Chapter 188
This kind of huge and vicious demon beast was the first time that many Lingxiao disciples had seen it, and they all stepped forward to watch it with horror and envy on their faces, feeling that it was much more majestic than the Wind and Fire Qilin that they saw Gu Yan and them driving back that day.
Seeing that Zhang Zhao had just come up, he was surrounded by a group of disciples and asked questions, Chang Qingzi, who was standing on the platform between the steps in the distance, looked at Mo Junfeng beside him with a smile: "Junfeng, what do you think about these people?"
Mo Junfeng didn't rush to answer, and pondered for a moment before slowly speaking: "Senior Brother Zhang Zhao is very important to Lingxiao, and there is nothing wrong with what their father and son have done. It's just that the current situation inevitably makes everyone feel like a dove occupying a magpie's nest. ”
"Except for the elders in the sect, many of the relatives of the miscellaneous disciples' families have not been sent to the mountain, so even if Senior Brother Zhang Zhao has done very well in the past, I am worried that some people will think that their father and son ignore the door rules. ”
Chang Qingzi nodded in approval: "If I let you deal with the rest of the matter now, what will you do?" Mo Junfeng waved his hand at Zhang Zhao, who was riding a scorpion dragon beast in the square, and was looking over: "Gather all the disciples and officially tell them that if you are worried that your relatives at home will be affected by the beast tide, you can immediately take them to Lingxiao to live." ”
"Then send people to a few surrounding villages and towns, and say that when the beast tide comes, you can go to Lingxiao for a while. This not only shows the benevolence of my Lingxiaomen, exonerates Zhang Zhao's brother and son for acting rashly, but also maintains the prestige of the master. ”
Changqingzi laughed with relief after hearing this: "Hahaha...... Well, it is up to you to gather the people together and take counsel about pacifying the people. Mo Junfeng bowed and saluted: "The disciple obeys." ”
"Tell me, what is it that Lingxiao has been unable to rely on all these years?" Mo Junfeng replied without hesitation: "The head of the family is decent, everyone is united, and Gu Shibo is the only one who is profound. ”
"It's good that you understand, sitting in this position, you have to be decisive, you have to weigh everything. Now for us Lingxiao, Zhang Zhao is as important as you Gu Shibo. In public and private, in sentiment and reason, in the future, we must not be arrogant. ”
This layer of Yangxian Hall has the widest area, and with the help of the people of the town, Commander Guo and more than 1,000 people were quickly settled. They all knew that this was a place of cultivation, and repeatedly told the young people of all families not to run around according to the rules.
Until everything settled, Zhang Zhao officially returned to the Yangxian Hall to meet the elders, he briefly recounted what had happened in the past few months and bowed to leave, planning to go back to his hut to have a good rest.
"Zhang Zhao, you wait first. He stepped out of the hall door, and there was a shout behind him, and Sheng Jin, who had a thick voice, chased him out without even taking a cane, with a little twist on his face: "That...... How does that Zhao Jinfang look now?"
Zhang Zhao recalled and replied truthfully: "It seems to be not bad, and his appearance does not look so old." Listening to the meaning of the words of those people in the He family, she has never been married. Seeing Sheng Jin's strange expression, he asked curiously, "Uncle Sheng, do you know her?"
Silently shaking his head, Sheng Jin turned and jumped into the hall. Seeing him leave, Zhang Zhao didn't care and went straight back to his small courtyard, and the two monkeys heard his call and came out to greet him, and they were immediately frightened by the scorpion dragon beast standing still outside the courtyard and shrank their heads back.
After making out with them for a while, Zhang Zhao let out a long breath and lay down on the bed. It was as if the tiredness of these days had suddenly surged over my body, and I was extremely relaxed and fell asleep.
The golden light of Zhihai dispersed, and the scenes that Zhang Zhao had experienced these days continued to appear in his dreams, making him feel as if he had slept for several months without waking up.
The spiritual power of the whole body flows through every meridian, and he is comfortable and relaxed, and he doesn't want to open his eyes at all, but Zhang Zhao, who is in a dream, always feels as if he still has a major matter that he hasn't figured out, but he can't remember what it is for a while.
The image in his mind quickly regressed, first from Lingxiao to Xuanjin City, and then from the Zhou family's mansion to the Yue's courtyard, and one by one the enemies who fell under his sword stood up and retreated again, until the moment when the picture stopped when he was bound by more than ten iron chains.
Zhang Zhao, who was sleeping, frowned slightly, as if his soul body was separated, he gathered all the golden light in the sea of consciousness, thinking about the strange scene that he had been thinking about until now.
