Chapter Twenty-Five: Ten Years of Secrets, Hundred Bloods, Evil Scrolls
Evening.
After leaving Nanqing Cave, Su Hao returned to the dormitory. The black hole is quiet here. Did the spring night come so quickly?
Zhou Ziqi lay down on the top bunk and took a nap, as if he didn't notice his return, and the conversation between them has been a little less recently.
Ha, Zhou Ziqi is a scholar, for studious people, it's almost time to start the final sprint at this time, no wonder I've been tired enough lately. Although he Su Hao was admitted to this good university, his grades were only mediocre, barely considered to be a mess, and he was waiting to die, plus the recent events...... Whew, I guess I don't have the mood for that or that. No, if you want to eat this meal of living in human society, you should still get back on track and do something that is in line with your student identity.
"Look at the time. Su Hao muttered to himself.
It's 20 o'clock, and it's almost time to make an appointment with Zhu Yusheng.
When leaving Nanqingdong, Zhu Yusheng invited him to dinner, saying that he would tell him something by the way. Su Hao was directly set in the XX stall.
If the master is a woman, it is probably a revolving restaurant, candlelight dinner or something, but between men, it is really still in such a lively place.
At night, the lights are dazzling and the sky is full of stars. Good weather.
"Almost. Su Hao touched his belly covered with food, and wiped the corners of his mouth stained with cumin and wine with a tissue. The pots and pans were scattered in front of the big table, and the rich content had been completely destroyed by the two of them.
"Hmm, don't you want to drink some more?" Zhu Yusheng raised the wine bottle.
"Don't, my stomach is about to burst with 'water', and if I drink Xiao Su Hao again, I will have to work again. β
"Cut. Zhu Yusheng was bored by himself.
"I see, can we talk about the topic?" Su Hao knocked on the table while holding his forehead, he really didn't expect that the master and his old man were still a hidden drunkard, a person who practiced martial arts, he really didn't see it.
"Don't worry, I should forget if I am urged again. β
"Then forget it, waiter, another case of beer! β
"Okay, good, ten years of secret, right? Zhu Yusheng no longer sold Guan Zi, "Do you know how many people there are in the blood demon crowd?"
"I've already found out, from two to seven, there's a boss missing, right, where has the boss gone?
"Sadly, he is no longer alive. Zhu Yusheng shook his head.
"Ah, I'm sorry. Then why is there no one to take the position of the boss? It stands to reason that Jiu Shifeng should be in charge, whether it is seniority or the ability to plan for his peers, he is the best choice. And now, it is Fu Zhenmo who is the acting boss. β
"Well, what you said is reasonable, there were some people who disagreed with Fu Zhenmo when he first came to power, but his methods are indeed superb, and his cultivation is strong, even the second brother is convinced that he is the acting boss. Waiter, let's have a hangover tea!"
After Zhu Yusheng took a cup of tea from the handy waiter and took a sip, Su Hao, who was waiting for the end, asked again: "Then why don't you just let him be the boss, this should be, it doesn't matter, right?"
Zhu Yusheng's expression was a little confused, as if his consciousness had traveled back to the past: "Here are some reasons that you don't know." I'll tell you about it from the beginning. β
"It's fine. β
Zhu Yusheng put down the wine and began to tell the story of the past.
Fifty years ago, there was a genius but unambitious demon exterminator named Xue Youshen. His cultivation talent is at the bottom level, but he is making great progress in the side door, especially in refining medicine and translating ancient texts.
At that time, it coincided with the change of the Demon Alliance, and the Zhichu clan, the second ranked family of the Demon League who advocated the expulsion of all the aliens on the mainland, surpassed the Shangguan clan of the Demon Immortal Family, which had always been ranked first, for the first time in the Wanhui referendum, and advocated accepting permission, sending troops to the northwest, expelling the northwest demons and the Tianshan demon clan, and the war lasted for three years, and the entire northwest was starving corpses and bones, and flesh and blood were dripping. The war also affected the east. At that time, Xue Youshen had doubts about the consistent justice of the demon eradication world, his thinking was different from ordinary people, and he felt that whether it was a human or a demon, he was born in the Zhongzhou Continent, and he was qualified to survive. But the demon eats people, the people kill the demons, the revenge goes back and forth, and the war launched by the fierce demon Rahu every 500 years to overthrow the luck of the human race is mixed in, and it is not clear.
