that Lu Zijing said that he wanted to do something big, but they had known this sixth brother for many years, and knew that he would not say what he didn't want to say, and he was afraid that he would be scolded if he asked, so they just couldn't stop nodding.
Lu Zijing continued: "At the beginning of the year, when the Fifth Sect made peace with my big shadow, it was proposed to send people to participate in this year's Shadow Academy admission test and enter the hospital for training. The Lu brothers and the three of them should be the two candidates. During this time, you must remember not to mention Shadow Wood, intentionally or unintentionally. Okay, you two continue to face the wall. Xiaohui, come over and tell me about your practice in the past few months. ”
Qianhui watched Qianxiong and the two of them kneel and turn around, their eyes smiled like a crescent moon, bright and infinite, and they knelt in front of Lu Zijing and said. Lu Sanzhi had nothing to do, so he said, "Sixth brother, I'm going to call the dog back?" Lu Zijing said: "Go!"
Before you know it, an hour has passed. At this time, the ship slowed down, and everyone felt that the vitality of heaven and earth was gradually stagnating. Lu Zijing got up and walked to the window and pushed it open, and the towering Tianyi city wall had already appeared in front of him. Qianhui jumped down from the couch and leaned to the window, and said excitedly, "Sixth brother, let's go out and have a look." Lu Zijing smiled and said, "Okay, Sanzhi, dog, follow me to the bow of the boat to have a look." Qianxiong and Wu Di couldn't help but look back, their faces full of anticipation and pleading. Lu Zijing nodded and said, "You two continue." The two of them turned their heads helplessly, their faces almost touching their chests.
Lu Zijing and the four of them walked to the bow of the boat and looked up, only to see more than 300 steps away, the Tianyi city walls nearly 100 feet high on both sides of the narrowed Luoshui River stood majestically, stretching endlessly. The city wall is made of cyan boulders, which is simple and solid. The cyan boulders are regularly interspersed with black stones, which gleaming in the sunlight reflected by the river.
"Thousands of years of Tianyi has witnessed the rise and fall of the Tianliu Dynasty for thousands of years! I have come to this Tianyi City for the third time, and every time I enter the city, I can't help but yearn for how extraordinary the ancestor of Tianliu is, and he can actually clear the universe and unify Zhongzhou with his own strength. I don't know when, Xiang Qifeng, Sun Yiming and others walked up from behind.
Xiang Qifeng said: "Brother Lu, this is the first time you have come to Tianyi, right?!" Lu Zijing bowed slightly towards Qi Feng and said, "It is indeed the first time." I have long heard that Tianyi is majestic and unbeatable in the world. Seeing it today is better than rumors. Xiang Qifeng smiled and said, "Yes, Brother Lu looked at the obsidian henge inside and outside the city wall, and I could feel the powerful coercion and invoke the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi when I waited more than three hundred steps away. With such a big effort, the world is only big enough to be done by Tianliu back then, and now the Zhongzhou League. ”
Xiang Xufeng on the side said: "This obsidian is extremely precious, it is very difficult to mine and after it is separated from the associated resting soil, it will be exhausted and turned into powder in three years." It's not easy to maintain such consumption!"
Xiang Qifeng said with a smile: "The other sides of the obsidian on this wall are wrapped in polyester, only one side of the outer wall is exposed, and the original energy consumption is not large. And now that the war between Zhongzhou and Daying has ended, it is estimated that most of the obsidian facades will be painted with polyphonic soil soon. ”
Xiang Xufeng nodded and said, "I heard that this time the Great Shadow is a minister, and he will pay a tribute of 50,000 catties of obsidian to the Zhongzhou League every year. I don't know how much each sect will be able to share ... ”
At this time, the Tianyi City Guards had lowered the seven Hengjiang iron cables, and the official ship slowly sailed into Tianyi. On both sides of the river, huge stones build embankments, blue bricks pave the road, and the wide road is lined with green willows, lush and green. Beyond the embankment road, the houses in the regular lane are neat and continuous. It was the eve of nightfall, and the crowd on the road was bustling with people under the sunset, and the voices of people were boiling, and it was a prosperous scene. Everyone on the boat was full of emotion about the prosperity of Tianyi, especially Rong Gou'er came to such a prosperous city for the first time in his life, and he stared at everything on the shore with wide eyes.