At that time, when he was thinking about his death, the most incredible thing was, of course, the seven Guan family elders who suddenly loosened the chains behind him and were killed by Tai Gui and others. Even in his memories, Zhang Zhao could clearly see that the moment they let go, they still maintained a smug smile on their faces.
There had been quite a few bloody battles of cultivators who had witnessed and personally participated, and Zhang Zhao knew that it was not difficult for a Transformation Realm cultivator to let go of seven Yin and Yang Dacheng Realm cultivators at the same time, but it was impossible to do so without warning and without leaving any traces.
Jian Zun has passed away, Dao Tianya is still lacking in the Nine Shadows clone, and it is even more impossible for Zhuo Xuhan to appear in Xuanjin City, the three elders of the Shui family have returned to Xuanshui Palace, and Hong Zhenyao, who is thousands of miles away, has no reason to secretly help him kill someone and not show up.
After counting the metamorphosis cultivators who were most likely to help, Zhang Zhao couldn't figure out a clue. Then he was surprised to find that when Tai Gui and the others were slashing with knives, those Guan family elders were still smiling, as if it was not their own bodies that were bleeding under the knife and stick.
From being entangled in chains to getting out of trouble, Zhang Zhao repeatedly searched for every detail that might have been missed in his mind, but he was disappointed again and again. When he finally got rid of that concentration, he realized that the sky outside was already shining brightly.
"Oops, I almost forgot. Zhang Zhao exclaimed in surprise, turned over and got up, and rushed down the mountain road with a smoke. He opened his arms to breathe in the familiar wet smell of the drizzle in the early morning drizzle, and hurried into the back kitchen of Lingxiao.
"Fat master, I want some raw meat......" Zhang Zhao greeted everyone with a smile, but his eyes swept but he was a little surprised: "Dad, why are you here?"
The old butcher with a sharp knife skillfully peeled the cowhide without even raising his head: "Why can't Lao Tzu come? Isn't this what we do on weekdays? There are many neighbors in the town, and you brought another gang yesterday, so you can't even let the meat be cut and sent away." ”
The fat master approached and patted Zhang Zhao on the shoulder: "You don't have to worry, the senior brother in charge has instructed that those people on the mountain should eat the same as ours, and let Lao Sha send more livestock every day, which is enough." ”
Zhang Zhao was a little embarrassed: "Fat master, in addition to those extra fresh meat, I want to feed some to that big guy." ”
"That thing can still eat meat, isn't it dead?" He heard what the fat master was interested, after Zhang Zhao came back from riding the scorpion dragon beast yesterday, the news had already spread all over Lingxiao: "This is a new thing, even if we eat less, we have to get some for you." ”
After lifting two large pieces of beef, Zhang Zhao returned to the mountain with great interest, but he was also apprehensive in anticipation, and he really didn't know how to feed this scorpion dragon beast that had been dead for several years.
But as soon as he put the bloody beef on the ground, Zhang Zhaozhi felt an urgent hunger and thirst in the sea. He only had time to make a food reaction, and the scorpion dragon beast had already opened its mouth and swallowed a piece of raw meat in front of him, which was full of 100 catties.
Although the loud chewing sound of "squeaky ......" was really harsh, Zhang Zhao was pleasantly surprised to find that there was no bloody taste back from his imagination, which made him really relieved.
Of course, slaughtering and skinning and devouring flesh alive cannot be compared, Zhang Zhao has always been worried that feeding the scorpion dragon beast will bring him the disgusting feeling of drinking blood, and after it eats the second piece of beef, it is completely relieved.
It was too troublesome to move the meat piece by piece, so Zhang Zhao simply rode on the scorpion dragon beast and ran all the way to the outside of the back kitchen. This made a group of disciples, including the fat master, excited, and a group of people who followed the old butcher down to carry the meat were also dumbfounded.
The beef piled up in front of the scorpion dragon beast was rapidly decreasing, and even the fat master didn't care if the diet on the mountain would be affected by this, and smiled as the disciples moved out the pieces of meat like water, because they all wanted to see how much this dead big guy could eat.
The huge body of the scorpion dragon beast really lived up to its expectations, and after eating more than 2,000 catties of meat, Zhang Zhao realized that its belly was a little full. When I saw it stretch out its long tongue and lick the flesh and blood from the corners of its mouth, something suddenly touched in its mind.
Hurriedly saying goodbye to the fat master and the others, Zhang Zhao rode back to the mountain on the scorpion dragon beast, he rushed into his house and grabbed the broken immortal on the bed to take a closer look, and sure enough, he found that the immortal crystal that he put in the bottom hole in the Heavenly Soldier City had disappeared without a trace.
Recalling the scene in the courtyard of the Yue family again, Zhang Zhao was sure that before those Guan family elders fell, the broken immortals in his hands had indeed inadvertently waved a few times in that direction.