In Zhongzhou, where there is a feud between demons, Xue Youshen is an alien of the human race.
He followed the team to the first staircase of the continent and participated in the hunt for a Jindan demon. After that battle, the big demon disappeared, but Xue Youshen had compassion and rebellion. He stole the Black Scales, the trophies of the squad leader's possession, and fled. On the way, he also went back to the headquarters and used his long-standing arrangement to take the original version of the Blood Essence Technique.
Then he began his long journey to find his companions. Vulture Demon, Bat Demon, Spider Demon, Centipede Spirit, Scorpion Spirit. For decades, sometimes it was tiring, and sometimes there was a family to settle in.
He saw us as friends, and we became brothers with him. He taught us the art of blood essence, refining the human transformation pill, and shaping human forms for a few of us in advance. I've been with him for more than 20 years, and he's like a real brother to me.
Unfortunately, one day ten years ago, the eldest and second and third came back from their long-established village, and everyone was wounded, saying that they had been attacked by demon slayers. In order to protect the two brothers from their near-death injuries, the boss had to use forbidden techniques to recover from their injuries. But at that time, he had no skills, and forcibly used it to make him go mad, and his six relatives didn't recognize it, and he went crazy to refine and kill the lives of the five of us as a supplement, and the critical moment was that Fu Zhenmo, who had been ignoring the dissuasion of his companions and intoxicated with human blood to the extreme, stepped forward and killed the boss and saved us...... All of them.
"Original...... That's the case, he killed Xue Youshen, so no matter how much talent he has, how much credit he has, he can't be the boss, right?" Su Hao sank into the ocean of thoughts, constantly absorbing the information in it.
"Indeed, the death of the boss is like a thorn in the heart of each of us. Zhu Yusheng's mood was a little low, and Xu was nostalgic for the sadness.
"What does the 'original version of the Blood Essence Technique' mean, is it different from what we are cultivating?" Su Hao caught a little bit and immediately asked.
"There is indeed a difference, the original version of the Blood Essence Technique is an ancient script, not the Chinese characters used by you and me. And the translated name is 'Hundred Blood Rolls'. It is said that the "Hundred Blood Scroll" is a version that circulated from within the Demon Sect thousands of years ago after it was taken away by the Exterminating God Sect and being taken away by the Righteous Sect, and it is a castrated version of the Demon Sect classics. It does not record the exercises, but all the precious knowledge related to blood magic. The boss Xue Youshen has been yearning for him for a long time, and once he gets it, he sinks into it and can't extricate himself. β
"However, this "Hundred Blood Scroll" does have its own uniqueness, but because it is an ancient text and the regional customs of the Demon Sect, it is difficult to translate, and when he drove the crane, he only translated more than 20 spells, Dan, array, and body. β
Su Hao had a flash of inspiration: "So the technique of practicing the body is recorded in the Hundred Blood Scroll?"
"That's right, you're good at drawing inferences?" Zhu Yusheng smiled.
"What about the formation outside the Nanqing Cave, too? Hey, that doesn't seem to be a blood technique. β
"Ah, that was done by Fu Zhenmo, and it was arranged after Xue Youshen's death, and he didn't reveal the specific third brother to me. β
"That's really strange, could Fu Zhenmo be more knowledgeable than Xue Youshen?"
Su Hao said to himself, and Zhu Yusheng laughed dryly, after all, he was very puzzled about this.
"By the way, the current exercise method is adapted from a secret method under the Hundred Blood Scroll, that is, the Blood Essence Technique. β
When Su Hao heard this, he looked a little absent-minded, and suddenly his eyes rolled twice, and he said tentatively: "Then the "Hundred Blood Scroll" is the original version of the ancient text, can you let me see it?"
"It's no problem to borrow you, because I want to observe more, I don't want to be limited to a short translation of the text, so I took the whole set from the third child. But as it turned out, I was naΓ―ve. β
Zhu Yusheng took out a small jade slip three fingers wide from his pocket and handed it to Su Hao.
"So small?" This is much smaller than the "Fake Spirituality" jade.
"Because it's a very important thing, it's a special jade slip. I've opened a keyhole now, and you can use your Divine Sense to authenticate and get permissions. If others get it and try to get the information inside, Jade Jane will only destroy itself. β
Su Hao smiled: "The security measures are pretty good, so ...... I'll pay you back when I look at it. β
"You don't need to, you can see it whenever you like, I can't use it, remember not to lose it, although there are still many backups, but it's always bad. β
It seems that the ten years of secrets have been over, and the party has come to an end.
