Chapter 560: Capture the Sheep Demon
Hu Xianxian stood outside the hut where the knife maker rested, watched Li Gonggong nod to the knife maker, and then untied his belt and took out the silver ticket from the inner lining and handed it to the knife maker.
The knife maker looked at the numbers on the silver ticket with some dissatisfaction, and wanted to let Gonggong Li add more money, Hu Xianxian said impatiently: "Don't rub it off, take him to get the baby!" If you dare to delay the matter, you will be punished for taking bribes. β
They followed the knife maker to a remote courtyard, and Li Gonggong suddenly grabbed the knife maker's arm with his backhand and knocked him to the ground, laughing wildly.
"Dead eunuch! You said you'd let me go when you lure her here......" The knife maker scolded as he was twisted backwards and broke out in a cold sweat.
As soon as the swordsmith started scolding, Hu Xianxian suddenly understood that this Gonggong Li had set a trap to harm himself, and the jade sword of Huixin flew over and pressed against his throat: "Say it quickly!" What exactly do you want to do? Are there any spies in the gunpowder bureau? β
"Yes, of course there are spies! But I won't say that! I hate, I hate everyone, you all bury me! "If Gonggong Li is crazy, he doesn't care if the tip of the sword cuts through his flesh, he really wants to die.
"You monster who is neither male nor female, if you want to die, you will die, don't fucking pull us!" The knifesmith struggled desperately to break free from his grasp.
Gonggong Li used all his strength to clasp him tightly, so tired that he was panting, and blood was flowing on his neck, but he still refused to let go.
Hu Xianxian repeatedly asked him about the bureau, but he turned a deaf ear, and only complained to himself: "A monster who is not a man or a woman? Who turned us into this weird look of neither men nor women? It's the Emperor! It's those Ninety-Five Supremes from generation to generation!
Hate! I hate it to death! Hate! Damn, which dog of which dynasty and generation came up with the idea of using a 'eunuch' as a chamberlain?
Alas...... My ruthless father, no matter how poor the family is, you shouldn't send me to the palace to be stabbed......
I hate you two the most! Xiaodao Liu, it was you who hit me ruthlessly and made me like this; Hu Xianxian, it was you who shattered my last hopes, and there was no bargaining chip for a comeback!
Hate...... Ha, you die with me! It's a pleasure! Fry ...... fast"
Gonggong Li pushed the knife maker hard and let him go. Thinking that he was free, he staggered to the door, and when he pulled the door, he saw that the door of the small courtyard was locked, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Tell me, who is the spy in the Gunpowder Bureau?" Hu Xianxian forced Gonggong Li to ask, but he didn't answer, and his expression calmed down.
"Boom Boom ......"
The louder and louder sound outside the courtyard gate was that the lead was burning, and Hu Xianxian kicked Gonggong Li angrily, "You really want to die, it's impossible to pull me to pad your back!" β
She dragged his arm and flew up, but when she rushed to a height of three feet, she was suddenly rebounded to the ground, and she rushed again.
"Haha...... Knowing that you are strong, this is a trap set for you, there is a formation barrier, see where you are fleeing?! The person who lit the explosives outside is the one hiding in the gunpowder office, and I use myself as bait to drag you all together! Grandpa Li was fearless in the face of impending death, and even a little excited.
"I'm not that easy to get blown up!" Hu Xianxian threw Gonggong Li to the side of the knife maker, and she sat cross-legged on the ground to control all the aura to protect herself. She was confident that she could resist the explosion, and when she went to Earth to break into the underground shrine, she was not injured by such powerful explosives, what is this kind of gunpowder?
Gonggong Li, who laughed madly after the treacherous plan succeeded, scuffled with the knifesmith who was so frightened that he was insane. The knife maker lost his strength when he hit someone, and it didn't hurt to beat someone, and Gonggong Li didn't fight back, but just kept crawling in the direction where Hu Xianxian was sitting.
After the sound of "...... of the gunpowder," Gonggong Li knew that the gunpowder fuse had burned to the end, so he threw something at Hu Xianxian's body, and the explosion sound immediately sounded.
The dazzling sky-piercing fire flashed, and when the deafening loud noise came out, a burning sensation came from Hu Xianxian's feet! She was in a trance of pain, how could this be? Her protective aura should be able to withstand the explosion? Is it because Gonggong Li threw something at him just a moment ago? Before she could even start thinking, she was already fainting in pain......
There is an open teaching field in the western suburbs of the capital, and on the twenty-first day of the winter month, Cheng Haofeng watched with satisfaction the training of the recruits of the Kiln Bureau under the warm winter sun, and Zheng Tianba and Ye Guanying accompanied him.
"That is Ling Lang Zheng retreating from Liao? It's really a tiger father without a dog. "The recruits were trained in a detachment, and each team was led by a coach. Cheng Haofeng pointed to an eighteen-nine-year-old boy who was waving a spear and shouting, and said to Zheng Tianba.