"Even if this is really a crystal rune cannon, it won't be so powerful?" In the Yang Xian Hall, Zhang Zhao told the elders the doubts in his heart, hoping to get a reasonable explanation from them.
"Didn't you say that there would be a white light when the crystal rune cannon was released? it was only stronger than the full force of a Yin Yang Dacheng Realm cultivator? ”
After Wu Zongting finished speaking, there was silence in the Yang Xian Hall, and all the elders also fell into deep thought. After a long time, Sheng Jin, whose face was a little haggard, asked in a hoarse voice, "Do you see what the faces of those seven people looked like when they died?"
"Sheng Datou, have you not slept well all night and your brain is confused?How can you ask such an irrelevant thing?" Sheng Jin snorted lightly when he heard Leng Pingyuan's words: "What do you know about this piece of wood?Also, how do you know that I didn't sleep well last night?"
"I didn't snore all night, so I slept well......" Sheng Jin waved his hand to interrupt Leng Pingyuan's ridicule and continued to look at Zhang Zhao: "Don't pay attention to him, think about what the expressions of those people are." ”
"Sheng Datou, how do you know this?" After Zhang Zhao finished telling the strange expressions of the seven people who had not changed until death, the elders in the hall looked at Sheng Jin with surprise, just in time to hear him say something even more shocking: "I think, now I know what you are." ”
Sheng Jin seemed to have something difficult to decide, and looked at everyone's inquiring eyes, and the hesitation on his face gradually turned into firmness: "In addition to the blade armor and Dao rune mechanism, there is also a strange thing that has been passed down from the mouth of the senior craftsman......"
The elders immediately burst into laughter: "Sheng Datou, you are talking nonsense again. Sheng Jin shook his head and said frankly: "Senior brothers, I'm really not bragging this time, that kind of thing is called a soul soldier." ”
Everyone stopped and listened to Sheng Jin's voice echoing in the hall: "The sword seeks profit, the talisman seeks the mystery, and the immortal weapon seeks the emperor, but no one knows the reason for the soul soldier, and the rumors do not explain its mystery, only that it can kill people and destroy the soul invisibly." ”
Facing everyone's incredulous gazes, Sheng Jin's next words carried a hint of bitterness: "Decades ago in the Xuanjin Domain, my Sheng family was also a little famous among the many casters in Cunjin City. ”
"Later, my father and brother poured all their wealth to forge a long knife, and I originally planned to make a splash in the Heavenly Soldier Tasting, but in the previous confrontation, I was broken under the sword of the Thousand Blade Sect, and since then I have been in a state of collapse and the family has been defeated, and I have left my hometown in frustration. ”
Speaking of this, he paused: "It happened that Lingxiao recruited the caster master, I thought about coming up to live in a daze and eat, how do I know that the good days have not been long, and when I went down the mountain, I encountered a bandit who had a leg cut off, and it was really miserable to think about." ”
Liu Feng sighed: "When everyone is sad, Senior Brother Sheng, you don't have to worry too much about the past. At this time, Zhang Zhao's long exhalation sound came from the side, and Liu Feng frowned and looked: "Zhang Zhao, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Zhao smiled with relief: "Uncle Sheng suddenly became a famous caster in the Xuanjin Domain, as soon as you opened your mouth just now, the disciple thought that the master also had a strong family background. He sighed helplessly: "If you all suddenly have a prominent background, I'm afraid I won't be able to accept it for a while." ”
This joke diluted Sheng Jin's sadness: "The stinky boy has learned my way." Forget it, the past is gone. He pointed to Zhang Zhao's broken immortal: "If I'm not mistaken, your stick is a soul soldier, and the appearance of those people dying is somewhat consistent with the rumors." ”
"Uncle Yu's residence must still be there, you can follow me there to have a look, maybe you can find the origin of this thing. The elders of the Yangxian Hall stood up one after another: "I haven't gone down for a long time, let's go and take a look." ”
The rows of refining rooms in Lingxiao looked similar from the outside, and Zhang Zhao could certainly remember the room where he saw Elder Yu being carried out when he first entered Lingxiao. The disciples of the Divine Weapon Pavilion thought that these elders had come to commemorate their predecessors on purpose, and immediately stepped forward to help open the door.
This room had been Elder Yu's own room for decades, and had been vacant since his death a few years ago. The elders and Zhang Zhao gave a salute outside the door, and then took a closer look at the bright light from outside.
The house was covered with cobwebs and dust, and the east and west piles were full of tattered debris, and countless text and graphics could be faintly seen on the walls. Sheng Jin casually pulled over a dusty chair, and sat down without wiping it: "I'll take a look at this first, don't disturb me." ”
(End of chapter)