Zhu Yusheng said with some hesitation: "Apprentice, there is actually something else I want to tell you?"
"Just say it. Su Hao was very happy, patted his chest and said happily.
"Well, although you have a lot of grievances with the third brother, what he used to do to you is indeed malicious. But those are more or less in the past. He seemed strict to us younger brothers, but in fact he was generous and tolerant, and he was also a precious brother to us. Without him, I would not have been so comfortable with martial arts, because he helped us open up the dark world, otherwise, I am afraid that I would be hiding in the dark now, calculating the bad appearance of this calculation and that with a dark face......"
"So I thought, since you have become a part of us, it is better to let your heart live with peace of mind, maybe one day, you can also improve your impression of him, there are many emotional bonds in the world, and it was not good at first, you and me, aren't they?"
Su Hao was stunned for a long time, and he sighed: "Ah, that's right. β
Looking up at the sky, my mood was inexplicably complicated.
Is there really anyone in this world who would really have such a big contrast in their attitudes towards another person? As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, there seems to be some truth, but I, Su Hao, am just a half-human and half-demon with a handle still in the hands of people, and in the world of monsters, if I am not careful, I will already become a piece of loess. Fu Zhenmo designed me five times, and just now he yin me again, how can I feel at ease?
Suddenly, a thin drop of water floated above his head, interrupting his thoughts.
"It's going to rain, do you have an umbrella?" asked Su Hao with his head tilted.
"Bring it, what about you?" Zhu Yusheng got up and patted his buttocks.
"Hmm. Uh-" Su Hao stretched and got up too.
The rain came down sparsely, Zhu Yusheng settled the account, and both of them opened their umbrellas. When you get to the door, you have to separate in different directions.
"So, see you next time?"
"Good. β
Zhu Yusheng stepped on the sound of the rain and left, but Su Hao was still looking at the other party's back. Maybe it was affected by the scenery, but he always felt a little sad. Yes, today's fortune is really bad, and after he came out of the state of forgetting his troubles, he realized that it was a little unnatural.
He screamed. The rain went from sparse to pouring in an instant, and the raindrops were as loud as thunder, but Zhu Yusheng still heard his call and turned his head to look at him.
"What's the matter?"
"I," Su Hao wanted to speak and stopped, and when the doubts on Zhu Yusheng's face had not completely spread, he smiled bitterly and waved his hand lightly, "It's okay, today, thank you, master." β
"Hey, what's this, it's just a heart-to-heart talk between master and apprentice, let's go. Zhu Yusheng was really free and easy, he said goodbye and left cleanly.
In the end, in front of the store that was full of people, only a few lingering yellow lights and Su Hao's figure remained.
"Actually, I ......" Su Hao took out the jade slip that recorded the "Hundred Blood Scroll" from his arms, his divine sense penetrated, and after a few cursory glances, his heart began to ripple with turbulent waves, and his whole heart beat hot.
"Bang bang bang-"
When he defeated Fu Zhenmo for the first time and entered the Nanqing Cave, Fu Zhenmo mentioned the ancient characters once when he gave him the "Spiritual Technique", and just now Zhu Yusheng told the secret again.
Now that the facts are in front of him, he can indeed read every character. If you want to say why, perhaps, you have to ask the stone stick with a long history and magical powers. The stone stick enters the body, turns into a demon, and seizes the creation of heaven and earth. Although he has always had no clue about the origin of his demon species, he has never received any inheritance of exercises. But so far, it seems that the stone stick has taught him an ancient language without a teacher.
An ancient language produced in the territory of the Demon Cult.
Holding a small jade slip tightly, what was recorded on it was the ancient art knowledge that Xue Youshen had exhausted his life but had not been able to understand, and now, all of it had fallen into his hands. But as far as the attack on the enemy is concerned, all of them are powerful evil arts based on blood, and they can't be carried out without a few lives.
"Master, I really want to tell you the news now, but you follow the path of physical cultivation, and I am afraid that you will scoff at these. But you don't want it, Fu Zhenmo wants it. And if he gets it, I'll never turn over. On the contrary......"
The sweat of the palms of his hands was mixed with the cold jade feeling, and Su Hao fought in his heart, and finally made a choice.