"It's him! Ha, naming him 'Retreat Liao' is to expect him to repel all the foreign empires of Fanbang, abide by the law and conquer the vast territory, and be a general, not a bandit. Now it seems that I really live up to high expectations, my martial arts are about to catch up with me, and the art of war is much stronger than me. Zheng Tianba is bold by nature and familiar with Cheng Haofeng, and he is not modest when he praises his son, but he is quite proud.
These 500 recruits are considered to be their private placement, although they have a van army, but all the fees are raised by the three of them, and they have not used a penny from the treasury or diverted money from the Kiln Bureau. This is the foundation of their future foothold, and they must be trained to become elite divisions.
The three of them talked about the military, and Cheng Haofeng asked Ye Guanying to contact Zhuo Que Village and have a good relationship with General Huo Da who was guarding the border city. This General Huo Da is Huo Tu's brother, and his prestige in the border city is very high. No matter how fierce the battle with King Chengjun would turn into in the end, it could not disturb the defenders of the border city, which was the gateway of the French Dynasty to the states of the Western Regions, and if something went wrong there, the internal strife in the country would turn into internal and external difficulties.
Ye Guanying promised to go to the border city to see General Huo and Zhuo Que Village in person on the pretext of inspecting the affairs of Ma Di Pu in various places at the end of the year, and asked Zhuo Que Village to secretly urge the soldiers to do a good job in the defense of the border city.
During the discussion, Cheng Haofeng suddenly felt that his palms were hot, and he turned his palm to see that it was a blue spirit rune that had arrived, and the handwriting on the talisman was: Hu Yuanjun and the blood dao chief were both seriously injured I have sent Master Ye's nephew to greet Qiao Chushi at the west gate
"How could they be seriously injured?"
"What's going on?"
The handwriting of the spirit rune is reflected by the spiritual light that is revealed, it is very consuming to do so, and there is no very critical matter, with Qiao Chushi's cultivation, this kind of talisman will not be transmitted. This kind of talisman is transmitted quickly, and there are more messages that can be transmitted, but it is impossible to hide the handwriting, so Zheng Tianba and Ye Guanying also saw it and asked anxiously.
Cheng Haofeng couldn't figure out how Hu Xianxian and the blood innocent cultivator could be seriously injured, at most, it was just to let the sheep demon run away again, how could he be injured by him? He did not answer the questions of the two of them, but signaled to them that they should be more concerned about the affairs of the new army, and flew into the city.
At the gate of the West City, he saw Ye Saiying who was anxiously waiting there. When she saw him fall down, she hurriedly said, "Xianxian's legs are injured, and she is recuperating in Bixi Palace at this moment." The blood path chief was more seriously injured, and was temporarily placed in the southeast gate guarding the city and the military tower to recuperate. Which side shall I take you to first? β
"Not going anywhere!" Cheng Haofeng waved his hand and said: "Seeing that they are injured, how can I still do things calmly, you can tell me how they were injured first." β
Ye Saiying knew that he was already furious under his seemingly calm appearance, and he wanted to take revenge before visiting them. Thinking of this, she gathered her thoughts and tried to be as concise as she could say: "We don't know how they were injured, and when we saw them, they were all in a deep coma.
A sudden explosion near the Jamsil destroyed a small courtyard and caused a fire that burned half the street and almost endangered the palace. When the casualties were counted after the fire was extinguished, someone recognized that the fairy was temporarily staying in the Bixi Palace, so he sent it.
Seeing that she was injured, Uncle Qiao hurriedly led people to the place where the explosion occurred to find out the cause and picked up this iron talisman. β
Ye Saiying took out a piece of iron talisman that had been deformed and handed it to Cheng Haofeng. For Hu Xianxian to be injured, they also felt strange, so they went to find out the reason.
"It's ...... The Iron Talisman of the Fox Demon ...... Kitsune ...... Could it be that she has been reincarnated for ten lifetimes, and she will still be restrained by this iron talisman? Cheng Haofeng frowned and asked himself, and handed the iron talisman back to Ye Saiying.
"You should carefully find out which sect and sect made this iron talisman, and then find out why the iron talisman appeared there. Well, let's talk about the innocent injury. He had already guessed the probable cause of the incident, but he would not say it until there was evidence.
Ye Saiying put away the iron talisman and said: "The chief of the blood path fainted on the official road out of the city in the southeast, and it was the merchant who passed by who saved him.
When he was sent into the city to the infirmary, the soldiers defending the city saw him, recognized him, and said that he was so badly wounded that he could no longer be bumpy, so he stayed in the castle tower and asked the military doctor to treat him.
After we got the news, we went to inquire about the cause of the injury, and they said that they only saw Hu Yuanjun and the Blood Dao Chief chasing the sheep demon, and they didn't know the cause of the injury. We analyzed from the words of them and the people nearby that Hu Yuanjun took Gonggong Li to the silkworm room at about midnight yesterday, and the head of the blood path chased the sheep demon into the mountains and forests. β
Cheng Haofeng pondered for a moment, waved his hand and motioned for Ye Saiying to go back first, and he flew to the southeast mountain forest.
After flying for about two hundred miles, he sensed a faint demonic aura coming from the mountains and forests below, but he couldn't distinguish the specific direction. He looked closely, this place was not far from the tombs of the emperors, and the dragon qi covered up part of the demonic energy.