Less than half an hour after the official ship went against the tide again, a pontoon bridge was close in front of him. The wharf of Tianyi South City is about to arrive. Xiang Qifeng said: "Brother Lu, we have to leave after getting off the boat." My two brothers and I are going to the Dasikou Mansion in Jingshanfang, and Sun Siniang and others are going to settle in the Dasikong Mansion in Shangshanfang. Brother Lu and the others should be staying in the Liang National Pavilion, right?"
Lu Zijing said: "Exactly, my Liang Guoxing Museum is in Huihefang in the west of Nanshi, which is said to be not far from the Dasikou Mansion. I will definitely visit Brother Xiang and Sun Siniang when I have the opportunity. Xiang Qifeng said: "Okay, let's wait for Brother Lu." ”
On the wharf, there were already two people from Zhichun and Guishui to greet Xiang Qifeng, Sun Siniang and others. The official ship docked, and everyone said goodbye. Lu Zijing asked the dock officials for two slaves to pick up their luggage, and led Qianxiong and others out of the dock.
Lu Zijing and the others went west to bypass Nanshi, and soon arrived at Huihefang. The Liang Pavilion is located in the southeast corner of Huihefang, because the Zhongzhou League has authorized the pavilions of various countries to open the doors of the pavilions on the wall, and everyone has not detoured to the gate and directly entered the Liang Pavilion of the People's Republic of China. There was no one else in the hotel, and the head of the hotel diligently arranged for everyone to stay in the house after inspecting the official inspection, and ordered the slaves and maids to bring food.
After dinner, it was already dark. Lu Zijing waved his hand to let the servants and maids who were serving on the side retreat, and said, "Everyone has been working hard for many days, so let's rest early tonight after a little cultivation." This place is no better than the capital city of me, and the night curfew should have begun, and the three of you must not leave the house. Qianxiong, Wu Di, and Qianhui nodded hurriedly. Lu Zijing said again: "Sanzhi, you come with me." Then he got up and left.
Lu Sanzhi followed Lu Zijing into the second main room and sat down on the couch in the room. Lu Zijing looked at Lu Sanzhi with concern: "Sanzhi, you started late, just Ning Yuan not long ago, plus congenital trauma, compared to teenagers of the same age, you have fallen too far behind, don't always put your mind on endorsement in the future, you must step up your cultivation." Especially the Mixed Yuan Jue and Yishan Gong, we need to put more effort into it. Lu Sanzhi nodded.
Lu Zijing said: "Qianxiong, Wu Di and others are my big shadow nobles, and they have special identities. I have watched them grow up as amiable and trustworthy people, so you should be close to them. But don't tell them during this time that your surname is Liu, and you are the brother of the senior brother. Lu Sanzhi nodded and said, "Little brother understands." ”
Lu Zijing pondered for a moment and said: "From tomorrow, we will start looking for clues from "Hug Yijing" and uncle in Tianyi and Fengming. We only have three months, and we must return to the big film by mid-October at the latest, otherwise we will miss the film test. Time is pressing, you can now tell me in detail about the types of books in your home, and repeat what your aunt said about Fengming and Baoyi, and strive to not miss a word. Let's take a closer look at which type of book is most likely to contain the one related to the traces of the "Hug Yi Jing". ”
Liu Sanzhi said: "There are a total of 1,172 volumes in the family, of which more than 800 volumes were taken home by my father from the secret collection of Tianliu Palace City, and the rest are handed down by the ancestors of the family. According to my mother, a few of them were taken in the secret passage by my grandmother when she escaped from Miyagi, but after many years, A-Niang didn't know which ones they were. These books are roughly divided into six categories, one is the poetry and song of the Tianliu Emperor of the past dynasties, including the poetry collection of Emperor Wu's "Five Elements Tianliu" and the handwritten book "Si Fengtai" of the Emperor of the People, with a total of 149 books; one is the military scriptures, including the "Grip Qi Sutra" and "Tiger Fu Sutra", a total of 112 books; the first is the number of calendar arithmetic, a total of 157 books; the first is the hundred herbs of medical skills, there are a total of 176 books such as the "Jade Dragon Sutra" and "The Analysis of the Pulse Sutra"; the other category is the Kanyu Atlas, which has the most of this kind, including the geography of all parts of Zhongzhou, Feng Shui, etc., there are also Daying and Dayong, but there are relatively few, there are more than ten books about Fengming Domain, and there are a total of 333 such books, most of which were collected by the ancestors of the past dynasties. The last category is the miscellaneous books used in the Tianliu Palace, including "The Book of Food", "The Thousand Flavors of the Imperial Meal", "The Book of Flowers of the Queen of Heaven", etc., with a total of 196 books. There are still 49 books that are relatively messy, including "The Book of Cards", "The Book of Pills", etc., and most of them talk about fun. ”
Lu Zijing listened carefully, and said to himself with his eyebrows: "Three hundred years ago, Tianliu unified Zhongzhou for a thousand years, opened the wind of cultivation, martial arts prevailed, and the last emperor of Tianliu was even rumored to love martial arts, so did he really not leave some cultivation exercises for future generations?" Liu Sanzhi replied: "Last time we discussed, it was rumored in the world that after the completion of the Holy Crown Peak Sifengtai, the ancestor Tianliu Emperor cultivated in Sifengtai, and moved most of the books in the Imperial City Palace, especially the cultivation books, to Sifengtai. After the fall of the Human Emperor, it is said that those books were discovered and divided by the five sects in the secret passage of the Heavenly Willow Palace City to the Victory Crown Peak Sifengtai. ”
Lu Zijing said: "I also talked about this matter with Master and Senior Brother when we were chatting in the past, but we couldn't figure it out. After all, according to historical records, Sifengtai had just been completed at the time of the Five Sects Uprising, and the Emperor of the People must have sat in the Imperial City and the Palace City at that time, focusing on quelling the rebellion, so how could he have the energy to cultivate alone in Sifengtai? How could he move most of the books to Sifengtai? Moreover, if according to this rumor, the Six Classics such as the "Hug Yi Sutra" would inevitably be on the Sifeng Terrace, unless the Emperor of the People fell and destroyed them. I heard that at that time, the emperor of the people killed 37 masters of five sects in a row, and jumped off the crown peak after being seriously injured. And when the Five Sects found the body of the Human Emperor at the foot of the peak, they could not find any remnants of the Six Classics. This is why the five mountains of Fengming and the Tianliu Imperial City have been closed for a hundred years, and the five sects have explored Fengming to find the six classics such as "Hug Yijing". Therefore, at that time, the master concluded that it might be a cover for the emperor to move all the books in the palace to Sifengtai or hide them in the secret passage. And the Six Classics should be hidden by the emperor in other secret places, and the scriptures and books hidden there must also be the essence. The location of this scripture can only be found in the messages left by my uncle and aunt. ”
Liu Sanzhi said: "My mother said that several generations of ancestors in my family also thought the same way. His mother had mentioned that his eldest brother was young when he left home, and that he had never been interested in searching for the Six Sutras when he returned home every year, so his father and mother did not say this to him. My mother told me only when my father left home and didn't return. ”
Lu Zijing said: "Uncle and aunt didn't leave you any books on cultivation exercises or martial arts?" Liu Sanzhi said: "A-Niang once told me that none of the cultivation exercises at home are in volumes, but they are only passed down orally. I was young at the time, and my grandfather and aunt didn't have time to pass it on to me... ”
Lu Zijing said: "Okay, you will first tell you what your aunt told you about the orphans of the emperor, and then talk about the scene before and after your uncle left home." ”