He spun in a circle, locking the demonic aura within a range of about thirty miles. At this moment, it is very dark, and the sky is full of clouds and about to snow heavily. His mood was more gloomy than the weather, and he came up with a vicious idea in his frustration.
Cheng Haofeng began to set up a formation around the range of thirty miles, there were many formations, and the formation that trapped Duan Mengrou at the beginning was a trapping formation, and the intention was to besiege rather than kill. In addition, most of the formations laid out in front of the two armies are damaged arrays or blocking formations, so there are often stories of breaking formations.
Why don't you just set up a killing array? The formation is made by borrowing the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and it is against heaven and earth to set up a killing array, so all formations have a way to go out.
There was a cold smile on his lips, because the array he had set up at this time was an iron killing array, a killing array that made the people in the formation unbreakable and had no way to escape! Within a radius of thirty miles, he slammed on the ground and summoned the mountain god with his heart.
"Where is the sheep demon hiding? Say it. β
"Zhenren, Xiaoxian really doesn't know." The mountain god saluted Cheng Hao before replying humbly.
"I don't know?" Cheng Haofeng sneered and pointed to the mountains and forests behind him, "Do you recognize this iron killing array?" If the living beings are extinct here, it will all be because you are protecting the sheep demon! β
"No! Real people can't use iron to kill the array, if this array is completed, the grass and trees in the array will wither, and the insects and ants will not exist! Real person, Xiaoxian really doesn't know where the sheep demon is hiding......" The mountain god cried out.
"Humph! You wait for the Emperor of Heaven to cure you of the crime of dereliction of duty that is not effective in protecting one side! Cheng Haofeng turned into a black iron spear and threw it into the formation as the eye of the formation.
The formation was activated, and the snowflakes outside the formation fell one after another, and the grass and trees inside the formation gradually withered and scorched as if they had been dry for many years.
"Real ...... You, you're so ruthless! The mountain god pounced in front of the formation and thrashed it a few times, and was bounced off by the arc of light and fell to the ground.
Cheng Haofeng squinted at him and asked, "Do you say yes?" β
"You powerful immortals secretly fight each other is similar to betting on pai gow, each with its own cards, even if we weak immortals see something on the side, how dare we say which one has what cards in their hands?"
The mountain god didn't say it directly, but the metaphor of gambling pai gow made Cheng Haofeng understand that there was a master behind the sheep demon. He said in a cold tone: "My fiancΓ©e was restrained and injured with an iron talisman, how can ordinary mountain spirits and wild monsters know that she still has fox nature?" When gambling on pai gow, you shouldn't cheat out the opponent's hole cards, but they don't follow the rules first, why should I still follow the rules? You said today, I can keep you; If you don't, you'll offend both! β
The mountain god looked back at the withered and withered grass and trees and the panicked birds and beasts in the array, and resolutely made a choice and said: "The sheep demon is hidden in the royal family temple next to the cemetery, and although some of the concubines and palace maids left by the previous emperor were not martyred, they were imprisoned and could not see outsiders. The sheep demon seduced them, used them to cover themselves, and also fornicated with them to collect yin and yang, and heal their injuries...... The disciples chased them outside the cemetery and besieged them naked...... will be flustered and attacked by the sheep demon......"
Hearing this, Cheng Haofeng didn't want to listen to it anymore, and used his spiritual power to hit the black iron spear and disperse it into smoke, and the iron killing array was broken, and the snowflakes fell into the formation.
He didn't care what the mountain god was still talking about behind his back, he flew with all his spiritual power, and after a while, he arrived at the backyard of the royal family temple in the cemetery, where there were many concubines and some palace maids of the previous generation.
As soon as Cheng Haofeng landed, the sheep demon had an alarm in his heart and fled quickly. As he fled, a group of naked women ran out laughing.
"Die!" Cheng Haofeng snorted coldly, drumming up the aura of protecting the body, and the Taoist robe danced fiercely in the wind! Before the women could touch his robe, they were shaken and fell, and a few who came close had already vomited blood to their deaths.
He chased straight in the direction of the sheep demon's escape, but the ink ice sword did not directly take the heart of the sheep demon, but slashed his legs horizontally.
The sheep demon turned around and used the golden thorn to clamp the ink ice sword to resist, Cheng Haofeng drew the sword and returned, and the sheep demon turned around and fled again.
Cheng Haofeng looked at the back of the sheep demon and smiled ruthlessly, and threw a row of black fences in front of him to stop it. Wherever he runs, he stops in any direction, and he no longer attacks him with weapons.
The sheep demon's injuries only recovered slightly, and after a few tosses, he was so tired and out of breath that he didn't run away anymore, and lay down on the ground and threatened Cheng Haofeng with words: "You...... You can't kill me...... Kill me, and you won't live! You...... Do you know where I came from? β
Cheng Haofeng sneered twice, stood up, stepped on the back of the sheep demon with one foot, trampled him under his feet, and sneered: "I won't kill you!" Isn't it too cheap for you to die? β